Chapter 31: Divine Core Transformation

  It wasn't until Lin Heng confirmed there was no more noise that he dared to use force to break free.

  The demon king's body was cut in half by the "Eternal Patriarch", losing its life force, and Lin could climb out without any issues.

  He gazed at the python's corpse, which was as small as a mountain, and sighed with emotion. Such a powerful monster had been chased down and killed by that unknown warrior, whose martial arts skills were truly unimaginable! But then he thought again, such a powerful warrior had been easily destroyed without leaving any trace by some unknown object. Just how terrifying was that thing?!

  He looked down at himself, still wet and covered in the snake's digestive juices, which gave off a foul odor. There was also quite a bit of the python's blood on him. This place wasn't suitable for staying for long, so he'd better leave as soon as possible and find somewhere to get something to eat and take a bath.

  That terrifying pressure left a shadow in his heart, and he was really afraid that thing would appear again.

  He glanced around and spotted the box on the stone.

  "Huh? The inner elixir of the Crowned Scale Snake?" He stared at the pellet in the box, his heart racing with excitement.

  He heard Lü Bu's sudden death in the snake's belly and thought that the inner elixir would also disappear, but unexpectedly it fell into his own hands.

  Because he had to verify it through the Wu Zhe, he worked hard and studied books, naturally understanding the shocking value of this inner elixir! ——Just a little short of breaking through to the first product with the last wisp of distance, having this fourth-grade inner elixir, I'm afraid not only entering the first product without suspense, even the second product is not in question.

  There was a slight dissatisfaction, he temporarily did not know the method of taking the inner elixir. He also didn't rashly take it like this, for such a great tonic, if taken raw, he feared that the medicinal power contained within would cause his body to explode.

  Well, let's put it away first. He carefully wrapped up the box and tied it behind his back.

  Fell into the snake's belly, thought it was a dead end, but unexpectedly escaped from death and encountered an extraordinary adventure that ordinary people would never experience in their lifetime.

  His mood was greatly improved, "Huh" how did this door appear? The place where his eyes fell was the ancient gate that Lv Bu Zhen had opened by twisting the "mirror body". Although the red snake restored the mirror body, it didn't restore it for the time being. Lin Hang also heard the sound of "Za Za Za" when it opened, and thought it was the sound of the monster's appearance, but it turned out that this cave hid an ancient hidden door.

  He took two steps forward, but saw that the door was like stone yet not stone, like iron yet not iron, and he didn't know what material it was made of. The entire door was carved with two huge hands, and on top of the huge hands were three strange characters. The door was ancient and desolate, probably nearly a thousand years old. When Lin Heng's hand came into contact with the ancient door, he felt a massive suction force coming from his palm.

  He was startled and wanted to shake it off vigorously.

  But the power of Gu Men was not something he could resist, Lin Heng only felt a violent shock in his spiritual sea, threads of energy escaped from his body and flowed into the giant stone gate like small streams flowing into the ocean.

  The stone gate received the nourishment of the aura, like the mirror body on the top of the cave, emitting a faint gray glow. Lin's aura source flowed out endlessly, and he was naturally frightened and at a loss, but he had no ability to get rid of it. He had nearly first-class aura reserves, which was already magnificent for an ordinary warrior. However, compared to the stone gate's appetite, it seemed insignificant.

  With one cup of tea, his energy was suddenly drained away.

  Shi Men showed no signs of stopping, and Lin Heng's calm "Yunzhi layer" in his divine sense sea was churning rapidly, clearly sensing danger.

  Lin Heng was even more anxious, his energy being drained. Next, the "Energy Storage Ball Layer" would be refined and transformed into energy that would be absorbed by the opponent. Ah, damn it! I don't want to fall behind again, just when I'm about to advance to First Rank, you're going to make me regress back to before liberation?

  As expected, under Shi Men's absorption, the "Yun Zhi Qiu Layer" was refined strand by strand. Although the "Yun Zhi Qiu Layer" desperately struggled and squirmed, that single thumb-sized fine hole was gradually expanding. As everyone knows, when an ordinary martial artist advances to the first rank, the "Yun Zhi Qiu Layer" forms completely and produces self-protection abilities.

  It just so happened that at the last moment, this stone gate took advantage of the opportunity to enter.

  Lin Heng was about to cry without tears. Alas, I had finally cultivated to this point with great difficulty, and the first product was in sight, but it fell into a ditch.

  He had failed five times, and was always on the alert to himself, working hard and determined to advance to a first-class warrior, and make a name for himself. It can be said that what Shi Men was slowly devouring was not his medicinal power, but his dream of struggle!

  As the stone gate's power increased thread by thread, its absorption speed grew faster and faster, and the faint glow of the stone gate gradually brightened.

  In just half a cup of tea's time, Lin Heng had completely seized the "Essence Ball Layer" from him, leaving only an empty "Spirit Core Seed" in his spiritual sea. Lin Heng was heartbroken and regretful, wishing he could smash his head against the door: "I'm so stupid! How could I not even touch it, touching this trash!"

  This cave is the lair of the Crowned Scale Serpent and that thing, it must be strange. How come I'm so stupid, touching everything I see?

  He regretted it, the "Hidden Essence Realm" was completely gone, which meant he could only start again from the starting line of an ordinary warrior. Ordinary warriors, cultivating to the first rank, without ten or eight years, is something that can't be accomplished. Like in Qili Gou, there are only a few dozen first-rank warriors, showing how difficult it is. He had finally reached a breakthrough in his cultivation, mysteriously reaching the threshold of the first rank, but now he was back to zero.

  He was heartbroken, but unfortunately, Shi Men had no intention of withdrawing at this point.

  After losing the "Yu Zhi Qiu Ceng", Lin Heng's "Shen He Zhong Zi" trembled with a start, and Shi Men actually intended to refine his "Shen He Zhong Zi"!

  "Divine Core Seed" is the source of a warrior's hidden power, an exclusive proof.

  Lin Heng was ridiculed, his family was despised, all because the martial artist failed and couldn't become a martial artist. Once the "Divine Core Seed" is refined, it means that he has returned to being an ordinary person, and it's really possible that he won't be able to pass the test of becoming a martial artist in just a few days!

  "This is Lin Huan's bottom line! Even if you want my life, you can take it away! But you can't deprive me of my warrior identity, that's what I and my family rely on to escape shame. Lin Huan can die, but he can't let his family be ashamed of him!!!"

  He gritted his teeth and charged at the door with all his might! He wasn't trying to kill himself, but it was an instinctive reaction born of desperation. Maybe if he smashed into it hard enough to knock himself out cold, losing consciousness would stop the stone door from sucking him in.

  "Bang", blood flowed like a stream, threads of fresh blood fell on that green palm print.

  The suction of the stone gate continued, and the acceleration of the divine core seed's dramatic shock caused a fine and long crack to appear on its surface.

  Perhaps it was his desperate resistance that produced a call, or perhaps it was the dangerous aura that produced an omen. At this moment, the pale blue system in his body suddenly emerged and connected with that mysterious suction force. The two brutal forces collided, and the point of contact was exactly at the divine core seed.

  Only saw the divine core seed suddenly expanding, becoming crystal clear and transparent.

  The original powerful suction was challenged, turned into a reverse force, pressed and crushed, entwined with the power of the mysterious system, converging, colliding, squeezing... The entire spiritual sea "roared" with intense vibrations.

  Right after that, a bright and translucent water droplet formed on the surface of the crystal-like seed. "Ding Dong" it fell down with a crisp sound, hanging three feet below the seed. In an instant, another drop...

  Lin Heng was stunned, what's going on? Could it be that the Divine Core seed has a problem, how could it drip out **? Although there was no phenomenon of energy leaking out, he was still anxious and uneasy. Meanwhile, at the stone gate which he didn't notice, the blood he splattered was quietly seeping into the palm print, entering the stone gate's inner layer.

  As two mysterious forces collided violently, Lin Heng's inner sight was forced out.

  The divine consciousness was violently shaken, Lin's energy and blood surged, holding on for a moment, but ultimately unable to withstand the collision of two massive forces, and he fainted.

  When he woke up, it was already unknown what time. His first action was to introspect the divine sea of consciousness. Damn, being disturbed by these two forces, I won't let my divine core seed be exploded! When he saw the scene in the divine sea of consciousness, he was stunned like a wooden chicken.

  The divine core seed is intact, the outer "essence ball layer" has been stripped away, and it hangs naked in its original position. It itself has returned to its original size, as if nothing had happened. What left Lin Heng stunned was that three feet below it, a crystal clear liquid vortex had formed.

  Hidden Power Vortex!

  Lin Heng was completely stunned. This whirlpool was clearly a "Potential Whirlpool" that could only be formed by advancing to the first rank.

  What's going on? Have I become a first-rate cultivator? Lin Huan only felt that it was unbelievable! Ordinary warriors, after reaching the Great Completion of the Qi Accumulation Realm, would advance to the first rank and immediately produce a Qi Accumulation Vortex. Advancing to the second rank would result in two Qi Accumulation Vortices... and so on.

  How did I pass out and gain another vortex of potential in the Sea of Consciousness? What exactly did those two forces do?

  Advance to the first rank, the outer layer of the divine nucleus seed needs to form a complete aura sphere, but my aura sphere has been absorbed by the stone gate. Even now, the divine nucleus seed is still bare and unadorned, how can it produce an "aura vortex" and advance to the first rank?

  He was baffled and cast his eyes towards the stone gate, only to see that the original location had turned into a smooth cave wall, and the strange stone gate had disappeared without knowing when.

  "Ugh!" Let's hurry up and leave, this place is too strange. If we run into another one, I won't be able to save my own life.

  As he passed by the python's corpse, he casually picked up two thick scales and hid them in his bosom.

  "This is the scale armor of a fourth-grade demon beast, it's worth a lot of money! My family is just a small household, if I sell these two pieces of scale armor, I'll definitely make a fortune. It's not that he's not greedy, but this place is too eerie, first, he doesn't dare to stay for too long; secondly, these scales are very heavy and large in volume, he can't carry many either."

  So he could only aim for the two pieces with the best quality, and quickly get them done and leave.

  As Lin Fang left, a red-headed snake slowly reappeared in the fragrance of incense.

  It stared at the stone wall, its eyes dazed, as if it had discovered something was amiss. In an instant, its snake-like neck suddenly swelled up, like a long rope flying in mid-air, and its snake head actually reached out to the mirror-like object on top of the cave. After observing for a while, it finally didn't find anything unusual and slowly returned to its original state.

  It stared at the python's corpse, feeling that it was an obstacle, and with a big mouth open, it forcibly swallowed the python's corpse into its belly.