Chapter 1621: Absolute rule

It wasn’t just the feeling of being superior to normal water elemental energy.

It was the feeling that he could control anything that was related to water.

However, Lin Fan could tell that this wasn’t just because of the density of energy inside of this pure water elemental energy. But rather, it seemed to be a natural ability that was coming from the pure water elemental energy.

At first, Lin Fan didn’t think that there was anything special about this thing.

Now he knew that he had been wrong all along.

The specialty of this pure water elemental energy was its ability to exert its control on anything related to water. Even if it was something that was stronger than it, it would be able to exert this suppression since that was the ability that it possessed.

So when it had controlled those things to attack him, it was all relying on its ability.

Though the one thing that Lin Fan didn’t understand was that if the Dao Sect had something like this, why didn’t they use it to protect Dao Sect?

Why would they create a place like this that made it easier to steal?

After all, this kind of pure elemental energy item really was the best thing that one could use to defend themselves with.

Humans just couldn’t survive when there was no water at all.

Even if cultivators were able to reach a point where they could survive without the intake of water, that didn’t mean that they didn’t have any water in them. As long as they were living beings, they would still have water in them.

Which was why this kind of power really was the best defensive method that one could have.

But since this is what they wanted to do with this pure water elemental energy item, Lin Fan wasn’t in any position to question them. After all, he was the one that was actually benefiting from them doing this.

As he absorbed more and more of this pure water elemental energy, he could feel his control growing.

The best part of this was that this power was completely different from assimilating power into his existing pure elemental energy item.

Instead of having the Clear Water Bead absorb all the different pure water elemental energy that he obtained, he could keep it around the Clear Water Bead to control it.

So in the end, Lin Fan didn’t even need to use his own spiritual energy for this.

As long as he controlled the pure water elemental energy, they would provide power to him.

That was what it meant to have full control over water, it was control over everything that they had and that they would be willing to offer all of it to him on their own.

But even beyond that, Lin Fan found that he was able to control even the moisture in the things that were around him. He could sense the presence of any moisture that was there and it would only take a single thought for him to drain it away.

After absorbing the water for a bit, Lin Fan went over and picked up one of the rocks on the ground.

Holding this rock in his hand, he could feel something coming from it.

Then with a single thought, the rock itself seemed like it was being drained of something. It didn’t take long for the moisture in the rock to come out in the form of a few drops of water.

After all of the moisture had been drained from the rock, it seemed to crumble away until it had been turned into sand.

As he stared at the few drops of water that came out of the rock, Lin Fan couldn’t help shaking his head with a wry smile.

"This is quite the terrifying power..."

He didn’t know how effective this would be against people that had a higher cultivation than him. Lin Fan assumed that they would be able to resist this power to a certain extent if they had a higher level of cultivation, but that would depend on many different factors.

But for people that were weaker than him...

"It’s a bit too terrifying to use on people." Lin Fan couldn’t help muttering to himself in the end.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t willing to use it, it was just that this really was something that he had to prepare his mind for before he actually used it.

Going back to the pipe, Lin Fan continued to drain the water from the joints of the pipe.

He continued absorbing it before suddenly coming to a stop.

It wasn’t that there wasn’t any more of the pure water elemental energy that was left, it was just that he found that he couldn’t actually absorb any more. Even if he were to try, the only thing that would happen is that his void powers would break it down.

This pure water elemental energy was still on a different level that he wasn’t able to absorb it all.

After he finished absorbing the water, Lin Fan went back to the pond to take a closer look at it.

The amount that he had absorbed had only brought the water level of the pond down a bit. It didn’t seem like he had absorbed enough of the water to actually do anything to this pond.

But just from this alone, Lin Fan was able to see that there was something that was hidden at the bottom. It was as if there was some kind of veil that had been pulled back from the pond and he could see the bottom now.

As he looked, Lin Fan wasn’t surprised to see that there was something that was at the bottom.

"Since there’s all this pure water elemental energy, there should be something that is creating it. It’s too bad that I can’t reach it right now."

In the future, he would be able to come back and claim this thing. But right now, Lin Fan had no choice but to leave it here as it was.

Though he did also pull out the token and press it up against the pond itself.

When Lin Fan saw the glow that came from the token, he knew that this was enough and put the token away before leaving this place.

While he was leaving this place, Lin Fan was focused on his body’s current situation.

It wasn’t that his body was rejecting the pure water elemental energy that he had absorbed, rather it was because he was trying to figure out why his cultivation level wasn’t increasing.

Normally, his cultivation would have soared from him absorbing pure water elemental energy like this. Not to mention that this time, he had absorbed pure water elemental energy that was much more concentrated than anything that he had absorbed before.

It had brought the Clear Water Bead up a new level, so it should have increased his cultivation as well.

But Lin Fan didn’t feel that sensation like he was about to break through.

After looking through his own dantian for a bit, Lin Fan realized something.

"There’s something that’s blocking it."

He didn’t know what it was, but there was something that seemed to be stopping him from taking that final step in his cultivation. As well, this was something that he was doing intentionally.

This was something that had been imposed on him, preventing him from breaking through.

"Is it something that the upper realm left in this place?" Lin Fan thought to himself before tossing that thought away.

Even if it was, it didn’t matter since he wasn’t able to do anything about it.

Though in this case, it really seemed like this was something done by the upper realm. This really was something that only the upper realm was capable of.

But if that was the case, why would they do it?

Once again, Lin Fan tossed this thought aside since it wasn’t as if learning this would change anything.

The upper realm was suppressing the Dao Sect and surveyed the ruins for some reason. It wasn’t as if they would make it easy for those that came to this place and connected themselves to the Dao Sect.

"I just hope that when I leave these ruins, I’ll be able to break through normally."

That was the only thing that Lin Fan could do.

But at the same time, there was a part of him that was worried about something else.

"Will it happen as soon as I leave these ruins?"

It wasn’t as if he would be leaving these ruins on his own, there would be the cultivators from the other sects leaving with them. So if he were to break through as soon as he left the ruins...

If it really came down to it, he would have a talk with his masters and the Heavenly Demon. They should be able to find a way for him to return to the Heavenly Demon Sect without attracting too much attention.

"The way that I’m doing this, it’s almost as if I’m trying to sneak home after soiling my pants..."

This was the strange comparison that came to mind when Lin Fan thought about this, but it wasn’t as if it changed anything.

In the end, he did get what he wanted and he was able to reach his bottleneck.

Once he broke through, he should be able to come back and take this pure elemental energy item. If he did that, would he be able to break through once more?

"If I leave, I don’t think I’ll be able to come back that easily." Lin Fan shook his head with a bitter smile.