You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

Therefore, every now and then, he stopped operating the Primordial Spirit Cultivation Method to take a Heavenly King's Heart Pill that repaired his Primordial Spirit. Once his Primordial Spirit recovered, he continued the method.

This Heavenly King's Heart Pill was a seventh-grade Immortal Pill with an excellent effect on repairing the Primordial Spirit.

When the evil aura wasn't strong enough, he ventured deeper into the aura's depths.

In the blink of an eye, twelve days had passed.

"Sigh..."

Lin Yue slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath, his eyes filled with a bit of regret: "The evil aura is still not strong enough, I've reached the end so quickly."

His improved Primordial Spirit Cultivation Method showed good results, and his Saint Heart's adaptability was decent as well. With the recovery effect of the Immortal Pill and the stimulation of the evil aura, it almost reached the limit of tempering.

In just twelve days, his Dao Heart had made significant progress, much stronger than when it first transformed into a Saint Heart.

In terms of Dao Heart alone, it should be considered at a "fairly decent" level among those who have reached the Saint realm.

At least it wasn't much worse than Zuo Tianchui, who lived for several hundred years outside.

"Twelve days alone, not bad."

Lin Yue shook his head slightly and immediately headed toward the cluster of light in the deeper area of the evil aura. Reaching that point, the aura's concentration no longer varied; delving further made no difference.

After a while, he reached the vicinity of that bright cluster.

"Huh? Not the Essence?"

It was then that Lin Yue realized that this bright cluster was not the Divine Beast Essence he imagined, but rather a liquid emitting a dreamy light, within which strange scenes could faintly be seen floating and vanishing.

"What is this..." Lin Yue attempted to explore with his Divine Thought, and as soon as it touched the liquid, he felt a surreal scene emerge before him.

...

"Dream Snake, now that the Great Yong Divine Formation's perimeter has collapsed, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You and the Nightmare Demon God will break through the northern border of Great Yong."

A dreamlike, blurred female figure spoke softly, her voice gentle as if murmuring in her sleep.

...

"Fourth Prince? How is that possible?! The Prince of Great Yong actually possesses such strength? Even the Buddha Ancestor couldn't achieve this! Where exactly did the Ancient Divine Power come from?"

A figure filled with overwhelming presence was suppressed and sealed amidst desperate roars. In the sky, a massive golden Buddha statue stood solemnly solemn, its eyes watching here with compassion, while a vast golden palm slowly descended.

...

Various dreamlike scenes continued to appear, giving Lin Yue some enlightenment in his heart.

"Are these memory fragments of the Divine Beast Dream Snake?"

Lin Yue pondered the scenes he had just witnessed, vaguely speculating.

The female figure ordering the Dream Snake and Nightmare Demon God to attack the northern border of Great Yong should be the legendary Dream Demon Ancestor.

And the powerful figure suppressed and sealed by the enormous golden Buddha statue was probably the "Nightmare Demon God" said to be suppressed by the Fourth Prince.

"Fourth Prince, rumored to be the reincarnation of a great power from the Buddhist Sect, is indeed terrifying."

Lin Yue secretly marveled.

When Princess Yongning acted, even the Divine Beast Phoenix was repeatedly killed until it was too weak to escape, leaving only the Nightmare Demon God to flee.

Yet, the Fourth Prince's strength was not inferior to Princess Yongning's at all.

The Fourth Prince, always known as a good-natured person, rarely took action, but when he did, he exhibited such terrifying power?

"The Fourth Prince is stronger than the Buddha Ancestor? The Ancient Divine Power?"

Recalling the desperate roars of the Nightmare Demon God before being suppressed and sealed, Lin Yue further lamented the terrifying nature of the Princes of Great Yong.

The Third Prince, Fourth Prince, Fifth Prince, Eldest Princess, and Second Princess were rumored to practically be on the same tier.

If they're all this frightening, what about the Second Prince and the Crown Prince?

"These Princes and Princesses with such strength, yet still vying for the Divine Emperor's throne, I wonder what's in it for them..."

Lin Yue took a deep breath, increasingly understanding the considerable gap between him and the Princes and Princesses.

"The Ultimate Path..."

He became more determined in his heart: "Only the Ultimate Path could potentially surpass them."

Most importantly...

If someday the Twelfth Prince also broke through, proving and transcending, with power comparable to these few, it would spell trouble.

At that time, if not sanctified through the Ultimate Path, he wouldn't have any assurance of revenge.

The gap was too vast.

Thus, besides the Ultimate Path, there was no other way.

"But, what is this?"

Lin Yue examined this dreamlike liquid, unsure of its true nature as a treasure, only certain it was related to the Divine Beast Dream Snake.

Simply, he took out a Treasure Bottle specifically for sealing and preserving treasures and put it away, then stowed it into the storage space.

When in doubt, he would ask his Master or the Second Prince upon returning.

"The Essence?"

Lin Yue continued searching in this evil aura-filled Inner Heaven and Earth.

After a careful search lasting half a day.

"Found it."

It was a pure white Essence shaped like a white snake, completely condensed from pure life force, slightly dim but relatively intact.

"A major find." Lin Yue smiled as he sealed and collected this Essence as well.

The Divine Beast's Essence, and he did not know if the King-level Phoenix Crown could withstand it.

At worst, he would wait for it to transform into a Holy Beast before allowing it to devour.

"Better find a way to obtain some Holy Beast Essence."

After collecting the Dream Snake's Essence, Lin Yue couldn't help but secretly plan.

At the same time, as the Dream Snake Essence was collected, this dreamlike Inner Heaven and Earth's support vanished, beginning to dissipate into nothingness.

In no time, the surroundings had turned into the lifeless, cold inner wall of the Dream Snake's stomach, causing him to float.

However, given the Dream Snake's massive body, it was still spacious within.

"Hmm?"

Lin Yue suddenly sensed something and turned his head.

He could feel... the source of the evil aura was not far away, with all the aura in the Inner Heaven and Earth originating from there.

He attempted to fly toward this source, discovering an elliptical, pitch-black bead embedded in the stomach wall there, all of the aura inside the Dream Snake derived from it, as though containing endless evil aura.

"What is this?"

Lin Yue examined the elliptical bead, noting a crack on its surface.

Why did it seem like this bead resembled...

A lotus seed?

The Fourth Prince wielded Buddhist Sect techniques, yet this lotus seed contained boundless evil aura. Could someone else have intervened after the Fourth Prince?

Lin Yue didn't dare to recklessly touch this bead, capable of killing a Divine Beast Dream Snake. How could he dare to act rashly?

Simply making a mental note of it, he flew out toward the Dream Snake's head.

Soon, he exited through the Dream Snake's gaping maw.

"So soon, Senior Brother?"

Zuo Tianchui seemed surprised, immediately closing the Dream Snake's enormous mouth, sealing all the evil aura inside its body.

"Just about." Lin Yue nodded slightly.

"Now that the Dream Snake has lost its Inner Heaven and Earth, the Demon Clan can also come and retrieve it."

Zuo Tianchui glanced at the massive Dream Snake corpse, asking, "Senior Brother, do you have a storage space large enough to contain the Dream Snake's body? My storage treasure is not this big."

"It should be possible."

Lin Yue nodded slightly, flipping his hand to produce an extremely high-quality Spiritual Treasure-level storage ring.

This was a find he acquired during his journeys over the years, not particularly precious, but decent nonetheless.

If he had bought it himself, it would have cost a significant price.

A top-grade Spiritual Treasure-level storage treasure with internal storage space of over a thousand zhang in length, capable of containing the majority of treasures, with a very high load capacity, making fitting a mountain inside not difficult.

"Sky Covering Ring!"

With a flick of Lin Yue's fingertip, the grayish ring burst into radiant light, waves of energy spreading out, enveloping the Dream Snake's body.

"Boom!"

Along with the frantic consumption of Primordial Power, the massive Dream Snake body slightly distorted, instantly being absorbed into the ring.

Lin Yue let out a slight sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it was due to the absorption capabilities of a top-grade Spiritual Treasure; otherwise, it would have been quite troublesome for him to collect it by himself.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother."

Zuo Tianchui smiled and said, "Master entrusted such an important task to a person with such incredible methods like Senior Brother."

Apparently, he treated Lin Yue's retrieval of the Dream Snake corpse as a mission assigned by the Main Hall Master.

Thus, he had no notion of taking a share, instead contributing willingly.

"It's time for me to go."

Lin Yue said, "The remaining tasks are up to you, Left Governor."

Zuo Tianchui, somewhat stunned, said, "Senior Brother, there are still so many Mutant Beasts outside, with over ten thousand Beast Kings. Capturing and killing them gradually is also a big merit, wouldn't you want it?"

"Consider it yours." Lin Yue shook his head slightly, "Think of it as this time's payment."

He wasn't interested in this merit; although the materials from over ten thousand Beast Kings and so many Mutant Beasts were valuable, he held no interest.

"For me?" Zuo Tianchui was stunned.

Such a major merit discarded?

"I'll lend you my Illusion Array first. Return it after you go back; I'm leaving."

Lin Yue didn't elaborate further, immediately taking a step and penetrating the Void, departing.

Now was the perfect time to find the Original Divine Blood.