Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts

When Lin Yu's divine soul came into contact with the information in his mind, a vast flood of it filled his head in an instant.

For a moment, Lin Yu felt as though his head was about to burst. He struggled to sort through the vast flood of information.

Communicating with the Netherworld, Commanding Spirits, Carrying Mountains, Water Banishment, Borrowing Wind, Spreading Fog, Praying for Rain, Sitting in Fire, Entering Water, Veiling the Sun, Wind Riding, Boiling Stones...

Lin Yu sorted through them one by one.

Every time Lin Yu examined one, he fell into a state of sudden enlightenment.

Even Communicating with the Netherworld alone, those seemingly ordinary words, contained a vast amount of information when Lin Yu's spiritual sense came into contact with them.

It was a complete divine ability. Once learned, it would not only let him communicate with ghosts and monsters, but also connect with the Underworld and travel up and down through the nether realms.

"Brother Lin Yu, wake up! The sun's already shining on your butt!"

Just as Lin Yu finished learning the first art, Communicating with the Netherworld, and was about to learn Commanding Spirits, Little Dot's voice reached his ears.

Lin Yu slowly opened his eyes. It was already bright all around him, and he could tell it was morning.

Lin Yu froze. Hadn't he only just cultivated the first divine ability? How was it already morning?

"Brother Lin Yu, what's wrong?"

Little Shi Hao waved his chubby little hand in front of Lin Yu's eyes. He had gotten up early and seen Lin Yu sitting cross-legged. He had stared at him for a long time, but Lin Yu hadn't moved at all.

He also wondered whether this was how people cultivated in other worlds, without lifting cauldrons every day.

"What time is it now, Little Shi Hao?"

Seeing that it was already morning, Lin Yu asked Shi Hao how long he had been cultivating.

"Brother, it's almost time to eat."

"Then let's go."

Lin Yu took Shi Hao's plump little hand and led him out of the house, wiping the beast milk from his mouth along the way.

Little Dot's face instantly flushed red with embarrassment. He had just seen Lin Yu remain motionless for a long time, so he had run out and drunk a few mouthfuls of the beast milk Grandpa Chief had prepared, then run back to wake Lin Yu.

"Xiao Yu, come here, come to Auntie! Look how thin you are. Eat more!"

"Little Dot, you eat more too."

The people of Stone Village had all accepted Lin Yu yesterday, and now the aunties all pitied him for what he had been through.

As soon as Lin Yu and Little Shi Hao came out, a group of aunties stuffed their hands full of roasted meat.

Lin Yu accepted some roasted meat, but seeing more and more coming, he hurriedly hugged the meat to his chest and ran off.

"That child!"

The aunties watched the scene with cheerful smiles.

He came to Willow God's side and sat down cross-legged. This was the quietest place in Stone Village, except when Little Dot came by.

Lin Yu ate the fierce beast meat in his hand, which contained a vast amount of blood and Qi essence. With every bite, he felt hot all over, as though he had just finished working out.

By the time he finished one piece of roasted meat, Lin Yu's face was bright red, and a plume of white smoke came out of his nose.

"No, I can't eat any more. It's too nourishing."

Lin Yu fell backward, easing the vast surge of blood and Qi within his body.

"Your Dao is different from the one here. You may draw on it, but you must not become absorbed in it."

At that moment, Willow God's ethereal voice rang out in Lin Yu's head, as though afraid he would become absorbed in the immense sensory enhancement brought about by the blood and Qi, and had deliberately reminded him.

"Thank you for the reminder, Willow God. But don't worry, I'll find my own path."

Although Lin Yu hadn't known how he would proceed in the future at first, he had gained some enlightenment since receiving the information in his mind.

He would gather the strengths of a hundred schools and create a path that belonged to him alone.

And what the True Lord had passed on to him was the famous Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations.

The True Lord had passed this cultivation art to Lin Yu because Lin Yu had somehow courted death and brought the Three Calamities upon himself before even becoming an immortal. This had been completely beyond the True Lord's expectations.

After studying the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations, Lin Yu also knew the calamities he would have to face.

That was right. What had struck him that day was the first of the Three Calamities: the Heavenly Lightning Calamity. In fact, most people could avoid this calamity after becoming immortals.

After all, as long as one saw one's true nature and understood one's mind, one could avoid it in advance. Unfortunately, the situation of a rookie like Lin Yu was something that should have been impossible.

Seeing one's true nature and understanding one's mind was a cinch for an immortal, but for Lin Yu, who was still in the mortal realm, encountering the Lightning Calamity meant he truly had no time to react.

So the True Lord had risked violating the heavenly rules and passed the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations to Lin Yu overnight.

Though perhaps those heavenly rules didn't exist in his eyes. Otherwise, why was he the only one of those great gods in the mortal world?

The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations were also a means of avoiding the Three Calamities. Sun Wukong, Great Sage Equal to Heaven, now the Victorious Fighting Buddha, was the best example.

Now that the first of the Three Calamities had passed, the remaining two would also occur within five hundred years. He would have to be more careful in the future.

Lin Yu pondered silently.

After all, unlike the first calamity, the next two couldn't be seen coming, allowing one to prepare.

The second calamity: the Fire Calamity. The third calamity: the Wind Calamity.

Both calamities occurred inside one's body when one least expected them. By the time one reacted, flesh and bone would have wasted away, all four limbs would have decayed, and one's entire body would have turned to ash.

He had to take advantage of these few idle days to cultivate as much of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations as he could.

This was the only means he currently had to keep himself alive.

Once his body had more or less settled down, Lin Yu began cultivating the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations.

He wanted to try to learn a few more over the next few days.

Willow God silently observed Lin Yu's cultivation, drawing on his Dao.

Beside Willow God, only Lin Yu and Shi Hao were allowed to come here.

Lin Yu had been allowed here only after Willow God personally gave permission.

"Brother Lin Yu, are you leaving?"

Little Dot was reluctant to part with Lin Yu as he said goodbye.

"It's not like I'm disappearing for good. We still have the chat group, and if you miss me, I can come see you."

Lin Yu stroked Little Shi Hao's head. Three days had passed, and the chat group had notified Lin Yu that he would soon be transported back.

Just after the two finished saying goodbye, Lin Yu's body gradually turned illusory and finally vanished.

Shi Hao looked dejectedly at the place where Lin Yu had disappeared.

"Shi Hao, if you want to catch up with your brother, you'll have to work twice as hard from now on."

"Mm."

In truth, ever since Shi Hao learned of his future, he had never slacked off. But with Lin Yu here, he had also relaxed a little for three days.

During those three days, everyone in the village knew only that Lin Yu was physically frail and that they had to be careful with their strength when playing with him.

But only Shi Hao knew how strong Lin Yu was.

Over the past two days, Lin Yu had learned several more divine abilities, including Carrying Mountains. In Journey to the West, when the Great Sage used it, he had borne the full weight of Mount Sumeru, Mount Emei, and Mount Tai.

Even if those three great mountains didn't weigh a hundred billion tons, they had to weigh several hundred million tons. Although he hadn't held out in the end, it still showed the power of the Carrying Mountains divine ability.

Lin Yu wasn't as formidable as the Great Sage, but surely carrying a big rock was simple enough.

Lin Yu had even sneaked outside with Little Dot and found a three-meter-tall rock to test it on. Naturally, he lifted it with ease.

Little Dot refused to believe it and tried lifting it too. Although it was a little difficult, he still managed to lift it.

But after feeling its weight, Little Shi Hao was still shocked.

Lin Yu still remembered the astonished look in Little Dot's eyes at the time. Was this really the same brother he'd had to be so careful even to hug at first?!