Decaying World

Chapter 117, Lesson 117 (Thank you, Alliance Leader Long Qi)
Qingfeng Temple.

Lin Hui sat alone in the pharmacy. The alchemy furnace in front of him was still burning with bright yellow flames, while the pile of wooden boxes containing Ganoderma lucidum beside him was now completely empty.

Similarly, the progress displayed by his blood seal has also changed dramatically at this time.

'Each Ganoderma lucidum reduces the evolution time by three months. With twenty-three in total, that's sixty-nine months, or five years and nine months.'

Lin Hui looked at the remaining time displayed at the bottom of his field of vision, filled with anticipation.

'Typhoon Sword Technique - Remaining Time: 1 year and 9 months.'

'Sure enough, waiting in place will only waste time and life. Only by constantly expanding the search area and acquiring more resources can I rapidly accelerate the evolution of the Blood Seal! Otherwise, at the original speed, even with frantic drug use, it would take me at least another year to complete the evolution. Now, with nearly two years, I can completely resolve the evolution in six months using drugs!'

His complexion was somewhat sallow, a side effect of taking too much medication in a short period. But compared to the gains he had made, this minor setback was insignificant.

'There's also a purple cloud mushroom worth 500,000, but I don't know how potent its medicinal properties are.'

Lin Hui picked up the last precious herb. This Ziyunzhi was dark purple in color with fine brown spots on its surface. It was about the size of a palm, and its stem was covered with a layer of fine white down.

Without hesitation, Lin Hui picked it up and gently bit off a piece.

It tasted like wood and was extremely unpalatable, with a strong bitter flavor. He managed to chew it up and swallow it, then sat there waiting for a moment.

Swish.

Sure enough, the progress bar for the bloodstain, which I was constantly monitoring, changed again.

There was only one year and nine months left, and now it's rapidly decreasing.

Ten seconds later, time stopped in May of that year.

That's a reduction of four months!
'Such a small piece reduces the time by four months! Let's do it again!'

Lin Hui felt that he had a chance to completely master the Typhoon Sword Technique today, and was overjoyed. He continued to study it.

Before long, he had eaten most of the purple cloud fungus, and the remaining time of the blood mark finally reached zero under his close watch.

His vision trembled slightly, and the bloodstain on the back of his hand underwent a peculiar change that had never occurred before.

The original rhombus shape disappeared, and the circle also vanished, dispersing directly into a dark red pattern resembling roots, covering the entire back of the hand and even the forearm.

The Typhoon Sword Technique below my field of vision blurred for a moment before new characters reappeared.

'Typhoon Sword Technique: An offensive and defensive sword technique evolved from the Gale Sword Technique. It can create a certain area-of-effect advantage, making it immune to low-level attacks while suppressing and weakening high-level opponents. The complete set consists of three forms and twelve moves. Mastering all moves allows for perfect body tempering, reaching the ninth rank. Upon completion, the special effect "Slight Flash" is obtained.'

The moment he clicked on the introduction, Lin Hui covered his head and groaned softly.

A massive amount of memories of the Typhoon Sword Technique flooded into his mind. For countless days and nights, he worked tirelessly, without sleep, food, or drink, frantically trying to comprehend and deduce the Typhoon Sword Technique. Finally, combining various memories from his previous life, he spent over a hundred years deducing a powerful martial art called the Typhoon Sword Technique.

The instant absorption of hundreds of years of cultivation memories caused Lin Hui's physical body to feel a splitting headache.

He persisted for more than ten minutes before slowly rubbing his temples and calming down.

'The body tempering of the Gale Sword Technique is not yet complete, and now the Typhoon Sword Technique is here. I'll have a lot to practice now.' He exhaled heavily.

Fortunately, the evolution was completed by default, and he had mastered it perfectly. Otherwise, given the difficulty of this sword technique, he felt a chill run down his spine after carefully reviewing his memories.

This new sword technique is far more complex than the Gale Sword. It requires using perception to judge and calculate the details of the surrounding environment, using internal force to simulate the planet's rotation, and forming thousands of internal enhanced cyclones to work together to unleash its power.

Judging from his cultivation memories, this Typhoon Sword Technique is indeed powerful, but it might take a very long time to temper one's body using it.

After some consideration, Lin Hui decided to use the Blood Seal to evolve other abilities first.

For example, the Spirit Mushroom, and other branch skills. Also, what exactly were the Stone Man and Chopstick Man he initially discovered? Perhaps we could try evolving them.

Standing up, Lin Hui felt as if his whole body had been reborn. The moment he mastered the Typhoon Sword Technique, he felt a cleansing sensation from the inside out.

He closed his eyes and tried to directly circulate the internal energy vortex of the Typhoon Sword Technique, but as soon as he started, he felt a tearing pain in his body.

The reason for this phenomenon instantly came to mind.

"Your physique is too weak. After completing the Gale Sword Technique body tempering, you need to continue strengthening it for a period of time before you can begin practicing the Typhoon Sword Technique body tempering. Otherwise, your body will tear and suffer internal injuries because it cannot withstand the large amount of air rotation."

Sighing, Lin Hui felt extremely uncomfortable with the feeling of having mastered top-tier martial arts but being unable to cultivate them.

But seeing that his body tempering technique with the Gale Sword Technique had already reached the seventh rank, and it wouldn't be long before he reached the ninth rank, he could only endure it for a while.

'Next, what should I evolve using the Blood Seal?'

The most important thing next is how to make better use of the unused bloodstains.

Since elixirs and precious medicines greatly accelerate my progress, strengthening them as a secondary option should be my primary choice.

He opened the drawer and took out two medicinal formulas he had purchased from the Wang family: the Spirit Emperor Pill and the Cloud Gathering Pill. He had spent a fortune to buy both formulas from Wang Yueheng.

At this moment, the blood seal was empty, and Lin Hui carefully memorized the two pill formulas again.

He was naturally unwilling to give up after purchasing them. He had already tried them, and both formulas were extremely difficult to make, with a very complex process and many details to pay attention to. So he tried to refine them dozens of times, but failed every time.

but now.
"The key to my failure is that my alchemy skills are too weak. While the 'Heart-Harmony' effect can increase the success rate, if I can't even complete the correct steps once, this increase in success rate is meaningless."

'Therefore, I simply evolved the prescription, simplifying it and increasing its efficacy.'

As Lin Hui continued to adjust his thoughts, the formula information for the Spirit Emperor Pill appeared below his field of vision.

'Linghuang Pill: A premium aphrodisiac created by an ancestor of the Wang family, it significantly enhances energy and stamina. Evolutionary branch: 2.'

'1—Jade Emperor Pill.'

'2—Black Emperor Pill.'

Lin Hui clicked on each of the two branches and checked the instructions.

'1. Jade Emperor Pill: Enhances medicinal efficacy and reduces the restriction on the medication cycle; refining difficulty remains unchanged. Resource Consumption: 1 year's worth of reserve energy. Time Consumption: 1 year.'

'2 Black Emperor Pill: Efficacy and dosage remain unchanged, but the refining difficulty is reduced by increasing the variety and quantity of ingredients to decrease reliance on rare ingredients. Resource consumption: 2 years of reserve energy; Consumption time: 3 years.'

That’s it!

Lin Hui chose the second option without hesitation.

These two prescriptions only mean that he has barely grasped them. Although he has never successfully refined them, he has memorized the details of the prescriptions. This is just an initial entry-level state.

Soon, the evolution of the Black Emperor Pill was confirmed, and the blood mark on the back of his hand began to coalesce, turning into a rhombus shape.

Lin Hui didn't waste any, and directly stuffed the remaining Ziyunzhi into his mouth, chewed it up, and swallowed it.

Half an hour later, the remaining time for the Black Emperor Pill's evolution was shortened from three years to one year and six months.

Having determined the purpose of the blood seal, Lin Hui stretched comfortably, got up, took two longswords from the wall, and went out the door.

Today, the Typhoon Sword Technique has been fully evolved, so we should celebrate! How shall we celebrate? Let's reward him with fifty extra repetitions of the Body Tempering Sword Technique!

Lin Hui was thinking to himself that after the Black Emperor Pill was fully evolved, he planned to try evolving it with either the Spirit-Nourishing Mushroom or the Purple Cloud Mushroom. This time, he had only eaten a small part of the Purple Cloud Mushroom, so it was incomplete. He would wait until next time.
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Lin House.

Lin Shunhe frowned as he listened to his subordinate's report about his son's mistress.

"According to investigations through multiple channels, this woman named Han Xiaoyue is likely from the inner city's central ring area. She is currently sixty-four years old and was once a member of the inner city government's Timely Rain Project. She later retired due to injury, and her cultivation level is suspected to be close to the upper-level invocation level of a divine official," the subordinate reported in a deep voice.

"What about his family? Have you found out any details about his background?" Lin Shunhe asked.

"According to our investigation, she comes from a declining family with a strong original bloodline in the central area. By Han Xiaoyue's generation, she is the seventh generation, and her original bloodline is extremely diluted. She needs a continuous injection of Feather Blood to maintain her life in the inner city. Fortunately, Han Xiaoyue is quite capable and has successfully been inspired, activating her innate talent and thus prolonging the concentration of Feather Blood. If Young Master Hui and she marry, their children should be able to inherit the lineage for two generations without worrying about the radiation hazards of the inner city." The subordinate had clearly done his homework.

"So, the other conditions are alright, just a little worse in terms of background than the person I found for Ahui," Lin Shunhe said.

"Yes."

"Alright, let's wait until Ah Hui finds some time to bring him home to meet us. Sigh, I only have one son, I hope he can carry on the family line smoothly. Hmm, by the way, what's the situation with Ah Hui now? I heard he had a conflict with the Red Rice Gang of the Three Sects and Six Gangs?"

"Yes, the amethyst obtained by Hui Shao's expedition team was coveted by the Chimi Gang. The two sides fought fiercely, and Hui Shao eventually intervened, forcing Yuan Feng of the Chimi Gang to retreat and completely eliminating all members of the Chimi Gang's expedition team," the subordinate quickly replied.

"Yuan Feng? What's his strength within the Chimi Gang? How come Ahui can actually go against the Three Sects and Six Gangs? Just how far has he progressed in his training?" Lin Shunhe was genuinely curious about this.

All he knew was that his son practiced the Qingfeng Sword Technique, which was very safe and extremely fast, but he had no idea how far his son had gone.

Hearing that Lin Hui was able to defeat Yuan Feng of the Chimi Gang head-on, he became curious. After all, the reputation of the Three Sects and Six Gangs was well-known. Even the Six Gangs, which relied more on relationships and connections and strength on numbers, would certainly not be mediocre as good as the people who were supporting the expedition team.

Even so, Ahui was able to defeat this person head-on, which shows his strength.

"Based on the previous duel between Young Master Lin Hui and Zhou Tian Li Chi at the Flying Stone Gate, it can be preliminarily judged that his combat ability is already comparable to that of Zhou Tian Wuren. Yuan Feng of the Red Rice Gang, whom he defeated this time, has shown many achievements, and his strength is roughly below Zhou Tian but above the peak of internal energy. It is normal that he was defeated." The subordinate quickly said.

"Zhou Tian, ​​this kid, it's quite surprising that he can reach such a height with his speed and agility." Lin Shunhe stroked his beard and laughed.

"However, at this point, his internal energy must have reached perfection. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to stop Zhou Tian Martial Artist." He has also been cramming on various comparative materials on the Martial Artist system, the Summoner system, and the Fusion system recently.

"Looking at it this way, my son can definitely be considered a Zhou Tian martial artist. Indeed, the rise of my Lin family is promising!" He couldn't help but chuckle.

"The next focus is to get Ahui to have more children as soon as possible. We've paved the way for the first two generations, and with a lot of resources, we can help the next generation directly cultivate their inner strength from a young age. In twenty or thirty years, my Lin family might even produce a high priest or a Grandmaster of the Three Harmonies!" Lin Shunhe was already imagining the magnificent Lin family in the decades to come.

With him, who can fuse and replicate evil weapons, in charge, his life essence, comparable to that of a priest, can live for at least 150 years. Thirty years from now, he will still be in his prime, so we can wait!
Thinking of this, Lin Shunhe couldn't help but smile.

(End of this chapter)