Approaching II

Liu Xuezhen dared not say anything more. But the magic seals and Devil Incense on her body slowly weakened and dissipated at this moment.

This means that she has made a decision in her heart at this moment.

The crowd was arguing in the courtyard, while outside the courtyard, by the outer wall, stood a strange three-fingered man covered in blue scales.

The man stood with his back to the courtyard, a silver-white Rubik's Cube-like block floating in front of him.

Upon learning that Lin Hui was absent, the others began discussing what to do next.

The man took a step forward.

The world spun around him in an instant; he had left this void area and appeared outside the Stagnant Storm.

Looking at that massive stone wall and the countless bubbles slowly rising and bursting on it.

"Not here either..." The man frowned slightly.

"The heart... has lost contact..."

He had originally intended to stay put and wait for Lin Hui to use up his two more chances, but after waiting for tens of thousands of years, he still hadn't gotten the second chance, so he finally couldn't sit still any longer.

This time, no matter how much Mu Cheng Jiang threatened him, he insisted on going to find the person.

Although it is not fully recovered yet, some of the techniques at the Celestial Venerable level are already available.

But when he finally arrived at Clear Jade Mountain, he discovered that the person had vanished!

Chongli reached out and pinched the silver-white Rubik's Cube in front of him, then tossed it gently.

The Rubik's Cube spun rapidly, flashing countless tiny points of light. A flood of information rushed into his mind, but he still couldn't find any trace of Lin Hui.

Just as he was about to stop and leave.

Suddenly, a tiny twist flashed across the Rubik's Cube.

Immediately, a blurry image of Lin Hui quickly entered Chongli's mind.

Upon seeing this faint image, Chongli was slightly taken aback, but then he understood.

He reached out again, and an invisible force of time enveloped that wisp of image. Then time rapidly reversed.

His soul also followed the image at lightning speed, tracing its origin. The source of the image was reflection. Since it was light, it must have a path of propagation. As long as the time was reversed and the light was traced back, he would surely find the place where Lin Hui had passed.

For beings like them, as long as they find the place they once stayed, they can pinpoint its exact location.

But not long after, Chongli looked troubled, once again finding himself without any leads.

His trail went cold again.

But at that moment, another blurry, distorted glint flashed by, and he sensed a trace of a core disciple's memory within Clear Jade Mountain.

"Found it!" Chongli suddenly showed joy and his figure vanished from the spot.

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Formless Belt.

Lin Hui quietly absorbed a large amount of Existence Force, accelerating the evolution time of the Blood Seal.

The second element, the Mother of All Things, now only has a tiny bit of the Existence Force.

Evolution complete.

At the last moment, the Blood Seal notification sounded, indicating that the evolution was complete.

At the same time, the previously Perfect Body inside Lin Hui's heart suddenly melted, decomposed, and turned into countless silver light spots, which then quickly reformed.

Seconds later, the Perfect Body was revealed.

It doesn't seem to be much different from before, except that it has a bit more of a hard, shell-like feel to it.

Lin Hui didn't stop. He opened the Blood Seal again and began to identify the Mother of All Things once more.

But this time, the subsequent evolutionary branches disappeared.

"Perhaps my current energy level is insufficient; I haven't reached a certain level yet, and I cannot meet the conditions for further evolution." Lin Hui regretfully closed the Blood Seal.

Looking at the Mother of All Things within his heart, he no longer hesitated. His divine soul surged, and he rushed into it.

Having obtained the Perfect Body, the next step is the second step: to infuse it with divine soul and create one's own imprint.

Because of the extreme strength of the Perfect Body, this second step is also extremely difficult and requires a very long time.

Previously, it would have taken him hundreds of thousands of years to complete this step.

However, the Mother of All Things is now more robust than its previous Perfect Body, so completing this second step will take even longer.

Next, I will slowly use my soul, everything I have, to create the imprint...

As soon as Lin Hui breathed a sigh of relief, a thought flashed through his mind, but then he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He sensed from the Wind Energy scattered around him that something extremely dangerous was rapidly approaching.

He scanned it with his divine sense and saw it clearly.

Amidst the Formless Belt Wind Disaster, a tall man covered in blue scales and with only three fingers on each hand was silently and rapidly approaching.

Although the other party wasn't approaching his exact location, this distance was already enough to raise suspicion.

The thought had barely crossed Lin Hui's mind when he noticed the man pause, then slightly adjust his direction and continue forward.

This time, the direction the enemy was heading was exactly where I was hiding and isolating myself!

He clearly had a top-tier protective layer on his outer layer, used by the Celestial Venerables to isolate him from the erosion of the Source Disaster, yet the other party actually...

Countless thoughts flashed through Lin Hui's mind. The Supreme Omniscience Seal was now permanently stationed there, no longer limited to a single moment each year.

In an instant, countless guesses flashed through his mind, and then the few most likely and closest to the truth automatically emerged.

Was this the work of the Heart Disaster? Logically, with my concealment, I shouldn't have been discovered so easily. Therefore, either the isolation layer can only prevent the erosion of other Source Disaster, but not the Heart Disaster, or that person possesses some method that can pinpoint my location with absolute precision.

Lin Hui quickly examined his original self.

His entire soul has now entered his new body. The Nameless Heart inside his original body is now faintly emitting different fluctuations than usual, which immediately caught his attention.

At other times, Lin Hui would have assumed such minor fluctuations were normal and wouldn't have paid them any attention.

But things are different now.

Now that he'd been discovered, he decided to stop hiding.

Within the Formless Belt.

Lin Hui shed his outer shell, revealing his current body.

He still wore a white robe and carried a sword, his face unchanged from ten thousand years ago. His long black hair cascaded down his shoulders, and his eyes gleamed with blue flames as he watched the blue-scaled man approach.

This body was still his previous human form. The new Mother of All Things had not yet completed its second step, and he was worried that something might go wrong, so he kept it hidden in his heart.

But the sudden change in the Nameless Heart alerted him, and he quickly moved the Mother of All Things to another location.

The Nameless Heart was forcibly removed and held in the air beside him.

As the blue-scaled man drew closer, the Nameless Heart's heartbeats became increasingly pronounced.

By this point, Lin Hui was certain that the problem lay with this heart.

Indeed, there are gains and losses; with every gain comes a series of related consequences.

Lin Hui waited quietly.

Swish.

Not long after.

The blue-scaled man finally appeared behind him, stopping ten light-years away from Lin Hui.

The two looked at each other from a distance, neither of them speaking.

After a long while, Lin Hui stepped aside to make room for the other party to pass.

But the blue-scaled man remained motionless, his gaze still fixed on him; clearly, he was the man's target.

"Reason?" Lin Hui asked in a deep voice.

"No reason needed. I was just passing by and you were in my way," the blue-scaled man replied calmly.

Lin Hui stopped talking. Since the other party didn't want to talk, then they could only rely on their own abilities.

He gripped the sword hilt, his entire body tense.

Swish!

In an instant, a twisted crown resembling black smoke appeared above his head.

The crown gleamed with a blood-red light.

The next instant, a massive, blood-red array appeared beneath the two of them.

Countless blurry door images appeared all around, forming a giant pillar that enveloped Lin Hui and the man.

Pfft.

Immediately afterwards, the crimson array suddenly dimmed, turning pitch black.

Countless black shadows surged up like waves, gathering in mid-air and coalescing into a gigantic woman in a long, black dress.

The woman's entire body was pitch black, obscuring her facial features; her hair, skirt, and everything else was black. Thick black smoke billowed from her body.

Its size was thousands of times larger than Lin Hui and the man combined.

She floated and took shape, resembling a skyscraper, and looked down at the blue-scaled man.

"Danfulian, take care of him." Lin Hui's calm voice came from behind.

Ah!!!

The woman in black suddenly tilted her head back and screamed.

In an instant, countless shadows splattered and spread from her body, rapidly spreading in Four Faces.

Despite being Formless Belt, the countless Wind Disaster and Disaster Energy here were still quickly stained black by the shadows at this moment.

"It's no use." The blue-scaled man raised his hand and gently pressed it against his chest, where it was empty, exactly where a heart was missing.

"Let's go back... even though it's not mature yet, but..."

Laugh!

Just then, the blue-scaled man's expression changed. He realized that he couldn't control his heart at all!

Logically speaking, Lin Hui was only at the External Source Realm, so he shouldn't be able to affect the internal structure of the heart.

But just now, when he tried to summon his heart back, he found himself completely unable to control it. In fact, it seemed that his control was even inferior to Lin Hui's!

"What's going on!? Could it be..." In an instant, a familiar scene flashed through his mind.

Recalling the inexplicable clues that led to Lin Hui, and then the series of coincidences that led us here...

Just then, Danfulian roared to the sky and grabbed down in his direction.

Boom!!

A massive shadow enveloped the man completely.

But it was submerged for less than half a second.

Countless even deeper, darker black flames suddenly burst open from the shadows.

A Giant Hand, larger and more menacing than Danfulian's, tore through the shadows with a hiss, and lightning struck Danfulian's right shoulder.

Giant Hand gently squeezed.

Boom!!

The seemingly enormous Danfulian instantly shattered like porcelain.

Countless fragments of shadow dissipated, rapidly decomposed and vanished by the Formless Belt Wind Disaster.

The Giant Hand quickly shrank, reforming into the blue-scaled man's body.

"No matter what, even if it's Heart Disaster, this time... I'm determined to win!!"

He reached out again, reaching out to grab Lin Hui from afar.

Absolute Mimicry!

Despite lacking a heart, and despite the fact that the resuscitation was only partially completed, this small amount of power was enough to deal with a mere newly advanced External Source!

The blue-scaled man's right hand rapidly decomposed, perfectly transforming into Lin Hui's high-concentration Wind Energy, which then reassembled into Giant Hand, rapidly grabbing towards Lin Hui's location.