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When Xiao Lin looked toward the position where Old Man Zhen was located again, he discovered that the other party's soul had already weakened to a degree that was nearly completely transparent!
"Master!"
Seeing this, Xiao Lin instantly let out a cry of alarm.
At this moment, Xiao Lin could no longer care about the joy of condensing a Spiritual Seal and becoming a Spirit Array Master.
Almost the instant he saw Old Man Zhen's current appearance, Xiao Lin realized that during the most critical moment of his Spiritual Seal condensation, it was the other party who had exhausted his last remaining sliver of Soul Power to help him.
This moved Xiao Lin so much that for a time, he did not know what to say.
To be honest, Xiao Lin's earlier decision to take him as a Master was mostly because the other party was willing to pass on all his skills to him, and he merely felt respect and a desire to repay the favor.
It was like when someone treats you well, and you respect them in return.
But at this moment, when Old Man Zhen was willing to sacrifice himself to help him, Xiao Lin truly regarded the other party as his Master in his heart.
After all, if not for the other party's final assistance, there was no telling what day he would have finally succeeded in condensing his first Spiritual Seal.
"Child, there is no need to feel sad for me. I was originally just a soul who luckily survived and lingered on until now."
"Today is merely the normal arrival of death. Being able to take a disciple at this final moment and ensure the inheritance of the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace lives on, I can be said to die without regrets."
"Helping you successfully condense your first Spiritual Seal can be considered the only and final thing I, as a Master, can do for you, my disciple. The road hereafter truly depends entirely on yourself. I hope that in the future, you will be able to stand at the peak of this continent."
While comforting Xiao Lin, Old Man Zhen's soul began to flicker unsteadily.
Xiao Lin did not doubt that if a gust of wind blew by right now, Old Man Zhen's soul would scatter with the wind!
After all, while speaking these last few words, Old Man Zhen's voice had already become ethereal. If one didn't look closely right now, ordinary people would already be unable to see Old Man Zhen's existence!
"Master, I will forever keep your teachings in my heart! Moreover, if there is an opportunity in the future, I will rebuild the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, so the sect does not end in our hands!"
This was the final promise Xiao Lin could make before Old Man Zhen's soul completely dissipated.
Originally, Xiao Lin had never had the thought of establishing a sect. After all, he was born into the Xiao Clan. Once Xiao Yan achieved the rank of Dou Di in the future, the Xiao Clan would naturally stand at the summit of the entire Dou Qi Continent.
However, that was his clan, not his sect!
After receiving so much help from Old Man Zhen, a different kind of emotion was born within Xiao Lin's heart. If possible, after he went to the Central Plains in the future, he would establish a new Myriad Formation Spirit Palace!
This could be considered Xiao Lin's repayment to Old Man Zhen.
"Just do what is within your power. In this life, I have had regrets and I have had sorrows, but the only thing I do not have is remorse..."
After leaving behind such a sentence, Old Man Zhen's soul, which was already nearly transparent, was like a puff of green smoke, dissipating away. On his face, from beginning to end, hung a smile.
At this moment, after Xiao Lin made the promise to rebuild the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, he truly had no more regrets. If one had to say there was any, it was only a sliver of pity that he could not return his soul to his hometown.
"Master, have a safe journey..."
As Xiao Lin's voice fell, Old Man Zhen's soul completely dissipated between heaven and earth at this moment.
However, Xiao Lin's sharp eyes saw that at the very instant before Old Man Zhen's soul completely vanished, the entire Formation Pavilion suddenly shook.
Although the Formation Pavilion was a dead object, it had, after all, nurtured Old Man Zhen's soul for so many years.
Now that his soul had dissipated, the Formation Pavilion naturally felt it. Perhaps out of instinct, the remaining power of the Formation Pavilion also erupted at this moment.
Just as Old Man Zhen's soul dissipated, a mysterious force suddenly appeared within the Formation Pavilion and merged into Old Man Zhen's about-to-vanish soul.
"Hmm? What is that?"
Upon discovering this miraculous scene, Xiao Lin's eyes could not help but narrow slightly. In the next second, a piece of azure crystal no larger than an adult's thumb fell from the place where Old Man Zhen's soul had vanished.
Xiao Lin was quick of eye and hand, instantly catching it.
Once Xiao Lin used his own early-stage Heaven Realm soul power to investigate, he discovered that this was unexpectedly a soul fragment that Old Man Zhen had luckily preserved before his complete death, thanks to the power of the Formation Pavilion.
"The remaining power of the Formation Pavilion actually preserved a soul fragment of Master. Should it be said that even this Formation Pavilion did not want its master to completely vanish from heaven and earth?"
Looking at the soul fragment in his hand, Xiao Lin could not help but mutter to himself. It could be said that with such a soul fragment present, Old Man Zhen could not be considered to have completely died!
Although with the power of the Dou Qi Continent, even if someone became a Dou Di, it would be impossible to make a soul fragment recover into a human form again.
However, things that could not be done on the Dou Qi Continent did not mean the power and rules of the Great Thousand World could not do them!
One could only say that according to the standards of the Dou Qi Continent, a person with only one soul fragment left could never survive, but in the Great Thousand World, it was not necessarily so!
That was a higher-level plane, and it naturally possessed higher-level power!
Setting everything else aside, Xiao Lin didn't believe that in the future, when his Flame Emperor grandson achieved the Ruler Realm, he wouldn't be able to resurrect this single soul fragment.
At this moment, Xiao Lin held a faint trace of expectation for his Master to be resurrected and reappear in the world.
After carefully putting away Old Man Zhen's soul fragment, Xiao Lin also prepared to leave this Formation Pavilion. Within this Formation Pavilion, he had already obtained everything he wanted, and there was no longer any meaning in staying.
At the same time, along with the dissipation of Old Man Zhen's soul, this Formation Pavilion also lost all its miraculous qualities, turning back into an ordinary nine-story pavilion.
In the future, even if others entered it, they would have no way to comprehend the Nine Foundation Formations. However, very quickly, Xiao Lin discovered that his thoughts were wrong.
Boom!
As it turned out, after the Formation Pavilion used its final sliver of power to preserve Old Man Zhen's soul fragment, it could ultimately no longer resist the erosion of time and was about to collapse!
After discovering this, Xiao Lin did not hesitate at all. He directly struck out with a palm, collapsing a section of the ninth floor of the Formation Pavilion, and then leapt down from it.
Rumble!
Just as Xiao Lin jumped and soared out, this Formation Pavilion, which had existed for an unknown amount of time, completely collapsed. Accompanied by bursts of roaring sounds, the original site of the Formation Pavilion turned into a patch of ruins.
What remained were only broken walls and debris.
Everything was buried in the dust of history.
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