Chapter 1235: Peak of the Cloud Sea — Counterattack!

At this moment, within the Wind Immortal Realm, the wind that had been blowing continuously since ancient times permeated the entire Wind Realm amidst wails, causing this Wind Realm to exude a sense of desolation that was so thick it could not be dispelled in the slightest.

Groups of Mosquito Beasts whistled through the wind; they were the sole masters of the Wind Realm.

In the deepest part of this Wind Immortal Realm, there were three floating continents. One of them was a dark red continent where waves of bloody scents permeated, and countless Mosquito Beasts floated and lingered in the sky, emitting bursts of buzzing sounds.

On this dark red continent, there was a stone statue of a person. At this moment, the area where the stone statue's eyes were located moved once again, and it slowly opened its vicissitudinous eyes.

A strange aura slowly emanated from this stone statue, but it strangely did not attract the attention of any Mosquito Beasts, as if this stone statue did not exist in their eyes.

"The chess piece that this old man spent so much effort to set up, how could it be killed by that Daoist Shui just like that!" The stone statue's eyes flashed with a ghostly light, and it let out a cold snort.

"However, by borrowing his hand, I can also see if this chess piece is truly the Reincarnation of that old fellow, the Venerable of the Sealed Realm, or if the Heaven Defying Bead is truly in this boy's hands!"

The wind of the Immortal Realm grew even thicker. Amidst the wails, a wisp blew out of the Wind Realm's gate and dissipated within the starry sky.

The Vortex between Daoist Shui's brows swallowed the three long rainbows before him. He closed his eyes for a moment, as if absorbing them, then opened them again. Within his eyes, red, yellow, and blue pupils were faintly rotating, which made one's mind tremble to behold.

His Body Fixing Art was completely different from Wang Lin's Body Fixing Art. At this moment, it fixed the heavens and earth, as if only he existed within this world. Everything else, all Divine Abilities, were paused in mid-air, yet they strangely did not dissipate. It seemed that if not for this white-haired child's Divine Thought, they would remain here for ten thousand years for eternity.

The Long Spear transformed from the Summon Wind Divine Ability floated in mid-air, motionless. Even the destructive wind upon it had stopped, pausing one zhang in front.

The crystalline ice sword transformed from Summon Rain was also paused in the world. Looking from afar, it resembled a scroll of ice, appearing extremely shocking.

There were also the endless battle spirits from the Sow Beans to Make Soldiers, including powerful battle spirits like Void Realm Child and Heavenly Fate Child; at this moment, they were all maintaining their previous actions, motionless.

As for the many illusory volcanoes that had appeared beneath Wang Lin's feet while he walked earlier, some were already billowing black smoke and had lava flowing out. But at this moment, the black smoke was still, the lava had paused, and everything had solidified, including Wang Lin, who was currently stepping on the void above a patch of black smoke.

In Wang Lin's hand, he was still gripping the trident tightly!

"The Six Paths Triple Immortal Arts of Bai Fan of the Thunder Realm; if this Lü Zihao had learned the triple arts, there would be some twists and turns if I were to kill him. Even if he had learned that extremely stunning Yin Moon Has Sunshine technique from back then, it would be somewhat troublesome. But right now, among the Six Paths arts, apart from Yin Moon Has Sunshine, the rest are all just juggling tricks!"

Daoist Shui shook his head, ignoring Wang Lin who was fixed in mid-air, and with one step, arrived beside the God-Slaying Chariot transformed by the Thunder Beast.

His gaze swept over the God-Slaying Chariot, and with a cold snort, he raised his right hand and slammed it down fiercely. With a boom, the God-Slaying Chariot transformed by the Thunder Beast collapsed, and the Thunder Beast within it became eternal while in its frozen state.

"This treasure has too many flaws; it is useless to me, so I might as well destroy it!" This Daoist Shui was extremely arrogant and had a rather strange personality: he loved to destroy anything that others considered a supreme treasure, provided it was useless to him.

As a powerful expert at the Early Stage of void nirvana, which belonged to the introductory phase of the Third Step, this Daoist Shui certainly had the qualifications to do all this!

The God-Slaying Chariot transformed by the Thunder Beast collapsed. Sorrow appeared in Wang Lin's eyes, and his mind stung, transforming into a boundless, invisible flame that burned him, yet it was forcibly restricted within his body. Under this grief, two shocking trails of blood and tears flowed from his eyes!

This God-Slaying Chariot had accompanied him for most of his life of cultivation, yet now, it was destroyed.

The scream in his heart rose like a storm, and his gaze fixed on Daoist Shui was as gloomy as water.

"If I, Wang Lin, can survive this tribulation, I make a heart oath here: in this life, I must kill this person!! I must kill this person!!! I will let him suffer ten thousand kinds of torture before dying. If I violate this oath, may my, Wang Lin's, entire life of Dao vanish, and may I die beneath the Heavenly Dao I defy!"

Daoist Shui's gaze swept over Wang Lin. What he loved to see most was the expression of suppressed anger on those who thought they held supreme treasures after he destroyed their treasures. Such expressions made him feel his own power and the dignity he had lost many years ago.

Especially since Wang Lin was already considered by Daoist Shui to be the owner of the Heaven Defying Bead and very likely the successor of his former master, seeing Wang Lin's expression made Daoist Shui even more pleased.

While walking, Daoist Shui arrived beside the Seven-Colored God-Slaying Chariot. A strange light appeared in his eyes, and with a wave of his large sleeve, he intended to take the Seven-Colored God-Slaying Chariot away. However, a seven-colored light flashed on the Seven-Colored God-Slaying Chariot, and a seven-colored butterfly appeared. With a flap of its wings, the butterfly collapsed with a boom, turning into specks of seven-colored crystalline light that dissipated.

As it dissipated, the Seven-Colored God-Slaying Chariot also became a mortal object.

"The treasure spirit would rather destroy itself than be taken by this old man…" Cold light flickered in Daoist Shui's eyes. He raised his right hand and slammed it down, and the God-Slaying Chariot, which had lost its treasure spirit, shattered into pieces with a boom.

"Next, let this old man see whether you truly possess the Heaven Defying Bead!" With a cold snort, Daoist Shui turned to look at Wang Lin. The world shook violently, as if all the starry sky outside Daoist Shui's body had dissipated, leaving only him and Wang Lin in the entire world. His gaze, carrying a strong penetrating power, fell directly upon Wang Lin.

At this instant, Wang Lin's body shook violently, as if his entire body was being torn apart. Even his Primordial Spirit and soul felt as though they were being pierced through, and all the secrets within his body were clearly exposed beneath that gaze.

The intense pain caused the veins on Wang Lin's face to bulge, his entire body to tremble, and sweat to pour down like rain, but he could not make a sound, as it was all imprisoned within his body.

Daoist Shui's gaze swept through Wang Lin's body inch by inch. Especially Wang Lin's Primordial Spirit, which he carefully examined from beginning to end, but his brows slowly furrowed.

"It's not there? Back then, Master once said that the Heaven Defying Bead would fuse with the Primordial Spirit, but there is no Heaven Defying Bead in this person's Primordial Spirit… He is not the Master's Reincarnation, nor does he have the Heaven Defying Bead… Could it be that I have found the wrong person!" Daoist Shui furrowed his brows tightly, his body flickered, and he arrived beside Wang Lin, raising his right hand to slash forward.

With a boom, a Storage Rift immediately appeared outside Wang Lin's body. This was Wang Lin's Storage Space! This Daoist Shui possessed astonishing Divine Ability; with his Third Step cultivation, he had easily opened Wang Lin's Storage Space, and his Divine Sense spread out, sweeping inward.

"If there is no Heaven Defying Bead in the Storage Space either, I will search this person's soul!" Cold light flashed in Daoist Shui's eyes, and his Divine Sense probed into Wang Lin's Storage Space, searching one by one.

"There are quite a few low-grade items, but they are all trash. Shatter!"

Booming sounds echoed within Wang Lin's Storage Pouch. Wherever Daoist Shui's gaze passed, all treasures shattered, turning into flying ash and collapsing.

During the sweep, Daoist Shui's gaze suddenly froze; he saw Xu Ligou inside Wang Lin's Storage Space.

"An interesting sword soul! But also trash!" Under his gaze, Xu Ligou trembled all over, about to employ the sycophantic arts he had always relied on to survive, but before he could do so, the old man's destructive Divine Thought came crashing down.

Just as that Divine Thought was about to destroy Xu Ligou, Daoist Shui's body suddenly shook. He shifted his Divine Thought, sparing Xu Ligou, and immediately locked onto something he had seen. It was a boundless swarm of Mosquito Beasts. Although this swarm of Mosquito Beasts was in a separately created Storage Space, they were connected to each other, allowing Daoist Shui's Divine Thought to penetrate through and see them at a glance.

"This… so many giant Mosquito Beasts!!" Daoist Shui was quite surprised. His Divine Sense swept again, and this time he saw a coffin emitting fluorescent light.

Inside that coffin lay a sleeping woman!

"This person's Storage Space is not entirely filled with trash; there is actually the supreme treasure of the Immortal Emperor of the Flash Realm, the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin! This Heaven-Avoiding Coffin is quite a good treasure; it is useful to me!" Daoist Shui split off a portion of his Divine Sense to land on the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, intending to take it away along with the woman inside.

At this instant, Wang Lin's body suddenly trembled violently, and madness, the likes of which had never been seen before, appeared in his eyes. His reverse scale was not the Heaven Defying Bead, not his Ancient God body, and certainly not all the secrets within his soul, but this coffin, this woman within this coffin!!

"Oh?" Daoist Shui's Divine Sense paused, discovering Wang Lin's abnormality, and a look of mockery flashed through his eyes.

"You are quite a devoted person; this woman must be extremely important to you. Very well, I had intended to take this female corpse out afterward, but right now, I will take this woman out right in front of you. It is rumored that if a living being inside a Heaven-Avoiding Coffin is not removed using the correct method, they will dissipate in an instant and perish completely. Let us see if this rumor is true!"

Daoist Shui moved his Divine Sense, immediately surrounding the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, intending to open the coffin. He split his Divine Sense into multiple strands within this Storage Pouch, while the other strands continued to sweep, searching for the Heaven Defying Bead.

Just one breath before he was about to open the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, one of his strands of Divine Sense shook violently, seeing the Silver-Robed Woman sitting cross-legged within the Storage Space.

The moment his Divine Sense landed, the Silver-Robed Woman opened her eyes, and they met Daoist Shui's Divine Sense.

"You… you… you are…" With Daoist Shui's composure, and his status as a Third Step powerful expert, his expression changed drastically at this moment, and a trace of panic even appeared, causing his mind to fall into chaos!

Just at the moment his mind was in chaos, Wang Lin, whose body had originally been fixed and unable to move, had a monstrous killing intent flashing crazily in his eyes. A powerful force that could not be described erupted from within his body. It was because, at the very moment Daoist Shui intended to open the Heaven-Avoiding Coffin, he had unhesitatingly swallowed the blood ball of the Iron Sword within his Primordial Spirit, which for some reason had not been discovered by Daoist Shui!

Borrowing this heaven-shaking, earth-destroying power, a roar echoed from within his body. Amidst the eruption of this power, his imprisoned body suddenly regained the ability to move.

"Seven-Colored Nail!!" Wang Lin let out a heaven-shaking roar. From a place within his Storage Space that had not been swept by Daoist Shui's Divine Sense, a seven-colored light suddenly erupted, rushing directly toward Daoist Shui's Divine Sense within his Storage Space.

Booming sounds echoed. Daoist Shui's expression changed drastically. That Seven-Colored Nail was too fast; it instantly pierced through his Divine Sense, flew out of the Storage Space, and flashed directly toward the center of Daoist Shui's brows!

Daoist Shui was too close to Wang Lin at this moment. The instant he saw that Seven-Colored Nail, his pupils shrank violently.

"Venerable Master's Seven-Colored Divine Space Nail!! You actually have this item!!"