Settling In II

Cui Shining left again.

Lin Hui also obediently stayed behind to start working. Dealing with the life line of the Sun-Fuming Snake was not easy. He first studied the pin pass.

It turned out that this thing was just a rudimentary radio and a location pager.

The distance, however, far exceeded my expectations.

The radio plays a news channel called "Thundercloud Morning News" every day.

It constantly introduces all sorts of messy and trivial matters Thunder King Sect.

The pager allowed direct, one-on-one communication with Hongyu Chun and Cui Shining.

Both parties can also refuse to contact each other at the same time.

Holding the safety pin, Lin Hui fiddled with it for a moment, then turned on the radio.

A gentle, elderly voice came from inside, explaining how to more efficiently process the flesh and blood of the Primordial Corpse.

Although it wasn't content he needed, Lin Hui still listened with great interest.

At this level, in this environment, every channel through which information can be obtained is invaluable.

He materialized into a blue and white Daoist robe, which, seemingly influenced by the pin, coalesced into a unique long robe with lightning patterns. Dressed properly, Lin Hui floated in the void and looked towards the Sun-Fuming Snake.

Swoosh.

In an instant, he darted and leaped over, closing the distance.

He stopped just a few leaps away from the Sun-Fuming Snake and began to observe it from a distance.

With the blessing of the Flash Extreme Seal, only two lifelines appeared on the entire Sun-Fuming Snake.

"However, I don't need to kill it completely; I just need to remove its poison glands."

He flashed again, rapidly closing the distance.

At the same time, the surrounding temperature began to rise rapidly, quickly reaching two thousand degrees.

The surface temperature of a typical star is between 5,000 and 8,000 degrees Celsius, but this star reaches 2,000 degrees Celsius even before reaching its surface, classifying it as a medium-high temperature star.

Aiming at a white hole, Lin Hui leaped forward and disappeared into the hole in the blink of an eye.

Soon after, clumps of dark, sludge-like substance were squeezed out, decomposed, and disappeared.

He flashed out and flew towards the next hole.

Time passed slowly.

The days spent dealing with the Sun-Fuming Snake were tedious and monotonous, but Lin Hui remained completely steadfast, maintaining an honest and diligent demeanor. One by one, the Sun-Fuming Snake were processed, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past six months, through the pass, he was reconnected with Tao Zheng and they formed a small group chat with the others.

Old Tao Zheng went to the Bamboo Sea Hall, a place that required processing a large number of special plants with extremely high hardness as various building materials.

Xiling Ghost went to Black Tree Abyss, the place Lin Hui was supposed to go before. That place was specifically for dealing with the Wind Disaster monsters and insects that bred on the Primordial Corpse, and the casualty rate was not low. Too many deaths would make one's cognition somewhat dangerous, so after entering, she realized something was wrong and immediately began trying every means to find people and connections to leave.

Dinisha was the most comfortable. She went to the Jade Brilliance Hall, a place where she didn't have to do anything but cultivate every day. All the resources were readily available, making it the true training ground for the core disciples of the Thunder King Sect.

It is said that the Holy Lord himself gave lectures there.

As for Bao Yuexin, whom he knew separately, that beautiful non-human race who could be either male or female, she went to the Heart-Nurturing Hall, a place that specializes in providing special services.

It's not about physical transactions, but about cultivating the mind, specifically focusing on secret techniques related to the soul and healing, to soothe disciples who are emotionally unstable or have psychological problems. It's similar to a psychological counseling center.

From this perspective, the Thunder King Sect's plan is quite reasonable, and it has initially developed a complete and sustainable sect system. Lin Hui learned from the conversations with the others that the entire Thunder King Sect is actually built on the core task of mining Primordial Corpse.

Laugh!

The cacophony of Sun-Fuming Snake pulled Lin Hui back to reality from his thoughts.

He has finished dealing with the last white hole and is taking a short break.

Eight months had passed since he entered the Thunder King Sect.

He had no idea what was going on outside the sect. For the past eight months, he had been in this boundless dark void, accompanied by the giant alchemy furnace. There were hundreds of others in the same situation. The difference was that the others were no longer newcomers, so they only worked for a period of time and then left, returning every now and then to hand in their tasks.

With the rotation, people around me come and go quickly.

Fortunately, Lin Hui had no interest in increasing his connections with those around him; he was simply waiting, waiting for a certainty, an opportunity in the future.

After stepping back to create some distance, Lin Hui reached out, and a wisp of pure white energy appeared in his palm.

The air currents seemed to swirl and dance in his palm like living things.

This is primordial energy, a special resource extracted from the Primordial Corpse.

He hasn't used a single strand so far; he received eight standard units, all of which he stored in the Black Token given to him by the Black Elder.

With no one around and having finished his tasks three days ahead of schedule, Lin Hui had time to examine the essential function of this vital energy.

Although he had already used the Blood Seal to identify it immediately, he really didn't know what use it would have for him, because he wasn't a true Fusion Faction.

The information provided by the Blood Seal is as follows.

"Primordial Qi—a byproduct naturally generated from the body and soul of a Primordial Corpse —can help maintain the consciousness of fused calamity creatures. Evolutionary branches: 19."

That's all.

With the Existence Force gone, the evolutionary branch is meaningless to Lin Hui.

The key is that this thing is distributed everywhere and isn't anything rare. If you really can't find a use for it, you can only trade it for other things. "It's still so comfortable when you have plenty of Existence Force," Lin Hui thought to himself.

The plan hasn't been implemented yet, so he can only try his best to play his role well. There's nothing else to do, which is quite boring. After finishing his practice, he turned and flew towards the huge alchemy furnace.

These disciples of the Guangxin Hall actually lived in various areas on the surface of the alchemy furnace.

Most people reside in the abdominal area of the alchemy furnace, while he resides in the ear area. Others reside in the foot area.

The alchemy furnace was so enormous that even a small section of it was comparable in size to a large planet.

In addition, the alchemy furnace is extremely hard, so you don't have to worry about damaging it even if you fight or play around with it.

In reality, once an energy level reaches a certain height, it becomes absolutely impossible to live in a small place as before.

Restraining oneself from all constraints would only bind the strong and force them to accommodate the weaker ones, which is illogical.

Upon arriving at the Thunder King Sect, Lin Hui realized that the living environment of the strong here was truly normal.

Even with poor materialization, speeds can reach tens of thousands of kilometers per second, but in small spaces, you can barely even move your body.

Living in such emptiness is quite comfortable.

Upon landing, the massive white buildings in Dan'er District were arranged haphazardly and disorganizedly.

Some buildings have standard-style plaques hanging outside, while others just have a wooden sign casually written on the ground.

These are the various shops opened by some disciples with their own unique skills who want to earn extra energy.

Lin Hui familiarly chose a tea shop and went inside.

His current size is so enormous that, if placed back into the original solar system, it would be equivalent to more than half the size of the sun.

But here, everything around is incredibly massive.

The shop, named Wish-Locking Pavilion, has a small star system floating at its entrance. The small star inside is about the same size as Lin Hui and slowly rotates, while three much smaller green planets orbit around it.

On the surface of a planet are engraved a single character: Lock, Wish, Pavilion.

Lin Hui exhaled and examined the small star system for a moment. He could see tiny spaceships on the three planets trying to escape, but they were pulled back by a sudden burst of green light after only a short distance.

This cycle repeats itself, much like a random program.

This made him feel somewhat emotional. In the eyes of an excessively large individual, perhaps the joys and sorrows on many planets are just something that others find enjoyable.

He'd passed by this shop many times but never gone in. He came this time because...

"Over here, Brother Lin!"

A slightly familiar voice came from the shop's attic.

Lin Hui looked in the direction of the sound and saw Xiling Ghost waving at him from a corner with a slightly pleased expression.

Xiling Ghost's body had also swelled considerably, but he was still much shorter than him, clearly indicating that his spiritual power was not as strong.

At this moment, she looks like a little girl who hasn't grown up.

This blood demon clan, which had cultivated for three thousand years, seemed somewhat haggard compared to when they first joined the sect.

Lin Hui walked through the tables and sat down opposite Xiling Ghost.

Compared to the others around him, he had grown a bit taller recently, and his height was now average. Although he was still far from reaching the exaggerated height of one light-day that Hongyu Chun had described, he was at least no longer conspicuous.

Looking back now, the standard that Hongyu Chun mentioned at the time should have been the level of core disciples of the Guangxin Hall who could truly participate in alchemy.

"Long time no see... Brother Lin, you truly have extraordinary potential. You seem to be doing quite well here." Xiling Ghost said with a hint of envy in her voice, and then sat down as well.

"Not bad, but it's still far inferior to what Dinisha is doing," Lin Hui said, shaking his head.

"That's still more comfortable than me, more comfortable than Tao Zheng. In just over six months, I've already died five times. To complete the mission, you have to risk your life. Those monsters spawned by the Primordial Corpse are extremely troublesome," Xiling Ghost sighed.

"So why did you go to all this trouble to come here and contact me?" Lin Hui asked directly.

"It's not a big deal. There's a mission going on nearby to clear out a bunch of Primordial Corpse Insects that have fled to the surrounding area. I figured it was close to you, so I came over to chat with you," Xiling Ghost replied.

As she spoke, she carefully examined Lin Hui and then paused for a moment.

"Brother Lin, to be honest, I really can't stand my current life anymore. If this continues, I'm afraid I won't even last nine hundred years before I completely turn into an idiot and a monster. The Black Tree Abyss is too chaotic, full of all sorts of secret techniques, treasures, and insidious schemes—it's just too much and too wicked." Lin Hui remained silent, waiting for the other party to continue.

"Therefore, I hope to exchange my most precious possession for a job transfer." Xiling Ghost suddenly reached out and touched Lin Hui's hand with her fingertips, sending him a message.

It turns out that the Blood Demon clan is inherently extremely Yin. If they can find an extremely Yang individual to combine with, they can produce a violent evolutionary effect, greatly boosting the other party's cultivation.

The reason she sought out Lin Hui was because, when she approached him earlier, she sensed that Lin Hui was the one with the strongest yang energy among all the individuals she had ever seen.

The Immortal Fire and the lingering Karmic Fire that had recently possessed him had a profound impact on Lin Hui.

Furthermore, the fact that Lin Hui was sent to such a good place as Guangxin Hall from the beginning, where he could easily and safely learn the method of refining the Calamity-Defying Pills, clearly indicates that their relationship is not simple.

Lin Hui quickly understood that the other party had misunderstood. Clearly, Xiling Ghost was unaware that his Primordial Golden Crow Sword had been taken.

However... this is indeed a good opportunity.

Even now, that wisp of disguised divine soul has not been detected, which shows that the core department of the Thunder King Sect is not as well-protected as he thought.

Xiling Ghost is now extremely eager to improve his strength. He wants to transfer to a branch hall because he is weak. Black Tree Abyss is a place of great chaos and killing. He can take advantage of it to secretly spread a trace of Wind Energy and see if it can be discovered.

If successful, one can then peacefully await the spread and fusion of the Heaven Seed, embarking on a new journey of advancement.

As for how to spread it, he could easily use his newly developed medicinal powder as an excuse. As long as the increase wasn't too significant—meaning the amount of Wind Energy added was relatively small—and it didn't attract the attention of higher-ups, there shouldn't be any major problems.

After all, there are definitely many individuals like Xiling Ghost in Black Tree Abyss. The market is huge.