Cultivation begins in the endless sea.

Chapter 80 The Art of Sword Control

Lin Qing glanced at it and was about to leave when he suddenly noticed something as thin as a cicada's wing falling out of the corpse.

He grabbed it with his large hand, and it felt cold and slippery to the touch…

Before he could take a closer look, Lin Qing vanished into the three-star conch boat. Just as he was about to disappear, he detonated several high-grade first-tier water ball spell talismans.

"Boom!"

Instantly, countless armored demon shrimps and black-patterned electric eels burst forth, swarming and sweeping, completely disregarding the vibrations of the talisman, tearing apart any foreign traces in one fell swoop.

This naturally also includes the first-tier spiritual artifact and some remains of flesh and blood left behind when the lion-nosed man passed away...

Just as the lion-nosed man was about to perish, a spirit tablet in the middle of the eighth row on the altar of the Qian family ancestral hall suddenly shattered.

"not good!"

The elder guarding this place was visibly shaken. He scanned the area with his divine sense and his pupils contracted. He said in disbelief, "It was actually him..."

"Now, the Qian family mustn't cause any trouble."

After muttering to himself, the elder quickly activated the ancestral hall's formation, and then a shattered scroll of soul tablets was swiftly thrown into the cave of clan leader Qian Changlin.

Two days later, Qian Changlin looked at the corpses of the armored shrimp and the black-patterned electric eel lying on the ground with a gloomy expression, his brows furrowed.

...

Lin Qing, the instigator of all this, was sitting cross-legged in the Three Star Conch Boat, looking at the pile of items in front of him with a look of surprise.

More than 900 low-grade spirit stones, four mid-grade spirit stones, two bottles of Qingyuan Pills (which can increase the mana of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators), and two bottles of healing pills.

One first-grade superior defensive jade pendant and one protective pearl.

A pair of first-grade superior treasure gourds (black gourd and jade gourd).

One first-grade superior-quality Calamity Token.

One first-tier superior-grade magic weapon, the Zhenyue Blade.

...

There is also a body-refining technique called "The Bone-Tempering Golden Body Technique"!

"As expected of a member of the Qian family..."

When the lion-nosed man unleashed his fist technique, he felt an extremely familiar sensation and roughly guessed that it came from the Qian family.

After that, he suddenly spoke up and, sure enough, tricked the truth out of him.

Finally, he used the Jade Gourd and the Beast Taming Ring in succession, forcefully killing someone of a higher level!

It should be understood that human cultivators are different from sea monsters; at the same level, human cultivation techniques and magical artifacts are incomparably profound.

This difference can usually only be bridged at the Golden Core stage, and after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, the advantage of the demon race's bloodline and supernatural abilities will prevail again...

Therefore, it was already quite difficult for Lin Qing to kill the lion-nosed man who was above his level, especially since the opponent's magic weapon and body refinement were both top-notch.

"As for this mask, which is as thin as a cicada's wing."

Lin Qing fell into deep thought, channeling his magic power into it, and learned that this extraordinary treasure was called "Little Thousand-Mechanism Mask," a magical artifact that could change a cultivator's appearance.

However, it also has many limitations. Not only is there a limit to the number of times a single cultivator can use it, but it also requires the user to consume a certain amount of their spiritual power to control it.

In addition, one needs to cultivate body-refining techniques to change the shape of one's bones and muscles in order to truly avoid revealing any flaws in front of high-level cultivators.

Despite the strict restrictions, Lin Qing still exclaimed, "I've made a fortune! I've made a fortune!"

With an additional layer of disguise, he could handle many things more calmly and confidently.

"As for who this Qian family cultivator is..."

It's nothing more than some prodigy who previously coveted the Spirit Dew somehow making a deal with a sea monster...

"Even if the Qian family discovers one day that he was killed by me, with the recording bead, they wouldn't dare to use it against me!"

After thinking it over and over, Lin Qing sorted out the matter and finally made up her mind.

The matter was now settled, and he quickly returned to the Spirit Shell Field. Most of his disciples were still unaware that Clan Chief Lin Qing had already made a round trip!

……

Time flies, and more than two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the spiritual field of the fritillary bulb, the cave where Lin Qing cultivated was full of spiritual energy. A deep-sea azure python was lazily dozing around him, its horns faintly gleaming with a silver light, making it seem extraordinary.

Suddenly, it gently raised its head, blinked its vertical pupils, and looked at its master, vaguely sensing that he had entered a profound state of cultivation.

Lin Qing's dantian spiritual pool, which was used for foundation building, had unknowingly accumulated nearly one-third of its contents, and the spiritual dew stored in the jade gourd had also been exhausted.

Lin Qing suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes sparkling with a precious light.

"I'm just a little bit short of reaching the mid-Foundation Establishment stage."

"The time has come to guard this place."

"It would be better to wait until we return to our family before breaking through, so as not to attract too much attention."

Lin Qing used the move "Deep Sea Azure Python".

"Youlin, let's go home."

The dark scale darted onto Lin Qing's shoulder with a "whoosh" and settled firmly. Lin Qing, like an arrow released from a bow, quickly disappeared into the shellfish field…

Upon returning to Wanling Island, Lin Qing first visited the ancestor Lin Canglan, then went home to leave two bottles of longevity and health-enhancing pills, chatted with his parents about their recent situation, and then applied for a bottle of spirit dew from the clan treasury before entering his cave to cultivate in seclusion.

"Boom!"

Lin Qing calmed down completely.

The abundant spiritual power he had accumulated over three years of guarding the Fritillaria Spiritual Field slowly surged within his dantian spiritual pool. He discarded distracting thoughts and circulated his energy according to the "True Scripture of Creation" technique. His meridians were repeatedly washed and widened by the spiritual power, and the spiritual pool, which was already half full, was filled and solidified with each cycle.

After sitting in meditation for months, the barrier that had been holding him back for so long suddenly loosened. A surge of powerful spiritual energy broke through the barrier, his cultivation level transforming layer by layer. Lin Qing's aura suddenly soared, propelling him into the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment!

"It is indeed more robust than other cultivators of the same level."

Feeling the overwhelming pressure of the magical power surrounding him, and comparing himself to the lion-nosed man from before, Lin Qing couldn't help but marvel at the profound mystery of the "Creation Scripture" once again, and his mind began to speculate endlessly about the origin of this treasure.

"Unfortunately, there are too few clues right now. I wonder what level of cultivation one needs to reach to get a glimpse of the truth."

Lin Qing suppressed his distracting thoughts with a complex expression.

He did not intend to leave the seclusion immediately, but instead planned to continue honing his skills in the cave.

So for the next year, after his realm stabilized, he devoted most of his energy to the cultivation of the three core skills.

The first step was to condense nine drops of profound true water.

He poured nine drops of profound true water from the jade gourd, using his powerful mid-Foundation Establishment stage magic to continuously stimulate their fusion, collision, and purification.

After eighty-one days of repeated tempering, the scattered true water completely shed its impurities and condensed into a single drop of pure, dark, and incredibly heavy primordial true water.

"The power of this single drop of true water far exceeds the sum of the previous nine drops. Even a mid-grade second-tier sea monster would likely suffer a great loss if caught off guard."

After Lin Qing put away the drop of Chongxuan True Water, he had a vague feeling that going back to Hanyue Island to refine the True Water would no longer increase the power of Chongxuan True Water.

Secondly, he spent a lot of time studying the first level of the "Floating Light Sword Scripture".

Because he didn't have any high-quality flying sword materials like sword blanks or sword pellets, he could only learn the most basic "sword control technique".

"No wonder the minimum cultivation level required to master sword control is mid-Foundation Establishment."

Lin Qing muttered to himself, "This sword control technique requires repeated practice with divine sense and magical power, and you need to memorize countless sword techniques and hand gestures in advance. Only when you can use it as easily as you can you be considered to have achieved minor success!"

This is only a minor achievement in sword control, where the body and sword become one.

To achieve the state of moving with the sword, one needs to reach a high level of mastery.

"Looking at it this way, what I called sword control before was actually sword enslavement..."