Breaking Through to the Earth Origin Realm!

But elsewhere.

After returning home, Lin Yan quickly began cultivating as well.

With the Clan Gathering approaching, and the Hunting War still to come, Lin Yan wanted to improve his strength faster so he could make a strong showing at the major events ahead.

More importantly, he was no longer short on cultivation resources. He had made all those medicinal liquids, after all, and couldn't just use them as decorations.

So Lin Yan soon began his hellish training again.

"Eight Extremities Collapse!"

In the backyard, Lin Yan unleashed Eight Extremities Collapse, throwing punch after punch at Yao Lao, who floated in midair.

Facing this assault from Lin Yuan, Yao Lao continued to hover. He dodged all of Lin Yan's attacks with ease. As he evaded, he used his control over Yuan Power to form a whip, then lashed Lin Yan again and again whenever his attacks missed.

Lin Yan felt his muscles begin to spasm, but after gritting his teeth, he charged forward once more and attacked Yao Lao again.

And so, Lin Yan threw himself completely into his training.

For the next stretch of time, he trained like this almost every day.

He barely stepped outside.

He devoted himself entirely to cultivation at home.

Under this training, which could only be called hellish,

Lin Yan's mastery of Eight Extremities Collapse kept improving. His body grew stronger, too, thanks to Yao Lao's training and the medicinal liquid's nourishment.

His cultivation advanced at a rapid pace.

After five days, he reached the Seventh Layer of Body Tempering!

After twenty days, he reached the Eighth Layer of Body Tempering!

After a month and a half, he reached the Ninth Layer of Body Tempering!

As his realm continued to rise, both Lin Yan's physical strength and the size of his dantian kept increasing.

Nor did his Eight Extremities Collapse stagnate.

Under such frenzied training, he made a breakthrough in Eight Extremities Collapse and successfully cultivated it to the minor success stage!

One day, more than two months later,

after completing a full day of training, Lin Yan couldn't help feeling a wave of exhaustion.

He quickly returned to his room and, as usual, filled the bathtub with a whole tub of water.

Then he opened a bottle of medicinal liquid and poured it all into the water.

As the clear water in the tub gradually turned a dense medicinal green, anticipation stirred in Lin Yan's eyes.

"Can I break through to the Earth Origin Realm today?"

Over the past few days of cultivation, Lin Yan had increasingly felt that he had reached a bottleneck, and that breaking through it was just one step away.

He had tried several times in a row, but still hadn't broken through.

Yet during today's training, that feeling of being on the verge of a breakthrough had been especially strong!

So Lin Yan was genuinely eager to find out whether he could finally break through with the help of the medicinal liquid's nourishment and enter the long-awaited Earth Origin Realm.

Just like Dou Zhe on the Dou Qi Continent,

only after becoming a Dou Zhe could one be considered to have truly begun cultivating.

The Earth Origin Realm in the Martial Movement World was the same.

Only by entering the Earth Origin Realm could one truly get on the right track!

Splash!

Lin Yan shook his head, putting those thoughts aside, then quickly climbed into the water with a clear splash.

A familiar sensation spread through his body. As he soaked, the medicinal power in the water steadily healed his wounds and nourished his body.

He felt indescribably comfortable, and his physical strength grew stronger bit by bit.

Lin Yan soaked in the water for a long time, until he finally felt that he had returned to peak condition.

Then he swallowed a pill he had prepared beforehand.

It was a third-grade Yin Sha Pill, containing an extremely potent Yin Sha Power.

Lin Yan had swallowed this pill in order to break through.

There were two ways to break through from the Body Tempering Realm to the Earth Origin Realm.

The first was to use Yuan Power to advance step by step, but the resulting Earth Origin Realm was generally unremarkable.

The second was to combine Yin Sha Power with Yuan Power to break through. This method was much harder, but those who succeeded would be stronger than ordinary Earth Origin Realm cultivators.

In the original story, Lin Dong had broken through by drawing on the Yin Sha Power within Qing Tan's body.

But Lin Yan had no Stone Talisman and no way to extract the Yin Sha Power from Qing Tan, so that path was closed to him.

Fortunately, he had Yao Lao. He had asked him to refine a few pills to take the place of Yin Sha Power.

Now that he had swallowed the Yin Sha Pill, Lin Yan felt a terrifying amount of Yin Sha Qi surge through his body and quickly used his soul power to temper it.

This tempering continued through the entire night.

By morning, the Yuan Power in Lin Yan's body had successfully fused with that Yin Sha Qi and grown much more powerful.

He focused his mind on his dantian and soon discovered that, compared to the Body Tempering Realm, it now contained a cluster of ice-blue energy. The mass rotated slowly, with strands of icy chill circling around it, awaiting Lin Yan's command.

Lin Yan stood up and moved his body around. After testing it, he found that he was much stronger than before!

"So this is the Earth Origin Realm."

"It really is much stronger than the Body Tempering Realm!"

After getting dressed, Lin Yan felt the power bursting through his body and smiled with satisfaction.

Yao Lao, standing nearby, carefully observed the changes in Lin Yan. He had always been very interested in the power system of this world. So as soon as Lin Yan completed his breakthrough and his aura grew stronger, Yao Lao had watched him closely.

"I see."

"Compared to Dou Zhe, the Earth Origin Realm places greater importance on tempering the body."

"You could say that our cultivation methods on the Dou Qi Continent focus more on Dou Qi—that is, on the use and cultivation of Yuan Qi here. Everything centers on Dou Qi."

"But this world follows a different path. Yuan Power is certainly important, but their study of it clearly isn't as sophisticated as our study of Dou Qi."

"However, they place much more emphasis on the physical body. Judging by physical strength alone, warriors of the same stage here are far stronger than Dou Zhe on the Dou Qi Continent."

After observing him, Yao Lao finally reached a conclusion. He stroked his beard and summed it up for Lin Yan.

Lin Yan suddenly had an idea. "Then what if I combine the strengths of both? When cultivating Yuan Power, I could use the methods of the Dou Qi Continent to refine it further. When tempering my body, I could use this world's methods."

"Wouldn't that leave me without any weaknesses?"

Yao Lao's eyes lit up at this. A bold idea immediately took shape in his mind.

He took out two scrolls and placed them in front of Lin Yan, then said with a genial smile,

"In that case, young friend,"

"would you be interested in trying out the Qi cultivation methods of our Dou Qi Continent?"