The Legend of the Netherworld

Taoist Xuanqing hovered above Lin Xiao's house, his eyes as sharp as torches, until late at night.

After Lin Xiao fell asleep, he sighed softly and flew away.

Afterwards, Taoist Xuanqing kept reading ancient books, trying to find out the reason for the strange child.

Countless books and scriptures filled his mind, but he still could not explain why Lin Xiao was judged to be a mortal body.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao's life was as dull as water. While doing farm work in the fields, he secretly planned for the future.

Now, at the age of sixteen, he has long since transformed from that ignorant child into a handsome young man.

Eight years have passed, and Lin Jiao has never returned since she left.

Longing filled Lin Xiao's heart like a tide. He secretly decided that next year, no matter what, he would go to Feng Shui Academy alone, even if it was just to see Lin Jiao.

Time flies, but Taoist Xuanqing still can't let go of his doubts about Lin Xiao.

On a desolate cliff, he stood quietly in the void, gazing at the ancient stone carvings that had long been eroded by wind and rain.

A few lines of ancient writing could still be vaguely discerned on the cliff wall. Although most of it was already blurred, for a Dinghai God-level being like him, deciphering this text was a piece of cake.

Taoist Xuanqing closed his eyes slightly, and spiritual energy flowed around his body. He calmly comprehended the skills recorded on the cliff.

Time passed quietly. After an unknown amount of time, Taoist Xuanqing suddenly opened his eyes, a cold smile curled up at the corner of his mouth, and he whispered, "This trick of 'deceiving the heavens and crossing the seas' is indeed exquisite. It can even deceive the Great Dao. It seems that the ancestor of the Xianyun Sect does have some luck."

He raised his hand and waved it lightly, the spell was instantly activated, his body turned into a stream of light, and in a blink of an eye he had arrived at Lin Xiao's doorstep.

It was late at night and Lin Xiao was sleeping soundly in bed. In his dream, he looked peaceful, completely unaware of the crisis approaching quietly.

Taoist Xuanqing pushed open the door calmly and walked into the room quietly.

He stood beside the bed, staring down at the sleeping Lin Xiao, his fingers moving slightly, and began to chant an obscure spell.

As Taoist Xuanqing chanted his spell, golden talismans were drawn from his fingertips. These talismans swam in the air like spirit snakes and finally entered Lin Xiao's body one by one.

After those golden talismans entered Lin Xiao's body, they slowly penetrated into his bones and began to fight with the sealing talismans left by the ancestor of Xianyun Sect.

Two forces were wrestling in Lin Xiao's body. It was the power seal from the Jiashen realm, which was in fierce confrontation with the magic spell cast by Taoist Xuanqing to break it.

However, not long after, the seal of the ancestor of Xianyun Sect was gradually broken, and the talisman of Taoist Xuanqing slowly seeped in, completely dissolving that power.

After finishing the spell, Taoist Xuanqing looked up at the sleeping Lin Xiao with a smug smile on his face. "Your Xianyun Sect's ancestor loves you so much that he sealed his Jiachen realm body within you, even sealing your very bones. He even tried to deceive us with the 'Hide the Heaven and Cross the Sea' technique? Unfortunately, he still underestimated the Dinghai God."

Taoist Xuanqing smiled slightly and chuckled softly: "Hahahaha... Trying to hide the truth from the world is nothing but deceiving yourself and others." His laughter echoed in the room, but it was like the wind passing by without a trace, and Lin Xiao could not hear it at all.

After finishing the spell, Taoist Xuanqing jumped lightly and left in an instant. His whole body turned into a stream of light again and disappeared into the night sky.

After Taoist Xuanqing left, the night still enveloped Lin Xiao's hut.

However, on this quiet night, Lin Xiao's body was undergoing an unprecedented change.

Lin Xiao suddenly woke up from his dream in pain, and a tearing pain instantly swept through his whole body.

All the bones in his body seemed to be hit by a powerful force, breaking and shattering in an instant.

However, the devastating pain did not end there. Almost as soon as the bones broke, they quickly reconnected.

Then, this process repeated itself over and over again. The bones broke, shattered, and regenerated over and over again. Then the blood began to boil, and Lin Xiao felt that he was going to die.

The intense pain made Lin Xiao breathless, and even the strength to scream was deprived by the pain.

He wanted to open his mouth and scream, but the pain came too quickly, and his voice seemed to be stuck in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound.

The senses in his limbs gradually became numb, but the seemingly endless cycle made it impossible for him to escape from the pain.

Lin Xiao lay in bed all night, enduring this immense pain. Time seemed to freeze in this endless torment. The pain only gradually subsided with the first rays of dawn, as if completing some kind of transformation.

When the last pain disappeared, Lin Xiao's body finally completely merged with the Jiashen level 1 body that the Xianyun Sect's ancestor had sealed in him.

At this point, his body had already reached the strength of the Jiashen First Realm, and its defense was extremely high, but its weakness was that it lacked the Hegemony Body. However, a Jiashen First Realm body was so powerful that even the first-rank military officers in the court would call him "Master Lin" upon seeing it.

However, Lin Xiao knew nothing about this.

When the sky brightened, Lin Xiao woke up in a daze. The bed was covered with water stains. He couldn't tell whether it was sweat or tears. It might be both.

The pain of last night seemed to still linger in his memory, making him shudder. Lin Xiao recalled the scene of last night and vaguely felt that his body had undergone some changes, but he didn't know what it meant.

He struggled to get up, feeling a difference in his body. He found himself filled with strength, and every move he made felt a lightness and agility he had never felt before.

He stood on the ground and tried to stretch his arms, feeling that the power contained in his muscles was much stronger than before.

Despite this, Lin Xiao still started his day's farm work according to his usual pace of life.

Carrying a hoe and going to the fields, he found that his physical strength had greatly increased, and the farm tools were as light as a feather in his hands. The hard work in the past now seemed like an easy exercise.

Even physical work like carrying water was easy for Lin Xiao, and he walked as if the wind was blowing under his feet.

Along the way, Lin Xiao's mind kept flashing back to the painful experience of last night, and he was secretly guessing in his heart.

This change made him guess something. But Lin Xiao was not sure. However, with his many years of experience reading fantasy novels, he already knew where his path lay.