Chapter 177: Inner Space Micro-Heavenly Dao

It just so happened that he would deal with them all today! To avoid always occupying the space inside the Spirit Beast Bracelet, he released the last First-Rank Upper-Grade Spirit Planter.

As soon as Zhao Liyu came out, the first thing she saw were the two corpses lying on the ground, one of which was her paramour Chen Biao, and the other was a newcomer who had joined them not long ago.

Seeing this as soon as she came out, she already felt that the situation was bad. Her face turned pale with fright, and she began to tremble all over.

Lin Zhangqing looked at her like this, shook his head, and said directly: "Your companions have already gone on their way before you. Now you are the only one left, so you should prepare yourself too!"

Hearing what Lin Zhangqing said, Zhao Liyu was directly frightened out of her wits and burst into tears.

Seeing her like this, Xu Meiniang couldn't help but blush, because this reminded her of her former self. She estimated that her own performance at the time should have been about the same as hers!

She was also frightened out of her wits by Lin Zhangqing, but fortunately, she was relatively lucky, at least she kept her life!

Lin Zhangqing saw her like this, and his face turned black. Damn! She actually defiled the inner space! It wasn't clean anymore, making Lin Zhangqing so angry he almost couldn't help but want to throw her directly into the deep pit.

However, considering the spirit stones, he would endure her for now!

He patiently continued: "I am giving you a chance to redeem your life considering you were quite cooperative."

"As long as you can take out ten thousand spirit stones, or spirit objects of equivalent value—of course, valuable information also works—you can redeem your own life from me."

As soon as Lin Zhangqing finished speaking, Zhao Liyu seemed to have grabbed a straw for her life and immediately shouted: "I have, I have a treasure absolutely worth more than ten thousand spirit stones."

Lin Zhangqing nodded, feeling a bit gratified. The effort finally had a harvest, so he asked: "What is it? Tell me about it. Whether it's worth ten thousand spirit stones, I will be the one to judge."

Zhao Liyu hurriedly said: "It's a family-inherited Third-Rank Spirit Planter inheritance!"

After finishing, she looked at Lin Zhangqing with longing.

Lin Zhangqing's heart stirred. That's right! Why hadn't he thought of it? When he interrogated her last time and she said she was a First-Rank Spirit Planter, he should have thought of it. He had to squeeze her again to see if there were any other surprises.

He raised his hand and cast a Nourishing Origin Catalysis Technique. Zhao Liyu was confused, but knowing it was a Spirit Planter Catalysis Technique, she looked at him with some surprise.

Lin Zhangqing then said: "I have a Spirit Planter inheritance myself, so to me, the value isn't great, but with your Third-Rank inheritance, some things can be mutually verified."

"It can't be said that it has no value, so let's count that inheritance as worth five thousand spirit stones! Are there any other things? If not, then I'm sorry! You still have to..."

Although he didn't say it afterwards, Zhao Liyu knew what he meant.

Zhao Liyu hesitated and asked: "Will you really let me go?"

Lin Zhangqing saw her like this and estimated there was a big haul.

He weighed it in his heart before saying: "Unfortunately, this is my biggest secret. Just now I wanted to throw you directly into the deep pit next to us and turn you into nutrients for this space."

"Suddenly, on a whim, I asked you. But now that you know my secret, it's impossible for me to let you leave! Only those who have gained my trust can leave here."

"If you really have treasures to redeem your life, I can allow you to live here, but you must sincerely take a Heavenly Dao oath to acknowledge me as your master and never betray me for all eternity."

"If you can accept it, hand over the treasure. If you can't accept it, then I will throw you into that deep pit."

Zhao Liyu felt slightly relieved upon hearing this. If Lin Zhangqing had readily agreed to let her leave just now, she would have been even more afraid.

She also saw another beautiful female cultivator standing on the side, looking at her with a trace of pity and sympathy, and didn't know what her status was here.

Not daring to hesitate, she knelt directly towards Lin Zhangqing.

She swore: "Heaven and Earth as witness, Great Dao as proof, I, Zhao Liyu, voluntarily acknowledge the cultivator in front of me as my master, and will never betray him for all eternity. If I violate this oath, I will immediately have my soul fly and scatter and die an untimely death!"

As soon as the oath was finished, the entire inner space suddenly dimmed slightly, and then a strange power descended into Zhao Liyu's sea of consciousness, imprinting a silver rune on her soul.

The sudden soul burning made Zhao Liyu scream in pain. Fortunately, the burning sensation of that pain quickly subsided, leaving only a silver rune on her soul, which was exactly the character "Qing" in the Golden Seal Script. Zhao Liyu hadn't studied the Golden Seal Script, but for some reason, she just knew that this rune represented the meaning of "Qing".

And she also knew that if one day she violated the oath she had just taken, then this silver rune imprinted on her soul would immediately explode, causing her to have her soul fly and scatter and die an untimely death.

On the other side, just after Zhao Liyu finished screaming, a gentle and intimate power quickly descended into Lin Zhangqing's sea of consciousness and formed a small golden rune. Lin Zhangqing had already experienced this kind of scene twice.

It was just that the power that descended this time was gentle and intimate, but it didn't have the power of the previous two times. The feeling these two descending powers gave Lin Zhangqing was very different.

In the sea of consciousness, one golden rune and two silver runes were lined up together. Lin Zhangqing tried to make contact with that golden rune with his spiritual sense.

A feeling of panic, unease, tension, anticipation, and various emotions woven together was transmitted to Lin Zhangqing's heart, and the emotions felt were much clearer than those transmitted by the silver runes.

Lin Zhangqing's heart stirred and he transmitted a "stand up" command to that golden rune.

Immediately, Zhao Liyu exclaimed in surprise, "Ah!"

Lin Zhangqing immediately asked: "What did you feel just now?"

Zhao Liyu hurriedly replied: "The silver rune on my soul transmitted the meaning of letting me stand up."

Lin Zhangqing was stunned upon hearing this, feeling very strange. Why would she say there was a silver rune on her soul? He tried again and transmitted a new command to that golden rune.

Then he continued to ask: "What did you feel this time?"

Zhao Liyu replied: "The rune transmitted the meaning of letting me clean myself up."

Lin Zhangqing understood a bit. The Heavenly Dao oath Zhao Liyu took caused a silver rune to form on her soul, and this rune could actually receive the commands he transmitted through the golden rune.

So he turned to look at Xu Meiniang and said: "You heard her words too. Is there a silver rune on your soul?"

Xu Meiniang hurriedly shook her head: "No, Master. There is no silver rune in my soul or sea of consciousness."

Lin Zhangqing nodded in disappointment. He believed Xu Meiniang wouldn't dare to lie to him.

So he continued to study that golden rune. If there was no distance limit for transmitting commands, then this ability would be powerful, but Lin Zhangqing knew there couldn't be such a good thing.

It was just that he didn't know what this distance was. Lin Zhangqing decided to try it.

He first let Xu Meiniang untie the ropes on her body. Lin Zhangqing wouldn't touch Zhao Liyu now that she was covered in the smell of urine.

"You go straight to the courtyard with Xu Meiniang first and clean yourself up from head to toe, then come see me."

After finishing, he threw a storage bag to her, which contained the clothes and various daily sundries of the six rogue cultivators in their group. He handed them all back to Zhao Liyu to deal with herself, as there were things she needed inside.

While the two of them went to wash their bodies, Lin Zhangqing had to organize his thoughts.

Why didn't a silver rune form on the soul when Mu Xiaoxiao and Xu Meiniang took the Heavenly Dao oath, but Zhao Liyu did? The content of the oath was about the same, and the only difference was the space they were in when they took the oath.

Xu Meiniang took the oath in the main space outside, and Mu Xiaoxiao took the oath in the Ziyang Secret Realm.

But in fact, the Ziyang Secret Realm should have been an independent space split off from the main space by ancient experts a very long time ago and controlled by an array, but it still belonged to the main space, which meant it was still controlled by the same Heavenly Dao.

But the place where Zhao Liyu took the oath was Lin Changliu's inner space. The Heavenly Dao shouldn't be able to control it, because this inner space was all nurtured by Lin Changliu bit by bit, and the Heavenly Dao here was Lin Changliu himself.

So Zhao Liyu taking an oath in here was responded to by Lin Changliu himself, which explained why the effects of almost the same oath would be so different.

He also understood why he felt intimate. One person and one plant had lived and died together; how could they not be intimate? Dao companions might not have such an intimate relationship.

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