Mortal Cultivator: Lin Tianzun

Chapter 160 Gold-eating Bugs and Refining Magical Weapons
Time flies, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye!
During the first year, Lin Fan used the exquisite earth escape technique. Like a ghost, he silently dived hundreds of feet underground on Xiaohuan Island.

A hundred feet underground, it was so deep that it seemed to be soaked in thick ink. You couldn't see your hand in front of you. There were many kinds of minerals mixed in the darkness. These minerals were like natural jammers, causing Lin Fan's spiritual power to hit obstacles everywhere during the search, and the exploration process became much more difficult.

Lin Fan was alone, searching hard in this dark underground. Because he knew in advance that the gold-eating insects were a mass of silver-white objects, Lin Fan checked one by one underground, especially the silver-white minerals, which became Lin Fan's main target.

After nearly a year of hard searching, Lin Fan finally found the gold-eating bugs he had been dreaming of.

When first seen, the gold-eating bugs gathered tightly together in a silver-white ball, just like a shining precious mineral, emitting a mysterious luster.

But as soon as Lin Fan approached, the sensitive gold-eating insects seemed to sense a strange breath and exploded instantly, turning into insects the size of rice grains.

These little guys were silver-white all over, and they attacked Lin Fan with their fangs and claws, trying to defend their territory. They also regarded Lin Fan as food and were ready to rush over and eat him like food.

Lin Fan reacted extremely quickly. He immediately raised his hand and patted the storage bag. The storage bag flashed with light, and a magic net bag with wood attributes came out.

His fingertips flew as he quickly pinched the magic formula, continuously inputting magic power into it.

In the blink of an eye, the net bag quickly grew larger. Lin Fan's technique was skillful, and his movements were gentle but revealing unquestionable decisiveness. He steadily trapped the swarm of insects in the net, and then carefully brought them back to the ground.

As soon as he landed, Lin Fan hurried back to the cave. Afterwards, Lin Fan carefully set up a formation for the spirit beast to recognize its master.

Everything was ready. He gently placed the silver-white gold-eating bug in the center of the formation. His hands quickly made hand gestures like a phantom, and he muttered something. Then he dripped a few drops of blood without hesitation, officially starting the ceremony of recognizing the gold-eating bug as the master.

Although the process of recognizing the master went smoothly and without any major troubles, a lot of energy and blood was lost.

As soon as the ceremony ended, Lin Fan hurriedly took the elixir to restore his essence and blood, and recuperated in seclusion for nearly half a year before finally recovering his former energy and spirit.

In the days that followed, Lin Fan, with the help of the magical power of the Qiankun Creation Cauldron, cultivated a large number of top-level spiritual materials covering the attributes of the five elements and even extremely rare spiritual roots.

Lin Fan took such painstaking efforts, and naturally he had his own overall plan: First, he had already entered the Nascent Soul stage, and the improvement in his realm made the magic weapons used in the Core Formation stage seem insufficient, so it was urgent to refine some more powerful top-level magic weapons.

Secondly, if he feeds his spiritual beast, the Fire Phoenix, with some top-level fire-attributed spiritual materials to help it swallow and refine them, it will be able to speed up the Fire Phoenix's cultivation progress. When he encounters a fight in the future, the Fire Phoenix will definitely become his right-hand man. After all, its true spiritual bloodline is very strong and its potential is endless.

Thirdly, after his Taoist partner Li Ling'er successfully formed a pill, she still lacked an exclusive magic weapon. These top-grade spiritual materials were just right for her to choose from and use to refine a top-quality magic weapon to ensure that her path to cultivating immortality would be much smoother.

During these five years, Lin Fan spent most of his time refining the super enhanced Bu Tian Dan. During the Dan Jin stage, the refining process was as slow as a snail, which was difficult and tiring.

Fortunately, he has now broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. The Nascent Soul fire, which is unique to the Nascent Soul stage, is more than ten times more powerful than the Dan fire of the Core Formation stage.

Thanks to this powerful Nascent Soul Fire, his refining speed increased dramatically. In just a few years, Lin Fan had successfully refined all of the Heaven-Repairing Pills. While it was difficult for Lin Fan to accurately determine the level of his spiritual roots, he could clearly sense that his cultivation speed had increased nearly eightfold during his meditation practice.

Every time a super-enhanced version of the Bu Tian Pill is successfully refined, the speed of cultivation will be doubled. If such a terrifying increase in cultivation speed were to spread in the world of immortal cultivation, it would definitely cause a huge storm.

While using the Qiankun Creation Cauldron to cultivate spiritual creatures, Lin Fan had an unexpected gain - this Qiankun Creation Cauldron seemed to have no upper limit for cultivation, and it could try to cultivate any spiritual creature no matter how rare or high-level it was.

However, the higher the level of the spiritual object, the longer it takes to cultivate it. Lin Fan does not have extra time to test it again, so he stops at the right time and cultivates only what is enough for his current cultivation.

At the same time, Lin Fan also used the Taiqing Immortal Liquid to cultivate a large number of precious spiritual medicines. These spiritual medicines were prepared for refining the Soul-Feeding Pills. After all, the cultivation of the Blood Jade Spider was crucial, as it was related to whether he could successfully obtain the Xutian Ding after entering the Xutian Palace in the future.

The Xutian Ding is one of the few celestial treasures in the human world, and it possesses infinite power. If Lin Fan can obtain it, his strength will definitely increase significantly in a short period of time.

Then, Lin Fan stepped into the alchemy room and began to refine the Soul-Feeding Pills. He slapped his storage bag, took out an alchemy cauldron, and then pinched his fingers together, opened his mouth and spit out a ball of Nascent Soul Fire into the cauldron. The Nascent Soul Fire turned milky white, and then he put the spiritual herbs into it one by one. These spiritual herbs were refined into medicinal juice one by one by the Nascent Soul Fire.

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With his superb alchemy skills, he easily refined a large number of Soul-Feeding Pills in just a few months.

These Soul-Feeding Pills are enough for the two Blood Jade Spiders to eat for more than ten years. Relying on the medicinal power of these Soul-Feeding Pills, the two Blood Jade Spiders can be cultivated to level four within decades. As long as they are cultivated carefully, they can be cultivated to at least level five before entering the Xutian Palace.

After refining the Soul-Feeding Pill, Lin Fan took a short rest. After his magic power and spiritual awareness recovered to their peak state, he immediately devoted himself to refining the ancient treasures Ice and Fire Cover and Tianxuan Shield.

This time, Lin Fan had a clear goal, which was to refine a top-level ancient treasure. After all, in the battles between Nascent Soul cultivators, only top-level ancient treasures could play a key role and become a solid support for his journey to immortality.

After that, Lin Fan spent nearly two years and failed several times before he finally succeeded in refining two defensive magic weapons.

One is the Ice and Fire Shield. This top-level ancient treasure cleverly combines the two ultimate powers of ice and fire. It can both actively attack and perfectly defend.

The other is the Tianxuan Shield, which is also a top-level magic weapon. It is made of special material and has amazing defensive power. It can easily withstand most attacks.

After the refining was completed, Lin Fan immediately used his blood to recognize the two new magic weapons as his masters, and then devoted himself to refining them.

After spending nearly another year, he not only successfully refined two top-level magic weapons, but also became familiar with all the functions of the magic weapons and used them with ease, as if the two magic weapons had long been connected with his mind and became a part of his body.

(End of this chapter)