Chapter 1276: Peak of the Cloud Sea, Woman in White

Sadness permeated his heart, very faint, very faint… yet it lingered in his mind, refusing to disperse, refusing to disperse.

With a light sigh, Wang Lin’s figure moved further and further away from the blue mountain. When he looked back, it was already blurry, as if everything was a scene from a dream, and now, the dream had ended.

He had arrived with Li Qianmei, but left alone. Wang Lin told himself he was already accustomed to this feeling of loneliness, but this time, he couldn't help but feel melancholy.

Nearly two thousand years of cultivation, seeing through all worldly matters, learning solitude in loneliness, and swallowing the blue melancholy that surrounded his life in that solitude.

“Enough…” Wang Lin took one last look at the blurry blue mountain, vaguely seeming to see a faint figure on the Peak, then turned and slowly walked into the distance.

His retreating figure was somewhat desolate, gradually fading further and further away.

The scope of the Blue Silk Clan's Star Domain was vast. In this boundless sea of stars, Wang Lin walked through space, slowly moving towards the distance.

He didn't know why, but a sense of weariness had settled in his heart. This weariness came from his mind, from that faint sadness. As he continued, under his spatial shifts, he gradually reached the edge of the Blue Silk Clan's Star Domain. Not much further, and he would step out of the Blue Silk Clan's territory.

His figure flashed out of a spatial shift, just about to leave the Blue Silk Clan, but at that moment, Wang Lin suddenly paused, his eyes like torches, staring ahead.

The starry sky before him was brilliant and quiet, a strange feeling emanating from its beauty.

However, as Wang Lin perceived it, at the instant he arrived here, a sudden heart-pounding sensation arose. He was no stranger to this feeling; it had appeared many times during his two thousand years of cultivation, and each time, it signaled a life-or-death crisis!

The last time was just before Daoist Shui came!

Wang Lin's expression was solemn. This was the first time he had experienced this feeling since arriving at the Primordial Stars, not even Tuo Sen's appearance had made his heart pound so intensely!

Looking at the calm starry sky ahead, Wang Lin gradually closed his eyes. His Divine Sense spread out, extending outwards. The starry sky was silent; his Divine Sense swept through without any discovery. Wang Lin frowned and opened his eyes.

Ahead was still emptiness, but the heart-pounding sensation grew stronger and stronger! In silence, Wang Lin's eyes flashed, and he closed them again. In the depths of his pupils, a blue flame burned, and around the flame, lightning flickered!

Beyond that flame and lightning, a Taiji of Life and Death appeared, rotating to form Karma, and within its flashes, it contained transformations of truth and illusion!

The five Origins permeated the depths of Wang Lin's pupils. Under their rapid rotation, Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes and looked forward! This gaze seemed capable of breaking through all illusions in heaven and earth, capable of seeing the Origin of all things!

This gaze was already infinitely close to the Dao Demon's Eye that Wang Lin had inadvertently used back in the Luotian Star Domain!

But the instant he opened his eyes, his pupils suddenly constricted, his entire body's hair stood on end, and the Origin energy within him surged, making his eyes seem like electric light!

Not far in front of him, he saw a woman in white!

This woman in white floated in the starry sky, like a ghost, without any vital signs or traces. Even Divine Sense couldn't detect her! A head of long black hair draped over her shoulders, and a faint light enveloped her, making her appearance impossible to discern!

It was as if a strange power surrounded her, causing any gaze that fell upon this woman to pass right through her!

Wang Lin's mind was solemn, staring intently ahead.

The woman stood there silently, silently gazing at Wang Lin. A deathly stillness settled between them.

She didn't speak, nor did Wang Lin. He wouldn't have seen this woman normally, but because of the five Origins within his pupils, his gaze had pierced through heaven and earth, allowing him to see this strange woman who had been following him all along!

The first feeling this woman gave him was a shock to his mind, a strong sense of crisis from his Soul, erupting in an instant!

“She’s not human!” For some reason, this thought suddenly appeared in Wang Lin's mind!

After a long period of silence, Wang Lin retreated. He retreated very slowly, his eyes slightly closed, his right hand casually placed at his side, with a faint bloody light flickering on it.

The woman remained motionless, simply gazing at Wang Lin until he retreated further and further, disappearing into the end of the starry sky.

After a long while, the woman murmured softly, as if to herself.

“He… he can actually see me…”

As he continuously retreated and moved further away from where the woman was, the heart-pounding sensation slowly weakened, but it never completely disappeared, causing Wang Lin's expression to turn grim.

For some reason, the image of Tuo Sen's eyebrows emitting a dazzling light, and his entire expression changing drastically as he hastily retreated, flashed in Wang Lin's mind. Vaguely, he felt there might be some connection here.

In silence, Wang Lin's eyes flashed. With a flicker of his body, he entered the nearest Blue Silk Clan Cultivation Planet. This was also a planet with a blue hue, its oceans occupying more than half of its surface.

On this Cultivation Planet, Wang Lin transformed into a long rainbow, landing on the Peak of a mountain. The mountain winds here howled, carrying a hint of chill, making Wang Lin's clothes flutter. He looked at the sky, the five Origins rotating in his pupils, carefully observing for a long time. After no longer seeing the woman's figure, he sat down cross-legged.

“What exactly is this person’s purpose!” Frowning, Wang Lin simply closed his eyes and began to breathe, but the Origins in his pupils did not dissipate; they remained extremely vigilant.

Time gradually passed, and in a blink of an eye, seven days had gone by!

During these seven days, Wang Lin remained motionless, and the woman in white did not reappear.

Seven days later, Wang Lin opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing within them. His mind was calm, but the woman's figure had taken root in his heart, becoming a dark cloud.

“This person clearly didn’t expect that I would see her existence before stepping out of the Blue Silk Clan’s territory. Her position was precisely outside the Blue Silk Clan’s Star Domain… The Blue Silk Clan has Daoist Blue Dream, whose cultivation is immeasurable. Perhaps, this is why she didn’t enter the Blue Silk Clan!”

Wang Lin's eyes flickered. During these seven days of meditation, he meticulously recalled everything that had happened since entering the Primordial Stars. Gradually, he noticed that the heart-pounding sensation had vaguely appeared after he encountered Tuo Sen.

At the time, he thought it was a normal emotional reaction to encountering Tuo Sen, but now, upon analysis, he immediately found the clue: that heart-pounding sensation was definitely not brought by Tuo Sen!

Even when he was bringing Li Qianmei through the starry sky towards the Blue Silk Clan, that feeling still existed, though it was very, very faint, almost imperceptible. At that time, due to his anxiety about Li Qianmei's life and death, he had overlooked this anomaly that was already difficult to detect.

Now, he had calmed down completely, recalling this period, and with careful attention, he finally made a discovery!

“This person followed me for many days, only stopping after I entered the Blue Silk Clan!” Wang Lin's expression was grim. In all his years of cultivation, he had rarely encountered such a situation, where someone followed him all along without him noticing anything!

“That’s not right!” Wang Lin’s expression showed doubt; he thought of something.

“Even with my five Origins, I could see this person's figure, but if not for that intense heart-pounding sensation before, I wouldn't have expended these scarce Origins to investigate. And before, when this person followed me, that alarming feeling, though present, was almost imperceptible… Why, here in the Blue Silk Clan, at the moment I was about to leave, did that feeling suddenly multiply?!”

Wang Lin's gaze sharpened. In his contemplation, the Origin energy within his body circulated, flowing once through his body. Then, the Ancient God Power permeated him, circulating again, and gradually, a bright light appeared in his eyes.

“My Origin energy is a bit more than before… even the Ancient God Power, though not increased, is more profound… as if it’s been compressed… especially my Primordial Spirit and Soul, they’ve also changed somewhat, seemingly having undergone some transformation, becoming more sensitive…” Wang Lin looked up at the distant sky. His gaze could faintly penetrate, crossing the boundless starry sky, landing on Daoist Blue Dream’s Cultivation Planet within the Blue Silk Clan, and on the blue mountain emitting a blue glow!

He vaguely guessed the answer, his expression showing complexity.

Those several days of climbing the blue mountain, under the endless resistance, his entire body underwent earth-shattering changes. Although these changes did not increase his cultivation, they made him countless times more sensitive than before, reaching a point where he could clearly perceive the faint heart-pounding sensation in his mind!

“Daoist Blue Dream… If all of this was his deliberate doing, then my previous guess is correct: the woman in white was wary of Daoist Blue Dream, and thus did not enter the Blue Silk Clan!

And Daoist Blue Dream also used this method to subtly inform me of the danger of leaving the Blue Silk Clan!” Wang Lin’s intelligence was already monstrous; with just a few clues, he could, like breaking a Restriction, continuously deduce the true answer in his mind!

“Moreover, this woman’s background must be extremely significant, so much so that Daoist Blue Dream couldn’t directly state it, but had to use such a hint to let me know! If all of this is true, who exactly is this woman in white! If so, then Daoist Blue Dream must have calculated that I would choose to stay in the Blue Silk Clan…” Wang Lin’s gaze grew even more solemn. He looked at the sky and fell silent.

He simply abandoned the thought of leaving immediately and sat cross-legged on this mountain Peak, beginning to meditate and breathe. His already weary mind gradually relaxed as time passed.

Time flowed by, and in a blink of an eye, Wang Lin had been meditating for a month on the mountain Peak of this Cultivation Planet. heaven and earth origin energy continuously integrated into his body, condensing within him.

The injuries he sustained while climbing the blue mountain had also fully recovered, allowing his cultivation to return to its Peak in this tranquility.

On this day, outside the mountain Peak where Wang Lin was, an endless blue light suddenly appeared in the sky. This blue light was gentle, enveloping heaven and earth. A blurry figure walked out from within the blue light, gradually solidifying.

Wang Lin opened his eyes, calmly looking at the middle-aged man who appeared amidst the sky full of blue light—Daoist Blue Dream!

“I have nine great Divine Abilities. Will you learn them or not?”