Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 732 - 727: A Solution

Chapter 732: Chapter 727: A Solution

"Is there a way?"

Lin Xin focused intently on the lady in the drawing. This matter concerned his Honored Master’s life, making him unavoidably tense.

"There is one method," the lady replied hesitantly. "It’s just...."

"Just what?"

"It’s just, to obtain such a thing, even with the position of a Saint Heir, one would need to make a major sacrifice."

The lady eventually continued.

Lin Xin fell silent at once.

He lowered his head, deep in thought for a while, then finally spoke again.

"What kind of sacrifice is needed?"

The lady didn’t answer right away, instead she changed the subject.

"The Life Flame of a Candle Earth Immortal is on the brink of exhaustion; in theory, it can be replenished with the Bathing Fire Elemental Energy, but there is also severe poisoning in the body, so at least two amounts of Bathing Fire Elemental Energy are needed for consumption.

Bathing Fire Elemental Energy is a Seventh Rank treasure, formed from the burning of a Realm Stone... But to obtain a Realm Stone... the difficulty...."

"Realm Stone...."

Lin Xin lowered his head again, but this time a long sigh of relief escaped his lips.

He had merged with a Realm Stone not too long ago and could still retrieve it.

A small world could be found again, but there was only one Honored Master. It was fortunate that it was a Realm Stone; had it been something else, he truly would have no solution.

Without a Realm Stone, it simply meant losing the freedom to control one’s own small world. As long as the coordinates remained, that world would ultimately still belong to him.

It was only that he could no longer refine a Realm Artifact, and naturally, becoming a Realm Master would also be out of the question.

Regrettably... he had originally planned to merge it, bringing the Land for God Worship into the small world for fusion....

Merging with the Land for God Worship would have brought extremely significant benefits, the most direct being a rapid increase in cultivation level.

If the Land for God Worship were to change from a small piece of territory to an enormous small world, all the living creatures within it would become subjects on his land.

Moment by moment, they would constantly proliferate, give birth, and practice cultivation, accumulating a base of such a population, the terrifying number of cultivators that would accumulate is the greatest use of a Realm Stone.

It is also the greatest reliance of those Realm Masters.

This is in fact the biggest gap between Realm Masters and ordinary Earth Immortals.

Earth Immortal Earth Immortal, what is essentially compared is who has a bigger territory and who has more and stronger cultivators on their land.

On the surface, what is compared is cultivation level, realm, and techniques of attack and defense. In actuality, what’s being compared is still foundation.

It is similar to those below the Fifth Rank.

The territory and population of an Earth Immortal is equivalent to the quantity and quality of Inner Qi of cultivators below the Fifth Rank.

The gap between Realm Masters is also like this.

It’s just that Longshe’s (Dragon Snake’s) situation is special. In the territory world, the land is vast, and there are plenty of powerful creatures, but none of them listen to him.

These creatures are like the dark injuries and toxins in his body; although they can provide him with robust support, they are akin to troublemakers causing havoc everywhere.

"So, we just need a Realm Stone, right?"

Lin Xin suddenly looked up.

The lady in the drawing was slightly startled, then she gathered her thoughts and nodded.

"Yes, with a Realm Stone, depending on the size of its world, an unequal amount of Bathing Fire Elemental Energy can be burned and refined. And in our cult, the one who recently owns an unmerged Realm Stone has asked for a very high price...."

"Who will do the refinement?" Lin Xin interrupted her.

"The Saint Heir can operate it by himself." The lady didn’t get angry and directly answered.

"If you possess a Realm Stone, my advice is to keep it for personal use. You know, a world can only produce one Realm Stone, and once it vanishes, there’s no longer any possibility of it forming. Such a thing is a rare treasure that’s encountered but not sought. In an innumerable number of worlds, there are only so many Realm Stones, some too small a world might not even be able to form one...."

"How about this one?"

Lin Xin simply shrugged off his sleeve, revealing an olive-shaped Crystal Stone embedded on his right arm.

Just a glance at the Realm Stone made even the lady’s breathing grow heavy.

Such a supreme treasure was suddenly in front of her; she momentarily harbored the thought of rushing forward to snatch it.

But the fear of the rules of the Chanting Star Cult instantly suppressed the greed in her heart.

She carefully observed the Realm Stone on Lin Xin’s arm.

"It’s enough, and judging from its development, it seems to be nurturing a medium-sized world. After refinement, there might even be some left over!"

Her voice trembled slightly at that moment.

"How to refine and burn it?" Lin Xin asked again.

The stone house instantly fell into silence.

The complexion of the lady became somewhat strained.

Burning the essence of an entire medium-sized world to save the life of a medium-small sized world’s Realm Master... such an idea was insane.

To think, a Realm Master from a medium-sized world would have the potential to break through to the Heavenly Immortal stage!!

It was like swapping a future Heavenly Immortal for an Earth Immortal old man on the verge of death.

"Saint Heir, do you... not think it’s a pity....?"

"Where there are desires, there must be loss." Lin Xin smiled, "Tell me, how to refine it into Bathing Fire Elemental Energy."

"...It’s simple." The lady’s face twitched, "Since you’ve already merged with it halfway, then you just need to, with intention, form a Heart Fire and imagine continously burning it. It can be completed within one hour."

"Thank you." Lin Xin smiled, "By the way, after refining it, how is it to be used on my Honored Master?"

"...Just inhaling it is enough... The effect of Bathing Fire Elemental Energy is to reconstruct the body and soul, utterly abandoning everything that was. Although this might risk a fall in one’s cultivation level, many Body Cultivation Techniques and Divine Skills would need to be cultivated again, but it’s thorough."

"Understood."

"Well then, good luck to you."

After she said the final sentence, the piece of paper the woman had drawn on immediately caught fire by itself and quickly turned to a pile of white ash which fell into the spatial fissure and vanished without a trace.

The white fissure also began to close by itself, slowly erasing all remaining traces.

Lin Xin gently caressed the Domain Stone, his gaze slightly firm.

Hiss!

He suddenly jabbed his five fingers fiercely into the edge of the Domain Stone, penetrating deep into the flesh.

No blood flowed, only wisps of white air slowly dissipated.

With a strong effort, he excavated the entire Domain Stone in one go, and beneath the stone were numerous white tendrils like hair roots.

Boom.

All the tendrils were abruptly ripped apart by Lin Xin with force.

His eyebrows twitched violently as he endured the severe pain and held the Domain Stone in his hand, beginning to try the method the woman had mentioned.

Although he didn’t know whether the method the woman spoke of would work, he had no other options at the moment.

With thought transforming into fire, he started to carefully burn the Domain Stone.

Time ticked away.

As his concentration continued to intensify, the woman had underestimated Lin Xin’s spiritual power at this moment.

Due to the amplification of his attributes, his spiritual power had grown monstrously strong to an infuriating degree.

He had just stepped into the Earth Immortal level, but his physical body was already comparable to those Body Cultivation Earth Immortals who had toiled for tens of thousands of years to achieve Great Achievement in their cultivation techniques.

His spiritual power was equally formidable.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the Domain Stone began to gradually melt.

Little by little, white fluid appeared on its surface and began to flow and swirl, forming numerous tiny whirlpools.

Seeing this, Lin Xin immediately intensified his focus, casually activating the formation inside the room and throwing out a pitch-black Array Plate inlaid with silver stars.

Suddenly, faint invisible ripples spread across the entire stone room’s walls.

After achieving the Earth Immortal status, the formations he triggered with a flick of his hand were many times stronger than when he was at the Fifth Rank.

All possible explorations by thoughts were instantly blocked from the outside.

Earth Immortals deserved to be called powerful because, at this realm, one could completely prevent others from spying with their intentions.

What was known as invulnerability to all methods was referring to this level.

After setting up the protective measures,

Lin Xin gathered all his spiritual power to accelerate the burning of the Domain Stone.

Time passed without a trace.

Poof.

Suddenly, the Domain Stone ignited, its surface catching a crimson flame.

That flame was mysterious and indescribable, red on the outside, white within, and at its core, was golden.

The moment the flame ignited, Lin Xin felt a sharp pain in his spirit. Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and his complexion instantly turned paler.

The half-fused Domain Stone was torn apart, being ignited and completely refined, which was akin to directly igniting and refining his own soul!

Just that moment meant he would have to endure at least a hundred years of arduous cultivation to recover the lost Elemental Energy.

But as soon as the flame appeared, the entire stone room began to be filled with a faint sweet fragrance, as if hundreds of flowers were blooming and their nectar was evaporating.

The Domain Stone soon melted into a large mass of red, bizarre flame.

Hiss!

In mid-air, the flame split into four, manifesting four portions of Bathing Fire Essence.

Lin Xin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a relieved smile appearing on his face.

"Hopefully, it works..."

He reached out impatiently, gathered the four flames into his sleeve, and used a Seal Array Plate to lock away all fluctuation of aura.

Finally, standing in the stone room, he looked at the bloody hole in his right arm.

He suddenly smiled lightly, turned around, and quickly flew toward the Deep Fire Palace.

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In the vast interior of the Deep Fire Palace, Dragon Serpent sat alone on a long couch in the inner chamber, holding a cup of silver liquid in his hand, not drinking, just slowly playing with it.

As he looked at the cup, he seemed to fall into a kind of reminiscence vaguely, and the black mist behind him became denser and more obvious, as if it was coalescing into a ferocious double-headed black bear.

"Drink it, and you can forget all your sorrows," Dragon Serpent mused as he gazed at the cup of poison. He had stored it for so many years, never expecting it would end up being used on himself.

"Forgetfulness... If it really could be as its name suggests, that would be for the best..."

His eyes were complex as he reminisced about his life, a life that had its triumphs and its calm moments, as well as times of paternal love and filial piety.

The flavors of life, sweet and bitter, he had tasted almost all of them.

During these long years, he had wronged many people, but he could also stand proud before many, with his hand on his heart, without shame.

Gently stirring the liquid, Dragon Serpent brought the cup to his lips.

A Rune Bead circled by a fiery red with nine white flames appeared slowly behind him, struggling in the black mist, releasing a faint red light.

For a moment, he also remembered the two disciples who, despite the peril, insisted on staying by his side. A faint smile crossed his face.

"In this life of mine, I have no regrets in death."

Gulp!

He tipped his head back and drained the cup of silver liquid to the last drop.

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