Wang Lin scanned the area with his divine sense. The woman's silhouette floated away and entered the Soul Refining School.
"This person looks familiar …" Wang Lin looked at the silhouette and pondered for a while. He couldn't remember where he had seen her before.
His body moved and floated down from the mountain peak. Soon, he arrived at the end of the mountain.
The middle-aged man was sitting on the ground and cultivating. When Wang Lin landed, he opened his eyes and casually scanned the area. However, his eyes immediately focused on Wang Lin.
"Eh!!
You're at the middle stage of the foundational level? "The man's face was full of shock.
Wang Lin sighed in his heart. After his primordial spirit collapsed, he couldn't hide his cultivation level anymore. This Core Formation cultivator was able to see through him.
"I need to recover my primordial spirit as soon as possible, or else it will be a problem in the future."
Wang Lin thought to himself. However, his expression was respectful and he said, "I was on the verge of breaking through. After cultivating here, I luckily succeeded and reached the middle stage of the foundational level."
The middle-aged man's expression didn't change, but he was pondering in his heart. He didn't doubt Ling Xian's words, but this person's cultivation speed was a bit too fast.
He looked deeply at Wang Lin and remembered it in his heart. He asked, "Why did you come here?"
Wang Lin clasped his hands and said, "I want to change to a cave with more spiritual energy!"
The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Cultivators should avoid being greedy. If you continue to cultivate like this, your foundation will be unstable. You will never reach the Core Formation stage!"
Wang Lin was silent for a while and said, "I understand. I hope senior will agree."
The middle-aged man looked at Wang Lin and said, "Since you insist, I won't bother with you anymore. However, to change rooms, you will need to pay a medium quality spirit stone."
Wang Lin smiled bitterly and revealed a pained expression. He took out a medium quality spirit stone and handed it over.
The middle-aged man took the spirit stones and said, "Give me your token."
Wang Lin handed over the token. After the middle-aged man put it away, he took out another token from his storage bag and said, "The smaller the room number, the more spirit energy it has." With that, he threw the token to Wang Lin.
After receiving it, Wang Lin took a look and saw that the token had the number 803 written on it.
He hurriedly thanked her and turned to leave.
After he left, the middle-aged man's eyes flashed, and he muttered to himself, "Strange!" His body moved, and he turned into a beam of light, heading straight for cave 1090.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived outside the cave and walked inside. After carefully observing for a long time, he didn't find any clues, so he couldn't help but feel confused.
"Could it be that I'm being overly suspicious? Could it be that this person is indeed on the verge of a breakthrough, which is why his cultivation speed is so fast?"
The middle-aged man pondered for a while, then walked out of the cave. He made up his mind to observe this person called Qing Mu more in the future.
Wang Lin held the token and flew up the mountain, until he found cave 803. This cave was about the same size as cave 1090, and there was nothing special about it. However, there was a small formation placed on the ground.
The structure of the formation was extremely complicated. At first glance, there were many overlapping images.
After Wang Lin entered the cave, his gaze immediately landed on the formation. After studying it for a while, his eyes flashed. This formation was a simple Spirit Gathering Formation.
There were many unnecessary structures on it, obviously to prevent others from seeing through it.
The main function of a Spirit Gathering Formation was to gather the surrounding spiritual energy, causing the spiritual energy within a certain range to increase.
However, a Spirit Gathering Formation had to be placed on top of a spiritual well in order to be effective. Otherwise, the effect wouldn't be great.
A spiritual well was a location similar to the acupuncture points in the human body in the spiritual vein. Once it moved, it would affect the entire body.
"This place can't be a spiritual well. It should be a fake spiritual well that moved here!" Wang Lin observed for a while and figured out what was going on.
Although he was injured by the domain and seal and his cultivation wasn't there, he was still a Soul Formation cultivator. After 500 years, Wang Lin's eyesight was still there, so he was able to see through the formation at a glance.
It has to be said that even Core Formation cultivators rarely saw through this formation. Only Nascent Soul cultivators could see some traces of it, but it was still very difficult to see through it.
Especially since there were many unnecessary structures on the formation that could confuse people's minds. This made it much more difficult to see through it.
After all, the Soul Refining Sect was able to turn this entire mountain into a cave for outer disciples. They would definitely do something in secret to make it hard for others to see through the formation.
However, even the ancestor of the Soul Refining Sect wouldn't have thought that there would be a Soul Formation cultivator cultivating in a cave for outer disciples.
Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He waved his right hand on the formation and immediately saw that there was an even more complicated formation in the eye of the formation.
"This formation within a formation must be used to move the spiritual well and create a fake spiritual limit." Wang Lin looked for a while and thought to himself.
He pondered for a while and returned the formation to its original state. He sat down cross-legged and formed a seal with both hands. After placing a restriction on the surrounding walls, he took out three top grade spirit stones and began to cultivate again.
The spiritual energy here was several times denser than in cave 1090. After all, there was a spirit gathering formation here. Through the fake eye of the formation, a branch directly connected the spiritual vein to this cave. As a result, the spiritual energy here was naturally denser.
With the help of the three top grade spirit stones, the density of the spiritual energy here was extremely shocking. Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator saw this place, they would fight for it at all costs.
If they cultivated here, their speed would increase a lot.
Wang Lin was immersed in the cultivation and forgot about the passage of time. His body was wrapped in a thick layer of spirit frost.
When the density of the spiritual energy reached a certain level, if there was no place for it to flow or dissipate, it would condense into a light blue spirit frost. At this moment, in cave 803, the ground was filled with a blue glow. It was extremely beautiful.
The spirit frost on Wang Lin's body increased and covered his entire body. From afar, he looked like a person wearing a blue glow.
However, there were still too many tea shaped scars on his face. When one looked at him, he looked extremely ferocious and scary.
In Wang Lin's body, the spiritual energy slowly accumulated and condensed. At the same time, the seal and the concept of tea also became stronger under the effect of the dense spiritual energy. Compared to the beginning, they were many times stronger.
Time passed quickly. Wang Lin had been in seclusion here for two months.
In these two months, Wang Lin's body didn't move at all. He used all the time he had to increase his cultivation level.
However, the higher his cultivation level, the more spiritual energy he needed and the slower his cultivation level was. Because of this, he only reached the late stage of the foundation establishment realm in two months. There was still a long way to go before he reached the peak of the foundation establishment realm.
The three top grade spirit stones were also destroyed. Wang Lin's heart ached. He had decided to use this method of combining top grade spirit stones with spiritual energy as much as possible.
On this day, Wang Lin opened his eyes and looked at the formation on the ground. After pondering for a bit, he hit the formation with his right hand. The formation immediately opened, revealing the formation inside.
"The spiritual energy here is still not enough. If I can directly extract spiritual energy from this pseudo spirit eye, it should be enough for me to reach the core formation stage!"
Wang Lin's eyes lit up as he stared at the small formation and began to study it.
Formations were actually a type of restriction. Wang Lin's understanding of restrictions had reached the point of perfection. Now that he was carefully studying it, he began to gain some insights.
His hands formed a seal and began to move the spiritual energy in his body. His hands quickly moved and one restriction after another appeared in his hands. Gradually, sweat appeared on Wang Lin's forehead. His hands moved faster and faster until they formed a series of afterimages.
Almost as soon as one restriction appeared, another restriction appeared. After a while, more and more afterimages appeared.
The sweat on Wang Lin's forehead had already soaked his clothes.
This Afterimage Restriction was a restriction created by Wang Lin himself. It was very different from a normal restriction. With Wang Lin's current cultivation level, he could easily create a single restriction. However, this Afterimage Restriction was a bit difficult.
Back when he was at the Land of the Ancient God, he could only create a few afterimages with his cultivation level.
Right now, with his current cultivation level, he was barely able to create one.
Wang Lin's hands moved faster and faster. Finally, all of the afterimages merged into one. Wang Lin let out a roar and pointed at the formation. Suddenly, the Afterimage Restriction descended.
The small formation immediately trembled, and a huge force rose from within it and suddenly spread out.
Wang Lin's body moved to avoid the pushing force. His eyes were still staring at the formation.
After the pushing force, the formation immediately stopped and no spiritual energy came out. Wang Lin stepped forward and pointed at the formation with his right hand. Suddenly, a series of clicking sounds could be heard. The formation flashed and slowly disappeared, revealing a fist-sized spirit stone.
This spirit stone was red in color and there seemed to be smoke coming out of it. Wang Lin immediately recognized this stone as the Kun Crystal Rock. It could naturally absorb spiritual energy but couldn't store it.
Without saying a word, Wang Lin pressed his right hand against the red spirit stone and began to cultivate.
"Boom!"
Boundless spiritual energy rushed out from the Kun Crystal Rock at an unimaginable speed and rushed into Wang Lin's body through his arm.
Under the powerful surge of spiritual energy, Wang Lin immediately felt all the pores on his body open up and a black aura was squeezed out from his pores.
The tea mark on his face dimmed. Although it hadn't disappeared, it had clearly weakened.
Wang Lin's heart was filled with joy. He didn't think that directly absorbing spiritual energy from the pseudo spirit well would have such an effect. However, this effect would only be effective the first time. The second time, it would be ineffective unless he found an even more powerful source of spiritual energy.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. He expelled all distracting thoughts and focused on cultivating. The spiritual energy coming from the Kun Crystal gradually calmed down. It was no longer as violent as before, and Wang Lin slowly immersed himself in cultivation.
There's still one more update. After six or seven consecutive days of three updates, my train of thought was a bit blocked. After a few days of rest, I'll do it again. I know that it's not good to do it twice, but for the sake of writing better, I give up.
I'm about to fall out of the top 15. Fellow Daoists, please give me some votes to push me up!!
(To be continued)