Lin Shu offered a rare, lengthy explanation.
He realized he’d been getting a little too close to that group of demons lately.
Even a true immortal couldn’t claim to account for every possibility.
Let alone a mere mortal like himself.
He had to be prepared for the truth to come out at any time.
Yu Sheng’s eyes opened in a daze. She seemed to sense something was amiss.
The next moment, the girl squatted down and childishly plugged her ears. "La la la, I can’t hear you!"
She was promptly rewarded with a flick to the forehead.
She rubbed her forehead and suddenly hugged the young man’s leg tightly. "I don’t care! I’m going wherever you go."
"Go on and digest the Spiritual Light."
Lin Shu laughed, at a loss for words.
He hadn’t expected the little chick, who had just been crying and screaming for her Essence Blood back, to have such a complete change of heart.
’I was just mentioning it offhand,’ he thought. ’No need to take it so seriously.’
"Bleh! I’ll be watching you!"
Yu Sheng pulled at her lower eyelids to make a face at him, then left the room, glancing back with every other step.
HUFF.
The room fell silent. Lin Shu raised his gaze slightly and summoned his Merit and Sin Coins.
[Killers and arsonists wear belts of gold, while bridge-builders leave not a corpse to be found. Killed one mortal body. Reward: Twelve Sin Coins.]
Eight similar notifications popped up in total.
Those Zhao Family disciples had all reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage. They were all worth the same, netting him ninety-six Sin Coins.
Of course, this "peak" did not include Mountain Master Disciples.
After all, with the exception of Xie Yutang...
Under normal circumstances, Mountain Master Disciples would never need to set foot in the mortal world, unless they encountered a Cultivation bottleneck and needed to venture out to temper their character.
All they had to do was focus on their Cultivation and try to form a Golden Core of the highest possible quality.
As for Magical Combat experience, the Immortal Family would arrange for dedicated sparring partners and even summon various other Cultivators to demonstrate a wide range of techniques to them.
Any single one of these privileges would be enough to make a World Traveler Disciple wake up laughing in their dreams.
And all these Mountain Master Disciples had to do in return was fight to the death for their Immortal Family when necessary.
Moreover, the kinds of situations that would require their mobilization were either a provocation from a notoriously vicious Great Demon or a war between two great Immortal Sects.
Such an event might not happen even once in a century.
Besides feeling envious, Lin Shu’s thoughts turned to Miss Yun.
That girl had her Innate Sword Heart for precognition, and with all the privileges she enjoyed, she was much safer than he was, as long as she didn’t actively court death.
[Killers and arsonists wear belts of gold, while bridge-builders leave not a corpse to be found. Killed one mortal body. Reward: Fifteen Sin Coins.]
[Killers and arsonists wear belts of gold, while bridge-builders leave not a corpse to be found. Killed one mortal body. Reward: Nine Sin Coins.]
Counting Chen Xiangzhu and Steward Luo, he had acquired a total of one hundred and twenty Sin Coins.
It wasn’t much compared to the cost of a Core Formation Technique, but it was nearly a month’s worth of his previous earnings.
He had earned far fewer Merit Coins, on the other hand.
The dozen or so Chen Family disciples, most of whom were Qi Cultivation Cultivators, had only yielded nineteen coins in total.
Adding that to the sixty-odd coins he already had, he’d finally scraped together eighty. He just needed to wait for Yu Sheng to offer up her Immortal Qi, and then he could make his attempt.
Lin Shu let out a soft sigh.
Yongzhou Pass was, at its core, a trial ground for Foundation Establishment Disciples. There was a ceiling to what he could achieve here, whether by killing or by saving people.
The only way around that would be if Yu Sheng decided to get involved in the affairs of the adult Immortal Descendants, competing with Yu Duchuan and the others for a piece of the pie.
’The little chick would surely agree if I asked her to.’
But the thought of the calamity looming two months from now made him dismiss the idea outright.
Whether they could even win the contest was debatable. But if he actually became the City Lord, he would have to be on the front lines, facing a siege from both Great Shun Cultivators and Demon Fiends.
With his half-assed Body Tempering and Core Formation, that was no laughing matter.
Besides, he wasn’t willing to sell his life for the Yu Family to that extent.
"I’ve been feeding you for so long. It’s time you gave something back," he muttered.
A flicker of anticipation appeared in Lin Shu’s eyes as he summoned the Filthy Moon Wolf Lord.
The wolf cub was much more formidable now. Not only were its fangs menacing and its eyes scarlet, but the horn-like bump on its forehead had also grown sharper.
Its fur was a lustrous, dark black, and the crimson threads of energy flowing within it made even Lin Shu feel a bit wary.
He gave a light flick of his sleeve.
All one hundred and twenty Sin Coins surged into it.
Instantly, a dense, inky light flared, plunging the entire room into profound darkness.
[Foundation Establishment First Grade, Moon-Devouring Soul-Shattering Curse: Perfection]
The threshold, which had been just a single step away, finally gave way under the power of so many Sin Coins, triggering a transformation.
BOOM!
A roar echoed in Lin Shu’s ears, and his consciousness momentarily blurred.
By the time his vision cleared, he found himself standing in a hazy, dark mist, as if both his sight and hearing had been completely suppressed.
The only thing he could perceive was the THUMP-THUMP of his own heart, pounding like a heavy hammer against a drum!
The mist finally parted, revealing a bright moon hanging in the sky.
Lin Shu instinctively looked up.
But he quickly realized something was wrong.
The moon swiftly turned a deep, dark red. It was an eerie, bewitching sight, its surface churning like magma.
Then, a dark red fluid began to stream down from the sky.
The moon... was bleeding!
Lin Shu felt the bloody substance drip onto his skin. His powerful, tempered body began to SIZZLE, the flesh rapidly corroding down to the bone.
A drop of blood sank into his brow, and even his Divine Soul began to dissolve.
[Eighth Grade Core Formation, Taiyin Blood Illumination: Entry-level]
As the notification flashed, he was abruptly back in his room. He stared silently at his surroundings, the lingering terror of the vision still reflected in his eyes.
As he processed the new information in his mind, Lin Shu’s heart skipped a beat.
’No, this is no longer a simple Illusion Technique,’ he thought.
His Body Tempering technique for Core Formation had utilized Blood Qi. His Nether Cold Miasma Thunder had borrowed a rather unorthodox lightning-aspected energy from the world.

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