Decaying World

Chapter 248, Scheme 248

After a long silence, Lin Hui finally spoke again.

"Brother, what good will it do you to tell me all this?"

“Yes, telling you won’t change anything, but I think you and Captain Han Xiaoyue have a relationship, so you have the right to know the truth. And,” Liu Wujun paused, “your twenty-year promise may just be destined to be nothing.”

"Did she tell you?" Lin Hui asked.

“Yes. I’ve talked a lot with Captain Han.” Liu Wujun nodded. “Our Blood Tide Society is different from other organizations. We are isolated from any other conflicts and contradictions, and we are only dedicated to delaying and preventing decay. Therefore, we have great admiration for the sacrifices of Captain Han and others.”

"Brother, just say what you want to say," Lin Hui interrupted him.

"I've said all I wanted to say." Liu Wujun shook his head. "The future is predetermined, no need to think about it. Drink."

He picked up his teacup, clinked it with Lin Hui's, and drank it all in one gulp, as if it were wine.

Ten minutes later.

Liu Wujun left.

Lin Hui sat alone in the courtyard, with white pear blossoms blooming on his head. A gentle breeze blew, and the branches swayed.

Before his elder brother passed away, he made a promise that if needed, he would lend a helping hand in the important matter of slowing down the decay.

This is clearly what the eldest brother needs as well.

'That's true. How could the Federation not have a relevant organization responsible for such a dangerous and mysterious phenomenon as corruption?' Lin Hui picked up his empty teacup, his thoughts a jumble of emotions.

He checked the current status of the Great Yin Yang Reversal Sword Technique by adjusting the Blood Seal.

After consuming all the remaining precious medicines, the previous 150 years of evolution time has now been reduced to 114 years and 4 months.

'I'd better focus on my own cultivation. I've only been cultivating for less than ten years, so perhaps these things will be resolved in another ten years.'

Lin Hui decided to leave the future to his future self.

After calming himself down, he organized his thoughts.

"Regarding the precious medicine, we've already contacted City Lord Gongsun, and we can use Black Cloud's official medicine purchasing channels. As for compensation, Black Cloud has promised that as long as I cooperate in battle, I'll receive the same treatment as the eldest son of the Mist People, the Blood Ancestor."

Lin Hui rejected all superficial pleasures and exchanged them all for the preparation of precious medicines.

Yes, it's a precious medicine for him.

That is, the preparation of aphrodisiacs.

Gongsun Xinlian's expression was complicated upon learning of the terms of the exchange. However, she still agreed to the request.

'However, acquiring the precious medicine can at most accelerate the evolution of the blood seal; it won't help my cultivation of the Star Breath Sword Manual. Everything still needs to proceed step by step, collecting the pulse of life.'

How to redeem ninety-nine kinds of creatures?

Lin Hui had counted the number of life pulses he had redeemed before. During this period, through the redemption of various animals, insects, and plants, he had basically completed the redemption of eighty-seven species.

This saved almost all the species in the surrounding area. To find more species, we need to either focus on smaller, more microscopic plants and insects, or explore more distant regions.

Smaller and more miniature, the result is that the pulse of life gained during redemption will be extremely weak.

Lin Hui had a vague feeling that this choice might be very detrimental to his future cultivation of the Sword Manual.

He remembered that when the Blood Seal was infused with his cultivation memories, it mentioned that the pulse of life is a process of accumulation.

If you don't have enough accumulated knowledge, the difficulty of gaining insights will increase significantly.
So he came up with a solution.

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Late April.

Hei Yun received the envoy from the distant Zhu Yan Empire and held a banquet at the Moon Tower, inviting Lin Hui to attend, but Lin Hui declined.

He not only rejected the invitation, but also all social interactions that might disrupt his peaceful life.

After this happened several times, the upper levels of the Black Clouds understood his meaning and stopped sending people to disturb him.

Lin Hui remained quietly at the martial arts academy, working as an ordinary teacher.

The only difference is that he has been promoted to a full-fledged class leader, no longer serving as a tutoring assistant.

Aside from the occasional time he spent alone with Liu Xiao, Lin Hui devoted 99% of his time to researching the Star Breath Sword Manual.

This painstaking research, coupled with the fact that he had already been infused with the memories of cultivation, was all part of his efforts.

Finally, in early July, Lin Hui found the best training target for the first level of the Sword Manual.

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After the rain, the golden sunlight shone through the mist, illuminating the dark clouds and giving them a soft golden glow.

Inside Qingfeng Taoist Temple.

Lin Hui looked at Liu Xiao, who looked exhausted, gently covered her with a blanket, and got up.

After some practice, they gradually found a rhythm and intensity that suited each other. After all, Liu Xiao wasn't an ordinary person; although his speed was far inferior to Lin Hui's, it was still far beyond that of an average person.

Her limits were naturally far beyond those of ordinary people. After being given the aphrodisiac medicine provided by the city lord, Liu Xiao was able to barely maintain her condition and at least wouldn't break down and cry like she did the first time.

"Ahui, when do you think we'll be able to have a baby?" Liu Xiao asked wearily, stroking her belly with some worry.

It's been several months already. Apart from the first month of adjustment, they've stayed up almost every night, but for some reason, they just can't get pregnant.

"It's alright, don't worry," Lin Hui said softly. "Look at those strong couples, which one of them doesn't get pregnant and give birth late? We're getting married without exception, there's no rush."

In truth, he had some suspicions in his heart.

Can my body, which has been modified and strengthened by the power of the wind disaster, really reproduce?
Hard to say.

The power of the windstorm disintegrates everything. To date, he has never seen any substance or force that can completely stop the windstorm.

His bodily fluids should also possess a certain amount of wind-related power. After entering Liu Xiao's body, he could feel that Liu Xiao's body would suffer minor damage each time.

However, he quickly contained the damage as soon as he noticed it.

Because of the vast difference in strength, minimal damage, and the caller's strong physique, Liu Xiao was completely unaware of her emotions when she was aroused. Lin Hui, however, knew all of this.

If the situation doesn't change and continues like this, getting pregnant will be almost impossible.

This is clearly a result of the mother's body being unable to withstand Lin Hui's strength, leading to the damage.

He even suspected that if he didn't control himself, his bodily fluids might decompose and erode Liu Xiao within just a few hours, turning him into a pool of pus and blood.

No, even the blood might decompose into pure wind disaster power, leaving not a single drop.

"Go to sleep." Lin Hui gently touched Liu Xiao's forehead to make sure she didn't have a fever before getting up, dressing, and leaving.

More than ten minutes later.

Black Cloud Inner City, Ninth Moon Tower.

Above the vast white sea of ​​fog, atop the Ninth Moon Tower stands a massive, white-and-blue conch-shaped palace.

Around the palace, semi-transparent white-gold rune light curtains appeared and disappeared intermittently, circling and rotating.

Lin Hui flashed and appeared directly outside the platinum rune light barrier. Sensing his arrival, the light barrier automatically cracked open to allow him to enter.

He flashed again and appeared directly near the Conch Palace.

Instead of going through the main entrance, it flew around halfway and found an oval window in the outer wall of a conch shell, then leaped inside.

Inside the window was a small, square room with white walls.

The room was filled with stone bookshelves of varying heights, all covered with thick, gray-covered handwritten manuscripts.

An elderly man with white hair, wearing black-rimmed glasses, was carefully comparing the differences between the contents of two handwritten copies.

Noticing someone coming in through the window, the old man frowned and looked up.

"How many times have I told you not to come in through the window? Why don't you..." Before he could finish speaking, he recognized Lin Hui's identity, his expression immediately changed, and he stood up.

"So it's Vice City Lord Lin! My apologies for my rudeness!"

He hurriedly bowed to Lin Hui.

Deputy City Lord—that's the kind of treatment Xie Chang'an, the Great City Lord, offered to win me over.

Lin Hui enjoys the status and resources of a deputy city lord.

Although there are many deputy city lords in Black Cloud City, and the position is basically just a favor to be given away, Lin Hui didn't want to do anything anyway, so he was actually very satisfied with this position.

"Very good, have you compiled the list of powerful non-human races nearby that I requested?" Lin Hui glanced at the handwritten documents on the table and asked directly.

"It's all organized. They're all here. There are thirty-seven non-human races that can be strictly distinguished by ethnic differences, as recorded in my Black Cloud Database," the old man replied skillfully.

"Twenty-four of them perfectly meet your requirements."

He picked up a handwritten copy and handed it to Lin Hui.

"Please take a look."

Lin Hui took it and quickly scanned it.

'Bullmen, Eaglemen, Sea Serpentmen, Whale Clan, Jellyfish Clan, Infinite Clan, Ghost Clan, Sea Demon Clan'

A series of powerful clans that he had never even heard of came into view.

Each of these groups is considered a powerful force only if it has a Mistman Ancestor presiding over it.

"Which one is the closest?" Lin Hui asked.

"They are the Eagle People. They have a small island outside the boundary wall to the west of Black Cloud. Their population was reported as around 14 million 350 years ago. Their chieftain is the current Second City Lord of Lingxiao City, Lord Tianhai Sword Eagle Sanqiong."

"Which way do we go?" Lin Hui still decided to give it a try first, to go over there and see if there were any suffering people who needed his help.

With such a large island, if we explore it further, we should be able to find some unfortunate child who needs redemption.

That's what he thought.

Of course, the target who needs redemption must be strong and excellent enough so that he can easily collect enough life force.

"By the way, Vice City Lord Lin, there have been many unusual developments in the Minglan Divine Group sea area to the north recently. The First City Lord went out again yesterday, and the Second City Lord went to the south to deal with the Wu Sa Divine Group. The Third City Lord is in seclusion healing the two Blood Ancestors who have returned injured. Before going into seclusion, he instructed us that if we need anything, we can come directly to you. What do you think?" the old man asked cautiously.

"If there are any further unusual developments, please notify me." Lin Hui knew that this was an opportunity specially reserved for him by the three city lords to demonstrate his strength. Whether he could maintain his current peaceful life and generous treatment in the future would depend on how well he could win this battle.

"Understood!" the old man replied quickly.

"Did the Third City Lord say anything else?"

"It's nothing. Such simple disturbances usually don't require the intervention of city lord-level mist gods. It's usually the elders of the Blood Ancestors who handle it. However, this time, two Blood Ancestors were injured, and we're a bit short-handed. We had to ask Vice City Lord Lin to intervene this time." The old man was a trusted lieutenant of the Great City Lord Xie Chang'an and knew a great deal about the situation. He thus clarified Lin Hui's question.

"I understand," Lin Hui nodded.

After this trip to Eagle Man Island, we should be able to clearly resolve the predicament of the first level of the Pulse of Life.

Their strength will definitely increase significantly by then, and dealing with so-called anomalies won't be a problem.

At that very moment, while Lin Hui was painstakingly planning his cultivation, inside the Moon Tower in Tu Yue City, far away...

Tu Yue, with a gloomy expression, began a secret plot with a friend who had come from afar.

The matter in question is Lin Hui, her private property that Hei Yun forcibly demanded from her.

"I can't swallow this!"

Tu Yue gritted her teeth, and the thought of being humiliated in front of her sent waves of hatred crashing against her defenses.

"Don't rush. Black Cloud is Black Cloud. Xie Chang'an is willing to stand up for Lin Hui because Lin Hui's value is great enough. If one day Lin Hui's value is no longer enough, or the losses he brings to them outweigh his value," the mysterious man said, sitting opposite Tu Yue, floating in mid-air.

"I knew you had a way!" Tu Yue's eyes lit up.

(End of this chapter)