Chapter 953: Alliance Secret, Initial Realm

Five Star Points suddenly appeared on Wang Lin's glabella. This was one of the few times the Ancient God Star Points had manifested automatically, and they began to rotate rapidly.

Wang Lin's expression changed slightly. His mind boomed, as if a strange power had awakened within his body. Under this impact, the memories he had gained from the Ancient God Tu Si flashed rapidly through his mind.

Ling'er stared at Wang Lin without blinking. The moment the Ancient God Star Points appeared on Wang Lin's glabella, her eyes suddenly became hazy. This haziness, like swirling mist, quickly passed through her eyes. In an instant, Ling'er felt her body tremble, as if a memory hidden deep within her Soul had burst open.

Her vision blurred. The scene that had only appeared in her dreams reappeared. She was still half-kneeling on the Altar, and below her, countless men and women were chanting strange Incantations.

She, on the Altar, maintained the same Precious Vase posture, looking up at the sky, and uttered a strange, soft sound!

"Se!"

The sky was filled with rolling clouds and smoke, roaring like angry ocean waves, pushing violently outwards to reveal the azure sky behind them and a colossal figure!

This figure only had five Star Points on its glabella, but it possessed a powerful aura distinct from other Ancient Gods, and a strange power unique to the Royal Clan permeated the heavens and earth.

A face of extreme indifference, seemingly unmoved by any change in the world, revealed cold eyes that settled upon Ling'er.

The appearance of this Ancient God was exactly that of Wang Lin!

"Primordial People of the Moon Clan, Divine Slave Mu Ling, beg the Ancient God to descend and bestow Divine Power upon our clan to wage war against the Ta Clan!" In that Illusion, Ling'er's expression was one of fervent reverence, and the moment Wang Lin appeared, she immediately whispered respectfully.

At the same time, below the Altar, countless men and women showed the same fervor in their eyes, and the sound of the Incantation intensified, forming a sound storm that swept across the world.

Above the glabella of these people, the Bright Moon Imprint slowly emerged, growing brighter and brighter.

"Primordial People of the Moon Clan have prepared sufficient Heaven and Earth Power for the Ancient God; please accept it, Ancient God." Ling'er, in the Illusion, slowly raised her Precious Vase hands. At that moment, the Incantations of all the Moon Clan people beneath the Altar reached their Peak. Suddenly, unimaginable Heaven and Earth Power condensed within the Bright Moon Imprint on each of their glabella, rushing out the moment it formed and heading straight for the Altar.

The Heaven and Earth Power, like whistling, Swimming Dragons, instantly arrived at the Altar and converged toward the Precious Vase formed by Ling'er's hands.

As more and more Heaven and Earth Power merged into Ling'er's hands, the Precious Vase gradually solidified. The moment Ling'er, kneeling on one knee, raised it above her head, the Precious Vase transformed into a fist-sized Qi Vortex, slowly floating upward toward the Ancient God who resembled Wang Lin.

The Qi Vortex's initial speed was slow, but after floating for a few breaths, its speed instantly surged, as if a huge suction force was pulling it, heading straight for the Ancient God's glabella. With a boom, it merged into the glabella and vanished.

The Ancient God in the sky, who resembled Wang Lin, raised his right hand and pointed down. Immediately, a massive Power of the Ancient God spread wildly, merging into Ling'er's body on the Altar. After a strange conversion by her body, it split into thousands of portions, radiating outward, descending along the Altar, and burrowing into the bodies of every person on the ground.

At that instant, Ling'er only felt a dizzying tremor, her body swayed, and she collapsed onto the ground, unconscious.

The Illusion vanished. The sky was still the sky of Water Spirit Star, and the mountain Peak remained the towering summit, shrouded in mist, where the sound of crashing waves could occasionally be heard.

Nothing had changed, except that Ling'er, just like in the Illusion, had collapsed onto the ground, unconscious.

Wang Lin stood nearby, his eyes filled with confusion.

"Divine Slave…" Wang Lin looked at the distant sky and fell silent. In fact, when Ling'er performed the Precious Vase posture earlier, Wang Lin clearly sensed that within the memories fused with Tu Si, a section that hadn't previously existed suddenly seemed to have been released from eternal Seal, revealing itself in Wang Lin's mind.

During the Primordial Era, Ancient Gods required Heaven and Earth Power. Besides destroying stars to absorb it, there was another method: obtaining it from the Primordial People of the time. Thus, the existence of Divine Slaves came to be.

"Reincarnation exists in this world. Every Divine Slave is personally branded by an Ancient God using a spell. The power the Divine Slave obtains varies depending on the strength of the Ancient God!

However, the brand on Ling'er is perhaps too strong. After countless millennia and repeated Reincarnations, the brand still exists within her Soul… If not for this, she definitely would not have recalled those scenes from countless Reincarnations ago…"

Wang Lin touched his glabella. The Illusion just now was not only seen by Ling'er; Wang Lin felt it too. Especially when the Qi Vortex, formed by the Heaven and Earth Power sacrificed by all the Moon Clan members, sank into the Ancient God's glabella, Wang Lin immediately felt a warmth on his glabella, as if a stream of power had merged into his body.

This power was very weak, just a single strand, but it was extremely tenacious. After merging into his body, it dispersed, permeating his entire being and becoming part of the Power of the Ancient God.

On the glabella of the unconscious Ling'er, an Imprint suddenly appeared. This Imprint flickered continuously, alternating between bright and dim, and had a strange connection to Wang Lin's heartbeat.

It could even be said that every time Wang Lin's heart beat, the Imprint would flicker along with it.

If one day Wang Lin's heart stops beating, this Imprint will also collapse, taking Ling'er's life and everything else with it.

"If the Soul collapses, all traces are wiped away, and there can be no Reincarnation. If the Ancient God dies, the Divine Slave must perish! The fact that Ling'er could undergo countless Reincarnations has only one explanation!" Wang Lin's eyes flashed with brilliance as he pondered.

"The Ancient God who cast the spell back then did not die!"

"And now, by coincidence, I have merged into it, causing the Master of the Divine Slave to be replaced, with my Imprint taking the place of the previous one. There is only one explanation for being able to do this! Although that Ancient God is not dead now, he is already at the end of his rope, weaker than me." Wang Lin sighed inwardly.

He now understood why he had felt a rare sense of goodwill the first time he saw Ling'er. He originally thought it was because the Water Spiritual Root on the woman had evoked a sense of recollection and emotion in him.

But now, Wang Lin understood that this was not the case. Instead, within the woman's Soul, there was a trace of the Divine Slave's Imprint from countless Reincarnations ago.

"I thought I had fully comprehended the memories of the Ancient God Tu Si in my mind, but now it seems that many parts are still sealed and cannot be opened… This might be related to the fact that the Tu Si memories I obtained during my journey to the Ancient God Land on Vermilion Bird Star were incomplete, and I haven't acquired the remaining Memory Crystal… If I could obtain that Memory Crystal, my Legacy of Memory would truly reach Great Perfection."

Wang Lin glanced silently at the unconscious Ling'er, withdrew his gaze, and sat cross-legged on the mountain rock. Looking at the sky ahead, he immersed himself entirely in Meditation and Breathing Exercises.

Time flew by. Before he knew it, the sun was setting. Watching the sunset gradually vanish between heaven and earth, as the whole area was once again enveloped in darkness, Wang Lin slowly began to feel that strange Realm he experienced during the Chen Hour, and he immersed himself in it.

In this Realm, his mind and body were completely peaceful, as if he had cast aside all worries and trivial matters. All that remained was the interweaving of sunrise and sunset in his mind, lingering indefinitely.

There was always a thread of energy circulating before him, echoing, yet Wang Lin couldn't grasp it. He wasn't even entirely sure what his current state was, nor what he was trying to explore.

However, over a thousand years of Cultivating the Dao had made his spiritual perception extremely strong. He vaguely felt that his current state must be a very rare Opportunity.

If he could grasp it, if he could explore it, it would bring him immense benefits.

Wang Lin did not know at this moment that his state was actually the threshold of the Initial Realm, one of the Three Great Realms of Extreme, Dao, and Initial, that had circulated in the Cultivation World since Ancient Times!

The Initial Realm is not as overbearing as the extreme realm, nor as mysterious as the Dao Realm, but the profoundness of the Initial Realm has ranked first in the Cultivation World since Ancient Times!

No one knows how the Initial Realm originates or how one achieves enlightenment in it. Throughout the history of the Cultivation World, even from the Ancient Era, those who entered the Initial Realm were extremely limited in number—though not as exaggeratedly rare as the extreme realm, they were certainly few.

What is strange is that anyone who enters the Initial Realm cannot even explain how they entered, and the time spent within that Initial Realm is extremely brief, disappearing in an instant.

It is rumored among people that the three Realms—extreme, Dao, and Initial—are a transformation of Spiritual Power, and once entered, one will remain in them permanently. This claim has many supporters, but in reality, aside from the well-documented extreme realm, those who know about the two great Realms of Dao and Initial are mostly vague, and even they are confused.

They only know that the three great Realms seem to be divided into two transformations: Spirit and God.

For example, the extreme realm initially manifested as Spiritual Power in Wang Lin, and only after a transformation did it convert into Divine Sense.

Similarly, Cultivators who have studied the three great Realms for countless years mostly believe that the two Realms of Dao and Initial are also divided into Spirit and God!

Spirit of Extreme, God of Extreme!

Spirit of Dao, God of Dao!

Spirit of Initial, God of Initial!

Compared to these, the Spirit Realm seems easier to integrate into. As for the God Realm, it is too ethereal and elusive. As for those who have stepped into the Initial Realm since the Ancient Era, almost all of them briefly reached the Spirit of Initial. The Spiritual Power within their bodies underwent earth-shattering changes in that brief moment, but because the time was too short, the benefits gained were limited.

This phenomenon underwent its first recorded change during the Ancient Times, on a Qi Refining Master named Liu Wen!