Chapter 76: Cave Emanating Such Powerful Thunder Energy
As Lin Yuan was heading towards the direction of the Bai family estate, cutting through the wind like a meteor of lightning, his mind was racing.
The Bai Clan.
It was the home of his wife, the very clan that had nurtured her incredible talent only to ruthlessly toss her aside the moment she became a liability. As he flew over the sprawling, diverse landscapes that separated his newly acquired home from the heart of Azure Cloud City, he could not help but dwell on the his Dao Companion. The Bai Clan had callously stripped Bai Qingyue of her status after her cultivation and legs were crippled by a Soul Transformation restriction, casting her into the filthy slums of the outer city to wither away alongside the forgotten and destitute.
Just thinking about the sheer arrogance of those elders caused a dangerous, crackling killing intent to bleed from Lin Yuan’s aura, momentarily scorching the clouds he flew through. He hated them. He hated the arrogant Patriarch of the Bai family, and he despised the cold elders who viewed their own flesh and blood merely as transactional commodities.
But then again, as his Dao Heart circulated the absolute truths of the universe, Lin Yuan was forced to confront a deeply uncomfortable paradox. He was somewhat grateful.
He hated the cruelty she had endured, but not admitting the profound benefit he had reaped from it would just be lying to himself! The Ten Thousand Ways Return to One Heart Sutra emphasized absolute clarity and honesty of the self, and the truth was undeniably stark. If Bai Qingyue had not been cast aside, if she had remained the shining, untouchable Saintess of the Bai Clan, her path would have never, ever crossed with a lowly, indebted outer-city nobody.
If she had not fallen from the heavens into the mud, he wouldn’t have married such a peerless beauty. And more importantly, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, he would never have gotten the opportunity to become this unfathomably strong by investing in her. Without the millionfold return system, he would not have triggered the critical investment multipliers that granted him the Origin Soul Revival Pill, the Death Gaze spell, his Comprehension abilities, and many more.
In truth, within the boundless wonders of Heaven and Earth, one man’s profound misfortune could become another man’s supreme fortune. The Heavenly Dao operated according to the laws of cause and effect, and the Bai Clan’s arrogant blunder had unknowingly become the very opportunity that forged Lin Yuan’s extraordinary cultivation foundation.
But one thing was absolutely for sure! Lin Yuan wouldn’t let Bai Qingyue’s misfortune continue to clad her life in shadows.
He had benefited, but he would be the one to raise her back up to the absolute pinnacle. In just five years, the cosmic maelstrom known as the Barrier Realm would open. He carried the grey jade slip—the Barrier Token imbued with primordial Chaos Qi—securely within his spatial ring. He was absolutely certain, judging by the sheer scale of the energy he had witnessed and if anything he had been hearing about the place proved to be true, that a supreme artifact capable of entirely removing the Soul Transformation restriction from Bai Qingyue must be there!
He would plunge into that boundless starry domain, brave the turbulent void, and slaughter whatever ancient beasts dared stand in his path. He would find a way to break the restriction binding her, no matter how ancient or formidable its origins were, and watch Bai Qingyue finally soar beyond the limits of this stagnant lower world.
With his resolve hardened into indestructible steel, Lin Yuan accelerated, his body becoming a blur of purple light as he closed the distance toward the Bai family’s territory.
But suddenly, without a single shred of warning, an unprecedented anomaly occurred.
As Lin Yuan flew over a particularly rugged, desolate stretch of mountain peaks located on the fringes of the city’s territory, his Nascent Soul within his body violently shook!
Thump!
It was a violent convulsion that threatened to shake his entire spiritual foundation. The Nascent Soul sitting cross-legged within his dantian suddenly threw its head back, its tiny form trembling violently as it emitted a silent resonance, as though it had just been struck by an invisible tuning fork.
Lin Yuan immediately stopped.
The abrupt cessation of his momentum generated a massive sonic boom, the shockwave violently scattering the clouds for miles around. He came to a dead halt in the middle of the sky, his body instantly tensing up, every single muscle coiling like a struck viper.
His deep purple eyes darted across the rocky landscape below. His breath caught in his throat.
What in the heavens could have caused my Nascent Soul to tremble like that?!
Lin Yuan’s mind raced in absolute shock. He had just gone toe-to-toe with Envoy Zhao Wuhen, a Middle Stage Nascent Soul expert representing the authority of the Cultivation Council. Even when staring down the beam of that Crown artifact, his Nascent Soul had remained perfectly anchored, and absolute. He possessed a peerless soul foundation granted by consuming the origin soul revival pill. Nothing should possess the innate spiritual power to easily make his core tremble simply by flying past it!
Refusing to be caught off guard, Lin Yuan immediately spread his divine sense.
He unleashed his consciousness, allowing his powerful divine sense to sweep across the vast mountain range below. His perception spread in every direction, probing through the rocks, valleys, and hidden ravines as he frantically searched for the source of that strange disturbance.
It did not take long.
Deep within the bowels of the tallest, most peak—hidden behind hundreds of feet of solid bedrock—was a massive, naturally formed cavern. And to his utter shock, inside that cave, he immediately sensed an incredible, roaring ocean of Thunder Energy emanating from it!
Lin Yuan gasped, his consciousness recoiling slightly from the sheer intensity of the energy.
What thunder energy!!!!
It was unlike anything he had ever encountered. This energy was ancient. It felt primordial, heavy, and saturated with the blood and fury of a bygone era. It pulsed with a terrifying heartbeat that seemed to command the very elemental laws of the world to bow down in submission.
The thunder energy was so compressed and unfathomably dense that it had distorted the natural leylines of the mountain itself, turning the subterranean cave into an absolute domain of lethal power.
Lin Yuan hovered in the sky, his chest heaving as he stared down at the unassuming mountain peak.
He hadn’t even breached the cave. He hadn’t even seen whatever artifact, beast, or inheritance was buried down there. The aura alone from this isolated energy was enough to violently shake his Nascent Soul, completely bypassing his peerless soul foundation!