While the Ever Spring Mistress questioned what was happening, the Saintess decided to answer her.


    "It wasn''t automatic… he did it intentionally." The Saintess replied. "Of course, he probably didn''t know it would trigger a tribtion…" she didn''t know how far Lin Mu''s grasp on reality went right now, but whatever he did was enough to trigger an immortal tribtion that had appeared without any other sign.


    It was quite strange, as there were no traces of tribtion energy appearing before it. As if a barrier had be broken, the Immortal Tribtion simply poured out of the fabric of space!


    ~CHIRP~


    "MASTER!" It was a horrifying scene for Ashy, as her master was nowpletely drowned by the mes and couldn''t be seen at all.


    "Should we—" The Ever Spring Mistress understood that things had definitely gone wrong now.


    "No… we can''t interfere in this now." The Saintess replied. "He''ll have to ovee it himself."


    "But he''s drunk," the Ever Spring Mistress stated.


    "And whose fault is that? Hmm?" The Saintess shot her a look.


    "Mine…" The Ever Spring Mistress lowered her head. "But I can help him. At the very least heal him." She added.


    "It won''t be needed." The Saintess shook her head. "You''re lucky its a Fire Elemental Immortal Tribtion. If its just that he should be able to manage." She added.


    "Are you…" Before the Ever Spring Mistress could say much though, a change happened.


    ~WHOOSH~


    A pulse of energy spread from the center of the mes, as they were all pushed aside.


    "That''s a little too warm." Lin Mu spoke, searing hot magma swirling around his body. The temperature of the magma was several times higher than the mes that were pouring out of the red crack. Lin Mu''s robes were fully intact and he seemed to be uninjured. But even in all that, his eyes were still zed and he was drunk.


    ~BOOM~


    The Immortal Tribtion mesing from the crack didn''t like that Lin Mu was pushing them away like ease and red up. They surrounded him once again and threated to consume him.


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    But when they did, the searing hot magma simply turned into a mixture of immortal Qi and expanded. It turned into a sphere around Lin Mu and acted like a barrier.


    ~BOOM~BOOM~BOOM~


    The Immortal Tribtion mes collided against the immortal Qi barrier, and created multiple explosions. But they were unable to break through it. Instead, the barrier actually released a suction force and started pulling the mes towards it.


    "Warm, but look useful…" Lin Mu muttered as he extended his hand.


    He then made a grasping gesture and the barrier expanded, taking on the shape of a hand. It extended from around his body and grasped the Immortal tribtion mes that were pouring out of the red tear. The hand sessfully ''held'' the mes as well as stopped them from proceeding any further


    ~WOONG~


    And then… the hand started absorbing the mes.


    The hand grew in size as it absorbed more of the mes, turning it into fire elemental Qi and assimting it.


    The more it absorbed, the greater its size became, until it was about ten meters tall and had dwarfed the red tear from which the Tribtion mes were pouring out. Now they could no longer threaten Lin Mu and were helplessly being absorbed into the hand.


    "Hmmm… free Qi…" Lin Mu said as he pulled his hand back, causing streaks of the newly absorbed fire elemental immortal Qi to leave the illusory hand ande towards him.


    ~SHUA~


    The fire elemental immortal Qi then mixed with the rest of the Qi, and became part of it. It was the converted into searing hot magma and floated around Lin Mu. He continued to do this, and the amount of magma around him continued to grow.


    "Is he… Assimting the Immortal Tribtion!?" The Ever Spring Mistress was left stunned. "And that too drunk?"


    "He sure is." The Saintess was a bit surprised, but knew that Lin Mu would be able to ovee it.


    She had ''observed'' Lin Mu using the Longgui Bulwark Armor technique several times before in the Evergreen Pirs Forest and knew that normal mes were no longer enough to threaten him. And even if these were Tribtion mes, it was going to be quite hard for them to do much to Lin Mu.


    Especially if he got the upper hand first. Which was exactly what was happening.


    Lin Mu was using the superior power of the Longgui Bulwark Armor to suppress the Immortal Tribtion mes, and forcefully assimte them into his mixture of magma. Since he had already be familial with suppressing vilest energies, doing it while drunk felt natural to him.


    He didn''t need to ''think'', he just needed to ''will'' it.


    Somehow in his state of drunkenness, he had taken another step in mastering the Longgui Bulwark Armor.


    The intended effect that the Ever Spring Mistress had talked about, had simply not happened. There was no sign of Lin Mu''s body removing any impurities so far.


    Instead it seemed like he would be taking another path and continue to ovee the Immortal Tribtion like it was nobody''s business.


    The amount of magma continued to grow, until it looked like a hill of magma floated behind Lin Mu. It looked rather otherworldly and if one nced at it from the back, it looked like avafall.


    Thisbined with Lin Mu standing in front of it, casually absorbing the immortal tribtion mes looked rather domineering.


    In a way, it was taunting the Immortal Tribtion.


    And it was quite offended by it too, but there wasn''t much it could do other than be helplessly assimted by Lin Mu.


    Some timeter, the red tear could no longer stay open and had run out of energy. Lin Mu had also absorbed all of the mes and the magma hill had grown ten times bigger.


    ~SHUA~


    And when the red tear finally closed, Lin Mu''s breakthrough wasplete.


    A red halo now surrounding his Nascent Soul!