“Who's there?” The sudden voice gave Nangong Yin a massive fright.
As a grand Golden Core Stage cultivator, he hadn't even noticed someone walking up silently behind him. This was simply terrifying.
Springing up from the ground, Nangong Yin spun around rapidly, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Then, he saw a face that made his very soul tremble.
“Ye... Ye Lin! How did you get in here?”
“I'm warning you, this is the Cultivation Academy! If you dare to do anything reckless, the academy will never let you off...”
Ye Lin was merely standing there doing nothing, yet Nangong Yin was already so frightened that he was babbling incoherently.
“Hehehe... Why would I do anything to you? I only want to help you, Elder, find release from this life.”
The reason he could arrive here silently without being noticed by a Golden Core Stage cultivator like Nangong Yin was, of course, entirely thanks to his bloodline divine ability 【Thousand-Mile Divine Flight】, his physique divine ability 【Darkness Control】, and the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda.
Thousand-Mile Divine Flight allowed him to ignore any obstacles, making passing through walls child's play. Meanwhile, activating Darkness Control silently could reduce an enemy's perception and reaction time by a hundredfold.
Finally, there was the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda, which could conceal all the fluctuations of his aura.
Thus, it was only natural that Nangong Yin, who had been busy listening to the Noble Consort's scolding, failed to notice him immediately.
Villains died from talking too much. Ye Lin knew very well that speaking even a single extra word at a time like this was a taboo. Therefore, wasting no time on nonsense, he immediately opened with his divine ability, the 'Divine Eye Heaven-Seizing Hand'.
“Boom!”
An illusory, giant spatial hand instantly dragged Nangong Yin right before Ye Lin. Then, before his opponent could even react, Ye Lin raised the Sword of Original Sin and slashed down.
“No!”
Seeing that Ye Lin was about to send him to hell without a second word, Nangong Yin's soul nearly leaped out of his body. He immediately attempted to flee with his Golden Core.
Unfortunately for him, before he could make his escape, Ye Lin's Sword of Original Sin slashed down once more.
“Boom!”
With a single strike, Nangong Yin's Golden Core shattered completely, meaning he had thoroughly perished.
And because of the suppression from the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda, not a single trace of the commotion here leaked to the outside.
[Ding! You have slain a guilty Golden Core other-race entity. You have obtained 2,300 years of other-race lifespan. Your Luck Value has increased by 150 points. You have picked up the talent: High-grade Earth Spiritual Root.
The Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda has automatically collected the physical body to extract blood Qi. The Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart has drawn out the divine soul for refinement. You have accumulated one unit of Power of Sin and one unit of Power of Heaven's Punishment...
The trait 'Lord of Reincarnation' has been activated. The target has become a member of your Reincarnation Legion.]
The moment Nangong Yin was killed, the game prompt chimed in Ye Lin's ear.
Immediately after, the trait 【Lord of Reincarnation】 resurrected Nangong Yin once more.
“Subordinate Nangong Yin pays respects to the Burial Lord. Thank you, Burial Lord, for granting this subordinate an immortal and indestructible body, completely liberating me from the bitter sea of reincarnation.”
Having just come back to life, Nangong Yin knelt on the ground with a face full of gratitude, kowtowing to pay his respects to Ye Lin.
“Rise. Tell me everything about how that Noble Consort is plotting against me.”
Walking over to sit in the main seat, Ye Lin spoke to Nangong Yin with a calm expression.
Compared to before his death, other than his loyalty having shifted, everything else about Nangong Yin was exactly the same as when he was alive; he remained a fully complete living being.
Hearing that the Burial Lord wanted to hear about Ji Yu's plan, Nangong Yin naturally held nothing back, recounting everything he knew.
After listening to his explanation, Ye Lin couldn't help but chuckle inwardly.
“So it's because I'm growing too quickly, and the royal family can no longer sit still?”
“That's fine. It just so happens that I can also cut down human experts as other-race entities now. In essence, it's no different from killing evil spirits.
“It's about time I showed them some of 'The Strictest Father's' love. At the same time, I can accumulate blood Qi to prepare for my breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage.”
Having made up his mind, Ye Lin prepared to have Nangong Yin beat them at their own game.
Didn't Ji Yu want Nangong Yin to stick the Death Curse Talisman on him within three days? Then he would have Nangong Yin take her by surprise and stick the Death Curse Talisman on the Noble Consort instead.
In any case, the benefits obtained after a member of the Reincarnation Legion killed an enemy were no different from him slaying the enemy with his own hands.
As for whether killing Ji Yu would completely infuriate the royal family, he wasn't about to indulge them at all.
They were already plotting against him, so what did he have to fear? If they weren't satisfied, they could go head-to-head.
“Rest assured, Burial Lord. This subordinate will complete the mission even at the cost of my life.”
Upon receiving Ye Lin's order, Nangong Yin, who had always been timid and subservient in the past, now accepted the task with a resolute expression.
“Very well. Once you kill Ji Yu, I will take you into the Undying Burial Ground.”
Rising to pat Nangong Yin on the shoulder, Ye Lin turned and left the palace without looking back.
To avoid exposing too many of his methods, Ye Lin summoned the Golden Core Stage Su Mo after leaving the academy.
As a former Tribulation Transmutation cultivator, Su Mo naturally possessed many methods for changing his appearance and concealing his identity.
Thus, Ye Lin directly handed him a large number of spirit stones and sent him to purchase alchemy materials from the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce and other shops in Tianqi City.
After all, the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce in the Xuanqing Market only served Inner Academy disciples. If he purchased too many alchemy materials there, it would be extremely easy for those with ulterior motives to investigate and trace it back to him.
Although he had a cooperative relationship with the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce through the 'Genius Cultivation Program,' business was business. This time, he intended to refine pills in massive quantities, and he would be doing so under the thousand-fold time acceleration of the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda.
It wasn't that he was afraid of the Tianyu Chamber of Commerce or anyone else finding out that he was an Alchemist, or even that he was an incredible Alchemist capable of refining high-grade Golden Core Stage pills.
Rather, he was worried that if he refined thousands or tens of thousands of pills while only a few hours passed in the outside world, it would cause a massive stir.
If he were to sell these pills directly, it would undoubtedly cause a massive sensation. It might even attract the scrutiny of countless old monsters, who might go so far as to forcibly pry into his secrets.
But if he didn't sell them directly, he wouldn't be able to achieve his goal of bringing in a massive amount of spirit stones in a short period.
Of course, he could also simply ignore the prying eyes of those mighty figures—at worst, he could just slash them with his sword—but he still preferred to make a fortune in silence.
Therefore, having Su Mo disguise himself to purchase the alchemy materials, and then having him assume yet another identity to sell the pills, would allow him to avoid a great deal of trouble to the greatest extent possible.
A little over an hour later, the old man Su Mo had transformed into returned, successfully purchasing a vast amount of alchemy materials as requested.
“Time to work overtime and refine some pills.” Sending Su Mo back to the Undying Burial Ground with a wave of his hand, Ye Lin began his return.
As he passed through the Outer Academy, it naturally caused another stir among the disciples.
Without paying too much attention to their reactions, he entered the Inner Academy through the teleportation formation and returned to his cave dwelling.
After fully activating his cave dwelling's grand formations, Ye Lin shifted his consciousness and entered the Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda.
“Boom!”
As soon as he arrived at the Sovereign Heaven Dojo, he practicedly retrieved his alchemy cauldron and various medicinal herbs. Then, fueling the cauldron with the Great Dark Heaven Flame, he began refining.
[Ding! It has been detected that you have begun refining pills. The God-grade Alchemist buff is now active.
You have a Photographic Memory for any alchemy technique!
You have a Hundred Percent Pill Condensation rate!
Every time you refine pills, you will accumulate alchemy experience with one hundred percent efficiency. Once your experience is full, your alchemy level will be upgraded directly!]
[Ding! It has been detected that you are diligently refining pills. The trait 'Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness' has been activated. Your alchemy experience is accumulating at a hundredfold rate.]
[Your alchemy experience has increased by 100.]
[Your alchemy experience has increased by 150.]
...
He had only just begun refining when a series of game prompts began chiming in his ears.
While Ye Lin was immersed in his frantic pill refining, three powerful figures with formidable auras arrived at the border of the Tianyuan Dynasty.
They were two men and one woman, led by a fat man with large ears.
“Just this desolate place? Is there really a great opportunity here like you said? If you are deceiving that Lord, you know the consequences.”
As soon as their figures materialized at the border of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the fat man looked at the gray-robed old man behind him and spoke.
And that gray-robed old man was none other than Ji Qianxing, the Second Ancestor of the Ji family, the Nascent Soul Stage cultivator who had previously been scared away by Ye Lin's deeds.
As for this black-clothed fat man, he was a Soul Emergence Stage expert sent down by that prominent figure after Ji Qianxing reported Ye Lin's secrets to an Earth-grade Cultivation Academy.
“Senior must be joking. Every word I said is naturally the absolute truth. However, that Ye Lin is protected by great luck and is quite difficult to deal with. It is still better for us to be cautious.”
Ji Qianxing was as prudent as always. In truth, he had absolutely no desire to tag along this time, but unfortunately, this fat man had insisted that he lead the way.
With both his status and cultivation being inferior, he naturally had no right to refuse, which was why he had followed them back to the Tianyuan Dynasty.
“Heh. I, a grand Soul Emergence Stage expert, need to be cautious of a Foundation Establishment ant? What a joke.”
Seeing Ji Qianxing's overly cautious demeanor, the black-clothed fat man immediately sneered with disdain.
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