Chapter 74 Breakthrough_1
Time swiftly passed, and it had already been half a year since the Spirit Testing Conference.
The Lin Family was very calm, operating in an orderly fashion.
Following the example set by Lin Tianming and others in monster hunting, the clan's interest in hunting demonic beasts greatly increased.
In this half-year period, the family formed two monster hunting squads, which went to the outskirts of the Luoyun Mountain Range for experience and training.
The first batch of family members who joined the hunting squads received generous rewards, and nearly all of them began to cultivate in seclusion.
The older generation of cultivators was also busy. Lin Shikang, the person with the highest cultivation in the family and its guardian, also cultivated diligently, striving to make further progress.
As the family's only Second Order Artifact Refiner, Lin Shilu was extremely busy, toiling in both cultivation and artifact refinement, turning large amounts of demonic beast materials and Qingling Bamboo into spiritual artifacts.
Lin Shigong successfully entered the Foundation Establishment Stage and began to try his hand at refining Second Order Pills, eager to quickly produce elixirs to assist his clan members in their cultivation.
Clan Leader Lin Shihua was also actively managing the family, selling large quantities of First Order Spiritual Tools and various artifact materials in exchange for a significant amount of spiritual medicine materials and elixirs. He bought various talisman papers to subsidize family members, accelerating their cultivation while also refining spiritual artifacts for them and handing out talisman papers to enhance their combat methods.
In anticipation of a foreseeable crisis, the Lin Family was secretly accumulating strength to face the unknown dangers ahead.
All family members were cultivating with great effort, desperately wishing to break through to the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage so they could exchange for a Minor Foundation Building Pill and attempt Foundation Establishment.
The newly inducted family members lived fulfilling lives, learning basic cultivation knowledge every day at the Skill Transmission Hall.
Under Lin Shigang's guidance, the family members who had just embarked on the path of cultivation were growing rapidly, and their sense of belonging to the Lin Family was gradually strengthening. It wouldn't be long before they could fully integrate into the family.
Lin Tianhu cultivated with great dedication, his aspiration toward the Dao firm and resilient. Having completed the basic knowledge, he attempted Qi Introduction into his body.
Because he possessed a Metal Attribute Spiritual Root, the one with the highest affinity, he naturally cultivated the family's Mysterious Grade Technique, the Three Stars Spirit Sword Technique.
Inside a secret chamber of a small courtyard, Lin Tianhu sat cross-legged on a mat, adjusting himself to the optimal state.
Since he had already committed the incantations and mental techniques of the Cultivation Technique to memory, he attempted to circulate the technique, meditatively sensing the Spiritual Energy around him.
After trying for over ten days, he had yet to succeed.
As the eighteenth day passed, Lin Tianhu showed no sign of slackening, continuing his cultivation in the secret chamber aside from his required daily studies.
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After nineteen days of unwavering effort, he finally succeeded in sensing a faint gold-tinged Spiritual Energy in the air.
Lin Tianhu patiently guided the Spiritual Energy into his body, converging it in his Qi Sea Dantian.
Several days passed, and after over a hundred failures, he finally succeeded in introducing a thread of Spiritual Energy into his body, reaching the First Level of Qi Refining and becoming a qualified cultivator.
After rejoicing, he stabilized his progress and then left the secret chamber to go to the Skill Transmission Hall, seeking out Lin Shigang to record his achievement.
Upon hearing Lin Tianhu's report, Lin Shigang was greatly surprised and hastily asked Lin Tianhu to demonstrate his achievement.
Lin Tianhu pinched his fingers together and a strand of Spiritual Energy danced at his fingertips, indeed successfully achieving Qi Introduction.
Lin Shigang was very comforted and highly satisfied.
Lin Tianhu indeed worked extremely hard, and his speed of cultivation was remarkable. It took him only twenty-two days to successfully introduce Qi into his body, nearly comparable to Lin Tianming.
Lin Tianming had Dual Spiritual Roots and grew up on Green Bamboo Mountain. Influenced by his parents' long-term guidance, he took just sixteen days to achieve Qi Introduction, breaking a record that had stood for hundreds of years in the Lin Family.
Ordinary cultivators with Three Spiritual Roots would be considered exceptional if they achieved Qi Introduction within a month.
Those with Four Spiritual roots were slower still, and there were many cultivators with Five Spirit Roots who took half a year or more. There were even cases of Loose Cultivators without guidance who failed to achieve it even after decades.
Lin Tianhu, who succeeded in just twenty-three days, could be ranked in the top five in the history of the Lin Family, illustrating his high talent and understanding, marking him as a promising seedling worthy of great cultivation effort from the family.
Having informed Lin Tianhu to go to the Hall of Merit to claim the family benefits and urged him to diligently cultivate, Lin Tianhu once again immersed himself in arduous cultivation.
The Lin Family was operating methodically, with all its members rapidly growing stronger.
In the secret chamber of a small courtyard on the mountainside.
Lin Tianming sat cross-legged on a cushion, hands clasped together, having sustained his cultivation for a long span of half a year.
Several jade bottles were messily scattered in front of him, their contents long since depleted.
Following the end of the monster hunt, his cultivation level had reached the peak of Qi Refining Seventh Level.
After consuming the only Jade Spirit Fruit he had, he leveraged the powerful spiritual energy contained within the fruit and successfully broke through to the Eighth Level of Qi Refinement.
Over the span of six months, Lin Tianming focused on stabilizing his realm and, with the aid of elixirs, enhanced both his body and divine sense.
Lin Tianming, who hadn't moved for a long time, opened his eyes, assessing the condition of his whole body.
After half a year of rigorous cultivation, his cultivation level had greatly advanced, feeling the surging spiritual power much stronger than when he was at the Seventh Level of Qi Refinement.
The aspect of body refinement also steadily improved through battles and elixirs, essentially keeping pace with his Qi Refining cultivation level.
With the breakthrough in cultivation, his strength surged once again, feeling the power when clenching his fist—it was probably no less than two thousand catties.
Not only had his Qi Refinement and body refinement increased, but the growth of his divine sense was also significant.
With a large supply of Strong Spirit Pills, Lin Tianming would consume one every month.
Having continued this sweet-like consumption for over a year,
taking one or two Strong Spirit Pills only provided a very limited increase in divine sense, barely noticeable.
However, over more than a year of accumulation, the effects were quite evident.
In this extra year, the increase in divine sense accounted for almost a tenth of the total divine sense.
In the Cultivation World, methods to increase divine sense were extremely rare, aside from cultivation arts like frequent alchemy and artifact creation, which could slowly increase it, one had to rely on certain treasures or elixirs.
But treasures were scarce and precious, high order elixirs were too slow to obtain, simply unattainable, one had to choose from common elixirs, among which Strong Spirit Pill was a well-known option.
Even the most common Strong Spirit Pills were unaffordable for most cultivators, as spirit stones used for cultivation were insufficient, and who would spend vast resources to cultivate divine sense and refine the body?
After examining his body and feeling the mighty divine sense, Lin Tianming was extremely satisfied.
Exhaling a breath of stale air, Lin Tianming got up and left the secret chamber.
At dusk, Lin Shigong also returned from the Alchemy Hall to the small courtyard, and Lin Xingrong made a rare trip back to the family.
By now Lin Tianming was nearly nineteen years old, and his family was rarely gathered together like this.
After dinner, the family of five sat in the courtyard for casual conversation.
Three years had passed since Lin Tianming broke through to the Fifth Level of Qi Refinement at the age of sixteen.
With the help of experience and numerous elixirs, Lin Tianming's progress was rapid, breaking through to Qi Refining Eighth Level in a mere three years, roughly one level per year, leaving his peers far behind.
His parents were very pleased with the cultivation of Lin Tianming and his siblings. There was no need to mention Lin Tianming any further, as he was the fastest cultivator among the Lin Family's generation named Tian.
Lin Tianyue was also nearly fifteen years old, growing tall and graceful, with her cultivation level reaching the Fourth Level of Qi Refinement, and she was recognized alongside Lin Tianqin as one of the two "golden flowers" of the Lin Family.
With no need to support Lin Tianming anymore and with the aid of a large number of elixirs, his mother's cultivation also sped up significantly, having broken through to the Eighth Level of Qi Refinement.
Lin Xingrong had also smoothly broken through to the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage and, having returned to the family, prepared to enter seclusion calmly to attempt breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.