Chapter 330

After doing this, he left the courtyard.

He summoned Xu Meiniang over and handed her the jade box containing the 36 vermilion fruits.

Actually, when Xu Meiniang came over, she already had some guesses in her heart and received the jade box from Lin Zhangqing very respectfully.

"Inside the box are 36 hundred-year vermilion fruits. You can try it in a while to see how long it takes to fully refine one vermilion fruit."

"Six per month is just my own rough guess and may not be accurate, but these 36 vermilion fruits should at least be enough for you to cultivate for a few months!"

"Remember to record the refining time and the effect so I can refer to it later!"

"Of course, in the agreement with the six major sects, the Wanbao Pavilion also needs to help maintain the interests of the six major sects."

She was incredibly grateful and hurriedly agreed, "Thank you, Master, for your grace. I will definitely record the refining time and effect of the vermilion fruits carefully!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded and then directly exited the inner space.

Returning to his room, he thought of the 600 vermilion fruits in his storage bag; when he was in the Qi Refining stage, the time required to fully refine one vermilion fruit was quite long.

However, he hadn't tried refining vermilion fruits after Foundation Establishment, so he wanted to try it himself now to see how long it would take him to fully refine one.

Only then could he calculate how long it would take to advance to the second layer of Foundation Establishment by taking vermilion fruits for cultivation.

Thinking of it, he did it; he sat cross-legged, took out a vermilion fruit and swallowed it, put away the pit, and the vermilion fruit turned into a stream of pure energy.

Most of it was driven by the cultivation method to circulate and convert into chaotic magical power, and a small part began to dissipate throughout his body.

However, he had already established his foundation, and this small part of energy dissipating throughout his body could continue to nourish his body, without needing to spend a lot of time refining it like in the Qi Refining stage.

Lin Zhangqing sat for more than two hours, and after the cultivation method had circulated for twelve heavenly cycles, he stopped cultivating; the situation was much better than he had imagined.

It might also be because of the "Five Elements Chaos Sutra" that the energy converted from the vermilion fruit was relatively easy to absorb and refine.

It was estimated that it could be fully refined in about three days, meaning Lin Zhangqing could fully refine ten vermilion fruits within a month.

Calculating this, he would only need about ten months to advance to the second layer of Foundation Establishment, and advancing to the third layer of Foundation Establishment would only take about twenty months, and so on for the rest.

Now Lin Zhangqing was in an incredibly good mood; originally, he only dared to switch to the Five Elements Chaos Sutra because of Lin Zhangliu. This cultivation method was very suitable for his spirit roots, and the magical power cultivated was extremely powerful.

However, the cultivation method itself also had a bad point, which was that the resources required for cultivation were several times that of others.

Moreover, the time required for cultivation was also more than twice that of others, which had always been a problem Lin Zhangqing was relatively worried about.

Now, using hundred-year vermilion fruits to replace common pills for cultivation, this speed was actually at least one to two times faster than normal cultivators.

How could this not make him happy and excited! Fortunately, after a while, Lin Zhangqing finally calmed his emotions.

His situation should be a special case; others probably couldn't refine ten vermilion fruits every month, and his second-grade spirit beasts were fine; he could just feed them hundred-year vermilion fruits directly.

He could even give vermilion fruits to his grandfather.

But what about his father, second uncle, aunt, and other family members? If he gave them vermilion fruits directly, one or two could be explained away. But the quantity required for cultivation was so large that it couldn't be explained at all, so he had to change to another way.

For this problem, Lin Zhangqing racked his brains; the first thing he thought of was to refine the hundred-year vermilion fruits into pills, but he quickly rejected it.

He was still a first-grade low-grade alchemist, and he only knew how to refine one kind of pill; in terms of alchemy, he could barely be considered just starting.

When would he be able to refine vermilion fruits into pills? And as long as pills were formed, there would be more or less pill toxins, which would be a waste of good things.

However, fortunately, he still had Xu Meiniang; next time he entered the inner space, he would let Xu Meiniang study how to brew vermilion fruits into spirit wine.

Then he would find an opportunity to go outside for a while, and when he came back, he would take it out and give it to his family, saying it was bought outside or was spoils of war.

Perfect; this way, he could ensure the secret wouldn't be leaked and also allow his family's cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds.

Or when necessary, he could let Xu Meiniang come forward to open a small winery specifically to cover up these vermilion fruit wines.

Of course, this was definitely for everyone except Lin Zhangqing's family; others would absolutely not be able to buy vermilion fruit wine.

This way, the origin of the items was clear and could withstand others' inquiries, and most importantly, brewing vermilion fruits into spirit wine wouldn't attract too much attention; it was simply too perfect, just do it like this! After Lin Zhangqing made up his mind, he suddenly felt much more relaxed, as if his body had suddenly become dozens of pounds lighter.

He even felt that the divine soul in his sea of consciousness had suddenly become a little stronger; although it wasn't much, it had indeed become stronger.

It was mainly reflected in his divine sense; when he just came out of closed-door cultivation, his divine sense detection range was only a little over 200 zhang.

Just now he tried it, and his divine sense had grown again, reaching 240 zhang, an increase of 40 zhang all at once.

Lin Zhangqing was overjoyed; today was a good day, it could be considered a double blessing! However, after being happy for a while, he began to think about why he had such a sudden change? This situation didn't look like an epiphany, because he had had an epiphany once before, and the feeling that time was obviously different from this time.

After thinking for a long while, combined with the problem he had just thought about, it was all related to his family.

So he had a little guess that this might be because in his previous life, he was a loner until he died.

And because in this life, it was rare to have so many family members who cared for and loved him, he cared too much about his family in this life.

So much so that an obsession had formed in his heart!

But the method he just thought of was obviously very effective in his own heart, if executed smoothly!

The cultivation problems of everyone in the family for the Foundation Establishment stage and even the Purple Mansion stage were perfectly solved all at once.

So this was how he broke through that layer of obsession in his heart.

No, the strengthening of the divine soul couldn't appear out of thin air, so the correct statement should be that his divine soul had devoured that layer of obsession.

Therefore, the divine soul in the sea of consciousness could be strengthened all at once, and relatively speaking, his divine sense had gained an increase of 40 zhang.

(End of chapter)