Chapter 208: Finding a Place to Practice

The city in front of him was not big, only a few dozen miles in area, and the city wall was much lower than the several immortal cities Xiao Lin had seen.

No matter how you look at it, this city looks like an ordinary city.

However, after Xiao Lin thought about it, a smile appeared on his face. He took out the phantom mask from his bag and put it on his face, then took out a bone-changing pill and swallowed it. After a while, Xiao Lin turned into a short, wrinkled fifty-year-old man.

An ice mirror condensed above his palm. Looking at his appearance in the ice mirror, Xiao Lin showed satisfaction on his face, then turned into a green light and flew towards the city.

In the vast snowfield, in order to escape Liu Mei's pursuit, Xiao Lin had to use the wind escape technique with all his strength, so he could not use the phantom mask and bone-changing pill to change his appearance. Moreover, after more than three months of fleeing, Xiao Lin had long suspected that Liu Mei was sensing his breath through some secret technique to lock on to him at all times.

Moreover, in the vast snowy plains, even if he changed his appearance, if he ran into Liu Mei, the other party would certainly try every means to test him, and even kill him directly to avoid trouble.

But once he entered the human city, it was different. After changing his appearance, Xiao Lin also completely concealed his own aura. At that time, he hid directly among the large number of mortals.

At that time, unless Liu Mei slaughtered the entire city, he would definitely not be discovered.

As for slaughtering the city, Xiao Lin naturally did not believe that Liu Mei would really do this. Not to mention that the five major sects in the Tianlu Mountains have always regarded themselves as righteous, just slaughtering so many mortals, and the karma caused by it, is not something that Liu Mei, a small foundation-building cultivator, can bear.

Soon Xiao Lin came to the city gate. After slightly sensing the people entering the city, Xiao Lin's heart was completely relieved. This is indeed a mortal city. Following the flow of people, Xiao Lin quickly entered the city.

Looking at the mortals coming and going and the dazzling array of goods on both sides of the street, Xiao Lin seemed to be back in Huai County.

However, he did not want to wander around at this moment, but found a remote inn and stayed there.

Under the guidance of the waiter, Xiao Lin entered a simple room. After the waiter left, Xiao Lin lay directly on the bed and fell asleep.

However, before he fell asleep, he still released a few soul-eating fire insects, squatting in front of the door and window to keep watch for him. Once someone came in, he could know immediately under the divine sense, even if he was sleeping soundly.

This sleep lasted for two days and two nights. It was not until the third day that the shop assistants were worried that he might have an accident and came to check on him. Xiao Lin woke up.

These three months of desperate life made Xiao Lin exhausted. Whether mentally or physically, he was about to reach the limit of his endurance. After opening his eyes and feeling his full spirit, Xiao Lin smiled.

Xiao Lin was in a good mood. On the one hand, after two days of rest, his spirit and energy had recovered. On the other hand, Liu Mei had not found him for two days. It seemed that his guess was right. She must have locked his breath through some secret technique to follow him all the time.

The ability of the phantom mask to hide his breath allowed him to completely get rid of Liu Mei's pursuit.

After thinking this through, Xiao Lin did not plan to leave the city. Who knew whether Liu Mei would stay outside the city after she couldn't find him? If he left at this time, it would be like walking into a trap.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lin relaxed instead. In his opinion, it would be good to live as a mortal for a few days.

He called the waiter and asked the waiter to bring a table of wine and food. Xiao Lin drank and drank by himself.

After eating and drinking, Xiao Lin left the room, walked out of the inn, and wandered around the city.

Three days later, Xiao Lin simply used some mineral materials that were extremely precious to mortals to exchange for some silver in the secular world and bought a house in a remote location in the west of the city.

After entering the house, Xiao Lin used the Seven Blades to dig a secret room in the inner courtyard, then hid in it and began to practice in seclusion.

This seclusion lasted for a whole year.

In the eyes of the neighbors, no one had entered or left this house for a long time, but in the secret room in the inner courtyard of this house, Xiao Lin's face showed a look of pain, and the vast mana in his dantian was constantly compressed.

But this compression also attracted the resistance of the mana, and the entire dantian was shrouded in dark green spiritual light.

Xiao Lin silently recited the mantra of "Xuanqi Hanyan Jue" in his mouth, and at the same time all his thoughts controlled the mana in his dantian to keep compressing. I don't know how long it took, but a green flame suddenly burned in Xiao Lin's dantian.

The flame enveloped the entire dantian, and the vast mana began to shrink inward under the burning of the flame. The dark green mana was also more condensed under the cleansing of the Qingyan Spirit Fire, and a faint green light flashed above the dark green mana.

Suddenly, after the mana in the Dantian was compressed to a certain degree, a dark green flame suddenly appeared. The moment the flame appeared, it began to expand rapidly, and it formed a stalemate with the blue flame.

I don’t know how long it took, but the dark green flame and the blue flame actually began to slowly merge, and the flame in the Dantian gradually began to turn blue-green.

After the two flames began to merge, the pain on Xiao Lin's face began to ease, but Xiao Lin did not stop practicing, but continued to guide the two flames in the Dantian to entangle and merge together.

After a few hours, the two flames finally merged, and a ball of green flames was suspended above the majestic mana in Xiao Lin's Dantian.

Then the green flame suddenly sank and sank into the mana, and the mana began to boil. The green flame kept refining the mana, and some colorful impurities gradually escaped from the mana, along the acupoints of Xiao Lin's body, and out of the body.

After refining, the mana in Xiao Lin's Dantian also began to shrink. After being refined by the green flame, the mana in Xiao Lin's Dantian was only more than half of the original, but Xiao Lin was obviously not worried about the reduction of mana, but continued to urge the green flame to constantly wash the mana in the Dantian.

Three days later.

Xiao Lin opened his eyes, took a long breath, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

After a year of practice, he finally completed the third mana tempering. As long as he practices for a period of time and his mana is refilled, he can try to return to the origin and break through the bottleneck in the middle stage.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Lin closed his eyes again. After a while, Xiao Lin entered the spiritual wood space.

Looking at the lush and green spiritual herbs and flowers growing in front of him, Xiao Lin was very satisfied. He harvested the five elements spiritual herbs that had reached the medicinal age, and then Xiao Lin harvested at least hundreds of spiritual mist grass and rejuvenation flowers, and then left the spiritual wood space.

Xiao Lin threw all the harvested spiritual mist grass and rejuvenation flowers into the spiritual beast bag. Half a year ago, Xiao Lin was surprised to find that after swallowing a large amount of spiritual mist grass and rejuvenation flowers, the aura of some of those spiritual fire poisons was actually raised to the level of ordinary level perfection.

In other words, these Soul Devouring Fire Gu have already reached the highest stage of the mortal level, which surprised Xiao Lin. After the Soul Devouring Fire Gu was just hatched, Xiao Lin had studied it specifically and found that the aura of the Soul Devouring Fire Gu was probably at the high level of the mortal level.

From this point of view, the Soul Devouring Fire Gu can evolve as it devours more spiritual herbs and flowers. Now one-third of these Soul Devouring Fire Gu have evolved to the mortal level, which is a good proof.

This has increased Xiao Lin's determination to cultivate these spiritual insects with all his strength, and the Spirit Mist Grass and Rejuvenation Flower are open for them to devour.

The spiritual flowers and herbs they devoured alone are worth at least thousands of low-grade spiritual stones, but in Xiao Lin's opinion, it is completely worth it. If these Soul Devouring Fire Gu can evolve to the true level, let alone thousands of low-grade spiritual stones, even tens of thousands of low-grade spiritual stones, he is willing to take them out.

If these Soul Devouring Fire Gu can really be cultivated to the true level, then even Liu Mei will probably have to flee in embarrassment in front of him.

What made Xiao Lin a little depressed was that after the Soul Devouring Fire Gu evolved to the Great Perfection of the Ordinary Level, it did not continue to evolve, but instead lazily crowded in the corner of the spirit beast bag, looking half dead.

Xiao Lin couldn't help but wonder, wouldn't these Soul Devouring Fire Gu have evolved to the top and died?

After Xiao Lin threw in a large amount of Spirit Mist Grass and Rejuvenating Flowers, the Soul Devouring Fire Gu crowded in the corner suddenly became energetic, climbed onto the spiritual grass and flowers, and feasted on them.

After the spiritual consciousness came out of the spirit beast bag, Xiao Lin's face was full of doubts. The Soul Devouring Fire Gu, which was originally half dead, actually started to eat again. Could it be preparing to evolve again?

Xiao Lin was full of expectations. If these Soul Devouring Fire Gu really evolved to the True Level, then his combat power would increase several times.

The only thing that made Xiao Lin a little depressed was that the number of these Soul Devouring Fire Gu was too small. There were originally hundreds of them, but they were all killed by the Qingyan Spiritual Fire he cast, leaving only less than a hundred insect eggs.

If he encountered an ordinary cultivator, it would be fine. If he encountered a cultivator who practiced a certain kind of cold flame like himself, the effect that his dozens of Soul Devouring Fire Gu could play would be very limited.

However, there was no way to do this. The book on the Hundred Spirits List did not have any information about how to breed Soul Devouring Fire Gu, so Xiao Lin could only let nature take its course. However, in his opinion, if these less than a hundred Soul Devouring Fire Gu could really evolve to the true level, they would be enough to become his fatal trump card.

After withdrawing his thoughts from the Soul Devouring Fire Gu, Xiao Lin began to think that Liu Mei should have left, right? For more than a year, she should not really have the patience to hide outside the city. Besides, Liu Mei should not be sure that she was hiding in the city.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lin decided to leave. It was not that he did not want to improve his cultivation to the middle stage of foundation building, but the noise when breaking through the bottleneck of the middle stage would be quite loud. It would shock the world and even attract Liu Mei, which would be very bad.

Since he decided to leave, Xiao Lin packed up and walked out of the house. Anyway, to Xiao Lin, this house was nothing, and it was not a pity to abandon it.