The Lin Family of Qingyang Town

The Lin Family of Qingyang Town.

"Hmph! Worthless!"

A lean middle-aged man with a sinister face smashed the table in front of him in two with a thunderous punch. He then rose and glared viciously at the two middle-aged men kneeling on one knee below. This man was none other than Second Master of the Lin Family, Lin Mang.

The two men in the hall were He Jun and He Ying. They looked rather alike, clearly brothers.

"Second Master, I never expected that kid to be such a runner. The brothers we sent out still haven't reported back. I'm afraid they've met with misfortune, too!"

He Jun of the Blade God Gang had once been a formidable fighter whose name struck fear into the hearts of Qingyang Town's people. Now, though, he looked as guileless as an old farmer, gazing at the man above him with an aggrieved expression, his eyes full of innocence and remorse.

"Hmph! Send more men to look for him. The moment that kid shows up, capture him for me! He's grown this strong in such a short time. I want to see what secret he's hiding—and what makes him cultivate faster than my son!"

After speaking, Lin Mang looked toward the doorway. The killing intent and greed in his eyes were barely contained, almost ready to spill forth.

To form an Origin Power Seed at thirteen was something even the top great clans saw only once in decades. He wanted to see whether the boy truly had extraordinary talent—or whether he was hiding some shameful secret or fortuitous encounter!

In the Rhino Horn Mountain Range, sword shadows flitted through Lin Yiqing's hand. Suddenly, green sword phantoms gathered around the blade. Their tremendous destructive force carved streaks into the huge tree trunks around him.

"Whew. At my current strength, I can use the Wood Sword Art three times at most. The Origin Power Seed really can't store much Origin Power. If only I'd reached the ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm."

At the ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm, one could open the dantian, whose capacity far surpassed that of an Origin Power Seed. Only then could one use Origin Power freely.

In less than two months, Lin Yiqing had already broken through to the eighth layer of the Body Tempering Realm. If word got out, who knew how many people would be left dumbfounded? Of course, he knew it was all thanks to his cheat.

The world's Origin Qi constantly surrounded him, nourishing his body while resonating with the Origin Power Seed inside him. As time passed, his cultivation speed would only increase.

It was practically like having a speed booster!

Of course, he had a vague feeling that even greater changes awaited him in the future.

After all, even now, he still hadn't figured out what his cheat actually was. The Origin Qi Vision and affinity for the world's Origin Qi it had revealed so far were already so powerful that its might was beyond imagining!

The next few days passed in the blink of an eye as Lin Yiqing quietly cultivated.

Throughout those days, Lin Yiqing hadn't slacked off in the slightest. The appearance of Lin Mang and the brothers He Jun and He Ying, his subordinates, had put him under great pressure.

But to Lin Yiqing, the incident had only filled him with fighting spirit. True strength came from choosing to face adversity head-on.

The path lies broad and level; the secluded one remains steadfast and finds good fortune.

Under such intense cultivation, the Origin Power Seed inside him grew ever stronger. When he tried ramming it against the dantian's barrier, he could sometimes sense that the barrier was on the verge of breaking.

The silver-white moon hung in the sky, spilling down shafts of moonlight.

Lin Yiqing sat cross-legged in a narrow cave. Guided by him, the Origin Power Seed inside his body kept crashing against the dantian's barrier.

At last, after the Origin Power Seed had struck it hundreds of times, he finally broke through in one mighty push and entered the dantian.

The walnut-sized Origin Power Seed gave off a faint white glow. Once inside the dantian, it drifted gently downward.

Like a seed splitting open and sprouting, it sent out wisps of white Origin Power. The power immediately resonated with the other Origin Power around his dantian, beginning to circulate through his body.

At that moment, Lin Yiqing could clearly feel the changes within him. A transformation was slowly taking place.

It felt like the evolution of life, like his body was becoming whole. The Origin Power flowing around him also seemed more welcoming, and even the sights he saw every day seemed more beautiful.

"Whew. The ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm! I've finally made it."

Lin Yiqing couldn't help smiling at how quickly he had reached the ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm. He had plenty of valuable things on hand, but his cultivation had kept him from using any of them.

The Lesser Red Sun Scripture, the ancient wood concealing the Spirit Vortex Rune, and the Yang Origin Pill—all of them had to wait until he reached the Earth Origin Realm.

"I wonder if I'll get the chance to obtain a first-rate cultivation art?" Lin Yiqing thought hopefully.

Now that he had reached the ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm, though, he could try out his bold idea.

He would attempt to break through straight to the Earth Origin Realm!

In the original story, Lin Dong had tried it once, but unfortunately, he'd failed.

Lin Yiqing, however, believed in himself. His foundation was far stronger than Lin Dong's.

It was an undeniably reckless idea. The ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm and the Earth Origin Realm might be separated by only one level, but that level was an insurmountable chasm. Some people could spend their entire lives stuck there, unable to break through.

The gap between the two was enormous. An Earth Origin Realm expert could slaughter a group of ninth-layer Body Tempering Realm fighters without breaking a sweat.

Most people chose to cultivate step by step at this point, waiting until the Origin Power in their dantian had built up enough before daring to try for the Earth Origin Realm. Very few did what Lin Yiqing was planning.

But with danger pressing in on all sides, he had no choice to retreat!

After adjusting himself for a while, he circulated his Origin Power continuously until his body, mind, and spirit reached their peak.

Lin Yiqing took a long wooden box from his Universe Bag and opened it. A fragrance, like orchids and musk, wafted out. Inside lay an orchid the color of white jade: the White Jade Snake Orchid he had obtained in the expert's Relic Mansion.

He had originally planned to refine it into a pill, which would have made the best use of it. But there was no time to wait.

Lin Yiqing picked it up and examined it closely. The white-jade leaves swayed, and faint golden threads could be glimpsed within them. A gentle warmth passed into his palm, like that of the finest mutton-fat jade.

"Whew!"

Lin Yiqing took a deep breath, then wolfed down the White Jade Snake Orchid in a few huge bites.

There was no time to make pills for him, and he had no divine artifact like the Ancestor Stone to help him. There was no time left to boil it into a decoction, either. He could only take the risk.

It wasn't bitter, as he had expected. The White Jade Snake Orchid even had a faint sweetness. Then warmth rose in his abdomen and quickly spread through his whole body.

Lin Yiqing immediately guided the medicinal power through his body. He was going to break through to the Earth Origin Realm!

At that moment, as though it sensed his intention, a hazy radiance slowly appeared between his brows. The orb seemed not to belong to this space; wisps of chaotic energy swirled around it, lending it a sacred air.

The moment the Mysterious Light Orb appeared, the boundless moonlight in the starry sky outside was drawn to it in an instant.

The cave where Lin Yiqing sat seemed to become a deep, bottomless black hole, swallowing all the moonlight that descended upon it.

The silvery moonlight was drawn entirely to Lin Yiqing, bathing him in silver-white radiance. He seemed to be made entirely of the purest silver, like an immortal seated in a supreme pure land.

After a few breaths, wisps of gray-white air slowly appeared around Lin Yiqing. The moment they emerged, a thick layer of ice instantly spread through the entire cave.

"Greater Yin Qi."

Experts who reached the Earth Origin Realm would choose to absorb Yin Sha Qi from the world around them. Yin Sha Qi was divided into nine grades, with the first being the weakest and the ninth the strongest.

Yin Sha Qi could still be found, but Greater Yin Qi was a treasure no one dared even dream of. First, there were no peerless experts in this world capable of refining it. Second, no one in this world likely even knew what it was.

Yet the Mysterious Light Orb had unexpectedly drawn in moonlight and condensed it directly, making it available for Lin Yiqing to absorb. Such divine power was almost too incredible to imagine.

The Mysterious Light Orb quivered slightly, and the wisp of Greater Yin Qi drifted into Lin Yiqing's body.

If he could successfully fuse with it, his Origin Power's quality would be unmatched by anyone who came before or after!

As the Greater Yin Qi entered his body, a layer of ice covered Lin Yiqing. The Origin Power inside him slowly froze, and a frigid chill spread wildly through his body until his flesh and blood seemed to freeze into shards of ice.

Lin Yiqing had noticed the moment the moonlight poured into the cave, but he'd been at a critical juncture in his breakthrough to the Earth Origin Realm and hadn't dared to divide his attention. He hadn't expected the Mysterious Light Orb to cause him such a huge problem.

Sensing Lin Yiqing's condition, the Mysterious Light Orb quivered gently again, and all the chill within his body drew back into the Greater Yin Qi.

The Origin Power inside him sprang back to life. Like soldiers who had received an order, it surged toward the wisp of Greater Yin Qi. The Greater Yin Qi cooperated fully, and the two soon began to fuse.

With the Mysterious Light Orb's help, Lin Yiqing's body grew warm. As it gradually fused, the Greater Yin Qi began reshaping Lin Yiqing's constitution from the inside out.

All his bones turned jade-like and far tougher, like divine iron beneath ten thousand years of ice. The hidden injuries left by his past cultivation and battles healed, while his flesh, blood, and organs underwent a qualitative tempering and strengthening.

As his crystalline red blood flowed, it seemed to pulse with a tremor. That was the mighty force of his heart's beat.

His features were refined into even greater perfection, and his skin became white and lustrous as jade. Yet its defensive strength multiplied.

If Lin Yiqing had once thought he could kill a bull with his bare hands, now he felt he could kill an Earth Origin Realm demon beast with nothing but his physical strength.

And the transformation wasn't happening all at once. The power of the Greater Yin Qi continued to improve his constitution.

It was easy to imagine that as his cultivation continued to rise, his advantage would grow more and more obvious until he surpassed everyone.

In his dantian, as the two fused, his previously colorless Origin Power gradually turned the gray-white of the Greater Yin Qi. The Origin Power Seed also transformed into a gray-white mass of energy, surrounded by what looked like a drifting ocean of frigid air.

As the gray-white mass of energy took shape, Lin Yiqing's whole body trembled. An unprecedented sense of power rose from deep within him.

The Earth Origin Realm!

"Crack! Crack!"

Cracks spread across the ice covering Lin Yiqing, and then chunks of it fell away.

Lin Yiqing withdrew his consciousness from his dantian and shut his eyes. A wondrous ripple spread from his mind, projecting the surroundings within several hundred meters into his consciousness in exquisite detail.

The immense feeling of power made Lin Yiqing's body tremble with excitement. After enduring so many hardships, he had finally entered the Earth Origin Realm!