Chapter 32: Magical Instrument Levels
But soon, more water arrow frogs were also startled, and the sound of "quack quack quack" made people feel numb.
Xiao Lin, with a serious face, casually took out a Huiyuan Pill and threw it into his mouth. The ebony spirit shield floating beside him immediately shone brightly, and a rich green light emerged again, firmly resisting in front of Xiao Lin, resisting the bombardment of waves of water arrows.
At this moment, if there were low-level cultivators who saw this scene, they would probably be shocked and stunned. You know, even a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining can only cast a dozen basic spells with his whole body's mana. After the mana is exhausted, he needs to adjust his breath for a long time before he can recover his mana and fight again. Where have they seen such a fierce scene of Xiao Lin?
Mana seemed to be free, basic spells were continuously output, and fireballs were shot out from Xiao Lin's palms almost non-stop. In less than half an hour, the water arrow frogs on the shore also felt something was wrong. They were surprised to find that their magic power was almost consumed, and the power of the water arrows they spit out was also reduced by half, but the human monk seemed to have unlimited mana. The fireball spell in his hand was almost like a string of cannons, and fireballs were shot at them one after another.
At first, one fireball blew up one water arrow frog, and later, even one fireball could blow up two or three water arrow frogs, but the water arrow frogs were obviously not very smart. With a quack, they attracted the water arrow frogs in the surrounding water to climb onto the shore one after another, and the water arrows aimed at Xiao Lin were almost like raindrops.
As a result, Xiao Lin suddenly felt a little overwhelmed. Although he didn't run out of mana with the help of Huiyuan Dan, he was hit by more than a dozen water arrows at the same time. Although the Ebony Spirit Shield was a special defensive magic weapon, it was also very strenuous to be hit by so many water arrows. Almost a volley made the Ebony Spirit Shield dim and there was a risk of being penetrated at any time.
Xiao Lin understood that although the Ebony Spirit Shield was a defensive magic weapon, it was only an elementary magic weapon after all, and its defensive power still had a limit. Once it exceeded this limit, even if his mana was endless, the shield would still be broken and the person would die.
However, Xiao Lin still had another thing to rely on, that was the Shining Shield he practiced. Whenever the Ebony Spirit Shield was a little exhausted, he would drive the Shining Shield to block in front of the Ebony Spirit Shield to offset most of the water arrows. With his endless mana support, the Shining Shield was indestructible in principle. Even if it was broken, it could be restored to its original state under Xiao Lin's spell.
In this way, the battle lasted for more than an hour, and the low-level monsters such as water arrow frogs really surprised Xiao Lin. They actually climbed up the shore from the Black Water Lake continuously, and there were countless water arrow frogs floating in the lake. This made Xiao Lin feel like he had poked a hornet's nest for the first time.
However, this also made Xiao Lin very excited. If he wanted to improve his proficiency in spells, he could not just cast spells. If it was that simple, Xiao Lin could just cast spells continuously at rocks or trees. Casting spells also requires flexibility, and in a tense state, the casting of spells can be matched with spiritual consciousness, so that the control of spells can be improved, which is often called proficiency.
Now the dense water arrow frogs undoubtedly put Xiao Lin in a highly tense state, whether physically, magically or mentally. The waves of water arrows, like arrows, kept falling from the sky. In this case, if Xiao Lin was a little careless, there would be loopholes in the coordination of the Ebony Spirit Shield and the Shining Spirit Shield, which would cause the defense to fail. Facing so many water arrows, if they really hit him, Xiao Lin, who had not practiced any body-refining techniques, would definitely not be able to withstand it.
Xiao Lin had to swallow a Huiyuan Pill every half an hour, and the fireball technique in his hand kept shooting out with the spell, and each fireball could basically kill a water arrow frog, but what made Xiao Lin speechless was that the number of water arrow frogs did not decrease but increased.
After another two hours, Xiao Lin looked at the island of a hundred feet. Except for the area within a few feet of himself, the outside was full of dense water arrow frogs, which made his scalp numb. In the past half day, he probably killed hundreds of water arrow frogs. Although such a high-intensity mana output did not exhaust his mana with the help of Huiyuan Dan, the loss of spirit could not be made up by Huiyuan Dan. Every time he cast a spell, he would lose some spiritual consciousness. Moreover, such uninterrupted casting of spells gradually made him feel exhausted.
If it continues like this, it won’t take long before he will be exhausted. I’m afraid he won’t even have the strength to lift his fingers. But Xiao Lin is still struggling to support it, because the more he is in such a desperate situation, the more he can stimulate his potential, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the improvement of his spell proficiency.
And an hour later, Xiao Lin still drove the Seven Ninja Slash and flew away from the island in a panic. Countless water arrow frogs looked at the escape light in the sky and made unwilling "quack quack" sounds.
On a relatively large island several dozen miles away from the small island, Xiao Lin sat cross-legged, his body covered by a layer of light green mist, and he was practicing the Dry Water Sutra.
The next day, after the sun rose from the lake in the distance, Xiao Lin exhaled a long breath and opened his eyes from his meditation, with a look of surprise on his face.
"Practicing immediately after the trial is indeed much more effective than practicing behind closed doors." After yesterday's trial, Xiao Lin was unable to resist the attack of hundreds of water arrow frogs and fled in a panic, but he was pleasantly surprised to find that after the trial, taking the Soul-Enriching Pill to practice was much more effective than normal practice. If this continues, he is even confident that he can break through again in more than a year and enter the seventh level of Qi Refining.
The seventh level of Qi Refining is already in the late stage of Qi Refining. For cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, the late stage of Qi Refining means high-level cultivators below the foundation building stage, because only in the late stage of Qi Refining can they practice elementary spells, and only in the late stage of Qi Refining can they drive the best magic tools. The best magic tools are one level higher than ordinary magic tools, but it is extremely difficult to refine the best magic tools, and the refining materials are also extremely rare. Even in the Tianlu Mountains where monsters are everywhere, the materials that can be used to refine the best magic tools are very limited. This is why there are not many cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining, but those who can really own the best magic tools are rare. Even many cultivators in the foundation building stage do not have the best magic tools. Usually only the cultivators above the foundation building stage of the five major sects, and the cultivators above the foundation building stage of some large cultivation families, are likely to own one or two best magic tools.
Although the best magic weapon also belongs to the category of magic weapon, the biggest difference between it and ordinary magic weapon is that it can increase the power of spells, and some best magic weapons can even abnormally increase the casting speed. The materials that can have these two functions are mostly obtained from some special species of monsters, or extremely rare mutant monsters. Because of this, the price of the best magic weapon is extremely expensive, and there is no market for it. The price of some best magic weapons even exceeds that of ordinary spiritual weapons.
Xiao Lin has communicated with those cultivators who have stayed in the fairy city for decades in Wuyin Xiancheng. He knows that magic weapons are divided into four types according to their levels, namely magic weapons, spiritual weapons, magic treasures, and spiritual treasures. It is rumored that there is a kind of magic weapon called innate spiritual treasure with incredible power above the spiritual treasure. Among these five magic weapons, except for the innate spiritual treasure, the other four are divided into four levels according to their grades: primary, intermediate, high and best. Generally, most cultivators in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages use magic weapons, and very few cultivators with deep backgrounds or rich family backgrounds will have a very small number of spiritual weapons.
As for magic weapons, they are usually made by Jindan-stage cultivators, because magic weapons need to be integrated into Dantian and nurtured by their own magic power all year round. The longer the nurturing period, the greater the power of the magic weapon. As for spiritual treasures, they are magic weapons that can generate spiritual consciousness and possess weapon souls on the basis of magic weapons. However, most spiritual treasures are formed by acquired cultivators forcibly injecting the ghosts of some monsters or demons into magic weapons. This kind of spiritual treasure can only be called pseudo-spiritual treasures, and magic weapons that generate spiritual consciousness by themselves can be regarded as real spiritual treasures. As for innate spiritual treasures, they are legendary magic weapons, and even the knowledgeable casual cultivator cannot figure out their characteristics and power.
Entering the seventh level of Qi Refining from the sixth level is also a hurdle for low-level cultivators. Among the hundreds of thousands of Qi Refining cultivators in Wuyin Xiancheng, more than 90% are stuck at the hurdle of the late stage of Qi Refining, and more than 80% of cultivators who stay in the early and middle stages of Qi Refining throughout their lives also account for more than 80%.
If it weren't for the large amount of Soul-Enriching Pills to assist in cultivation, with Xiao Lin's pseudo-spiritual roots, being able to cultivate to the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining would basically be the limit of his life. After all, according to Xiao Lin's initial estimate, it would take at least four or five years to cultivate to the third level of Qi Refining, and the difficulty of cultivation would increase several times with each subsequent level. According to his qualifications, it would take at least ten or twenty years to go from the fourth to the fifth level of Qi Refining, and it would probably take decades to go from the fifth to the sixth level.
Now, in just a few years, he has cultivated to the sixth level of Qi Refining. For Xiao Lin, it is already a great opportunity. If it weren't for the ability of the Spirit Wood Space to accelerate the growth of spiritual medicines, he would probably still be hovering at the third level of Qi Refining.
Xiao Lin looked at the endless lake in front of him, thinking about the various opportunities he had since he started practicing, and couldn't help but sighing. After half an hour, he stood up and looked at a small island in the distance, with a determined expression on his face.
Two months later, Xiao Lin stood on an isolated island of a hundred feet in size. He was shrouded in a faint green aura. Beside him, a dark green shield about a foot in size appeared and disappeared. At the same time, a jet-black shield shrouded in a faint green light also flexibly rotated around him. Around him, except for the area of ten feet close to him, there was nothing. Outside of that, there were densely packed water arrow frogs. On Xiao Lin's palms, as soon as the fireballs condensed into shape, they whistled and exploded towards the water arrow frogs.