Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 167: The Third Master's Challenge, the Three Stages of Dan Formation and the Fake Dan Realm

Compared with the comfortable growing environment of Lin Qianfan's generation, San Ye's starting point and growth path were more bumpy.

He was also from a small branch, and received almost no help in the early stage. He relied on himself to overcome all difficulties and become a foundation-building cultivator.

After building his foundation, the relatively young Lin Dayan still had the prospect of achieving the Golden Core, but his mediocre qualifications prevented him from receiving support from his family, and the family at that time did not have a clear standard for the Golden Core seed sequence.

To put it bluntly, whoever the Golden Core Ancestor favors will be the Golden Core Seed. If the Golden Core Ancestor doesn't particularly favor anyone, there will be no Golden Core Seed. This makes Lin Dayan very depressed.

The foundation-building cultivators of ordinary origins seemed to have no reasonable competition platform in the Lin family, and they didn't even know the specific competition rules.

Lin Dayan, who had great ambitions but was not able to be trained, was very disappointed with his family. When he was young, he chose to go out and make his own way.

He had traveled to many Jindan forces in the Western Regions, been to the Thousand Star City, and even drifted to the dangerous places in the outer sea. The blood-splitting shark was contracted by chance in the outer sea.

Having seen the intrigues and deceptions of the outside world, the brutal battles in the outer seas, and realized how difficult it was for the Lin family's ancestors to obtain the Yulong Islands through legal channels,
Middle-aged Lin Dayan, who also realized that the Lin family was more reliable than most third-order forces, returned to the family and planned to change the family's current situation from within.

At that time, the internal conflicts in the Lin family had reached their peak!
The conflicts between the main and branch branches over resources, power, and willpower have reached a climax.

Having been the captain of a monster-hunting ship for many years, Lin Dayan has accumulated a high prestige and has a greater say. At the same time, for the sake of his own golden elixir path, he has become an active advocate of separation.

Only by splitting up can we reduce internal friction, improve operational efficiency, and use the saved resources to support more Jindan monks.

Later, the calls for separation grew louder and louder, with both groups adding fuel to the fire. In order to correct the path within the family, the two Jindan ancestors listened to the calls from below and successfully separated the family.

After the separation, Yanglongwan needs to cultivate its own Jindan cultivators to prove the correctness of its own path. Lin Dayan, who has reached the late stage of foundation building and has not yet reached the upper limit of his potential, becomes the only Jindan seed in Yanglongwan.

Later, the Lin family obtained many opportunities to form a golden core from many places. Lin Dayan put aside the matter of the monster hunting ship and began to sprint with peace of mind.

In terms of age, Lin Dayan is much younger than the Fourth Elder, and is now almost 200 years old.
But it is no longer advisable to delay his breakthrough to the Golden Elixir stage. He suffered many injuries when he was young. Although these injuries have been healed, they will more or less accumulate secretly. He may enter old age prematurely in thirty or forty years.

The so-called twilight years mean being truly old, not in terms of age, but in terms of the real aging of body functions.

Once a monk enters old age, he is like a ship with a leaking deck that is not repaired in time. The result is self-evident.

Completely close the Chongguan Cave,

Light a pillar of third-level clear spirit incense, and your soul will be clear and free;
Taking out the family heirloom, the Spirit Filtering Cushion, the spiritual energy environment in the cave was artificially modified to be dominated by wood-attributed spiritual energy;
Compared to other young Golden Core Seeds, Lin Dayan's first step in breaking through the barrier was to replenish his Qi and blood. He absorbed a whole piece of Lingxi Blood Jade, which restored his Qi and blood to their peak state several decades ago.

"I feel decades younger. This exhilarating feeling is great!"

Of course, this does not really make you younger. It is just temporarily absorbing this energy and blood to assist in breaking through the barrier. It will dissipate if you fail to break through.

There are also three levels of Jindan in the breakthrough, but it is no longer as simple as the three levels of foundation building, which only examine the three dimensions of essence, energy and spirit.
Instead, it examines the three stages of pill condensation, sublimation, and thunder tribulation, and the test of essence, energy and spirit are integrated into these three stages.

"bring it on!"

Adjusting his state to an unprecedented level, Lin Dayan began to follow the best route for breaking through the barriers summarized by successive generations of cultivators of the Lin family.

He took a superior spiritual object that helped speed up the formation of the elixir, and began to practice the golden elixir technique to compress the liquid spiritual power in his body.

The first stage of forming the golden elixir: condensing the prototype of the golden elixir!

As we all know, what flows in the body of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is liquid spiritual power, while what flows in the body of a Golden Core cultivator is magic power. The first step from liquid spiritual power to magic power is to change its form.

The first spiritual power crystal soon began to precipitate from the extremely dense spiritual power lake at the peak of the ninth level of foundation building.
Although this spiritual power crystal is small, it means that the foundation accumulated in the foundation-building stage is quite good, and the first step has been successfully taken.

The second, third, fourth... the spiritual power crystals were arranged in a regular pattern and began to build into the shape of a golden elixir.

Although this step seems simple, in fact many people who have reached the ninth level of foundation building cannot enter this step because their foundation is weak, their basic knowledge is insufficient, and the degree of spiritual power condensation is not up to standard.

Those who cannot even reach this step will be considered to have failed in forming the elixir, but their lives will not be in danger. After all, it ended before they even started, which is equivalent to not breaking through.

With the assistance of the superior spiritual object for forming the golden elixir, the golden elixir prototype condensed very quickly, compressing all the liquid spiritual power in the body into one place, and finally forming a wrinkled, irregular gray-green oval, which was the golden elixir prototype.

The reason why it is called the prototype of the golden elixir is because it is neither a real golden elixir nor contains the golden elixir magic power, but it has successfully passed the first level.

"I've pushed it to the limit, keep going!"

Everyone's foundation is different, and the resulting golden elixir will take a different shape. Although irregular, as long as it forms successfully, it has passed this stage. Continuing to consume spiritual objects that can help sublimate the golden elixir's mana, Lin Dayan began to increase the golden elixir's mana.

The transformation from spiritual power to magic power is a qualitative change, and this qualitative change is completed during the process of forming the elixir.
This is also the second stage of forming the golden elixir: sublimating the magic power of the golden elixir!

Mana is a higher level of power than spiritual power, a superior power. Mana has an overwhelming advantage over spiritual power.

As the Golden Elixir Technique was put into operation, the Golden Elixir prototype began to rotate. Under the power of the technique and the auxiliary spiritual objects, the originally irregular Golden Elixir prototype began to collapse and shrink, becoming regular.

One hundred circles, two hundred circles, three hundred circles... The more the golden elixir prototype rotates, the greater the restraint and resistance it encounters, but at the same time, the golden elixir prototype also becomes more round and regular, and more and more like a real elixir.

Seven hundred circles, eight hundred circles, nine hundred circles... Success seemed within reach, but the speed of rotation was as slow as a turtle. Lin Dayan concentrated his mind and summoned all available strength to persevere.

Two hundred years of practice and all the hardships and difficulties were transformed into the motivation and resources that were necessary for success in the breakthrough.

Nine hundred and ninety-eight, nine hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand laps!

The failure that was on the verge of success did not happen. Lin Dayan successfully rotated the prototype of the golden elixir a thousand times and completed the sublimation of the golden elixir's magic power once.

The originally gray-green, bumpy fake pill turned into a regular real pill with a complete pill pattern, reaching the minimum standard for completing the second stage of pill formation and sublimating magic power.

Yes, this is just the minimum standard!

A golden elixir with a danwen is a low-grade golden elixir. The starting point of cultivation of a low-grade golden elixir in the golden elixir realm is very low, and the magic power is scattered. It is a long way to go to catch up with the middle-grade and high-grade golden elixirs.

Low-grade golden elixir also represents the limited potential of a golden elixir cultivator. They often progress very slowly, and any obstacles they encounter are big obstacles. It is extremely difficult to break through to the middle stage of the golden elixir.

This is also the reason why the majority of the cultivators in the immortal world are in the early stages of the Golden Core stage, because most of the Golden Core cultivators are of low-grade Golden Core, and it is extremely difficult for them to overcome the difficulties without the assistance of spiritual objects that can break through the realm, and even if they have spiritual objects that can break through the realm, they may not be able to successfully break through.

There are eight higher standards above this. The prototype of the golden elixir can be sublimated up to nine times, and the nine transformations of the golden elixir are the ultimate. After reaching the ultimate, one can awaken an exclusive minor magical power in advance.

However, it is important for people to know themselves. Lin Dayan knew that this was his limit and he never expected more.

"As long as it meets expectations, it's much better than a fake pill."

After condensing the prototype of the golden elixir, if it does not enter the stage of transformation and sublimation, it can be dispersed at no cost. However, once the transformation and sublimation begins, it is irreversible. Failure to transform and sublimate will permanently solidify the false elixir state.

What is the fake elixir realm?
Those who have the elixir form and have completed the solidification of spiritual power, but do not have the magic power of the golden elixir and their golden elixir is not complete are in the false elixir realm.

Fake elixir is a special product of failed elixir formation. Fake elixir cultivators are obviously much stronger than foundation-building cultivators, but they do not have the complete status of golden elixir and are not third-level creatures recognized by heaven and earth.

Why is the fake pill stronger than the ninth level of foundation building?
A fake pill is still a pill. The total spiritual power of a fake pill cultivator far exceeds that of a foundation-building cultivator. It even has some magical properties and can initially control ordinary magic weapons.

Using magic weapons to fight against foundation-building cultivators will naturally give you the advantage!

Generally speaking, fake elixir cultivators are stuck in the fake elixir realm forever, but the world is so big and full of wonders, and there are also some special spiritual objects that can dissolve the fake elixir and allow people to form the elixir again.

However, this method of refining fake pills also has many risks. After all, gambling is a normal thing, and nine out of ten times you lose. You have to gamble your remaining 100 years of life on it. Such heroes are rare.

There are actually not many fake elixir cultivators, because there are three situations in which the elixir fails, and only the product of the second situation is a fake elixir, which only adds an extra hundred years to the lifespan.

(The three failure scenarios are: failure to directly condense the pill, which results in no cost; failure to ascend and sublime, which results in permanent dummy pill state; and failure to survive the thunder tribulation, which results in annihilation.)
After taking the spiritual object that stabilized his golden elixir state and to avoid accidents, Lin Dayan began to regulate his breathing, recover his condition, and refine the two magic weapons prepared for him by his family to prepare for the thunder tribulation.

It’s not that the family can’t prepare more for him, but his personal foundation is limited and he can only control so many magic weapons.

The third level is also the most dangerous death calamity: the Sanjiu Thunder Tribulation!

When a living being crosses the second level, heaven and earth will not stop it, it will depend more on its own accumulation of energy and spirit.

However, third-order creatures already have the initial ability to move mountains and fill the sea, and can affect the ecological balance on a small scale. Therefore, the Heavenly Dao will send down thirty-nine thunder tribulations to increase the difficulty of breaking through and screen out some of them.

If you lose, you will be reduced to ashes!
If you succeed, you will receive even greater gifts from heaven and earth, and live for more than ten generations!
"Sanjiu" means "three times nine", which is a total of twenty-seven lightning strikes. This process is divided into three sections, each with nine three-level lightning strikes. The intensity is often not fixed and is closely related to the strength and potential of the person undergoing the tribulation.

The common saying in the world of immortal cultivation, "going against the will of heaven," comes from this. Because in order to move forward, one must constantly fight against the disasters of heaven and earth. Every major hurdle in the future will be met with thunder tribulations or similar heavenly tribulations.

But this is not right or wrong.

Those who truly "go against the will of Heaven" will surely die under a heavenly calamity! All living things are nurtured by Heaven and Earth. If Heaven wants you dead, how can you live?
Those who are alive are allowed to live by God’s will, without exception!
(End of this chapter)