Chapter 144 9 Life Master
Chapter 144 Nine Lives Immortal
When Tian Lin returned to Lianshui Peak, he felt that it had become particularly unfamiliar.
The once bustling mining college has now become quite deserted.
There used to be people sitting on the railings with wine in their hands and chatting, but now the bamboo corridor is empty.
Fortunately, the lights were still on in the main house next to the stilt house. Although there was no more dice rolling sounds, at least the faint light made the entire mining yard's "haunted house" a little more lively.
'Dudududu'
There seemed to be a sound of footsteps, and someone came out from the main room holding a wine bowl and leaning on a crutch.
The visitor was stunned, and Tian Lin couldn't help but be stunned as well.
Looking at the fat man with one leg missing and walking on a crutch, Tian Lin almost failed to recognize the identity of the Second Manager: "Second Senior Brother? What are you doing——"
The second steward did not expect Tian Lin to appear. His face changed, but the moonlight only made his face look pale.
He looked at Tian Lin coldly and said, "What are you doing here? Isn't Quzhou going to build a Taoist temple? How many people go there to make merit? If you don't want to make merit, why are you running back here?"
He asked two whys in a row, and it was obvious that he really didn't want to see Tian Lin.
Tian Lin cupped his hands and said, "I don't want to be a member of the Blood Cult, nor do I like any of the Taoist temples in Quzhou. After thinking about it, I feel more at ease living in Lianshui Peak."
This is false, he was 'driven out' from Baihua Peak.
However, there is no need to tell the truth to the Second Manager.
The second steward snorted coldly, and his attitude seemed to have improved a lot.
Although his tone was still cold, he handed over the wine bowl in his hand and asked Tian Lin, "Would you like to come in and have a drink? There is no one I know at Lianshui Peak right now, which is really boring."
Tian Lin sensed his good intentions, but still politely declined: "I have not been in Jiranju for a long time, and I still need to clean the house thoroughly. I can't delay."
He changed the subject and asked the second steward, "Where is the third brother?"
"You are now an inner sect disciple. How can the two of us be your senior brothers?"
The second steward made sarcastic remarks as usual, but after he finished, he still replied to Tian Lin: "The Yaoyue Sect has built a new dojo, and few people are willing to stay at Lianshui Peak.
Now there are more places for outer disciples, so he and I both became outer disciples. But he wanted to be an inner disciple, so he went to Quzhou. "
At this point, he suddenly asked Tian Lin: "Mr. Tian, when my great-grandfather came back to save people, why did he only save Xing Shanping? Tell me, is Xing Shanping his real grandson?"
Tian Lingang was still a little sad, but after hearing what he said, his face changed: "Brother, shut up. If someone hears this, I'm afraid the Law Enforcement Hall will not forgive you."
The second steward said, "I'm not afraid of them! They broke my legs, but they still couldn't stop me from talking. Let me ask you, if Xing Shanping wasn't my great-grandfather's grandson, how could my great-grandfather come to save him?"
Tian Lin didn't dare to argue with the second steward anymore, for fear that the second steward would say more nonsense.
Behind him, the second steward still did not let Tian Lin go, and chased after him with his crutches:
"Do you still remember when Xing Shanping went to Lianshui Peak to capture Shisan Niang? Except for my eldest brother, no one dared to be rude on Lianshui Peak. But my great-grandfather let him go easily and let him take Shisan Niang away.
"I should have thought at that time that Xing Shanping must be his grandson. Otherwise, how could he allow Xing Shanping to be so presumptuous?"
After all, he only had one leg, and Tian Lin was determined to get rid of him, so the second manager soon lost sight of Tian Lin.
Jiranju was just as Tian Lin had described, with spider webs already fluttering in the wind in the corners of the house.
There was a layer of dust in the room, and several reptiles were flying towards Tian Lin blatantly.
Tian Lin swept away a few reptiles with a casual sweep, picked up the broom next to him and started cleaning.
"Xing Shanping, could he be Elder Liu's grandson?"
"No, it's impossible. According to Elder Xiao, Xing Shanping is no longer Xing Shanping—
If Xing Shanping is not Xing Shanping, then who is it?"
When Tian Lin thought of the ancestor Wenxin, he felt a chill in his heart.
He didn't know if there was any technique that allowed a person to occupy another person's body.
But what if a person who had been dead for a thousand years suddenly came back to life? And this person who had been dead for a thousand years was once the Golden Elixir Patriarch, a character in the book that everyone worshipped on the altar.
"Is the soul of the old man Wenxin living in his eyeballs?"
"If that's the case, does that mean his consciousness is in both eyeballs?"
"Now that he has taken over Xing Shanping's body, will he come looking for his other eye?"
Tian Lin now knew what Elder Xiao was afraid of.
Elder Xiao was not only afraid of the heart-seeking ancestor coming to him. If that was the case, Elder Xiao would not be particularly afraid. After all, even if the heart-seeking ancestor was resurrected, he would be limited by Xing Shanping's cultivation level. He was only a Qi-refining cultivator.
What Elder Xiao was afraid of was that Tian Lin was no longer Tian Lin at this time. He was afraid that one day Tian Lin would become another person like Xing Shanping.
"Elder Liu may have had the same experience as me, but he was only at the twelfth level of Qi Refining at the time. How did he resist the eyeball and prevent it from entering his stomach?
He has treasured this eyeball for about a hundred years, right? What has he done with it?"
Tian Lin did not suspect that Elder Liu's soul had been replaced by the Old Ancestor Wenxin, but it was obvious that Xing Shanping was not Xing Shanping.
Given Xing Shanping's personality, how could he agree to become the headmaster of the Wenxin Sect?
At this time, Tian Lin was in a state of confusion. After cleaning the room, he went to bed early.
However, he slept for only two hours. When the Taoist bell of Wendao Mountain rang, he went to Wendao Mountain facing the rising sun.
On the 95th step of the first section of stone stairs, Tian Lin could not see the figure of old man Gou.
Tian Lin sighed inwardly and quickened his pace to climb the second flight of stone steps.
Still at the Sancai Pavilion on the 31st stone staircase, Tian Lin took out the Immortal Binding Rope from his storage bag as soon as he entered the illusion:
"I just need to clarify one thing, and this bundle of immortal rope will be yours."
The old man on the opposite side stood up in disbelief and asked Tian Lin: "Where did you get the immortal rope?" Tian Lin frowned and said: "Stop talking nonsense. Let me ask you, is there any skill in this world that can occupy the body of another person and revive the soul?"
The old man looked at Tian Lin putting the immortal rope back into the storage bag with some reluctance in his eyes.
But he still forced himself to remain calm and sat down again opposite Tian Lin: "You already said it, borrowing a corpse to revive the soul - of course it is the Xiangxi Sect's borrowing corpse to revive the soul technique."
"Xiangxi Sect?"
Seeing Tian Lin was puzzled, the old man said, "The Xiangxi Sect is no worse than the Daodao Sect. It has been passed down for who knows how many years. However, this sect has never been active in the north, so ordinary people cannot see them."
After saying this, the old man continued, "There are too many magical skills that can occupy other people's bodies. There are also magical skills such as possession, which are different from borrowing corpses to revive the soul."
"Since you said there are many such magical powers, why are there only two of them in your description?"
The old man said, "I know a little bit, so what's so strange about that? Now, fellow Taoist, it's your turn to tell me where the immortal rope in your hand came from?"
Tian Lin didn't waste any time talking to the old man, he just beheaded him with one sword.
Without waiting for the man next to him to make any move, Tian Lin's flying sword slashed out again.
He has now reached the great perfection of Cangming swordsmanship. He no longer needs to use the Immortal Binding Rope to take ordinary people with natural spiritual roots or double spiritual roots seriously.
After leaving the illusion, Tian Lin walked into the illusion again.
He placed the immortal rope on the table and said, "Let me ask you a question. If you can satisfy me, I will give you the immortal rope."
The old man was horrified, and just as he was about to stand up, Tian Lin's sword was already on his neck, forcing the old man to sit down.
The old man flew into a rage and asked, “What are you doing?”
Tian Lin didn't waste any words and said directly: "Let me ask you, will the Zhou family use a corpse to revive? Will they take over another body?"
The old man was stunned. Tian Lin exerted a little force on the sword in his hand, and a cut appeared on the old man's neck.
He no longer wanted any rope to bind him, he just wanted to survive under Tian Lin's sword, so he immediately said:
"The Zhou family doesn't know how to use a corpse to revive the soul, nor does it know how to possess a body. These two are magical powers, how can a Qi-refining family possess them?"
Tian Lin frowned and shouted outside the closed door: "Zhou Shoufan, how long are you going to hide?"
Outside the door, a young man who looked very similar to Zhou Qing rushed in, holding a sword in his hand and pointing it at Tian Lin, saying:
"You pervert, you still want to usurp my Zhou family's magic?"
Tian Lin said coldly: "Let me ask you, where did you learn your magical powers from?"
Zhou Shoufan said: "I don't have any magical powers yet, but I will definitely acquire them in the future. By then, I will make you wish you were dead but unable to live."
Tian Lin smiled and said, "What you said is exactly the same as what your father said back then - your father said something like "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west", but he was defeated by someone with a palm.
You are trying to scare me with these words now, aren't you afraid that I will wipe out the roots of your evil?"
He said, "Zhou Shoufan, the so-called magical power you mentioned was obtained in Kun Lake, right?"
Zhou Shoufan was young after all. When he heard what Tian Lin said, his face changed instantly. He asked Tian Lin, "How did you know?"
At the side, the old man couldn't help but say:
"Master Huang, the Nine-Life Immortal is buried in Kun Lake. As far as I know, he lived nine lives, so he is called the Nine-Life Immortal.
If Master Huang wants to practice the power of taking over another's body, he can go to Kun Lake and give it a try. Master Huang, now that I've told you the answer, you should let me go, right?"
Upon hearing this, Tian Lin let go of the old man's hair, and the old man's head instantly fell to the ground.
The man's face turned pale, and when he was about to step forward to attack, Tian Lin had already beheaded him with a sword.
When Tian Lin entered the illusion again, it was still the illusion at the thirty-first stone step.
This time he didn't even take the rope to tie the immortal, but just put the sword on the old man's neck and said, "Sir, I want to inquire about the news of the Nine-Life Immortal. I wonder if you can tell me?"
The old man was obviously stunned and asked Tian Lin: "What do you know?"
Tian Lin smiled and said, “Zhou Shoufan gave you his Zhou family badge, and you promised to help him kill me—and that badge is the key to Kunhu Jiuming Zhenren’s tomb.
I have said so much just to tell you, Mr. You, not to play dumb. "
The old man looked a little unhappy, and said angrily: "I have already handed over the badge. If you want it back, I'm afraid it's wishful thinking."
Tian Lin put the sword on Old You's neck with one hand and lifted up the old man's shirt with the other hand. A piece of wood-like sign was hanging on the old man's lining.
"I won't say nice things a second time. Do you want to live or die?"
While Tian Lin was speaking, the old man's neck was already cut and bleeding.
Although the old man pretended to be tough, how many times had Tian Lin dealt with him in the illusion?
It can be said that Tian Lin had stripped off all of Mr. You’s underwear. How could he not know that Mr. You was a coward?
Sure enough, before Tian Lin could even exert much strength, Old Man You begged for mercy:
"Master Huang, let's talk it over. The plaque is indeed with me, and the tomb under the Kun Lake of the Zhou family is indeed the tomb of the Nine-Life Immortal—
If Master Huang also wants to obtain the treasure of the Nine-Life Immortal, why don't we join forces to divide the treasure together."
Tian Lin said, "I know that tomb is extremely dangerous. If an ordinary person goes in, he will die. I wonder if you, Mr. You, have any way to get me in safely?"
Just as the old man was about to speak, the door was opened from the outside.
The young man Zhou Shoufan pointed his sword at Old You and said, "You promised me to help me kill this rapist, but now you want to betray me."
The old man immediately said to Tian Lin, "Master Huang, the Zhou family is the tomb keeper of the Nine-Life Immortal. They have a map to the tomb. As long as we catch this guy and make him hand over the map, we can enter the tomb safely."
(End of this chapter)