"Senior, I will never forget your great kindness..." As she spoke, Yu Hongyan knelt again to bow in thanks. Trading a bodhi seed for information on the Flesh Lingzhi had already been a tremendous bargain for her.
Now Lin Yu had healed her injuries, replenished her overdrawn potential, and even taken her a step further. This truly was an enormous opportunity.
After all, once cultivators overdrew their potential and fell in realm, climbing back up required hundreds of times more effort.
"No need for this. Neither of us owes the other anything. As for your injuries, that was merely a lift of the hand. Our transaction is complete. Goodbye!"
With that, Lin Yu snapped his fingers.
With a boom, Yu Hongyan saw only a flash of purple light before her eyes. The next instant, she found herself outside Hongmeng Mountain.
Looking back on everything she had just experienced, it all felt like a dream.
Lin Yu's image as a powerful, mysterious senior had already been deeply imprinted on her heart.
"Oh no, how did I forget to ask the senior's name? Ah... never mind. I'll be coming back anyway."
After murmuring to herself, Yu Hongyan immediately turned into a streak of light and flew into the distance, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
Inside the Primordial Hall, immediately after sending her away, Lin Yu heard a notification chime in his mind:
[Ding! Beginner mission complete. Host's control permissions over the Primordial Hall have increased. First mission rewards are ready for distribution. Would you like to claim them?]
"Claim!"
[Ding! Congratulations to the host on obtaining the "Beginningless Scripture"!] [Congratulations to the host on obtaining the Innate Holy Body Dao Embryo constitution!] [Congratulations to the host on receiving an infusion of a wisp of Primordial Chaos Immortal Qi!] [Congratulations to the host on obtaining 15 Announcement Lists. These lists can help the host convey information to the outside world!]
The system's rewards poured out like beans spilling from a sack, leaving Lin Yu's eyes struggling to keep up. Passage after passage of unfathomable scripture flooded his mind.
He knew very well that this was the Beginningless Scripture, created by Great Emperor Wushi. As the saying went, who stood at the summit at the end of the immortal road? One glimpse of Wushi, and the Dao came to naught.
Although he was a great figure from another plane, he would still be an unsurpassed powerhouse in this world. But because Lin Yu lacked the specific constitution, he could not understand what the scripture said.
At this point, streams of special power began pouring into Lin Yu's body. His entire body felt unbearably hot and extremely uncomfortable.
But Lin Yu knew very well that the system was transforming his constitution into the Holy Dao Embryo. After all, only with this constitution could he cultivate the "Beginningless Scripture."
Half a quarter-hour later, Lin Yu gradually returned to normal. To his surprise, he discovered that his vitality and physical strength had more than doubled.
He also felt that his comprehension of the Dao and principles between heaven and earth had grown more than tenfold. The scripture that had been obscure and incomprehensible just moments ago became clear in an instant.
Moreover, he was confident that he could now reach the peak of Spirit Condensation, the same level as Yu Hongyan, within two months.
No matter how gifted someone was, reaching this stage took at least several hundred years. But with Lin Yu's current talent and inheritance, none of that was a problem anymore.
Immediately afterward, another wisp of Immortal Qi infused his body. Lin Yu felt his body grow hot and restless again. At the same time, the entire Primordial Hall began to shine, and a magnificent beam of golden light shot straight toward the Dipper and the Ox, as though it would punch a hole through the heavens.
At the same time, illusory scenes appeared above the Primordial Hall one after another: magnificent celestial palaces of the immortal realm, the descent of ten thousand immortals, and even Pangu opening heaven, Nüwa creating humanity, and ancient battles between Gods and Devils.
Had the Primordial Hall not concealed the heavenly secrets, it probably would have alarmed half the Eastern Wasteland.
Meanwhile, bolstered by this wisp of Primordial Chaos Qi, Lin Yu's cultivation realm soared.
Early-stage Body Tempering... mid-stage Body Tempering, peak Body Tempering!!
Lin Yu felt that his body could smash through anything. Even a divine weapon at the Qi Sea level could not injure him.
Early-stage Qi Gathering... late-stage Qi Gathering... Qi Sea!!!
Under the infusion of Primordial Chaos Immortal Qi, vast quantities of pure True Qi surged toward Lin Yu's dantian, continuously opening the meridians throughout his body.
Before long, the pure Qi accumulated until it finally turned into liquid. In little more than ten minutes, the Qi in Lin Hao's dantian transformed from an ethereal gaseous form into a boundless, ocean-like sea.
When his realm reached the peak of the Spirit Condensation Realm, the Immortal Qi ran out, and everything stopped. The Qi Sea that had just resembled a vast ocean had now condensed into a pink humanoid the same size as Lin Yu and merged with his physical body.
Spirit Condensation was more like the Nascent Soul of an immortal cultivation plane, except that the condensed spirit also had different quality grades. The closer its condensed size was to a human body, the higher its quality.
Accordingly, at this realm, a cultivator's magical power reserves, various resistances, and every other aspect would far exceed those of someone with a lower-quality spirit.
Ordinary cultivators could, at most, condense an infant the size of a fist.
Even a genius like Yu Hongyan had only condensed one the size of a two-year-old child when she was at half-step Spirit Condensation.
Yet Lin Yu's was fully the size of a human body. This was enough to show that the quality of his condensed spirit was unprecedentedly supreme.
Feeling the vitality and magical power filling his entire body, Lin Yu raised his hand and struck a palm toward a distant mountain.
Boom!
An enormous golden palm flew out, smashing the mountain to pieces. Even an equally massive peak behind it was not spared, and his palm strike triggered an earthquake across a thousand li.
"Mm, not bad." Lin Yu nodded in satisfaction.
Now, even if he left the Primordial Hall, he could easily blast opponents at the level of those four Li brothers to death.
Thinking of the increased permissions the system had mentioned, Lin Yu took out the bodhi seed that had just been restored.
"I wonder if my current permissions can bring it to full maturity?"
[Ding! The host's permissions allow it. The bodhi seed can be brought to maturity. Would you like to begin the upgrade?]
"Upgrade!"
He had only intended to give it a try. He had not expected it to actually work.
As soon as he spoke, the bodhi seed began radiating golden light. A few minutes later, the light dispersed.
He looked again.
The bodhi seed was now twice its previous size.
"System, analyze the bodhi seed again."
[Ding! Mature bodhi seed. Effect 1: Grants a 40-fold cultivation speed bonus.] [Effect 2: Ensures that the host can still conceal himself from the Heavenly Dao to a substantial degree after leaving the Primordial Hall.] [Effect 3: Not unlocked.] [Effect 4: Not unlocked.] [Effect 5: Not unlocked.]
"Good, very good."
Lin Yu nodded in satisfaction. Thanks to his Innate Holy Body Dao Embryo, his cultivation speed had already been dozens of times faster than an ordinary person's. With the mature bodhi seed's bonus added now, his future cultivation speed was even less to be underestimated.
At the same time, its ability to conceal heavenly secrets could also ensure that, after leaving the Primordial Hall, his divinations would not bring calamity upon him by revealing heavenly secrets.
The punishment brought on by revealing heavenly secrets would make even a supreme Great Emperor quail. Although he currently had the Primordial Hall's protection and was still fine,
Lin Yu could not stay here forever. Sooner or later, he would have to go out. With the bodhi seed by his side, he no longer had any worries hanging over him.