Li Lin, feeling delighted inwardly, continued to concentrate and maintain the best state for cultivation, refining the hot and cold energies within his body. The energies in the sea of Qi in his Dantian and his brain continued to increase steadily.

The energy refined from his meridians, permeating through his skin pores, tempered his bones and muscles, making him feel indescribably comfortable.

Time passed again, and Li Lin felt changes beginning to occur within his body.

"I'm about to break through," Li Lin realized in his heart. After five days of cultivation, he was finally on the verge of a breakthrough. Knowing his situation in the Li family, Li Lin knew he must become a martial artist to gradually solve everything. If he had enough strength now, no one would dare to bully him or his mother, both in his past and present life. Strength is just as important.

In this world, martial artists and spirit practitioners are the absolute measures of strength.

Regarding the breakthrough to Martial Student in just five days, Li Lin didn't feel it was too quick, unaware that for most people, even five years might not be enough to progress from an ordinary person to an official Martial Student. If Li Lin's thoughts were known to the countless people striving towards the Martial Student level, it would undoubtedly cause an uproar.

Even in Uncle Jiang's mind, although Li Lin's progress was so fast because of refining the two spirit pills in his body, it was still incredibly astonishing.

Time passed again, and gradually, two mysterious auras burst out around Li Lin's body, one near the sea of Qi in his Dantian, and the other near the center of his forehead. A faint halo surrounded Li Lin, and with these two auras as the center, a Taiji Yin-Yang pattern formed, seemingly stirring the surrounding spatial airflow, causing waves of wind. Li Lin seemed to be immersed in a profound state.

"Hu hu..."

After these two mysterious auras lingered outside Li Lin's body for a moment, they then dissipated and retracted back into his body. At the same time, an invisible aura formed around Li Lin, significantly strengthening his presence.

Inside Li Lin, he could feel his Dantian's sea of Qi suddenly expanding, then seeming to be compressed by a tremendous force, enlarging significantly. At the same time, in his brain, it felt like an energy was also elevating. Li Lin felt his vision and consciousness become clearer, a mystical sensation.

"Breakthrough, unbelievable," Uncle Jiang watched in amazement. Five days from an ordinary person to this stage was unbelievable.

"Hu hu..." After exhaling a breath from the sea of Qi in his Dantian, Li Lin looked at Uncle Jiang and said, "Uncle Jiang, I’ve broken through."

"So you’ve broken through, what’s there to be happy about? You still have a long way to go," Uncle Jiang said with a stern face.

"Uncle Jiang, am I now officially a martial artist?" Li Lin asked, sticking out his tongue, wondering if Uncle Jiang thought his breakthrough wasn’t quick enough.

"You can be considered as one, and also a spirit practitioner," Uncle Jiang replied lightly.

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"A spirit practitioner too? Isn't it extremely difficult to become a spirit practitioner?" Li Lin was surprised. Being both a martial artist and a spirit practitioner was incredible, as there seemed to be no one like that in the world according to his memory.

"Hmph! Of course, it's difficult, much harder than you can imagine. I had secretly checked your physique before. Your original talent was average, and becoming a martial artist wouldn’t have been difficult if it weren’t for the schemes set against you. But to become a spirit practitioner, that was just a daydream."

Uncle Jiang glared at Li Lin and then continued, "But you're lucky. Both the Fire Spirit Eagle and the Frost White Bat are spirit beasts, precisely fire and water elemental spirit beasts. Water and fire counteract each other, balancing Yin and Yang. Plus, someone had set up a scheme in your body, which just became the catalyst to break the scheme, accidentally granting you the Yin-Yang Body. Both spirit beasts being fourth and fifth order, respectively, the spiritual power contained in their spirit pills greatly enhanced your spiritual power. Combined with the Yin-Yang Body and the intricacies of the Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique, you’ve now become both a spirit practitioner and a martial artist. Without any of these elements, you wouldn’t have had any chance."

"So that’s how it is," Li Lin thought to himself, realizing that surviving a great disaster truly brings great fortune.

"Alright, now that you’ve become both a martial artist and a spirit practitioner, and you've passed the first step of the Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique, I should tell you about the advantages and disadvantages of this technique," Uncle Jiang said to Li Lin.

"The Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique has disadvantages?" Li Lin asked.

"Where there are advantages, there are disadvantages. This Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique, which I obtained unintentionally, has three major benefits," Uncle Jiang said, looking at Li Lin. "The first benefit is that it's a dual cultivation technique for both spirit and martial arts, which is why you can cultivate both. In the future, your strength will be stronger than others at the same level. In the same realm, barring unexpected events, you will be invincible."

"The Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique also has one major disadvantage," Uncle Jiang continued.

Li Lin interrupted, asking, "Didn’t you say there are three benefits? What about the others?"

"Are you going to talk, or should I?" Uncle Jiang glared at Li Lin and continued, "There are two disadvantages to this technique. The biggest one is that the cultivation progress is extremely slow, at least ten times slower than ordinary techniques. That is to say, if you cultivate normally, it would be a miracle to break through to Martial Master in a hundred years."

"What, I need a hundred years to cultivate to Martial Master?" Li Lin, who was just feeling high-spirited, suddenly felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him, chilling his heart.

"What’s the rush? Aren't there still two benefits?" Uncle Jiang looked at Li Lin and said, "The Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique has two more benefits, and you’ve already used one of them, which is directly devouring spirit and demonic pills to break through your cultivation."

Taking a deep breath, Uncle Jiang spoke solemnly, "Even more so, the Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique can directly devour the spiritual Qi of spirit practitioners and the true Qi of martial artists for breakthroughs."

"Directly devour the spiritual Qi of spirit practitioners and the true Qi of martial artists for breakthroughs..." Li Lin was astounded. The Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique was incredibly overpowered, almost like the Star Absorbing Technique from martial arts novels.

After his surprise, Li Lin calmed down and asked, "Uncle Jiang, is the Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique an evil technique?"

"What evil technique? There’s no distinction of good or evil in techniques; it's people who are good or evil. Spirit practitioners and martial artists can take demonic and spirit pills from demonic beasts and spirit beasts, refine them into pills to enhance their strength. Isn’t that 'righteous'? The Yin-Yang Spirit Martial Technique is just more advanced, directly absorbing energy from spirit and demonic pills without the need for refining, and it can even directly absorb energy from spirit practitioners and martial artists," Uncle Jiang explained.

"That’s right, a technique capable of killing cannot be labeled as good or evil. If the heart is righteous, then the technique is righteous. If the heart is evil, any technique in such hands is an evil technique," Li Lin said.