After Xiao Jingxin left, Lin Xiaotian began nourishing the medicinal pills.
They would certainly take him along to Senior Dongli's location, so he needed to prepare more pills for emergencies, lest anything unexpected happen.
Nor did he neglect his Martial Dao training. He practiced diligently every day.
He was only a hair's breadth from the threshold of external force. He could already feel its edge, but unfortunately, he was still one step short.
"With Blood Qi helping my Martial Dao training, there are no bottlenecks, but my body's root bone is far too ordinary, even with Blood Qi transforming and nourishing my foundations."
"In the end, I still fall far short of a true genius."
"If I really cultivate according to my own root bone, this will take a very long time."
"I need to find a way to get something like a Realm-Breaking Pill."
Lin Xiaotian laughed despite himself.
"You only need a Realm-Breaking Pill to advance from external force to internal force. I've never heard of anyone needing one to reach external force."
"Still, there's something strange about these Realm-Breaking Pills. It lines up with what that old fellow Dongli said back then."
"The powers in the County Town control the resources. If you want to break through to internal force, you have to turn to them."
"The major lineages in each town look more like powers they propped up. Otherwise, why can each one have only a single internal force expert?"
"Enough. These aren't things to consider right now, and there's no need to consider them, either."
And so, he practiced while preparing high-quality medicinal pills.
Several days passed like this before Xiao Changsheng, head of the Xiao Household, convened a lineage meeting.
Unlike previous meetings, this one included invitations to several of the lineage's more important