Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain

Chapter 3096: Chapter 3096: Mental Power Level 42

After obtaining fifty ’Blood Soul Crystal Stones’, Lin Dong decided to refine them first.

”I’ll raise my spiritual power to the forty-second rank first; this way, hunting down those mysterious creatures will be a bit faster...”

Thinking so, Lin Dong found a secluded spot.

He set up a shielding array that isolated spiritual perception.

Then he took out the Yangxin Sword and Bone Flute to guard him.

Using puppet sculptures for protection was futile because they couldn’t use spiritual power, and thus couldn’t defend against those mysterious creatures.

If any mysterious creature suddenly attacks Lin Dong while he’s refining the ’Blood Soul Crystal Stones’, it would be troublesome.

So the Yangxin Sword and Bone Flute were used to guard him.

Besides, Lin Dong communicated with Senior Sovereign Witch.

”Senior Sovereign Witch, please keep an eye out as well. If any mysterious creatures approach, please help me guard.” Lin Dong cautioned, showing great prudence.

Sovereign Witch nodded and replied, ”Don’t worry, I will watch over you. Feel free to refine those Blood Soul Crystals...”

After making all these comprehensive preparations, Lin Dongfang finally felt at ease and went to refine those ’Blood Soul Crystals’.

Martial artists must focus wholeheartedly when breaking through in the Martial Arts Realm to prevent deviating into evil territory, ensuring efficiency. This is why many martial artists choose a quiet place for retreat when seeking a breakthrough...

For spiritual power monks, this is even stricter.

Spiritual power monks seeking breakthroughs need a good environment. If disturbed, it harms the spiritual power...

If a spiritual power monk is disturbed and backlash happens during breakthrough, they could very likely become an idiot.

This is crucial and the reason why Lin Dong is so cautious.

At the moment, Lin Dong took out all fifty ’Blood Soul Crystals’.

These Blood Soul Crystals varied in size, and the ’spiritual power energy’ within them differed.

Lin Dong applied his skills to start refining them together.

”Whew whew~~~” Just like refining ’herbs’ during alchemy, extracting their ’spiritual power energy’ to form a cluster.

Initially, it was just a small, thumb-sized blood-colored energetic light cluster, and as the refining progressed, the light cluster grew larger.

From thumb-sized to fist-sized, then to basketball-sized...

Finally, it became as large as a bucket, suspended in Lin Dong’s palm.

Lin Dong opened his mouth, and a terrifying suction force emanated from his body.

The blood-colored spiritual power energy light cluster entered Lin Dong’s body under the influence of that suction force.

As soon as it entered Lin Dong’s body, he applied the spiritual power cultivation method and guided it through his ’meridians’ into the sea of consciousness.

Lin Dong’s sea of consciousness was a vast reservoir of spiritual power, with four black lotuses rooted in the ocean’s center.

Within them, infinite spiritual power radiated; as long as the sea of consciousness, their root, remained untouched, they’d eternally produce spiritual power, continuously and endlessly.

The first three black lotuses had nine petals each.

Only the fourth black lotus had just one petal.

At the moment, Lin Dong guided all ’blood-colored spiritual power energy’ into the fourth black lotus.

Gradually, that fourth black lotus emitted a dazzling light and began to change.

The fourth black lotus started growing a second petal, and as it sprouted, Lin Dong knew his spiritual power had reached the forty-second rank.

There wasn’t a qualitative change between spiritual power at forty-two and forty-one ranks, but previous spiritual power techniques became stronger.

For instance, the spiritual power domain expanded more at the forty-second rank than before.

Previously, in this ’Black Abyss’, his spiritual power domain could only cover several kilometers, but with the rank raised, it could now cover eighty kilometers—quite an improvement.

Additionally, spiritual power thoughts also became stronger than before.

The ’Sword of Spiritual Power’ crafted by spiritual power was more powerful and faster.

If he encounters the unknown creature with the ’Blood Eagle’ form, Lin Dong wouldn’t let it escape under his watch.

”Whew~~~” As Lin Dong exhaled heavily, he completely refined those ’blood-colored spiritual power energy’.

His spiritual power was firmly consolidated at the forty-second rank!

”After reaching the fortieth rank, increasing spiritual power becomes very slow. Even fifty ’Blood Soul Crystals’ only enhance one rank.”

”How many Blood Soul Crystals would it take to reach the forty-fifth rank?” Lin Dong murmured helplessly.

If spiritual power reaches the forty-fifth rank, it undergoes a ’qualitative’ change.

In this mysterious Black Abyss, Lin Dong surely wants more trump cards; if spiritual power reaches forty-fifth rank, his life-preservation methods would become much stronger.

Moreover, Lin Dong discovered that the ’mysterious creatures’ in this Black Abyss utilize spiritual power attacks; the stronger the spiritual power, the more effortlessly he could navigate the Black Abyss.

Opening his eyes, the artifact spirit Xiao Bai in the Yangxin Sword spoke slowly: ”Master, I sense some energy within this Black Abyss that can help me grow...”

”Oh?” Lin Dong’s eyes brightened.

The Yangxin Sword currently is a fourth-order peak spiritual artifact, still a distance from becoming a fifth-order spiritual artifact.

If Yangxin Sword could reach the fifth-order spiritual artifact, it would be a qualitative leap.

The gap between fifth-order and fourth-order spiritual artifacts is substantial.

Reaching fifth-order spiritual artifact allows for ’element integration’.

It can integrate elemental forces, like the power of ’fire element’, ’thunder element’, ’wind element’...

With various elemental forces integrated, the power of spiritual artifacts exponentially increases.

Even with the same inner Qi and sword move, using the Yangxin Sword would yield greater power than before.

And this increase would be exponential.

”Can you specifically sense where the energy that can enhance your rank is?” Lin Dong asked.

The Yangxin Sword responded, ”I can’t precisely sense it, but I can vaguely detect that it’s to the north.”

This sense feels like how ’geese’ can sense temperature. They can sense the south is warmer than the north; hence, when it gets colder, flocks of geese migrate south...

Similarly, the Yangxin Sword can sense that the energy for enhancing its rank is in the north.

Although it can’t pinpoint the exact location, it can vaguely detect a direction.

This is enough.

”Okay, then next, we head north,” Lin Dong thought.

The Bone Flute artifact soul also spoke at this moment: ”I can vaguely sense an incredibly terrifying spiritual artifact in the north.”

”That artifact makes my soul tremble...”

Hearing this, Lin Dong’s eyes brightened again.

”Could the location of the eighth-order spiritual artifact Nine-layered Heaven Tower also be in the north?”

If that’s the case, Lin Dong is even more inclined to head north.