After all, Lin Yu’s Nascent Soul was still intact, and Xie Linlang had no intention of ruthlessly severing that connection.
Xie Linlang picked up the Black-Red Jade Pendant and casually tossed it into the Supreme Magic Furnace before him.
Lin Yu felt both vexed and puzzled. What did this senior who had possessed him intend to do?
The Spiritual Fire lit in Lin Yu’s Pill Room was naturally Immortal-Grade Purple Flame Spiritual Fire—pure purple flames with a brilliant golden core.
As Xie Linlang unleashed Demonic Qi, the purple flames suddenly erupted with three long, rosy cloud-like tongues of fire, like flowers blooming abruptly.
Xie Linlang’s expression remained composed. This time, he used both hands to form Magic Formulas. Each seal fluttered like butterflies with their own spirituality. They did not fall directly but danced lightly around the exterior of the Supreme Magic Furnace in coordination with the Purple Flame Spiritual Fire.
When the Magic Furnace began to inhale and exhale flames, and its perfectly rounded pill qi surged like ocean tides, the surrounding seals selectively descended—one after another, each perfectly timed, each perfectly integrating the Demonic Qi into the Magic Furnace.
Lin Yu watched in rapture. His Nascent Soul, originally filled with worry, now relaxed its expression and stared intently at the ever-changing Magic Furnace.
Silent Night Palace’s Magic Furnace originated from the ancient barbaric era and was said to hide many wondrous uses. Unfortunately, later-generation cultivators like them lacked the strength and were not even qualified to burn away the first layer of disguise on the furnace’s exterior shell.
But this senior before him might be able to!!
Sure enough, as Demonic Qi, Magic Formulas, and Purple Flame Spiritual Fire continuously merged, faint purple lines soon appeared on the surface of the ancient jade-colored Magic Furnace.
Those lines multiplied under the forging of the immortal-grade Spiritual Fire, even seeping out fresh red blood color.
Finally, Xie Linlang unleashed two overlapping king-character exclusive seals, and Lin Yu directly recognized his identity!
“Double King Seal! This is the exclusive furnace-warming secret technique of Jiuxia Mountain’s Pill King Lin Lang Dao Lord! Specifically used to awaken the lingering spirituality within the Pill Furnace and the Creation Qi from the remnants of previous batches!”
Lin Yu now knew who had possessed him.
“You are Linlang Dao Lord, who failed his tribulation a year ago!!”
Xie Linlang gave a faint hum of acknowledgment. He withdrew his Magic Formulas and examined the now-revitalized Supreme Magic Furnace before him.
“You’re a bit noisy.”
But Lin Yu could not calm down at all. Jiuxia Mountain’s Linlang Dao Lord was renowned as the foremost in the pill dao. Unfortunately, he had failed his tribulation and perished, and the many pill formulas he left behind vanished with him—not to mention his exclusive pill refining secrets.
Most importantly, rumors held that Linlang Dao Lord had a gentle and kind personality, delighting in good deeds. As long as someone sought his help, he would almost always agree. He was an extremely approachable cultivator with a remarkably mild temperament.
Thus, when news spread of Linlang Dao Lord’s tribulation failure and death, while many mourned, they also felt deeply puzzled.
With the merits Xie Linlang had accumulated daily, plus the many spirit items and high-grade magic artifacts he had exchanged through pill refining, how could he fail to pass the Heavenly Tribulation?
Lin Yu smiled bitterly. “No wonder you failed your tribulation. Given how proficient you are with this possession secret technique, you clearly weren’t as upright and pure as the rumors claimed.”
Xie Linlang must have done plenty of shady deeds in private and been settled by the Heavenly Tribulation!
Xie Linlang rose and approached the Magic Furnace. With a point of his finger, the furnace lid opened, revealing what was inside.
The Black-Red Jade Pendant had transformed into a mass of pure white liquid, emanating a strange aura.
“I have never done anything shameful in my life. I always kept my word.”
He said calmly, “Sages judge by actions, not intentions. After being a good person for two hundred years, how was that not upright and pure?”
Xie Linlang hailed from a scholarly family in the mortal world; both parents were ordinary folk. But his maternal lineage had produced cultivators in the past, so he awakened a spirit root and joined the great immortal sect Jiuxia Mountain.
As his cultivation deepened, Xie Linlang obtained a unique technique from his bloodline: the Treasure Tree Scripture.
It sounded fine—a secret technique tailor-made by his bloodline. But in truth, the Treasure Tree Scripture was fully titled The Heavenly Demons’ Gacha of the Treasure Tree, Suppressed for Eternity Yet Still Harming for a Millennium.
In other words, it used bloodline as bait to summon a Heavenly Demon via secret arts.
Through slaughtering the Heavenly Demon, the victor took all, claiming everything from the foe.
“I’m indeed not a good person, but I’m not that bad either.”
After all, Pei Ji was such a good person.
Xie Linlang also wanted to become better, a little better.
But when he finally became renowned throughout the world, the very person who had first spurred him to change, to strive to improve—that person was no longer there.
