Before Wang Lin entered the heaven defying bead's space, he placed some hidden restrictions in the courtyard to prevent people from disturbing him. Also, once he enters the heaven defying bead, his entire body will disappear. Even if someone comes to check, they won't be able to find anything.
After all, even Duanmu Ji, who was at the Soul Formation stage, couldn't find the heaven defying bead's space. The Cloud Sky Sect only had late stage Nascent Soul cultivators, so it was impossible for them to find out.
Inside the heaven defying bead, Wang Lin paid his respects to his parents' souls and Situ Nan's souls. After cultivating for a while, he took out a white jade bottle, poured out a Foundation Building Pill that gave off a strange fragrance, and put it in his mouth.
The moment the Foundation Building pill entered his mouth, it turned into waves of spiritual energy and began to rotate inside his body. Wang Lin remained calm as he silently activated the Ancient God Tactic.
Under his control, the spiritual energy absorbed by the Ancient God Tactic didn't enter his body. Instead, it gathered in his abdomen and formed a whirlpool.
As the last sliver of Spiritual Energy produced by the Foundation Building Pill was absorbed by the whirlpool, the whirlpool abruptly grew in size and surged upwards in a frenzy.
The current Wang Lin was no longer the new cultivator he used to be. He knew that if this whirlpool moved through his body, then it meant that he had successfully reached the Foundation Building stage. If his body was talented enough, then the whirlpool would naturally move through his body.
But if his talent wasn't enough, then there would be an invisible barrier that made it difficult for the whirlpool to move through his body.
The whirlpool in his body rotated faster and faster. It moved through his body like a rapidly growing tree. With Wang Lin's body as the soil, the whirlpool quickly spread out.
However, there were too many barriers in Wang Lin's body. As a result, the whirlpool was like a big wave hitting a rock. Although it broke through a lot of barriers in the beginning, it slowly stopped. Not only did it not continue to spread, but it even began to shrink.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. Without another word, he swallowed another Foundation Building Pill. Immediately, the shrinking vortex was filled with new energy, and it began to attack again.
Time passed slowly. Wang Lin didn't know how much time had passed in the Foundation Establishment stage. By the time he consumed the eighth Foundation Building Pill, the vortex inside of him finally began to circulate through his entire body. His entire body began to glow brightly. At the same time, a black liquid began to seep out of his pores.
After a long time, Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes flashed like lightning as he examined himself. He immediately discovered that his meridians were almost translucent, and were at least ten times thicker than before. Even his true self hadn't been able to achieve such a transformation when he seized the Foundation Stealing Technique.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He didn't know if this had anything to do with his Divine Blessing Technique. After all, the Divine Blessing Technique was a cultivation technique that devoured spiritual energy. It completely relied on spiritual energy to cultivate. The Foundation Building Pill was actually a powerful Origin Cultivating Pill, but its effect was many times more powerful than the Origin Cultivating Pill.
Relying on the sudden burst of powerful spiritual energy to cleanse the body, transforming the body into the most suitable body for cultivation. This was the origin of Foundation Establishment.
However, this transformation was internal.
The Divine Blessing Technique's body transformation was an external manifestation. In reality, the two were similar. The only difference was that the Ancient God's external transformation was to make it easier for him to absorb spiritual energy and become stronger.
The internal transformation of a cultivator was to make it easier for them to communicate with heaven and earth and experience the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The goal was to become stronger.
One was internal cultivation, the other was external cultivation. Their paths were different, but the result was the same.
Although Wang Lin's original body had prevented his body from absorbing spiritual energy and allowed his golden core to absorb it, the truth was that after his body transformation and the purple star appeared on his forehead, he had already walked the path of the Ancient God Body Refining Technique. In other words, he had already unknowingly started external cultivation.
As for his avatar, because his body was still healthy, he didn't undergo body transformation. Moreover, Wang Lin had been paying attention to this matter since the beginning. As a result, his avatar's cultivation path became more orthodox and he walked the path of internal cultivation.
Wang Lin picked up the white jade bottle. There were still five Foundation Building Pills inside. He pondered a bit, then threw all five pills into his mouth and began to cultivate again.
Time slowly passed. The spiritual energy inside the five Foundation Building Pills suddenly exploded. If it was anyone else, their body wouldn't be able to withstand the impact of this huge amount of spiritual energy. Even if they didn't die, the spiritual energy in their body would become chaotic and leave their body.
But Wang Lin's Ancient God Tactic was a very tyrannical ancient technique. The thing this technique wasn't afraid of the most was spiritual energy, no matter how much it was. The spiritual energy from the Foundation Building Pill was completely absorbed by the Ancient God Tactic before it could do any harm to his body.
Wang Lin's cultivation jumped from just reaching Foundation Establishment to the peak of early stage Foundation Establishment.
However, Wang Lin was still not satisfied. He pondered a bit and took out a pill furnace from his bag of holding. This pill furnace looked very ordinary, but there was a yellow seal on the mouth of the furnace.
This pill furnace was what Wang Lin had obtained from Yun Fei. Yun Fei mysteriously took out this item from the Qilin Cave. She originally planned to use it as the price to break the restriction, but in the end, Wang Lin was able to see everything clearly by relying on his devil general. In the end, she died.
This pill furnace naturally fell into Wang Lin's hands.
He had studied it before, but because he didn't have much time left, he didn't delve too deeply into it. At this moment, all the pills in his hand had been consumed. If he wanted to go into closed door cultivation again, he would have to go out and refine again. Otherwise, this would be the only pill furnace left.
Staring at the pill furnace, Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He had previously determined that this yellow paper wasn't an ordinary item. Just the words on the yellow paper were enough to make one's heart tremble.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He picked up the pill furnace and gently shook it. A few muffled sounds came from inside. It was clear there was something inside.
Based on the sounds, there should only be one item inside. Since it could be placed inside the pill furnace, it wasn't some random item. It was most likely a pill.
But what kind of pill would cause someone to stick a yellow paper on the pill furnace? And what was the use of this yellow paper?
The reason Wang Lin didn't act rashly was because he wasn't sure what the yellow paper was for. If it was just a seal, then if he forcefully opened it, it could cause a series of unforeseen events.
After pondering for a bit, Wang Lin flipped his right hand and a spiritual light appeared on his fingertip. He focused his mind and flicked his right hand. Suddenly, the spiritual light flashed and landed on the yellow paper.
At this moment, a strange scene appeared. The moment the spiritual light landed on the yellow paper, its momentum immediately increased. It landed on the yellow paper at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye and disappeared without a trace.
Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He placed the pill furnace on the ground, then his hands formed a seal before his chest and he shouted, "You're going to die!"
He shouted, "Scatter!"
Suddenly, specks of light appeared from his hands and slowly approached the cauldron. However, before they could get too close, their speed suddenly increased uncontrollably. Just like the specks of light from before, they quickly landed on the yellow paper and disappeared.
Wang Lin frowned. This yellow paper was very strange. It was as if it specialized in absorbing spiritual energy.
His mind suddenly moved. He stared at the pill furnace and his right hand gently pressed down on the yellow paper. The moment his hand touched the yellow paper, nothing strange happened. Wang Lin gently tore it, but at this moment, a powerful suction force came from the yellow paper. Wang Lin's spiritual energy uncontrollably flowed into the yellow paper.
Luckily, Wang Lin was already prepared. The moment he felt the change, he immediately withdrew his right hand.
After pondering for a bit, Wang Lin didn't act rashly. Instead, he carefully picked up the pill furnace and put it back into his bag of holding. Speaking of this pill furnace, it was a bit strange. When Wang Lin obtained this pill furnace, it couldn't be placed inside his bag of holding. However, after Wang Lin's avatar condensed, it could be stored inside his bag of holding.
There were many strange things about this pill furnace that Wang Lin couldn't understand.
After putting away the pill furnace, Wang Lin stood up and left the heaven defying bead's space.
As soon as he appeared in the courtyard, Wang Lin felt something was wrong. There was a faint smell of blood in the air. Wang Lin's gaze swept around and finally landed on the courtyard's entrance. The smell of blood was coming from there.
Wang Lin's eyes were calm as he slowly walked forward. At the corner of the courtyard's entrance, he saw the corpse of a Spirit Ape.
The spirit ape's eyes were wide open and dark. There were many sword wounds all over its body, and there was a bowl-sized wound on its abdomen. There was no longer any blood flowing out of it, only the smell of blood coming out of the wound.
Wang Lin squatted down and wiped the Spirit Ape's right leg. He could immediately see that the right leg of the Spirit Ape was broken in several places.
It was obvious that this Spirit Ape was the one that brought the jade scroll and brought Cheng Xian to the East Courtyard.
Wang Lin's eyes flashed. The wound on the Spirit Ape's abdomen was obviously torn by someone's hand. It was obvious that the person's goal was to take the Spirit Ape's inner core!
Wang Lin had done this kind of thing many times before. He could recognize it at a glance. After some analysis in his mind, he came up with a clear answer.
However, he didn't know if Cheng Xian was involved in this matter. Over the past half a year, Cheng Xian had been very enthusiastic and had a deep relationship with the Spirit Ape. Combined with the fact that Cheng Xian didn't personally come to deliver the jade scroll, Wang Lin naturally expected this.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that Cheng Xian had helped Wang Lin obtain the Foundation Building Pill recipe was something that Wang Lin couldn't just sit back and do nothing.
He sighed and didn't even look at the Spirit Ape's corpse. Instead, he turned around and walked back to his room.
Inside the room, Wang Lin's hands suddenly moved. This time, he didn't drink the Spiritual Liquid. Instead, he formed a restriction circle.
The restriction circle landed on the ground and instantly turned into a circle of ripples. From within the ripples, a white-haired, stern man slowly rose up. The moment this person appeared, the surroundings were filled with a cold and gloomy aura.