Chapter 31 Black Water Trial

Although he had expected this result, Xiao Lin couldn't help but look disappointed.

It seems that becoming an alchemist is not an easy thing. Xiao Lin sighed and began to meditate and practice the Dry Water Sutra. Although refining this furnace of Yunling Dan only consumed a small part of his mana, it was extremely mentally exhausting. In order to increase the probability of success in refining the alchemy next time, Xiao Lin chose to recover his energy first.

An hour later, Xiao Lin opened his eyes. He first thought for a moment, carefully recalled every step he had taken when refining the alchemy just now, and compared them one by one with the contents of the alchemy experience. After thinking for more than half an hour, Xiao Lin breathed a sigh of relief, cheered up, and started refining the alchemy again.

This time, he was cautious in every step. Almost every time he put a drug into the alchemy furnace, he had to carefully recall the contents of the alchemy experience and compare the color of the elixir described in it with the elixir in the alchemy furnace. After confirming that there was no problem, he put another drug in again.

However, an hour later, with a "hiss", the liquid in the alchemy furnace suddenly burst out, and the alchemy failed again.

Xiao Lin was helpless. Now he finally experienced what the woman in the Spiritual Forging Building said. Alchemy is indeed not an easy profession. If he only had a few Lingwu grass in his hand, if he made pills like this, he would probably lose all the Lingwu grass before the pills were made. If this was the case, he would definitely be heartbroken. This also made Xiao Lin understand why Lingwu grass is often sold in the East City Market, but few people sell finished Yunling Pills.

But Xiao Lin was born a stubborn person. The more this happened, the more his stubborn character was aroused. He thought about it again for half an hour, and then continued to make pills.

In the process of repeated failures in alchemy, Xiao Lin became more and more courageous. He repeatedly pondered every step. Whether it was the process of placing auxiliary materials or the process of placing the spiritual fog grass to condense the pill, he carefully studied it countless times. This even made Xiao Lin seem like a demon, and he almost kept refining the pill without sleep.

A month passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, at the foot of an inconspicuous mountain in Luoxing Valley, there was a sudden burst of laughter. In the belly of the mountain, Xiao Lin held a bean-sized green pill with excitement on his face. After countless failures, he finally refined the first furnace of Yunling Pill today. Looking at the five Yunling Pills in the jade bottle beside him, Xiao Lin wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled.

In this month, Xiao Lin failed dozens of times, and even doubted that he had no talent for alchemy. After all, according to the woman in the Spiritual Forging Building, when refining spiritual pills, it is not necessarily possible to succeed in one out of ten furnaces. But he failed at least dozens of furnaces, and this probability is too low.

Fortunately, he was relieved that the time of more than a month was not wasted. He finally refined the Soul-Enriching Pill. More importantly, he repeatedly pondered over this period of time and studied every step of refining the Soul-Enriching Pill very thoroughly. If he continued to refine, his success rate should be improved.

Putting a Soul-Enriching Pill in his hand into his mouth, a slightly cool medicinal power immediately entered his body through his throat. Xiao Lin hurriedly closed his eyes and began to practice the Dry Water Sutra. After the slightly cool entered his body, it immediately exploded and turned into a majestic spiritual power that ran around everywhere. Xiao Lin's face changed, and he hurriedly recited the Dry Water Sutra Ning Shui Ru Jing formula, guiding the majestic spiritual power to slowly disperse into the meridians.

This meditation lasted for four hours. After four hours, Xiao Lin opened his eyes, took a long breath, and his face was full of joy. He finally understood why cultivators were so obsessed with the elixir that could improve their cultivation. This soul-enriching elixir had improved his third-level cultivation a lot. Compared with the cultivation that could be improved by meditation alone, this speed could be described as amazing. If there were enough soul-enriching elixir, Xiao Lin even believed that in just a few months, he could break through the third level of Qi Refining and enter the fourth level of Qi Refining, becoming a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

This made him full of confidence in his own path of cultivation. He was silent for a moment, put another soul-enriching elixir into his mouth, and continued to practice.

Spring went and autumn came, and two years passed quickly.

In the belly of the mountain, Xiao Lin slowly opened his eyes, a flash of cold light flashed across his eyes, he felt the majestic mana in his body, his expression was extremely excited, next to him, there were dozens of small jade bottles, in the past two years, he practiced while refining pills, just yesterday, he finally broke through the fifth level of Qi Refining and entered the sixth level of Qi Refining, but compared to two years ago, Xiao Lin's current speed of taking Yunling Pills to practice has slowed down a lot, according to Xiao Lin's estimation, to break through the sixth level of Qi Refining and enter the late stage of the seventh level, it will take at least two years, of course, this is still based on the continuous intake of Yunling Pills.

During these two years, he also refined a large number of Huiyuan Pills. Among the dozens of jade bottles, more than half were Huiyuan Pills, and five of them were filled with Da Huiyuan Pills. The effect of Da Huiyuan Pills was indeed as recorded in the jade slips. Every time he finished refining the pill, Xiao Lin only had to swallow one pill, and his magic power would immediately surge in. In addition to daily practice and alchemy, Xiao Lin also learned several basic spells, but his proficiency was still at the pitiful spell stage. The Seven Ninja Slash bought from the Lingduan Building had also been refined by Xiao Lin and could be controlled at will.

Sitting in the belly of the mountain, Xiao Lin was silent for two hours. He was thinking carefully about the future path of cultivation. For cultivators, closed-door hard training can certainly improve their cultivation, but it is difficult to improve their combat power by hard training. Now the soul-enriching pills he refined are enough for the next two or three years. It is time to go out for a trial.

One day later, a light green escape light shot out from the Falling Star Valley and disappeared in the distant sky in the blink of an eye.

Black Water Lake, located 30,000 miles northwest of Wuyin Xiancheng, is a huge lake covering tens of thousands of miles. On the lake surface of tens of thousands of miles, there are hundreds of large and small islands. The reason why Black Water Lake is called Black Water is not because the water is black, but because the Black Water Lake is extremely deep. The ordinary water depth is more than 100 feet. Therefore, when viewed from the air, the water appears blue-black, hence the name.

The reason why Black Water Lake is so famous in Wuyin Xiancheng is that no one who has practiced in the Xiancheng for a few years does not know the name of Black Water Lake. The main reason is that there are a large number of low-level monsters living in this Black Water Lake, such as water arrow frogs, four-legged fire fish, wind-running fire birds, and even black-scaled snakes that Xiao Lin and Luo Shou have hunted. The key is that the monsters in Black Water Lake are all in groups, with dozens or hundreds of them gathered together, which also leads to countless low-level cultivators dying in this Black Water Lake every year.

However, the materials on these monsters attract a large number of cultivators to hunt them. Over time, the name of Black Water Lake is known to everyone in Wuyin Xiancheng. Even Black Water Lake has once appeared in True Level Monsters, which is equivalent to the realm of human foundation-building cultivators, and the combat power is comparable to that of cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation-building. However, these True Level Monsters have long been slaughtered by the few remaining high-level cultivators in Wuyin Xiancheng, otherwise the low-level cultivators who come to hunt monsters are just coming to die.

On the vast surface of the Blackwater Lake, on a stone island only a hundred feet in size, stood a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old. The boy had fair skin and decent facial features. Although he could not be called handsome, he was at least handsome. At first glance, he looked like a scholar, gentle and refined.

This person was Xiao Lin, who had come out of retreat for the trial. At this moment, Xiao Lin was looking at the shore dozens of feet away with a serious expression. There, there were dozens of water arrow frogs lying on the rocks and sleeping. Xiao Lin had killed one of these water arrow frogs before, so he knew that this water arrow frog was proficient in water-based magic. Since water-based magic is weak in attack power among the five magic systems, and besides the venom on its body, it has no materials that cultivators want, so although this water arrow frog is also a mortal-level primary monster, in the eyes of cultivators, it is a useless monster. Hunting water arrow frogs is simply a waste of time for cultivators.

But Xiao Lin didn't think so. He had just come out of retreat and was eager to improve his proficiency in magic. This water arrow frog was undoubtedly the best whetstone for his magic. Thinking of this, he gently patted the cloth bag on his waist, and a hazy green light floated out of it. From the green light, a foot-long ebony shield flashed, and around Xiao Lin, a transparent small shield flashing with a faint green light also appeared faintly. This was the basic defense spell of Xiao Lin's practice, the Shining Shield.

After doing all this, Xiao Lin stretched out his right hand and spread his palm. As the obscure spell sounded in his mouth, a bowl-sized fireball slowly condensed and was still spinning. It was the basic spell of Xiao Lin's practice, the Fireball.

After a moment, Xiao Lin's face condensed, and he snorted coldly, "Go." The fireball immediately flew towards the dozens of water arrow frogs on the shore with a long tail flame.

Several larger water arrow frogs were lying on their backs basking in the sun. Suddenly, they instinctively sensed danger, their eyes rolled around, and they turned over one after another. At the same time, with the sound of "Gu Gu Gu Gu", water arrows spurted out of their mouths.

"Boom~" With a loud noise, the fireball and the water arrow collided with each other, and a spiritual power wave burst out, spreading out in all directions. Several water arrows actually bypassed the fireball and hit Xiao Lin. Xiao Lin was completely unaware, as if he didn't see these water arrows. The spell in his mouth never stopped, and two fireballs slowly condensed from the palms of his hands again.

"Bang bang." The water arrows hit Xiao Lin and were immediately blocked by the ebony spirit shield. The ebony spirit shield flashed green light and splashed water. Although the ebony spirit shield had good defense, it was hit by several water arrows, which made its spiritual light dim, as if it would collapse at any time.

"Explode." Xiao Lin didn't seem to care about these things. He just chanted the spell madly. He threw out fireballs one after another. Several water arrow frogs that were unable to dodge were hit by the fireballs. There was almost no suspense. Flames exploded and the water arrow frogs that were hit were immediately charred all over and lay motionless and silent.