"A fourth-order mid-stage Lightning Leopard." Li Lin sighed slightly. Yun Hongling, at this moment, only had the strength of a triple martial soul, yet she could possess a fourth-order mid-stage Lightning Leopard as a mount. This world of Lingwu Continent really is one where connections matter. Normally, martial soul level cultivators, who would have a fourth-order demonic beast, especially a Lightning Leopard as a mount?

"How about it, my Lightning Leopard isn't worse than your Sky Wing Snow Lion, right? I'm off, you should continue cultivating diligently. Remember, you must not let another woman bite you." Yun Hongling hurriedly finished speaking, suddenly kissed Li Lin on the right cheek, and then, like fleeing for her life, jumped onto the back of the Lightning Leopard in the sky and left, her face blushing beautifully, extremely attractive.

"This girl..." Li Lin was stunned, then murmured with a bitter smile: "This is troublesome now, dating two girls at the same time, I hope I don't capsize."

"Continue cultivating." After returning to his room, Li Lin continued to take a third-grade high-order Dan medicine for refinement. On Li Lin's body, this third-grade high-order Dan medicine was already completely worthless, just like candy.

A silent night, the next morning, Li Lin stopped cultivating, feeling the true qi in his body, finally reaching the peak of a nine-layer martial artist.

"It's time to prepare for the refinement of Earth Spirit Dan again." Li Lin said lightly. Today, he did not plan to go to Wanwu Tower. He intended to refine some Earth Spirit Dans again, preparing to break through to the spiritual soul level.

After calling for Little dragon, the protector, Li Lin once again hung a "Do Not Disturb" sign outside the mountain peak, then returned to his room, took out the Fire Dragon Cauldron, and began to refine the Dan medicine.

After preparing everything, Li Lin formed hand seals, flicked his fingers lightly, and a stream of spiritual power shot out from his hands into the Fire Dragon Cauldron, where the spirit fire inside the cauldron instantly roared. With the appearance of the flame, the temperature inside the entire room rose.

With a shake of his hands, a ball of light wrapped around several herbs and was thrown into the Fire Dragon Cauldron. Under the wrapping and burning of the spirit fire, it soon left behind pure spiritual liquid.

With Little dragon outside guarding, Li Lin could refine with peace of mind. Time passed, and on the seventh day, Li Lin's hand seals changed, and spiritual power surged out wildly.

"Condense into pills."

Li Lin shouted lightly, hand seals changed, and the spiritual liquid inside the Fire Dragon Cauldron under the spirit fire began to instantly converge. With the convergence of these energies, the energy aura inside the entire Fire Dragon Cauldron also became stronger and stronger, with Li Lin's spiritual power rapidly being consumed.

About half an hour later, inside the Fire Dragon Cauldron, there were now four thumb-sized spheres appearing, under the wrapping of the spirit fire, four pill embryos were slowly forming.

Looking at the four pills that had condensed and formed, Li Lin once again made a hand seal, the spirit fire weakened a bit, but it still continued to wrap around and refine the four pills.

When the color of the four pills began to change again, the surface of the four Earth Spirit Pills gradually became smooth and glossy. A rich fragrance of medicine and a huge energy fluctuation suddenly burst forth, and Li Lin's mouth also revealed a slight smile.

"Collect..."

Li Lin made a hand seal, a white light wrapped around, and the four Earth Spirit Pills instantly came into his hands, with a shallow stream of energy flowing on the surface of these pills, looking extremely marvelous.

At the same time as collecting the pills, Li Lin also put away the Fire Dragon Cauldron. At this moment, he already had twelve Earth Spirit Pills on his body, enough to break through to the spirit soul. Next, he needed to prepare for the breakthrough.

"Boss, your master has come." Outside the courtyard, Little dragon's voice came into Li Lin's mind.

"Lin'er." Then, Yu Yufeng's voice had already spread from afar.

"Disciple greets Master." Li Lin went outside the courtyard.

"Lin'er, I came to see how your cultivation is going?" Yu Yufeng asked.

"Disciple has something to ask Master. Disciple plans to break through the martial soul in the near future, so, I need a quiet and safe place for seclusion." Li Lin said.

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Breaking through the martial soul and condensing the martial dan, how important it was, Li Lin naturally did not dare to be careless.

"You're going to break through the martial soul." Yu Yufeng was surprised, then said. "You can seclude yourself in the place where I live to break through. The place where I live has a small gathering spirit array, which was arranged by your martial ancestor for me, so that my cultivation speed could be a bit faster. Even with the gathering spirit array, it's of no use due to my dull talents. You can break through there, I will personally protect you, and there will definitely be no problems."

"But that would trouble Master too much." Li Lin said lightly, but in his heart, Li Lin had this intention. His own breakthrough of the martial soul was not ordinary, and having Master protect him, within the Yunyang Sect, was undoubtedly much safer.

"What trouble? You are my disciple, and your breakthrough of the martial soul, when your strength greatly increases, then kill a few more on the Dragon List for me, also to make me proud." Yu Yufeng chuckled.

"Then alright, disciple will trouble Master." Li Lin said lightly.

Riding on Master Yu Yufeng's fifth-order demonic beast level Blue Jade Wolf Eagle, Li Lin was also somewhat expectant in his heart. Once his Sky Wing Snow Lion reached the fifth order, whether in terms of speed or strength, it would be absolutely formidable.

Moments later, Li Lin arrived at a mountain peak not far away, which was much larger than the mountain peak he lived on. The area on top of the mountain was as large as a plaza.

"Greetings, Master." The two landed on the mountain peak, Ma Fang, Guo Dongyang, had already come forward to salute in front of Yu Yufeng.

"Hello, senior brothers." Li Lin also did not lose his manners, saluting the two.

"No need for formalities, junior brother." The two quickly returned the salute, without any pretentiousness.

Under Yu Yufeng's guidance, Li Lin passed through a corridor and several small palace buildings to the top of the mountain.

A palace building of a hundred meters in size appeared on top of the mountain, with golden glazed tiles on it, looking full of golden brilliance.

"What a rich attribute energy." At this moment, Li Lin was amazed at the attribute energy atmosphere filled around the top of the mountain, as if the attribute energy between heaven and earth was slowly converging towards here.

"The gathering spirit array is really wonderful." Li Lin said lightly, looking around, it was not difficult to see that there was a gathering spirit array arranged here. Although it was only a small array, it was still extremely marvelous. If a general martial artist cultivated here, the speed would be much faster, but it was limited. If there were three or four people cultivating here at the same time, the speed would not be much faster.

Although this place was excellent, Li Lin knew that it did not have much use for himself. The Yin-Yang Lingwu Jue was too slow under normal cultivation conditions, unless this gathering spirit array could reach the level of the three-element five-combination array arranged by the Ghost Martial Sect in the past, gathering majestic attribute energy, then he could directly absorb attribute energy for breakthrough.

Now, this gathering spirit array and the violent attribute energy attracted by the three-element five-combination array were too different, not enough for him to directly absorb for breakthrough.

"Lin'er, you can seclude here and prepare for the breakthrough. This is a 'Protective True Yang Pill'. You are a tri-element martial artist, condensing the martial dan is much more difficult than for dual-element martial artists, but this step, outsiders can't help you, everything has to depend on yourself. Last time, Hongling had a hard time breaking through, you must be careful." Yu Yufeng said seriously to Li Lin at this moment.

"En, disciple will be careful." Li Lin took the Protective True Yang Pill and said lightly. This step, he dared not be careless.

"Master can't help you much in cultivation, so, it's up to your own efforts. Go, Master believes you can successfully condense the martial dan and break through the martial soul." Yu Yufeng said.

"En." Li Lin nodded lightly, then lifted his head slightly and walked towards the palace on the mountain top.

"Master, junior brother's breakthrough is not easy." Ma Fang said lightly.

"You two, stay here and protect your junior brother well, don't leave for a step." Yu Yufeng said, his voice falling, watching Li Lin's back, murmured: "Good disciple, whether you become a dragon or a worm, it's up to yourself."

Opening the palace door, the inside of the palace was empty, supported only by a few large pillars, with only a cushion in the center, nothing else around.

"Little dragon, guard outside." Li Lin said lightly to Little dragon on his shoulder, feeling even safer with Little dragon's final layer of protection.

"Yes, Boss, you can rest assured to break through. I estimate that after your breakthrough, it won't be long before I need to break through again." Little dragon said lightly, his small body already crawling out through the door gap of the palace.

"Prepare for the breakthrough." Standing inside the palace, Li Lin murmured. This time, he must also break through both the martial soul and spiritual soul, the big hurdle between martial artists and spiritual practitioners, he wanted to cross at the same time.

Sitting cross-legged on the cushion, Li Lin stuffed two Earth Spirit Pills into his mouth. At this moment, the level of a spiritual practitioner was still just below a nine-layer spiritual master, he must first break through to the spiritual soul.

After taking the Earth Spirit Pills, Li Lin formed hand seals and began to refine them, his body slowly enveloped in an invisible transparent light circle.

During Li Lin's seclusion, it was again the time for the monthly competition of direct disciples at the beginning of the month. On the top of the Earth Dragon, many direct disciples gathered. Although there were four decisive battles this time, the strongest one was only between two people ranked forty-six and forty-eight on the Dragon List.

With five months left until the sect's secret realm opens, only the top twenty people on the Dragon List can enter the secret realm for cultivation. So, during this period, the strong ones on the Dragon List were almost all in seclusion, striving to enter the top twenty of the Dragon List and enter the secret realm for cultivation, which has many benefits.