At this moment, Lu Lin still had the tiniest sliver of consciousness left.
His soul was guarded by a Golden Bell Shield that had been reinforced with who knew how many layers.
Even though True Venerable Fire King's soul was unimaginably powerful, and a single sentence had easily erased most of the mental power in Lu Lin's soul, he was helpless against the Golden Bell Shield. He had no way to break through it.
True Venerable Fire King kept attacking from the outside.
Lu Lin kept repairing the shield from within.
For a time, True Venerable Fire King's destruction couldn't keep up with Lu Lin's repairs.
The Golden Bell Shield protecting Lu Lin's soul had not weakened. On the contrary, it had grown stronger.
Within the Sea of Consciousness.
True Venerable Fire King's clone looked at Lu Lin's soul, now a golden mass, and couldn't help giving a bitter smile.
His disciple was clearly strong in every way.
Yet he was still so timid, so cautious.
Just now, Lu Lin had been offered so many rewards. Not only had he shown no reaction, he had even seemed to look down on them a little.
True Venerable Fire King had spent a long time preparing this scheme.
In his estimation, once these rewards were offered, forget someone like Lu Lin, who was only at the Lava Level—even some Eternal Immortal Level experts would be unable to refuse outright.
In the end, seeing how Lu Lin refused to budge and was unwilling to lower his guard, True Venerable Fire King had no choice but to bring out that token.
True Venerable Fire King truly didn't know what the token did.
But it wasn't as if he knew absolutely nothing.
At the very least, after studying it for countless millennia, he had discovered