Yangyuan Pills are refined from Yangyuan Stones. The ones we dig up can also be given to Chiling for alchemy."
Summoning his cauldron, Lin Xuan watched as Hu Ying and the six beasts had already clawed out twelve Yangyuan Stones.
"Master, put them all in!" Chiling urged, opening the lid.
Lin Xuan tossed the stones in. Moments later, the cauldron released four finished pills.
Testing them, he confirmed they matched the system's Yangyuan Pills in quality.
"Master, these stones can also replenish my energy. With Yangyuan Stones, I won't need to drain your Yuan Power during pill refining," Chiling said joyfully.
This was a huge relief. For ordinary pills, Chiling's own energy sufficed, but blood pills made from beast corpses consumed vast amounts of firepower. With Yangyuan Stones, that burden was gone—their fire attribute matched perfectly.
"Still, this mining speed is too slow, and it's wearing out the beasts," Lin Xuan frowned.
After an hour of digging, the beasts were filthy, exhausted, and had only managed to produce a handful of stones. Digging deeper veins would be even harder without tools.
"Best leave this to professionals. Once I seize Ironwood Manor, I'll have the clan excavate properly."
He left the Black Iron Demon Leopards to guard the site and returned to the Lin Clan.
He couldn't stay away forever. By now, Qing Tan's cold poison was about to erupt. If he didn't return, the little girl would cry herself to death—and Lin Xuan couldn't bear to see her suffer.
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Three days later, Lin Xuan arrived home.
The moment they heard, Lin Dong and Qing Tan rushed to his courtyard.
"Lin Xuan-ge, these are spirit herbs we tricked out of the Lei and Xie families," Lin Dong said excitedly, producing two fourth-grade herbs.
In Qingyang Town, fourth-grade herbs were nearly impossible to find. Getting two at once was a huge harvest.
"Well done. Let's split them."
The brothers divided the herbs evenly.
"Wow! Lin Xuan-ge, in just half a month, Little Flame and the others have grown so much!" Qing Tan exclaimed in surprise.
After their wilderness training, the three little beasts had grown into mighty ones. All had reached Body Tempering Level Seven, with Xiao Yan as strong as Level Eight.
Lin Dong too was impressed.
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Time flew. A month later, Lin Xuan had refined nearly one hundred Yangyuan Pills.
His dantian swelled with Yang Gang Qi, pressing against an invisible barrier.
Without hesitation, he swallowed the remaining pills at once.
A fiery torrent surged through him, breaking the shackles inside his body. A scorching Yuan Power wave burst forth.
Sky Origin Realm—success!
[Task: Break through to the Sky Origin Realm. Reward: +2 Constitution, +2 Aptitude. Completed. Claim now?]
"Claim!"
[Constitution: 23 → 25 (one in a hundred)]
[Aptitude: 31 → 33 (one in a thousand)]
"Now, I'm the strongest in Qingyang Town."
Even at Earth Origin Realm, he could fight Hu Ying at mid-Sky Origin. Now, few Sky Origin experts could match him.
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That day, Lin Xia came to his courtyard, bringing two ornate boxes.
"Grandfather asked me to deliver these to you," she said.
Opening them, Lin Xuan found two Scarletwood Spirit Stems—fourth-grade herbs.
"Such precious medicine… Thank Grandfather for me," he said in surprise.
Though less useful for him now, Chiling could use them in high-grade pill recipes.
"Hmph, you don't know how jealous everyone was when these were given to you," Lin Xia pouted. She herself longed for such herbs to break through her bottleneck.
But she admitted Lin Xuan's talent justified it.
"By the way, how's your cultivation? Have you broken through to mid-Earth Origin yet?" she asked.
"Not long ago, yes," Lin Xuan nodded.
"You monster…" Lin Xia sighed. She herself was stuck at Body Tempering Level Nine, unable to break through.
"Patience. Accumulate steadily and the chance will come," Lin Xuan encouraged.
"Stay for dinner," he added.
During the meal, Lin Xuan secretly added medicine and Yin Pearls into her soup.
"This is my special nourishing soup. Good taste, and it might even help your cultivation," he said.
Skeptical but touched, Lin Xia drank it. Soon, energy roiled inside her, and she rushed out to cultivate.
Moments later, a powerful wave burst from her—she had broken through to Earth Origin Realm!
"Lin Xuan! I did it!" she cried, hugging him tightly in excitement.
"Congrats, Lin Xia-jie. I told you, your hard work would pay off."
"Yes, all thanks to effort!" she replied slyly, knowing the soup had helped. "From now on, you must cook this for me every day."
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