#32 - Chapter 32 Improving Strength

"Finalize your plans for this secret realm. For the first five days, kill as many demon beasts as possible to reach the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, and then enter the inner layer of the secret realm."

"Now, I'll go find demon beasts to kill, extract spiritual fluid, and consume it to enhance my strength." After deciding on his plan, Lin Changqing flew towards the western side of the mountain range.

The perception of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is very keen. As soon as he entered the depths of the wild mountains in the secret realm, he could hear the roars of demon beasts everywhere.

And the roars of demon beasts were densest on the western side of the mountain range.

So, he flew towards the west.

[Ten minutes later, you arrive in a deep mountain area on the western side of the mountain range, where you encounter your first demon beast.]

[It is a giant demon tiger, three meters long and entirely black, exuding the aura of the first level of Foundation Establishment.]

[The demon tiger sees you and attacks. You draw your sword and kill it with one move.]

"Roar!"

A black demon tiger roared fiercely, its face filled with ferocity and its body radiating baleful energy. However, the young cultivator in green robes in front of it casually drew his sword.

This one sword strike directly cleaved the demon tiger in two.

The black demon tiger let out a mournful cry and collapsed to the ground.

A miraculous thing happened!

No blood flowed from the black demon tiger's severed body.

Instead, as the black demon tiger breathed its last, the two halves of its corpse burned away like air with a "whoosh," forming a transparent droplet that flew into the hands of the young cultivator in green robes.

"How truly miraculous. After the demon tiger dies, it transforms into this trinket. The corpse turns into a water droplet, and a hundred droplets combine to form a spiritual fluid."

Lin Changqing curiously examined the transparent droplet in his palm.

Its texture was cool and refreshing. When he probed it with his mind, he felt that it was just an ordinary water droplet, without sensing any spiritual power.

Yet, this seemingly ordinary water droplet, when combined with ninety-nine others, could form a spiritual fluid that could rapidly advance one's cultivation.

The world of cultivation is truly full of wonders!

Lin Changqing exclaimed. He continued to fly forward, and before long, he encountered a white giant ape about five meters tall.

The white giant ape's claws alone were twenty centimeters long, and its body was also shrouded in black baleful energy.

Seeing Lin Changqing, it bared its fangs and pounced.

This white giant ape was slightly higher in realm than the black demon tiger, at the second level of Foundation Establishment.

But the result was the same. Lin Changqing killed it with a single sword strike!

Another water droplet appeared in Lin Changqing's palm.

"Strange, the water droplet formed from the second-level Foundation Establishment white ape is the same size as the water droplet formed from the first-level Foundation Establishment demon tiger."

Lin Changqing frowned as he looked at the two water droplets of the same size in his palm.

He had thought that the water droplet formed after killing this white giant ape would be larger.

But it seemed that they were the same.

With this bewilderment in his heart, he shook his head and continued to fly forward, seeking out demon beasts to kill.

[Five more minutes pass, and you encounter another giant tiger demon beast, which you slay.]

[Twenty minutes later, you encounter a bit more trouble. You have encountered a pack of wolves. This is a pack of demon wolves, totaling twelve.]

[The leading wolf king has a cultivation base of the third level of Foundation Establishment, and the other eleven are all at the first level of Foundation Establishment.]

[But these are only slightly troublesome for you. After all, you have already forged five bones, and with the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, your strength can rival the seventh level of Foundation Establishment.]

[This pack of demon wolves is not enough to threaten you.]

[You spend half an hour killing all of these wolves, obtaining twelve more water droplets.]

"A great harvest!" Lin Changqing happily looked at the twelve newly appeared water droplets in his palm.

At this rate, he felt that in another four or five hours, he would be able to condense a spiritual fluid.

[Another hour passes. You encounter a group of spiders inside a cave. A dozen spider demon beasts, each a meter long, surround and attack you. You draw your sword and slay them one by one, ultimately obtaining a dozen more water droplets.]

[After that, you encounter a giant python ten meters long, kill it...]

[Thus, you continue to walk westward, encountering demon beasts along the way. Most of them are at the first or second level of Foundation Establishment. You don't encounter much trouble and kill them easily.]

[Three hours later, you encounter another pack of wolves. After killing them all, you obtain ten water droplets, and at this time, you have finally collected one hundred water droplets.]

"I've gathered enough." Lin Changqing looked at the newly obtained ten water droplets with joy. Then, he took out the remaining ninety water droplets from his storage bag and placed them one by one in the palm of his hand.

Perhaps because the number had reached one hundred, the one hundred water droplets began to merge with each other.

Before long, the one hundred water droplets had finished merging.

An emerald green water droplet appeared in Lin Changqing's palm.

Its texture was slightly warm, and at the same time, Lin Changqing could feel that this emerald droplet contained immense spiritual power.

"Is this the spiritual fluid?"

After observing it carefully for a while, Lin Changqing directly swallowed the emerald droplet in one gulp.

At the same time, a surge of immense spiritual power flooded into his dantian.

"This feeling..." Lin Changqing felt that the spiritual power surging into his body was very similar to the feeling of merging with fragments of the World Tree.

But it wasn't as gentle as the World Tree fragments.

"Could this secret realm be related to the World Tree?" Lin Changqing wondered as he cultivated to break through.

It was just that the feeling of swallowing the spiritual fluid was somewhat similar to swallowing the World Tree fragments.

However, he immediately felt that he was overthinking it.

An hour later, Lin Changqing opened his eyes.

The aura emanating from his body was even stronger than before.

He had broken through to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.

"Spiritual fluid is truly exaggerated. Logically speaking, to reach the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, I should need another four or five years of cultivation. But now, a single drop of spiritual fluid has allowed me to reach the fourth level of Foundation Establishment in just one hour."

"Good stuff, good stuff!" Lin Changqing licked his lips. Now, the next step was to continue hunting demon beasts and then gather another spiritual fluid.

[You continue to travel westward along the mountain range and encounter two more demon beasts. It seems that the further west you go, the stronger the demon beasts become. These two demon beasts are both at the third level of Foundation Establishment, comparable to the wolf king of the previous wolf pack.]

[You kill these two third-level Foundation Establishment demon beasts, obtaining two water droplets.]

[Ten minutes later, you encounter a crocodile demon beast, twenty meters long, in a black water lake. This crocodile demon beast is at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.]

[This is the strongest demon beast you have encountered. You spend a bit of effort to slay it.]

[You obtain a third water droplet, but at the same time, you are surprised to discover...]

"The water droplet formed from this crocodile demon beast has actually become larger!"

Lin Changqing looked at his palm in surprise. He could see that there were now three water droplets in his palm.

One of them was significantly larger, twice the volume of the other two water droplets.

The large water droplet was formed from the fourth-level Foundation Establishment crocodile demon beast.

The small water droplets were formed from the previous two third-level Foundation Establishment demon beasts.

"The water droplets are different now. Could it be because this crocodile was at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment?"

Lin Changqing pondered. Compared to the first three levels, the fourth level of Foundation Establishment was a completely different realm, representing the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

The demon beasts he had encountered before, at the first, second, and third levels of Foundation Establishment, all belonged to the early stage of Foundation Establishment, so the water droplets they formed were the same.

But now, this crocodile was at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, the middle stage, so the water droplet it formed was larger.

Lin Changqing felt that this was a possibility.

Immediately, he carefully stored the three water droplets and continued to move forward.

Whether his guess was correct or not would be known after killing a few more demon beasts.