百炼成仙 - Tempered Immortal - by Magical Rain

[Laoren]

Thanks TrickEye. This MC is a real cool dude. A cool mind is greater than a great strength. Brain is better than brawn.

[TrickEye]

Chapter 9 - Treasure

Here is your second chapter of the day, and as long as it doesn't get too late, i should be able to put out chapter 10 later tonight. If not I'll release it early tomorrow.

Without further ado, Enjoy the chapter.

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As Lin Xuan happily collected his treasure, he though

realized that that vicious senior sister apprentice really was

pretty rich. He found six low-grade spirit stones from the storage

bracelet, two spirit tools , a few talismans, and a jade bottle.

After opening the bottle, a fragrance drifted out, and inside the bottle

laid two white purifying essence pills.

These talismans, refer to spirit seals, which contain specifi

c spells, and when broken can instantly release them, without expending

any spirit power, however making them is very difficult as it costs a large

amount of spirit power and it is not always successful, making these

seals pretty valuable.

Lin Xuan took count, and found the had a total of seven seals with various elements.

Of course, the most valuable thing he got were the spirit tools, as they were valuable to even foundation building experts, spirit tools were truly treasures, and this Zhou Yan even had two of them, one of which was the one she used to kill her master, it appeared to be a jade cord that was about one foot in length, but with the ability to grow freely with the use of spirit power, with the ability to bind the enemy.

In addition, there was also the flying sword, which was a weapon spirit tool, holding the sword appreciatively, Lin Xuan felt unable to put it down as high-grade spirit tools were truly powerful.

Unfortunately for him, cultivation was too low, and he would need to cultivate to the fourth layer of spirit gathering to control spirit tools, Lin Xuan finally put away all the stuff he gained back into the storage bracelet. He feels satisfied, since the rewards he gained was no less than the risk he took.

As he was about to leave he remembered Zhang Yu, who being a foundation building expert, must have even more treasure. As he was turning away, he suddenly froze as his gaze fell onto Zhou Yan’s left hand, even in death, her hand was tightly clenched on the small ebony blox.

Zhou Yan, for this treasure, even went as far as to kill her master...just was kind of treasure did it contain?

Pondering for a moment, Lin Xuan walks over and pulls away the small box from her dead hand, rather than opening it immediately, he placed it on the ground and took seven steps away from the box. Grabbing a nearby branch, he carefully opens the lid, Swish, several small arrows shoot out from within the box, moving impossibly fast, if he had opened in his hands, even if his cultivation was high, it would have been hard to escape.

The small arrows after hitting a nearby tree, and within moments the tree began to quickly wither, Lin Xuan looks on upon all this without batting an eyelid, and maintains his usual expression, he expected such a valuable treasure to have some sort of defense.

Even though the lid was now open, still he did not approach the box, but rather he waited for ten minutes, and only after determining that there was no more danger did he carefully pick up the box. As he looked inside the box, Lin Xuan’s face quickly becomes one of shock… inside the box was a fist-sized shell.

Holding the shell in his hand, Lin Xuan hesitated a little, then carefully began to open the shell, as the true treasure should be within.

This was no ordinary shell, as there were no pearls within, and blue light began to spill out from within, those points of light floated up and began to rotate slowly, making them look like the stars in the sky.

Lin Xuan’s face wrinkled in a frown, as he could not figure out what they were...so he decided to put it away and study it later, but as he tried to close the shell, the little stars began to spin faster and faster, then as they began to him, he began to feel that they were dangerous and tried to run away, but before he could even get two steps away they lights all converged on his body.

Pain! From head to toe, Lin Xuan felt like every inch of his skin was tearing apart, and fell to the ground, his consciousness gradually fading away and then passing out, as the light fades away the canyon slowly goes back to normal, and nothing out of the ordinary is left other than the passed out boy.

………

Early the next morning, as the sun projected its warmth onto the earth, a low groan was heard as Lin Xuan slowly opened his eyes, looking up into the sky, Lin Xuan remembers that when he became unconscious it was obviously noon… did he sleep all day and night?

Sitting up, he found that the unbearable pain had completely disappeared, but even after sleeping for so long he felt tired.

As he carefully begins to examine his physical condition, he finds that his arms and feet are numb, but nothing else was strange, making the day before seem like a dream…

Lin Xuan sits quietly for a while, then without a word goes over to Zhou Yan’s corpse, and with feelings of disgust he tosses her into the previous pit, then he goes over to where Zhang Yu’s

corpse was left behind, he gathers up his equipments and his storage belt, and quickly prepares to leave without going over the contents of the belt.

He quickly drags the body over to the pit.

“No matter what you grievances in life, you died as a light, so i hope you don't mind this grave.” After the quick prayer, Lin Xuan begins to fill in the pit and begins to carefully removes all traces, after a while he looks it over.

“Good, after this i doubt anyone could find out that two cultivators are buried here.”

After all this is done, Lin Xuan no longer delays, and quickly returns to Cloud Valley, and despite everything that has just happened, outwardly he looks the same as always, even on the road back as he was insulted or greeted by other disciples there was no change in his demeanor.

In this way, Lin Xuan returned to his residence, then quickly began to go around shutting all the doors and windows, and he soons begin to count his treasures after taking out Zhan Yu’s storage belt.

[Laoren]

Thanks TrickEye. Please keep going, you are on the way to becoming a good translator. With your present attitude you will break through to the next level soon. Jiayou.

[TrickEye]

Chapter 10 – Blue Lights

Here is the first chapter of the day, took me a bit longer to finish than i expected due to me waking up late.

Either way hope you guys enjoy, and I’ll see you all in a few hours with the next chapter

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Since he was a foundation building expert, Zhang Yu’s

was sure to have even more treasure…. Lin Xuan found quite a

bit of treasure within that storage belt, the first thing he found was

20 low-grade spirit stones, which to him was a huge amount.

Then he found 10 more spirit seal, and surprisingly there were two

mid-grade seals, and then there were also the pills, as well as once

top-grade spirit stone, which made the always calm Lin Xuan’s eyes

to fill with surprise because even to a foundation building expert

top-grade spirit stones were rare.

After obtaining the treasures of Zhou Yan and Zhang Yu, Lin Xuan’s wealth can be said to rival that of any foundation building expert in the valley. In the storage belt, he also found a defensive treasure, which appeared as a small vest, it was woven out of an unknown material but its defense was incomparable, seeing this defensive treasure, Lin Xuan immediately put it on.

After doing all this, Lin Xuan sits cross-legged, and begins to inspect his physical condition, because in comparison to the contents of the belt and bracelet, the real treasure was the ebony box containing the shell, Lin Xuan however did not know what its effect was, but to make Zhou Yan kill her own master, the value became obvious.

The memories from yesterday were still fresh, so he clearly remembered that the blue lights had gone inside his body, after which the shell had withered away, those blue lights were the key to cracking the mystery.

Lin Xuan after looking over his veins and heart, finds no problem, so he decided to handle this like a puzzle, and begins to plan. Firstly, he decides to determine whether the blue lights were harmful or beneficial, so after deciding his course of action Lin Xuan begins to slowly examine his body.

As he does this he finds that there are no obvious changes in his body, so he sends his consciousness into his dantian and his meridians to examine the passageways, however, it was in his dantian that he the change………

After looking into his dantian, he finally finds those blue lights again revolving slowly like stars in the center of his dantian, looking the same as they did when they first came out of the shell.

It is somewhat unexpected, but not unreasonable, so Lin Xuan’s surprise quickly fades away and he begins to closely examine the blue lights, and even after examining them for a long time he finds no changes.

Unable to crack the mystery of the lights, Lin Xuan hesitates a it, then decides to try gathering a tiny bit of spirit power into his dantian, and carefully controls it to touch one of the blue lights.

Of Course before doing so, he has made various plans, to prepare for anything that may go wrong, but there was no effect and the thin thread of spirit power went right through the blue light.

How can that be?

Things didn’t go how he planned, but Lin Xuan is not a rash person, and he comes to the conclusion that the use of these blue lights is not something he can figure out right away, and will need time to understand.

Most young people would be impetuous, but Lin Xuan in comparison to the others of his age, appears to be very mature, and somewhat experienced.

After failing in his first attempt, Lin Xuan decided to try again later, and after resting for a bit, went to eat food, his first meal since his ordeal the day before.

After his short breach, he once again started to once again research those blue lights, trying everything he can think of to try and get a reaction out of those lights, however the secrets to those lights are not easily found and even after working from morning until it was dark out, he still has made no progress.

Lying in bed, Lin Xuan carefully goes over all the things he tried and after a while he decides that it will take even more time than expected to figure out the secret behind those lights.

Over the next few days, Lin Xuan resumed his normal life, cultivating every day, as he did not want to draw attention, but is secretly always studying the blue lights.

Other than checking his meridian and dantian, Lin Xuan was also carefully take notes of his body condition, in case that there are any changes over time due to the lights, but he was disappointed as there was no change as usual, and even his cultivation speed was still as slow as ever., Lin Xuan eventually started to think that the lights were much like himself and had no ability.

However Lin Xuan did not truly give up, as these blue lights are definitely a rare treasure, he just lacks the understanding to use them, so continues his slow research.

Eventually rumors started to float around Cloud Valley that Zhang Yu and Zhou Yan were missing, and since Zhou Yan was one of the top three spirit gathering disciples her disappearance gathered a lot of attention, as for Zhang Yu, who was a mid-stage foundation building expert could not be called one of the pillars of the school, but he was still one of the important elders, and for him to disappear with no reason at all, was a worrying matter to the school.

Under the orders of leader Yun He many foundation building and spirit gathering disciples were sent out to try to figure out what happened to those two.

However after seeing the response of the school, Lin Xuan was not worried, and for several days he acted as if none of this concerned him, but he was quietly paying close attention o the matter, as it was obvious from the leader’s response that he cared about the life and death of Zhang Yu and Zhou Yan, and mentioned nothing of the shell. That Zhou Yan had dared to kill her teacher to obtain that treasure, proved to him that they had not been sent by the school to retrieve the treasure, and they had gone out in secret to obtain it.

After confirming his suspicions, Lin Xuan relaxed greatly, because as long as Cloud Valley cannot trace the whereabouts of the Shell Treasure, he had nothing to worry about. As for the corpses, Lin Xuan did not believe that anyone could discover them, and even if someone were to discover them, no one would ever suspect a disciple with no spirit root could kill them.

He was safe.

[Laoren]

Thanks TrickEye for your hard work.

[TrickEye]

Chapter 11 - Spirit Beast

Jeez, I'm getting tired of all these descriptions. Author spends too much time describing things...

Anyways, here is the second chapter of the day, i hope you guys like it. I will try to get one more out tonight, but i make no promises..

Enjoy!

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Lin Xuan assured that he would not be found out,

continued to live his life as before, and soon enough he was

proven correct. Although Yun He was furious, he can do

nothing but keep searching for Zhang Yu and Zhou Yan,

with no progress.Even some nearby cultivation schools were

suspected, and Cloud Valley entered conflicts with a few of them,

and as a low level disciple and as long as he kept quiet and

cultivated, it all had nothing to do with him.

Overall, There were no changes in Lin Xuan’s daily life, as he maintained his usual diligent demeanor, as usual he had little to show for his efforts, the only difference was that he also spent a little time each day to try and examine the blue lights.

In an instant, two weeks go by.

“It seems like i need to go look up some information, i might be able to find a clue from some ancient books.” Lin Xuan thought as he lay in bed, the alternative to books was asking one of his seniors, as they were experienced with the outside world, and may have heard some things.

Certainly, this was a possibility, but to Lin Xuan it was a joke, since if he was to ask an Elder and they were to know the truth, what would stop them from killing him for those lights.

Lin Xuan wasn't foolish enough to risk his life.

Besides the point, his questions might reveal his connection to Zhang Yu and Zhou Yan……

Those blue lights were his own secret to keep, and Lin Xuan clearly understood that he should figure it out on his own, and never let others know.

With this decision, Lin Xuan went to bed, deciding to begin searching books the next morning.

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The next morning Lin Xuan arrived in front of the main hall.

The main hall, built into the mountainside stood magnificently, is one of the core areas of Cloud Valley, as that is where all the books are stored, and was heavily guarded, with three guard posts and 5 guards per post, with various spirit beasts patrolling the areas in between.

The Spirit beasts, were actually just wild monsters, but unlike the ones in the wild, these spirit beasts gained have the power to control spiritual power as a result of how they were raised. As such they were regularly tamed by cultivators as pets. Their strength however is not to be underestimated, as they can cultivate to the same levels as humans, and a spirit beast of the same level is always stronger than a human. Moreover, once they recognize a master, they are highly loyal, and will never betray their master and would even fight to the death. It is because of this that Cloud Valley used many of them as guards.

!!

A roar echoes through the hills, as Lin Xuan gets within two hundred meters of the main hall. As the roar fades away, A red flash of light arrives in front of Lin Xuan, it is a large red tiger, however unlike normal tigers, this one is twice the size, with light flames all over its pure red body, causing the nearby grass to begin to burn.

The imposing manner is definitely that of lions and tigers, its tyrannical aura, making the body run cold.

Fierce Fire Tiger, first-level low-grade Spirit Beast!

Spirit beasts are divided into eight stages corresponding to Spirit Gathering through the Eight Disasters, each level being divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and best-grade.

With first level corresponding to spirit gathering stage, second-level being foundation building, and so on……

At the same rank, however, although spirit beasts have more power, they cannot win against cultivators because they do not posses the same level of intelligence.

The Fire Fire Tiger’s body exceeding three meters in length, sending out flames from its whole body, is truly an imposing sight, however Lin Xuan could care less, since it simply had the mind of a domestic animal, and although Lin Xuan was looked down upon by the others in the school, he was still at the end of the day a legitimate disciple.

Each spirit beast at the school knew the characteristics of all the disciples, as they had the relevant information imprinted into their minds , so that the beasts would be able to distinguish between outsiders and students.

The Fierce Fire tiger, after arriving in front of Lin Xuan roars lowly, however Lin Xuan’s appearance is undisturbed, and as the Spirit beat examines Lin Xuan, the hostility in its eyes gradually fades away, quickly replaced by a pleased look, as it recognized Lin Xuan and moves to the side.

Once through the door, Lin Xuan arrives in the hall, Lin Xuan examines the surroundings. The entire library being divided into three levels, the first level containing the most volumes and was open to all students. However most of the books on the first level are merely storybooks, and held little value to cultivators.

The true collection began on the second level, as they contained instructions for Alchemy, skill books, as well as different cultivation methods, and only foundation building experts and higher were allowed to borrow those books.

The defenses on the first level are even more powerful on the second level, as it is guarded by not only an Elder, but also layers upon layers of spirit formations.

As for the third level, that was where the most precious items were kept, they contained the cultivation manuals of each generation of school head for Cloud Valley, as well as the best training methods they discovered, only those accompanied by the school leader were allowed entrance there, as for the guard for the third layer, it was several high level monsters.

As each disciple was only allowed to borrow up to three books at a time, Lin Xuan began to carefully began to search of information.

As the entire first level occupied several thousand square feet, with rows of bookshelves, neatly organized, Lin Xuan begins on the left side and begins to scan titles.

"Tianshan Nine Yang Jue", "Unreliable Cloudy Daoist scripture", "Said that Queen of night Palm", "Evil spirit Reveres Overlord Fist" ......

A martial arts skill book, it is a common one to cultivators, but to common people who are unable to cultivate , it is a high level skill.

Lin Xuan shakes his head, and moves on to another corner.

“Herb Records,” “13 Master Doctors,” Golden Cut veins of the….”

Book after book, with hundreds of years of lost medical knowledge, but the knowledge contained within was useless to cultivators, as all it taught was how to make low level medicines, to cure various diseases of common people.

Looking at the next title, the corners of Lin Xuan’s mouth reveal a sneer… no wonder these books are open to all disciples, they offer no value to cultivators, the books were all completely useless. and are simply kept here for appearance sake….

Cultivating truly follows the law of the jungle, to gain power and respect, you must first have the strength to take it, mindful of that point, Lin Xuan renews his determination to cultivate

[Laoren]

Thanks TrickEye. A boring chapter. Hope there will be some action ont he next. Jiayou.

[TrickEye]

As it currently stands, i no longer have the same amount of time as i used to to translate. So, i wont be doing daily releases anymore, and i will do 1-2 per week.

P.S The next chapter is about half done, and should be done sometime tomorrow.

[aseriahl]

Thanks for the latest chapter!

[SilverNight]

Are you still TLing this series? been awhile since you released a chapter =/

[SilverNight]

bump for the hope of someone who will pick up this series!

[TrickEye]

Chapter 12 Mysterious Spots of Light

Sorry for taking so long with chapter 12, and now that my schedule is more stable, i'll be able to put out regular releases again. Expect the next chapter in 2-3 days.

At any rate, here is the chapter, and please forgive me for any mistakes as its been a while since i last translated.

Hope you guys enjoy and any feedback is appreciated.

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As he was about to leave, Lin Xuan’s eyes rest on a black book,

the title written in small writing “Records of Wen Lu.”

Briefly flipping through it, he quickly finds that it's not a true book,

but rather a travel journal of many different people, who wrote down their

experiences during their travels.

Seeing a few other similar books, Lin Xuan figures he might get some clues out of them and picks out two more titled, “Kyushu Wonders,” and “ Divine Spirit Kaidan.”

Three books, being the max that low-level disciples can borrow, Lin Xuan goes through the procedures, and quickly heads home with the books, where he sits in his chair and begins studying.

……

As the sun floats across the sky, dyeing everything gold, Lin Xuan repositions to relieve his sore neck, and rubbed his dry eyes, he finally finished reading all three books.

The Journals described, many different places and treasures, however not a single one mentioned the blue lights.

The Three books also spoke of a lot of different stories, telling of powerful figures from the past , as well as the stories behind various treasures. For example, one story spoke of someone who was poisoned by a heavenly poison, but rather than dying like all the others before him, he ended up gaining benefits from it. The books of spoke of many different treasures, and told of the advantages and disadvantages of them, and went into great detail in that, but they also stated that in the end it all depends on the person's luck.

Lin Xuan however was not worried, because he remembered how Zhou Yan behaved, so he was sure it was a beneficial treasure. His real worry was that he would be unable to figure out how to use those blue lights, and unfortunately they were not mentioned in the three books.

It seems that he will have to rely on his own efforts……

Lin Xuan once again sat down cross-legged, and began trying various different methods, attempting to see if there are any changes. After half an hour, Lin Xuan finally decides o take a chance and begins to gather his spirit power directly onto the blue lights, to begin circulating the lights just like normal spiritual energy.

This process has its own risks, since the blue lights are still a mystery while being attached to his body, they may potentially cause great harm to him.

But nothing ventured nothing gained, if you want benefits, you must take risks, so after closely observing the blue lights throughout his attempts so far, Lin Xuan has decided this may be his only chance.

After a while, beads of sweat start emerging on his forehead, compared to circulating his spiritual power, circulating the blue lights is much more difficult, but Lin Xuan is no stranger to difficulties, and after a while, the blue lights finally gather together and begin to circulate.

White gas starts to emerge from Lin Xuan's head, it seems that trying to move the lights like spiritual power is very difficult and so the movements of the lights is very jerky, but otherwise he could sense no problems.

Still, he keeps trying…..

“Whats this?” Lin Xuan raises an eyebrow, and his calm face finally slips into a surprised expression, when the points of light flow into the meridians in his hands, they flow out through the palm of his hands, It seems that they don't behave like spirit power, rather than circling back into the dantian, they lights escape the body.

Although it was unexpected, Lin Xuan did not panic and stopped working, slowly opening his eyes, he sees the lights floating in front of his chest, looking the same as they did inside his dantian.

Lin Xuan touches the lights with his hand, but other than feeling a slight warmth nothing happens, and he is unable to re-absorb the them back into his body, and after a little while the lights begin to dim and eventually fade away entirely.

Sitting back down, Lin Xuan looks into his dantian, and finds the points of light in his dantian are still there, but they are now slightly smaller than they originally were.

………

Lying in bed, Lin Xuan begins to thinking that maybe he wasn't wrong, and that these lights are supposed to be cycled through his meridians just the same as spirit power, but he was still unable to figure out why there were pushed out of from his palms, it seems that he would need to investigate further.

After carefully going over the day's results, Lin Xuan starts to become sleepy, compared to his nine weeks training in the inner area, circulating the blue lights is much more exhausting, and at this rate Lin Xuan felt that he would be unable to keep up.

………

With the sun coming up, and the rooster’s crows fading away, Lin Xuan wakes up refreshed. Rather than going to the pavilion as usual to cultivate, Lin Xuan sits cross-legged on his bed, feeling encouraged by the progress he made the previous night, he prepared to continue experimenting.

Once again Looking into his dantian, Lin Xuan reveals a subtle smile on his lips, as it is exactly as he suspected, the night before when he saw the lights shrink, Lin Xuan had guessed that since the lights had integrated into his body, there should be a method to restore them, otherwise it wouldn't be qualified to be called a treasure by Zhou Yan .Although it was a great risk to take after only a guess, but this morning’s discovery, had proven him correct.

Even better than he expected, there were no specific conditions to restoring the lights, they were truly a part of his body, and like all other parts of the body, they recovered after a good rest.Now he wouldn't need to worry about using up the lights, and could fully focus on figuring out their use.

[Laoren]

Hurray...glad to see you are back...jiayou

[JinYongMA616]

yes we can finally get chapters waited for this for a month

[BocahTuaNakal]

welcome back!

[TrickEye]

Chapter 13 -Name Hidden-

Here is the chapter, earlier than i planned. Managed to get some free time at work so i was able to finish it for you all.

Enjoy.

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Over the next few days, Lin Xuan use half of his time

to cultivate, and the other half to study the blue lights.

………

Like this, a week quickly goes by, with Lin Xuan still

l unable to find anymore clues, but due to all his practice,

he can now control the blue lights a lot easier whenever he circulates them.

………

“How am i supposed to use this.” Lin Xuan asks himself as he looks

at the pill in his hand, after he had been given the trash pills, he hadn’t had

a chance to look them over due to everything that had happened.

Unlike the pills given to the other disciples, the trash pills that Lin Xuan received from the elder gave off a truly unpleasant odor.

Trash pills served no purpose to cultivators, but Lin Xuan still did not want to throw them away, since the materials used to create them were considered treasures themselves. However just thinking about it would do no good, so Lin Xuan gives up on the pills for the moment.

“I need to get back to cultivation.”

Over the last few days Lin Xuan has had the blue lights cycle through his meridians many times, and each time they got to his hand, the blue lights escaped his body through the palms, this was obviously a big clue as to their purpose, so Lin Xuan tries to figure out the next step from there.

He sat down cross-legged, once again gathering the blue lights in his dantian, he then begins to circulate them and the lights proceed as usual, although he has been doing this continuously the speed is still slow and so after a long while the lights finally pass through his meridians, and finally through his skin to break out of his body.

Lin Xuan suddenly gets startled, as the situation now is slightly different than usual, although the blue lights escaped from his body, this time they did not dissipate like the previous times, instead they began to drill down towards the thing in his hand.

………

The trash pill! he had forgotten to put it away when he began circulating the blue lights, after discovering this, Lin Xuan became even more focused, as a steady stream of blue energy began to flow out from his dantian, although it was unclear why the blue lights are reacting this way to the trash pills, Lin Xuan did not try to stop it because this might finally be the breakthrough he’s been waiting for, what’s happening now might be the key to cracking the mystery of the blue lights!

While carefully controlling the blue lights with his soul to flow smoothly towards the pill, the scene was also directly transferred to his mind. As he watched some of the lights began to go inside the pill, while some of it was unable to do so, and dissipated.

One minute later….

Two minutes later….

Ten minutes later….

The blue lights in his dantian are now one third of their original size, but at this time Lin Xuan became unable to move them from his dantian no matter how much effort he put in. It seems that this is his limit for his body, at this time a faint fragrance reached his nose.

As he opened his eyes, Lin Xuan saw that originally rusty red trash pill has become pure white. “This is…… low-grade purifying essence pill?”

Although Lin Xuan is considered mature in comparison to the others of his age, at this moment the difference was not seen, as as his face was one of shock. his usual calm demeanor was completely gone.

Even after staring at it for a while, Lin Xuan was still unable to make sense of what he was seeing, however the aroma still wafting up to his nose finally broke him out of his shock, and made him realize that it really was a purifying essence pill.

“Ha Ha.” After all the time and effort Lin Xuan put in, Lin Xuan was finally rewarded with this discovery and could no longer contain his happiness. The trash pill has actually become an immortal pill, It seems that the blue lights are able to turn trash into treasure.

If these lights could turn trash pills into usable immortal pills, then this truly was a treasure worth killing for.

To cultivators, talent was one of the most important things, but with enough pills even the most talentless person with no spiritual roots could become a great master….

Of course, this was just a theory, because even the biggest clans and schools could not afford to consume pills as if they were candy. But if these blue lights really can turn trash pills into treasures, then the situation is no longer the same…

The happiness in Lin Xuan’s heart was unimaginable, but he soon smothered hi excitement, and regained his composure, as he began to plan. Although he already expected this treasure to be uncommon, he never would have expected that the effect would be one that goes against the will of heaven, turning trash into treasure. If people were to find out about him possessing it, they would be driven mad with greed, therefore Lin Xuan decided that the most important thing right now was keeping that he possessed these blue lights a secret.

He did not know how Zhou Yan and Zhang Yu got their hands on this treasure, but what he did know was that there was a third party involved, but even so Lin Xuan was not worried, since Zhou Yan and Zhang Yu are dead, and it was impossible for the unknown third party to suspect a low-order disciple like himself.

The thing that reassured him the most was that since others were unable to look into his dantian, unless he drew attention to himself or told anyone no one would ever suspect that he possessed such a treasure. Even if his cultivation became much higher than his peers, as long as he was careful and hid his cultivation, the chances of his exposure was minimal. As long as no one paid careful attention to him, he would be fine, with this understanding Lin Xuan threw off his worries, and decided that nothing could stop him from taking full advantage of the blue lighs.

For all cultivators, to achieve success in the martial world, they need to meet two conditions, the first being that they need good spiritual roots, in other words sufficient talent, and the second requirement is that they need to be hard working, as those that slack off will never achieve anything. Disregarding the limitations of his body, Lin Xuan was confident in his willpower, as he always made the most efforts.

It was safe to say that in the thundercloud valley, there was no one who could claim to be the most hard working other than Lin Xuan, as most other disciples didn’t even dare to step foot into the inner area. His cultivation methods alone show just how hard working he is. The only reason Lin Xuan was still a low-order disciple was because he lacked the talent to proceed any further, as he just an ordinary mortal, with average talent, and thus his cultivation speed was pitifully slow.

However this situation will soon change, since he has finally found a solution to his slow cultivation speed. So long as he has enough immortal pills, even the most ordinary of mortals like himself can one day be a great master, of course immortal pills are not candies, and not even the strongest cultivators can afford to treat them as such.

[Laoren]

Thanks TrickEye

[TrickEye]

Chapter 14 - Purifying Pills

Sorry for being a bit late on this chapter, i had it done on sunday but, i never got the chance to post it. At any rate i hope you guys enjoy and expect the next chapter in 2-3 days.

Also, I'm starting to think i need to rename the blue lights into something else, something that sounds better, so i was wondering if any of you had any suggestions.

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The reason no one could afford to treat immortal

l pills like candy was because to begin with, those with the

ability to become an alchemist were rare, and even the best of

alchemists fail at least one in ten attempts, resulting in at least one

trash pill, which because of its high impurity that ends up damaging

the body rather than giving benefits, they are thrown away.

Along with that, the various plants and materials used in

creating pills are rare on their own, and taking into account the failure

rates, the finished product is obviously very valuable.

It is all these factors in alchemy, that gives many cultivators headaches, especially small schools like the thunder cloud valley, who don't have the resources to call over a skilled alchemist, so of course their failure rate was very high, around fifty percent, because of that, the purifying essence pills which are the easiest pills to make and the most common, the school could still only afford to give two pills to the disciples every month.

Because pills are so hard to obtain, most people are limited to relying only on their own talents to cultivate and are unable to use pills, however the difference between cultivating with pills and without was like the distance between heaven and earth, because with pills spiritual roots don't matter. Understanding all this, Lin Xuan truly understands just how much of a great opportunity this is for him, all because of the treasure hidden in his body, that defies the heavens and turns trash into treasure.

Just using thundercloud valley as an example there are more than three hundred disciples , and with each person getting two purifying essence pills every month, that totals to more than 600 pills, and then when the failure rate of around 50% is taken into account, there are just as many trash pills as there are completed pills. And because of the nature of trash pills they are usually thrown away as this is the common sense developed by the cultivating world over thousands of years. Although no one really cared or the trash pills, they weren't just thrown away either, they were usually just put away somewhere with no security, So Lin Xuan decided to take advantage of this.

Every month there are about 600 trash pills generated, and if he could get his hands on them, then he could use the blue lights to remove the impurities, which would truly let him treat immortal pills as if they were candy, and even without spiritual roots, his cultivation speed would then become faster than that of the geniuses of his generation. Although his future is now looking very bright, Lin Xuan isn't letting himself get hot-headed, and maintains his cool-headed demeanor even in this situation.

As he began to plan , Lin Xuan decided the first thing to do would be to try to figure out exactly why and how the blue lights turned trash into treasure, he must figure out the conditions required as well as how to control it, he realized that he needed to develop a firm understanding of the full capabilities of the blue lights.

Determining his next step, Lin Xuan pulled the pill closer to his eyes, closely observing it. Color, Fragrance, Size, everything was correct, since other than the time when the elder made things difficult for Lin Xuan, Lin Xuan had been given purifying essence pills before, so he wouldn't make a mistake in identifying one.

Just to be safe however, Lin Xuan pulled out a true purifying essence pill from his storage bracelet, one of the pills that he got from Zhou Yan, he pulled the two together and took a close look. Compared to an authentic pill, the only difference was that the pill transformed by the blue lights was slightly smaller than the authentic pill. On top of the pill, Lin Xuan also noticed that there was a thin layer of dust, that exuded an unpleasant smell….. impurities? Not one to let such details slide by, Lin Xuan quickly realized the origin of the dust. It seems that the blue lights expelled the impurities from within the trash pill, leaving behind a pill free from any impurities.

Such a thing has long been thought of as impossible, because although removing the impurities sounds easy in theory, in practice it is extremely difficult. Over tens of thousands of years, many large sects and schools have spent a lot of time and resources trying to remove the impurities, but even in all that time not even one was successful.

After failing a countless amount of times, the cultivating world finally gave up a, and reluctantly began to discard the trash pills…after tens of thousands of years, the cultivating world finally decided that removing the impurities from immortal pills was impossible, and now here was Lin Xuan, staring at the small pile of dust that was the impurities.

After a moment of contemplation, Lin Xuan began to understand, that the blue lights after going inside the trash pills, force out the impurities, thus turning trash into treasure. Of course, this is just his guess, and as Lin Xuan has no other way to confirm this theory, he will just have to observe carefully in the future.

After thinking all this, Lin Xuan pours out another trash pill from the jade bottle, Holding it in his hand, he once again sits down cross-legged, and after a short break to recover the blue lights, he once again begins to circulate the lights.

As usual, the process was difficult, but this was nothing to Lin Xuan, and this time when the lights reach his wrist, he focuses his consciousness on the lights to get a closer view so he won't miss a single detail.

Under the effect of his consciousness, the scene in front of Lin Xuan is magnified by several times, showing the scene clearly in his mind. As the lights began to flow out from his hands, some of them began to enter the pill while the rest dissipated into the air. As the lights entered the pill, black powder also began to get pushed out of the pill. At the same time the color of the pill began to get pushed out of the pill, at the same time the color of the pill began to get lighter and lighter, eventually becoming white. Lin Xuan was taking note of all the details, paying close attention to all of the changes occurring on the pill, he was also able to confirm his theory about the impurities getting pushed out.

A the same time he was also paying attention to all the points of light that were not entering the pill, so Lin Xuan decided to try and gather together those wasted blue lights and forced them into the pill, thus increasing the amount of blue lights going inside the pill. The speed at which impurities were getting removed really did increase however, three minutes later.

Bang!... With a loud sound and a flash of light, the pill in his palm exploded. Lin Xuan opened his hand, and moving his hand closer, saw the fragmented pill lying in his hand, issuing the smell of burning paste.

It seems... that the second attempt has ended in failure.

“ It seems that the blue lights can indeed separate the impurities, leaving behind just the pure essence, truly turning trash into treasure.” Lin Xuan said to himself as he sat, calmly going over everything that has just happened. Although this attempt has ended in failure, Lin Xuan is not worried, since his harvest was not small at all, after proving his theory.

Thinking over what had just happened, Lin Xuan reasoned that the reason the process failed the second time was most likely the speed, the pill was unable to contain that many blue lights entering it at that speed. After hypothesizing that, Lin Xuan decided to try and confirm this theory, but before trying he had to once again rest and let the blue lights recover enough to try again.


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[George Harris]

The blue lights seem like a cross between the "lights" in "Chaotic Sword God" and the stone talisman in "Wu Dong Qian Kun". You might want to consider looking at what they are called in their respective raws and compare it to this one for a reference.

[blinki]

thank you very much