Chapter 154: Sea Monster (Fourth Update)

  Originally, Lin Xiao didn't need to refine the Snow Orchid and Golden Orchid immediately, after all, he couldn't use them now, and neither Huang Qi fruit nor Winter Snow Orchid or Dragon Claw Golden Orchid were like Blue Star Grass, which had a short storage time. They could be stored for over a decade without losing any medicinal properties.

  But Lin Xiao was also a sudden impulse, anyway, they would all be refined later, so it's better to refine them once and for all.

  Spending 3010 points of second-level Small Boundary Force, Lin Xiao exchanged for four bottles of elixirs. The Golden Elixir and Snow Orchid Elixir were temporarily unused and put away by him. As for the two bottles of Blue Star Elixir, they could be used immediately.

  After staying in the Amazon rainforest for a year, Lin Xiao had long been bored here. Now that he finally settled down, he chose to leave at the first opportunity and enjoyed himself in the big city for a week before setting off again to go abroad. He casually found an uninhabited small island and settled down.

  Half a day later, the 24 inferior Blue Star Pills were absorbed by him one after another, and with the help of these 24 inferior Blue Star Pills, Lin Xiao's cultivation also successfully broke through from the early stage of the first rank to the middle stage. However, at this time, the inferior Blue Star Pills had been used up, leaving only the remaining 24 medium-grade Blue Star Pills.

  The white jade porcelain bottle was taken out by Lin Xiao and placed on a stone beside him.

  This is a mountain belly inside this small island. Lin Xiao opened up a cave here as his residence for this period of time.

  The density of yuanqi on this small island overseas is much higher than that in the big cities, and the speed of cultivation here is about twice that in the city. With the help of Blue Star Dan, Lin Xiao plans to break through to the late stage of Yuanwu first, but after breaking through, he estimates that the Blue Star Dan in his hand will be used up, and then he will have to set out again to find alchemy herbs elsewhere.

  "Come one by one, the efficacy of the medium-grade Spirit Dan is far beyond that of the low-grade Spirit Dan, don't burst accidentally."

  Lin Xiao picked up the porcelain bottle and poured out a dan medicine with sky blue color and sparkling dots on it. As soon as the dan medicine left the bottle, it emitted a strong fragrance. If this fragrance were to spread, who knows how many wild beasts would be attracted? Fortunately, they were inside the mountain belly, and the fragrance couldn't get out.

  With a raise of his hand, the azure-blue Blue Star Pill fell into Lin Xiao's mouth.

  The pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth, and in an instant, it turned into a warm current that flowed down Lin Xiao's throat and into his body.

  Lin Xiao immediately withdrew his mind and concentrated his attention on this medicinal power, controlling it with his spiritual energy to run along the second layer of Wan Jie's route in his body for several laps. Until he completely converted this medicinal power into pure absorbable yuanqi, he guided them towards the Dan Tian.

  In the lower dantian, the Wan Jie Pearl, originally the size of a grain of rice, had grown to the size of a green bean after this period of cultivation, coupled with Lin Xiao's smooth breakthrough to mid-stage Yuan Wu Zhe. The bright red Wan Jie Pearl was spinning around in the dantian.

  At this time, the yuanqi transformed from the medicinal power of Lán Xīng Dān also surged into the dantian.

  In an instant, the originally slow-rotating Wan Jie Pearl suddenly seemed to smell a bloody scent like a cat, and instantly separated from its surface a strip of crimson energy lock chain that resembled a grasping hand, directly surrounding this primordial aura and roughly pulling it in its own direction.

  In the blink of an eye, the Wan Jie Pearl rapidly rotated, and a terrible suction force directly sucked in this vital energy like a noodle.

  "Delicious!" Lin Xiao secretly smiled to himself, feeling the Wan Jie Pearl absorb this vital energy and then condense into a drop of pure yuan liquid, even his cultivation advancing by a step at a visible rate.

  A few minutes later...

  "Have another one." Lin Xiao opened his eyes, directly picked up the porcelain bottle and poured out another Blue Star Pill. Without putting down the bottle, he lifted his hand and swallowed the pill. In just a few minutes, this pill was also absorbed by the Wan Jie Pearl in his body.

  Among the 24 pieces, the middle-grade Blue Star Pill seems to be quite a few. According to normal calculations, even if a second-class martial artist were to swallow such a perfect middle-grade Blue Star Pill, it would take at least half a month to fully absorb it.

  But Lin Xiao used only four or five minutes of time, and a Blue Star Pill was quickly absorbed.

  The 24 blue star dan was completely consumed in just over two hours.

  Looking at Lin Xiao's body again, the Wan Jie Pearl, which was originally the size of a green bean, had increased in size by more than double, to the size of a thumb, and was happily rotating in the middle dantian. The yuan force liquid inside it had also increased from 500 drops to 10,000 drops, and his cultivation had smoothly broken through to the late stage of the first rank Yuan Wu Zhe.

  "Wow!"

  She opened her eyes and Lin Xiao let out a long, murky breath.

  "In the blink of an eye, it was all gone." He picked up the porcelain bottle in his hand, turned the mouth downward and poured it out, but there wasn't even a fart left inside.

  Fortunately, the cultivation was a smooth breakthrough, and the 24 middle-grade Blue Star Pills were not wasted.

  "This Wan Jie Secret is indeed extraordinary, from the early stage breakthrough to the later stage, there is no bottleneck at all. As long as the energy is sufficient, it can be broken through easily." Lin Xiao said that he had never seen other exercises, but even if he was stupid and ignorant, he knew that this Wan Jie Secret was not ordinary.

  Look at the martial artists in reality, they are not young anymore, but their cultivation is still at the martial disciple stage. Of course, on one hand, it may be because they don't have the assistance of elixirs like Lin Xiao does, but on the other hand, it also shows that the techniques they cultivate are far inferior to Lin Xiao's Wan Jie Secret Art.

  However, although the Wan Jie Secret Art has no bottlenecks in small realms, breaking through to higher realms is still extremely difficult. Not to mention that Lin Xiao has run out of Blue Star Pills, even if he had some left, at most it would only raise his cultivation to the peak of a first-stage Yuan Wu master, and it's unlikely he could break through to the second stage.

  After resting for a while, Lin Xiao continued to sit cross-legged in the same place, familiarizing himself with the power that had surged up inside his body several times along the second layer's route of the Wan Jie Secret Art, until he was thoroughly accustomed to this state before he finally came out of his meditative trance.

  Once, a surname from the first rank of Wu Zhe's early stage broke through to the later stage, but there were some flaws in the control of power. However, this is not a big problem. As long as Xie Lin doesn't continue to recklessly consume elixirs to increase his cultivation like he did today, it will be fine in a few months.

  Of course, even if he wanted to risk his life by taking elixirs, he no longer has the resources to do so now.

  "A year's effort, gone in the blink of an eye." Lin Xiao sighed and shook his head as he stood up from the ground.

  But despite this, Lin Xiao was still quite happy. The process of enjoying the fruits of one's own labor can only be understood by those who have experienced it personally. If the Blue Star Pill had been directly obtained from someone else, Lin Xiao probably wouldn't have felt this way.

  Rumble...!!!

  In an instant, the rock above Lin Xiao's head split open from the middle, accompanied by a tremor of the entire mountain. Countless small stones fell from above, but were disintegrated by a layer of invisible energy barrier before they touched Lin Xiao's body.

  On the small island, countless birds flew out of the forest as if they had been frightened and flew in all directions. In the center of the small island, a mountain suddenly cracked open with a seam in the middle, accompanied by tremors throughout the mountain body, and this seam was slowly expanding.

  Until the width of this seam reached two meters, a figure suddenly flew out from inside the mountain and disappeared directly into the distant horizon.

  ……

  In the blink of an eye, it has been more than two years since Lin Xiao's last breakthrough overseas.

  In the past two years or so, Lin Xiao has been to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. His time was limited, so he didn't think about covering the entire ocean floor. He just chose some relatively famous places, where there were records of shipwrecks in history or areas prone to maritime disasters.

  For example, the Bermuda Triangle, where he found a lot of good things. Of course, that's not a place ordinary people can go to, and even if they dare to go, there are only a few who can come out.

  If Lin Xiao's strength wasn't powerful enough, he wouldn't have been able to escape from the attack of so many sea monsters.

  Not bad!

  That sea area indeed lives a large group of sea monsters, of course, the name "sea monster" is taken by Lin Xiao himself. Mainly because those monsters are too ugly to look at, Lin Xiao couldn't think of any distinctive names for them, so he simply took the easy way out and gave them the vague name "sea monster".

  Those sea monsters are not strong individually, like the 4th-level variant of the Magnetic King can easily kill four or five of them. However, they appear in huge groups of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Once surrounded, even if one's strength is ten or a hundred times stronger, they will still be beaten to death by the sheer numbers. If Lin Xiao hadn't noticed something was off and chosen to escape earlier, he would have been torn apart and devoured by that group of sea monsters by now.

  However, although the place is terrifying, there are indeed many good things. Lin Xiao went there once again after barely escaping with his life for the first time.

  The second time he went, he was much more careful and didn't charge in like the first time, as if afraid that the other party wouldn't know he came. Even so, he only took a few things before being discovered by those sea monsters, and could only escape again.

  He ran away twice, although it was a bit embarrassing, but who made the other side have more people and momentum? Moreover, there were so many treasures in that place. Between face and treasure, Lin Xiao naturally chose the treasure.

  Face is something that Lin Xiao doesn't really care about, and as for this matter, only you and I know the truth, at most Xiang Er will just laugh at me a few times, nothing else.

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