Chapter 28: The Heart of Slaughter

  In the body, a faint aura of slaughter slowly condensed into a fist-sized ball of dense black air. A most primitive aura of slaughter burst forth from the black air, without ferocity or evil, but an indescribable, pure aura of slaughter, carrying a hint of desolation and an atmosphere of years gone by.

  A mass of murderous aura emerged within the sea of consciousness, floating above the lake of yuan energy.

  "It's really difficult." Ling Lin furrowed his brow. Although he already knew, but when he was cultivating himself, Ling Lin still felt a sense of emotion. This "Killing Dao Scripture" was indeed powerful, but it wasn't something that ordinary people could cultivate. The difficulty was just too great.

  "Several major checkpoints in 'Killing Immortal Formula'."

  Having enough murderous aura is just the beginning.

  Secondly, the practitioner must be able to sense the "Greedy Wolf Star", a star that dominates killing. Many cultivation methods only require absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the "Killing Immortal Technique" requires sensing the star from the very beginning and absorbing its purest and most primitive killing energy. This killing energy is completely different from the killing energy produced by Ling Lin after killing the fierce beast. Although they are both killing energies, there is a fundamental difference between them that is as vast as the difference between heaven and earth.

  With the help of this thread, which is the most pure killing intent, cultivators can condense their killing heart. However, Ling Lin knew that many cultivators could hardly sense even a single star.

  This is only the second trial, drawing a thread of murderous intent from the stars into one's body. One must be able to withstand the powerful murderous intent within. This is also the second trial! Withstanding the powerful murderous intent has nothing to do with personal cultivation, but rather relies on one's strong willpower. If one's willpower is not firm, they will immediately be invaded by this murderous intent and become a mindless monster that only knows how to kill.

  If you can get through this hurdle, your murderous heart will be cultivated. Only then can it be considered the first stage of cultivating the "Slaughter Immortal Technique".

  Once the first heavy cultivation is successful, it can generally be easily cultivated to the third heavy without any hindrance.

  But the fourth weight also has a big hurdle, which is even more difficult. However, this seems to be far away from me, and there's no need to worry about it.

  A moment of silence.

  Ling Lin felt his consciousness piercing through layers of obstacles, advancing... advancing... After piercing through countless worlds of obstruction, he finally entered a boundless and endless expanse of emptiness. In the deepest part of this endless void, there was a star that was incomparably enormous.

  The Greedy Wolf Star shone with a deep crimson light, its surface filled with an endless aura of slaughter. The massive flames born from this aura burst forth one after another, as if it were a gigantic blood ball, igniting the bloody smoke and fire that illuminated the boundless world.

  Inside the cave, Ling Lin sat quietly with his legs crossed, surrounded by countless starlights. The starlights flickered in a dark red color, like drops of jumping blood beads, and seemed to emit a bloody aura. The dark red starlight continued to gather around Ling Lin, condensing into his body. Gradually, the killing intent inside Ling Lin's mind began to violently tremble, with a hint of dark red visible within.

  Time flew by, and the dark red color became more and more eye-catching. The tremors also intensified, and upon closer inspection, it could be seen that the dark red aura of slaughter was slowly changing shape.

  Ling Lin closed his eyes, intensely sensing. A faint joy arose in his heart as he sensed the Greedy Wolf Star, successfully crossing the first hurdle. As for this second hurdle, Ling Lin was being cautious and slow, knowing that his greatest strength wasn't his cultivation or physical power, but rather the invisible and intangible power of his soul and will.

  As expected by Ling Lin, the second hurdle arrived on schedule. Amidst that mass of killing intent, a strand of killing intent that was different from the others suddenly split off, as fine as a hair. It then burst open, and strands of dark red gas floated in the sea of consciousness.

  "Suppress!" Ling Lin shouted.

  The faint aura of slaughter had not yet burst forth when it seemed to be reined in by an invisible giant hand. A drop of blood-like gas floated quietly within the sea of consciousness, and Ling Lin's divine sense probed into it, instantly a torrential aura of slaughter rushed forth, as if he had arrived at the legendary endless hell, filled with corpses, flowing fresh blood gathered into small streams.

  "Is this the will to kill?" Ling Lin secretly sighed, and indeed it was a bit terrifying. If one didn't have an extremely firm willpower, it would be difficult to handle. But what he lacked the least was strong willpower.

  "Disperse." Ling Lin shouted. A massive willpower descended, instantly shattering the illusory realm formed by the killing intent before his eyes. In an instant, the wisps of gas drifting in the sea of consciousness that contained the killing intent evaporated into nothingness.

  A dark red aura of slaughter was trembling, its shape quietly changing, getting closer and closer to the shape of a heart.

  "Bang, bang, bang......" A series of powerful pulsing sounds rose up, and the heart of slaughter was formed! In mid-air, the terrifying power of slaughter was completely retracted, and the dark red heart of slaughter seemed like a real heart, accompanied by the rhythmic pulsing sounds, slowly sinking into the lake of yuan force.

  It's worth mentioning that after the formation of the killing intent, the yuan force in Ling Lin's recognition sea also underwent a tremendous change. The golden yellow yuan force slowly turned into a noble dark gold color. This is the power of slaughter! The power of slaughter is also a kind of yuan force, but it is different from ordinary yuan force. The power of slaughter can be considered as a top-notch yuan force.

  Ling Lin suddenly opened his eyes, and two black air masses suddenly shot out from his eye sockets.

  "Huh." Two black whirlwinds wreaked havoc inside the mountain cave, stirring up countless pebbles. Ling Lin furrowed his brow and with a flick of his sleeve, the whirlwinds vanished instantly.

  Shaking off the dust on his body, Ling Lin slowly stood up. The murderous intent had finally condensed, indicating that his "Murderous Dao Scripture" had reached the entry level. From now on, as long as he absorbed enough murderous aura, he would be fine.

  The killing aura within the Greedy Wolf Star can only be absorbed when one advances, and normally it can only be obtained through sufficient killings. Although cultivating the "Killing Immortal Technique" has its troubles, its power is unmatched.

  Although he still hasn't entered the middle stage of the Innate Realm, if the previous Ling Lin could contend with a late-stage Innate Realm fierce beast, then his current self would possess absolute strength to annihilate them!

  "Killing Immortal Technique", the aura of slaughter. Ling Lin muttered to himself. With a casual wave of his hand, a dark golden Yuan force shot out and collided with a tree.

  "Hiss." The lush and massive ancient tree seemed to have its life force sucked out in an instant. Its bark turned gray and aged, even the leaves suddenly turned yellowish-brown. The entire tree was like an old man approaching his twilight years, emitting a strong aura of decay. With a faint whisper, the ancient tree collapsed, without any earth-shattering sound, as if just a few pieces of rotten wood fell to the ground. A gentle breeze blew up a few fallen leaves nearby.

  Ling Lin crouched down, picked up a piece of ancient tree debris. Two fingers lightly pinched, a powder flowed slowly from between them, like a pile of flowing sand.

  "It's terrifying power." Like the original power, the killing power also underwent a mutation, and the devouring power invaded again. The two merged in a strange way, unexpectedly bursting out with such terrifying power.

  The power of slaughter is indeed terrifying, but one's own devouring power is even more astonishing, able to merge all kinds of primal forces!