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 Chapter 2953: They Must Have Another Purpose 

Lin Moyu rushed into the Ice and Fire Secret Treasury, and just before entering, he glanced back. He saw the two ice and fire grasses being engulfed by the thunder. However, Lin Moyu had a feeling that, despite the thunder coming from Lei Xiaocang, a Dao Sovereign of the Seventh Realm, it still couldn't stop the ice and fire grasses. Behind the ice and fire grasses, a group of demons was also scrambling to seize the opportunity to enter the Ice and Fire Secret Treasury. But they were too far away, and under normal circumstances, they wouldn't be able to catch up. However, these matters were not important to him. 

As Lin Moyu entered the treasury, the world before him turned blue and red. The faint blue represented the extreme cold, while the intense red represented the extreme heat. The two colors alternated before his eyes, colliding and swirling like a storm on either side of his body, generating powerful forces that propelled him through the passage into the treasury's interior. 

Soon, the blue and red colors in his vision began to separate, moving farther apart and no longer colliding. Before him appeared a vast mist. The mist rose continuously, with large snowflakes falling within it. This mist, besides being humid, carried warmth, not cold at all. The sky turned icy blue, with snowflakes constantly falling from above. The ground was ablaze, a sea of fire. Snowflakes melted quickly upon hitting the ground, evaporating to form mist. Fortunately, the sky was high and the earth wide, so the mist dispersed across the land without becoming too dense. Moreover, the mist concentrated in the middle of the sky, forming a zone between the ground and sky, each about ten thousand meters apart, creating two relatively safe areas for movement. 

According to the information from the Three Ancestors, the Dao Sovereigns of the Lu Feng Merchant Guild who entered the treasury operated mainly along these two areas. They would also venture into the sea of fire or ice layers, but mostly remained in these areas for safety. Both the sea of fire and ice layers contained immense power, which even a Dao Sovereign of the Sixth Realm couldn't withstand for long. 

Lin Moyu pondered, "Let's test it first!" He fell to the ground like a meteor and plunged into the sea of fire. The temperature rose rapidly, and the ground beneath the sea of fire wasn't ordinary earth but soft like magma. Once stepped on, a force would pull one downward. The flames roasted Lin Moyu, and a rumbling sound emanated from his body. His blood, infused with the power of the Great Dao, surged wildly within him. He didn't use the Undying Golden Body or damage transfer, so the flames could harm him. His body was continuously damaged and restored by the surging blood. 

After about ten minutes, Lin Moyu burst out of the sea of fire, crossed the ten-thousand-meter space, and entered the mist. In an instant, he emerged from the mist, flying forward and crossing the ten-thousand-meter space again to enter the ice layer. Switching between flames and ice, his blood continued to roar, and the power of the Great Dao coursed through his body. After a few more minutes, Lin Moyu emerged from the ice layer. 

White light flickered on Lin Moyu's body, and the power of life flowed like water, with his blood continuing to roar. Under the dual effects of the power of life and the Great Dao, his damaged body quickly returned to normal. Lin Moyu muttered to himself, "No, neither the flames nor the ice can be used to cultivate the body due to the chaotic will they contain." Cultivating the body requires not only strong and appropriate power but also purity. It shouldn't contain personal will, and during the destruction and cultivation of the body, no impurities should be absorbed. The best power is naturally generated, devoid of personal will, or like the thunder in the Secret Thunder Treasury, drawn by a Great Dao realm being's life. 

This is why cultivating the body is extremely difficult, with various requirements that are hard for most to meet. Moreover, as one's realm increases, the requirements also rise. The method for cultivating the body is singular, but reaching the pinnacle is very challenging. Having tested and confirmed that the ice and fire in the treasury couldn't be used for body cultivation, Lin Moyu wasn't disappointed, as such environments are rare and his luck was already good. 

With only 100 days, Lin Moyu didn't waste time. He released a large number of skeleton generals to scatter in all directions. Besides the blue ice layer in the sky and the red flames on the ground, the skeleton generals searched every area. Even the mist in the sky was searched by the skeleton generals. The Eye of the Undead opened, beginning the search for targets. Lin Moyu had two targets: the extraterrestrial god and the illusory bug. 

"By now, someone should have entered." After entering the treasury, each person's location was different. With limited time, Lin Moyu couldn't worry about anything else and released millions of skeleton generals to conduct a thorough search of the entire treasury. 

A hundred days may seem long, but it can be very short at times. Gradually, Lin Moyu gained control over the situation in the treasury. In less than half a day, the skeleton generals encountered living beings. They were those who entered later, and as Lin Moyu expected, the demons followed him in. The skeleton generals ignored them, flashing past and continuing to fly into the distance. The treasury's range was vast, and what he had seen was just the tip of the iceberg. 

A Dao Sovereign from the demon clan rushed into the treasury, looking displeased. He originally had a slot to enter the treasury and didn't need to compete, so Lin Moyu's presence didn't affect him. But unexpectedly, the Hundred Herb Alliance intervened, forcing everyone to compete for slots. Fortunately, he managed to get in. 

He hadn't been happy for two seconds when a light approached, then flew past him towards the distance. "What was that!" He was stunned, and upon closer inspection, realized it was a skeleton. Scanning the area, he saw more skeletons flying by, numerous and moving like meteors in all directions. "Why are there so many skeletons here?" He was puzzled, unable to understand. Not only him, but other demon Dao Sovereigns also noticed the skeleton generals. Lin Moyu had dispatched so many skeleton generals that they were easily noticed. But Lin Moyu didn't care. He had his own tasks, different from others. The demon Dao Sovereigns, seeing the skeletons, didn't act. Facing the unknown, they wouldn't act rashly. Once the skeletons flew away, they began their own actions, each flying into the ice layers and sea of fire to awaken their bloodlines. 

Two days later, Lin Moyu had already discovered seven demon Dao Sovereigns who had entered the treasury. "Including me, that's eight, leaving two slots." "If I'm not mistaken, those two slots were likely taken by the two grasses from the Hundred Herb Alliance." "But I haven't found them, so I don't know where they went." Lin Moyu had a vague suspicion that the two grasses' purpose in entering the treasury wasn't to strengthen their bloodlines. Activating bloodlines was just Lu Zeng's explanation, and although the Lu Feng Merchant Guild's intelligence was strong, it might not be entirely accurate.