CHAPTER 498: CHAPTER 391: SOUL CONTROLLING CLAN! ANNIHILATION

During cultivation, what one fears most is nothing more than the bottleneck being too solid, inadequate preparation, and insufficient follow-up of Star Power or Spiritual Strength.

Just now, after absorbing Hu Chang’s soul body, Lu Lin clearly felt that although he saw the bottleneck and the hope for a breakthrough, the remaining Spiritual Strength within Hu Chang was far from enough for him to absorb to make the breakthrough.

To achieve a breakthrough, more soul power is absolutely necessary.

At a time when Lu Lin was deeply anxious, Hu Chang astonishingly aligned with his thoughts, sharing his urgency. To aid Lu Lin’s breakthrough, he was willing to destroy his own world, and even kill many of his clan members to enhance his soul power strength.

This is simply... wonderful.

Absorb, absorb!

Lu Lin unleashed the power of the contract to its fullest.

The One-Eyed Demon Knife continued to flicker with dazzling brilliance.

Engulfed in the process, its gains were substantial as well.

Lu Lin already sensed how formidable and sturdy the Spiritual Strength bottleneck at 200,000 was.

Yet, under the continuously rising Spiritual Strength, even the sturdiest barrier would be flattened by Lu Lin.

"Crack~"

A faint sound echoed in Lu Lin’s Consciousness Universe.

But when heard by Hu Chang, it was akin to thunderous lightning.

"Boom."

The entire Cricket World seemed as if doomsday had arrived, with lightning appearing spontaneously, and in the void, both Hu Chang’s obliterated place and the original world suffered varying degrees of shattering and bursting.

Mountains shattered into nothingness.

Rivers devolved into their most basic atoms.

When the explosion reached the city, the houses where the Soul Controlling Clan members resided instantly turned to dust, and those clan members, faces full of terror trying to evade, vanished from the world as if they had never appeared at all.

"You—"

Hu Chang wanted to say something, but found that even though he opened his mouth, he could not utter a sound.

Lu Lin’s spiritual body was completely dyed golden.

Previously, the Black and White Golden Beads in his Consciousness Universe, although named golden, were composed of black and white hues with no hint of gold.

It was merely for the sake of sounding pleasant that this name was chosen.

At this moment, the Black and White Golden Beads lost all traces of black and white, leaving only gold.

Dazzling gold.

Seeing these golden beads, Lu Lin couldn’t help but feel surprised.

Could it be that he had condensed the legendary Golden Core?

In this world, though everyone’s cultivation primarily relied on Star Power, there were many ordinary people unable to achieve Awakening, seeking the legendary cultivation methods to find their standing in this star-shining era.

But over a thousand years, despite many delving into constant night studies, the opportunity to combine Taoist methods with Star Power eluded them.

At most, it was similar to Lv Susu, who, endowed with certain deduction Talent, made her predictions more accurate and mysterious by studying some Taoist classics.

The golden bead spun vigorously.

When its rotating speed peaked, to Lu Lin, it appeared almost static.

On the glittering golden bead, an imagery of an old Taoist priest with an immortal demeanor appeared, clad in a jade-like white robe, sporting a single topknot, with scattered hair strands, although the priest’s face wasn’t clear, the long white brows and beard appeared tangibly real.

The old Taoist priest sat cross-legged facing heaven, a dust brush of indiscernible material placed at his left arm.

Just when Lu Lin thought he was hallucinating, the old Taoist priest vanished from the Golden Core.

As if he had never existed.

How could this be.

Now at Star Dust Peak, with his Spiritual Strength undergoing a Second Transformation, both his eyesight and Perception stood at the apex of the Exotic Battlefield, how could he hallucinate.

But in this moment, with only gleaming gold flickering upon the golden bead, where could the silhouette of the old Taoist priest be found.

At this moment, Lu Lin couldn’t discern whether the bead was still or spinning.

A zigzag pattern emerged upon it, and if not looked at carefully, one might mistake it as the bead cracking.

However, the instant this pattern appeared, a sensation surged into Lu Lin’s mind.

That sensation was akin to a long-blind person opening their eyes to view the world they inhabited for the first time.

This flower, it is a flower, yet not a flower.

This person, is a person, yet not a person.

Breakthrough.

Lu Lin knew that his Spiritual Strength was now in a breakthrough state.

Yet, as he utilized his Spiritual Strength to observe his surroundings, to observe the world he was in, he didn’t perceive any differences.

Perhaps there were differences, but Lu Lin couldn’t pinpoint what was different.

Not far ahead, Hu Chang appeared defeated, his complexion a shade of desolation.

Lu Lin’s lips curled into a smirk.

This Hu Chang, he originally intended to subdue as a servant, to aid in the Human Federation’s reconnaissance on the Alien Race, and even considered how when he eventually advanced into the Longyuan World, he could exploit controlling the Soul Controlling Clan for more intelligence.

However, upon hearing Hu Chang mention that he controlled hundreds of thousands of Humans, and upon seeing Hu Chang mention how controlling Humans accelerates his own cultivation speed significantly, Lu Lin felt enraged.

He could not take such an executioner as a servant; this would be a desecration upon the Human Federation, a betrayal to those Human comrades who perished at the hands of the Soul Controlling Clan.