Chapter 184: Blood Sea Seal

Wang Lin's expression was as usual, but he sneered inwardly. He shook his head and said, "Not enough!"

Duo Mu's eyes flashed with a cold glint. Just as he was about to speak, the old man's right hand blocked him. Staring at Wang Lin, he slowly said, "This Hunyuan Beast-Taming Ring is already considered a legendary treasure. If you're still not satisfied, we have nothing better to offer!"

Wang Lin's gaze was calm. He glanced at the Magical Artifacts around them, which emitted a soft purple light, and remained silent.

"These are our Lifebound Treasures, which we cannot give you. How about this, I can give you ten Top-Grade Spirit Stones. This is our final concession," the old man mused for a moment before slowly speaking.

Wang Lin also found it inconvenient to push them too hard. After all, the cultivation of these people was unfathomable. If the Legacy of Memory in his heart wasn't his final trump card, he wouldn't be so composed.

"One hundred!" Wang Lin said indifferently.

"Impossible!" Before the old man could speak, Duo Mu coldly shouted from the side. The gazes of the others around them also turned unfriendly, staring coldly at Wang Lin.

Wang Lin remained unmoved, simply looking calmly at the old man, waiting for his reply.

The old man pondered for a moment, then said grimly, "Twenty. This is the limit. We don't have many Top-Grade Spirit Stones. If you still can't accept it, then we can only resort to our final method!"

Wang Lin's expression was normal. Without a word, he extended his right hand.

The old man pointed his right hand at his chest. Immediately, a black light flickered, and an ancient-looking bronze ring appeared in his hand. He flicked it forward, and Wang Lin caught it.

Wang Lin glanced at it. The bronze ring was the size of a bracelet, engraved with numerous ferocious Immortal Beasts. At first glance, these Immortal Beasts were lifelike, as if they were alive.

Wang Lin's Divine Sense probed it. As soon as it entered the bronze ring, he felt roars emanating from within. His Divine Sense involuntarily trembled, and he immediately withdrew it.

He calmly put away the bronze ring and looked at the old man.

In the old man's hand now was a gray Storage Pouch. He tossed it to Wang Lin. After catching it, Wang Lin looked inside and saw exactly twenty rhomboid Top-Grade Spirit Stones neatly placed, with immense spiritual energy fluctuations ready to burst forth.

After putting the Top-Grade Spirit Stones into his own Storage Pouch, Wang Lin threw the gray pouch to the ground and said in a deep voice, "I have one more question: after sealing the Blood Sea Master, how can I leave this place?"

The old man felt a slight relief upon hearing Wang Lin's question. He had been waiting for the other party to ask this. If the other party hadn't asked, he would have grown suspicious.

"It's simple. After Tuo Sen is sealed again, we will also leave this place. However, the key to all of this must be performed within the Divine Sense Dead Sea. At that time, you can leave with us."

Wang Lin sneered inwardly. He was now certain that if what the other party had said earlier was true, their real goal was clearly the Ancient God Legacy of Memory within the Divine Sense Dead Sea.

"It's not that I don't believe you, but this matter is extremely important. If I don't have absolute certainty that I can eventually leave, then everything is empty talk!" Wang Lin's eyes flashed with a cold glint as he slowly spoke.

The old man frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "Since this old man has promised you, I will certainly not go back on my word."

Wang Lin remained unmoved, shaking his head and saying, "Senior is an exalted person, and Junior should naturally believe you. But this concerns life and death. If Junior doesn't have a convincing guarantee for this matter, even if I ultimately agree to the Seal, I will inevitably have reservations and find it difficult to exert my full strength."

Duo Mu snorted, his eyes revealing killing intent, and he said sinisterly, "Junior, your endless circling is too annoying. Since we have promised you, if you don't believe us, there's no need for such trouble. Let this old man send you on your way, and consider the matter settled!" As he spoke, he suddenly waved his right hand, and instantly, a giant black hand formed in mid-air. It opened and fiercely slapped towards Wang Lin.

Wang Lin's eyes flashed with cold light. He didn't even look at the large hand, only staring at the old man, not saying a word.

The giant palm stopped three inches above Wang Lin's head. The old man waved his hand, and Duo Mu immediately withdrew his palm, staring coldly at Wang Lin.

"What do you want?" The old man's brow furrowed slightly. He glared at Duo Mu and slowly said.

Wang Lin looked at the Magical Artifacts around them and said, "Since these things are your Lifebound Treasures, why not keep them with Junior? After we leave, Junior will naturally return them with both hands. I'm sure Seniors won't worry that a mere Core Formation Cultivator like Junior would be capable of claiming these Magic Treasures for himself."

The old man stared at Wang Lin. After a long time, a smile filled with coldness appeared at the corner of his mouth. He nodded, and with a summons of his right hand behind him, ten Magical Artifacts flew over one by one. He grabbed them, placed several Restrictions on each, and then threw them to Wang Lin.

Wang Lin took the ten Magical Artifacts without a word. Without even looking at them, he took out a separate Storage Pouch, threw them in, and then carefully put it away.

Now that the purple light of the ten Magical Artifacts no longer enveloped this space, it began to dissipate. The old man gave Wang Lin a deep look, then grabbed with his right hand. Immediately, a Rift several zhang long appeared before him. He stepped back a few paces, clearing the way.

Wang Lin's expression was calm as he confidently stepped forward and entered the Rift.

After he entered, Duo Mu's eyes showed unwillingness, and he whispered, "Big Brother…"

"Shut up!" The old man's expression immediately changed, no longer calm and gentle as when he faced Wang Lin, but filled with ferocity. He gave Duo Mu a cold glance, flicked his sleeve, and walked into the Rift.

The other few people, except Duo Mu, followed him in. As the last person, the black-robed man who had always worn a sinister expression, turned back before entering the Rift and said grimly, "Duo Mu, don't you understand? That kid probably knows our purpose perfectly well. What you just did was purely self-humiliation! After all, whether we can achieve our wish depends entirely on this child. Big Brother has waited countless years. It's a pity that the Envoy is completely loyal to Tuo Sen, otherwise, it wouldn't be this troublesome."

After speaking, he stepped into the Rift. Duo Mu was silent for a moment, then followed.

Upon entering the crevice, a world of blood-red unfolded before Wang Lin. Inverted conical stone pillars were visible everywhere, especially the giant towering stone pillar in the distance, which made Wang Lin's pupils contract. This place was clearly the Blood Sea!

Wang Lin's gaze fixed on the man on the towering stone pillar. He had blood-red hair, and waves of disdainful and arrogant aura slowly emanated from him. Just one glance made Wang Lin feel a sense of suffocation!

At this time, demonized Cultivators returned one after another, including Duo Mu and the others. After entering this Blood Sea, their bodies swayed, and they landed on the stone pillars, sitting cross-legged without a word.

All the demonized Cultivators who entered this place found their respective positions, their eyes flickering as they continuously stared at Wang Lin.

They were all sitting cross-legged, while Wang Lin alone floated in mid-air.

Wang Lin swept his gaze around. There were many Cultivators here, at least a thousand. Among them, Wang Lin saw Meng Tuozi, Duanmu Ji, Wang Qingyue, Heavenly Demon Rogue Cultivator… At this moment, a Rift appeared in the Void Realm beside the red-haired man. A long-haired man stepped out. After this person appeared, his first glance was at Wang Lin, and a look of ecstasy appeared on his face. He respectfully said to the red-haired man, "Master, he is that Soul Devourer!" After speaking, he moved his body and landed on a nearby stone pillar to sit down.

Wang Lin recognized at a glance that this person was the enormous Wandering Soul.

The surroundings were silent. Suddenly, a hoarse voice came from the red-haired man's mouth.

"Soul Devourer…" The man suddenly looked up, and immediately the entire Blood Sea trembled. Countless blood mists erupted from the surrounding stone pillars, and the entire world was covered in blood mist at this moment.

His gaze, as if possessing infinite demonic power, pierced through his disheveled hair with an eerie glow, fixing on Wang Lin.

Wang Lin immediately felt an invisible Restriction being set up around his body the moment the other party's gaze converged, making his body unable to move even half an inch.

"Absorb this trace of my divided consciousness and open the Seal for me, otherwise, die!" The red-haired man said, then grabbed his brow with his right hand. A look of pain appeared on his face as his body trembled, and he forcefully extracted a red light from within him. As soon as the red light appeared, it immediately transformed into a bloody light, floating motionless before Wang Lin.

After extracting the red light, the man gasped for a few breaths, and it took him a while for his breathing to slowly calm down.

The demonized Cultivators around them immediately shifted their gazes, staring at the red light, their faces revealing a complex expression of fear and greed.

The red-haired man's body rose and fell slightly, his deep eyes staring at Wang Lin through his messy bangs.

"I can help you, but after you break the Seal, you must send me away!" Although Wang Lin was startled, his eyes remained calm, without the slightest panic, as he said plainly.

The red-haired man's lips twitched slightly, and he nodded.

Wang Lin cautiously glanced at the red light, and his extreme realm Divine Sense immediately surged out, transforming into a large mouth that abruptly swallowed the red light.

A sharp, intense pain immediately emanated from his Divine Sense. Wang Lin's body trembled slightly, and after a long while, the stinging sensation slowly disappeared. He immediately noticed that his Divine Sense had actually doubled in size!

The reason he dared to come here so boldly was that the Legacy of Power and the Legacy of Memory were completely different and would not show signs of being discovered by the other party, unless both Legacies were inherited by two people simultaneously, which would cause such a situation.

This way, no one but Wang Lin himself could detect that he had obtained a portion of the Legacy of Memory.

As for the red light, Wang Lin had heard from Duo Mu and others that it was a wisp of a God's split consciousness. If it were anyone else, they might fear it because they couldn't control it, but for Wang Lin, his attribute as a Soul Devourer allowed him to swallow it.

After seeing the split consciousness swallowed by Wang Lin, the red-haired man remained silent, his eyes cold as he stared at Wang Lin. After a long while, he slowly spoke: "Although you are a Soul Devourer, you haven't formed a soul core. To forcibly swallow a wisp of split consciousness is quite satisfactory. Wandering Soul, help him form a soul core!"

The man transformed from a Wandering Soul trembled, revealing a look of hesitation, but quickly, his eyes showed resolve, and he whispered, "As you command!" With that, he pointed at his glabella with his right hand, and his body immediately began to tremble uncontrollably. He clearly became much weaker. At this moment, a crystal-clear, red-glowing orb of light abruptly emerged from his glabella.

As soon as this orb of light appeared, his entire being immediately collapsed, unable to maintain human form, and transformed into a Divine Sense state. It took him a while to slowly condense back into human form, but his body was translucent.

Wang Lin's eyes flickered. Without a word, his extreme realm Divine Sense immediately swarmed forward, enveloping the orb of light. This orb contained the massive soul energy within this Wandering Soul. Wang Lin swallowed it with almost no obstruction, absorbing it completely in just the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn.

Wang Lin could clearly feel that his Divine Sense had suddenly expanded several times over.

The red-haired man let out a soft exclamation of surprise, then after a brief silence, slowly said, "Wandering Soul, continue."

The Wandering Soul man immediately let out a bitter laugh. He hadn't expected Wang Lin, as a Soul Devourer, to not have a soul core. If he had known this earlier, he would never have reported it to his master, leading to his current plight. Moreover, for some unknown reason, this Soul Devourer required such an enormous amount of soul energy to form a soul core that one soul orb was clearly insufficient to produce it.

It should be known that a soul core is the core of a Soul Devourer that naturally forms as it evolves to a certain stage and absorbs more Wandering Souls. Generally speaking, all Soul Devourers will, at the very first moment of evolving into a Soul Devourer, devour a large number of Wandering Souls to produce a soul core as quickly as possible. Almost no Soul Devourer would allow itself to exist for too long without a soul core.

The biggest difference between a Soul Devourer with a soul core and one without is in creating Wandering Souls; only with a soul core can Wandering Souls be created.

The Wandering Soul man let out a bitter laugh and once again pointed at his glabella. Before the soul orb could appear, his body collapsed. This time, he was unable to re-condense into human form. After a long while, a red-glowing soul orb slowly seeped out from his illusory Wandering Soul body.

At this moment, his aura had fallen endlessly. Although still stronger than ordinary Wandering Souls, it was vastly different from before.

Wang Lin's eyes flickered, and his Divine Sense once again surged out, enveloping the soul orb for absorption. This time, he could clearly feel a subtle difference in his Divine Sense; its size no longer increased, but within it, a grain-sized particle was vaguely condensing.

The red-haired man frowned slightly. If a Soul Devourer didn't have a soul core, it couldn't withstand too many split consciousnesses. Yet, the person before him had continuously swallowed two soul orbs, only reaching the first step of forming a soul core.

It should be known that these two soul orbs almost amounted to the majority of the Wandering Soul man's total soul energy.

He pondered for a moment, his eyes flickering, then he raised his right hand and pointed at the Wandering Soul. The Wandering Soul immediately let out a miserable groan, its illusory body rapidly shrinking, eventually forcibly condensing into another red-glowing soul orb, which he grabbed and threw towards Wang Lin.

This soul orb was formed from the Wandering Soul's life.

After devouring the third soul orb, Wang Lin clearly felt that the grain-sized particle within his Divine Sense was rapidly growing, quickly reaching the size of a fingernail.

Immediately, a strange sensation surged into Wang Lin's heart. His extreme realm Divine Sense suddenly contracted completely, eventually merging entirely into the fingernail-sized sphere. As for this sphere, it disappeared into his glabella.

Wang Lin's eyes flickered with a hint of black light. In fact, it was only now that he could be considered a true Soul Devourer, possessing the ability to create Wandering Souls.

All of this, at the moment the soul core formed, became clearly understood in his heart, like a kind of Legacy.

The red-haired man withdrew his gaze and waved his right hand in front of him. Immediately, a spatial Rift appeared in mid-air. Then, with a large grab, the entire bloody light suddenly trembled. Following this, a huge illusory figure slowly emerged from within the spatial Rift.

As soon as this illusory figure appeared, Wang Lin immediately sensed a trace of Soul Devourer aura from it. Clearly, this illusory figure was the Soul Devourer from the third trial.

Soon, the entire illusory figure, like a dark cloud, fully emerged from the Rift. The red-haired man's eyes flashed, and he let out a low roar. His body trembled violently, and wisps of strange bloody light spread out from his body. Bursts of blood mist continuously emerged from various parts of his body, almost instantly covering his entire form in red. He seemed to be enduring unimaginable pain. After a long while, he suddenly looked up, revealing his bloodied face, and let out a hoarse voice: "Tu Si's split consciousness, emerge!"

As soon as his voice fell, streams of red light were forced out from his body. These red lights were extremely numerous. As soon as they appeared, they immediately lingered around, densely packed, almost forming a red hurricane, emitting an eerie glow.

The demonized Cultivators around them all lowered their heads, their faces showing fear. Only Duo Mu and the other ten did not lower their heads, their expressions grim as they stared at the red lights.

At this moment, a gap suddenly opened in the shadow formed by the Soul Devourer. This gap grew larger and larger, continuously extending forward. When it reached the red-haired man's side, it suddenly closed, swallowing about dozens of red lights.

But just then, the remaining red lights suddenly flashed brightly, frantically circling around the man's body. Red symbols abruptly appeared as they moved, and each time a symbol appeared, it immediately imprinted itself on the red-haired man, causing his body to twitch.

At the same time, as he trembled, dozens of red lights would reappear in the surrounding bloody light, rapidly joining the red-haired man's vicinity, replenishing those devoured by the Soul Devourer.

As for the Soul Devourer, after swallowing more than ten red lights, its cloud-like body was already faintly glowing red, clearly needing some time to digest and unable to continue devouring.

A trace of pain appeared on the red-haired man's face, and his gaze, through his messy hair, looked towards Wang Lin.

Wang Lin now understood why this task required two Soul Devourers. If there was only one Soul Devourer, it might not have fully absorbed and digested the split consciousness it had just swallowed before more split consciousness Seals would reappear from the bloody light. In this way, it would be a never-ending cycle, and this Seal would not only be impossible to completely break, but would also cause the split consciousnesses to multiply.

There needed to be a buffer in between. Only with two or more Soul Devourers swallowing them consecutively might there be a slight possibility, but even that possibility was too small.