Chapter 30: 【The Heart-Monkey Returns to Righteousness, the Six Thieves Leave No Trace】

"So, what does this have to do with the Primordial Qi?"

System 10086 grumbled; there wasn't even a shadow of the Primordial Qi to be seen here.

"Of course it has a connection. The Primordial Qi is 'the Dao gives birth to One'; furthermore, there is 'One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things'."

"One is the Primordial Qi, Two is the perfection of both nature and life, Three is the three treasures of essence, Qi, and spirit, and all things are the human body's inner universe."

Lin Xian said leisurely: "The Spirit-Restraining and General-Dispatching technique is merely a spiritual branch evolved from the Primordial Qi, the path of the Ghost Immortal."

"It seems a grade lower than the Origin of Qi and Body." System 10086 evaluated. When it issued the novice gift pack, it hadn't paid much attention, simply choosing the Origin of Qi and Body at the host's request.

Now it seemed the host had been prepared long ago. Was this accidental, or intentional?

"That is only natural. What Zhang Huaiyi realized had already surpassed his fourth brother, Wu Gensheng. That is why there is the 'End of Techniques', the Origin of Qi and Body."

Lin Xian said leisurely: "The Human Immortal obtains one technique, the Earth Immortal obtains one method, the Heaven Immortal obtains one Dao. The Dao gives birth to methods, and methods give birth to techniques. At the end of techniques, the Origin of Qi and Body has already surpassed techniques and can be considered an Earth Immortal's method."

"With such talent, Zhang Huaiyi still ranked below Zhang Zhiwei." System 10086 reminded: "Have you thought about how to deal with the Old Heavenly Master?"

The combat power of the Old Heavenly Master, Zhang Zhiwei, had always been a mystery because no one had ever seen him go all out.

Whether it was the Ten Elders or the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, the Heavenly Master dealt with them all with a single strike. He didn't even use his trump cards, just basic attacks. This level of overwhelming combat power made it impossible to gauge his true realm.

According to the System's calculations, the Old Heavenly Master was most likely at the peak of the Life Spring Realm in combat power, with a small probability of being at the early stage of the Divine Bridge Realm. The key node lay in the Heavenly Master's mastery of the Five Thunders Orthodox Method; even if it only possessed one ten-thousandth of the power of a heavenly tribulation, it was enough to crush the mortal world.

"The Heavenly Master? That is very simple, I shall just break through!"

A majestic aura surged forth spontaneously. The surging breath of the peak Life Spring Realm shook the observatory until it was on the verge of collapse. That blood energy surged toward the clouds like a heavenly pillar, and Lin Xian stood in the mortal world like a war god.

The phone in his palm flickered, and a message came through.

Xia He: I have already found Ba Lun. He agrees to see you. The address is...

"Six-Storehouse Thief."

Lin Xian laughed out loud. The thing he had been waiting for for so long had finally arrived. With this extraordinary technique, combined with the massive funds of the World Association, even in a world where acquired essence is thin, he could refine essence into Qi and perfectly ingest nutrients by digesting food.

The Covering the Sky method uses the body as a seed, originating from the Desolate Huang Tiandi of the Chaotic Ancient Era.

And the Desolate Huang Tiandi back then ate his way up; apart from humanoid creatures, no race could escape his big mouth.

Consuming is precisely the best way to replenish life energy and fill up essence and Qi.

After notifying Feng Zhenghao to prepare a large amount of medicinal meals, Lin Xian walked to an open space and opened the map. Then, he communicated with the Wheel of Life within his body. The divine spring was gushing out, magic power was born, and a divine rainbow grew beneath his feet, like a fairy bridge spanning the horizon.

Like a white-gold lightning bolt, he rushed toward the nine heavens, crossing mountain ranges and skimming over winding rivers at extreme speed.

【The map is planning your route... You have deviated from the route, re-planning your route...】

【Warning! Warning! You are speeding, you are speeding!!!】

In the Fifth Branch of the City Traffic Management Bureau, an administrator was skillfully handling various speeding violations as usual. Suddenly, the big screen flickered, and a red message popped up.

"Speeding again. Driving without following rules leads to tears for your loved ones." The administrator muttered, intending to call the nearby traffic police to handle it. Suddenly, catching sight of the speed in the violation information, his pupils shrank, and he blurted out: "Holy crap, this is flying too low!"

"Beep beep beep..." While the administrator was stunned, the internal phone on the opposite side rang.

He subconsciously picked up the phone, and a voice rang in his ear: "We are members of the Sixth Department of the All-Management Bureau. We are now notifying you to put down everything in your hands and ignore any anomalies. A special agent will come to handle it later..."

Sunlight filtered through the dense canopy, casting mottled light and shadows. Birdsong rang out from time to time. It was clearly a quiet and elegant place rarely visited by humans.

Xia He sat cross-legged on a moss-covered rock, silently keeping time. Suddenly, a divine light that was difficult to capture with the naked eye flashed by.

Lin Xian stood before Xia He, looking at this lonely, graceful woman, and asked indifferently: "Where is Ba Lun?"

"Ba Lun has already arrived." Xia He smiled faintly, pointing to the dense forest: "He is playing a little game with you."

"A game? No need."

Lin Xian's gaze shifted. He didn't see any figure, but he already understood in his heart. This was one of the abilities of the Six-Storehouse Thief. Because he stole the vitality of heaven and earth for his own use, his aura was also close to heaven and earth, reaching a kind of unity of man and nature, as if invisible.

"Senior, do you need my help?" Xia He asked with a smile, her eyes flashing with brilliance.

"Skip..." Lin Xian said.

"Skip?" Xia He was stunned. What did this mean?

"No need to listen to the explanation."

Gathering blood energy and weaving divine patterns, Lin Xian casually pinched a hand seal and shouted: "Evil obstacle, why don't you reveal yourself!"

In an instant, the vast aura belonging to the peak of the Life Spring Realm erupted, like a mountain pressing down. With a loud boom, divine light covering dozens of meters pressed down on the mountain forest. A large handprint slapped down, and the towering ancient trees fell like building blocks, as easily as cutting tofu, directly creating a giant pit!

"Xia He." In the giant pit, countless pieces of wood were scattered. A blood-stained foreigner lay on the ground, dying, but still couldn't help cursing: "You bastard, you set me up..."

Xia He was stunned on the spot, subconsciously swallowing her saliva. Was this still human?

So the attack that day wasn't a trump card, just a basic attack.

"Stop playing dead. The successor of the Saint's Theft doesn't die that easily." Lin Xian picked up Ba Lun and casually threw him onto the grass, quietly watching his breathing change from rapid to calm.

The blurred flesh began to repair itself bit by bit, stopping the bleeding at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the end, he was actually as if nothing had happened.

However, when Ba Lun got up again, the grass under his feet had withered and turned yellow, some even turning into dust in the wind, and a large blank area appeared.

"So this is the Eight Extraordinary Techniques." Xia He murmured, her heart receiving a huge shock.

"Can we talk properly now?" Lin Xian chuckled, looking at Ba Lun.

In the face of absolute strength, all words seemed incredibly pale.

Ba Lun was silent for a while, then spoke: "You are like the others, you also want the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, but you don't know the horror of the Six-Storehouse Thief."

"Horror? Isn't it just that the nature cultivation is insufficient and the life cultivation is too much, because the weak soul cannot control the powerful body, leading to a surge in physical desires, and because of the excessive pursuit of desires, the heart becomes incredibly empty, eventually becoming so bored that one wants to eat people."

"If desires are satisfied, one will be empty; if desires are not satisfied, one will be in pain."

"All living beings are like this, struggling without liberation. Although they have an immortal body, they do not have an immortal heart."

Lin Xian seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, laughed out loud, and then said meaningfully: "If you can't even pass this hurdle, what is there to talk about becoming an immortal."

When it comes to eating people, who can compare to the Dark Supremes of Covering the Sky? They treated the universe like a leek garden, eating it galaxy by galaxy.

The former dragon slayer turned into an evil dragon. The ancient emperors who guarded the common people in their first life became the greatest black hands in history after cutting themselves with a knife.

That knife cut away more than just the ancient emperor's realm and heavenly heart; it also cut the emperor's Dao heart.

Compared to that, Ba Lun's psychological problems were simply drizzle, not too difficult to solve.

Ba Lun's pupils shrank, remembering the words Xia He conveyed, remembering the purpose of his coming here, and his voice couldn't help but tremble: "You, no, you have a solution."

"Ba Lun, I will just tell you one sentence." Lin Xian stood with his hands behind his back, indifferently: "The heart-monkey returns to righteousness, the six thieves leave no trace."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 31 =====