The myth begins with the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 310 Deterrence
The next moment, a powerful aura pressed down, overwhelming everything. The hair on the Nine-Headed Insect's forehead was blown up, leaving only the headbands of its eight heads exposed.

Opposite, at the main entrance of the hall, two figures stood side by side.

It wasn't Qingyi who made the move, but Ding Lin.

The Wan Sheng father and daughter only learned of Ding Lin's advancement in cultivation because of the child in her womb. The Nine-Headed Insect, however, was unaware of this until Ding Lin concealed himself from him. Only then did he begin to take Ding Lin seriously. Although he could see that Ding Lin was no longer the same as before and should not be underestimated, he only assumed that Ding Lin was now at most on par with him, and never considered the possibility of him reaching the Golden Immortal realm. He simply thought that Ding Lin had mastered the art of concealing his aura.

He had seen Ding Lin use this concealment technique back when Ding Lin was still a pet carp beside Princess Wansheng.

This fluctuation of magical power... how is that possible?
Nine-Headed Insect felt as if its body had floated into the air in an instant, with winds blowing from all sides, making it impossible to control even slightly.

Ding Lin was in a bad mood, compounded by old grudges. Although he couldn't kill him for the time being because he still needed the Nine-Headed Insect, he could manipulate the suppressed energy at will to temporarily relieve some of his emotions.

The nine-headed worm's eyes widened, filled with disbelief.

It's only been a few years, yet even a dignified nine-headed creature, a descendant of Xiang Liu, is stuck at the gates of the Golden Immortals, unable to advance an inch. What merit or ability does a mere carp possess...?

Perhaps the oppression from Qingyi had reached its limit, and there was an urgent need to vent, or perhaps it was simply jealousy.

Instead of being subdued, a strong sense of resentment surged within him, and he lowered his head slightly.

"Click! Click! Click!"

"drink!"

Nine-Headed Insect let out a low growl, his facial muscles taut, his expression fierce and ferocious. He suddenly struggled, temporarily breaking free from Ding Lin's oppressive aura.

From Ding Lin and Fu Hai's perspective, it was clear that a green and blue law rose from the top of the Nine-Headed Insect's head, and he had actually broken through by using Ding Lin's pressure.

Jinxian.

Before that law had fully unfolded, a strange smell permeated the air, seemingly rich yet also foul, a mixture of countless odors, which was none other than the intermediate law—poison!

"what!"

Nine-Headed Insect's eyes were filled with immense pleasure. He no longer feared Ding Lin and Qingyi. Now that they were at the same level, even if he couldn't defeat them both alone, they shouldn't be able to stop him if he wanted to escape.

After so many years of frustration, it's finally over.

Before reaching the required level, the Nine-Headed Insect had been oppressed by the Green Robe for a long time and had been living in this Green Wave Pool. He only knew that the Green Robe was a Golden Immortal, but he didn't know any more details. As for Ding Lin, he had extremely little information about him.

However, he thought he knew Ding Lin and Qingyi somewhat, after all, he had seen what they looked like when they were in their early days. It was already extraordinary that they could cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm in such a short time. To want to make any significant progress in the Golden Immortal realm was simply wishful thinking!
"Senior sister, we have a long future ahead of us!"

A flash of green light appeared on the Nine-Headed Insect's body as he crushed an object into dust. This was the restraint that Qingyi had placed on him years ago. Although it was not difficult to remove, another invisible restraint was the pressure brought by Qingyi's Golden Immortal cultivation. He could not make his own decisions until he broke through.

Now we can finally escape.

A blanket of ink spread out.

The Nine-Headed Insect had been studying this law of poison for tens of thousands of years, and he was already familiar with every detail. Once he understood it, he naturally mastered it and could control it as easily as using his own arm. He did not intend to hurt the enemy with this attack, but only wanted to delay him and buy himself time to escape.

The inky poisonous fog drifted not only toward Ding Lin and Qing Yi, but also toward Wan Sheng and his daughter.

"Humph!"

A cold glint flashed in Ding Lin's eyes. He gave a cold snort, and the next moment, without even making a move, he simply glanced at the poisonous creatures that were drifting towards Princess Wansheng and froze on the spot.

The next moment, an even more immense aura descended.

As deep as the ocean.

The nine-headed worm's body had just lifted slightly when it involuntarily plummeted back down. The seawater seemed to freeze for a moment before returning to its lively state, with large, fine bubbles rising up. The nine-headed worm felt as if it had become a small boat floating on the vast ocean, unable to move freely.

What is despair?

Hope was dashed, only to plunge back into the abyss.

how come?
Through countless dense bubbles, the Nine-Headed Insect's body was pressed against the floor tiles. His eyes looked at Ding Lin, his pupils filled with horror and deep helplessness. Ding Lin didn't even raise his hand, just gave him a look, without moving an inch, even though he had clearly broken through to the Golden Immortal realm.

Just moments ago I was so confident, and now I am so disheartened.

Ding Lin waved his hand, sprinkling a bit of spatial energy onto the Nine-Headed Insect. With this positioning, no matter where the Nine-Headed Insect ran, it could not escape his grasp.

"Is a Golden Immortal very powerful?" Ding Lin asked.

"You...Taiyi?"

The Nine-Headed Insect spoke, his voice strained. He had never met Taiyi of his clan before. In the past, his status was not high enough to pay him a visit. Now that he was, he no longer had the chance. With his limited knowledge, the only one who could suppress a Golden Immortal so easily was Taiyi.

"Stop using those little tricks in front of me."

Ding Lin remained expressionless and did not correct the Nine-Headed Insect. Behind the Nine-Headed Insect, the Wan Sheng father and daughter, still shaken, looked at Ding Lin. Even the Wan Sheng Dragon King could not maintain his usual composure. They were so close that they could hear the Nine-Headed Insect's guess clearly. How could the judgment of a Golden Immortal be wrong?

Princess Wansheng cradled her belly in her hands, then looked at Ding Lin, her eyes filled with a myriad of emotions, yet she couldn't discern which one dominated. This was the father of the child in her womb, yet he was not someone she could be close to; their relationship was that of enemies.

If it weren't for this pregnancy, this meeting would have been her death day.

The Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints had lived for many years. He first recovered from his shock and gently tugged at his daughter's sleeve.

"Thank you, Dragon Lord." According to the ancient dragon ranks, Golden Immortals are called Monarchs or Kings, while dragons at the Taiyi realm are already Venerables.

The Dragon King and Princess Wansheng bowed to each other.

Ding Lin didn't even spare a glance, while the other half, with a flick of his sleeve, sent a water-based law pulsating, washing away and purifying the poisonous miasma laid by the nine-headed worm.

The Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints' eyes flashed. He was surprised that Ding Lin could erase the traces of the Golden Immortal's attack so easily. Fu Hai's strength far exceeded his expectations. He couldn't help but lower his body even further.

"I have some free time today and happened to pass by the Azure Wave Pool. Although the dragon prince in the pool is still in gestation, his extraordinary nature is already evident. I intend to adopt him as my son." Ding Lin looked at the Nine-Headed Insect. "However, the dragon prince is weak and the pregnancy is unstable. The Nine-Headed Prince Consort loves his son dearly and has no choice but to take the bright pearl from the Kingdom of Sacrifice to ensure a safe pregnancy." Ding Lin said, his words seemingly a simple description, but in reality, it was an arrangement for the Nine-Headed Insect.

The nine-headed worm didn't know how it managed to stand up.

"Yes," the nine-headed worm replied dazedly, his mouth filled with bitterness.

“Qingyi…” Ding Lin looked at Qingyi again, his sharp edge completely concealed, his face full of guilt.

"I can handle things here. As for the matters between women in their boudoirs, you have handled this much. Now you can go back to your cultivation," said the woman in green.

Just now, out of concern, and also deliberately so, Ding Lin, in an attempt to change the subject, racked his brains for a long time but still couldn't come up with anything, so he told Qingyi about the "Lingbao Technique". Qingyi's first concern wasn't for herself, but for Ding Lin. She had given this technique to Ding Lin, and her eyes showed some heartache, followed by an apologetic expression.

Ding Lin repeatedly assured him that there would be no problem, and given that things had come to this point, there was no other way but to move forward.

This matter seems to have been overshadowed by the "Lingbao Jue".

"Okay." Ding Lin reached out and shook hands with Qingyi. The latter looked at him but did not move away. Ding Lin breathed a sigh of relief, shook hands gently, and was about to turn and leave.

He should have started cultivating long ago.

However, a series of unexpected events disrupted the plans.

This time, we absolutely cannot afford any more accidents.

Ding Lin made up his mind that he would refine a few more laws before leaving seclusion.

“Dragon Lord,” the Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints’ eyes flashed. He was already certain that Ding Lin had reached the Taiyi realm, but since Ding Lin addressed himself as “Lord,” he changed his form of address accordingly. “There is a quiet room at the bottom of this Azure Wave Pool, which my daughter and I occasionally use for our daily cultivation. If the Dragon Lord does not mind…”

Before the Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints could finish speaking, Ding Lin's figure had already disappeared from the spot.

The child was an accident; it had already arrived, and he had no choice but to accept it.

But he had no desire to have anything to do with Wan Sheng and his daughter.

……

Ding Lin did not leave Bibo Pool. He randomly found a secluded spot, set up a restriction, and then immersed himself in cultivation. Of the seven laws he had mastered, only cloud, fog, wind, and rain were cultivated by himself. The other three, the calm and gentle water, were inherited from the bloodline of the dragon race, while space and vitality were two malignant tumors that he refined with the "Spirit Treasure Technique".

Ding Lin's most urgent task is to cultivate Taiyi.

To reach the Taiyi realm, one needs to master at least ten laws. Nine of these laws must be combined into one in order to reach the pinnacle. The extra law is to maintain the Golden Immortal status at the moment the nine laws are combined, thus ensuring a smooth breakthrough.

Since Ding Lin knew about the hidden dangers of the laws of space and vitality, he did not plan to use them during his breakthrough. In addition, the tranquility in that water element was inherited. Although they were of the same kind, Ding Lin was not sure about the ancestral dragon or whether there were any pitfalls in this bloodline after suffering losses from the "Spirit Treasure Technique". To be on the safe side, it was best not to use it.

Then the only usable laws are the four laws of cloud, fog, wind, and rain. Although the other three laws cannot be used for breakthrough, they can be used to temporarily maintain the Golden Immortal status during the breakthrough. Thus, at least nine more laws need to be comprehended in order to cultivate into Taiyi.

The Five Laws are easy to cultivate.

Ding Lin still has a lot of memories stored up. The current challenge is that he needs to cultivate another superior law.

The unification of the nine laws requires a core principle, and only a superior principle can match it.

Apart from the unusable spatial law, Ding Lin has not yet been able to master any other superior laws on his own.

The rules for higher authority are not easy to follow, so let's put them aside for now.

Ding Lin decided to first gather the required amount.

There are countless rules, but you must first choose the object, just like doing research in a previous life. You must first choose a topic so that you can explain the knowledge you already know, then correct the errors in your understanding through an experiment, fill in the gaps in your knowledge, and finally form a result.

The Thirty-Six Transformations of the Heavenly Dipper were the subject Ding Lin could readily use. He had already mastered Cloud Riding and Wind and Rain Summoning. In his mind, his thoughts roamed among the remaining thirty-four transformations, and he quickly selected another target:
It reverses yin and yang, shakes mountains and earth, turns the ground into steel, and causes sand and stones to fly.

First, the yin and yang are reversed. Reversal is just the action; the key is yin and yang.

“Yin means darkness. It is south of the water and north of the mountain.”

“Yang means high and bright.”

The sun and moon revolve, rising in the east and setting in the west. Daytime is yang, and nighttime is yin. To simplify further, the sun can represent yang, and the moon can represent yin.

Ding Lin has memories of his past life, so he naturally knows the laws governing the movement of the sun and moon.

He wasn't highly educated, but he still knew about heliocentrism.

This provides a complete answer.

That's enough for the rules of generation.

Within Ding Lin's inner world, the void trembled, and two laws were about to emerge. But at that moment, he suddenly had a thought and stopped the laws from emerging. He suddenly had a different understanding. Judging from the position where the two laws were about to emerge, they were both low-level in the middle position. In Ding Lin's understanding, Yin and Yang should be extremely strong laws. Even if they were separated, they should be infinitely close to the upper position.

That would only mean the understanding was too one-sided.

Ding Lin pondered further, noting that besides the sun and moon, the weather also had yin and yang aspects... The more he thought about it, the more endless it seemed.

Suddenly another thought popped into my head, and my heart suddenly felt hot.

Ding Lin exhaled, forcefully suppressing his thoughts and breaking free from his emotions. He stopped thinking about it. Since he already had two mid-level laws as a safety net, he might as well put the Yin-Yang issue aside for the time being and save it for last.

Thinking of this.

Ding Lin then began to recall the records of earthquakes from his memory.

The so-called earth-shaking earthquake is nothing more than a natural disaster.

An earthquake, also known as a seismic event or ground vibration, is a vibration caused by the rapid release of energy in the Earth's crust.

The collision and compression between tectonic plates on Earth, causing faulting and fracturing at plate boundaries and within plates, is the main cause of earthquakes.

The location where an earthquake begins is called the hypocenter.

The point on the ground directly above the epicenter is called the epicenter.

The area where the ground shaking is most intense during a destructive earthquake is called the metronome zone.

Seismic waves that propagate inside the Earth are called body waves, which are divided into longitudinal waves and transverse waves.

Waves whose vibration direction is the same as their propagation direction are called longitudinal waves (PWs). PWs originating from underground cause the ground to shake vertically. Waves whose vibration direction is perpendicular to their propagation direction are called transverse waves (SWs). SWs originating from underground can cause the ground to sway horizontally. Because PWs travel faster than SWs inside the Earth, during an earthquake, PWs always arrive at the surface first, while SWs always lag behind. However, conversely, SWs are usually the primary cause of damage compared to PWs.

Waves are the primary manifestation of earthquakes.

These cannot be called common sense, but they are recorded in high school textbooks.

(End of this chapter)