Chapter Twenty-Four Innate

  At the same moment when the python died, inside the Lianyun Mountain range, in a valley, a thunderous roar suddenly echoed.

  "My son! Who killed my son?"

  A hundred-meter-long giant python suddenly opened its closed eyes, and the cold snake pupils were full of violent anger and ferocity! Just now, one of its most beloved descendants was killed by someone!

  In the valley, a group of demons trembled with fear. They knew that the Great King had a son who was always outside, but they never thought that he would be killed today. "It must have been done by an outsider cultivator! Cultivator!" The giant python demon roared, and it had secretly ordered the surrounding mountains to keep watch long ago. No fierce beast dared to lay hands on its own son, not even those few slightly closer Purple Mansion realm demons that it had secretly visited before. Only an outsider cultivator would have been possible to do this.

  After a while, a huge crimson light column emerged from the valley.

  After a hearty meal, Ling Lin took out a demon core from the python's body and glanced at it for a few moments before tossing it into his Qiankun bag. This congenital realm demon core was no longer of much use to him now, so he might as well keep it to sell later. After all, Ling Lin knew that he was still a poor and penniless guy, and he needed to accumulate some wealth; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to afford anything good when he encountered it. Having experienced the auction, he had come to realize the importance of wealth.

  After doing all this, Ling Lin slowly walked towards the Yanming fruit. Just now when he was fighting with the fierce python, he had deliberately avoided the position of the small tree, neither of them wanting the Yanming fruit to suffer any damage.

  "It's so cold." As soon as Ling Lin's hand touched the Yanming fruit, a chill swept in, and he quickly plucked the Yanming fruit. Ling Lin put it into the Qiankun bag. After picking the Yanming fruit, it must be taken immediately, otherwise the spiritual energy inside will slowly disappear. Now, Ling Lin needs to find a safe place to prepare for the breakthrough.

  In the dim, secluded mountain cave, Ling Lin sat quietly with his eyes closed. Suddenly, he opened them and his body had already reached its peak condition. "It can begin now." Ling Lin was somewhat excited. He took out the Flame Fruit and swallowed it in two or three mouthfuls. A stream of icy cold energy slowly surged into his mind, causing Ling Lin to shiver with a chill. So cold! Without further hesitation, Ling Lin calmed down, started operating his technique, and separated a thread of his consciousness to control the devouring power. He was about to start breaking through his innate limitations!

  Innumerable heavenly and earthly spiritual energies were being compressed by an invisible giant hand into the small cave where Ling Lin was located.

  What is innate?

  With no extraneous things, as if born from Heaven and Earth, this is the Pre-Heaven!

  After a person is born, as time accumulates day by day, various impurities will gradually settle in the body. These impurities are usually invisible, but if they are not eliminated, they will slowly affect a person's practice and even their lifespan.

  To achieve the Innate, the first step is to eliminate these hidden impurities within the body. A dense spiritual energy surged into Ling Lin's body. This time, Ling Lin did not absorb this spiritual energy but carefully controlled it, washing every part of his body repeatedly. As time passed, a thread of thick black substance flowed out from every pore on Ling Lin's body. When the last impurity was expelled, Ling Lin stopped the cleansing of spiritual energy within his body. This opportunity to eliminate impurities only arises when advancing to the Innate. If it were an ordinary situation, no matter how one uses spiritual energy to cleanse the body, nothing would be expelled.

  In fact, he didn't know that during his first cultivation in this world, he had already eliminated impurities once. This undoubtedly laid the foundation for Ling Lin's rapid progress in the martial path.

  After washing away the impurities, the truly crucial moment has finally arrived. The spiritual energy continuously surged into his body, refining the spiritual energy into true energy. Ling Lin slowly controlled the true energy as it flowed towards the Sea of Consciousness. Gradually, a faint sense of distension and pain emerged from within the Sea of Consciousness. The amount of true energy in the Sea of Consciousness directly affected the strength or weakness of a cultivator's pre-heavenly and post-heavenly powers. Ling Lin gritted his teeth and continued to pour true energy into the Sea of Consciousness. Although it was perilous, everything was for the sake of power; besides, he had a plan in mind and wouldn't force himself too hard.

  He carefully sent the last bit of true energy into his sea of consciousness, and Ling Lin's tightly strung heart relaxed slightly. Thinking back to the situation earlier, he still broke out in a cold sweat. His earlier self was like someone constantly walking on a steel tightrope, and with one misstep, he would fall off, plummeting into an abyss thousands of feet deep. However, the benefits were also enormous; if ordinary people's true energy in their sea of consciousness was only the size of a small pool, then at this moment, Ling Lin's true energy in his sea of consciousness was absolutely as large as a lake.

  Before he could even relax, Ling Lin's slightly loosened heart tightened up again as the final step arrived. With a massive influx of true energy, a huge commotion was stirred up within his Sea of Consciousness.

  "Crack, crack......" The lake's center, where the true energy had gathered, shot out one after another white-colored sword-like beams that collided violently in mid-air, like flashes of lightning tearing through the sky, and a strange sound echoed throughout the spiritual sea.

  "That's the origin of power!" Ling Lin exclaimed, seeing that in the midst of the colliding true energy, a thread of golden yellow was formed. Feeling the mighty power contained within, he was shocked to discover that this was how the origin of power was formed. As Ling Lin had only been cultivating for a short time and mostly by himself, without anyone to share his experiences with, especially when breaking through to the First Heaven, it was no wonder he was so astonished to see the origin of power emerge.

  More and more sparks rose, colliding with each other. The sea of consciousness was filled with deafening crackling sounds, as if it were the end of the world. At the same time, as more and more true energy collided, the entire sea of consciousness trembled slightly. As time passed, this trembling grew more intense, like a small boat in a stormy sea, on the verge of capsizing at any moment.

  Ling Lin was tense, but also powerless. At this time, a faint icy color suddenly appeared from the sea of consciousness, which was the Lingming fruit's spiritual power that had surged into the sea of consciousness and disappeared without a trace. These strange spiritual powers transformed into starry dots and spread in all directions towards the sea of consciousness, gradually merging into it, and Ling Lin instantly felt refreshed. In the sea of consciousness, it seemed as if an invisible hand contained strange powers, instantly calming all the shocks.

  "Ah." Only then did Ling Lin finally let out a long breath, and his suspended heart slowly put down. Now there was no more danger, as long as he waited for all the true energy in the sea of consciousness to transform into yuan force.

  In the dark cave, two silent flashes of lightning flashed by, and in an instant, the cave seemed to brighten up. Ling Lin suddenly opened his eyes, and a thread of golden light burst forth from his fingers. With a casual flick of his wrist, it was like a leaping flame, the golden Yuan force tearing through the air, crashing into the wall of the mountain.

  Ling Lin's pupils contracted as he stared at the small hole left on the mountain wall after being struck by Yuanli, which was bottomless and had a radiant glow around its entrance. It didn't seem like it was caused by Yuanli striking the mountain wall, but rather something had devoured it, causing the matter inside to disappear out of thin air. "What terrifying power," Ling Lin muttered, never expecting that his own Yuanli also contained a hint of devouring power. "Is this considered a variant of Yuanli?"