Spell—Star-Trace Chains
Spell—Radiant Starlight
Divine Ability—Galaxy Light Cascade
Lin Youliang unleashed three moves in succession.
First the Star-Trace Chains bound Ye Wuyin from head to toe, then he used Radiant Starlight to increase the spell’s power, and finally he activated the Divine Ability—Galaxy Light Cascade to decide the outcome of this bout!
A long river of starlight like a pillar of light pierced straight through heaven and earth, wrapping countless stars that destroyed everything in their path.
After amplification by Radiant Starlight it carried an earth-destroying, heaven-annihilating momentum.
Lin Youliang activated the Divine Ability at close range, then used Shrink Earth to Inches to distance himself.
A cold smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.
This wave of attacks had consumed more than thirty percent of his total True Essence.
Even if Ye Wuyin was a Nascent Soul cultivator she would be either dead or injured!
The power of the starlight waterfall was peerless, its effect extremely eye-catching.
From a distance of a thousand li, Hen Xiu, the Grief Valley City Lord, and a large number of cultivators inside the grotto-heaven all noticed this scene.
The Grief Valley City Lord’s eyes sharpened, his mind racing, then he laughed heartily.
“Hen Xiu, look, the reinforcements I was waiting for have arrived!”
Lin Youliang’s attack just now had been too rapid; he had no time to conceal his aura.
His eighth-layer Nascent Soul cultivation could no longer be hidden.
The Grief Valley City Lord did not know Lin Youliang’s true identity, or even whether this person was friend or foe.
He was simply gambling that Lin Youliang was not Hen Xiu’s companion.
But clearly he had gambled correctly.
He clearly perceived the faint wariness that appeared in the vertical pupils beneath Hen Xiu’s mask.
Nascent Soul to Soul Transformation was the difference between immortal and mortal, the gap extremely huge.
However, first Hen Xiu had only recently advanced to Soul Transformation and was still a novice, and second the Grief Valley City Lord could already possess Quasi-Soul Transformation combat power through the battle formation.
Lin Youliang might also have similar methods.
Even if Lin Youliang had no similar methods, he could still use the battle formation that even a mere man could scarcely withstand to enhance himself.
Lin Youliang was so angry.
With one speech the Grief Valley City Lord had tied him to his own war chariot.
Hen Xiu did not know the true situation and would definitely treat him as the Grief Valley City Lord’s reinforcements.
“Hmph, I originally thought the Grief Valley City Lord sat in this godforsaken place because his ability was insufficient, but looking at it now, I’m afraid he has other schemes.”
Lin Youliang did not want to get involved with the Grief Valley City Lord, but even if he declared he was not on the same side as the Grief Valley City Lord, would Hen Xiu easily let him go?
Obviously not!
Lin Youliang was a late Nascent Soul cultivator and a Nascent Soul True Lord who mastered Divine Abilities and spells.
He himself was an enormous variable.
Hen Xiu could not allow such a variable to interfere with himself.
Lin Youliang immediately decided to run away directly.
A pair of wide starlight wings unfolded from his back.
With one leap he intended to leave the battlefield.
But he had not flown even one li when he was shocked to see a familiar figure again.
“Ye Wuyin?! You’re not dead!”
Ye Wuyin stood unharmed in the void, blocking his escape route.
Lin Youliang was forced to make an emergency stop.
Ye Wuyin chuckled lightly.
“Lin Youliang, your Divine Ability ‘Galaxy Light Cascade’ originates from ‘Xing Wuya’ of four thousand seven hundred years ago. It has long been an outdated antique eliminated by the times.”
“If you used this move to bully Golden Core juniors it would be one thing, but daring to use it in a Nascent Soul confrontation, aren’t you afraid of being laughed at?”
Ye Wuyin’s tone was full of disdain for Lin Youliang, which made a trace of anger rise in Lin Youliang’s heart.
As a Nascent Soul of the Lin family, even Soul Transformation cultivators he met outside had to treat him as an equal.
Where had he ever suffered such treatment?
But anger was anger.
Lin Youliang’s heart remained as calm as ice and snow.
He was not someone who would easily let anger cloud his mind.
“Ye Wuyin, you and I are both agents, merely acting on orders. Why fight to the death? If the other two pick up the cheap, neither of us will have it easy!”
When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman profits.
What Lin Youliang said was indeed reasonable.
But the response he received was three hidden arrows shot by Ye Wuyin.
***
At the world-membrane rifts, with the destruction by the Nascent Soul soul beasts, two of the original six world-membrane rifts had already merged with each other, forming a larger rift that could now allow cultivators of seventh-layer Golden Core and above to enter and exit.
The painted grotto-heaven was already filled with thin spiritual qi, and the spiritual qi torrent near the world-membrane rifts gradually showed signs of slowing.
Inside He Shu’s body, the fusion of the Three Qi had entered the final stage.
With the successful eighty-first harmonization of the Three Qi, the originally three-colored circulating Hunyuan Qi mass became a black-and-white circulating supremely pure qi mass.
He Shu calmed her breath and concentrated her spirit.
Upon probing this scene she felt secretly delighted.
“There are three major barriers to opening the dantian. I have already successfully passed the most difficult second step of harmonizing the Three Qi. Only the final step of opening the dantian remains.”
The supremely pure qi mass, as the name implied, was the Three Qi purified to the extreme, the warm bed for nurturing the dantian.
As long as it was continuously irrigated with spiritual power and reached a certain limit, it could trigger a qualitative change and form the dantian.
At this very moment, the raging spiritual qi torrent outside that could take a life at any time had instead become He Shu’s greatest aid in opening the dantian!
Massive amounts of spiritual qi condensed thread by thread as if solid, continuously gathering toward He Shu’s dantian location, nourishing the embryonic form of the dantian.
Finally, under the dumbfounded gazes of the surrounding cultivators, He Shu opened her eyes that had been tightly closed the entire time, sharp light bursting from them.
With the successful opening of the dantian, He Shu formally returned to Qi Refining cultivation.
Her divine sense could finally leave her body and be freely released outward!
Able to step onto the immortal path once more, He Shu was so excited that tears welled in her eyes.
She raised her head and laughed heartily, two lines of clear water flowing down her cheeks.
All the grievances and emotions she had suffered in the past erupted at this moment.
“The path of cultivation is distant, each step another heaven…”
At this time, in this scene, she could not help but want to recite a poem:
“Ten thousand li of jade waters rise over Yunzhou,
I do not believe clear tears can fill a romantic life.”
“The old country turns to smoke and returns to old dreams,
The azure whale’s long cry sends off the lonely boat.”
“Since ancient times heroes have faced many hardships,
Heaven and Earth are heartless, borrowing springs and autumns.”
“Today I align my heart of my own will,
In days to come I shall again ascend the White Jade Tower!”
After finishing the poem, He Shu’s mood finally calmed a little.
The spiritual qi torrent was gradually weakening, and the exclamations of the surrounding cultivators clearly entered He Shu’s ears.
“Heavens! She actually succeeded! Drawing qi into the body in the spiritual qi torrent?!”
“Incredible! Simply incredible! Not only did she successfully open the dantian, but right after advancing she already has peak third-layer Qi Refining cultivation!”
“Fortune and misfortune depend on each other. Although the spiritual qi torrent is dangerous, it is also a great opportunity…”
Some were shocked, some were horrified, some admired, and some tried to imitate.
Countless gazes gathered on He Shu, examining, appreciating, jealous, wary—everything was there.