Chapter Eleven: The Dark Pearl

  "Qingtan, has your cold come back again?"

  Feeling the wave of cold air that seeped out from Qingtan's body, Lindong couldn't help but shiver, and immediately his face turned anxious.

  "Ah." Qing Tan gritted her teeth lightly, her small body trembling constantly, and a pained expression surged across her face.

  "I'm going to call Dad!" Lin Dong said hastily.

  "Don't go." Upon hearing this, Qingtan hastily grabbed Lin's sleeve, and the cold air quickly formed a thin layer of frost on his clothes: "It's useless, Father rarely has a good time, don't go disturb him, I can endure it for now."

  Looking at Qingtan's pale face, Lin Dong also felt a pang of heartache. He gritted his teeth and finally nodded in agreement. What Qingtan said was right, even if they called their fathers over, it would be useless. It would only add two more anxious people to the scene.

  This cold air outbreak is a frequent occurrence for Qingtan from childhood to adulthood, every once in a while, her body will have an extremely intense yin-cold energy explosion, under that yin-cold energy, her body will become incredibly painful. For over a decade, no one knows how much suffering she has endured due to this yin-cold energy. Even Lin Xiao had no way to deal with it, he once tried to use his yuan force to forcibly expel it, but the final result was that he ended up lying in bed for half a month before finally eliminating that strange yin-cold energy from his body.

  So every time Qingtan's body burst into cold air, the three of them could only watch with a heart-wrenching feeling as Qingtan trembled uncontrollably in a ball, unable to offer any help.

  "I'll carry you back to the room first." Lin Dong looked at Qingtan, who was almost frozen stiff by the cold air, and suddenly bent down, sweeping her into his arms before dashing towards a nearby room.

  "Hiss!"

  Rushing into the room, Lin Dong quickly put Qingtan on the bed, then hurriedly rubbed his arms vigorously beside him, both of which had become numb at this moment, as if they had been pricked by needles.

  "Lin Dong, you...you go back first, I can hold on." Qing Tan wrapped her small body entirely in the quilt, weakly saying, but as she spoke, her body shook more and more violently. This time's cold air explosion seemed to be even more fierce.

  "So cold... so cold..."

  The little head of Qingtan poked out from under the quilt, his small face pale, and his hair was covered with ice crystals.

  Lindong, who was by the side, saw this scene and became anxious like an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth beside the bed. After a moment, he suddenly stopped in his tracks, gritted his teeth, took off his shoes, and climbed up to the window. With one swift motion, he tightly hugged Qingtan along with the quilt.

  The cultivator, with his robust qi and blood, wanted to use the heat from his own body to alleviate some of Qingtan's suffering. Although he might also understand that the effect may not be too great, he couldn't bear to leave Qingtan alone here to endure the torment of the cold air.

  "Lin Dong-ge, stop!"

  The Qingtan, whose mind was somewhat dull due to the cold air, also felt Lin Dong's movements and immediately became more alert. He hastily said that he knew better than anyone how terrible the cold air inside him was. Even Lin Xiao's Yuan-level strength had been made a mess by the cold air, let alone Lin Dong's mere Tempering Body Fourth Layer?

  "Alright, it's fine..." Lin Dong gritted his teeth tightly and hugged Qingtan firmly, although they were separated by the quilt, but he felt as if he was hugging a block of ice that had been frozen for thousands of years. The chill emanating from her body was like a thousand sharp needles piercing into his skin.

  Not long after embracing Qingtan, Lin Dong's body also began to tremble, white frost appeared on his eyebrows, and his teeth chattered constantly. Although it was painful, the arms that hugged Qingtan became tighter and tighter.

  Qingtan leaned her small head against Linyong's chest, gazing at the constantly trembling Linyong. Her lips were tightly pursed, and tears welled up in her eyes. Deep down, however, a faint warmth was rising within her. She knew her own circumstances, but to Linyong's family, she was like true kin.

  "Thank you, Lin Dong." His consciousness grew increasingly fuzzy, Qingtan's eyes slowly closed, and he whispered softly.

  The frost on Lin Dong's body grew thicker and his consciousness gradually became blurry. However, just as he was about to fall asleep, a strange suction force suddenly appeared at his chest, and he immediately felt that the wild and violent cold air in his body had been sucked away by this suction force.

  The chill in the air quickly dissipated, and Lin Dong's somewhat blurry consciousness also recovered its clarity. He stared at the frost that had melted on his arm, dazed for a moment, before hastily pulling open his shirt to reveal the stone talisman stored against his skin. At this moment, it was emitting a faint glow, and from it, a subtle icy sensation emanated.

  "Did this stone symbol absorb the cold yin energy?" Lin Dong blinked his eyes, and a hint of surprise flashed across his face. He didn't expect that the cold energy that even his father couldn't dispel would actually be absorbed by the stone symbol!

  At this moment, Qingtan, who had been unconscious in her arms, also let out a soft hum and slowly opened her eyes. She too was aware of the situation inside her body at the first time and exclaimed: "The cold air has dissipated?"

  "It seems so." Lin nodded and then let go of Qingtan, smiling: "Withdrawal is good, rest early."

  "En, Lin Dong ge, thank you." Looking at Lin Dong's smiling face, Qing Tan's pretty face slightly flushed with embarrassment, she said softly.

  "What's the point of saying these things to our own people?" Lin Dong patted his chest, showing a somewhat heroic smile, and then seeing that it wasn't late, he didn't linger any longer. He waved at Qingtan and turned around to rush out of the room.

  Looking at the back of Lin Dong, who was sneaking out, Qing Tan lay on the bed like a little beauty, lazily showing a bit of coquetry. Her small hands supported her fragrant cheeks, and her jade-like bright small feet were lightly swaying behind her. A sweet smile hung on the corner of her lips.

  After leaving the room where Qingtan was, Lin Dong rushed into his own room, first locking the door tightly. He then took down the stone symbol hanging on his chest and, with the help of the lamp light, saw that in the small indentation at the center of the stone symbol, there were actually three bean-sized milky white crystals.

  Lin Dong carefully took down the three bean-sized milky white crystals, and as soon as they came into contact with his palm, a chill spread out from the center of his hand. The cold air was almost identical to the yin energy within Qingtan's body, except that the chill in the crystal seemed much gentler.

  "This must be the cold air condensed from the green sandalwood body..."

  Lin Dong grasped the three white crystals, his face revealing a thoughtful expression. This cold and gloomy aura was no longer as violent as it had been when it was inside Qingtan's body; in fact, it might have even reached a level where people could absorb it.

  Although it's still far from the Earthly Realm, Lin Dong knew that after entering the Earthly Realm, the most important thing was to absorb the yin energy between heaven and earth into his body, and then merge it with the yuan force inside his body. In this way, the attacking power of the yuan force would be greatly enhanced. If he reached the Heavenly Yuan Realm, he would need to absorb the yang energy between heaven and earth, until finally, the yin and yang in his body were balanced, only then could he condense the yuan dan.

  Therefore, this practice is also called stealing yin and yang.

  So, for the two realms of Tiān Yuán and Dì Yuán, the energies of Yīn Piě and Yáng Piě are almost the most important. Moreover, in the space between heaven and earth, the energies of Yīn Piě and Yáng Piě also have a distinction of three, six, nine, etc., with each having its own high and low quality. However, for most people, it is still more convenient to directly absorb the two energies of yin and yang from the space between heaven and earth. Although this method is simpler, the power is naturally slightly weaker. After all, those special energies of yin and yang are not something that can be encountered just by chance.

  Of course, there are also some wealthy people who absorb special yin and yang energy, so they are obviously stronger than others of the same level.

  Moreover, when the quality of yin and yang energies absorbed at the boundary between the earthly and heavenly realms is higher, the resulting elixir will also be stronger!

  Therefore, for some people with money, they will go to great lengths to find all kinds of rare yin and yang energies in the world, so as to make the yuan dan they have formed better in quality.

  Although Lin Dong had never seen the so-called yin evil energy, he could be sure that the white yin bead in his hand was absolutely stronger than the natural yin evil energy between heaven and earth!

  It's possible that its yin evil energy has reached a level of three or even higher.

  And this has a fatal attraction for some masters of local domains!

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