Chapter 72: Seizing Tang San's Fortuitous Opportunity, The Vitality of the Blue Silver Emperor
With Spirit Hall as her backing, Qian Renxue's chances of finding Lin Chen were far greater than those of the other chat group members.
The group members could only rely on the contents of Lin Chen's diary to track him down.
If one day Lin Chen stopped recording his travel experiences, they would be like headless flies—utterly directionless, forced to rely solely on luck.
But depending on luck to encounter Lin Chen somewhere across the vast continent was no different from searching for a needle in the sea.
…
Heaven Dou City, inside a luxurious hotel.
Bibi Dong stood before a mirror, admiring her reflection.
"Mmm, these purple stockings are quite alluring… and this purple gauze dress looks beautiful as well."
"Little brat, have you missed your Pope? I'll be coming to see you shortly."
At the thought of Lin Chen, joy bloomed in Bibi Dong's heart. She was already itching to go tease him.
She opened the diary copy chat group, wanting to see whether the members had been slandering her while she had been dressing up.
After gossiping about the Ice Empress and Snow Empress earlier, she had carefully prepared herself, planning to head once more to Dugu Yan's residence to look for Lin Chen.
"Hm? That little brat Lin Chen ran off again?"
Seeing the message, Bibi Dong's brows knitted together. Her previously cheerful mood vanished instantly.
"Hmph. All this dressing up for nothing."
With that, she removed her purple gauze dress and changed back into her Papal robes.
"Since he's gone, I'll return to the Spirit Hall first. There's still plenty of business to handle."
Meanwhile, Lin Chen, currently on the run, had no idea that more and more peerless beauties across the continent had made up their minds to seek him out and engineer a "chance" encounter.
One day later.
Lin Chen appeared outside a modest village. On the village gate hung a plaque bearing three large characters:
Holy Soul Village
That's right. After a day's journey, Lin Chen had arrived at the village where Tang San and Tang Hao had lived for six years—Holy Soul Village.
He had only one purpose for coming here:
To seize the opportunity that originally belonged to Tang San, the 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor soul bone hidden in the back mountain of Holy Soul Village.
Relying on the memories describing Ah Yin's hiding place, Lin Chen carefully retraced the path and headed toward the village's back mountain.
At last, he arrived before a waterfall.
"Behind this waterfall should be Ah Yin's hidden cave. That 100,000-year soul bone should also be inside."
With a thought, Lin Chen summoned the Golden Dragon, mounted its body, and charged straight into the waterfall.
After pressing the mechanism concealed behind the cascade, a stone door opened before him.
Following the tunnel deeper inside, Lin Chen soon saw a dim stone chamber in the distance.
At the same time, Lin Chen's arrival disturbed Ah Yin from her slumber.
Sensing a relatively powerful fluctuation of soul power nearby, Ah Yin was puzzled.
Though the fluctuation was not weak, it was far inferior to Tang Hao's. So who exactly had entered this cave?
Panic welled up within her. If this outsider soul master discovered her, would he kill her on the spot?
"Wuwuwu… I don't want to die yet. That transmigrator who occupies my child's body, Tang San, is still alive. How can I die before him?"
At this moment, Ah Yin fervently hoped that the intruder would simply overlook her existence.
After all, she was merely a half-meter-tall Blue Silver Grass now—not some obvious treasure.
As the approaching footsteps grew closer and closer, her heart nearly leapt into her throat.
Group Chat Interface
[Green Grass: Sisters, I think I might be doomed. An outsider soul master has entered the stone chamber where I am. What should I do?]
[Green Grass: And this outsider is much stronger than me, at least from what I can sense. Will he casually kill me?]
[Green Grass: Wuwuwu, I still have great vengeance to avenge. I can't die yet! Tang San isn't dead; how can I die?]
[I Have No Mother: Sister Ah Yin, don't panic. Maybe he won't even notice you. Right now, you're just a weak little Blue Silver Grass—perhaps even passing dogs wouldn't bother stepping on you.]
[Green Grass: Uh… that was before I joined the chat group. I'm a two-thousand-year Blue Silver Grass now, half a meter tall. That's why I'm worried.]
[I Am a Little Princess: Sister Ah Yin, your vitality is so strong. Even if he cuts you down, you might still survive. No need to panic.]
[Carrot Lover: Exactly! Sister Ah Yin, you survived even after sacrificing yourself before. Your life force is incredible. Worst case, you just start cultivating again from scratch.]
[I Am a Super Healer: This is the first time I've seen a soul beast survive after a sacrifice. Sister Ah Yin, don't be afraid. At worst, you just die again.]
[Pope of Spirit Hall: I have a rather improper thought. If Ah Yin used the diary copy rewards to raise herself back to 100,000 years, then sacrificed herself again, and kept repeating the cycle… wouldn't one person be able to possess nine 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor soul rings at once?]
[Green Grass: ???]
[Green Grass: Bibi Dong, are you even human? How does a mouth at thirty-six degrees Celsius speak such ice-cold words?]
[Green Grass: I won't talk anymore. He's almost beside me. Logging off first.]
Back Mountain of Holy Soul Village, Inside the Stone Chamber
Lin Chen stared at the clump of grass ahead.
A half-meter-tall Blue Silver Grass stood there.
In Lin Chen's judgment, its cultivation had already surpassed a thousand years.
He stared at it silently for quite a while, then rubbed his eyes and looked again.
After confirming that his vision wasn't playing tricks on him, Lin Chen couldn't hold back anymore.
'You're telling me this lush, tender, tall, vibrant Blue Silver Grass… is Ah Yin?'
After a long moment, Lin Chen finally regained his composure.
There was only one explanation for this situation:
Ah Yin must have obtained his diary copy and received considerable rewards from it, allowing her cultivation to break past the thousand-year mark.
As for how many thousand years exactly, Lin Chen couldn't tell. He could only confirm she had surpassed one thousand years.
While Lin Chen stood frozen in place, Ah Yin was equally confused. Why wasn't this outsider moving?
At present, she only has two thousand years of cultivation. She could only rely on her perception to sense enemies; she could not still directly observe their appearance.
Only after reaching ten thousand years and undergoing transformation would she gain true sight.
Ignoring Ah Yin for the moment, Lin Chen followed Tang Hao's actions from the original story. He searched around the stone chamber before forcefully striking a section of the rock wall.
A black box dropped from above, landing before him.
Through her perception, Ah Yin sensed his movements and also detected the familiar aura of her soul bone inside the black box.
In that instant, she understood the outsider's purpose.
What puzzled her, however, was:
How did this outsider soul master know that a 100,000-year soul bone was hidden here?
"Could it be that this outsider soul master is…"
End of Chapter