Chapter 274: Master

After a year of traveling, Wang Lin chose a small town. Although he did not like this country, the magical Spell of turning ice sculptures into Puppets greatly increased his interest.

The carvings Wang Lin made were wood carvings. If he could learn this Spell, then wouldn't using it on wood carvings add another method to save his life!

Besides this, there was another important reason that made Wang Lin not want to leave this place. The Mortals here had no vitality or life force; this was an abnormal and eerie state. In this state, Wang Lin believed it was of great benefit for him to comprehend the Concept of death within the Concept of life and death.

Wang Lin settled down in this border town near the northern part of the Snow Domain Country. The town was not big, and the population was small. Controlling this town was a Core Formation Late Stage Cultivator.

On the second night after Wang Lin arrived in this town, this Cultivator disappeared without a trace. However, apart from Wang Lin, no one knew about his disappearance.

On the third day, Wang Lin took on this person's appearance and walked out of this eleven-story ice tower.

All the memories of that Core Formation Late Stage Cultivator had been obtained by Wang Lin through the Soul Devourer method. Wang Lin did not kill this person but kept him controlled within the Restriction of the tower, in case he might be useful later.

Originally, with this person's cultivation, he would not have been qualified to own an ice tower, but he had a clan uncle who had some prestige among the Snow Domain Cultivators, so this town was assigned to him, thus he possessed this eleven-story ice tower.

Through this person's memories, Wang Lin learned that the heaven-favored daughter of the Snow Domain Country, named Hong Die, had already left with the Vermilion Bird Country Cultivators a few years ago.

Leaving together, besides the seven Grand Elders, were thirteen experts among the Snow Domain Cultivators who were even older than the Grand Elders. These thirteen people had only one purpose for going to the Vermilion Bird Country: to receive the Vermilion Bird Country's Initiation Ceremony!

Hong Die's condition for joining the Vermilion Bird Country was for the Snow Domain Country to become a fifth-Rank Cultivation Country and, at the same time, possess a new national location. Now, the second requirement had been met, leaving only the first requirement.

All the Snow Domain Cultivators knew something about this matter. The Core Formation Cultivator of this town, because of his clan uncle, understood it more comprehensively.

To upgrade from a fourth-rank Cultivation Country to a fifth-Rank, there must be a Nascent Soul Transformation stage Cultivator.

The Initiation Ceremony is an extremely overbearing Heaven-Defying Spell. Everyone only has one chance. It has a high failure rate, but once successful, one can immediately reach the Nascent Soul Transformation stage. However, it has a drawback: one's Lifespan, regardless of how much or how little one had before, will all become one hundred years.

Moreover, one's cultivation in this life will stop at the Early Stage of Nascent Soul Transformation and it will be impossible to achieve a Breakthrough.

There is no way to change this. The Heavenly Dao Reincarnation allows only one hundred years. After one hundred years, death is certain.

As such, for some people whose Lifespan is coming to an end, this is not necessarily a bad opportunity, which is why those top-tier Cultivators are willing to take the risk to try it once, since they do not have much Lifespan left anyway.

Among these thirteen people, as long as one succeeds, it can increase the time for the Snow Domain Country to be a fifth-Rank Cultivation Country by one hundred years. During these one hundred years, one of the seven Grand Elders who left with Hong Die will certainly reach Nascent Soul Transformation. In this way, the position of a fifth-Rank Cultivation Country can be made more stable.

This is what the Vermilion Bird Country promised and is also the condition for exchanging Hong Die.

Therefore, for this Snow Domain Country that is about to become a fifth-Rank, the five surrounding fourth-rank Cultivation Country neighbors have already defaulted and are prepared to become vassal states at any time.

This is a rule passed down from the origin of the Cultivation Alliance, not established by the Vermilion Bird Country. Any Cultivator has the qualification to resist, but cannot change it. The price of resistance is erasure.

Wang Lin walked out of the ice tower. Outside the tower stood two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, a man and a woman. When these two saw Wang Lin, they immediately respectfully addressed him as Master.

Wang Lin nodded slightly and did not speak.

He knew that the person he had transformed into had three Disciples. The female Disciple in front of him, who was quite attractive, was ranked third and was the one most favored by this person, and they occasionally engaged in acts of servitude.

This kind of thing is quite rare between Master and Disciple in other cultivation Countries, and even if it exists, it would not be widely publicized and is considered an extremely private matter.

But in this incredible Snow Domain Country, this kind of thing is extremely common. According to the memories of this Core Formation Cultivator, there are many Cultivators in the Snow Domain Country who, like him, have acts of servitude with their Disciples.

This has become a well-known fact, and no one would condemn it or otherwise. Moreover, in this person's memory, he had even maliciously sighed that if the teacher of that heaven-favored daughter Hong Die were not female, perhaps she would have also served her teacher.

Regarding this kind of matter, Wang Lin, while feeling a bitter smile, had an even worse impression of this Snow Domain Country.

As for the man in front of him, although he looked quite old, he was ranked second. He was usually very respectful to his Master, but in secret, he was jealous of the matter between his Master and the Third Junior Sister.

Wang Lin knew all these things from the memories of the Core Formation Cultivator. Originally, according to this person's idea, he was preparing to find an opportunity in the near future to send this Disciple away so as not to look at him with annoyance.

"Are there any new ice embryos sent over?" Wang Lin said slowly with his hands behind his back, with no joy or anger in his tone. These ice embryos were what the Snow Domain Cultivators called ice sculptures.

The Second Disciple hurriedly and respectfully said: "Master, two Snow Immortal ice embryos were just sent over."

Wang Lin nodded slightly and said: "Take them out and let Master see if your techniques have improved." In the memories Wang Lin had mastered, there was a detailed description of the method for making ice sculpture Puppets, but this method involved some unique Cultivation Techniques of the Snow Domain Cultivators, called the Ice Clarity Incantation. In Wang Lin's opinion, this Incantation was quite exquisite.

When Snow Domain Cultivators perform breathing exercises, they absorb not only Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, but also a kind of ice and snow cold Qi, which is also something they must absorb. It is precisely this ice and snow cold Qi that gradually changes their physique, thereby allowing Nascent Soul Cultivators to transform into ice and snow giants after the Nascent Soul leaves the body.

However, this Cultivation Technique clearly had a ranking system. The one Wang Lin's transformed person learned only had the first four levels of the Incantation. This was also secretly given by his clan uncle; otherwise, he would not even have been able to obtain the first four levels of the Cultivation Technique.

The Second Disciple hurriedly agreed, slapped his Storage Pouch, and immediately two ice sculptures, three zhang tall, appeared on the ground. The ice sculpture was carved into a beast with a human head and a bird's body, looking quite ferocious.

Through his travels over the past year, Wang Lin naturally knew that what this ice sculpture depicted was one of the guardian beasts of the Snow Domain Country—the Snow Immortal!

The Second Disciple's gaze was solemn. He sat cross-legged and meditated for a while, then his left hand performed Hand Seals, changing rapidly, and finally formed a black ball of snow. At the same time, his right-hand fingertip moved, hooked some black snow from the snow ball, and suddenly pressed his fingertip onto the ice sculpture.

Immediately, a stream of black Qi flowed rapidly from his fingertip into the ice sculpture, forming a trace that looked like Meridians.

The Second Disciple's forehead broke into a sweat. He took a deep breath, hooked some black snow with his right hand again, and pressed it onto the ice sculpture once more. Immediately, another trace was added to the Meridians on the ice sculpture.

At this time, the snow ball on the Second Disciple's left hand dissipated silently. His face became paler, and he hurriedly sat cross-legged to meditate.

Wang Lin's expression remained normal, but he had some insights in his heart. According to the memories of that Core Formation Cultivator, a Snow Immortal ice sculpture required nine snow Meridians inside to complete the first step of production.

While he was thinking, the female Disciple walked over lightly, with a hint of charm in her eyes, and said softly: "Master, you haven't answered my questions for several days. My cultivation has encountered a problem again. Please guide me tonight."

Wang Lin was considering the function of the snow Meridians inside the ice sculpture. Hearing the woman's words, he nodded slightly and said casually: "Speak, what problem."

This female Disciple was startled. She looked around, and a flush immediately rose on her face. She said coquettishly: "Master, say it here?"

Wang Lin nodded, but he immediately recalled that in the memories of the Core Formation Cultivator, once this female Disciple spoke like this, it did not mean the literal meaning, but had a deeper intention.

Thinking of this, just as he was about to speak, he didn't expect that the blush on the female Disciple's face would become even thicker. She glanced at Wang Lin with a charming look, slapped her body, and her clothes actually fell off for the most part.

Wang Lin frowned, flicked his sleeve, and the woman's clothes returned to normal. His face gradually turned cold as he glanced at her.

The woman immediately felt a chill rise inside and outside her whole body. Her face changed color, and she hurriedly knelt on the ground, becoming terrified. After a long time, she stood up cautiously. She was panicked in her heart, not knowing how she had provoked Master.

At this time, the Second Disciple finished adjusting his breath. After opening his eyes and looking at the woman, he didn't speak, but instead performed Hand Seals with his left hand again, condensed black snow, and began to make snow Meridians.

Nine snow Meridians, this Second Disciple used a total of several hours to barely finish making them. During most of this time, he was adjusting his internal breath.

It can be seen that making this ice sculpture was a considerable burden for him.

When all nine snow Meridians were finished, the Second Disciple took a deep breath, knelt under the ice sculpture, showed a look of piety on his face, muttered a prayer, and then gritted his teeth, raised his right hand, and quickly pressed it onto the place where the nine snow Meridians of the ice sculpture converged.

But hearing a bang, the Second Disciple spat out blood, flew more than ten zhang away, and fell to the ground. As for the ice sculpture, the nine snow Meridians inside it moved rapidly like nine spirit snakes, and finally, with a boom, two of the snow Meridians collided, and the entire ice sculpture exploded suddenly, turning into pieces of ice.

The Second Disciple's face was pale, and he said in a low voice with shame: "Disciple failed again…"

Wang Lin ignored him, but his eyes flickered. He pondered for a while, combining the memories of the Core Formation Cultivator in his mind, and gradually understood the key to making this ice sculpture.

Just at this moment, Wang Lin's heart stirred, and he looked into the distance, only to see a sword light speeding from afar.