"Ruling heart!, The boy opened eighteen of his acupoints and just managed to link them up, but why isn't there any aura of Qi around his body?." Chentian Ao was well surprised by the phenomenon of the ruling heart which is only witnessed when a Qi refiner succeed in linking a certain number of opened acupoints, but even those who hadn't reached the lesser Qi refiner realm and attained a half complete cycle of Qi circulation by opening and linking twelve of their acupoints can use their Qi albeit crudely.

Lin wasn't at all, and to Ao's eyes he looked like someone ignorantly placing the carriage before the horse by having the energy of Qi vitality and not using it!.

Physical strength usage is mainly augmented by Qi vitality, as Lin runs right now, he relies on his pure physical strength while casting away his Qi vitality to the side!, which could be helpful in such time of need like a heap of firewood in the middle of freezing winter.

"The kid said that he's an orphan which the Cheng clan's juniors found, I believe he has another advantage over his generation which is wings. I guess he doesn't have anything to learn how the system of Qi refinement works, western islands are closer to the western continent in comparison to the rest of the continents. Maybe he has some barbarian blood in him since the boy managed to accomplish all that with no guidance." Huang said that to answer some of Chentian Ao's confusions, but even he was taken aback by Lin's dominating superiority to his generation in Qi vitality.

Barbarian emperor descendants could do better in similar age, but once the fact about Lin being an orphan with such attainments is mentioned, then these well groomed descendants with abundance of resources at their beck and call are merely lucky sprouts groomed in greenhouses while Lin is a wild weed unlucky to be born in a road yet refuses to bend over under the countless stepping feet.

Just one look at his focused eyes told the two seniors watching how much discipline that boy had over his character, just the silence was giving them pressure.

Ao and Huang would've been distracted somewhat if they were in Lin's shoes when the rider told him that he's clearly had hit his limits, yet the boy was unaffected at all and his whole focus was on taking another step to reach his goal (which is the end point of the race) even if the odds are looking to be against him, he never lost hope in winning the race, never lost faith on himself!. Just how much sheer "Will" and mental fortitude does this kid have?, Such examples can only be attained by experienced veterans who stared death in the eyes and lived to tell the tale, only by experiencing many life and death situations does that characteristic aspect reveal itself on cultivators.

That's why no matter how high your cultivation is compared to others in this world, the dangerous claws of the few who experienced the true cruelty of the world can still reach your neck and squeeze your life in a heartbeat if you lowered your guard, the assassins guild is such an example of monsters and there's many others who like to remain as an anonymous but the countless tales filling the tomes of history proves the importance of character to any cultivator.

First, Huang learned that the kid had strong soul force while witnessing him show his superior body as he ran, then the brat's superior grade body exploded in a show of Qi potential, while Huang is planning to use the potion of thought rebirth on him (which will help Lin catch up with his generation in spirit energy cultivation) aiming to use it's (Potion's) side-effect of temporarily erasing the consciousness of the ingestor's to interrogate the weakest of Wei's group, Lin!.

Huang's device to locate the water-pearl gave him constant taps on it's possible whereabouts, he was planning on waiting for the fish to enter the net (harbor) on it's own first before he send his people to retrieve it discreetly.

But the signal was lost suddenly!, He waited a few days in worry hesitating whether or not should he make his move and send people to search for it, Huang was afraid that the twang of the bowstring would scare the bird which will decide to take the long way around the southern continent instead of passing through his territory, not to mention that the water-pearl itself is impossible to be found using any device if it was thrown back into the ocean floor!.

When Huang personally went to search Wei's ship he didn't forget to scan the surrounding ocean floor with his senses, he even circled around Wei's ship and searched the ocean floor along the path they took and ended up empty-handed, but he doesn't know that Huang's wait of just three days after Lin arrived on Wei's ship was the last nail on the coffin and it became impossible for him to find the water-pearl and all he'll ever have is a mere suspicion, the suspicion is born because when Huang finally decided to send his subordinate (Hai) towards the last direction his device pointed and Hai happened to find Wei's ship yet all the space rings were empty of what he wanted.

That in total means that the boy has his aspects of soul, body, and spirit (With Huang's help) are in total ahead of his generation or at least in the front row seats, add to that his characteristics which are unblemished and extremely suitable for all kinds of cultivation aspects, as a mentality for a junior Huang and Ao were envying the boy for it while Ao wished that his little BoBo had a similar strong will and mental fortitude.

Juniors are famous for their stubbornness more than all, but most of that stubbornness is merely the stupid type of stubbornness, Lin's stubborn eyes were the useful kind of stubbornness which is the confident type of stubbornness.

That stubbornness, you usually need to have when facing others questioning your capabilities, without it?, you'll only end up being limited by their narrow views needlessly.

"Oho, he's blank when it comes to Qi refinement system huh!. Now that I remember, you once happened on such a good body refinement technique, what was it's name again?." Chentian Ao's eyes lit up with slyness when he heard Huang speak, like an old fox he asked Huang for one of the items he hold truly dear ever since their days of being juniors.

"Sigh, Fallen Yin, the best Qi refinement technique my alliance have. Only the war god throne's or the axe holding statue's barbarians from the western continent are known to have similar or better Qi refinement techniques." Huang was apprehensive about Chentian Ao's question about his belongings, but he respectfully gave him the answer.

"En, fallen yin that's the one. Ill be taking that one for my potion of thought rebirth, you said it "willing to compensate for it with anything you own" your cultivation alliance already copied the original technique you have in your hands and has it in the main branch's library, I don't think they'll deny giving you a copy if you asked." Chentian Ao's eyes were filled with schadenfreude and amusement, but his words were strong and forceful, leaving no room for inspector Huang to deny his request.

Huang's face paled when he heard Chentian Ao's words, that technique is the reason why he's able to reach the seventh stage of the spirit king realm, despite being a Qi refinement technique it was compatible with his affinity for water and helped him understand a lot about the characteristics of the water element when he used it as a reference.

Even if Huang had to surrender the technique once to the alliance's board of command so that they can make a copy in exchange for resources, Huang has a strong intuition that the technique hides a very deep secret, regretfully, the requirements on cultivating it are cumbersome and he has no talent whatsoever in the Qi refinement aspect, that's why he couldn't unearth it's potential.

Huang searched for talented juniors in Qi refinement for some years and still failed to find someone he can trust with his secrets, now he must hand the fallen yin technique's original version and if he wanted to gain access to it again he needs to exchange for a copy from the alliance's main branch library with his contribution points.

Inspector Huang would need to pay a hundred thousand contribution points!, Contribution points doesn't grow on trees with the cultivation alliance, they'll work you to death for them and give you few chances to gain them all at once by giving dangerous requests in forbidden territories!.

"This is the jade containing the fallen yin technique." Huang brought out a slap of obsidian black jade, large as a palm and rectangular, on it's center there was an indentation of a hollow part in the shape of a circle half punched inside the obsidian black jade's body.

The indentation had a slight ingraving of a complicated inscription forming an incomplete formation.

Chentian Ao gave it a keen look as he held it in his arms, for a moment there he was distracted from the ongoings of Lin's race because that was no ordinary Qi refinement technique, this is a low rank forbidden technique from the Qi refinement system and other than barbarians no other than a few had one.

"Thuuump...." The heartbeat's noise was louder than normal this time, Lai and any spirit grandmaster realm cultivator felt their hearts clinch from the painful pressure that squeezed out of nowhere and reflexively used their spirit energies to resist it, those in the master realm were flushed in the face before they managed to resist albeit barely, anyone else below that realm outright spat blood if none around them helped them alleviate the pressure.

The thumping noise brought Chentian Ao back to focus on Lin's ongoings.

The sight of a cluster of cultivators paling or flushing in the face because of a single sound wave coming from Lin's body was another surprise to the beast tamer and the inspector watching it.

While Lin himself felt like bathing in cold water after walking a few miles in a scorching hell, all his fatigue and tiredness were stripped away from him instantaneously.

His body regained it's lightness and his feet ran like two well-oiled machines.

Lai knew that the sound was bad news ever since he heard it, urging his shadow colt forward as fast as he can was the only solution left to win this race.

However, the second sound didn't only affect him but his mount as well was restrained by it, by the time Lai used his spirit energy to help his colt shake the suppression off of it's body, Lin was already gaining ground on him and once Lai's colt was at it's top speed, the boy was back next to him and his speed upped gradually!.

Then after a minute to the dismay of the majority of cultivators, Lin was ahead of Lai by a few kilometers and was still increasing the distance between them continuously.

While Lai's colt finally couldn't keep up going at that hellish pace anymore and had to go slower after one hour of endless urging from Lai to go faster, then first light of dawn witnessed the moment of Lin's arrival at the western gates of pearl city and his win of the long race.

He stopped to regulate his breathing and to enjoy this beautiful morning to the side before the large white gates of pearl city, waiting for his friends to catch up while watching the tall yellow walls of the great city ahead, countless people and caravans lined up to enter before paying the entrance fees.

Many people were looking at him with various types of gazes be that approval, appreciation, disbelief, or annoyance, but none was courageous enough to approach him at all because of the effect of the two men standing up in the sky.

Raising his head up to give these two a look, Lin gave them a slight bow while cupping his fist when he saw them gazing at him.

Chentian Ao nodded with a smile when he saw Lin give him this respectful gesture, looking towards Huang he said : "we better get this matter over with, his companions will be here in an hour or so." And Huang was like a drowning person hanging by a thread from the abyss of despair, if this brat's confession confirmed that Wei's group have nothing to do with the water-pearl then not only did he lose the fallen yin Qi refinement technique but also the extremely rare potion of thought rebirth!.

Add to that the dissatisfaction of grand-elder Renshu and the higher possibility of the grand-elder failing to tame the water-dragon hatchling.

"Ming has seen senior Huang and beg the other senior's pardon for my ignorance but I extend my greetings as a junior all the same." Lin hurried to bow down once again when these two men landed three meters from him, then he politely spoke his words and didn't rise his upper body after finishing.

"En, rise little one. I'm little Bo An's grandpa, I've seen your race and what you did is really something admirable indeed." Chentian Ao was the first to speak, he spoke kindly and praised Lin on his win.

"Senior Chentian overpraises this Ming, my win was just luck I really don't deserve it. " Lin refused to accept the praise while shaking his head, then he kept his silence and waited for them to speak.

Surely, they weren't here to commend him on his win, these two wasted almost a day patiently waiting for the race to end and the strange exchange that happened between them does seem to imply that there's really another reason for this sudden visit.

"Drink this, I have something to ask you." Chentian Ao kept admiring Lin's calmness with his eyes, and Huang said while handing out the turquoise potion to Lin, his tune commanding and leaving no room for disobedience, his eyes bloodshot like a gambler in an all-out call with meagre chance for winning.

Lin took the potion from Huang's hand and Sun stuck out his head from Lin's chest to take a sniff, Chentian Ao noticed the uniqueness of Sun with a single look and nodded at Lin encouragingly when he saw Lin look at him and inspector Huang with a puzzled look.

'Senior Ka-'

'Drink it, don't worry about a thing, you'll sleep for a while after drinking it only to wake up with better senses for spirit energy cultivation' Kai answered Lin before he even got to ask, and Lin raised the glass tube to his lips and swallowed it's turquoise liquid whole.

"Fuck these assholes...." Ming suddenly cursed inside Lin's soul world and his body fell on the golden water face first as if he just fainted.

Lin felt the effectiveness of that turquoise liquid right after he swallowed it, his body was separated from his control and Lin's awareness was restrained back to his soul world.

His soul force, spirit energy and physical strength were outside his control, only the smallest fire inside the glass heart wasn't, but he was surprised by the misirable state his glass heart was in, it's invisible surface which turned into a spider web of cracks since the last time he checked it, it should've only one crack down the middle!.

Will it be alright?, Is the heart cracking up a good thing or a bad thing?, Lin doesn't know anything about intent and how to grow it stronger.

Mia and Lai both had it, however, theirs focuses on slashing, piercing, chopping, cutting.

While his is fire! The intent of fire is very different from fire energy, one burns, one exterminates.

He needs to learn more about intent's nature and how to harness or tame it, the situation doesn't look good from where he sees it, glass was good when he sees it not broken.

Lin doubts that weak fire could harm these two anyway, the weakest of them uses water while Bo An's grandpa was a complete mystery to Lin's senses, just like how Kai was another mystery but on a whole new level from Chentian Ao to Lin's senses.

Like a spectator watching the sight from a window, Lin was seeing his body stand there with eyes devoid of livelihood in front of inspector Huang and Bo An's grandpa.

With a single wave of his hand, inspector Huang caused a dome of blue energy to cover the three of them from the eyes and ears of others

"Did you hear anything about Cheng Wei or anyone on the ship acquiring a water-pearl in anyway in your stay with them?." Lin heard the old man in blue robes as he held Lin's arm and pressed a faint, weak wisp of his spirit energy inside Lin's body to make sure that he isn't in control someway of his body then asked with hopeful expectations filling his eyes, the sound rang inside his soul world and Lin understood the reason they gave him the potion when he saw this scenario.

This is meant to be some lie prohibitive that target the awareness and leaves the subconscious to reveal the secrets directly, that's why Ming fell like a log after cursing these two, but shouldn't it be the other way around with Ming being awake and Lin fainting!.

Did Ming (Pride) help him by taking his place?, But, why?, There's nothing wrong with resting for a while?, With how Lin can overthink the possibilities for the impossibilities would confuse even himself.

Or maybe that potion was a lie prohibitive targeting the unconscious and leaving the awareness, but, that would be very contradictory.

Are these two intentionally targeting Ming in their bullying!.

Shaking off these hypothesis, Lin decided to give them an answer after three seconds, just to add suspense to the situation.

Ming looked very hilarious when he said his final line before fainting like a puppet.

"No." Lin thought of giving that answer and his body opened it's mouth mechanically to give the same answer slowly and unemotionally with the same vacant, lifeless eyes.

"How long have you been with them?." City lord Huang's face darkened when he heard Lin's answer, he still stubbornly asked to confirm that Lin was on the ship with them when the signal vanished.

"Three weeks." Lin estimated their speed and how long would it take Wei's ship to travel from that island resembling a hog then added a few more days, he wanted to make the answer reasonable in case that man decided to ask Wei's group to confirm.

Again, Huang's face became a shade darker when he heard that and his grip on Lin's arm got tighter and the long fingers of inspector Huang dug deep on his skin as they squeezed until Lin's arm turned greenish-blue.

"Cough...." Bo An's grandpa coughed while his genial face frowned upon seeing Huang hurt Lin's arm, and Huang awoke to how inappropriate he was acting in front of Chentian Ao then released his grip on Lin's arm to hold it gently just like how he should be treating a junior.

Unbeknownst to Lin was that this man never doubted the potion's effectiveness and his wisp of spirit energy which confirmed that Lin wasn't in control at all of his body.

"In the span of the last week, did any of them ever separate from your ship to go somewhere or suddenly disappear for a time, did your ship change it's course to somewhere other than east?." Huang was at the edge of his seat waiting for an answer that would give him some hope for a breakthrough to the emperor realm from this little brat.

"No one left the ship, always going east since I joined." Lin felt sympathetic for the old man in blue whose face got filled with throbbing veins when he gave him that mechanical answer, his bloodshot eyes and his gritted teeth spoke volumes about how angry that old man Huang was right now.

"Huang, that's enough. The boy doesn't know anything about the water-pearl and his traveling companions don't have anything to do with your pearl, nothing. Grand-elder Renshu can either try his luck without one or use his connections to find one, leave the boy. Now!." Chentian Ao finally snapped at Huang, he tolerated it since Lin benefitted from the potion while he got his hands on the fallen yin Qi refinement technique.

But the answers weren't what Huang wanted to hear and Chentian Ao don't want this farce to continue anymore.

"Yes senior Ao, I understand. I will be going to join grand-elder Renshu and see if I can be of assistance in getting another water-pearl, if there's anything that you want from me please don't hesitate to notify me at once." Inspector Huang was electrocuted to attention when he heard Chentian Ao's warning words, he already lost the water-pearl and can't risk to lose Chentian Ao with the help he can offer with his thousand beast formation!.

Releasing Lin's arm, Huang turned and cupped his fist towards Chentian Ao then scattered the blue water barrier he had made around them, flying towards the center of pearl city to announce sadly to grand-elder Renshu that he won't be able to get his hands on a water-pearl because their leads on this one vanished, Huang was like someone who went for wool and returned back shorn, his face pale and his motions listless just like someone who lost all his fortune.

Chentian Ao gave Lin an appreciative look for a few seconds, then he took out the obsidian black jade containing the fallen yin technique and gave it a thorough read with his spirit sense as he waited for Wei and the others to arrive.

A simple bamboo chair appeared beneath his butt as he sat down, while the black sparrow came out from it's medallion and stood on Lin's shoulder much to the annoyance of Sun, but he was fearful for his buddy ever since he drank that liquid it felt like he's asleep while standing!.

"Meow...." Sun ignored the black sparrow because she smelled like the old man and tried to pat Lin's face with his paw to wake him up.

"Ming...." In the same time Lin was squatting next to his clone and imitating Sun's action, he knows that he can't move or calm Sun but he wasn't scared because Kai was the one who told him to drink that liquid, anyway he can't stop Bo An's grandpa if he wanted to do anything to him.

Why resist a group of rapists who has a hundred percent of catching you?, Better enjoy it.

As he looked at that black jade Lin was annoyed that he couldn't give it a closer look or see what's inside it, that was kinda regretfully annoying, it looks like something fun as Bo An's grandpa got consumed by reading whatever was inside.

Those in the tyrant realm or higher from the cultivators watching the race had returned to the city after witnessing Lin's win, the others below them in cultivation who were in a hurry to enter the city are those who betted on Lin, they didn't hesitate to use their spirit energies to head for the gambling areas they left their money with smiles on their faces after giving Lin the thumbs up and many other encouraging gestures.

After all, the underdog won and the money they get was twelve times what they betted, others with extremely good luck betted on Lin winning without using spirit energy and he did win by using nothing but his physical strength!, Fifty times their money worth was the return for their bets.

That's why these winners were in a hurry to cash out their money before the losers come and seek trouble with them.

Finally Wei arrived with Lai, Wang and Zhang and saw Lin standing next to Bo An's grandpa, just one look on his eyes made the four cultivators fearful for his well-being.

After all, if anything happens to Lin then the true Ming would fall on their weak clan like a titan smiting a sandhill, these vacant eyes of Lin worried them and the old man sitting next to the standing like a statue (Lin) worried them more into panicking.

"You have nothing to worry about juniors, he's perfectly fine. But he will be in a long sleep once you close his eyes, how long will he sleep for? Nobody can tell an exact number. This area of the continent is getting chaotic and isn't safe for my little BoBo, maybe I should send her with you to take care of the kid until he wakes." Chentian Ao's calm affected Wei and the others, they listened closely to each word and Zhang supported Lin's body, once Zhang closed Lin's eyes Lin was like a puppet with it's strings cut off, his knees buckled downwards and if Zhang didn't quickly hold him with his muscular strong arms then he would've smashed face first on the yellow stones of the street.

For Lin, it was the last thing he got to hear or see because when Zhang helped him close his eyes, the only window Lin can use to see the ongoings of the surrounding world was shut and it's thick curtains drawn close.

Then for the third time he was transferred to the world of light!.

This time there was no Lao or Jin Bao to pull him out, no outward effect could reach him and Lin floated aimlessly in this blinding light.

Wei and the others took Lin from Bo An's grandpa and left towards their Cheng clan estate after giving him their thanks, their hope was that this senior Chentian Ao didn't lie to them.

Lai succeeded in removing the water energy in his body after one day of rest, while Wei made final preparations for his caravan to be ready to depart next day.

Wei made sure to hire an escort from the mercenary branch in pearl city, just in case Bo An's warning about the attacks of the beast wave were true.

After their caravan left pearl city for half a day, a report from the rear guard of the caravan reached Lai.

Young lady Chentian Bo An requesting to meet merchant Wei.

The girl refused the assignment for a carriage of her own and stayed with Lin to take care of him, she rudely kicked Wang and Zhang out like a bandit from Lin's carriage!.

The caravan moved for days and nights towards mercenary city on pearl road, some reports of beasts in the vicinity and some evidences of the beasts leaving the territories of their beast mountains were seen by the caravan as they advanced.

Destroyed caravans, scattered corpses of dead mortals and cultivators alike, became a normal sight to the restless people of the caravan.

Lai made sure the scouts never stopped going on missions southwest and further west to make sure no beast wave would take them by surprise, that only slowed the caravan down than it should've and after three months they only crossed seventy percent of the two million kilometers distance of pearl road.

After rebelling a dozen small waves from the beasts, Wei's caravan suffered some casualties and it's guarding escort was exhausted after spending many sleepless nights and days fighting beasts they couldn't avoid.

The weakest howl of a dog would cause them to jump out from their sleep searching panicky for their weapons or rudely awakened from their medetations to use their already spent almost to exhaustion spirit energy, the mental strain was making everyone edgy and nervous.

No small chats happened between the guards anymore under this looming pressure of possible death that can happen once a larger beast wave manages to find their caravan, the mood was stifling and these people were struggling under the anxiety that filled their days.

For Lin, it was a very short duration of himself being left alone in the quietest, brightest, calmest room.

There was no other thought inside Lin's mind other than light!.

For him, he truly felt like riding light right now.

"Fang Bo stop bullying Sun!."

"Snort.... grrrrrrr."

Lin finally got to hear something in this world of light, then another sound of Sun snorting and Bo An's puppy exchanging dislike for each other followed.

That simple feeling of riding light itself was gone in an instant.

Then he was transferred back to his soul world and saw Ming waking up from his nap and getting up to his feet, however, something was different!.

These eyes were different, Ming was easy-going and fun on the exterior outwardly, but, his eyes normally had deep, ingrained arrogance and pride when he looked at others while when he looked at Lin, Ming would shed it all and replace it with a creepily adoring gaze.

The gaze his clone gave him was strong and hard, devoid from feelings other than respect and self-confidence!.

"Which one are you?." Lin asked his clone while looking with his soul sense at the world outside, he found himself laying down on bed in a large carriage, Bo An next to him by the window sitting on a chair and glaring at her grey wolf who snared threateningly at Sun as they ate from the same exaggerated bowl.

"Take a guess, Ming lost the opportunity when you drank that liquid." Lin's clone smiled when he heard Lin's question, locking his arms around his chest, the clone admitted that he isn't Ming (Pride).

"That means you're either Greed, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony and hopefully not right now, Lust. Right?," Lin scratched his cheek as he spoke then continued to speak when he received a nod of confirmation from this strong eyed clone : "Wrath then, your eyes fluctuated slightly when I said your name and that's the best guess I have." Shrugging his shoulders Lin gave his answer.

"Wrong," shaking his head while donning an amused smirk, Lin's clone continued: "Take another guess." Then he wiggled his eyebrows mischievously at him.

"Oh no, Lust!." Lin remembered how Ming said that lust would naughtily prank the group of deadly sins, frankly speaking he wanted Lust to surface the last of them all.

"Ding ding ding, still wrong. Hehe, honestly, Lust would never choose the body of a male even if it is just a soul body. You're the ultimate goal after all," that clone intentionally gave Lin a scare then he continued : "Take another guess, I think you'll get it right this time." Then he snickered when he saw Lin glare at him.

"Greed?," Lin was met with another shake of his clone's head and squinted at him, he felt like this one is intentionally toying with him?. "You're not Sloth or Gluttony as well right?." Asking, he walked towards his clone and hugged him when the clone nodded again to confirm his hypothesis while grinning widely.

Then Lin said : "You're Gang, brother of Lin, Lily, Ming.... You know the rest, former Wrath." Lin let go of his clone and pushed him away at arm's length and admired his third deadly sin with his eyes.

This one didn't shy like Lily or blush pink like Ming under his gaze, but raised his head and puffed-out his chest and stared back at Lin with the same strong confident eyes.

"Heh, Gang it is then. You can go on Ill handle things here as you fill out on what happened in our sleep," Gang said then sat cross-legged to meditate on the soul strengthening technique, before Lin separated his concentration to leave the soul world he heard Gang say : "From here on out you shouldn't get distracted by others, we need to get stronger fast or our siblings will really cause troubles."

"I'm working on it, they just need to be a bit more patient." Lin left that while feeling another headache coming when he thought about the matter of deadly sins trapped inside his body.

"Murrrr...." Once Lin opened his eyes he heard the sound of Sun who was the first to notice his awakening, jumping towards him and willingly leaving his share of meat to Fang Bo he changed his form into a kitten and showered him with saliva-filled licks.

"Sun was really worried for you, he refused to leave your side even once as you slept. And he did good ascending to the peak of the demonic realm too, you should reward him by taking good care of him in the future." Bo An smiled when she saw the boy's tiger finally release it's heavy burden and worry, telling Lin about the loyalty of his pet she got up and went to sit next to Lin on the bed.

Helping Lin to raise his upper body into a reclining position, Lin found his face stuffed into Bo An's undeveloped chest as she placed the pillows under his back, the breathe his body reflexively took was filled with the scent of her body.

She smelled really good, even her choice of perfume was compatible with her feiry personality, seeping through his nose forcefully the smell provoked his senses and he remembered Lily.

How is she doing today?, Is she behaving herself like she should in his absence?, Hopefully!.

But, why can't he move his body?.

"Why can't I move?, How long was I asleep?, Why is everyone's looking so gloomy and heavy with despair?," Lin sent Bo An with a soul link technique then spread his soul sense further out to look for Wei and the others, he found them with a few dozen strangers in one extra-large carriage pulled by a dozen horned bulls strapped in threes on each row at the very front of the caravan, all those people inside the carriage were frowning deeply. "Wei, what's wrong?." He asked the fatty who jumped from his seat at Lin's message and left the carriage in a hurry which made the people in the carriage stare at each other's faces in befuddlement!.

Lai gave Wei who ran towards Lin's carriage like a cheetah despite his overweight a look then gave Wang a side-glance to keep these merchants and captains of the mercenaries here in the carriage until he returns before running after his young master Wei with Zhang.

"Fellow cultivators, I believe our troubling issue can be overcome if we increased our vigilance. You don't really want to turn tail now when we're almost within the territories of mercenary city, the caravan can't go back to cross one million four hundred thousand kilometers when we can push forward a few hundred thousand kilometers and reach the safety of mercenary city. Please be reasonable!." Wang said and looked at the few dozen people in the carriage, a few of them are the captains of the mercenary escorts responsible for protecting caravans and the rest are merchants who ended up joining their caravan's with Wei's caravan when they realized that this journey isn't safe to be traveling it alone anymore.

A few demanded that Wei returns so that they can speak with the one in charge and not a subordinate, some nodded in approval to Wang's suggestion, some threatened to take their men and leave.

"Grandpa said you wouldn't be able to move once you awake after drinking the potion of thought rebirth, so it is normal to feel that way now don't worry the feeling of your body will come back to you gradually. You've been unconscious for about three months now, and these men suffered from some beast attacks and had to join their forces to resist the increasing attacks, that's why they look gloomy." Bo An smiled and played with her fingers through Lin's long hair, it really grew longer since the first time they met, telling him the answer through the soul link technique was much easier than speaking the words directly, lowering her face to kiss his cheeks like she always did secretly for three months came naturally for Bo An and she blushed slightly when she remembered that Lin is currently awake, the embarrassment made her give him a glare because he caused her to forget somehow and reveal her secret, right!. "I already told Cheng Wei that if I see the situation getting dangerous Ill take you and leave them, he agreed and was delighted to hear that!. Shouldn't it be him looking to escape instead of giving that chance to some orphan he found while on his way?, Don't mistake me, I like the idea of them being protective of you and that's why I didn't hurry ahead of them. If he wasn't caring about your well-being then I would've ditched them long ago, I am planning on giving them a hand before I take you and escape if things got dangerous now, that's all." Bo An decided that since Lin saw her kiss him then there's no harm in him discovering about the rest of the things she's used to do after three months of staying together, laying down next to him she hugged him completely to her body and leaned her head at his chest while sending him a briefing of the few conversations she had with Wei in three months.

She felt the existence of a secret in this group, not only Wei's worry about Lin was honest but also his care was great for the boy, the other three cultivators were the same and they treat the boy as if a little treasure which will cause their end if they lost or damaged.

Bo An suspected that he's their relative since they care that much, but, Fang Bo told her that Lin's scent is special and that smell on these guy's bodies really was faint when they first met back in the station, which proves that the story about finding Lin somewhere just a few days before they met Bo An is true.

After days worth of sleeping next to Lin, Bo An's cultivation increased two times faster just by being next to him!, No spirit gathering formations were used when she confirmed the increase.

When she used a formation of the lowest grades with the lowest grade spirit crystals the increase was double the formation-less cultivation sessions!, And in three months Bo An raised a stage to the seventh of the grandmaster realm and halfway up to fill the seventh tank of spirit energy and reach the eighth stage!.

Lin to her became a treasure of increasing cultivation just by being a pillow!, How relaxing was that?, Incomparably to a cultivator, especially since her comprehensions to spirit energy cultivation became very easy to understand when she meditated in a strange way!.

Somehow, just by being close to the boy, Bo An felt like at peace with the dao and to her cultivation has never been this easy!.

With her talent and her grandpa's help and care, Bo An really wanted to become strong just to make him proud, but she always tended to compare herself with Mia and Katherine and the others with better attainments in the same age.

That endless race with old ancestors in their junior years or current geniuses with better records was always shadowing her competitive personality, but after she felt like admitting her inferiority to these so-called geniuses no matter what era they lived, Bo An met Lin and her ease of transition from sixth stage to the seventh and gaining another addition of half a stage made Bo An's fighting spirit ignite and she focused more on her cultivation in these three months.

Just filling your dantian with liquid spirit energy in the grandmaster realm wouldn't help you raise a stage, you need to understand the mysteries of your martial-spirit and the way it relates with spirit energy.

To control your martial-spirit to the finest detail and learn how to use it best with spirit energy, because the next realm is the tyrant realm, the energy of spirit tyrants is a grade stronger because it crystalizes while spirit grandmasters only use liquidized spirit energy which purifies with each stage up until it show crystalization at the end and you ascend to the tyrant realm.

Spirit apprentices and spirit disciples use diffirent intensity of spirit energy in the gas form, spirit master cultivators uses the weakest type of liquid spirit energy.

Point is that, if, Bo An's control over her martial-spirit in the grandmaster realm wasn't flawless, then the crystalized energy inside her body in the tyrant realm would hurt her martial-spirit instead, to have a clear crack in your foundation means a delay from further cultivation breakthroughs, and every cultivator knows that cultivation is a long race the head strart always matters just as the last dash and the further you go with your first sprint, the easier it was to breath the fresh air while those behind you take what you leave them in your wake.

To claim a share of every opportunity you face with others from your generation means less time wasted on looking for resources.

If Bo An got delayed in the tyrant realm then her records would stop in the early age of twenty something, she had confidence that she can reach the peak of the grandmaster realm in the age of eighteen and if lucky she might reach the tyrant realm before her twenties.

The matter of her foundation was unquestionably essential and crucial for Bo An.

She didn't want to be delayed to her thirties to reach the spirit lord realm and the king realm in her fourties, Bo An wanted to reach the emperor realm by the age of fifty just like her role model, her grandpa Ao.

Now the existence of Lin just being near by, made Bo An sure to reach the peak perfection of the grandmaster realm by the age of eighteen years and the tyrant realm in her nineteenth!.

One year difference would mean better records than her grandpa Ao, anytime Bo An broke one of her grandfather's records he would smile and laugh proudly.

"Wei is here." Lin didn't say anything about his origin to Bo An, distracting her was his safest option.

"Young lady, can I come in." Before Bo An got to say anything about Lin's obvious evasion of her confusions, the sound of Wei asking for another visit was heard coming from outside the carriage.

His voice sounded anxious and nervous.

"We're not done here, you're hiding something from me and I don't like it, humph," Bo An smiled while rubbing noses with Lin she sent him back these words while staring at his golden pupils up close, then she got up and returned to her seat and said : "come in." And the door of the carriage was opened at a hurry followed by Tang Wei pushing his mass of fat into the space of the carriage, once his eyes fell on Lin's open eyes he ran towards him and hugged him tightly.

He ignored the growl that came from Fang Bo because Wei almost stepped on his tail when he ran towards Lin, and Sun's frustration because Wei included him in his bear hug with Lin!.

The potion of thought rebirth!, How long does it take to get up after drinking it?, Some say the maximum amount of time is your current age as you drink it, some say less than half, but in truth it was unknown.

If Lin ended up wasting six years in a slumbering sleep then his grandpa Ming could blame them on wasting the boy's years of accumulation and slowing his accomplishments, even if the potion was rare and extremely suitable for Lin to drink at that time he could trouble the Tang clan because they were told to interfer with those from the older generations and protect Lin.

Yet in the first encounter with these seniors, Lin was forced to drink a potion that was helpful yet suffered from an interrogation that aimed to uncover the whereabouts of the water-pearl, and Wei felt extremely grateful when he heard from Bo An how Lin managed (somehow) to give inspector Huang answers which helped Wei's group escape from being possible suspects of owning a water-pearl.

Wei knew that Lin helped him to another great dept which only meant to confirm Wei's intentions of becoming the first to do everything in his power to help Lin and be his eternal ally from now on, the water-pearl can not only help Wei's ancestor Jianyu heal some of his soul wounds but also it was a natural treasure of incomparable value because of it's mild affinity to heal the soul and it's renewability with just some submerging in high quality spiritual water it can recharge it's powers to be used again and again.

"Ah! L.... Ming is awake. Aha...ahahaha... Haha. Good, Ill go deliver Wang the news," after arriving at the doors of Lin's carriage with Lai and seeing Lin being awake, Zhang's tongue almost slipped, but Lai elbowed Zhang to stop him in time before saying the boy's true name. Correcting himself while awkwardly laughing, Zhang wiped out imaginary sweat from his forehead then turned and ran away from Lin's carriage after shielding his previous mistake with telling his best friend the happy news. "Fool, you almost ruined everything." When he was away from the carriage, Zhang thumped his chest with a fist as he scolded himself about his previous slip of tongue, but he was very excited about Lin waking up.

These three months Zhang treated them as a god-sent opportunity to shorten the gap between him and Lin, whenever he wasn't on duty he would cultivate or train his physique's strength like a maniac.

During their fights with the beasts he tried using what he learned from his sparring match with Lin and Zhang was stunned by how easier winning fights was, not once was Zhang tired beyond limit in any of these fights!.

Previously he would shower his enemies with mighty attacks that burned quickly with high expenditure on his stamina tank like petroleum on high throttle combustion, now Zhang would use sneakier advance to save his power while using the quickest ways possible to get rid of his enemies.

Bo An noticed the slight stammer when Zhang spoke yet she only gave Lin a knowing look while keeping her mouth shut, the previous incident only worked on confirming her hypothesis.

"Good that you're awake, things are getting dangerous on this road and all of us were worried sick about you." Wei said that aloud and Lai nodded at Lin when he saw Lin look his way, the blade user was smiling faintly and releasing an inward sigh because this boy's grandpa could end their weak clans if he was dissatisfied with his grandson getting force-fed a potion like the thought rebirth.

"Is it that dangerous?, In three months you only managed to cross seventy percent of the journey!." Lin asked as he spread his soul sense to the maximum range, to the left (north) of the caravan convoy as they moved east there exists a land covered in huge but strange trees stretching endlessly from east to west in his soul view.

Lin's soul sense would scatter like smoke after invading fifty kilometers in this forest, he wouldn't lose the soul force he stretches but the feedback would be messy and chaotic!.

As if something in this great forest is jamming out his soul sense and confusing it intentionally!.

To the right (south) of the caravan convoy is a stretch of mountains, hills, scattered trees of various thickness, heights, and numbers, with branching rivers and creeks trekking through the confusing geography of these mountains.

His soul sense wasn't hindered at all as it went south and south west, but the weakest of the beasts he saw were in the ferocious beast realm and their numbers were countless!.

As his soul sense travelled further south, the number of demonic beasts which stood in lines orderly ahead of the much stronger devil beasts made Lin feel a shiver on his spine.

These beasts were ready to stampede this caravan!.

"There's a huge amount of beasts two hundred and fifty kilometers south from here, my senses are not sufficient to cover the whole group of beasts since the areas deep in that land is filled with negative aura of bloodlust that isn't pleasant to be around with my soul sense. Sixty five percent of the beasts were in the ferocious beast realm, thirty percent of the beasts are strong as Sun or a bit weaker, the rest of the beasts I saw were strong like Bo An's wolf." Lin warned Wei, Lai and Bo An once he saw the army of beasts and sent them a live stream of the beast's army.

Wei and Lai paled in the face while Bo An frowned upon seeing the enormity of the beast-wave, the previous beast-waves can be considered small skirmishes compared to these orderly beasts.

Previous attacks from the beasts had few in the demonic realm and rarely one or two in the devil realm, with a simple glance the number of demonic and devil beasts means that there's a possibility of ancestral beasts or tyranical beasts leading that army!.

Bo An would use her trump cards to escape this beast-wave attack or ask for help from her grandpa's companion which was left with her to make sure she's safe.

"I need to go, thanks for the heads-up Ming." Wei hurried to get up and leave the carriage after thanking Lin, while Lai followed after Wei after giving Lin a final look.

Had they kept arguing with each of the other caravan owners for a day or two, then that scary beast-wave would've shrunk the distance and charged them unaware.

In the live stream Lin gave them, these beasts were moving slowly and quietly north while keeping their ranks orderly.

Since even devil beasts were included in the rank then at least one beast in the ancestral beast realm was leading that beast army, on it's own that ancestral beast doesn't scare Lai who took a few firm steps in his ninth stage grandmaster realm cultivation and mended some of the flaws in his blade dao in the past few months.

But while he can individually stop that ancestral beast, the other beasts could steamroll the caravan convoy then trap him and cut his ways of retreat and insure he never leaves the place they meet alive.

Beast-waves were scary because of the amount of beasts which resemble the ocean waves, just by facing them you'll need to be at least two realms higher than the strongest beast to be able to protect yourself, or three times faster to escape these scary united stampeding feet.

Bo An smiled when the carriage returned to be vacant from the intrusion of Lin's friends, closing the door with a wave of her hand that sent some weak strand of spirit energy to push it shut, she squinted at Lin as she firmly pressed his body underneath hers and rested her forehead on his to stare deep into his eyes from as close as possible.

"L..... Are you some Lord?, No that doesn't seem like it, L is the first letter of your name. You're no Ming at all huh, say it or Ill take your precious first kiss and do naughty things to you." Bo An was taller than Lin, Lin's feet ended up around her calves but she was sure he grew taller in these few months.

The mischievousness in her eyes didn't worry Lin, these eyes told him that this young girl already took his so-called first kiss many times before.

"At least wait until I regain my control over my body, I bet it will feel awesome. Mmmmm, just like tasting strawberries." Lin sent Bo An while glancing downwards at her rosy lips, his words bold and filled with meanings, as if he not only didn't care about her taking advantage of him in this helpless state of being paralyzed but feeling regretful that he wouldn't feel a thing.

Bo An was taken aback by that teasing attitude of Lin which was sudden and unexpected, blushing red she was happy inside yet felt like Lin was intentionally refusing to tell her anything about himself.

"Humph, since you like it that much then I won't give you anything, not until you stop hiding things and say everything to big sister, only then will I k...kiss you." Bo An flipped on her side next to Lin on the bed and supported her head on her elbow, pouting her lips she spoke as if Lin was the one who started making advancements on her.

"Oh no!, Only kisses?, Big sister Bo An should be my dao companion and give me lots of small babies." Lin felt like teasing Bo An some more and gave her a sad look as if his heart was broken.

"Bfffft.... I never took you for a joker. But so what if I become your dao companion?, Just be stronger than me-" Bo An laughed aloud and carefreely for a while but her daring personality refused to budge in the face of a boy her junior, then she suddenly realized that she missed what Lin said about his power because the beast-wave was great in size!, Two hundred and fifty kilometers radius of soul sense?, Her words choked in her throat and Bo An stared wide at Lin who gave her calming looks.

"What if I am stronger right now?." Lin noticed that Bo An just realized her simple mistake and wanted to tease her some more, asking he felt her seize with anxiousness and innocent worry.

"A....as if, j....just so you know I.... I'm strong too, not only do I have Fang Bo with me I am a seventh stage spirit grandmaster while I'm still younger than sixteen years old. I know less than thirty names who could do the same as me, d... don't get cocky just because you have strong soul force you b...brat. y.... You're ten years too early to ask for this princess's hand and court her to be your dao companion, I bet you're not yet able to.... do the deed. Plus how it will hurt your foundation if done in early age." Bo An was like a kitten with it's tail getting stepped at, jumping she straddled Lin beneath her and kept pinching his cheeks red as she talked, the more she said the greater her embarrassment finally she buried her face in the pillow next to his head to hide her face and whispered the last line.

"Years do go by sometimes, what if after ten years I become a baddie? Would you accept such a dao companion as well?." Lin felt how franatic Bo An's heart was beating quickly like a scared rabbit in panick, then he asked what he felt like it should be the last question.

"A promise is a promise, even if such dao companion is refusing to tell me his name." Bo An entwined her arms around Lin's chest below the armpits and fiercely hugged him tighter while closing her eyes, she wanted to take as much of that peaceful calming feel as she can.

After all, when Lin regains the ability to move she wouldn't get much opportunities to make him her pillow.

Lin felt bad about keeping secrets from Bo An but the previous experience with Mia made him keep his silence.

"The caravan convoy is about to move, unfortunately some people refused to join Wei's group and are retreating back to pearl city. By the way, how did they manage to cross all this distance in three months? Their best mounts can cross one thousand one hundred kilometers per day on average, yet in three months they crossed one million four hundred thousand kilometers?, From their conversations I feel like they were delayed instead of being ahead of schedule!." Again he changed the subject and inquired from Bo An just how did they do it?.

Bo An gave Lin one last look half filled with joy and half filled with disappointment, her joy was because Lin didn't push her anymore and respected her moment of shy weakness, but the disappointment was because Lin still refused to open up to her some why for an unknown reason.

After three months together Bo An felt very close to Lin and the intimacy she shared with him was very strong but all of it was one sided though, while Lin only knew her after a strange encounter and met her after going through a very unfortunate encounter with Mia and wouldn't allow himself to experience such feelings of helplessness again.

Maybe in the future he'll tell Bo An his background, but right now while being paralyzed the young girl has no chance of hearing anything about Lin's background.

"The reins strapping the beasts together has basic inscriptions which works on enabling the beasts to run faster as a unit, each carriage has wind formations to make their weight decreased and the whole caravan convoy resembles a large moving formation and if fed with spirit energy the beasts can go even faster." Bo An rested Lin's head on her chest and told him how this caravan convoy could cross all that distance in such little time, her actions loving and motherly which caused Lin to feel worse for keeping secrets from her but he closed his eyes and tried to regain back his feeling over his body.

"The caravans of the Cheng clan, Hao clan,..... Will be moving in ten minutes, hurry up and get ready quickly if you're joining us because the convoy won't stop or wait for anyone." Some loud voice announced the departing time to everyone in the caravan convoy, many people were busy taking last minute checks over their mounts or carriages.

Certain carriages left the long line of caravans at the orders from some arrogant people with sneering faces glaring at those who joined Wei's group, while Wei and Lai threw orders left and right to reorganize the caravan line.

Wei even redistributed some spirit crystals to the formation cores of each of his carriages, and ordered for every cultivator including himself to ride right (south) of the caravan or ahead in the vanguard in case they found themselves caught up with beasts from that wave.

Wei wanted to ride ahead from the wave and punch through whatever beast that dares to stand in the way of his convoy and take this train as fast as possible to the territories of mercenary city.

Then he entered his large carriage and sent Lin : "Brother Lin, Ill be relying on your reports every fifty kilometers these beasts gain on us. It would be great if you helped us avoid any further delayance in the way ahead." Tang Wei gave the signal for the caravan convoy to move east and unhesitatingly ditch the procrastinating merchants and mercenaries who wants to return to pearl city, his confidence in Lin was fueling force to his hope for survival.

Of course he has one trump card that can assure his and the other's survival, ancestor Jianyu personally gave it to Wei when he helped the clan.

The survival of his caravan was what Wei was after, after all, Wei can't withstand another bad news right now after just managing to pull himself up from a period of endless nightmares.

After he heard the news of people in pearl city and harbor making a great amount of money just by betting on Lin, Wei was devastated, if it wasn't for the danger of the beasts then Wei wouldn't have been able to quickly overcome the sadness of receiving the news.

"Ill do my best." Lin sent Wei with his soul link, and the feeling of his body was somehow similar to his first day of the second life.

Remembering how he worked hard for days and weeks just to be able to raise his head, how that enabled Lin to avoid some bullying from the primitive Tai, the very first couple of years of his life were simple and very peaceful.

Nothing unrelated to his family was on Lin's list of priorities, now he has to flip this world searching for four natural treasures for Jin Bao, then comes Kai with whatever he'll demand from Lin.

Lily can't be left alone for long, Ming, Gang and the others has to be separated from him and given independent bodies of their own!.

Just the image of Lily, Ming, Gang and the other deadly sins walking the earth together was scary enough.

As he rested on Bo An's chest and heard her unsettled heartbeats, Lin finally managed to move his head, he barely moved it an inch but the nipple of her right breast got caught in the motion and rubbed against his left cheek.

"Mmm...." A small moan escaped Bo An's mouth, then her face blushed deeply and she glared at Lin for causing her to make that obscene sound.

"My apologies." Lin was relieved when he found his body responsive to his commands, it only need some slight work to regain his control back, looking at Bo An's blushing face he apologized and decided to do the job later when she's not hugging him.

"You can move already, go ahead and see if you can return back to normal before the caravan makes it's next stop." Bo An smiled sweetly when she found Lin get embarrassed in turn, seeing him drop the matter because she's hugging him right now added a sweet taste in her mouth, she hugged him tighter than before and told him to keep trying.

Gang was given command of the soul force and responsibilities of notifying Wei of the distance between the caravan and beast-wave.

Bo An felt like hugging a large baby, the movements Lin made as he tried to regain control over his body were not always according to what he meant, sometimes -for example- he would want to bend his knee only to end up with an arm pushed under Bo An's clothes!.

Finally after three hours, Bo An lost her patience on this naughty brat who ended up pushing her body underneath his with two arms holding her breasts and his face buried in her navel area after a series of awkward motions.

This sight of Lin groveling before her while stuffing his face on her privates and squeezing her small breasts was comical enough, only his endless polite apologies were frustrating the girl.

"My apolog-" Lin tried to send Bo An for the god knows how many times that was.

"My apologies my ass!, If I wasn't sure that you're not intentionally taking advantage of this princess then I would've given you the black eye. J.... just shut up already." Bo An removed Lin's arms from her breasts with a red face, then she pulled his head closer from her navel to hug him.

Even if they're tumbling in bed for three hours now with Lin groping her everywhere unintentionally, Bo An still felt how her heart would gladly race on every on of Lin's touches and how butterflies would flutter in her belly whenever their skins rubbed.

Bo An would hear about the pleasure of intimacy from mortals and cultivators alike as she grew up, but her character was hard and unyielding, only someone in her age or younger while in the same time being stronger than Bo An could grab her attention.

Those fitting these standards were idiots from certain sects and large clans, they only wanted her as a possission or were after the support of her Chentian clan.

From the first moment they met, Lin's brilliance was a captivating sight to Bo An.

He was soft and pure in the beginning, but his hard stance when elder Qiu tried to suppress him for her sake spoke volumes about how much is hidden beneath that cute face and soft attitude.

Bo An hasn't forgotten how scarily calm Lin's eyes were at that time when he spoke softly to elder Qiu.

With time, as Lin got better and better in moving his body like normal, Bo An had experienced the first time of being molested by Lin, her face was flushed deep red and her breathing rugged and her eyes dreamy with no care for her disheveled clothes and her unkempt hair.

Some of her clothes were removed be that by Lin or Bo An, Lin whom she helped clean his body and change his clothes for three months now has only his trousers on!.

The heat in Bo An's belly was met by the body of the boy on top of her, at once the same experience Lin felt with Mia once happened again and he felt like there's something or some monster inside his chest who wanted to assault Bo An through him!.

"Is that Lust's work?." Lin asked Gang as he tried to suppress the feeling in his chest.

"Hers and some of the others are joining in pulling your leg this time." Gang grinned and continued to meditate on the soul strengthening technique, so far he was just getting familiar with it.

Gritting his teeth at these idiots who like to make things difficult for him just for the fun of it, Lin found his arms roughly sometimes and gently teasing or pinching Bo An's skin.

His head reflexively lowered and their lips linked naturally, their kisses long and similar to two lovers deprived from the company of each other they deeply kissed and hugged.

Lin's arm was snuck up Bo An's small breasts and kept fondling while the other spread her legs and found her sacred garden, gently feeling it's way inside, his fingers were soon drenched in moisture and each movement would make a squelching sound accompanied by a lark like moan from Bo An's lips.

The maiden was gasping for breath between each moan and burying her embarrassed face in Lin's chest to hide it under this fierce assault, while Sun kept giving Fang Bo smirks as they watched Lin pleasure his owner.

After glaring at Sun, Fang Bo closed his eyes and rested his head on his front paws to sleep.

"Ah!...." Bo An reached the peak of pleasure and shivered with ecstasy while dearly hugging Lin to her now naked body, both of them knew that this moment announced the start of a closer kind of relationship between them.

They can no longer just be a kind big sister and her younger brother, the girl was happy because she felt like Lin was worthy of her, while Lin was really angry at these deadly sins who ganged up on him and trapped him into a session of intimacy with Bo An by forcefully controlling his body for a while!.

Knowing that there's no turning back from what happened, Lin rested his head on the pillow and covered his and Bo An's body with a soft blanket from his ring.

Just laying there in silence with his arms around Bo An's waist, Lin kept staring at the ceiling of the carriage.

Now he have Lily and her little sibling Lust intent upon possessing his body, he has issues to solve with Mia (Whether he liked it or not) because the deadly sins wouldn't let the matter of Mia castrating him go unpunished, now Bo An was forcefully included in the list with complete unreasonable disregard for his openion by the five rebels living inside him somewhere!.

"Y.... you villain, who taught you to pleas.... treat a woman like that." Bo An snuggled deeper into Lin's embrace and asked faintly, she merely raised her eyes to give him a glance before lowering her face in shyness.

"No one, you're just too beautiful for me to resist your charm, even as a cripple I don't think I can do nothing but watch as your smile lit up the world." Lin spoke for the first time while patting Bo An's back gently, his words added another layer of adoration to Bo An and she giggled blissfully.

"Beasts!, Beasts ahead." The shout was augmented with spirit energy and everyone in the caravans heard them, Zhang's voice was the end of this intimate moment with Bo An.

Kissing her tempting lips softly, Lin got up and donned his clothes at a hurry before leaving the carriage and standing behind it's door to take a look around, Sun hurriedly jumped on his best friend's shoulder, he was sick to the stomach from this carriage already, if it wasn't for the sake of Lin he would've gone to have fun in this foreign territory long ago.

Gang grinned inside the soul world when he saw Lin open up and accept the choice of a partner which his siblings took, he had already notified Wei that the beasts ahead were closer to the caravan than the beasts in the south.

According to Gang's directions, Wei changed the caravan's course deeply north and closely stuck to the territories of the elves hoping to bypass the beasts causing havock on the area surrounding pearl road ahead.

The guards were deployed entirely to the right flank and vanguard, while the sly merchant had already deployed the carriages with the least valuable items to the rear of the caravan.

Lin's carriage was in the far front and Lin's senses were ringing the alarm bells of the incoming danger, despite these beasts being mostly weak ferocious beasts or demonic beasts, Lin knows that these weak guys can succeed in killing more than ninty percent of the humans and beasts in this convoy if they succeeded in besieging the convoy.

focusing on his soul bodies, Lin saw the vague, incomplete inscriptions around his third eye of both clones and sighed, these three months could've been helpful in finishing the preparations for the next soul technique (soul lock) which can be used on a single target or on a group if he liked.

The option of Lin going personally to fight these beasts with his physique or with some sort of weapon was out of the question, Sun would get reckless if Lin did it and something unexpected could happen.

His spirit energy should be better and his senses should be keener but ever since he woke up Lin felt nothing out of the ordinary with spirit energy!, was that potion faulted somehow?.

Now the only weapon available for Lin's use is only the faint fire in the glass heart!, Time to see if there's any difference in his wings after drinking that thought rebirth potion.

"Meow...." Sun made a surprised sound when Lin's martial-spirit was activated, because there was another smaller set of white wings underneath the large dark-gold wings!.

But Lin noticed how different his wings felt at once, right now he was sure that he can use his wings with the minimum amount of soul force restrictions, his connection with his own spirit energy was much better and his direct control over his wings was on a whole new level.

Taking off to the air, Lin left the carriage with Bo An daydreaming about something in complete disregard for the incoming wave of beasts, hugging the soft blanket to her nacked body the young lady of the Chentian clan had nothing in her head but Lin's image and endlessly giggled when Fang Bo joined her.

Snuggling with him, she was soon asleep with a smile on her face.

The symbol of spread wings on the back of his right hand was glowing in a bright gold color, and Lin felt like there's something filling it with energy begging for a release.

The beasts ahead of the convoy won't be easily removed without some casualties he was sure of that point, and Lin found himself reflexively raising his right hand and pointing his forefinger towards the beasts fourty kilometers ahead.

"Omm...." Light energy moved from the symbol towards the tip of his finger, then all the cultivators responsible for guarding the caravan who noticed the strangeness of the young boy with wings who suddenly flew up and ahead of the vanguard unit being led by Lai and Wang, everything was fine one moment then the next moment everyone was blinded by the golden light beam that came out from the boy's hand.

By the time they regained their sights, these cultivators saw ahead just a few kilometers from the elves territory, a ball of light energy kept enlarging until it reached a dozen kilometers up before suddenly vanishing and a shockwave spreaded destructive winds accompanied by upturned earth.

"Activate the barrier, maximize the wind formations. Full speed ahead." Wei threw his commands to the group of cultivators once he witnessed Lin's first use of a long distance spirit energy attack, he casted away his confusions about how is it possible for a first stage spirit apprentice is able to use long range techniques?, After all Lin still couldn't use the basic technique of energy armor yet!.

The group of cultivators were awakened from the shock Lin sent them, and they hurried to follow the orders but their eyes never left this strange boy with scary abilities.

The same question Wei asked himself was all over their heads, just how did he do it?.

The beasts that managed to survive in the area Lin's light beam fell were extremely fearful and hurried to retreat back south as fast as they can, they ignored Wei's caravan coming their way and escaped.

Lin was looking at his right hand, especially the symbol of the wings with dread in his eyes.

The beasts who died from it numbered in the tens of thousands!, The beasts had besieged a caravan there and were enjoying their meal after killing everyone.

"Phew...." Gang whistled softly while watching the destruction Lin's action caused.

"What a brat, this attack can mortally wound a tyrant. Heh, he better grow up stronger fast because even I am getting impatient to see it happen." Kai muttered as he gave the new version of Lin an approving look, his smirk was very eager and he threw a few pieces of meat to a small owl with white feathers perched on a tree nearby because he was in a good mood.

"Hoot...." The white owl nodded it's head a few times before latching on the meat with her beak and shredding it with the help of it's small talons.

"Heh, don't get used to it little one, Kai only keeps useful pets around him. Maybe if your bloodline was pure and fully awakened." Kai was amused by the owl's polite action and blocked it's attempts of befriending him.

"Hoot...." The owl twisted it's head upside down awkwardly when the master of this world refused to accept her, ever since it was born the top commander was this black and white fellow.

With his help others wouldn't dare bully her, but he never warmed up to her.

"Stop nagging and hooting me, hrmmmm, he'll take you if you want, since you can't be my pet, maybe you can be the pet of my pet. Hehehe, go and don't cause troubles for him or Ill put you in a cage." Kai almost swatted the hooter bag of white feathers, then he stopped and looked at Lin who was in a similar downhearted state like this owl, lightbulb!, Let them gloom at each other's company.

So what if that little one had the blood of the silent owl of eternity?, Wise harbringers of doom or whatnot, Kai doesn't care about dragon, phoenix, or the likes of Lin's pet tiger who has a very good genes of both a celestial tiger and a fire dragon.

They all amount to pets in his eyes, anyone weaker than Kai is a mere ball in his way which he can kick left and right if he feels like it.

Before the white owl got to hoot again, she was perched on Lin's left shoulder and Kai snickered when he saw Sun's hair stand on end, he was surprised and snared threateningly at this newcomer.

"Meow...."

"Eh!, Where did this owl come from?." Lin muttered as he looked at the wide deep-blue eyes resembling a sea with two round obsidian black islands down the middle, the beauty of these eyes made Lin's sadness drain, he was annoyed because he killed so many beasts without being prepared beforehand, he was ready to protect himself with soul force if that bird tried to assault him.

After all it was looking stronger than Sun from the senses he picked from it!, Almost as strong as Bo An's grey wolf who's said to be in the beak of the devil beast realm.

'Take care of it brat.' Kai's voice made Lin stop digging out the background of this white owl.

"Hoot...." The white owl hooted and lowered it's head a couple times as if greeting Lin, while completely disregarding Sun who rudely threatened her.

If Kai hadn't told her to not make troubles, she would've showed this little cub some of the tricks those in her world of birth used against her once.

"Can you speak?." Lin asked the small white owl and received a head shake, that confused him further because every devil beast is said to be able to speak the common language of humans!.

"Would you like me to give you a name like I gave Sun?," Lin asked while descending to the top of the first carriage, the caravan was about to be hit by the shockwaves from the explosion he caused and he didn't want to cause anymore mess before knowing what he's really capable of. "How about Frostine?." Lin asked the small white owl when they entered the barrier and found it nodding and taking a closer sidestep to rub her facial feathers on his cheek.

"Heh, this is Sun my best friend, Sun this is Frostine don't annoy her or she'll bully you." Lin took Sun closer to Frostine as he spoke and the tiger blinked his yellow draconic eyes a few times then nodded after smelling the small white owl.

While the two beasts got to know each other, Lin was looking with everyone else in the guarding duty at the devastation as they passed it silently.

Every cultivator was sucking a cold breath of air as they exchanged looks in fear, was that really caused by that junior?, Was that some kind of foreign single use talisman of the light element?, But his wings and the golden symbol glowing in the dark at his right hand were from the same energy they felt on the light beam.

Zhang was sucking a breath of air because of his excitement, Lin getting stronger was only another motivation for him to work harder, Lai was frowning because the monstrous kid just became insanely scary even for himself!.

Once and again Lai tried to imagine himself blocking, parrying or diverting that light beam, but every time he was consumed by it instead and torn to pieces!.

As for cutting it in half?, Lai was sure he isn't fast enough to react.

Wang was just thinking about how many girls he can attract in the future just by flaunting Lin's talents, while making plans to hook his best friend Zhang with a dao companion, otherwise he'll go look for a cow instead to be his best friend's eternal partner.

Wei was fantasising about uncountable fortune, falling in his pockets with Lin's valiantly fighting in the largest arena and none could break his winning streak!.

Bo An was dreaming about Lin holding her in his arms and coaxing her and pampering her as he flew in the air, countless envying eyes watched from below and amongst them was her big sister Mia!.

Mutilated carcasses of beasts of various species, half buried bodies, half burned bodies, dying beasts, gravely wounded beasts, remains from the humans who fell under the stampeding beasts, everything was shocking the people watching but it hurt Lin's heart to see himself destroying instead of building and creating.

It felt like going against his nature!.