Chapter 117 Lin Chen is back

When Lin Chen finished the two four-star tasks, several days had passed.

With the spiritual herbs and ores required for the sect tasks, Lin Chen returned to Tianji Sect. After handing over the tasks, Lin Chen received a total of 1,000 contribution points. Adding the contribution points left from the previous task of killing the black silver crocodile and exchanging for low-level Xuan-level skills, Lin Chen now has nearly 2,000 contribution points.

With so many contribution points, it would probably take other inner disciples half a year or even a year to raise them.

But even so, nearly 2,000 contribution points are still not enough for Lin Chen to exchange for a low-level Xuan-level martial art.

Lin Chen followed the path and returned to his courtyard.

Tianji Sect is one of the five major sects in Yannan Territory, with countless disciples. On the way back to the courtyard, Lin Chen saw many inner disciples with different cultivation levels.

An inner sect disciple passed by Lin Chen. Suddenly, he turned his head and looked at Lin Chen's back, exclaiming: "Lin Chen, he is Lin Chen!"

"What, what? Lin Chen is back?"

"Where is he? I want to challenge him!"

As the disciple exclaimed, there was a commotion all around. Everyone stared with wide eyes, scanning the surroundings like wolves, as if looking for Lin Chen.

The inner sect disciple who spoke before growled in annoyance: "He's gone!" After a glance, there was no trace of Lin Chen in front of him. He had clearly gone far away.

"Gone? He should have just returned from the sect mission. He must be returning to the courtyard at this moment."

"Yes, you are right! He must be returning to his residence."

"Opportunities are rare. If you miss this opportunity, it will not be so easy to get on the Tianji list."

The disciples around were noisy, and they were excited, and walked quickly towards the place where Lin Chen disappeared.

Since the battle between Lin Chen and Zhuang Hongfei, almost all the disciples in the inner sect of Tianji Sect knew about Lin Chen's deeds. He ranked 489th on the Tianji list in the late ninth level of the body refining realm, and in the battle with Zhuang Hongfei, he successfully defeated Zhuang Hongfei with "slightly stronger" strength.

At that time, Zhuang Hongfei thought: If he could connect his martial arts to the fourth style, he would definitely be able to defeat Lin Chen.

Under such circumstances, many inner disciples who thought they were slightly stronger than Zhuang Hongfei, or had strength comparable to Zhuang Hongfei, immediately frantically looked for Lin Chen, wanting to successfully enter the Tianji list by defeating the latter!

However, Lin Chen had been doing sect tasks outside for the past few days, and even if they wanted to challenge Lin Chen, they could not find him.

And at this moment, knowing that Lin Chen had returned to the sect, how could they miss the opportunity to challenge Lin Chen.

Many disciples walked together and quickly headed towards the courtyard where Lin Chen lived. Some disciples even directly performed footwork, hoping to arrive before everyone else and be the first to challenge Lin Chen.

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Lin Chen was speechless when he heard the voices of many disciples behind him. When he first saw the Tianji Ranking, he was also shocked, but he did not expect that many disciples valued the Tianji Ranking so much, and they all wanted to challenge him to successfully enter the Tianji Ranking.

Without thinking too much, Lin Chen went directly to his courtyard.

Now there is only one year left before the inner sect competition, and Lin Chen must improve his strength as soon as possible. And this time, after completing the sect mission and returning to the sect, Lin Chen plans to improve his cultivation to the Tiangang Realm!

Compared with the warriors in the body refining realm, the warriors in the Tiangang Realm have more dantian true qi, and the true qi in their bodies is extremely pure, and the martial arts they display are also extremely powerful. For example, if the martial arts of the middle level of the yellow level are displayed by the Tiangang Realm warriors, their power is several times more powerful than that of the warriors in the body refining realm.

However, once the warriors enter the Tiangang Realm, if they want to continue to break through, in addition to reaching the amount of true qi in their bodies, they also need to have some understanding of martial arts, otherwise, even if the warriors have reached the amount of true qi in their bodies, it is difficult to break through their cultivation.

This is the so-called bottleneck!

It is precisely because of this bottleneck that the gap between genius warriors and ordinary warriors will quickly widen in the Tiangang Realm stage. After all, geniuses have excellent martial arts talents, and their understanding speed of martial arts is much faster than that of ordinary warriors, so their cultivation breakthroughs are naturally extremely fast.

Returning to the courtyard, Lin Chen immediately prepared to practice in seclusion.

In the room, Lin Chen sat cross-legged on the bed. As soon as his soul power moved, several bottles of medium-grade Qi Gathering Pills and several bottles of high-grade Qi Gathering Pills immediately appeared in front of him.

The efficacy of high-grade Qi Gathering Pills is powerful, much stronger than the effect of practicing with medium-grade Qi Gathering Pills.

These high-grade Qi Gathering Pills were obtained by Lin Chen when he killed a sinister middle-aged man who called himself Bu Gao in Jinyang City. When he took Tianling Pills to practice before, Lin Chen had already used some high-grade Qi Gathering Pills, and now there are four bottles left.

Taking out a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill, Lin Chen opened his mouth and swallowed it directly.

As this top-grade Qi-gathering pill went down his throat, a torrent of spiritual energy suddenly appeared in his body. This spiritual energy was so huge that it filled all the meridians in his body, and a feeling of swelling arose spontaneously.

However, soon, a suction force suddenly came from his mind, instantly absorbing all the spiritual energy in his meridians.

Lin Chen's face remained unchanged, and he took out another top-grade Qi-gathering pill and swallowed it.

Not long after he swallowed another top-grade Qi-gathering pill, the small tripod in his mind suddenly spurted out a stream of pure spiritual energy, and with it, there was a strong suction force, absorbing all the medicinal effects of the top-grade Qi-gathering pill he swallowed later.

Seeing this scene, Lin Chen immediately performed the True Lotus Heart Technique to quickly refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth after being purified by the small tripod.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth after being purified by the small cauldron was extremely pure. Under the continuous use of the True Lotus Heart Technique, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was quickly refined.

One big cycle, two big cycles...

Time passed little by little. In less than half a cup of tea, Lin Chen had finished refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth transformed by the first top-grade Qi Gathering Pill. However, at the same time, a stream of extremely pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth spurted out from the small cauldron again.

Lin Chen continued to use the True Lotus Heart Technique to refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, while taking out a top-grade Qi Gathering Pill and swallowing it.

This cycle continued.

As Lin Chen continued to take the top-grade Qi Gathering Pill and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the true energy in his Dantian immediately increased at an extremely fast speed.

"Hah!"

Lin Chen shouted in a low voice. The continuous refining of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth made him a little tired. After a low shout, he stretched out his hand, took out the top-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and swallowed one in his mouth.

After doing this, he gritted his teeth slightly, took out another top-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and swallowed it.

Take two top-grade Qi Gathering Pills at the same time!

The top-grade Qi Gathering Pill has a strong medicinal effect and is suitable for late-stage and peak Tiangang Realm warriors. After being purified by the small cauldron, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth transformed by the top-grade Qi Gathering Pill is pure and the quantity is much less. Therefore, Lin Chen can bear it, but it is also because of this that the amount of true qi obtained by Lin Chen after refining is relatively less than that of other warriors.

Before, Lin Chen took a large number of top-grade Qi Gathering Pills to practice, and the true qi in his body has reached a full state, and there are signs of an imminent breakthrough. Just want to break through to the peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm, just one top-grade Qi Gathering Pill is not enough.

As the two top-grade Qi Gathering Pills were swallowed, a strong swelling feeling came from the major meridians in his body, which made Lin Chen's face turn pale in an instant, and cold sweat came down.

It seemed that the major meridians were about to be burst by these spiritual energy of heaven and earth!

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and suppressed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that was running around in the major meridians in his body. It didn't take long before a suction force came from his mind again, absorbing all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

"Huh"

As the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was absorbed by the small tripod, the meridians in Lin Chen's body, which were originally swollen, suddenly relaxed, and Lin Chen couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

After a moment, the small tripod spurted out a stream of spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which was extremely pure.

Start refining!

The True Lotus Heart Art is a low-level Xuan-level skill, divided into six levels. Every time you improve a level, the speed of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will increase greatly. Lin Chen's True Lotus Heart Art has been cultivated to the second level at this moment. His speed of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is several times faster than that of warriors of the same level!

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in his body was being refined rapidly.

And as this spiritual energy of heaven and earth was refined, the true energy in his dantian also increased rapidly, gathering together, trying to break through that bottleneck and impact the peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm!

"Break it for me!"

Buzz...

With Lin Chen's low shout, the true qi in his Dantian gathered into a sphere, and finally made a buzzing sound and broke apart. A large amount of true qi scattered and filled the Dantian space, forming a thick mist.

At the same time, Lin Chen's aura suddenly rose, and the whole person looked energetic.

"The peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm!"

Lin Chen's face was happy. After continuous practice, his cultivation finally broke through from the late ninth level of the body refining realm to the peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm.

One step forward from the peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm is the early stage of the Tiangang realm. The difficulty of its cultivation is more difficult than the previous breakthroughs. For other warriors, it would take at least several months to break through from the late ninth level of the body refining realm to the peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm.

But Lin Chen successfully broke through from the late ninth level of the body refining realm to the peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm in less than a month.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Lin Chen set his eyes on the bottles of Qi Condensation Pills in front of him.

In addition to the mid-grade Qi Gathering Pill, there was only one bottle left of the four bottles of top-grade Qi Gathering Pill. In the continuous refining and hard practice just now, Lin Chen actually took three bottles of top-grade Qi Gathering Pill.

More importantly, the remaining pills may not be enough for his cultivation to break through to the early stage of Tiangang Realm.

It is a critical step to break through from the peak of the ninth level of the Body Refining Realm to the early stage of the Tiangang Realm. Lin Chen dare not be careless and must make sufficient preparations.

"Go buy some pills first." Lin Chen pondered for a moment and made a decision in his heart.

Top-grade Qi Gathering Pills are expensive and rare, and they are rarely sold outside. However, when Lin Chen was in Jinyang City before, he killed a large number of monsters and obtained many third-level and fourth-level inner pills. These inner pills can be sold, or asked to refine pills from shops specializing in refining pills.

After making up his mind, Lin Chen opened the door and walked outside.

It was early morning at this moment, and a layer of misty white fog was diffused between the majestic mountains, which looked like a fairyland on earth, with fairy air.

Lin Chen took a deep breath and immediately felt a wisp of spiritual energy being sucked into his stomach. He secretly praised that the location of Tianji Sect was indeed a place where spiritual energy from heaven and earth gathered.

Bang bang bang...

Just as he was about to open the gate of the courtyard, suddenly, a dull knock on the door sounded.