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Thinking about it, Lin Jian did what he said.

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.

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 face was at ease as he spat out a mouthful of turbid air, before starting to stabilize his cultivation after breaking through.

After his elemental energy broke through the shackles of his pulse, the amount of elemental energy that Lin Jian's dantian could contain increased by quite a bit. When he circulated his cultivation technique again, his Spirit Devouring Method had undergone a change.

"Hmm? "This is …"

Lin Jian's heart skipped a beat as his spirit energy started to circulate uncontrollably. At the same time, the originally stable spirit energy in his sea of consciousness started to throb, as if it was about to rush out of his body. 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 delay, and immediately stabilized his mind, attempting to control the mental force. After communicating with it, he saw a completely different world.

That was the perspective of Spiritual Detection!

"This is indeed a Heaven Tier 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 that of a Foundation Establishment stage martial artist, it is still extremely powerful even if it can only detect a situation within a hundred meters."

Lin Jian sighed, and extended his Spirit Qi out as much as possible, in a blink of an eye, all the movements in a hundred meter radius could not escape his senses, and any movement 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 and talking in his sleep. When a fifteen or sixteen year old teenager fell asleep, the corner of his mouth was still hung with crystal drool, as he revealed a satisfied smile.

"This child."

Lin Jian shook his head and sighed, then expanded his mental energy even further.

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

At this time, a familiar aura appeared within Lin Jian's senses, causing him to uncontrollably be stunned for a moment.

"This is?!"

Lin Jian suddenly stood up, stood up from his bed, and quickly walked out of the loft, arriving at the garden in the backyard of Violet Bamboo Pavilion. He walked along the small path, and gradually delved deeper and deeper, finally stopping in front of a grave.

The nineteenth generation Patriarch of the Lin Family, Lin Zhenyue's Tomb, on the fifth of the sixth day of the year 2,347 of the Nine Regions Continent.

This was Lin Jian's father's grave.

As the sword spirit, Lin Jian was also very familiar with Lin Zhenyue, because this person had been personally killed by Bai Cangtian.

On the way to Bai Cangtian's rise, many famous Rankers had fallen, and Lin Zhenyue, who was previously known as the number one expert in the Greencloud City, was one of the hardest to deal with.

When he had just reincarnated, he sighed at the fact that fate had fooled people. He never thought that he would be reborn into the home of Bai Cangtian's nemesis, maybe this was heaven's will.

Lin Jian remembered that when Bai Cangtian had killed Lin Zhenyue back then, he had left a foreshadowing on his 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 Family buried Lin Zhenyue in their ancestral grave, then this Sword Fruit seed would frantically absorb the Lin Family's spirit energy and luck. At the same time, if it quickly formed a Sword Fruit, it would also be a blow to the Lin Family's spirit energy level, removing wind and water.

But unfortunately …

After all, Lin Zhenyue was the former number one expert of the Greencloud City. Before he died, he felt that Bai Cangtian had done something to him.

If they did not enter the ancestral tomb, the Sword Fruit would not be able to obtain sufficient nutrients, and it wouldn't take long for it to wither away. When Bai Cangtian found out about Lin Zhenyue's arrangements, he had no choice but to give up.

But at this moment —

Through his Spirit Force, 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, his heart feeling very weird. After confirming a few times, he knew that his perception was not wrong, and in his heart, he wanted to dig open the grave to find out what it was.

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

However, as the Sword Spirit, Lin Jian did not have these worries.

Firstly, he was not the real son of Lin Zhenyue. Secondly, he 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. Initially, it was precisely because he raped a girl, and that woman was close to Bai Cangtian, that caused him to be killed.

did not have any burdens in his heart when he excavated such a person's grave.

Third, and also the most important reason, Sword Fruit was extremely valuable to Lin Jian. If a mature Sword Fruit was truly buried here, after Lin Jian consumed it, his cultivation level would rise by leaps and bounds.

"Dig!"

Lin Jian made up his mind. Looking around, he finally started to make 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.

Not long after, Lin Jian saw a coffin, and the Sword Fruit's Qi 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, he could easily release a thousand kilograms of power with the help of his spirit energy. The coffin lid slowly opened, and a pungent stench of corpses assaulted his nose.

Lin Jian frowned, he waved his big sleeve to expel the stench, and after opening the coffin, he saw a set of white bones and tattered clothes, and at the center of the coffin, was a black bead.

"It really is a Sword Fruit!"

Lin Jian's eyes lit up, he extended his hand and took the Sword Fruit. He realized that the maturity of the Sword Fruit was beyond his imagination, he really did not know how much Qi 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, his heart feeling even weirder.

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

A rough estimate was that if Lin Jian were to fully absorb the Sword Fruit, his cultivation realm would increase by at least a third grade!

Lin Jian laughed in satisfaction, he closed the coffin once again, and used his hands to push the nail back, but accidentally used too much strength and pushed the coffin a few inches away.

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 startled, then took the initiative to push the coffin to the side.

He saw that at the bottom of the coffin, there was a golden dragon pattern, that looked like a totem, but was also alive. The palm-sized dragon pattern, was slowly spiralling, like a mini real dragon, and it was rather spiritual.

"..." "Dragon Meridians!"

Lin Jian's eyes were wide opened, and even his chin was about to drop to the ground. Even though he was a reincarnated person and had followed Bai Cangtian to and fro across the Nine Regions in his previous life, and had seen countless of rain and winds, when he saw the 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 Yuan Power!

Legend has it that a thousand years ago, a major power who cultivated the Dragon Yuan Power and was bestowed with great luck had grown from a nameless nobody to the top Ranker of the Nine Regions Continent in just ten short years, and personally established 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 appeared in the world once more. Unexpectedly, it had appeared in such a remote and unknown place, right before Lin Jian's eyes …

"No wonder Lin Zhenyue did not enter the ancestral tomb, but the Sword Fruit was still able to mature, so it was because he absorbed the qi flow from the dragon vein, this is truly … "Really …" Lin Jian was so shocked that he was at a loss for words. He couldn't even find the right word to describe his current state of mind, and his fingers were even trembling.