Xiuxian, I have a high martial arts world

Chapter 99: Soul-devouring Root, Advanced!
Lin Chen sat cross-legged, sensing carefully.

"After absorbing this pure energy, the Soul Devouring Root has indeed improved..."

"However, the effect is too low! It seems that I really need to consume 100,000 spirit stones completely..."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen no longer hesitated.

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands...

After the energy of tens of thousands of spirit stones was absorbed, a thick layer of grayish-white powder covered the room.

At the same time, Lin Chen felt that his spiritual roots were also undergoing some mysterious changes.

The swallowing of spirit stones continues——

Fifty thousand, eighty thousand, one hundred thousand…

In a trance, Lin Chen seemed to feel that a vortex was born with himself as the center.

This vortex was like a black hole, madly devouring the energy in the spirit stone.

Extremely hungry and thirsty, as if never satisfied.

Finally, when the number of spirit stones consumed reached one hundred thousand, the Soul-Devouring Root finally underwent a qualitative change!
Until a certain moment, the black hole was finally filled.

The turbulent spiritual energy around and the changes in the spiritual roots in the body also completely stabilized.

Lin Chen's eyes trembled slightly as he carefully felt the changes in his spiritual roots.

As the spiritual roots began to function, the spiritual energy generated by the Spirit Gathering Array became much more sensitive...

"Earth, wood, fire, metal, water..."

Originally, Lin Chen could only keenly sense the earth and wood spiritual energy in the air.

But now, within his perception, even the three spiritual energies of fire, gold and water have become clear...

"Spiritual roots that devour the soul, all five elements..."

Lin Chen opened his eyes with a slightly complicated expression.

Generally speaking, the more simple and pure a cultivator's spiritual roots are, the higher his sensitivity to spiritual energy will be.

For example, suppose a person has a true spiritual root of the wood element.

Then his sensitivity to wood aura is close to 100%, and the other four types of aura are almost zero.

But if the other person has mixed spiritual roots of the five elements.

Although all five elements are present, the one hundred spiritual energy inductions are also divided into five parts, with only twenty for each type of induction...

In this way, no matter what kind of skills are practiced or spiritual energy is improved, the speed of practice will be greatly slowed down.

The above is the normal situation in the world of immortal cultivation.

This is why, in any force, a single spiritual root is more valued than multiple spiritual roots.

But obviously, Lin Chen's Soul-Devouring Root does not fall into this category.

It is like when all five elements are present, the sensitivity of each kind of spiritual energy is one hundred.

In this way, any kind of skills or magical powers can be used.

"This is only the first stage of the Soul Devouring Spiritual Root..."

"In the second stage, the sensitivity of the five spiritual roots will reach the level of earth spiritual roots, and the sensitivity of spiritual energy will only be higher!"

Lin Chen's heart moved slightly, and he took out the giant spirit-testing stone that he had prepared in advance.

He placed his palm on the spirit-testing stone.

boom!
as predicted--

Yellow, green, blue, red, and brown, symbolizing the light of the five spiritual roots of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The light of each spiritual root is at least ten feet high!

Recalling the scene of testing his spiritual roots at Changchun Gate, Lin Chen sighed:

"Sure enough, different spiritual roots cannot be viewed with common sense..."

However, having all five elements has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage, of course, is that it has wider applicability.

After learning the Five Elements Magical Powers, although Lin Chen can use earth fire and beast fire to refine pills, it is obviously more convenient to rely on fire magic to refine pills.

Or maybe it's the arrangement of the formations, many of which correspond to the five elements...

There are benefits to refining equipment, practicing magic skills, etc.

As for the shortcomings -

According to the records on the jade slip, the Soul-Devouring Root is 20% to 30% more powerful than the true essence of a cultivator at the same level, but the difficulty of practicing it is nearly twice as high.

"However, overall... my current cultivation speed is still equivalent to that of a top-grade true spiritual root."

Lin Chen pondered for a moment.

In any case, the advancement of the Soul-Devouring Root will bring huge benefits to Lin Chen.

"However, the million spirit stones required for the next stage... the amount is still too huge."

Lin Chen temporarily gave up on the second advancement of the Soul Devouring Root.

Looking at the room full of spirit stone powder, he moved his fingertips slightly and used the dust-clearing technique to clean it up.

After the cleanup was completed, Lin Chen felt much happier and began to think about his next plan in the world of immortal cultivation.

Lin Chen has two stable sources of income in the world of immortal cultivation.

Lin Xiaoxuan’s medicine business, plus the Guangyuan auction business.

The two together can bring Lin Chen an income of more than 10,000 spirit stones every month.

This income is indeed amazing, but the auction business is probably only good in the first few months.

Once high-quality magical instruments become abundant, their prices will surely drop significantly.

"And I don't just need to support my own cultivation... The cultivators on Blue Star, the research on the hundred arts of cultivation, which one doesn't cost spirit stones?"

"To ensure the steady implementation of the country's various plans, at least several thousand spirit stones will be needed each month."

Lin Chen sighed, feeling a bit stressed.

Fortunately, the spirit stones he had on hand were enough for the time being.

"However, when I make further breakthroughs in my martial arts, I should go to Yanlai City to take a look."

"Next, we still need to break through to the high-level martial arts master as soon as possible..."

……

One month later, at the Martial Arts Palace.

Lin Chen swallowed an ounce of the monster's flesh and blood and practiced breathing techniques.

As his physical fitness became stronger, the pain from consuming the flesh and blood of third-level monsters became less and less.

Fortunately, the effect of the monster's flesh and blood has not yet diminished, and each consumption can still increase the qi and blood value by 30 points.

A few hours later...

Lin Chen's body felt lighter, and his aura returned to calm.

He opened his eyes and glanced at the Qi and Health value on his watch - 528 points. "I finally succeeded in breaking through to the advanced martial arts master!"

Young Master Lin heaved a sigh of relief, stood up and went to the training room.

Before testing the equipment, Lin Chen began to check his current physical fitness.

After a moment, he got a set of data.

"Strength 22000 kg, peak running speed 133 meters per second..."

There was a hint of joy in Lin Chen's eyes, and he was very satisfied with his improvement in strength.

"Yes... a piece of monster flesh and blood has increased the basic strength by almost 2100kg!"

"A punch force of 22000 kg is just the basics. If you use the vibration sword technique, it will be quadrupled, which is close to kilograms!"

Lin Chen estimated that his physical body was now close to that of a body-building cultivator in the late stage of foundation building.

If Lin Chen were to use the Xuanmo Colonization Suit and reach the Jindan stage, he would be invincible.

"With this kind of strength, it is more than enough to protect ourselves within the borders of Yanlai..."

Lin Chen glanced at the countdown on his arm.

There are less than three hours left before traveling to the world of immortal cultivation.

Lin Chen began to prepare for a new round of travel.

Various weapons, elixirs, and two hundred new top-grade magical instruments forged this week.

When everything is ready, the countdown on the arm is completely reset.

"Three, two, one..."

……

Changchunfang Market, Lin’s Pavilion.

After crossing, Lin Chen put the various supplies he brought into a storage bag.

I looked up at the sky and it was just getting light.

"Counting the days, today is the Guangyuan Chamber of Commerce's auction this month..."

"Let's go to Guangyuan Town now, and we should be able to return in the afternoon."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen packed up his things and flew towards the northwest on the purple jade gourd.

After walking six hundred miles, Lin Chen changed back into the guise of Master Wu Lei Zi.

It was not until the morning that we arrived at Guangyuan Town.

An auction was being held at this time, but Lin Chen did not go in. Instead, he sold several high-quality magic weapons at the magic weapon shop in the town.

The auction ended at noon.

Lin Chen walked slowly towards the back of the auction.

"Master Wu Leizi!"

When President Zheng saw Lin Chen, he greeted him politely and took out the proceeds from the auction.

"Master, according to the previous agreement... here are your spirit stones, a total of 16,000 pieces."

Lin Chen took the bag of spirit stones, counted them and asked in confusion:
"Why is it so much more than originally planned?"

According to what President Zheng said before, Lin Chen could earn about 12,000 spirit stones from this auction.

But now, there are actually several thousand more spirit stones.

After hearing Lin Chen's words, President Zheng leaned closer and whispered:
"Master, the territory of Yanlai has been unstable during this period!"

"It seems that there are quite a few Tribulation Cultivators appearing. The Immortal Cultivation Families in Yanlai City... and those cultivators who have reached the Perfect Qi Refining Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage are all in a hurry to buy Dao Protecting Magical Treasures, so the prices are much higher."

After hearing this, Lin Chen frowned slightly and thought of the calamity cultivator at Yanbo Tan before.

According to his experience, the robbery cultivators are probably just a motley crowd, how can they threaten those immortal cultivation families?

Seeing Lin Chen's doubts, President Zheng whispered:
"Master, this time is different from the past. I heard that many independent cultivators and sect disciples died, and even a foundation-building cultivator died..."

"I heard that all the robbery cultivators in Yanlai country have united together. It seems that there are external forces interfering..."

After hearing this, Lin Chen frowned even more tightly and asked:
"A foundation-building cultivator died? When did it happen?"

"It happened in the past two days. I heard it was someone from Changchun Sect..."

Chairman Zheng recalled and smiled:
"However, the chaos caused by the Tribulation Cultivators has caused the prices of various magical weapons and elixirs to rise significantly recently..."

Lin Chen nodded slightly after hearing this.

Indeed, war profits are the easiest to make.

If this Tribulation Cultivator is not wiped out in a short period of time, his magic weapon will be sold very well.

"Well, next time we return to Blue Star, we will ask the weapon refining department to forge a batch of top-grade magic weapons."

Lin Chen thought silently, and after delivering the magic tools needed for next month's auction in advance, he prepared to leave.

Before leaving, President Zheng reminded:

"Master, although you have a high level of cultivation, you should also be more cautious. Try not to go north during this period of time."

"Well, thank you President Zheng for reminding me."

Lin Chen bowed.

To the north of Guangyuan Town is the secular territory of Yanlai Kingdom.

After leaving Guangyuan Town, Lin Chen flew on his sword all the way back to Changchun Mountain Market.

After returning to Lin's Xiaoxuan, he always had a bad feeling in his heart.

"President Zheng said that the deceased Foundation Establishment cultivator was from Changchun Sect."

"Let's go ask around in the sect first..."

While it was still light, Lin Chen stepped on the purple jade gourd and went up the mountain.

Along the way, I saw that the disciples in the mountain gate were all very comfortable, as if they were completely unaware of the calamity.

So he went directly to Danfeng to ask his master.

As he got closer to Danfeng, Lin Chen's bad premonition became stronger.

I glanced at Lingtian on the way, but my master was not there.

There was no sign of the master in the alchemy room.

So he knocked on the door of his master's residence.

"Master, are you in there?"

Lin Chen shouted from the doorway.

There was a rustling sound from inside the house, and after a while, it was Senior Sister Mi Ke'er who opened the door.

Seeing Mi Ke'er's red eyes, as if she had just cried, Lin Chen's face changed slightly.

"Senior Sister, what happened..."

(End of this chapter)