Chapter 461

Translator: 549690339

Lin Zhen ran with the dwarf, out of the dangerous area.

“Huff! Lin Zhen, let’s take a break. We’re about to leave the Asura Path.”

“That’s what we want, let’s get out now.”

“Get out? I thought you would stay to take revenge.”

Lin Zhen laughed: “Of course, I will come back to take revenge. We’re leaving now to prepare for it. I checked Xuanzhu’s progress, and it will probably take three more days to break through the Asura Path. These three days are my time to prepare for revenge.”

Upon hearing Lin Zhen’s idea, Ni Ke the dwarf felt it was normal.

Although the opponent was powerful, Lin Zhen was also strong. Such strong ones would never easily admit defeat.

The two spent 2,000 Cosmic Crystals to use the teleportation array to leave the Asura Path. Lin Zhen said to Ni Ke: “Lend me two million of your Cosmic Crystals.”

Although he didn’t really want to borrow money from Ni Ke, the situation was urgent and there was no time to care about that.

Ni Ke looked at her space rings and said, “I have at least three million in total. There isn’t two million. Give me a moment and I’ll get one million…”

“Three million it is, hand it over.”

Lin Zhen directly grabbed one of Ni Ke’s rings and rushed to the Dimensional Universe Company’s residence.

Seeing Lin Zhen’s arrival, the staff immediately greeted him warmly: “Ha! Welcome, Mr. Lin Zhen. I presume you have another ten million Cosmic Crystals.”

“Of course, let’s trade.”

In the room, the staff handed Lin Zhen a golden paper. Lin Zhen paid ten million Cosmic Crystals and had just over one million left.

After taking the golden paper, Lin Zhen glanced at it, and it was indeed the first part of the Mental Shock technique.

Carefully putting it away, Lin Zhen asked: “If I want to obtain the second and third parts, can you guys also find them for me?”

“Yes, but the price for the latter two is higher. The second part costs thirty million and the third part costs fifty million.”

Lin Zhen was speechless. This Dimensional Universe Company was really greedy. Three golden papers cost a hundred million Cosmic Crystals. That’s equivalent to a hundred trillion Kirin Coins.

“Can you tell me the location of the golden papers so I can find them myself?”

Lin Zhen really couldn’t come up with so much money, so he had to settle for asking.

“Sure. The second one costs three million Cosmic Crystals, and the third one five million. You have to pay the full amount.”

“Wait for me.”

Lin Zhen immediately turned and ran out, looking for dwarf Ni Ke.

Ni Ke was mumbling: “What does Lin Zhen need so many Cosmic Crystals for? When can he pay me back? Should I ask him to pay me back before we look for more? Or should I ask him in a roundabout way? Sigh, it’s a headache…”

Lin Zhen went over and patted his shoulder: “Hey, lend me another seven million. Let’s make it a round number.”

Ni Ke’s eyes widened, and although she wanted to refuse, she was too proud to do so.

“Don’t worry, I’m not the kind of person who won’t pay back. Hurry up.”

Ni Ke reluctantly handed over seven million Cosmic Crystals to Lin Zhen, who immediately ran back inside.

With this seven million plus the previous one million, Lin Zhen paid eight million, and soon the staff of the Dimensional Universe Company gave Lin Zhen the information.

“The second golden paper is under the bridge of Santu River; the third golden paper is in the Ghost Dragon’s lair in the Animal Path.”

Lin Zhen snapped his fingers: “Understood.”

He was about to turn and leave when he turned back to ask the staff: “Can I ask a question for free?”

The staff nodded: “You’ve spent twenty-eight million with us, so I can give you one free question.”

“Thanks. I wonder if there are any valuable things in the Asura King’s location in the Asura Path?”

After a while, the staff answered Lin Zhen: “There is the first part of Lightning Strike there.”

Lin Zhen nodded, thanked the staff, and left the room.

“Let’s go.” Lin Zhen called out to Ni Ke.

“Are we going to mine Cosmic Crystals?” Ni Ke asked excitedly.

“No, we’re going to the Santu River now.”

“Why go there?” Ni Ke puzzled.

“If you don’t want to go, that’s fine. You can go your own way.” Lin Zhen ignored him and strode forward.

Ni Ke hesitated for a moment and then showed a determined expression on her face: “I won’t fall for your trick. Ten million Cosmic Crystals, unless you kill me, I’ll follow you wherever you go.”

Lin Zhen’s speed was fast, and Ni Ke struggled to keep up, panting heavily and tired as a cow.

There were very few ghosts in the wilderness now, so the return trip was much easier than before. After half a day, they arrived at the bank of the Santu River once again.

Ni Ke did not follow Lin Zhen onto the bridge, but instead ran to the Judgment Platform to watch his back. In fact, she really didn’t want to see the endless ghosts beneath the Santu River.

Lin Zhen came alone to the bridge, looked down, and couldn’t help but feel his scalp tingle.

The number of ghosts below was almost indescribable, twisting and struggling, trying to devour the living, but unable to break free from the river’s bondage.

“How do I go down the river to get the gold paper? These can’t be killed at all.”

Lin Zhen sat on the bridge, not having thought of a way for a long time. He simply took out the first piece of gold paper and placed it on the gold book.

It fit perfectly.

The original writing on the gold paper was somewhat blurred, but now it was clear at a glance.

“Mental Shock, a unique skill I created based on Mental Shock. The user must use their Spiritual Power to absorb the ghosts, absorbing their hatred, grievances, and murderous aura, and store it in their Spiritual Consciousness Sea.”

Afterwards, it explained how to devour and absorb ghosts into the Spiritual Consciousness Sea. If an ordinary person obtained such a technique, they might be powerless for the time being, but Lin Zhen was different. He possessed Innate Devouring and Black Hole Storm, and the devouring of ghosts was a small matter to him.

The first part only explained how to devour, although it did not yet have a specific method of implementation, but for Lin Zhen, this was enough.

“So I have to devour ghosts, then I can try now. As long as I devour all the ghosts in the Santu River, I will be able to go down the river to get the second piece of gold paper.”

Lin Zhen was overjoyed. This was a new opportunity. He sat on the spot, repeatedly examining and studying the content of the gold paper. After fully mastering it, he began to attempt devouring.

Innate Devouring!

Behind Lin Zhen, a shadow of a dark-colored Kirin-like monster appeared.

With a huge mouth opening wide, a powerful suction force surged towards the Santu River!

The number of ghosts in this river was countless, with nearly half being Satellite Stage and Planet Stage, and quite a few at Constant Star Stage.

Because they had lost their physical bodies, the ghosts’ strength couldn’t compare to humans. As Lin Zhen drew them in, almost all Satellite Stage and Planet Stage ghosts were attracted to him!

Within tens of meters, the river water was momentarily cleared!

“Here they come!”

Lin Zhen closed his eyes tightly, knowing that the crucial moment had arrived.

As said by Yama the World King, when devouring and absorbing ghosts, one must maintain a clear mind and not be affected by negative emotions, or breed inner demons.

Once controlled by negative emotions, one might end up falling into devildom and losing oneself.

Countless resentful ghosts howled and rushed into the dark Kirin’s mouth, actually entering Lin Zhen’s Spiritual Consciousness Sea.

Countless negative emotions surged, and at this moment, illusions flooded Lin Zhen’s mind, with a variety of demons running amok.

Some ghosts laughed, some told him to kill, some told him to commit suicide, and some even asked him to eat people, destroy everything, and so on.

Lin Zhen’s sky-blue Spiritual Power radiated outward, wrapping layer upon layer around the ghosts, and his Spiritual Power repeatedly killed them, eliminating each ghost inside the Spiritual Consciousness Sea.

The more he killed, the more negative emotions there were.

Holding onto a point of clarity within his soul, Lin Zhen transformed into a cold-hearted Asura, remaining unmoved by the ghosts’ temptations.

It only took three seconds to eliminate the first wave of ghosts, hundreds of resentful souls completely wiped out in Lin Zhen’s Spiritual Consciousness Sea, but their negative emotions still remained.

Lin Zhen did not fear these emotions, as these are the foundation of Mental Shock later on, as long as they did not affect him, it was enough.

After roughly understanding the way of devouring, Lin Zhen’s movements gradually became larger.

Innate Devouring was used almost every five seconds, each time thousands or even tens of thousands of ghosts entered the Spiritual Consciousness Sea, negative emotions accumulated bit by bit, gradually condensing into a small black dot.

After seven hours, Lin Zhen had no idea how many ghosts he had killed, only to see that there were no more low-level ghosts visible in the Santu River below.

“That should be enough. Now I’ll use Black Hole Storm to absorb the Constant Star Stage ghosts and above.”

The huge shadow of the Black Hole Beast above his head opened its mouth again, and a rotating black hole appeared inside!

In an instant, this world seemed to be cut through by a ray of light, and then everything changed!

In a section of the Santu River, all the ghosts were swept away, and even the blood-red river became somewhat clearer!

Hundreds of Constant Star Stage, and even Black Hole Period resentful ghosts and souls rushed into Lin Zhen’s mind!

Lin Zhen even discovered a Star System Stage ghost in the distant riverwater.

“There’s even a Star System Stage, that’s great.”

“This is the real test. Previously, the Satellite Stage and Planet Stage resentful ghosts could at most affect martial artists of the same realm. The Constant Star Stage, Black Hole Stage, and even Star System Stage are the ones that can affect higher-level martial artists.”

“Come on, come on! The higher the level of the ghosts, the more powerful people they can affect, so these ghosts are all treasures!”

Lin Zhen’s eyes shone brightly. With his powerful soul and incredibly high Spiritual Power, it was difficult for the ghosts to affect him.

Not to mention the Star System Stage ghosts, even if the Santu River had Domain King or even World King ghosts today, Lin Zhen would swallow them!