Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 69 - The Fourth Level of the Spiritual Platform
In the Lin family mansion, Lin Le used his internal supernatural powers to shake off the precious liquid of qi and blood.

The rich essence was rapidly generated and then quickly refined, turning into piles of jade stones.

As the last piece of jade fell, Lin Le re-examined his inner vision and separated the top-grade water elemental energy from the Primordial Spirit Elixir.

Blue gas droplets fell onto the spiritual platform, the shades of blue varying distinctly, moving like waves and expanding outwards.

"By noon tomorrow, I should be at the fourth level of the Lingtai realm."

Lin Le observed the progress and thought to himself.

The next day, Lin Le arrived at Danxia Pavilion and happened to see Zhou Ziyang talking to an old man.

Lin Le watched from the side, intending to wait until they finished talking before going in, but after waiting for a while and seeing no sign of them stopping their conversation, he had no choice but to go in as well.

When Zhou Ziyang saw Lin Le enter, he temporarily put down his conversation with the old man and said to Lin Le, "Master Zhou, you've arrived."

"Hmm." Lin Le nodded slightly, his attitude neither warm nor cold.

"Let me introduce you. This is Xiang Mingxuan, the alchemist sent by the Xiang family to oversee the medicinal herbs," Zhou Ziyang introduced to both sides. "This is our recently appointed alchemist, Zhou Botong."

Lin Le glanced at Xiang Mingxuan, maintaining his lukewarm attitude: "Hello, Master Xiang."

"Hello, Master Zhou." Xiang Mingxuan's attitude was also lukewarm.

"You two continue your conversation," Lin Le said. "Manager Zhou, send sixty portions of medicinal herbs to my place."

Zhou Ziyang agreed, "Okay."

Lin Le turned and left.

Xiang Mingxuan frowned and asked Zhou Ziyang, "Can you, as an alchemist, handle such a large quantity?"

Sixty batches a day is not something everyone can handle.

“Absolutely,” Zhou Ziyang said. “Master Zhou controlled the success rate of alchemy to one-third yesterday.”

The implication is that Lin Le's actual alchemy attempts today are unlikely to be sixty times; thirty or forty times might be enough.

The alchemists all knew perfectly well where the remaining twenty or thirty medicinal herbs had gone.

Xiang Mingxuan's brows relaxed: "You mean he's a registered employee?"

“Yes,” Zhou Ziyang said.

"Okay." Xiang Mingxuan nodded. "I understand."

In the alchemy room, Lin Le let Hun Tian Ling refine the pills herself, while he ate and digested the medicinal herbs at the same time.

Although the five layers of the Lingtai (spirit platform) cannot be built for the time being, the Tianmen (heavenly gate) and Huangting (yellow court) can still be built.

Even though he didn't use the cultivation resources in these two secret realms on a daily basis, Lin Le didn't touch the true qi they produced themselves, letting them cultivate on their own.

Thanks to the guidance of the Great Perfection, even without a large amount of resources, their cultivation progress is quite gratifying, and they are almost at the second level on their own.

The Huangting Secret Realm, carved from jade, has been transformed into a circular stone house, nine zhang and four chi wide, with a flat roof and walls that are slightly tilted three chi, on the original first floor.

Lin Le looked inward into the secret realm, pondered for a moment, and then wood element energy descended.

The cloud of energy disappeared within the second floor of the Yellow Court Building, and green threads spread rapidly outwards from the central stone pillar.

Lin Le continued refining the medicinal herbs.

This time it's the Heavenly Gate Secret Realm.

As pieces of jade fell, an octagonal stone platform, nine zhang in length and width, was formed. Then, the energy of metal fell down, gradually dyeing the stone platform gold.

Finally, there is the Lingtai Secret Realm.

Lin Le breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the blue light engulf the last vestige of emptiness.

The fourth level of the spiritual platform is complete!

At the eight corners of the Lingtai altar, eight identical sculptures of evil dragons were formed.

Lin Le circulated his true qi, passing through the four spiritual platforms. Water generates wood, wood generates fire, and even hotter fire-element true qi was poured into his body.

His strength increased again, and the Hun Tian Ling beside him returned to Lin Le's body, reverting to its most essential form—blood energy—and circulating within him. It wasn't until dusk that Lin Le felt his physical body reach its limit.

With his arms slightly outstretched, Lin Le felt the formidable strength of 50,400 jin within his body.

"Now, I should have no problem defeating a cultivator at the seventh level of the cultivation realm."

Lin Le estimated his own combat strength. Although he was at the second level and could contend with Tu Shanling at the sixth level, the transition from the sixth to the seventh level was a minor qualitative change.

In layman's terms, it means that the early stage of Qi Refining has entered the middle stage of Qi Refining.

Therefore, after advancing to the next level, Lin Le felt confident that he could contend with the Seventh Level.

However, we'll only know the actual results after the fight.

Stepping out of the alchemy room, Lin Le handed the pills he had refined that day to Zhou Ziyang: "Pay in cash."

Zhou Ziyang examined the pills and took out the spirit stones he had prepared beforehand: "Seven spirit stones, please keep them."

Lin Le accepted the spirit stones and then left.

But not long after he left, a stranger entered his alchemy room.

Xiang Mingxuan touched the alchemy furnace, then looked around, a hint of greed rising in his eyes.

When he left, he didn't see a black cat sitting on the roof, its emerald green eyes watching him.

With a wag of its tail, the black cat strolled between the eaves, appearing slow, but in the blink of an eye it had moved from one rooftop to another.

Xiang Mingxuan stepped out of the sedan chair and went into a farm outside the city.

The black cat followed it inside, but the people around it acted as if they didn't see it.

Illusion spell, a lower-level transformation spell, was something Lin Le naturally learned when he studied transformation spell.

Following Xiang Mingxuan into a room, Lin Le, now a black cat, quietly watched as he handed the refined pills to another middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man counted the pills and nodded in satisfaction: "As expected of Danxia Pavilion, their efficiency is truly high."

"Ling Shan, I have something else to report," Xiang Mingxuan said in a low voice. "I may have discovered the murderer who killed us."

The middle-aged man frowned: "What do you mean?"

"A certified alchemist has arrived at Danxia Pavilion. He's very skilled," Xiang Mingxuan said. "He's at least at the sixth level of the cultivation realm. He refined forty or fifty batches of pills without showing any signs of fatigue."

“I asked him, and he only joined a few days ago. Moreover, his whereabouts are unknown, and they don’t know where he lives.”

Xiang Lingshan's pupils contracted: "Are you sure?"

"Confirmed!" Xiang Mingxuan nodded.

"Great! If it's true, Third Uncle, you've done a great service." The middle-aged man excitedly patted Xiang Mingxuan on the shoulder. "I'll go and inform the clan right away."

"Wait, Ling Shan." Xiang Mingxuan pulled Xiang Ling Shan back. "Let's talk about it in a few days."

"Why?" Xiang Lingshan asked, puzzled.

Xiang Mingxuan said in a tone of disappointment, "Blood Soldier Pills, let him refine more Blood Soldier Pills, then our mission won't be so heavy."

As he spoke, he pointed to the pills on the table, but Mingxuan looked surprised.

A black cat was seen using its tail to curl up the pill bottle and put the pills into its mouth.

Where did this black cat come from?
Xiang Mingxuan was puzzled, but quickly became angry, after all, that was his achievement.

Without thinking, he slapped the black cat, intending to smash it into a pulp.

With a nimble leap, the black cat carried all the medicine bottles away.

boom!
The table was smashed to pieces by Xiang Mingxuan.

The black cat landed on the roof, looked at Xiang Mingxuan, and revealed a human-like, mocking smile.

(End of this chapter)