txolops Chapter 125 Two Years to Mortal Transformation! Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Falls!
Chapter 125 Two Years to Mortal Transformation! Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Falls!
Tianxing City Market was bustling with activity.
Lin Chuan strolled along the bustling street, looking at the various cultivators coming and going around him, including young disciples in the Qi Refining stage and middle-aged cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage.
Of course, there were also a few cultivators with profound auras who, like him, concealed their cultivation levels.
A smile appeared on his lips; this was the perfect environment to "engage with the world."
He rented a small storefront on the edge of the market. It was on the street and the location wasn't great, but it was quiet.
A plaque hangs at the entrance of the shop, bearing five large characters: Lin's Refining Workshop.
From then on, Tianxing City had one more inconspicuous Qi Refining stage weapon refiner.
Lin Chuan suppressed his cultivation to the fourth or fifth level of Qi Refining, using the Concealing Spirit Technique in conjunction with the Divine Sense Concealment effect of the Great Evolution Technique. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would find it difficult to see through his true strength.
He began purchasing a batch of common materials—refined iron, various low-grade ores, and low-grade demon beast bodies—to learn the art of weapon crafting from scratch.
As for the art of weapon crafting, he had obtained countless weapon crafting records during his years of divination and searching for opportunities.
There are many traditions for crafting magical artifacts.
At first, he could only refine some low-level magical artifacts, and the quality was mediocre, so almost no one cared about them.
But he wasn't in a hurry. He spent his days running his shop, refining weapons, and researching formations, living a simple yet fulfilling life.
Occasionally, low-level cultivators would pass by, curiously peek over, and upon seeing that he was just a minor weapon refiner in the Qi Refining stage, they would shake their heads and leave.
One year, two years, three years...
As time went by, his weapon-forging skills gradually improved.
From lower-tier magical artifacts to mid-tier magical artifacts, from mid-tier magical artifacts to upper-tier magical artifacts, and then to top-tier magical artifacts—when the first top-tier magical artifact was born from his hands, Lin Chuan knew that his artifact crafting skills had reached a high level.
The shop gradually gained fame.
Although the Foundation Establishment cultivators looked down on him as a "Qi Refining stage shopkeeper," the lower-level Qi Refining disciples flocked to him.
Because the magical artifacts he crafted were of superior quality and reasonably priced, much cheaper than those from large shops.
"Master Lin, how much is this flying sword?"
"Master Lin, could you take a look and see if these materials can be used to forge a defensive magic weapon?"
"Master Lin..."
Lin Chuan always responded with a smile, remaining calm and patient in answering questions.
Occasionally, when he encounters a poor, independent cultivator who truly cannot afford spirit stones, he will allow them to buy on credit or have them provide materials as payment.
Gradually, "Lin's Weapon Refining Workshop" gained a good reputation among low-level cultivators in Tianxing City.
……
The tenth year.
On this day, Lin Chuan sat cross-legged in the quiet room in the backyard of the shop, holding an ancient jade slip in his hands—an ancient array inheritance that he had obtained from the cave of that ancient cultivator.
After ten years of dedicated study, he finally mastered an ancient formation technique from this lineage.
Stacked Mountain Formation.
Once activated, this formation creates a barrier that resembles layers upon layers of mountains—thick, stable, and indestructible—making it a powerful defensive formation.
According to the description in the inherited jade slip, if this formation can be set up completely, even a cultivator at the peak of the Core Formation stage would find it difficult to break through in a short time.
Lin Chuan decided to personally craft a set of tools for the Stacked Mountain Formation.
He took out various rare materials that he had prepared in advance—millennial black iron, iron essence, deep-sea cold copper... These were all the wealth he had accumulated over the years.
Refining weapons, engraving arrays, infusing spirits, adjusting...
Furnaces of materials were melted and shaped in his hands, and array plates and array flags were engraved with dense runes.
Slow and steady wins the race.
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Eight array plates and twenty-one array flags were neatly arranged in front of him.
The array plates and flags were entirely earthen yellow, faintly exuding an aura as heavy as mountains.
Lin Chuan picked up an array plate, probed it with his divine sense, felt the immense power contained within, and nodded in satisfaction.
The stacked mountain formation is complete.
……
Seven years have passed again.
Twenty years have passed since the store opened.
For the past twenty years, Lin Chuan has interacted with low-level cultivators every day, listening to them talk about the hardships of cultivation, the confusion in their pursuit of the Dao, and the joys and sorrows of life.
He would occasionally stroll through the ordinary neighborhoods, watching those ordinary people work from sunrise to sunset, toiling for their daily meals and worrying about their wives, children, and elderly parents all their lives.
Twenty years of living as a mortal allowed him to learn a great deal.
The struggles of those low-level cultivators, the joys and sorrows of those mortals, and the subtle emotions he had never paid attention to when he was high above, have now all become part of his state of mind.
His heart was more stable and calmer than it had been twenty years ago.
"It's time to leave."
On this day, before dawn, Lin Chuan opened the shop door for the last time.
He stood at the door, looking at the "Lin Family Weapon Refining Workshop" plaque that had been hanging there for twenty years, smiled slightly, reached out and took it down, putting it into his storage bag.
He had already cleaned up the shop. He had no intention of reselling the large refining tools and the remaining ordinary materials; he would leave them for the next tenant.
He turned and disappeared into the hazy morning mist.
……
The market is still bustling with people, just like it was twenty years ago.
Lin Chuan walked down the street, feeling the circulation of the Great Evolution Technique within his body.
Lin Chuan walked down the street, feeling the circulation of the Great Evolution Technique within his body.
The fourth level, you've already entered the basics.
The subsequent cultivation will proceed naturally, and given time, one will be able to reach perfection.
Instead of returning directly to his cave, he wandered around the market town.
As I walked, dawn broke.
A golden light appeared before my eyes.
Today's divination result: Minor misfortune.
[The divination text reads: Today, you went to the temporary residence of the Miaoyin Sect and learned that the Miaoyin Sect had recently acquired a Heavenly Thunder Bamboo from a fallen immortal cultivation family.]
However, the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo has been looted by the thieves, and the people of the Wonderful Sound Sect are using beauty and wealth to lure you. Please lend a hand and help us recover the goods...
"Mystic Sound Gate... Heavenly Thunder Bamboo..."
Lin Chuan frowned slightly.
He was familiar with this plot.
In the original story, Wu Chou of Jiyin Island plotted to plunder the Miaoyin Sect in order to deal with the traitor "Uncle Sun" of Jiyin Island. After killing the sect leader, he arranged for two traitorous elders of the Miaoyin Sect to frame Uncle Sun's Yinsha Sect.
When Uncle Sun defected from Jiyin Island, he took with him a fragment of the Void Heaven Map. Jiyin Island set up this trap to lure him out.
Furthermore, the Yin Ancestor even possessed Wu Chou using a secret technique, displaying extraordinary combat power and ultimately successfully capturing Uncle Sun.
As for the Miaoyin Sect and the people they invited to help them.
They were almost all silenced by the extremely yin patriarch who possessed Wu Chou.
This is a complete scam and a trap.
Lin Chuan sneered inwardly.
He certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to get involved in this mess.
Exposing ourselves to the Yin Ancestor? That's not a good thing.
Moreover, he remembered very clearly that the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo obtained by the Wonderful Sound Sect was divided into two parts, and the part with roots that could be further cultivated was still in the hands of the Wonderful Sound Sect.
This is what he truly wants.