Chapter 153: Refining Dan (Third Update)

  According to Xīnér's introduction, the adventure function is not just about transporting to a certain world, but rather directly transporting Lín Xiāo to a place where something is happening in that world. For example, if a certain force discovers a mountain range rich in minerals but is discovered by another force, causing the news to leak out, then the system will directly transport Lín Xiāo to the location of this event and let him participate in it.

  Of course, it still depends on Lin Xiao's own will. If he is afraid of death, he can also leave there directly and find a place to hide for a month, waiting for the safe return.

  But Lin Xiao wouldn't be so cowardly, he probably wouldn't do something like that.

  For this adventure function, as Xiang'er said, Lin Xiao's current strength is not enough to cope with it, and he must first upgrade to a fifth-order Yuanwu before considering it.

  According to Xīn'ér's division, the highest level of martial arts in a 3rd-level Small Thousand World can reach up to 999 points of combat power, which is the peak of a 9th-rank Yuanwu practitioner. In contrast, the highest level of martial arts in a 1st-level Middle Thousand World can reach up to 9999 points, which is the peak of a 9th-rank Dadiwu practitioner. Only in a 2nd-level Middle Thousand World can one reach an astonishing 99999 points of combat power. In such a world, even encountering an ordinary martial artist could result in meeting an 8th or 9th-rank Yuanwu practitioner. Slightly more formidable ones would be Dadiwu practitioners, and the top-notch martial artists would all be composed of Tiānkōngwu practitioners. If Lín Xiǎo were to enter such a world, he would risk falling into a desperate situation with even the slightest carelessness.

  So, this adventure function won't be used for a while, at least Lin Xiao estimated that without the help of Ling Dan, he would need to experience two more 3rd-level small worlds before he could break through to become a 5th-level Yuan Wu Zhe.

  The concentration of yuanqi in the real world is too low, and even in some ordinary cities, it's not as good as some mediocre 2nd-level Small Thousand Worlds. However, in some deep mountains and ancient forests, the concentration of yuanqi is higher, enough to rival those mid-tier 2nd-level Small Thousand Worlds. As for places with a concentration of yuanqi that can rival 3rd-level Small Thousand Worlds... probably only the strongholds of hidden sects have such levels. But Lin Xiao has no idea where these sects are located, and even if he did, would he be able to just walk in?

  "But with my current strength as a first-class Yuan Wu master, I'm probably one of the top strongmen on Earth, right?" Lin Xiao thought to himself with some pride.

  At the same time, with Lin Xiao's breakthrough, his spiritual power also surged more than tenfold when he broke through to become a first-class Yuan Wu Zhe. This also caused his Nen ability, which was based on his spiritual power, to slowly increase. At this rate, it wouldn't be long before his Nen ability would reach level 10 as well.

  The abilities of ordinary mutants are improved through the accumulation of time due to the lack of systematic training methods, and extremely few proactive ones will continuously use their own abilities to accelerate growth.

  While Lin Xiao's body had an ability that could be constantly upgraded with the improvement of his spiritual power, whether it was the Splitting Technique or Cellular Regeneration, both required time to accumulate.

  Lin Xiao didn't think much of the Shadow Clone Technique, its grade was too low and its level was also too low. Unless he really did get a reward that increased his skill grade like Xiang'er said, and it was a one-time reward that could increase all his skill grades at once. Otherwise, this Shadow Clone Technique would almost be abandoned by Lin Xiao.

  As for the cell's regenerative ability, Lin Xiao couldn't even find a way to exercise it. Was he supposed to take that knife and cut his own flesh every day just for fun? He could regenerate, but the pain was still there, not reduced in the slightest. Unless he was crazy or stupid, who would do such a thing?

  So for now, his three heteromorphs can only be enhanced by mental power. The other two are temporarily abandoned.

  Rumble...!!!

  Bang!

  The rock blocking the entrance was directly shattered into pieces by Lin Xiao's one punch, a layer of crimson yuan force wrapped around Lin Xiao's fist, making this punch's power increase several times.

  Lin Xiao looked at the yuan energy in his hand, nodded in satisfaction, and with a thought, the remaining yuan energy flowed back into the Wan Jie Pearl through the meridians on his hand.

  "First, let's solidify my foundation as a first-grade martial artist, and then I'll make a trip to the Amazon rainforest. This time, I must find a large quantity of medicinal materials!" Lin Xiao clenched his fist, eager to try out the system's alchemy function, but unfortunately, he lacked the necessary materials. Moreover, his cultivation progress required sufficient elixirs as assistance, so Lin Xiao's current focus was on searching for medicinal materials all over the world. As for other matters, they would have to be temporarily put on hold.

  "Cultivate then, take a look at the second layer of Wan Jie Secret's cultivation route. First solidify your cultivation before talking."

  He leaped high into the air, without using his spiritual power, Lin Xiao's right foot lightly touched a protruding rock on the cliff, and with a burst of leg strength, he transformed into a residual shadow that rushed up to the upper cliff.

  ……

  Five days later, Lin Xiao consolidated his cultivation as a First Stage Yuan Wu Master and left the small island overseas with great anticipation.

  The world of X-Men remains largely the same as it always has been, except that the current rulers have changed to mutants, with no other significant changes.

  Professor X continued to teach the young mutants, guiding them towards goodness, Magneto fulfilled his wish and began to yearn for an ordinary old man's life, occasionally going to the park to play chess was his only pleasure.

  Qin replaced Lin Xiao's position and became the second leader of the Huangquan organization, also the current second chairman of the Earth Federation.

  Although Lin Xiao, the first chairman, stepped down after only a few days in office, he is still revered by all variants. His statue stands tall around the world, and the original Statue of Liberty on Freedom Island has been replaced with his statue. With the capabilities of the variants, the entire statue is over a thousand meters high, and it was created based on Lin Xiao's image, with one hand holding a long sword and the other hand pinching a white bone mask.

  Just as the whole world seemed to have entered a truly peaceful era, Lin Xiao had already arrived in the Amazon tropical rainforest, starting his long-planned major search operation.

  One year later, Lin Xiao had almost turned over the entire Amazon tropical rainforest and found three Blue Star Grasses, including one four-leafed Blue Star Grass and two three-leafed Blue Star Grasses. He also found two Dragon Claw Orchids, three Yellow Ganoderma Fruits, one Winter Snow Orchid, three Golden Edge Lingzhi, and a Purple Bamboo Fruit the size of an infant's head.

  All of these things were taken in by Lin Xiao into the system space, costing him a considerable amount of boundary power. Of course, during the process of finding these medicinal materials, Lin Xiao also found some things that inherently contained boundary power. Once, he found a mineral vein at a depth of thousands of meters underground and harvested over 10 million first-grade small boundary powers from it, making his wallet bulge again.

  In a year, Lin Xiao's own cultivation didn't increase much after all. As a Yuan Wu practitioner, it's not comparable to a martial artist. Under normal circumstances, without relying on any spiritual stones or elixirs, it would take four or five years to break through from the early stage of the first rank to the middle stage. This was just a short year, and Lin Xiao naturally couldn't have made a breakthrough.

  Fortunately, this year's harvest was bountiful. The things Lin Xiao found could be refined into spiritual pills. The three Blue Star Grasses could be used to refine two furnaces of Blue Star Pills, one furnace of low-grade spiritual pill and one furnace of mid-grade spiritual pill. The two Dragon Claw Golden Orchids, combined with the two Yellow Ganoderma fruits, could be used to refine two furnaces of Golden Pills, which were also mid-grade spiritual pills. However, unlike the Blue Star Pill, which was an auxiliary cultivation pill, the main effect of the Golden Pill was to accelerate the recovery from injuries. A mid-grade Golden Pill could increase the speed of injury recovery by tenfold, and in some cases, it was much more precious than the Blue Star Pill.

  The remaining Huang Qi fruit can be combined with a Winter Snow Orchid to refine a furnace of Xue Lan Dan. It's not an ordinary dan medicine, in fact, Xue Lan Dan belongs to a type of poisonous dan. Its effect is to suppress the recovery of injuries. Originally, an injury that would only take one day to recover from might require half a year to heal after taking a mid-grade Xue Lan Dan. The effect is surprisingly good.

  As for the three golden-edged Ganoderma and a purple bamboo fruit, Lin Xiao temporarily didn't use them, so he left them aside to wait until he found matching medicinal materials in the future, then refine other elixirs together.

  Lin Xiao had been very curious about how the system refined pills, until he found these medicinal materials and paid the corresponding spiritual power, only to discover that the system's so-called pill refinement still required Xiang Er's operation.

  Lin Xiao didn't see any clear process, he only saw Xinger put the medicinal materials into a huge alchemy furnace, and then she didn't seem to do anything else, but he just saw his spiritual energy decreasing rapidly. When it decreased to a certain extent, a batch of elixirs was successfully refined.

  The scene that unfolded was not the earth-shattering, electrifying spectacle Lin Xiao had imagined, but rather a very ordinary one. The dan furnace simply shook a few times, and then its lid automatically flew open, revealing a pill that shone with a soft glow flying out of it on its own.

  One furnace of inferior blue star elixir cost Lin Xiao 1000 points of first-grade small thousand boundary power and produced 24 pills.

  In a furnace, Lin Xiao spent 1000 points of 2nd-level Small Thousand Boundary Force to produce 24 mid-grade Blue Star Pellets.

  Lin Xiao spent 1000 points of 2nd-level Small Thousand Boundary power in the furnace to produce 24 middle-grade Golden Elixirs.

  Lin Xiao spent 1000 points of 2nd-level Small Thousand Boundary power in the furnace and produced 24 medium-grade Snow Orchid Pellets.

  Apart from the first furnace that refined low-grade Spirit Dan, which only cost 1000 points of 1st-level Small Thousand Boundary Force, the remaining three furnaces all refined mid-grade Spirit Dan, each costing 2nd-level Small Thousand Boundary Force. In one go, Lin Xiao spent a full 3000 points of 2nd-level Small Thousand Boundary Force. Fortunately, he had also gained over 10,000 points of 2nd-level Small Thousand Boundary Force in the Amazon Rainforest that year. Overall, his boundary force not only didn't decrease compared to last year but actually increased by a lot.