Chapter 10: Breakthrough to Second Seal Symbol Master & Initial Yuan Dan Realm

Lin Dong made up his mind and began to utilize his mental energy to surge out from within his NiWan Palace to impact and break the layer of mental energy barrier on the surface of the Ancient Wooden Black. 'Come out, Ancient Swirl Symbol!'

"~Click~"

A clicking noise sounded out within the room as the thin barrier surrounding the symbol shattered under the mental energy pressure that Lin Dong cultivates to achieve for six years. Just after the barrier shattered, a small silver light darted into Lin Dong's mind consciousness.

A large amount of information on the seal condensation method, Congealing Symbol Art or Ancient Swirl Symbol, emerged within his mind. It not only included a specific way to condense the seal to break through to the first level of the Seal Symbol Master but also included information on some basic methods of using mental energy.

A long time passed before Lin Dong slowly exhaled a breath of air while his eyes were closed tightly showing small lines underneath his eyelids with his right eyebrow raised slightly. He started to cultivate the technique provided by the method and promote his mental energy to the next level. The mental energy in the NiWan Palace immediately started to rotate rapidly. Slowly seconds to minutes started to trickle by as the rapidly rotating mental energy condensed into a vortex in the center of his NiWan Palace.

The moment the vortex took shape, a faint suction force erupted out, and the rotation speed of the vortex increased before eventually arriving at an inexplicable pace. 'Now it is the time to condense the mental energy.' Lin Dong controlled the high-paced vortex of mental energy by fiercely compressing it inwardly. "BANG" sounded out in his mind as the vortex broke into endless mysterious seal symbol fragments. These vast fragments emerged together and slowly took the shape of the Ancient Swirl Symbol and erupted with a burst of terrifying suction. This suction force pulled all the remaining fragments of mental energy inside the NiWan Palace and devoured them instantaneously. However, he did not stop at breaking through to the first level of the Seal Symbol Master as the surface of the first ancient seal symbol cracked open and eventually split into two ancient seal symbols and seemed to want to split into three symbols, but unfortunately, there was not enough mental energy to achieve that.

However, by the end of this breakthrough, Lin Dong became a Peak Second Level Seal Symbol Master. H's tightly closed eyes opened abruptly while the lines under his eyes disappeared as he sighed in relief "Fuuu…I finally condensed my Ancient Swirl Symbol and have become a peak second-level Seal Symbol Master powerhouse…If I dive into mental energy cultivation for some more time, I will soon step into the Third level Seal Symbol Master realm."

At this moment, he felt that the entire Lin Family clan territory is under his grasp as he has the ability to hear what a few clansmen and class women were secretly talking about far from where he was.

Little Marten came out of the Ancestral Stone Space as soon as Lin Dong's breakthrough process was completed and suggested "Hey kid, not bad…not bad. You should also find some ore so that you can build a weapon using your mental energy. This way you will be able to fly in the air on top of the weapon.

Lin Dong brightened up and smiled as only when reaches the Form Creation realm will he be able to fly in the air. Mental energy cultivation is different as anyone who reached the First Level of the Seal Symbol Master realm will be able to use mental energy to fly.

Before he can think anything else, Little Marten stated, "Well, just so you know kid, the ancestral stone space provides you a way to accelerate your mental energy cultivation. As long as you are not afraid of being in pain, you can go through with that approach of grinding your mental energy. Just keep in mind the pain is really unbearable for normal people. I am telling you this as I tried it and decided to never go through that approach again." Little Marten still has palpitations in his heart just from remembering that experience, so he wanted to imprint the knowledge and warning in Lin Dong's head before he prematurely tries it.

Lin Dong merely dropped himself unceremoniously on the floor and began to move his somewhat tingling muscles and bones while responding "As long as I become stronger, this type of pain is always bearable."

The 'little Mink' had his head just a bit tilted slightly to the left with his eyebrows slightly furrowed showing two small vertical lines at the ends of the eyebrows between the two, his mouth slightly open showing slightly slanted lines towards his nose as he looked at Lin Dong for a couple of seconds before muttering slightly "Another cultivation lunatic…" He then returned to the Ancestral Stone space.

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The eve of the clan competition…

It was night outside as Lin Dong was sitting cross-legged on his bed with his eyes closed and palms resting on his legs. 'It has been two years since I have suppressed my own cultivation. Now it is time to break through.' His consciousness sunk to his dantian and saw his vast dantian which had the attributes of both the Yin and Yang Qi flowing and mingling together to form a faint qi cloud. He could also hear the faint sound of water flowing slightly. These are the signs that represent the fact that Lin Dong is about to step into the Yuan Dan realm. 'Let's begin.'

The Yin and Yang Qi in the dantian that was mingling together immediately spun rapidly in the opposite direction and the speed at which they spun kept increasing until the compression of the two turned completely into a faint energy cloud. 'Not fast enough…come on faster…faster…' Lin Dong, however, was not moved by the fact that he condensed the two Qis into the cloud and continued to urge the Yuan Power vortex to crazily rotate so that the compressed cloud turns into drops of Yuan Power. Eventually, the mingled Yin and Yang Qi within the dantian were all turned into dozens of golden drops of Yuan Dan.

Once these drops formed, Lin Dong immediately condensed them. This can be seen as the dozens of drops were squeezed by a huge invisible hand and compressed and condensed sharply into a golden Dan body with a slightly concave surface.

BUZZ~

As soon as the golden Dan body took shape, a fierce suction force erupted sucking all the remnants of the energy mist within the dantian and the Yuan Power flowing in his meridians. The golden Yuan Dan became incredibly visible to the point that had it been outside it would have been visible to the naked eye. It became more rounded and smoother and if one looked closely, one would see nine very small star patterns on the surface of the golden Yuan Dan as the faint fluctuations slowly rippled away.

After looking at his golden Yuan Dan in his dantian and the nine-star patterns on the surface, Lin Dong was very excited and happy "I have successfully become a Yuan Dan realm powerhouse who has achieved the highest quality Yuan Dan, Nine-star Yuan Dan! If not for the achievement of attaining the perfect Yuan Dan, I would have broken through a long time ago. However, I did it! Fuu…" 'Calm down…Even though this is a big achievement, I am still at the Initial Yuan Dan realm…the cultivation journey to the top is still long…'

Cultivation Ranks:

Rank 1: Tempered Body – 9 Stages – (1-9)

Rank 2: Earthly Yuan – 3 Stages – (Early, Middle, Late)

Rank 3: Heavenly Yuan – 3 Stages – (Early, Middle, Late)

Rank 4: Yuan Dan – 3 Stages – (Initial, Advanced, Perfect)

Rank 5: Form Creation – 2 Stages – (Initial, Advanced)

Rank 6:

Rank 7:

Rank 8:

Rank 9:

Rank 10:

Rank 11: Samsara – 3 Stages – (Ordinary Samsara, Ultimate Samsara, Reincarnation Enlightened Samsara)

Mental Energy Ranks:

Rank 0: Beginning Training – NiWan Palace opened

Rank 1: Seal Symbol Master – 4 Stages – (1st-4th Seal Symbol Master)