"Retreat!" The old man gritted his teeth and made the decision. If they continued to drag this out, not only would the formation be lost, but he himself might also be implicated.
Before leaving, he gave Yuanmu a venomous look. "I, the Kujiku Sect, will remember this grudge! One day, you and those behind you will pay the price!"
The old man took out a Teleportation Talisman, crushed it, and vanished in a flash of white light.
Lin Yu did not stop the old man from leaving.
This person will inevitably have to go back to report the news, so we can take advantage of this opportunity to follow the clues and find the Kujiku Sect's lair.
However, the old evil cultivator escaped, but he abandoned the younger ones.
These few were so exhausted that they didn't have the strength to stand up.
To ensure his escape was successful and no one would hold him back, the old evil cultivator simply abandoned them.
Lin Yu didn't let them off the hook either. With a wave of his hand, he threw them into the log, where the evil god absorbed them.
About half an hour later, the array patterns on the log completely disappeared.
Lin Yu descended from the clouds, raised his hand to recall the golden bead, and brushed his fingertips across its surface. "It was still useful. Next, it's time to find the Kujiku Sect's lair."
Looking at the log now, the originally jet-black wood had regained some of its original color, while the originally golden bead had been dyed completely black, with a faint dark red light flowing inside the bead.
The aura of the evil god within the pearl had grown several times stronger, yet it remained obediently dormant, daring not to make the slightest move.
Lin Yu noticed the unusual nature of his supernatural power and carefully sensed it. As expected of something called an evil god, its assimilation ability was indeed strong.
Even his accumulated merits and supernatural powers based on the rules were tainted.
If it were powerful enough, it probably wouldn't be Lin Yu sealing it away, but rather it turning around and enslaving Lin Yu.
Lin Yu held the jet-black bead, and with his fingertips, he once again condensed the merit-based divine power, slowly pouring it into the bead.
This is him reinforcing the restrictions to prevent the Dark Bodhisattva from going out of control due to the surge in power.
As soon as the Spiritual Power touched the bead, it intertwined with the evil energy inside, and golden runes gradually appeared on the originally dark bead surface.
He only let go of the bead after the golden runes on its surface had stabilized.
The evil spirits inside, sensing the suppression of the merit and Spiritual Power, completely concealed their aura and obediently lay dormant within.
After that evil energy was suppressed, the power of Buddhism began to develop, and was eventually neutralized by the Yin-Yang power of Daoism.
With this alternating pressure and expansion, the already surging aura of the evil god intensified even further.
After resolving the matter of the beads, Lin Yu looked up at the sky above the Marshal's Mansion.
As the Nine Snakes Fight the Dragon Formation completely collapsed, a golden phantom slowly rose from within the mansion; it was the Northern Golden Dragon of Fortune, which had been suppressed by the formation for a long time.
The golden dragon's scales were dull, and its body was weak, yet it still exuded an aura of majesty. It hovered in mid-air, its gaze slowly sweeping across the surroundings before finally settling on Lin Yu.
Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he was about to turn around and leave when he saw the golden dragon suddenly rushing towards him.
Seeing its actions, Lin Yu instantly understood that it was looking for the chosen one of destiny, recognizing his great merit and fortune.
Lin Yu's expression changed drastically, and he quickly raised his hand to create a pale golden light barrier, shielding the golden dragon in front of him.
This cannot be allowed to become part of oneself.
This is no ordinary fortune; it is the fortune of the northern land and that general, which has been trapped by the Kujikuji Sect's formation, causing the two to become entangled.
Once accepted, he will become the one destined for calamity in the North.
They shouldered the heavy responsibility of revitalizing the North.
He himself still has to deal with the cataclysmic calamity of the imperial corpse a year from now; how could he possibly have the strength to shoulder such a heavy responsibility?
The golden dragon crashed into the light screen, letting out a low roar, seemingly somewhat puzzled.
Although it lacked sentience, it could sense that Lin Yu was someone who could withstand it, yet he rejected it.
After a brief pause, the golden dragon seemed to understand something, turned around, and flew off into the distance.
As a spirit of destiny, it also has its own dignity; having been rejected, it will not persist.
Lin Yu gazed in the direction the golden dragon had departed, watching silently.
He also wanted to see who else this spirit of destiny would seek out besides him.
In fact, Lin Yu hoped it would go find that "Eastern person".
Suddenly his pupils contracted; the direction the golden dragon flew towards was none other than where the young marshal was.
If it could be reunited with the young marshal, then the young marshal would truly become a chosen one.
As someone from a later era, he clearly did not want this situation to happen.
"Excuse me..." Lin Yu flashed away and chased after the golden dragon.
When he caught up with the golden dragon, Lin Yu raised his hand and waved it, creating a golden light screen that enveloped the dragon.
The golden dragon struggled fiercely, but was firmly bound by Lin Yu's supernatural powers.
It eventually transformed into a new bead and landed in Lin Yu's hand.
Lin Yu held the Dragon-Patterned Fortune Pearl, sensing the faint dragon energy within, and said softly, "It's not that I want to take you away, but the North is currently in turmoil. Once a suitable auspicious place is found, I will let you return to this land."
He looked up into the distance, where a faint trace of evil energy still lingered in the direction where the old man from the Kujiku Sect had left.
Without further delay, Lin Yu put away the dragon-patterned golden bead, his figure transforming into a streak of light as he followed the trajectory of the evil energy.
As for this Fortune Bead, he had other plans. He would go to the north later to find a place where Spirit Vein converged, and place the Golden Dragon of Fortune there so that it could recuperate and build up its strength within the Spirit Vein.
Once it fully integrates with the Spirit Vein and the earth, the north will be able to fully recover its vitality.
Lin Yu transformed into a streak of light and chased after the enemy for several miles. As he raised his hand, the Heavenly Eye on his forehead slowly opened, and a pale golden light flowed in the depths of his eye.
In the vision of the Heavenly Eye, the air currents, spiritual energy, and even the invisible threads of cause and effect between heaven and earth are all exposed, with one thread that is tinged with blackish purple standing out in particular.
It was formed from the lingering evil energy on the old man of the Kujiku Sect, clearly pointing into the distance.
"You can run away from the monk, but you can't hide from the temple." Lin Yu's lips curled slightly; this was why he wasn't in a hurry to stop the old man from leaving.
Unless the other party can conceal the secrets of heaven and erase all traces of themselves, under his Heavenly Eye, no matter where they hide in the world, it is as if they are walking in the open.
He followed the black thread all the way north, and the forests became increasingly dense, and the spiritual energy gradually became mixed, with a faint aura of evil mixed in.
A moment later, the silk thread suddenly turned into a hidden valley.
The entrance to the valley was shrouded in a transparent array, which blended perfectly with the surrounding rocks and vegetation. If it weren't for the guidance of the Heavenly Eye, ordinary cultivators would not have been able to detect it at all.
"It's actually a blessed land." Lin Yu, hidden in the clouds, probed through the array with his Divine Sense, finding the valley rich in spiritual energy.
Lin Yu just couldn't appreciate the architecture; Xiao Rizi's aesthetic sense was too bizarre.
At this moment, the old man was standing in the main hall of the cave, his face gloomy as he took out a black communication talisman.
He channeled Spiritual Power into his fingertips, and dense Japanese characters instantly appeared on the talisman. His voice was urgent. "The Grand Marshal's Mansion's array core has been attacked. The evil aura is suspected to belong to the Fire Lotus Society, but there is a powerful figure controlling it from behind..."
He was reporting the strange events to the church.
The message talisman transformed into a black streak and disappeared into the horizon, leaving the old man pacing back and forth with lingering fear.
The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. Although the Fire Lotus Society was crazy, it would never easily disrupt the Kujiku Sect's plan. After all, both sides had the same goal: to sever the Dragon Nation's fortune.
Now that the formation's core has been destroyed, resulting in heavy losses, if the Dragon Nation's fortunes are restored as a result, all their previous efforts will have been in vain.
What terrified him even more was that the manipulator behind it could control evil spirits right under his nose, and his cultivation level must far surpass his own. If he didn't seek help as soon as possible, he might not even be able to save his own life.