Chapter 76: extreme yin Spiritual Energy

Teng Huayuan walked cautiously through the jungle, his powerful Nascent Soul Stage Divine Sense spreading out. Suddenly, his expression brightened as he sensed Wang Lin's location. Just as he was about to teleport over, a strange gust of wind blew, and a sinister voice drifted over.

"Get out!"

Teng Huayuan's expression changed drastically. Without hesitation, he immediately retreated a few steps and focused his gaze.

He saw a mass of black mist suddenly drifting over from the distance. Within the black mist, gusts of sinister wind blew, and a withered arm reached out, silently pressing toward Teng Huayuan.

Teng Huayuan swept his Divine Sense over and was shocked; the opponent's cultivation was actually at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. He retreated again without hesitation.

That withered arm flickered slightly, transforming into a large hand that grabbed toward Teng Huayuan.

Teng Huayuan gave a bitter smile and, without saying a word, turned around and fled. The Nascent Soul Middle Stage was not something he could resist. Although he had long known that a powerful expert existed within this jungle, he had not expected the opponent to be at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

With a flash of his body, Teng Huayuan disappeared from the spot. A cold snort came from within the black mist, and immediately after, the manifested large hand also vanished without a trace in a flash.

High in the air outside the jungle, Teng Huayuan's figure had just appeared when his expression changed abruptly. That large hand had silently appeared behind him and grabbed fiercely.

Teng Huayuan cursed inwardly. He slapped his Storage Pouch and summoned a beast skin. His right hand pointed rapidly, and the beast skin immediately flashed with yellow light, wrapping around his body and rushing into the distance at an extremely fast speed, narrowly dodging the large hand.

Despite this, he was still grazed by the wind from the large hand's fingers. While fleeing, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his face pale, and he fled rapidly without looking back.

A mass of black mist appeared in mid-air, then contracted to reveal the figure inside. It was a man who looked like a dried corpse, nothing but skin and bones. He looked toward the direction Teng Huayuan had fled but did not pursue; instead, he turned and returned to the jungle.

He drifted calmly through the jungle, seemingly searching for something. Not long after, he stopped at an open space, staring expressionlessly at the ground. With a wave of both hands, the ground made a booming sound and split in two beneath his feet, as if torn apart by someone, revealing a long Rift.

The moment the Rift appeared, a sharp shriek came from underground, and a black figure rushed out, about to flee. The corpse-like man gave a light snort, and the surrounding ten zhang immediately turned into a cage. The black shadow that had rushed out screamed in fear, hit the wall of the cage, and bounced back. It no longer tried to run but knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly.

The corpse-like man spoke slowly: "It has been a hundred years. I didn't expect that Master's Physical Body would have actually cultivated into a Corpse Charm. Since you have developed intelligence, you can be considered one of my kind. I can spare your life, but you must use the subtle connection you have with Master to help me find his Nascent Soul."

The Corpse Charm nodded repeatedly, looking at the corpse-like man with fear and trepidation.

The man waved his hand, and the surrounding cage immediately dissipated. He stared at the Corpse Charm and said sinisterly: "Let's go, take me to find it. If you can find Master's Nascent Soul, then after I swallow the Nascent Soul and gain my freedom, I can consider helping you evolve into a Corpse Demon."

The Corpse Charm was stunned, then immediately overjoyed. It nodded fiercely, then stood up and ran toward the depths of the jungle.

The man, expressionless, followed behind.

At this moment, in a location within the ruins where sunlight could not reach, the blue-skinned Monster looked toward the direction of Wang Lin, a look of hesitation appearing in its eyes.

As for Wang Lin, although the amount of yin cold qi he had devoured yesterday was large, its quality was merely ordinary sixth or seventh grade. With such quality, even if the amount was large, the increase after combining and mutating with his spiritual energy would not be very much. Moreover, it was no longer suitable for Cultivating to open Acupoints. Wang Lin's eyes flickered as he looked toward the depths of the ruins; his goal was there.

He prepared to explore deeper to see where the limit of the quality of the yin cold qi in the ruins really was!

After all, the higher the quality, the greater the success rate for opening Acupoints!

At midnight that day, Wang Lin used his right hand to perform Hand Seals, cast a ball of light to test the yin cold qi, and then walked toward the depths of the ruins.

After walking for a while, the light ball floated in mid-air. The red light was bright and intense, flickering rapidly several times, and with a "pop" sound, it turned from one into two.

The moment the two red light balls appeared, Wang Lin's expression brightened. He knew this meant that the quality of the yin cold qi here had surpassed ordinary and reached superior.

As he advanced, the red light of the two balls flickered, and the quality slowly improved.

Superior second grade, third grade… all the way to fifth grade. Wang Lin stopped. In front of him was a wide road with ruins everywhere on both sides, but one could still see that countless years ago, this must have been a prosperous area of the city.

Wang Lin calculated the distance and estimated that he had not yet reached one-thousandth of the total area of the entire city, so without another word, he immediately quickened his pace.

The red light emitted by the light balls was exceptionally glaring in this silent ruin. Along the way, Wang Lin spread out his Divine Sense, his expression highly concentrated.

The quality represented by the two light balls climbed bit by bit: Superior sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.

Sunrises and sunsets passed. By the fourth day, Wang Lin had walked deep into this mysterious city ruin. He estimated that his current location, even if not the center of the city, should not be too far away, as he had been walking in a straight line.

Along the way, deep pits of several zhang could be seen everywhere on the ground. These pits were filled with turbid, foul rainwater, and there were even some strange snake-like creatures that occasionally leaped from the pits, revealing their ferocious fangs at Wang Lin.

Besides this, the collapse of the surrounding buildings was exceptionally severe. Looking around, one could hardly see any broken walls exceeding three zhang in height.

Amidst the overgrown weeds, some muddy swamps had appeared on the ground. There were also some strange creatures in this mud. Wang Lin had once been suddenly ambushed by such a creature, and since then, his vigilance toward this place had increased.

Although he had walked extremely far, the quality of the yin cold qi had not increased much. Up until now, it had never exceeded superior to reach Sinking Yin!

Late on the fifth night, Wang Lin walked out of the swamp. Before him was a massive complex of buildings. Although these buildings had all collapsed, one could still see some signs of the prosperity from countless years ago.

The most conspicuous among them was a giant pit in the very center, with a diameter of about three hundred zhang and a depth of nearly thirty zhang.

This giant pit was very strange. By all logic, its interior should have been filled with rainwater, but there was no liquid at all inside this giant pit.

Wang Lin walked over to take a look. Although the night was hazy and the surrounding yin cold qi affected his vision, he could still vaguely see countless honeycomb-like caves at the bottom of the pit.

The moment Wang Lin came to the edge of the pit and peered in, the two light balls floating in mid-air suddenly burst out with unprecedented red light and quickly merged together, turning from two into three. This indicated that the yin cold qi here had reached the Sinking Yin quality!

Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He did not rush to jump in immediately but walked a circle around the edge of the giant pit. While walking, he kept staring at the three light balls and found that at the position directly opposite, the three light balls merged together again, turning back into two.

Wang Lin understood: the key to the increase in the extreme yin quality was this deep pit!

Wang Lin touched his chin, hesitated for a moment, but still did not jump down immediately to test it. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the ground, waiting quietly for dawn.

Not long after, the sky gradually brightened. The moment the yin cold qi dissipated, Wang Lin immediately stood up and jumped in. The instant he landed at the bottom of the pit, a small green sword flashed into existence, emitting a chilling cold light.

Wang Lin looked up at the sky. By all logic, since this place was so deep, it must have been filled with rainwater over countless years.

Wang Lin narrowed his eyes. Where his gaze landed was exactly the dense, honeycomb-like caves on the ground inside the pit.

Although he did not know how deep these dense caves were, it was obvious that the rainwater had all flowed into them. Wang Lin crouched down and touched the ground outside the honeycomb caves; it felt slightly damp, which further confirmed his analysis in his heart.

After carefully observing the surroundings again and finding no danger, he sat cross-legged on the ground, waiting for night to fall.

The sun set, and night shrouded the earth. Darkness flooded the ruins like a flood, and various birds and beasts fled in haste, unwilling to stay in this place at night.

The light balls in front of Wang Lin had their red light increase bit by bit, finally turning from one to two, and then from two to three.

Ordinary fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth grade; Superior first, third, sixth, tenth grade; Breakthrough into Sinking Yin!

At this time, midnight had not yet arrived, and the quality of the yin cold qi had already reached Sinking Yin first grade!

Wang Lin's eyes revealed a look of pleasant surprise. He spread out his Divine Sense to observe inside the pit. Gradually, he discovered something strange: the increase in the quality of the yin cold qi here had a great deal to do with the honeycomb caves on the ground.

He saw wisps of yin cold qi diffusing from the caves on the ground, rapidly merging with the surroundings.

As time passed, the red light of the three light balls flickered again, reaching Sinking Yin second grade! Finally, when midnight arrived, it reached Sinking Yin fifth grade!

Wang Lin no longer hesitated and immediately followed the specific breathing method to inhale and exhale the yin cold qi.

As wisps of yin cold qi condensed in his chest's Qi Sea, Wang Lin discovered the difference in high quality; the purity of the yin cold airflow in his chest exceeded what it had been before by dozens of times.

Qualitative change can cause quantitative change. This also meant that the yin cold qi he had previously spent dozens of times more time absorbing now only required a fraction of the time to achieve the same effect.

Soon, within his chest's Qi Sea, the yin cold qi formed a Vortex. This Vortex spun faster and faster, and the mutation that had occurred in his Dantian last time appeared again.

The yin cold qi within a radius of one hundred zhang immediately fluctuated and surged toward Wang Lin.

As the Vortex in his Qi Sea grew larger and larger, his absorption speed and range became increasingly frantic. Before long, it exceeded his previous limit, reaching a distance of 1000 zhang.

The range continued to expand: 1200 zhang, 1400 zhang, 1500 zhang!

Within a radius of ten li, the yin cold qi surged, as if pushed and driven by ghostly creatures in the dark, frantically pouring into the giant pit and being devoured by Wang Lin.

As the yin cold Vortex above his Qi Sea continued to expand, Wang Lin gradually felt he could not control it. He immediately grasped the right timing and fully impacted his Qi Sea; the opening of the Acupoint began!

The yin cold Vortex was like a rotating sharp awl, trying again and again to pierce through the Qi Sea. Slowly, the Qi Sea showed signs of opening.

These signs became increasingly pronounced. If impacting the Qi Sea were compared to shattering a tough wall, then now this wall was covered in cracks and on the verge of collapse.

As time passed, after an hour, the location of the Qi Sea could no longer bear the burden and, with a boom, completely collapsed and disintegrated.

A massive amount of human potential erupted from the Qi Sea like a volcanic eruption, rapidly fusing with the inhaled yin cold qi to form wisps of extremely high-quality yin cold power.

At this moment, Wang Lin's own spiritual energy in his Dantian immediately began to tremble uneasily. It surged out uncontrollably, and taking advantage of the fact that the newly formed yin cold spiritual energy had not yet gained momentum, it rushed forward rapidly and began to devour it.

Whenever a wisp of yin cold power was formed, it was immediately swallowed by Wang Lin's spiritual energy, strengthening itself. Gradually, as Wang Lin's spiritual energy devoured more and more, the quality of his yin cold spiritual energy improved again, becoming even sharper.

A nebula-like scene appeared at the location of the Qi Sea. It rotated slowly, and waves of blue spiritual energy slowly spread outward.

Wang Lin felt this spiritual energy within his body that had become extremely unfamiliar. His eyes flashed, and he gently tapped on a stone nearby.

In an instant, a blue light flashed, and the stone immediately turned into an ice sculpture, emitting wisps of yin cold qi.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and immediately kicked the ice-sculpted stone. With a cracking sound, the stone shattered into countless pieces.

Wang Lin looked closely and immediately gasped. He was shocked to discover that the internal structure of the stone had completely changed. There was not a shred of the stone's structure left; it was clearly a layer of ice from the inside out, shattered with countless tiny cracks.

In other words, with that single tap just now, his internal spiritual energy had not only frozen the stone but also changed its internal structure, completely turning a stone into an ice-stone!

Wang Lin did not know that his spiritual energy, through a series of devouring and Fusion, had already produced a trace of strange change. Even if Situ Nan were to wake up, he would certainly be confused and unable to make sense of it.

In the ancient mythological period, besides the division of cultivation Realms, there was another kind of Realm related to spiritual energy. Spiritual energy was divided into three mysterious Realms: extreme realm, Dao Realm, and Origin!

These three Realms were not steps to be crossed; rather, once formed, they would not change for a lifetime, unless one dispersed their cultivation and restarted.

And the difficulty of entering these three Realms was neither great nor small, but most of it was achieved inadvertently through sheer Opportunity.

In the ancient mythological period, among these three Realms, anyone with a little cultivation experience would not choose the extreme realm. Because although the extreme realm had high attack power, it had too many drawbacks. The most fatal one was that it was the ultimate end of all things; from then on, one could only walk an extreme path in terms of spiritual energy attributes and could not be compatible with any other attributes. And this point was precisely a key problem for later breaking through from Nascent Soul into the Soul Transformation Stage.

The Soul Transformation Stage required Fusion with heaven and earth to form a cycle, rather than walking an extreme path.

Despite this, the benefits of the extreme realm were also many. It could be said that no one with the same level of cultivation could resist the spiritual energy attributes of the extreme realm.

Once the cultivation finally reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage, although there was no possibility of entering the Soul Transformation Stage, one could become the one Supreme below the Soul Transformation Stage, firmly sitting in the position of the number one expert.

Most importantly, as cultivation improved, an expert with extreme realm spiritual energy did not even need any Magic Treasure, because their spiritual energy was already the most powerful Magic Treasure among those with the same level of cultivation.

As for the Dao Realm, it was the Realm that all cultivators dreamed of. Legend had it that as long as one's spiritual energy attribute finally entered this Realm, then entering the Soul Transformation Stage was within reach.

It was precisely because of this that the Dao Realm became the greatest pursuit and dream of cultivators in the ancient period.

As for the Origin Realm, if the extreme realm were compared to death, then the Origin Realm would be life! It was not something that cultivators below the Soul Transformation Stage could comprehend and achieve; even for the Soul Transformation Stage, the Origin Realm was an unattainable Realm.

The three spiritual energy Realms were all ethereal, especially after the destruction of the ancient mythological period; rumors about the three Realms had gradually dissipated with the passage of time.

Present-day cultivators did not care about their spiritual energy; what they cared about was only their cultivation Realm.

Wang Lin did not know that his spiritual energy, due to multiple extreme yin mutations and devouring, was already developing toward the extreme realm!

The reason for all this was primarily the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art; it was actually one of the few Cultivation Techniques that could Cultivate extreme realm spiritual energy.

However, the Cultivation Technique that Situ Nan taught Wang Lin was vastly different from the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art of the ancient period. Many parts of it had become dilapidated with the passage of time, and most of it had been compiled by later generations, appearing similar but not quite the same.

As for Wang Lin's spiritual energy touching the threshold of the extreme realm, the most critical reason actually lay with the Heaven Defying Bead…

Wang Lin looked at his fingertips, his eyes flickering. Just then, he suddenly raised his head, his body leaped lightly, and he flew out of the pit. Where his gaze landed, the blue-skinned Monster's body was like a blue bolt of lightning, rapidly approaching.