The Reincarnated Villain Makes The Heroines Tearfully Beg for Forgiveness-Chapter 325:

Upon hearing Lin Yan’s words, Xiao Yan stopped muttering and looked ahead with a serious expression.

At this moment, they were in an underground cave, with the sound of water dripping echoing around them.

Accompanying the dripping sound, a small, golden snake suddenly emerged from the rocky wall beside them.

As soon as the snake saw Lin Yan and Xiao Yan, it froze in place.

Lin Yan and Xiao Yan both smiled.

“Lin Yan, amazing! We really waited this thing out,” Xiao Yan exclaimed, letting out a sharp whistle as he unleashed powerful forces toward the snake without hesitation.

After a brief moment of shock, the snake reacted swiftly. Its body merged with the surrounding walls, which suddenly seemed to come to life.

What was more terrifying, these moving walls began to exude a strong suction force.

Just from its aura, this little snake was clearly the same mountain-like creature that had earlier battled a bird-headed cultivator.

Who would have thought that this mountain-like creature was actually just a small snake?

The snake itself didn’t seem particularly powerful, but once it merged with other objects, it could unleash an incredible strength. Unfortunately, this ability had limitations. When it suddenly encountered Lin Yan and Xiao Yan, it didn’t have time to use its full power.

Crack!

Just as the snake merged with the surrounding walls, Lin Yan appeared beside the wall and gently slapped it.

Instantly, the wall dissolved into nothingness, leaving only the snake behind.

As the snake looked around in panic, Lin Yan reached out his hand to grab it. But just as his hand was about to touch the snake, its body turned into countless specks of golden light and vanished.

“Dead?” Lin Yan looked on in disbelief.

He had wanted to capture the snake alive and extract the secrets of its world. But now, before he could even grab it, the snake had already died.

“Lin Yan, stop spacing out. Quickly collect the life essence it left behind. With that, we might still be able to gain some insights into the secrets of its world,” Xiao Yan urged excitedly.

Lin Yan nodded, pulled out a porcelain bottle, opened the lid, and carefully gathered all the scattered life essence into the bottle.

After finishing, Xiao Yan eagerly approached with a beaming smile. “Lin Yan, that destiny artifact of yours is incredible! With it, we can keep hunting these otherworldly cultivators nonstop. I knew following you was the smartest decision!”

The reason Lin Yan and Xiao Yan were able to ambush the snake in this cave was that Lin Yan used a destiny notebook in his possession to foresee the snake’s fate. This allowed them to set a trap and easily kill an otherworldly cultivator.

With this experience, their future ambushes against other otherworldly cultivators would only become easier, which is why Xiao Yan was so excited.

Watching Xiao Yan’s excitement, Lin Yan could only shake his head in resignation. He was already thinking about how to distance himself from Xiao Yan. Otherwise, his plans for entering the dimensional battlefield would be completely disrupted. However, there was no rush for now, as his more pressing goals could wait.

Lin Yan waved his hand, saying, “This life essence can only last for 3 days at most. We should absorb it and comprehend its mysteries as soon as possible.”

“Alright,” Xiao Yan agreed without hesitation, still grinning from ear to ear.

This life essence could be shared. In large sects, when they hunted down an otherworldly cultivator, the life essence obtained would sometimes be divided among dozens of people. The more people sharing it, the less each would receive.

With only Lin Yan and Xiao Yan here, it was quite a luxury for the two of them to split it between themselves.

They quietly left the cave and entered another one. After setting up a formation to conceal their presence, they sat down cross-legged.

Lin Yan opened the porcelain bottle, and the life essence poured out in a mist-like form.

Xiao Yan’s eyes lit up as he inhaled a large amount of the mist, immediately closing his eyes in meditation as it entered his body. The mist continued to flow into him, and Lin Yan followed suit, inhaling a large cloud of mist and then closing his eyes.

The moment Lin Yan shut his eyes, his consciousness appeared in a completely different dimension.

This dimension’s essence was a gigantic, unimaginable corpse. The corpse was larger than an entire world, with layers of power radiating from its surface, forming a membrane that encased it.

Inside the corpse, countless worm-like creatures thrived, devouring each other.

In this strange world, Lin Yan became one of these worms. To grow stronger, he devoured countless others until he became the most powerful of them all, his body turning golden.

More importantly, he absorbed some of the corpse’s power, which allowed him to merge with other dead objects, amplifying his strength. The more he merged, the stronger he became.

This newfound power made the worm frenzied, devouring even more of its kind, many of which were nearly as strong as it was.

In the dim cave, Lin Yan’s body trembled as he awoke first. Shortly after, Xiao Yan opened his eyes too. The life essence that had drawn them into that corpse world had completely dissipated. Yet neither Lin Yan nor Xiao Yan seemed disappointed;instead, they looked relieved.

“Lin Yan, in the future, if we encounter cultivators from that dimension, we should stay far away,” Xiao Yan said with a serious expression.

Lin Yan nodded in agreement. “I was thinking the same.”

The life essence left behind by the snake had revealed its entire cultivation process to them. Normally, witnessing the cultivation process of a peer would be highly beneficial, but in this case, the snake’s cultivation was uniquely disturbing—it grew by devouring its own kind. Its true form wasn’t a snake at all, but a maggot living on a gigantic corpse.

Its cultivation method offered no value to others. Even if Lin Yan captured countless such snakes, he would only witness more of these maggots devouring each other. In short, these maggot-like cultivators were useless to Lin Yan and Xiao Yan, making them more of a nuisance than a challenge.

Over the next few days, Lin Yan and Xiao Yan used the Destiny book to hunt several more otherworldly cultivators. However, many of these cultivators, upon realizing they were cornered, immediately chose to self-destruct, leaving Lin Yan and Xiao Yan with no live prisoners, only more life essence.

Nevertheless, the life essence they collected brought them considerable benefits, deepening their cultivation insights and expanding their knowledge of these otherworldly dimensions.

Unlike the Heavenly World, each of these dimensions was unique. Some had no physical form, composed entirely of energy and inhabited by beings made of pure consciousness. Others were like the maggot dimension, born from a gigantic corpse. Still others were living tree-worlds, where the cultivators were entirely dependent on a massive, ancient tree.

High on a mountain in the dimensional battlefield…

Lin Yan and Xiao Yan stood halfway up the mountain.

In front of them, a six-armed otherworld cultivator slowly collapsed. As he fell, his body completely disintegrated, leaving only a cluster of life essence behind.

Just like before, Lin Yan took out a porcelain bottle and collected all the life essence.

However, just as the essence was fully collected, the bottle in Lin Yan’s hand suddenly shattered. The life essence inside vanished, leaving behind a crystal about the size of a thumb.

“A secret technique crystal! Lin Yan, we’re so lucky to have found another one!” Xiao Yan exclaimed as he looked at the crystal in Lin Yan’s hand.

The crystal, known as a “secret technique crystal,” could only be found in a special place like the dimensional battlefield. Its formation, according to legend, came from the condensed life essence of deceased cultivators, containing their most powerful secret technique. By refining the crystal, another cultivator could immediately wield that technique without needing to learn it. This was a rare and unique encounter, and in the dimensional battlefield, secret technique crystals ranked among the top three treasures.

Lin Yan and Xiao Yan had clearly been fortunate, having found two such crystals within just a few days. Two crystals—one for each of them.

Once both were refined, their power would significantly increase.

“We are lucky, Xiao Yan. This crystal is yours, and I’ll keep the one from earlier.” Lin Yan said with a smile, tossing the crystal to Xiao Yan.

Initially, they had only found one secret technique crystal. Xiao Yan had insisted that he didn’t need it, but as teammates and friends, Lin Yan had no intention of keeping it to himself. He’d held on to it, waiting for a second to appear, and now that it had, there was no need for him to be selfish.

Xiao Yan took the crystal, feeling a mix of gratitude and excitement. Without delay, he began refining it.

As Xiao Yan refined the crystal, four new arms slowly appeared on his body, making him look just like the six-armed dimensional cultivator they had just defeated. Xiao Yan looked at his new arms, then flashed around, swinging his fists. The extra limbs felt as natural as his original ones, and now, with these four additional arms, Xiao Yan could fight while simultaneously using other powers, greatly increasing his combat ability.

Clearly satisfied with the secret technique, Xiao Yan retracted the extra arms and looked at the crystal, sighing. “It’s really incredible. No training is required, and you can immediately wield a technique from another dimension. But unfortunately, this power depends on the crystal. Since it’s made of condensed life essence, it depletes with use and will eventually vanish, taking the technique with it.”

Even the brief test Xiao Yan had just performed had already diminished the crystal’s size considerably. At most, he could use the arm-enhancing technique three to five times. If he were more conservative, he might stretch that number a little, but eventually, the crystal’s power would be completely exhausted, and with it, Xiao Yan’s ability to use the secret technique would disappear.

This realization made Xiao Yan sigh.

A technique obtained through a crystal wasn’t like one learned through personal cultivation—it could temporarily boost strength, but it could never become a permanent ability.

While Xiao Yan was lamenting, Lin Yan finished refining the crystal he had gotten earlier.

As he completed the process, a third eye suddenly appeared on his forehead, giving him an unusual appearance. But when Lin Yan turned to look around, a smile of joy spread across his face.

The third eye allowed him to clearly see all the laws of energy surrounding Xiao Yan and even track the flow of energy within him.

In other words, if Lin Yan wanted, this eye would enable him to deduce all of Xiao Yan’s techniques just by observing. Even if he couldn’t fully deduce them, the ability to see the flow of energy gave Lin Yan a significant advantage in battle, allowing him to always anticipate his opponent’s moves.

“Too bad I can only use this technique about four times,” Lin Yan thought, feeling both exhilarated and regretful, just as Xiao Yan had. The temporary nature of the power left them both with mixed emotions.

As Lin Yan sighed, Xiao Yan suddenly said, “Lin Yan, maybe there’s a way for us to keep these techniques for longer… a way to permanently gain access to dimensional secret techniques.”