Chapter 66 Qi Refining Level 7
After several hours, Xiao Lin opened his eyes, and two rays of divine light shot out from them. His spirit and energy had completely recovered to the peak state.
He picked up the jade bottle beside him, poured out a modified version of the Soul-Enriching Pill from it, took a deep breath, and then put it in his mouth. The effect of this modified Soul-Enriching Pill was indeed overbearing. As soon as it entered his stomach, it turned into two spiritual power torrents, running around in Xiao Lin's body.
Xiao Lin hurriedly recited the formula of the Dry Water Sutra and began to guide the two torrents to disperse into his own spiritual veins. As soon as the two spiritual power torrents entered the spiritual veins, Xiao Lin couldn't help frowning, and a look of pain appeared on his face, but he gritted his teeth and guided the spiritual power to flow in the spiritual veins, and then turned into majestic mana and merged into the dantian.
Two hours later, Xiao Lin was completely enveloped in a layer of green mist. He felt that his dantian was already swollen and unbearable. If he continued, he was afraid that his dantian would collapse because it could not bear the huge mana. Knowing that he had reached his limit, Xiao Lin began to guide the mana in his body through the spiritual veins of his body, trying to impact the mid-term bottleneck in his sea of consciousness.
Time passed little by little. In the belly of the mountain, Xiao Lin sat cross-legged, with green light flickering around him. His forehead was full of sweat, and even his clothes were soaked for most of the time, but he seemed to be unaware of it. He did not move for three days.
After another two days, the green light around Xiao Lin began to dissipate. He slowly opened his eyes, and a bitter smile appeared on his face. He failed again.
At this moment, Xiao Lin was extremely depressed. After nearly five days of continuous impact on the bottleneck, although the mid-term bottleneck had been loosened, he still couldn't break through it. Originally, with the help of the improved version of the Soul-Enriching Pill, he was indeed unstoppable. This also proved that the improved version of the Soul-Enriching Pill was indeed effective in impacting the mid-term bottleneck, but the effect seemed to be a little short of him.
Xiao Lin stared at the wall in the belly of the mountain in a daze, his face full of bitterness. He didn't expect that after so much preparation and effort, he still failed in the end. It seems that his pseudo-spiritual root qualifications are indeed well-deserved. Just a mid-term bottleneck trapped him tightly. Could it be that he can only break through it with the Five Elements Spirit Pill?
Xiao Lin felt like crying but had no tears. This mid-term bottleneck was so abnormal, what about the late stage? Now he began to understand why it was said that pseudo-spiritual root cultivators could basically only be trapped in the fifth and sixth levels of Qi Refining for their entire lives. It was really not an exaggeration.
Originally, today was his 19th birthday, and he was thinking of celebrating himself by breaking through this mid-term bottleneck, but he never thought that this would be the result, which made him completely lose the joy of celebrating his birthday, and was replaced by an extremely lost feeling.
He tapped the storage bag on his waist, took out a jade box, and gently opened it. Inside were three red fruits the size of pigeon eggs, crystal clear. These three red fruits were planted from the seeds obtained from the "immortal immortal" Hua Rongrong. Xiao Lin originally planned to swallow them after breaking through the mid-term bottleneck to keep his appearance at the age of 19.
Now he looked at the red fruit in his hand with a dull expression, sighed softly, then picked up one of them and put it in his mouth.
After the fruit entered his mouth, it turned into a sweet stream, entered Xiao Lin's abdomen, and then turned into countless cool streams, penetrating into his whole body's spiritual veins. Xiao Lin closed his eyes and savored this feeling carefully. Half an hour later, he suddenly opened his eyes, with seven points of surprise and three points of surprise in his eyes.
"Could this fruit have the effect of softening the bottleneck?" Xiao Lin muttered to himself, and then a look of ecstasy appeared on his face. Without thinking, he threw the remaining two fruits into his mouth, and took out two improved versions of the Soul-Enriching Pills from his side, put them into his mouth, and then closed his eyes. Soon after, Xiao Lin was shrouded in green fog again.
Three days later, with Xiao Lin's body suddenly shaking, the green fog surrounding him suddenly became like a hundred birds returning to their nests, and was instantly absorbed into his body. Xiao Lin, who had closed his eyes tightly, also opened his eyes, and two inch-long rays of light shot out from them.
Xiao Lin had a look of surprise on his face. He looked down at his palms and then felt the majestic mana in his body. After entering the seventh level of Qi Refining, his mana had at least doubled. At the same time, his spiritual perception had also been greatly improved. Originally, he could only sense the subtle movements of about ten feet around him. Now this distance has doubled again, reaching a distance of twenty feet. He observed everything in the belly of the mountain with interest. After breaking through the middle stage of Qi Refining and entering the late stage, the world in his eyes was completely different from before.
He even had a feeling that the world he saw now was more real than before.
Xiao Lin did not expect that the improved version of Yunling Pill, which was given high hopes, did not help him directly break through the bottleneck of the middle stage. Instead, the strange anti-aging fruit that he did not care about actually had the effect of loosening the bottleneck. Under the influence of some strange magic, he actually broke through the bottleneck of the middle stage. He had to say that his luck was really good.
This also made Xiao Lin more curious about the strange red fruit. Although he still didn't figure out the real name and effect of the red fruit, he had decided to continue to cultivate it in the spiritual wood space, because he found that the red fruit didn't seem to be the same as the spiritual grass. Affected by the level of the spiritual grass itself, the strange red fruit seemed to be able to grow all the time, and as time went on, Xiao Lin also found that the color of the strange red fruit had changed slightly.
According to his estimation, the red fruit he took should have a medicinal effect of about a hundred years. Not long after, he found that the red fruit in the spiritual wood space was a little darker in color, and the medicinal effect reached about one hundred and thirty or forty years. However, he did not plan to pick it and take it, but wanted to keep cultivating it to see what the red fruit would look like when it finally matured.
He got a total of six seeds from Hua Rongrong. After he took the red fruit, he had twelve more seeds in his hand, but these twelve seeds were obviously not mature yet. Whether they could be planted and survived was still a matter of debate. This also made him decide not to pick the red fruit anymore and wait until it was fully mature.
After entering the seventh level of Qi Refining, Xiao Lin found that he suddenly had a lot of things to do, but he took out another improved version of Yunling Pill from the jade bottle, swallowed it and continued to practice.
Three days later, Xiao Lin woke up from meditation again, with a helpless smile on his face. In the past few days, he mainly consolidated the realm he had just broken through. In this process, he was surprised to find that the Yunling Pill he had originally refined had completely lost its effect on him. Only the improved version of Yunling Pill could improve his cultivation a little, but the speed was also much slower.
According to Xiao Lin's own speculation, even if he practiced by taking the improved version of Yunling Pill, he could only practice to the eighth level of Qi Refining at most, which was already the limit. As for the ninth level of Qi Refining and the great perfection of Qi Refining, he might really have to rely on the Five Elements Spirit Pill.
Xiao Lin looked at the cave wall and fell into deep thought. He was thinking about his future cultivation path. After entering the seventh level of Qi Refining, he could already control high-level magic tools. However, except for the Fire Cloud Pendant, he did not have any high-level magic tools. Moreover, in Chixia Immortal City, he had seen finished high-level magic tools for sale in several large shops, but the prices were very expensive. If he wanted to buy them, he would need to prepare some spiritual stones.
The most important thing at the moment was to practice the elementary magic of the Great Fireball Magic Seal. Thinking of this, he took out a jade box from his storage bag and gently opened it, revealing a fingernail-sized flame mark inside. Xiao Lin took a breath and then shot a spiritual power into the flame mark.
The flame mark immediately flashed a faint red glow, and then slowly floated up, turning into a fingernail-sized flame. This small flame was burning fiercely, and three miniature fireballs could be vaguely seen inside. The flame floated to the center of Xiao Lin's eyebrows and then merged into it.
Xiao Lin also gently closed his eyes. In his perception, the flame mark merged into his colorful sea of consciousness and then sank into it and disappeared. Xiao Lin suddenly had a long and obscure spell in his mind, which surprised Xiao Lin. He didn't know whether this spell mark was generated by heaven and earth or cultivated by the monster.
Once upon a time, Xiao Lin was also wondering why humans had to merge the seals obtained from monsters after practicing basic spells to advance to elementary spells. Where did the seals in monsters come from? Did they cultivate themselves or were they born with them?
However, Xiao Lin never found the answer. Now, after integrating this flame mark, he naturally remembered the spell of this elementary spell, the fireball spell. Then, Xiao Lin stretched out his right hand, palm up, and then an obscure spell sounded in his mouth. In his surprised eyes, three fireballs the size of a human head condensed from the sky above his palm. Xiao Lin felt that the mana in his body was also rapidly consumed.
When he finished the spell, three huge dark red fireballs appeared more than a foot above his palm. The scorching temperature and the terrifying power contained in them were not comparable to his basic version of the fireball spell. Even the spell-level fireball spell was more than twice as strong as his basic spell of the Great Perfection level.
As his proficiency in this elementary spell increased, the power of the fireball could be further increased. Xiao Lin looked at the three large fireballs floating above his palm, his face full of joy. The scarcity of the seals, he deeply experienced when he was strolling in the Wuyin Immortal City and the Chixia Immortal City. Among the low-level Qi Refining Stage cultivators, there were not many who could really practice elementary spells. After Xiao Lin's thinking, he summed up three reasons.
On the one hand, the seals of these elementary spells are all extracted from the bodies of monsters, and the monsters that have seals are at least monsters at the stage of great perfection of the ordinary level, and the probability of extracting seals is also extremely low, which leads to the extremely rare number of seals on the market; on the other hand, it is the demand. You should know that for most low-level cultivators, they will not spend too much energy to practice basic spells to great perfection. They usually accumulate some spirit stones through trials and buy a few magic tools as means of attack, which also leads to the fact that there is not much demand for elementary spells; another reason is that the seals of elementary spells are extremely expensive. Even the seals of the worst auxiliary elementary spells are at least a few hundred low-grade spirit stones, which is almost as much as a high-level magic tool.
For most Qi Refining Stage, it is more cost-effective to buy magic tools directly instead of spending so much energy and spirit stones to practice spells.