So, during this recent period, the direct disciples who rank high on the Dragon List at the top of Earth Dragon Peak have almost all vanished without a trace. After four bouts, many of the direct disciples who were spectating are also looking forward to next month, wondering whether Li Lin and Li DaJiang will be able to compete. It's guessed that Li Lin won't go into seclusion for several months.

As time passed in this manner, with Li Lin also not showing up recently, the turmoil caused by Li Lin in the sect has begun to be faintly forgotten by some. After all, every direct disciple is proud. While everyone remembers Li Lin, they also think in their hearts that there must come a day when they will surpass this person, unless the other party has reached a level they must look up to, only then will they give up.

Time slowly passed, and ten days later, Li Lin had taken a total of twelve Earth Spirit Pills. It's unknown from when, but the aura around his body had already begun to climb.

However, these twelve Earth Spirit Pills were still not enough to allow Li Lin to break through to the Soul level in one go. Li Lin knew in his heart that the energy needed to break through the Martial Soul was too immense.

Sitting cross-legged on the cushion, Li Lin knew that from now on, he would have to rely on himself. The twelve Earth Spirit Pills had brought him to the peak of the Ninth Layer Spirit Master. As for the breakthrough process, he would have to work hard on his own.

A layer of white halo faintly surrounded him, like an eternal white flame, tightly protecting Li Lin within. Around the transparent white halo, if one looked closely now, one could vaguely see extremely fine, hair-like energy gas between heaven and earth, continuously passing through the white halo and finally pouring into Li Lin's body.

As this energy from between heaven and earth entered, the aura on Li Lin's body began to climb at an extremely slow pace. At this moment, in this quiet hall, it seemed as if the concept of time was lost.

"Master, it's been half a month, and junior brother still hasn't broken through. Could there be any problems?" Guo Dongyang asked Yu Yuqian next to him by the mountainside.

"You're the one with a problem. How could it be so easy for a tri-element martial artist to break through to the Martial Soul? When Hong Ling broke through, it also took her a whole month," Yu Yuqian said lightly, his face already showing some nervousness. His talent and strength were not great, but as a cultivator, he naturally knew how dangerous it was for a tri-element martial artist to break through to the Martial Soul level.

Inside the quiet hall, Li Lin sat like an old monk in meditation, but the aura emanating from his body was slowly climbing at a slow pace. Although this speed seemed slow, if there were strong individuals present, they would definitely be able to see that Li Lin's aura was quietly crossing that great barrier between the Spirit Master and Soul levels. The aura was stable, without any abnormalities. If everything went smoothly, breaking through to the Soul level was only a matter of time.

However, breaking through to the Soul level is divided into two major parts. The first is the breakthrough of spiritual power, but the most important is the second part. After the breakthrough, one must condense the Soul Pill. If one fails, then it's a permanent failure.

At this moment, Li Lin himself also entered a very mysterious state, which was half awake and half dazed. Time passed extremely fast in this state, and the Yunyang Sect did not cause any waves because of Li Lin's seclusion.

After a total of eighteen days of seclusion, there was finally a stir in the hall at the mountain peak!

At this moment, Li Lin suddenly opened his eyes, waking from his cultivation state, feeling that he was starting to break through.

Inside the sea of consciousness, the spiritual power had already reached a full state. The space of the sea of spiritual power was expanding, seeming about to burst.

At this time, atop the mountain, a majestic invisible energy between heaven and earth seemed to be drawn over.

The aura continued to climb. Li Lin's hand seals quickly began to change, and after a moment, a muffled sound spread...

"Bang!"

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In that instant, a muffled sound came from within Li Lin's mind, followed by an instant convergence of invisible heaven and earth energy within the hall.

"Master, look, junior brother is breaking through," outside the mountain top, a surge of energy suddenly converged out of nowhere, causing the surrounding space to ripple violently.

At the same time, at this moment, the energy between heaven and earth, as if drawn by some force, began to crazily converge toward the hall, exciting Guo Dongyang and Ma Fang.

"Eh, this guy's breakthrough seems a bit peculiar," Yu Yuqian frowned. After all, he was also at the level of a Seventh Layer Martial General. In his observation, it seemed that this aura was different from a typical martial artist's breakthrough.

Frowning, Yu Yuqian didn't know what was happening, so he could only attribute the reason to Li Lin being a tri-element martial artist.

In just a moment, the surrounding space filled with a majestic invisible energy that became more and more intense. Rich invisible energy continuously seeped out from between heaven and earth, then ceaselessly surged towards the mountain peak hall. The entire mountain peak was now rippling with layers of ripples, unclear whether it was the space rippling or the invisible energy between heaven and earth swaying.

At this moment, Li Lin was enveloped in a majestic unparalleled energy. This energy, directly drawn by the breakthrough of spiritual power, was now completely out of Li Lin's control, directly entering Li Lin's mind.

Inside Li Lin's sea of spiritual power, after the space exploded, it did not recover but, at this moment, the sea of spiritual power and the soul space completely removed the original thin membrane-like barrier and merged together.

Breaking through to the Soul level and condensing into a Soul Pill means merging soul force and spiritual power into one. At this moment, Li Lin dared not be careless, his hand seals continuously changing.

"Whoosh..."

Between heaven and earth, a huge energy entered the space of the mind, mixing with the originally majestic spiritual power to form an even more violent force.

Inside the mind, intense pain came. This huge force directly and continuously collided within the mind, its intensity absolutely terrifying.

At this moment, what Li Lin was most worried about was his already materialized soul force. Inside the soul space of the mind, the rich white soul force, after the explosion of the sea of spiritual power, was swept up by the violent force of spiritual power and heaven and earth energy.

The soul force was swept up by the violent force, as if it was being torn into pieces. Li Lin gritted his teeth and endured. If the soul force was torn apart, then he would be finished.

"Condense the Soul Pill, condense for me."

Li Lin's hand seals changed, a mysterious aura now in the mind, transforming into streams of air, surging into the space of the mind. Finally, in the midst of the violent energy, a separate space was separated out, its surroundings being ravaged by violent energy.

At this moment, in this temporarily calm separate space, Li Lin controlled his soul force to appear, strands of white soul force now beginning to condense in this space. Initially, it was just a strand of white gas, coming together under an invisible force, condensing like a sphere.

Then more and more white gas appeared, touching this spherical object, sticking to it and quietly melting into it. After a moment, as more white gas gathered, the white sphere began to emit a faint halo and started to slowly rotate.

As the gas rotated, it suddenly generated a strange suction force. The soul force in the surrounding space was being forcibly attracted and then stuck to it.

All the white gas gathered, and instantly the white sphere became several tens of meters in diameter. The speed of rotation also became faster, and the air currents shaken off around it were enough to form a whirlwind.

At this moment, Li Lin knew he had condensed the immature form of the Soul Pill.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Also at this time, the invisible gas that blocked the violent spiritual power and heaven and earth energy could no longer withstand wave after wave of violent forces, bursting open. Finally, from all directions, countless violent forces suddenly surrounded the white soul sphere from all sides, squeezing in.

The white sphere kept rotating at high speed, the whirlwind generated around it sweeping away the surrounding violent forces, preventing them from approaching.

However, the surrounding violent spiritual power and heaven and earth energy were too vast. Although they could not approach, they were an absolutely vast force pressing down on it, heavily suppressing the white soul sphere.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

In the tug of war between the two forces, Li Lin suffered greatly, almost splitting his head with pain. The two huge forces seemed to want to break open the space of the mind, tearing open his head, almost making him faint.

Li Lin knew this was the most critical time. He had to hold on; if he couldn't, he would be finished. At this moment, he must allow the soul force to condense into a pill under the forging of heaven and earth energy.

The hand seals changed again, and in the mind, within the high-speed rotating white gas, a mysterious force spread out, drawing in the streams of air from outside the whirlwind, that heaven and earth energy, into it.

As this bit of heaven and earth energy was swallowed, the white soul sphere began to slowly compress at a speed difficult for the naked eye to see.

Outside, the majestic invisible heaven and earth energy was still converging, continuously surging into the hall.

"How could this be." At this moment, Li Lin's expression suddenly darkened, not knowing what was happening. Inside his body, the true qi also began to surge violently at this time, rapidly flowing through all the meridians, showing signs of a breakthrough.