Beauty and the Bodyguard

The auras of the nascent soul cultivators weren't just for show-they only had the guts to go against Lin Yi because they thought he was just a scammer with no strength at all. To put it bluntly, the ignorant were fearless.

In fact, after Chen Dongcheng was taken care of, these people had basically started to stop. The only one who was really jumping up and down was Lu Pingan, and this was all because he was the spokesperson for Chen Jiu's negotiation. Otherwise, even Lu Pingan wouldn't dare to be so active. After all, no one was an idiot, and everyone understood the principle of "the gun hits the bird that takes the lead." Who would dare to jump up and down knowing that Lin Yi wasn't easy to mess with?

But now, Lin Yi had used concrete methods to prove that he wasn't to be trifled with. Chen Dongcheng was just a small test of his skills, and Chen Jiu was the real problem.

The entire process was extremely easy.

At that thought, Xin Yijie couldn't help but get excited. Although taking over the Qingyun sect in the North Island didn't feel real, it wasn't impossible with Lin Yi as a big tree backing him up.

"But can I really do it with my little strength?" Xin Yijie still wasn't too confident. With the Grand Elder as a warning, he was sure that he could control the situation as long as the person was at the mid-Aurous core stage. But the problem was that early Aurous core stage was too weak.

"That's not good enough. That's why I'm going to personally come out and control the situation. That's about it." Lin Yi said.

"You're personally making an appearance?" Xin Yijie was taken aback. Even Chen Jiu was easily beaten half to death, and if Lin Yi were to make an appearance himself, the threat he'd bring would be so great that even a nascent soul old monster would have to think twice before doing anything, let alone the Golden core and normal disciples. But the problem was, could Lin Yi even get out?

Don't forget, they were still in a step to the sky formation. Even if he could easily kill the Grand Elder, it didn't mean that Lin Yi could break out of the formation. These were two completely different things.

The only way to break the formation was to reach the sky in one step.

"That's right. So you can go and gather your men. I'll be right there." Lin Yi smiled, full of confidence.

"Then ... Alright!" Xin Yijie nodded heavily. He had no reason to doubt Lin Yi's words, and he dragged the unconscious Chen Jiu out.

Lin Yi closed his eyes and took a deep breath as he watched Xin Yijie leave. He reached out his hand until it touched the invisible barrier, and his lips curled up."The heaven ascending in one step formation. After studying it for so long, you should be able to walk out of it, right?"

Lin Yi hadn't only been training his essence spirit and the soul evoking hand during this time-breaking through the "one step to heaven" formation had always been one of his biggest problems. After all, he'd never expected Chen Jiu and the others to give him their ID tags.

Of course, it'd be fine if he couldn't break through-the Qingyun sect was leaderless, and it shouldn't be too hard for Xin Yijie to get an identity tag. It was just that it was rare to encounter a formation like this, and if he couldn't get out of it himself, would he still be Lin Yi if he was forced to go through the back door?

In theory, the only person who could break through this array by himself was the legendary figure known as the great emperor in the North Island's Green cloud School. After all, this array was set by him personally. No one else had heard of it.

According to Xin Yijie, even a nascent soul old monster like Chen Jiu had never truly broken through the [one step to heaven] formation. In fact, he rarely made such an attempt, because that was the domain of legendary figures.

And now, Lin Yi was finally going to be the first one.

The moment his finger touched the formation, Lin Yi felt the mysterious feeling of being so close yet so far away again. After all this time of exploring, he wasn't unfamiliar with this feeling at all. He'd thought of no less than a hundred ways to cross this barrier, but all of them failed.

This wasn't entirely a matter of thought. The main shackle was actually in strength itself.

If one didn't have the strength beyond the original infant stage, it would be impossible to break through the 'to the sky in one step' formation. This was probably the original intention of the legendary Emperor to set up the 'to the sky in one step' formation!

Originally, Lin Yi would've been helpless even if he realized this, but because of the consciousness grass, his essence spirit was a level higher than when he first came to the ancient martial world. In terms of level, he had even returned to the level of his original body on Sky Class Island-a true xuansheng stage!

If that wasn't the case, his soul snatching hand wouldn't have suddenly become so powerful that he could even take care of a nascent soul old monster like Chen Jiu so easily. To the ancient pugilistic world, which was used to the peak of the nascent soul realm, Lin Yi was undoubtedly a monster now, a terrifying monster that could easily pierce through the entire ceiling.

With one step, Lin Yi switched from his Yuan spirit to his Yuan spirit form and quickly formed an extremely thin and long Yuan spirit thread. If an observer had enough eyes, they would realize that this form was almost the same as when he projected his Yuan spirit!

That's right, this was Lin Yi's plan. Close, yet worlds apart was mysterious, but it couldn't compare to the real projection. The difficulty didn't lie in whether or not the projection could cross the distance, but whether or not Lin Yi could successfully cast the replica.

Even if it was just a simple copy, even if the effect was only one-hundredth or even one-thousandth of the original, it was still very difficult. One had to know that the essence spirit projection required a special formation to succeed, but Lin Yi had to rely on himself.

No one but Lin Yi could understand the difficulty of this.

In reality, that instant seemed like a long time to Lin Yi. In the next moment, an undetectable essence spirit thread suddenly appeared on the other side of the formation. The thread grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, gradually condensing into Lin Yi's figure.

Reaching the heavens in one step, achieved!

"Boss, are we leaving?" Wu Chengtian's voice suddenly came from behind him. Song Lingshan and the others all looked over with excitement on their faces. Although Lin Yi and Chen Jiu didn't spend much energy in the fight, and there wasn't any noise, it was a lie to say that they didn't realize it at all. They were supposed to be in closed door training, but they were actually listening in.

"Yes, I'll introduce you to the future green cloud School of the northern island." Lin Yi said with a smile.