Five years later.
Chen Lin in the cave was shining with golden light and emitting bursts of Buddhist power.
Suddenly, his eyes opened with a look of surprise, then he flashed into the next room and looked at the purple spirit ring soaked in liquid.
At this moment, this spiritual treasure was shaking and releasing purple light.
At the same time, a vitality that resonated with him emerged from within, but it was very weak and seemed like it could collapse at any time.
His face first lit up with joy, then he immediately put away the container, called out to Xiaocao, and flew out of the city at a high speed.
In a secret place over 5,000 miles south of the city, Chen Lin quickly cast out magic array flags to form a series of magic arrays.
Then he activated the Basalt Shield and took out a few silver talismans.
After making preparations, he took out the container that contained the Purple Spirit Ring, placed it on a special shelf, and began to complete the final steps of the Ten Thousand Souls Creation Technique.
Two hours later.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and a bolt of lightning as thick as an arm roared down!
Chen Lin immediately cast a silver talisman, forming a ball of silver light. The lightning was weakened a lot after passing through the silver light and hit the purple spirit ring below.
The purple spirit ring immediately began to hum continuously when it was struck, and arcs of lightning flashed continuously.
He watched nervously but did not offer any help.
The spiritual treasure's tribulation is a process of self-purification. He can assist, but cannot completely block the tribulation thunder, otherwise the spiritual treasure will fail to take shape.
Soon, the power of thunder gradually disappeared, and then the second thunder tribulation fell.
Chen Lin still threw out a disaster-avoidance talisman to help, and let Zi Linghuan bear the remaining thunder power on its own.
He had the experience of a spiritual treasure going through a tribulation once, and knew that there were nine thunder tribulations in total, but the first eight were ordinary thunders, all used to temper the treasure body. Only the last three-color thunder was the most dangerous.
But it is also the most important.
Only after being baptized by the energy of the three-color thunder can the spirit of the weapon be completely integrated with the treasure body to form a spiritual treasure with growth potential.
This is the benefit of the art of life-breathing. Although the spiritual treasure formed needs to pass through tribulations, it has the potential to grow.
As for the spiritual treasures refined by ordinary spiritual arts, although they do not need to go through such an exaggerated heavenly tribulation, they have no growth potential and will remain at the same level as the one they are refined at.
The reason why he chose to undergo the tribulation in the wild instead of on the tribulation platform in the city was not because he was worried that someone would covet the spiritual treasure, but because he was afraid that someone would covet the Ten Thousand Souls Living Art, and there would definitely be someone who would covet it, and the Qianyuan Sect would even step in.
The value of a life-saving technique is too high, far beyond the ability of a Nascent Soul cultivator like him to keep. Even after others robbed it, they might even kill him to prevent him from leaking it again.
While he was thinking, the second thunder tribulation ended.
The next few thunder tribulations were easily overcome.
Suddenly, Chen Lin felt a spiritual consciousness probing him, which made him frown.
The place he chose was already secretive enough and extremely desolate, but he did not expect that there would be monks appearing.
But things had come to this point and there was no way to stop halfway, so he ignored it.
Even if someone wanted to snatch it, it would be impossible for them to do so before the spiritual treasure was fully formed. Moreover, he had made preparations. As long as no powerful Void Refining expert came in person, he could escape calmly.
Chen Lin activated the Xuanwu Shield and concentrated on dealing with the last heavenly calamity.
The last three-color heavenly tribulation is as powerful as the great tribulation of transformation into a spirit. Although he is not the one undergoing the tribulation, he still has to deal with it with caution. After all, he has a physique that attracts lightning and is likely to be affected.
The thunder had not yet landed, but the pressure had already enveloped the entire place.
Chen Lin felt a little nervous and stepped back a distance, while holding a jade talisman.
This is a one-time teleportation talisman, which corresponds to the teleportation array he set up. Moreover, this teleportation device is of a high level and has extremely strong stability. Over such a short distance, there will basically be no unexpected situations of encountering void turbulence.
Someone was watching. No matter whether Lingbao succeeded or failed in surviving the tribulation, he would take it away immediately as soon as the tribulation thunder was over.
"Master, I'll go kill that peeping person!"
Xiaocao's voice sounded, and he looked eager to try.
Chen Lin hurriedly stopped him and said, "It's not necessary, and you shouldn't be so murderous and want to kill people at every turn."
In the past few years, the opponent's sword intent has become increasingly powerful, his combat power has far surpassed his, and his personality has also changed dramatically. He is no longer as weak as before, but like a sharp sword that has been cut out of the body, revealing his edge.
"yes!"
Xiaocao agreed and said nothing more.
Chen Lin felt relieved. Fortunately, Xiaocao was still as obedient as ever, otherwise he would not dare to keep it with him.
Due to this delay, the thunder in the sky had already brewed.
It fell heavily towards the purple spirit ring!
Just as Chen Lin was about to activate the Black Tortoise Shield to help resist, he saw a stream of light shooting towards him!
"Haha, fellow Taoist, let me borrow your Life Spirit Technique!"
Following a loud laugh, a gray-clothed figure swooped down from the air.
Chen Lin's heart sank.
Unexpectedly, the other party did not wait until the thunder was over before taking action. It seemed that he had expected that he would run away at that time. Moreover, the other party only wanted the art of life-rebirth and did not care about the spiritual treasure at all.
The power of this palm was at least at the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm. Chen Lin did not dare to resist it head-on and had to activate the jade talisman.
But he immediately felt something and used his mind to stop Xiaocao from attacking, then rushed forward.
Then he saw the three-colored thunder in the sky split into two, one continued to fall towards the purple spirit ring, and the other half directly bombarded him.
The gray-clothed figure had already reached above Chen Lin's head, and was grinning as he wanted to capture Chen Lin alive and then find a place to search his soul.
His eyes lit up with excitement at the thought of possibly obtaining a life-enchantment technique.
But immediately his expression changed drastically.
"Fuck, what's going on!"
Feeling that half of the heavenly calamity was splitting towards him, the gray-clothed figure was so frightened that he uttered foul language. He thought that what he had done was so evil that even God could not bear it and directly punished him.
However, he was a cultivator in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and the three-color heavenly tribulation would not take his life. He lowered his head, and a ball of black light flew out from his neck. It grew with the wind and turned into a huge black sword, blocking the heavenly tribulation.
The incident happened suddenly and he only had time to use his own flying sword to resist.
When the two collided, the huge black sword was instantly smashed away, and the gray-clothed figure who was connected with the mind was seriously injured, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
At this moment, Chen Lin raised his finger and a beam of light with a faint golden color shot out. The figure in gray had no time to dodge and was hit directly!
But immediately, a ball of yellow light burst out in front of him and enveloped him.
"Humph, you little ant still wants to resist?"
The gray-clothed figure's face suddenly turned gloomy when he saw the treasure he had obtained with great difficulty being activated. But before he could make any move, the yellow light on his body began to flicker, and then collapsed. An aura of desolation acted on him, and his soul instantly began to wither.
"impossible!"
He was horrified, screamed, turned around and tried to escape.
Even the Lingbao-level disposable soul defense treasure was destroyed. He already suspected that Chen Lin was playing dumb and was not at the Nascent Soul stage, so even though his soul was not seriously damaged, he did not dare to stay any longer.
However, before he could activate his escape technique, a sword light shot up into the sky, carrying a fierce murderous intent, and instantly appeared in front of him.
"ah!"
The gray-clothed figure only had time to let out a scream before his body was split in two, and even his soul was chopped into nothingness by the terrifying sword intent!
There was surprise in Chen Lin's eyes. Xiaocao's sword light became sharper, and it was very similar to the artistic conception of the immortal's phantom stabbing at the giant eye. He must have seen that scene at that time and gained some insights.
Suddenly, his expression changed, and he felt several powerful auras rushing towards him from a distance. He immediately put away the purple spirit ring that had helped him to transcend the tribulation, and took the items from the gray-clothed figure. A stream of true fire burned the two halves of his body into ashes.
Finally, he put away the formation flags, pulled the grass to activate the jade talisman, and disappeared on the spot.
Soon, several figures came together, explored the surroundings, and left in disappointment.
In the underground space of a house in the shantytown.
Chen Lin and Xiao Cao appeared and said to a dark red figure next to the formation: "Let's go, this place is useless!"
This is a shadow puppet.
It took him five years to finally succeed in refining it.
However, it was much worse than expected. Not to mention the God Transformation level, he was not even at the Nascent Soul level. He only had the strength of the late Golden Core stage. That's why he was not brought with him, but asked to guard the teleportation array here.
However, the intelligence of this shadow puppet is still good enough, and it has reached the level of independent action. Its strength may continue to increase, but it cannot leave him for a long time, otherwise the special connection between the two will become weaker, and it will slowly slip out of control and have to be refined again.
"OK."
The shadow puppet made a dull sound, and then like Xiaocao, stood behind Chen Lin, and left the underground space together.
Inside the cave.
Chen Lin recalled what had just happened and felt relieved as he thought no one would be able to track him down.
Then he began to check the gray man's belongings.
The first is the natal flying sword.
After looking at it for a while, he put it aside. The flying sword was of a very high level, but unfortunately because it was his natal flying sword, it would be very troublesome to refine it again, and its level would be greatly reduced, so it could only be used as a trading item.
Then, he began to remove the mark on the other party's storage bag.
This person should also be a casual cultivator. He actually had three storage bags on him, all of which were bulging with things.
Even though the person was dead, he was after all a powerful warrior in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm. It took him a full quarter of an hour to remove the mark from one of the storage bags.
After opening it, Chen Lin's eyes suddenly lit up.
This storage bag is full of spirit stones. There are no low-level ones. Basically, they are all top-grade spirit stones, and there are more than a hundred spirit crystals!
As expected, he killed the person but spared the golden belt. This bag of spirit stones was more valuable than the purple spirit ring he refined!
With such a huge harvest from the first storage bag, Chen Lin was also looking forward to the other two.
Another quarter of an hour later, the mark on the second storage bag was also removed.
When he opened it, Chen Lin immediately became excited!