Chapter 218: Refining the Fifth-Star Fire Crystal Core!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Jiang Lin buried himself under the sand, his entire aura nearly non-existent, quietly observing the flying team that passed fleetingly across the sky above him.
'Huh, the Sect Master of Yunlan Sect is here too? That person equipped with the fourth-stage four-leaf feather sheath wings, with a soul strength almost comparable to Hulei, must be Dan King Guhe, right?'
When Guhe's flying team flew overhead, the identities of Guhe and his group were almost completely exposed to Jiang Lin.
"Master Guhe, it seems that person has left?" A Dou Wang in the distance spoke with a contemplative expression to the seemingly thoughtful Guhe.
Guhe glanced at the figure beside him, the person only showing their green feathered wings beneath their black robe. The latter merely shook their head, indicating that they hadn't found the alchemist who had been refining weapons in the desert.
Guhe pondered for a moment, then shook his head lightly. "Let's go. Even if he hasn't left, there's nothing we can do by digging him out. Let's go to the center of the desert."
As a pharmacist with an 'official position', Guhe knew how terrifying it could be to seize an alchemist's freshly forged Dou Qi weapon. That's why he said that even if they found the person, there was little they could do. He was merely curious about who would secretly be refining weapons in such a remote desert, and if they were acquainted, he could bring them along.
"Since the other person doesn't want to meet us, there's no point continuing to dig for them. Let's go." After saying this, Guhe led the eager Dou Wang experts toward the depths of the desert.
More than ten minutes later, the traces of Guhe's group had disappeared into the horizon, and in the desert, Jiang Lin slowly crawled out, brushing the sand off his body.
"I didn't expect to run into Guhe and his group here." Jiang Lin looked at the spot where Guhe's group had vanished, his eyes flashing briefly. Then, with a flick of his back, six-leaf feather sheaths sprouted, and blue glowing wings spread out instantly. Jiang Lin flew just above the ground, heading quickly toward the direction in which Guhe's group had disappeared.
At this point, Jiang Lin had already adapted to the water-type Dou Qi. With the support of the fifth-stage water-type crystal core, Jiang Lin could now fully unleash the energy output of the core under extreme conditions, reaching the output limit of a Dou Wang. However, this burst of energy was difficult to control, and his meridian strength couldn't keep up. He could only perform simple actions like flying.
"Since Guhe brought Dou Huang-level experts deep into the desert, the Qinglian Earth Fire must be about to appear?" Jiang Lin, flying close to the sand dunes, occasionally had to roll to change his flying direction to avoid ambushes from sand beasts in the ground, stopping occasionally to recover his Dou Qi.
Jiang Lin's method of recovering his Dou Qi was simple: Earth-level secret technique—Dou Qi Furnace!
He hadn't expected this secret technique to have such an incredible effect on replenishing the crystal core's Dou Qi consumption. Before he had a crystal core, Jiang Lin's use of the Dou Qi Furnace caused his Dou Qi to expand inside his body, and his meridians would work beyond their limits. However, since he began using the crystal core, his meridians still worked beyond capacity, but the damage was significantly reduced.
In Jiang Lin's words, the Dou Qi Furnace absorbed all the chaotic energies in the world. The various attributes of the Dou Qi destroyed the meridians, causing the damage to be severe. If it were pure fire-type Dou Qi, it wouldn't have caused much damage because the meridians acted like pipes, and pure water doesn't harm pipes. But when mixed with sand and debris, it would cause significant damage.
Now that Jiang Lin had two crystal cores—water-type and wood-type—his resistance to both gold-type and fire-type Dou Qi had become quite exceptional. This made the Dou Qi Furnace much more controllable.
Whoosh!
In the low-lying areas of the desert, Jiang Lin's body glowed with dreamlike four-colored light: red, gold, blue, and green. The four-colored flames wrapped around him like a faint elemental veil.
Inside Jiang Lin's body, the smooth blue crystal core and the dull green crystal core slowly rotated in the Dou Qi vortex, rapidly absorbing the surrounding single-attribute energy.
At Jiang Lin's current level of a Great Dou Master, it would take about a week to fill both crystal cores with energy. As for consumption, Jiang Lin hadn't tried yet, but he expected it to last for about half an hour in the Dou Qi Furnace state.
"Wood-type Dou Qi has the least impact on the meridians?" After temporarily restoring his Dou Qi, Jiang Lin slowly opened his crimson-golden eyes, and his elemental veil slowly faded.
However, Jiang Lin soon shook his head slightly, thinking to himself: "It's not that wood-type Dou Qi has a smaller impact on the meridians, but fire overcomes wood. The little impact from the wood-type Dou Qi hasn't even had a chance to affect the meridians, as the slightly heated meridians have already absorbed it."
"In a sense, I've created a small cycle, right? A water-fire-wood cycle... Tsk tsk, too bad fire and gold still need a crystal core. The human cultivation techniques don't have an actual magic core, which is why the Forged Fire Technique can't be cultivated. After all, high-level Dou Qi weapons come with energy cores, but humans don't have that."
"Adding wood-type Dou Qi... it still seems like I need about a month to fully adapt to using it without obstruction," Jiang Lin murmured, raising his hand and looking at the faint green Dou Qi in his palm, feeling the flow of wood-type Dou Qi in his body.
Earlier, when Guhe and the others visited unexpectedly, Jiang Lin hadn't had time to feel the wood-type Dou Qi brought by the wood-type crystal core. Now, while traveling, he had some free time to sense it.
"Mm, the cultivation speed really dropped to a quarter. The relationship between the Forged Fire Technique and the crystal core seems to follow a formula of 2^(x-y), where x is the cultivation level and y is the number of crystal cores. I'm now a Great Dou Master, approaching Dou Ling, meaning I'm cultivating a fourth-stage Forged Fire Technique. Without a crystal core, the cultivation effect would be one-sixteenth. Terrifying. With two crystal cores, the ratio jumps straight to one-quarter. How cool!"
Although the effect was a quarter, Jiang Lin still had a crystal pill that could be used for extra power! The combination of the crystal pill and the Forged Fire Technique was highly efficient, and with that, Jiang Lin could reach a 'normal' cultivation level.
Well, Jiang Lin's 'normal' might be slightly different from that of an ordinary person. If the normal for an ordinary person at the same level was ten, then after all the enhancements from his bloodline, physique, and soul, Jiang Lin's 'normal' might be fifty or sixty. After all, the Forged Fire Technique gave him a terrifying speed boost, but the ratio for body refinement growth was even more horrifying.
"I wonder if thunder, wind, and ice count..." Jiang Lin thought to himself.
(END CHAPTER)
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