Zombie World: Starting as an apprentice of the Thunder King

Lin Bei, who was in the process of breaking through, was completely unaware of everything happening in the outside world!

His entire mind was focused on his dantian, where the massive spiritual energy surging in from the outside was frantically washing over his meridians, stretching every inch of them to the point of bursting.

The spiritual power in the sea of ​​consciousness slowly guided the spiritual energy to circulate through the meridians for one cycle, and then flowed into the dantian.

The liquid mana within the dantian began to change as spiritual energy was continuously injected.

The originally thick, mercury-like magical power was gradually solidifying. This process was extremely slow, as each strand of magical power required a large amount of spiritual energy to solidify, and that spiritual energy was pouring in from the outside world without stopping.

One day, two days, three days...

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye during cultivation. Lin Bei sat cross-legged in the cave without moving, his whole body enveloped in a rich spiritual light. The spiritual energy flowing in from the outside world condensed into a pale white halo on his body, illuminating the entire cave.

Meanwhile, dozens of miles outside the cave, an enormous number of monstrous beasts were all prostrate on the ground without exception!

As early as when Lin Bei's breakthrough caused a storm of spiritual energy, it attracted the attention of the demonic beasts in the secret realm, who flocked towards the cave.

If it weren't for the presence of several patriarchs and Master Qingwei, Lin Bei would probably be buried several meters tall by now.

Inside the cave, the situation within Lin Bei's dantian was changing. Most of the liquid mana had solidified into solid form, and this solidified mana was constantly fusing and compressing, gradually condensing towards the direction of the false dantian.

Just then, nine streams of pure Yang energy suddenly emerged from Lin Bei's body.

That was the most fundamental source of power for the Pure Yang Dao Body, like nine golden dragons weaving through his meridians before plunging into his dantian and merging into the solidifying magical power.

As the nine streams of pure Yang energy merged in, the solidified magical power within his dantian seemed to be infused with a certain spirituality, its condensation speed suddenly accelerating. Then, it began to merge with each other, gradually forming a circular outline in the very center of his dantian.

A month passed, and the expressions of Master Qingwei and the other patriarchs grew increasingly solemn. They had noticed that Lin Bei's condition was not normal.

For an ordinary Taoist priest to break through to the level of a magician, it takes at least three to five days, and at most half a month. But Lin Bei has been trying for more than a month and still hasn't finished.

Master Chixiao frowned: "What's wrong with this kid? Logically speaking, with his foundation, he shouldn't have been stuck for so long."

Baopu Mountain Man shook his head: "No rush. Breakthroughs can't be rushed. The longer he compresses his foundation, the more solid it is, and the greater the benefits for the future."

Master Qingwei remained silent, simply watching the spiritual energy storm below with a hint of worry in his eyes.

He wanted to lend a helping hand, but he absolutely could not disturb Lin Bei at this moment, otherwise it would at best lead to a failed breakthrough, and at worst to him suffering a qi deviation.

In the blink of an eye, another three months have passed!

Within Lin Bei's dantian, all the solidified magical power had condensed together, forming a complete circular outline, a hazy pseudo-core, which slowly rotated in the center of his dantian.

The rudimentary form of this fake pill was pale purple all over, with a soft purple halo on the surface, and fine lines could be vaguely seen flowing within it.

Just as the nascent form of the false core was taking shape, Lin Bei suddenly felt a violent tremor within his dantian.

The spiritual energy from the outside world surged again, several times larger than before, and poured into his body like a tide, eventually flowing into his dantian and being injected into the nascent pseudo-core.

"Freeze!"

With a loud shout, all the magical power within Lin Bei's dantian began to spin wildly. As it spun, the magical power was continuously compressed, refined, and fused, making the surface of the nascent dantian increasingly smooth, and its color gradually deepened from light purple.

boom!

A complete and round purple pseudo-elixir condensed and took shape in the very center of his dantian, radiating a warm purple light.

A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Lin Bei, shaking the entire cave and shattering the boulder at the cave entrance into pieces!

"Hahaha!!"

Lin Bei roared to the sky, his laughter carrying surging magical power that shook the vegetation around the cave.

"Hahaha! Mage level! This Taoist master has finally broken through to the Mage level!"

Master Qingwei and the other patriarchs were shocked. The power displayed by that single long roar was definitely not as simple as that of an ordinary mage.

The magical power contained in that laughter was astonishingly profound, many times stronger than when he broke through to become a mage.

Master Chixiao stroked his beard, his eyes gleaming with a strange light: "This kid... his fake core is suspicious."

Baopu Shanren nodded emphatically: "An ordinary mage's fake elixir wouldn't have such power; his fake elixir is definitely extraordinary."

"Question him in detail after he comes out."

Master Qingwei then nodded and said in a deep voice, "This disciple will investigate further after he emerges from seclusion."

Lin Bei was excited for a while before sitting cross-legged again to stabilize his cultivation.

He guided the purple pseudo-core within his dantian to slowly circulate, refining and absorbing spiritual energy bit by bit, integrating it into the pseudo-core.

Three days later, Lin Bei's mage realm was completely stabilized. The purple pseudo-core in his dantian emitted a calm light, and with each circulation, a powerful magical force surged out from the pseudo-core and flowed through his meridians.

He suddenly opened his eyes, and two beams of purple light shot out from them, striking the stone wall of the cave and leaving two deep marks.

Lin Bei was thrilled and immediately looked inward at his dantian. Looking at the fake dantian that was entirely purple, he felt both joy and doubt.

He remembered Shi Jian saying that a mage's realm condenses a fake core, which is usually golden or silver. So why is his fake core purple?

"Strange, could it be because I cultivated lightning magic?" Lin Bei scratched his head, not taking it too seriously. "Oh well, purple it is, as long as it can be used for fighting!"

What he didn't know was that the vast majority of cultivators' fake cores in this world were gold or silver, while purple fake cores were extremely rare, existing only in a handful of ancient books, and were called pure yang fake cores.

Cultivators who possess a pure Yang pseudo-core have far surpassed other cultivators of the same level in both the quality of their magical power and the capacity of their dantian, and their future cultivation potential is immeasurable.

Lin Bei stood up, stretched his limbs, and his bones cracked and popped.

He stepped out of the cave, looked up at the clear blue sky, and laughed heartily: "It's been half a year. It's time to go out and explore!"

For the next two years, Lin Bei did not retreat into seclusion for arduous cultivation, but instead roamed freely in the secret realm.

His cultivation level steadily increased from the early stage of a mage to the middle stage. He also cultivated the Maoshan Vajra Body to the middle stage in Thunder Valley. 108 of his 206 bones had been tempered by the power of thunder, and the late stage of Iron Bone was just around the corner.

(The journey to the secret realm is coming to an end, and Lin Bei is about to unleash a storm in the cultivation world!)