Chapter 178

"What should I do?" Ripples stirred in the depths of Zhang Lin's bloodshot eyes; no one who can live is willing to die.

Although the young man before him stood right in front of him, he was like something hidden within the chaotic domain, making it impossible to perceive his true strength; but relying on the ability with which the other party had awakened him, one could see his extraordinariness, and he subconsciously felt that the other party perhaps truly had a way to resolve the Source Heaven Master's ominousness.

The golden light in Jiang Xuan's eyes completely submerged: "The Source Heaven Master ending up like this was entirely because he reversed cause and effect, using his ability to open too many precious things, causing an ominous entity to possess him; his karmic rules are higher than other rules, so naturally they cannot be dispersed."

He transmitted the World Life Force information to the other party and said solemnly: "Using this life force to nurture and repair the damaged soul, sever the karmic rules encircling your body, possess an immortal plant, abandon all power, and re-cultivate the Great Dao as a Yao cultivator."

"The power of karma probably only has a chance to be severed by becoming a Great Emperor; does the Young Master have the confidence to forbid karma?" Zhang Lin asked with a heavy gaze.

Relying on Jiang Xuan's life force could indeed nurture this strand of his consciousness into a complete soul; such a precious immortal object, yet the other party was willing to give it to a complete stranger for use, but even so, the power of karma is not so easily severed.

"Although I am not a Great Emperor, my cultivation also involves karmic rules; I have a certain degree of confidence!" Jiang Xuan looked seriously at the other party.

The Chaos Sea could support him in using the Dreamer's involved karmic authority to interfere with that karmic power; actually, the most important thing was still the "Error" authority playing a role, relying on Error to transform karma, and pulling out Zhang Lin who was forever encircled by karma.

"Being able to keep a life is already defying heaven; Zhang Lin dares not ask for more, only troubling the Young Master with the grace of saving my life! Zhang Lin's future life belongs to the Young Master!" Zhang Lin suddenly bowed deeply, his tone becoming lofty and firm: "However, please also wait until I am awake and have power, to finally do my part for the Human Race!"

"Good!" Jiang Xuan looked at that firm gaze of his and nodded solemnly.

The reason he did not directly go and wipe out the Spirit Valley was mainly because he remembered the Zhang Lin who had wiped out the Spirit Valley back then, who, in the body of a Red-haired Monster, had exhausted his last drop of blood and tears; his heroic spirit moved everyone.

Although Jiang Xuan could wipe out the Ancient Royal Family of the Spirit Valley, he still hoped this war would be Zhang Lin's main stage!

Duan De's five features were nearly wrinkled together as he walked over resentfully and sized up Zhang Lin from head to toe.

Zhang Lin turned his head to look at the little fatty beside him and asked curiously: "Who is this?"

"It's all because of you; when I lost control you nearly got me killed! Made me suffer terrible losses! My Emperor Soldier ah!" Duan De's eyes were full of accusation and grievance.

If Jiang Xuan had expended some means to deal with the Red-haired Monster, him giving Jiang Xuan the Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar's lid might not have felt too much of a loss. But the problem was Jiang Xuan stood there without moving a muscle and resolved the matter? He now only felt he had suffered a huge loss! If he had known earlier the Red-haired Monster was a mentally deranged person, he would also have had means to attempt to awaken it.

Seeing Jiang Xuan looking at him with a half-smile, Duan De forcibly pulled out a stiff smile: "That, Big Brother Jiang Xuan! You see, you resolved the trouble without the slightest effort, I already took out so many treasures before..."

"You want to welch on the debt?" Jiang Xuan narrowed his eyes, a dangerous meaning on his face.

"No no no!" Duan De's eyeballs rolled, and he changed the subject: "Big Brother Jiang Xuan, I'll give you the Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar's lid, then can you return the things I took out before to me?"

"Hmm?" Jiang Xuan's voice rose an octave: "Weren't the previous things to compensate Ye Fan and Pang Bo whom you deceived? They are both my beloved kin ah! I thought you were afraid... I... would get angry, so you had me apologize to them on your behalf!"

Duan De's face stiffened; he had indeed swindled the two of them out of quite a few good things before, but Ye Fan hadn't suffered a loss ah! Not to mention the Demon Emperor's Heart could help him strengthen his physique, just that piece of Mysterious Green Copper looked like a good thing too, only he couldn't understand it so he couldn't use it.

But the more mysterious the thing, the more valuable; he, Duan De, has always done honest business.

But looking at Jiang Xuan's increasingly dangerous gaze, Duan De sighed lightly in his heart; he couldn't beat him so he could only admit he was unlucky, and piled a smile on his face again: "Ah yes yes yes! I repent for my previous behavior of swindling and deceiving; these things count as my apology sincerity to you!"

"Hmm?"

"Ah no!! It's the apology sincerity to Brother Ye Fan and Brother Pang Bo!" Seeing Jiang Xuan stare over again, Duan De hurriedly corrected himself.

Watching Duan De take out the Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar's lid with a pained expression, his eye sockets nearly turning red, Jiang Xuan had not a shred of sympathy.

Ever since Zhang Lin regained consciousness, Duan De at the side had long since used who knows how many means preparing to flee this place; his earlier words about being willing to exchange life force for an Emperor Soldier were just a pretense; that life force was indeed mouth-watering, but compared to a part of an Extreme Dao Emperor Soldier it was somewhat inferior.

Now putting on an appearance of reluctance, his body was actually hooking/connecting a Holy Soldier wanting to flee.

Too bad from the moment Duan De himself jumped out, Jiang Xuan had already sealed space.

After the Secret Path Seed's empowerment and the knowledge of space control he received in the Mysterious World, his manipulation of Space Rules had already stood at the Peak of Rules; unless one cultivated the Space Dao or had extremely powerful attack power, it was very difficult to break free from his Spatial Blockade.

Although the Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar's lid also counts as an Emperor Soldier, it is not complete; Jiang Xuan's cultivation realm combat power is unrivaled under heaven, Duan De had not half a shred of confidence to escape.

With Duan De's current strength, without other trump cards he could not break open Jiang Xuan's Spatial Blockade.

Seeing the other party just quietly watching him, having tried all the various ways of hooking/connecting in his body and still unable to escape, Duan De could only resign himself to handing over the Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar's lid, wearing a sincere expression: "I, Duan De, value honesty most; if I say I'll give it to you I'll give it to you, not a bit of hesitation!"

Yao Xi at the side rolled her eyes; she could see the craftiness and reluctance in Duan De's eyes, she didn't believe Jiang Xuan couldn't see it.

"Alright! The owner of this thing is still alive; sooner or later you'll have to return it anyway, might as well give it to me!" Jiang Xuan rarely explained a sentence.

Although Duan De's personality is unconventional, making Ye Fan and the others suffer losses, whether in the Previous Life or this life he counts as a marvelous person; Jiang Xuan does not dislike the other party.

"Ah? Take it take it!" Duan De widened his eyes and waved his hands vigorously, unknown if he truly believed it or just found himself a reason, but his mood visibly improved quite a bit immediately.

Jiang Xuan also did not go back on his word; he separated two strands of World Life Force and injected them into the other party's body, available for mobilization at any time when needed.

Feeling the two strands of life force emitting vast vitality within his body, a cheap smile appeared on Duan De's face again; this time he was completely balanced, feeling that even if it was a loss it wasn't much of a loss.

"Young Master Jiang, please save her!" Feeling that vast vitality of the life force, Zhang Lin bowed solemnly once more.

"Master Zhang need not be like this; since I promised to save her I definitely will not give up!"

The Source was opened by Zhang Lin, revealing that pure and refined beautiful woman!

Jiang Xuan once again injected a strand of life force into the woman's body, and immediately sensed the Micro World Consciousness's reminder.

Although Jiang Xuan's last thunder tribulation infusion caused him to have an extra portion of life force he could freely mobilize, that strand of consciousness still monitored the disappearance of each strand of World Life Force, prompting Jiang Xuan how much life force he had used up.

That consciousness was like a miser who only allows entry and not exit, but he was only doing it for the Micro World's development; accurately speaking, that strand of consciousness had no emotions, what it had was more like a procedural instinct.

When he came back to his senses, the woman in the Source also slowly opened her eyes at this moment.

At the same time, Zhang Lin also quickly retreated backward; he did not want Yang Yi to see his current appearance.

But Yang Yi seemed to have a spiritual connection; the first thing she saw was Zhang Lin, her weak yet firm voice seeming to echo in the Spirit Valley: "Zhang Lin, is it you?"

Seeing that figure covered in red hair standing motionless in place, Yang Yi suddenly rose, rushing toward the Red-haired Monster without regard for anything.

"No way! This life force is this useful!" Duan De widened his eyes; the Saintess sealed for ten thousand years in the Source, being able to save her was already quite something, but she opened her eyes and jumped up running so fast, this life force's effect seems even more useful than he imagined!

Yang Yi had already arrived before Zhang Lin; that panic-inducing terrifying face and the red hair covering his whole body would make anyone who saw it not dare to easily touch him, but Yang Yi didn't mind in the slightest, just like that she fiercely threw herself into the red hair, throwing herself into Zhang Lin's embrace.

Zhang Lin stiffly raised his hand, wanting to wipe away the other party's inadvertent tears, but seeing the current appearance of his own hand, he froze in mid-air unwilling to lower it.

Yang Yi, however, actively pressed close, her eyes filled with deep love and reluctance.

Watching the two people's intimate manner, Jiang Xuan brought the others to beneath the Dao Platform.

The figure on the Dao Platform had already dissipated and vanished, but that Chaos Qi still slowly drifted down from the sky, landing on the nearly hundred steps beneath the Dao Platform.

Jiang Xuan took a step out; the Beginningless Formation activated on its own, the pressure reaching the heavens like a Giant Hammer that reaches the heavens descending, carrying enormous pressure and gray light falling upon Jiang Xuan's body.

Jiang Xuan's body instantly fused into its Strongest Form; the Eight Trigrams Furnace Dao Patterns, Xuanhuang Mother Qi Dao Patterns, and the faint Dao Patterns on his soul jointly constituted a complete protection, resisting this magnificent power.

Even so, Jiang Xuan still felt that vast pressure; just walking up a few steps had already made his steps slow down.

Thinking of how Ye Fan had back then used the Ancient Jade to withdraw the Heavenly Pressure, Jiang Xuan didn't have that thing in his hand; he could only rely on his body to forcibly withstand and advance.

The Swallowing Heaven Demon Jar's lid in his hand, although just obtained, was also used very skillfully by Jiang Xuan, helping Jiang Xuan block a portion of the pressure.

Seeing Jiang Xuan ascend the Dao Platform so easily, Duan De followed behind, also preparing to try, wanting to see what kind of treasure was actually on the Dao Platform.

But he had only climbed one layer of steps when endless pressure made him instantly fall back down from the Dao Platform; he suspected that if he had persisted for a few more seconds, he might have already become unconscious.

Watching Jiang Xuan's steps slow yet steady as he advanced, Duan De cursed "pervert" under his breath, looking greedily at the surrounding Medicine Kings, pondering how to take out a few plants without getting injured.

There were still three layers left; the Beginningless Formation seemed to be in a rage, the chaos even more crazy, needing to kill Jiang Xuan quickly afterwards.

But the next second, Jiang Xuan's body actually faintly emitted a thread of fluctuation, causing that Beginningless Formation to pause, the chaos in the sky also gradually calming down, leaving Jiang Xuan somewhat puzzled.

After careful probing, he found the cause of that thread of fluctuation — it was actually the bit of dark power Wu Shi had left inside his body when he was injured by Wu Shi feeding moves during the lightning tribulation, yet now it had become the key to stopping this formation; one wonders whether Wu Shi did it on purpose or by accident!

Atop the Dao Platform lay a Featherization Dao Robe; besides that, there was nothing else.

Jiang Xuan stared at that Dao Robe for a long time; that Dao Robe actually seemed as if it had been worn by a transparent person, slowly standing upright.

"Fellow Daoist! Didn't expect you'd still have the leisure to come visit my tomb!" A thread of consciousness faintly emerged as if carried by a cool breeze, ethereal yet vivid!

"By rights you shouldn't be able to project your consciousness over!" Jiang Xuan looked doubtfully at that upright Dao Robe.

"I don't know either; perhaps it's because Fellow Daoist's lightning tribulation caused this Heavenly Dao to have some small problem — I discovered I can actually briefly hook and connect everything related to me, briefly project a consciousness projection over," Wu Shi explained as if engaging in peer communication.

Jiang Xuan instantly thought of that polluting thing that appeared after Wu Shi dissipated during the lightning tribulation; he suspected it was related!

Perhaps because of his existence, the plot had produced a situation he had never seen before; unknown whether it was a simple accident or because his appearance's butterfly effect caused a major change.

"Can you still rest on your end? The Undying Heavenly Emperor isn't pestering you?" Jiang Xuan asked curiously.

The Dao Robe abruptly paused; the ethereal voice rang out again: "Fellow Daoist knows quite a lot! I fear not the two of them!"

Jiang Xuan nodded lightly: "When the Immortal Road reopens, I'll go to the Xian Yu entrance to help you!"

"I'm very much looking forward to it!" Wu Shi did not ask how Jiang Xuan knew his situation; from the start he only felt this young man was extraordinary, yet never expected him to be this extraordinary! He knew everything about the matter at the Xian Yu entrance!

"The Beginningless Bell, you watch over it..."

"Fellow Daoist, the Beginningless Bell is suppressed in Zi Shan, but still recognizes me as master; if you want to use it, take it freely — just need to suppress those Zi Shan Evil Spirits. But if it's used to cultivate the path you walked out, then I'll suffer certain injury; at that time whether I can endure it or not is hard to say!"

Wu Shi perceived Jiang Xuan's intention and hurriedly refused.

Jiang Xuan smacked his lips, fairly regretful: "Then forget it! Can't fuse it, so taking it is no use!"

Others using the Beginningless Bell is simply using it; Jiang Xuan using it is equivalent to thoroughly pulverizing and integrating it into his body — whether Dao Patterns or Divine Materials, none can escape; it indeed might affect Wu Shi.

Jiang Xuan then took out the lid of the Ruthless Emperor's skull from the side; looks like this thing also can't be melted by him, otherwise when the Ruthless Emperor really wants it back, he couldn't very well say "I fused your one generation's skull into my body"!

Amidst his contemplation, Wu Shi's increasingly ethereal voice rang out again.

"Fellow Daoist, we are fated to meet again!" Along with the voice drifting away, that Dao Robe also slowly fell back onto the Dao Platform.

Jiang Xuan regained his senses and walked down the Dao Platform; Red-haired Zhang Lin also brought Yang Yi along and walked over.

(Chapter End)