By the time Lin Chen completed these two four-star tasks, several days had passed.

Lin Chen returned to Tianji Sect with the spiritual herbs and ores needed for the sect's mission. After handing over the mission, Lin Chen received a total of one thousand contribution points. In addition to the previous mission of killing the black silver crocodile and the redemption of the low-level Xuan level

Lin Chen already had nearly 2,000 contribution points left in his skills.

With so many contribution points, if it were other inner disciples, it would probably take up to half a year, or even a year, to raise them all.

But even so, nearly two thousand contribution points were still not enough for Lin Chen to exchange for a low-level Xuan-level martial skill.

Lin Chen walked along the path and returned to his small courtyard.

Tianji Sect is one of the five great sects in the Yannan Region and has countless disciples. On Lin Chen's way back to the small courtyard, he saw many inner disciples with varying levels of cultivation.

An inner disciple passed by Lin Chen. Suddenly, he turned his head, looked at Lin Chen's back, and exclaimed: "Lin Chen, he is Lin Chen!"

"What, what? Lin Chen is back?"

"Where is it! I want to challenge him!"

As the disciple's exclamation rang out, there was a sudden noise all around. Everyone's eyes widened, scanning the surroundings like wolves, as if they were looking for Lin Chen.

The inner disciple who spoke before growled in frustration: "He's gone!" When he looked around, he could see Lin Chen's figure in front of him, and he had clearly gone far away.

"Leaving? He should have just returned from completing the sect's mission. He must be returning to the courtyard at this moment."

"By the way, you are right! He must be returning to his place of residence."

"This opportunity must not be missed and will never come back. If you miss this opportunity, it will not be so easy to get on the Tianji Ranking."

The disciples around were noisy for a while, and each one looked excited as they quickly walked towards the place where Lin Chen disappeared.

Since Lin Chen's battle with Zhuang Hongfei, almost all the disciples in the Tianji Sect's inner sect have known about Lin Chen's deeds. At the late stage of the ninth level of the Body Refining Realm, he ranked 489th on the Tianji Ranking, and had a battle with Zhuang Hongfei.

, he successfully defeated Zhuang Hongfei with his "slightly stronger" strength.

At that time, Zhuang Hongfei believed that if he connected his martial arts skills to the fourth form, he would definitely be able to defeat Lin Chen.

Under this situation, many inner disciples who thought they were slightly stronger than Zhuang Hongfei, or had the same strength as Zhuang Hongfei, immediately frantically searched for Lin Chen, hoping to defeat the latter and successfully ascend to the Tianji Ranking!

However, Lin Chen has been away doing sect tasks for the past few days. Even if they want to challenge Lin Chen, they can't find him.

But now, knowing that Lin Chen had returned to the sect, how could they miss the opportunity to challenge Lin Chen.

Many disciples walked together and quickly headed towards the small courtyard where Lin Chen lived. Some disciples even used their footwork directly, hoping to arrive first before everyone else and be the first to challenge Lin Chen.

…

Lin Chen couldn't help but feel speechless when he heard the voices of many disciples behind him. When he saw the Tianji Ranking for the first time, he was also shocked, but he did not expect that many disciples valued the Tianji Ranking so much and wanted to pass the challenge one by one.

He successfully climbed onto the Tianji Ranking.

Without thinking much, Lin Chen headed directly towards his small courtyard.

Now that there is only one year left before the Inner Sect Competition, Lin Chen must improve his strength as soon as possible. And this time after completing the sect mission and returning to the sect, Lin Chen plans to upgrade his cultivation level to Tiangang Realm!

Compared with body refining realm warriors, Tiangang realm warriors have more true energy in their Dantian, and the true energy in their bodies is extremely pure, and the martial arts they perform are also exceptionally powerful. For example, if a yellow-level intermediate martial skill is performed by a Tiangang realm warrior, its

The power is many times more powerful than what a body refining level warrior can exert.

However, once a warrior enters the Tiangang realm and wants to continue to break through, in addition to reaching the amount of true energy in the body, he also needs to have some understanding of martial arts. Otherwise, even if the warrior reaches the amount of true energy in the body, it will be difficult to break through in cultivation.

It is the so-called bottleneck!

It is precisely because of this bottleneck that the gap between genius warriors and ordinary warriors will quickly widen in the Tiangang realm stage. After all, geniuses have great martial arts talents, and their understanding of martial arts is much faster than that of ordinary warriors, so it is natural for them to achieve breakthroughs in cultivation.

It's also extremely fast.

Returning to the small courtyard, Lin Chen immediately prepared to go into seclusion and practice hard.

In the room, Lin Chen was sitting cross-legged on the bed. As soon as his soul power moved, several bottles of middle-grade Qi Gathering Pills and several bottles of high-grade Qi Gathering Pills appeared in front of him.

The high-grade Qi Gathering Pill is very powerful, and is much more effective than the middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill.

These high-grade Qi Gathering Pills were obtained by killing the ruthless middle-aged man who called himself Bu Gao when Lin Chen was in Jinyang City. Lin Chen had already used some high-grade Qi Gathering Pills when he was practicing with Tianling Pills.

, and now there are four bottles left.

Taking out a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill, Lin Chen opened his mouth and swallowed it directly.

As this high-quality Qi Gathering Pill was taken down, a torrent of spiritual energy from heaven and earth suddenly appeared in his body. This spiritual energy from heaven and earth was extremely huge, filling all the major meridians in his body, and a feeling of bulging emerged spontaneously.

But soon, a suction force suddenly came from his mind, instantly absorbing all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in his meridians.

Lin Chen's expression remained unchanged, he took out a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill again, opened his mouth and swallowed it.

Not long after he swallowed another high-grade Qi Gathering Pill, the small cauldron in his mind suddenly spurted out a stream of pure spiritual energy from heaven and earth, followed by a strong suction force that pulled him away.

Afterwards, all the medicinal effects of the high-grade Qi Gathering Pill that were swallowed were absorbed.

Seeing this scene, Lin Chen immediately used the True Lotus Heart Technique to quickly refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that had been purified by the small cauldron.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth after being purified by Xiaoding is extremely pure. Under the continuous use of the True Lotus Heart Technique, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is quickly refined.

One great celestial cycle, two great celestial cycles...

Time passed little by little, and in less than half a cup of tea, Lin Chen finished refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that was transformed into the first high-grade Qi Gathering Pill. However, at the same time, an extremely pure stream of energy was sprayed out from the small cauldron again.

The spirit of heaven and earth.

Lin Chen continued to use the True Lotus Heart Technique to refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, while taking out a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill and swallowed it with his mouth open.

This cycle continues.

As Lin Chen continued to take high-grade Qi Gathering Pills to refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the true energy in his Dantian immediately increased at an extremely fast speed.

"drink!"

Lin Chen gave a low drink. The continuous refining of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth made him a little exhausted. After a low drink, he stretched out his hand, took out the high-grade Qi Gathering Pill, opened his mouth and swallowed one.

After doing this, he gritted his teeth slightly, took out another high-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and swallowed it.

Take two top-grade Qi Gathering Pills at the same time!

The high-grade Qi Gathering Pill is powerful and suitable for consumption by peak warriors in the late Tiangang realm. After being purified by the small cauldron, the heaven and earth spiritual energy transformed by the high-grade Qi Gathering Pill is pure and the quantity is much smaller. Therefore, Lin Chen can bear it.

, but precisely because of this, after Lin Chen refined it, the amount of true energy he obtained was relatively less than that of other warriors.

Before, Lin Chen took a large number of high-grade Qi Gathering Pills to practice, and the true energy in his body had reached a full state, and there were already signs of an imminent breakthrough. He just wanted to break through to the ninth level of the body refining realm, just one

A top-grade Qi Gathering Pill is not enough.

As he swallowed two high-quality Qi Gathering Pills, a strong bulging sensation suddenly came from all the major meridians in his body, causing Lin Chen's face to turn pale instantly and cold sweat falling down his face.

It's as if all the major meridians are about to be exploded by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and suppressed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that was rushing around in the major meridians in his body. Not long after, a suction force came from his mind again, absorbing all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

"call"

As this spiritual energy of heaven and earth was absorbed by the small cauldron, the bulging meridians in Lin Chen's body suddenly relaxed, and Lin Chen couldn't help but let out a soft breath.

After a moment, the small cauldron spurted out a burst of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, which was extremely pure.

Start refining!

The True Lotus Heart Technique is a low-level Xuan-level skill. It is divided into six levels. If you do not upgrade one level, the speed of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will be greatly increased. Lin Chen's True Lotus Heart Art has now reached the second level. He refines the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

His speed is several times faster than that of warriors of the same level!

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in his body was rapidly refined.

And as this spiritual energy of heaven and earth was refined, the true energy in his Dantian also increased rapidly, gathering together, hoping to break through that bottleneck and hit the peak of the ninth level of the body refining realm!

"Break it for me!"

Buzzing…

With Lin Chen's low drink, the zhenqi in his dantian gathered into a ball, and finally burst into pieces with a buzzing sound. A large amount of zhenqi spread out and filled the dantian space, forming a ball.

There is a very thick mist.

At the same time, Lin Chen's aura suddenly rose, and he looked full of energy.

"The peak of the ninth level of body refining realm!"

Lin Chen's face was filled with joy. After continuous practice, his cultivation level finally broke through from the late ninth level of the Body Refining Realm to the peak of the Ninth Level Body Refining Realm.

One step further from the peak of the ninth level of the Body Refining Realm is the early stage of the Tiangang Realm. Its cultivation difficulty is more difficult than the several realms that have been broken through before. If it were other warriors who want to go from the late ninth level of the Body Refining Realm,

It will take at least several months to break through to the ninth level of the body refining realm.

As for Lin Chen, in less than a month, he successfully broke through from the late ninth level of the Body Refining Realm to the peak of the Ninth Level Body Refining Realm.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Lin Chen focused his attention on the bottles of Qi Gathering Pills in front of him.

In addition to the mid-grade Qi Gathering Pills, there were originally four bottles of high-grade Qi Gathering Pills, but now only less than one was left. During the continuous refining and hard training, Lin Chen actually took three bottles of high-grade Qi Gathering Pills.

More importantly, the remaining pills may not be enough for his cultivation to break through to the early stage of Tiangang Realm.

Breaking through from the peak of the ninth level of the Body Refining Realm to the early stage of the Tiangang Realm is a crucial step. Lin Chen does not dare to be careless and must be adequately prepared.

"Let's buy some elixirs first." Lin Chen pondered for a moment and made a decision in his mind.

Top-grade Qi Gathering Pills are expensive and rare, and are rarely sold outside. However, Lin Chen killed a large number of monsters in Jinyang City before and obtained many third-level and fourth-level inner elixirs. These inner elixirs can be sold, or

Go to a shop that specializes in refining elixirs and ask them to refine the elixirs.

After making up his mind, Lin Chen opened the door and walked outside.

It was early in the morning, and a layer of misty white mist filled the majestic mountain peaks, making it look like a fairyland on earth, filled with fairy spirit.

Lin Chen took a deep breath, and immediately felt wisps of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth being sucked into his belly. He secretly praised in his heart that the place where Tianji Sect is located is indeed the place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathers.

Bang bang bang...
Chapter completed!