Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 33 - Comprehending the Three Powers
"Just give it a try."

Lin Le looked at Liao Dong's corpse and said, as soon as he finished speaking, his blood energy ignited, and red light emanated from his body, almost tangible. From a distance, it looked like a round alchemy furnace enveloping Lin Le.

The qi and blood burned Lin Le's body like flames, slowly removing impurities as if forging iron.

Lin Le felt his strength steadily increasing.

Moreover, he clearly sensed his limit: 12,800 jin.

He turned to look at the giant snake emerging from a well: "What is the limit of the Body Refinement Realm?"

“By refining your qi and blood in a furnace, you will create a fake pill. Once this pill is complete, your strength will reach 12,800 jin,” the giant snake said, “instead of a maximum of 12,000 jin.”

"What if you had the strength to reach 12,800 jin first?" Lin Le asked.

"Hmm." The giant serpent pondered for a moment, "That means it condenses a fake core on its own. However, the natural physical limit is 12,800 jin. This situation seems to only occur in your human race's Dao Body and Treasure Body."

As they spoke, the essence within the corpses on the field transformed into billowing white smoke and surged into the giant snake's mouth. Then, it exhaled, gathering all the valuables on everyone's bodies.

Lin Le picked through the examples from before, leaving the rest for the giant snake: "I'm going somewhere else, can you come with me?"

"Tell me where we're going first?" the giant snake asked.

“Not far, Qinghu Town,” Lin Le said.

"That's possible," the giant snake nodded. "But what would you be doing there?"

"Let's lay low for a while." Lin Le tapped the floor tiles with his gun. "This is the Xiang family's power. I don't have the ability to fight against them all right now, so I can only go to a smaller place to cultivate in seclusion for a while."

"What deep-seated grudge do you have against the Xiang family?" the giant snake asked curiously.

“They killed my parents,” Lin Le said calmly.

"Oh." The giant snake nodded without asking any further questions. "Going to Qinghu Town is fine too. Do you have anything to pack? I can take you away right now. Also, some cultivators are already approaching us."

"Let's go now," Lin Le nodded.

"Then let's go!" The giant snake spat out a bubble, enveloping Lin Le, and then pulled him away.

Lin Le's gaze shifted rapidly, and by the time he regained his senses, he was already underwater.

Not long after Lin Le left, a cultivator flew into the Tongxin Society's headquarters.

Looking at the desiccated corpses scattered on the ground, he frowned, picked up a jade pendant, and said, "Elder, the situation is somewhat unexpected."

"What happened?" came the sound from the jade pendant.

"The Tongxin Society was destroyed; it seems that demons or evil cultivators were involved," the cultivator said.

"Hmm!" the elder exclaimed in surprise, "Are you sure?"

"Confirmed. The corpses have all had their life essence drained. This method can only be used by demonic cultivators or fairies." The cultivator confirmed.

"I'll ask Tu Shan Jun first, and see if one of his descendants has broken the agreement again." The elder said with displeasure, "A bunch of beasts, their appetites are really getting bigger and bigger, they even dare to touch our people!"

"Keep searching over there and see if there are any more clues."

"Yes."

In Qinghu Town, in an abandoned courtyard, a figure suddenly leaped out of a well.

After taking a few deep breaths to relieve the dizziness, Lin Le looked at the well opening, where the large snake inside spoke up: "If you want to contact me, you'll have to knock on the well nine times."

"Understood." Lin Le nodded.

The giant snake immediately sank into the well, seemingly busy digesting its contents.

Lin Le began to tally his spoils: over three thousand taels of silver, three bottles of Spirit Blood Pills, and one bottle of an unknown pill. However, after smelling it, Lin Le felt that it was probably a better pill than the Spirit Blood Pills.

Just by smelling the scent, he could feel his blood and energy become more active.

Then there are merits and karmic consequences of killing. Merits total 345 points, and karmic consequences of killing total 112 points.

Incidentally, Liao Dong alone provided 10 points of killing karma.

'It's a pity we didn't have time to raid Liao Dongjia's place,' Lin Le thought with a hint of regret.

If we ransack the house, we should be able to accumulate 160 points of killing karma.

Upon hearing that cultivators were coming, Lin Le knew they must be from the Xiang family.

Compared to Liao Dong, a cultivator who had just broken through to the next level, Lin Le remained cautious towards other cultivators. Cultivators were not all the same; even though there was a significant difference in cultivation realm between him and Liao Dong, Liao Dong was still easily defeated.

'But it's not too late to take action tonight.'

Lin Le pondered.

He deliberately chose to come to Qinghu Town, as he remembered that the Xiang family had a medicinal herb garden in the town.

Coincidentally, he was also in dire need of resources.

Lin Le looked at his merits and pondered what to improve. He had already perfected all his skills, and it seemed that he was only missing the Soul Refining stage.

But can soul refining work?
Lin Le decided to give it a try, even though he could sense that it was highly unlikely to work.

One thought, one year. At the beginning, Lin Le entered the fourth dhyana in one go, which also made Lin Le realize that at least ordinary human lotus seeds have no effect on soul refining.

However, these lotus seeds shouldn't be wasted, so Lin Le started thinking about other things and made some unexpected gains.

After regaining his senses, Lin Le picked up the gun, thrust it forward once, and then thrust it again.

Lin Le could clearly feel that the second thrust was faster.

"Power?" Lin Le muttered.

During the fourth meditation, because he was constantly facing lightning, Lin Le seemed to have gained some different insights, a feeling similar to when he first comprehended the Limit Breaking Technique.

This strange insight is quite metaphysical; from Lin Le's perspective in his previous life, calling it "momentum" seems more fitting.

Try to have another epiphany.

After consuming a lotus seed, Lin Le recalled the lightning he had witnessed while meditating, and then became completely absorbed in it.

However, after ten breaths, Lin Le exited the state.

Holding the gun, Lin Le thrust it out again, following that mysterious feeling. Whether it was an illusion or not, he seemed to see a wisp of electricity rise from the tip of the gun.

With a thought, a circle of auspicious cloud patterns gradually appeared from the three golden lotus seeds within the lotus flower.

Lin Le nurtured three lotus seeds with one pattern, then chose one to use, which led to enlightenment.

Lin Le felt as if his mind was close to heaven and earth, and he seemed to see the composition of the lightning.

Lin Le's mind returned to its previous state without him realizing it, but he was still immersed in the state of enlightenment and it took him a while to come back to his senses.

Lin Le gripped his gun and thrust it out again. This time, he truly grasped that elusive feeling, rather than the vague, elusive sensation that was always just out of reach.

The gun emitted a burst of lightning, tearing through the void, and Lin Le even smelled a faint burnt odor.

Another one-patterned lotus seed was consumed. Lin Le wanted to continue his enlightenment of lightning, but a warning suddenly came from his heart. If he continued to deepen his enlightenment, he seemed to merge with heaven and earth.

That would definitely not be a good thing for me.

Lin Le changed his focus, wanting to comprehend the spear. A sword has its own power, and a spear should have its own power as well.

But then I thought, what are guns and swords? They are weapons! And what are soldiers? They kill people!

Why did he kill? Because he wanted the victim to die!
At this thought, scenes of his former enemies' deaths flooded his mind, and those corpses rose up like evil spirits, roaring ferociously at Lin Le.

Lin Le ignored them; with each step he took forward, they were crushed to pieces.

When he came to his senses, Lin Le instinctively threw a punch.

A few meters away, a pink moth that was flying around suddenly fell down.

It's dead.

"The power of lightning, the power of slaughter," Lin Le said in a low voice. "Then let's add the power of ignition."

The last one-patterned lotus seed was consumed.

Lin Le's memory returned to the moment when he watched the bonfire.

The torch is passed down from generation to generation, and life continues endlessly.

Coming to his senses, Lin Le punched the ground, leaving a faint scorch mark.

(End of this chapter)