"There will be something for you to do." Li Lin gave a cold smile, which sent shivers down Zhao Qingtian's spine.

An hour later, within the Li family's backyard, Li Lin entered the secret chamber of the woodshed once again.

Nothing here had changed, and Li Lin felt a sense of familiarity. Everything about him had changed right here.

In the secret chamber, Zhao Qingtian was now immobilized by Li Lin, with his meridians and acupoints sealed, unable to move or even speak, his eyes filled with panic.

"Sssss!" The little dragon lazily circled in a corner, flicking its tongue in and out.

Glancing at Zhao Qingtian, Li Lin frowned. It was uncertain how many powerful individuals from the Zhao family would come this time, and what exactly the Li family's treasure was.

"Little dragon, help me guard." Li Lin said softly.

"Don't worry, boss." The little dragon responded.

"Refine." Li Lin said softly, paying no further attention to Zhao Qingtian, having just absorbed the spiritual power of Zhao Qinghai, a peak third-order Spirit General, which was already the limit for his current level of spiritual power.

Pulling out the spiritual jade bed, Li Lin sat cross-legged, not forgetting the spiritual jade bed during the absorption and refinement of spiritual power. The bed had a kind of energy that was greatly beneficial to his soul power.

Sitting cross-legged on the spiritual jade bed, forming a hand seal, he slowly began to cultivate, waiting to refine the absorbed spiritual power.

The spiritual power he absorbed was immense, confirming that Zhao Qinghai's strength had indeed reached the peak of the third-order Spirit General, and perhaps not far from breaking through to the fourth order.

This spiritual power was vast but not violent. Having already been spiritual power, Li Lin could slightly refine it, removing the impurities and keeping the essence, making it usable for himself.

After a slight refinement, this spiritual power entered Li Lin's brain space, where the soul pill began to spin rapidly, absorbing a stream of spiritual power to nourish and strengthen his soul power.

Moments later, Li Lin entered a state of cultivation, his body enveloped in a faint, invisible, transparent glow, with his aura gradually increasing.

At this time, next to Li Lin's soul pill, a strange golden knife also nestled on top of the soul pill, rotating with it. Inside the soul pill, a tiny stream of soul power was immediately absorbed into the blade, which began to emanate a faint yellow light. This tiny soul power was continuously sucked from the top of the soul pill, making the golden knife seem like a bottomless pit.

Li Lin always knew that this strange golden knife had been absorbing his soul power since it entered his mind, but the absorption rate was very slow, not harming his soul or reducing his soul power.

On the contrary, because of the golden knife's absorption of soul power, the rotation speed of the soul pill became faster, obtaining a large amount of energy from the spiritual power to nourish the soul power. Although the soul power was continuously absorbed by the golden knife, the progress of the soul power was still stronger than usual.

The golden knife absorbed energy on the soul pill in this cycle. Li Lin had no choice but to accept it, unable to remove it. Occasionally, every ten days or half a month, Li Lin would try to see if he could move the golden knife, but every time he could not even shake it.

Therefore, Li Lin eventually stopped paying attention to it but could determine that the golden knife was no ordinary object, otherwise, it would not have appeared in the secret ruins. Moreover, it seemed that the golden knife would not harm him.

"Lingzhe, Li Lin is still a Lingzhe (Spirit Practitioner)." Zhao Qingtian, trapped in the secret chamber and unable to move, felt the aura on Li Lin at this moment and became despondent, just like Zhao Qinghai, beyond his expectations.

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Li Lin refined the spiritual power quickly, and the speed of his cultivation level skyrocketing was incredibly fast. The speed of this progress was unbelievably rapid, mainly because the absorbed spiritual power, once slightly refined, could become Li Lin's own spiritual power, which was somewhat frightening.

And the spiritual power of a peak third-order Spirit General was indeed a great supplement for Li Lin, making him feel extremely comfortable.

The next day, two major events happened in the Li family. First, Young Master Li Lin and Miss Li Wushuang got engaged, and there was no engagement ceremony, just an announcement by Elder Li Dong to the Li family members.

Because of the engagement of Young Master and Miss, the servants of the Li family could once again go to the accounting room to receive a year's salary as a bonus, which made all the Li family's servants jump for joy. They silently praised Young Master Li Lin as their god of wealth. Coming back for less than two months, they had already received two years' worth of salary bonuses.

Many servants were envious of the fortune of having two fiancées, each a beauty capable of overthrowing states and cities, a fortune that made all men envious.

As for the second event, it caused the Li family's servants to curse in private because two nephews from the Third Lady's maternal family disappeared into thin air last night, leading the Third Lady to send out all the Li family's servants to search the streets.

Inside the Li family's main hall, where all the family members gathered, no one knew what had happened the previous night, nor had they heard any noise.

However, traces of a fight could be seen in the courtyard, which enraged Zhao Hui, pointing directly at Li Lin, but Li Lin was nowhere to be found early in the morning, and she was helpless. Moreover, with Yun Hongling there, she dared not do much.

The disappearance of Zhao Qingtian and Zhao Qinghai, along with the traces of a fight, sent chills down Li Shaohu's spine.

While the Li family was searching for people, on the third day, inside the secret chamber of the woodshed, Li Lin's aura filled the room, and the entire chamber was enveloped in a dense, invisible, transparent light shield.

Inside Li Lin's brain space, the spiritual power was full, but there was still a vast amount of spiritual power rushing in rapidly. The soul pill spun rapidly, and at this moment, the golden knife attached to the soul pill also absorbed soul power at a much faster rate.

"Compress it." Li Lin uttered a low command in his heart, changing his hand seals, and the vast spiritual power was immediately compressed and entered into his brain space.

"Boom..."

With a muffled sound coming from the brain space, a huge energy surged, and Li Lin's brain space suddenly compressed, expanding to twice its size in an instant.

"Sigh..."

At this moment, Li Lin's aura of spiritual power also skyrocketed, as if there was an omnipresent energy between heaven and earth entering Li Lin's body along with the invisible light from the spiritual jade bed.

At this moment, Li Lin's brain space also benefited greatly, his soul power receiving a lot of nourishment, and the golden knife also absorbed a lot of soul power.

After a long time, Li Lin's aura finally calmed down, and at this moment, his aura had reached the second order Spirit General.

But the refinement continued, and Li Lin did not even open his eyes, continuing to refine. At this moment, half of Zhao Qinghai's spiritual power had not yet been refined.

As time passed, Zhao Qingtian became more and more astonished, witnessing Li Lin's breakthrough in just a few days. Such a speed of cultivation was absolutely astonishing.

Days passed without finding Zhao Qingtian and Zhao Qinghai, and Zhao Hui was on the verge of collapsing. These two nephews were always seen as the future of the entire family, the hope of the Zhao family, each a prodigy among the direct disciples of the Yunyang Sect, absolute powerhouses.

The future of such young people was imaginable, but now they had disappeared, along with the traces of a fight in the courtyard, leading Zhao Hui to immediately think of the worst.

If something truly happened to these two nephews, it would be a huge blow to the Zhao family, and she would not be able to explain it to the family if something happened to them under her watch.

Zhao Hui approached the Li family, but Li Dong was also helpless. The strength of Zhao Qinghai and Zhao Qingtian was not something ordinary people could contend with, especially since they were together.

These days, Zhao Hui was sleepless and anxious, but the biggest suspect in her heart was still Li Lin. She had also heard of Li Lin's strength. If it were against her two nephews, only Li Lin could do it. But she could not understand how, even if her two nephews were defeated, they would not be killed or defeated without a trace.

At this moment, Zhao Hui could only wait, waiting for the strong members of the Zhao family to arrive before making any decisions.

Inside the secret chamber of the woodshed, on the fifth day, Li Lin's continuously strengthening aura finally began to calm down.

"Sigh..."

Li Lin exhaled a breath of turbid air, opened his eyes, which sparkled with energy, feeling the abundant spiritual power in his body, and a smile appeared on his face. His cultivation level had progressed from a first-order Spirit General to the mid-level of a second-order Spirit General, a considerable breakthrough.

"Boss." Seeing Li Lin stop cultivating, the little dragon immediately crawled over.

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