CHAPTER 217: CHAPTER 197: TRANSFORMING FIVE EVILS, ADVANCING TO FOURTH LEVEL

It’s broken.

Finally, it’s broken.

Lu Lin doesn’t even know how many times he struck.

This was a broken knife that could absorb Star Power and Life Force.

Combined with Lu Lin’s Rock Shattering, Ten Steps Kill, Bright Moon Slash Sword Intent, and twenty thousand jin of strength, it took so long to finally break it.

Inhale.

The blade was placed at the breach, and a surge of concentrated Star Power and Life Force flowed into Lu Lin.

The Star Power within his body quickly reached its limit.

With so much Star Power, it would certainly be wasted if not used.

But now, even if you ask Lu Lin to cultivate, he doesn’t have the heart for it.

In that case, just keep chopping.

Lu Lin couldn’t believe it, even if the Saint’s head fell, it could still continue to live.

Even if it could live, how long could it last?

Ten Steps Kill.

Ten Steps Kill.

Because he had already comprehended the Sword Intent of Bright Moon Slash, Lu Lin knew he was still far from the next realm.

Just as well, take this opportunity to see if he could also comprehend the Sword Intent of Ten Steps Kill.

In the future, if Lu Lin possessed both Bright Moon and Ten Steps Sword Intents, wouldn’t that mean God blocks God, Buddha blocks Buddha?

Chop chop chop.

Slash slash slash.

Star Power continually surged into Lu Lin’s body.

He didn’t know how long he had been chopping.

Suddenly, Lu Lin furrowed his brows.

A wisp of black aura appeared before his eyes.

This is...

Ghost Qi?!

Lu Lin was shocked, having made it to this point with great difficulty, why must Ghost Qi appear at this critical moment?

Could it be he was meant to have a breakthrough to Fourth Level now?

Lu Lin held his breath.

Fang Gang had previously told him, when you first see Ghost Qi, if you’re not ready, you don’t have to refine it.

The Ghost Qi would hover around you and wouldn’t go away.

Then, within an hour, rush to the school’s Auxiliary Cultivation Room for Refining the Five Evils, where professional equipment and teachers would guide you step by step to refine the Ghost Qi.

And he also said never to learn from him and refine Ghost Qi alone in the wild, as it’s too dangerous.

But Lu Lin couldn’t find a Cultivation Room right now.

He glared angrily at the Saint in front of him.

At this moment, he realized something else.

Or rather, he remembered something.

His mental strength was already less than half.

Lu Lin’s current situation was extremely dangerous.

With mental strength less than half, Star Power soaring, Life Force soaring, and Ghost Qi attached to his body.

Once his mental strength disappears, he would become a mindless body of flesh.

If Star Power surged too much, he might blow himself up.

If the Ghost Qi attached to him and couldn’t be resolved quickly, it would automatically enter Lu Lin’s Consciousness Universe, wrap around the Star Core and Star Veins, and if not careful, Lu Lin would descend into madness.

A scenario of nine deaths, one life.

Lu Lin was incredibly tense, unsure of how to solve the problem at hand.

Beside him, there was no teacher Jiang Yueming, no Principal Wang Jianfang, no Director Long, no Sister Long, no Zhao Lei.

He didn’t know how to handle the situation in front of him.

Should he lie down and wait to die?

Or take a gamble.

Waiting to die was obviously impossible.

Lu Lin thought for a moment and made a decision.

Transforming Five Evils, enter Fourth Level.

Now that both his mental and physical strength were still in good shape.

If he could enter Fourth Level, dealing with the Saint would be more assured.

The key was, he couldn’t die.

Lu Lin still had many things to do.

His parents were still waiting for him on Saturn.

Golden Sword High School had given his parents positions and compensation, Lu Lin hadn’t even returned to give a speech.

The Federation University Student Games prepared by Iron Blood University, he hadn’t participated in it yet.

...

He couldn’t die.

Lu Lin carefully recalled the method of refining the Five Evils that Fang Gang had previously taught him.

Ensuring no issues, fully understanding the process, Lu Lin introduced the Ghost Qi surrounding his body into his Consciousness Universe.

Maffield saw Lu Lin close his eyes but didn’t stop him.

A moment later, Lu Lin opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath.

Fortunately, upon entering Fourth Level, the first task was to refine one’s own Life Killing Ghost.

His Earth Element Ghost Qi was relatively gentle and broad-minded, though somewhat fierce, it wasn’t much of a problem.

Success.

Having solved one problem, Lu Lin once again slashed at Maffield with the broken knife.

Star Power entered his body.

After passing through the Star Veins, this Star Power carried with it a trace of the Earth Attribute’s heaviness and solidity.

When Lu Lin used the broken knife to slash at Maffield again, he clearly felt the damage had increased.

At the same time, a sudden thought sparked in him.

Wasn’t he foolish earlier?

That stone absorbs his mental strength, but doesn’t he also have the broken knife?

The broken knife could absorb Maffield’s mental strength as compensation!

Why had he foolishly withdrawn the mental broken knife?

With this thought, Lu Lin manifested the broken knife in reality once again, and slashed at the other side of Maffield’s neck.

Mental strength surged in.

Lu Lin let out a comfortable moan.

That’s more like it.

Star Power grew, mental strength grew, Life Force grew.

This Saint Lord, what kind of enemy was this, truly an ally, a big ally indeed.

However, while Lu Lin felt comfortable, Maffield found it unbearable.

The Soul Devouring Crystal originally absorbed both their Soul Power simultaneously, confident that he could endure better than Lu Lin.

But with an unexpected mental broken knife involved, his rate of Soul Power loss increased.

Furthermore, he had seen Ghost Qi enveloping Lu Lin earlier; clearly Lu Lin was refining Ghost Qi.

But now it was gone, clearly Lu Lin had completed the refining, and his strength had increased again.

In this situation of ebbing and strengthening, he truly feared he might not measure up to Lu Lin.

Today’s incident happened too suddenly; the prior preparations were utterly useless.

Was he supposed to fight Lu Lin to the end?

The Saint body he had obtained with such difficulty, unwilling to give it up, yet didn’t want to suffer such frequent damage.

Fortunately, Maffield, having lived for years, had plans upon plans in his heart.

He quietly extended a sliver of Star Power, transferring it to Lu Lin’s side.

Then... explosion.

After the Star Power exploded, its power was actually not that great.

Lu Lin sneered and swung his sword again at Maffield’s neck.

But Maffield’s schemes were not so simple.

Although the Star Power wouldn’t affect Lu Lin much.

But... what about the evil aura?

He was a cultivator with a Necromantic Gift, compressing the evil aura inside him and then detonating it was ridiculously easy.

The evil aura from the first Star Power explosion wasn’t enough, and Maffield wasn’t discouraged.

He continued, the second, third, fifth, tenth time.

On the eleventh time, Lu Lin’s expression changed drastically.

Not good.

He had just refined the Life Earth Element Evil, and now why did gold, wood, water, and fire all come out at once?

Moreover, why was this evil aura so intense?

Being able to refine one evil aura during a fierce battle was already extremely difficult.

That was still his same attribute Earth Element Evil.

At this moment, the sudden appearance of the other four evil auras left Lu Lin in a panic.

He’s going to die, he’s going to die.

If he had known, he would’ve spent more time in the Mad Blade Secret Realm, and then talked about entering the Fourth Level.

But now it’s too late to say anything.

Today, if things don’t go well, he might really end here.

Lu Lin held his breath, thinking of a way to respond.

What way was there?

Even if he wasn’t in the wilderness now, being entwined by four types of evil auras simultaneously in a specialized cultivation room would still pose great danger to any cultivator.

But since things had come to this, just being anxious here served no purpose.

Lu Lin gritted his teeth.

Early death leads to early reincarnation, living means endless years.

The Saint just wanted him to be distracted and unable to deal with him, right?

Then simply let it be as he wishes.

Lu Lin opened his mouth, swallowed the four types of evil auras at once, and then entered the Consciousness Universe.

Refinement.

Lu Lin knew that among the five elements, earth is central.

Gold is in the west, fire in the south, wood in the east, water in the north.

Such an arrangement is the most stable Enlightenment structure.

Now that his Star Power has refined the Life Earth Element Evil, he just needed to refine following this order.

Starting with the Water Element Evil from the north.

In the Consciousness Universe, there’s no distinction between east, west, north, and south.

Lu Lin used the location of the Star Core as the center.

The top of his head was up and north, refining the Water Element Evil.

Then, his right hand was the east, refining the Wood Element Evil.

His feet were the south, refining the Fire Element Evil.

His left hand was the west, refining the Gold Element Evil.

Thus, the five-element evil auras were distributed, linked, and grew to assist each other.

Lu Lin didn’t know how long it took, but after refining the five-element evil auras, he felt a sense of fulfillment.

The battle with the Saint was extremely dangerous, but the gains were substantial; within a short time, not only did he refine the Life Evil to enter the Fourth Level but also reached the Level 4 Peak.

However, he always felt like he had forgotten something.

At this moment, Lu Lin suddenly felt dizzy, being forcibly pulled out of the Consciousness Universe.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the Saint in front of him, and the figure seemed a bit blurred.

Hm?

The other party wasn’t a spiritual entity, how could they be blurry?

It’s not right.

It’s not that the Saint became blurry, but that Lu Lin’s spiritual strength was insufficient, creating an illusion in front of him.

At this moment, it wasn’t just Lu Lin who was dazed; Maffield on the opposite side was even worse.

His spirit was already nearing the verge of dispersal.

The Soul Devouring Crystal is a very sinister item, which doesn’t distinguish between friend and foe, good or bad, and as long as it can absorb soul power, it will absorb as much as possible.

Maffield, absorbed by Lu Lin and the Soul Devouring Crystal, even with over a century of accumulated, rich soul power, couldn’t withstand such absorption.

At this moment, his state was even worse than Lu Lin’s.

Lu Lin knew that at this moment, he had to find a way to break free from that black crystal.

But his feet, ever since just now, for some unknown reason, seemed connected to the ground and couldn’t move an inch.

Lu Lin struggled to check his feet.

He saw countless skeletal claws extend from the ground, grabbing his instep, ankle, and calf.

These things must have been Maffield’s doing.

The opponent should be an Awakener of the necromantic or soul line, even the realized Star Skill is this eerie and terrifying.

Lu Lin racked his brain, trying to clear his head.

He must find a way to solve this problem.

Inch Step, Inch Tick.

Right, it’s possible to activate the second acupoint of the Inch Tick.

Previously, Lu Lin had enlightened the Hidden Bai Acupoint of both feet, and he actually had the ability to continue enlightening.

But he was really afraid of pain.

That kind of pain comes from the depths of the soul.

Every time he thought about it, Lu Lin was so apprehensive that he was held back.

But now, at this point, what’s a little pain compared to this?

Inch Tick, second acupoint.

Taibai Acupoint, enlightenment.

This time, for efficiency, Lu Lin split his focus and enlightened both feet simultaneously.

Pain!

Piercing pain.

Bone-deep pain.

But this pain was not without its benefits.

Lu Lin found his mind cleared for a moment, allowing him to accurately inject Star Power into it.

Success.

The Taibai Acupoint on both feet was enlightened successfully as well.

However, when Lu Lin tried to break free, it still wasn’t enough.

Then just continue.

Lu Lin couldn’t believe if he could enlighten nine acupoints on both feet, could he not break those countless bony arms binding him underground?

The third acupoint, Shangqiu Acupoint.

Success.

At this moment, Lu Lin’s consciousness began to blur.

He used his last bit of spirit to enlighten the Shangqiu Acupoint, inject Star Power.

Then, pulled his feet free.

Lu Lin fell heavily to the ground.

Opposite, Maffield still maintained the posture of holding the Soul Devouring Crystal.

Unchanged.