Golden Young Girl

The dust had finally settled and Lin Xiang didn't hesitate. Searching through his body, Lin Xiang quickly collected the Elder's spatial ring.

This spatial ring made Lin Xiang feel far more joy than those Black Claw members' valuables. His eyes glowed with greed. 'The Sacred Moon School has a foundation of a few ancient Heavenly Kings! Their wealth is far more plentiful than the likes of the Lin family. High-grade Spirit beads and even some low-grade Heavenly Beads are in this ring.'

In terms of resources, the standard rankings are the three minor grades, low, medium, and high. While the tiers range from Spirit to Heavenly and several other higher tiers.

The Spirit Tier is equal to the Body Training realm to the Profound realm. While the Heavenly Tier encapsulates the three Heavenly Realms, Heavenly Origin, Heavenly Ruler, and Heavenly King.

Just a low-grade Heavenly Tier resource is at least several thousands of times more potent than anything in the Spirit Tier.

For a cultivator ready to become a Heavenly Origin expert, such resources are greatly efficient for Lin Xiang.

Putting the Elder's spatial ring away, Lin Xiang flicked his fingers, sending a stream of Ice radiance into the Elder's body. Cracking sounds reverberated. The Elder's ice corpse cracked into thousands of pieces.

With that done, Lin Xiang began to ponder about just what the Elder had informed him. 'The Sacred Emperor Mansion? They even have the roots of an ancient expert who breached into the realm of the Divine. With that kind of foundation, just why are they bothering with the Sacred Moon School?'

As one would expect, one of the strongest organizations in the Sacred Emperor City is the Sacred Emperor Mansion.

Compared to other peak-level organizations within a lower realm city, the Sacred Emperor Mansion has a decent enough reputation. They followed a more orthodox path, actually allowing cultivators with an appropriate amount of strength to join them.

Naturally, this appropriate amount of strength means great talent with high cultivation bases! Something of which the millions of ordinary cultivators in Sacred Emperor City would never be able to achieve.

With this kind of foundation, there weren't any real reasons Lin Xiang could see why the Sacred Emperor Mansion would confer to weaker organizations.

'Well, just thinking about it will get me nowhere. Better to just awaken my second inherent skill first.' Lin Xiang continued his original plan.

Without anything stopping him this time, he jumped straight into the concentrated lava pool.

A splash of steaming lava shot up into the air. Lin Xiang's body dived straight down toward the depths of the pool.

Without any protective energy or armor, Lin Xiang allowed the particles of essence from the lava pool to drill into his body!

Any other Profound realm or even Heavenly Origin cultivator would be completely foolish to do so. Their fleshly, powerful bodies would be burnt to a crisp. Or at the very least, suffer tremendous torture that would make them wish for death.

However, to Lin Xiang, he couldn't be more comfortable. His lips curled into a blissful smile. He watched the surrounding lava in genuine fascination.

Opposite from the freezing cold of Ice Laws was the fiery destruction of Fire Laws. The beauty of flames was on an equal level as ice.

Staring into Fire Law essence could give any cultivator a sensation of being mesmerizing. The way fire burned, roaring a rhythmic pattern, was more than enough to lull Lin Xiang into an enlightened trance.

The destruction it can cause but yet also be contained unraveled in his Spiritual Sea.

Only a few moments in the lava pool, Lin Xiang spread his Soul Sense throughout the lava pool. His Spiritual Sea unleashed a suction force. It directly pulled in the Extreme Fire Law essence from the molten lava!

The Extreme Fire Law essence went on the same process as Extreme Ice Law. Every single particle of Extreme Fire Law essence was continually absorbed into Lin Xiang's bloodstream.

Red lights whirled out of his bloodstream. His bloodline energy perfectly fused into the Extreme Fire Law essence, easily wiping out every bit of its destructive particle.

The pure essence force rapidly enhanced the Absolute Yang side of Lin Xiang's bloodline. A slumbering power within his Absolute Yang bloodline energy started its rapid awakening.

At the same time, the mysteries of the Absolute Yang bloodline energy gradually revealed themselves in Lin Xiang's Spiritual Sea. Bits of this fog slowly disperse. The comprehension of his Absolute Yin-Yang bloodline was taking steps forward once again.

The advancement of his bloodline comprehension caused Lin Xiang's Spiritual Sea to exude a different kind of magnetic force. This pulled in more powerful Profound energy and Extreme Fire Law essence into his Qi Sea.

In just moments, Lin Xiang's Law of Fire already reached the Late Stage of the Fire Novice realm!

3% of regular Fire Laws converted into Extreme Fire Laws, fusing with Profound energy to form more essence marks within his Qi Sea.

Lin Xiang didn't believe anything would disturb him during the awakening of his second inherent skill. But in the midst of his cultivation, his Soul Sense had rapidly expanded far out of the lava pool.

'Oh? What's going on here?' Lin Xiang found something of mild interest.

In a lax cultivation environment, he can easily split his focus without diminishing his cultivation. He soon detected an interesting scene from a few hundred meters away from him.

His Soul Sense perfectly illustrated the scene in his Spiritual Sea.

A huge battle was currently taking place.

Several powerful Elders stayed floating in the skies, their expressions completely merciless. Each and every one of them was unleashing powerful streams of Law radiance lights toward a pitiful group on the ground.

Every flash of Law radiance illuminated the area. Turbulent airwaves rippled onto the ground, leaving deep gashes. Waves of lava splashed all around from the violent shockwaves of energy collisions.

The group floating in the air all simmered with insidious killing intent.

While the ones on the group held unyielding, determined expressions, even in their losing position.

Lin Xiang took particular note of both groups' styles of clothing.

The people in the air wore similar clothes to the Sacred Moon School Elder he had just killed. Only these Elders held higher quality materials in their robes.

As for the bottom group, not only were the materials made with finer world energies but there were also small patches of Law rune markings carved at random spots on their stylish robes.

Their style was certainly at a higher standard than the regular sects from Sacred Emperor City.

But above all, the auras of these cultivators were all in the Heavenly Origin realm! And not just ordinary Heavenly Origin experts. Two of them were in the Late Stages!

Only one was in the Early Stage of the Heavenly Origin realm. Her prowess should evidently be the lowest. Yet, this early layer Heavenly Origin warrior was confidently keeping stride with everyone else.

Lin Xiang only needed to focus his Soul Sense to get a clear sound of what these cultivators were talking about.

If these cultivators were above the Heavenly Origin realm, it would've been impossible to peer into their words. Their natural defenses of higher cultivation would be able to properly defend themselves against Lin Xiang's spying.

However, with the evolvable Heavenly Origin soul, Lin Xiang's surpassed their natural defenses.

Of course, it couldn't be used to perform sneak attacks or the like since Lin Xiang does not have any soul-related cultivation skills. But using his Soul Sense to peer into the scene was an effortless task.

The group in the skies, despite their seemingly insidious killing intent and supreme confidence, was still highly cautious against the bottom group.

One of the Sacred Moon School Elder calmly said, "Is there really a need to put up such a resistance? We already received help from the Spirit Heaven Valley. Nobody from your mansion will come. Not even if you ring the Sacred Emperor himself. Nor will Elder Qiao allow anyone to pass beyond this point. If you care at all about your lives, it's better to preserve it."

His words sought to conquer and destroy the bottom group's confidence completely.

However, not a single one in the Sacred Emperor Mansion group had even flinched. Their Law radiances only became more intense!

One of the Elders from the bottom group spat out, "Heh. You all are really ruthless. To think to gain some meager resources, you would forgo your Martial Will and become subservient dogs to that Xia's faction."

The Sacred Moon School's Elders' merely creased their brows. Though, other than that, their reaction stayed completely calm.

The same Elder continues to say, "Truthfully, we can understand the Xia's faction haste in wanting to rid of Yin Xinya. A talent that can even injure an ordinary middle Heavenly Origin warrior while just in the Early Layers of the Heavenly Origin realm is considerable even in the 1st ranked province. Better to weed out a potential problem than let it fester into an unstoppable force. Of course, if you simply give up with the loyalty seal, none of us needs to go that far."

"Hmph! How preposterous."

It was at this time a cold, feminine snort sounded throughout the area. The snort came from the early layer Heavenly Origin talent.

A beautiful young woman was presented to Lin Xiang's eyes. Her looks had unique features different from what one can normally grasp by absorbing energies from the Heaven and Earth.

That gorgeous face of hers had a natural magnetic attraction. Staring into it would be a divine gift itself. Her hair that rhythmically swayed down to her knees was of a luminous golden shine. It surpassed other gold hair colors. Quite literally, it glowed all on its own, making it hard to look away from.

Another unique feature of the girl was her ears. Instead of normal human ones, she has long and pointed ears!

Furthermore, this golden shiny girl exuded a presence of utmost nobility. Her grace screamed that she came from a background of powerful people who stood at the top of their martial society.

Even while in a dangerous situation, this young girl retained a noble bearing, as if she wouldn't crumble under this intense pressure.

This young girl slightly piqued Lin Xiang's intrigue.