Master Xuanzhi left on his own.
The demonic thoughts clinging to him, which no efforts had been able to purge, suddenly dissipated on their own. He also received a Transmission Talisman from the monks at his temple, saying that every demonized monk there had returned to normal.
Although he had no idea why, he no longer had any reason to ask Chen Lin to help purge their demons.
Chen Lin was equally bewildered. His intuition told him that the change in the monks of the Demon-Suppressing Temple had to be connected to the destruction of the Buddha Statue bearing his previous life's face, but he had no proof.
In the end, he could only set the matter aside.
With nothing else to attend to, he meditated and cultivated every day, taking pills that nourished his divine soul to restore his body.
It took him an entire year to recover from the damage the heavenly tribulation had inflicted on his body.
His soul had also nearly recovered, thanks to the Black Bead he had obtained after killing that batlike Strange Bird in the Earth Cave beneath Ten Thousand Caves Mountain. It worked wonders on soul injuries, something he had discovered by chance.
Once his body recovered, Chen Lin prepared another portion of Three-Treasure Buddha Dew and condensed his dharmic manifestation anew, finally returning to the Vajra Realm.
Not only had his body tempering returned to the Vajra Realm, but his cultivation had also broken through to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment.
Even so, Chen Lin could not feel happy.
His soul origin essence still could not be fully restored!
The importance of soul origin essence to a cultivator went without saying. Damage to it meant that the soul was incomplete. Although this differed from the situation of cultivators who offered