Chapter 197: Otherworldly gains.

Chapter 197: 197: Otherworldly gains.

"Nine Heavens Ascension Mantra?" Lin Zhaoyue muttered.

She stared at the name for a few moments before slowly looking up at her father.

There was utter confusion in her eyes.

"Father, how did you get this cultivation technique?"

Lin Xuan paused briefly before answering.

"It came to me through a rather unusual opportunity."

It was not really a lie, anyway. Receiving it as a system reward was certainly an unusual opportunity.

"An unusual opportunity?"

Zhaoyue tilted her head.

Lin Xuan smiled faintly.

"You do not need to worry about where it came from. Your father has plenty of treasures stashed away."

Zhaoyue narrowed her eyes.

Nine Heavens Ascension Mantra?

Could Father be related to the Heavenly Council?

Her eyes widened slightly.

No way.

That was simply impossible.

The Heavenly Council stood at the very peak of the cultivation world. Before her regression, hardly anyone had even heard of them.

That changed when they suddenly revealed themselves to the world, claiming that an era of war was approaching.

The world had not been ready for their message.

Yet the Heavenly Council did not merely make a declaration and disappear. They sent their disciples throughout the world, and each disciple swept across the various regions like a storm.

Every single disciple of the Heavenly Council was rumored to possess at least Nascent Soul cultivation.

Naturally, their extraordinary heritage also spread through the cultivation world.

There were even rumors passed from mouth to mouth claiming that the cultivation technique of the association leader of the Heavenly Council was Nine Heavens Ascension Mantra, a technique that was only passed down to the next association leader.

A top quality red grade cultivation technique, one known to be the best in existence.

There was no way her father could possibly have a connection to such an existence.

After all...

If he truly had such a connection, how could her father have died so pitifully of old age in her previous life, watching his dreams slip away one after another?

Zhaoyue quickly shook the thought away and looked back at the scroll.

"Father, you have really brought home a beautiful treasure. It makes me slightly regret less about spending all my spirit stones to build those houses."

Lin Xuan chuckled.

"Only slightly?"

He looked at her with a teasing smile.

"You know, getting my hands on this cultivation technique was not easy. If you do not appreciate it, I might have to return it."

"Okay, okay!"

Zhaoyue immediately waved her hands.

"I definitely do not regret my actions!"

She hurriedly grabbed his arm and looked at him expectantly.

"So, Father, can you please teach me this cultivation technique?"

Lin Xuan smiled and nodded.

"Of course."

He placed the scroll on the table and slowly unrolled it.

The moment the entire scroll was revealed, the room suddenly became quiet.

Countless characters were written across the parchment and each character seemed to contain a faint spiritual glow, and the deeper Lin Xuan looked, the more profound the technique appeared.

His expression turned serious as he extended his finger and gently touched the first character and began slowly reciting the first verse of the Nine Heavens Ascension Mantra.

"Yellow Heaven hangs above the boundless earth,

Its golden light descends upon the mortal world.

The rivers return to the endless sea,

And the clouds rise beyond the nine heavens.

All things beneath the Yellow Heaven breathe,

All spirits beneath the Yellow Heaven awaken.

Gather the breath of heaven, refine the essence of earth,

And ascend through the nine heavens."

His voice was calm, but every word seemed to carry a profound rhythm.

The moment the final word left his mouth, the spiritual energy within the room suddenly surged.

Lin Xuan’s expression changed.

The circulation of Qi within his body was instantly pushed to the extreme.

His spiritual energy raced through his meridians with astonishing speed, completing one cycle after another without the slightest pause.

Even Lin Xuan found himself startled by the change.

This was not simply an increase in cultivation speed.

The Nine Heavens Ascension Mantra was forcing every strand of spiritual energy within his body to circulate according to its principles, refining it repeatedly as it moved through his meridians.

At the same time, his martial spirit continued absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy passively.

The spiritual energy from the surroundings poured into his body which was immediately refined.

Then it circulated again.

The entire process formed an almost perfect cycle.

Lin Xuan’s eyes twitched slightly.

This speed...

He could already feel his cultivation foundation beginning to improve.

Combined with my martial spirit’s passive absorption of the spiritual energy around me...

His expression became strangely solemn.

If I ever manage to get stuck at a bottleneck in the future, I might as well consider myself better off dead.

It was not because he had become arrogant.

Quite the opposite.

Lin Xuan simply felt that his luck had been far too absurd.

He had reawakened a powerful martial spirit.

He also possessed the system which was in the appearance of a Myth grade artifact.

He had obtained one extraordinary opportunity after another and now he had even received a Red-grade, Top-quality cultivation technique simply because one of the family members entered the golden core realm!

With so many advantages piled upon him, if he still managed to become stuck at some point in the future, then something had clearly gone terribly wrong.

Lin Xuan slowly opened his eyes, satisfied with what he had gained from the brief cultivation session.

He turned his head and saw that Lin Zhaoyue had already moved away from him.

She was sitting on the floor in a lotus position, quietly absorbing the spiritual energy around her and circulating it through her body with the newly acquired cultivation technique.

Lin Xuan watched her for a moment before his expression became thoughtful.

This is too powerful to be shared with just anyone.

He had always believed that good things were meant to be shared.

However, when something was too valuable, sharing it without consideration could easily invite greed.

I will have to personally choose those who are worthy of cultivating it.

As for keeping the technique to himself so that he could remain the strongest, Lin Xuan did not even entertain the thought.

Lin Xuan stared at the cultivation manual in his hands.

The first heaven had already given him such a powerful circulation method. He could not help but wonder what the remaining heavens would offer him.

Yet when he tried to examine the rest of the manual, he found that the other pages remained completely blank.

No matter how much spiritual sense he used, he could not perceive what was written beyond the first heaven.

Lin Xuan frowned slightly.

"Looks like I will need to level up before I can unlock the rest, that sounds like a game."

A strange feeling suddenly crossed his mind.

Lin Xuan lowered his gaze and examined his own body.

"Hmm. Now that I think about it, does my body feel a little more durable?"

The change was incredibly minute.

However, Lin Xuan’s perception was far beyond that of an ordinary cultivator. Even the slightest change within his body could not easily escape his attention.

His eyes widened.

I only cultivated for a few seconds!

An unadulterated excitement immediately welled up within him.

If the first heaven of the Nine Heavens Ascension Mantra had already strengthened his physical body after such a short period of cultivation, then its effects were far more extraordinary than he had initially imagined.

Lin Xuan clenched his fist.

"Won’t this mean that I am also a half-step body cultivator?"

A normal cultivator primarily focused on developing their dantian, refining spiritual energy, and advancing their cultivation realm. Their physical body would naturally become stronger as their cultivation increased, but such improvement was mostly a side effect of cultivation.

A body cultivator, however, deliberately tempered the physical body itself.

They refined their flesh, strengthened their bones, and hardened their bodies through specialized cultivation methods.

The stronger their physical foundation became, the more terrifying their close-quarters combat ability would be.

A sufficiently powerful body cultivator could fight without relying heavily on spiritual techniques, because their physical body itself had become a weapon.

Lin Xuan took several deep breaths and slowly calmed himself down.

It was not too late to count the chicken after it had hatched.

He glanced toward the door and muttered,"I should go meet general Xiang now."

Before leaving, Lin Xuan took out several spirit stones and placed them around the room.

Shortly after, a faint ripple spread through the room as an additional protective barrier formed around his quarters.

Although the Lin Family estate was already heavily protected, Lin Xuan still felt it was better to be cautious.

Once he confirmed that the barrier was properly established, he turned around and left the room.