Chapter 7: Breakthrough

The news about Lin Qingfan's battle against the "Fierce Beast Trio" spread throughout Qingyang Town shortly after the two sides ended.
There, as soon as Lin Qingfan returned to the Lin mansion, he was surrounded by countless Lin siblings at the entrance. The burning gazes made Lin Qingfan think he had entered the wrong place.
After triple-checking that he was indeed at the Lin mansion, he finally breathed a sigh of relief!
"What's going on here, everyone?" Lin Qingfan asked in surprise.
"Haha, nephew Lin Qingfan, today you have helped our Lin family vent our frustration. It's really a relief to everyone!" A hearty laughter echoed in the courtyard.
Soon, the Lin family disciples who surrounded Lin Qingfan moved apart one by one, and a sturdy figure appeared.
"Uncle!" Lin Qingfan shouted at the newcomer.
"Oh, don't be so polite." Lin Hai waved his hand and said casually. He glanced at Lin Qingfan and frowned when he noticed the scar on his face. "Did Bai Cheng attack you?"
Lin Qingfan did not conceal anything and nodded, saying with a smile: "Just an ambush!"
Hearing this answer, Lin Hai was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said: "Good, you do have guts. Practice well, Uncle has full confidence in you!"
"Yes, yes, Brother Qingfan must beat up Bai Cheng fiercely!" There was immediately a clamor around.
Lin Qingfan smiled, looking at the young faces around him, feeling a wave of inexplicable excitement in his heart: "I will, not just Bai Cheng, the entire Bai family will be driven out of Qingyang Town!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the surrounding area suddenly became quiet. Even Lin Hai, who was brimming with a smile, froze. However, when he saw the serious expression on Lin Qingfan's young but determined face, the blood in his body seemed to be stirred. At that moment, he understood why his father had accepted the challenge from the Bai family.
"Well done, worthy of being a man of my Lin family!" The hearty voice expressed Lin Hai's current mood. The mentality that had been almost worn away by time for over thirty years was boiling up once again in this moment.
"The Lin family must win, and Lin Qingfan must win!"
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After the conversation, Lin Qingfan returned to his other courtyard, entered his room, and closed the door.
He took off his clothes and revealed his muscular physique. At this time, you will notice that he has weights on his ankles and wrists, which are made of sand. Lin Qingfan usually uses these weights as resistance training. Only during the fight, these sand weights will form armor to protect his vital organs.
As Lin Qingfan raised his left hand, the sand on his body seemed to come alive, flying away andfinally all entering the small wooden basin under the table.
Next, Lin Qingfan took out a Yuan Yang Pill from the medicine bottle. He had just entered the mid-stage of Qi refining, and if he were to take it directly, his meridians would not be able to withstand the impact of the medicine's power and could even cause damage to his meridians.
Therefore, Lin Qingfan decided to dilute the pill before absorbing it.
In the room, there is a large wooden tub that Lin Qingfan usually uses for bathing. Now, well!
Lin Qingfan walked to the wooden tub that had been filled with half of water in advance, and threw the pill of Yang Yuan in his hand into it. With a "plop" sound, the Yang Yuan pill slowly sank in!
After a few minutes, the clear water in the wooden bucket had turned milky white, which was the result of the spiritual energy stored in the Yuanyang Dan merging with the water.
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In the room, the young man sat cross-legged in the wooden bucket with his hands clasped in front of him in a strange seal. He had his eyes closed and was breathing rhythmically.
The wooden bucket was filled with milky white liquid, and with a slight shake, it emitted colorful light, which was quite miraculous.
The young man's chest rose and fell slightly, his breathing had a rhythmic feeling. As the cultivation time elapsed, the milky white liquid in the wooden basin turned into magical air currents, rising slowly, and finally, following the young man's breath, penetrated into his body.
The airflow entered the body, and the young boy's tender face was also glowing with a rosy hue.
Perceiving the spiritual energy being drawn into his body, slowly nourishing and strengthening his meridians, a faint smile appeared on the young boy's tender face.
Tasting the sweetness, the young man did not stop there.
At night, he controlled the sand to move the wooden barrel to the courtyard, bathed in the brilliance of the stars. His eyes were still closed, the handprint on his fingertips was motionless, his mind and breath were concentrated, maintaining the best state of practice, greedily absorbing the star power and spiritual energy contained in the water.
A milky white liquid, stained with the young man's skin, seeped into his body through his pores, nurturing his bones and cleansing his veins…
With the help of starlight and medicine, Lin Qingfan's body grew at an extremely fast pace.
修炼，便是在这般忘寝废食的苦修中缓缓度过。
除了每日清晨，林轻凡会跑到后山花费几个时辰练习风云掌，其他时间全部都是在别院度过。
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Four months later, when the ninth element of Yang Dan was consumed, Lin Qingfan crawled out of the wooden barrel with a smile on his face. He wiped off the water stains on his body and casually put on a clean garment.
Then, with a flick of his finger, Lin Qingfan's left hand created a small stream of sand from the wooden basin filled with pebbles under the table, which flowed into his sleeve and attached to his limbs.
Finally about to break through!" Lin Qingfan nodded in satisfaction, feeling that the true qi in his dantian was full and in a bottleneck state about to break through.
A week ago, he felt that he had reached a bottleneck. But he didn't rush to break through, instead he continued to practice as usual, until today, when his physical condition was adjusted to its best!
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Behind the Lin family's house is a hill, where many disciples of the Lin family used to come. They were not there to practice, but to enjoy the moon, hold hands with each other, kiss, and show their affection for each other!
Since then, Lin Qingfan has often practiced here and the disciples of the Lin family have been very conscientious about not appearing, after all, Lin Qingfan's practice is related to the future of the Lin family.
Since then, the Lin family's back mountain has become Lin Qingfan's private space.
Therefore, Lin Qingfan chose to break through in a very hidden place in the back mountain, at least no one would suddenly appear to disturb him during the breakthrough.
Lin Qingfan sat on a giant rock and took a slow breath. He took out a jade bottle from his pocket and tilted it slightly. The last piece of the Yang Yuan Pill rolled out.
The Yuan Yang Pill has no smell at all. It is completely condensed from pure spiritual energy. Looking at the Yuan Yang Pill with a glossy and round surface, Lin Qingsan smiled slightly, licked his lips, and without any hesitation, took it into his mouth.
As soon as Yuan Yangdan entered his mouth, a tingling sensation spread across Lin Qingfan's mouth. After a moment, a warm pure energy rushed into his body directly from his mouth. Suddenly, Lin Qingfan's body trembled.
In the fierce impact of spiritual energy, even he now feels a little overwhelmed. His body trembles and the true qi inside him erupts like a mountain torrent, crazily impacting the major meridians.
After a moment, Lin Qingfan calmed his mind, quickly formed special hand seals with both hands, and his breathing gradually became steady. The surging spiritual energy moved in response to his heart, flowing into a specific meridian and finally converging into the dantian.
Tooth biting down on his lip, he forcibly endured the waves of pain that pulsed through his meridians. Fortunately, his cultivation of the Witch Emperor's Art had strengthened his vascular system beyond that of an ordinary person. Despite the raging spiritual power relentlessly battering him, he managed to withstand it within his limits.
In the body, strands of violent spiritual energy are drawn into the Dantian and intertwined with the true energy already present, constantly refining.
However, they seem to be endless, with even larger amounts of spiritual energy rushing in every time a bundle is refined.
The refining process is still ongoing, and when the succession of pure spiritual energy begins to weaken, Lin Qingfan, who is intoxicated by the rapid increase of power, suddenly finds that the true qi in his Dantian has expanded to a critical point that cannot be further increased.
The expansion of the true qi in the dantian directly caused the spiritual energy in Lin Qingfan's meridians to be unable to convert, and a burst of intense pain made his mouth crack.
This situation is exactly what the book describes as the critical point of breakthrough. He dare not be careless. If he does not compress the true qi in the dantian, it will really explode.
With a deep breath of cool air, Lin Qingfan's handprints quickly changed. The thumb and index finger touched, and the middle fingers pointed towards each other, creating a strange handprint with all ten fingers.
As the nimble handprint changed, the spiritual energy in the body was suddenly sucked in violently, rapidly contracting towards the dantian location.
The white spiritual energy in the veins throughout the body unexpectedly began to shrink, and when all the spiritual energy had shrunk to the dantian position, the diluted true energy began to become denser.
"Compress the true energy!" Lin Qingfan only had this thought in his mind now, success or failure would depend on this moment. If successful, he would soar to become a cultivator.
Failure would mean he had to return to square one, and it would be much more difficult to condense the Mana Cyclone next time. After three failed attempts, there would be almost no hope of breakthrough.
This level has also puzzled countless cultivators.
Therefore, it must be achieved successfully in one attempt.
Nodding slightly, Lin Qingfan focused his mind and controlled the true energy in his body, then began to compress it crazily...
Inside the dantian, the white true qi in the form of mist constantly rebelled, violently boiling.
As the qi cluster became smaller, the resistance also grew stronger. However, under Lin Qingfan's powerful will, the protest of the true qi was like a mantis trying to stop a car. After a slight confrontation, it began to shrink helplessly.
When the true qi had shrunk to the size of a palm, it solidified again.
Lin Qingfan knew that this was not enough.
Gritting his teeth, with his eyes tightly closed and sweat dripping from his forehead, Lin Qingfan took a few deep breaths of cool air. Suddenly, with a loud shout, he unleashed his power to its maximum, and then compressed it fiercely downwards!
"Boom!"
A faint muffled sound quietly sounded inside the body...
As the muffled sound sounded, the resistance feeling that almost exhausted Lin Qingfan disappeared. In the dantian, the misty true energy disappeared, forming a milky white vortex.
The spiritual energy in the meridians also slowly flowed into the dantian and automatically transformed into mana. The feeling of swelling and pain suddenly disappeared. Seeing this scene, Lin Qingfan breathed a sigh of relief, and his whole body fell down weakly, with violent ups and downs in his chest.
"Succeeded..."
Lin Qingfan's lips curled into a smile, and after a moment, the smile gradually widened, eventually turning into a chuckle, a loud laugh, and then uncontrollable fits of laughter...