Medicine Gang's Situation
The Medicine Gang finally came to a stop after a long time.
Inside the top floor of the Medicinal Cauldron building, Lin Ming stood up after getting dressed.
Lin Ming's advancement this time was quite smooth. Although there were some thrilling moments during the later breakthroughs in his Cultivation Method, the final result was good and met Lin Ming's expectations.
The meridians of the second level of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art are now fully open, and Lin Ming can now use these opened meridians to cultivate, allowing his Cultivation Method to reach the mid-level of the Xuan Tier.
No wonder the second level of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique can only be unlocked after advancing to the Dou Ling.
Before engaging in the Dou Ling, firstly, Lin Ming's Dou Qi quality was not yet up to the requirements for activation, and secondly, once the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique Cultivation Method was unlocked, all the meridians needed to be opened at once, which required an extremely large amount of energy.
If Lin Ming hadn't had the energy supply from the Earth Heart Body Tempering Milk, he probably would have failed to break through this Cultivation Method due to insufficient energy.
Through this breakthrough to the second level of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique, Lin Ming has fully understood the principle behind unlocking the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art to the next level.
Lin Ming likened cultivating the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art to a spider web. When he first started cultivating it, he was like a spider weaving the innermost layer of its web.
This layer of netting has the smallest area, and therefore can catch the fewest prey.
Now that Lin Ming has broken through to the second level, he is expanding the spider web outward from the outer perimeter of the first level.
Of course, the expansion here is not simply about adding another floor outside the first floor.
The second level of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art, in addition to extending the meridians of the first level like a spider web, also adds several meridians that can directly reach the dantian.
This is equivalent to increasing the area of the spider web while also adding more spider silk that reaches the very center.
This allows Lin Ming to absorb more Dou Qi through his meridians, and this Dou Qi can reach his dantian at a faster speed, thus making Lin Ming's cultivation speed even faster.
Lin Ming has now completed his cultivation advancement and breakthrough in his Cultivation Method, and the amount of Dou Qi within his body is dozens of times greater than before the breakthrough. This allows Lin Ming to be fearless in terms of Dou Qi power compared to other Dou Ling in the Inner Academy, and he no longer needs to worry about gaining the title of "Five Second Man".
Of course, besides the breakthrough in cultivation and Cultivation Method, Lin Ming's physical body, after being tempered by the Earth Heart Body Tempering Milk, also underwent a qualitative leap, reaching the level of Tier 4 Magical Beast.
If it weren't for Zi Yan, this outlier in the Inner Academy, holding the title of "Brute Force King," then when the people in the Inner Academy witnessed Lin Ming's ability to fight Dou Ling with just his physical body, the title of "Brute Force King" would probably have fallen on Lin Ming's head.
After tidying up the room, Lin Ming went to the main hall of the Medicine Gang. There were quite a few people in the hall at that time.
Many of these people had come because of Lin Ming's earlier maniacal laughter. So when Lin Ming arrived, the members of the Medicine Gang greeted him, "Gang Leader!"
"Hmm!" Lin Ming nodded in response, then asked Vice Gang Leader Wang Sheng, "Has anything happened these past few days?"
After Lin Ming returned to the Medicine Gang last time, he went out with Zi Yan the next day. Once he got his hands on the Earth Heart Body Tempering Milk, he immediately began his secluded cultivation to break through to the next level.
So Lin Ming hadn't paid attention to anything within the Medicine Gang for over ten days, and now that he'd run into Wang Sheng, he asked him about it.
"Rest assured, Gang Leader, everything is fine within the Medicine Gang," Wang Sheng replied.
When Lin Ming Wang Sheng entered the Inner Academy last year, Wang Sheng's alchemy skills had already reached the Peak Third-Order. Later, when Lin Ming was refining Tier 4 Medicinal Pill, Wang Sheng was allowed to observe from the side.
After nearly a year of preparation, Wang Sheng is ready to break through to the 4th Grade Alchemist at any time.
When Lin Ming was leaving, Lin Ming and his senior brother were refining Fifth Grade Instant Qi Pill, and Lin Ming specially invited the Alchemist from the Medicine Gang to come and observe.
It can be said that, apart from Lin Ming and his senior brother Xu Shilin, Wang Sheng was the one who benefited the most from that farewell.
After observing the Tier 5 Medicinal Pill, Wang Sheng made a breakthrough in his alchemy skills in the following days, refining Tier 4 Medicinal Pill and officially entering the ranks of Intermediate Alchemist.
With Wang Sheng's 4th Grade Alchemist, the ordinary 4th Grade Lin Ming tasks that the Medicine Gang had received were completely handed over to Wang Sheng for practice.
Alchemist's alchemy skills and pill-making Pill Formation Rate are all honed through the process of Pill Refining. Therefore, Wang Sheng, who has advanced to the 4th Grade Alchemist level, is quite happy to have such an opportunity.
Knowing that nothing had happened within the Medicine Gang, Lin Ming nodded again. In truth, there weren't many things within the Medicine Gang that required Lin Ming's attention.
The Medicine Gang is the Medicine Gang of the Inner Academy. After all, the Inner Academy is still an academy, without the complicated affairs of the outside world. The students' main task is to improve their cultivation. So there aren't many things to do. In addition, Lin Ming completely followed his senior brother's example and handed over some trivial matters to Wang Sheng to handle, so Lin Ming was quite free.
"Gang Leader, you've broken through to the Dou Ling?" Wang Sheng exclaimed in surprise.
Wang Sheng is now 4th Grade Alchemist, and his Spiritual Strength is quite strong. Lin Ming has just completed his breakthrough, and his cultivation aura will inevitably be revealed, which is why Wang Sheng exclaimed in surprise.
"I've been in seclusion these past few days to break through my cultivation level. Fortunately, everything went smoothly, and I successfully completed the breakthrough," Lin Ming said calmly.
Lin Ming's words plunged the hall into a deathly silence. It's worth noting that Lin Ming only entered the Inner Academy last year, and the Inner Academy students who joined this year had only recently arrived.
When Lin Ming entered the Inner Academy last year, what was his cultivation level? The members of their Medicine Gang knew that it was only at the low-level Da Dou Shi level.
In just one year, Lin Ming reached the Dou Ling cultivation level, which is almost Tier One advancement. This abnormal cultivation speed is completely comparable to Lin Ming's Alchemist.
It's one thing for someone to have an extremely terrifying Alchemy Talent, but now their Cultivation Talent is just as terrifying; this is quite a blow to one's morale.
The silence of the lobby was broken only after a long while by a heavy breathing sound, followed by deafening cheers and screams.
Although Lin Ming's advancement shocked them, after the initial shock, as members of the Medicine Gang, they naturally wanted to congratulate and cheer after their Gang Leader achieved a breakthrough in cultivation.
The members of the Medicine Gang were actually hoping that Lin Ming could advance to the Dou Ling level as soon as possible.
As the largest supplier of elixirs in the Inner Academy, the Medicine Gang Inner Academy monopolizes the elixir business. After so many years of development, the Medicine Gang's Fire Energy Points have reached a terrifying number.
With so much Fire Energy, the Medicine Gang is naturally a tempting target in the eyes of many.
Some time ago, the Gang Leader of the Medicine Gang was Lin Ming's senior brother, Xu Shilin. Xu Shilin's strength was so great that even the top-ranked members on the Strong Ranking were wary of him, so naturally no one dared to mess with the Medicine Gang at that time.
However, now that Xu Shilin's batch of students has graduated and left the Inner Academy, the current Medicine Gang no longer has the same deterrent power as when Xu Shilin was there.
Furthermore, Lin Ming, who currently holds the position of leader of the Medicine Gang, is only a Great Dou Master.
Although the Inner Academy publicly claims that Lin Ming's alchemy skills have reached the Tier 5 Alchemist, within the Inner Academy, strength is still more important.
There are only three Dou Ling (Double Spirit) within the Medicine Gang. Among them, Wang Sheng currently has the highest cultivation level, possessing the cultivation of Five-Star Dou Spirit Three Star Dou Spirit and one -One-Star Dou Spirit, respectively.
The Medicine Gang only has three Dou Ling level experts, and the strongest among them is only Five-Star Dou Spirit. With such strength, the Medicine Gang only maintains its reputation as one of the strongest forces in the Inner Academy by relying on the residual influence left by Xu Shilin.
However, Xu Shilin has been away from the Inner Academy for nearly a month, and his remaining influence has long been exhausted. Now, the Medicine Gang's apparent strength is not even in the same league as the other strongest forces in the Inner Academy.
The other strongest forces in the Inner Academy all have experts ranked in the top ten of the Strong Ranking, and Wang Sheng, the strongest cultivator in the Medicine Gang, is ranked twenty-eighth on the Strong Ranking.
This is because some people on the Strong Ranking, like Xu Shilin, have reached the graduation age in the Inner Academy and thus graduated from the Jia Nan Academy. As a result, the strong ranking is reduced by these people, and the ranking increases accordingly, which is why Wang Sheng is able to rank twenty-eighth.
Therefore, Lin Ming's advancement to the Dou Ling cultivation level adds another Dou Ling to the Medicine Gang's top combat strength. Moreover, Lin Ming becoming Dou Ling has even greater symbolic significance.
The Medicine Gang is one of the major powers in the Inner Academy, yet your Gang Leader is only Da Dou Shi. This will inevitably affect the Medicine Gang's reputation and prestige.
Now that Lin Ming has Dou Ling stage, all the major powers in the Inner Academy have leaders whose cultivation is at the Dou Ling stage, so Lin Ming is now on the same level as them. At least the Medicine Gang won't have any complaints about the cultivation level of its Leader.
"Haha, Gang Leader, congratulations on your advancement in cultivation! Today we must celebrate for Gang Leader!" Wang Sheng said loudly.
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away," one of the members of the Medicine Gang in charge of the celebration said immediately, and then left the lobby.
Seeing everyone's joy, Lin Ming agreed to their celebration. Since it was a gathering of brothers from the gang, everyone ate and drank, and Lin Ming, who had just advanced in rank, was also happy, so he joined in the fun.
In this world where cultivation is possible, the speed of preparing food is much faster than in my previous life. In no time, several tables were filled with sumptuous food in the main hall.
The people in the lobby took their seats around the tables, and after Lin Ming raised his glass, everyone drank together and began their meal.
As the main character of this celebratory banquet, Lin Ming naturally couldn't escape being toasted by everyone in turn.
Within their Medicine Gang territory, everyone in the hall was genuinely drinking; no one used their Dou Qi to force the alcohol out.
So Lin Ming, who was being toasted by everyone, drank until the very end, then leisurely staggered back to his room and fell asleep immediately.