Chapter Seventy-One: Fishing for the Moon in the Water

  This is a natural limestone cave, the interior of which is extremely spacious, with countless rugged passages eventually leading to this place. The top of the cave has numerous strange rocks that look icy and cold. In the center of the cave is a cold pool about 10 meters in diameter, some natural stalactites fall off, making the pool also slightly turbid.

  "Is this... really a paradise on earth?"

  Xia Lin exclaimed in surprise as she looked around.

  He was amazed by the light here, logically speaking, at this time he had already entered the Yin-Yang Mountain, even a piece of darkness could be understood. But unexpectedly, what happened here was something that Xia Lin couldn't understand at all - the entire cave was filled with a green glow. Like countless fireflies in the sky, numerous green starlight floated inside the cave, clearly visible, full of an otherworldly beauty that moved people's souls.

  "I asked Huayue, where is that spiritual medicine..." Xia Lin's sentence was not yet finished, when he was suddenly locked onto by a killing intent.

  Yuè Lián appeared before him, her figure fluttering and uncertain, the curved knife in her hand pressed against his neck, her killing intent clear: "I! Do not! Surname! Yuè!"

  Xia squinted his eyes, subconsciously preparing to activate Zoll, but after glancing at the girl in front of him, he could easily see the chill in her eyes. That cold intent seemed just like when he first arrived in this world - lonely and icy.

  Suddenly, Xia Lin's heart was touched at a certain point. In the girl's astonished expression, he grasped the curved knife and gently moved it aside, smiling: "Alright, Yao Lian, I'll call you Yao Lian."

  It seemed like she had thought of something, Yu Lian withdrew her twin blades and silently walked to the center of the Dongtian Fudi, where the cold pool was located, and put her jade hands into the water, sensing its temperature.

  "What is this?" Xia Lin asked in puzzlement.

  Yu Lian said faintly, "Every now and then, some spiritual medicine would be born in the depths of the Cold Pool, sinking to the bottom. As long as one sensed the mysterious energy, it would float up. For hundreds of years, this had never changed."

  "Hmm? That's quite mysterious," Xia Lin said with interest, "Why don't you go down and pick it up?"

  "No way." Yue Lian shook her head slightly, "I tried to go down before, the further down I went, the narrower it became, twisting and turning, too deep to measure, completely impassable, not to mention we'd need to change the air as well."

  "Hmm, I see." Xia Lin nodded.

  The clear water of the icy pool, under the green glow of the stalactite cave, is also filled with pale green shadows.

  "Whoosh——"

  Yu Lian pulled out her hands from the water and grasped a blue-glowing spiritual grass.

  "My god, a second-grade spiritual herb has appeared?" Xia Lin looked stunned, and the thing pinched in his hand by Yuelian was actually a second-grade spiritual herb, one grade higher than yuanling grass, xuanling grass.

  Two products of spiritual grass, have been very precious. When Xia Ye was looking for a Xuanlingcao for Xia Sheng, he spent an unknown amount of time and effort. And the Xuanlingcao also pushed Xia Sheng's original seven-refined physique to the nine-refined realm, the medicinal power of the second-grade spiritual grass can be seen from this. But at this moment, this rare Xuanlingcao was easily picked up by Yuelian.

  "What's going on? What does this mean?" Yu Lian furrowed her brow, and with her naturally sharp intuition, she keenly sensed that Xia Lin wasn't saying anything good.

  "Oh, it's nothing, just a local dialect from Heifeng Village, it means surprise, don't mind." Xia Lin explained with a serious face, joking that if Yuelian knew, joy, anger, sorrow, grief, sympathy and all emotions could be expressed with just one word, she might chop him up on the spot.

  "In the depths of the cold pool, it's usually just some first-rate spiritual grass that appears. Occasionally, if you're lucky, a second-rate spiritual grass might show up." Moon Lotus put the Xuanling Grass aside and explained to Xia Lin.

  "What about those three spiritual herbs?" Xia Lin asked.

  "The three spiritual grasses, in a hundred years, have only appeared a few times. Each time they appear, it brings about a leap forward for the Yin Yang Mountain, and one Three Spiritual Grass is enough to allow a warrior at the peak of the Qi Spiral to directly break through the bottleneck and enter the Condensed Sea Realm!" Moon Lotus shook her head and said.

  "Hmm, fishing for the moon in the water? I'll play along too."

  Xia Lin finished speaking and plunged her hands deep into the icy pool. Instantly, a refreshing sensation reached her heart.

  Xia Lin closed his eyes and sensed inward, toward the cold pond, but gained nothing. The water in the cold pond seemed to have something special that completely blocked his senses. Even when Xia Lin used his spiritual power, he couldn't penetrate even a little bit.

  The blood gas in his body floated out of his hands, and soon Xia Lin felt something floating up. He grabbed it with one hand and pulled it out of the water.

  This is a green spiritual grass, looking more beautiful than the Xuanling grass. Xia Lin suddenly showed a hint of joy: "Yao Lian, what kind of spiritual grass is this? Is it second-grade?"

  Yu Lian glanced at him and said lightly: "No rank, Night Glow Grass, for decoration only."

  Summer arrives: "......"

  Yuè Lián released her Xuan Qi once again in the icy pond, and soon another spiritual grass floated to the surface of the water.

  "Whoosh——"

  Familiar colors, familiar appearance, it's another two spiritual herbs, Xuanlingcao!

  Obviously, even Lianlian felt a bit unexpected. Although the second-grade spiritual grass had also appeared before, it would only occasionally appear with one grain, and it was rare to see two grains appearing at once like now.

  "What good luck!" Xia Lin muttered to himself, waving his hand in the Cold Pool. The blood and energy inside him stirred again in the pool, and before long, his face lit up with joy as he pulled out a spiritual herb.

  "This time it's different from last time's green, the whole body is blue, revealing some extraordinary purple, at a glance it's not an ordinary thing, suddenly excitedly asked: 'What is this?'"

  Yu Lian glanced at him, her mouth twitching slightly, "No rank, Zi Ling Xiang, will emit some fragrance, generally used by ladies as a perfume."

  Summer arrives: "......"

  What a joke! Xia Lin is furious, in his previous life, he was at least a fishing master! The fishing game on his phone was also played to the highest level, how could he be stopped by just a small cold pool.

  "Brush!"

  Xia Lin felt a gust of wind and quickly grabbed a handful of spiritual grass, which turned out to be the rare and precious Xuanling Grass.

  Has your luck changed? No.

  Xia Lin turned his head and saw that it was Yu Lian who had thrown one of the two spiritual grasses in her hand to him.

  "Huh?" Xia Lin looked at her with some surprise.

  Yu Lian said calmly, "These spiritual herbs have long been matured at the bottom of the Cold Pond, and their medicinal properties have been sealed by the Cold Pond. Now that they are away from the Cold Pond, their efficacy is beginning to disappear. If we don't use them quickly, I'm afraid they will soon become useless spiritual herbs."

  So it was, Xia Lin suddenly enlightened.

  "One for each, use it up and then go get more. The matured spiritual grass at the bottom of the cold pond won't disappear." After Moon Lotus finished speaking, she found a stone table inside the cave, sat cross-legged, placed the spiritual grass in her palm, and slowly absorbed its medicinal properties with rising vital energy, starting her cultivation.

  Xia Lin shrugged and sat cross-legged on the other side, putting the spiritual grass into his mouth.

  "Crack!"

  Like a cow chewing on a peony, Xia Lin crisply and neatly chewed up the entire Xuanling grass and swallowed it directly into his abdomen. In an instant, the powerful medicinal properties of the Xuanling grass surged into Xia Lin's body, roaming everywhere and impacting his blood vessels.

  "Hmmph!"

  Xia Lin let out a cold hum, and the ten acupoints in his body that had already condensed blood energy slowly shook, giving birth to countless blood energies that brought the originally dormant blood energy in his body under control, and launched a fierce counterattack against the medicinal power in his body!

  The thirteenth acupoint, the fourteenth acupoint, the fifteenth acupoint...the eighteenth acupoint...the twentieth acupoint...the twenty-sixth acupoint!

  Boom!

  The medicinal power in his body was completely transformed into endless blood energy.

  Blood energy like the sea, twenty-four acupoints above blood energy spread, Xia Lin broke through again, entered the third layer of refining blood!

  "Ah."

  Xia took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes. Although he had long been accustomed to this direct absorption method of Qi cultivation, he still feared that the medicinal power would be too strong, after all, when he was tempering his body for the third time, facing the medicinal properties of Yuanshencao, he had eaten enough bitter fruit.

  "Ah!"

  As he opened his eyes, Xia Lin was startled and almost subconsciously attacked, because at this moment, Yuelian was extremely close to him, staring tightly at him, with a pair of beautiful eyes focusing entirely on him.

  "You scared me to death." Xia Lin saw that it was Yue Lian and also breathed a sigh of relief, "Yao Lian, what are you doing?"

  "A single Xuanling grass and you only managed to increase your strength by one level. What a waste." Yuelian said with some regret.

  Xia Lin was suddenly speechless. Indeed, the human body's 108 acupoints correspond to the nine layers of refining blood, with each twelve points representing one layer.

  He had just reached the 12th acupoint, which was the second layer of Blood Refining, and after absorbing the Xuanling Grass, he reached the 26th acupoint, which was the third layer of Blood Refining. To outsiders, it seemed like his strength had only increased by one level. But what Xia Lin wanted to rant about was that the first layer of the Air Rotation Realm couldn't be compared to the first layer of the Blood Refining Realm! The consumption of a cultivator far exceeded that of a martial artist!

  Unfortunately, he couldn't say these things, and Yu Lian might not have listened anyway. He could only reluctantly become the one who wasted the spiritual medicine.

  Just as she was about to say something, Yuelian glanced at him and slightly shook her head. She returned to the stone table, sat cross-legged again, placed the Xuanling grass in the palm of her hand, and resumed her cultivation.

  It's strange, what was this girl trying to do just now?

  It wasn't until he saw his reflection in the cold water that he couldn't help but laugh awkwardly. At this moment, he looked very disheveled, and there were even some bloodstains on his clothes, which weren't very clean.

  After thinking carefully, Xia Lin suddenly smiled wryly. Just now, he must have been too shocked by his own actions, and the spiritual medicine had taken effect, causing his clothes to burst open and his body to be covered in blood. It was only because of Yu Lian's concern that she stood guard beside him.

  "Really, you obviously have normal feelings like everyone else, why do you make yourself so cold-blooded." Xia Lin helplessly shook his head and sat beside her to protect the law for her.

  He was somewhat curious and said that Yuè Lián, who had wasted the Xuán Líng Grass, had made some progress. However, soon he knew why Yuè Lián had said those words to him earlier.

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