Decaying World

Chapter 205 205 The Sound of the Wind Seven

With a bellyful of thoughts, Lin Hui simply returned to Qingfeng Temple quickly, then went back to the Purple Crystal Ruins and brought out the Water Elemental.

Having confirmed that the Amethyst Prison Tyrannosaurus Rex was still fast asleep, Lin Hui quickly opened the bag and took out a Purple Cloud Fungus.

This time, he plans to use Ziyunzhi again. Yunlingzhi can be used to make up for deficiencies when they are few in number. This way, it won't be too wasteful.

One Purple Cloud Ganoderma can shorten the blood seal by nearly two years. After Lin Hui consumed four plants, he quickly replenished himself with three more Spirit Ganoderma.

The bloodstain timer information that had just appeared was quickly erased.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex's body, lying on the ground, also began to tremble violently.

Large swathes of pure amethyst crystals began to emerge from under the Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin, quickly piling up into a sphere of amethyst crystals.

About ten seconds later.

Lin Hui stood in the empty underground hall of the Amethyst Cave, looking at the Amethyst Tyrannosaurus Rex that he had transferred there.

At this moment, the giant amethyst sphere formed by the amethyst Tyrannosaurus Rex began to show large cracks.

With a cracking sound, a large number of purple crystals fell and shattered.

Aww!!

A large monster, resembling a Stegosaurus, covered in purplish-black scales, burst out of the crystal.

The monster's three horns were made of a deeper amethyst.

Its eyes also emitted a faint purple light.

It is five or six meters tall and more than ten meters long. Its muscles are clearly defined, and it looks very imposing when it stands on the ground.

puff.

Upon completing its evolution, the Purple Crystal Flame Dragon immediately bowed respectfully to Lin Hui and stood motionless.

“Okay.” Lin Hui looked at the big guy he had evolved over nine years of blood imprinting.

According to Blood Seal, he is absolutely loyal to himself, and he has great faith in Blood Seal's abilities. However, he needs to find a test subject to determine just how powerful this thing truly is.

"Can you understand what I'm saying?" he asked.

"..." The Purple Crystal Flame Dragon nodded.

"That's good. Come with me out of the cave," Lin Hui instructed.

As for its actual combat power, it's not about relying on the Amethyst Flame Dragon to fight. Its main purpose is to provide the entire Qingfeng Temple with a sufficient amount of Amethyst for body tempering.

To date, this body-tempering amethyst has brought rapid development and strengthening to the entire Qingfeng Temple. The increase in the number of people breaking through to higher internal energy levels is partly due to the influence of this item.

Furthermore, with the Typhoon Sword Technique, the difference in progress between having and not having amethyst is almost double. Therefore, Lin Hui cannot afford to be careless.

They charged forward with the Amethyst Flame Dragon until it was almost dark, when the two of them finally arrived safely at the labyrinthine ruins in the outer fog zone.

As soon as the Purple Crystal Flame Dragon stepped out of the boundary wall, it trembled all over and looked extremely tense, as if a natural enemy might pounce on it and devour it at any moment.

It only relaxed a little after entering the safe clearing that Lin Hui had created.

"Go down into the ground here, dig a hole yourself, and sleep inside. It will become a purple crystal vein. Don't move around unless necessary. If you have any problems, come find me directly," Lin Hui ordered.

The Amethyst Flame Dragon nodded obediently, then stood in the middle of the open space and touched the ground with its front hooves.

With a whoosh, its entire massive body disintegrated and shattered into a large amount of purple crystalline powder, which then burrowed into the ground where it touched.

A dozen minutes later.

Lin Hui felt a bewildered roar of a purple crystal fire dragon echoing in his mind.

'Aww!' (All done.)
Although it was just a howl, Lin Hui inexplicably understood the meaning contained within it.

He tried to use his mind to learn the way the sound was transmitted and send it back in the opposite direction.

This feeling is similar to the transmission of internal energy, but it is also different.

The key to telepathic communication lies in imagining the sound emanating from between the eyebrows, with a fairly precise understanding of the direction and distance from which it originates.

Moreover, unlike internal force transmission, Lin Hui himself was unsure whether this transmission had been successfully completed or whether the other party had heard it; it all depended on their reaction.

Internal force transmission is different; it can actually vibrate and generate sound waves in the air at a designated location.

I tried it, and the underground amethyst fire dragon responded as expected.

"Aww!" (Got it.)
"Can you hear me?" Lin Hui tried telepathy again. The feeling of communicating directly through his mind was quite novel to him.

This seems to be a special ability gained by the Virtual Manifestation Technique after reaching a certain level of cultivation and having one's mind and spirit greatly enhanced at a new level of body tempering.

He had no prior connection with water people or anything like that.

Now, however, he could vaguely sense a subtle, indistinct connection, like a thin thread, linking him to the Water Elemental and the Amethyst Flame Dragon.

'Aww!' (Yes!)

Can you hear me?

'Aww!' (Yes!)

"can"

"Aww!" (Can...???!)

After repeating this hundreds of times, the Amethyst Flame Dragon lay listlessly underground, motionless.

Lin Hui was also satisfied with the determination of the usage, limits, transmission method, and the amount of energy consumed by him when using telepathy.

'We have defenders, but it's not enough.'

He walked to the edge of the open space, to the side against the wall, pulled out the Ruyi scepter, and gently made a stroke.

laugh!
A huge gash was suddenly cut open in the stone wall.

But he didn't stop; instead, he continued to cut into the maze walls relentlessly.

This place, with its hardened stone walls that had stood for countless years and which even the monsters of the outer fog zone couldn't break, was now being shattered like tofu by the windstorm.

More than ten minutes later.

Lin Hui looked at the cube-shaped pool of water he had just unearthed and sighed. 'If the destructive power had been this strong before, I wouldn't have needed a year to excavate this place.'

He then ordered the water people to enter the pool and not to transform into human form to scare people unless necessary.

'Hiss!' (Good!)

The water spirit also responded in his mind.

'Next, we need to capture some strong but obedient monsters from the fog zone and then evolve them.'

Lin Hui pondered the situation around the maze.

This outer fog zone is close to the boundary wall, and there are three main types of monsters that inhabit it.

The skull-like people located near the village of Miyin.

The Nine-Tailed Scorpion near the Corruption God Cult.

And the Shadowcats that live near the outside of the maze.

This information came from his apprentice, Xia Si, who had lived here for many years and knew his surroundings inside and out.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Hui decided to go and see the skull man first.

He encountered this monster during his year-long journey back and forth.

But because he was too fast, the monsters barely had time to react before they realized he was gone, so no battle ever broke out.

But this time, Lin Hui decided to test his opponent's combat skills firsthand.

Let's see if we can win them over.

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In Qingfu Town, which is several hundred kilometers away from Xinyu Town.

On the edge of town, in a desolate wilderness, a dilapidated temple stands, withered trees twisted and the earth cracked and blackened.

At this moment, the team from Qingfeng Temple that was rushing to provide support was passing through Qingfu Town along the main road, heading towards the place where the conflict had occurred last time.

The team consisted of twenty people, led by Chen Sui, the former senior disciple of Qingfeng Temple. Although he was no longer the number one disciple, his cultivation had long since reached the pinnacle of internal strength.

With Zijing's help and the abundance of resources and medicines within the sect, he also began to live a happy life that he never dared to imagine before.

If it were the Qingfeng Temple of the past, how could one easily earn hundreds of thousands of coins from a single task?

It's all because Qingfeng Temple is now stronger and more famous that various large clans and chambers of commerce in the surrounding area are actively seeking it out to offer high-paying tasks.

A top-ten expert like him could easily earn over 300,000 in rewards by randomly choosing a mission.

With more money, it was natural to be able to buy medicine more easily. With resources in place, and with the abbot perfecting his swordsmanship, his progress was much greater than before, so it all fell into place.

Besides him, there were three others with perfected internal energy accompanying him.

The fact that Hongfei Sect killed and injured Qingfeng Temple disciples this time is an extremely rare incident in recent years.

Therefore, after discussing it with the elders, Wang Hongshi and the elders both expressed that they attached great importance to it. They immediately dispatched five internal energy martial artists and the rest were all high-level Body Tempering disciples to handle the matter.

At this point, the group was moving in a serpentine pattern, quickly traversing the wilderness.

Suddenly, Chen Sui raised his hand to signal to stop.

Swish swish!
The twenty people moved with incredible speed, quickly coming to a stop, and all eyes immediately focused on him.

Chen Sui looked around.

"Who is it? What is your purpose in lurking and following us all this way?"

All five martial artists present possessed secret cultivation methods, but he alone, after reaching the limit of his internal energy cultivation, began to cultivate the Virtual Manifestation Method taught by Lin Hui.

This virtual method is an evolved version of the Blood Seal, which is then further simplified and taught.

However, the basic Void and Awe-inspiring Divine Skill remained. After Chen Sui learned it, he was surprised to find that it was extremely compatible with the skill, and his progress was also very fast.

My mental strength is much stronger than before, and as a result, my five senses are much more acute.

They immediately noticed the followers lurking around them.

"The people at Qingfeng Temple are quite capable; they were able to detect our presence from this distance. Impressive!"

At this moment, figures dressed in black slowly emerged from behind the dilapidated temple.

There were six people in total, all dressed in black robes and crowns, with metal gloves on their hands.

Among the six, the one walking at the front was an elderly man with white hair, whose face was covered with dark red scars, making him look quite ferocious.

The person speaking at that moment was this very person.

"I am Xiang Yuntao from Hongfei Sect, and I have been waiting for you all for a long time."

"Hongfei Sect? You dare to show yourself?! How dare you!!" Chen Sui was furious upon hearing this.

They killed their disciple and injured Qiu Yiren, yet these people didn't run away; instead, they dared to intercept us.

"Since we've done it, we'll naturally investigate the possible consequences first," Xiang Yuntao said with a smile. "Qingfeng Temple has been bullying Wanyao Manor for too long. My Hongfei Sect is simply doing what any righteous person would do." Xiang Yuntao clenched his fists and snapped a pair of sharp silver claws out from the back of his hands.

"What a consequence. It seems you had this planned all along and were confident you could take us down?" Chen Sui's heart sank.

They moved with incredible speed, without stopping at all, yet their route was still tracked by the enemy. This meant that there must be a spy sent by the enemy within the sect, and one who could reveal their real-time whereabouts.

"Isn't this obvious?" Xiang Yuntao laughed, and with a wave of his hand, the five people behind him immediately unleashed their movement techniques and pounced on the crowd in Qingfeng Hall.

Amidst the clanging of swords being drawn, the two immediately pounced on each other, their claws clashing against their swords, creating a cacophony of sounds.

Just as the two sides officially started fighting, on the roof of a dilapidated stone house in the distance, stood several men and women in black robes watching the show from afar.

"Master, what do you think the sect is really thinking? Qingfeng Temple has a powerful background and its abbot is also very strong. Even if our influence has expanded to the border between the two sides, is it really necessary to directly engage in battle with them? That High Priest Liu from the Rain Palace is not someone to be trifled with." One of the fair-skinned girls, who was no more than ten years old, looked at the battlefield with a puzzled expression.

"This isn't the intention of the Pavilion, but rather the intention of someone higher up, the eldest son of the Su family. High Priest Liu has his own people to handle this; our Xiaoyao Pavilion will just do what's appropriate at our level," the gray-haired man standing in front said calmly.

"This is a coordinated offensive targeting High Priest Liu Wujun. Although High Priest Liu is strong, he has many sources of income. By attacking his vulnerable points, we can surely throw him into disarray and cause him to lose his composure," a white-haired old man said with a smile and his hands behind his back.

"The eldest young master has been preparing for this operation for a long time. Now that it has been launched, we must make Liu Wujun lose his composure and be thrown into chaos, so that he will ultimately underperform at the exchange meeting."

(End of this chapter)