Little Brother Lin Dong!

Merely cultivating the Green Lotus Sword Canon for the first time had let Lin Chen break through repeatedly, and that left him extremely excited.

Clearly, the true level of this Green Lotus Sword Canon was absolutely above top-tier cultivation manuals!

It made Lin Chen feel as if he had stumbled upon a treasure. He simply stood there without moving, letting those forty hidden meridians and the green lotus vortexes on the surface of his skin draw in Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.

Lin Chen could not help thinking, Isn't this what they call automatic cultivation?

At this rate of absorbing Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi for cultivation, the Yuan Power in his body would sooner or later become especially powerful. It would not take many days before he could break through and enter the Earthly Yuan Stage!

However, what soon made Lin Chen frown was that, under this state of absorbing Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi for cultivation, his improvement was no longer as great as before.

After looking around, Lin Chen finally came to a realization.

The Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi near the rear mountain of the Lin Family had actually been completely sucked dry by him. It was probably because he had just broken through two levels in a row.

Of course, the most important reason was that the place where the Lin Family's rear mountain was located already had relatively thin Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to begin with.

No matter how many hidden meridians and green lotus vortexes Lin Chen possessed, as long as the total amount and quality of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in the place he was in remained like this, it was impossible for him to improve too much.

"No wonder everyone yearns for the big cities."

Lin Chen now had no choice but to accept this reality, and he could not help sighing with feeling.

There had been many things he had not understood before, but now he finally understood the reason.

Just as Lin Chen was about to continue swinging the bamboo sword in his hand and see how strong he was now, a figure came running along a distant path.

"Brother Chen, this is damn weird! The Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi here is actually gone!"

Before he even saw the person's face clearly, he had already heard a familiar voice.

Lin Chen smiled, put away the bamboo sword, and walked over to meet him, asking, "Little brother, what has you so panicked?"

The person who had come was none other than Lin Dong.

Lin Chen was an orphan. In the Lin Family, aside from the Lin Family's head, Lin Zhentian, the other uncles were relatively distant toward him, and the children of his generation also tended to reject and bully him, who had no background or backing.

It was only because the former Lin Chen had been rather low-key and introverted, and because Lin Zhentian had given instructions before, that he had not bothered with those people. He had even once thought about not participating in the so-called clan competition, solely so that no one would notice him.

Because someone had bullied Lin Dong before, and Lin Chen had happened to see it and save him, the two had gotten to know each other, and from then on they had built a closer relationship.

"Brother Chen, just now, after I practiced my fist techniques halfway up the mountain, I was going to sit cross-legged and meditate for cultivation, but I discovered that the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi had become thin to an extreme. I've been on this rear mountain for so long, and I've never seen Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi this thin before. It was like it had disappeared!"

Lin Dong hurriedly described the change from just now. This situation was truly somewhat hard for him to understand. If Lin Chen could give a reasonably plausible explanation, then perhaps he would feel a little more at ease.

"Well..."

Lin Chen knew full well what had happened. He pretended as if he had only just noticed and continued, "If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have noticed. I was just practicing Basic Sword Techniques."

He paused, then guessed, "Maybe a very powerful person happened to pass near our Qingyang Town and made a breakthrough, which caused the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to become this thin in an instant. After a while, perhaps this Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi will come back again."

After Lin Chen said this, he also carefully sensed the surrounding Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.

Just as he had said, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi was indeed gradually becoming as dense as it had been before.

But with him here, it was unlikely to recover completely in a short period of time.

So, he had to take Lin Dong away from this place, lest the other party discover the abnormality.

Lin Chen seriously suspected that the other party had picked up the Ancestral Stone on the rear mountain half a year ago. He figured that since the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi had suddenly thinned, Lin Dong might have thought some rare treasure had appeared again and run over specifically to check the situation, only not daring to say it because of his secret.

When Lin Chen had transmigrated over, the other party had already obtained the Ancestral Stone. Otherwise, he definitely would have taken it.

When an opportunity granted by heaven and earth was placed right in front of him, if he remained unmoved, would that not be a sinful blasphemy?

We cultivators were meant to seize the fortune of heaven and earth!

"It does seem to be like that. The Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is gradually becoming denser."

Lin Dong himself had been carefully sensing the changes in the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi. Now that he discovered the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi was gradually becoming denser, rather than disappearing completely as he had worried earlier, he finally relaxed.

It seemed it should not be a chain reaction caused by him taking away the Mysterious Stone Talisman earlier.

If that really were the case, then he truly would not know what to do.

"Brother Chen, since there's nothing wrong with the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, then I'm not worried anymore."

Lin Dong wiped the fine sweat from his forehead and continued, "The clan competition is about to begin soon. Brother Chen, are you not planning to participate?"

Previously, he had heard that Lin Chen would not participate in the clan competition, but he had not known whether it was true or false.

Now that the clan competition was about to begin, Lin Dong naturally took this chance to ask.

"The clan competition..."

Lin Chen fell into a rare silence for a while. This scene made Lin Dong very nervous. Had he touched some bottom line of the other party's?

After a brief moment of thought, Lin Dong reminded him, "Brother Chen, the clan competition can earn quite a few cultivation resources, and you can also gain the family's attention. There's a chance to go to the Lin Clan Family to participate in the Clan Grand Competition and bring our Lin Family back from Qingyang Town. Isn't that Grandpa Zhentian's wish?"

His father, Lin Xiao, had once been like that, only the result had not been very ideal.

Now that Lin Dong had hope of revenge, he would naturally go to the Lin Clan Family and meet that damned Lin Langtian, to avenge his blood feud.

And if he could bring Lin Chen along, that would naturally be excellent.

He had not forgotten how, when he and Qing Tan had been blocked on the road and bullied, the other party had taken the initiative to help, sparing them from suffering injuries that were too serious.

In terms of strength, Lin Dong believed that the Brother Chen before him should also be at Body Tempering Stage Six now!

Back then, he had seen the other party make a move, so he could still tell.

He had even thought about taking out the Mysterious Stone Talisman he had obtained and secretly letting Lin Chen use it.

After spending this period of time together, Lin Dong trusted his own judgment. The other party had been willing to take out precious medicinal herbs to treat his father's injuries.

Although his father's injuries still had not improved at all.

But that was already enough to show that Lin Chen bore no ill will.

Moreover, the other party himself was on the fringes of the Lin Family, an orphan with no one to rely on. Lin Dong felt that he was definitely someone worthy of trust.

In that case, it would be fine for him to take out the Mysterious Stone Talisman and use it together with Lin Chen.

As for whether Lin Chen would develop malicious intentions when the time came and want to keep the Mysterious Stone Talisman for himself, that was another matter.

With Lin Dong's current strength, he had enough confidence that, if such a thing happened, he could defeat Lin Chen, who was only at Body Tempering Stage Six, and thus protect the Mysterious Stone Talisman. After all, he had already possessed the Mysterious Stone Talisman for half a year, and his own strength had long since made considerable progress.

With this kind of cheat-like cultivation speed, how could the so-called ordinary geniuses of Qingyang Town possibly catch up?

This matter was safe!