Chapter 1534: Dominating the Inner Realm, Heaven’s Change! (Fourth Update)

"The eighteenth layer of the Rune Clan is not deep underground on the Vermilion Bird Star, but built within this Outer Realm Battlefield!" Wang Lin walked to the wall and pressed his right hand firmly against it. Sounds of cracking echoed, and more Rifts appeared on the wall. Finally, with a bang, several Rifts connected, and it directly collapsed, revealing an opening.

Wang Lin stood in the opening, and before him was none other than the Outer Realm Battlefield!

The entire Outer Realm Battlefield was incomparably vast, with almost no boundaries. Under Wang Lin's gaze, he saw several gigantic skeletal remains floating slowly past, drifting endlessly into the distance.

Furthermore, inside those few corpses, a large number of Wandering Souls were drilling in and out… In the distance, it seemed a storm was sweeping across, silent and soundless, yet bursts of shrill screams that pierced the Soul could be heard. That storm was composed entirely of Wandering Souls.

Wang Lin's mind trembled. He spread out his Divine Sense and clearly saw the location where he was currently at; it was also a gigantic skeleton. This skeleton did not belong to a human, but to a massive Vicious Beast that looked like a Dragon.

His location was precisely at the skull of this Vicious Beast. The wall he had broken through was actually a small piece of this Vicious Beast's skull! And at this moment, he was standing inside that Vicious Beast's skull, gazing forward!

If one were to look toward Wang Lin's current location from within this Outer Realm Battlefield, one could clearly see that surrounding this gigantic skull, countless corpses were scattered, densely packed into a vast area, boundless and endless!

The distant Wandering Soul storm came whistling over, but at the very moment it approached, these countless Wandering Souls seemed to have discovered something terrifying. They screamed in unison and scattered with a boom, fleeing backward in panic, as if Wang Lin's existence would induce an extreme, terrifying fear within them!

Wang Lin had once been a Soul Devourer!

Staring blankly at the Outer Realm Battlefield, he had traveled across too many Cultivation Planets and visited too many places, yet he had never seen an Outer Realm Battlefield like the one on the Vermilion Bird Star on any other Cultivation Planet!

It seemed this Outer Realm Battlefield belonged only to the Vermilion Bird Star, and belonged only to the Cultivators of the Vermilion Bird Star!

In silence, Wang Lin stepped forward. After being away for two thousand years, he once again stepped into this Outer Realm Battlefield that had given him a new life! He could not forget how, back then, after he was killed by the Teng Family Old Ancestor, with the help of the Heaven Defying and Situ, his Soul had entered here. Here, he had seen the dead Ma Liang, performed Possession on his Physical Body, and begun his new life.

A long time later, as Wang Lin's Divine Sense continuously spread and rapidly diffused toward this Outer Realm Battlefield, he saw too many skeletons and countless Wandering Souls. Those Wandering Souls screamed and retreated one by one, wanting to avoid Wang Lin's Divine Sense, but in the end, they were unable to do so and could only tremble under his Divine Sense.

Among those skeletons, some belonged to Cultivators, but more belonged to various strange Vicious Beasts. Wang Lin had never seen the majority of these Vicious Beasts before.

The range of his Divine Sense expanded further and further, already exceeding all the places he had been to here in the past, and even surpassing all the places that Cultivators of the Vermilion Bird Star had explored. As it continuously spread, Wang Lin gradually saw even more skeletons.

After a while, Wang Lin's Divine Sense seemed to hit the edge of this Outer Realm Battlefield. There was a faint membrane present, which caused his Divine Sense to be restricted here.

His gaze flashed. Wang Lin's Divine Sense did not pause; it suddenly surged outward. A violent roar erupted at the edge of this Outer Realm Battlefield. In Wang Lin's ears, it seemed he heard a series of cracking sounds like a mirror shattering. As his Divine Sense spread outward, it actually directly collapsed that layer of membrane, revealing the world behind it!

It was still an Outer Realm Battlefield, but its scope was even larger! Compared to the region within the previous membrane, it was like a river compared to the ocean!

Wang Lin's mind was shaken. He stood there, his Divine Sense spreading endlessly. In that unfamiliar Outer Realm Battlefield behind the membrane, Wang Lin saw skeletons emitting golden light! Those skeletons, that golden light—they were none other than Immortals!

He saw countless Vicious Beast skeletons. The bones of those Vicious Beasts were incomparably ferocious, and powerful auras permeated from them; clearly, they possessed heaven-shaking power when they were alive.

His Divine Sense spread wildly again. Wang Lin saw too much, so much. He saw the gigantic skeleton of a Mosquito Beast, the skeleton of a Jiqiong, and countless Vicious Beast skeletons, some even tens of thousands of zhang in size!

All the Vicious Beasts he had seen in his life, except for the Netherworld, were all present in this Outer Realm Battlefield outside the membrane!!

Wang Lin's mind was shaken like rolling waves. His Divine Sense spread again, sweeping across those endless skeletons, and finally, he touched the true edge of this Outer Realm Battlefield. His Divine Sense covered the entire scope of this Outer Realm Battlefield.

At this instant, Wang Lin's pupils shrank violently, revealing a look of shock.

The moment his Divine Sense completely covered the Outer Realm Battlefield, he discovered that this entire Outer Realm Battlefield was actually just one gigantic fragment. This fragment had a strange connection with the Vermilion Bird Star; it seemed the Vermilion Bird Star was born because of it!

This fragment was very irregular, as if it were a part of some object!

Wang Lin's mind roared. In this split second, the heaven-shaking secret that the Four Saints Sect's Old Vermilion Bird had passed down to him before dying surfaced in his mind: the Vermilion Bird Star is a part of a door…

Those words echoed in Wang Lin's mind, slowly merging with the Outer Realm Battlefield he saw with his Divine Sense. With this realization, when he looked at the entire Outer Realm Battlefield again, he immediately recognized that this Outer Realm Battlefield, formed from fragments, was none other than a part of a strange door!!

"The door that the Four Saints Sect found back then… what kind of door was it… Does the first-generation Old Ancestor of the Land of Falling know about this…"

Wang Lin stood there for a long time before slowly suppressing the shock in his heart. In his mind, the Silver-Robed Woman gradually emerged, along with the shrill words she had uttered in extreme terror after seeing the statue of the Seven-Colored Daoist.

"The door was not opened by me… The door was not opened by me…" Wang Lin was silent.

He did not know if these two doors were the same one!

He slowly withdrew his Divine Sense, and finally, it completely returned to his body. He took a complex look at this Outer Realm Battlefield, and with confusion, he turned and left.

This time returning to the Vermilion Bird Star, Wang Lin had discovered too many things. These matters were overwhelming, giving him a feeling that the Vermilion Bird Star had become even more unfamiliar.

"Hong Die, so she didn't die…"

"The nineteenth layer of the Rune Clan, so it was the Arrow of Li Guang that was sealed…"

"The Outer Realm Battlefield back then was just a small area; there is a wider world outside. So it is a part of a door…" Wang Lin sat on the Vermilion Bird Star, at the top of a mountain peak, facing the howling mountain wind, letting the wind scatter his hair and whip against his clothes. He sat there, his eyes revealing complexity.

"As my cultivation improves, I am gradually learning all the secrets regarding the Vermilion Bird Star… So this is what it is like here." Wang Lin gazed at the sky ahead, which was gradually darkening. A patch of dark clouds slowly gathered, and under the distant rumbles of thunder, it began to rain in the distance.

A white flying bird flapped its wings urgently, struggling to fly up before the dark clouds, wanting to avoid this patch of dark clouds that gave it a sense of life-and-death crisis. But in the end, under a heaven-shaking thunderclap, the bird's body trembled and it was swept up by the dark clouds behind it and devoured.

Seeing this scene, Wang Lin's expression tightened; he vaguely felt that something was not right.

The rain moved with the clouds. Although it had not drifted over yet, gusts of wind blew from within the curtain of rain, carrying damp water vapor that landed on Wang Lin, bringing the chill of the rain—it was very cold.

This rain was autumn rain.

The sky gradually darkened completely. The sound of thunder rumbled and echoed, seemingly getting closer and closer to the mountain peak where Wang Lin was. The dark clouds rolled, like ink spilled onto rice paper, continuously spreading in all directions.

The rain fell even harder.

The sound of the pouring rain was carried by the mountain wind into Wang Lin's ears, becoming increasingly dense and clear. The dust on the ground, which should have been kicked up by the falling rain, was now in a state of deathly silence.

The small pebbles around Wang Lin on the mountain peak, which would normally be blown away by the wind, now seemed to be pressed down by an invisible force, causing them to remain motionless.

With a boom, another thunderclap echoed, and several lightning bolts that seemed to connect heaven and earth appeared on the distant horizon in Wang Lin's eyes. The instant those lightning bolts suddenly appeared, they illuminated the surrounding dark clouds, twisting like silver snakes, and also like a mark.

Watching the dark clouds rolling in across heaven and earth, Wang Lin took a deep breath. An indescribable feeling of irritation slowly sprouted from his mind. Frowning, Wang Lin suppressed the sense of unfamiliarity regarding his discoveries on the Vermilion Bird Star. This time returning to the Vermilion Bird Star, he had finished all his tasks. Right now, he needed to go refine the repulsive force within his body; he needed to bring his Life and Death, Karma, and Truth and Falsehood Origins to Major Achievement!

After achieving Major Achievement, he would then refine the Sword of Slaughter Origin gifted by Qing Shui, use the six Origins to verify his Dao, shatter the Void Gate, and become a Third Step mighty figure!

Wang Lin stood up and turned around, intending to leave toward the back. Behind him, the rolling dark clouds came surging over, as if there was a God of Slaughter within, staring fixedly at Wang Lin, wanting to devour and destroy Wang Lin just like it had devoured that white flying bird earlier.

Thunder crisscrossed, and lightning flickered on and off. Under the pouring rain, an aura of slaughter suddenly erupted from within the dark clouds. This aura of slaughter came extremely abruptly!

Wang Lin lifted his right foot, preparing to leave, but suddenly paused. The hairs all over his body stood on end. An extremely intense feeling of a life-and-death crisis transformed into a heart-stopping heartbeat, causing him to turn his head violently, staring at the rolling dark clouds, his expression instantly becoming incomparably grave.

"Something is wrong!!" The three scenes Wang Lin had seen earlier flashed rapidly through his mind. The bird died, the dust did not float, the stones did not move!

This life-and-death crisis even exceeded everything Wang Lin had encountered in the Ancient God Grave and after returning to the Inner Realm. This life-and-death crisis seemed to be a life-and-death tribulation that he, Wang Lin, must encounter, just like Hong Die!

Only after experiencing this life-and-death tribulation would he have the qualification to continue living! This was the realization that arose in his mind in the dark, at the instant he saw the rolling dark clouds behind him!

Within those rolling, heaven-surging clouds, there was no true aura of slaughter. This aura of slaughter was a change in the heavens and earth, thunder, lightning, and cloud layers; it was conjured by Wang Lin's own premonition in the dark. But this change did not happen earlier or later, yet it appeared precisely at this moment, right in front of Wang Lin. This was a change in Heaven!

"Heaven's Change!" Wang Lin's pupils contracted. Without hesitation, his Divine Sense rapidly expanded in all directions, directly covering the Vermilion Bird Star, and rushed into the starry sky. The instant his Divine Sense saw the starry sky clearly, Wang Lin's expression changed drastically!!