The Battling Buddha was having the time of his life.
Meanwhile, An Lin was situated on a set of mountain ranges filled with crystals, and he was also having a good time.
He was looking for crystal monsters all over the place and was a nightmare to all crystal monsters.
The crystal monsters weren’t provoking An Lin, but he was actively hunting them down.
Those who hid in large crystals would be plucked out by him. Those who hid within the mountains and underground would also be plucked out by An Lin before being slapped into oblivion.
The soul power emanating from the bodies of the crystal monsters following their deaths was being automatically absorbed by his consciousness, thereby nurturing it and helping it to recover earlier from its dormant state!
Time was life here, and An Lin was trying to recover his power as quickly as possible.
He was like a human bulldozer, razing everything to the ground. All of the crystal monsters within the mountain ranges were absolutely petrified and fled for their lives in all directions.
Even though An Lin’s power had been restricted by sixty percent, he was still at the Dao Integration Stage power level and could easily crush the vast majority of living beings in this world. Creatures like these crystal monsters were absolutely no match for him.
As An Lin bulldozed his way through the mountain ranges, he discovered a crystal monster with an extremely high cultivation base at the Return to Void Stage! An Lin’s eyes immediately lit up upon seeing this.
Imagine how much soul power this thing possesses!
This Return to Void crystal monster fled very quickly, and it even used spatial skipping in the process.
However, all of this was to no avail.
An Lin had his Wings of Wind and Kun Peng Travel, and with them, he was able to easily catch the crystal monster.
However, an unexpected turn of events then took place.
The crystal monster dove into an inky-black cave.
An Lin’s footsteps came to a halt, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face. “Oh? There’s a slaughter formation here, and it’s a pretty powerful one.”
For him to refer to the slaughter formation as pretty powerful naturally meant that it was a Dao Integration Stage slaughter formation.
The Return to Void crystal monster wagged its backside at An Lin from within the formation before giving An Lin a shiny, golden middle finger, as if to say, “Come and fight me, trash!”
It was quite clear that it was trying to goad An Lin into the slaughter formation before killing him with the power of the formation.
An Lin couldn’t help but burst into laughter upon seeing this. Dao Integration Stage slaughter formations were nothing to him. With his Divine Inspection Technique hack, all formations were as good as nonexistent.
An Lin’s eyes turned snowy white, and the extremely complex veined patterns of the formation were revealed to him, including all of the fallacies within the formation.
He flicked a finger, and an arrow of flames shot forth, blasting a hole into the mountain, upon which the Dao Integration Stage slaughter formation crumbled.
The crystal monster was in the process of wagging its bum when an expression of horror and confusion appeared on its face, as if to say, “Is my Dao Integration Stage slaughter formation fake?!”
An Lin swaggered into the formation.
The crystal monster’s crystal formations stood on end as it fled again.
An Lin gave chase seemingly slowly, but he was quickly closing in on his target.
There was only one opening to this cave, so he was not afraid of the crystal monster escaping or pulling any more tricks.
An Lin pursued the crystal monster deeper into the mountain, encountering one booby trap after another along the way, all of which were easily taken care of by him and didn’t even really slow him down.
He chased the crystal monster all the way to the very end, where he emerged in a vast, cavernous palace, within which countless blue, ghostly flames were burning and all types of Void Spirit Tribe voices wafted through the air. They were singing, casting curses, and a series of peculiar, insane statues stood on either side of the palace.
The crystal monster rushed directly toward a three-headed giant wolf statue and crashed into the three-headed giant wolf statue’s glabella, upon which the three-headed giant wolf statue shuddered violently before coming to life!
An Lin could feel a true aura of life.
The three-headed giant wolf’s skin began to become more realistic, and its blood began to flow. One of its heads was burning with a raging fire, another was exuding eerie ghostly power, and the final head was emanating a biting chill.
“The crystal monster bestowed life upon the three-headed giant wolf?” An Lin’s eyes widened with amazement.
The three-headed giant wolf’s aura exploded forth and reached above the Return to Void Stage to the Dao Integration Stage.
“Roar! Foolish human!” the three-headed giant wolf snarled.
“I have transcended to a high power level, and you are no longer a match for me!” The fiery wolf head chuckled coldly.
“Piss off now and I can show you mercy by sparing your life,” the icy wolf head said with an indifferent expression, as if it were a paramount god giving its pitiful enemy a second chance at life.
Slap!
Boom!
The three-headed giant wolf was slapped into the ground by An Lin’s palm!
“Howl?” The three-headed giant wolf stared at An Lin with a dumbstruck expression.
A massive golden palm was tightly pressed over its body, preventing it from being able to move.
“Howl howl howl…” The three heads of the three-headed giant wolf howled.
An Lin’s hand was shining with a golden light, and the power of earth was crashing down with immeasurable force.
He had unleashed his Earth Lotus Supreme Skill to its very maximal extent, and the aura he was exuding struck the three-headed giant wolf with extreme horror. It felt like it had truly been confronted by a paramount god, and it couldn’t even muster up the slightest urge to resist.
“Howl, p… please spare me…”
The three-headed giant wolf immediately conceded and begged for its life.
It discovered that it was no match for An Lin even after using its trump card.
Where had this human popped up from, and why was he so intent on chasing it down? He looked like he wanted to eat it!
“Spare you? Sorry, I must kill you.” An Lin’s eyes narrowed slightly. He had to absorb the crystal monster’s soul power in order to accelerate the awakening of his consciousness, and he was not about to let this crystal monster go.
The three-headed giant wolf immediately continued in a panicked voice, “Senior, I have something extremely valuable that I can use to exchange for my life!”
An Lin blinked. “But I really want to kill you.”
The three-headed giant wolf was on the verge of tears, and it begged with a pitiable expression, “Senior, please let me tell you what I’m offering first. I’m absolutely sure that you’ll be interested!”
An Lin nodded, indicating for it to go on.
The three-headed giant wolf: “I have a key that can access the Spirit Patriarch Palace! All those who possess this key will be approved by the Spirit Patriarch Palace and can access the palace. I’m willing to offer my key to you!”
“The Spirit Patriarch Palace?” An Lin’s eyes lit up slightly. “You know where the Spirit Patriarch Palace is?”
The three-headed giant wolf was greatly encouraged by An Lin’s reaction and immediately nodded. “Of course! I can also lead the way there. My cultivation base is too pitiful, and I do not dare to enter some places in the Spirit Patriarch Palace, but if Senior enters the palace, I’m sure you’ll be able to obtain the core inheritance of the Spirit Patriarch!”
An Lin enjoyed hearing flattery like this.
It looked like the location that had opened up in the Spirit Realm this time was very close to the core region. Not only was there the remains of the Holmium Spirit Butterfly, but even the Spirit Patriarch Palace was also situated here. Could it be that the Spirit Patriarch Palace was where the Spirit Patriarch had fallen? The location that was opened up in the Spirit Realm was always randomized, so this was probably the most critical region to have been opened up in the history of the Spirit Realm.
Was this simply due to luck, or did it have something to do with the drastic changes that had been taking place on the Tai Chu Continent recently?
An Lin rid himself of this train of thought. “Lead the way!”
