A mortal cultivating immortality can nurture spirit beasts.

"call……"

Lin He took a deep breath, finally having defeated a formidable enemy. "Thanks to the ancient book Ru Yin gave me, and this Azure Water Armor Formation!"

This ancient book contains a lot of information about spirit beast formations, including a formation called the Spirit Beast Battle Formation.

Ancient cultivators also kept spirit beasts. Moreover, in ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was very dense. At that time, the demon race had not invaded, and there was no need to borrow the pure spiritual energy of the human world to suppress and purify the demonic energy.

In this way, the ancient cultivators could cultivate spirit beasts much faster than today. As a result, some ancient cultivators developed this spirit beast battle formation. This formation can combine the magical attacks of multiple spirit beasts of the same level and type, concentrate the power at one point and then unleash it, so that its power is naturally infinite.

However, this formation has two major difficulties. The first is how to cultivate multiple spirit beasts of the same type with similar cultivation levels, but this is not a problem for Lin He at all.

Secondly, it consumes a great deal of spiritual energy. Once this technique is used, combat ability will decline significantly, since spiritual energy is needed to control magical artifacts, formations, and spirit beasts.

At this time, Lin He, with his Foundation Establishment cultivation, could only control a maximum of twelve spirit beasts. However, after just one attack, Lin He felt dizzy and unable to continue. His spiritual energy was almost completely depleted, which was why he was willing to risk everything to obtain the Great Evolution Technique.

"This place is not safe to stay any longer; let's return to Yellow Maple Valley first."

He put away the Azure Armor Formation, naturally took the storage bag of the Xu family patriarch, and of course did not leave the Soul Gathering Banner and the Seven-Colored Peak behind. However, the earth-yellow flying sword had lost much of its spiritual power due to the attack just now and was no longer of great use, which was a bit of a pity. But Lin He still took it away to avoid leaving any flaws. As for the storage bag, of course he could not take it away and could only dig a pit and bury it on the spot.

He casually unleashed a fireball to destroy the corpse and then a wind blade to disperse all the remaining traces. Only then did he step onto the Divine Wind Boat, and a white light shot into the sky before quickly disappearing.

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Yue Kingdom, Huangfeng Valley

Lin He entered the cave, where Senior Sister Chen was already waiting. Seeing his travel-worn appearance, she quickly brewed a pot of tea.

"Are you tired? Let me massage your shoulders."

Sister Chen must have learned her skills from somewhere, because the massage made Lin He feel quite comfortable. While drinking tea, Lin He was getting a massage, and he was living the comfortable life of a landlord.

After kneading for a while, Lin He suddenly stood up. Senior Sister Chen immediately understood, rolled her eyes at him, and then lowered her head.

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Three days later, Lin He took out everything he had obtained from this trip and began to count his spoils in his cave.

He obtained the fourth level of the Great Evolution Technique from Senior Brother Lin and a late-stage Foundation Establishment giant tiger puppet from Huang Long. As for the male and female protectors, they didn't have anything good on them, not even many spirit stones. It seems that the spirit stones were used to make puppets. Huang Long and Senior Brother Lin were the same.

Originally, the four of them had at least five or six hundred puppets, but more than two hundred were destroyed by the Xu family patriarch, leaving only more than three hundred puppets. Among them, there were twenty giant ape puppets in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, which made Lin He quite satisfied.

Next up were the treasures on the Xu family patriarch's body. The Soul Gathering Banner and the Seven-Colored Peak were naturally precious magical treasures. In addition, Lin He also found more than 300 mid-grade spirit stones, various materials and magical artifacts. However, he couldn't find any classic texts on formations, which was a bit of a pity.

"These things are all stolen goods, it would be better to find an opportunity to take them to the Chaotic Star Sea to dispose of them."

Six months later, Lin He finally mastered the first level of the Great Evolution Technique, and could control more than a dozen puppets at a time.

Since Senior Brother Lin had not been able to return to the valley for half a year, various rumors began to circulate in the valley. Some said he died in the internal strife of the Thousand Bamboo Sect, while others said he was killed by a passing Core Formation cultivator.

Regardless of the circumstances, no one has offered to investigate the truth and avenge Lin's sudden disappearance.

This senior brother Lin was not well-liked in the valley and had no close friends. No one was bored enough to stand up for him, so the matter was left unresolved.

As for how the Tianxing Sect handled the disappearance of the Xu family patriarch, Lin He had no idea.

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Cultivation knows no time, and three years passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, the gate of Linhe's cave opened, and a white light shot into the sky, rushing towards the underground mine. Linhe, with Lan Chou in tow, quickly walked out of the concealment formation, and then, holding the Great Teleportation Token, teleported to the Chaotic Star Sea.

It was still the same old house. This time, Lin He was familiar with the direction and flew towards Kui Xing City without any delay.

Kui Xing City

Lin He first went to the shop to sell all the magical artifacts he had acquired. Then he went to the agreed location, where two beautiful figures were already waiting. They were Nangong Wan and Xin Ruyin.

In five years, Nangong Wan's cultivation level improved slightly, but Xin Ruyin had risen from the ninth level of Qi Refining to the thirteenth level. Moreover, her complexion seemed to have improved a lot, and she no longer looked as sickly as before.

"Wan'er!"

Five years had passed, and Nangong Wan still possessed the same stunning beauty as before. Lin He couldn't help but stroke her face. Nangong Wan's eyes, too, were filled with tenderness. She then created a soundproof barrier before speaking.

"Lin He, guess what this is?"

Nangong Wan took out several storage bags and handed them to Lin He. The latter took them and probed them with his divine sense. He was overjoyed to find that they were full of spirit stones, including about a hundred high-grade spirit stones and more than a thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

"You found it?"

Nangong Wan nodded with delight, "It took us several years to finally find it. We even set up a concealment formation there so that it wouldn't be easily discovered."

Lin He nodded, then looked at Xin Ruyin and asked, "Ruyin, you look much better. Did you perhaps have some other good fortune and obtain some ancient elixir?"

"Ancient elixirs aren't so easy to obtain," Xin Ruyin said, her smile barely concealed. "I just happened to kill a white egret fish demon, and the icy power within its core was just enough to suppress the dragon's roar energy within me."

"I see. Then you can try to establish your foundation."

Xin Ruyin shook her head and said, "Not yet. I can only try Foundation Establishment when my master's cultivation reaches the late stage of Core Formation."

Nangong Wan said confidently, "According to my original estimate, it would take at least fifty or sixty years of hard training to reach the late stage of Core Formation. But now the situation has changed. If we cultivate there in seclusion, I think it should take less than twenty years."

Lin He did not refute, but instead tacitly agreed with Nangong Wan's statement. With the help of high-grade spirit stones every day, it was not a problem for his cultivation speed to increase rapidly under such a unique opportunity.

Nangong Wan and Xin Ruyin's meaning was simple: since there was a place like Biling Island, they should go there immediately to cultivate in seclusion.

But Lin He shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to go now, but it's because of one person—Jin Yuan Sanren!"