Divine Craftsman's Shovel, Earthly Yuan Stage Peak!

"Ding! Congratulations, host, for defeating Lei Li. You have earned one sign-in opportunity. Begin sign-in?"

After Lin Chen came out of the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World, he heard the system notification ring beside his ear.

His expression did not change as he silently said in his heart:

"Sign in!"

"Ding! Signing in. Sign-in successful. Congratulations, host, you have received the sign-in reward—Divine Craftsman's Shovel!"

When Lin Chen heard that, he let out a faint sound of surprise.

He immediately took out the sign-in reward that had already appeared in the system space.

It was an ordinary-looking little green shovel, leaving Lin Chen somewhat puzzled.

"Is this... telling me to go be a miner?"

Lin Chen's expression turned slightly strange.

Judging from its appearance, the Divine Craftsman's Shovel was extremely ordinary, almost no different from a shovel found in a common household.

He tried digging at the ground with it, but felt nothing special.

After looking around the nearby area, Lin Chen chose a large tree and began digging at its base with the Divine Craftsman's Shovel.

At the same time, he poured Yuan Power into it.

And right then, the unremarkable Divine Craftsman's Shovel actually bloomed with green light. In an instant, that large tree had already been dug out by the roots, then shrunk into a palm-sized miniature tree, wrapped inside a layer of green radiance.

The sight left Lin Chen stunned.

Only after a long while did he pat his own cheek and murmur:

"This Divine Craftsman's Shovel is heaven-defying!"

In his view, the appearance of the Divine Craftsman's Shovel was simply too perfect.

For a large tree like the one just now, under normal circumstances, destroying it was easy, but uprooting it while preserving it intact was almost impossible.

And taking away such a huge tree, along with its dense tangle of roots, in good condition was completely impossible.

But after being dug up by the Divine Craftsman's Shovel, that problem had been solved with ease.

Lin Chen swallowed, reached out, and poked the miniature tree wrapped in green radiance. To his surprise, he could not puncture it at all.

He hesitated for a moment, then raised the Divine Craftsman's Shovel in his hand and poked the green radiance with it.

With a soft pop, the green radiance vanished.

Immediately afterward, Lin Chen saw the miniature tree return to its original form in an instant.

Boom!

With nothing supporting it, the large tree crashed heavily to the ground.

Lin Chen's heart stirred, and he used the Divine Craftsman's Shovel again, digging at the large tree.

A streak of green radiance shot onto the tree, and in the blink of an eye, it turned back into the miniature tree from before, wrapped inside green radiance.

This discovery filled Lin Chen with excitement.

The appearance of the Divine Craftsman's Shovel could be said to have fulfilled the entire foundation of his fantasies for transforming the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World.

The current Azure Dragon Ring's Small World needed at least one mine to exist within it.

Under normal circumstances, mines were located underground and were very difficult to excavate.

Even though Lin Chen already knew that beneath Ironwood Manor, there was a Yang Yuan Stone Mine containing a large amount of Yang Gang Qi, he had no way to easily obtain it.

Without others cooperating, it would probably take many years before the Yang Yuan Stone Mine could be fully mined, let alone transferred into the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World.

If he wanted the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi inside the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World to be sufficiently abundant, then the mine he transferred in had best remain completely intact.

Before this, Lin Chen had been thinking that after reclaiming Ironwood Manor with the Lin Family's help, he would take Lin Zhentian and the others to mine the Yang Yuan Stone Mine.

But after thinking it over carefully, he realized it was not worth it.

Even if the Lin Family obtained such a Yang Yuan Stone Mine and mined it out, they themselves would be unable to absorb it, and could only sell large quantities of Yang Yuan Stones to the outside.

On the surface, it would bring the Lin Family enormous profits.

But in reality, such thinking was extremely short-sighted, and would also draw the covetous eyes of others.

Rather than letting the Lin Family waste such a high-quality Yang Yuan Stone Mine, it would be better for Lin Chen to transfer it into the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World himself.

When the time came, he could mine a portion of it inside, which would be more than enough to satisfy the Lin Family's development needs.

Generally speaking, ten Yang Yuan Stones could be refined into one Yang Yuan Pill.

Yang Yuan Pills were of great help to cultivators below the Core Formation Stage.

As for Lin Chen, who possessed the Ancestral Stone, if he wanted to refine and obtain one Yang Yuan Pill, he only needed three Yang Yuan Stones!

That was where the difference came from.

Lin Chen put away the Divine Craftsman's Shovel. This was a supreme treasure for transforming the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World in the future.

He also grew fiercely eager for all those spirit herbs, Spirit Wood, and the many ruins he would encounter in the future.

He would move them all into the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World. Heh, heh...

Half a month later.

Lin Chen, who had been sitting cross-legged cultivating in the Lin Family Back Mountain, opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

He put away the Crystal Ball containing the Innate Yin Sha Qi.

After cultivating during this period, he had already reached the late Earthly Yuan Stage.

This terrifying cultivation speed was enough to make everyone in Qingyang Town's jaws drop.

Lin Chen frowned slightly. Ever since he reached the Earthly Yuan Stage, he had been absorbing the Innate Yin Sha Qi inside the Crystal Ball. He had originally thought that once he cultivated to the late Earthly Yuan Stage, he would be able to absorb it all completely.

But now, it seemed he had somewhat underestimated the amount of Innate Yin Sha Qi inside the Crystal Ball.

Normally speaking, once Innate Yin Sha Qi fused with Yuan Power and reached a peak, one should absorb Yang Gang Qi and fuse that with Yuan Power, thereby breaking through to the Heavenly Yuan Stage in one go.

After reaching the Heavenly Yuan Stage, it was more or less similar to the Earthly Yuan Stage, except what one absorbed was Yang Gang Qi.

By the late Heavenly Yuan Stage, one should cause the Yin Sha Qi and Yang Gang Qi within the body to merge, condensing Yuan Power into a Yuan Core and thereby reaching the Core Formation Stage.

Stages like the Earthly Yuan Stage and Heavenly Yuan Stage only had three minor realms: early, middle, and late.

But Lin Chen felt that after reaching the late Earthly Yuan Stage, he did not seem to have reached his own peak.

If he absorbed more Innate Yin Sha Qi, then he could still continue absorbing it and go a step further within the Earthly Yuan Stage.

"Could it be that the Earthly Yuan Stage actually has a peak minor realm?"

Lin Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and once again took out the Crystal Ball containing the Innate Yin Sha Qi.

He felt there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that another minor realm existed.

It was just that after reaching the late Earthly Yuan Stage, one could absorb Yang Gang Qi and break through to the Heavenly Yuan Stage, so the vast majority of people simply never realized they could continue improving afterward.

Of course, it was also possible that ordinary people could at most reach the late Earthly Yuan Stage, and that was already where they touched their bottleneck.

Lin Chen had not forgotten that the two major stages of Earthly Yuan Stage and Heavenly Yuan Stage were both for laying a foundation.

If he wanted to contend with those peerless geniuses in the future, then his foundation had to be solid!

"What level is the Earthly Yuan Stage's limit at?"

With that thought in mind, Lin Chen began to continue absorbing the Innate Yin Sha Qi within the Crystal Ball.

He wanted to see exactly where his own limit lay.

Only by breaking through his own limits would he truly be considered to have laid a solid foundation in this realm, and only then would he suffer less hardship in the future!

At the very least, he had to absorb all the Innate Yin Sha Qi inside the Crystal Ball!

He could not let it go to waste, right?

Once Lin Chen had this thought, he acted on it immediately.

As the Innate Yin Sha Qi entered his body, his entire person was already enveloped by bone-piercing, extreme cold.

The Yuan Power inside his body surged wildly, drawing in that Innate Yin Sha Qi and then forcibly fusing with it.

Gradually, under Lin Chen's frenzied absorption, the Innate Yin Sha Qi inside the Crystal Ball also began to run dry.

With a crisp sound, Lin Chen suddenly broke through the conventional limit and reached the peak Earthly Yuan Stage!

However, he still felt that something was off, as if something was missing.

Lin Chen opened his eyes and stared at the Crystal Ball before him. A flash of inspiration struck him, and he immediately used the Ancestral Stone to absorb it.

In the blink of an eye, an exquisite and tiny crystal Yin Bead had already taken shape. Without hesitation, he swallowed the crystal Yin Bead!

He very much wanted to test whether it was possible to condense a Yin Core while still at the Earthly Yuan Stage!

If this insane move succeeded, then when the time came, he would very likely possess the powerful strength of a half-step Core Formation Stage!