Settling In (1)

Zhang Xiuzhi left, and after seeing the person off, he quickly and decisively withdrew, as if there were some kind of raging flood or ferocious beast in the place.

Lin Hui was left alone, floating in the endless dark void.

He flew around for a while and found that the space was indeed enormous. At his current speed, even at full speed, he could only fly a very short distance.

The enormous alchemy furnace was still quite far away.

"Alright, stop wasting your energy." An impatient voice rang in his mind.

"Are you a new disciple?"

An enormous red human face slowly appeared in the darkness directly below him.

The invisible airflow that spewed from the human face's mouth as it spoke was like a huge storm, directly distorting and deforming the space-time around Lin Hui.

"My name is Lin Chengdao. Greetings, senior?" Lin Hui quickly steadied himself and bowed to the other party with clasped hands.

"I'm the guardian of the medicinal herbs here. You can call me Hongyu Chun," the red-faced woman said casually. "Since you're newly assigned, you should go and process the herbs first."

"Yes." Lin Hui gently blew a breath from the face, and floated over.

Sizzle!

In an instant, he abruptly passed through a series of invisible circular light gates.

They suddenly appeared near the enormous alchemy furnace.

Clearly, Hongyu Chun was helping him.

Lin Hui himself could also tear open space and jump to travel, but this place was unfamiliar to everyone, and if he randomly tore open space, who knew what was hidden inside?

For most powerful beings who can tear through space, space is actually just a layer of seemingly normal wallpaper. It's fine as long as it's not torn open, but once it is, no one knows what's inside.

Therefore, when Lin Hui first arrived here, he simply followed the path.

Now that Hongyu Chun has sent him over all at once, it's quite convenient.

He rolled several times before regaining his balance. He was now too close to the alchemy furnace to see its entirety from his surroundings.

All I felt was an endless expanse of white jade before me.

He remembered that only one small spot on one side of the alchemy furnace was this white jade color; the rest of the furnace was silvery-black. Lin Hui landed gently and looked around. There was nothing there but a flat expanse of white jade.

He recalled Zhang Xiuzhi's words.

He immediately closed his eyes and jumped.

Its body began to expand and grow rapidly.

A massive amount of Wind Disaster filled itself, becoming part of its body.

At their level, materialization makes it easy to transform Wind Disaster Energy into a part of their own physical body.

Therefore, theoretically, as long as you have enough control, your body can grow to any size you can control.

He had been maintaining human form all along, but he was already used to it.

Once you completely let go, a feeling of exhilarating freedom instantly fills your heart.

In the darkness, Lin Hui's body grew larger and larger, quickly exceeding 100 meters in the blink of an eye, and then rapidly exceeding 3,000 meters a few seconds later.

His control over his soul naturally far exceeded this distance; it was just that the speed at which his physical body was materializing and transforming into a physical form was temporarily limiting his growth rate. At this moment, his growth rate had clearly slowed down.

More than an hour later, his size had grown to 50,000 meters, or 50 kilometers.

At this point, the materialized Disaster Energy, transformed and increased on such a massive body, no longer makes the changes very noticeable.

Although it is still growing rapidly, its momentum has slowed considerably.

Having reached this size, Lin Hui looked around again. Although it was still the edge of the spots on the alchemy furnace, it was already barely considered dust in front of the huge Hongyu Chun.

Right now, he's practically an insect in the other person's eyes.

"You're still too short. Even many of the insects on the materials are bigger than you. You need to grow to the right size as soon as possible. Understand?" Hongyu Chun said somewhat displeased. "I'll give you three days."

"Yes, I will do my best," Lin Hui nodded and replied quickly.

"With your size, you should just get used to your surroundings today. You can't do anything anyway, Xiao Cui." Hongyu Chun turned her head slightly and called out. A silver-colored metal humanoid with mechanical connecting patterns all over its body suddenly appeared beside the two of them.

"Cui Shining greets the guardian of the elixir." The metal figure bowed respectfully to Hongyu Chun.

"From today onwards, he will be your junior brother. Take him to get used to the environment. He will officially start work in three days," Hongyu Chun instructed.

"But I also have my own material-related tasks to complete, so..." Cui Shining hesitated.

"That's none of my business," Hongyu Chun said impatiently, then vanished into thin air in the blink of an eye.

The silver metal figure was left helplessly lowering its hand, turning around, and looking at Lin Hui.

He was also much larger than Lin Hui at this time. The two were like a tall building and a pedestrian in terms of height.

"My name is Lin Chengdao. Thank you for leading the way, Senior Brother Cui." Lin Hui clasped his hands in thanks first. Actually, he wanted to offer some benefits, but he didn't have anything the other party wanted, so he could only be polite.

"Alright, let me introduce this place first. Our Guangxin Hall has three alchemy furnaces in total, and this is one of them. Each furnace is generally assigned six thousand people to guard different areas, and these six thousand people are usually managed by six alchemy guardians. Just now, Hongyu Chun was the alchemy guardian in charge of the thousand-plus people in the furnace's side area."

"Six thousand people!?" Lin Hui was somewhat shocked by this number. He knew that without materialization, one wasn't even qualified to join a sect. This meant that all six thousand people here were materialized?

"It's not as exaggerated as you think. Among these 6,000 people, many are people with connections who got in through personal networks. The actual number selected is less than one-fifth."

"That's quite a lot..." Lin Hui sighed.

"Alright, let's not talk about that. Newcomers are mainly responsible for the initial processing of medicinal herbs. As for the herbs... come with me." Cui Shining made a gesture with one hand, and a diamond-shaped blue light gate immediately opened on the side of the two of them. He stepped in, and Lin Hui followed closely behind.

Call!!

Behind the portal, in the dark void, a giant black python was coiled around a massive, earthen-yellow star.

The python had only one eye, a single horn on its forehead, no mouth, and its body was covered with countless tiny white holes.

As its body stretched and contracted, large amounts of white smoke continuously emerged from the small pores all over its body.

"This is Sun-Fuming Snake, the most suitable type of medicinal material for beginners to handle. Your task is to remove all the venom glands inside the small white pores on its body—the glands that induce the white smoke. You have to go inside and cut them out. It's a troublesome job," Cui Shining explained. "Is there a time limit? Also, where are the other disciples?" Lin Hui asked.

A giant snake the size of a star... that's a lot of work.

If you move slowly, even a master of materialization won't have time to cultivate if the time is too short.

"Generally, at least one case needs to be processed per week. If it's late, there will be a penalty: a reduction in the amount of vital energy distributed within the sect," Cui Shining explained. "As for the other sect members, you continue with this."

He tossed a blue and white lightning bolt-shaped pin with a wave of his hand.

"This is a pass for communication between different parts of the gate. It has many uses, so be careful not to lose it."

The enormous brooch was even larger than Lin Hui was at that moment.

He used one hand to catch it steadily with his Disaster Energy and placed it in the air beside him.

Only then did he realize the trouble Zhang Xiuzhi had mentioned about achieving a suitable physique as soon as possible.

If your physique is not up to standard, you can't even hold the basic introductory ritual implements.

"There are about fifty people working at this alchemy furnace recently. You can get to know them and ask them for advice on any problems you encounter. I'll be going now. Good luck to you." Cui Shining said this last sentence, and before Lin Hui could reply, he turned and disappeared in an instant.

He was left alone, staring at the enormous Sun-Fuming Snake, speechless.

"I need to grow bigger first, otherwise I won't be able to bring any more luggage with my travel permit..."

With a sigh, Lin Hui simply sat cross-legged beside the pass, closed his eyes, and began to accelerate the solidification of his body.

He only True Body now why materialization was so different from the rest of the energy levels below it.

In other words, by materializing, one can completely enlarge one's body to the limit that the soul can control.

This allows the full power of the divine soul to be unleashed.

Under materialization, the soul can only indirectly affect the cultivation level of the physical body.

This can be described as a qualitative change.

After materialization fully unleashes the power to solidify the body, the increase in size allows the immense power it can generate to far surpass all previous energy levels.

Lin Hui didn't go anywhere; he just sat cross-legged and cultivated for three days.

Over the course of three days, his size continued to increase, finally reaching the limit that his divine soul could control—11.9 million kilometers.

This size may seem large, but compared to the Guangxin Hall furnace and the Hongyu Chun furnace, it is still not enough.

At least I can wear the pass pin now.

Having ascended to this height and size, Lin Hui now looks at this dark void from his current perspective.

The perception changed completely immediately.

The alchemy furnace was still enormous and boundless, but the amplified senses from the pass allowed him to perceive his fellow disciples who were constantly busy at the furnace.

They included both humans and non-humans.

In the distant, dark void, there were also relatively weaker fellow disciples constantly dealing with the Sun-Fuming Snake.

He roughly estimated that there were about fifty-four in this dark void.

Most of these people were shorter than him, a few were about the same height as him, or even taller.

Perhaps because he had just arrived, no one around him greeted him; everyone was quietly processing their own materials in their own little areas. Three days passed, Lin Hui waited for Hongyu Chun to return, but unfortunately, it wasn't Hongyu Chun who came, but Cui Shining.

"Almost done. We can start processing the materials." Cui Shining glanced at Lin Hui's size and nodded. "One Sun-Fuming Snake per week, all delivered to Danding once a month. Just bring the pass. Any other questions? If not, I'll be going now."

"I have a question, senior brother. What is this reward of vital energy?" Lin Hui asked.

"There are several types of resources extracted from the Primordial Corpse: Primordial Marrow, Primordial Blood, Primordial Flesh, and Primordial Bones. All four have a significant enhancing effect on us. Primordial Qi is the benefit allocated to us, which can accelerate our own cultivation level."

"I see." Lin Hui nodded.

"Don't overthink it. We came here for that little bit of reward, not to avoid trouble outside. Who would come to this remote corner of the country if not to avoid trouble outside?" Cui Shining said impatiently.

"The fact that Thunder King Sect can provide absolute security and consistently supply pills to slow down the loss of our cognitive abilities is already extremely rare."