Chapter 692 - Embrace Of Hong Lin
Hearing Lin Mu’s words, Little Shrubby approached the hundred year old Hong Lin tree and probed it with his spirit sense. He then touched the tree and smelled it before scratching the tree and tasting it as well.
Lin Mu watched on and let the beast do its thing.
"Hmm... I can tell that something is different about this tree than the other ones here. I think I may be able to find more of them." Little Shrubby spoke.
"Alright, please go ahead and find them. I’ll try to cultivate in the meantime." Lin Mu stated.
Little Shrubby nodded his head and flew away in search of more hundred year old Hong Lin trees. Lin Mu, on the other hand, followed the methodology that was described in the technique he got from the repository and sat down with his back facing the Hong Lin tree.
While it was a bit uncomfortable at first, Lin Mu managed to find a position in which his back made maximum contact with the tree trunk as it could. Once that was done, Lin Mu closed his eyes and tried to sense the energy within the Hong Lin Trees once again.
After about a minute, he was able to sense them again, this time without even touching with his hand. The main use of this step was to let the cultivator get used to the Hong Lin tree and learn about the energy within it.
Even if Lin Mu had his back to the tree, he wasn’t actually using his back to sense the energy within the Hong Lin Tree, as that was not how the technique worked. He could only sense it directly with his hands as they worked through his hands’ meridians and not his back’s.
This step was to see if the cultivator could still sense the energy within the Hong Lin trees without a direct link. Now that Lin Mu had sensed the energy hidden within the tree, the next step was to pull the energy towards him.This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.
One needed something of ’high potential’ to increase their own ’low potential’.
Lin Mu calmly continued to cultivate using the method and kept on absorbing the vital essence of the Hong Lin tree. Eventually, the cells stopped absorbing the vital essence and started to divide.
’My Five Treasures Realm cultivation... it’s increasing!’ Lin Mu detected.
Seeing this, hope lit up in Lin Mu’s eyes and he focused even more in the absorption. Once the replication of cells stopped, his heart could absorb more vital essence from the Hong Lin Tree.
Just like this another three hours passed before the Hong Lin Tree had run out of all Vital essence.
~huu~
Lin Mu opened his eyes and checked his condition.
"That... this is at least two percent increase!" Lin Mu exclaimed.
While this increase seemed minuscule, one must remember that even this was a great progress compared to before. His heart was now 32% refined and Lin Mu was assured that as long as he kept this up, he will surely reach 100% completion and also break through to the Third Stage of the Five Treasures realm.
Lin Mu stood up and took a look at the Hong Lin tree finding it to be the same as before. But when he placed his hand on it, he could see that it was now fully drained of the energy that was present in it.
"No wonder the first king liked the Hong Lin trees so much. They were the ones that helped him cultivate and he wanted to increase their numbers while protecting them.." Lin Mu said.