Tempered Immortal

Chapter 13: Trash To Treasure

Over the next few days, Lin Xuan used half of his time to cultivate and the other half to study the blue lights.

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Like this, a week quickly went by, and Lin Xuan was still unable to find any more clues, but with all his practice, he could now control the blue lights a lot easier whenever he circulated them.

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“How am I supposed to use this?” Lin Xuan asked himself as he looked at the pill in his hand. After he had been given the trash pills, he hadn’t had a chance to look them over due to everything that had happened.

Unlike the pills given to the other disciples, the trash pills that Lin Xuan received from Elder Ma gave off a truly unpleasant odor.

Trash pills served no purpose to cultivators, but Lin Xuan still did not want to throw them away, since the materials used to create them were considered treasures themselves. However, just thinking about it would do no good, so Lin Xuan gave up on the pills for the moment.

“I need to get back to cultivation.”

Over the last few days Lin Xuan has had the blue lights cycle through his meridians many times, and each time they got to his hand, the blue lights escaped his body through the palms. This was obviously a big clue as to their purpose, so Lin Xuan tried to figure out the next step from there.

He sat down cross-legged, once again gathering the blue lights in his Dantian. He then began to circulate them, and the lights proceeded as usual. Although he had been doing this continuously, the speed was still slow and so, after a long while, the lights finally passed through his meridians, and through his skin to break out of his body.

Lin Xuan suddenly got startled, as the situation now was slightly different than usual. After the blue lights escaped from his body, they did not dissipate like the previous times, instead, they began to drill down towards the item in his hand.

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The trash pill! He had forgotten to put it away when he began circulating the blue lights, after discovering this, Lin Xuan became even more focused, as a steady stream of blue energy began to flow out from his Dantian. Although it was unclear why the blue lights are reacting this way to the trash pills, Lin Xuan did not try to stop it because this might finally be the breakthrough he’s been waiting for. What was happening now might be the key to cracking the mystery of the blue lights!

While carefully controlling the blue lights with his soul to flow smoothly towards the pill, the scene was also directly transferred to his mind. As he watched some of the lights began to go inside the pill, while some of it was unable to do so and dissipated.

One minute later….

Two minutes later….

Ten minutes later….

The blue lights in his Dantian were now one-third of their original size, but at this time, Lin Xuan became unable to move them from his Dantian no matter how much effort he put in. It seemed that this was his limit for his body. At this time a faint fragrance reached his nose.

As he opened his eyes, Lin Xuan saw that the originally rusty red trash pill has become pure white. “This is… low-grade Purifying Essence Pill?”

Although Lin Xuan was considered mature in comparison to the others of his age, at this moment the difference was not seen, as his face was one of shock. His usual calm demeanor was completely gone.

Even after staring at it for a while, Lin Xuan was still unable to make sense of what he was seeing, however, the aroma still wafting up to his nose finally broke him out of his shock, and made him realize that it really was a Purifying Essence Pill.

“Haha!” After all the time and effort Lin Xuan put in, Lin Xuan was finally rewarded with this discovery and could no longer contain his happiness. The trash pill has actually become an useful pill. It seemed that the blue lights can turn trash into treasure!

Then wouldn’t I be rich!?

To cultivators, talent was one of the most important things, but with enough pills, even the most talentless person with no Spiritual Roots could become a great master….

Of course, this was just a theory, because even the biggest clans and sects could not afford to consume pills as if they were candy. But if these blue lights really can turn trash pills into treasures, then the situation would no longer the same…

The happiness in Lin Xuan’s heart was unimaginable, but he soon smothered his excitement, and regained his composure as he began to plan. Although he already expected this treasure to be uncommon, he never would have expected that the effect would go against the will of heaven, turning trash into treasure. If people were to find out about him possessing it, they would be driven mad with greed. Therefore Lin Xuan decided that the most important thing right now was keeping that he possessed these blue lights a secret.

He did not know how Zhou Yan and Zhang Yu got their hands on this treasure, but what he did know was that there was a third party involved. But even so, Lin Xuan was not worried, since Zhou Yan and Zhang Yu were dead, and the unknown third party couldn’t suspect a low-order disciple like himself.

The thing that reassured him the most was that since others were unable to look into his Dantian unless he drew attention to himself or told anyone, no one would ever know that he possessed such a treasure. Even if his cultivation became much higher than his peers, as long as he was careful and hid his cultivation, the chances of his exposure were minimal. 

As long as no one paid careful attention to him, he would be fine. With this understanding, Lin Xuan threw off his worries and decided that nothing could stop him from taking full advantage of the blue lights.

For all cultivators, to achieve success in the martial world, they need to meet two conditions, the first being that they need good spiritual roots, in other words, sufficient talent, and the second requirement is that they need to be hardworking, as those that slack off will never achieve anything. Disregarding the limitations of his body, Lin Xuan was confident in his willpower, as he always made the most efforts.

It was safe to say that in the Whirlwind Cloud Valley, no one could claim to be the most hard-working other than Lin Xuan, as most other disciples didn’t even dare to step foot into the inner area. His cultivation methods alone show just how hard-working he was. 

The only reason Lin Xuan was still a low-order disciple was that he lacked the talent to proceed any further. Since he was just an ordinary mortal with average talent, his cultivation speed was pitifully slow.

However, this situation will soon change, since he has finally found a solution to his slow cultivation speed. So long as he has enough pills, even the most ordinary of mortals like himself can one day be a great master. Of course, though, pills were not candies, and not even the strongest cultivators can afford to treat them as such.