Decaying World

Chapter 203, 203 The Sound of the Wind (Part 5)

Outer fog zone.

Surrounded by endless mist, the enormous labyrinthine ruins resembled a giant oval egg, firmly embedded in the mist of this outer fog zone.

The surrounding fog seemed to encounter reefs, parting and retreating on its own as it approached this area.

The entire maze ruins are enormous; based on Lin Hui's estimation of the surrounding area, they are roughly the size of three Xinyu towns.

This does not include the area of ​​some floating islands that are suspended in mid-air.

He was standing on the outskirts of the labyrinthine ruins. There was no entrance to this place; you could go in from anywhere and come out from anywhere.

The gray, messy ruins are just patches of gray stone remnants.

Lin Hui, carrying his bundle, determined his location and then, with practiced ease, turned and quickly ran several hundred meters along the outer perimeter. He then found a gray stone passage under a huge, twisted, black, withered tree and entered the ruins without hesitation.

The enhanced winds, amplified by the wind's affinity, quietly enveloped his entire body, even covering and protecting the large bundle beside him.

After entering the gray stone passage, Lin Hui continued forward, flying at a moderate pace for several minutes.

The view ahead suddenly opened up.

Suddenly, a small, irregularly shaped open space of ruins appeared.

Large wooden barrels filled with supplies were scattered on the open ground.

All around were towering gray stone walls, and remnants of the walls could be seen in some places on the ground.

Clearly, this open space was not natural, but was forcibly expanded by some force.

This is the result of Lin Hui's year of hard work.

Using the windstorm's immense decomposing power, he managed to carve out a hidden, safe base within the maze.

The area was roughly the size of a football field. As soon as Lin Hui entered, he breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and moved a large rock to block the entrance.

Although the passage is so convoluted that most people can't make it forward, he still makes sure he doesn't leave any gaps in his steps.

There are more than ten forks in the path. With the added interference of the maze's perception, if you make the wrong choice at a fork, you will never be able to find this base.

In other words, he has an affinity for wind disasters, forcibly enveloping himself and remaining unaffected by this mysterious power, keeping his senses normal, which allows him to enter at the fastest speed.

I wandered around this open space for a bit.

'The amount of food brought in is enough for a hundred people for a year. Water is scarce, but there's an underground stream within the maze; we can check if it's usable when we have time. If not, we'll have to stockpile more.'

Once he arrived here, Lin Hui felt a strong sense of peace wash over him.

The powerful interference mechanism of the maze ruins actually provided him with the most security support in his life.

Since gradually learning the true nature of the Moon Tower, the methods by which the Mist People and the Primal Blood ruled everything, and the rules and regulations of the Taisu Federation.

He was constantly worried.

He feared that he might become a hidden treasure trove for some terrifying old monster.

Even though my strength is now far greater than before, this sense of unease, uncertainty, and threat continues to grow daily.

Here, Lin Hui experienced true peace for the first time.

He put down the large bundle, found a corner of a stone wall, sat cross-legged, opened the bundle, and simultaneously opened the bloodstain notification bar at the bottom of his field of vision.

Take out a Ganoderma lucidum and take a deep breath.

'The evolution of the Nine Heavens Sect will surely be accomplished today!'

Click.

He bit off a piece of the Ganoderma lucidum, chewed it up quickly, and swallowed it. He then began to take drugs like crazy.

Now that he no longer worried about the drug's toxicity, he was able to take the precious medicine much faster than before.

Anyway, he had good teeth, so he just chewed them up and swallowed them in a few bites. In just one minute, he ate a full 60 Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms!

Because of drug resistance, a single Ganoderma lucidum can only provide less than four months of reduced evolution time. Therefore, Lin Hui had to consume a full 60 plants to completely offset the remaining 19 years of his life.

While the last Ganoderma lucidum was still in my throat, not yet fully in my stomach.

Lin Hui saw the last bit of time remaining on the blood mark finally reach zero.

As time reset to zero, the words "Nine Heavens Sect" flickered slightly before blurring into a blurry mess.

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying flow of information, far exceeding any previous one, rushed into Lin Hui's mind.

That contained a wealth of information about the Nine Heavens Sect, which once existed in an unknown and distant place.

At the same time, new bloodstained writing reappeared.

'The template for Qingfeng Temple—the Nine Heavens Sect—is being embedded.'

'Notification: You have received the Qingyuan Dharma Seal.'

'Notice: You have received the General Seal of the Righteous Body. You have received the General Seal of the Righteous Heart. You have received the General Seal of the Righteous Virtue.'

Note: In the Nine Heavens Sect template, all formal disciples must be personally granted one of the three seals by the sect leader as a qualification. The number of seals obtained corresponds to a disciple's authority and status within the sect. The more seals obtained, the greater the increase in strength and the higher the status.

Lin Hui groaned, feeling as if his mind had been instantly filled with a massive amount of information from an entire library, all about the past history of the Nine Heavens Sect.

This powerful sect has long since vanished into the vast unknown space. The reason for its demise was the loss of the general seal, which led to a break in the inheritance. In addition, internal power struggles and infighting caused serious internal conflicts, which eventually split the sect into three branches.

These three branches later disappeared due to natural disasters and environmental changes.

It persisted for thousands of years, and the Blood Seal crammed all the information about its changes into Lin Hui. 'Too much useless information. I only need the template, why should I care about its development history?' Lin Hui rubbed his forehead, looking helpless.

He quickly ignored a lot of useless information and directly extracted the key points from his memory.

That is the point within the Nine Heavens Sect regarding the bestowal of seals.

"The Conferment of Seals: There are four types of seals in the Nine Heavens Sect. The Pure Source Seal is a powerful seal that amplifies the power of wind disasters for all disciples. It is the most dangerous and also the most powerful seal conferred within the sect. Generally, only the most elite core disciples can receive it."

Then there are three types: Righteous Body, Righteous Mind, and Righteous Virtue. Each of these three seals can increase the corresponding stats of disciples by half. It's incredibly powerful.

The only condition for obtaining these special effects is that I, as the sect leader, must personally bestow the seal upon them.

Lin Hui raised his hand, his fingertips pointing upwards, and suddenly a complex golden character floated one centimeter above his fingertips.

The characters were not from any language he knew, but rather from a source script created by the Nine Heavens Sect that possessed special power.

The golden characters rapidly changed, progressing from the body to the heart, then to virtue, and finally transforming into a pure form.

This is the final Pure Source Dharma Seal.

'Is this the Nine Heavens Sect's template? And what about myself? Holding the seal of investiture should mean becoming the sect leader or a supreme leader, so I should also receive a corresponding boost, right?'

Lin Hui naturally felt a little doubtful.

And the very next second that this question arose.

A deafening roar exploded in his mind in an instant.

Three golden magic seal characters quietly emerged behind him, forming a triangular shape and shining with golden light.

At the same time, massive amounts of wind and disaster power, seemingly emanating from nowhere, surged into Lin Hui's body.

He swelled up uncontrollably, his body growing bigger and taller like an inflated balloon.

Before long, large patches of sky-blue spots began to grow on his skin, and he grew to a height of three and a half meters.

Strangely, despite being 3.5 meters tall, he maintained his normal body proportions and was not bulky at all; it was as if he had been proportionally enlarged.

Lin Hui shook his head and straightened up, only then realizing that he had grown quite a bit taller. At the same time, his long hair had turned completely translucent blue, even faintly glowing with a fluorescent sheen.

Her long hair, like seaweed, cascaded down to her waist, moving without wind, thick and voluminous.

But when he reached out to touch it, he was astonished to find that his hand passed right through his hair.

He carefully sensed it and discovered that although it looked like hair, it was not actually hair at all. Instead, it was a conduit that continuously drew power from the windstorm from the unknown void.

A large number of pipes are pieced together to form a special organ that resembles hair.

'Now... I seem to have changed too much.' Lin Hui looked at his tattered clothes and saw the sky-blue patterns peeking out from under the tattered clothes.

He could feel an endless stream of wind and disaster power surging into his body.

The power of a wind disaster is significantly different from ordinary internal force and wind force.

In his perception, the power of the wind disaster was extremely violent, like a boiling, surging sea of ​​spikes and blades, incredibly sharp, capable of disintegrating and shredding everything around it if one wasn't careful.

What he feared most was that the power of the windstorm was inexhaustible. Absolutely inexhaustible!

It seems endless, flowing indefinitely.

But what power in this world is inexhaustible? Every power has a source and a root.

However, he still doesn't know the exact source of the windstorm's power.

Feeling the state of his body at this moment, Lin Hui felt that his total internal energy had increased by at least more than double.

He drew his Ruyi scepter and gently swung it.

boom!
He used only a little bit of force, like casually swinging a sword, without using any internal energy, just a simple swing.

The air in front of them suddenly cracked, and a blackish-blue fissure-like object flew out, striking the gray stone wall in front of them with a whoosh of lightning.

The stone wall cracked silently, revealing a black fissure more than five meters long.

Lin Hui stared blankly at the Ruyi in his hand.

He wasn't really using his full strength; he just wanted to test the power and get used to the weight of the Ruyi. He planned to try swinging it a few times before officially testing it.
结果
'Is this the power of the Pure Source Seal?' Lin Hui recalled the performance of the Nine Heavens Sect disciples when using the Pure Source Seal.

Similar to his current appearance, all disciples and followers who use the Qingyuan Seal will grow larger, and their hair will turn into an invisible, filamentous, sky-blue substance that will also emit a fluorescent glow.

The disciples of the Nine Heavens Sect call this form the Pure Source Dharma Body.

"Receive." Lin Hui mentally reconstructed the original text of the character "Qing" according to his memory.

Suddenly his entire body blurred, emitting a large number of blue light spots.

The light dissipated in a second, and he had returned to his original size.

'Qingyuan Body. Not bad, not bad. That state not only increased the destructive power of the wind disaster, but also amplified the pure power, which is about three to four times that of the normal state,' Lin Hui estimated in his mind.

The sect evolution of the Nine Heavens Sect has indeed yielded extremely rich benefits.

Given his current cultivation level, coupled with the Pure Source Body and various special effects, even the Typhoon Sword Technique, he himself didn't know the extent of its power.

The High Priest is definitely far superior, and as for the Palace Master, we haven't fought him yet; we'll have to see how they fared in a real battle. The Palace Master level is where the most hidden masters are, and the gap between them is also the greatest.

He dared not be careless.

(End of this chapter)