"Have you successfully cultivated the Yi Pi Realm? I didn't expect anyone could cultivate Heavenly Serpent Bone Exchange."
In the mountain forest, the green-robed figure looked at Lin Sheng, speaking with a stiff face.
At such a close distance, Lin Sheng truly felt the icy coldness emanating from the person in front of him.
It was as if he had been pulled into ten-thousand-year-old profound ice in that instant.
"Junior Lin Sheng, greetings, Shen Jun sir."
Thinking this, Lin Sheng immediately bowed respectfully, speaking neither subserviently nor arrogantly.
At the same time, his gaze fell upon the other party, and this look immediately startled him.
But the extremely aged face had now become smooth and round, as if suddenly turning into a teenager.
If it weren't for the unchanged clothing and demeanor, probably no one would connect the young man in front of them with the previously aged figure.
"Lin Sheng?"
Hearing Lin Sheng's words, a look of confusion appeared on the green-robed old man's young face. He chewed on Lin Sheng's name, as if recalling something.
"It seems a bit familiar. Who gave you the Heavenly Serpent Bone Exchange?"
Suddenly, his stiff face moved closer to Lin Sheng, and the coldness around him abruptly intensified. Even with the Scarlet Eye Flame Dragon in his body, Lin Sheng only felt the biting cold at this moment.
Hearing this, Lin Sheng was first stunned, clearly not expecting the other party to ask such a question. However, the coldness was constantly increasing, and a hint of killing intent appeared along with it.
If he couldn't answer, the other party would attack without hesitation.
Without time to figure out why, Lin Sheng furrowed his brow and immediately spoke.
"This Heavenly Serpent Bone Exchange secret technique was given to me by you, and you promised to take this Junior as your Disciple if I successfully cultivated it."
"Take a Disciple? So that's how it is!?"
As Lin Sheng's words fell, the killing intent and icy coldness emanating from the green-robed figure, or rather, Li Shenjun, instantly vanished, replaced by an increasingly intense confusion. His brows furrowed, as if he was trying hard to remember something.
The next moment, his gaze fell directly on Lin Sheng.
"That makes sense. However, since you can enter my sight, you must be quite good..."
As he spoke, he carefully looked at Lin Sheng, and a look of confusion appeared in his eyes again.
"Mixed Bloodline, clearly the Yi Pi Realm cultivation is complete, yet there is such a mixed Bloodline. No, it doesn't seem to be Bloodline Power..."
As he spoke, his hand was already on Lin Sheng's arm, and the confusion on his face deepened.
"Although these powers are mixed, each one is quite pure... Very strange. Ancestral return Bloodline? No, it's not... Then what could it be?"
Li Shenjun's light words fell into Lin Sheng's ears, but they startled him.
He didn't expect that his perception had reached such a level, being able to detect the difference between the ingested exotic beasts and Bloodline Power.
Fortunately, the other party quickly retracted his hand. However, as his hand left his arm, he gently tapped on his skin. In an instant, the white patterns restraining him on his skin disappeared rapidly, like snowflakes under a raging fire.
The strong oppressive feeling also disappeared along with them.
Lin Sheng immediately felt the heavy burden on his body disappear. He stretched his limbs, and his injuries quickly recovered.
"Talent that surpasses those with ancestral return. No wonder I was somewhat moved. Since you want to be my Disciple, I will give you a chance."
At this moment, Li Shenjun's indifferent voice sounded again.
A ball of black viscous liquid had appeared in his hand at some point.
The moment he saw this ball of black liquid, Lin Sheng's eyes narrowed.
Nothing else, this black viscous liquid was very familiar to him; it was precisely Gongsun Yuanzhou.
"This thing seems to crave you. Kill him, and I will take you as my Disciple."
Li Shenjun's voice was calm. With a flick of his finger, the black viscous liquid in his hand fell to the ground and quickly condensed and gathered into Gongsun Yuanzhou's strong figure.
At this moment, Gongsun Yuanzhou looked significantly weaker than before, clearly having suffered quite a bit in the hands of the two Transforming Void Grandmasters.
But he still far surpassed ordinary God-Form martial artists.
Hearing the other party's words, Lin Sheng was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke.
"What if I refuse?"
"You can refuse, but you'd better hope this thing lets you go."
Li Shenjun spoke indifferently, his pupils flickering.
"To become my Disciple, it naturally won't be easy. True powerhouses emerge from life and death..."
Hearing this, Lin Sheng fell silent again, then grinned.
He had always heard that this so-called Li Shenjun had a strange temperament and was moody. Now he had finally witnessed it.
He had already seen the methods of a Transforming Void Grandmaster; there was absolutely no possibility of struggling. Since there was no avoiding it, there was only one choice before him.
Boom—
In an instant, the ground shattered, and Lin Sheng's figure shot out like a cannonball.
Before Gongsun Yuanzhou could fully condense into a human form, the dark red large hand covered in bloody tumors tore through the air, landing on his head like a sky-covering demonic claw.
Bang!
A few black eyes that had just emerged from the bald head were directly shattered by the large hand.
At the same time, golden yellow flames surged out, completely enveloping Gongsun Yuanzhou and burning fiercely.
Puff puff—
Soon, Gongsun Yuanzhou's thick, sticky tentacles appeared one by one, instantly wrapping around Lin Sheng's strong body.
At the same time, below Gongsun Yuanzhou's shattered head, black eyes frantically drilled out from his neck and chest cavity. Fine tentacles, as thin as silver needles, grew from these eyes, shooting out like hyphae and landing on Lin Sheng's body, desperately drilling inward.
The dense, fine tentacles were intertwined, making it difficult for even the dragon flames to completely burn them away for a while.
Lin Sheng's face showed ferocity. His red large hand grabbed the fine tentacles embedded in his skin and tore them away. Along with them, the dark red scales on his body and scattered bits of flesh were also torn off.
However, on the wound, some tentacles that had not been completely removed could still be seen.
Clearly, these fine tentacles were even more difficult to remove than imagined.
The fierceness on Lin Sheng's face intensified. He directly inserted his large hand into his chest, tearing off large chunks of flesh and blood. This time, he finally removed all the tentacles.
He ignored the thick tentacles wrapped around his body, letting them tighten. His two large hands swung wildly, landing punch after punch on the black eyes surging from Gongsun Yuanzhou's neck.
True Yang Change, Giant Strength, Azure Extreme Pulse Transformation...
His power was pushed to the limit. His hands, carrying terrifying Giant Strength, were like heavy siege hammers, landing on Gongsun Yuanzhou's headless body.
He smashed the constantly wriggling black eyes into balls of black liquid. Before they could recondense, heavy punches landed again, smashing them into powder.
Golden yellow flames quickly swept over, tightly wrapping and burning these black liquids, producing wisps of black mist.
The fine black liquid slowly melted at a visible speed.
Seemingly sensing the threat, a large number of tentacles surged from Gongsun Yuanzhou's broken body, completely enveloping Lin Sheng's massive Divine Transformation Realm figure.
They almost formed a giant, sticky black ball made of tentacles.
Muffled thuds constantly emanated from within, along with the crisp sounds of bones cracking under the strain.
Several meters away, Li Shenjun watched this scene with a calm expression. His stiff face was full of indifference, and his withered fingers under the Green Robe slowly tapped.
After the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.
Inside the black giant ball, sizzling sounds...
The sounds of cold water hitting oil gradually began to be heard, and they grew louder.
Finally, a wisp of golden yellow flame emerged from within, like a spark that could start a prairie fire. The next moment, a large amount of flames surged out.
Under the burning of the flames, the black giant ball continuously melted into drops of black viscous liquid that fell to the ground, quickly turning into wisps of black smoke and completely disappearing.
Finally, the tentacles wrapped around it could no longer endure the burning flames and completely dispersed, revealing the situation inside the giant ball.
At this time, Lin Sheng's hair and beard were standing on end, and golden eyes were spewing flames. Gongsun Yuanzhou had disappeared, while two burning dark red large hands tightly squeezed a struggling ball of black viscous liquid.
Black mist was constantly drifting out from within, clearly indicating that the black viscous liquid was evaporating little by little under the burning flames.
Lin Sheng's situation was equally tragic. His originally strong figure had been deformed and twisted by the thick tentacles wrapped around him.
Tentacles as fine as hyphae had almost spread over half of his body, desperately drilling inward and absorbing something. However, they were evaporated by the flames before they could finish absorbing.
The next moment, a large number of hyphae-like tentacles spread up again. The two were in a state of contest, only waiting to see who would give out first.
As time passed, the black liquid quickly evaporated to only one-third of its original size.
Lin Sheng's strong figure had also shrunk by several sizes, emitting a weak aura, clearly indicating great depletion.
But the flames emanating from him showed no signs of weakening.
The golden yellow flames, on the contrary, were becoming more intense and scorching.
Later, he simply stopped bothering with the fine tentacles spreading over his body, concentrating all the flames on his hands, furiously burning the black viscous liquid in his grasp.
Hiss hiss hiss—
Painful and miserable wails constantly sounded from within the black liquid. The black eyes surging on it shattered one by one. The speed of recondensation was several times slower than before. Wisps of black mist continuously drifted out, evaporating into the sky.
"Bastard, I won!!!"
Lin Sheng's face became very gaunt, but his golden eyes became brighter. As the firelight flickered, he let out a ferocious laugh.
Finally, the black viscous liquid shrunk another circle under the burning of the dragon flames.
Just then, a withered hand suddenly landed on Lin Sheng's arm, pulling it away and grabbing the ball of black viscous liquid, which was now only the size of a fist, from it.
"Get out!!"
The ferocity on Lin Sheng's face increased greatly. He turned his hand and punched hard towards his side.
But it was gently blocked by a withered hand.
"That's enough."
A voice with a hint of surprise sounded from the side. It was Li Shenjun.
He flicked his finger, and a wisp of ethereal light landed on Lin Sheng.
The large number of tentacles wrapped around his body immediately dissipated into black mist and disappeared.
"From now on, you are my Disciple..."
As he spoke, he had already taken out a porcelain bottle from his In arms, poured out a red pill, and threw it into Lin Sheng's mouth without explanation.
"You are at the end of your rope. Taking this Tiangang Pill will allow you to recover quickly."
Without giving Lin Sheng a chance to react, the red pill had already fallen into his mouth and was directly swallowed.
In an instant, an extremely powerful medicinal energy exploded in his mouth, quickly entering his internal organs and filling the dry tissues and meridians.
In just a few breaths, Lin Sheng felt the fatigue in his body quickly dissipate.
But a look of surprise appeared on his face. It was the first time he had seen a pill with such effect; it was definitely not an ordinary item.
One must know that just now, in his confrontation with Gongsun Yuanzhou, his body had been pushed to the limit. Yet, just one pill could allow his body to recover to such an extent in a short period, which was truly somewhat unimaginable.
"Alright, it's time to leave..."
Seeing Lin Sheng's condition rapidly improving, Li Shenjun spoke softly.
Then, he grabbed Lin Sheng and disappeared from the spot.
At this moment, deep in the forest, where Qi Ning and others were located.
Lu Chuan gathered everyone together, quietly waiting for Xiang Kong's return.
His gaze fell on Qi Ning and Lan Man, especially Qi Ning.
"I didn't expect you to have ties with Luo Yin. It seems that Lord Xiang Kong is indeed resourceful. After bringing you all back and sending out the news, that Luo Yin should be unable to sit still..."
Qi Ning's face was gloomy. She desperately mobilized the internal energy in her body to break free from the restraints, but it was useless.
The methods of a Transforming Void Grandmaster were not something she, a Divine Transformation Realm mid-stage, could handle, especially since the Three-Eyed Rakshasa Xiang Kong's strength was quite formidable in the Hua Xu Realm.
"It's useless. Don't waste your energy."
Seeing through her thoughts, Lu Chuan spoke in a deep voice.
His mood was not good at the moment. Although catching so many Dark Star members this time was a great achievement, the thought of being favored by Xiang Kong made him feel irritable.
If it were before, he might have been very happy. After all, Tianhong Pavilion held a high position of power in Great Yan. Many noble families and officials in the Grand Capital wanted to enter it but had no connections.
But the thought of Gongsun Yuanzhou's situation sent a chill down his spine.
The effect of the demonic blood was indeed strong, but the side effects were also great. He didn't want to become an experimental subject for those important figures.
Just as he was pondering how to deal with this matter, a figure suddenly appeared.
"Senior Xiang Kong!"
Seeing the arrival, Lu Chuan was startled and quickly bowed.
"Go, leave here immediately."
However, Xiang Kong just coldly spat out a sentence, his voice carrying a hint of urgency and even a trace of panic.
"What about these people!?"
Lu Chuan was stunned. It was the first time he had seen this renowned Transforming Void Grandmaster reveal such an expression.
Looking up, he then noticed that Xiang Kong, who was originally clad in white like snow, looked quite disheveled at this moment.
His moon-white monk's robe was torn and tattered, covered in holes of various sizes.
The confident and in-control expression he usually wore was nowhere to be seen.
This scene shocked him. He had been an official for many years, so his ability to read people was naturally not weak.
He quickly realized that this master of the Hua Xu Realm had most likely suffered a loss.
Then, who could make a Transforming Void Grandmaster suffer a loss, except for another Transforming Void Grandmaster!?
Xiang Kong held a ball of black viscous liquid, only the size of a baby's fist, in his hand. He glanced at Qi Ning and the others, his eyes flickering. He still gave up the idea in his mind, grabbed Lu Chuan, and quickly disappeared from the spot.
It wasn't that he didn't want to take them away or kill them, but the thought of that madman made him dare not take the risk after all.
