Free Web NovelChapter 200: Chapter 190: Radiation 2
Lin Hui then asked for more details about how to wake up voluntarily while inside.
Hong Ling answered each question in turn.
During the Time of Supreme Bliss, the environment was identical to the outside world. The only difference was the people who appeared—they were all people you wanted to see.
"By the way, Brother Hong, do you know Sha Ye? The rather short, kind-hearted member of the Original Blood Nobility?" After asking about the main points, Lin Hui saw that Hong Ling was in a hurry to leave and quickly asked another question.
"Oh, her? Sha Ye is one of the youngest newcomers among the nobility. She is indeed very kind-hearted and likes to meddle in other people’s business, and she’s helped quite a few people. However... her family is very displeased with her because of it. They think her ideology isn’t orthodox enough, that she doesn’t view issues from the perspective of her family’s own interests," Hong Ling said simply. "Did you just run into her? Then you’re pretty lucky. Alright, I have to go. We’ll talk more tomorrow morning. You have this whole building to yourself tonight. Good night!"
Hong Ling turned and ran, practically bolting, as if terrified that Lin Hui would ask more questions and delay him.
THUMP. The main door of the small building automatically closed.
The entire first-floor lobby was completely empty. Not a single person was there, leaving Lin Hui standing alone in the middle.
He glanced around and found a high-backed chair against the wall to sit down.
He hadn’t even been seated for thirty seconds.
Suddenly, the clear, resonant sound of a bell pierced through from outside the building.
The bell chimed three times, then fell silent.
Nothing around him changed. Since Hong Ling had left, Lin Hui had been on high alert, paying close attention to his surroundings, but he hadn’t noticed anything.
He wanted to observe how one entered the Time of Supreme Bliss.
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He sat in the chair, looking at the spacious hall paved with black stone slabs.
The landscape paintings hanging on the white walls on either side still emitted a faint yellow glow, illuminating the surroundings in place of lamps.
On the ceiling was a massive white dragon-turtle relief. The dragon-turtle’s enormous, ferocious eyes were golden light fixtures, casting a yellow glow brighter than the paintings.
Besides that, there was no one, no sound—only him.
’Didn’t they say whatever I want will appear?’ Lin Hui was slightly taken aback.
He remained seated, thinking of the attractive women he’d met and countless delicacies, but his surroundings remained silent.
Nothing happened.
Puzzled, Lin Hui got up and slowly walked to the main door.
As he drew closer, his expression suddenly froze. He could faintly hear a subtle sound coming from outside the door.
The black wooden door was just inches away. Through the window above, past the lattice and white paper, he could vaguely see a bright red light flashing outside.
He hesitated.
A sense of foreboding crept into his heart as he reached out, grabbed the handle, and pushed the door outward.
HISS.
Amidst a faint scraping sound.
The door opened.
Outside was a vast, endless expanse of a white ice field.
In the center of the ice field, at an unknown distance from him, stood an immense, trapezoidal stone gate glowing with red light.
The doorframe was carved with the ferocious faces of unknown monsters. The entire gate was made of black stone, but the rock now seemed to have been heated red-hot, constantly radiating an astonishing amount of heat into the surroundings.
In the center of the gate, between the two doors, a narrow crack had already opened, revealing a blinding red light from within.
The pure red light induced an extremely uncomfortable, nauseating feeling. Just a few glances made Lin Hui feel sick, dizzy, and want to vomit.
"Do you wish to attain immortality? Come... approach... pull it open... pull open this gate that can bring hope to the world..."
A thunderous voice slowly boomed in his ears.
"Pull it open, and you shall gain immortal divinity... You will become one of the Commanders of Purgatory. As long as Purgatory endures, you too shall be eternal!"
The voice continued its bewitching call, the sound so powerful it made Lin Hui’s ears go numb.
He couldn’t help but take two steps back, trying to create some distance. But the next moment, as the deep voice continued, a new sound quietly emerged.
"All things will eventually freeze. Burning is consumption, while stillness is the ultimate eternity.... Do you wish for ultimate peace? Come... come here...."
This time, it was a cold, hoarse female voice.
Lin Hui looked in the direction of the voice but couldn’t see its source at all.
Until the voice came again.
Only then did he notice that on the white ice field, directly in front of the burning gate, the entire white surface of the ground was actually a gigantic female face, at least several hundred meters in diameter.
The mouth of that giant face was the source of the voice.
"Pull out the Sword of Origin.... You will end all tragedy and begin a new era... a new hope...." Though the female voice was cold, it was clearer than the previous thunderous voice, even overpowering it.
’What the hell... isn’t this Purgatory and Extreme Cold Heaven!?’ Lin Hui recognized the sources of the two voices, and his scalp tingled with fear.
He saw a massive, spiked greatsword made of dark blue crystal plunged into the forehead of the giant female face on the ice field.
The sword was like a work of art, translucent and sparkling. The hilt and guard were layered with patterns resembling flames, which pulsed with a faint blue light, as if a heart was beating.
RUMBLE.
A clap of thunder jolted Lin Hui back to his senses from his shock.
He instinctively looked up at the sky.
"!!"
The entire sky was a desolate gray-white.
There were no stars, no night, only endless gray clouds forming a colossal gray vortex, slowly turning.
Faint black arcs of electricity occasionally flashed across the surface of the great vortex. Its center was a deep, dark abyss, leading to who knows where.
But that wasn’t what truly shook Lin Hui.
The crucial part was...
He lowered his head and inexplicably looked behind him.
Behind him, wisps of gray mist were continuously descending from the sky, silently merging into his back.
It was a very strange sight.
From a distance, it looked as if a large amount of gray vapor was evaporating from his body, floating up to the sky, and merging into the giant vortex.
But upon closer inspection, one could see it was all the other way around.
The voices of Purgatory and Extreme Cold Heaven were still echoing in his mind.
But right now, in Lin Hui’s vision, the Purgatory gate and the Extreme Cold Heaven ice-field face were like ants in comparison to the massive gray cloud vortex that filled the entire sky, utterly insignificant.
’Is this... the Wind Disaster?’ Lin Hui suddenly and inexplicably recalled the results of the appraisal the Blood Seal had performed on him earlier.
The results had explicitly mentioned the term "Wind Disaster" for the first time.
There was no bewitching call. The power of the Wind Disaster was like everything, pressing down on him, the Purgatory gate, and the face of Extreme Cold Heaven.
The massive vortex loomed high above, ancient and heavy, as if it had been spinning this way since the very beginning of time.
Gazing at the massive gray cloud vortex, Lin Hui unconsciously forgot all distracting thoughts and naturally fell into a state of enlightenment regarding the Body Tempering of his Typhoon Swordsmanship.
Just by looking at the vast vortex, countless insights and inspirations vaguely surfaced in his mind.
’So that’s the Wind Disaster?’ A sliver of understanding dawned in his heart.
’By summoning Purgatory, I might gain immortal divinity. By pulling out Extreme Cold Heaven’s sword, I might gain the power to end everything. What about the Wind Disaster, then? What if I trigger the Wind Disaster and bring it into reality...?’
The moment this thought appeared, a mysterious message naturally flooded his mind.
’It will destroy everything...’
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Suddenly, Lin Hui opened his eyes. He was sitting in the high-backed chair, letting out a long breath.
Information from the Blood Seal appeared in his vision.
’Warning: You have obtained the Special Effect: Wind Disaster Affinity. When cultivating related Martial Arts, you will gain the enhancement of Wind Disaster Power to your destructive force.’
’Warning: Once triggered, the Wind Disaster is extremely difficult to stop. It can destroy all stable, ordered structures, returning all things to a particulate state, forever in an infinite state of flux.’
Looking at the blood-red warning text from the Blood Seal, Lin Hui took a deep breath. He finally understood what the Wind Disaster he had just seen represented.
He closed his eyes to sense his condition. The Body Tempering for his Typhoon Swordsmanship had bizarrely reached a state of overflow and was about to advance to the next level, the Sixth Grade.
Apparently, just those few moments of observation had saved him at least several months of Body Tempering time.
Not only that, but as Lin Hui looked up, his gaze strangely gained the ability to see through things. It passed through countless Moon Towers, saw the night sky, and saw, high above the sky, that layer of the massive, slowly turning gray cloud vortex.
’I don’t know what happened, but I think I’m in some serious trouble...’
He let out a long sigh.
Three terrifying powers had converged within him. And the one he had always thought was the most insignificant, the Wind Disaster, was actually the strongest...
"Where’s the ’supreme bliss’? Weren’t you supposed to let me experience supreme bliss??"
Lin Hui looked at his hands and tried closing his eyes again, attempting to re-enter the state from before. But no matter how he tried, he couldn’t go back.
He carefully sensed his own condition and was surprised to find that the Purgatory power and Extreme Cold Heaven power he had been worried about were now being firmly suppressed by an formless aura, unable to leak out in the slightest.
To be precise, this aura wasn’t suppressing them, but decomposing them. It was continuously and instantly decomposing the auras of Purgatory and Extreme Cold Heaven the moment they appeared, absorbing them to strengthen itself.
Thus, the problem that had been worrying Lin Hui all this time was, at this moment, inexplicably solved.
When he opened his eyes again, the sky outside was already bright.
Lin Hui held out his hand, and a small point of white Inner Strength lit up on his fingertip.
Unlike before, the Purgatory power and the chill of Extreme Cold Heaven within his Inner Strength had completely vanished. In their place was a formless, transparent power mixed within.
And that power was precisely what Lin Hui had just directly experienced—the power of the Wind Disaster.
It was continuously decomposing and devouring the powers of Purgatory and Extreme Cold Heaven, merging them into itself and constantly advancing Lin Hui’s Body Tempering progress.
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「Xinyu Town.」
Lin Shunhe stood with his hands behind his back, looking at an investigation report on his desk.
"The black fog period just began this year, and there are already so many mysterious disappearances. Has the Government Office still not given an explanation? I don’t care about the others, but the family of a member from our own branch hall also vanished overnight. This matter must be thoroughly investigated!" His voice was low and firm.
"I’m afraid that will be very difficult," Elder Du said helplessly.
"No matter how difficult, it must be done. This is Xinyu Town, the Core Area of my Lin Family. No failures will be tolerated!" Lin Shunhe said resolutely.
"Our preliminary investigation suggests that some of the great clans from the Inner City might be using people for tests again," Elder Du said in a low voice.
"I can’t and won’t meddle in other places. But in Xinyu Town, a situation like this will not be permitted!"
Elder Du looked as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself. In the end, he said nothing.
"Let’s go. We’ll go check the scene of this latest incident, the Zhang Family case. Zhang Jihua was an old supervisor in my merchant caravan; I refuse to believe he would commit suicide. The Government Office’s conclusion is complete bullshit!"
"Understood. Should we report this to our superiors before we leave?" Elder Du asked tentatively.
"Isn’t that obvious?!"
