Chapter 75: First Signs of Emergence

With this, the first level of the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art was complete.

The Dantian aperture was initially opened.

Wang Lin calmed his mind, mobilized one-third of the yin cold qi surrounding his Dantian, and began to assault the Dantian.

The yin cold qi did not enter the Dantian; instead, it surrounded the entire Dantian black hole, launching wave after wave of assaults from the outside in.

With each successive assault, despite repeatedly "suffering losses," the yin cold qi remained "undeterred" and persistent, continuing to launch fierce attacks against the Dantian time and time again, growing "bolder with every battle."

After a long time, the Dantian black hole could no longer bear the burden and gradually began to show signs of collapse. Wang Lin immediately mobilized another third of the yin cold qi, and in one go, completely destroyed the Dantian aperture.

In an instant, intense pain struck. The moment the Dantian aperture collapsed, the mutated spiritual power within the Dantian immediately flowed out, dissipating into every inch of his muscles and bones. Wang Lin did not even blink, once again mobilizing the yin cold qi to begin opening the aperture.

This time, the process took far longer than the first. Seeing that the yin cold qi seemed to be running out of steam, Wang Lin used the final third. Once replenished, the yin cold qi immediately formed a Vortex several times larger than the previous Dantian black hole, spinning rapidly.

The faster the Vortex spun, the more critical the aperture-opening process became. Time quietly slipped by as night fell.

Wang Lin was still in the final stage of opening the aperture. The yin cold Vortex inside his body was now spinning at an extreme speed. Because it was so fast, one could only see a Vortex resembling a nebula at the location of the Dantian; it appeared to be rotating slowly, but in reality, it far exceeded the limits of the naked eye.

By midnight, the yin cold qi became extremely dense. At this moment, Wang Lin's body seemed like a black hole; as the Vortex within him spun, all the yin cold qi within a ten-zhang radius outside his body was being frantically pulled in.

Within ten zhang, it seemed to have become a meat grinder for yin cold qi, absorbing it in an almost infinite manner.

This massive amount of yin cold qi was drawn into Wang Lin's body and immediately added to the Vortex at his Dantian. The Vortex grew larger and larger, eventually almost breaking through the limits of Wang Lin's Physical Body, expanding boundlessly.

He was immediately alarmed and wanted to stop, but discovered that the internal Vortex was already out of control; he could only watch helplessly as it continued to grow.

Traces of anxiety welled up in Wang Lin's heart. The Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art contained no records whatsoever regarding the phenomenon currently occurring within his body.

Wang Lin did not know that the reason the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art was called a bizarre technique was precisely because it had too many strange variations. Some of these variations were of great benefit to the practitioner, while others would lead to the dissipation of cultivation and death.

And now, Situ Nan was in a deep sleep; all of this had to be resolved by Wang Lin himself.

As the Vortex grew, its pulling force became more intense, and the ten-zhang radius rapidly expanded. This was a vicious cycle: the larger the Vortex, the wider the range of expansion; the wider the range, the faster the former absorbed the yin cold qi.

Twenty zhang, thirty zhang, fifty zhang, seventy zhang, one hundred zhang…

Within a radius of one hundred zhang, the yin cold qi surged in as if boiling. The abnormal change within this hundred-zhang radius triggered the flow of yin cold qi over an even larger area; within a thousand zhang, it was as if an invisible hand was agitating the yin cold qi.

Wang Lin had completely lost control of the Vortex, and after an unknown amount of time, there was a boom as the Dantian position within his body opened its aperture.

This was the second time his Dantian position had opened its aperture. Just like the first time, at the moment of opening, a black hole appeared, and the yin cold Vortex immediately sank into it. The abnormality within Wang Lin's body immediately caused the yin cold qi that had been pulled in from within a hundred-zhang radius to shift.

If the Vortex inside Wang Lin's body had been absorbing the surrounding yin cold qi without end before, now that the Dantian black hole had appeared, this absorption immediately turned into devouring!

In an instant, the yin cold qi within a hundred-zhang radius was devoured in a flash, becoming a vacuum zone. This sudden mutation immediately caused changes over an even larger area, and the range of devouring grew wider and wider: 100 zhang, 150 zhang, 200 zhang, 300 zhang, 500 zhang, 700 zhang, eventually exceeding 1000 zhang.

If one were to look down from the sky at this moment, they would see an extremely bizarre scene: within a thousand zhang, all the yin cold qi was rolling like a rising tide, gathering at a single point in the center…

Deep in the ruins, the blue-skinned Monster was clutching the carcass of a wild beast, tearing at the flesh on the body. Just after swallowing a piece of meat still attached to a blood vessel, he suddenly turned his head, staring in the direction of Wang Lin, his eyes filled with terror. He hurriedly threw down the food in his hands and darted toward Wang Lin like a startled ape or a fleeing rabbit.

Having not gone far, his pace slowed slightly as he sensitively noticed that the surrounding yin cold qi was rapidly streaming toward the front. He hesitated for a moment, then continued forward. When he reached a distance of three thousand zhang, he stopped, the look of shock in his eyes deepening.

Returning to Wang Lin, the moment his Dantian opened its aperture, the mutated spiritual power within his body immediately gathered rapidly toward the Dantian black hole, instantly assimilating and undergoing Fusion.

The instant the spiritual power was assimilated and fused, he relied on his sense of the spiritual power to finally regain control over the yin cold Vortex, but this level of control was extremely minute; it was completely impossible to stop the circulation of the yin cold qi within the Dantian.

Wang Lin gritted his teeth and decided not to stop the devouring of the yin cold qi, but instead controlled the constantly increasing yin cold qi within his body to begin the third aperture opening, advancing to the third level of the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art!

Under Wang Lin's manipulation and guidance, the massive yin cold qi within the Dantian immediately began to open the aperture. The Dantian instantly collapsed, turning into specks of blue light and dissipating. However, within this blue light, a deep blue crystal slowly appeared. This crystal was buffeted by the surging yin cold qi, its color deepening until it finally turned completely cyan.

The third aperture opening was completed with ease. A Cold Core appeared within Wang Lin's Dantian. From the Cold Core, countless tentacles extended, spreading to every part of Wang Lin's body.

With the appearance of the Cold Core, the mutated spiritual power within his body was rapidly transforming.

At this time, the yin cold qi remained dense. Wang Lin had an intuition that if he allowed this yin cold qi to continue devouring, he would be burst by the yin cold qi. This intuition gradually became reality as time passed, and a faint, bloated sensation began to emanate from his body.

Wang Lin gritted his teeth again, a determined look appearing in his eyes, and pushed the yin cold qi to begin advancing to the fourth level of the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art!

Situ Nan had specifically pointed out that the first, fourth, and seventh levels of this Cultivation Technique were extremely difficult to Cultivate because these three levels involved the initial assaults on the Dantian, Qi Sea, and Ancestral Aperture, respectively.

Originally, according to the requirements of the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art, the first three levels had to be completely consolidated, and the Cold Core had to be nourished and cultivated within the Dantian to a certain degree before one could attempt to open the aperture.

But now, the spiritual power within Wang Lin's body had already fused with the massive yin cold qi into one entity. The arrow was on the bowstring and had to be fired, so he began the fourth level aperture opening of the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art!

At the chest position, open the Qi Sea aperture!

The yin cold qi mass rose in a Vortex shape within the Dantian, slowly ascending. After a long time, it finally arrived at the location of the Qi Sea aperture and immediately began to spin frantically.

The location of the Qi Sea aperture was like a bottomless pit, rapidly absorbing the yin cold qi from the Vortex. The aperture opening failed time after time, time dragged on bit by bit, and the sky gradually brightened.

The yin cold qi within a radius of a thousand zhang slowly dissipated, and eventually, it all vanished.

Wang Lin's Qi Sea aperture in his chest remained as it was. At this moment, he had a very profound impression of the extreme difficulty of the aperture opening success rate described in the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art; he had already assaulted it over 100 times, and each time the aperture opening failed, a portion of the yin cold qi was consumed.

The massive amount of yin cold qi had gradually been consumed during these 100+ assaults. Coupled with the fact that it was now fully daylight and there was no yin cold qi left within a thousand zhang, there was no backup strength, and the remaining yin cold qi inside Wang Lin's body was slowly absorbed by the Cold Core.

The amount of yin cold qi Wang Lin had absorbed that night was truly too much; his own spiritual power had almost completely changed during the Fusion process, turning entirely into yin cold spiritual power.

In terms of quantity, Wang Lin could now clearly feel that the intensity of the yin cold spiritual power within his body had increased by more than double, reaching the peak of the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

He opened his eyes and recalled everything that happened during the night. Although he was shocked, he was more focused on thinking about the pros and cons of this method of cultivation.

The abnormal cultivation inadvertently triggered during the night had opened up a new line of thinking for Wang Lin.

The advantages of this kind of cultivation were self-evident. As for the disadvantages, it was that the risk factor was too high; one careless mistake and he would be burst. However, with this experience, Wang Lin believed that next time he would definitely proceed step-by-step with a plan, reducing the risk to a minimum.

"It seems I need to change this temporary dwelling. Although I absorbed quite a bit of yin cold qi last night, the quality was not high, and it could not meet the requirements for increasing the success rate of opening the aperture." Wang Lin muttered to himself. His success rate for opening the aperture was currently tenuous, and according to the records in the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art, the higher the quality of the extreme yin location, the more the success rate of opening the aperture would be greatly improved.

Wang Lin recalled when he tested the quality of the extreme yin locations a few months ago; at the source of the healing light beam—the tower-shaped building—he had measured it to be of the best, first-grade quality, so he made up his mind.

At the same time, the sky outside the forest suddenly darkened. An old man exuding an aura of world-destroying power appeared silently. His face was gloomy as he stared at the forest below, his eyes revealing intense killing intent.

"Li'er, your great-grandfather has come to avenge you."

The person who arrived was none other than the Teng Family Old Ancestor, Teng Huayuan. Along the way, he had been continuously sensing the curse, but unfortunately, it was as if a layer of mist was blocking him; he had been unable to determine the exact direction of the other party, knowing only that they were definitely within the forest beneath his feet.

Speaking of this forest, Teng Huayuan really did not want to enter unless absolutely necessary. With his current cultivation, he could clearly feel that there was a powerful existence within this forest that even he dared not provoke.

But the death of Teng Li made him disregard all of this. Teng Huayuan pondered to himself that if he went in without disturbing a single blade of grass or tree, and only searched for his enemy, surely that powerful existence would not pursue it too much.

After hesitating for a while, he gritted his teeth, moved his body, and charged into the forest.

In the deepest part of the forest ruins, a corner of a coffin was silently lifted. A withered hand shimmering with purple-black light slowly stretched out and clenched fiercely. Immediately, a purple Lightning Orb condensed in its hand, emitting a dangerous aura.

"The hundred-year deadline has arrived again. My master, last time you abandoned your Physical Body to escape, this time, you will not be able to run!"