Chapter 59 (1/2)

Rolling mountains stretched thousands of miles.

With the horse galloping, Lin Xun thought of the trip to the Green-sun Tribe, feeling eased and lost.

He had decided to let the past be past. When everything was on track, he would take Shia Zhi away.

For both Lin Xun and Shia Zhi, only in the cities of Ziyao Empire, could they embrace the broader world!

Besides, whether for the sake of self-cultivation in the future, or to find the one who took away his Spiritual Vein, he couldn’t stay at Feiyun Village all his life.

“Early this morning, I heard that Young Sword King – Shie Yutang had killed the golden flame beast whose innate spiritual-crystal was also obtained by Shie.”

“Wow, innate spiritual-crystal! That’s priceless. It’s said that it’s the core treasure of refining the Armor of Spiritual Tattoos, pretty rare.”

“Armor of Spiritual Tattoos? What is it?”

“A kind of powerful fighting outfit that only masters of spiritual tattoos are able to refine. But unfortunately, with harsh requirements for spiritual materials, refining such formidable battle-suit is complex and difficult, extremely easy to fail. Even the masters of spiritual tattoos may fail without enough opportunities and lucks.”

“So, the armor must be awesome once made successfully, right?”

“Of course. It does boast earth-shaking and unfathomable power!”

These words reached Lin Xun and gave him a shock.

The conversation was between two guardians who were traveling with Lin to Feiyun Village. They were from the Keystone Business, one named Gao Guiyong and the other named Zhou Quan, both of whom already reached the fourth level of Martial Realm.

“Has the golden flame beast been killed by Young Sword King?” asked Lin Xun.

Lin Xun also heard about the golden flame beast when he was in the Green-sun Tribe, and now had concluded that the so-called golden flame beast was just the golden monster he had seen a few days ago.

“Yes, it has.” Gao Guiyong hastened to say.

Knowing that Lin Xun was on friendly terms with Master Yan Zhen, he certainly dared not neglect Lin Xun.

Then Zhou Quan said, “The death of the golden flame won’t bring Liu Yukun back to life anyway.”

Squinting imperceptibly, Lin Xun was surprised, “Liu Yukun?”

“The eldest son of Liu Wujun, the governor of the southwest province in the empire. Reportedly, the death of Liu Yukun and his guys was on the golden flame beast; especially, that Liu Yukun, whose end was exceedingly miserable, was burned to a charred corpse.”

Zhou Quan sighed, “This incident will be learned by Governor Liu Wujun within a few days, which is likely to cause numerous disturbances.”

Only then did Lin Xun realize that Liu Yukun, who had died at his hands, had so strong a background that he couldn’t help but feel weird about how he killed the son of a governor by accident…

But Lin Xun wasn’t worried about it. At least, no one knew that Liu Yukun was killed by him now.

Soon night fell. The group led by Lin Xun found a cave to get rest.

After eating some rations, Gao Guiyong and Zhou Quan took on their tasks – alternately keeping guard, namely one was in charge of the first half of the night while the other took the lobster shift. In the wild mountains filled with many fierce beasts, it was definitely necessary to have someone stand sentry.

In the case, Lin Xun was relieved and began to cultivate with great concentration.

First, he cultivated the Spirit-concentrating Manual, guiding his spirit energy to finish 72 circuits in his body to reach the integrated state. Without delay, Lin began to meditate, practicing the Meditating Magic.

Till late night, Lin Xun opened his eyes and glanced around to make sure that there was no danger. Then he gathered his senses and entered the Heaven-accessing Place, trying to break through “Mille-Waterfalls” for the fourth time.

There was no doubt that Lin failed again in the end.

Lin Xun had foreseen the result, so he was more concerned about the improvement of physical strength.

As expected, by careful perception, he found that his skin and membranes, blood and flesh, muscles and bones were refined again, gaining stronger power.

Thanks to the “Spiritual Tattoo Battlefield—Mille-waterfalls”, Lin got a stronger body in spite of several failures in breakthrough.

However, this time Lin found that his physical power had got stuck in a bottleneck. He wouldn’t make more progress unless there was a total transformation of his physical strength.

“It seems that I have to start with cultivation.”

Lin Xun pondered. He didn’t know much about body refining, but could roughly concluded that physical power and cultivation should be complementary to each other.

Cultivation breakthrough was an internal transformation while physical breakthrough was an external transformation. Since his physical power had hit a plateau, breakthrough naturally needed to be done from inside to outside.