Chapter Eighteen: Yuan Force Seed

  In the marrow, a strange energy flows slowly, an indescribable sense of power emanates from the marrow and spreads to every part of the body.

  "Is this the Primordial Seed?"

  Lin's eyes flashed with wild joy, and in this instant, the entire world seemed to have brightened up a lot. He could even feel that in the air around his body, there was a strange thing flowing, which was very similar to the yuan force seed born in his bone marrow.

  "Original Strength..."

  Lin Dong suddenly stood up, but couldn't help bursting into a loud laugh. After such a long period of arduous cultivation, coupled with the assistance of the Stone Symbol Spirit Liquid, he finally succeeded in giving birth to a Yuan Force seed within his body today. From now on, he could also be considered as having formally stepped into the threshold of cultivation!

  "Roar!"

  When Lin Dong burst out laughing, the scorpion not far away also stared at him with its scarlet eyes. This time, it felt a somewhat familiar aura from Lin Dong's body, but this clearly wouldn't make it retreat automatically. With a low growl, its huge mouth opened wide and its two hooves stomped forward, shooting towards Lin Dong like an arrow leaving the bowstring.

  Feeling the pungent wind rushing towards him, Lin Dong raised his head, only to discover that the swift and fierce gecko that had previously seemed so fast in his eyes now appeared as if its speed had been slowed down. The trajectory of its flight was grasped by him in an instant.

  "Is this the sixth layer of Tempering Body..."

  Lin Dong's eyes became even brighter, his footsteps lightly shifted one step to the side, just avoiding the scorpion's pounce. Immediately after, his right palm slightly rose, a faint light flashed in the center of his palm, and then he heavily chopped down at the scorpion's head with that same palm!

  "Hiss!"

  A low voice sounded, with scorching blood splashing everywhere. Lin Dong's palm, surprisingly, directly penetrated the scorpion's hard skin and pierced its throat!

  The scorpion's body stiffened at this moment, then crashed to the ground with a loud noise, and fresh blood gushed out rapidly, dyeing a large area of the ground red.

  "Original power... so strong..."

  Lin Dong gazed at the scorpion's deadly strike, and couldn't help but take a cold breath. This was the power of Yuan Force? No wonder others said that the fifth and sixth stages of Body Tempering were two completely different levels.

  "It's good that I didn't fight with Lin Hong last time, otherwise, I'm afraid I would have suffered a loss." Lin Dong withdrew his palm and picked up some leaves to wipe away the bloodstains, feeling slightly palpitate. This was still his first time personally experiencing the ferocity of Yuan Li.

  With one kick, he sent the scorpion flying to the side. Lin Dong took two strides forward and suddenly appeared where the crystal Zhu fruit was located. Looking at its sparkling and transparent fruit, he couldn't help but feel a little envious. A third-grade spiritual medicine, its price was indeed not cheap. Generally speaking, it could only be found in deep mountains and ancient forests. Today, he was able to discover one here, and his luck had reached an extreme point.

  Lin Dong carefully sized up the crystal Zhu fruit, then without hesitation, he bent down and made a grab for it. However, just as his palm was about to grasp the crystal Zhu fruit, the mysterious stone pendant hanging on his chest suddenly emitted a faint warmth.

  For the mysterious stone token's sudden change, Lin Dong was also stunned. He took out the stone token and placed it on his palm. After entering the sixth layer of the Body Tempering stage, his senses seemed to have become much sharper. Therefore, he could vaguely feel that the stone token was releasing a subtle suction force, and under this suction force, there was a faint energy in the surrounding heaven and earth, pouring into the stone token.

  "Shi Fu Ling Ye, perhaps it is the energy absorbed by Shi Fu from the heavens and earth condensed!"

  Feeling this scene, Lin Dong seemed to be deep in thought, and then his gaze turned to the crystal Zhu fruit on another palm. The change of this stone token seemed to be caused by this crystal Zhu fruit.

  Holding the crystal Zhu Guo, Lin Dong hesitated for a moment before tentatively bringing the Zhu Guo closer to the stone token. However, just as the Zhu Guo was about to touch the stone token, a strong and fierce suction force suddenly burst out from within the stone token, and then the Zhu Guo shot towards the stone token under Lin Dong's astonished gaze. In an instant, it disappeared in a strange manner upon contact.

  This scene left Lin stunned for a good while, Shi Fu swallowed the crystal Zhu fruit?

  Will Shifu also eat something?

  Lin Dong's face was filled with confusion, and just as he came back to his senses, he suddenly saw that in the position of the stone symbol's recess, a crimson light flickered, and then the light grew more intense until it finally condensed into two bean-sized crimson dan pills, which rolled down and were caught by Lin Dong.

  As soon as he got the dan, a warm light burst forth, and Lin Dong could sense that this dan contained a very dense and pure energy. This energy was probably far beyond what he had collected from the stone talismans.

  "This Dan Wan should be the condensation of the crystal Zhu Guo used by Shi Fu earlier..." From the Dan Wan, Lin Dong smelled the same flavor as the crystal Zhu Guo before, and with the previous scene, it's not hard to guess how this Dan Wan was produced.

  "It seems that this stone token can not only absorb the energy between heaven and earth, but also absorb spiritual medicine, and then refine it into a more pure medicinal liquid or pill..."

  At this point, Lin Dong's eyes couldn't help but flash with excitement. A single Crystal Zhu Fruit had refined two Dan pills, and the medicinal power of just one pill was far stronger than that of a single Crystal Zhu Fruit. This extraordinary function was simply elevating the effect of the spiritual medicine to its peak.

  "It seems that we need to concoct more spiritual medicine, the energy of this danwan is even stronger than the Stone Symbol Spiritual Liquid. If we can use it, our cultivation speed will definitely accelerate again!"

  As soon as he thought of that rapid speed, Lin Dong couldn't help but clench his fist, put the stone symbol away once more, and then quickly turned around to leave.

  …

  After discovering the special effect of the stone symbol, Lin was excited for several days. However, as this excitement gradually passed, he came to his senses and realized that things were not as good as he had imagined.

  First, he didn't have enough spiritual medicine to refine the stone symbol. Although Lin Xiao's injuries had healed, he still refused to accept the resources of the Lin family, so Lin Dong could only take matters into his own hands and go find the spiritual medicine himself.

  Moreover, after Lin Dong tentatively gave two pieces of first-grade spiritual medicine to Shi Xuan to absorb, he was shocked to discover that only two irregularly-shaped beans were spat out by Shi Xuan. After several experiments, he also came to understand that in order to refine a Dan pill like the one last time, at least three pieces of third-grade spiritual medicine would be needed, but where could such third-grade spiritual medicine be easily found?

  The last time was just a fluke, don't think there will be a second time, it's not that easy...

  For these repeated obstacles, Lin Dong also had to temporarily put down his extravagant hopes. As long as he stood out in the clan comparison, he would be able to openly and honestly enjoy the resources of the clan later on, and wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

  Putting aside the extravagant hopes in his heart, Lin Dong once again focused his mind on cultivation. Although he had already entered the sixth layer of the Tempering Marrow stage, directly swallowing the Stone Symbol Spirit Liquid still had a significant effect on him. As time passed, Lin Dong could feel that the Yuan Force seeds flowing through his bone marrow were gradually surging towards the outside of his skeleton.

  And when the time comes for the yuan force seed to break through the skeletal constraints and flow into the body's meridians, that is when it has reached the seventh level of quenching the body and refining the yuan entering the meridians!

  Of course, even with Lin Dong's assistance from the Stone Symbol Spirit Liquid, it would still require a considerable amount of time...

  While Lin Dong's strength was rapidly advancing, the scorching summer was also quietly coming to an end. In the Lin family, the most important clan comparison was about to arrive...

  Sorry to trouble you all.