"Brother, what do you think caused the lightning? Could it be that some powerful person is going through the golden elixir lightning tribulation?"
A few hundred feet away from the place where Chen Lin was undergoing the tribulation, three foundation-building cultivators gathered together, looking at the direction of the tribulation thunder and discussing aloud.
Two of them are in the early stage of foundation building, and the other one, who is called the eldest brother, is in the middle stage of foundation building.
Hearing what his younger brother said, the eldest brother shook his head and said, "Impossible, I've seen golden elixir thunder tribulations before, and they were much scarier than this!"
"Could that be the thunder tribulation that causes the monster to transform?" another man with small eyes asked in surprise.
The eldest brother was speechless when he heard this: "Are you stupid? The monster's transformation is the fourth level, which is more powerful than the golden elixir!"
"What's going on? What other situation could cause a thunder catastrophe? Could it be that some treasure has been born?" The little eyes gleamed with brilliance.
"It's possible, let's go and take a look!"
Chen Lin was struck dizzy by the third thunder, but as he expected, his life was not in danger. His body was just seriously damaged. However, the power of the thunder allowed his Vajra Body Refining Technique to take a big step forward!
In addition to the Vajra Body Refining Technique, what surprised him even more was the change in the Thunder Apricot Spirit. After the illusory organ was cleansed by three calamity thunders, it showed a tendency to solidify, which gave him hope of generating a thunder spirit root!
At the same time, it was as if an invisible gate in his body was opened, and the stagnant magic power surged out through the gate, and the magic power fluctuations in his body also rose steadily.
The middle stage of foundation building, accomplished!
As his cultivation level improved, Chen Lin's injuries recovered quickly and he stood up from the ground soon.
There was quite a lot of noise just now, and the formation was broken. He didn't dare to stay any longer. He swallowed two pills, packed up, and drove the spirit boat towards the fairy city.
"stop!"
Unexpectedly, he was stopped by three monks not long after he flew out.
Chen Lin took a quick look and immediately bowed his head and clasped his fists, saying, "Fellow Daoists, please stop me and ask for advice. I am just a casual cultivator and I have nothing on me. Please help me."
"Hmph!" The short-haired elder brother in the lead snorted coldly, staring at Chen Lin and said, "Stop talking nonsense, you must have come from the thunder tribulation, take out any treasures you got quickly, we the Three Friends of Qishan only seek wealth and don't kill!"
Chen Lin grinned. Now that the number has been reported, it would be strange if he didn't kill him to silence him.
What a pity, he just made a breakthrough today and wanted to go back to celebrate, but they forced him to kill someone.
"You have misunderstood, my friend. There is no treasure there at all. If you don't believe me, look at my storage bag!"
Chen Lin pretended to be panicked and reached out to pick up the storage bag. However, as soon as his fingers touched it, nine figures flew out of the storage bag, in groups of three, and pounced on the other three people!
The nine foundation-building puppets, each holding a spiritual weapon, instantly killed two of the three cultivators in the early stage of foundation-building. The remaining short-haired brother was quite powerful. In a hurry, he cast a high-level defensive talisman, forced the three foundation-building puppets back, and immediately used the golden escape technique to shoot away.
But immediately, he bumped into a golden net and bounced back.
Before he could figure out what was happening, the golden net suddenly shrank and squeezed him into a dumpling.
"Fellow Daoist, spare my life!"
Seeing that things were going badly, the short-haired brother immediately begged for mercy, but Chen Lin didn't even look at him and directly burned him to ashes with a blast of Burning Lotus True Fire.
He casually put away the storage bag and dealt with the other two corpses. He then cast a few soul-destroying talismans to prevent the other party from practicing soul-related spells and escaping the remaining soul. Finally, he put away the puppet, looked back from a distance, and controlled the flying boat to fly away like lightning.
"Auntie, he seems to have discovered us!"
Behind, two figures slowly emerged.
One of the girls was tall and slender, wearing a snow-white dress, but there was a hint of melancholy between her brows.
The other one looked like a mature young woman with a hot body and eyes that flickered as if she were a ripe peach, but her aura carried a fierceness that made people want to get closer but not dare to.
"So it's discovered. You'll meet him sooner or later anyway. Do you see clearly that this is one of the people you might want to marry." The young woman looked at the direction where Chen Lin disappeared and spoke calmly.
The girl frowned slightly and said, "This man is very skilled in killing people and destroying souls. He is a ruthless person at first glance. Does my father really want to marry me to such a person?"
"You think too much!" The young woman glanced at the girl and said, "Now it's not a question of whether you agree or not, but whether Fairy Baiyin agrees. You can't marry the disciple of Yuanying Zhenjun just because you want to. Whether your father can climb up this big tree depends on her mood. If she doesn't agree, you can only choose one of the registered disciples."
At this point, she looked at Chen Lin's tribulation place again, frowned and said: "But the other party needs to go through a small tribulation to break through the middle stage of foundation building. It seems that he is practicing the famous ancient Three Yang Burning Wood Art. If so, it would be a bit troublesome. It is rumored that people who practice this technique cannot get close to women. If you marry him, won't you be a widow?"
The girl blushed when she heard this and said angrily, "Aunt, what are you talking about!"
The young woman smiled and said, "It's not a problem. Your aunt has a solution. I will teach you a secret technique to break this taboo. If it doesn't work, you can use the Suo Yuan Dan..."
Chen Lin was very satisfied with the effect of the foundation-building puppet.
With just a wave of his hand, he killed three Foundation Establishment cultivators, one of whom was in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. It was more efficient and clean than expected.
The only pity is that controlling ten foundation-building puppets is already his limit. Otherwise, if he could make a hundred or eighty of them to form a puppet army, he would be basically invincible below the Golden Core stage.
After returning to the cave, he first checked the storage bags of the three robbers, and then went to the store.
"Senior sister is looking for me?"
As soon as he arrived at the store, Chen Lin received information that made him feel that he was about to get into trouble again.
However, he did not contact the other party immediately. Instead, he rested for a night and almost recovered from his injuries before activating the other party's communication talisman.
Immediately, the communication talisman on his body lit up, but the voice that came out was not Mu Linglong's, but the voice of Cao Jinwang, the temporary city lord of Silver Tiger City and one of the registered disciples of the Silver Fairy, who was a cultivator in the late foundation building stage.
The news conveyed by the other party surprised him even more. Mu Linglong had just sneaked into the mine and fell into a coma after breaking open the sarcophagus!
Chen Lin's face kept changing. He thought to himself that his senior sister was unreliable and acted rashly. This time he must have been dragged into the demon world.
Hesitating for a moment, he took out Cao Jinwang's communication talisman, activated it and said, "Don't tell anyone about this, and don't touch my body at will. Those who know about this should be restrained. I'll be there right away!"
After delivering the message, he urged the spirit boat to fly towards Silver Tiger City.
The matter of the sarcophagus is of personal concern to him, so he cannot but take it seriously. Moreover, although Mu Linglong is unreliable, she is still very good to him, so he should save her if he can. Besides, if something happens to the other party, He Huahai will point the finger at him.
Silver Tiger City, mine.
At this moment, the closed entrance of the mine has collapsed. The sealing formation originally set up by the Silver Fairy has also been broken. Cao Xingwang is walking back and forth anxiously at the entrance.
"Third Brother!"
Seeing Chen Lin's figure falling, Cao Xingwang immediately came forward.
True disciples are higher than registered disciples, so no matter what their cultivation level or age is, they must be called senior brothers.
"How are the people? Have they not leaked the news? Have the people who know about it been controlled?"
Chen Lin took a look at the cave entrance and asked about the situation anxiously.
He was mainly afraid that the news would get to He Huahai. Given the tense relationship between him and Mu Linglong, he might take the opportunity to cause trouble.
Cao Xingwang didn't know the inside story and just thought that Chen Lin gave such instructions because he valued him.
He said in a deep voice: "Senior sister is still in a coma, and the news has been blocked, but this is a serious matter, should we notify Master He?"
Chen Lin shook his head. "No, I'll take a look first and then make a decision."
Cao Xingwang stopped talking. He asked this question only to shirk the responsibility. If Master He blamed him later, it would have nothing to do with him.
Chen Lin also understood the other party's thoughts, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it. Instead, he continued to ask: "After the sarcophagus was opened, did you see what was inside?"
"No." Cao Xingwang shook his head and said, "When my senior sister came here, she gave me the communication talisman and told me that if she didn't come out for a long time, she would send a message to you. I just discovered the abnormality and went into the mine to check. I found that my senior sister was unconscious and the sarcophagus was wide open. There was nothing inside!"
Chen Lin felt that the other party was not lying, so he took out the crow puppet and controlled it to fly into the mine. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "You stay outside, I'll go in and take a look!"
Cao Xingwang was afraid that Chen Lin would ask him to go in with him, so he hurriedly said, "Then Third Senior Brother, be careful. Call me if anything happens!"
Chen Lin nodded and walked into the mine with a serious look on his face. After walking a distance inside, he took out four foundation-building puppets and placed them in place before walking inside.
The situation at the end of the mine was similar to before. The four stone pillars were still there, but the lid of the sarcophagus in the middle was opened, and Mu Linglong fell to the bottom of the collapsed pit, her life or death unknown.
Judging from the traces, the other party has not been moved since falling down. Chen Lin suspected that Cao Xingwang did not even dare to get close to check. After all, as the lord of Yinhu City, he could not be unaware of the situation in the mine.
The aura of the demon world will destroy anyone who comes into contact with it.
Chen Lin concentrated and sensed it, and found that the sarcophagus here no longer had the unique feeling of the devil's aura, which made him frown slightly.
Without the aura of the demonic world, he wouldn't be able to save Mu Linglong even if he wanted to.
Even Nascent Soul cultivators such as the Silver Fairy have to rely on the demonic aura here to enter the demonic world, otherwise True Lord Huanling and others would not have stayed here.
After thinking about it, Chen Lin set his sights on Mu Linglong. Now it depends on whether he can use the aura on the other party to connect to the demon world. If not, he will have no other way.