227: Chapter 227 Collecting Hidden Heaven Mist Marrow

Lin Qing's body slowly rose, and a force of will spread in all directions, causing the clouds and mist in the entire area to begin churning and restless.

After trapping the Yintian Mist Marrow, the second step was to make it manifest again. For this, Sun Shaoping provided Lin Qing with several plans. The optimal one was to use the Will of Ice to freeze the entire area, but unfortunately, Lin Qing had not yet mastered the Will of Ice. Therefore, he had to choose the next best option: to continuously scour the area with the Will of Wind until the Yintian Mist Marrow could no longer endure it.

Previously, when Zhou Rulong was setting up the Formation, to prevent Lin Qing from escaping the moment the Formation was activated, he had set the coverage area of the Formation to be extremely large, covering an area of over a thousand miles. After Lin Qing took over the Formation, he shared the same idea as Zhou Rulong, so he did not make any adjustments to this range.

Wanting to cover such a large area with the force of will, and also maintain the intensity at a certain level, was not an easy task for Lin Qing.

"Lin Qing, spare me!"

Just as the force of will spread out, a wail came from beneath his feet—it was Junior Sister Qiyue. She thought Lin Qing was holding a grudge about her previous cursing, so she hurriedly begged for mercy.

In reality, Lin Qing had just overlooked her existence. Now, hearing Junior Sister Qiyue's voice, Lin Qing gestured with one hand, pulling Junior Sister Qiyue to his side to spare her from the assault of the Will of Wind.

Just like that, after the violent wind raged in this area for a full day, some fragmented whimpering sounds began to appear all around. The Yintian Mist Marrow was clearly nearing its limit.

Lin Qing was not feeling well either. Maintaining such a large-scale coverage of the force of will while keeping it at a certain intensity was, with Lin Qing's current abilities, something he could probably only persist with for another two or three months.

With the wind howling and the clouds and mist churning, after another few days had passed, the Yintian Mist Marrow finally could not hold on any longer. It decided to make a desperate attempt, so its massive form manifested once again. This time, it appeared directly in front of Lin Qing, and as soon as its body solidified, it charged straight at Lin Qing.

A smile curled at the corners of Lin Qing's mouth. He did not dodge or evade. Just like before, he responded with a lunge punch. The outcome was no different from before; the Yintian Mist Marrow's massive body began to roll on the ground in pain.

However, this time it did not transform back into clouds and mist, as it knew that would be futile. Its eyes, larger than a house, stared at Lin Qing, revealing a look of supplication.

"Rest assured, I will not kill you."

Lin Qing's goal was to collect the Yintian Mist Marrow, not to destroy it. Otherwise, what Lin Qing had released earlier would not have been the Will of Wind, but the Five Elements Will or the Destruction Will.

The Yintian Mist Marrow clearly understood. It quieted down, waiting for Lin Qing's disposition. Lin Qing took out a semi-transparent spherical object and said:

"Chuyun, open a gap."

Strictly speaking, the Yintian Mist Marrow did not count as an ordinary living creature, so it could be stored in a Storage Ring. However, Lin Qing had many other items in his Storage Ring, and he was afraid they would be damaged by the Yintian Mist Marrow, so he planned to temporarily store it inside the Secret Realm.

As soon as the gap to the Secret Realm opened, figures flew out from within; they were the people who had been afraid of Lin Qing playing tricks and had chosen to stay inside.

Now, a month had passed since the Secret Realm's exit had closed, and with no movement coming from the outside world, they had long since regretted their decision. Fearing that they would truly be trapped in the Secret Realm forever, they no longer even had the heart to continue exploring the Secret Realm, and spent every day waiting bitterly on the plaza at the mountain gate.

Now that they had finally waited for the Secret Realm to open again, they naturally disregarded everything and swarmed out.

After coming out, they naturally saw Lin Qing, as well as the giant snake lying to the side. They were all just ordinary Eighth Rank Cultivators, and upon seeing such a scene, they were all struck dumb, like children who had made a mistake, lowering their heads and standing quietly to the side to wait.

Lin Qing deliberately gave them ten breaths of time. After ten breaths, Lin Qing said to the Yintian Mist Marrow:

"Go in and stay for a while. If you encounter any human Cultivators, kill them."

Lin Qing's patience had limits. He had already given these Cultivators more than one chance. If they were still staying in the Secret Realm now, then there was no need for them to live. The Eighth Rank Cultivators who were lowering their heads to the side felt secretly relieved that they had escaped a disaster upon hearing Lin Qing's words.

The Yintian Mist Marrow nodded humanely, then transformed into a mass of clouds and mist and disappeared from the spot.

"Chuyun, has it gone in?"

"It has come in."

"Good, close the exit."

To prevent Lin Qing from misunderstanding, after the Yintian Mist Marrow entered the Secret Realm as clouds and mist, it first transformed back into its giant snake form. Only after the exit was closed again did it transform back into clouds and mist and disappear between heaven and earth.

The size of the Secret Realm was about the same as this piece of the Cangyun Mountains. After the Yintian Mist Marrow entered, clouds and mist began to rise all over the Secret Realm, and it was continuing to thicken. It was estimated that it wouldn't be long before the Secret Realm would become the same as the Cangyun Mountains, completely covered by thick fog.

At the same time, the clouds and mist of the Cangyun Mountains began to slowly thin out. Lin Qing nodded; in this way, the Yintian Mist Marrow was considered successfully subdued.

Only then did Lin Qing cast his gaze toward the group of Eighth Rank Cultivators to the side. Seeing Lin Qing look over, these people lowered their heads even further, and some even knelt down and began to beg for mercy.

"Young Master Lin, I..."

"Shut up!"

Lin Qing had no intention of making things difficult for them; they were just a group of ordinary people. Lin Qing waved his hands in the air, and the pieces of Materials used to set up the Tenth Rank Formation flew back and were collected into his Storage Ring.

Afterwards, he performed a hand seal to erase the tracking mark within Junior Sister Qiyue's body. Junior Sister Qiyue had helped him quite a bit this time, and Lin Qing similarly had no intention of making things difficult for her. Since the matter was concluded, the tracking mark should be erased; at the same time, it could also prevent experts from Junior Sister Qiyue's Sect from using the mark to track him in reverse.

Then, Lin Qing paid no more attention to the crowd. A flash of yao shuang appeared on his body, and he vanished from the spot in an instant.

On the way back to the Wanyan Spirit Pavilion, he changed his appearance and attire multiple times. After several transfers through teleportation Formations, when he returned to Xiaxi Workshop again, he had changed back into the likeness of Xie Chen.

At the entrance of the Jian Forging Workshop, seeing Xie Chen return, Sixing hurriedly came up to meet him.

"Senior Brother Xie, you are back."

"Mm, nothing special happened these past few days, right? Has Senior Sister Tao Tao come looking for me?"

Lin Qing asked Sixing while walking towards the back of the shop. The goal of this trip had been perfectly accomplished; the only variable was whether Senior Sister Tao Tao had come looking for him later.

Fortunately, Lin Qing was not that unlucky after all. These past few days, there were only some ordinary customers who came to the door, though the orders for custom-made weapons had increased a bit more.

Fortunately, refining Eighth Rank weapons was like child's play for Lin Qing now, and he could refine multiple weapons simultaneously just like he used to grind for proficiency, so this would not waste too much time.