The next day.
After breakfast, Lin Yi first handed the pills to Lin Dong and Qing Tan. Then the three of them began their daily cultivation.
After finishing their daily cultivation, Lin Yi took Lin Dong and Qing Tan to the family's Martial Arts Pavilion to choose suitable martial arts.
Because of their cultivation limits, Qing Tan and Lin Dong both chose second-grade martial arts.
The martial art Qing Tan chose was called Roaming Body Palm.
Lin Dong chose the Spirit Sword Finger that Lin Xia cultivated.
Lin Yi's gaze, however, fell on the bookshelf containing third-grade martial arts. After searching for a while, he found the incomplete martial art placed in the corner—the Mysterious Gate Seal.
In the Lin Family's Martial Arts Pavilion, this Mysterious Gate Seal was the only thing worth putting some thought into.
After all, he could use the Stone Talisman to deduce and complete this incomplete martial art.
"Brother Lin Yi, why did you choose an incomplete martial art?" Qing Tan came over and asked in confusion when she saw Lin Yi's choice.
Lin Yi smiled. "This martial art has already reached the third grade despite being only a fragment. If it can be completed, it should at least reach the fourth grade."
"With Big Brother's talent in martial arts, perhaps he really can complete it." Lin Dong, standing nearby, understood Lin Yi's choice perfectly well.
"Since we've all chosen our martial arts, let's go." Lin Yi smiled and did not continue the topic.
Afterward, the three of them registered their chosen martial arts and left the Martial Arts Pavilion together.
That night, Lin Yi's figure once again appeared in the mysterious Spiritual Space.
As soon as he appeared, two silhouettes of light emerged after him, each performing Tong Bei Fist and Eight Desolations Palm.
After a while, another silhouette of light formed in the darkness behind the second one.
As soon as the silhouette took shape, it brought its hands together and formed a complicated hand seal. It was the opening seal of the Mysterious Gate Seal.
Lin Yi stared at the silhouette without blinking, anticipation in his eyes.
Under Lin Yi's expectant gaze, the silhouette first performed all seven hand seals recorded in the Mysterious Gate Seal fragment. Then it changed into an eighth hand seal, followed by a ninth...
Gradually, the silhouette dimmed considerably, and the speed at which its hands changed seals also began to slow.
"It seems there isn't enough energy..." The Mysterious Gate Seal was still far from being completely perfected, and Lin Yi felt a little regretful. However, he was not flustered by this change.
Back when Lin Yi had entered the Body Tempering Seventh Level, the Stone Talisman had used Yuan Power as a guide and embedded itself into his palm.
Aside from absorbing energy from the world on its own, the Stone Talisman could also be supplied with Yuan Power.
As his strength increased and the Yuan Power in his body grew, the energy consumed by the Stone Talisman could naturally be replenished.
The Stone Talisman was temporarily short on energy, but Lin Yi was in no hurry. He followed the silhouette and cultivated the first few seals of the Mysterious Gate Seal.
In the days that followed, Lin Yi once again devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.
Under Lin Yi's diligent cultivation, another month and a half passed in the blink of an eye.
During that month and a half, all the Spirit Medicine pills Lin Yi had previously refined had been used up, and quite a bit of Stone Talisman Spirit Liquid had also been consumed.
Besides that, he had refined quite a few Yin Beads. His Yuan Power seemed to contain traces of Yin Sha Qi.
However, he still seemed to be just one step away from breaking through to the Earth Yuan Stage.
In a clearing among the woods, Lin Yi sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, refining the last Spirit Medicine pill.
After a long while, Lin Yi slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath of turbid air. "It's almost time. I should be able to break through to the Earth Yuan Stage in the next few days..."
Sensing the changes in the Yuan Power within his body, Lin Yi murmured softly, anticipation showing on his face.
"Brother Lin Yi!"
Just then, a sweet voice suddenly rang out nearby. In the next instant, Qing Tan's elfin figure passed through the woods and flashed to Lin Yi's side. Her small face was flushed, filled with delight.
"What is it?" Lin Yi rose to his full height and smiled as he approached Qing Tan.
Qing Tan beamed. "I just broke through to the Body Tempering Eighth Level!"
"Qing Tan is amazing!" Lin Yi praised her with a smile.
He had to admit that Qing Tan's cultivation talent was far greater than his and Lin Dong's.
During this month and a half, aside from the time she received the Clan Competition reward, Lin Yi had given her three pills. She had not used any other cultivation resources!
When Lin Yi had advanced from the Body Tempering Seventh Level to the Eighth Level, he had used quite a few pills and a considerable amount of Stone Talisman Spirit Liquid.
"Hehe, maybe I'll surpass Brother Lin Yi someday," Qing Tan said playfully, delighted by his praise.
"That's right. Our Qing Tan is the best. I can already feel tremendous pressure." Lin Yi reached out and ruffled Qing Tan's hair with a chuckle.
However, the instant his palm touched Qing Tan's head, the right palm concealing the Stone Talisman suddenly erupted with blinding light.
The moment the intense light appeared, Qing Tan's vision went black, and she fainted outright.
As Qing Tan fell unconscious, a powerful suction force once again erupted from Lin Yi's palm.
Under this suction force, the terrifying Yin Sha Qi within Qing Tan's body surged out like a tidal wave. It followed Lin Yi's palm and poured wildly into his body.
"This scene..."
Under the erosion of that terrifying chill, a thin layer of ice quickly spread across Lin Yi's body.
His entire person strangely transformed into an ice statue.
The Yin Sha Qi that surged into his body from Qing Tan this time was terrifyingly cold and violent.
That level of Yin Sha Qi was utterly incomparable to the chill he had previously absorbed from the Yin Beads.
Lin Yi completely lost control of his body as it was covered by the layer of ice.
The bone-piercing chill stabbed viciously into every part of his body like steel needles.
Under that excruciating pain, even the organs and flesh in Lin Yi's body began to distort. Even the flow of his blood slowed...
As the chill eroded him, Lin Yi's consciousness gradually began to blur.
However, just as his consciousness was about to sink into complete darkness, the mysterious Stone Talisman hidden in the palm of his right hand moved again.
A suction force erupted from within the Stone Talisman once more. Then, the Yin Sha Qi filling every inch of Lin Yi's body rapidly contracted, finally being swallowed entirely into the Stone Talisman.
"Buzz, buzz."
Immediately afterward, the Stone Talisman trembled slightly. A thread of ice-blue chill actually seeped out from within it, then traveled along Lin Yi's meridians and swiftly shot toward his dantian.
Although this ice-blue chill was tiny in quantity, Lin Yi felt a sense of dread from it.
The ice-blue chill charged straight into his dantian without any obstruction.
Then Lin Yi felt an extremely violent battle erupt within his dantian.
When the ice-blue chill had consumed nearly seventy to eighty percent of the Yuan Power in his dantian, the two finally began to slowly merge.
As the two gradually fused, the Yuan Power, which originally had no fixed color, actually turned deep blue.
Moreover, the Yuan Power Seed, originally the size of a fist, transformed into a cluster of ice-blue energy.
At the instant the ice-blue energy cluster took shape, Lin Yi's body suddenly trembled. A powerful sensation unlike anything he had ever felt surged rapidly from the depths of his heart.
"Crack, crack..."
The layer of ice gradually shattered, and chunks of ice continued to fall.
Lin Yi's mind sank into his dantian. This was the first time he had ever "seen" his own dantian.
The ice-blue energy cluster was mesmerizing. It rotated slowly, with strands of chill-filled Yuan Power circling around it, waiting at any time for Lin Yi to command them.
Lin Yi withdrew his mind from his dantian and kept his eyes tightly closed. A strange fluctuation spread from his mind, mapping the surroundings within several dozen meters into his consciousness with incredible clarity.
At this moment, he had successfully entered the Earth Yuan Stage!
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