Tempered Immortal

Chapter 25: Basics Of Cultivation

For the next period of time, Lin Xuan focused on practicing purifying the Purifying Essence Pills. It was very difficult to start, each initial step was very hard, and the success rate was extremely low.

For approximately every ten pills, he would succeed once. With this kind of success rate, Lin Xuan thought of giving up. But compared to his peers, Lin Xuan was more mature and had a more resilient mindset. He was the kind of person who would doggedly pursue his goals. So he clenched his teeth and persevered.

His hard work paid off, and over time, Lin Xuan finally became more proficient. His rate of success rose to one in every five pills, and even though this was still somewhat low, it was finally within a tolerable range.

The efficacy of these mid-grade pills was very magical and much more effective than the low-grade pills.

Of course, it was clear that the rate of purifying mid-grade pills could not match Lin Xuan’s daily usage requirements. Lin Xuan had a general plan for his own cultivation, and even though his progress is slow, he practiced cultivation every day without fail according to his plan.

Subtracting the time spent on daily cultivation and a few short hours of sleep every day, the remaining time was all spent on pill purification. With his twenty percent success rate, he could only get one successful mid-grade pill a day.

How could he only consume one pill a day? To other cultivators, this is already a luxury, but it could not satisfy Lin Xuan.

Because there were not enough mid-grade Purifying Essence Pills, he had to supplement them with low-grade pills. Even though the effects were much worse, it was still better than nothing!

In the morning, he would take a mid-grade pill, and consume four more low-grade pills in both the afternoon and the evening. And thus, he started to work hard in cultivation.

Time flowed rapidly like water, and soon, a month had passed.

The mid-grade pills were really extraordinary. Even though he only consumed one a day, under the effects of its strong potency, Lin Xuan’s cultivation steadily rose. The growth of his spiritual power was very apparent. According to this speed, in another few months, he should arrive at the fifth layer of the Spirit Condensation stage, and become one of the few experts among the disciples who entered the sect at the same time, who have broken through into the latter layers.

Lin Xuan was satisfied with the rise of his cultivation, but the rise in his skill of pill purification was not to his liking. Logically, after a month, his proficiency should have increased too, but there was no increase in the success rate, which is still at twenty percent. And even though the volume of the Blue Star Sea had increased, it was still only enough to purify a little more than one pill and was not enough to support two.

It seemed that his use of the blue stars had reached a bottleneck, and after careful analysis, Lin Xuan came to this conclusion: To breakthrough, he would have to raise his cultivation by several more layers.

For example, cultivating to the fifth layer, entering into the latter layers, maybe his proficiency in purifying will go up. Because the Blue Star Sea’s growth was synchronized with his spiritual power, and when his spiritual power leaped, his bottleneck in using the blue lights should also disappear.

Even with this analysis, Lin Xuan did not immediately and desperately try to increase his cultivation. Although cultivation required lots of effort, one should not be anxious to achieve quick success, because haste would not bring success. The Spirit Condensation stage was like pouring a foundation for the long road of cultivation. Objectively, with the support of all the spirit medicine, his own cultivation speed was much faster than normal. But if he blindly pursued faster cultivation, it was possible to achieve good results in the short term, but for his future cultivation efforts, there would be no benefits.

Although young, Lin Xuan was not impetuous. Even though he had such a treasure in his body, he did not blindly increase his cultivation. Food had to be eaten bite by bite and cultivation had to be practiced step by step. Lin Xuan would not get carried away by this purification ability. In contrast, since the heavens gave him this benefit, it needed to be even more cherished and carefully used. Every day, after practicing cultivation, Lin Xuan would summarize his experience.

He has decided to lay a firm foundation, and not to look for instant success. So following that, Lin Xuan even deliberately slowed down the pace, wanting to stabilize and solidify his foundation.

In this situation, every day, other than purifying pills and meditation, Lin Xuan even had some spare time. In order to not waste it, he decided to start learning about Spirit Tools.

These so-called Spirit Tools were just simplified versions of Magic Artifact. They were for low-level cultivators. But do not underestimate their power, although they could not overturn rivers or seas, they still had great magical power. they were marvelous beyond compare.

The fourth level of the Spirit Condensation Stage was when one could start manipulating Spirit Tools, but this was only in theory. The only reason was, even though Spirit Tools could not compare to Magic Artifacts, they were still very precious. Generally speaking, only Foundation Establishment cultivators would have them. For someone in the Spirit Condensation Stage, apart from those few who inherited some from their ancestors or those with natural talent who were granted them by their sect elders, it was impossible to have Spirit Tools.

But Lin Xuan was different. Having acquired Zhang Yi and Zhou Yan’s treasures, he was very rich. Other than Spirit Stones and Talismans, there were also Spirit Tools, and there were even three of them.

The first one was the golden rope that Zhou Yan used to kill her master. After shrinking, it was only a foot long, but after injecting spiritual power in it, it can lengthen and be used to bound the enemy.

Another Spirit Tool was the flying sword, this would be an offense-type Spirit Tool. Lin Xuan had personally experienced its power, with only one strike, it collapsed a not-so-small cliff face. It was very powerful.

But these two were not the most valuable, Zhou Yan was only at the great perfection of Spirit Condensation. Although she was one of the top disciples of the lower level, her treasures were still not comparable to the Foundation Establishment Stage expert Zhang Yu.

Lin Xuan only acquired one Spirit Tool from Zhang Yu. It was a bracelet that was white as snow and crystal clear.

Even though it doesn’t look like much, this Jade Snow Bracelet was very famous in Whirlwind Cloud Valley, it was one of the few top-grade Spirit Tools of the sect.

Spirit Tools were split into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. Only Core Formation cultivators could use Magic Artifacts. Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, even the most powerful, have but one top-grade Spirit Tool.

And in Whirlwind Cloud Valley, even most of the seniors only had high-grade spirit tools. Only a few possessed these top-grade spirit tools, and Zhang Yu was one of these people. It must be said that Lin Xuan had really good luck.

Apart from the Jade Snow Bracelet, Zhou Yan’s Spirit Tools were also extraordinary. The golden rope could bind enemies, this was a tool whose use was between attacking and defending, it was a mid-grade spirit tool.

And the flying sword was a high-grade Spirit Tool!