However, just then, a message suddenly appeared from Wang Lin.
[Wang Lin: I have urgent matters to attend to. I'll be leaving first.]
Everyone froze.
[Xiao Yan: What?! You're leaving already? Aren't you going to empty the Void Heaven Palace?!]
[Lin Dong: Yeah, we're already here—at least take something back!]
Xiao Yan and Lin Dong were utterly confused.
Even the first layer alone had such incredible resources for refining the divine soul. The inner halls would surely be even more astonishing.
Was Brother Wang Lin really that wealthy?
Leaving so soon?
[Wang Lin: The opportunities here are good, but I don't need them. Decide for yourselves—don't worry about me.]
After sending that message, Wang Lin directly exited the group chat.
Most of the resources within the Void Heaven Palace were suited for cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage. To Wang Lin, who had already reached the late Nascent Soul realm, they were of little value.
What he needed now was Immortal Jade—vast quantities of it.
In the world of Xian Ni, Immortal Jade was essential for breaking through from the Nascent Soul stage to the Infant Transformation stage. Without it, advancement was impossible.
The Void Heaven Palace clearly lacked Immortal Jade.
Wang Lin realized this the moment he entered.
Thus, he didn't linger and returned to his own world.
Now, he had two choices.
One was to forcibly absorb the Immortal Jade within the Immortal Tower and break through.
The other was to head to the Soul Refining Sect in advance and have the Escape Heaven Ancestor guide him in seizing Immortal Jade.
Wang Lin fell into deep contemplation.
The Immortal Tower contained a trace of Zhou Yi's Ascension Intent. Previously, he lacked the strength to forcibly extract the Immortal Jade without disturbing that intent.
But after comprehending the Primordial True Explanation, his understanding of the Great Dao's rules had deepened immensely.
If he wished, he could now extract the Immortal Jade without damaging Zhou Yi's lingering will.
Yet Zhou Yi had shown him kindness.
To repay kindness with enmity was not his way.
"…I'll go check the Soul Refining Sect first."
Wang Lin sighed softly, made his decision, and rose.
After settling Zhou Ru, he left the Immortal Tower and immediately used his escape technique, heading toward the Kingdom of Pilu.
However, the moment he departed the tower's protected region, an envoy of the Vermilion Bird Kingdom—who had been secretly observing him—quietly followed.
Meanwhile.
Deep within the Spirit Abyss.
While Xiao Yan and the others were frantically hunting Yin Spirits and fierce souls along the outskirts,
Zhu Chen had already arrived alone near a sheer precipice.
As a supreme Yang constitution born of the Vermilion Bird, he could naturally sense where Yin energy gathered most densely.
This cliff was the place with the strongest Yin aura in the entire Spirit Abyss.
The Yin Spirits and fierce souls here were also the most numerous.
Looking around, the sky was nearly filled with drifting Yin Spirits—dense and endless.
Yet these Yin Spirits seemed extremely wary of Zhu Chen, keeping their distance and daring not approach him.
"This should be the place…"
Zhu Chen glanced into the bottomless abyss below, shrouded in gloomy mist.
Without hesitation, he formed seals and unleashed the Suanni Treasure Technique.
—Boom!
The moment the ferocious Suanni Thunder Beast plunged into the abyss, the entire canyon shook violently.
Blinding arcs of lightning spread outward like a massive web, instantly extending for dozens of miles and dispersing the oppressive gloom!
—Roar!
A chilling, ghostly howl erupted from deep below.
Something terrifying had awakened.
Zhu Chen stood at the edge of the cliff, eyes fixed downward.
Soon, hundreds of Ghost Kings and carrion eaters surged upward from the depths, their bodies saturated with Yin energy.
The aura they emitted was far stronger than that of wandering Yin Spirits—almost on par with Core Formation cultivators.
Roaring, they charged straight toward Zhu Chen.
Zhu Chen didn't hesitate.
He simultaneously activated the Vermilion Bird Technique and the Suanni Technique.
Vermilion Bird Divine Fire—the purest Yang flame—was the bane of all evil.
The lightning within the Suanni Technique was equally lethal to demons and ghosts.
With both unleashed at once, Zhu Chen slaughtered the Yin Spirit Kings and carrion eaters with overwhelming ease.
In a short span of time, every powerful Yin entity lurking beneath the cliff was annihilated, reduced to a sky filled with dense Yin Spirit Ash.
Immediately afterward, Zhu Chen manifested his Five Great Grotto-Heavens and began refining the ash on the spot.
The Yin Spirit Ash condensed from Ghost Kings and carrion eaters was far purer than that of ordinary Yin Spirits.
As he refined it using the power of his grotto-heavens, Zhu Chen felt not only his divine soul strengthening rapidly, but his cultivation itself rising noticeably.
He had discovered this effect earlier by chance—
and that was precisely why he had come here.
Why waste time on ordinary Yin Spirits when superior nourishment was available?
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