Xiuxian, I have a high martial arts world

Chapter 156: Middle Stage of Jindan! Lin Chen’s Underground Safe House!
Han Jihai on the side snorted coldly after hearing this:

"You are indeed far from it! Tieshan, you are the dumbest disciple I have ever accepted..."

"Let's not talk about the other brothers and sisters. Your fourth brother, at your age, had already established his foundation! He also won first place in the sect competition, overwhelming all the brothers."

"Look at you again, you are only at the eighth level of Qi Refining!"

After hearing this, Lin Chen couldn't help but roll his eyes.

A few years ago, his master treated him in much the same way, with the usual repressive education style.

As a result, Lin Chen is now also regarded as a role model to inspire his younger fellow apprentices.

This look made Lin Chen think of his student days.

The head teacher always says that classic sentence: You are the worst class of students I have ever taught.

As expected, Han Jihai revealed his true intentions at this time:
"You have decent aptitude, but the world is too chaotic nowadays. Even if you have built your foundation, it is difficult for you to protect yourself."

"Well, don't go out of the mountain alone before you break through the golden elixir. It would be best if you learn more about the art of nurturing the soul from your master..."

Zhou Tieshan was an honest and simple person. He nodded heavily after hearing this and said:
"Don't worry, Master. I will stay in Danfeng and practice well!"

"I will also learn from Fourth Senior Brother and not go anywhere before breaking through the Jindan stage..."

After saying that, he looked at Lin Chen with admiration.

Lin Chen held his forehead to hide his smile. This kid was really fooled by his master.

After Han Jihai finished scolding his junior fellow apprentice, he also did not forget to scold Lin Chen:

"Chen'er! Although we at Danfeng have four golden elixirs, this is not a good thing!"

"Think about it, the battle between good and evil is fierce right now... Our Danfeng has become stronger, shouldn't we be at the forefront? How can we have a good life?"

Speaking of this, Han Jihai said with a sad face:

"Alas, Master, I'd better go and make a few more batches of pills... At least this way I don't have to go to the front line. It's safest to just stay in the rear and make pills."

That day, Lin Chen ate the meal prepared by his master at Danfeng.

The five members of Danfeng gathered together and had a very peaceful meal.

……

The next morning, Lin Chen stayed on the second floor of Lin's Pavilion to practice.

Suddenly, he sensed someone coming downstairs. After carefully sensing it, Lin Chen said in surprise:
"This aura... is it Huang Xin? Has he broken through to the foundation building stage?"

Lin Chen went downstairs and saw Huang Xin waiting patiently at the door.

After seeing Lin Chen, he was delighted and stepped forward and said:
"Senior Brother Lin!"

Lin Chen looked at him, smiled and nodded:
"I haven't seen you for a few months. Have you established your foundation? Come in and talk..."

Lin Chen took Huang Xin to the backyard and made him a cup of tea.

"Would you like to try the spiritual tea given by the sect master?"

Huang Xin was flattered and took the spiritual tea. After taking a sip, he felt it was slightly bitter at first, but had an endless sweet aftertaste.

Even the operation of his cultivation had become three times faster.

“What a great tea!”

Huang Xin gulped down a cup of tea, but still felt unsatisfied.

"Haha, I still have some. If you like, I can give you some more..."

Lin Chen smiled.

This spiritual tea is a specialty of the Tiandan Sect and is very useful for the practice of foundation building and even Jindan cultivators.

One thousand spirit stones per pound, and it is rarely sold to the outside.

Before he broke through to the Jindan stage, Wang Changchun gave him a few kilograms of it. He couldn't finish it anyway, so he might as well give some to Huang Xin.

"I see that your cultivation has stabilized at the foundation-building stage. What is the quality of your foundation?"

Lin Chen took a sip of tea and asked casually.

Huang Xin put down his teacup and said quickly:

"I have to thank Senior Brother Lin for that pill... I was lucky enough to build my foundation perfectly..."

Lin Chen nodded after hearing this, he was not surprised.

Huang Xin had mixed spiritual roots, so his hope of building a foundation was very slim.

But with that perfect foundation-building pill, even a cultivator with five spiritual roots can build a perfect foundation.

"Perfect foundation building is not bad... at least it retains a glimmer of hope for condensing the golden elixir." Lin Chen said softly.

Huang Xin quickly shook his head and said:
"It is already a great fortune to be able to build a foundation by chance. How dare I ask for the condensation of the golden elixir?"

After hearing this, Lin Chen smiled and encouraged:
"That's not necessarily true. Although your aptitude is mediocre, the path of cultivation depends on more than just aptitude."

"Luck and character are both very important. As long as you devote yourself to the Tao, you may have the opportunity to condense the golden elixir."

Huang Xin agreed with this and said:
"It is my greatest luck to meet Senior Brother Lin."

Huang Xin is nearly thirty years old this year, a few years older than Lin Chen.

He was Lin Chen's disciple from the previous class, and strictly speaking, he was Lin Chen's senior brother.

But unfortunately, he is only an outer disciple and has few resources.

Before meeting Lin Chen, after three years of hard training, he had only reached the initial stage of Qi Refining.

But after meeting Lin Chen, he became the manager of the medicine garden and was able to earn a lot of spirit stones.

He has been practicing diligently for seven or eight years and has achieved perfection in Qi refining.

Coupled with that perfect foundation-building pill, it made up for Huang Xin’s insufficient foundation.

If he continued to work steadily and steadily during the foundation-building stage, he might not lose hope of condensing a golden elixir in this lifetime...

Huang Xin drank two more cups of tea and said:

"By the way, Senior Brother Lin... have you heard about Shopkeeper Wu recently?"

After hearing this, Lin Chen blinked and asked:
"But the previous owner of this shop?"

Huang Xin nodded and said:
"Some time ago, a secret place was discovered in Yanlai. A cultivator entered it and encountered several corpses of cultivators."

"There is a body among them. Judging from the items on the body, it should be Shopkeeper Wu..."

After hearing this, Lin Chen was silent for a moment and drank a few sips of tea.

Shopkeeper Wu was once a well-known foundation-building cultivator in this market.

His cultivation had reached the late stage of foundation building, but he felt that his life was coming to an end, so he went out traveling, seeking an opportunity to break through to the golden elixir stage.

After that, Lin Chen never heard any news about Shopkeeper Wu, nor did he see Shopkeeper Wu return to the market to look for his old friend.

But I didn't expect that after seven or eight years, when I heard from him again, he was already like this...

Thinking of this, Lin Chen was also quite touched and sighed:

"For us monks, cultivation is like sailing a small boat in the vast ocean. We must act with extreme caution and look twice before taking a step..."

"Otherwise, if something unexpected happens, there will be no recovery!"

"Shopkeeper Wu...sigh..."

Lin Chen shook his head. Although he was not familiar with Shopkeeper Wu, they had some interactions.

Seeing the death of former seniors always makes me feel a little emotional.

Huang Xin agreed with what Lin Chen said and secretly kept it in mind.

Afterwards, he took out a storage bag and said:
"Brother Lin, this is the harvest from the ripening of spiritual herbs in the medicine garden over the past year...it's all here."

After hearing this, Lin Chen did not take the storage bag, but said:
"Huang Xin, you are now a foundation-building cultivator, and you should have some status in the Changchun Mountain Market."

"No need to be trapped in that small medicine garden anymore..."

Huang Xin shook his head and said:
"It is an honor for me to be able to look after the medicine garden for Senior Brother Lin."

"However, Junior Brother plans to apply for the position of an outer sect deacon at the sect, so that he can get to know more disciples and help Senior Brother more."

After hearing this, Lin Chen was silent for a moment. After thinking about it, he took out ten thousand spirit stones and handed them over.

"Please keep these spiritual stones first."

"Although you are only the manager of the medicine garden, you are already a foundation-building cultivator. This salary must be worthy of your cultivation..."

Huang Xin did not shirk this responsibility.

He needs spiritual stones to practice.

But after seeing the number of spirit stones in the spirit stone bag, Huang Xin suddenly became anxious.

"Brother Lin, we don't need so many spirit stones..."

Lin Chen shook his head and said:
"You can keep it! As for the extra spirit stones, didn't you find another batch of medicine boys before?"

"When you have nothing to do, you can help me start some other businesses, such as mining."

Huang Xin put away the spirit stone after hearing this and nodded:
"Okay, Senior Brother Lin, I will try my best!"

After Huang Xin left, Lin Chen opened the storage bag and took a look.

Then there was some surprise.

In just one year, there were more than 10,000 spiritual herbs in this storage bag.

Although the age is not high, mostly three to five years, the medicinal effect is well maintained.

In addition, there are minerals piled up like hills.

"This Huang Xin is a capable person..."

"He must have hired quite a few people over the past year, but he never asked me for spirit stones... It seems that his business is already self-sufficient and has a surplus."

Lin Chen was a little surprised.

The reason why Huang Xin was chosen as the medicine boy was because he was honest and trustworthy, and we were too lazy to look for anyone else.

Unexpectedly, Lin Chen discovered a talent by accident.

……

After Huang Xin left, Lin Chen returned to his room to continue practicing.

He took out two jade slips, memorized the techniques contained in them completely, and began to practice his mental skills.

"Wind Shadow Divine Movement... Cloud Soaring Technique..."

"These are two pretty good escape techniques."

Lin Chen murmured.

These two escape techniques were deduced from the Tianyan Pearl.

The Nascent Soul level escape technique was deduced by referring to the many skills of Changchun Sect and Jinyuan Sect.

Wind Shadow is suitable for use on the ground.

When performing this technique, one can run as if with the help of wind, and each step can cover more than a hundred feet, which is faster than that of a martial arts master.

And the stronger the wind, the faster the Wind Shadow can travel.

The art of soaring into the clouds is an aid to the art of controlling weapons.

When performing the Cloud-Leaping Technique, a spiritual cloud will gather and appear around the magic weapon.

In this way, the speed of performing the weapon control technique is faster, and it is no problem to move forward at full speed and travel thousands of miles at night. Of course, the consumption of true energy is also greater.

Even with Lin Chen's strong true energy, he couldn't perform the Cloud-Flying Technique continuously all night long.

"These two techniques can make up for my lack of speed."

"Practice more, it will complement the Earth Escape Technique, and you will have more means to pursue or save your life in the future."

Lin Chen thought about it, left Changchun Mountain Market, and flew hundreds of miles away.

He found an uninhabited mountain and began to practice these two techniques.

The art of escape is different from general techniques and requires a wider environment to practice.

In this deserted mountain, Lin Chen practiced his escape speed over and over again, making rapid progress.

……

In the blink of an eye, two months passed.

That day, Lin Chen came to a natural cave in the barren mountains.

There is a lot of fog and lush trees in the barren mountains here, making it extremely difficult to find even with the spiritual sense of a cultivator.

"Yes, this place is very suitable!"

Lin Chen nodded slightly. While he was practicing the art of escape in the past two months, he couldn't help but think of the plan from a few years ago.

——Underground fortress!
Develop a large enough safe house deep enough underground.

The situation between the righteous and evil forces is becoming increasingly tense, with hundreds of monks dying on the front lines every day...

In addition, Li Tianhan had said before that the True Lord Demon Sect would flourish in the next 112 years, so Lin Chen had to be on guard.

"But how deep do we have to dig underground to be safe?"

Lin Chen touched his chin and thought.

"The spiritual awareness of a ninth-level Jindan cultivator is only twenty miles..."

"In the early stage of Nascent Soul, the spiritual awareness is fifty miles... At the peak of Nascent Soul, the spiritual awareness is three hundred miles!"

"It is very likely that there is a Nascent Soul monster in the Demon Sect. I don't even know if he is in the late Nascent Soul stage or early stage..."

"To be on the safe side, we need to dig at least three hundred miles."

Lin Chen murmured.

But then he thought, what if True Lord Huashen also got involved?

"True Lord Huashen, that person has a thousand-mile divine consciousness!"

"Why not just go all out and dig this safe house a thousand miles underground!"

Thinking of this, Lin Chen no longer hesitated and used the earth escape technique.

A layer of earthy light appeared on his skin, covering Lin Chen's entire body.

"Earth escape technique, earth walking!"

Wrapped in this earth-colored light, Lin Chen sank into the ground.

Like a fish entering water, the soil underground only provided slight resistance to him.

Lin Chen exerted force with his legs and continued running towards the underground.

This is the second magical power of the earth escape technique, earth walking!

It is more mysterious than the art of digging holes.

The art of digging holes allows cultivators to quickly open up space underground.

The earth-moving technique allows Lin Chen to run freely underground.

But this earth-moving technique also has its limitations.

It's like there is tremendous pressure in deep water.

That is, the deeper underground you go, the greater the pressure.

Although the light of the Earth Escape Technique allowed Lin Chen to greatly reduce this pressure, the pressure still existed.

With the physique of an ordinary Jindan cultivator, he can easily dive thousands of feet underground by using the earth escape technique.

But for Lin Chen, diving deep into the ground is not a problem.

So, Lin Chen used the earth-moving technique and continued to drill deeper into the ground.

Hundred feet, thousand feet, ten thousand feet...

Thirty thousand feet!
It took Lin Chen an hour to reach a depth of 30,000 feet underground.

At this time, the huge pressure from the land made Lin Chen feel a little difficult to resist.

"Huh, it's about here..."

Lin Chen used the digging technique again and dug out a space thirty thousand feet underground.

The space is not big, only about two meters high and one meter long and wide.

Just enough for an adult to hide in it.

"Huh, with my current strength, I can't dive a thousand miles underground in one breath."

"So, we must use this space to rest for a while."

"After we dig out the underground safety area, we will also need to pass through these spaces to rest for a while."

Lin Chen stayed in this cave and recovered some of his true energy and magic power.

Thirty thousand feet deep underground means two hundred miles underground.

At this depth, even a peak Nascent Soul cultivator would be unlikely to discover it.

Although the spiritual sense is sufficient, which Nascent Soul cultivator would have nothing to do and use the spiritual sense to scan the underground?

After he had rested for a while, Lin Chen continued to use the Earth Walking Technique and drilled into the ground.

This time, Lin Chen went thousands of feet deep underground.

After that, every ten thousand feet, Lin Chen would open up an underground space for rest.

……

Late at night the next day.

After working for two days and one night, Lin Chen finally stopped.

He used the digging technique and easily dug out a safe haven about ten feet in radius.

Looking at the dark underground, Lin Chen murmured:
"Huh, this thousand miles underground is finally safe..."

"But...even though it's a safe house, we should still live a better life."

Lin Chen thought about it and used the digging technique again.

After a moment, this space turned into a safe house that was ten feet high and ten feet in radius.

Lin Chen took out some nuclear-powered lamps and hung them on the wall.

Soon, the dark underground became bright again.

Lin Chen looked at the spacious safe house and nodded slightly:

"If we really encounter an unbeatable enemy, this underground safe house will be our life-saving trump card!"

"By then, we will have to hide underground for a year or so, so the living conditions cannot be too harsh."

"Spirit gathering array, breath-suppressing prohibition, entertainment facilities... these all need to be arranged."

After a pause, Lin Chen continued:
"One underground safe house like this is definitely not enough... it would be better if we could have dozens or even hundreds of them."

"There is one every hundred miles, almost covering the entire Righteous Alliance... This way, if I encounter danger, I can quickly escape to the nearest safe place."

Lin Chen does what he says.

So for the next period of time, in addition to his daily practice, Lin Chen would set aside some time every day to dig holes underground.

And every time he returned to Blue Star, Lin Chen would bring back some items, such as some entertainment facilities and daily necessities...

……

Spring goes and autumn comes, and a year passes in the blink of an eye.

Thousands of miles underground, in an underground safe house on the border of Yanlai Kingdom.

Lin Chen placed thousands of mid-grade spirit stones around.

At the same time, the concealment formation was activated to ensure that the breath of breakthrough would not leak out.

After making all the necessary preparations, Lin Chen officially prepared to break through.

As the Soul Devouring Root began to operate, a large amount of spiritual energy from the spirit stone poured into Lin Chen’s Dantian.

One night passed...

Thousands of spirit stones turned into powder, and the true essence in Lin Chen's dantian was filled up again.

Next, it is time to compress and purify the true essence...

So, another three days passed.

When Lin Chen looked inward with his soul, he saw that a transparent mist-like silk had appeared again on the flawless golden elixir in his dantian.

At this point, the fourth level golden elixir is completed!

"Finally, I broke through to the middle stage of Jindan!"

A smile spread across Lin Chen's face. He was in the middle stage of Jindan... which increased the true energy in his body by about 30%!

"Now, my true energy and magical power should not be much worse than that of an ordinary Nine Revolutions Golden Pill..."

Lin Chen murmured.

The ordinary Nine-Turn Golden Pill refers to the ninth grade of the medium-grade golden pill quality.

However, there is still some gap compared to the Nine-Turn Golden Core cultivators who have the seventh or eighth grade golden core quality.

"Well, it seems that this thousand miles underground is safe enough..."

"The fluctuations from the breakthrough of the middle-grade golden elixir didn't cause much commotion."

Lin Chen slowly stood up and looked at the safe house with satisfaction.

After a year of improvement, this safe house now has all kinds of facilities.

Several protective formations, concealing formations, and spirit gathering formations...

Recreational facilities, training equipment...

There's even a huge LCD screen.

Don't get me wrong, this display is not for entertainment.

Instead, he could receive the shared images of the martial arts puppet at any time...

In this way, even if Lin Chen is squatting thousands of miles underground, he can always understand the outside world through the martial arts puppet.

There are a total of eighty-two such safe houses in the entire Righteous Alliance!

"I have successfully broken through, it's time to get out..."

(End of this chapter)