Fairy Eye

"What's wrong? Are we not allowed to cultivate here?" Han Lin stood up in confusion.

Zhao Ruiling snorted coldly: "Of course! This is my private cultivation place."

A private training ground?

Han Lin felt that this person was deliberately picking a fight.

However, it is said that this person is already at the second level of Qi Refining and is about to break through to the third level of Qi Refining to become a formal disciple, and he also has many followers.

He weighed his options for a moment, then decided not to argue further. He lowered his head slightly and said, "I'm sorry, Senior Brother Zhao, I didn't know this was your place. I'll leave now."

"Walk?"

Zhao Ruiling reached out to stop Han Lin, sneering, "You think you can just leave after absorbing my spiritual energy? Not so easy!"

"What do you want?"

"Give me fifty points, and we'll call it even. Otherwise, I'll beat you to death!"

Fighting is not allowed inside the camp, but it's allowed outside. He can just say it was an accidental injury during a sparring session. It's not like he hasn't done it before.

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to be joking, Han Lin took two steps back. "I don't have any points."

"Hehe, no points? No problem! I can let you owe me for now, but you'd better pay it back as soon as possible, otherwise I'll charge you 100% interest every month!"

Seeing Han Lin back down, Zhao Ruiling immediately laughed.

He had his own way of dealing with newcomers like Han Lin. "You won't work for me? Then you'll owe me a high-interest loan. With interest compounding, you'll never be able to pay it back!"

As he spoke, he took out the paper and pen he had prepared beforehand and handed them to Han Lin: "Write down!"

"My patience is limited, so you'd better not hesitate. Also, don't even think about running away. Even if you do manage to escape this time, unless you hide in the camp from now on, I have plenty of ways to deal with you!"

"Okay, I'll write it."

Han Lin gritted his teeth and reluctantly picked up his pen to write.

On the 26th day of the first lunar month, Zhao Ruiling borrowed 50 points from me, with a monthly compound interest rate of 10%...

After writing it, he handed the IOU to Zhao Ruiling.

"You're smart enough to get lost." Zhao Ruiling didn't even look at it before folding the IOU and stuffing it into his pocket.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Zhao."

Han Lin bowed deeply, then quickly left, heading towards the mine on the other side of the river.

In the afternoon, Han Lin continued digging deeper into the original mine shaft, while also inspecting the inside of the stone walls on both sides. It seemed that he was really lucky, as there was an abundance of blue-and-white jade inside the stone walls.

By the time they finished work in the evening, Han Lin had once again earned more than sixty points, which made Wang Qingzhong, who was recycling the blue and white jade, even more incredulous.

He earned over a hundred points that day.

Returning to the camp in the evening, I went straight to the department store and exchanged 100 points for a spirit stone.

It was a bright blue color and about the size of an egg.

Then he returned to his residence and eagerly activated the Heavenly Dharma Realm, beginning the refining process.

Han Lin couldn't help but marvel as soon as he started absorbing the nutrients.

"No wonder it's a spirit stone everyone envies! Its effect is far superior to absorbing natural spiritual energy!"

The spiritual energy within this spirit stone is incredibly abundant, far surpassing the meager spiritual energy within the stone house.

More importantly, as long as the spiritual energy of a spirit stone is not exhausted, it can be continuously absorbed, unlike before when you had to wait for it to slowly recover after absorbing it once.

Four hours within the Tongtian Dharma Realm.

Han Lin's dantian was already filled with true qi, and the loss of this spirit stone was estimated to be less than one-third.

He placed the spirit stone in front of him, then turned his hand seals to condense his true energy into the Returning Origin Force.

Charge toward the barrier.

Boom!

The powerful Returning Origin Force was like a huge iron rod, slamming hard against the barrier, making a loud noise that only Han Lin could hear, causing his blood and qi to churn.

He had never fought such a rich war.

Previously, when absorbing natural spiritual energy, his true qi in his dantian was pitifully thin, and the Guiyuan Jin he condensed each time was weak and powerless.

Han Lin finally understood why his cultivation last night had been in vain: he had been too eager for quick results.

If one can accumulate true qi and fill one's dantian before using it to break through a barrier, the effect will be much stronger than starting to break through a barrier with only a little bit of true qi.

The more abundant the true qi, the more powerful and fierce the resulting Guiyuan Jin (Returning Origin Force) becomes.

"Again!"

The previous attack had only consumed less than one-tenth of Han Lin's true energy. He immediately focused his mind and condensed some of his true energy into the Returning Origin Force, which he then used to crash into the barrier.

Boom!

Although it still hasn't broken through, the immense power has given Han Lin hope.

The time that follows.

Han Lin repeated the previous steps until he had used up more than half of his true energy in his dantian, then he stopped, picked up the spirit stones, and replenished his true energy.

Once the true qi in the dantian is replenished, the breakthrough begins again.

This process repeated itself, and before they knew it, several hours had passed within the Tongtian Dharma Realm.

At this moment, the spiritual energy within the spirit stone was completely absorbed by him.

The surface was covered with cracks and was a dull, colorless gray.

But Han Lin didn't feel sorry for him at all.

Because, with the help of this spirit stone, two cracks have already appeared on the barrier of his first challenge.

This means that his barrier is not truly unbreakable! As long as he is willing to work hard, he will eventually become a true Qi Refining Level 1 cultivator.

At this moment, Han Lin still had half of his true energy in his dantian.

However, he did not intend to continue trying to break through the barrier because he discovered a problem: when the amount of true qi in his dantian was less than half, the effect of the Guiyuan Jin would be greatly reduced.

He planned to wait until he could refill his dantian with true qi before continuing his breakthrough.

That way we won't waste it.

A spirit stone caused two cracks to appear in the barrier, giving Han Lin hope.

In the days that followed, Han Lin's life became more regular.

We get up early to eat breakfast, and then go to work in the mine.

During my lunch break, I went to a small hill by the river and secretly refined the natural spiritual energy using the power of time.

After finishing work in the evening, if you have enough points, you can exchange them for a spirit stone to go back and cultivate.

If you don't have enough points, climb over the wall at night and hide in the mountains to cultivate.

The spiritual energy in the mountains is much denser than that inside the house, and the Tongtian Dharma Realm can amplify his divine sense, allowing him to perceive the surroundings from a greater distance.

This went on for more than a month, and then it came to the last day of March.

In this month, most people didn't even earn a single spirit stone's worth of points.

Han Lin, however, exchanged a full fifteen spirit stones, and with his diligent refining of natural spiritual energy, he actually opened up two barriers in his first meridian.

It can be said that they reaped a great harvest.

As for Zhao Ruiling, ever since he forced him to write the IOU, it was as if he had forgotten about him. He never bothered him or asked about the IOU.

Han Lin was unaware that Zhao Ruiling not only didn't want to pressure him, but actually wanted him not to rush to repay the loan.

Because for every month he is overdue, he has to pay double the points.

One hundred points in the first month, two hundred in the second month, four hundred in the third month... and so on. Han Lin would never be able to pay off this debt in his lifetime and would eventually become his long-term laborer.

Han Lin didn't care and continued to maintain his own pace.

His only regret was that he missed a learning opportunity because he couldn't bear to give up his points.

He didn't attend the lecture given by the senior from the sect. It was said that those who did attend received many benefits and even learned a basic spell for free.