After what had happened at the Soul Interrogation Academy, Chen Lin had no desire to keep wandering and left Beihan City directly.
He still did not use a teleportation formation.
For one thing, the distance was too short to warrant it.
Besides, for high-rank cultivators, teleportation formations were actually unsafe. The space passages created by ordinary teleportation formations could not withstand Dominator Tier energy fluctuations, so they had to suppress their cultivation while traveling through them, inevitably limiting their perception.
If someone deliberately plotted against them, they would be extremely vulnerable to a sneak attack.
What Chen Lin had not expected was that, despite taking precautions against teleportation formations, he still failed to avoid an ambush. He had barely left Beihan City when an inexplicable sense of danger suddenly washed over him.
Before he could discover the cause, his body began shaking violently.
Every drop of blood and every bone seemed to become an independent entity, no longer obeying his control. Strange fluctuations arose in his soul as well, forming bizarre, incomplete patterns.
Immediately afterward.
His Natal Runic Inscription exploded apart.
Before Chen Lin could react, the independent entities formed from his body, the scattered runic inscriptions, and the patterns formed from his soul actually began "slaughtering" one another.
Even the Punishment Axe trembled incessantly.
Chen Lin was horrified.
He had never even heard of such a bizarre method of attack. Without knowing who his enemy was, he had been silently pushed to the brink of death.
In desperation.
He could only activate his Nine-Aperture Exquisite Heart, which had yet to show any abnormalities.
But he immediately discovered that eight of its nine apertures were beyond his control. Only the purple heart aperture remained usable, and even it was beginning to change.
"Open!"
Chen Lin growled. The Purple-Heart Sword flew