Frost-Thunder True Armor

[Kill the Origin Transformation White Snake Demon: Gained 6000 experience]

[Current experience: 9400]
[Current martial arts:]

[Worldly martial arts: Seven-Star Step (Entry)]

[Worldly martial arts: Flowing Swallow Saber Technique (Transcendent Realm)]

[Transformation-Origin Martial Arts: Baleful Blood Demon-Subduing Blade (Transcendent Realm)]

[Origin Transformation cultivation method; True Scripture of Body-Melting and Furnace-Casting (Perfected)]

[Transformation-Origin Martial Arts: Wind-Thunder True Armor (Major Mastery)]

The Baleful Blood Demon-Subduing Blade had already reached the Transcendent Realm, leaving virtually no room for further improvement. Only the Wind-Thunder True Armor still had room to rise.

As for the True Scripture of Body-Melting and Furnace-Casting, he could set it aside for now.

With that thought, Lin Jun took out the Snake Demon's Demon Core.

This Demon Core was smoother and rounder. It carried a faint chill to the touch and was transparent throughout, like a glass bead.

Lin Jun had found it on that Snake Demon. Come to think of it, how had such a little snake given birth to a python?

Did demons also prefer them big?

Sweeping those jumbled thoughts from his mind, Lin Jun began absorbing the Demon Core.

[You have obtained the Snake Demon's Demon Core. It seems to contain frigid energy. You decide:]

[1. Absorb the Demon Core and convert its energy into your own cultivation. Costs 500 experience.]

[2. Refine pills. Surely you should refine pills this time, right? Costs 600 experience.]

[3. You discover that the Demon Core's energy seems capable of strengthening your martial arts. You think you can give it a try. Costs 800 experience.]

Hm? The three options always brought Lin Jun different choices.

He chose the third.

[In the dark, you sense that the energy within the Demon Core echoes a martial art you possess. Looking closely, you find that it is the Wind-Thunder True Armor. It seems able to merge with the Demon Core. (-800)]

[You discover that in the Wind-Thunder True Armor, wind is not manifested at all. Instead, there is far more thunder. This catches your attention. Since wind is absent, why not replace it? You begin researching it, and the process goes exceptionally smoothly. (-800)]

[Perhaps it is luck, perhaps this is how it was meant to be. You add more elements to this martial art. Now, you name it Frost-Thunder True Armor. (-800)]

[The Demon Core still retains power. You absorb it. Of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, you have opened four; of the Twelve Primary Meridians, you have opened the Three Yang Meridians of the Foot. You have already opened more than half of them. (-800)]

As the simulation ended, waves of entirely new knowledge flooded into Lin Jun's mind.

The Wind-Thunder True Armor had transformed into an entirely new martial art, and Lin Jun was its founder.

Lin Jun circulated his cultivation method. The temperature throughout the room instantly dropped, and amid flashes of lightning, a suit of icy armor formed over his body.

Unlike the lightning of the Wind-Thunder True Armor, the lightning did not spill outward because of the ice. Instead, it clung tightly to the ice, darting about beneath its surface.

It looked less flamboyant than before, but its defensive power had risen by an entire level.

Of the remaining 6200 experience, Lin Jun directly allocated 5000 to the newly mutated Frost-Thunder True Armor, raising it from Major Mastery to Perfected. It was only one step away from the Transcendent Realm.

[Current experience: 1200]
[Current martial arts:]

[Worldly martial arts: Seven-Star Step (Entry)]

[Worldly martial arts: Flowing Swallow Saber Technique (Transcendent Realm)]

[Transformation-Origin Martial Arts: Baleful Blood Demon-Subduing Blade (Transcendent Realm)]

[Origin Transformation cultivation method; True Scripture of Body-Melting and Furnace-Casting (Perfected)]

[Transformation-Origin Martial Arts: Frost-Thunder True Armor (Perfected)]

Very good. At least judging from his current situation, he had offense when he needed offense and defense when he needed defense. All he lacked was a little agility.

But because of that, his newly replenished experience had shriveled up again.

Lin Jun earned quickly, and spent just as quickly.

When he opened the door, the sky outside was already bright. He could hear distant hawkers and the endless rumble of passing carts and horses.

Lin Jun opened the gates of the Demon Affairs Prefecture and walked toward the nearby stalls.

"Master Lin, did you kill another demon last night?"

The vendor's face was full of admiration.

"How did you know?"

It had happened last night, and it had been in the southern part of the city, where wealthy merchants lived. These people should not have known so soon.

"Master, you don't know? Early this morning, those merchants' wives all went back to their parents' homes carrying huge bundles. They said those masters had killed their children. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Those masters chased after them with everything they had, but didn't catch a single one. It was miserable."

Women capable of marrying wealthy merchants were naturally no simple characters.

But none of that had anything to do with Lin Jun.

After breakfast, Lin Jun went to the city gate as agreed.

Sure enough, He Jing was already waiting there early.

More than a dozen children and their parents accompanied him, every one of them weeping bitterly.

It seemed these children were the disciples He Jing had recruited.

For children born in such a remote and impoverished place, becoming disciples of a sect in a great city like Brocade City was practically a single step to Heaven.

"Little Friend Lin, you've come."

Leaning on a wooden staff, He Jing approached Lin Jun.

"We can be considered acquainted through a fight. If you come to Brocade City, come find me for a drink."

He Jing looked to be in good spirits. Losing one leg did not seem to have affected him much.

"Of course."

"Haha, then I'll be off. Mountains and rivers may part, but we will meet again."

As they bid He Jing farewell, the two did not say much from beginning to end.

He Jing suddenly recalled something and said:

"I just looked into it. So Little Friend Lin is Lin Jun from Lord Yang Yan's household. Heh, I actually never recognized you."

No one who saw Lin Jun now would connect him with that arrogant, unruly, good-for-nothing Lin Jun from before.

"Your uncle has been locked up."

Lin Jun's expression tightened.

"Your uncle handles logistics, right? I heard that because of your affairs, he was demoted to a transport officer. While transporting a batch of medicinal pills, the pills vanished midway. Not even a trace was left behind. There wasn't even a single medicine bottle at the scene. He was convicted of negligence."

The crime of negligence could be major or minor, depending on the harm it caused.

Thirty years, yet he had not been beheaded. That meant the batch of pills was not especially valuable.

Even so, it was enough to make him suffer dearly.

Part of the Demon Exorcism Bureau's medicinal pills were distributed to the Demon Exorcists below as benefits, while the other part served as rewards.

That meant after this batch of pills vanished, a group of people would not receive their share. Those people would naturally resent Yang Yan.

Of course, none of that was the most important thing. What mattered most was that the Demon Exorcism Bureau's prison was no pleasant place. It was meant for imprisoning demons. If humans were locked in there, let alone thirty years, ten years would take half their life.

"That is all I can say. Farewell!"

He Jing glanced at Green Forest County, then climbed directly into the carriage on one leg.

Green Forest County was exceedingly strange. A place that was clearly so safe had actually seen demons enter the city and devour people.

It would be best to report this matter to the Demon Exorcism Bureau in Brocade City.

Although martial sects of the jianghu had always been at odds with the Demon Exorcism Bureau, when it came to a major matter involving demons, personal grudges counted for nothing.

It was just that when he returned this time, those old fossils would most likely lecture him again. After all, he had only just recruited these disciples, yet had lost a leg...

Lin Jun silently watched He Jing depart, then returned to the city.

He had not expected his uncle to be imprisoned, but he was currently in Green Forest County and truly had no way to do anything.

Everything could only wait until he reached Brocade City.

After seeing He Jing off, Lin Jun returned to the Demon Affairs Prefecture with breakfast.

For the next three days, all of Green Forest County remained quite peaceful. Not a single incident of demons devouring people occurred.

And according to Chen Feng, Zhang Ju had actually returned.

The moment Zhang Ju returned, he shut himself inside his room and refused to see anyone.

Green Forest County seemed to have become even more stifling.

On the night of the third day after He Jing left, a laborer hurriedly came to find Lin Jun.

"Master, come take a look! That precious White Deer of yours has been ramming into the wall nonstop. My wall is about to collapse!"