Chapter 77

Wang Lin chuckled lightly. For this strange man, his hostility had diminished greatly. Seeing the other party move quickly, Wang Lin couldn't help but want to stretch his limbs. Without a word, he stepped forward, pushing his speed to the limit, and shot out like a hare.

The distance between the two rapidly closed. The blue-skinned strange man, seeing Wang Lin charge at him with a fierce look in his eyes, laughed hoarsely. Noticing that Wang Lin wasn't using the green small sword, a similar fighting spirit appeared in his eyes. He forgot his original purpose for coming and quickly stopped, tearing off a yellow paper from his body. Instantly, a greenish aura surged around him. As the strange man opened his mouth and inhaled, the greenish aura entered his body, and in that moment, his entire aura burst forth.

His eyes showed a serious expression as he opened his mouth and uttered some strange sounds, as if trying to communicate with Wang Lin.

Wang Lin knew that the nine yellow papers on the strange man were extremely peculiar. After being severely injured by a spirit artifact, the strange man had torn off one paper and immediately recovered. Since then, Wang Lin had developed a strong curiosity about these yellow papers.

Now, as the strange man tore off another yellow paper, his strength instantly doubled.

Without a word, Wang Lin waved his hands, and spiritual energy flowed through his body. At that moment, Wang Lin's aura changed dramatically!

Strands of blue energy hovered around him, emitting a dense, icy cold aura. His body exuded an extreme coldness, as if he were the ultimate end of all things.

The blue-skinned strange man's eyes flashed with a sharp light. His lips moved slightly, and he uttered a word that Wang Lin could understand: "Power!" After saying this, he clenched his fist, the strange symbols on his arm flashing, and his veins bulging. He took large strides and punched out!

Wang Lin's eyes flashed, and the icy cold spiritual energy surged out of his body, forming a giant fist that collided with the strange man's punch in mid-air. At the moment of contact, the strange man's body assumed a strange posture, his left foot on the ground, his center of gravity shifted to the left, and his breathing became irregular. Suddenly, a strong wind blew, forming a swirling vortex around them, blowing all the stones and grass far away, creating a circular blank space.

Wang Lin's face turned abnormally red for a moment, and his body involuntarily retreated more than three meters. He raised his head and stared intently at the direction of the strange man.

The blue-skinned strange man was even more shocked than Wang Lin. He clearly felt the spiritual energy from Wang Lin's punch penetrate his body, causing a terrifying and strange change that quickly spread throughout his body, bringing with it an extreme coldness.

If not for the continuous flashing of the strange symbols on his body, he might have been completely frozen.

Looking at his right arm, it had completely turned into a blue crystal. He was terrified to find that the flesh and blood of his right arm had been completely altered. He looked at his arm, his face pale and powerless, and stared deeply at Wang Lin, uttering another word that Wang Lin could understand: "Extreme?"

Wang Lin didn't speak, as he didn't know what "Extreme" meant, so he shook his head.

The strange man was taken aback, then tore off another yellow paper from his body, and a greenish-white aura surged out. When it dissipated, his right arm returned to normal, but Wang Lin noticed that his right hand was still trembling slightly.

He looked at Wang Lin, grunted, and shouted incoherently before quickly leaving. Wang Lin watched him go, then sat cross-legged on the ground, recalling the battle.

The force contained in the strange man's punch was very peculiar. It seemed not to be spiritual energy but another special kind of energy.

"Power?" He thought of the word the strange man had uttered before punching.

Putting aside the strange man's peculiar force, Wang Lin was very satisfied with the power of the mutated spiritual energy he had used in the battle for the first time. This kind of spiritual energy that could alter the structure of matter, Wang Lin named "Extreme Yin Spiritual Energy."

"Extreme?" This was the second word the strange man had said that Wang Lin could understand after seeing his spiritual energy.

"It's time to leave. I just need to complete the fifth level of the Yellow Spring Ascension Technique, and then I can leave here!" Wang Lin muttered to himself.

"I must find the Yin Earth!" Wang Lin knew he had to find the Yin Earth. The difficulty of breaking through the levels of the Yellow Spring Ascension Technique increased with each level. If he relied solely on brute force, the success rate would be too low. Only by finding a high-quality Yin Earth could he increase the success rate!

Although the ruins were filled with a dense cold aura, Wang Lin analyzed that the highest quality here was at most a Yellow Yin Earth of the tenth grade. Even if his analysis was incorrect, he could at most break through to the tenth grade of the Yellow Yin Earth and enter the Absolute Yin Earth, reaching the first or second grade of the Absolute Yin Earth.

The four major Yin Earths—Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow—had significant differences. The Black and Yellow Yin Earths were similar, but the Heaven and Earth Yin Earths were different. The best grade of the Earth Yin Earth was equivalent to the first grade of the Absolute Yin Earth of the Black and Yellow Yin Earths.

As for the Heaven Yin Earth, which was rare and hard to find, even a common first-grade Heaven Yin Earth possessed the effects of the Absolute Yin Earth of the Black and Yellow Yin Earths.

While deep in thought, Wang Lin suddenly looked up and saw the strange man returning. He came over and gestured to Wang Lin for a long time, first pointing around and making a deep-breathing motion, then shaking his head vigorously.

Then he pointed at Wang Lin, then at himself, and gestured again. Wang Lin gradually understood that the strange man seemed to want him to follow. Wang Lin's heart stirred, and he nodded.

The strange man moved quickly, familiar with the surroundings, avoiding dangerous swamps and pits.

At one point, he even leaned into a long crack in the ground, maneuvered inside, and emerged from another exit. Afterward, Wang Lin realized that this short journey had crossed a vast, bone-strewn swamp.

Two days later, the two arrived at a secluded corner of the ruins. During these two days, they had only stopped to rest once.

Upon arriving, Wang Lin noticed a relatively intact tower-shaped building not far away, with a large stone sphere at its peak.

Wang Lin's eyes flashed; this stone sphere was almost identical to the one at the edge of the ruins.

The strange man, without stopping, climbed the tower-shaped building nimbly and stood next to the stone sphere, quickly forming seals with his hands and pressing them on the sphere. Soon, the stone sphere emitted a radiant light, and a straight beam of light shot toward the center of the ruins.

From a distance, the light beam seemed endless.

After doing this, the strange man jumped down and waved to Wang Lin, and the two left the area.

Time passed quickly. Wang Lin followed the strange man to various locations where the stone spheres were placed. Most of these locations had collapsed, but the stone spheres were all intact.

One by one, the stone spheres were activated, and the light beams all pointed toward the city center.

When the last stone sphere, the first one Wang Lin had seen, was also activated, the entire city seemed to change in that instant.

Wang Lin silently counted; there were a total of eight stone spheres.

The strange man occasionally looked up at the sky, his face showing anxiety, and he moved even faster toward the center of the ruins. They did not rest once during this time and finally arrived at the city center at dusk on the fourth day.

Eight light beams from the distance converged here. The strange man stopped, fell to the ground in a prostrate position, his eyes showing devotion, and began to chant a series of sounds that resembled a song.

As his voice grew sharper, the ground trembled, and a massive statue, about a hundred zhang tall, slowly rose from the ground, stopping halfway.

The statue depicted a long-haired man with an ancient and wise appearance, holding a long spear, looking into the distance with a commanding presence. A giant dragon coiled around his body, its mouth open, fangs bared, and a fierce expression on its face, with scales that seemed almost real, creating a striking image.

The eight light beams converged on the statue, reflecting a myriad of rays of light. The statue's eyes gradually brightened, and in that moment, Wang Lin had the illusion that the long-haired man had come to life!

After the statue emerged, the strange man's devotion grew even stronger. He waved to Wang Lin, pointing to the dragon's head, urging him to go.

Wang Lin pondered for a moment, then leaped up and climbed to the dragon's head. The moment he stood there, he immediately felt a vast, icy cold aura emanating from beneath his feet.

Wang Lin immediately sat cross-legged, formed seals, and cast a light ball. The light ball immediately split into four, the red light becoming extremely intense, and finally, with a bang, the light ball dissipated. Wang Lin's heart was greatly shaken; he knew this indicated that the quality of the Yin Earth here had reached the limit of the Yellow Yin Earth—tenth-grade Absolute Yin Earth!

Overwhelmed with joy, he immediately began to absorb and ingest the energy. The vortex in his body rapidly grew, but this time it did not spread out as before; instead, it covered an area of a few dozen feet around him. From a distance, a circular red light circle appeared around Wang Lin, enveloping the dragon's head.

Wang Lin sat there for five days!

During these five days, the strange man watched from below. As time passed, his anxiety grew, and he constantly observed the sky, as if the rising statue would bring some trouble. The nine yellow papers on his body moved without wind, clearly ready to be torn off at any moment.

On the third day, the Sea of Qi acupoint was finally broken through and restructured. In the early morning of the fifth day, the fifth level of the Yellow Spring Ascension Technique was completed.

Taking one more step, he could form a second Cold Pill. At that time, even a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, Wang Lin would dare to challenge. Even now, an ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was no longer a concern for him.

Next, he began to try to improve the quality of his spiritual energy, merging it with the tenth-grade Absolute Yin Earth's icy cold aura.

As he controlled the merging and observed his spiritual energy, he gradually noticed that the color of his spiritual energy was becoming deeper, rapidly changing from a light blue to a deep blue.

He didn't know that his spiritual energy was now closer to the ultimate state.

At that moment, the outside world changed abruptly. The sky darkened, and the clouds rolled as if manipulated by a hand. Black mist surged and gradually condensed into a massive coffin, slowly descending.

A vague figure slowly appeared on the coffin, its body rapidly solidifying.

A hoarse voice came from the sky.

"You mean the master's infant is hiding inside this statue?"

The strange man on the ground was greatly alarmed...