Cloud Ascending Ladder Entry, Improving Destiny

Chapter 46: Cloud Ascending Ladder Entry, Improving Destiny

"You're saying Lin Mo, with his First Stage Perfected cultivation, fought two Second Level practitioners and killed them?"

In the Wang Faction hall, a Personal Disciple under the seats asked in surprise.

A dark-faced man nodded gravely and told everyone, "Those two were veteran escorts from the Qianjin Escort Agency. Although they urgently needed to improve their breathing technique and were stuck at Second Level Entry, their coordination was extremely skilled. Even most Second Level Minor Accomplishment practitioners would flee when encountering them..."

"If that's the case, Lin Mo's talent must be terrifying..."

"But Lin Mo's Root Bone isn't ordinary. It took him over twenty days to sense Blood Essence before. How could his cultivation progress so quickly? His combat power is definitely not mundane," someone mused, concluding that it was best not to become his enemy.

Although they were all Changhe Martial Arts School practitioners, their Wang Faction only had a hostile relationship with the Li Faction. They had to maintain a proper distance; Master Yang's disciples wouldn't easily interfere.

On a yellow wooden chair in the corner, Chen Qing hung his head, his palms clenched so tightly they turned pale. The handle of the ten-year-old yellow pear wood chair beneath him cracked.

"Junior Brother Chen, what do you think?" someone suddenly shifted the topic to him. A group of people looked over. Chen Qing looked up and forced a smile.

"I think my senior brothers are absolutely right. Lin Mo is from the neutral faction. Fortunately, we haven't offended him before..."

In the small courtyard's training ground, a youth, bare-chested and steaming with white mist, his skin flushed red, was leaping across wooden stakes.

He would occasionally lightly tap a wooden stake, soaring three to five meters into the air, sometimes seeming to use the air itself, stepping on empty space with one foot and rapidly twisting and turning his body.

A moment later, Lin Mo landed. He let out a long breath of white mist, a pleased expression on his face.

"As expected, practical combat is the key. After yesterday's battle, not only did the 'Great Jade Ape Breathing Technique' reach entry, but even the Cloud Ascending Ladder improved."

These past few days, Lin Mo had entrusted the apprentices in the Stone Wall Courtyard to Senior Brother Xu Changfeng for instruction, while he focused on his training to prepare for the Prefecture City competition a month later.

Ever since he obtained nearly ten thousand taels of silver last time, Lin Mo had never lacked Precious Medicine for his cultivation.

For cultivating his breathing technique, he took the Heart Nurturing Pills brought from Prefecture City by Head Patrolman Li, each costing over two hundred taels of silver.

For cultivating the Cloud Ascending Ladder, he applied Precious Medicine to his legs that cleared meridians and tempered his skin and bones, such as three-year-old Blood Activating Grass and four-year-old Rock Grass. These expenditures alone cost dozens of taels of silver...

His cultivation progress was truly a thousand miles a day. Only in these past few days had Lin Mo truly understood the meaning of "poverty in scholarship, wealth in martial arts." The boost from Precious Medicine more than doubled his cultivation speed.

He roughly estimated that before the Prefecture City competition, he could break through to Second Level Entry, greatly increasing his chances of receiving a high rating.

"And this is all without improving my Destiny..."

Killing Zhao Qian and that pockmarked face, those two Second Level Entry practitioners yesterday, though the latter two were not as formidable as the former, they still provided nearly two hundred points combined.

[Luck: 600]

"Six hundred points of Luck... it's likely to bring about earth-shattering changes again..."

Lin Mo could feel that improving his green Destiny wasn't as easy. Moreover, his [Bee Waist Ape Back] hadn't fully completed the transformation of his Root Bone yet, so he felt he could still tap into his Root Bone's potential further.

His other Destinies were all on the verge of becoming green. Especially [Insightful Eye], which already had such effects as a mere white Destiny.

He couldn't even guess its uses if it were to reach the green level.

"I'll improve [Insightful Eye] first," Lin Mo decided.

[Insightful Eye] actually had two aspects. The first aspect was called 'Fix and Replay,' which was one of the reasons Lin Mo learned techniques so quickly before.

However, now Lin Mo only had the Cloud Ascending Ladder and the Jade Shattering Flowing Water Fist, both techniques that no one could personally demonstrate. This greatly reduced their learning effectiveness.

The second aspect was called 'Slow Down.' It wasn't a true slowing down, but rather due to the greatly increased pupil power, movements and actions appeared several times slower to Lin Mo's eyes.

The latter was one of the reasons for Lin Mo's current formidable combat power. However, it was only useful against Second Level practitioners; it was much less effective against Third Stage Practitioners.

If he faced someone at the level of Li Erlang or Second Master, who were at the Half-step Martial Master stage, even at full speed, he could only see afterimages.

[Luck broken through, consume *100, Insightful Eye -- Dharma Eye]

[Luck: 500]

In an instant, a faint green light visibly gathered above Lin Mo's head and then flowed into his eyes, making them feel as if they were bathed in a clear spring.

He could feel a cool sensation spreading from the inside out, as if even the accumulated old injuries from long-term use of [Insightful Eye] were slowly being repaired.

Soon, this coolness turned into a burning sensation, as if it were burning out the impurities in Lin Mo's eyes.

He gritted his teeth tightly. This feeling was undeniably torturous. Not only impurities but also involuntary tears streamed down from the corners of his eyes.

One quarter...

Two quarters...

It took a full three quarters of an hour for this burning sensation to finally dissipate completely. The moment he opened his eyes, Lin Mo felt as if the world before him had gained several new colors.

Besides the original colors, there seemed to be something like thin clouds and mist permeating the air.

It was just before dawn, yet he could actually see faint purple energy in the air...

"Purple energy from the east? Can this [Dharma Eye] perceive spiritual energy that ordinary people cannot detect?"

Lin Mo examined it carefully. When he circulated his breathing technique, along with his inhales and exhales, faint blue mist was also exhaled.

What he inhaled was 'Jade Spirit Qi' mixed with blue, and what he exhaled turned into white mist that dissipated into the heavens and earth.

He had once read miscellaneous books, which recorded that so-called breathing techniques involved inhaling and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth...

There are millions of types of spiritual qi, purple qi, Jade Spirit Qi... breathing and absorbing to nourish the body, each with different effects.

"Although this [dharma eye] doesn't enhance anything related to Blood Essence, it can actually let me perceive the spiritual qi in the world!"

Lin Mo sighed inwardly. Being able to see what others cannot brought a sense of pride.

He didn't know if it was his imagination, but besides being able to maintain it for a long time, at least fifteen minutes, without his eyes feeling sore, it seemed that when he activated the [dharma eye], this so-called spiritual qi of heaven and earth became much more compatible with him...

Lin Mo studied carefully. As he inhaled and exhaled more Jade Spirit Qi with the 'Great Jade Ape Breathing Technique', he came to a simple conclusion.

"Could it be that the [dharma eye] can also help me accelerate my cultivation?!"

He sat cross-legged, took a Qi and Blood Pill, circulated his breathing technique, closed his eyes, and began to meditate and breathe.

In just a few breaths, not even a complete Meridian Cycle, wisps of Blood Essence began to slowly emerge from his dantian.

A moment later, after Lin Mo completed two Meridian Cycles of breathing and absorption, he swallowed and was already shocked by this Destiny.

"The speed of cultivation and nourishing Blood Essence has increased by at least fifty percent!"