After learning that the Spirit Hall was preparing to send a team to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan for an exchange, Lin Yu decided it was worth checking out.
On the one hand, Lin Yu suspected the Spirit Hall had more than just a simple exchange in mind. He wanted to see what was going on and whether it would affect him.
Although his Taiqing Clone could have gone in his place, the clone was still at the same power level as when it was created using the Supreme Bone's "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" soul skill. Its cultivation was still limited to the Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul and the Golden Dragon Martial Soul that Lin Yu had at that time.
Moreover, the Taiqing Clone didn't have the external spirit bone, the Mirage Dragon Pearl, making it difficult to move freely without revealing its identity.
So, Lin Yu decided to go in person!
With his current strength and the ability to disguise himself using the Mirage Dragon Pearl, he could travel anywhere on the vast continent of Douluo!
After making up his mind, Lin Yu activated the "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" soul skill from his Supreme Bone external spirit bone, creating one final clone, the Yuqing Clone.
Leaving the clone at the Ghostly Duke Mansion, Lin Yu quietly slipped away from the mansion, left Star Luo Imperial City, and entered the forest outside.
Unfurling his external spirit bone, the Wind and Thunder Wings, Lin Yu shot into the sky, speeding toward Heaven Dou City at lightning speed!
After three days of travel, Lin Yu finally arrived in Heaven Dou City from Star Luo City. The Spirit Hall team, however, was still far from arriving.
This was expected, as Lin Yu had learned about the exchange plan as soon as it was decided. At that time, the Spirit Hall's team, led by Chrysanthemum Douluo, had just set out for Heaven Dou City.
But compared to traveling by carriage, Lin Yu's Wind and Thunder Wings were much faster, so naturally, he arrived in Heaven Dou City ahead of them.
Having arrived early, Lin Yu had already planned how he'd spend the time before the Spirit Hall team arrived. First things first—finding a good hotel for some much-needed rest.
Despite being a seventy-level Soul Emperor, Lin Yu had been flying non-stop for three days, constantly using his Wind and Thunder Wings. Even though his cultivation method, the Longevity Technique, allowed for rapid recovery of soul power or internal energy, the continuous travel left his body and mind exhausted.
After finding a hotel in Heaven Dou City and resting for the night, Lin Yu felt refreshed and revitalized the next morning.
However, he didn't plan on heading straight to the Sunset Forest to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well just yet. Who knew whether Dugu Bo was there or not? Lin Yu wanted to catch him there, to deal with him first, then use his knowledge of curing the Jade Phosphor Serpent Clan's poison as leverage to force Dugu Bo into submission and claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for himself.
Of course, Lin Yu wasn't as cold-hearted as Tang San. He believed in not forgetting those who helped him along the way. Thanks to his Fate Eye soul skill, granted by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's external spirit bone, Lin Yu knew more about the immortal herbs surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well than Tang San did.
When the time came, Lin Yu planned to take most of the immortal herbs for himself but would still leave a couple of useful ones for Dugu Bo and his granddaughter, Dugu Yan. Unlike Tang San, who took nearly all the herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and didn't leave a single one for Dugu Bo orDugu Yan, or even Taitan and Tai Long of the Strength Clan.
Lin Yu couldn't help but find it odd. Tang San had taken so many immortal herbs but only gave a few to Dai Mubai and his friends, and that was just to help them win the Continental Spirit Master Academy Elite Exchange Competition. What was Tang San planning to do with the rest of the herbs? Save them for his future Tang Sect? And yet, the Strength Clan's Taitan, a key member of the Tang Sect, never seemed to receive a single herb.
Then again, it made sense. To Tang San, the four great clans probably weren't his people. After all, in Absolute Tang Sect, not only did Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Serpent Clan perish, but the four great clans were also wiped out!
In the end, Tang San was nothing more than a hypocritical, cold-hearted person.
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Leaving his hotel, Lin Yu strolled through Heaven Dou City, enjoying the sights. In truth, he was mainly there to try out the local cuisine, which had always been one of his favorite pastimes.
While wandering, Lin Yu passed the Heaven Dou Auction House, a place Tang San and Xiao Wu had visited in the original story. He remembered that during the auction, they had seen a girl with a mutated martial soul, possessing cat-like traits, being auctioned off.
If Lin Yu's guess was correct, that girl likely had an innate body martial soul! If he had the chance to meet her, bringing her under his wing and nurturing her could be quite beneficial.
During his time at the Ghostly Duke Mansion, Lin Yu had hinted to Zhu Xuanfeng that he would join the Ghostly Nether Cat Clan if they married Zhu Zhuqing to him. But back then, Lin Yu had been acting as Ye Liangchen, a cover identity.
As for Lin Yu himself, his ultimate goal was to form his power! Sure, becoming an emperor with a harem was a common dream for young men like Lin Yu in his previous life, but being an emperor was far too troublesome! Instead, Lin Yu planned to change Qian Renxue's fate.
A man like Tang San, with his petty, hypocritical nature, was wholly unworthy of Qian Renxue. If Lin Yu could win her heart and help her become Empress, uniting the Douluo Continent, she could oversee the empire's affairs and push for the development of soul tool technology. Lin Yu, meanwhile, would work on improving relations between spirit beasts and humans, fostering peaceful coexistence.
Ideally, spirit masters and spirit beasts would become like beast tamers and their companions in the fantasy stories Lin Yu used to read in his previous life, helping each other grow. If that vision could come to fruition, Douluo Planet would surely be a more harmonious place than it ever was, even during the Soul Land IV era!
Sure, Lin Yu was attracted to women, but unlike Tang San, he had proper morals!
While wandering through the streets of Heaven Dou City, Lin Yu passed by a blacksmith shop. A boy with long hair, dressed in brown, suddenly walked past him.
At that moment, Lin Yu felt a strange sensation in his brow, where his Three-Eyed Golden Lion's external spirit bone's third eye was located. It twitched, as if sensing something.
"What's going on?"
Just then, a voice came from the blacksmith shop.
"Excuse me, how are the parts I asked you to forge a month ago? Have they been completed yet?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Yu's mind was immediately struck by a sense of familiarity and déjà vu.
"Parts... for forging? Could it be for hidden weapons?"
No way! Could that boy be Tang San?
Lin Yu's eyes widened in shock.