20: Chapter 20: Red Blood Ginseng

Chiyun Valley Inner Sect.

Lin Shen's residence courtyard.

After returning from the Task Hall, Lin Shen exchanged Spirit Stones for a large amount of Cultivate resources within the Sect and returned to the courtyard.

Returning to the courtyard.

The door of Lin Shen's courtyard closed, and he immediately activated the Formation Plate, instantly enveloping the entire courtyard with a small isolation formation.

One cannot be without defensive thoughts against others.

During these three years in Chiyun Valley, Lin Shen maintained vigilance at all times, not daring to make any mistakes in even the smallest matters.

This small isolation formation was something he had bought at a high price two years ago to protect his privacy and prevent others from prying.

Having activated this small isolation formation, Lin Shen returned to his room.

He rubbed his hands slightly and took out multiple Storage Pouches with great anticipation.

These Storage Pouches were extra gains he had obtained from the Liu Family, and he had secretly transferred a large amount of resources into them.

Now that he had safely returned, it was naturally time to carefully calculate just how many Spirit Stones worth of resources he had harvested from executing this task.

Filled with anticipation.

Lin Shen quickly opened those Storage Pouches and inspected the items stored inside one by one.

As each Storage Pouch was inspected, the smile on Lin Shen's face grew increasingly rich.

This harvest exceeded his expectations.

He roughly estimated that the Spirit Stone value contained in these hidden extra earnings should be around three thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Such a generous amount of Spirit Stones was enough to rival his resource collection in Chiyun Valley for an entire year nowadays.

Besides this, he also unexpectedly discovered a centuries-old Spirit Medicine among this pile of Cultivate resources—crimson blood ginseng.

If this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng were to be sold at some gatherings or shops within the Sect, it should be worth close to a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

In this way, his harvest this time should be around four thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Facing this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng with such an expensive price, Lin Shen did not plan to sell it.

Right now, his Spirit Stones and resources were temporarily sufficient, so he was not in a rush to part with it.

This centuries-old crimson blood ginseng was truly quite rare; if he swallowed it, it would definitely be of great help to his own Qi and blood power and cultivation.

Thinking about it, the Liu Family obtaining such an item must have been preparing it for that Liu Family Old Ancestor, Liu Qingshan.

After all, Liu Qingshan was of advanced age, and his entire body's Qi and blood were declining; if he wanted to Breakthrough to a higher Realm, he definitely needed such highly nourishing items.

"In the end, this has made wedding attire for me..."

Looking at this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng, Lin Shen could not help smiling.

He did not plan to keep this crimson blood ginseng for long; after sorting out all the resources, he would go into seclusion and it would be best to absorb this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng first.

After all, even if you possess a good treasure, it does not mean it is truly yours; it might just be temporarily placed on you, and in the future, it will make wedding attire for someone else.

Liu Qingshan's Liu Family was an example of this.

Therefore, Lin Shen, who knew this clearly, planned to swallow it directly without waiting for any opportunity or Bottleneck.

He was very clear in his heart that everything was illusory; only when it was eaten into his belly and digested and absorbed would it truly belong to him.

Lin Shen was a cautious pragmatist.

Therefore, naturally, he would not deliberately keep this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng.

In case the Storage Pouch was snatched by others in the future, or he was killed by others, wouldn't that mean he had made wedding attire for others in vain again?

Quickly organizing and separating all the resources, Lin Shen sat cross-legged on a meditation mat with calming effects.

With the Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Technique operating in his body, streams of terrifying lightning emanated from around his body, while trickling streams of water and wood-attribute auras nourished his body, preventing these terrifying lightnings from causing damage to him.

Over the past three years, every time he Cultivated the Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Technique, dense lightning would emanate around Lin Shen's body, helping him devour the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

At the same time.

Amidst this emanating dense lightning, over three years of being shrouded by dense lightning every day, Lin Shen's Physical Body had unconsciously completed Body Tempering, and his physical strength was quite formidable.

In three years, with the baptism of lightning and Body Tempering every day, Lin Shen's physical strength had basically reached around Body Refining Stage 8.

However, Lin Shen did not display this Body Refining cultivation, and even deliberately hid it usually.

Every time he executed a task or fought with others, he deliberately used ranged attacks.

On one hand, he cherished his life dearly!

Being able to use ranged attacks while ensuring his own safety, why use close combat?

On the other hand, this Body Refining Stage 8 physical cultivation was likewise his trump card.

Two years ago, when he went out to execute a task, he encountered a rather troublesome Loose Cultivator.

At that time, Lin Shen used all means but was still no match for that Loose Cultivator.

In order to counter-kill the opponent, he finally made a desperate gamble, intentionally taking a blow head-on and falling to the ground.

When the opponent approached, he then burst out with formidable physical cultivation, directly engaging in close-combat fighting and smashing that Loose Cultivator's head into a bloody pulp punch by punch!

Therefore.

This trump card, which was enough to turn the tables in desperate situations against adverse winds, Lin Shen would not easily expose.

After all, once others knew he had physical cultivation in terms of Body Refining, if he wanted this move to work again, it would undoubtedly become much more difficult.

Deliberately hiding it so others wouldn't notice, and suddenly erupting at a critical moment—only in this way could it achieve an unexpected effect and catch the opponent off guard.

The dense lightning within his body spread, and after his state recovered to the Peak, Lin Shen quickly swallowed that centuries-old crimson blood ginseng whole, roots and all, in one gulp.

As this crimson blood ginseng entered his body, Lin Shen only felt that his entire abdomen was like an about-to-erupt volcano, with countless magmas churning wildly in his stomach.

The intense pain caused cold sweat to stream directly from Lin Shen's forehead.

But he was also clear in his heart that this was the formidable medicinal efficacy of this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng playing its due role.

Not daring to delay.

Enduring the intense pain, Lin Shen quickly began to Cultivate the Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Technique, and used the lightning scattered around his body to temper his own Physical Body.

Along with the absorption of the medicinal efficacy of this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng, the operation speed of the Sanyuan Qi-Guiding Technique inside Lin Shen's body became faster and faster, and the lightning scattered around his body became increasingly violent.

At the same time, the Spiritual Qi and Qi and blood power within his body were soaring rapidly.

Especially the Qi and blood power; the increase was even more tremendous.

This centuries-old crimson blood ginseng was originally mainly used to enhance the Qi and blood power and physical strength of Body Refining Cultivators.

In the passage of time.

Ten days quickly passed.

During these ten days, Lin Shen stayed in the room, enduring the discomfort and pain in his abdomen while absorbing the huge medicinal efficacy brought by this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng.

Along with the consumption and absorption of this centuries-old crimson blood ginseng, the richness of Spiritual Qi inside Lin Shen's body greatly increased, and his cultivation also grew quite a bit, taking a step closer to Qi Refining Stage 9.

This was merely the improvement in terms of Qi Refining cultivation.

In terms of Body Refining, accompanied by the terrifying lightning continuously tempering his body over these ten days and the terrifying medicinal efficacy of that centuries-old crimson blood ginseng, Lin Shen unexpectedly made a Breakthrough in one fell swoop to the Body Refining Stage 9 Realm at this moment.