Chapter 1865: Immortal Astral, tenth sun – One Missing!

The same gate, the same arm; Wang Lin had seen them several times before!

Whenever the Heaven Defying reached Perfection, such a gate could appear. Wang Lin had entered it before, but in the end, he was unable to see anything inside; all he saw was a vast expanse of nothingness.

In particular, that cyan arm contained extremely powerful strength, preventing anyone from stepping into the gate.

Now, Wang Lin stood outside this gate once again. Looking at the gate and the cyan arm, Wang Lin remained silent.

"What did that Scorpion Soul mean before it died… when it said… White Bead…" Wang Lin pondered. After a long while, a brilliant light flashed in his eyes. His body flickered, and he began to walk slowly, step by step, toward the gate.

The moment he neared the gate, the cyan arm suddenly moved. Carrying a powerful pressure, it reached out to grab Wang Lin. It was so fast that it reached him in an instant, and its five outstretched fingers tore five marks into the void as it moved.

Wang Lin's expression remained unchanged. Without pausing his steps, he raised his right hand and struck toward the massive arm that was grabbing at him.

With this strike, the heavens and earth roared. The cyan arm shuddered throughout its entire length and was suddenly sent reeling backward, forced dozens of zhang into the air by Wang Lin's blow.

This arm, which had terrified Wang Lin in the past, could no longer stop him now that he had become an Empty Tribulation Realm Supreme. Wang Lin calmly walked toward the gate step by step.

His pace was not fast, but every step he took caused a booming sound to echo, as if his feet were about to shatter the Void Realm. When he was seven steps away from the gate, the cyan arm, which had been knocked aside, suddenly rose and whistled toward Wang Lin once more.

This time, it emitted a terrifying power, as if it would not rest until it stopped Wang Lin!

Wang Lin frowned. He did not want to destroy the arm. The moment he looked up, he raised his right hand and pointed at the arm.

"Freeze!"

With that single word, the massive cyan arm suddenly froze in mid-air, completely motionless.

Wang Lin continued walking, taking seven consecutive steps, and stood calmly before the Heaven Defying gate. He raised his left hand, pressed it against the gate, and pushed hard inward!

Under this push, the Heaven Defying gate let out a muffled sound and slowly opened a crack. Although the crack did not look large, to Wang Lin, it was several zhang wide.

With the gate cracked open, Wang Lin stood there for a moment, then lifted his foot and stepped into the gate.

His entire being stepped completely into the Heaven Defying gate.

This time, what appeared before Wang Lin was a world he had never seen before. There was a sky and earth here, but there were no signs of any life. All there was, amidst the mountains, was a tower that soared into the clouds!

The tower was not substantial; it flickered between illusion and reality, sometimes real, sometimes illusory.

This was not the place where Wang Lin had seen the Sealed Realm Supreme in the past. To be precise, the scene revealed after the Heaven Defying reached Perfection this time was completely different from what Wang Lin had seen before!

It was as if everything before had been a fog, and now that the fog had been lifted, Wang Lin was able to see the secrets of the Heaven Defying, infinitely close to its core!

Looking at the strange tower from afar, Wang Lin walked slowly in silence. As he moved forward, the mountains gradually became illusory and parted before him, allowing Wang Lin to walk step by step until he reached the front of the tower.

The tower was square, becoming thinner as it went up, and its shape was very strange. Under the tower, in the four corners, there were four skeletons sitting cross-legged.

It was unknown how many years these four skeletons had existed; they had remained here throughout the long, slow passage of time. Two of the skeletons wore white robes, and the other two wore black robes.

They sat cross-legged, unmoving, emitting waves of Death Qi.

Wang Lin's gaze swept over the four skeletons, then he looked at the tower, his eyes filled with confusion.

What was the Heaven Defying? This question had always troubled him, accompanying him for over two thousand years, almost three thousand years now.

He had managed to find the Heaven Defying gate several times, but only this time had he seen this tower, and the four skeletons in black and white robes beneath it.

This tower had no door!

Standing outside the tower, the confusion in Wang Lin's eyes grew deeper. After a long while, he released his Divine Sense, spreading it toward the tower. The instant his Divine Sense touched the tower, his mind immediately roared!

Countless faint sounds immediately surged into his mind. Because there were so many, Wang Lin felt it was extremely noisy; he could not hear a single sentence clearly!

He faintly heard the crying of a newborn baby, the sigh of an old man dying, and many indistinguishable sounds. Among those sounds were shrill screams and gentle whispers. It was as if Wang Lin were in a massive mortal city, hearing every single sound within it!

In the end, these endless sounds turned into a buzzing, frantically circling in Wang Lin's mind and ears, causing his face to instantly turn pale. With his current cultivation, he actually showed signs of being unable to bear it.

It seemed that if he were to continue, he would collapse entirely.

Just when he was about to be unable to bear it, the shrill cry of a baby pierced into Wang Lin's mind, causing him to wake up suddenly. His body retreated more than ten steps, his face deathly pale.

His mind roared as he stared blankly at the tower. A moment later, Wang Lin turned sharply and transformed into a long rainbow, whistling off into the distance. In an instant, he left this space. Relying on his senses, he found the sleeping Souls of Wang Ping and Wang Ping's wife within the Heaven Defying.

Looking at his own flesh and blood, Wang Ping, Wang Lin was silent.

He was familiar with the shrill baby cry that had just woken him up. That sound was the very first sound he had heard when Wang Ping was a child, back when he was a resentment infant.

"What exactly is that tower…" Wang Lin's eyes were filled with confusion. For a long, long time, he looked at the sleeping Souls of his flesh and blood, his eyes showing tenderness and sorrow. With a soft sigh, Wang Lin turned and left.

For the second time, he arrived in that strange space, before that square tower.

He looked up at the very top of the tower, which flickered between illusion and reality; the top of the tower was a blur.

After a moment of silence, Wang Lin gritted his teeth. After stepping forward a few steps, he released his Divine Sense again. This time, as he released it, he raised his right hand. His fingernails immediately extended, becoming as sharp as needles. As he clenched his palm, the sharp nails immediately dug into the flesh of his palm, but a layer of soft light blocked them, preventing them from piercing into the flesh.

However, this soft light was dissipating rapidly. At this rate, it would likely lose its effect in ten breaths at most, and Wang Lin's sharp nails would be able to pierce into his flesh, causing intense pain.

Time was tight. Without hesitation, Wang Lin released his Divine Sense, directing it toward the tower. The moment his Divine Sense touched the tower, the chaotic sounds from before once again roared into Wang Lin's mind.

Wang Lin's body shuddered. He seemed to lose his senses, enveloped by the chaotic sounds, like a lone boat in a raging sea, overwhelmed by the giant waves.

The sounds were endless. After all kinds of them fused together, they formed a buzzing that echoed in Wang Lin's mind, making it impossible for him to hear clearly. Time passed slowly, and Wang Lin's face grew paler, his eyes vacant. As his body trembled, the white light within his clenched right hand gradually dissipated. At the ninth breath, the white light completely vanished, causing his sharp fingernails to stab fiercely into the flesh of his palm. As blood dripped, the intense pain in his palm instantly spread throughout his entire body.

Under this sudden intense pain, Wang Lin's expression showed a struggle, and he suddenly woke up. The moment he woke up, he heard a voice amidst the chaotic buzzing, appearing and disappearing, that became clear for an instant!

"…One missing…"

At the same time he heard this sentence, Wang Lin retreated hundreds of zhang away. In these short ten breaths, he felt as if he had experienced a life-or-death trial. If not for the first time with the baby's crying, and not for his early preparations the second time, he would likely have been immersed in those noisy sounds and lost himself!

Staring at the tower, Wang Lin's eyes revealed a rare wariness. Even now, he could not figure out what the tower that appeared inside the Heaven Defying Bead really was!

And the voice he heard the moment he woke up earlier…

"One missing… what does that sentence mean!" Wang Lin was silent. After a long while, he glanced at the tower in the mountains, turned, flickered, and left.

On the Green Devil Continent, where the Scorpion Temple should have been, it was now filled with a storm. Standing in the storm was a white-haired youth, his eyes closed, but now they suddenly opened.

The moment they opened, his eyes still retained deep wariness!

Wang Lin took a deep breath and looked down at the Heaven Defying Bead that was merging into his body from his palm, his expression complex.

"What… exactly are you…" As Wang Lin muttered, the Heaven Defying Bead completely disappeared from his palm, merging into his body and vanishing without a trace into his Soul.

"My Divine Sense is still not strong enough… still far from enough. One day, I will overcome those noisy sounds, hear the words hidden within, and know the deepest secrets of this Heaven Defying Bead!!" Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He suppressed the confusion in his heart regarding the Heaven Defying Bead. He had obtained this bead for nearly three thousand years and already possessed enough patience to wait for the moment the answer was revealed!

Moreover, he vaguely felt that being able to see that tower already meant that he was very close to the true secrets of this bead!

At this moment, coldness appeared in Wang Lin's eyes as he looked into the distance—that was where the Dao Demon Sect was located!

"Dao Demon Sect… I once made a vow to exterminate the entire Dao Demon Sect, destroy their lineage, and ensure that from this day forth, there would be no more Dao Demon Sect in this Immortal Astral Continent!" Wang Lin flicked his wide sleeve, and the surrounding storm roared and accelerated, forming a massive black hurricane that swept up Wang Lin's body and whistled off into the distance.

The Dao Demon Sect's calamity, descended!

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