Thirty breaths!
It was an enormous leap.
That meant that once he entered the earth, he could travel three li underground.
And since he could head in any direction, the actual search area would only be larger.
Unless they were Foundation Establishment cultivators with divine sense, Qi Refining cultivators without a suitable secret treasure had absolutely no chance of tracking Lin Changheng.
Lin Changheng immediately shook his head with a smile. "And what could a Qi Refining cultivator possibly have done to deserve a secret treasure like that?"
Perhaps he was sometimes overly cautious, but he had no intention of changing. Hadn't some storybooks written of a legendary Immortal Emperor dying merely from stepping on an insect's corpse?
The stories might exaggerate, but the reasoning was sound. Caution prevented grave mistakes; caution could also keep a ship sailing for ten thousand years.
Lin Changheng always kept that firmly in mind.
"Continue."
The essence blood Tantai Feiyue had sent-no, the "talisman ink"-had not yet been used up.
The Rockmountain Tortoise's essence blood continued to be extracted.
Under Lin Changheng's gaze, a true core slowly emerged within the Origin Cauldron.
"A demonic art!"
Lin Changheng knew that a true core represented a demonic art.
Since no mutation had occurred, he had already suspected as much.
[Rockmountain Tortoise Treasure Seed · Fifth tier] [Spirit seizure: 100/100] [Transformation: 0/10] [Effect: Miscellaneous-grade demonic beast bloodline, innately endowed with an earth affinity. Spirit seizure complete; transformation nurtures the Dao. Can be refined into the bloodline to obtain the atavistic demonic art "Earth Escape."]
"Not bad."
"Once this seed finishes its transformation, all five of my treasure seeds at the [mundane filth essence blood] level will have finished evolving, freeing up all five seed slots."
He would also gain one divine ability true intent, [Fire