Chapter 1843: Immortal Astral’s tenth sun – Compensatory Reward

Holding the black stone—this item was not a Spatial Stone—Wang Lin looked up at Du Qing and cupped his fists.

"Many thanks, Brother Du!"

Du Qing shook his head hurriedly, blinked, and asked in a low voice, "What is inside this?"

Wang Lin smiled slightly, shook his head without answering, and looked up at the sky, speaking slowly.

"I won't say anymore, Brother Du. If there is an Opportunity in the future, we will meet again. Farewell for now!" As he spoke, Wang Lin sighed lightly, took a step toward the sky, and his figure vanished instantly.

Du Qing watched Wang Lin's departing figure, vaguely realizing something. He sighed, shook his head, and turned into a long rainbow to leave. He had to go to the Great Soul Gate and tell Old Ancestor Qing Niu that he had completed the task he was entrusted with.

Wang Lin merged into the world and left the Seven Dao Sect. When he appeared, he was in a desolate desert. Such deserts were rare in the Tianniu Continent.

It was night, and a cold wind was blowing across the desert. The wind was bone-chilling and could freeze a Mortal to death in this desert, but for a Cultivator, it was resistible. As for a Third Step expert like Wang Lin, the wind felt very gentle when it blew on his body.

In his hand, he was still holding the black stone. With his head lowered, Wang Lin looked at the stone in his palm, his eyes lost in thought. He did not know whether he should open it.

Although he did not know what this object was, the aura of the Soul Derivation Dao on it vaguely told Wang Lin how to open it.

A moment later, Wang Lin's eyes revealed determination. As he opened his palm, the three-inch figure formed by the Soul Derivation Dao suddenly appeared next to the black stone, flickered, and merged into the stone.

Cracking sounds echoed in the night desert, accompanied by the wailing, desolate wind, blowing into Wang Lin's ears. After the three-inch figure merged into it, the stone developed dense Rifts. The Rifts grew more numerous, and within a short ten breaths of time, it shattered completely.

Four light orbs suddenly flew out from within!

The moment he saw these four light orbs, Wang Lin's mind was shaken, and he stood there in a daze.

Inside the first light orb was a fist-sized earth figure. This person sat cross-legged and had no facial features, but its body was rapidly changing between Armor and a human shape.

Bursts of Five Elements earth-type Armor aura rushed toward him, seemingly merging with the desert ground, stirring the surrounding sand and soil to gently push it.

Wang Lin did not know much about the Guiyi Sect's Armor, but he had seen a few, whether in the Immortal Cave Realm or when he saw the Guiyi Sect Sect Master rewarding others with Armor within the Guiyi Sect's mountain gate.

However, whether in appearance or aura, these Armors were far inferior compared to the human Armor inside this light orb! Even though Wang Lin did not know much, he could tell at a glance that they were simply not on the same level.

This human-shaped Armor must be something that even the Guiyi Sect did not have many of! Wang Lin did not know what kind of price Old Ancestor Qing Niu paid to exchange for this from the Guiyi Sect for him.

Wang Lin fell silent.

Inside the second light orb was a small black flag. To be precise, it was a ghost banner. It emitted a dreamy sensation, as if it could immerse people within it, unable to extricate themselves.

On this small flag, Wang Lin felt the aura of the Great Soul Gate's Peerless Grade ghost banner, the guardian formation. If he had not guessed wrong, this item was exactly what the Guiyi Sect Sect Master spoke of—the deputy flag of the Great Soul Gate's guardian formation, to be rewarded to whoever killed Wang Lin!!

Looking at this ghost banner, an indescribable train of thought arose in Wang Lin's heart.

The guardian ghost banner was extremely important to the Great Soul Gate, but at this moment, Old Ancestor Qing Niu had sent it before him, completely unexpectedly.

Wang Lin could only remain silent.

Inside the third light orb floated a brown bead. This bead looked similar in size to the Heaven Defying, and even some of its auras were very similar. The moment he saw this bead, Wang Lin even had the illusion that he was looking at the Heaven Defying that had merged into his soul.

"This is…" Wang Lin was stunned. He focused his gaze and looked. After a long time, he felt more and more similarities between this bead and his Heaven Defying, but it was not everything.

Although this bead and the Heaven Defying were very similar, they were like a firefly and the bright moon, like two stars viewed by the eye—one could become a sun, while the other could only become faint starlight.

On this bead, Wang Lin felt the aura of the Heavenly Ox. Although he did not recognize this item, he had a vague guess: this item was likely deeply related to the Heavenly Ox.

On this Tianniu Continent, anything related to the Heavenly Ox was an invaluable treasure that could not be easily given away, and definitely could not be allowed to leave the Tianniu Continent. But at this moment, this bead had been sent to Wang Lin. It looked light, but in reality, it pressed heavily deep within Wang Lin's heart.

There was also a fourth light orb, which contained a broken turtle shell. It was densely engraved with some patterns. Looking at it with the naked eye, it was blurry, but after his Divine Sense swept over it, Wang Lin suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the Great Soul Gate.

He seemed to see an old man inside the Great Soul Gate, sitting on the Qing Tian Peak, smiling and watching him, raising his right hand as if saying goodbye to him.

Inside the turtle shell was a map of the entire East Continent. Although it was not detailed, and the further away from the Tianniu Continent, the more it was just an outline and a simple introduction.

But for Wang Lin at this moment, this map was extremely important!

Besides the map, the turtle shell also contained a detailed introduction about the Heavenly Ox bead, which made Wang Lin understand a lot after reading it.

Immortal Master Qing Niu's words consisted of only one sentence, not manifested by Divine Sense, but carved inside the turtle shell.

"Have a safe journey… Return to see the Great Soul Gate in three hundred years…" There was no explanation, no reason given, and no mention of the three conditions. He simply used this one sentence to end this Karma of the Tianniu Continent for Wang Lin.

Wang Lin's expression revealed complexity. After a long time, he sighed deeply, put away the human-shaped Armor, put away the ghost banner deputy flag, and holding the Heavenly Ox bead, he merged his dao soul into it. In this way, he could take it away and go to any place.

Finally, he very carefully put away the turtle shell, looked at the direction of the Great Soul Gate once more, cupped his fists, and bowed deeply.

"I will return…" Wang Lin murmured, turned around, and took a step toward the sky. According to the description on the turtle shell map, he headed toward its boundary. He was going to the Donglin Sect!

The location of the Donglin Sect was in the north of the East Continent, within the Great Saint Continent, separated from the Tianniu Continent by five continents! It was extremely far. Ordinary rapid flight often required the consumption of the passage of time. Even if Wang Lin possessed Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, because it could not be used continuously, he feared it would take a year or two to reach the Great Saint Continent.

Furthermore, to go to the Donglin Sect, there was a place that had to be passed through, and that was the Green Devil Continent! If he went around it, it would waste a lot of extra time, and it would not just be five continents separated, but also some natural dangers and ravines, which would be even more.

After a moment of silence, Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He had a vague guess that the changes in the Great Soul Gate and the Guiyi Sect were highly related to the Green Devil Continent. Although he did not know if this guess was true or false, once it was true, he feared that someone would be waiting for him at the boundary of the Tianniu Continent.

Looking at it this way, perhaps going through the Green Devil Continent seemed dangerous, but one had to know that the current Green Devil Continent was almost empty… Perhaps this most dangerous place was actually the safest.

After all, very few people could imagine that Wang Lin would dare to go to the Green Devil Continent alone…

Having made up his mind, Wang Lin immediately changed direction. Using Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, he merged with the world and headed toward the Pill Sea. Along the way, Wang Lin was cautious, heading straight for the Pill Sea.

On the way, when he could not use Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, he did not turn into a long rainbow to speed away. After all, in the current Tianniu Continent, he could say that everyone was an enemy. Whether it was a Tianniu Continent Cultivator or a Green Devil Continent Cultivator, as long as they saw him and recognized him, it would be a slaughter.

After all, ordinary Tianniu Continent Cultivators only knew of the Soul Order and did not know what was inside.

But Wang Lin did not want to kill Tianniu Continent Cultivators, so whenever he could not use Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, he would choose a place to go into seclusion and hide, waiting for the interval time to pass before continuing his journey.

In this way, time slowed down. When he had crossed the Extreme Heaven Grassland and was only one shift away from the Pill Sea—roughly equivalent to three months of flight—it was still several months later.

In this season, the Tianniu Continent had already entered winter at this location. Snowflakes were drifting in the sky, and as far as the eye could see, it was like a land frozen for ten thousand miles.

The interval for Wang Lin's Shrinking the Ground into an Inch still needed more than half a month to be eliminated. During these months of seclusion, Wang Lin's injuries had all healed. He stepped on the snow on the ground, stared into the cold wind, and walked forward step by step.

Not far in front of him, in this snowy twilight, there was a Mortal city, emitting scattered lights, and trails of smoke rising, which seemed to blend with the twilight snow. It looked very peaceful and beautiful.

This was the first time Wang Lin was going to enter a Mortal world in this Immortal Astral Continent. This place was actually still some distance from the Pill Sea. Although it could be considered nearby, it was not destroyed in the collapse of the Pill Sea.

In the collapse of the Pill Sea, there should not have been any Mortals who truly died. After all, the legend of the Pill Sea had circulated for a long time. Whether it was the Green Devil Continent or the Tianniu Continent, they had already designated the edge of the Pill Sea as a Forbidden Land and did not allow Mortals to exist there.

However, if the Pill Sea's Immortal Pill had exploded in a place close to the Tianniu Continent, then the city before Wang Lin's eyes would have vanished in an instant.

The snow became heavier.

The wind howled, as if evil ghosts were roaring in the sky, blowing the rising smoke so that it scattered messily before it could condense, causing the Mortal people in the city to walk quickly toward their homes, heads lowered and wearing cotton clothes.

It was at this moment that Wang Lin walked into this city.

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