[Consume 1,600 years of lifespan to pre-emptively advance Qilin Seal to Lesser Mastery?]
Lin Fan's gaze flickered slightly as he said in a low voice, "Agree to pre-empt it."
The instant his words fell, a deeper understanding of the Qilin Seal materialized in his mind from nowhere.
This Qilin Seal was an inheritance belonging to the divine beast Qilin, a powerful technique created by ancient divine beasts through the fusion of heaven-and-earth power.
When cultivated to its peak, it could even evolve into a lightning-tribulation Qilin comparable to heavenly punishment. With a single strike, it could lightly inflict grievous wounds upon powerful cultivators, or heavily annihilate an entire region.
This technique was immensely powerful, but it also carried a certain drawback.
It required the physique of a divine beast as its foundation. If Lin Fan's physical body had not been strengthened to the utmost limit, he simply would not have been able to withstand its backlash.
As Lin Fan's eyes opened and closed, a unique scene emerged out of thin air.
Within the chaotic void, a cold-faced man slowly raised his head.
Golden light shimmered in his eyes. Though his body did not appear especially tall, it seemed to fill the entire starry sky. Every gesture carried the bearing of one who looked down upon heaven and earth!
The man took a single step, and the void shattered in response, web-like cracks spreading densely through it.
Such an act seemed to have enraged heaven and earth.
Suddenly, countless tribulation clouds surged in, forming a terrifying lightning tribulation that shook the soul.
Pitch-black storm clouds gathered into an enormous vortex stretching thousands of miles.
At the deepest point of the black vortex, an utterly terrifying force brewed. Even across the void of eternity, across endless ages, Lin Fan felt