Chapter 616: His spiritual sense surged once again

Although the entire tribulation process had been a brush with death, it had instantly saved him decades of bitter cultivation.

It could be considered a massive surprise, and most importantly, his dantian had expanded significantly as well.

It could be said that his strength had received a tremendous boost in one fell swoop!

To say nothing else, if he were to use the Great Five Elements Return to Ruins Technique again now, its power would be at least three to five times greater than before! Next was the thunder mana within his apertures; the quality of the thunder mana had also improved by a large margin, while other aspects remained largely unchanged.

However, with the improved quality of his thunder mana, the power of using various thunder techniques naturally increased significantly, though he was still in the cave and it was inconvenient to test them!

Nevertheless, Lin Zhangqing believed that the power of his various thunder techniques would at least double, which could be considered one of the benefits of having survived the thunder tribulation!

Finally, there was his spiritual sense. He did not know if it was because his fundamental cultivation method had broken through three minor stages.

Consequently, his spiritual sense had grown again; if he were to extend his spiritual sense with all his might in one direction now, it could reach a distance of about four and a half li!

This made Lin Zhangqing extremely satisfied; with his spiritual sense increased, his attack range naturally increased as well!

This was what he liked most. In this secret realm, it would no longer be the third-stage spirit beasts discovering Lin Zhangqing first.

Instead, it was highly likely that Lin Zhangqing would discover them first, and the outcome of that went without saying! Following Lin Zhangqing's personality, he would definitely strike first to gain the advantage, hitting them hard and letting them taste the feeling of being ambushed by others!

After finishing his internal inspection, he had a clear understanding in his heart; his current situation was still quite strange!

His main fundamental cultivation method, the Five Elements Chaos Sutra, was currently only at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment.

Conversely, his auxiliary cultivation method, the Thunder True Scripture, had reached the third stage, which was the Purple Mansion stage! Therefore, the aura he gave off felt very strange, sometimes strong and sometimes weak; this was also because he had just advanced.

He could not yet fully control his aura, but after adapting for a period of time, this problem would naturally disappear! Of course, it was because he practiced two different cultivation methods that he was in this current situation.

If Lin Zhangqing were to seal all his thunder apertures, what others would sense would be his Foundation Establishment cultivation! But if he did not seal the thunder apertures, what others would sense would be his Purple Mansion cultivation! So, relatively speaking, there were both advantages and disadvantages! At the very least, Lin Zhangqing knew that when his main fundamental cultivation method broke through to the Purple Mansion stage, he would definitely have to undergo another thunder tribulation!

Although he already had the experience once, he was still not confident about surviving another thunder tribulation!

So thinking about it now, he still felt very palpitated, and he also admired his own recklessness and ignorance for daring to break through to the Purple Mansion stage without any preparation! Fortunately, no matter what, everything was over now, and he had the experience once.

Next time, he would definitely be fully prepared before considering the issue of advancing and breaking through.

Moreover, there is a high probability that by next time, he will already be a disciple of the Tianshui Sect! Presumably, by that time, he should be qualified to borrow the sect's Tribulation Platform! That would increase the chances of surviving the lightning tribulation by quite a bit!

After sorting out all his thoughts, Lin Zhangqing was greatly satisfied and recorded the entire process of this thunder tribulation into a jade slip so that he could review it at any time! This thing could also be handed over to his family to read and learn from in the future; of course, he did not record any of the content that could not be written down.

The only thing he was dissatisfied with now was that because he had taken several bottles of pills in a short period of time, there was still quite a bit of pill poison remaining in his body, which he estimated would take a lot of time to clear out; this was the only fly in the ointment! However, fortunately, as long as Lin Zhangqing had patience and was willing to spend time clearing it, he would always be able to solve this problem.

Just as he was about to start circulating his cultivation method to consolidate his cultivation, he suddenly received a warning from the Purple Crystal Scorpion.

He was just about to get up to go out and check what was happening when he heard three sharp, piercing screams! At this moment, he roughly understood what was going on; he estimated that someone had truly seen the commotion here.

Thus, they couldn't help but come over to investigate, wanting to see if they could pick up some cheap gains! They didn't expect their luck to be so bad that they fell right into the warning range of the Purple Crystal Scorpion, and the consequences went without saying!

Lin Zhangqing hurried out and soon, under the guidance of the Purple Crystal Scorpion, found the corpses of three cultivators; he sensed them and they were all at the late Foundation Establishment stage.

He flew high into the sky again, searched carefully around the small valley several times using his spiritual sense, and confirmed that there were no other cultivators nearby.

Only then did he go down and collect the storage bags on those three unlucky guys, as well as the spiritual artifacts that had fallen beside them! Then, he used the Fireball Technique to dispose of the corpses of the three people and ordered the Purple Crystal Scorpion to continue maintaining vigilance.

He himself returned to the camp in the cave; Lin Zhangqing's mood was still very good now, as he had picked up six storage bags for nothing.

There should be things he needed inside, so he started refining them directly, and after success, he poured everything onto the ground.

Then, he immediately searched for the defensive spiritual artifacts inside; his luck was neither bad nor good, and he found a total of six pieces.

The only one that caught Lin Zhangqing's eye was a top-grade defensive spiritual artifact, the kind that could automatically activate a three-layer defensive shield when encountering a sneak attack.

There were also two shield-shaped superior defensive spiritual artifacts; he didn't care for the remaining offensive and defensive spiritual artifacts! With these three defensive spiritual artifacts, Lin Zhangqing felt much more at ease!

Next, he sorted the things on the ground into categories.

There were over fifty thousand low and medium-grade spirit stones; for three late Foundation Establishment cultivators to have only this many spirit stones, one could only say they were doing quite averagely.

There were only twenty-something bottles of pills and about ten or so spiritual artifacts, all of which he sorted and put away!

The most unexpected thing was that he actually discovered a second-stage array disk, which was exactly what he was in urgent need of.

Thus, among the dozen or so jade slips, he found the introduction to this array disk, as well as the specific method of use.

After Lin Zhangqing checked it, he realized that the array disk in his hand was a second-stage Thick Earth Mountain-Guarding Array, which was a purely defensive type of formation.

He himself had had quite a few array disks, and his experience in setting up arrays could be considered rich, so after reading it twice, he knew how to use this formation! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 617 =====