Chapter 616: Dawa's Cultivation in the Abyss
The Saintess Qian Ling smiled and took a package off her shoulder.
She opened the package, revealing two sets of clothes.
"These are the outfits I've prepared for you!" Saintess Qian Ling said with a radiant smile, "To be honest, now is the time for some flirtation. How about reciting an old flirtatious poem?"
"A virtuous wife's sewing needle, clothing for her husband, stitching it densely, worried he might return late."
Saintess Qian Ling glared at him fiercely, "Do you think I haven't heard this poem? At Tashan Lake, I had a poetry collection in my hand. It's 'A mother's sewing needle, clothing for her wandering child.' You're not flirting; you're just calling me old..."
Getting more and more annoyed, she threw the clothes at Lin Xiaosu.
Lin Xiaosu laughed heartily, "I just wanted to see how much you remember from reading Daxia's ancient poetry every day, and wow, you're really into it..."
He rolled and retreated into the grass.
Soon, he came out.
His entire appearance transformed in a complete 360-degree change.
On his feet were beast-leather Cloud Boots.
On his body was a light purple striped Jianghu outfit.
His hair, originally the biggest difference between worlds, was always long, and with a jade crown, he looked almost identical to the young people of the Ancient Wilderness.
This Jianghu outfit was taken from a young disciple about his size by the Saintess Qian Ling, and now that he's wearing it, his aura is incomparable to that of the disciple.
"How is it?" Lin Xiaosu tilted his head, waiting for her judgment.
"Absolutely a charming gentleman! My taste is really spot on..." Saintess Qian Ling said, "Of course, you're an exception in that world. If your hair weren't so long, you wouldn't be able to disguise yourself so thoroughly."
Lin Xiaosu laughed, "Do you think I keep my hair long for this day? I haven't cut it in three months."
In three months, hair typically doesn't grow much.
However, those who cultivate the Life Law are different from ordinary people.
Their hair grows rapidly.
In just three short months, it can grow two to three feet long.
"You prepared for entering the Ancient Wilderness three months ago?" Saintess Qian Ling asked.
"Of course!" Lin Xiaosu replied, "You should change as well; let me see the look of an ancient Holy Daughter."
Then it was the Saintess Qian Ling's turn to enter the woods.
Soon, she came out, and Lin Xiaosu was equally stunned.
Golden hair tied with a sky-blue ribbon, wearing a cool, thin skirt touching the ground.
The classic beauty and exotic allure appeared suddenly before his eyes.
"How is it? Does it match your image of the Holy Daughter of the Spirit Clan?"
Lin Xiaosu reached out, holding her hand, "I must seize the time to hold it. I feel you might take flight at any moment, standing above the Nine Starry Heavens overlooking all beings."
This wasn't a direct answer.
But it was an answer that perfectly located her.
The two moved with a step and ascended, landing on the other side of the mountain.
The dense radiation continued to linger.
The radiation zone itself was part of the Ancient Wilderness's defense.
Ordinary people wouldn't be able to withstand entering this radiation zone.
But fortunately, neither of them were ordinary people.
Saintess Qian Ling cultivated the Wood Rules, which had an extremely strong vitality.
Lin Xiaosu cultivated the Life Law, which had an even stronger vitality.
Moreover, he had opened the Creation Gate.
Once the Creation Gate was opened, any kind of energy could be used to strengthen the body.
The two continued on their journey.
Lin Xiaosu sensed the unusual state on Saintess Qian Ling's body.
The radiation enveloped her, and vortices seemed numerous upon her as though the energies of heaven and earth were constantly exchanging through her body.
This hundred-mile journey seemed like a cultivation process for her.
And Saintess Qian Ling sensed Lin Xiaosu's aura, growing more surprised, "Your physique has become much stronger than before."
"It's the trick you taught me!" Lin Xiaosu replied.
Indeed, the bodily cultivation law was truly passed on to him by Saintess Qian Ling.
She told him about the Law of the Nine Flesh Stars, of renouncing three and utilizing three.
The Skin Star was renounced.
The Flesh Star fortified the body.
The Bone Star achieved the Cultivation Path.
From that day on, Lin Xiaosu began the path of the Flesh Heavenly Star fortifying the body.
His physique continued to strengthen step by step.
Even Hu Ya, with such constitution, felt overwhelmed—clear evidence of his strength.
Ultimately, all thanks to Saintess Qian Ling opening this door.
Saying the trick she taught him, there's nothing wrong with that.
Saintess Qian Ling gently shook her head, "No, just relying on your Nine Flesh Stars theoretically shouldn't have reached such heights; you must have another breakthrough!"
Lin Xiaosu smiled, "There's something I should tell you, but you must keep it a secret for me!"
"What is it?"
"I broke through the Observing Heaven!"
"Ah?" Saintess Qian Ling suddenly stopped, turning sharply, her face full of disbelief...
The severed path of Lin Xiaosu's cultivation was a judgment she had made.
In fact, the severance of his path was due to her intervention.
That day, as Chang Ye was nearing the end of life, Lin Xiaosu, in ultimate helplessness, consulted Saintess Qian Ling. She told him, 'Even at the end of life, a tear can pull back from a thousand deaths!'
In this way, one of his Bone Stars flew into Chang Ye's body.
Because of this, Chang Ye survived.
And because of it, he stepped into the deadlock of cultivation.
This was the greatest point of inner conflict for Saintess Qian Ling.
By the shores of Tashan Lake, not long ago, she was still reminiscing again and again.
She was grieving for this Heavenly Pride, whose road was cut off, and mesmerized by his infatuated true nature...
Today, he suddenly told her, he had broken through the deadlock on the Cultivation Path.
He had defects in his Heavenly Dao, but he hadn't truly lost the way forward.
Facing her incredulous eyes, Lin Xiaosu gently extended his hand and put it on her shoulder, "Fly!"
With one word, Saintess Qian Ling rose off the ground, carried by him, flying dozens of miles away, directly to the center of the ruins...
Throughout the process, Saintess Qian Ling's eyes widened until her toes touched the ground again, and she exclaimed, "You really broke through Observing Heaven, did you also break Enlightenment Realm?"
"The Enlightenment Realm wasn't broken, just a broken Observing Heaven!" Lin Xiaosu quickly corrected.
"A broken Observing Heaven... Your broken Observing Heaven, can it perform Lingkong Step Void?" Saintess Qian Ling took a deep breath, "Why? How can such a miracle be created? How did you manage to make up for your defects in Heavenly Dao?"
Now, she did not doubt the fact that Lin Xiaosu had broken through Observing Heaven.
She just didn't understand why the iron laws of Heavenly Dao in cultivation would be overturned.
Why would someone sentenced to death have their dead end reopened?
"Under Heavenly Dao Rules, Nine Stars are incomplete, and the heavenly path is flawed, but under Human Path Rules, there are no absolute dead ends between heaven and earth!" Lin Xiaosu said, "That's the answer."
"Human Path... Human Path..." Saintess Qian Ling murmured to herself, her eyes casting toward the Abyss ahead, "Unity of Heaven and Man! Is this the Unity of Heaven and Man in the Tao Realm?"
"This is the place you need to keep secret, I don't want to become an anomaly on the Cultivation Path, at least, in this world of the Ancient Wilderness, which is infinitely sensitive to cultivation, it's more suitable for me to stay ordinary."
Saintess Qian Ling nodded deeply.
She agreed with what he said, but her heart was all stirred up.
Unity of Heaven and Man is unusual, but not an exception; she knows someone who also achieved Unity of Heaven and Man, and that person's life path is remarkably similar to his...
Will he really follow the footsteps of the Ancient Human Emperor?
The surrounding aura seemed to sense her excitement, causing a moment of confusion.
Suddenly, Saintess Qian Ling saw the true reason for the chaotic aura...
Below the Abyss, there was a person!
A woman.
She sat in the Abyss, surrounded by extremely chaotic aura.
Below, it was pitch black, and amidst the black aura, faint flashes of electricity appeared.
Above, it was snow-white, and even in the white air, electricity flickered.
"It's her! Dawa!" Saintess Qian Ling exclaimed softly.
Lin Xiaosu also stared blankly at the strange sight before him.
That day, after the Tashan ambush ended, Dawa insisted on entering the nuclear explosion zone.
He had reminded her, but didn't stop her.
Only because he knew Dawa cultivated the Death Rule.
A cultivator of the Death Rule, there are no absolute dead zones in the world.
Even radiation couldn't really kill her.
But who would have thought, this girl, not only survived, but she played with radiation in ways even Lin Xiaosu didn't understand.
The dark clouds beneath her feet were filled with the Death Rule, while the white fog above was the Vitality Rule.
Between the weaving of life and death, they were connected by lines of radiation.
Two completely opposite rules clashed, with nine Heavenly Stars floating in between.
She had also broken through Observing Heaven.
Her Heavenly Stars had formed, and next, she would evolve her Sea of Reincarnation.
Although he couldn't see the Sea of Reincarnation, he could vaguely guess it was extraordinary...
Because the anomaly of the Sea of Reincarnation had already overflowed beyond her body.
On the other side of the Abyss, an old man stood quietly on the cliff, with an even deeper abyss behind him.
In front of him was the interweaving of life and death rules portrayed by Dawa.
He stared at Dawa, light flickering in his eyes, clearly very excited.
This old man was Li Qianzong, the super master Lin Xiaosu had rescued from the Haoyuan Sect dungeon great array!
When Lin Xiaosu's eyes met Li Qianzong's, Li Qianzong's figure suddenly disappeared from the Abyss.
In the next moment, it was as if the world before Lin Xiaosu changed into a blood-red battlefield.
On the blood-red battlefield, Li Qianzong approached step by step, a fierce gleam filled his eyes.
This terrifying aura of oppression caused Saintess Qian Ling's heart to race...
She knew this was a top expert from the Haoyuan Ruins, a super fierce warrior guarding the Tashan Defense Line, an external reinforcement on their side, yet being oppressed by such a fierce god in this way still suffocated her.
However, Lin Xiaosu seemed to be in a gentle spring breeze; a kind smile appeared on his face, "Senior Li, thank you for your hard work!"
This friendly smile, and the voice like a gentle spring breeze, left Saintess Qian Ling full of admiration.
A peerless heavenly pride can sometimes just be a state of mind.
A body like an ant, yet facing a pillar reaching the sky, still maintaining a calm state of mind, that is the label of a peerless heavenly pride.
At this moment, she, and he, in front of Li Qianzong were both like ants; Saintess Qian Ling was thinking, if one day I return to the peak, what will I do, while Lin Xiaosu, even if he doesn't reach that height, his looking at Li Qianzong as an equal in itself was already a height.
Li Qianzong might have initially intentionally created this sense of oppression.
But Lin Xiaosu smiled faintly, spoke kindly, and the oppression he had created naturally broke, Li Qianzong coldly said, "You know that this seat has worked hard, then may I ask, from whom does this seat's hardship originate?"
This sentence naturally carried infinite resentment.
This top expert, imprisoned underground, not seeing the light of day for thousands of years, finally broke out of the prison, ready to dominate this vast world, only to fall into the cause and effect trap Lin Xiaosu had dug, and was still trapped in this bullet-size place, can you imagine how annoyed he must be?
Lin Xiaosu laughed, "I said, senior, you've worked hard, just out of politeness; in fact, your life today is a beautiful painting you couldn't draw with all your blood in the dungeon!"
"Beautiful! Beautiful, your eighteenth generation ancestor's egg!" Li Qianzong gnashed his teeth.