Huuuuu!

Xiao Lin inhaled deeply.

He then sat back on the ground to do what he wanted to do after clearing the imagination of himself burning to ashes off his his mind.

Now sitting in the cross-legged position on the ground, he began to go through the content in the rings of one of the assassins called Lightwind whom he killed back at that old and abandoned building.

Immediately he opened it up, a large pile of many things appeared before him. Then on this pile could be seen something that really stood out from the rest of the materials that made up the massive pile before him.

Xiao Lin's eyes were quickly attracted over to that object which was actually the Jade Pill Box that the male from the God and Devil Fighting sect gave to Lightwind to help him accomplish some mission that he assigned to them.

Once his eyes were pulled to the Jade Pill Box, Xiao Lin reached out for it and grasped it, pulling it from the large pile of stuff before him.

Very quickly, he opened it and saw four pills in the Jade Pill Box. Then his lips curled into a bright smile as the mists that were produced by each of the pills kept in the Jade Box, began to waft out of it, instantly hitting him in the face and nostrils.

Immediately he inhaled the brightly colored mists produced by the pills in the Jade Pill Box, Xiao Lin suddenly felt his cultivation growing very fast. So, from the 9th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage that he was in, he quickly broke through into the 10th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage and finally into the 11th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage in almost an instant.

Xiao Lin who was greatly shocked by the sudden, near-instant effects of the mists that wafted out from within the Jade Box, however understood in the next moment that the accelerated growth of his Spiritual Energy cultivation that he experienced wasn't really true. It was only an illusory effects of the mists produced by the pill. But this actually signified the potency and strength of the pill if he eventually imbibed it.

Then with a smile appearing in his face, he exhaled and immediately put one of the pills into his mouth.

Once he did so and the pill slipped down his throat to his stomach, the pill abruptly turned into a tremendous amount of Spiritual Energy that caused Xiao Lin to greatly swell up that he became like a balloon and could start to float.

At the moment, Xiao Lin felt like he wanted to burst, as he was overfilled with Spiritual Energy that began to come out of his nose and ears.

The Spiritual Energy in his body, due to it tremendous quantity that then made him feel excessively bloated, was beginning to leave his body through some impossible routes.

But to stop this from happening, Xiao Lin quickly stopped breathing and then closed his ears to prevent the Spiritual Energy building in his body from the rapidly dissolving, Spiritual Aura-bestowing pill that he swallowed from escaping.

Once he had done all these, he began to practice the technique mentioned in the Spiritual Refinement Conversion Method.

So, little by little, he began to convert the frost-white Spiritual Energy that filled every gap in his body to the extreme into the dark-colored Spiritual Energy that he possessed in his dantian.

Immediately he converted some wisps of the frost-white Spiritual Energy into some of the dark Spiritual Energy in his dantian, he started to refine them so that every flaw or fault hidden in his newly converted Spiritual Energy would be removed or eliminated, so as not to present a great problem to himself in the future during his cultivation.

Not long, with some of the frost-white Spiritual Energy still escaping from a tiny gap in his ears, and from his nose anytime he tried to inhale, Xiao Lin tried to triple his effort at quickly converting and refining the Spiritual Energy causing his body to continually swell, or he might simply explode into pieces, once his amazingly tough body reached the threshold that it could be really stretched to.

Many minutes later, precisely 40 minutes later, the swelling of his body reduced, while the ones escaping from some gaps in his closed ears stopped, simply signifying that Xiao Lin had converted a significant portion of the frost-white Spiritual Energy that caused his body to swell into the dark-black Spiritual Energy that resided in his dantian and formed his cultivation base.

So, it was only now that the pain that he felt from the extreme stretching of his tough and resilient skin reduced.

And without opening his eyes, he continued to cultivate to transform all the frost-white Spiritual Energy that still filled his body to some extent into the dark Spiritual Energy dwelling in his dantian.

At this moment, he had broken through into the 11th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage.

Xiao Lin could feel his power shoot up greatly, but still, he wasn't satisfied, he wanted to badly break through into the Mortal Spiritual stage where he would have more power to accomplish more, especially now that he would be going up against talented rogue cultivators and gifted disciples from the different sects in this particular town and from other towns at the legacy ground of the Azure Firestorm Archer.

Although Xiao Lin was desperate to have a breakthrough so that he would be more stronger than he is now, he however understood that one Spiritual Aura bestowing pill wasn't enough to help him enter the Mortal Spiritual stage. He had long comprehended when he was cultivating that if he wanted to really enter the Mortal Spiritual stage, he would have to take more of those pills.

Xiao Lin opened his eyes and then exhaled.

Then he reached out for the Jade Pill Box and took out another pill which he immediately swallowed.

The instant the pill slipped down his throat to his stomach, it quickly dissolved and turned into a large amount of frost-white Spiritual Energy that once again caused him to feel tremendously stretched.

However, the pain that he experienced from the extreme stretching this time wasn't as serious as when he first swallowed the Spiritual Aura bestowing pill that was meant for only Mortal Spiritual stage cultivators. It was simply a great miracle that he hadn't exploded into pieces from the roiling, swelling energy occupying every inch of his body, killing him off in the process.

Then very quickly after the energy had abruptly filled up every inch of space of him, he began to operate the technique mentioned in the Spiritual Conversion Refinement method.

...

A few hours later of using that technique, he was able to enter the half-step Mortal Spiritual stage.

Xiao Lin whose eyes had opened had great shock in them. He couldn't believe that the second Spiritual Aura bestowing pill that he took couldn't even help him get into the Mortal Spiritual stage.

"If that damned pill couldn't even get me into the Mortal Spiritual stage, how many more would I have to take to get into the Mortal Spiritual stage?" Xiao Lin asked.

He then shook his head and said "Hopefully, it will be just one more pill, or I will become angry and frustrated." He said further.

But as he was complaining, he suddenly recalled that the Mortal Spiritual stage for him would be totally different from the others, simply due to the cultivation method that he was using to cultivate which was the superior, empyrean-grade Primordial Heretic Force spiritual cultivation art; an art that only god-level cultivators like the Demonic Blade King, Lin Shou Wen, and a few others at his cultivation level should use to cultivate to higher or advanced cultivation levels.

From the astonishingly high quality of his dark Spiritual Energy, it would certainly take a lot of converted and refined Spiritual Energy gotten or derived from high-grade or peak-grade energy cultivation pills and other Spiritual Cultivation Resources to really advance in growth. But it was because of this insane quality and density of his dark Spiritual Energy that he was able to go one on one with cultivators higher up in the cultivation rank that he was in.

Then he recalled one other thing that his previously damaged dantian had been transformed by the sealing power of his powerful, primordial Animal Spirit, which might probably cause his cultivation to be different from that of the rest.

So, after thinking deeply of these two factors, he was able to arrive at a conclusion that his cultivation would absolutely be different from that of the rest.

He then took another of those Spiritual Aura bestowing pills from the Jade Pill Box to continue cultivating. And this he continued to do till the sun set in this place, signifying that evening had come down upon them.

2 hours later, a bang sound that only he could actually hear, rang out from within him. Then Xiao Lin opened his eyes to reveal a delighted gaze in them — Now, he had broken through into the 1st-layer Mortal Spiritual stage.