txolops Chapter 124 Refining the Residual Heaven-Mending Pill! Comparable to a Heavenly Spiritual Root!
Chapter 124 Refining the Residual Heaven-Mending Pill! Comparable to a Heavenly Spiritual Root!
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The next morning.
Today's divination result: Very auspicious.
[The divination reads: Today, after careful searching, you discovered the chameleon once again in an underwater cave three hundred miles away. This time, you concealed your presence beforehand, approached stealthily, and successfully used the Spirit Taming Seal to enslave it.]
Lin Chuan was overjoyed and leaped up.
This time, he was smarter.
He pushed the Hidden Spirit Technique to its limit, completely concealing his spiritual power, divine sense, and aura, almost merging with heaven and earth.
He retrieved the Bloodline Dragon into his spirit beast pouch, and its transformed form, Qu Hun, was left behind.
Alone, like a ghost, he silently slipped into the underwater cave.
Deep inside the cave, the chameleon was resting on a rock.
Its sense of danger was extremely acute, yet it didn't detect it at all, even though Lin Chuan was fully concealing himself.
Lin Chuan slowly approached.
Thirty zhang, twenty zhang, ten zhang...
When the distance was reduced to five zhang, he suddenly launched an attack!
Within the Divine Court's sea of consciousness, the Spirit Summoning Seal, which had been poised to unleash its power, transformed into a dazzling stream of light, instantly piercing through the void and plunging fiercely into the brow of the chameleon-like flying lizard!
The chameleon suddenly awoke, its scales standing on end and bursting open. It opened its mouth to hiss and tried to use its spatial powers to escape!
But it was too late.
The Spirit Seal has already invaded the depths of its soul, and has begun to forcibly establish a master-servant contract.
The flying lizard struggled and twisted frantically, emitting sharp and piercing hisses. However, Lin Chuan's spiritual sense was far superior to that of others of the same level, comparable to the late stage of Core Formation. At this moment, with all his might, he suppressed the divine soul of a level six demon beast, which was powerless to resist.
After a short while, the violent struggle gradually subsided.
The fierce glint in the chameleon's eyes faded, replaced by gentleness and awe. It slowly lowered its head, prostrated itself at Lin Chuan's feet, and submitted to him.
"It's done!"
Lin Chuan was overjoyed.
With this mutated monster possessing spatial abilities, future tracking, infiltration, ambush, and escape will be much easier.
His plan to build a powerful army of demonic beasts has taken another solid step forward.
……
However, an attempt two days later poured cold water on Lin Chuan's high spirits.
In a deep, dark, and secluded canyon in the ocean, he unexpectedly discovered the lair of a level seven thunder whale beast.
A level seven demonic beast, with combat power equivalent to a human in the late stage of Core Formation. If one can subdue it, one's own combat power will surely increase dramatically.
Lin Chuan suppressed his excitement and used the Spirit Control Seal once again.
But to his utter surprise, the soul strength of a level seven demon beast far exceeded his expectations.
The moment the Spirit Seal invaded the Thunder Whale Beast's sea of consciousness, it was instantly shattered by the incomparably violent, ocean-like divine soul power!
Lin Chuan felt a jolt in his sea of consciousness, let out a muffled groan, and, his divine sense injured, had no choice but to retreat immediately and give up.
"It seems that my current cultivation level is still somewhat low."
Lin Chuan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, clearly recognizing his own shortcomings.
The strength of the Spirit Seal is directly related to the strength of the caster's spiritual consciousness.
Although his spiritual sense far surpassed that of other cultivators of the same level, his foundation was ultimately only at the early stage of Core Formation. When facing a level seven demonic beast, he was still powerless.
"The only way is to strive to improve one's cultivation level."
Lin Chuan no longer coveted the opportunities in the outer sea, temporarily abandoned his beast-hunting plan, and turned back to Tianxing City.
……
Upon returning to his quiet cave dwelling, Lin Chuan immediately deactivated the cave's protective barriers and began his secluded cultivation.
He took out eleven demon cores emanating a strong demonic aura from his storage bag.
These are all level six or even level seven demon cores obtained from the ancient demon cultivator's cave!
A level seven demon core is extremely rare, no matter where you are.
It should be noted that even the pills used by Nascent Soul cultivators to enhance their magical power mostly use sixth-level demon cores as their main ingredient.
Level 7 demon cores are extremely rare and precious.
Using these level-seven demon cores as the main ingredient, and supplemented with countless rare spiritual herbs, Lin Chuan began to refine one batch of highly nourishing pills after another.
The furnace roared, and the aroma of cinnamon filled the air.
One batch of high-quality pills took shape in his hands, were then placed into jade bottles, labeled, and neatly arranged.
After the pill was finished being refined, Lin Chuan did not take it immediately.
He suddenly remembered a long-forgotten event.
Back then, beside that ancient teleportation array, lay the magnificent corpse of Ji Xuan, who had consumed the Heaven-Mending Pill but perished early, and his five-colored skeleton.
Before the immense medicinal power of the Heaven-Mending Pill could be fully absorbed, Ji Xuan had already died and his life was extinguished.
Many years ago, Lin Chuan burned the five-colored skeleton with a great fire and extracted six pills with five colors from the ashes—these were remnants of the Heaven-Mending Pill, which still retained its heaven-defying medicinal power.
The reason I didn't refine it back then was because my cultivation hadn't yet reached the Core stage, and my physical body and dantian simply couldn't withstand that violent medicinal power.
Now that he has reached the early stage of Core Formation, he can naturally guide the fire in his dantian to refine and absorb it little by little.
Lin Chuan took out a five-colored pill, opened his mouth, and swallowed it.
Within his dantian, the dantian fire blazed fiercely, slowly refining the medicinal power.
A year has passed in the blink of an eye.
He refined and absorbed all six remaining remnants of the Heaven-Mending Pill.
At this moment, his cultivation speed is already comparable to those one-in-ten-thousand Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivators!
……
What followed was a long and tedious period of seclusion.
Twenty-five years have passed in the blink of an eye, never to return.
On this day, in the quiet cave, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth suddenly surged violently, rushing into Lin Chuan's body.
His aura surged like a tide, his powerful spiritual energy sweeping across the surroundings—Mid-stage Core Formation, achieved!
At the same time, his cultivation technique, the Great Evolution Technique, also progressed smoothly, and he broke through to the third level.
Lin Chuan slowly opened his eyes, his divine sense spreading outwards without reservation—
Fifty li, sixty li, seventy li, eighty li, ninety li!
A full ninety li!
It should be noted that the range of divine sense of a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stage is only between ninety and one hundred and ten miles.
This means that Lin Chuan's spiritual strength is now comparable to that of the early Nascent Soul stage!
"Not enough."
Lin Chuan's eyes remained calm, but he was not satisfied.
He also possessed a large number of pills refined from level seven demon cores, many of which were miraculous medicines that aided in breaking through bottlenecks.
He took a deep breath and continued his secluded meditation.
Another twenty-odd years have quietly passed.
His cultivation progressed steadily from the mid-stage of Core Formation to the peak of the mid-stage of Core Formation, and he was only a thin bottleneck away from the late stage of Core Formation.
Afterwards, Lin Chuan concentrated all his energy and began to break through to the late stage of Core Formation.
But how would I know after trying only twice?
That bottleneck between the middle and late stages was like an impregnable fortress, remaining unmoved and indestructible no matter how much spiritual power he channeled or how frantically he attacked.
"It seems that haste makes waste."
Lin Chuan slowly opened his eyes and sighed softly.
In the path of cultivation, the greatest taboo is being impatient and eager for quick success.
Since a forced push has failed, let's slow down and calm our minds.
Now, he has accumulated enough of the Great Evolution Technique and is about to step into the fourth level.
However, there is a crucial threshold to the cultivation of the fourth level.
Entering the world means experiencing a tribulation in the mortal realm.
Only by experiencing the joys and sorrows of a mortal's life and understanding the vicissitudes of human nature can one overcome inner demons and solidify one's Daoist heart.
This paves the way for more advanced cultivation in the future.
Lin Chuan stood up, stretched his body after a long period of seclusion, turned around, released the restrictions on the cave, and stepped out.
He was going to stroll through the market town of Tianxing City to see if there was a suitable opportunity for him to "enter the world" amidst the vast sea of people.