Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 158 - Stabilizing the Ancient World
Looking at the three thousand Heavenly Dao Merits, Lin Le chose to use them all to enhance his comprehension.

Luck is too ethereal and elusive. Compared to illusory benefits, Lin Le believes more in tangible benefits. Moreover, Lin Le doesn't think that these three thousand Heavenly Dao Merits can bring much luck.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to kill those Golden Core cultivators one by one.

The twelve lotus seeds formed from the merits of Heaven dissipated, but Lin Le did not feel any change in his head.

"We'll find out soon enough with an experiment," Lin Le said, turning his gaze to a two-patterned human lotus seed.

Nine thousand merits of humanity were poured into the lotus platform, and the two lotus seeds of humanity sprouted another auspicious cloud pattern.

The three-patterned lotus seeds evaporated, and Lin Le was trapped in a single thought for twenty-seven years.

During those twenty-seven years, he painstakingly studied the last chapter of the Daoist guide he had obtained from Qingli, the Golden Elixir Chapter.

This progress was very rapid. In addition to a certain improvement in his comprehension, Lin Le felt that he might have already grasped the essence of immortality.

After all, true meaning is something that can only be reached in the late stage of the Golden Core realm.

After mastering the essence of immortality, Lin Le found the Dao Guiding Golden Elixir Chapter exceptionally simple when he looked back at it.

Twenty-seven years have passed, and Lin Le has directly reached the Great Perfection of the Dao Guiding Golden Core Chapter, and his Immortal True Meaning has also improved considerably.

Opening his eyes, Lin Le took a light breath. A large number of spirit stones turned into ashes, and the spiritual energy within them condensed into a bundle, which Lin Le inhaled and then absorbed into the three secret realms.

The magical power, along with the golden core, rotates, transforming the absorbed spiritual energy into the purest spiritual essence for the golden core to absorb.

Lin Le's physical body and spiritual consciousness, which had been improving slowly, began to improve rapidly.

An hour later, Lin Le exhaled and completed the first transformation of his Golden Core.

Looking inward, the three golden pills were spinning continuously at a rate of one revolution per breath.

This is the advancement of the Golden Core realm, marked by the number of rotations in one breath.

Through introspection, the three kinds of precious liquids slid down from the three lotus leaves.

The energy they transformed into was instantly crushed by the three golden cores, turning into the purest particles for Lin Le's body, magic power, and divine consciousness to absorb.

Fifteen minutes later, Lin Le stepped out of the hot spring. The Hun Tian Ling entered his body, transforming into the purest blood energy and merging with Lin Le's flesh.

Lin Le clenched his fist and waved it lightly, causing visible ripples to spread through the air.

The power of fifteen elephants.

'My skills need to be improved again.'

Lin Le thought to himself.

After the physical body is stabilized by the Golden Core, the physical limit is greatly improved, and the physical limit of the Golden Core realm is the Hundred Elephant Savage Dragon.

The Savage Dragon is the most powerful sub-dragon among dragon species. It is also one of the few Golden Core cultivators who can rival a true dragon in terms of physical strength. One Savage Dragon is equivalent to one hundred Primordial Elephant dragons.

Just as Lin Le was about to use his divine sense, he felt a suction force between his eyebrows drawing his divine sense in.

Looking inward, one sees that the gland known as the pineal gland in the previous life has been completely transformed into jade and is emitting a white glow.

Under that radiance, Lin Le noticed some subtle changes in the flesh between his eyebrows.

He projected his divine sense and scanned his body, and saw two S-shaped red lines intersecting between his eyebrows, with a dot of cinnabar in the middle, resembling vertical eyes.

'Spiritual Eyes'

The name automatically came to Lin Le's mind. This could also be considered his innate supernatural ability. By using his divine sense to see the outside world, he could see things in a more realistic way.

"Does this mean that mountains don't resemble mountains, and water doesn't resemble water?"

Lin Le scanned the soil and stones, and could see the faint spirituality contained within them.

Just looking at them, Lin Le seemed to have gained some insight. At first glance, it seemed like he had some, but upon closer inspection, he realized he didn't.

Lin Le was very familiar with this feeling, just like when he first comprehended the power.

'So that's how it is; the merits I've accumulated through the Heavenly Way have strengthened my affinity with Heaven and Earth.'

At this moment, Lin Le fully understood where the Heavenly Dao's merits and virtues were primarily enhancing his abilities.

People's comprehension also varies. Just as some people can write poetry in a day, others can grasp the essence of martial arts in a day.

The merits of Heaven enhanced Lin Le's understanding of the more ethereal and elusive rules of Heaven and Earth.

Having severed this understanding, Lin Le didn't delve any deeper. The four fundamental truths within him were enough for him to comprehend; there was no need for another one.

Lin Le did not use any more merit, after all, he needed a more profound foundation to comprehend what he was about to comprehend.

Lin Le took out eight golden pills and threw them to the embroidered ball.

The hydrangeas scooped them up and quickly digested them.

Lin Le then threw out all the spiritual artifacts and magical implements of these Golden Core cultivators. The Karmic Fire Crimson Lotus Spear automatically flew towards these spiritual artifacts, attacking them again and again.

It is eating.

After absorbing the Myriad Weapons Furnace as its foundation, it gained a strange ability to absorb the spirituality of other magical artifacts.

After sorting the medicinal herbs and spiritual materials, Lin Le threw the three spiritual items into the leopard skin pouch.

The first item was the Water Spirit Pearl, which the Liu family had clearly obtained from the Kan Shui land in the leopard skin bag. The other two were unexpected surprises, found in the Golden Core storage bag. As for whose they were, Lin Le was too lazy to think about it; they were already in his hands, so why bother thinking about anything else?

These two items are an Earth Spirit Pearl and a Wood Spirit Pearl. Lin Le wasn't too surprised by these two spiritual objects, as spirit pearls are very common among spiritual objects in the world.

Moreover, the legendary holy lands and sects seem to possess the ability to reliably create such spiritual objects.

The three spiritual items were put into the bag, and the leopard skin bag, which was originally three thousand feet wide but was now only thirty feet wide, was about to expand again, but Lin Le stopped it.

Thirty feet in height and width is enough for him; there is no need to expand it further.

Lin Le used the excess spiritual energy in the leopard skin to nurture spiritual materials and plants anew.

Previously, there were no spiritual materials or plants in the leopard skin pouch; it was actually used to maintain and expand its capacity.

In its instinct, increasing capacity is the primary task, rather than nurturing spiritual materials and plants.

After tidying up their things, Lin Le began to read the jade slips and books they carried with them.

A day later, Lin Le looked up and shifted his gaze from the book in his hand to the blue and white dragon and snake in the hot spring.

The unstable aura indicated that she was attempting to break through to the Golden Core stage.

Lin Le waited without the slightest worry. If Qing Li failed, there would be almost no Golden Core cultivators left in the world.

Fifteen minutes later, Qingli's breathing became stable.
Lin Le was slightly distracted, realizing that he had gained another hundred Heavenly Merits.

Lin Le's lips twitched slightly as he thought to himself, 'So they're going to use that rebate scheme?'

Lin Le stroked his chin, pondered a few possibilities for a moment, and then stopped thinking about it.

His immediate priority is to rapidly increase his strength and repay his debt to Heaven, or wait until his strength increase slows down before considering other options.

'Only one hundred merits? No wonder the human race is so prosperous.' Lin Le's thoughts drifted slightly.

In ancient times, there were three thousand gods and demons who roamed freely, and they were the ancestors of the demon race.

They had no concept of etiquette, and acted recklessly and mated at will, thus giving birth to countless races.

Gods and demons have lifespans; even if they live for tens of millions of years, they cannot resist the passage of time and will die one by one.

In order to avoid death, they began to study various methods, and the most rudimentary path of cultivation emerged during this period, while the demon race grew stronger.

Ultimately, the two primordial gods and demons, Xi Huang with a dragon's head and a human body, and Nuwa with a human head and a snake's body, jointly deduced the Great Dao of Creation, broke the original shackles of the Heavenly Dao, and successfully transcended.

Their creation was the "human being" formed by combining parts of each other's bodies.

With the precedents of Xi Huang and Nuwa, the primordial gods and demons had a path forward, but very few succeeded.

Aside from the transcendent gods and demons, after all the innate gods and demons had died out, the demon race, which still possessed some of the power of the innate gods and demons, became the protagonists of this world. Among them, the three largest demon races were the Dragon Race, the Phoenix Race, and the Qilin Race, which occupied the land and water.

With no way forward, the three races began to fight for the position of overlord of the world. During this time, the human race also grew stronger and learned the way of cultivation, which they continued to improve.

By the time the demon race discovered this, the human race had already become a force no weaker than the three major races.

Jealous of the human race's rapid cultivation speed, the demon race launched a great war against the human race.

After a long war, it was the human race that ultimately occupied the most fertile region in the world, driving the demon race to a remote corner.

The specific details of the experience will not be discussed for the time being, but Lin Le has come to understand one thing today: luck is definitely an important factor in the victory of the human race.

Others don't have his ability to utilize the merits of Heaven, so those merits are now only used for the most basic purpose: to enhance one's fortune.

Humans were the first to fully implement the path of cultivation, so it's natural that they received the world's favor.

Even if the demon race popularizes the path of cultivation in the later stages, there will be no possibility of catching up, because the human race has three great secret realms to cultivate in, which can bring three benefits to the world, while the demon race will only ever have one.

Furthermore, the demon race was still in a state of division in the later stages, so it's normal that they couldn't defeat the human race.

Shaking his head to clear his mind, Lin Le transformed all the merits of the hundred days into enlightenment, watching Qing Li's body gradually transform into a human.

Compared to her previous appearance, Qingli's appearance and figure have changed significantly. After all, she had only used a transformation technique to become human before, which was not her true appearance.

After a Golden Core cultivator transforms into human form, although the demon race has the ability to interfere with the changes in appearance, they can't interfere much, because the transformation reveals the most authentic side of the demon.

Qingli walked towards Lin Le step by step, her jade-like body appearing before him.

"How is it? Does it look good?" Qingli ran her fingers through her jet-black hair, her voice tinged with trepidation.

Lin Le looked Qing Li up and down, then stroked his chin: "Beautiful, very pretty!"

Her appearance has indeed changed quite a bit. She used to have an oval face, but now she has a full oval face. Her former cold and charming beauty is gone, replaced by a more dignified demeanor.

The features that used to look like a doll now have more vitality; in other words, they look more like a human.

Her figure had become slightly slimmer than before, and Lin Le felt a little regretful as she looked at the part that had shrunk.

"Really?" Qingli said, "But this place is so small, you definitely won't like it."

“I like it, and yours has only shrunk a bit,” Lin Le comforted her. “Your current size is already very good. Before, when it was so big, it was actually a bit deformed.”

"Is that so?" Qingli knelt down. "Then let me see if your body is convincing enough?"

(End of this chapter)