The Heavenly Academy dean remained unaware that his memories had been probed.
Lin Yun stood before him in silence, which only heightened the dean’s anxiety. He could not fathom what Lin Yun intended.
“Senior, what… what further instructions do you have?” the dean finally asked, unable to bear it.
“Take good care of my disciple Wen Jing. If I return and find she has lost even a single hair, I will hold you accountable,” Lin Yun said.
Since Wen Jing addressed him as Master, Lin Yun resolved to aid her once more.
“Yes, yes, yes,” the dean nodded fervently.
Given the strength Lin Yun had displayed, the dean no longer dared harbour any malicious thoughts. Compliance was his only option.
Lin Yun said nothing further and turned to depart.
The dean and his companions bowed deeply, watching respectfully until Lin Yun vanished from sight.
Yet they remained baffled. Lin Yun had come to the Heavenly Academy, raised no demands, engaged in a single spar, and then simply left?
It left them utterly perplexed.
After leaving the Heavenly Academy, Lin Yun headed directly for the God-Slaying Gate’s location.
It was time to return home. The means was the God-Slaying Gate’s teleportation array.
…
Above a vast mountain range on the Star Blue Continent.
“This is it.”
Lin Yun arrived here, gazing down at the peaks below.
In the next instant, he plunged straight downward, entering a cave abode constructed within the mountain.
From his earlier probing of the dean’s memories, Lin Yun had learned that passage to the ancestral land via the God-Slaying Gate was not through summons, but direct transmission from this side.
This differed from the approach used by the Heavenly Fire God Palace on the Cultivation Continent.
Given this method, Lin Yun had immediately decided to storm the local God-Slaying Gate outpost.
Inside the cave abode.
The moment Lin Yun entered, a man in red robes materialised ahead, blocking his path.
“Who are you? Who permitted you to come here?” the red-robed man barked.
Cultivators of this world seeking to join the local God-Slaying Gate had to pass through the Heavenly or Spirit Academy. Lin Yun’s solitary arrival was plainly irregular.
“I came alone,” Lin Yun replied calmly.
“Trespassing here? You court death!” The red-robed man instantly unleashed Saint Realm aura and struck a palm across the void at Lin Yun.
Lin Yun waved a hand lightly, and the attack dissipated in an instant.
Then he raised his palm, circulated inner force, and gently clenched.
Space around the red-robed man twisted at once.
The man felt the surrounding space transform into chains that bound him, leaving him unable to move.
“Su… Supreme!”
Sensing Lin Yun’s aura, the man’s mind reeled as though thunderstruck. His heart turned ice-cold.
It was natural for local cultivators on the Star Blue Continent not to recognise the Supreme Realm and thus fail to discern Lin Yun’s precise level.
But this red-robed man was a Saint Realm cultivator dispatched from the ancestral land. Of course he knew of Supremes.
Heavens, how could a Supreme suddenly appear here?
He understood perfectly that before a Supreme, he was nothing more than an ant.
“Activate the teleportation array to the ancestral land,” Lin Yun commanded.
“You… you are a Supreme. The energy cost to activate the array is too great. I… I cannot possibly manage it,” the red-robed man stammered.
“In that case, I shall handle it myself.”
As Lin Yun spoke, he exerted force. The red-robed man burst apart instantly into a cloud of blood mist.
While speaking, Lin Yun had already probed the man’s memories and extracted the method to activate the array.
Lin Yun advanced deeper into the cave abode.
Two more puppets awaited within, which Lin Yun destroyed without effort.
At the conspicuous centre stood the teleportation array.
Lin Yun razed everything else in the cave abode, effectively dismantling this God-Slaying Gate outpost.
Having done so, he stepped onto the array and activated it using the method he had learned.
Activating the array demanded an enormous quantity of Haoyue crystal stones as fuel.
Lin Yun positioned himself in the array first, then drew out Haoyue crystal stones and fed them into it.
Ten billion, twenty billion, thirty billion…
The tally of infused Haoyue crystal stones climbed relentlessly.
Yet the array still did not whisk Lin Yun away.
As a Supreme, the volume of Haoyue crystal stones required was unquestionably astronomical.
Fortunately, Lin Yun still possessed a substantial stock. Without hesitation, he continued pouring more in.
To return home, Lin Yun spared no expense.
