Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 157 Transcending the Refinement of Treasures
Lin Le drew his spear, suppressed the strange phenomena, and cleaned up the battlefield.

After finishing packing, Lin Le looked up at the sky and said, "Let's go to the cave!"

After saying that, he rushed towards the Tearful Woman River, but Lin Le did not plan to go to the Xuanling Temple.

The Fire Crystal must be on Chi Lingzi, who is a seventh-level Golden Core cultivator, even stronger than Liu Cheng'an.

He's already struggling to even defeat Liu Cheng'an, let alone the even stronger Chi Lingzi.

Seeing this, Qingli in the sky also flew in that direction.

Soon, the two arrived at the riverbank.

The formation that had divided the river had long since been removed, and the river flowed swiftly down, covering the cave.

However, this did not stump Lin Le and Qing Li.

With a water-avoidance spell, they easily arrived at the cave.

Lin Le glanced at it and noticed that the open bronze door was actually showing signs of closing.

Fortunately, there should be enough time.

“Let’s go in,” Lin Le said.

Qingli was taken aback: "I can't get in, can I?"

That barrier is meant to block beings under the age of thirty, and she was already over thirty.

"Not necessarily." Lin Le shook his head. "Not thirty years old, but a toddler."

"Toddler?" Qingli was taken aback, then her body swayed as Lin Le pulled her inside.

As expected, Qingli entered the cave.

"What's going on?" Qingli looked at Lin Le in confusion.

"I don't know, it's possible that Chi Lingzi and the others made a mistake." Lin Le shook his head and said, "From what I've seen, this space is restricted to beings whose age is less than one-tenth of their race's lifespan, that is, infants."

“Racial lifespan? I see.” Qingli nodded thoughtfully. “Then I think I know why they said thirty.”

“In ancient times, the innate spiritual energy was abundant, and all things had long lifespans. Your human race had a lifespan of three hundred years. However, as the number of living beings increased, the innate spiritual energy gradually turned into ordinary spiritual energy, and lifespans decreased.”

"This cave is an ancient relic, and its detection mechanism is still from ancient times. It's not wrong to say it's thirty years old."

"I see." Lin Le nodded, but wasn't too curious. "I'm going to refine this place. You can help me from the side."

"Refinement?" Qingli glanced at the surrounding area. "Is this a blessed land?"

“No.” Lin Le shook his head. “This is a space inside a magical artifact.”

"A treasure!" Qingli exclaimed in surprise, looking up at the world around her. It was so vast and could sustain human life; only a treasure could possess such power.

With his divine sense expanding, Lin Le saw one small restriction after another in the world. He channeled his magical power into them and quickly refined them.

However, Lin Le's refining triggered an instinctive backlash from this space, with hurricanes, fires, lightning snakes, and all sorts of strange phenomena attacking Lin Le.

The Qiankun Ring, the Yin-Yang Twin Swords, the Embroidered Ball, and other magical artifacts flew out, each displaying its supernatural power to defend against the attack. Seeing this, Qingli also stepped in to defend Lin Le.

However, with multiple magical artifacts attacking simultaneously and a large amount of mana being consumed to refine the treasures, Lin Le felt his mana being depleted like a whale sucking up water.

Ignoring the pain, Lin Le took out a high-grade spirit stone, put it in his mouth, and absorbed and refined the spiritual energy to supply his consumption.

In Lin Le's three secret realms, the increase and consumption of magical power seemed to generate a force that caused the steady and immobile golden core to begin to slowly rotate.

The spirituality carried by the spiritual energy was rapidly absorbed and compressed.

This inhalation and exhalation perfectly aligns with the most ancient method of cultivating the Golden Elixir.

After spending ten high-grade spirit stones, Lin Le finally finished refining all the minor restrictions and completely gained control of this space.

The wind and fire subsided, and the space immediately became quiet.

Lin Le let out a breath and summoned all his magical treasures back.

"Did you succeed?" Qingli asked as she landed in front of Lin Le.

"It's a success." Lin Le nodded, then took Qing Li's hand.

With a thought, the environment around the two changed instantly, falling from a bright space to a dim one.

This dimly lit space was quite small, only about ten feet in diameter, which was inconsistent with the ten-foot-high bronze gate outside.

More importantly, Lin Le and Qing Li both felt much more pressure than usual throughout their bodies, as if they were stuffed into a compressed air tank with extremely high air pressure.

Fortunately, both of them had extremely strong physical bodies and had completed the Foundation Establishment stage. Apart from feeling slightly uncomfortable, they were not in any danger.

As if sensing something, Qingli reached out and grabbed a small snake.

Then the space began to expand, with its height and width gradually increasing to one hundred zhang.

"What is this?" Lin Le asked curiously, looking at the small, intangible snake in Qing Li's hand.

Qingli clenched her fist tightly, and the small snake disintegrated, forming a square crystal.

Her eyes sparkled as she gazed at the crystal: "The Space Stone, a spatial artifact."

"Now you have all the spiritual items you need to advance to the Golden Core stage." Lin Le nodded with a smile.

"Hmm." Qingli nodded, put away the Yu Zhi Stone, and looked around. "Where's the treasure?" "It's here." Lin Le patted the brocade pouch with leopard print at his waist.

Then Lin Le seemed to sense something, and his expression changed slightly.

Seeing this, Qingli couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"Without the spiritual energy supplied by the spirit creatures, it has begun to shrink," Lin Le said helplessly.

"Ah!" Qingli exclaimed in surprise, and quickly said, "Should I put the spirit item in to hold out for a while?"

"No need, just maintain it with magic regularly," Lin Le said, shaking his head.

This treasure is a leopard skin pouch with four characteristics, the first of which is the most basic storage function.
The second characteristic is that the space can be continuously expanded by continuously inputting spiritual energy, which is also the reason for the contraction, because the last spiritual object, the Stone of the Universe, was also taken away by Qingli.

The third characteristic is spirit transformation, which can absorb spiritual objects and create suitable environments. These environments can also produce some special products such as spiritual materials, spiritual plants, or mystic crystals.

The fourth characteristic is its ability to absorb air, allowing it to continuously draw in external air, which is why some plants can exist.

Lin Le went to check the gate and, finding that he couldn't control it, gave up the idea of ​​staying in seclusion.

After scanning the space with his divine sense and memorizing all the information, Lin Le said to Qing Li, "Let's leave here first."

"Okay." Qingli nodded.

The two flew out of the gate, concealing their figures, and finally Lin Le led Qing Li towards Anzhu County.

The Dao soldiers and spirit generals who remained in Anzhu County have been completely eliminated, so the main force will most likely guess that he has gone to other counties or state cities.

At this time, Anzhu County was considered safe for them, and the spiritual land of Muxia Mountain was the most suitable place for him and Qingli to cultivate in seclusion.

Searching in other states is time-consuming and laborious, so it's unnecessary.

Even with the main force present, Lin Le wasn't too afraid. After all, based on Guan Wenzhong's description and the memories obtained after Huo Yunzi's death using the Soul Search Technique, the main force was Hong Lingzi, who was on par with Liu Cheng'an.

Even if he can't win, he can still escape.

Compared to the slow journey there, Lin Le only took half a day to get back to Muxia Mountain.

However, that sacred land still has no new owner. Perhaps Lin Le's infamous reputation is too great, and for the time being, no one dares to covet this land.

But this is for the best, so that Lin Le won't have to physically kick people out.

Lin Le opened his mouth and exhaled, and the Yin-Yang Twin Swords enveloped the entire Twilight Mountain, simultaneously guarding the surroundings and absorbing the essence of the sun and moon to slowly increase his power.

Inside the pool, Qingli and Lin Le entered a meditative state, one preparing to break through to the Golden Core stage, and the other preparing to stabilize their realm.

Meanwhile, Hun Tian Ling was accumulating spirit stones on the side, occasionally hoping to turn around and look at Lin Le, because this was related to whether it could be promoted to a low-grade spirit weapon.

After Lin Le reached the limit of the Foundation Establishment Realm, it also became a completely top-grade magic weapon, giving birth to its fourth characteristic, Hun Tian, ​​which means chaos in the heavenly secrets.

Lin Le felt quite helpless about the fact that a spiritual artifact had such characteristics, probably because of the initial confusion of spiritual light.

It's worth noting that the Hun Tian Ling was originally born from the spiritual light of the Heavenly Gate, so it's understandable that it developed some mystical characteristics. The indestructibility of the Qiankun Ring and the Hunyuan of the Yin Yang Sword are probably similar. The former is the spiritual light of the Lingtai, and the latter is the spiritual light of the Huangting. Their characteristics happen to align with two stereotypes.

Lin Le glanced at the inner vision of his supernatural power. His killing karma was nearly 70,000, while his human merits had increased rather than decreased, rising to 160,000, and his earthly merits were only 7,000.

The Heavenly Way has three thousand merits.

As for why he had these three thousand Heavenly Dao Merits, it was naturally because Lin Le obtained them when he advanced to the Golden Core stage.

The void at the time of advancement is actually chaos, the chaos that gives birth to the world. Every successful advancement of a Golden Core adds a trace of the source of existence to this world.

Lin Le cultivated three paths, and the resulting essence was three strands, which naturally gave him the merit of three thousand Heavenly Daos.

Lin Le pondered the effects of Heavenly Dao merit, a thoughtful look appearing in his eyes.

Its primary function is to enhance one's fortune; even its mere existence enhances Lin Le's fortune.

The second effect is to enhance comprehension; after permanent consumption, it will increase Lin Le's comprehension.

The third function is transcendence. After Lin Le becomes a true immortal, he needs to pay 300 billion Heavenly Dao merits to transcend this world, while other true immortals need 100 billion Heavenly Dao merits to transcend.

This was the price he paid to obtain the lotus incarnation.

Lin Le pushed it up a bit. Even after becoming a True Immortal, his merits were only 30 billion. Subtracting 30 billion from 300 billion left a shortfall of 27 billion for him to make up.

In other words, he would have to reincarnate nine times and become a true immortal in each of those lifetimes.

'It's a bit like Buddhism making a grand vow, first borrowing the power of Heaven, and then carrying out the great vow,' Lin Le thought to himself.

After all, if Lin Le were to rank the power of the lotus incarnation, it would undoubtedly be the supreme divine power.

It's normal that he, a mere mortal, possessed such great power, and therefore had to pay a higher price.

"Fortunately, this goal is much more realistic than grand ambitions like 'Hell will never be empty,'" Lin Le sighed.

Compared to a general goal, as long as there is a progress bar, there is no need to be too desperate.

After all, once one becomes a true immortal, one lives as long as heaven and earth. If one finds a fixed way to obtain Heavenly Dao merits, even if it's just a little bit a day, it's nothing more than... 740 million years.

After calculating this number, Lin Le couldn't help but fall silent, knowing that his previous world had only existed for 4.5 billion years.

Thinking of this, Lin Le couldn't help but shake his head. Why think so much? Right now, he was only at the minor Golden Core stage, which was actually just the foundation-laying stage in the real cultivation world.

Let me set a small goal first: to become a true immortal within ten thousand years!

(End of this chapter)