I Cultivate Immortality With Scientific Thinking

Chapter 73: Infiltration

After exchanging with other members of the Lin family for half a day, Lin Chen returned to the house where he had lived in his youth.

Compared to ten years ago, the house had undergone significant changes, but Lin Chen didn't feel any sentimental attachment to it.

After all, for Lin Chen, a place only had meaning when there were people there. What was there to reminisce about in a place without anyone?

"Um, Young Master, we've arrived. So, should I..." The servant who had led Lin Chen here spoke with some fear.

Lin Chen nodded and said calmly, "You may leave."

"Yes, yes." The servant quickly bowed and then hurriedly ran away as if escaping for his life.

"Do I look that scary?" Lin Chen was puzzled, but he didn't think too much about it. Instead, he went back to the courtyard.

Lin Chen scanned the courtyard with his spiritual sense, snapped his fingers, and destroyed all surveillance devices. Then, he sat alone in the courtyard, arms crossed, his gaze somewhat gloomy.

From his interactions that day, he could be certain of one thing.

"There's something wrong with the Lin family's Patriarch!"

Perhaps in the perception of other Foundation Building Stage cultivators, the Lin family's Patriarch was full of twilight aura and near death.

But for Lin Chen, who had dealt with experimental subjects for many years and studied spiritual energy for some time, this was far from being near death. It should be more accurate to say that he had one foot in the grave and only had a breath left!

Within the twilight aura emitted by the Lin family's Patriarch, there was a hidden and extremely dense death energy!

According to Lin Chen's inference, the Lin family's Patriarch should be lying in bed, hanging on to his last breath, rather than casually conversing with him as if nothing was wrong.

"Could he have taken some kind of longevity elixir?" Lin Chen furrowed his brows, but he felt that something was off.

Setting aside how precious longevity elixirs were, even in the Azure Cloud Sect, they were rare. How could the Lin family's Patriarch obtain one?

Even if he had the opportunity to obtain a longevity elixir, his physical condition shouldn't be like this.

Lin Chen had luckily seen a longevity elixir once within the sect. It emitted a vibrant vitality like the morning sun, and the person who consumed it could expel the death energy within their body and extend their lifespan.

But the death energy within the Lin family's Patriarch's body showed no signs of decreasing. On the contrary, he could maintain the appearance of a living person, and there was an even more eerie vitality inside.

This vitality was like that of a corpse that had been dead for many years, still vivid and alive, but with a strange and eerie quality.

"Whatever, I don't care about his condition. After all, this is my last time coming back, and whether the Lin family can survive afterwards is still uncertain." Lin Chen shook his head, putting this matter aside and began pondering another matter.

Through the exchanges of the past half day and the influence of his soul, he had already obtained the information he wanted.

The Lin family's cultivation techniques, Spirit Weapons, and pills, all the spiritual items at the Foundation Building Stage were kept by the Foundation Building Patriarch, while the other spiritual items were respectively guarded by Qi Refining Stage elders with formidable strength.

"And these places are protected by bloodline-based defensive formations, plus my soul is close to the Foundation Building Stage, so I can completely mentally control those elders... Heh!"

Lin Chen sneered coldly. He didn't come back to participate in any Jiangcheng Grand Competition, but to inherit the family business!

Thinking of this, his gaze turned towards the west, where the setting sun was about to fall, and the evening glow filled the sky.

...

As time passed, it quickly came to midnight.

The sky was pitch black, with no stars or moon in sight.

Under the cover of night, most of the lights in the Lin family's houses had already been extinguished, leaving only the night pearls on the street lamps and the formations in various important places of the Lin family still emitting light.

In a small courtyard, in the darkness, Lin Chen, who was resting, opened his bright eyes.

"It's time," Lin Chen murmured, then stood up straight.

He took out a body from his storage bag. The body had a healthy complexion and looked exactly like Lin Chen!

This object was the "Flesh Substitute" that Lin Chen had recently developed.

In a previous experiment, he accidentally cultivated a unique blood parasite.

If this blood parasite was nourished with his own flesh and blood, and provided with enough nutrients after it grew, not only could it revive a corpse, but it would also carry Lin Chen's aura. He could even control the corpse.

Based on this effect, Lin Chen initially developed the "Flesh Substitute".

It could not only help explore dangerous situations, but also attract attention, giving Lin Chen time to escape.

As for why it looked like him, it was just a mask made by Lin Chen.

"Unfortunately, it can only be controlled simply. It can't achieve the ability to split into multiple bodies. Otherwise, I could remotely control it to do things, without having to do it myself..." Lin Chen sighed softly, but quickly adjusted his mindset.

He placed the Flesh Substitute in the room, then silently sneaked out.

Not long after, outside the ancestral hall of the Lin family, where the Lin family ancestor was in seclusion, Lin Chen quietly appeared in the shadows.

The only thing that would hinder him in this operation was the Lin family ancestor, so Lin Chen had to know his movements.

Thinking of this, he took out a jade bottle, opened it, and saw a very tiny blood parasite fly out, almost imperceptible to the naked eye. It then flew towards the ancestral hall.

This blood parasite was the same type that he used to create the Flesh Substitute.

Cultivated with Lin Chen's blood, they could to some extent become Lin Chen's eyes and ears, used to monitor others.

And because they grew from Lin Chen's flesh and blood, he could also use psychological invisibility techniques on them, making Foundation Building cultivators subconsciously ignore them.

The blood parasite flew into the ancestral hall and, under Lin Chen's control, carefully avoided the detection of the formation's spiritual light. It then followed the nearby patrolling cultivators and successfully infiltrated the depths.

Following the aura, it flew into the basement, and soon, Lin Chen "saw" the presence of the Lin family ancestor.

The other party was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his eyes slightly closed, seemingly resting.

"Action!" Upon seeing this scene, Lin Chen did not hesitate to start taking action.

Soon, the place where the Lin family stored their cultivation techniques, spirit stones, and spiritual objects was visited by Lin Chen.

The formations in these places were originally used to defend against external Foundation Building cultivators, while the Qi Refining Stage elders were meant to prevent internal theft by their own clan members. They did not expect that someone with a soul cultivation level close to the Foundation Building Stage would come.

After all, clan members with such strength were considered high-ranking in the family, and they could simply ask for whatever they wanted without needing to come and take it themselves.

Therefore, Lin Chen felt like he was in an unguarded territory!

"Another fruitful harvest..." Lin Chen counted his gains and a smile appeared on his face.

Despite the recent consumption, the Lin family had accumulated tens of thousands of spirit stones, a large number of spiritual objects, and hundreds of cultivation techniques.

As for pills, spirit weapons, and talismans, Lin Chen didn't care for them. Moreover, if he took them all, it was possible that the ancestral family of the Lin family would come after him, which would be troublesome.

"By inheriting the family business and avoiding the risk of facing Foundation Building Stage cultivators in a few days, my goal has been achieved. There's no time to waste, let's leave tonight!"

Lin Chen returned to the mansion where he used to live, took a glance, and then left without any nostalgia.

However, when he was about to retrieve the blood gu used to monitor the Lin family's ancestral ancestor, he suddenly froze.

Because he didn't know when, the Lin family's ancestral ancestor had activated the formation in the ancestral hall, sealing it from the inside and outside.

And in Lin Chen's perception, there was another Foundation Building cultivator in the room where the other party was located.

It was a cultivator dressed in black, with a crimson blood light emanating from his body.

At this moment, inside the room...

"Is this room safe?" the black-clad blood cultivator asked.

"Don't worry, when you entered, I activated the formation to seal it from the inside and outside. No one can sneak in at this time without my knowledge," the Lin family's ancestral ancestor said calmly.

"That's good... How is the Blood Demon Altar prepared?" the black-clad blood cultivator continued to ask.

"It's already prepared, but what about the things I asked for?" the Lin family's ancestral ancestor asked in return.

"Hehe, don't worry, at least let me handle it first. You can prepare the materials in the meantime," the black-clad blood cultivator said.

"I have already prepared the materials," the Lin family's ancestral ancestor said expressionlessly.

"Oh? Just like ten years ago, using war as an excuse, but secretly capturing a group of clan members as materials for refining the Blood Essence Life Extending Pill?" the black-clad blood cultivator asked with great interest.

"That's none of your concern. You only need..." the Lin family's ancestral ancestor said coldly.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Lin Chen, who was eavesdropping, narrowed his pupils.

Ten years ago, war, clan members, refining the Blood Essence Life Extending Pill...

Ten years ago, Lin Tianhang fell out of favor in the Azure Cloud Sect, and the momentum that the Lin family had developed because of him was crushed. In addition, they had offended many forces during their rise, so they faced retribution.

Although Azure Cloud Sect's Grandmaster intervened to prevent a full-scale war and the extermination of the Lin family, the Lin family still suffered heavy casualties.

Among them, Lin Chen's parents perished in this battle, and Lin Tianhang's father was severely injured and lost his cultivation, eventually succumbing to a serious illness.

Lin Chen returned to Jiangcheng, wading into this mess, out of respect for his deceased parents, to see if there were any surviving members of the Lin family worth saving.

If there were, he would lend a hand; if not, he would let it be. In the process, he would also inherit the family fortune and replenish the recent consumption of spiritual stones.

But now, listening to the description from the Lin family's ancestor, the truth of what happened back then was not as it seemed.

They did not die in battle; they were captured by the Lin family's ancestor and used to refine a...

Longevity Blood Pill?!

The impact of this news momentarily stunned Lin Chen!

However, Lin Chen took a deep breath and quickly regained his composure.

Meanwhile, on the other side, their conversation was coming to an end.

"Very well. This is the [Element of Blood Demon]. You will put it into the altar..." The blood-clothed blood cultivator spoke while taking out a blood-colored jade from his storage bag.

The blood jade was crystal clear, with a drop of purple-red blood in its center, emitting a strange and eerie light.

Even though Lin Chen was observing from a distance, when he sensed this drop of blood, his body instinctively yearned for it endlessly.

Eat it! Eat it! If he ate it, his body would become perfect, and his life essence would evolve!

This was a desire that originated from the instinct of life to compensate for its own deficiencies and pursue a higher level.

Lin Chen's eyes narrowed, and without hesitation, he used his willpower to suppress it.

But after he reacted, the room where the blood gu was monitoring suddenly fell silent.

What's going on?

Lin Chen was momentarily stunned, then seemed to realize something, and his expression changed slightly.

The blood gu he sent in was not a puppet or his clone; it was a living being tainted with his aura!

The thing that the blood-clothed blood cultivator suddenly took out had a fatal attraction to living beings.

Lin Chen could suppress it with his willpower, but the blood gu itself had no consciousness and couldn't do the same.

Although he could remotely suppress its instinct, the problem was that just now, in order to suppress his own instinct, he couldn't attend to both sides at the same time.

As a result, a trace of vitality leaked from the blood gu, in other words, he was exposed!

After a while, a chilling voice came from the other side:

"Oh? Tonight, you have invited another guest?"

(End of this chapter)