CHAPTER 213: CHAPTER 193: CONTROLLING THE MAD BLADE SECRET REALM—ZUO YIMING SWEARS AN OATH

The wall broke open, and Lu Lin stepped inside with little effort.

This place was quite similar to that stone sculpture building room they saw in the First Stage.

No, it was exactly a one-to-one replica.

At the very center of the ground, there was no decorative carving, just a stone.

Crystal stone.

More brilliant than a Star Crystal.

More dazzling than a Star Crystal.

Lu Lin stepped forward, grabbing it in his hand.

"Boss, nice to meet you. I guess we can say we’re meeting in real life now, huh."

Lu Lin said playfully.

"Kid, let go of me."

"Can’t you understand when I speak nicely to you?"

"Let go of me."

From within the crystal stone came the angry roar of the Secret Realm Manager.

At this moment, however, his physical form was restrained, rendering him powerless against Lu Lin.

"Alright, calm down, or I’ll crush you."

Lu Lin said, applying slight pressure with his hand.

A force of twenty thousand jin erupted, and from inside the crystal stone came the Secret Realm Manager’s loud scream.

"No, don’t, don’t."

"This is a Soul Sealing Space Crystal, extremely rare in Heaven and Earth, only used during the creation of Secret Realms."

"If you crush it, I may die, but you’ll also be trapped in the Secret Realm forever with no escape."

"Kid, little brother, relax, relax."

"I bear you no ill will. Look, you’ve cleared four stages, haven’t you reaped plenty of rewards?"

"Right, rewards, how could I forget about the rewards, damn."

"Little brother, don’t worry, I’ll grant you the Secret Realm clearance rewards now."

The Secret Realm Manager spoke from within the Soul Sealing Space Crystal, intending to use his Soul Power to activate privileges to find and distribute reward items from the Mad Blade Heavenly Emperor’s treasure vault to Lu Lin.

But... he found he couldn’t move.

No, not only was he unable to move, he couldn’t control the Secret Realm either.

It was as if a computer expert had entered his domain through a backdoor and seized his management privileges.

Now, the only option left for the Secret Realm Manager was to pull the plug... oh no, destroy the entire Secret Realm.

Nevertheless, he needed to act quickly.

"Boss, no need to get excited, just tell me how this Soul Sealing Space Crystal controls the Secret Realm."

"Okay, okay, little brother, don’t be impulsive."

The Secret Realm Manager was extremely nervous. He had lived for countless years and didn’t want to die in such an undignified manner at the hands of some young kid.

According to him, the Soul Sealing Space Crystal was a unique crystal stone of the immortal realm.

Even the Heavenly Emperor could separate a part of his Soul when facing a life-and-death crisis and put it in the Soul Sealing Space Crystal.

Moreover, the Soul Sealing Space Crystal had the attribute of a virtual space, allowing people to enter it.

Many secret realms on the Tianyuan Continent were founded for this reason.

However, the energy inside the Soul Sealing Space Crystal was limited. Opening it once required some time to accumulate before it could be opened again, which is why many secret realms open annually or once every few years.

The higher the level of the Soul Sealing Space Crystal, the more difficult it is to open and the longer the interval between openings.

Like the one in the Mad Blade Secret Realm, it needs at least ten years before it can be opened once.

And the method by which the Secret Realm Manager controlled the Secret Realm was actually quite simple.

As long as a portion of his Soul was fused with the Soul Sealing Space Crystal, he would become the Soul Sealing Space Crystal, and it would become him.

Controlling the Secret Realm was simply a matter of a single thought for the manager.

But he also told Lu Lin.

Despite the Soul Sealing Space Crystal’s many wondrous aspects, it was extremely fragile.

Every owner of a Soul Sealing Space Crystal had to hide their physical body, namely the Soul Sealing Space Crystal, very well, to avoid being discovered by anyone.

Otherwise, once the Soul Sealing Space Crystal was taken by someone, everything in that Secret Realm would belong to that person.

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin understood.

The thing in his hand was essentially just for show.

What nonsense about fusing with the Soul Sealing Space Crystal to become immortal.

If discovered, let’s see what he can do.

"Little brother, can you let me go?"

"Actually, I’m just a fragment of the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor’s broken Spirit. I can make the decision to give you everything in the treasure vault."

"Just spare me this life."

"Alright."

Lu Lin nodded and said, "However, this Soul Sealing Space Crystal is useful to me. You need to produce a few more for me in exchange."

"Oh, right!"

Lu Lin suddenly thought. In experiencing that much of the life of the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor, Chen Xiran, Bai Buyi, and Fang Gang wouldn’t have resorted to cutting off their hands and exiting the Secret Realm, right?

Outside the Secret Realm, there was still the presence of a terrifying Saint and that Great Elder.

"You’d better teleport my three team members over first."

"Understood."

The Secret Realm Manager agreed, sensing that Lu Lin had relaxed his control over the Soul Sealing Space Crystal with Soul Power, then a thought occurred to him.

Lu Lin must die.

His companions must die as well.

No owner of a Soul Sealing Space Crystal would ever want to be threatened by others.

With a thought, the Secret Realm Manager launched an attack, attempting to kill Lu Lin.

But Lu Lin was already prepared for this move.

The massive spiritual strength pressure came crashing down, not only halting the Secret Realm Manager’s actions but also making him unable to breathe.

This was a small spiritual strength technique Lu Lin figured out himself in the life of the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor.

In fact, in that life, Lu Lin had learned many ways to use Soul Power, which is spiritual strength, but once he came out, all those techniques disappeared from memory.

The only thing he remembered was this.

Because this was a strong suppression method he worked out on his own.

"Little brother, little brother, what are you doing!"

"I’m just about to help you relocate your teammates, why are you doing this to me."

The Secret Realm Manager said exasperatedly.

Lu Lin smiled slightly.

"Boss, I’m someone who likes to befriend honest people."

"Since you’re so dishonest, I can’t possibly trust you anymore."

While speaking, Lu Lin continuously used his Spiritual Strength to permeate the Soul Sealing Space Crystal.

"In life, once you lose credibility, it becomes quite inappropriate."

"At best, people will gossip about you; at worst, you could be killed."

Listening to Lu Lin, the Secret Realm Manager was terrified.

He knew his little tricks had been perceived by Lu Lin.

"I was wrong."

"Boy, I know I was wrong. Please don’t kill me."

"I am the remnant soul of the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor. I gave you the Protective Organ Elixir Stone, the Tongqiao Pill, three Bright Moon Slash techniques self-created by the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor, and I have more rewards I haven’t given you."

"You can’t kill me. There’s a treasure vault in the Soul Sealing Space Crystal. Without me, you’ll never open it."

"Heh heh."

Lu Lin laughed.

But didn’t say anything, only increased the pressure and infiltration of Spiritual Strength onto the Soul Sealing Space Crystal.

No matter what the Secret Realm Manager said, Lu Lin wouldn’t agree.

The time had come.

He didn’t want to die, but Lu Lin was forcing him to.

If that’s the case, let’s perish together then.

He was, after all, a sliver of the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul, and at such a crucial moment, he had to make a choice.

"Kid, if you don’t give me a way out, then don’t blame me."

"Let’s die together then."

"No."

Lu Lin calmly said, "You can’t achieve that."

"Indifference!"

The Desert View Star Skill was unleashed, plunging the Secret Realm Manager into a chaotic fantasy.

In it, the youthful Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor had been killed by beasts before he met Pang Sanjin.

He failed to protect the Rebel King, leading to the King’s death, and he took his own life in guilt.

He knelt before the Heavenly Saber Sect but was trampled to death by a spirit beast raised by the sect, without meeting the old miscellaneous worker.

In a heavenly trial, he used the Heartless Art that was discovered by the heavens, bringing down a stronger lightning trial that killed him.

Lu Lin took advantage of the Secret Realm Manager’s confusion to seize control of the Soul Sealing Space Crystal.

In his mind, he could see how he had overcome the four challenges.

In reality, he was always in the same room with Chen Xiran, Fang Gang, and Bai Buyi.

"Come on."

Lu Lin’s thought brought Fang Gang and the others before him.

"Team leader!"

Fang Gang exclaimed in surprise.

"Team leader!"

Bai Buyi was also astonished.

"Team leader!"

Chen Xiran, with tears on her face, rushed into Lu Lin’s embrace the first time she saw him.

This embrace bore no romantic sentiment, only the camaraderie among team members.

"Team leader, how did we suddenly get here? Have you cleared the level?"

"I knew it, team leader, you could definitely do it."

Fang Gang joyfully said.

"Hmm, hold on, let me handle this matter first."

Lu Lin signaled the three to wait a moment as he looked down at the Secret Realm Manager "squeezed" out from the Soul Sealing Space Crystal.

Now, the Soul Sealing Space Crystal was under Lu Lin’s ownership, and the manager became a wandering ghost.

The faint figure drifted helplessly inside the Soul Sealing Space Crystal.

Lu Lin, seeing his appearance, knew the man wasn’t the remnant soul of the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor.

"Who exactly are you?"

Lu Lin asked calmly.

Yet this absolute calmness made the former Secret Realm Manager shiver.

"Bo-boy, I am the remnant soul of the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor."

"I, uh, really didn’t lie to you."

"Hmph."

Lu Lin snorted coldly.

"If the Wild Blade Heavenly Emperor were truly like you, would he still deserve the title ’Wild’?"

"Speak quickly, or I’ll wipe out your soul and spirit."

"This..."

The man still tried to weasel out but felt Lu Lin’s Spiritual Strength’s pressure intensifying, forcing him to cry out.

"I’ll talk, I’ll talk."

"I am merely a soul on this Dragon-watching Mountain, unaware of where I came from or why I turned out like this."

"However, I know the situation outside."

"The situation outside?"

Lu Lin frowned.

Not daring to delay, the man quickly said, "Yes, yes, I know the secrets of Dragon-watching Mountain, I know about the Blood Pool, I know Xiao Jin, just spare my life and I will tell you all these secrets."

"Otherwise, prepare to die after you leave the Secret Realm."

"Oh, then speak up. If it’s worthwhile, sparing your life is not impossible."

"No, you must swear."

"Swear the most vicious Heavenly Oath."

Lu Lin was displeased.

But the man stubbornly insisted.

If Lu Lin didn’t agree, he’d rather let his soul be obliterated than reveal the secrets to him.

"Alright then, I, Zuo Yiming, swear to the heavens that if I don’t spare the person in the Soul Sealing Space Crystal, may I be struck by thunder five times, my soul suffer endless torture forever..."

As Lu Lin swore a long, vicious oath, the former Secret Realm Manager believed him.

Lu Lin intended to spare him earlier, yet he brought his own demise.

Since Lu Lin swore such a wicked oath likely wouldn’t be wrong.

"Alright, then I’ll tell you..."