Vol 6 Chapter 41: The New Era's Gatekeeper, Tony Lin
After listening to Lin Jing's analysis, Uncle Fang and Auntie Fang clearly panicked.
Soul usurpation?
They looked at their daughter—was it the meaning they understood?
"How could such a thing happen?" Auntie Fang looked at Lin Jing as if grasping at a lifeline. "Xiao Jing, since you can identify the problem, you must have a solution, right?"
"To be honest, I cannot lift the curse from you," Lin Jing shook his head.
Fang Shuyao couldn't listen any longer. "How could you possibly identify the problem just from a single strand of hair? And you say you can't solve it either—that's the same as saying nothing!"
"Xiao Yao!" Uncle Fang glared at his daughter again.
"I'm not wrong... Even if what he says is true, Silver Hair Disease isn't that bad. As long as I slack off and don't cultivate from now on, I won't be chosen as a target for soul usurpation, right?"
"That reasoning isn't without merit," Lin Jing didn't mind her tone. They were unrelated people anyway; he had come this time only to resolve karma."However, those infected with Silver Hair Disease can probably devour each other. Even if you slack off and don't cultivate, you might still become nourishment for someone else's power growth in the future."
"Do you want to become someone else's stepping stone?" Lin Jing smiled.
"You..."
"Don't worry. Although I cannot do it, the caster themselves certainly can."
He slowly stood up and looked at the family.
"Give me some time to investigate the situation."
"If things go smoothly, Silver Hair Disease should be resolved before long."
These old fellows haven't recovered their strength yet. Lin Jing was confident they would give him face...
With a casual wave of his hand, a massive spatial tunnel appeared in mid-air, like a wormhole connecting to another dimension.
Lin Jing simply walked into it and disappeared on the spot. This unbelievable method left the three of them utterly astonished... Wait... just...
He just left like that?
What kind of departure method is this...
Fang Shuyao also stood frozen in place, staring at the vanished tunnel, unable to comprehend how Lin Jing had accomplished this.
"Truly an immortal's technique..." Father Fang took a deep breath.
"Yao Yao, you see? I told you—how could the cultivation techniques passed down by our ancestors be worse than these foreign supernatural evolution methods? Could your teacher do what we just witnessed?"
Father Fang became excited instantly. "We must return to China! I want to cultivate too! Become a sword immortal!"
The Lin family's child... was more impressive than imagined.
"I don't know," Fang Shuyao shook her head, equally amazed. Practitioners here in the West were uniformly called supernaturals, and their cultivation paths were quite different from the Eastern methods.
Lin Jing had actually recognized this long ago—all paths ultimately led to the same destination. They were all utilizations of heaven and earth's spiritual energy, just called by different names, similar to how cultivators practicing different methods manifested their power differently.
"Let me ask," Fang Shuyao had the official app for supernatural schools where they could chat with each other.
Her question didn't cause much of a stir.
"Is any teacher available? I have a question—what stage must one reach to open spatial tunnels and travel freely like in science fiction movies?"
Shortly after, an enthusiastic teacher responded.
"Ah, Student Fang, that's an excellent question. According to ancient texts, supernaturals must reach at least the sixth stage, LV.6, to manipulate space... but this is already the method of legendary deities... It's still too distant for everyone. Even the strongest supernaturals are only at LV.2. Though it's far away, it remains our common goal..."
She looked at the text, her mind somewhat frozen.
Lin Jing's judgment was correct—such an ancient corpse indeed existed. After this ancient corpse underwent abnormal changes, it was sealed by the country's authorities and isolated in an underground research facility one hundred meters below ground, strictly guarded by many supernaturals.
"Remnants of the Old Era—their numbers won't be small. One, two, three... even dozens, hundreds."
"Although their current condition isn't great and I don't fear them, I don't have the ability to find them one by one either."
"Indeed, I can only leave behind an incarnation to become this new era's gatekeeper. With the incarnation here, at least these Remnants of the Old Era won't be able to cause trouble in the short term... If beings emerge that even the incarnation cannot handle, then let the incarnation... retreat into the Emperor's Tomb where it can remain safe."
With illusion techniques enveloping him, Lin Jing directly descended into this mysterious underground research facility. No one detected his arrival.
While many researchers were busy with their tasks, Lin Jing step by step reached the crystal coffin sealing the silver-haired ancient corpse.
Looking at the silver-haired goddess in the crystal coffin, Lin Jing confirmed her realm—definitely above True Immortal level. This was resonance from the Immortal Physique.
"The body appears intact, but the core has already withered..."
Boom!
The next instant, Lin Jing violently entered her consciousness using Heavenly Demon divine consciousness. Within this sea of consciousness clouds lay another silver-haired female corpse, but unlike the external one, this was purely a consciousness entity.
Moreover, the crystal coffin had become a sealing crystal, imprisoning the core consciousness.
He had expected some conflict and planned to negotiate, but... her consciousness wasn't in an active state.
Lin Jing attempted to break the consciousness seal, but every attempt ended in failure.
It seemed the Silver Hair Disease outbreak wasn't intentional but rather triggered by researchers studying the corpse, activating an instinctive survival response that passively sought new vessels.
Under these circumstances, Lin Jing wanting her to lift Silver Hair Disease was completely unrealistic—communication was impossible; she was no different from dead.
Lin Jing speculated she had probably cultivated some special secret technique allowing her to remain in a death-like state while still seeking reincarnation targets.
Likely, only when conditions were met would this dormant consciousness break the seal and usurp a new body.
"In that case..." Lin Jing curled his lip and directly moved the silver-haired female corpse into his storage pouch.
Did they really think he had no solution?
As long as he removed the root cause of Silver Hair Disease and brought her to the Cultivation World, preventing her consciousness from awakening and subsequent usurpation of silver-haired individuals, wouldn't that solve it?
As long as the disease doesn't activate, it's not a disease.
Silver Hair Disease... successfully treated!
Moments later, researchers in the underground facility resumed their study of the silver-haired ancient corpse, unaware it had been swapped with an illusion-made dummy.
Simultaneously, Lin Jing had the Spell Elemental Mushroom cast large-scale gradual illusion techniques on numerous foreigners that could last a century, specifically targeting hair. Their originally silver hair instantly became multi-colored, while the Fang family's three members' hair returned to black. The entire city erupted in excitement.
"This way, the hair color appears normal, the silver-haired female corpse has been taken away by me, no subsequent soul usurpation will occur, and Silver Hair Disease... from any perspective, can be considered cured. With so many people treated simultaneously, the changes in these three won't attract much attention," Lin Jing stroked his chin.
"See, learn something. There are flexible ways to solve problems," Lin Jing routinely educated his Pet Beasts.
"Ribbit ribbit!!" The other Pet Beasts had already grown accustomed and unsurprised, having long mastered these techniques. Only the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog remained utterly astonished, feeling the beast tamer was a genius—Silver Hair Disease? Just dye it back!