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Thinking up to here, Lin Jian did as he was told.

He channeled the Spirit Devouring Method and used his greatest strength to absorb the gathered elemental energy into his body and into his dantian. Then, he guided them into his meridians in an orderly fashion.

In the Nine Regions Continent, Building Foundation Period was a stage that every martial artist had to go through, and body refinement was the first step of Foundation Establishment.

The human body had eight extraordinary meridians, namely, the Governor Meridian, Ren Meridian, Chong Meridian, Belt Meridian, Yang Wei, Yin Wei, Yang Sou, and Yin Sou.

These eight extraordinary meridians corresponded to the eight grades of Body Refinement. Every time a meridian was opened, a martial artist's physique would improve and the soul force in their body would become stronger.

Lin Jian's current cultivation was at the Second grade Refining Body. This meant that he had just opened up the Ren Du and Du meridians of the eight extraordinary meridians. If he wanted to break through to the Third grade Refining Body, he must open up the third 'Chong meridian'.

After the spirit energy entered his body, it went through the circulation route in his dantian and entered his meridians. First, it went through the open meridians, then it went into the meridians.

Lin Jian had done this step countless of times before, but his physique was too weak. The grade of the cultivation technique he practiced was not high, and the amount of heaven and earth elemental energy he could absorb and use was not only small, the quality was also very low. Although the shackles of his pulse weren't very strong, but it wasn't something that bad quality elemental energy could break.

However, Lin Jian was different.

After the Spirit Devouring Method circulated, his body was filled with a vast amount of vigorous and rich spirit energy, like a valiant soldier. When the spirit energy in his dantian circulated to the second circulation path, a faintly discernible strand of spirit energy finally rushed into his meridians, followed closely by his army, like a hot knife through butter.

"Hu!"

Lin Jian looked very comfortable as he let out a mouthful of impure air and started to stabilize his breakthrough.

After his elemental energy broke through the shackles of his breakthrough, Lin Jian's Dantian was able to contain a lot more elemental energy. When he started to circulate his elemental energy again, his Spirit Devouring Method had undergone a change.

"Hmm? "This is …"

Lin Jian's heart skipped a beat and his spirit energy started to circulate uncontrollably. At the same time, the originally steady spirit energy in his mind started to throb as if it was about to rush out of his body, "Releasing spirit energy? Isn't this an ability that can only be grasped after one has reached the Foundation Establishment stage? "

While he was still confused, his spirit power had already rushed out of his Sea of Consciousness.

Lin Jian did not dare to hesitate and immediately stabilized his mind. He tried to control this spiritual force and after communicating with it, he saw a completely different world.

That was the perspective of Spiritual Detection!

"As expected of a heaven level cultivation technique, it actually goes against common sense, allowing a martial artist to have the ability to detect their soul while in the Body Refinement Realm. Although the detection range is not as great as a real Foundation Establishment martial artist's, it is still extremely powerful even though it can only detect a situation within a hundred meters.

Lin Jian sighed and tried his best to spread out his Spiritual Energy. In a blink of an eye, all the movements within a hundred meter radius could not escape Lin Jian's senses. Any movement of the grass could be caught by him.

"Young, young master …" Are you alright? Mm, that's great … "Whoosh.

On the first floor of the pavilion, Xiao Sanzi was lying on his bed, talking in his sleep. When the fifteen to sixteen year old boy fell asleep, there was a satisfied smile on his face with sparkling saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth.

"This child."

Lin Jian shook his head and sighed.

Very quickly, his spirit power covered the entire Violet Bamboo Pavilion, like a god overlooking the earth.

At this moment, a familiar aura appeared in Lin Jian's perception, causing him to be stunned for a moment.

"This is?!"

Lin Jian suddenly stood up, stood up from his bed and quickly walked out of the loft. He arrived at the garden in the backyard of Violet Bamboo Pavilion, and walked along the small path until he finally stopped in front of a grave.

Inscribed on the tablet — —

19th generation Patriarch of the Lin Family, Lin Zhenyue's Tomb. Nine Regions Continent Calendar, 2,347.

This is Lin Jian's father's grave.

As the Sword Spirit, Lin Jian was also very familiar with Lin Zhenyue, because this person was killed by Bai Cangtian.

On the path of Bai Cangtian's rise, many famous Rankers had fallen, and Lin Zhenyue, who was previously reputed as the number one expert in Greencloud City, was one of them.

When he had just reincarnated, he also lamented the fact that fate made fools of people. He did not expect that he would be reborn into the home of Bai Cangtian's enemy. Perhaps this was heaven's will.

Lin Jian remembered that when Bai Cangtian had killed Lin Zhenyue, Bai Cangtian had left a foreshadowing mark on Lin Zhenyue's body.

It was one of the Sword Spirit's innate skills, the Death Sword Fruit.

By killing someone with this move, a seed of sword qi would be buried inside the enemy's corpse. This seed would use the corpse as a nutrient and foundation, and would absorb the surrounding heaven and earth elemental energy and the power of destiny.

Not only could it strengthen one's sword intent, it could also use sword qi to temper one's body, helping martial artists raise their cultivation.

According to Bai Cangtian's plan, if the Lin Clan buried Lin Zhenyue in their ancestral tomb, then this Sword Fruit seed would crazily absorb the Lin Clan's spirit energy and luck. While quickly forming a Sword Fruit, it would also be a blow to the Lin Clan's spirit energy level, removing wind and water.

But unfortunately …

Lin Zhenyue was, after all, the former number one expert of Greencloud City. Before he died, he felt that Bai Cangtian had done something to him, so he made a will not to enter the ancestral tomb, and just buried it in his own Violet Bamboo Pavilion. This made Bai Cangtian's plan go down the drain.

If they did not enter the ancestral tomb, the Sword Fruit would not receive enough nutrients. Soon, it would wilt by itself. When Bai Cangtian found out about Lin Zhenyue's arrangements, his heart would also die.

But at this moment —

Through his Spirit power, Lin Jian actually detected the aura of the Sword Fruit.

"Although this place is beautiful, it isn't a heavenly paradise. Logically speaking, that Sword Fruit seed should have already withered and disappeared long ago. But now, I feel as if it has matured …"

Lin Jian frowned slightly. His heart was very strange. After repeated confirmation, he knew that there was no mistake with his perception. Thus, he wanted to dig the grave to see what it was.

If it was the original Lin Jian, then this idea could be called outrageous.

However, as a Sword Spirit, Lin Jian did not have these considerations.

Firstly, he was not the real son of Lin Zhenyue. Secondly, he also knew Lin Zhenyue's character.

This person's temperament was tyrannical. He coveted beauties, and when there was a disagreement, he would kill people. It was normal for adulterers, wives, and daughters to be exterminated. At first, it was because he raped a woman, and that woman was even close to Bai Cangtian, that he got himself killed.

Lin Jian didn't have any burdens in his heart when he dug the grave of such a person.

The third and most important reason was that the Sword Fruit was very valuable to Lin Jian. If a mature Sword Fruit was really buried here, after consuming it, Lin Jian's cultivation realm would increase by leaps and bounds.

"Dig!"

Lin Jian made up his mind. He looked around and finally made his move.

He took out a shovel and gently opened up the grave. He was very careful because he didn't want to alarm the others.

Before long, Lin Jian saw a coffin and the Sword Fruit's aura came from inside the coffin.

Lin Jian jumped into the deep pit and opened the coffin lid with his hands. Although the lid was nailed onto the coffin, with his Third grade Refining Body, Lin Jian could easily release a thousand pounds of power. With the soul force attached to his arm, the coffin lid slowly opened and a pungent smell of corpses assaulted his nose.

Lin Jian frowned and waved his sleeve to expel the stench. After opening the coffin, he saw a set of white bones and tattered clothes inside, and at the heart of the corpse, there was a black bead.

"It really is a Sword Fruit!"

Lin Jian's eyes lit up as he reached out to pick up the Sword Fruit. He realized that the maturity of the Sword Fruit was beyond imagination. He really did not know how much luck it had absorbed in the past few years.

"Could it be that this Violet Bamboo Pavilion is actually a treasure land with heaven-defying destiny?"

Lin Jian muttered, feeling even more confused.

However, since the Sword Fruit had already matured, it was best to absorb it as soon as possible.

He estimated that if Lin Jian were to fully absorb the Sword Fruit, his cultivation realm would increase by at least three levels!

Lin Jian smiled in satisfaction. He closed the coffin again and pressed the nail back with his hand. However, he accidentally used too much force and pushed the coffin a few inches.

A ray of golden light seeped out from the bottom of the coffin, appearing exceptionally bright in the night sky.

"That's …"

Lin Jian was stunned for a moment, then took the initiative to push the coffin to the side.

They saw that underneath the coffin, there was a golden dragon pattern. It was like a totem, yet it was also like a living creature. A palm-sized dragon pattern, it was slowly spiraling, like a miniature real dragon.

"..." "Dragon Meridians!"

Lin Jian's eyes widened and his chin almost dropped to the ground. Even though he was a reincarnated person who had followed Bai Cangtian across the Nine Regions in his previous life and had seen countless storms, after seeing this dragon vein, the shock in his heart couldn't be suppressed at all.

The dragon fountain was the most valuable treasure which the Grand Dao of Heaven and Earth had bestowed upon mankind.

If the imperial empire had dragon veins, then the national destiny would be prosperous, the weather would be smooth, and the royal bloodline would last for a thousand years.

If a martial practitioner possessed a dragon's vein and absorbed it, not only would they be blessed with qi and blood, but they could also train at a godly speed to reach an extremely tyrannical level of elemental energy.

Name — Dragon Core Power!

Legend has it that a thousand years ago, a major power who cultivated the Dragon Core Power and was bestowed great luck upon his body was able to grow from a nameless nobody to become the strongest warrior in the Nine Regions Continent in just ten short years, personally establishing a great dynasty.

This dynasty was one of the three great kings of the Nine Regions Continent, the Wu Dynasty.

A thousand years later, the dragon's vein reappeared in this world. Who would have thought that it would appear in such a remote and remote place, right in front of Lin Jian's eyes …

"No wonder Lin Zhenyue did not enter the ancestral grave, yet the Sword Fruit is still mature. It turns out that he absorbed the qi flow emitted by the dragon vein. This is truly …" "Really …" Lin Jian was so shocked that he was at a loss for words. For a moment, he couldn't find a single word to describe his current state of mind. Even his fingers were trembling.