Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain

Chapter 1662: Chapter 1661: Unexpected Gains

Lin Dong sat cross-legged in the tower, beginning to swallow the five Heavenly and Earthly treasures and that Semi Medicine King.

He first consumed the Semi Medicine King, starting the refining process.

”Hoo~~~” Operating the Nine Shift Longevity secret, the Semi Medicine King was refined by him into pure energy, which was then led through the meridians of the body and channelled into the center of his Dantian.

The energy contained within the Semi Medicine King was vast and vigorous. Initially, it was with the help of a Millennium Snow Lotus of a Semi Medicine King that Lin Dong leapt from the peak Half-Step Earth Realm martial artist to become an Earth Realm martial artist.

Back then, it took him several days and nights to refine that energy.

However, now that surging energy was refined by Lin Dong in less than an hour.

And after this energy was refined completely, it only made his ninth Golden Pill grow by a tiny bit from its previous half.

It didn’t even increase by a quarter of half!

Lin Dong laughed bitterly: ”To advance from a level-eight Grandmaster to a level-nine, the energy required is just too immense.”

”To absorb a Semi Medicine King and only be able to condense such a small fragment of the Golden Pill.”

He shook his head, secretly saying no wonder there’s such a big difference between a level-eight Grandmaster and a level-nine.

Even with so many trump cards, Lin Dong could at best only challenge an early level Nine Stage Grandmaster.

If he encountered one of those Grandmasters who also had trump cards, he would have no chance at all!

Just in terms of Inner Qi, a Ninth Stage Grandmaster is at least ten times that of a level-eight Grandmaster!

He shook his head and quickly calmed his emotions, before continuing to refine the five Heavenly and Earthly treasures.

It took Lin Dong almost another hour to refine these five heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

And the strength they brought to Lin Dong was almost the same as that of a single Semi Medicine King.

But even so, the Golden Pill Lin Dong had condensed so far was still less than two-thirds!

”This level Nine Grandmaster isn’t so easy to achieve,” Lin Dong secretly said.

As far as he knew, there was another bottleneck from advancing from level eight to level nine.

At that time, an immense amount of energy would be needed to make a breakthrough.

Many Ninth Stage Grandmasters could only break through by chance encounters.

For example, some achieved sudden enlightenment in desperate situations, making a breakthrough under such extremity. Others relied on elixirs, breaking through with the help of Above five-grade elixir.

Some even made their breakthrough with a real Medicine King!

Anyway, advancing from peak level-eight Grandmaster to a true Ninth Stage Grandmaster is as hard as ascending to the heavens, no less difficult than from a peak Half-Step Earth Realm martial artist to a true Earth Realm martial artist!

And from a Peak Ninth Stage Grandmaster to the Heavenly Realm, that’s even less humanly achievable, that level of difficulty even held back King Kunlun.

Shaking his head, Lin Dong didn’t think too much of it for now.

He might seem to have already reached level eight Grandmaster status, but the Heavenly Realm was still too far away.

After Lin Dong refined the five Heavenly and Earthly treasures and that Semi Medicine King, he prepared to leave this place.

But just at this moment, he suddenly discovered something weird on the wall.

He found faint traces of the Spirit and Soul aura left by a Heavenly Realm martial artist on it.

This kind of Spirit and Soul aura, if it weren’t for Lin Dong having stayed with the Sovereign Witch and experienced it from her, he wouldn’t have noticed it at all.

If someone else were here, they surely wouldn’t have discovered it.

He promptly activated the ’Eyes of the Holy Doctor,’ looking towards the wall.

He discovered that there were some small humanoid figures engraved on the bricks of the inner layer of the wall.

These figures, roughly nine pictures in total, were directly memorized by Lin Dong using his Inner View ability.

He was somewhat surprised to find, this was actually a profound Sword Technique.

This Sword Technique, named ’Pagoda’s Nine Swords,’ was learned by a Heavenly Realm martial artist of the Oda Clan from Dragon Country’s ancient arts in the past.

But later, he slightly altered it, and it became the ’Forbidden Art’ of Yinghua Country.

The Forbidden Arts of Yinghua Country are also extremely rare, on par with the ancient arts of Dragon Country.

Their Forbidden Arts generally have been lost as well, only possibly passed down in families that once had a Heavenly Realm Martial Artist.

Now, Lin Dong’s accidental discovery of this ’Pagoda’s Nine Swords’ can be considered an unexpected delight.

He imprinted the nine swords in his mind, preparing to study them slowly in the future.

Then, he leapt up and jumped down from the several-hundred-meter-high tower.

”Bang!”

His both legs heavily smashed onto the ground, leaving two deep pits where he landed.

”Master Lin, have you finished the alchemy?” Oda Mei asked with a seductive smile, coming up to inquire.

Lin Dong nodded, glancing at her and then said: ”Unexpectedly, your Martial Arts talent is also quite impressive.”

Oda Mei hurriedly said: ”Master Lin, compared to you, I am miles away.”

Lin Dong said indifferently: ”I’ve just used X-Ray, and I see your Bone Age is merely nineteen. And yet, your strength is that of a Grandmaster.”

”To reach Grandmaster strength at nineteen, this talent is by no means weak. It’s not an overstatement to call you a proud Son of Heaven.”

Oda Mei bowed her head, unsure of what Lin Dong meant by his words.

Feeling a bit uneasy inside, she wondered if Master Lin was afraid she would seek revenge?

With this thought, her body trembled, and she quickly knelt down and prostrated at Lin Dong’s feet, saying: ”Master Lin, I will definitely not seek revenge against you.”

”I respect you as I would a deity, I wouldn’t dare to seek revenge.”

Lin Dong commented blandly: ”What, you’re afraid that by keeping a tiger at home, it will turn into a threat, and so you think I should kill you?”

Oda Mei kept her head down, not daring to speak.

Lin Dong sneered and said: ”Then you’re thinking too much, your talent, although not bad, is still far from threatening me.”

Saying this, he pointed towards the tower and continued:

”I’ve seen your palm lines, and you practice swordsmanship. Inside the wall of the tower above, there is an Ancient Martial Sword Technique that your ancestors have stolen from our Dragon Country.”

”You can learn it!”

”Of course, the sword technique is profound. Whether you can master it depends on your own fortune.”

”However, one thing I want to emphasize once again. The origin of that sword technique is from our Dragon Country. It’s called Pagoda’s Nine Swords.”

”If you do learn it, just don’t go around claiming the sword technique is a self-created art of Yinghua Country.”

Hearing this, Oda Mei’s eyes sparkled, she quickly knelt down to thank him.

”Thank you, Master Lin, thank you so much!”

Oda Mei suddenly realized that Lin Dong’s earlier questions about her martial-path weren’t out of fear for potential threat or preparation to kill her, but rather to gift her an opportunity.

She was overjoyed and kept kowtowing to express her gratitude.

But after she kowtowed three times and looked up again, she found that Master Lin had already disappeared without a trace.

”Coming without a shadow, leaving no trace, like an Immortal! When can I, like Master Lin, do the same.” Oda Mei muttered to herself.

Afterward, she quickly headed towards the tower.

With her strength as a Martial Arts Master, naturally, she could not simply stroll up the several-hundred-meter-high tower like Lin Dong did.

Instead, she needed to condense feathers with her Inner Qi and fly up.

”Whoosh!” It took her more than a dozen seconds, but she flew up, beginning to tap carefully on the walls, hoping to obtain the sword technique mentioned by Master Lin just moments ago.

But Lin Dong did not know that his casual remarks would someday create a new generation’s female Swordsman Grandmaster of Yinghua Country.

And by that female Swordsman Grandmaster, relying on a sword technique called ’Pagoda’s Nine Swords’, even surpassed the former number one female Swordsman Grandmaster, Oda Yukihime!

And that person’s name was Oda Mei!

Of course, that is a story for another time.

At the moment, Lin Dong was already on his way to the next noble family among the Great Eight Martial Families of Yinghua Country.

And the next family Lin Dong chose was the Miyamoto Clan!