Chapter 182 (1/2)

Lin was a bit impatient, for he didn’t want to fight with Bai Lingshi now. It was not because he was afraid but that the Gang-producing Lake was right in front of him—so who could still have the interest in having a fight?

If Bai Lingshi insisted, Lin was even prepared to refuse her.

To Lin’s surprise, Bai Lingshi shook her head and said, “A challenge doesn’t have to be a fight. We can have a race in the process of breaking through to the Gang Spirit Realm.”

Lin breathed a sigh of relief and asked, “A race for what?”

Bai Lingshi pointed at the Gang-producing Lake and said in a plain tone, “For who can hold on the longer time inside for cultivation and whose Pond of Spiritual Power is of better quality when making the breakthrough.”

This couldn’t be seen as a challenge. No matter whether she made such a proposal, Lin would still certainly do his best.

After all, the Gang-producing Lake came as a godsend for those trainees. Who would reserve potential at this time?

With a little thought, Lin agreed without hesitation.

Without any more words, Bai Lingshi flashed like an ethereal shadow and in an instant, she had already sat on one lotus-shaped stone platform.

With no hesitation, Lin also went straight to the last vacant stone platform in the Gang-producing Lake and sat cross-legged.

Most of the trainees heard their talks, which made them really uncomfortable.

Bai Lingshi should have only challenged Lin Xun. Didn’t it mean that the other trainees were all inferior to Lin in her eyes?

Many trainees gnashed their teeth and unanimously decided to see who on earth could hold on in the Gang-producing Lake for the longest time!

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The stone platforms were like lotuses floating on the lake. Wholly jade-like, they sent out a blast of coldness.

Sitting cross-legged on the stone platform, Lin instantly felt a blast of cold pure Gang Qi surging out, getting into his body, and making his skin sting and blood seem frozen.

Gang Qi!

In short, it was a very special kind of spiritual energy with incredible power and fantastic usages.

There were hundreds of kinds of Gang Qi in the world, including Gang of Yin and Yang, Gang of Fire, Gang of Ice, and Gang of Wood.

For practitioners, however, there were very few kinds of Gang Qi that could be used for refining spiritual energy.

The original Gang Qi in the Gang-producing Lake, for example, was of the first class—it was not only pure but also perfectly appropriate to the practitioners’ cultivation.

Thus it was rare and precious, belonging to those accidental treasures that could not be found easily.

Boom~

Tingling all over his skin, Lin had no more hesitation, held his breath, kept his soul composed and began to run the Nature Insight & Spirit-Devour Scripture. The vigorous spiritual energy circulated in his vessels and acupoints, making a roar inside his body.

Hua~~

Almost instantly, streams of pure but icy original Gang Qi were absorbed by his body, starting to sharply refine the spiritual energy all over the body.

Lin only felt as if lying in an ice cellar which was a thousand years old, with all his body invaded by piercing ice.

The original Gang Qi looked pure but held dreadful sharpness, and even Lin felt tides of sting by the physique and cultivation he had already owned.

Now Lin finally believed what Cao Shiliu said three days ago.

Their one year of training in the Bloodthirsty Camp was actually to lay a foundation for them to enter the Gang-producing Lake. They could hardly defend against or refine the crushing force from original Gang Qi without robust physique and cultivation!

Muffled sounds could be heard in every direction. Trainees now sitting cross-legged on different stone platforms all looked pale and were shivering. It was obvious that they were suffering from the same stinging coldness as Lin.

Some trainees even let out a cry, cutting a sorry figure after their cultivation was interrupted.

By contrast, Lin’s performance was not bad. At least, he still kept calm and carried on with his cultivation.

But he had grown apparently more careful than just now. The same time when he ran the Nature Insight & Spirit-Devour Scripture with all his strength, he attentively perceived his surroundings.

As time went by, Lin quickly adapted to the intrusive stinging coldness and immersed himself in cultivation.

He sat straight motionlessly like a clay statue, with a composed look and an ethereal air.

Wisps of mists surrounded him, adding an aura of purity and ethereality to him.

Lin just reached the perfection state of the ninth level of Martial Realm several days ago. The spiritual energy inside and outside his body went through a metamorphosis, and he was now at the perfection state of Spiritual Transformation.

Thus Lin didn’t worry about breaking through to the Gang Spirit Realm. His foundation had been refined to a robust level early on and was far superior to his peers.

And with the help of the four spiritual vortexes in four acupoints of his cardiac vessel and Nature Insight & Spirit-Devour Scripture, his spiritual energy was even refined to its ultimate, with horrible quality and power.

The only thing Lin was not clear on under the circumstances was which level of Pond of Spiritual Power he would own when reaching the Gang Spirit realm.

Lin was not alone on this point.