Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 605 - 600: Deep Cultivation 2

Chapter 605: Chapter 600: Deep Cultivation 2

"Let’s take a break for now," Lin Xin said.

The high-intensity gathering of Elemental Energy, and refining it into liquid, had even tired him despite his strong mental fortitude.

He got up and shook his head, feeling as if his entire brain had emptied.

He stepped out of the stone house and stood in the courtyard. The fragrance emitted by the flowers and plants in the yard came from a herb known as Awakening Spirit Herb, which could help cultivators quickly recover their mental and physical energies.

This was one of the benefits of being a core disciple.

Lin Xin took a moment to rest and relax, taking deep breaths, but his gaze inadvertently drifted towards the neighboring stone house on the side.

Living to his left was a young girl with determined features.

Upon closer inspection, the girl had her short blue hair tied up, hanging to the right side.

She was frowning deeply, immersed in thought, pacing back and forth in the yard from time to time.

Lin Xin glanced at her, then turned his attention to the neighbor on his right.

A few days ago, faint thunderous sounds could still be heard from this stone house, unable to be contained even by formations, but now it was eerily quiet, with no movement at all.

The Elemental Energy in the air continuously flowed into the stone house, clearly indicating that the other party was also gathering the Five Qi.

However, through the flow of the Qi, Lin Xin’s powerful perception distinctly felt that the individual had only gathered the Five Qi. No trace of the other four was present.

Shaking his head slightly, Lin Xin activated the formation to notify someone to deliver food.

Soon, someone came to knock on the courtyard’s door.

"Your meal is ready," she announced.

The server was a young girl, around twelve or thirteen years old, looking petite and cute with a ponytail and wearing a white dress, her face bearing a trace of curiosity, eagerness, and nervousness.

Lin Xin took the food from the tray. The main dish was a kind of black-brown mash, resembling mashed potatoes, which looked somewhat disgusting and exuded a strange medicinal smell.

The sides included a small piece of ham and several slices of red-skinned fruit that were crunchy and sweet. Additionally, there was a cup of a milky drink that was quite thick and fragrant.

Having quickly finished eating and drinking, Lin Xin went to the restroom. Each stone house had its own private restroom located in the backyard; it was a small cubic structure where one could lock the door from inside.

After taking care of everything, the young girl respectfully collected the dishes and bowed to him.

"If... if you need an apprentice..."

"I don’t need one for now. You can go," Lin Xin said, who already had four servants, which was sufficient, thus no need for an apprentice.

The young girl looked slightly disappointed, then she left.

She had only a faint trace of Inner Qi, very weak. This would be considered genius in the ordinary world outside, but here, it meant nothing.

In the world of cultivation, there was no day or night.

Lin Xin immersed himself again in the tedious process of extracting the Nine Qi and then condensing it into essence.

Time passed, and unnoticed, he had already spent over a year in the stone house.

Extracting the essence was extremely time-consuming because it could only be gathered at specific times each day.

The process of compressing, purifying, and refining took a lot of effort and time as well.

Fortunately, Lin Xin had the ability of Skill Manifestation. After more than ten modifications, he found the most perfect process for refining and solidified it into a skill.

Afterward, the process became much easier and faster.

Over the course of the year, he had managed to refine over a hundred drops of Nine Qi Essence.

The essence emitted nine kinds of colorful halos like constantly rotating bright lights, each continuously cycling and emitting colorful glows.

Compared to the first drop of essence he refined, the halos were much brighter and purer, with no hint of foggy, dark hues.

Every day, besides eating, drinking, and resting, he was gathering and refining Qi.

Having saved up over a hundred drops, Lin Xin’s mental fortitude, which was enduringly honed, had become somewhat dull and oppressive, and his gathering of the Righteous Qi had started to lag somewhat.

Deciding to completely relax his body and mind, he also planned to go out and rest properly.

Leaving the stone house, accompanied by Chen Jingsi, Lin Youke, and two others, he made a trip to the Heavenly Evolution Tower.

Entering there required either a piece of Jade Marrow or ten Contribution Points. Given his current overt net worth, Lin Xin had neither Jade Marrow nor Contribution Points.

So, to avoid giving himself away, he just looked around outside and did not go in.

The four servants started a food stall outside.

They made various kinds of pastries to satiate the cravings of passing cultivators. Under the management of Chen Jingsi, the business actually did quite well and turned a profit, which was enough for his daily expenses.

While relaxing, Lin Xin also met with Yuan Xi.

From him, he learned that, over the past year, among the thirty or so Fifth Rank Purebloods, no one had yet condensed a Nine Qi Cauldron. However, several had managed to condense the essence.

This made Lin Xin shiver inside, urging him to quickly plan to begin a closed-door cultivation session.

The selection of disciples in the Qing Shan Realm this time had deep waters, including many carefully nurtured prodigies from external major forces.

Compared to them, his preparation was almost the weakest. What he could rely on was solely himself.

Walking toward the stone house, he once again looked at his two neighboring houses.

The blue-haired girl in the stone house to the left was beginning to absorb the Five Qi but at an extremely slow pace and was also drawing in many other impurities.

With such a pace, not to mention refining and purifying, it would still take a long time to gather the subsequent Righteous Qi and Demonic Qi.

On the other side, to the right, the owner of that stone house, a black-haired man, had come out and was reprimanding two servants in the courtyard.

His expression was grim, his aura clearly fluctuating. Even through the shielding of the formation, Lin Xin could sense that although his Five Qi was intact, the light-dark and righteous-demonic elements were extremely thin. He guessed that not even the first drop of essence had been refined.

Shaking his head slightly, he no longer paid attention to these people.

Upon entering the stone house, he wrote a letter to his elder sister and mother, then called Lin Youke over to take the letter and send it from the post station in White Jade City. Only then did he close the formation and re-enter a state of complete seclusion.

Collecting Nine Qi, along with the refining process, was completely a matter of perseverance, with no shortcuts available.

Once successful, gathering enough Nine Qi and casting it into a cauldron, one could leap directly from the Qi Cultivation Stage to complete Foundation Establishment, ready at any moment to challenge the Golden Core.

This is the Cultivation Technique for a Pureblood Human Immortal, whose foundational depth was astonishing.

In the blink of an eye, spring passed and autumn arrived, winter passed and summer came; another year had gone by.

Buzz!!

Suddenly, there was a tremor within Lin Xin’s stone house in the middle of the night.

A colorful halo flashed past the window.

Within the stone house, Lin Xin sat cross-legged with a small cauldron, white as jade and faintly translucent, floating above his head.

The small cauldron, only the size of a palm, floated in mid-air rotating, radiating a soft glow.

The glow was colorless yet seemed to contain all seven colors. It was like a circle of needles encircling the small cauldron.

"Green Yuan Cauldron... it is finally formed."

Lin Xin squinted at the small cauldron above his head.

"Over two years, with my realm and control at Human Immortal Level, I have finally condensed this small cauldron."

Though he was weary, Lin Xin knew that this represented a true breakthrough beyond the Pureblood limitations, allowing him to officially begin cultivating the Green Yuan Great Path.

Speaking of the obstacles of purebloodedness, he hadn’t felt much.

It was only when condensing the small cauldron that he encountered great difficulty; there was strong resistance within his body, obstructing the flow and convergence of the essence into the cauldron.

But such issues were minor troubles for Lin Xin, already at the Human Immortal realm, hardly worth mentioning.

Yet for those of extremely low realm and pureblood Human Immortals, it was like a formidable barrier.

"Colorless, white, black, gold, silver, then comes the seven colors. A total of twelve grades of Green Yuan Cauldrons, and I’ve condensed a Second Grade cauldron at the start. Quite smooth."

With his Human Immortal Level control precision, reaching Second Grade directly, just below the colorless First Grade, was nothing to be proud of.

"Next, I need to inscribe it with my own Taoist Talisman Divine Ability, which will serve as my future Innate Divine Ability. This will affect the Innate Qing Spirit attributes refined by the cauldron."

Lin Xin stood up and left the stone house, heading straight for White Jade City.

Heading to the Heavenly Evolution Tower.

That place was the best for fusing and comprehending Taoist Talisman Divine Skills, and also where many of the sect’s predecessors’ insights were stored. It also had the foundation books of the Human Realm Rune system and various Divine Taoist Talismans compatible with the Green Yuan Decision that Lin Xin needed most.

He couldn’t afford the upper levels’ spaces and Taoist Talisman floors, but he could browse the library on the lower levels for free.

Lin Xin read through all the basic runes in one go.

With his Grandmaster Level rune mastery, he quickly integrated, absorbing and merging the new runes into his previous system.

After spending two months, Lin Xin, having integrated knowledge, vaguely felt his realm begin to loosen.

He was overjoyed.

At the realm of Human Immortal, ethereal and profound, he had reached the Second Realm; if he broke through, it would be the empty Third Realm.

This realm allowed separation of thought and body, significantly reducing the consumption when opening the Polar Region and could also suppress lower realm Human Immortals from entering.

It can be said that the Third Layer was the watershed of the Human Immortal Realm.

Breaking through this layer, the Fourth Layer would then truly be enduring hard work.

Initially, Lin Xin thought it would take decades to break through, but it happened so quickly.

The stimulus of the Green Yuan Decision on pureblood was truly extraordinary.

He returned to the stone house and continued his seclusion. The Taoist Talisman Divine Ability he chose was the most basic and most popular one that did not require Contribution Points to acquire—the Green Yuan Cauldron Script.

It was essentially the cauldron’s innate ability to condense its own cauldron patterns and divine powers.

There was no offensive or defensive capability, no effect usable in actual combat. The sole purpose of the Green Yuan Cauldron Script was to increase the speed of condensing Innate Qing Spirit by about half.

But this was gained at the expense of self-defense capability in combat.

Only those impoverished disciples would reluctantly choose this.

For Lin Xin, however, it did not matter; he did not care what his Innate Divine Ability was, whether offensive or defensive, as it was all too weak for him.

His true form alone, with over eight thousand average attributes, would make any offensive or defensive divine abilities inferior to just throwing a punch.

After confirming his divine ability, he continued his seclusion.

Years flew by; time flew. In the blink of an eye, five years had passed.

From Qi Cultivation to Foundation Establishment, from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, after the Green Yuan Cauldron condensed the Innate Qing Spirit, Lin Xin’s control at Human Immortal Level perfectly condensed it into a pill.

Unlike other Purebloods, his realm faced no bottlenecks.

The Golden Core smoothly broke through. The Innate Qing Spirit condensed by the Golden Core and the innate divine ability continued to select the Green Yuan Cauldron Script, accelerating the refining of about half of the Qing Spirit elixir.

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