In the Great Heaven Palace, Lin Huang patiently sorted out his gains from his trip to the Abyss.
First of all, his biggest gain was that his combat strength had broken through two ranks consecutively, elevating from eighth-rank true god-level to tenth-rank.
Although he had yet to achieve full tenth-rank, he had already mastered over 1.5 billion types of rules in his body.
Based on the previous pattern, Lin Huang guessed that he would need to stack up to 1.8 billion before he would reach his limit.
This was not difficult for Lin Huang to achieve; it was only a matter of time.
In fact, he could already start thinking about how to elevate to heavenly god-level now.
However, Lin Huang set this problem aside for now and continued to check out his gains.
Apart from rule bending power, he had also obtained over twenty thousand god sequence chains by hunting various heavenly god-level monsters in the Abyss over the past month or so. The total number of god sequence chains in the God Territory in his body had exceeded thirty thousand.
He had obtained over five thousand God Territory Shell Remnants.
Generally speaking, most people would not dare refine Abyssal creatures' God Territory Shell Remnants because there was a huge amount of Abyssal energy left in the Shell Remnants, which was extremely polluting.
However, this was not a problem for Lin Huang.
The Goldfinger Eternity Fire that Qi Muxiong had left behind could absorb and convert all types of energy, including Abyssal energy.
Others avoided Abyssal energy like the plague, afraid of being polluted. However, to the Eternity Fire, this Abyssal energy was delicious.
Lin Huang only had to wait for the Eternity Fire to completely devour this Abyssal energy, and then he could begin refining and integrating these five thousand God Territory Shell Remnants.
Apart from these resources that he could use directly, Lin Huang also obtained a huge amount of Abyssal creatures' materials. Moreover, most of them were heavenly god-level materials.
Many of them were excellent research materials, and many of them could be used for weapon refinement and medicine refinement.
Lin Huang felt that given the quality and quantity of the materials he had, he should be able to sell them for a good price.
Of course, this batch of gains included the hundreds of Nirvana Trees, which Lin Huang did not plan to sell.
Virtuoso had given Lin Huang some information regarding the use of the Nirvana Trees. He only had to glance at it briefly to know how precious they were. Unless he had no other choice, he would not easily sell these things, not even a single stalk!
In addition to these gains on the surface, Lin Huang had also obtained several Skill Cards and more than ten complete Monster Cards from Xiao Hei after killing a large number of Abyssal creatures.
Among the dozen or so Monster Cards, apart from the supreme god-level Silver-armored Nine Gloom whose combat strength was ninth-rank heavenly god-level, there were two pseudo-supreme god-level Monster Cards. They were the Ascetic Buddhist Tribe's Greed and a humanoid female Jealousy. Both of them had high combat strength, being seventh-rank heavenly god-level.
After spending more than half an hour sorting out all the loot, Lin Huang took out the single most valuable item he had obtained from this trip to the Abyss from his storage space.
It was a thumb-sized, irregular, fiery red crystal. Its color looked a bit like a ruby under sunlight, but its shape was like a fragment left behind after a large piece of broken glass.
This small crystal, which did not seem very eye-catching and did not even emit any Divine Power waves, was actually the final payment that Virtuoso had given to Lin Huang after their trip to the Abyss — a Soul seal fragment.
The Soul seal was the remnant of the shattered Dao seal of a soul cultivator Lord who had died.
As for things like Dao Seals, due to the different number of fragments, their weight was also different. Thus, the information contained within each fragment was also different.
For example, Lin Huang had previously obtained a Sword seal fragment from Virtuoso. In reality, not every Sword seal fragment contained a Sword Dao Inheritance. Some might contain a complete Sword Dao Inheritance, some might contain an incomplete Sword Dao Inheritance, and some might even only contain sword skills or some memories related to cultivation.
In short, refining a Dao seal fragment was a little like opening a blind box.
If one was lucky, they might be able to obtain a complete main cultivation method inheritance left behind by a Lord. If one was unlucky, they might only be able to see some worthless information.
When Lin Huang returned to the great world, he could not wait to enter the Great Heaven Palace. Apart from checking his loot, his main purpose was actually to open the blind box as soon as possible … No, to refine this Soul seal fragment.
He held the ruby-like Soul seal fragment in his hand and studied it closely. The bright red glow inside the crystal seemed to be flowing like magma or burning charcoal.
Lin Huang could roughly guess what Elemental Dao this Lord had mainly cultivated when he was alive.
Without hesitation, he extended his Divine Telekinesis and wrapped it around the Soul seal fragment, drawing it between his eyebrows.
Under the guidance of his Divine Telekinesis, the Soul seal fragment fell into Lin Huang's soul like a meteor.
The moment it fell into his soul, it began to burn violently, releasing an endless fiery glow.
At the same time, countless golden divine patterns lit up automatically on the surface of the crystal, shining brighter and brighter.
After the divine patterns lit up, the entire crystal began to crack. As the divine patterns grew brighter, the cracks grew larger.
In the end, it completely disintegrated, turning into specks of blood-red starlight that enveloped the divine patterns.
Meanwhile, the divine patterns were like tiny golden snakes flowing wildly, darting rapidly toward Lin Huang's Sword Soul.
They turned into streaks of golden flowing light and entered the Sword Soul between its eyebrows.
Almost at the same time, Lin Huang felt a sudden jolt in his mind, and countless unfamiliar information surged into his mind.
He quickly scanned the area with his Divine Telekinesis, trying to see if there were any cultivation techniques or inheritances. However, he did not find any cultivation techniques for the soul. He only obtained a fire-elemental cultivation technique inheritance called the Immeasurable Calamity Fire.
Just as Lin Huang was feeling rather disappointed, he suddenly saw a spark light up between the Sword Soul's eyebrows.
"This is … the tinder of the Immeasurable Calamity Fire?!" The inheritance information was instantly transmitted to Lin Huang's mind.
After the spark lit up, it quickly spread from the Sword Soul's eyebrows. In less than a breath's time, it had ignited the entire Sword Soul.
"What's going on?!"
Upon seeing this, Lin Huang was shocked. He was even a little dumbfounded.
The intense pain and burning sensation from the Sword Soul almost made him wish he was dead. This was a fire that targeted the soul.
However, he soon saw an even more shocking scene.
Not only did the flames of the Calamity Fire spread all over the Sword Soul's body, but it even began to spread outside of the Sword Soul.
As the days passed, Lin Huang watched in endless pain as the flames burned every part of his inner world.
The flames even spread outside of his body, and even Lin Huang's physical body began to burn.
Each of the telekinetic threads caught fire as well.
The intense burning sensation spread through every nerve in Lin Huang's body. He could not think of any way to extinguish the flames, but a line of words suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Immortal True Spirit, Eternal Rebirth!"
In his daze, he could not even remember where he had seen this line of words. However, his state of mind gradually calmed down. He put away all distracting thoughts and guarded his True Spirit tightly, completely entering a state of emptiness.
In the Great Heaven Palace, the body that was burning in flames was slowly losing its vitality.
One day, two days, three days …
One hundred days, two hundred days, three hundred days …
One thousand days, two thousand days, three thousand days …
The flames burned for a full three thousand three hundred and thirty-three days before finally dying out.
Where Lin Huang had originally been sitting cross-legged, there was only a pitch-black, withered corpse left. Even its facial features were completely blurred.
After an unknown period of time, a wisp of vitality rose from the greyish-black.
The withered corpse that was sitting cross-legged suddenly opened its eyes …
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