The Prodigies War

Chapter 1229: The Underworld Boat Arrives

The expressions of the other party turned unsightly upon Lin Xun’s declaration.

Unable to take this, someone coldly said, “Ridiculous! You really think we’re scared of you?”

They had decided to retreat completely from this matter, but Demon God Lin had to be so intolerant and unforgiving. What did he take them for?

Every expert who could break into the Supreme King stage had their own pride.

Clang!

Lin Xun had nothing more to say. His Broken Blade swept out.

Silent Emptiness Slash!

With a poof, the person who had just spoken lost their head without being able to react at all. Blood gushed out like a spring.

Wang Ziying’s group gasped, feeling their blood run cold.

Lin Xun’s past deeds had shown how rampant he was, and this scene further proved it, but only now did they really see for themselves.

He had harvested a Supreme King’s head in a split second!

“I won’t waste my breath on nonsense. Each person hands over a divine herb as punishment, and then you can leave.” Lin Xun’s voice was indifferent.

This was the Palace of Divine Underworld, and the Three Lives Rock was too big of a target. The longer this dragged out, the more people would notice it.

The field was dead silent as Wang Ziying’s group clenched their jaws resentfully. Does this bastard think divine herbs are cabbages that grow everywhere?

But when they met Lin Xun’s chilling gaze, they chose to yield despite the hatred and humiliation they felt.

Sun Greeter Divine Vine.

Nine Transformations Saint Flower.

Feather Origin Purple Olive.

Divine Silk Silverstar Grass.

Lin Xun received four divine herbs of immeasurable value.

But to him, they only belonged in the lower or middle end as not a single one was comparable to the Dual System Divine Lotus.

However, seeing that they obediently bowed their heads and cooperated, Lin Xun concluded the punishment and waved his hand to dismiss them like he was dispersing annoying flies.

As Wang Ziying’s party left, they still carried a load of resentment and anger, each looking more unsightly than the last, but they could only endure it in such a situation.

They didn’t even dare to say one harsh word lest Lin Xun would decide to punish them again.

On the other hand, Lin Xun knew full well that he had made an enemy of them, and they would definitely take revenge the first chance they got.

But he couldn’t care less.

With his strength, the resentment of these mediocre enemies didn’t pose a threat.

Would an eagle care about the hatred of ants?

Of course not!

This little episode didn’t stir up the slightest wave in Lin Xun’s heart.

He then turned to the ancient scripture carved on the Three Lives Rock.

The more he inspected it, the more he could feel the wonders of this scripture. Its worm-like words glowed with flowing dao light, obscure and divine.

The most miraculous thing was that the densely-packed words acted as if alive as they wiggled excitedly.

However, this divine scripture was so obscure that ordinary cultivators would definitely be confused if they saw it, let alone try to study its mysteries.

Even trying to memorize it wouldn’t work, as the words kept changing and moving!

“No wonder only Dantai Liu stayed here to fight for the ancient scripture. Wang Xuanyu probably realized it was impossible to take it away or memorize, and to decipher and comprehend its mysteries would take too much time.” Lin Xun finally understood what had happened.

There were definitely more than one fortune in this small world within the Palace of Divine Underworld, and a character like Wang Xuanyu would not spend all of his energy and time in one place.

However…

Lin Xun’s lips curled up.

Unlike them, he knew just how to study this scripture!

His powerful spirit sense gushed out and spread into thousands of streams, all surging into the stone-carved scripture

Lines and lines of dense, twisty, dancing words flowed along different trajectories, so complex and chaotic that they would cause one’s head to spin.

When the spirit sense tried to capture these words, they would flash and slip away.

Anyone would be anxious by this, but Lin Xun paid no attention.

In his spirit sense, these ancient words were like rune symbols. Although they transformed infinitely and could not be traced, just by arranging and organizing them one by one, he would be able to see through their trajectories and capture their meaning!

But if this was all there was to it, other cultivators were also capable of doing the same.

The difficulty lay in the fact that each of the characters represented a completely different school of meaning, and without understanding them all, it would be impossible to arrange them into the real ancient scripture.

However, it was not difficult for Lin Xun.

Buzz!

He used his spirit sense as a brush and gently carved on the scripture, outlining a graceful trajectory.

And then, an amazing scene happened. The dancing words looked as if they were being pulled and converged into the trajectory that Lin Xun had drawn like a school of fish seeing a bait.

As Lin Xun’s spirit sense continued to pulsate, the words that were attracted grew in number.

Time passed until all of them started dancing and flowing along the trajectory.

But at this exact moment, his spirit sense brush abruptly froze!

A strange buzzing noise resounded from the scripture, and the countless worm-like words jumped out, surging along Lin Xun’s spirit sense to his mind sea…

Boom!

Lin Xun’s mind sea rumbled as it was filled with all sorts of ancient characters, which continued to converge and glow.

Finally, they formed a spectacular ancient scripture!

Lin Xun immediately heaved a long breath.

Back then, when he had entered the Omega Door the first time, he had encountered a similar test at the first challenge of the Great Azure Cloud Path.

It had been the Flowing Light Rune, which was a martial art in essence.

But someone had used rune techniques to completely integrate the mysteries of the art into the pattern and trajectory of each rune!

This stone-carved ancient scripture was the same as the case of the Flowing Light Rune, so it wasn’t difficult for Lin Xun to solve it.

Hmm?

Seeing the name of the scripture, Lin Xun was a bit bewildered.

It was the ‘Big Divine Meditation Art!’

And the art he had obtained from the Flowing Light Rune back then was the ‘Little Divine Meditation Art!’

“No wonder even the way of comprehending it is so similar, so there’s some kind of connection between them…” Lin Xun realized that this was not a coincidence.

The only coincidental thing was that he unexpectedly was able to obtain the Big Divine Meditation Art in the Palace of Divine Underworld!

“This way!”

The sounds of wind ripping echoed in the distance, waking Lin Xun from his thoughts.

Without hesitation, Lin Xun swiftly left the area.

Not long after he had left, a group of cultivators arrived.

“Quick, that ancient scripture is carved on this Three Lives Rock!”

“Why is there no one here?”

Upon arriving, these cultivators were surprised and then overjoyed. They hurriedly climbed the hill-sized Three Lives Rock.

But what they saw at the top had them gawk in shock.

There was nothing there as the divine ancient scripture had long been taken away!

At that instant, their joy was completely drained.

……

“Sever the spirit and use it to refine a tri-life soul?”

On the road, Lin Xun only needed to briefly perceive the Big Divine Meditation Art to understand its mysteries. It was actually an inheritance that required one to sever their spirit to create a tri-life soul.

What were the three lifetimes?

Past life, present life, and future life!

Basically, it was the past, the present, and the future.

The Big Divine Meditation Art would split the cultivator’s primordial spirit into three separate primordial spirits to cultivate a secret technique representing the past, the present, and the future respectively!

If it had been in the past, Lin Xun would have been confused.

After all, the primordial spirit was the fundamental foundation of a King’s longevity, and any slight damage to it could affect a person’s cultivation, not to mention chopping and splitting it into three.

This was like self-mutilation.

However, now that Lin Xun’s spirit had reached the second level of ‘spirit flower convergence,’ the Big Divine Meditation Art was precious and extremely useful because it just happened that the spirit flower convergence stage was divided into three realms: seeing the past, seeing the present, and seeing the future!

For every realm cultivated, a grand dao divine flower would coalesce in the spirit to represent the profound meaning of the corresponding lifetime.

From this, cultivating the Big Divine Meditation Art was to divide the primordial spirit into three different spirits to comprehend all different realms at once!

Marvelous, truly marvelous!

Lin Xun had never been more astonished upon realizing how incredible and unparalleled the inheritance he had just acquired was.

If he successfully cultivated it, then he would be able to go even farther on the path of longevity as the spirit of a cultivator was like a guiding lamp, and at its core was the secret of immortality!

If this wasn’t the Palace of Divine Underworld, then Lin Xun would have already followed his impulse to cultivate this scripture right here and now.

“Found it…” Before long, he arrived at a blood-red river.

This was a true blood river, where the boundless red water tumbled and raged. Just like eternity, no one knew where it started nor where it ended.

Upon approaching, a suffocating pressure would sweep over and envelope the whole area.

Even with his current strength, he still tensed up and his mind was filled with awe.

Looking closely, one would see blood clouds drifting in the sky above the other side of the blood river. In the misty clouds, there was an extremely majestic blood-colored altar!

Unfortunately, just like the blood river, it was impossible to see the details of the altar as it was shrouded in an intimidating holy atmosphere that blocked the spirit sense!

It was at this place that Lin Xun sensed the aura belonging to Dantai Liu.

Previously, when he had defeated the other party, he had imperceptibly put a mark on them, and it had allowed him to follow them to this place.

“It seems that Wang Xuanyu and his group are right there on the other side of this river…” Lin Xun’s dark eyes gleamed.

Huaa~

In the middle of the blood river, a small black boat suddenly appeared, and a skeleton boatman came holding a white bone oar.

Seeing this familiar scene, Lin Xun was in a daze.

Could it be that the blood-red lake we crossed is related to this blood river?

Lin Xun carefully observed it again and realized that he wasn’t wrong, it was the same boat and skeleton boatman that he had encountered before!

Swish swish swish~

Along with the appearance of the black boat, cultivators started appearing in the vicinity and headed to this side.

“Quick, the Underworld Boat has arrived!” someone called out. “If we miss it, then the heaven-defying fortunes on the other side of the river will all fall into the hands of those who crossed the river before us!”

These cultivators had obviously been waiting for quite some time, and when they saw the black boat appear, they all looked like they couldn’t wait.

Obviously, in order to cross this river, one had to board that black boat!