Chapter 181: Ancient God Legacy (IV)

Throughout the Ancient God's body, in most areas, demonized Cultivators were spreading their Divine Sense and searching meticulously. Although the Ancient God Land was vast, it seemed only slightly troublesome for these demonized Cultivators, as each of them appeared extremely familiar with the place. This included Meng Tuozi.

Even the swirling Qi currents outside the Qi Sea acupoint were not avoided when they encountered them; some even ran inside the currents to search.

After searching like this, they still found nothing. However, these demonized Cultivators did not give up, as finding the Soul Devourer was directly related to their future.

The moment Wang Lin was wrapped into a giant cocoon by the tentacles, he entered a strange state. His vision was filled with scattered stars, surrounded by darkness.

He could not feel the existence of his body, but this state was slightly different from his Divine Sense leaving the body. He could clearly perceive that he was moving forward at an extremely fast speed.

The scattered stars grew larger and larger in his eyes, eventually turning into gigantic spheres. Immediately after, he saw a giant. This giant sat cross-legged on a massive sphere, hands crossed, forming a Hand Seal. His right hand flicked lightly, and instantly, a distant sphere shattered and exploded with a bang, sending out a terrifying Qi current from the site of the explosion.

The giant paid no attention. With a wave of his right hand, a small drop of golden liquid flew out of the explosion and landed in the giant's palm. Then, his left hand swept across his chest, causing a flash of seven-colored radiance. After the light dissipated, a normal-sized infant suddenly lay on the giant's left hand.

He glanced indifferently at the infant, lightly squeezed the golden liquid in his right hand, and dripped it onto the infant. Then, he leaped up and tossed the infant in his hand toward the sphere he had just been sitting on.

Immediately, the infant was wrapped in the golden liquid and moved at lightning speed, turning into a golden meteor that instantly crashed into the sphere. Its speed was too fast and its impact force immense. Only when it reached the exact center of the sphere did its speed slow down, finally coming to a stop.

Immediately after, the giant vanished quickly with a flash, not even sparing a glance for the infant.

Wang Lin watched the scene before him, his eyes flickering, a hint of shock flashing through them. This giant must be the Ancient God! Wang Lin now fully understood the Ancient God's power. The sphere was clearly what Situ Nan had once mentioned—that the world they lived in was actually a round place called a planet.

Looking now, every scattered star before him was actually a planet. They only looked small because the distance was too vast, but in reality, they were incredibly enormous.

An Ancient God could destroy a planet with a wave of their hand—what immense might! What incredible Divine Ability!

Wang Lin's eyes flickered. He immediately understood why the Ancient Gods eventually almost all disappeared. Such immense bodies required terrifying Spiritual Power. If they were allowed to develop unchecked, almost all planets would be destroyed by them.

Wang Lin fell silent for a moment, then fixed his gaze on the planet where the infant was located. With a thought, he felt himself instantly arriving on that planet.

There were many Cultivators on this planet. Aside from a few with extremely high cultivation who noticed the anomaly caused by the infant, no one else perceived anything. Even those few highly cultivated Cultivators ultimately found nothing.

From their attire, one could see a clear difference from the Cultivation World where Wang Lin lived.

Wang Lin moved, sinking into the ground, and quickly found the infant. The infant was wrapped in the golden liquid and lay quietly at the core of the planet.

Who knows how much time passed, but the number of Cultivators on the planet grew, and it became extremely prosperous.

But suddenly, one day, after countless years of silence, the infant abruptly opened his eyes. Immediately after, the golden liquid outside his body rapidly contracted, eventually being absorbed into him, and his body gradually grew, developing into a youth.

What followed was a catastrophe. Wang Lin watched as the youth grew up. With a single movement of his body, all the vegetation on the entire planet instantly withered, transforming into streams of green liquid that converged toward the center of the earth, where they were absorbed into the youth's body.

This process lasted for a long time… No matter how those Cultivators investigated, they consistently found nothing. It was as if their eyes were half-blinded, unable to detect the direction in which the essence of the vegetation was disappearing.

Next came Spiritual Qi. All the Spiritual Qi within the planet rapidly drained away in a short period. Soon, the entire planet had not a single trace of Spiritual Power left, forcing large numbers of Cultivators to migrate.

All this Spiritual Qi was absorbed by the youth, and his body grew significantly larger again.

After that, numerous natural disasters appeared on the surface—Mountain Collapses and earth fissures. Many Cultivators who hadn't migrated in time died inexplicably. Their cause of death had no clues; often, in a sudden instant, their entire cultivation, including their life force, vanished simultaneously.

Many years later, the entire planet was completely reduced to a Death Star. At this moment, the youth at the center of the earth suddenly moved, and the planet instantly exploded with a loud boom.

The youth walked out amidst the planet's explosion. He was about a thousand zhang tall, his gaze cold and devoid of all emotion.

"My name is Tu Si!" The youth slightly closed his eyes, seemingly sensing something, and only muttered to himself after a long while.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, staring at Wang Lin's location in the Void Realm, and said coldly: "I am Ancient God Tu Si. Successor, you will inherit a portion of my memory. Take care of yourself!" At that instant, the youth, along with all the surrounding Void Realm, suddenly vanished. Wang Lin's body was rapidly pulled back, as if grabbed by an invisible large hand, and re-entered his physical form.

He shuddered and abruptly opened his eyes. What he saw was no longer the black Void Realm, but the inside of a crystal clear membrane.

"Legacy…" His eyes flickered. The scenes he had just witnessed were definitely directly related to the blue ice crystal.

At this moment, three ancient golden characters appeared in Wang Lin's mind. He swept them with his Divine Sense and immediately recognized them, as if he were extremely familiar with the script.

"Ancient God Art"

Wang Lin closed his eyes. After a long time, when he opened them again, a strange smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. Wang Lin understood that the object the Heavenly Devil Rogue Cultivator had painstakingly sought was actually the Ancient God's Legacy!

Based on the information in the portion of memory he had received, Wang Lin already knew that after every Ancient God died, a Legacy would be generated within their body, and whoever obtained it would become the next Ancient God.

The Ancient God's Legacy is divided into two parts: the Legacy of Power and the Legacy of Memory.

Only when both Legacies are present in one person can that person immediately become the new Ancient God and gain everything the Ancient God possessed. However, not all Ancient Gods can leave behind a Legacy. Only those whose cultivation reaches a certain level and whose body remains perfectly preserved for over a hundred thousand years after death have a certain chance of producing a Legacy.

Overall, this chance is not great; in fact, it is very small. Throughout history, there have not been many Ancient Gods capable of producing a Legacy Crystal.

There is one crucial reason for this: besides the aforementioned conditions, the Ancient God's Legacy requires the Ancient God to willingly relinquish their long life. In reality, the lifespan of an Ancient God is extremely long; if they die accidentally, a Legacy cannot appear.

Only those who willingly sacrifice their life during their prime can generate a Legacy.

As for the Ancient God race, their method of raising their young is extremely cruel. They often simply toss the infant into a planet, using the entire planet's resources as nourishment for the young one's growth. The moment the young one matures is the moment that planet is destroyed.

Of course, this method is prone to failure. The Ancient God race is a ruthless race; they do not care about the life or death of their young, which is also one of the main reasons why Ancient Gods are rare.

Wang Lin took a deep breath, his eyes flickering. According to the memories within the Legacy, he already knew that there were absolutely no Magic Treasures or Medicinal Pill residue inside the Ancient God's body. All of this was merely fabricated by the uninformed or those with ulterior motives.

At the same time, through the sense of connection with the Ancient God's body after receiving a portion of the Legacy memory, he learned that the Legacy of Power had been obtained by someone tens of thousands of years ago!

As for the most important matter for Wang Lin right now—how to leave the Ancient God's body—the memory also held the answer, though this answer left Wang Lin feeling somewhat helpless.

If others wanted to leave this place, it would be extremely difficult, but for the Inheritor of the Memory Legacy, it was simple: merely by thinking of leaving while inside the Ancient God's Sea of Consciousness, they could depart.

If Wang Lin had entered the Sea of Consciousness through normal means and obtained the Memory Legacy, everything would have been straightforward. But now, he had obtained a partial Legacy through an unconventional method, which meant he absolutely had to go to the Sea of Consciousness.

However, Wang Lin hadn't known the difficulty of entering the Sea of Consciousness before, but now that he had accepted a partial Legacy, his understanding of the Sea of Consciousness was arguably unmatched within the Ancient God Land.

To enter the Sea of Consciousness, one must first obtain the Ancient God Power Legacy and use it to drive the residual Spiritual Qi within the Ancient God's body, thereby opening the Sea of Consciousness area.

However, a complication arose here. In the portion of the memory Wang Lin inherited, a slight mention was made of the reason why Ancient God Tu Si abandoned his long life to condense into a Legacy.

A mysterious Divine Ability technique has long been passed down among the Ancient God race. Its name is the Ink Stream Soul Transformation Art.

Once this Divine Ability is mastered, it allows the Ancient God's Divine Sense to disperse, transforming one into ten, ten into thousands and tens of thousands, eventually transforming into hundreds of millions of Divine Souls. Moreover, each dispersed Divine Sense possesses cultivation no weaker than the main body. The creator of this Spell is unknown, and for countless years, no one has ever successfully Cultivated it.

Tu Si was truly a heaven-defying genius. After failing to Cultivate this Divine Ability, he conceived a crazy idea: to Cultivate in reverse. He abandoned his long life, and at the instant of his death, leveraging the moment his Divine Sense was dispersing and disappearing, he forcibly used the Divine Ability technique to keep thousands of his dispersed Divine Senses intact, preparing to Cultivate them individually to ultimately achieve the same effect as the Ink Stream Soul Transformation Art.

Unfortunately, if Tu Si had been given more time, perhaps he truly would have succeeded. However, a complication arose: a red-haired man suddenly broke into the Ancient God's body.

This person's cultivation was astonishing; he forcefully seized the Power Legacy. However, he subsequently engaged in a great battle with the Divine Sense left behind by Ancient God Tu Si. Ultimately, because Tu Si was already dead and only his Divine Sense remained, he was defeated, and his Divine Sense was destroyed.

The Sea of Consciousness split into two: one part transformed into the Sealed Blood Sea, used to trap the red-haired man and prevent his escape. The other part became the Divine Sense Dead Sea, which blocked anyone from entering. The complete Memory Legacy was hidden within this latter part.

Wang Lin's eyes flickered. He carefully scanned the inherited memories in his mind. The more information he gained, the better he gradually grasped the framework of the events.

Compared to all this information, the greatest gain Wang Lin felt he received from entering the Ancient God Land this time was the Ancient God Formula!

These three characters in his mind, besides recording a portion of Ancient God Tu Si's memories, also contained an incomplete set of Cultivation Technique Divine Abilities. This Ancient God Formula was a Divine Ability technique that existed in the mind of every Ancient God from childhood and was Cultivated throughout their lives.

The essence of this Divine Ability is two words: Plunder!

Plunder everything!

The memories Wang Lin received only contained the Incantations for the first two layers of this Cultivation Technique. Even so, after carefully reading them, he couldn't help but feel secretly startled and deeply moved. By Cultivating according to this technique, he believed forming a Nascent Soul would no longer be just a dream.

After pondering for a moment, Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He stretched out his right hand and pressed against the surrounding membrane. His entire body shimmered with colorful light, and he softly chanted several complex and obscure Incantations. Instantly, he vanished, reappearing exactly where he had disappeared earlier.

The moment his body appeared, he immediately saw the roaring Qi Waves rushing toward him in the distance. The boundless Qi Waves howled closer. Wang Lin remained motionless, his eyes slightly closed. He changed his hands into several Hand Seals, and just as the Qi Waves swept over, he pressed forward. In that instant, his entire body immediately merged into the Qi Waves, and driven by their momentum, he rapidly rolled toward the distance.

If it had been before, Wang Lin certainly couldn't have done this, but now, having inherited a portion of the Ancient God's memories, he could be said to be more familiar with the Ancient God's body than anyone else.

It could even be said that if he wanted to hide now, no one could find him, unless the red-haired man who obtained the Power Legacy could emerge from the Blood Sea and use his astonishing cultivation to locate him.

Inside the Qi Waves, Wang Lin's eyes flickered. Once the Qi Waves moved to a specific point, he shot out, using the propulsion of the Qi Waves to instantly rush to the edge of the sky. He casually grabbed the air around him with his right hand, and immediately a Rift appeared in the sky. He flashed and slipped inside.

When he reappeared, he had already left the Qi Sea area and was flying toward the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness located in the Ancestral Aperture. Wang Lin planned to personally observe the Divine Sense Dead Sea—which had split in two—from the outside. If the facts were indeed as the memory indicated, he would prepare to execute a daring plan.

After leaving the Qi Sea, the world before him was shimmering with golden light. In the past, Wang Lin would have seen this place as boundless and endless, but now that he had inherited the memories, it was no longer mysterious or overwhelmingly vast to him.

As he flew, Wang Lin maintained a calm expression. Often, he would casually grab with his right hand, opening a Rift. After diving in, he would reappear countless miles away.

This was a unique method of movement within the Ancient God's body, gained after inheriting the memories. In fact, if he had inherited the complete set of memories, he could instantly reach any point within the Ancient God's body simply by thinking it.

Just as Wang Lin emerged from a Rift, his expression suddenly shifted, and a cold smile appeared on his lips. In that instant, not far ahead of him, the space twisted, and a Demonized Cultivator appeared. He stared at Wang Lin in surprise, licked his lips, and cackled, "Little fellow, this old man finally found you!"

As he spoke, he grabbed toward Wang Lin with his right hand. Wang Lin's expression was calm, showing no panic whatsoever. He took one step back and recited a complex Incantation.

Immediately, the surrounding scenery was infinitely stretched. To be precise, the distance between Wang Lin and the Cultivator was instantly elongated. In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two, which had been several tens of yards, immediately stretched to ten thousand miles.

The Demonized Cultivator's grabbing right hand grasped empty air, causing him to freeze in surprise. His face instantly darkened. He let out a soft snort, flicked his right hand, and suddenly rushed forward, taking one step that immediately covered ten thousand miles as he chased after Wang Lin.

Wang Lin sneered. He grabbed in front of him with his right hand, leaned into the Rift, and vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The Demonized Cultivator froze again, his eyes flashing. Without a word, his Divine Sense immediately swept out. He contacted his companions nearby through his Divine Sense and instantly transmitted the news of finding Wang Lin. Within just a few breaths, through their mutual relaying, almost all the Demonized Cultivators inside the Ancient God's body rushed toward this location.

At the same time, the dozens of Demonized Cultivators who were already searching the vicinity spread out their Divine Sense and searched meticulously. Soon, they discovered Wang Lin at a certain location, and one by one, they sped up, closing in on him.

Although Wang Lin did not have any substantial increase in cultivation after inheriting a portion of the Ancient God's memories, he could practically travel anywhere he wished within the Ancient God's body. No one understood this place better than him.

Even the red-haired man who obtained the Power Legacy could not compare to him in this regard, as the Legacies the two of them inherited were fundamentally different.

When those Demonized Cultivators discovered Wang Lin, sped toward him, and locked onto him with their Divine Sense, they were immediately shocked to realize that they had lost his trace again. It seemed the target was far more familiar with this place than they were.

As more and more Demonized Cultivators arrived between the Qi Sea Aperture and the Ancestral Aperture, their combined Divine Sense became colossal. Sweeping through the area, they could easily find Wang Lin, but as soon as their Divine Sense locked onto him, he would mysteriously vanish. After several attempts, no matter how hard they searched, they could no longer find Wang Lin's whereabouts.

A cold smile hung on Wang Lin's lips. He grabbed open a Rift with his right hand and calmly stepped inside, reappearing inside the Ancestral Aperture, which was just outside the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness.