Outside of Li Mu Wan’s room, Wang Lin looked inside. Li Mu Wan had her upper body resting on the stone table where the Dan Furnace lay. She was currently sleeping. Her beautiful, silk-like hair wrapped around her head carelessly, with a few strands tucked behind her ears. Her tiny charming face was rosy, giving off a beautiful color like red clouds reflected off of snow.
She wore a fragrant purple garment as if she were in a painting, delicate and beautiful with lustrous skin, causing any onlookers’ pulses to race. At this very moment, the Dan Furnace let out threads of white Qi. This scene held an immortal and painting-like feeling.
Adding onto Li Mu Wan’s meticulous dress, the surroundings were covered in green vines that had found from some unknown place. That sort of surreal feeling, as if he was entering a painting, grew stronger.
A faint medicinal smell arrived. Wang Lin sucked in his breath and his mind cleared a bit.
After watching for a long time, he slowly withdrew his gaze, and turned around towards a stone room. One half contained a large amount of medicinal herbs, while the other half contained a few materials for refining pills of immortality. Among these lay half of an Aquatic Dragon skull.
The Aqua Dragon’s skeleton was too long, especially the skull. It was a waste to use up all of it in the Nine-Bones formation, so Wang Lin had told Li Mu Wan to leave some of the skull.
After instructing her, he went to fuse the three Cold Dan into one. Looking at the half of a skull, Wang Lin began muttering. This skull gave a peculiar feeling. It didn’t look like bone, but instead like some sort of crystal. It was probably formed from the Aquatic Dragon’s unique composition.
Just as Wang Lin was observing, suddenly, his mind stirred and he turned his body. Not long after, Li Mu Wan awoke hazily and yawned. After leaving the stone room, she glanced at Wang Lin in amazement. Her sleepiness quickly disappearing.
On that day, Li Mu Wan’s mental state had slowly begun to change. She had started letting her imagination run wild frequently, since she was terrified that Wang Lin would pounce on her like some beast. After all, those that practiced the Death Incantation were all experts in plucking Yuan Ying.
But afterwards, she had found out that Wang Lin had gone into seclusion everyday. Li Mu Wan had always thought that her brother, Li Ji Qing, was diligent in his cultivation, but after seeing Wang Lin, the word diligence became associated with him.
From her view, Wang Lin was already at the peak of the Foundation Building stage, and into the Fake Dan stage. One more step and he would step into the Jie Dan stage. But how could reaching the Jie Dan stage be so easy? Li Mu Wan knew that in the several thousand years of Huo Fen Country history, the fastest person to have ever reached the peak of the Foundation Building stage was 17 years old, but had taken thirty years to step into the Jie Dan stage. This person was the founder of Huo Fen Country, and the first Yuan Ying cultivator, bringing the Huo Feng Country from Rank 2 to Rank 3.
But based on Wang Lin’s appearance, he was at most only 20 years old. Wanting to form a Jie Dan in a short amount of time was absolutely impossible! Originally, Wang Lin told her that once he had reached the Jie Dan stage, he would send her off. When she had heard this, she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. If she waited patiently for him to reach the Jie Dan stage, she was afraid that he would not succeed after dozens or even a hundred years. A trace of ridicule towards Wang Lin arose in her heart. If he wanted her to stay, he only had to say so. There was no need to make things so unnecessarily complicated.
“Your… Your cultivation has reached a bottleneck?” Li Mu Wan meeting Wang Lin’s eyes, hesitated a bit and then quietly asked. Her soul blood was in his hands. If he asked too much from her, she wouldn’t know what to choose. She had already pondered upon this for a long time. Recently, Wang Lin always had a complicated expression on his face. She couldn’t help but think of the Death Incantation’s strict requirements for frequently absorbing the three Qi. If the requirements weren’t high, then the technique wouldn’t be considered substantial, and it would be easy to reach a bottleneck!. In these several months, he had not touched a woman or killed anyone. Thus, it was likely that he had reached a bottleneck.
Wang Lin didn’t know what Li Mu Wan was thinking. He looked at her in the eye and nodded his head.
Li Mu Wan’s heart dropped. She backed away a few steps as her face turned pale. She struggled for breath and ground her teeth, then bitterly smiled: “You… I only agreed to refine pills. If… I… I won’t do your bidding, even if I die.” Her voice sounded like a mournful whimper.
Wang Lin, astonished, glanced at Li Mu Wan and turned his body towards the skull. He said dully: “Why is the Aquatic Dragon skull this color?”