Leng Yueyan inexplicably disappeared from Lin Shuguang's room in the end. As for why she left so quickly, the reason was probably related to the rope Lin Shuguang had been playing with.
Even as she left, she felt as though a pair of eyes were watching her from behind.
After Leng Yueyan left, Lin Shuguang lowered the rope with a distant gaze. In the end, he had not made a move.
"There's still serious business tomorrow..."
He locked the door tight. To guard against the possibility that Leng Yueyan, that madwoman, might suddenly climb in through the window in the middle of the night, Lin Shuguang locked the window as well.
Only after finishing all that did he take the Nine Revolutions Golden Core Leng Yueyan had given him.
This time, he did not swallow it right away. Instead, he thought of offering it as a sacrifice.
Sensing that the room next door had already fallen silent, Lin Shuguang turned and entered the Spatial Altar.
He took out the Golden Dew, while holding the Nine Revolutions Golden Core in his other hand.
The Golden Dew had an evolutionary effect. This was a wondrous effect he had only learned about recently, so he wondered if he could use it to evolve the Nine Revolutions Golden Core once more.
As he remembered it, he had once relied on the Nine Revolutions Golden Core provided by Old Man Chen of the Baojian Sect to leap across several realms in one bound.
However, those had only been low-level realms, so the leap had been relatively large.
Now that Lin Shuguang had reached the True Fate Realm, wanting to use the Nine Revolutions Golden Core to leap straight from the lower levels to complete mastery as he had before was probably not as simple as he imagined.
"I hope the Golden Dew can be of some use..."
Taking out the Golden Dew, he first dripped a single drop onto the Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
The Golden Dew was quickly absorbed by the Nine Revolutions Golden Core. A strand of golden light surfaced on the core's surface, but then rapidly faded as though it lacked the strength to continue.
"Not enough?"
Lin Shuguang did not panic or feel discouraged in the slightest.
He might lack many things, but he certainly had enough Golden Dew. Otherwise, why would he especially hope that the Great Gan Dynasty would produce more heretics and demonic scum?
He poured in more Golden Dew.
One drop after another.
Golden strands continuously surfaced over the Nine Revolutions Golden Core. The difference was that this time, after appearing, they were forcefully pushed upward by the immense power brought by the Golden Dew. It was as though sparks were bursting from the pill's surface, while the pill's core was constantly being altered.
If ten drops were not enough, then fifty. If fifty were not enough, then a hundred!
Lin Shuguang did not feel the slightest pain. If he ran out, he could simply kill more heretics and demonic scum. He had no worries about earning it back. Besides, after his previous slaughter, he still had several hundred drops of Golden Dew left, so he was not afraid of wasting any.
Gradually, a different aura surfaced from the Nine Revolutions Golden Core floating in midair.
Lin Shuguang was delighted when he saw this. "There's hope."
He drew upon the power of space once more and poured in the Golden Dew.
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, a burst of golden light erupted.
Lin Shuguang immediately stopped pouring in the Golden Dew and stared over in astonishment. The Nine Revolutions Golden Core floated in midair, while rings of sparks flowed across the pill's surface along some wondrous trajectory.
The pill gradually became different from the Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
Its golden luster had dimmed considerably. If Lin Shuguang had not known that he had been trying to enhance the pill, he would have compared it directly with the Nine Revolutions Golden Core and certainly chosen the latter. After all, the difference in appearance was obvious at a glance.
"Could I have refined it into ruin?"
Lin Shuguang looked doubtful as he reached out and grabbed the mutated Nine Revolutions Golden Core.
The instant his fingertip touched it, Lin Shuguang suddenly sensed his soul being pulled...
His entire mind became a chaos.
"Yan Kai, look at you, sounding so high and mighty with a head like a zebra's..." a voice said.
Lin Shuguang froze.
The next moment, his soul returned.
"Meng Shenzhou!" Lin Shuguang abruptly opened his eyes.
His face was filled with astonishment, even a touch of disbelief.
It seemed that after leaving Demon Martial, he had rarely had the chance to see this old friend again. From the voice, the man even sounded young.
"Yan Kai...?" He mulled over the name twice.
Lin Shuguang clearly remembered Meng Shenzhou's voice, but this Yan Kai... If he remembered correctly, before he had become the head of Huai City's Seventh Section of the Special Management Bureau, he had already executed this fellow. How was he still alive?
For a moment, even Lin Shuguang could not find an answer in what he had just experienced. He simply tossed the matter to the back of his mind and stared intently at the pill in his hand.
"I've never even heard of a pill that can draw out the soul. It seems I didn't ruin this pill during refinement. I truly refined it to some wondrous level." Lin Shuguang was delighted inwardly.
After examining it for a while, he glanced at the Golden Dew beside him. He could not help wanting to use the Golden Dew to evolve the mutated Nine Revolutions Golden Core again, but then he remembered that this evolution alone had consumed more than a hundred drops of Golden Dew.
What if he proceeded with a second stage of refinement?
Never mind whether it would succeed. If it did, the cost would certainly be even more extravagant. Lin Shuguang was not sure he could afford it.
After thinking it over, he decided the risk was simply too great.
Lin Shuguang stopped letting his imagination run wild and swallowed the mutated Nine Revolutions Golden Core in one gulp.
At once!
Under a tremendous force, Lin Shuguang's entire soul was ripped out of his body, as though his soul could no longer find support within his flesh.
For a moment, Lin Shuguang was like a drowning man, alone amid a pitch-black sea. He helplessly watched his soul drift farther and farther from his body... faster and faster.
It was as though everything before him had turned into a white dot.
Lin Shuguang's soul was drawn into an empty world within that white dot. It was as though he had leaped away from the original space, broken free of the Spatial Altar, and likewise left the Totem Continent.
"What place is this?"
Doubt rose in Lin Shuguang's heart.
Suddenly, as though he had finally drawn a breath of air, his entire soul instantly went from feeble to brimming with vitality.
He glanced at the Attribute Panel.
His mental strength attribute had actually increased by a full one hundred thousand points.
"This!!!"
Lin Shuguang was completely stunned.
"What kind of terrifying pill did I refine?"
Before his shock could settle, the white-faced world before him finally changed.
Like a projection, a huge image in the distance stretched from heaven to earth.
A scene appeared upon it. The entire world was pitch-black, while dark clouds resembling demonic mist covered the whole sky. A vast black sea of clouds churned endlessly, creating an intensely oppressive sight.
As the projection's view rose, Lin Shuguang saw in astonishment that the entire sea of clouds was merely circling around a single person... To draw upon the power of heaven and earth with one's own strength—such power was simply breathtaking.
A voice, so indifferent that it held not the slightest trace of emotion, rang out from the scene. "Kill!"
The next instant, Saber Light burst forth.
The entire world collapsed, heaven and earth splitting apart as that single saber cleaved straight through it!
Terrifying power seemed to surge out from the projection. Lin Shuguang's soul nearly dispersed under the impact of that Saber Intent.
"He is..." Lin Shuguang's eyes widened slightly.
He thought of the mysterious Swordsman who had appeared in his dream before—the former master of the Blood-colored Demonic Saber!
"How could I see him here?"
The moment Lin Shuguang finished murmuring, the scene changed again.
Inside a busy office, the sounds of keyboard tapping and ringing desk phones continued without pause. Then the image of Lin Shuguang in his previous life as an IT programmer appeared on the projection.
Lin Shuguang's pupils suddenly contracted.
This was the greatest secret buried deep within his heart, yet it was being played back at this very moment.
Just then, the projection continued showing the scene.
"Lin Shuguang" walked out of the director's office with a red envelope in hand, sat beside the computer, and stretched lazily. It seemed the computer had developed a problem, because the screen suddenly filled with snow. "Lin Shuguang's" fingers quickly typed several commands on the keyboard, and the snow on the screen immediately vanished. Before "Lin Shuguang" could breathe a sigh of relief,
a line of words appeared on the computer screen: Do you want to know the truth of the world? Yes or no?
"Lin Shuguang" was stunned for a moment, then typed another command. This time, the command did not work either. He stared at the screen for a while before simply unplugging the network cable and restarting the computer.
After an image of white clouds and green mountains appeared on the screen, it suddenly transformed into a black vortex. A hand struck directly down onto his head, then pulled him into the vortex. From that moment on, the world seemed to have been pressed into pause... The vortex disappeared right afterward.
The scene abruptly ended.
Lin Shuguang fell silent.
"Whose hand was that?"
No wonder his head had hurt when he first transmigrated. So someone had reached out and knocked on his head. Could this mean that everything I've gone through was arranged by someone behind the scenes?
The projection before him began playing the next segment. Lin Shuguang stared fixedly at it.
Countless clouds of smoke filled the air. Beneath the afterglow, the sky was constantly raining down the bodies of cultivators, while blood poured like a torrential downpour.
In the projection, "Lin Shuguang's" face was covered in blood. He held down the enormous body of what appeared to be a monster and drove his saber through it with brutal force!
At his feet lay the corpses of countless monsters. "Lin Shuguang" seemed tireless as he fought without end against the countless charging monster armies, his entire body drenched in blood—some his own, some belonging to the monsters.
Suddenly, a pillar of light descended from the heavens, arriving in an instant.
"Lin Shuguang" let out a furious roar and activated the Demon God Body. With one punch, he pierced straight through the pillar of light. His entire body was also flung a thousand meters away, while the earth was blasted apart into countless cracks.
Amid the collapse of heaven and earth, the power of laws surged violently, making one's heart tremble with fear.
Immediately afterward, he entered the Spatial Altar and took out the Spring Autumn Cicada... "Find him."
The Spring Autumn Cicada transformed into a vortex.
Then "Lin Shuguang" saw his former self, the programmer, and reached out to seize him. "The future can only be changed by you! As long as the Heavenly Dao does not die, my path cannot be righteous! Destroy it!"
"Destroy it!"
"Destroy it!"
Countless echoes rang out, even spreading into the white-faced space where Lin Shuguang stood.
Lin Shuguang's entire soul suddenly began to seethe violently.
This was a cycle!
Everything was a circle!
"Can it only stop after the Heavenly Dao is destroyed?"
Lin Shuguang slowly raised his head. As though he had sensed something, he reached out...
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