Chapter 978 Alliance Secrets, Devilish Shadows (Third Update)

No one knew what kind of existence the fifth Immortal Cave of the Immortal Spirit Heavenly Realm, where Immortal Emperor Qing Lin went into seclusion, truly was; not even its size was known to anyone.

This place, even back in the day, was accessible only to Qing Lin. Outsiders were forbidden to enter, and violators would surely die!

Even his daughter, Qing Shuang, had never stepped foot inside this place in her entire life. This fifth Immortal Cave of the Immortal Spirit Heavenly Realm was Qing Lin's absolute secret!

At this moment, as the purple light in the sky of the Immortal Spirit Heavenly Realm dissipated, everyone had lost their tracks.

Within that purple light, Wang Lin felt as if his body were being dismantled and turned into countless fragments. This feeling was very bizarre, but it did not cause him the slightest bit of pain.

It felt like eternity, but in reality, it was only an instant. Wang Lin's figure appeared in an unfamiliar place.

Here, there was only black sand, and the horizon was nowhere in sight. Gusts of wind howled, and the sand on the ground moved unconsciously, occasionally swirling together as if a whirlwind were approaching, sweeping past.

Even the sky was dim, as if shrouded by a gray curtain. If one looked up for too long, a sense of oppression would rise in one's heart.

Wang Lin stood on the black sand, looking at the sky, his expression gloomy.

His Divine Sense had long since spread out, but his Divine Sense, which could cover the entire Demon Spirit Land, could not detect any boundaries here. Within the range of his Divine Sense, between this heaven and earth, Wang Lin was the only one present.

It seemed that everyone who entered here had been separated, and it was very difficult for them to encounter one another.

In the silence, Wang Lin's body floated up. However, the moment he rose less than ten feet, his expression suddenly changed. A crisis descended from the sky. He did not hesitate to drop down rapidly, and a flash of azure light shone from his right eye. Immediately, the Azure Light Shield appeared in front of him.

The moment the Azure Light Shield appeared, a strand of gray qi fell from the sky, heading straight for Wang Lin. This gray qi was too fast and immediately collided with the Azure Light Shield.

With a boom, Wang Lin's body was instantly pushed back. He retreated ten feet on the ground before stopping. Wang Lin's eyes revealed a cold glint, and without hesitation, he clenched his right fist and struck forward.

An Ancient God Phantom manifested behind him. The power of this punch, containing the might of an Ancient God, collided with the gray qi. With a bang, the gray qi collapsed.

However, the collapse of this gray qi did not make Wang Lin relax. Instead, his pupils constricted, and he immediately retreated.

The collapsed gray qi did not dissipate but, in an instant, turned into dozens of even more imposing strands of gray qi, rushing toward Wang Lin from dozens of directions.

Amidst rumbling sounds, Wang Lin's body retreated continuously. However, the gray qi was moving faster and faster, in hot pursuit. Despite being blocked by the Azure Light Shield during the constant impacts, the immense force transmitted through it still caused Wang Lin's body to tremble incessantly.

Retreating continuously, he backed up over a thousand feet. Seeing those strands of gray qi approaching again, Wang Lin opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of primordial spirit qi, which headed straight for the gray qi.

At the moment of collision, Wang Lin clenched his right fist and struck forward again. This punch set off a series of sonic booms. Amidst the rumbling, the phenomenon that made Wang Lin gasp appeared once again.

More than a dozen strands of gray qi all collapsed, but immediately, they turned into hundreds, filling the sky like Dragons rushing toward Wang Lin.

"What exactly is this!" Wang Lin's scalp tingled. The first time he threw a punch, the counter-force wasn't great, but this second time, a huge counter-force arose. At this moment, his right fist even felt numb.

Although it disappeared quickly, Wang Lin did not dare to throw a third punch.

While retreating rapidly, the Azure Light Shield quickly circled Wang Lin's entire body, resisting the continuous impacts of the hundreds of strands of gray qi.

In this wild black desert, Wang Lin's figure was like a straight line, fleeing continuously. Behind him, hundreds of strands of gray qi pursued. As Wang Lin retreated, long marks were carved into the sand on the ground.

Teleportation was of no use here. Even though Wang Lin had used Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, and while it could be used, Wang Lin did not know why, no matter how he executed it, the distance he stepped was only an inch!

"I just arrived here and encountered such a bizarre thing." Wang Lin gave a bitter smile. While fleeing, seeing that those strands of gray qi were pursuing him relentlessly, a killing intent appeared in his eyes.

Forming Hand Seals with his right hand, Wang Lin suddenly turned around and pointed at the sky, shouting in a low voice: "Summon Wind!"

Since physical power could not destroy this thing, Wang Lin chose to use a Divine Ability.

The moment the words "Summon Wind" left his mouth, dense black wind immediately howled in this dim world, turning into four black Dragons.

However, the moment these four black Dragons manifested, the dim sky suddenly changed like a surging sea!

At a glance, almost the entire sky was filled with countless strands of gray qi. These strands of gray qi howled out, forming a gray Vortex connecting heaven and earth. With a sweep, to Wang Lin's astonishment, it actually swept the four black Dragons formed by Summon Wind into it.

Wang Lin's scalp tingled, and he fled again. Behind him, the gray Vortex, as more gray qi continuously merged into it, grew larger and larger, eventually reaching several thousand feet in size, chasing after Wang Lin.

Wang Lin, while fleeing, could even feel the suction coming from behind him. What shocked Wang Lin even more was that as this Vortex pursued him, gray qi was constantly being emitted from heaven and earth wherever it passed, merging into it.

As a result, with the pursuit, this whirlwind grew larger and larger!

"What exactly is this!" Gritting his teeth, an Ancient God tripod suddenly manifested outside Wang Lin's body. With a thought, Ancient God Power permeated his entire body and merged into the tripod. Relying on this Ancient God treasure, his figure immediately disappeared, and when he reappeared, he was a hundred feet away.

Although it was only a hundred feet, for Wang Lin, there was decisiveness in his eyes. A hundred feet was only an instant for that Vortex and was simply not enough for Wang Lin to escape. Even if he used it continuously, regardless of the consumption of Ancient God Power, it wouldn't work.

To truly escape, he had to make the Vortex stop. Even if it only stopped for a short time, it would give Wang Lin a glimmer of hope.

He suddenly turned his head and slapped his Storage Pouch, and immediately, dozens of large swords roared out.

The moment these dozens of large swords appeared, they immediately formed a sword formation, heading straight for the pursuing Vortex.

Unable to bear the heartache, the moment those dozen or so large swords approached, Wang Lin shouted: "Sword Explosion!"

The moment the words left his mouth, one of the large swords immediately emitted a destructive aura and exploded with a boom, forming countless fragments that rushed toward the Vortex. At the same time, all the large swords around it collapsed almost simultaneously!

Amidst the shattered swords, those countless fragments swept out, forcibly rushing into the Vortex, causing the speed of the Vortex to pause slightly!

In his heartache, the Ancient God tripod outside Wang Lin's body flashed rapidly. His body disappeared from where he was, and when he appeared, he was already a hundred feet away. Almost as soon as he appeared, the Ancient God tripod flashed again.

Flashing nine times in a very short time, Wang Lin appeared nearly a thousand feet away. However, his expression was not relaxed; the Vortex behind him paused for a moment before continuing its pursuit.

Wang Lin had a bitter look on his face. Gritting his teeth, he grabbed into the Void Realm with his right hand. Immediately, a crack appeared in front of him. As Wang Lin reached out his right hand, the illusory God-Slaying Spear manifested amidst the bursts of black arc lightning.

Grasping the God-Slaying Spear, Wang Lin threw it backward fiercely!

The spear approached the Vortex in an instant and pierced directly into it. The destructive aura on it erupted with a boom. Amidst the rumbling, it felt as if the very heavens and earth were shaking.

The Vortex collapsed!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Lin did not hesitate to use the Ancient God tripod again. Moving continuously with flashes, he activated it dozens of times.

But his expression turned pale as he looked at the scene behind him.

Behind Wang Lin, the collapsed Vortex, surprisingly, just like the gray qi, turned into more than a dozen vortices of the same size in the blink of an eye, roaring as they chased after Wang Lin.

He tried every method, but he couldn't make the Vortex dissipate. On the contrary, the more he attacked, the more vortices there were. In all his years of fighting, this was the first time Wang Lin had encountered such a phenomenon!

With his cultivation, he could naturally see at a glance that these vortices were not illusory; every single one was real!

"I cannot break them apart, and I cannot use Magic Treasures, not even Divine Abilities. Once these vortices collapse again, they will immediately turn into hundreds. How can I avoid them then!"

The vortices were getting closer and closer, and they were constantly absorbing the gray qi emerging from heaven and earth, as if they were growing at every moment. Wang Lin understood that even with the Ancient God tripod, he could only maintain the distance for a moment. As time went on, the distance would soon be closed.

"Since I cannot avoid it, I will fight head-on!" Wang Lin simply stopped. He could not give these vortices any more time to grow. The moment his body stopped, Ancient God Power permeated his entire body. Sounds of popping came from within his body, and in an instant, Wang Lin's body expanded infinitely!

The Ancient God True Body appeared again!

His body, several hundred feet tall, seemed capable of supporting heaven and earth with one hand. Five Ancient God Star Points circled his brow. The moment the dozen or so vortices roared toward him, Wang Lin let out a heaven-shaking roar!

Instead of fleeing, he stepped forward, the Ancient God tripod outside his body flashed, and his entire person suddenly disappeared, appearing in front of the Vortex at the very front!

Deep within the fifth Immortal Cave of the Immortal Spirit Heavenly Realm, there was a wooden bridge. Beneath the bridge flowed black water, and from time to time, hideous phantoms drifted through the water.

On that wooden bridge, a person sat cross-legged.

It was impossible to see this person's appearance clearly. One could vaguely see that he seemed to be wearing a suit of Armor, shrouded by an extremely dense black mist, exuding an eerie Devilish Qi. The Devilish Qi was so thick that where this person was, it was as if it were a Devilish Domain!

His body did not move, always sitting cross-legged. In front of him floated a small bottle, the mouth of which was sealed with a wooden stopper. One could not see what was inside.

"Who exactly will be the first to come out… I wonder how many years it has been since I tasted human flesh…" The figure in the black mist slowly opened his eyes, revealing an almost crazy bloodthirst. He licked his lips, making a hoarse sound like bones rubbing against each other.

Making up for what was owed last month. Counting the interest, one chapter is still owed. Is that right?