Inside the Training Room

Then a group of young men headed to the cultivation chamber together.

Lin Xiao had originally planned to greet his father there and let him know he was back. But when he arrived, he discovered that his father was nowhere in the cultivation chamber.

Old Master Lin, who had been meditating nearby, happened to open his eyes and noticed his little grandson looking for his father. In a rather disdainful tone, he told Lin Xiao, “Your father’s out in the fields. We’ve all told him that he needs to cultivate properly if he wants to grow good crops, but he just won’t listen. He insists on making a round of the fields first thing every morning before he can feel at ease. Go look for him there. He’ll definitely be there!”

And so Lin Xiao left the cultivation chamber and went to the spirit fields to find Lin Dayou.

Sure enough, as soon as he reached the edge of the fields, he saw Lin Dayou bent over in the terraced fields halfway up the mountain, fiddling with something among the crops.

Lin Xiao quickly ran over to him.

“Dad!”

Lin Dayou, who had been carefully inspecting the spirit grain, was caught completely off guard and jumped in surprise. He showed nothing on his face, however. Instead, he turned around with a solemn expression, looked Lin Xiao up and down, and nodded.

“You’re back.”

“Dad, you don’t have to come check the fields so early every morning. Wouldn’t it be better to spend that time cultivating with everyone else?” Lin Xiao urged.

Lin Dayou waved a hand dismissively.

“Oh, I’m just taking a look. Cultivating isn’t something you can accomplish in a moment anyway. Missing this little bit of time won’t matter. If I check the fields a few more times, I’ll feel more at ease. You go cultivate. I’ll be there in a little while.”

Seeing that his father refused to listen, Lin Xiao hesitated for a while between respecting his father’s preference and urging the old man, who clearly wasn’t taking cultivation seriously enough, to work harder.

In the end, he gritted his teeth, hoisted his father over his shoulder, and flew toward the cultivation chamber.

“You’re coming with me to cultivate!”

“Hey! You brat, put me down—”

…

After dragging his father back to the cultivation chamber, Lin Xiao gave him a private lecture for quite some time. Only after watching him enter meditation did Lin Xiao find a place beside him and begin meditating himself.

After successfully comprehending primordial energy in the Huanyou Kingdom, Lin Xiao had felt his cultivation realm loosen and sensed that he was ready for a breakthrough.

However, being away from home had made it inconvenient to break through, so he had deliberately ignored the feeling and refrained from attempting it while he was outside.

Now that he was back, Lin Xiao planned to begin his breakthrough in the cultivation chamber.

He had a feeling that this would only be an advancement to a minor stage rather than a breakthrough into an entirely new major realm, so he did not go to the Natural Platform.

Before breaking through, however, he planned to take a careful look at the new “primordial energy” he had obtained.

Lin Xiao closed his eyes and sank his consciousness inward. His “vision” entered his body, where he began examining his golden core.

His golden core was now completely different from before.

The core itself had grown an entire circle larger, and its surface gleamed with an exceptionally distinctive luster.

Lin Xiao then drew out some primordial energy from within his body and examined it carefully.

He had originally assumed that “primordial energy” was a combination of divine sense, soul, and spiritual energy. But after examining it closely, he discovered that this did not seem to be the case.

Primordial energy was more like something produced through the interaction of the three.

It was generated after divine sense, soul, and spiritual energy interacted with one another.

Moreover, primordial energy nourished the divine sense and soul in a way that was completely different from spiritual energy.

Although Lin Xiao could not sense any particularly obvious increase in the realms of his divine sense or soul, he could feel that both had become far more solid than before.

If he had to describe it in concrete terms, their density had probably increased.

After gaining a general understanding, Lin Xiao calmed his mind and let out a long breath. He then used his primordial energy to circulate the Primordial Heart Sutra from beginning to end.

No one knew how much time had passed before, inside the cultivation chamber of the Lingxian Sect, those who were meditating suddenly felt the surrounding spiritual energy become vastly denser in the blink of an eye. Then it began swirling into a vortex like mad.

Yet the vortex did not disrupt their cultivation. On the contrary, by following the direction in which it spun, they found it even easier to absorb spiritual energy and circulate their cultivation methods.

Their efficiency was several times greater than usual!

Seeing this, no one had time to open their eyes and investigate where the phenomenon had come from. They all seized the opportunity before them and began circulating their cultivation methods with renewed urgency.

In this state, everyone in the cultivation chamber forgot the passage of time and entered a completely selfless state of cultivation.

Two full cycles of day and night passed before the spiritual energy vortex gradually subsided.

The members of the Lingxian Sect in the cultivation chamber also stopped cultivating as the vortex came to an end.

They opened their eyes, and unconcealed delight shone in them.

Every one of them could feel that their cultivation had advanced considerably during this session. This one session was worth at least a month of ordinary hard work!

Furthermore, while cultivating with the spiritual energy vortex, they had found their comprehension much clearer than usual. Many questions that had previously puzzled them had been resolved during this session.

Lin Xiao opened his eyes at that moment as well and slowly exhaled a breath of pure air.

Late-stage Golden Core!

Who would have thought that after mastering the conversion of primordial energy and using it to circulate the Primordial Heart Sutra completely from the Qi Condensation stage onward, he would actually advance in one go from the early Golden Core stage to the late stage?

After all, once one reached the Golden Core stage, cultivation was no longer as easy as it had been during the Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment stages. The amount of cultivation energy required was immense.

Yet he had only broken through to the early Golden Core stage a few months ago, and he had already advanced directly to the late stage. His cultivation speed was truly astonishing…

If the cultivators outside learned of his rate of cultivation, they would probably begin to doubt their entire lives.

Lin Xiao lowered his head and looked at his hand, then gently clenched his five fingers.

The power in his hands had grown a little stronger once again.

The members of the Lingxian Sect nearby gathered around him one after another and began talking about how this cultivation session had felt to them.

After comparing notes, they discovered that the unusual phenomenon had been caused by Lin Xiao’s advancement. Two days earlier, Liao Pantu had come out of the Yao Guang Minor World for a stroll and noticed something strange about the cultivation chamber. When he came over to investigate, he found that Lin Xiao was breaking through, while everyone else was taking advantage of the momentum of his breakthrough to cultivate together.

Liao Pantu had then stayed outside the cultivation chamber to protect everyone inside.

Now that he heard the commotion within and knew they had finished, Liao Pantu entered and explained what had happened.

Only after hearing his explanation did everyone understand.

“So that’s what happened!”

Compared with everything else, however, everyone’s attention was clearly focused on Lin Xiao’s breakthrough.

In an instant, Lin Xiao was surrounded on all sides.

“Senior Brother Sect Master, you broke through again!”

“Brother Xiao, what cultivation level are you at now? Mid-stage Golden Core?”

“What? You’re already at the late stage of Golden Core? Heavens, Brother Xiao, you cultivate so quickly! When will I ever be able to catch up with you…”

“Third Brother, Third Brother, is there anything new and fun about the late-stage Golden Core?”

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