Chapter 197: Caught Off Guard, Breaking Through Three Layers

Back outside, in the guest ship room.

Looking at the sky, it was almost evening. In the space, several hours had passed unknowingly.

Looking at the four storage bags in his hand, he still decided to take a look first to see how much family wealth the Yang brothers had accumulated after running rampant in the Jinzhou Market for so many years.

Lin Zhangqing began to refine these storage bags one by one. After success, he poured the things in the storage bags into the room, and soon a large pile of things piled up on the floor.

Next, he began to classify these things. Without Chen Ziya's help, Lin Zhangqing was quite slow to organize them alone.

Refining the storage bags and organizing the things took more than an hour. Now the sky outside had darkened.

After a rough count, there were about 115,000 low-grade spirit stones and 12 medium-grade spirit stones in the four storage bags. This amount of spirit stones felt just average; it didn't seem as rich as he had imagined.

The gains in artifacts were quite good. He didn't find any low-grade artifacts, but there were 16 superior-grade artifacts, with about half for attack and half for defense. They were quite generous in this regard.

There was a set of extreme-grade artifacts, which looked like artifacts for trapping people. Lin Zhangqing wasn't good at using this kind of strange artifact, nor did he like it much. Besides, he had Purple Crystal Scorpions, so catching people wasn't simple.

In addition, he found a first-rank superior-grade flying boat. They had already had one flying boat blasted by Lin Zhangqing.

Unexpectedly, he could find another one. His luck was really good. Lin Zhangqing decided to keep this flying boat for backup.

And this time there was an unexpected gain: he found eight Yin Thunder Beads. Few scattered cultivators would be willing to spend 500 spirit stones to buy such a one-time high-power artifact.

They were more willing to use spirit stones to buy pills or artifacts, in short, to use every spirit stone on the blade.

The eight Yin Thunder Beads gained this time were already worth 4,000 low-grade spirit stones.

The gains in pills were also quite a lot, about thirty or forty bottles. There were twenty bottles of Qi Gathering Pills, all of which were superior-grade. This came just in time; there were still two subordinates to raise in the inner space, so these could support them for a longer time.

There were also quite a few common pills like Spring Return Pills and Qi Recovery Pills, totaling more than ten bottles.

The spirit talismans gained this time were also quite a lot, totaling nearly two hundred, mainly defensive spirit talismans, such as Golden Light Talismans, Thick Earth Talismans, and Water Spirit Shields.

Attack spirit talismans were very few, totaling less than twenty. On the contrary, he found twenty Earth Escape Talismans and twenty Wood Escape Talismans each.

There were quite a lot of books, totaling twelve. Among them, there were seven cultivation methods.

Lin Zhangqing flipped through them roughly, and they were all very common, belonging to those widely circulated. Many scattered cultivators cultivated this kind of mass cultivation method.

There were also four cultivation notes, which were things without any value. He would collect them together and give them all to the family when convenient. The last one was a bit special, and Lin Zhangqing couldn't understand it. There were some symbols with unclear meanings on it, followed by numbers. He guessed it might be something like their account book.

Now that the Yang brothers were all dead, no one knew the meaning of these symbols, so this thing was naturally useless.

Next were more than twenty jade boxes. Lin Zhangqing opened them all and gained fifteen spirit herbs, only five of which could be replanted, and the others could only be used for alchemy.

Finally, there were some clothes, sundries, and daily necessities, which were stored in a storage bag and would be destroyed when convenient.

Overall, the Yang brothers didn't have as much oil and water as Lin Zhangqing had imagined, and the news they provided also pointed to the outer deacon of the Qingyun Sect, Chen Tianqi.

Unfortunately, judging from the information they provided, it was only about 100,000 spirit stones and a piece of fourth-rank spirit material, Star Metal, which was not worth Lin Zhangqing taking the risk to act.

Because there were too many problems involved here. Not to mention whether he could deal with him, just confirming his whereabouts was already very troublesome.

He also had to choose a suitable place to take action, deal with the aftermath, face the investigation of the Qingyun Sect, and a series of other problems, so it was really not worth taking action for this little bit of things.

However, Lin Zhangqing noted down the fact that this outer sect deacon named Chen Tianqi had a piece of Star Metal in his hand; perhaps it would be useful in the future.

He put all the things on the floor into the corresponding storage bags.

Then he tidied up and began to brew Green Jade Tea.

Sipping the spirit tea slowly, this was Lin Zhangqing's rest time. After drinking this pot of spirit tea, he had to start cultivating the Thunder True Scripture again. Soon, Lin Zhangqing sat cross-legged, set his posture, and began to circulate the cultivation method. Soreness, numbness, swelling, pain—various familiar sensations assailed him again.

Because he had successfully opened seven Thunder Apertures, he was cultivating the eighth aperture today, so he was a bit greedy and cultivated for a quarter of an hour longer than usual.

After more than two hours, Lin Zhangqing exhausted all his energy, drenched in sweat, and he was lying on the floor, too tired to move.

Fortunately, after lying on the floor for a while and recovering some energy, he struggled to get up, washed himself clean, and then lay on the bed to rest.

Three days passed just like that. Lin Zhangqing's cultivation time and daily routine were quite regular.

Today was the fourth day of boarding the ship. In the morning, Lin Zhangqing got up as usual and cultivated the Five Elements Chaos Sutra. He had just circulated the cultivation method for one cycle.

A large amount of spiritual energy suddenly surged into his body, which caught Lin Zhangqing off guard.

He almost went off-track. Fortunately, the Five Elements Chaos Sutra was worthy of being a Heaven-grade cultivation method and wasn't so easy to fall into demonic possession.

Lin Zhangqing actually had some guesses in his heart, but now was not the time to verify them.

He collected other redundant emotions, concentrated all his spirit, and guided the surging spiritual energy to impact the acupoints on his meridians. There was too much spiritual energy surging in his body. Lin Zhangqing guided it while groaning.

Because the acupoints were all forcibly broken open, Lin Zhangqing couldn't help but groan every time he broke one open.

One meridian, two meridians, three... his cultivation base was also rising rapidly. Qi Refining Layer Seven, soon broke through to Layer Eight, and not long after, broke through to Layer Nine, and was still charging forward like a hot knife through butter.

Lin Zhangqing was scared to death, trying hard to guide this spiritual energy to consolidate his current realm, but this only delayed it for a while, and soon the realm was consolidated.

The spiritual energy in his body was still surging out. Lin Zhangqing's scalp was numb. His cultivation base was already at the Qi Refining Great Perfection. If he charged again, he could only start establishing his foundation.

Even if he were given a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to do so, because by noon tomorrow, the guest ship would arrive at the Qiyun Prefecture landing field.

A little over a day was just enough to adjust his body and mind.

So there was no other way. He took the stone nest out of his storage bag and began to guide the spiritual energy to pour into it.

This pouring lasted from morning until evening before it finally stopped.

Lin Zhangqing finally put his hanging heart down, because the spiritual energy passed through the meridians, and it was continuous, so his meridians were now a bit stinging.

So he had already decided to pause for these two days and let the meridians rest and recover for two days before talking about it.

Lying between the Small Five Elements Mystery Array and the Spirit Gathering Array, he really didn't want to move.

Mainly because he was too tired, both physically and mentally. However, fortunately, although it looked quite dangerous this time, everything was still under control.

Of course, this wasn't controlled by Lin Zhangqing; today everything was controlled by Lin Changliu. It should have spent three days digesting and absorbing that super-large raw stone.

Although he couldn't believe it, the fact was that it had advanced again. Now it should be third-rank.

This time, the body's spiritual energy surged violently, which was also a part of the spiritual energy fed back to Lin Zhangqing by it. He didn't expect it to almost burst him.

And this time it learned to be smart. Last time it took root and sprouted, because its status was too high, it was directly second-rank, so it directly fed back mana to Lin Zhangqing, but he couldn't use it.

In the end, it was still discharged out of the body, completely wasted. This time Lin Changliu directly reduced the mana to spiritual energy and kept controlling the quantity, giving Lin Zhangqing time to refine and utilize it, otherwise Lin Zhangqing would have exploded long ago.

It was estimated that Lin Changliu also saw that Lin Zhangqing had been introducing spiritual energy into the stone nest, so it didn't stop the spiritual energy supply, otherwise it should have stopped long ago.

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