Chapter 703 – Xing Ji, Who Nearly Vomited Blood
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Before this, Xing Ji had left for some errands, and had not returned until now. At the time that Xing Ji returned to Yin Yang Profound Palace, Lin Ming had already directed the Giant Leviathan above the skies of Yin Yang Profound Palace's medicine garden.
Yin Yang Profound Palace's medicine garden had its own guardians. As these guardians saw the Giant Leviathan in the skies, its vast body which caused dark clouds to twist in the heavens, all of them gulped, before bracing themselves as they flew up.
"Just who do you think you are you that you dare break into my Profound Palace's private grounds!" A late Revolving Core Elder gathered up the courage to say. Just now he had witnessed the two alchemists in the tower instantly ripped in half by the Giant Leviathan's tentacles, dying a cruel and horrible death. If it weren't for Palace master Xing Ji catching up right behind them, then he would have probably turned around and fled.
"Out of my way!" Lin Ming commanded. With the support of the Giant Leviathan, his voice was like a tsunami that spread out in all directions, echoing between the heavens and earth. The several Revolving Core Elders were shaken up by this voice and nearly spat out mouthful of blood.
This was the disparity of absolute strength. Knowing that they were just eggs waiting to be smashed against a stone, the several Elders could only drawback with pale faces.
Lin Ming controlled the Giant Leviathan and sent out hundreds of tentacles that fluttered about like mystical snakes.
His plan was to directly scoop out the medicine garden.
Although the origin energy within the Giant Leviathan's dimension was rich, it was actually short on soil for medicinal plants to grow in.
There were very stringent requirements for soil suited for medicinal plants. It had to be innervated over hundreds or thousands of years with rich origin energy before becoming spiritual earth that was able to grow medicinal plants. Thus, Lin Ming decided the best choice for soil at the moment was Yin Yang Profound Palace's own medicine garden.
After digging up Yin Yang Profound Palace's spiritual earth, in addition to the South Sea Demon Region's spiritual earth, he could use this to form a medicinal garden within the Giant Leviathan. This way, being able to shift it around would also be very convenient.
Moreover, as more and more medicinal herbs, they would be able to naturally emit heaven and earth origin energy. This would cause the spiritual earth of the medicine garden to grow much more rich and potent.
"Hoho, boy, that Xing Ji is looking at you. Look at his eyes, you can see he's angry! Haha! How funny!" Demonshine cackled as he tried to stir things up. At this moment, Xing Ji was only seven to eight miles far from Lin Ming.
"Doesn't matter. I'll shatter the medicine garden's protection first."
Lin Ming completely ignored Xing Ji and commanded the Giant Leviathan to attack.
Instantly, dozens of tentacles lashed out like massive whips.
Bang!
With an explosive sound, tentacles smashed into the medicine garden's protective array. Like an egg being struck by a hammer, the protective array instantly burst apart.
More and more tentacles appeared until there were over 200 in total. They completely circled the medicine garden, digging 100 feet into the ground. Then, they began to pull it up from the center. Lin Ming planned to use the tentacles to completely dig up the earth and drag away the whole medicine garden.
"Lin Ming! If you dare to take away my Profound Palace's medicine garden today, then I swear I will kill off your Divine Phoenix Island today! You will regret everything you've done here!" Xing Ji roared, his eyes red with rage. After receiving Xing Can's sound transmitting talisman, he already understood everything that happened.
Until now, Lin Ming had only killed several Revolving Core Protectors of the Yin Yang Profound Palace. This was still a loss he could be
bear. But now, as the Palace Master of Yin Yang Profound Palace, if he had to look helplessly on as Lin Ming stole away their entire medicine garden this his lungs would probably blow up with rage.
This wasn't just about losing the medicine garden, but more so a matter of allowing someone to freely beat up his face. If this matter spread out in the future, that Yin Yang Profound Palace, a dignified fifth-grade sect, allowed a 20 some year old boy to completely take away their medicine garden, then they would become the laughingstock in the entire martial arts world. They would be the greatest joke underneath the heavens!
How could he tolerate this!?
"Kill off my Divine Phoenix Island?" Lin Ming indifferently looked at Palace Master Xing Ji from within the Giant Leviathan's dimension. "In my life, my principles have never changed. If someone gives me one foot of respect then shall give them 10 feet of respect. If someone punches me, then I will stab them with three sabers. Whoever dares to harm my friends and family, then I shall annihilate nine generations of their entire family! Xing Ji! You can do whatever it is you want, but I can promise you that if you dare, I will henceforth wipe off the entire Yin Yang Profound palace along with your family from this world!"
As Li Ming spoke, his voice was as chilling as the nine nether abyss. No one suspected whether or not Lin Ming would follow up on his words. Not only that, but he had the ability to do so.
Xing JI's voice caught in his throat and his momentum suddenly reduced by half. He truly didn't dare to recklessly bet everything against Lin Ming unless he was absolutely sure he could kill Lin Ming here. Otherwise, Lin Ming's future potential was limitless. Completely exterminating Yin Yang Profound Palace wouldn't be difficult at all. In fact, he already had that ability right now.
"Lin Ming, you have gone too far!"
"Gone too far? Humph! Xing Ji, you know in your heart just how you've treated Divine Phoenix Island these past few months. Even so, I've only wounded Xing Yang but haven't killed him. I gave a chance for your wife to negotiate, but she decided to give up this chance. So don't blame me for taking away your medicine garden, because this is only interest!"
Taking away the medicine garden was only interest!?
Hearing Lin Ming's abusive and brazen words, Xing Ji nearly convulsed in anger. This medicine garden had been built over thousands of years with the accumulated resources of the Yin Yang Profound Palace. It was especially rich in fire and water attribute heavenly treasures. Yet Lin Ming actually called this 'only interest'!?
If he weren't forced to the end of the line then he really would want to tear Lin Ming to pieces with his bare hands. But now, with the Giant Leviathan right in front of him, he had no choice but to endure this insult. He humbly said, "Lin Ming, I apologize for all the wrongs that have been done to Divine Phoenix Island. Give this old man some face and stop things here."
Towards someone like Xing Ji, who was famous and also honored everywhere, admitting defeat could be said to be a very big concession. But, Lin Ming frankly didn't care about this.
"Give you face? Stupid! Who cares about your face! How much is your face worth? When my Divine Phoenix Island was in a weaker position and was being bullied and suppressed from all directions, when did you give my master any face? Now that you lot have been suppressed by my strength, I have to care about your face and your Yin Yang Profound Palace's face? Do you think I'm that cheap? Your face is that valuable, and yet my master's face isn't even worth some broken grass?"
Lin Ming relentlessly refuted all of Xing Ji's thoughts, making him incensed with anger.
In Xing Ji's opinion, he had already dropped his dignity as a fifth-grade sect Sovereign and had apologized. To him, this was a massive concession. And yet, Lin Ming had simply mocked him.
Lin Ming also no longer bothered exchanging such nonsensical words. He ordered the Giant Leviathan's tentacles that were stabbed into the medicine garden to directly suck up the everything, including the spiritual earth.
The ground cracked and soil was constantly sucked into the tentacles. As Xing Ji saw this, his heart exploded with raging anger! "Lin Ming, you can forget about it!" Seeing that the medicine garden was being sucked into the Giant Leviathan, Xing Ji felt as if it were his ancestor's graves were being dug up.
"Lin Ming, this old man will remember this humiliation!" Xing Ji revolved his true essence and flames combusted all around him. He was thinking of smashing apart the entire Profound Palace medicine garden with a strike from his palm. Since he couldn't keep this medicine garden here, then he wouldn't let Lin Ming take it either. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to swallow this insult. In the future, once this event spread out, then Yin Yang Profound Palace would become a joke of the entire martial arts world!
"I would rather destroy this medicine garden than let you shame me!"
Xing Ji furiously shouted. To be forced to ruin his own medicine garden; was there anything more tragic than this?
However, Xing Ji soon discovered that, in fact… there was.
As Lin Ming saw Xing Ji gather his potential, he had long guessed what this Palace Master was trying to do. He coldly coughed and said, "Xing Ji, if you dare to destroy your own medicine garden, then I will destroy your Yin Yang Profound Palace! Go ahead and try!"
"You… "
At this time, Xing Ji nearly vomited blood in anger. His lungs hurt, his liver hurt, his intestines, gallbladder, his entire body hurt. "Lin Ming, I hope you f*cking die!"
At this time he had already gathered his potential, ready to attack. But with just a few words from Lin Ming he was forced to suppress his true essence, blood rushing to his head. If he weren't angry to the extreme, then as a dignified fifth-grade sect Sovereign, he would never have said such rude and uncouth words.
Xing Ji was so angry he felt his blood tumbling in his body.
Lin Ming had already controlled the tentacles and had safely stored the medicine garden into the Giant Leviathan's dimension.
Watching his medicine garden disappear just like that, Xing Ji felt his vision go black. He could already envision how several months from now, how the various powers of the Southern Sky Spill Continent would discuss Yin Yang Profound Palace.
As a noble Yin Yang Profound Palace Palace Master and a master who had lived for over 1000 years, he had actually been played around by a little hairless boy called Lin Ming. Just how shameful of a matter was this?
"Lin Ming, if you have the guts then come out and fight me in the open!" The incomparably angry Xing Ji had no choice but to resort to goading Lin Ming to come out. Also, this was the only method he had to give vent to his frustration, reminding himself that there was at least some aspect which he was superior to Lin Ming.
How could this crude and low level taunt actually affect Lin Ming?
"Xing Ji, you're an old dog that has lived for over 1000 years. As for me, my age can't even be considered spare change to yours. Yet you actually dare to challenge me? Well, I can promise you a match, but you'll have to wait till one year from now. Though, after a year, would you still have the courage to challenge me?"
One year!
Xing Ji grit his teeth with hate. He was well aware that Lin Ming's strength, as it was now was able to kill a first stage Life Destruction powerhouse. In fact, Lin Ming might not be much worse than he was right now. With Lin Ming's terrifying speed of growth, let alone on one year, Xing Ji might not even be his match in half a year.
Even his challenge against Lin Ming had been reversed against him. Xing Ji's final bit of dignity was crushed, his face slapped into the ground.
His resentment curled in his stomach as if it wanted to burst out in a mouthful of blood. Suddenly, he noticed another light streaking towards Yin Yang Profound Palace at high speeds. This person was also at the extreme second stage of Life Destruction. Since this person came from Little Swallow Mountain, it was without a doubt Xing Ji's wife, Xing Can.
She naturally knew that her husband had returned and rushed over after helping Xing Yang. If the couple combined their strength, they would be able to display their greatest combat strength. She certainly wanted to come and help her husband.
Xing Can's arrival slightly relieved Xing Ji's extremely angry mood. With his wife coming to help him, he felt somewhat reinvigorated.
He angrily stared at the Giant Leviathan. His flaming eyes seemed as if they could see right through the Giant Leviathan and stared straight at Lin Ming. Raging with a burning hate, Xing Ji wished he could rip apart the Giant Leviathan's body and devour Lin Ming!
At this time, a sudden idea emerged in Xing Ji's mind. Was it really true that no power underneath the Divine Sea could seriously wound the Giant Leviathan?
In fact, this rumor had been spread out my Xuan Wuji to begin with. As the one who was controlling the Giant Leviathan at the time, it wasn't strange for him to boast in an exaggerated manner.
As for how truly powerful the Giant Leviathan's defensive power was, no one really knew. This was because the Giant Leviathan had never battled against a third stage Life Destruction master, thus no one was able to confirm Xuan Wuji's words!
Chapter 704 – The Terrifying Defense of the Giant Leviathan
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Lin Ming had taken advantage of the time when Xuan Wuji was in closed door seclusion and used the Giant Leviathan to sweep across the South Sea Demon Region. Besides Xuan Wuji, the next strongest martial artist in the area was Xuan Yuqie, who had already been grievously wounded. The powerful and almighty South Sea Demon Region was, in truth, just an empty shell.
Sweeping across the South Sea Demon Region seemed like some kind of astonishing event, but if one thought about it carefully, it was not much at all.
Not knowing whether Xuan Wuji's words were true or false, fearing the Giant Leviathan to this degree and allowing Lin Ming to take away their Yin Yang Profound Palace's medicine garden… If Xuan Wuji's words proved to be lies, then they would truly be laughed at to death.
"Maybe once the Giant Leviathan is attacked by a high-level Life Destruction martial artist, that would be enough to rip apart its flesh and make it die from massive blood loss?"
Xing Ji's mind raced as he spoke to his wife with a true essence sound transmission.
If both husband and wife combined their forces, they would be capable of contending with a third stage Life Destruction powerhouse. In addition, with the ultimate move they had created in the past years, the power of their strike would be immense. However, the weakness was that it took a long time to prepare and that there was also a possibility it could miss. However, this wasn't a problem with the Giant Leviathan. Even if they closed their eyes and aimed randomly, they would still be able to strike the beast. And if attacking the back, forehead or other places with strong defenses was impossible, then what about the eyes or the mouth?
All of these thoughts crossed through Palace Master Xing Ji's mind. The eyes weren't easy to strike and they also had the protection of the eyelids. But the mouth… Because the Giant Leviathan used its tentacles to attack, its mouth was constantly open. Attacking its throat through the mouth was definitely the best method of all!
As Xing Ji thought of this, a fire lit in his heart. If today he hadn't been bullied to the extreme by Lin Ming, then he would never have thought of taking such a great risk.
"Husband, let's attack together with everything we have. Yang'er has been wounded everywhere; it will take at least one or two years of hard work and effort to recover. If I don't attack, then I will never be able to deal with this!" As Xing Can spoke, true essence revolved within her body. A current of icy blue water suddenly emerged out of thin air, wrapping around her. She wished that she could rip Lin Ming apart.
Seeing Xing Can preparing to attack, Xing Ji clenched his teeth and ignited his body with raging flames.
"Haha, Lin Ming, those two baby mice seem to be very unhappy with you, hm?" Demonshine happily gloated. "That's right, such a… noble… fifth-grade sect was actually slapped and beaten around. Of course they want to retaliate, they'd never be able to take this lying down!"
Lin Ming's eyebrows shot up as he glanced over at Xing Can and Xing Ji combining their forces. The couple truly deserved their reputation. If he had to face this strike by himself, then there would really be no way for him to defend against it. "Combined water and fire. If they attack together, then the strike power behind their technique might double…"
Lin Ming didn't stop the two from attacking. In fact, he wanted to know just to what degree could the Giant Leviathan's defenses withstand.
"Who the hell cares if it's doubled or tripled? No matter how sharp a needle is, there's no way you can stab a whale to death. Let them do whatever they want," Demonshine smirked with disdain.
Outside the dimension, Xing Ji and Xing Can had already begun preparing their attack for several breaths' time.
Finally, they began.
Just as Lin Ming had expected, once the two polar opposite energies mixed together, the power they produced was several times that of the usual. Red energy and blue energy fused together, turning into a brilliant meteor that soared towards the Giant Leviathan's mouth.
"They want to attack the Giant Leviathan's throat through its mouth." Lin Ming's eyebrows shot up. He was thinking of ordering the tentacles to stop this attack, when Demonshine's loud giggles suddenly resounded in his mind.
"Two top-grade idiots! The Giant Leviathan is also called the 'Great Swallowing Beast'. Simply by swallowing once, it can suck up all of the sea water in the area. If it opens its mouth, it can even suck in an entire city! This isn't just casual boasting. It's because its mouth is simply a portal of space and time. It can transfer anything it swallows to another dimension. They want to attack the Giant Leviathan's mouth? Hehe, even an early Divine Sea powerhouse would find such an attack useless!"
Hearing Demonshine's words, Lin Ming also stopped worrying. He let the attack continue freely.
Puff!
With a whistling sound, Xing Ji and Xing Can's brilliant comet of energy shot into the Giant Leviathan's pitch-black maw. Although there was a terrifying energy within it, compared to the Giant Leviathan's massive mouth, it could only be described as tiny.
The energy comet rushed into the Giant Leviathan's throat without being stopped. Xing Can and Xing Ji's eyes brightened. They had done it!
They were originally afraid that the tentacles would stop their attack, but they never imagined that the tentacles would respond so slowly, allowing their attack to succeed.
The couple was immediately overjoyed. Although the surface of this giant beast had a strong defense, its insides ought to still be weak. Since their attack went inside without a problem, they waited to see what sort of destruction their mighty attack had caused to the Giant Leviathan.
However…
One breath…
Three breaths…
Ten breaths…
After ten breaths' time passed, the Giant Leviathan didn't even have the slightest reaction. Xing Ji's happy expression froze on his face. The couple's attack was like rain falling into the sea; it had disappeared without a trace.
"This..."
Xing Ji swallowed a mouthful of bitterness. He had considered the possibility that their combined attack would be unable to severely wound the Giant Leviathan, but they never expected the disparity to be so great. Was the Giant Leviathan's throat some sort of an invulnerable fortress?
The couple looked at each other, each seeing the deep powerlessness and fear reflected in the other's eyes.
"How about it? Are you two using this method to express how unhappy you are?" Lin Ming's voice sounded out from within the Giant Leviathan, echoing in all directions, as loud and clear as a thunderclap.
Xing Ji and Xing Can's words caught in their throats. They didn't dare to say anything in return.
"A man must always repay his debts. Since you attacked me once, then I will also attack you once!" Lin Ming didn't plan on completely annihilating Yin Yang Profound Palace. It was simply impossible to cleanly destroy such a large fifth-grade sect. He didn't want any drifting dregs to bother him later. Moreover, to begin with, they didn't have any deep hatred between them. At least, not enough for Lin Ming to completely demolish their sect and kill off all of their families.
Huu -!
As Lin Ming's voice fell, all of the surrounding energy rose up like a surging tide towards the Giant Leviathan, rapidly concentrating at its forehead.
"Husband, be careful!" Xing Can said as she bit down on her teeth. Today, the couple had to admit that they had really stepped in sh*t.
"I'm alright."
Xing Ji didn't fear the Giant Leviathan's energy attack. Not only did it take an extremely long time to prepare, but it was also inflexible. Dodging it would be easy.
However, he quickly discovered that he had been mistaken all along!
After Lin Ming gathered up a massive amount of energy, the direction he aimed at was the great temple of the Yin Yang Profound Palace. This was the core of the Yin Yang Profound Palace! Never mind the various resources and wealth held there, it was a landmark of their Yin Yang Profound Palace! Once it was destroyed it would shake the minds of their people, giving everyone yet another reason to laugh at their Yin Yang Profound Palace.
To have a 20-year-old junior remove their entire medicine garden right in front of the two Palace Masters, as well as destroy their Yin Yang Great Temple... Just how could Yin Yang Profound Palace show their faces in front of others in the future?
"This attack is only 70% of the Giant Leviathan's strength. If you try your hardest and give it your all, then perhaps you might be able to block it." As soon as Lin Ming spoke, his mind stirred and the space around the Giant Leviathan's forehead began to distort. Countless dots of shining lights started gathering into a circle. The terrifying energy fluctuations made one tremble with terror.
"Lin Ming, you remember me!"
Xing Ji's eyes turned blood-red. He would have been able to easily dodge this attack, but now he had been forced to withstand it. Today was absolutely the most bitter day of his life.
Bang!
Energy erupted from the Giant Leviathan, turning into a 100-foot beam of blazing crimson light. It was as if a red flood dragon was shooting towards the Yin Yang Great Temple.
Xing Ji and Xing Can's expressions completely changed. Both of them attacked together, red and blue beams of energy firing into the blazing crimson beam.
True essence collided, setting off a terrifying storm and a violent shockwave. Xing Ji and Xing Can felt as if their chests were being forcefully pressed down, then they were tossed out like leaves in a storm.
The two weren't seriously injured. However, they had been caught up in that massive storm of true essence, unable to keep their balance. True essence chaotically collided in their chests, making the two of them nearly cough up blood.
The density of the energy within the Giant Leviathan's attack wasn't high, but the overall amount of energy was truly scary.
In the and, they had failed to completely block the Giant Leviathan's attack. The remaining one-third of the energy attack smashed into the Yin Yang Great Hall, sending its dome flying straight off.
Seeing the Yin Yang Great Temple crack apart in front of them, they could only watch helplessly as they recalled the absolute difference in strength between them and the Giant Leviathan. It was as if Xing Ji's teeth had been knocked out, and he could only swallow them; there was no way he could voice his hatred and grievance. As long as Lin Ming had the Giant Leviathan, there was simply no way they could provoke him. And, in another year or so, once Lin Ming grew further, they wouldn't even be able to deal with him anymore. Thinking about this, Xing Ji simply cut off all thoughts of ever opposing Lin Ming again.
Within the great and broad dimensions of the Giant Leviathan, the heaven and earth origin energy was incomparably rich. Lin Ming stood here, watching as several dozen tentacles passed into this dimension, slowly laying down the medicine garden into a long stretch of land.
With the help of the memories from the Realm of the Gods alchemist, Lin Ming was able to quickly recognize around 99% of these medicinal herbs. There were quite a few treasures here. Even if Lin Ming had very high standards, he was still very satisfied with several of the fire-attribute medicinal herbs.
"Yin Yang Profound Palace's accumulated treasure for these past few thousand years is quite good; it's not much worse off than the South Sea Demon Region's medicine garden."
Lin Ming took out the Demon Heart Flower and the 10,000 Year Corpse Grass from his spatial spatial ring and planted it into this new medicine garden. After several more years, this medicine garden would form a self-sufficient cycling system of origin energy. Once the medicine garden stabilized further, he could even plant the seeds from the profound gold divine fruit, as well as any future heavenly materials he found. All of these could be planted in this medicine garden. It would form a positive feedback loop that would allow the quality of this medicine garden to increasingly rise.
This would form a solid foundation for when Lin Ming decided to embark on the path of being an alchemist in the future.
Lin Ming randomly plucked some fire-attribute medicinal herbs that had matured, and then quietly stepped through a space barrier. In the next moment, he stepped into another dimension, where the Divine Phoenix Island disciples were gathered.
Within the Giant Leviathan's body, the dimensions were self-contained spaces. The largest of these dimensions was around 10 miles in diameter. In addition to the other dimension, this was more than enough to house the more than 1000 disciples of Divine Phoenix Island without them being crowded.
"Brother Lin!"
"Junior-apprentice Brother Lin!"
Seeing Lin Ming suddenly appear, the over 1000 Divine Phoenix Island disciples all looked excited and overjoyed. Before this, Mu Fengxian and Mu Bingyun had already informed them of what had happened.
After hearing that Lin Ming was the legendary Divine Kingdom Crown Prince and that by his strength alone he had completely decimated the South Sea Demon Region, the disciples of Divine Phoenix Island felt as if they were living in a dream. In particular, those disciples who had previously come into contact with Lin Ming thought that this was a bizarre and wonderful fantasy!
These past months, they had become accustomed to living like displaced refugees on the edge of death. But now, everything had changed. They could faintly feel that the time to counterattack against the South Sea Demon Region had finally arrived!
Chapter 705 – Returning Home
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Lin Ming quickly glanced over at everyone. Although a large majority of the Divine Phoenix Island's disciples had died in battle, those who had survived were mostly the best of the elites. With these forces, it wouldn't take too many years for Divine Phoenix Island to restore itself to its former glory. With Lin Ming supporting them, it wouldn't be too difficult for them to even become a fifth-grade sect.
"Lin Ming? Divine Kingdom Crown Prince, hm? Hahaha!" a raucous laugh sounded out. Lin Ming turned around to see that the one crazily laughing was Zhang Zhen, the first friend Lin Ming had made after entering Divine Phoenix Island.
"Zhang Zhen!" Seeing so many familiar faces, Lin Ming's heart was filled with a nostalgic emotion. He walked forward and patted Zhang Zhen's shoulder.
"There's also Senior-apprentice Brother Dingshan, Senior-apprentice Sister Xiaoqing, Senior Master Qingyi… "
Lin Ming called out a few names. Mu Dingshan and Mu Xiaoqing were the chief disciples of the generation following Mu Qianyu. They had attended Revered Master Tianguang's birthday festival with Lin Ming and their performance had been quite adequate. As for Mu Qingyi, she was the Blue Luan Faction Elder who had often looked after Lin Ming and helped him in the Demon God Imperial Palace.
To meet with familiar people after a period of separation was peculiar. Even though it had only been two to three years, after having been separated by a great catastrophe, it was as if they had been worlds apart, leaving him with a sense of infinite sadness and wistfulness.
Lin Ming spoke with these old friends and seniors, catching up on various matters. Then, he walked over to Mu Qianyu and the others' side, passing her a bunch of fire-attribute medicinal herbs.
"Yu'er, this is for Little Flame and Fireshine. It should be enough to help them recover some of the essence energy they've lost."
"Mm."
Mu Qianyu took the herbs, her eyes wet. Little Flame was a very smart and intelligent creature; it was well aware of cause and effect, and just what had happened and why. Still, Little Flame had never blamed Mu Qianyu a single bit. This had made her feel even guiltier.
Lin Ming laid down a sound-isolating enchantment and then took out a square jade box from his spatial ring. He opened it, revealing the crystal-clear black-colored beads inside it. There were some as large as fists, and some as small as pigeon eggs.
Seeing this jade box filled with black beads, Mu Yuhuang, Mu Fengxian, and the others' hearts skipped a beat. They could feel an incomparably pure, tyrannical power emanating from these beads. Compared to it, any sort of top-grade true essence stone was nothing but absolute garbage!
In fact, they could even feel faint fluctuations of life from these black beads. It was as if these black beads each contained the remnant soul of a peerless powerhouse.
"Lin Ming… What are these?" Mu Yuhuang found it difficult to stay calm. The value of these treasures had completely surpassed her scope of understanding.
"Sect Master, these are Demon God Bones. After a powerhouse dies, if the leftover energy field doesn't disperse, it will condense into an energy crystal after tens or hundreds of thousands of years. The Demon God Bone can be used to increase one's cultivation. The ones with slightly weaker energy fluctuations are human-step Demon God Bones. They can be used for mid and late Revolving Core powerhouses to increase their cultivation. As for the ones with stronger energy fluctuations, those are earth-step Demon God Bones. They can be used for a Life Destruction powerhouse to step into the Divine Sea.
As Lin Ming spoke these words, Mu Yuhuang and the others were frightened silly. A heavenly treasure that could be used for a Life Destruction powerhouse to attack the Divine Sea bottleneck… This was truly priceless.
One could tell just from looking at the costs that the various great powers had expended to compete fo for the Nirvana Dragon Root.
But from the fluctuations of energy from this box of Demon God Bones that Lin Ming had opened, their value was probably above that of two complete Nirvana Dragon Roots!
This was obvious. After all, the Nirvana Dragon Root was a medicinal herb bred within the ruins of a sixth-grade sect. As for the Demon God Bones, these had taken existence in the 1000-mile forbidden zone of the mystical and strange Eternal Demon Abyss. Compared to the Eternal Demon Abyss, the ancient ruins of the Demon God Imperial Palace were simply insignificant.
Mu Yuhuang had no doubt that if any of the powers within the entire southern Sky Spill Continent were to know of these Demon God Bones, then that would start a massive and bloody war of terrifying proportions. Perhaps, even Holy Lands would partake in this struggle!
Lin Ming, are you giving these to us? What about you?" Mu Yuhuang didn't ask where Lin Ming had gotten these Demon God Bones. She only felt that perhaps they were being wasted on them.
Lin Ming smiled faintly, "Sect Master, in truth, I have even better ones."
Demon God Bones couldn't be used without restriction or end. Otherwise, it would inevitably lead to instability in one's foundation. If Lin Ming had to use one, he would naturally use the best. As for the ordinary human-step and earth-step Demon God Bones, these could best be used by Mu Qianyu and the others.
"You have even better ones!?"
After Mu Yuhuang, Mu Fengxian, and the others heard these words, they were simply speechless. They had no idea what to say to express their feelings right then.
The items within this jade box were already the most precious heavenly treasures that they had seen in their lives. But, listening to Lin Ming's words, it seemed they weren't of any use to him…
Just what sort of lucky chance had Lin Ming encountered?
Without a doubt, the greater a lucky chance was, the greater the corresponding dangers. In order to obtain these treasures, just what sort of wild and crazy situations had Lin Ming gone through?
Mu Yuhuang and the others were simply unable to imagine this. The vast ocean allowed fish to swim and the endless skies allowed birds to fly. Whatever future boundary Lin Ming could reach… That was already beyond any guesses they could make.
Lin Ming passed around the Demon God Bones. Mu Qianyu, Mu Bingyun, and Mu Yuhuang received Demon God Bones appropriate to their cultivation and potential. As for Mu Fengxian, because of her old age, she would mainly use these for supplementing the fires of her life and extending her lifespan. Thus, she had received a human-step Demon God Bone.
"Thank you." After Mu Bingyun received a Demon God Bone, she looked deeply at Lin Ming. She had never imagined that she would also receive one. "Lin Ming, thank you for saving Little Blue and thank you for everything you've done for Divine Phoenix Island," Mu Bingyun said through a true essence sound transmission.
Little Blue was Mu Bingyun's life's Blue Luan. If it hadn't been for Lin Ming's arrival, then Little Blue would have ended up in the same situation as Little Flame, captured by Yin Yang Profound Palace.
For this, she was especially grateful to Lin Ming.
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Three days later, in a normal and modest mortal country of the Five Element Region, in a small and remote town…
On this day, a pair of strange visitors had come to this small town. A handsome youngster wearing blue robes stepped in, accompanied by a beautiful red-dressed woman. To the common people of this mortal town, these two people looked as if they had jumped out of a fairy tale book.
This young man and the young woman were Lin Ming and Mu Qianyu.
"It's here," Mu Qianyu said in a gentle tone.
"Mm… "
Lin Ming looked at an ordinary small restaurant in front of him. The red lacquered pillars, the latticed wooden windows, the tilted roof, all of it revealed a familiar flavor. Looking up, he saw a black sign hung at the top. A few words were written on it – Lin Family Restaurant.
At this moment, Lin Ming felt his mind shake. He was inexplicably held in place, his mind flying back to five years ago when he still lived in Green Mulberry City.
He had passed his childhood years in such a restaurant in Green Mulberry City.
Blue stones, simmering tea, the tapping of an abacus, friendly guests, nodding waiters, aged wine…
Lin Ming didn't say anything in the end. He quietly walked into the restaurant, whereupon he saw a little girl with braided hair bouncing at the entrance. She wore a comfortable and well-crafted red jacket, and there was a stick of sugar-coated candy in her hands. Her eyes were wide as she curiously looked at Lin Ming.
Perhaps because she had grown up in this small restaurant and was used to guests, this little girl was not shy. She bit down on her sugared candy while she stared with blinking eyes at Lin Ming and Mu Qianyu. Although she didn't know who Lin Ming was, Mu Qianyu seemed to be a tad familiar to her, although she couldn't recall just where she had seen her.
At this time, perhaps because of a deep throbbing connection in the depths of his bloodline, Lin Ming recognized this three-to-four-year-old little girl. This child was his sister, that little pigeon – Lin Xiaoge.
Then, Lin Ming saw a beautiful woman in her early twenties gently holding onto the hands of a middle-aged woman as they slowly came down from the second floor. Behind them was a middle-aged man wearing a hat. In his hand he held a shiny new abacus and a book, as if he was preparing to assess the day's sales.
In that instant, Lin Ming eyes became wet with emotion.
Father… mother… and Qin Xingxuan…
For some reason, a strong melancholic pain surged in his heart.
Those who walked the path of martial arts were doomed to loneliness. No one would be able to keep up with his footsteps.
Parents, family, friends, lovers… The stronger he became, the greater the distance between them…
Lin Ming felt an inexplicable pain resonating in his heart. He knelt down, his knees hitting the floor.
"Father, mother… Your child has returned… "
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After Lin Ming returned home, The Lin Family Restaurant closed down. These days, Lin Ming lived in a room his parents had especially prepared for him, enjoying rare days of quiet tranquility.
Lin Ming's parents and Lin Ming himself were excellent chefs. Even Qin Xingxuan had learned a great deal about cooking after following Lin Ming's parents the past few days. Only Mu Qianyu didn't know anything. This caused her a great deal of embarrassment. She only understood few of the common mortal customs. Considering her special relationship with Lin Ming, if she didn't help prepare food and only allowed Lin Ming and his parents to do it, then that was extremely rude.
After quickly learning some cooking techniques from Lin Ming, given Mu Qianyu's intelligence, she was quickly able to prepare delicious meals.
During the first one or two days, because Lin Ming's parents were from a normal mortal background, they were somewhat cautious of Mu Qianyu. After they slowly familiarized themselves with each other, they naturally relaxed and the relations between everyone grew much more harmonious, relaxed, and happy
In the days when Lin Ming wasn't there, his parents had already recognized Qin Xingxuan as their daughter-in-law. To Lin Ming's parents, Qin Xingxuan was already his wife.
At that time, within Qin Xingxuan's room, Lin Ming took out a jade box.
"Xingxuan, this is for you."
Qin Xingxuan's cultivation was at the Houtian realm. After absorbing 10 drops of Vermillion Bird blood essence, her bloodline talent even surpassed that of Mu Dingshan and Mu Xiaoqing. In addition, she had practiced the 'Vermillion Bird Forbidden Divine Chronicle' and the 'True Primal Chaos Formula' the past few years, and her foundations were remarkably solid. Although her talent was not yet at the Saint level, she had already swiftly surpassed geniuses like the Sunfire Princess and Zhan Yunjian.
Within the jade box, there were all sorts of heavenly treasures ranging from low to high level, even Demon God Bones. As long as Qin Xingxuan used them step-by-step, she would be able to breakthrough to Xiantian by 22-23 years of age and then to Revolving Core by 30 years of age. She would basically Mu Qianyu's level.
However, looking at all these valuable and precious heavenly treasures, Qin Xingxuan didn't smile or seem happy at all. Instead, she only lowered her head. Lin Ming was unsure about what she was thinking.