Chapter 216: Seven Tripods of Heaven Seizing

Heaven Departure Pill, which can increase the chance of Core Formation, is not a common Medicinal Pill. It is often a secret medicine of various Schools, and only those who have made certain contributions to the School or are Core Disciples within the School are qualified to take such Medicinal Pills.

Five Heaven Departure Pills, this is already a very large number. After all, Li Muwan made them herself, and to refine them in just over a hundred years is by no means a simple matter.

Wang Lin looked for a moment, picked up one with two fingers, and put it into his mouth.

This time, the Heaven Departure Pill was much more potent than the one his main body took back then, as that one was refined using other substitutes.

Time passed little by little. The first Heaven Departure Pill failed. Even so, it caused all of Wang Lin's spiritual power to surge into his Dantian.

The second Heaven Departure Pill still failed, but the spiritual power within Wang Lin's body became even more condensed. If one were to look inward, they would find that Wang Lin's Dantian was like a vast ocean, and the spiritual power in his Meridians was like a hundred rivers, all surging towards the Dantian, forming a slowly rotating Vortex within it.

Every time this Vortex rotated, the spiritual power within the Meridians would rapidly surge, appearing quite strange.

The third Heaven Departure Pill still failed, but the speed of the Vortex in Wang Lin's Dantian became faster and faster. Gradually, a drop of golden liquid condensed at the center of the Vortex.

Wang Lin did not rush to take the fourth pill. Instead, he consolidated his foundation and quietly meditated. As time passed, the speed of the Vortex in Wang Lin's body finally slowed down. At this point, there were already three drops of golden liquid in his Dantian.

These three drops of golden liquid were actually formed by the condensation of all of Wang Lin's spiritual power at this moment. The instant these three drops appeared, the spiritual power in his Meridians had completely disappeared, and even the Dantian's Vortex gradually faded.

Wang Lin Cultivated the Ancient God Art, but under his forceful obstruction, it was not absorbed by his Physical Body but instead formed a spiritual power cycle within his body.

Among the Ancient Gods, there is no distinction between Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, or Nascent Soul, as almost no Ancient God would abandon external refinement for internal cultivation. Thus, using the Ancient God Art for internal cultivation is something no one has ever done except Wang Lin.

Therefore, Wang Lin felt quite strange about all the spiritual power in his body condensing into three golden liquids, but he could not find any information or memories related to this.

He could clearly feel that each of these three drops of golden liquid contained spiritual power no weaker than a full-strength strike from a Core Formation Cultivator. This phenomenon was quite similar to when he condensed the Cold Pearl using extreme realm spiritual power in Jue Ming Valley in the State of Zhao back then.

However, Wang Lin's Physical Body was eventually destroyed, and the extreme realm merged into his Divine Sense. From then on, the extreme realm Cold Pearl attack he had comprehended could no longer be used.

Looking at the three drops of golden liquid in his Dantian, Wang Lin's eyes flashed. Without a word, he picked up the third bottle. This bottle was not sealed with wax and contained over thirty black Medicinal Pills.

This Medicinal Pill is called the Soul Lock Pill. Li Muwan once said that this pill has great efficacy and should be taken after Core Formation. If a Foundation Establishment Cultivator takes it, they can only take one at most. If they take more, it can easily cause the body to swell and spiritual power to become chaotic.

Wang Lin's expression was calm. After picking up the pill, he threw it into his mouth without even looking at it. Immediately, spiritual threads suddenly appeared in his Meridians, which were originally devoid of spiritual power. As more and more spiritual threads appeared, under the effect of the Ancient God Art, Wang Lin's spiritual power was almost instantly fully restored.

He immediately circulated his spiritual power again, forcing it towards the Dantian's Vortex. The Vortex, which had originally dimmed and dissipated, suddenly brightened, rapidly transitioning from slow rotation to fast rotation.

Who knows how long passed, but the golden liquid in Wang Lin's Dantian turned into five drops!

A sense of expansion immediately emerged in his Dantian. Wang Lin's eyes flickered. He picked up the last two Heaven Departure Pills, threw them all into his mouth, then gritted his teeth, circulated the Ancient God Art, and sat in meditation with his eyes closed.

The two Heaven Departure Pills were like surging, raging waves, roaring through Wang Lin's body, forming immense pressure. This pressure acted upon the Dantian, immediately transmitting into the five drops of golden liquid.

Immediately, the five golden liquid drops, which were originally separated, slowly moved closer to each other, eventually crashing together and tightly merging.

At the same time, as the effect of the Heaven Departure Pills intensified, Wang Lin's Dantian shattered with a bang, showing cracks. This shattering trend could not be stopped and immediately spread. Finally, Wang Lin's entire Dantian completely turned into fragments with a roar.

These fragments swirled back and merged into the golden liquid. What followed was the spiritual power transformed from the Heaven Departure Pills, and all kinds of substances completely fused together. Finally, a dazzling, fist-sized Golden Core appeared in Wang Lin's lower abdomen!

Innumerable slender tentacles extended from this Golden Core, connecting to all the Meridians. As it slowly rotated, waves of vast spiritual power surged out from it, instantly circulating once through Wang Lin's body.

At this moment, Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes, which shone with an unbearable brilliance. The threshold from Foundation Establishment to Core Formation had now been crossed by Wang Lin!

At the same time, Li Muwan had been staying in the Scripture Pavilion of the Cloud Heaven Sect for nearly a month. During this month, she hardly left the Scripture Pavilion, spending her days searching through ancient texts, one by one, looking for a way to open the pill seal.

In fact, she had already found three methods to open the pill seal, but all three methods had a certain destructive nature. While opening the seal, they would cause great damage to the Medicinal Pills inside, and could even turn them into废丹 (waste pills).

This was unacceptable to Li Muwan. She knew that the Medicinal Pills inside were very likely crucial for Wang Lin to Break through Core Formation and reach the Nascent Soul Stage.

Sun Zhenwei had been paying attention to Li Muwan's actions. He was quite puzzled by her long stay in the Scripture Pavilion, always feeling that there was something amiss.

However, no matter how he speculated and analyzed, he could never see through the truth of the matter. And that Disciple named Wang Lin, he had surprisingly stayed cooped up for this entire month, not going to find Li Muwan again.

The Flying Sword he had placed near the other party also showed no reaction. Although all of this seemed normal, Sun Zhenwei always had a hint of doubt in his heart.

However, with only a little over a month left until the Dual Cultivation ceremony, various Schools were continuously sending people to offer congratulations, and Sun Zhenwei needed to receive them one by one, so he no longer paid attention to this matter.

The few Nascent Soul Late Stage ancestors of the Cloud Heaven Sect also knew that Li Muwan had not willingly agreed to this matter, so they did not press too hard. They did not question her long stay in the Scripture Pavilion, and even opened up the normally restricted inner Scripture Pavilion for Li Muwan to browse, as a way to mend the rift caused by the Dual Cultivation.

On this day, with twenty days left until the Dual Cultivation agreement, Li Muwan finally found a more reliable sealing-opening technique in an ancient text in the inner pavilion than the previous three methods.

She calculated and analyzed in her heart that this method had a 50% chance of not damaging the quality of the Medicinal Pills in the Pill Furnace, and even if there was some damage, it would not have too significant an impact. At the very least, the chance of them becoming waste pills was the lowest among all methods.

Seeing that time was running out, she gritted her silver teeth and decided to use this method.

After making her decision, Li Muwan immediately copied this method. She did not leave immediately, but instead picked up some other ancient texts and read them carefully for about half a day before gently putting them down, making a few copies, and then turning to leave.

In fact, during her more than a month in the Scripture Pavilion, Li Muwan copied many things almost every day, and the content of the ancient texts she read was extremely diverse, not just focusing on how to open the pill seal.

The reason for doing this was to mislead others. Li Muwan was not a newcomer to cultivation. On the contrary, after experiencing various events, her already intelligent mind had been trained to be quite astute.

Otherwise, for a woman like her, surviving in this cruel Cultivation World would be quite difficult.

This caution, in fact, had a certain connection with Wang Lin. It can be said that Li Muwan's caution was partly a habit she gradually developed during the few years she spent with Wang Lin in the Cultivation Devil Sea. This caution had saved her life many times after leaving Wang Lin.

She knew that within the Cloud Heaven Sect, especially Sun Zhenwei, there would definitely be suspicions about her prolonged stay in the Scripture Pavilion, and he would surely try every means to find out what she was looking for.

Thus, Li Muwan's caution played a significant role. Even if someone came to investigate, it would be difficult to find Li Muwan's true objective from the vast collection of ancient texts.

Moreover, even checking through copied Spells would be useless. To mislead others, Li Muwan's copying focus was divided into more than a dozen branches, and the pill sealing technique was just a tiny, insignificant part of this vast amount of information.

Not long after she left the Scripture Pavilion, Sun Zhenwei walked in. After entering the Scripture Pavilion, he waved his right hand, and a purple-gold token appeared in his hand. On this token, the character "Cloud" was clearly written.

As soon as this token appeared, the space three zhang in front of him twisted, and then two gray-clothed figures suddenly appeared. The two looked at the token, immediately knelt down, and respectfully said, "Outer Sect Disciples, greetings to the Sect's Cloud Token."

"This Scripture Pavilion has always been guarded by my Outer Sect Disciples. You two have been monitoring Elder Li for this past month. Have you found anything?" Sun Zhenwei's expression was no longer gentle but revealed a sinister look.

One of the gray-clothed men immediately said respectfully, "Elder Li's reading materials were quite varied, from Pill Formulas to medicinal properties, almost everything. According to this Disciple's observation, there was nothing particularly noteworthy."

Sun Zhenwei frowned slightly. He didn't believe that Li Muwan would waste over a month at this time just to read these. After a moment of contemplation, he said coldly, "Were there any copied items?"

The other gray-clothed man said in a flat tone, "Yes, but the categories of what she copied were also vast. Elder Li doesn't seem to have a fixed goal. Of course, there is another possibility."

Sun Zhenwei's eyes flashed, and he said, "Speak."

The gray-clothed man's expression was normal as he said, "This Elder Li has extremely high intelligence and a cautious personality. She anticipated being monitored, so she deliberately created a facade, using a mass of complicated ancient texts to hide her true objective. If that's the case, then it's clear she succeeded."

Sun Zhenwei snorted lightly. He had long suspected this, but then he thought, with only twenty days left, he wanted to see what other tricks Li Muwan could pull.

Moreover, Sun Zhenwei no longer feared the person Li Muwan knew. One must know that the matter of Dual Cultivation was personally decreed by several Ancestors. If that person were to appear and cause trouble, there would be no need for him to act; the several Nascent Soul Stage Late Stage Ancestors would surely ensure that person would never return!

After Wang Lin reached Core Formation, he continuously consumed several bottles of Medicinal Pills. As the Medicinal Pills entered his body and were devoured by the Ancient God Art, he gradually consumed more and more Medicinal Pills, and his cultivation soared, breaking through the Early Stage and reaching the Middle Stage.

However, Wang Lin still felt the speed was too slow. He disregarded the consequences and continuously consumed Medicinal Pills. But as the number of Medicinal Pills consumed increased, he could clearly feel that the effects of the Medicinal Pills were slowly diminishing.

Li Muwan had mentioned this phenomenon to him before. It was a kind of inertia; once too many medicinal substances were consumed, the body would undergo some strange changes. Although the spiritual energy within the Medicinal Pills remained, due to the body's peculiar changes, a large portion would silently dissipate as soon as it entered the body, even before the Ancient God Art could circulate.

This phenomenon was called a Body Obstruction.

This was a problem almost every frequent consumer of Medicinal Pills would encounter. There was only one way to solve this problem: consume even more precious medicinal substances.

Otherwise, there was no other method. Even if a long time passed, this Body Obstruction would always exist, without beginning or end.

After continuously consuming medicinal substances for many days, Wang Lin's body developed a Body Obstruction, but this did not stop Wang Lin from continuing to consume them. Li Muwan also had a countermeasure for the appearance of Body Obstruction.

In fact, with Li Muwan, the Alchemy Great Master, by his side, Wang Lin hardly needed to think about Medicinal Pills; Li Muwan had already prepared everything perfectly for him.

Wang Lin picked up the second bottle from the right. This bottle was key to resolving the Body Obstruction. The medicinal substance inside was called Obstruction-Breaking Pill. Though named Obstruction-Breaking, this pill did not deliberately dissolve the Body Obstruction. Instead, it was a medicinal substance Li Muwan had refined from many extremely rare herbs, designed to help the body absorb spiritual energy.

If ranked by grade, this pill was only a first-grade one, but if used properly, it could achieve miraculous effects at certain times.

After consuming the Obstruction-Breaking Pill, Wang Lin immediately picked up several bottles of Medicinal Pills and poured them all into his mouth. These Medicinal Pills instantly melted. Under the effect of the Obstruction-Breaking Pill, although their dissipation speed didn't change, Wang Lin's body's absorption speed suddenly increased.

Although it was only a slight increase, if it were another person, they would also feel the effect of the Obstruction-Breaking Pill and could gain a little more spiritual energy by utilizing this slight speed.

However, Wang Lin's Ancient God Art was originally a devouring Cultivation Technique. At this moment, this slight time, when applied to the devouring process of the Ancient God Art, was immediately infinitely magnified. A large amount of spiritual energy that should have dissipated was immediately circulated by the Ancient God Art before it could scatter.

In this manner, Wang Lin's cultivation soared. He finally consolidated his cultivation from Core Formation Middle Stage to Core Formation Late Stage. Although he had not yet reached Great Perfection, he was extremely close.

However, all the Medicinal Pills gifted by Li Muwan had also been completely consumed by him.

On this day, Wang Lin woke up from meditation in the Heaven Defying space. He could feel a summons coming from the Devil Head Xu Ligou. According to his previous agreement with Li Muwan, this indicated that Li Muwan had found a way to open the Pill Seal.

Wang Lin stood up and took a step forward. His figure instantly faded, as if he had shattered the Void Realm, disappearing without a trace in an instant.

In the room within the North Garden courtyard, crystal lights flashed out from the Void Realm, quickly coalescing to form a human figure. The figure slowly solidified, revealing Wang Lin's appearance.

After Wang Lin appeared, his eyes flashed. He looked at the Flying Sword he had thrown on the ground more than a month ago. With a grab of his right hand, the Flying Sword immediately landed in his grasp. Wang Lin glanced at it and immediately saw that it contained a Restriction set with Divine Sense. This Restriction was not powerful, but it was quite clever. Its purpose was indeed as he expected, to serve as a monitor.

Wang Lin's expression was normal. With a flick of his right hand, the Flying Sword immediately pierced the ground. He moved forward, pushed open the door of the room, and walked out towards the courtyard.

But just then, he suddenly paused, his brows slightly furrowed. The courtyard door was silently pushed open, and Zhou Lin slowly walked in!

Upon seeing Wang Lin, his gaze immediately sharpened. With his cultivation, he instantly detected Wang Lin's difference. One must know that before he went into seclusion, Wang Lin was merely at Qi Condensation third layer, but now, even he couldn't see through him. According to his analysis, the other party's cultivation, even if not Core Formation Late Stage, must be at least Middle Stage or above. A complex expression appeared on his face, followed by a bitter smile as he said, "Master is being monitored and cannot come personally. She asked me to take you somewhere, sigh."

Wang Lin's gaze was calm. After glancing at this person, he nodded.

Zhou Lin walked into the courtyard, closed the courtyard door behind him, and looked at Wang Lin with another complicated expression. He gave a bitter smile and said, "This… should I call you Senior Martial Uncle… or… never mind. Since you are Master's friend, you are my, Zhou Lin's, Senior Martial Uncle. Senior Martial Uncle, please!"

Zhou Lin shook his head. He was originally in seclusion when he suddenly received a sound transmission from Li Muwan, asking him to come out. Zhou Lin was an orphan Li Muwan had saved in her early years, and he was extremely obedient to her words, always holding respect and gratitude in his heart.

From Li Muwan's few words, he had already guessed that the Disciple he had taken in was actually his Master's friend. This immediately made his head a bit chaotic. It took him a long time to sort things out before he reluctantly accepted this fact. It was precisely because of this that when he saw such a huge change in Wang Lin's cultivation, although he was stunned, he was not surprised. He thought that perhaps the other party's cultivation was originally like this, and they had simply hidden it before.

Zhou Lin arrived outside his room, his hands moved slightly, and immediately a light screen opened above the room. Immediately after, the door automatically pushed inward.

Zhou Lin looked back at Wang Lin and entered the room.

Wang Lin did not take a step. Instead, he swept his Divine Sense, silently placing a Restriction on Zhou Lin that could be activated at any time, then he unhurriedly walked in.

Wang Lin maintained a cautious attitude towards everyone. Although Zhou Lin had treated him well before and was Li Muwan's Disciple, Wang Lin's habits would not change for any person or matter. When caution was needed, he would never be careless.

When he had swept his Divine Sense over this room before, there was no abnormality other than a faint spiritual energy fluctuation beneath a Pill Furnace on the ground.

As soon as Zhou Lin entered the room, he immediately slapped his Storage Pouch, took out three Jade Slips, and placed them in order beneath the Pill Furnace. He then stepped back two paces, flipped his hands, and shot out a spiritual light. Instantly, the three Jade Slips glowed with a green light, and at the same time, the entire Pill Furnace shook and slowly sank three inches.

Zhou Lin took a deep breath, stepped forward, grabbed the Pill Furnace, and rotated it half a turn from left to right. In an instant, a line of light suddenly appeared on the wall directly in front.

This line of light moved rapidly like a swimming Dragon, leaving a long tail behind it. Its speed was extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye, it formed a Formation.

Zhou Lin stepped back a few paces, stood respectfully to the side, and whispered, "This Formation connects to a secret chamber. It is the Pill Refining Room that my Master secretly prepared, unknown to outsiders. Senior Martial Uncle, please enter. This Disciple will guard outside. If any change occurs, I will report it immediately."

Wang Lin did not step forward. Instead, he stared at the Formation on the wall. After a moment, he frowned slightly, glanced at Zhou Lin, and said in a deep voice, "Is your Master in the secret chamber?"

Zhou Lin sighed inwardly. He knew the other party would definitely not believe him, so he smiled bitterly, took out a Jade Slip from his Storage Pouch, and said, "This is the spiritual talisman Master gave this Disciple. Senior Martial Uncle, please take a look."

Wang Lin took the Jade Slip, swept it with his Divine Sense, then glanced at Zhou Lin. Without another word, he lifted his foot and walked towards the wall. The moment his body touched the wall, his figure instantly disappeared.

Zhou Lin's expression was normal. After rotating the Pill Furnace until the wall Formation disappeared, he sat cross-legged on the ground, opened the Pill Furnace, placed several herbs inside, and began Alchemy with a solemn expression. However, his Divine Sense was spread out, closely observing outside the room. If there was any disturbance, he would immediately notify his Master.

Zhou Lin did not know the relationship between Wang Lin and his Master, but he knew that everything he had now was given by Li Muwan. Therefore, he would do his utmost for anything Li Muwan instructed.

He also knew that his Master must be carrying out some extremely secretive matters, which were definitely directly related to the Dual Cultivation ceremony twenty days later. If he got involved, he might very well be implicated.

When Wang Lin reappeared, he saw Li Muwan.

Before him was a secret chamber, not large. Most conspicuous was a huge Pill Cauldron in the center. On this Pill Cauldron, seven black Dragons were cast, and at this moment, these seven black Dragons continuously spewed purple mist. The purple mist slowly rose, condensing together to form a sphere.

Inside that sphere was a small Pill Furnace, with a yellow paper talisman attached to it. Li Muwan's graceful figure was currently staring intently at the Pill Furnace, her face showing a nervous expression. When she saw Wang Lin enter, she softly said, "Above this is the Cloud Heaven Sect Grand Hall plaza. Opening the Pill Seal requires the help of the Cloud Heaven Sect's Heaven-Seizing Seven Cauldrons!"