Chapter 585

Looking at the icy blade aura hovering before him, Lin Chen’s eyes gleamed with sharp light.

So far, he had obtained only one flawless-grade martial will—the sword will drawn from the depths of the East Sea.

But that sword will was sealed within a jade slip, never subdued by him; once released, it would dissipate into the heavens and earth.

Unless he could earn the acceptance of that flawless-grade sword will.

Yet this flawless-grade knife will before him was clearly different—non-aggressive, allowing him to attempt absorption.

Lin Chen’s mind stirred; his dantian’s spiritual star rotated faster, and behind him, stars slowly emerged—the Wuhun Phenomenon of the Moon Rising Over the Sea appeared, a full moon hanging high.

The moon hung high, its light enveloping the knife will; the blade aura trembled and swelled, clearly struggling to break free from the lunar embrace.

Yet within Lin Chen’s Wuhun Phenomenon, the stars accelerated their rotation, forming countless star-cloud vortices, each emitting a powerful suction that pulled the blade aura closer.

Though the blade aura resisted, it was steadily drawn toward the star-cloud vortices; the moment it touched the vortex’s edge, it instantly transformed into a slash of light and shot into the vortex’s center.

The blade light vanished into the vortex’s core, and the entire star-cloud vortex erupted in brilliant knife-light, while below, the Canglan Ocean churned violently, waves surging as countless knife wills surfaced.

These knife wills were all those Lin Chen had absorbed in the Canglan Realm—ordinary, refined, and flawless-grade…

At this moment, these knife wills seemed to find their home, rushing toward the blazing vortex one after another, pouring into it without hesitation.

As more knife wills flooded in, the star-cloud vortex stretched ever longer; with each stretch, Lin Chen felt a tearing pain throughout his entire spiritual core.

【Race Against Time: With the Destiny of Shen Zhao Wu Ya, absorb multiple flawless-grade martial wills into your spiritual core to enhance the power of your Wuhun Phenomenon.】

The interface, long dormant, reappeared; seeing the 【Race Against Time】 prompt, Lin Chen’s eyes lit up—he had never known how to further enhance his Wuhun Phenomenon, and now he finally had direction.

Absorbing flawless-grade martial wills could enhance the power of his Wuhun Phenomenon.

It seemed only he could walk this path—ordinary cultivators lacked the 【Shen Zhao Wu Ya】 destiny and could not infinitely absorb spiritual energy; their spiritual core could hold at most one flawless-grade martial will.

Lin Chen pondered for a long while: many Qi Refining sixth-stage cultivators spent their entire lives chasing just one flawless-grade martial will, not only because upgrading a martial will to flawless-grade was extraordinarily difficult, but also because the spiritual core struggled to bear two such wills.

A slight misstep could easily cause spiritual core rupture, resulting in net loss.

But he had no such problem—【Shen Zhao Wu Ya】 allowed his spiritual core to absorb energy infinitely, and martial wills were, at their core, a form of spiritual energy, merely more refined.

His star-cloud vortices within the stars were numerous enough to absorb flawless-grade martial wills without limit.

Though the spiritual tearing pain was intense, to Lin Chen it was nothing—he had endured far worse throughout his cultivation journey.

One breath, two breaths…

After a hundred breaths, the star-cloud vortex stretched into the shape of a great blade, then exploded violently, reverting to a vortex form—but now, flashes of knife-light flickered within it.

From afar, it looked as if a peerless blade lay hidden within the vortex, sending chills through all who beheld it.

Simultaneously, countless insights about the knife flooded into Lin Chen’s mind.

Slash, chop, swing…

Scenes of knife techniques passed through his mind—he now felt as if he were a knife-wielder, practicing on snow-capped peaks, practicing beneath waterfalls…

Ten thousand times, a hundred thousand times, a million times…

The moment Lin Chen opened his eyes again, the cold light shooting from his pupils mirrored that of the unrestrained knife master before him.

In mere dozens of breaths, to him it felt like a lifetime spent with the knife; now his entire aura radiated like a frost-edged blade, sharp and unyielding.

“Slice!”

With a roar, a blade of light erupted from the star-cloud vortex behind Lin Chen and slashed down before him.

No flashy effects, not even an energy ripple—but Lin Chen knew the power of this strike: no Qi Refining fifth-stage cultivator could withstand it.

He dismissed his Wuhun Phenomenon, adjusted his breathing, and restored his aura to its original state: “Open the next round.”

“Approved!”

A solemn voice echoed, and another figure solidified on the arena—a massive, bald giant with a body like a iron tower, his skin gleaming with bronze luster, his arms corded with muscles like coiled dragons.

“So he’s a body-refining cultivator.”

Lin Chen’s gaze grew serious; body-refining cultivators’ strength was wildly polarized—either mediocre, or extraordinarily powerful.

Clearly, this elder belonged to the latter—otherwise he would not be listed among the hundred strongest Qi Refining fourth-stage warriors in Yanhuang Dynasty history.