Chapter 1241: The Peak of the Cloud Sea, The Beginning of a Great Fortune

Daoist Shui let out a shrill scream; in that instant, it was as if an invisible flame was furiously burning within him, directly incinerating his Soul and consuming his Primordial Spirit. This intense pain transformed into a frenzied will, erupting within his body!

The Seven-Colored Nail, a Sharp Weapon specifically designed to kill Third Step mighty figures! It was refined from a meteorite that traversed from a mysterious ancient external star, and within it contained a trace of extraterrestrial star power that even the Venerable Master could not fully comprehend. This power inflicted an almost inconceivable degree of damage upon Third Step mighty figures!

Even the Lord of the Sealing Realm back then, after being pierced by more than ninety Seven-Colored Nails, felt his entire body on the verge of collapse and death! He was assaulted by that incomprehensible power, suffering unimaginable damage.

Currently, if this Seven-Colored Nail had not fully integrated into Daoist Shui's glabella, it wouldn't have been a life-or-death crisis for him. Wang Lin's attack could only penetrate an inch; for Daoist Shui, expending some cultivation would have been enough to force the nail out.

But then, the Clone of the Stone Man Elder from the Wind Immortal Realm arrived unexpectedly, striking with a single finger, causing the nail to sink five inches deep, dealing a heavy blow to Daoist Shui, making him almost frantic and unable to suppress it.

Relying on his formidable Third Step cultivation, Daoist Shui barely suppressed it, preparing to kill Wang Lin and then go into seclusion to heal.

However, he never imagined that at the moment his Divine Ability descended, ready to destroy Wang Lin, the latter's master's jade pendant would appear from his body!

The shock this jade pendant brought him was no less than seeing Heaven Defying or seeing its master! But all of this still didn't make him despair, until… the appearance of that finger!

Daoist Shui was too familiar with this finger; he recognized it almost instantly as… his master's finger!

This discovery made his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, and he didn't even have time to beg for mercy before the finger descended with a crash, causing the Seven-Colored Nail in his glabella to completely enter his skull!

Moreover, at this very moment, as the Seven-Colored Nail was fully driven into Daoist Shui's glabella, deeply piercing his skull and completely embedding itself in his brain, the Seven-Colored Nail immediately began to melt. Waves of seven-colored light permeated every part of Daoist Shui's brain!

At this moment, Daoist Shui's eyes, nostrils, ears, and mouth—all seven orifices—burst forth with seven-colored light. His entire head was like a sieve with seven small holes, emitting dazzling seven-colored radiance!

Amidst his screams, Daoist Shui went mad, retreating rapidly. His eyes showed immense struggle, fighting against the seven-colored light in his brain. But no matter how he resisted, the Fusion of the Seven-Colored Nail was irreversible. Almost instantly, it completely transformed into a seven-colored liquid, permeating his brain.

The piercing pain went straight to his heart. Daoist Shui roared to the sky, letting out painful screams and howls. The struggle in his eyes grew weaker and weaker, almost completely losing his mind.

"Master, you bestowed upon me the Immortal Talisman to save me from three crises. Now that the three times have passed, you come to kill me… Karma Reincarnation, Karma Reincarnation!" Daoist Shui laughed miserably as he retreated, but his expression grew even more ferocious.

"I refuse to accept this! After your death, I cultivated to the Third Step. I am a mighty figure of heaven and earth, I am the Lord of the Divine Sect, and I will replace you! Fifteen hundred million Daoist Disciples, explode for me! Give me all your incense power, give it to me to resist the Seven-Colored Divine Void Nail!!!" In a tragic, shrill cry, Daoist Shui frantically retreated, instantly breaking through all Void Realm and fleeing towards the Divine Sect.

Outside his body, the enormous Cultivation Planet followed closely. Within it, fifteen hundred million Daoist Disciples exploded with a roar. The incense power unique to the Third Step rushed into Daoist Shui's body, confronting the seven-colored light in his brain. Rumbles of thunderous noise continuously erupted within his body as Daoist Shui retreated, until he vanished into the ends of the Star Domain.

Daoist Shui went mad along the way, constantly resisting and suppressing destruction, and instantly disappeared without a trace!

As he left the Fifth-Rank Star Domain, the roaring sound gradually diminished until there was no trace left. All around was silence, so quiet as if nothing existed!

Wang Lin's eyes slowly closed. He had collapsed everything. Although he hadn't engaged in the final destruction with Daoist Shui, this battle left him with injuries far more severe than those he sustained in the Demon Spirit Land back then!

He had exhausted all his vitality. At this moment, his hair was white, and he had become an old man. The moment he closed his eyes, the three vortices outside his body immediately retracted into him, and the five Origins rotated within his body.

However, no matter what, he couldn't replenish the lost vitality.

Just as he closed his eyes, a vortex immediately appeared in his empty glabella, and the Heaven Defying Bead slowly flew out from within. As soon as it flew out, the Heaven Defying Bead immediately melted, spreading from Wang Lin's glabella until it covered his entire body.

At this moment, Wang Lin seemed to have become a stone man! He had become an old, stone-like statue!

At the same time, the jade pendant floating in front of him also flickered and melted, entering Wang Lin's glabella and disappearing once more without a trace.

Immediately after, not far ahead, at the place where the trident had previously collapsed, a crystal light flickered. These crystal lights flashed as they approached Wang Lin, condensing into his right hand and disappearing.

Furthermore, at this instant, in the distance, at the place where the butterfly spirit of the third God-Slaying Chariot had collapsed, a faint, weak seven-colored light emerged. It was a blurry seven-colored butterfly that condensed, struggling to flap its wings, slowly flying towards Wang Lin, transforming into countless seven-colored crystal lights, and merging into Wang Lin's body.

And the two black and white short swords that had previously collapsed now reappeared. As if resurrected from Death by a strange force, they became illusory, transforming into two small black and white deer, integrating into Wang Lin's body, which had become a statue.

Everything had ended.

Wang Lin's consciousness sank into a dark abyss, slowly falling asleep.

His body, under the strange power of Heaven Defying, turned to stone, losing all Divine Ability and magical power, slowly drifting in this Star Domain.

The Fifth-Rank Star Domain had already collapsed, filled with heaven-tearing裂缝 and阴风, and numerous vortices hidden within. In this desolate Star Domain, the stone statue that Wang Lin had become drifted further and further away.

Who knows how much time passed? Perhaps a day, perhaps ten days, perhaps a month… The old stone statue that Wang Lin had become wandered in this Fifth-Rank Star Domain. Sometimes it encountered a vortex, spinning rapidly and being flung far away. Sometimes it encountered a rift, and cracks would appear on its body… Also in this Fifth-Rank Star Domain, there was a woman who had arrived an unknown number of days ago. She went to the battlefield where Wang Lin and Daoist Shui had fought, and tears streamed down her face.

"Is it too late…?" The woman bit her lower lip until blood appeared, her eyes filled with despair as she stared blankly ahead, as if her heart had also died at that moment.

A Death Qi permeated her body, lingering for a long time.

"Do you wish to save him…?" An old voice slowly drifted from the depths of this Star Domain, reaching the woman's ears.

The woman's body trembled.

"He is not dead, but he is also dead. You need to find the stone statue he has become. I will teach you a method that might… allow him to awaken, but this method requires a great price…" The voice gradually weakened, as if it had never appeared.

But his words made the woman's eyes shine with bright determination. The woman gently nodded, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and slowly began to search in this damaged Fifth-Rank Star Domain.

Time flowed by: three days, ten days, nineteen days… until thirty days later… In a corner of this Fifth-Rank Star Domain, the woman saw the old, scarred stone statue floating in the distance. She embraced the statue, and tears dripped onto it, but no sound was emitted.

Carrying the stone statue, with tears in her eyes, the woman gradually departed, going to a place no one could find, a place in this Cloud Sea, deeply hidden within the star mist, a barbaric continent in a Star Domain of unknown rank.

On this continent, there were many Vicious Beasts. Because this continent had rarely been discovered for countless years, upon the woman's arrival, the Vicious Beasts on it immediately roared. But these roars had barely begun before they instantly fell silent, as if an aura permeated the woman's body, causing all the Vicious Beasts to tremble slightly upon sensing it, not daring to make any sound.

In a valley in the northern part of this continent, the woman descended with the stone statue. She tidied up the valley and silently watched the statue, living there with it.

Every day, the woman would stand before the stone statue, bite her fingertip, and smear the entire statue with fresh blood. The statue was very rough, and as her injured finger rubbed across it, intense pain would come, but the woman looked at the statue's eyes as if she felt no pain.

The statue was large, like a person. To smear its entire body with fresh blood, the woman's finger blood would often scab over halfway through. Whenever this happened, she would tear off the scab, squeeze out more fresh blood, and continue smearing.

After countless times, that pain was comparable to torture!

Day after day, this pain was even more unimaginable than all the tortures in heaven and earth!

Each time the statue was covered in fresh blood, the statue would slowly absorb the blood, and a faint luster would shimmer on it, seemingly recovering some vitality. Even its aged appearance showed subtle changes! At first, the blood smeared over the entire statue would take a full day to be completely absorbed, but as time passed day by day, gradually, the blood would often dissipate in ten hours, requiring the woman to smear it again.

One month, two months… four months… seven months… one year!

A full year passed. The woman often needed to meticulously smear the entire statue with fresh blood twice a day, not allowing even the slightest omission. Her meticulous appearance was very beautiful… During this year, the luster on the statue grew brighter and brighter, and its appearance slowly changed from an old man, becoming slightly younger. However, the woman's complexion grew paler and paler. The massive loss of fresh blood, especially blood containing her Primordial Spirit power, made her like a blooming flower slowly wilting.

"He has lost his vitality. If it were ordinary vitality, it could be replenished, but what he lost was the vitality of his mind, the vitality of his Primordial Spirit, and even the vitality of his Soul. If you want him to awaken, you must nourish him with vitality…"

The woman silently gazed at the stone statue, her eyes like eternity… And at this moment, Wang Lin, in his slumber, had a dream… A dream about Heaven Defying, a dream of Great Fortune, that he would have in this life… I wonder if everyone is satisfied with this recent climax? Ergeng said that this climax would be the biggest one he has written so far, and it's not over yet, only the first half. There's still the second half!

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