Chapter 177: Ancient God Legacy (Part 1)

Wang Lin remained silent for a moment. He had already verified that the Hand Seals were not the necessary method for leaving this place. He touched his glabella with his right hand, wanting to see if he could enter the Heaven Defying Space from here.

If he could enter the Heaven Defying Space, his chances of escape would greatly increase. After a long while, he lowered his right hand from his glabella. His expression was normal, but a hint of joy flashed in his eyes.

The Heaven Defying Space was no longer restricted; he could enter it at any time!

Wang Lin exhaled. Flipping his right hand again, the Ancient Emperor's Storage Pouch appeared in his grasp. As his Divine Sense swept over it, a resistance immediately surged forth.

Wang Lin's expression was calm. Clearly, the Spatial Rift into which Meng Tuozi threw the Ancient Emperor, and the massive Rift at the exit of the third trial, were both connected to the same place.

The Storage Pouch blocking Wang Lin's Divine Sense indicated that the Ancient Emperor had not died. In reality, Wang Lin was still uncertain about this matter. After all, Meng Tuozi's Storage Pouch had clearly lost its Divine Sense back then, which should have meant he was dead, yet he reappeared in the end.

Up until now, he had two Storage Pouches he couldn't open: besides the Ancient Emperor's, the other was the mysterious skeletal item found inside the Immortal Cave related to the War God Temple's Divine Dao Technique.

Both Storage Pouches contained their owner's inherent Divine Sense. If he couldn't erase it, he could only sigh in regret over the treasure. Wang Lin was not anxious; he swept his right hand across the Storage Pouch, wrapping a layer of his own Divine Sense around the Ancient Emperor's Divine Sense inside, preventing the owner from sensing the pouch.

Having finished this, Wang Lin took a deep breath. His body shot away like an arrow released from a bow, rapidly flying into the distance. His target was the Ancient God's Sea of Consciousness.

After all, during the second trial, he had obtained a Jade Slip for refining the Restriction Banner, which emphasized that the main Materials for refining this treasure, Inkstone, could only be found within the Sea of Consciousness.

After speeding through this world, where heaven and earth were indistinguishable, for a long time, Wang Lin still couldn't see the edge. Everything he looked at was simply a vast expanse of azure blue.

He remembered Duanmu Ji and the others saying that the Ancient God's body was incredibly massive; the physique of an adult Ancient God was significantly larger than the entire Vermilion Bird Star. Consequently, flying within its body, even between two Acupoints, required unimaginable distances.

Fortunately, despite the immense size of this place, there were no Restrictions or creatures along the way, only silence. Wang Lin frowned slightly, continuing to fly forward without stopping.

Inside the Ancient God's body, Divine Sense was no longer restricted as it was in the previous four trials; instead, it could be spread far and wide, just like outside. Wang Lin's Divine Sense had been greatly supplemented during the third trial, especially by the Wandering Soul that was almost becoming a Soul Devourer, which caused his Divine Sense to grow considerably.

Now, when he swept his Divine Sense out, it could reach thousands of miles away. Thus, he flew rapidly while observing his surroundings with his Divine Sense. After a long time, Wang Lin suddenly paused, a look of surprise and doubt on his face as he stared ahead. The Spiritual Qi inside his body began to fluctuate, seemingly drawn by some mysterious power, showing signs of wanting to rush out.

Immediately afterward, his Divine Sense detected a row of deep blue Qi waves appearing in the distance. These Qi waves were tens of thousands of feet high and their length was inestimable, stretching beyond sight. Although the Qi waves were still far away, rumbling sounds that shook the heavens and earth were already propagating from afar.

The Qi waves quickly approached. The Spiritual Qi fluctuations within Wang Lin's body grew more intense. Without a word, he rapidly flew away, as these Qi waves were too strange and looked astonishing.

What made Wang Lin's heart sink further was that his Spiritual Qi showed signs of being uncontrollable, and his Golden Core began to tremble violently. As a result, his flying speed suddenly slowed down.

At this moment, the Qi waves were much closer, and the rumbling sound was like it was right next to his ear. Although Wang Lin was startled, his eyes remained calm and collected. Knowing he couldn't escape before the Qi waves struck, he pointed at his glabella with his right hand. Immediately, the Heaven Defying Bead appeared from his glabella, and Wang Lin's entire body quickly turned illusory, eventually disappearing completely.

After about ten breaths, the vast Qi waves surged forward, sweeping past the spot where Wang Lin had vanished and roaring into the distance. At this time, Wang Lin's illusory figure slowly appeared, gradually solidifying. After reappearing, he stared at the receding Qi waves for a long time, his eyes flickering.

After watching for a moment, Wang Lin moved his body and continued flying forward.

At this very moment, a thousand zhang away from the exit of the third trial, the bloody light surrounding the Six Desires Demonic Lord gradually faded, revealing a face as withered as firewood. In his hand, he clutched a skeleton missing half an arm.

The skeleton had spots of gold, emitting faint golden rays of light.

All the flesh and blood on his body had been devoured during the struggle with the Wandering Souls, and the Nascent Soul inside him was already on the verge of collapse. Countless Wandering Souls were inside his body, and their waves of attacks left the Six Desires Demonic Lord utterly exhausted.

Now, he didn't even have the strength to use the Desire Blood Escape Great Art again. He could only quietly wait to be completely devoured by the Wandering Souls, or to be caught by his Master.

Deep down, he rather hoped that his Master would arrive before he was completely devoured by the Wandering Souls. If he could save his life, he would be willing even if it meant Demonization.

Unfortunately, this hope was likely hard to realize. The last trace of defense around his Nascent Soul was instantly shattered by the Wandering Souls, and his Purple Mansion Divine Sense was completely exposed before the large group of Wandering Souls.

These Wandering Souls showed greedy expressions and swarmed forward. At this moment, the Six Desires Demonic Lord seemed so helpless. But just then, the skeleton in his hand suddenly burst into bright golden light. This golden light gradually enveloped the Six Desires Demonic Lord along the skeleton. Immediately afterward, the Wandering Souls inside the Six Desires Demonic Lord, who were about to pounce, suddenly began to shriek. They scrambled to drill out of his body, resisting the golden light, and quickly flew away.

The Six Desires Demonic Lord stared blankly at the scene before him. After the Wandering Souls left, he immediately regained control of his body, his eyes filled with excitement as he stared at the Hand Bone, feeling the profound relief of a narrow escape from death.

But soon, a look of suspicion appeared on his face. However, now was clearly not the time for detailed contemplation.

Many Wandering Souls were still surrounding him, but they were all retreating, seemingly terrified of the golden light. The Six Desires Demonic Lord was a decisive person. Upon realizing this, he immediately put aside his feelings of relief and doubt, and quickly flew towards the exit of the third trial, a thousand zhang away.

The massive Rift in the sky had long since closed and merged. The Six Desires Demonic Lord traveled at great speed. Without the obstruction of the Wandering Souls, he reached the exit almost instantly and stepped into the Vortex.

Only then did he truly breathe a sigh of relief. He was afraid of this third trial. He swore that if he managed to escape this time, he would absolutely never return!

The first time he came here, although he entered the third trial, it wasn't as bizarre as this time. The revival of his Master, the Demonization of Meng Tuozi, and a series of other events shrouded his heart in a massive fog. As this fog spread, it became a shadow that made his heart pound with fear.

Standing in the Vortex, just as the purple lightning bolts descended, he flicked his right hand, continuously executing a series of Hand Seals. After this set of Hand Seals was performed, the Nascent Soul inside the Six Desires Demonic Lord immediately shrank significantly.

The light in his eyes noticeably dimmed. This set of Hand Seals landed upon the skeleton in his hand. Immediately, the golden light within the skeleton flickered violently. Following that, layers of cracks instantly appeared on it. With a bang, the skeleton turned into a clump of bone ash, spreading outwards.

Within this bone ash were countless dense golden specks of light. The Six Desires Demonic Lord waved both hands, and the bone ash quickly dissipated. The golden specks of light inside condensed together, forming a glittering Hand Bone!

However, the Hand Bone only had four and a half fingers; the ring finger was only half present.

The moment this Hand Bone appeared, the several purple lightning bolts within the Vortex instantly froze in place, motionless, as if time had stopped. The Six Desires Demonic Lord didn't even look at them. He raised his hand and grabbed the relatively intact Hand Bone, and after holding it, he opened his mouth and spat out a stream of Spiritual Qi.

This Spiritual Qi landed inside the Hand Bone, quickly vanishing as it was absorbed. Immediately afterward, the Six Desires Demonic Lord used this Hand Bone to continuously execute Hand Seals. If Wang Lin had been present, he would surely have recognized that these Hand Seals were exactly the same as the set he obtained from the Ancient Emperor, except this set contained nearly a thousand Hand Seals, not just over four hundred.

These thousand-plus Hand Seals, all formed by the bone, gradually created a spinning Vortex before him. The Demonic Lord of Six Desires' eyes gleamed with joy. The reason he dared to venture into the Ancient God Land again was because he believed he had thoroughly understood this bone. Relying on it, he was certain he could leave this place, just as he did a thousand years ago!

This bone was, in fact, the Legacy item of the Ancient God Land that Wang Lin had been searching for. Back then, the Rogue Devil scattered it and gave this bone to Six Desires. After a thousand years of research, he finally deciphered the bone's secret!

Hesitant and worried that it might be snatched away during use, or that some irresistible change might occur, he spared no effort, expending a great deal of painstaking effort to integrate this bone into a Disciple's body. This way, no one would ever suspect that this Legacy item was not in his Storage Pouch, but rather on the young man who had always followed him.

And through his connection with this bone, he could retrieve and use it at any time. This made it foolproof.

Moreover, because this bone was a Legacy item of the Ancient God Land, it was not restricted by the Restrictions of this place. As a result, his Disciple entered the Ancient God Land without any hindrance.

After forming the last Hand Seal, the Demonic Lord of Six Desires decided in his heart that he would never come to this strange place again. But just as he was full of confidence, preparing to step into the Vortex and leave, the Vortex suddenly collapsed, silently dissipating.

The Demonic Lord of Six Desires was stunned for a moment, but then, the purple lightning that had been suspended in mid-air suddenly descended, pulling the Demonic Lord of Six Desires, and rapidly disappearing into the exit of the third trial.

After he disappeared, the Rogue Devil appeared there with a calm expression. A peculiar smile played on the corner of his mouth as he silently thought, "My good Disciple, you must succeed. This way, my effort in secretly activating the Legacy item to help you escape the Wandering Soul and preventing you from leaving this place will not have been in vain."

Wang Lin's entire body moved like a bolt of lightning, swiftly passing by the Qi Sea of the Ancient God Tu Si. His direction had changed; he was no longer moving straight, but upwards.

He didn't know how long he had been flying, but what he saw before him remained unchanged. If not for his Divine Thought probing, he might even have thought he was merely treading water.

During this time, he had already seen more than ten waves of Qi roaring past, each time entering the Heaven Defying Space to avoid them. Gradually, he also discovered some clues: these Qi waves, no matter how he looked at them, seemed to be composed of Spiritual Qi.

Wang Lin already had an answer in his heart, but he found it somewhat unbelievable. These Qi waves were clearly the Spiritual Qi Vortex tentacles from the Qi Sea Acupoints. If mere tentacles of a Spiritual Qi Vortex possessed such power, then the entire Qi Sea must have reached an unimaginable and incredible level.

Especially since this Ancient God was clearly dead, why would the Spiritual Qi within his body still rotate automatically? Besides this, Wang Lin still had a trace of doubt in his heart. The further he flew forward, the more he could feel strange fluctuations slowly sweeping from all directions. Each time these invisible fluctuations swept past, Wang Lin could clearly sense that they had no offensive power, but each time they passed, they would cause changes in Wang Lin's emotions. Although very slight, it raised Wang Lin's vigilance by several points. Comparing it to the location of his own Qi Sea Acupoints, above the Qi Sea Acupoints was the Ancestral Aperture Acupoint, and the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness was also in that very place.

As Wang Lin flew, he secretly calculated in his heart, but unfortunately, the information he gathered was too little. A fog always obscured his vision, preventing him from seeing the truth of the situation. This entire Ancient God Land was filled with a strange atmosphere.

While flying, Wang Lin suddenly paused. Without a word, he touched his glabella, and his entire being instantly entered the Heaven Defying Space. Just then, a white light flashed not far away. After the light dissipated, the Demonic Lord of Six Desires appeared with a blank expression.

His face was gloomy at this moment. He glanced at the golden bone in his hand, then looked around. Suddenly, he clearly froze for a moment, then his eyes flickered, and he looked around again, his expression suddenly changing, finally revealing an unbelievable look of ecstasy.

"This… this Ancient God is clearly dead, so why are there such rich desire fluctuations here??" The Demonic Lord of Six Desires' eyes grew brighter and brighter. After arriving here, he immediately sensed the waves of fluctuations coming from all directions.

In his view, these fluctuations were clearly various desires. A cold glint flashed in the Demonic Lord of Six Desires' eyes. He formed Hand Seals with his right hand and suddenly struck out a Hand Seal into the Void Realm. Immediately, a thin, snake-like black mist appeared before him, flashed, and sped away into the distance.

The Demonic Lord of Six Desires' eyes flickered. He opened his mouth and inhaled, and the black mist immediately turned around and was instantly sucked into his mouth. A look of wild joy appeared on the Demonic Lord of Six Desires' face. He could clearly feel that by merely absorbing this trace of desire, his Nascent Soul, which had been devoured by the Wandering Soul earlier, immediately returned to normal.

Without another word, the Demonic Lord of Six Desires swept his Divine Sense around, and finding no abnormalities, he immediately stretched out his arms, forming different Hand Seals with each hand, sat cross-legged, and shouted, "Desire of Fear, gather!"

As these words fell, and as his Hand Seals rapidly changed, countless black mists immediately appeared from all directions. All these mists frantically surged towards the Demonic Lord of Six Desires' body.

Gradually, the black mist grew denser and denser, eventually almost covering the sky and sun, endlessly emerging. The Demonic Lord of Six Desires' body was like a bottomless pit, devouring these black mists.

His expression grew increasingly excited, revealing a look of pleasant surprise. He could clearly feel that the Ancient God's desire of fear was incredibly vast, surpassing his imagination.

Time slowly passed. Ten thousand li away, the Rogue Devil's eyes gleamed with excitement as he looked in the direction of the Demonic Lord of Six Desires, muttering to himself, "Absorb, my good Disciple, absorb to your heart's content… For my grand plan, you must perform well!"

A peculiar smile played on his lips. He clasped his hands together and suddenly extended them, and a circular blue light rapidly spread outwards, instantly enveloping an area of ten thousand li. After doing this, the Rogue Devil's eyes flickered, and his smile grew wider. He secretly thought, "Good Disciple, I predicted back then that your obsession would be the biggest obstacle in your cultivation, but now it seems this obsession will be the direct reason for my ultimate success."

Time slowly passed. The endless black mist had already covered an area of ten thousand li. If not for the Restrictions set by the Rogue Devil, this black mist would have continued to spread.

After an unknown period, the black mist gradually disappeared. The Demonic Lord of Six Desires' eyes showed a look of madness; his cultivation had reached an incredible level.

"Desire of Greed, gather!" he shouted. Instantly, wisps of red mist suddenly appeared. Before long, an area of ten thousand li was immediately enveloped in red mist.

Next, the desires of delusion, joy, envy, and infatuation, along with all other desires, were successively devoured by the Demonic Lord of Six Desires. His expression had become completely frenzied. His Master, the Rogue Devil, was right; the Demonic Lord of Six Desires' greatest weakness was his obsession with cultivation. If there was an opportunity to increase his cultivation, he would absolutely not give it up.

Even now, he had no intention of stopping, but rather continued to absorb and devour endlessly, until the last desire, the desire of infatuation, was also absorbed by him. His entire body exuded a monstrous aura.

The six desires within the Ancient God's body were precisely due to a special change in his Divine Sense before his death, which caused them to split and then spread. At this moment, the Demonic Lord of Six Desires could be said to have absorbed a part of the Ancient God's desires. His Profound Heaven Demonic Desire Art had already surpassed the ultimate level envisioned by its founder, the Rogue Devil, back then.

At this moment, ten thousand li away, the Rogue Devil's face showed a look of greedy joy. He, who was usually gloomy, couldn't help but burst into laughter. His body suddenly moved, rushing towards the direction of the Demonic Lord of Six Desires.

"My good Disciple, your mission is complete. My efforts in adopting you back then were not in vain. This time, consider it repaying my kindness!"

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It's about to reach a climax, so I need to think carefully, and my body isn't cooperating. Please don't mind, I won't stop updating, I'll try to write more.