195: Chapter 195 Was I tricked?

The Restriction Broken

After some time studying it, Lin Ming finally managed to break the Restriction within Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong's Divine Soul.

It must be said that this Restriction was truly troublesome; if one took a single wrong step, Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong's Divine Soul would be completely destroyed.

However, after Lin Ming's "research," Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong was now little different from an idiot.

Lin Ming directly invaded Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong's memories; after all, having already cleared the Restriction in his Divine Soul, he might as well take a look at his memories to see what the Soul Refining Sect was planning.

"Seems like a small fry; he doesn't know much."

After browsing through them, there wasn't anything of importance.

Although he was a Deputy Hall Master of the Soul Refining Sect's Twelfth Hall, his task was to collect cultivation resources within the sphere of influence of Yuanxu Mountain and gather information about Yuanxu Mountain.

This person had also controlled and seduced quite a few small factions.

Since these factions were colluding with the demonic Sect, treating them as his own mission targets wasn't bad.

Most of the resources Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong obtained were swallowed up by him and the Hall Master of the Twelfth Hall; only a small portion was turned in.

It turned out he had recently planned to leave the sphere of influence of Yuanxu Mountain; this was also the Hall Master's order, as it was said there was some urgent mission from the upper echelons of the Soul Refining Sect.

He had also intended to loot these factions clean and silence them in the process, but ended up encountering Lin Ming and sending himself to his doom.

"Cautious, indeed," Lin Ming remarked.

This evaluation was directed at the Hall Master of the Twelfth Hall. Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong and the Hall Master only had one-way contact; the Hall Master would contact Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong, but Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong could hardly contact the other party.

This meant Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong did not know the Hall Master's specific location.

As for that animal hide, it was actually quite interesting. It was an item the Soul Refining Sect's Sect Leader had personally ordered to be found, which showed that this animal hide was extraordinary.

The person from the Zeng Family had seen the existence of this animal hide at a certain cultivator's stall, and having sensed that the material of the hide was unusual, had purchased it.

In the end, it fell into Lin Ming's hands.

The soul search ended at this moment.

Deputy Hall Master Shi Yong's only value was gone, so Lin Ming ended his life, threw him into his storage space, and went outside to dispose of the corpse.

Animal Hide of an Other Shore Realm Yao Beast

Lin Ming took out the animal hide.

When this animal hide first came into his hands, he had already noticed that there was indeed something wrong with it.

It was an item made from the hide of an Other Shore Realm Yao Beast.

As for the patterns on it, he indeed couldn't quite understand them, but he could sense that a special power truly existed on this animal hide.

This special power was sealed within the animal hide.

It was estimated that only by collecting all the animal hides could one know its purpose.

Lin Ming then threw it back into his storage space.

He had plenty of strange and bizarre items himself; he wasn't lacking one or two.

This reminded Lin Ming of one thing.

Four Symbols Yin-Yang Formation

A Formation originating from Wuji Pavilion.

Wuji Pavilion had long since been destroyed; it wasn't the disaster from ten thousand years ago, but rather it had disappeared five thousand years ago.

It was said that Wuji Pavilion disappeared overnight; everyone at its Sect headquarters, from the Sect Head and Elders down to the Utility Disciples, vanished instantly overnight.

This matter remained a mystery to this day.

After Wuji Pavilion disappeared, its Sect was immediately looted by numerous cultivators; everything within the Sect, including Cultivation Techniques and Legacies, was completely snatched away.

The Shangji Sect was established six hundred years after Wuji Pavilion was destroyed by a cultivator named Zheng Xu, who claimed to be a Disciple of Wuji Pavilion who had escaped catastrophe two hundred years ago because he was not in the Sect.

He publicly claimed to inherit Wuji Pavilion, but the Sect he established was the Shangji Sect.

After establishing the Shangji Sect, he began collecting all Legacies related to Wuji Pavilion.

Once someone cultivated Cultivation Techniques or skills related to Wuji Pavilion, they only had two choices: either choose to join the Shangji Sect, or be hunted down by the Shangji Sect.

The overbearing conduct of the Shangji Sect naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many cultivators.

But unfortunately, they had no way to deal with the Shangji Sect.

On one hand, it was because Zheng Xu was a cultivator in the Nirvana Realm with immense strength.

On the other hand, Zheng Xu's actions were only directed at Loose Cultivators and factions without Nirvana Realm cultivators, which caused those factions that did have Nirvana Realm cultivators to turn a blind eye to the Shangji Sect's actions.

But as time passed, the Shangji Sect's strength grew increasingly powerful, and their behavior became increasingly overbearing.

Even factions with Nirvana Realm cultivators would still be threatened as long as they possessed Legacies related to Wuji Pavilion.

The discord between Yuanxu Mountain and the Shangji Sect stemmed from a Cultivation Technique of Wuji Pavilion. An Elder within Yuanxu Mountain had once obtained a Cultivation Technique of Wuji Pavilion by chance, and because this Cultivation Technique was quite compatible with him, the Elder cultivated it and turned it over to the Sect.

Later, after the Shangji Sect learned of this, they wanted to exchange for this Cultivation Technique with Yuanxu Mountain.

But this was only on the surface; in secret, the Shangji Sect contacted this Elder, wanting him to betray Yuanxu Mountain and join the Shangji Sect.

The Elder proactively reported this matter to the Sect.

Yuanxu Mountain certainly could not tolerate this secret poaching behavior and directly terminated the transaction.

The grudge between the two Sects began from that time.

The Shangji Sect tried every possible way to obtain that Cultivation Technique from Yuanxu Mountain, but Yuanxu Mountain simply ignored the Shangji Sect.

This later gradually evolved into the Shangji Sect intentionally or unintentionally causing trouble for Yuanxu Mountain, and small frictions between the two Sects became more frequent.

As for that Cultivation Technique, it was still sitting in Yuanxu Mountain's Scripture Pavilion.

"Two Instruments Transformation Sutra," one of the core Cultivation Techniques of Wuji Pavilion.

Lin Ming had also studied this Cultivation Technique before; the Dao of Yin and Yang involved in it was indeed extremely profound.

It was no wonder the Shangji Sect went to such great lengths to obtain this Cultivation Technique.

In the relevant records kept by Yuanxu Mountain, most evaluations of Wuji Pavilion suggested that its Legacy was suspected to have come from the Upper Realm.

It was not a local Legacy of the Qingxuan Realm.

But regarding the destruction of Wuji Pavilion, there was still no accurate answer to this day.

Four Symbols Yin-Yang Formation

Lin Ming's Divine Soul invaded the Jade Slip, absorbing the contents of this Formation entirely.

This Formation was incomplete, and the missing part was actually the most important part of this Formation, as if it had been deliberately cut out by someone.

"Scammed," Lin Ming said, his brows knitting together.

If it were a complete Formation, he would have been willing to pay the six thousand High Grade Origin Stones.

But now, let alone six thousand High Grade Origin Stones, it wasn't even worth half that.

Lin Ming had reason to suspect that this incomplete Four Symbols Yin-Yang Formation was deliberately used by the person auctioning it to disgust Wuji Pavilion, but they didn't expect to run into him, who had intercepted Wuji Pavilion's Legacy.