DipNovel Chapter 84 Hunting Sacred Beasts
Chapter 84 Hunting Sacred Beasts
In the training room of the Bright Moon Community in the Swallowed Star World, Lin Yun sat cross-legged, hovering in mid-air, feeling the surging spiritual power within his body. More than a month had passed since he broke through to the Planetary level through the Nine-Nine Forging God technique, and his spiritual master cultivation had been completely consolidated at the first level of the Planetary level.
However, his martial arts cultivation level remained at the peak of the advanced war god.
The spirits of plants and trees had no effect on him anymore. Those spiritual herbs that could elevate ordinary people to high-level warriors were like a drop in the ocean compared to his peak-level warrior god body.
The same applies to monster cores. The level seven and eight monster cores he brought from the Panlong World could only provide a trace amount of genetic energy after absorption, and their effect on a martial artist's cultivation was almost negligible.
"At this rate, I wonder when I'll be able to break through to the planetary level in martial arts cultivation." Lin Yun frowned.
He couldn't wait that long.
The gap between his martial arts cultivation and his mental power cultivation, while not affecting his combat strength, is still a weakness. Moreover, his body is the container for his mental power; if his physical condition is inadequate, the expression of his mental power will be limited.
We must find a way to break through.
Lin Yun turned his gaze to the sacred magical beasts in the Panlong World.
The energy contained in monster cores is similar to primal genetic energy, and it can be absorbed much faster than the cosmic energy in the world. Level seven or eight monster cores are useless to him now, but what about the core of a Saint-level monster?
Saint-level magical beasts are equivalent to planetary-level powerhouses in the world of Swallowed Star. Their cores contain at least a hundred times the energy of level eight magical beasts. If one can absorb the core of a Saint-level magical beast, their martial arts cultivation will have a breakthrough opportunity.
"That's settled then." Lin Yun switched his consciousness to the Panlong World.
Deep within the Monster Mountains.
The moonlight, like water, spilled across the dense primeval forest. Towering ancient trees blocked out the sun, creating complete darkness beneath their canopies, with only occasional dappled moonlight filtering through the leaves. The air was thick with the damp, decaying scent of leaves, mingled with the distinctive stench of magical beasts.
Lin Yun hovered above the forest, his mental energy spreading in all directions, covering an area of tens of kilometers.
This is the deepest part of the Monster Mountain Range, the territory of Saint-level magical beasts. Ordinary magical beasts dare not approach, and even level nine magical beasts must tuck their tails between their legs here. For adventurers below the Saint-level, this is forbidden territory. But for Lin Yun now, this is a hunting ground.
"Found it." Lin Yun's mental power detected a powerful life force.
It was a massive earth dragon at the initial Saint Realm level, twenty to thirty meters long, its body covered in dark red scales. It was coiled in a valley, fast asleep. The surrounding magical beasts all kept their distance from its territory, and there were no other powerful auras within several kilometers.
Lin Yun slowly descended from the sky, silently approaching the valley.
The earth dragon seemed to sense something and suddenly opened its eyes. Its vertical pupils gleamed with golden light in the darkness, locking onto Lin Yun. It opened its mouth wide and let out a low roar, which made the trees in the valley tremble.
Lin Yun made no attempt to conceal himself, flying directly from above the treetop and hovering in front of the earth dragon.
The earth dragon's gaze turned serious. It could sense that the aura emanating from this tiny human was no weaker than its own. A Saint Realm expert, and at the peak of the Saint Realm.
"Roar—" The earth dragon launched the first attack. Its tail lashed out like a giant iron whip, lashing towards Lin Yun with a whistling sound.
Lin Yun did not dodge. He raised his right hand, and a cyan wind blade condensed in his palm, instantly transforming into a huge wind blade several meters long, which he slashed at the earth dragon's tail.
Wind magic—Dimensional Slash. This is a Saint-level magic he mastered after comprehending the wind elemental law "Dimensional Profound Mystery". Dimensional Slash does not use wind blades to cut objects, but rather tears a rift in space, swallowing all matter and energy within it.
The wind blade collided with the earth dragon's tail without making a sound. The earth dragon's tail was severed cleanly at the root, the cut as smooth as a mirror, and blood gushed out. The earth dragon let out a mournful roar, its massive body violently retreating, its eyes filled with terror.
It had never seen such an attack before. Its tail was severed, but not by a blade, not by magic, but by space itself.
Lin Yun gave it no chance to catch its breath. He waved his hands repeatedly, unleashing two more dimensional slashes, one aimed at the earth dragon's neck and the other at its abdomen.
The earth dragon desperately tried to dodge, but the Dimensional Slash was too fast. It avoided the fatal blow to its neck, but was sliced in half by the Dimensional Slash to its abdomen. Internal organs and blood gushed from the wound, and the earth dragon's body crashed to the ground, struggling a few times before becoming still.
The entire battle lasted less than ten seconds.
A low-level Saint Realm earth dragon didn't even have a chance to fight back in front of Lin Yun.
Lin Yun landed beside the earth dragon's corpse, used his wind blade to slice open its head, and extracted the Sacred Domain Crystal Core. It was a fist-sized crystal core, dark red in color, with flames seemingly flowing inside, radiating intense heat.
"Such pure energy." Lin Yun held the crystal core in his hand and probed it with his mental energy, feeling the enormous life energy within.
He stored the crystal core in his spatial ring, and then used the small cauldron to transport it to the Swallowed Star world.
In the cultivation room of Mingyue Community, Lin Yun opened his eyes and took out the Saint Realm Initial Stage Crystal Core from his spatial ring.
The crystal core radiated warm energy, and a slight pulsation could be felt when held in the hand. Lin Yun took a deep breath and began to circulate the Five Hearts Towards Heaven cultivation technique, attempting to absorb the energy within the crystal core.
The moment his mental energy probed into the crystal core, a massive surge of energy, like a flood bursting its banks, rushed into his body.
That energy wasn't ordinary genetic energy; it was the crystallization of the earth dragon's life essence. It contained the energy of heaven and earth that the earth dragon had absorbed over hundreds of years, as well as its understanding of the earth's power. When this energy surged into Lin Yun's body, he felt every cell rejoice, and his genetic energy grew rapidly.
The bottleneck of the peak of advanced war god begins to loosen at this moment.
Lin Yun focused intently on absorbing the energy from the crystal core. As time passed, the crystal core's color gradually lightened from dark red until it became a transparent, ordinary crystal, its internal energy completely absorbed.
He opened his eyes, sensing the changes within his body. His martial arts cultivation had risen from the peak of the advanced War God realm to the limit of the peak War God realm, just a hair's breadth away from the Planetary realm. But that hair's breadth was not something a single Saint-level initial crystal core could break through.
"Again."
Lin Yun switched his consciousness to the Panlong World and continued the hunt.
Over the next few days, he hunted down three early-stage Saint-level magical beasts deep within the Magical Beast Mountains: an earth dragon, a thunder eagle, and a frost python. He then teleported all three early-stage Saint-level crystal cores to the Devouring Star World.
In the cultivation room, Lin Yun sat cross-legged, holding the third crystal core in his hand—the crystal core of the Frost Python, which was ice blue and exuded a bone-chilling cold.
He closed his eyes and began to absorb.
Energy surged into the body, and the cells frantically devoured this power. Genetic energy surged within the body like a flood bursting its banks, crashing against that invisible barrier.
"boom--"
Something seemed to explode in his mind. Lin Yun's body shuddered violently, and a powerful aura erupted from him, causing the items in the cultivation room to scatter.
Planetary level.
His martial arts cultivation finally broke through the peak of the advanced war god and stepped into the threshold of the planetary level.
Lin Yun opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing within them. He clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within his body. The gap between his physical attributes and mental cultivation had finally been leveled. A planetary-level first-tier martial artist, a planetary-level first-tier mental cultivator.
But the real surprise is yet to come.
The instant he broke through to the planetary level, a strange power surged from the depths of his body. It was an awakening at the genetic level, the activation of a talent hidden deep within his bloodline.
Lin Yun felt a strange change taking place in his body. Cellular activity increased dramatically, and his metabolism accelerated several times over. He raised his hand and lightly made a cut on his fingertip with a throwing knife. Blood seeped out, but the wound healed at a visible speed, disappearing completely within seconds without leaving a scar.
"This is..." Lin Yun was stunned.
Wood-attribute talent – Immortality.
In the world of Swallowed Star, the Wood-attribute genetic talent is extremely rare. Martial artists possessing this talent have recovery abilities far exceeding those of ordinary people. The same injury that would take others a month to heal, they can recover in just a few days. While others would suffer permanent disabilities, they can perfectly regenerate.
Of course, this "immortality" is completely different from the true immortality of the eternally powerful beings in the universe. It only allows Lin Yun's recovery speed to far exceed that of ordinary martial artists, but it is far from achieving the level of limb regeneration or blood regeneration. Even so, it is still an extremely precious talent.
"Wood attribute..." Lin Yun murmured, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. In the original work, after Luo Feng's martial arts broke through to the planetary level, the talent he obtained was "Diamond Body," which is a relatively common talent. However, the "Immortal Body" of the wood attribute is obviously much rarer!
In the Panlong world, there are only seven elements: earth, fire, water, wind, thunder, light, and darkness. There are no metal or wood elements, which means that he cannot comprehend the laws of metal and wood in the Panlong world. However, he now possesses the talent of wood attribute, which means that he has the possibility of comprehending the laws of wood, at least opening a new door for him.
"Three Saint-level initial crystal cores were exchanged for a breakthrough in martial arts cultivation to the Planetary level, and I even awakened a wood-attribute talent." Lin Yun's lips curled up slightly. "It was worth it."
He switched his consciousness to the Panlong World.
In the Monster Mountain Range, Lin Yun's other body sat cross-legged on a giant tree, slowly opening his eyes.
Almost the instant the martial artist in the Swallowed Star World broke through to the planetary level, this body also felt the feedback from that power.
The warrior's cultivation level broke through directly from the peak of level nine to the Saint Realm.
In his human form, both his warrior and mage cultivation levels reached the Saint Realm at this moment. Although his warrior Saint Realm was only at the initial stage, with the added boost from his dragon form, his basic strength was enough to reach the peak of the Saint Realm.
Lin Yun stood up and released his dragon form.
His entire body was covered in turquoise scales, dragon horns emerged from either side of his forehead, and his tail swayed gently behind him. He clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within him.
"The foundational power of a peak Saint Realm cultivator," Lin Yun murmured, "combined with the insights gained from the seven elemental laws, and the soul attack from the rules of death..."
He silently assessed his own strength in his mind.
Seven elemental laws and fourteen profound mysteries—though he had only just begun to grasp them—his seamless integration and mastery of the seven elements made his fighting style unpredictable and ever-changing. The soul attacks and soul enslavement techniques of the Death Law were particularly formidable and difficult to defend against. Add to that the defensive and power boosts of his dragon form—
"At the Saintly Realm level, I fear no one anymore," Lin Yun concluded.
Even against those veteran peak Saint-level experts, those renowned for centuries and possessing profound understanding of the laws, he was confident he could fight them. His understanding of the laws might not be as deep as theirs, but his methods were more numerous. With the Seven Elements Cycle, he could always find a way to counter his opponent.
"However, I must not be arrogant," Lin Yun reminded himself.
Above the Saintly Realm lies the Godly Realm. Godly Realm experts have comprehended the complete mysteries of the laws, mastered the divine domain, and their strength far surpasses that of Saintly Realm experts. His current strength might make him a formidable opponent in the Saintly Realm, but against a Godly Realm expert, he is still no match.
"We must continue to grow stronger."
Lin Yun deactivated his dragon form, sat down cross-legged again, and closed his eyes.
Moonlight bathed his shoulders, and the seven elements of magic flowed gently around him. His consciousness sank into the ocean of laws, continuing to comprehend the profound mysteries he had just begun to grasp.
Meanwhile, in another world, Lin Yun in the Devouring Starry Sky was also consolidating his newly broken-through planetary-level martial artist cultivation in the training room.
Two bodies, two worlds, cultivating simultaneously and promoting each other.
That is his greatest advantage.