Chapter 1407: Middle Stage of Golden Elixir

Chapter 1407: Chapter 1407: Middle Stage of Golden Elixir

Thousand Jin Rock, the Array, Tangxi Meridian, and that abstract diagram.

Linking all these together, Lin Tian suddenly felt like he’d been whacked on the head—his mind cleared in an instant!

Whether Thousand Jin Rock or Tangxi Meridian, both came from Ancient Martial the Wang Family. There had to be a connection between them; it might even be that Tangxi Meridian was written by some ancestor of the Wang Family.

That Spiritual Qi Qi Cultivation Skill was very likely the Array carved into the blade of Thousand Jin Rock!

Once his thoughts opened up, a lot of things suddenly made sense! He finally understood what that elusive inspiration in his mind had been all along!

Having just slept and recovered his mental and physical state pretty well, Lin Tian hurriedly sat back down on the meditation cushion, placed both hands on the blade of Thousand Jin Rock, and began circulating Spiritual Qi to communicate with it.

As usual, he entered a meditative state. That strand of Spiritual Qi drifted into the blade of Thousand Jin Rock, and Lin Tian felt as if he could see the Array inside it.

After running Tangxi Meridian, many of the blurry parts of the Array started to become clear to Lin Tian. It was a profound, mysterious feeling, wonderfully indescribable.

If previously Lin Tian’s comprehension of this Array was at three out of ten, then after one night he’d already grasped close to half of it. His progress could only be called freakishly fast! And the time spent on comprehension was far shorter than before.

Exiting his meditative state, Lin Tian’s eyes burned hot. He was so excited he almost jumped on the spot.

He quickly flipped Tangxi Meridian to the last page, stared at that abstract diagram, grinning like an idiot, chuckling nonstop.

This last diagram was composed of lines of varying thickness, crisscrossing all over.

At first glance, it looked chaotic.

But now it was different!

The irregular lines all had intersections with one another, and in this diagram there were over a hundred intersection points!

Among them, the central intersection was formed by the two thickest straight lines crossing, creating the largest point in the entire diagram.

This point was the Array Core inside Thousand Jin Rock! The most crucial part!

The rest of the intersection points were some large, some small. Without a doubt, they all marked the locations of the various Array Cores inside Thousand Jin Rock!

Originally, Lin Tian had naively thought that the Array only had one Array Core and eight Array Nodes. Thinking back now, that really was naive! There were clearly hundreds, even thousands of Array Cores—it was just that he hadn’t discovered them.

Even in this Tangxi Meridian, the record was definitely incomplete, because that Wang Family ancestor, exhausting his entire life, could only find the ones marked in the diagram.

"Anyone who can discover the secrets in this blade is definitely not an ordinary person. That senior spent a lifetime and only found a bit over a hundred Array Nodes. So how many can I find?"

This thought suddenly popped into Lin Tian’s mind, and it was truly something worth pondering.

Very quickly, Lin Tian tossed this mystery to the back of his mind. Thinking more was useless! Better to personally experience it, use practice to prove that Laozi is just more badass than that Wang fellow!

Lin Tian burned this diagram deep into his memory, not missing the thickness of a single line or the position of a single point. He even gave the diagram a name: Array Point Map!

After that, he flipped through Tangxi Meridian back and forth several more times. Once he’d memorized it completely, he pulled a lighter out of his pocket.

Snap!

The flame danced; he cupped it forward, and the yellowed pages of Tangxi Meridian caught fire instantly.

After a dozen seconds, this priceless treasure handed down from a Wang Family ancestor had turned to ash. In this world, Lin Tian was one of the few who could still remember it. How much Xv Jiazhi had memorized, who could say?

Lin Tian admitted he was selfish. Forget Xv Jiazhi—even Martial Sect or Wu Hong, Lin Tian would never tell them the secret of Thousand Jin Rock. Telling them would be useless anyway: they didn’t have Thousand Jin Rock, and even if they did, they might not have the fate to resonate with it and earn its recognition.

And before you understand that final Array Point Map, there’s no way to successfully cultivate Tangxi Meridian! On the contrary, it’s extremely dangerous—just like Jiazhi, you could go astray and even risk your life.

So for something that’s honey to me and arsenic to others, burning it really isn’t such a bad thing.

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Placing Thousand Jin Rock by his side, he sat cross-legged on the cushion, guarding his center.

Tangxi Meridian was clearly a Qi Cultivation Skill that started from the acupoints of the whole body, yet it was named "Meridian." This was something Lin Tian hadn’t understood before, but now he felt the name was quite fitting.

On the Array Point Map, the thick and thin lines could be seen as the meridians of the human body, while the central point representing the Array Core could be seen as the Sea of Qi.

When running Tangxi Meridian, there was no need to change anything in the earlier stages. Only when the Spiritual Qi entered the "sea" at the end did he have to guide it according to the Array Point Map, into the corresponding meridians, and then finally into the Sea of Qi.

For Lin Tian, this process wasn’t complicated—just a bit laborious.

These meridians served to ease the impact, like traffic lights, arranging every route in perfect order.

The previous failures were precisely because all the Spiritual Qi surged in at once, like a heavy hammer, the pressure on the Sea of Qi was unbearable, and backlash was only natural.

But now, the Spiritual Qi flowed in slowly, circling the Golden Core, actually forming a small vortex in the Sea of Qi!

The vortex spun wildly, pulling all incoming Spiritual Qi into its swirl.

The whirlpool spun faster and faster, gradually compressing and solidifying the Spiritual Qi, and the Golden Core grew noticeably denser and heavier. 𝑓𝑟ℯℴ𝓂

The process was extremely natural, and felt as comfortable as getting a full-body massage. It was a world apart from the previous swollen pain of forcing Spiritual Qi in!

In no time, all the Spiritual Qi had entered the vortex, revolving around the Golden Core.

At this moment, compared to the beginning, the Golden Core had grown a whole size heavier!

When the vortex finally stopped, the only thing left floating in the Sea of Qi was that Golden Core. The mist covering its surface had completely dispersed! Not only had its volume increased greatly, but on the outermost layer there were lines of golden shining inscriptions!

Carefully examining these inscriptions, Lin Tian was delighted to discover that they spelled out the cultivation Heart Method of Tyrant Emperor’s Record, mysterious and obscure, as if containing world-shaping power.

These inscriptions were an extremely important hallmark of the Middle Stage of Golden Elixir!

Clenching his fist again, the surging Spiritual Qi gushed out from the Golden Core, flowing through his limbs and bones; when it filled right down into the gaps of Lin Tian’s fingers, the sense of power was unprecedented! Even if he ran into Mr. Wang now, he’d have the strength to challenge him one-on-one!

He’d finally broken through!

It had been half a year since his last leap from high-level Martial Artist to condensing a Golden Core. That already counted as ridiculously fast progress. You had to know: Martial Sect took around Ten Years to go from Early Stage Golden Elixir to the middle stage!

Lin Tian believed that the next time he revealed his strength, he’d be shocking yet another crowd into dropping their jaws!