Chapter 1810: The Tenth Sun of Immortal Astral, Haunted

Immortal Master Qing Niu’s gaze sharpened, and he fell silent. The Multiple Illusion Technique on the ninth floor of the Soul Storage Pavilion was the strongest technique within their Great Soul Gate. Normally, passing it on to Wang Lin would be fine, but the Old Ancestor once said that Wang Lin should enter this ninth floor three hundred years later.

“The Soul Storage Pavilion has a tenth floor!” While deep in thought, Old Ancestor Qing Niu suddenly spoke.

Wang Lin’s expression was calm, but the pupils of his eyes contracted slightly.

“Even I cannot enter the tenth floor. Only the Old Ancestor from our Great Soul Gate’s lineage throughout history could step into that floor. That is where he attained nirvana!” Immortal Master Qing Niu said slowly, and after speaking, he fell silent once more.

Wang Lin also remained silent, somewhat unable to guess Immortal Master Qing Niu’s purpose in saying these words.

After a long while, perhaps the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Immortal Master Qing Niu looked at the distant sky and spoke again.

“Your merits are not enough to obtain the complete Multiple Illusion Technique of the ninth floor… ”

Wang Lin raised his right hand and flipped it, and immediately a Jade Slip appeared in his hand, which he handed to Immortal Master Qing Niu.

“Add this, is it enough?!”

Immortal Master Qing Niu frowned, glanced at Wang Lin, took the Jade Slip, and poured his Divine Sense into it. Upon seeing its contents, he was immediately moved. He looked up and swept his gaze over Wang Lin again, then concentrated back on the Jade Slip.

Only after he had finished reading all the details of Wang Lin refining the Immortal Pill within, did Immortal Master Qing Niu take a deep breath, and his gaze towards Wang Lin immediately held a strange quality.

With his cultivation, he naturally judged that everything within this Jade Slip was real. Combining the changes in heaven and earth he had been deducing these past few days and the reports from his hidden agents, he clearly pieced together all the events that occurred in the Pill Sea in his mind.

Especially since Wang Lin’s injuries had recovered by eighty to ninety percent, but there was still a trace remaining that couldn't heal in a short time. All of this further proved the authenticity of the Jade Slip.

“Good, good, good!” Immortal Master Qing Niu held the Jade Slip and burst out laughing. With a wave of his left hand, a surge of majestic heaven and earth power immediately integrated into Wang Lin’s body. Amidst the resounding thumps, Wang Lin’s injuries healed in an instant!

“You have rendered a great service this time! Our Great Soul Gate must reward those with merit. I can give you the complete Multiple Illusion Technique from the ninth floor! But you must agree to one condition!” Immortal Master Qing Niu looked at Wang Lin with sharp eyes. The more he looked, the more he admired Wang Lin in his heart, secretly thinking that the Old Ancestor truly lived up to his reputation as the founding ancestor of the Great Soul Gate, to have chosen someone with such courage and boldness!

“What condition?” Wang Lin did not show the slightest hint of complacency due to Immortal Master Qing Niu’s words. He looked at the other party very calmly and slowly said.

“After killing ten Early Stage Empty Tribulation Realm Cultivators from the Green Devil Continent and three Middle Stage Empty Tribulation Realm Cultivators from the Green Devil Continent, enter the ninth and tenth floors of the Soul Storage Pavilion!

Only by accomplishing these three things can you leave the Great Soul Gate!”

As soon as these words were spoken, Wang Lin’s mind trembled, and he fell silent. Indeed, on his way back, he had already harbored thoughts of leaving. He had originally planned to avoid this great war after helping the Great Soul Gate fulfill some of his obligations.

After all, his goal was the Donglin Sect, and the distant Dao Ancient Lineage, so he could not stay in the Tianniu Continent for too long. Coupled with the current chaos, he had some suspicions in his heart, making him even more unwilling to get too involved.

Immortal Master Qing Niu had clearly seen this, but instead of forcing him to stay, he stated these three conditions, which reminded Wang Lin of the three gifts.

After a long silence, Wang Lin looked up at Qing Niu and nodded solemnly!

Regardless of what the Great Soul Gate was planning, it had indeed helped him first. With Wang Lin’s character, he would repay them. Now, using these three conditions as repayment, although somewhat difficult, he believed he still had a chance to complete them.

Seeing Wang Lin nod, Immortal Master Qing Niu smiled faintly and said no more. With a flick of his large sleeve, an ancient Jade Slip immediately flew out, heading straight for Wang Lin.

Wang Lin caught it, and inside was the complete incantation for the first to ninth levels of the Great Soul Gate’s extremely powerful technique, the Multiple Illusion Technique.

“Cultivating this technique requires refining a Ghost Banner. Since war is about to break out, I might as well give you all the Materials. However, you will have to choose the souls required for the Ghost Banner yourself. If there are no suitable ones, you can search for one on Ghost Peak.” Immortal Master Qing Niu said, then grabbed at the Void Realm, and a ball of light appeared in his hand, containing many Artifact Refining Materials, which he handed to Wang Lin.

Wang Lin flicked his large sleeve, storing the ball of light within, then stood up, cupped his fist towards Immortal Master Qing Niu, turned, and walked away.

“You don’t have much time. Seven days from now, I will send you and a few Elders to guard one of the seven acupoints of the Heavenly Ox!” Immortal Master Qing Niu’s words echoed and lingered in Wang Lin’s ears. He did not look back, transforming into a long rainbow and leaving Azure Heaven Peak.

Soaring all the way, Wang Lin returned to his own mountain peak. When Wang Lin left, the flames within the peak seemed to have extinguished, leaving it only crimson. But the moment Wang Lin’s foot touched the peak, it immediately burst into a sea of flames again, subtly emitting rumbling sounds.

Fan Shanmeng, who had been meditating with her eyes closed, immediately opened them, a hint of panic in her gaze. She bit her lower lip, waited for a while without Wang Lin summoning her, and felt a little uneasy.

At this moment, Wang Lin had no time to attend to Fan Shanmeng. He arrived at his Immortal Cave, sat down cross-legged, and the ball of light from his sleeve flew out. After he pointed and broke it, various Materials for refining the Ghost Face Banner immediately floated within the Immortal Cave.

These Materials varied in appearance, but each one was extremely precious, as they were given by Old Ancestor Qing Niu, of excellent quality.

Looking at these Materials, the ancient Jade Slip of the Multiple Illusion Technique appeared in Wang Lin’s right hand. His Divine Sense merged into it, memorizing the incantation and all the contents of this technique, which included the method for refining the Ghost Face Banner.

According to the records in the Jade Slip, the name of this Ghost Face Banner was Ghost Banner, and its quality was divided into five grades: Primary, Medium, High, Extreme, and Peerless. Each grade corresponded to two layers of illusion.

Within the Great Soul Gate, most Disciples only possessed Primary Grade Ghost Banners. Only Elders, or Core Disciples from various peaks who were highly regarded, could be given a Medium Grade one by their Master for self-defense.

Among them, Fan Shanmeng’s Ghost Banner from back then was Medium Grade, given to her by Yan Luan.

Generally speaking, a Medium Grade Ghost Banner was already extremely powerful. If wielded properly, it could disregard cultivation! This could be witnessed in Fan Shanmeng’s hands!

If one could possess a High Grade or even Extreme Grade Ghost Banner, combined with the Multiple Illusion Technique, its power would be terrifying! As for the Peerless Grade, it was too difficult to refine; the entire Great Soul Gate only had one Peerless Grade Ghost Banner!

This Ghost Banner was the Great Soul Gate’s mountain-protecting Formation! The Formation, as Wang Lin observed, was not deployed to its utmost, but only activated to a partial extent of its power.

These matters were recorded in the Jade Slip, and Wang Lin’s own judgments were also included, making them clearly appear in his mind.

“A Ghost Banner requires a soul to be refined, but this soul… doesn’t just need to be a Cultivator’s, nor is higher cultivation necessarily better… it must be a dead soul…” Wang Lin frowned. This was the first time he had heard the term ‘dead soul’.

In the introduction within the Jade Slip, a dead soul was described as a different kind of existence, invisible and even imperceptible to outsiders, formed by various obsessions, unwillingness, or resentment at the very moment of a person or beast’s death.

If it had a little more, it would become a useless vengeful spirit; if it had a little less, it could not condense. Thus, it was difficult to obtain. In the Great Soul Gate, throughout history, countless individuals studied these dead souls, and gradually, they found a method for refining them before a person or beast died.

However, dead souls refined by this method, lacking the tempering of time, could only be used to create Primary Grade Ghost Banners, at most Medium Grade, regardless of the cultivation of the person or beast from which they were taken.

Because these dead souls could at most withstand three or four layers of illusion superposition. If there were more, they would collapse under the strain.

“This dead soul can be seen as a kind of will… only if this will is strong and becomes even more robust after being tempered by time, can it withstand more than four layers of illusion superposition… and the principle of the Multiple Illusion Technique clearly requires this will, using this will as nourishment to generate layers of illusions, causing people to get lost within them. The stronger the will, the stronger the illusion!” Wang Lin pondered, slowly beginning to understand the structure of the Multiple Illusion Technique.

Admiration appeared in his eyes. The cleverness and profoundness of this technique would be difficult to grasp without seeing the complete Spell.

“The person who created this technique must have been exceptionally gifted!” Wang Lin sighed, looking at the Jade Slip in his hand.

In fact, this technique was easy to understand. Wang Lin remembered that when he was a child, before he came into contact with cultivation, he would occasionally hear stories from adults in the village about someone’s house being Haunted.

Often at such times, that family would invite people from the county town to dispel the ghosts and gain some peace of mind.

Wang Lin remembered that such a thing had happened in his own home when he was a child. He had somewhat forgotten it, but now, the principle of the Multiple Illusion Technique triggered his memory, and he recalled it.

“The talk of hauntings is mostly a type of illusion, causing people to see strange scenes and become immersed in them, unable to extricate themselves. Thus, the term ‘Haunted’ came about.

‘Haunted’ implies not being quiet, it represents movement and disorder, but similarly, it is also a manifestation of psychological unease and agitation.” Wang Lin’s eyes were sharp as he looked at the Jade Slip in his hand.

It wasn’t until he started Cultivating that he recalled that the so-called hauntings were merely a kind of resentment existing between heaven and earth, which at a certain moment, influenced some people’s minds, making them feel uneasy and disturbed. Naturally, ghosts appeared, and a series of illusions followed.

This was the deepest core of the Multiple Illusion Technique! And also the origin of illusions!

“The so-called Multiple Illusion Technique, when explained, is actually so simple… what kind of illusion is this? This is the method of ghosts deluding humans! But while it sounds simple, in reality, the person who could conceive of this method, transforming this phenomenon into a Spell Divine Ability, and even a Daoist Magic, deserves respect!” Enlightenment shone in Wang Lin’s eyes.