From Beast Abilities to Sect Grand Master

The stone slab crumbled into pieces, and a storage area was revealed to Lin Fan.

Right in the middle of the storage area was a small copper cauldron, one meter long and half a meter wide.

It had scriptures carved onto its surface, and carvings of auspicious beasts like dragons and phoenixes.

Lin Fan picked up the Nine Heaven Cauldron and kept it in his toad statue.

Xuan Ming Elder and Zhan Ling Xi saw Lin Fan picking up the Nine Heaven Cauldron, and they stopped their tussle.

Zhan Ling Xi pulled out her sword from Xuan Ming Elder's body and lunged at Lin Fan instead.

"Give me back my cauldron!"

Boom.

The demonic mushrooms also turned their focus to Lin Fan and opened fire onto him with their air cannon.

Lin Fan wasted no time and turned into a mist.

Zhan Ling Xi's sword missed, and the air cannon could only destroy the wall of the open area of the tomb.

The mist then passed through the body of Zhan Ling Xi.

To his surprise, Zhan Ling Xi felt nothing, and she turned back to chase after the mist.

Xuan Ming Elder waited at a distance for Lin Fan to appear again.

Zhao Qing Ying and Zhang Yi Nian tried to stop Zhan Ling Xi.

But she gave them two slashes with her sword, and the slicing wave forced them to use their Qi to protect against it.

Purple mushrooms then took the opportunity to entangle them with their tentacles.

They tore the tentacles apart and tried to get near to Zhan Ling Xi.

More purple mushrooms appeared from the ground and tried to entangle them again.

"Argh."

Zhang Yi Nian cried out in frustration as he struggled to move his arms with the tentacles engulfing his body.

Finally, the tentacles were too numerous for Zhao Qing Ying and Zhang Yi Nian to break through.

When Lin Fan appeared, he gave out a roar at Zhao Qing Ying and Zhang Yi Nian with his Volcanic Roar ability.

The intense heat and molten embers pelted onto the tentacles, and they started to burn.

Thud.

Xuan Ming Elder, who was waiting for Lin Fan all this while, made his move and gave Lin Fan a punch at his waist.

His fist felt a force coming back at it, and he could feel his bones crack from the impact.

Directing his Qi to heal his fist, he tried to figure out what had happened.

Lin Fan had activated his Primordial Titan Bastion ability, and the rebounding force was able to hurt Xuan Ming Elder's fist.

"Master Su Qi Nian has something for you," Lin Fan shouted at Zhan Ling Xi, and he took out the letter with the necklace that Master Su Qi Nian gave him.

"Su Qi Nian... He...." Zhan Ling Xi's eyes opened wide when she saw the necklace with a red crystal on it.

Memories flashed by in her mind as the necklace brought her back to a time when she and Su Qi Nian were still young.

It was by the riverside during the lantern festival.

Su Qi Nian, who was still an unknown Artifact Cultivator, couldn't afford to buy her any gifts.

So, she told him that when he got famous, just gift her a necklace with a red crystal.

To think that after all these years, he still remembered.

"Don't fall for that Su Qi Nian's lie again. Look at you, look at what he has done to you!" The Iron Heart Nun shouted at Zhan Ling Xi, trying to persuade her not to be taken in by Su Qi Nian's gift.

Zhan Ling Xi was pulled back into reality by what the Iron Heart Nun had said.

She looked down at her body again.

Anger rose from within her.

Lin Fan quickly tried to pacify her and said, "Most likely Master Su Qi Nian was finding ways to resurrect you from death.

"And with you standing right before us, he didn't really fail.

"Take a look at his letter before deciding."

He said whatever he could to try and convince her, and he tried to pass the envelope and necklace over to Zhan Ling Xi.

Xuan Ming Elder lunged at Lin Fan, trying to grab the necklace and envelope away from him.

Zhao Qing Ying, who had broken free from the tentacles, sent a Twirling Wind Strike at Xuan Ming Elder.

Clank.

Using the chains entangled on his arms, Xuan Ming Elder blocked the twirling wind coming at him.

Before he could make his next move and try to get near Lin Fan, he felt his leg being tugged.

Zhang Yi Nian, who also broke free, held onto Xuan Ming Elder's leg and gave his knee a punch at close distance.

Crack.

The kneecap of Xuan Ming Elder cracked, and Xuan Ming Elder smashed his arm at Zhang Yi Nian's head.

Thud.

The arm with the chain hit Zhang Yi Nian's head and sent him tumbling across the ground.

When Zhang Yi Nian stood up, a chunk of his head was gone.

He quickly directed his Qi and started his rejuvenation process.

The tissues, bones, flesh, and skin grew back as Zhang Yi Nian did so.

Meanwhile, Lin Fan had handed the necklace and envelope over to Zhan Ling Xi.

He waited on high alert as he saw Zhan Ling Xi's expression change as she read the letter.

The letter was from Su Qi Nian with apologies for what he did.

In his zealous mind to want to see her again, he had forged an artifact that could resurrect life with a caveat.

That is, Zhan Ling Xi would need to be host to something else.

And in this case, fungi.

He had deeply regretted what he had done, and it was her choice to destroy the artifact sustaining her life placed in her heart.

"Silly man." Zhan Ling Xi crumpled the letter and looked up.

Lin Fan watched intensely to see what she did next.

She held up the necklace and looked at it for a moment.

After she gave out a sigh, she wrapped the necklace around her neck.