Vol 5 Chapter 3: Robbery

Lin Jing furrowed his brows.

He suspected that during the teleportation process, the sibling duo Gu Xinghe and Gu Youran had somehow sucked away his luck, landing him in such a place.

“Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices... Could the mountain god here have reached the Void Mystical Stage or even the Seeking the Way realm?” he asked.

If that were the case, it would indeed be very difficult to get out.

“Not at all.” The disheveled young man replied, “It’s only equivalent to the peak of Nascent Soul Transformation, but...”

“But the mountains and rivers in the Origin Realm are rather unique, gathering the power of heaven and earth within them, with an almost infinite lifespan. Not only can it perfectly mobilize the world force of the Origin Realm, but it has also lingered in this realm for tens of thousands of years. Although its cultivation level matches that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, in terms of strength... even a Nascent Soul cultivator with an ‘Immortal Physique’ can’t do much against them.”

“Some native monsters here, who don’t fear the Origin Realm’s heavenly dao rules, even team up with outside cultivators to snatch immortal energy... This mountain god is relatively reasonable compared to them.”

Lin Jing understood. It seemed the intelligence gained from the Tianming Realm was incomplete.

Aside from the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Cultivation Alliance, without the supervision of powerful beings from the Immortal Realm, the native monsters of the Origin Realm had actually joined the battle for immortal energy.

Although seemingly limited by heavenly dao rules and unable to breakthrough to the Void Mystical Stage, as native lifeforms of the Origin Realm, this place was undoubtedly their home turf!

“Then, fellow cultivator, did you also enter this Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices to escape from being hunted?” Lin Jing inquired.

The disheveled youth said, “That’s right. Currently, besides you and me, there are three others in this mountain... We all offended powerful enemies and had no choice but to flee here, seeking the mountain god’s protection.”

“But as I just said, it’s easy to enter but hard to leave. Only if I offer enough resources will it allow me to leave the mountain. Otherwise, I can only leave the Origin Realm by forcefully breaking through the Void Mystical boundary.”

“I don’t want to leave the Origin Realm yet, but I don’t have enough resources to offer as tribute to the mountain god. So for now, I can only constantly use spiritual power to condense piece after piece of top-grade spirit stones, accumulating resources to exchange for the chance to leave.”

“Only, I don’t know how long that will take... Besides that, there is another way, which is to rob resources from other cultivators who also enter the Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices, consolidate them, and offer them to the mountain god.” He chuckled, “The mountain god only protects those inside the mountain from outsiders, but if insiders hurt each other, the mountain god won’t interfere.”

“The reason outsiders don’t want to enter the mountain is because it’s easy to get in but hard to get out;

the price to pay outweighs the gains from killing enemies.”

“So, fellow cultivator, after telling you all this, shouldn’t you make a gesture? You just entered the Origin Realm and must have brought a lot of resources from outside. Hand them over. You are only half a step into Nascent Soul Transformation. Even if you are a prodigy of your realm, you definitely can’t survive a single move from me. We have no grudge or hatred;

I won’t kill you. Give me your resources, and I’ll find you a treasure spot in the mountain. You can cultivate there properly and strive to leave sooner... It’s good for both of us.”

As the cultivator with the surname Fang finished speaking, his figure instantly appeared before Lin Jing, calmly staring at him. The power of Nascent Soul Transformation radiated without concealment, causing a massive vortex in the clouds above.

Lin Jing stood calmly on the mountaintop, also looking at him without surprise. He had long noticed this man bore some hostility toward him.

“You’ve come to the wrong person. But considering your intelligence, I’ll give you three breaths to vanish from my divine sense’s range. I won’t hold a grudge.” Lin Jing said calmly.

“Bold—” Fang squinted his eyes.

To put it nicely, he was half a step into Nascent Soul Transformation;

to put it harshly, just a Nascent Soul novice.

Yet he dared to oppose someone at the peak of Nascent Soul Transformation. He really thought the word “fellow cultivator” would stop him.

Boom!

Tired of talking nonsense, Lin Jing directly extended his hand and condensed a small true essence hand seal with spiritual power.

Against a cultivator a small realm above him, he didn’t even bother using spells.

True, it was the most basic attack, but in the hands of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it was still quite formidable. A hand seal as vast as the sky appeared with his movement, and when his palm descended, it felt as if the sky itself was collapsing.

“Someone not even at that level dares to rob?”

“In terms of true essence quality, he ranks even behind the last ten in your realm’s Nascent Soul prodigies.”

Lin Jing slowly raised his arm, using his finger as a sword. As his power fluctuations reached Nascent Soul level in an instant, a sword energy pierced through the large hand seal, severing five fingers. The spiritual energy ripple roared, sweeping the heavens and earth.

Of course, Lin Jing was not using the Heavenly Demon Physique. Dealing with a cultivator hunted to hide here was not worth wasting his lifespan. He used a short-term power boost fused with the Ice Soul Gu.

“Sword cultivator? The sword intent within the sword energy rivals the peak of Nascent Soul Transformation!” Seeing Lin Jing had a secret method to boost his realm and wield such a powerful sword cultivator attack, Fang was momentarily suspicious but still took no real notice.

Unable to easily defeat Lin Jing, he thought, spending a little more effort was no big deal.

“Wind God Bow, now!”

He took out an exquisite spirit bow wrapped in storm energy from his storage pouch. However, before he could shoot the first arrow, his expression changed drastically. He suddenly lost control of his spiritual power as countless poisonous insects seemed to appear out of nowhere in his meridians.

“Poison! When?!”

He abruptly looked toward Lin Jing, who had lowered his arm and was sitting cross-legged calmly in the air, quietly observing him.

In the next moment, Lin Jing intensified the power of the poisonous Gu. Fang’s entire body convulsed as he frantically stuffed antidote pills into his mouth, ignoring the meridian ruptures, forcing spiritual power to suppress the toxin. But in his life, he had never encountered such a ferocious poison spell. No matter how he struggled, the toxin could not be suppressed and instead activated even more intensely.

He wailed in pain, horrified to find that the poison was devouring his life force. In just a short moment, he had lost thousands of years of lifespan.

“Spare me! Grandpa, spare me!”

Realizing he could not detoxify, he immediately submitted. But Lin Jing remained unmoved. After a while, the youth, drenched in sweat, gritted his teeth and threw all his resources to Lin Jing, saying, “I admit defeat, admit defeat. I originally planned to offer these to the mountain god, but now they’re all yours!”

He was internally collapsing. What the hell was this? A Nascent Soul cultivator who just entered the Origin Realm, how terrifying! Was this a sword cultivator or a poison cultivator?

Not only did he possess sword intent comparable to the peak of Nascent Soul Transformation, but his poisoning methods and poison power were so strong that even Fang, at the peak of Nascent Soul Transformation, was powerless to counter!

“I have planted the Gu poison in your body. Don’t think of any tricks. Otherwise, even if you break through to the Void Mystical Stage and flee back to your own Cultivation Realm, the poison will still activate. No one can save you. Now, answer my questions.” Lin Jing looked at the struggling youth rolling on the ground and shook his head.

Although this man had high cultivation, his strength on the Destiny Rankings of the Tianyuan Realm probably only ranked around twenty or thirty. It seemed he came from a cultivation realm far weaker than Tianyuan.

“Who chased you here?”

“It was the Cultivation Alliance. A few years ago, a cluster of immortal energy was born somewhere in the Origin Realm. Countless prodigies rushed to fight for it. Knowing I had no chance, I took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the Cultivation Alliance’s headquarters, Xianlin City, to steal something. Unexpectedly, there was a powerful prodigy guarding Xianlin City at that time... and I was chased all the way here.”

Lin Jing was silent. This guy... which cultivation realm’s prodigy was he? Really pathetic.

“The other three...” Lin Jing continued to ask.

“The other three are about as strong as I am. None of us can harm each other. They cultivate in other parts of the mountain. The Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices is huge, and we usually don’t interfere with each other... These three seem to have been chased here by cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect.”

“Mm.” After finishing his questions, Lin Jing asked the most crucial question.

“Tell me the information on the strongest cultivators in this Origin Realm.”