Lin Ming Cultivation - Battle Spirit

Mortal World Cultivation
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Battle Spirit
When one reached a higher level in the road of martial arts, a battle spirit would become an essential part of a martial artist’s strength.
 * colspan="2" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 609) After killing Yan Chi, Lin Ming took possession of Yan Chi's spatial ring and took a jade slip from it. This jade slip was Yan Chi’s records about his experience with battle spirits.
 * colspan="2" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 609) After killing Yan Chi, Lin Ming took possession of Yan Chi's spatial ring and took a jade slip from it. This jade slip was Yan Chi’s records about his experience with battle spirits.

A battle spirit could grow along with a martial artist’s own growth, slowly strengthening. Thus, the earlier one comprehended a battle spirit, the more room for growth there would be.

However, if a martial artist had bad luck, poor perception, or their martial arts cultivation had already reached an exceedingly high realm, they would slowly be unable to comprehend a battle spirit.

A battle spirit was in itself an elusive and enigmatic existence, a mysterious and obscure boundary. Sometimes the more one wanted to comprehend a battle spirit, the less successful they would be. Sometimes the less one thought about it, the higher their chances of comprehending it would be. It was an indescribable factor.

The memories that Lin Ming inherited were incomplete and there was very little concerning battle spirits. With Yan Chi’s recorded experiences, even though it was probably riddled with errors and rough spots, at least it could be used as a reference point. In the end, it was better than nothing. A battle spirit was the condensed will that a martial artist could form after they reached a certain boundary. This will could be attached to any object, and could be used in a multitude of ways, such as killing people.
 * colspan="2" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 615) When an Emperor level powerhouse died, the will they left behind would not fade away even after thousands of years. This was the so-called battle spirit.
 * colspan="2" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 615) When an Emperor level powerhouse died, the will they left behind would not fade away even after thousands of years. This was the so-called battle spirit.

For instance, if one attached a battle spirit to the air, they could directly crush a massive boulder into powder.

If they attached a battle spirit to a skill or treasure, they could double their attack power, or even increase it by several times over! A silver battle spirit could be used to strengthen a martial artist’s attacks, but it wasn’t a decisive and direct factor in a martial artist’s combat strength. Its greatest function in a fight between martial artists of similar boundaries was to strengthen weapons, making them sharper and more durable. If two martial artists fought and one of them had their weapon cut off, how could the battle continue?
 * colspan="2" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1018) There was a fundamental difference between a gold battle spirit and a silver battle spirit.
 * colspan="2" style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1018) There was a fundamental difference between a gold battle spirit and a silver battle spirit.

However, if both sides had a high-grade saint artifact, then the effect of a battle spirit would be greatly weakened. This was because an ordinary Life Destruction or Divine Sea martial artist didn’t have the ability to destroy a high-grade saint artifact in a collision of weapons.

A silver battle spirit could be said to only be improving on perfection.

But a gold battle spirit was different. Once one achieved a gold battle spirit, the battle spirit would be so powerful that it could form a projection of their world of will and affect the real world.
 * colspan="2" |(Ch 1417) Lin Ming’s eyes blazed as he looked at Naqi. He slowly said, “In this world there is no perfect race. The saint race’s geniuses seem as if they are more powerful than the humans’, but they also have their own weakness. Your overly powerful mortal body has instead weakened your soul. In terms of battle spirits, you are inferior to humans!”
 * colspan="2" |(Ch 1417) Lin Ming’s eyes blazed as he looked at Naqi. He slowly said, “In this world there is no perfect race. The saint race’s geniuses seem as if they are more powerful than the humans’, but they also have their own weakness. Your overly powerful mortal body has instead weakened your soul. In terms of battle spirits, you are inferior to humans!”

Lin Ming laid bare the weaknesses of the saint race.

To a human martial artist, a battle spirit could be said to play a large role, but also a small role.

If one said it had a large role, that was because there were many special situations where a battle spirit could display a tremendous function. It could stabilize one’s will and be used to withstand soul attacks.

If one said it had a small role, that was because in actual combat, the effects of a battle spirit weren’t too obvious.

This was because if someone had a battle spirit then so would others. If someone used their battle spirit to hinder their opponent, their opponent would use their battle spirit to offset this.

Unless there was a great disparity in battle spirits, the effects of them in combat were minor.

Thus, when Lin Ming was in the Sky Spill Continent he had frequently used his battle spirit. This was because he was often the only one who possessed a battle spirit. Even when he met other martial artists of the Sky Spill Continent who had a battle spirit, they were often at the bronze forming stage. To reach bronze perfection was a legend among legends. As for a silver battle spirit, that was a completely unknown domain to the martial artists of the Sky Spill Continent. In terms of battle spirits, all of them were thrown 108,000 miles away by Lin Ming.

Like this, Lin Ming’s battle spirit hadn’t found a rival. He had been able to pull open a great gulf between himself and the other martial artists of the Sky Spill Continent.

But in the Divine Realm, the function of his battle spirit had been far smaller because the opponents Lin Ming faced were stronger and their attainments in battle spirits were also outstanding. Frost Dream possessed a battle spirit that was on equal standing with Lin Ming’s.

When everyone was supporting their attacks with battle spirits then the battle spirits would balance each other out, meaning neither side would be able to display their full strength.

Now, in facing Imperial Prince Naqi, Lin Ming’s battle spirit was able to display a miraculous effect. This was because the saint race’s battle spirits were far too weak! ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#21ADE3; color:white;" |

Bronze
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Elementary
During these 200 days, the pressure of the Prime Emperor force field constantly grew heavier, but the growth of Lin Ming’s willpower was even quicker. This allowed him to adapt to the massive pressure within the world of will.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 622 -- Age 20
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will. He was also absorbing and refining top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 622 -- Age 20
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will. He was also absorbing and refining top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will. He was also absorbing and refining top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is on the Road of Emperors in the Skysplit Towers for 200 days. He had battling emperor level cultivators in the world of the will all this time thereby tempering and strengthening his will. He was also absorbing and refining top-grade Blood Demon Crystals in order to repair and heal his will body.

The mist within his spiritual sea became increasingly thick, to the point that it nearly turned into droplets.

After finally defeating the will body of a three-star Emperor level powerhouse he has battling for a full 10 days.

A pure energy flowed into Lin Ming’s body, quickly repairing his broken body. This sort of restoration brought along a wonderful feeling with it. The pure power of soul was like a quiet drizzle of rain falling down on him, making him feel happy and comfortable.

Lin Ming immersed himself in this comfortable and wonderful feeling for an unknown time. Suddenly, there was a pain between his eyebrows, as if all the strength of his body was rushing to that single point, able to erupt at any moment!

Lin Ming’s eyes flashed open. He was surprised to find that the thick mist that hovered over his spiritual sea had suddenly contracted in upon itself!

As Lin Ming looked at the skies over his spiritual sea, he could see that the mist there seemed much more pale, and in the center of that swirling mist seemed to be a vague, tiny azure spear; it seemed unreal, obscure, and illusory.

This spear was as thin as a chopstick and only half a foot long. The spearhead was the size of a knuckle, and the entire shaft was azure, shining with a cold light. This spear is the manifestation of Lin Ming's battle spirit.

Demonshine chuckled, “Hehe, that’s right. Every battle spirit has a different shape. Some people have battle spirits that are shaped like weapons they often use, for instance, spears, sabers, and swords. There are also some people who have battle spirits that are like the elements they specialize in, such as flames, ice crystals, thunder bolts, and others. There are even some specialized battle spirits, ones that look like beasts, plants, furnaces, and so on. Take good care of your battle spirit and raise it well! Your battle spirit is just like a baby right now, but even so, it is still extremely terrifying! ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Small Success
Lin Ming Incorporated the energy from this bone, erased its soul mark, and turned it into the purest soul energy to absorb.
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 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 633 -- Age 20
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Eternal Demon Abyss. In there, he was able to capture a Transformed Demon Bone with the help of Demonshine.

The faint traces of red energy were spinning around the tiny spear that was his battle spirit, constantly being absorbed into it.

Time passed second by second. From its illusory, translucent appearance, the little spear became increasingly solid. Its entire body seemed to take on a metallic color as if it were being formed from ancient bronze.

A day later, this spear completely formed, with only some missing parts at the end of the spear shaft.

Lin Ming was aware of the changes in his battle spirit. Using his mind to connect to his battle spirit, the little spear fiercely trembled, as if it didn’t want to be suppressed, wanting to rush out of Lin Ming’s spiritual sea instead.

“Good young man!” Demonshine couldn’t help but praise out loud, “Your cultivation hasn’t reached Revolving Core and yet your battle spirit has passed its elementary form and is rapidly taking shape! You are truly a monstrous genius! To form a complete battle spirit before Revolving Core, this can’t be done with just talent or any sort of heavenly treasures, none of that is sufficient. What you would need is an incomparably formidable will!” Every level of a battle spirit was divided into four ranks: elementary, small success, large success, and perfection. It wasn’t wrong that Wang Yichan was talented, but he had still just formed his battle spirit several years ago and its rank had slowly reached the elementary rank. As for Lin Ming, his battle spirit was already at the peak of small success; there were even many Divine Sea powerhouses that hadn’t been able to achieve this degree yet!
 * (Ch 756) “This Lin Ming, if I’m guessing correctly then I fear that battle spirit has nearly reached large success of the bronze level!” Li Yifeng sucked in a breath of cold air. Even the young maid standing beside him had widened eyes. As someone who also came from the four Divine Kingdoms, she naturally understood what it meant to have a bronze level battle spirit at large success.
 * (Ch 756) “This Lin Ming, if I’m guessing correctly then I fear that battle spirit has nearly reached large success of the bronze level!” Li Yifeng sucked in a breath of cold air. Even the young maid standing beside him had widened eyes. As someone who also came from the four Divine Kingdoms, she naturally understood what it meant to have a bronze level battle spirit at large success.

A difference of a little more than a boundary wasn’t much at all, however, Wang Yichan’s cultivation was at the second stage of Life Destruction and Lin Ming was only at the late Revolving Core. If Lin Ming were to step into the second stage of Life Destruction then it was possible for his battle spirit to reach bronze level perfection, and perhaps he could even obtain a silver battle spirit before he reached the Divine Sea!

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Large Success
With the support of the Heavencraft Trading Company, Lin Ming was able to easily purchase massive amounts of alchemy materials and wood jade at extremely low prices. All of this was constantly consumed in the Cosmic Melting Furnace, with at least 90% of it becoming nothing more than burnt ash.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 777 -- Age 20
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is at the Heavencraft Trading Company in the Nine Furnace Divine Kingdom practicing his Alchemy Skills which he obtained from the memories of the elder master's from the soul fragments of the Magic Cube.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 777 -- Age 20
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is at the Heavencraft Trading Company in the Nine Furnace Divine Kingdom practicing his Alchemy Skills which he obtained from the memories of the elder master's from the soul fragments of the Magic Cube.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is at the Heavencraft Trading Company in the Nine Furnace Divine Kingdom practicing his Alchemy Skills which he obtained from the memories of the elder master's from the soul fragments of the Magic Cube.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is at the Heavencraft Trading Company in the Nine Furnace Divine Kingdom practicing his Alchemy Skills which he obtained from the memories of the elder master's from the soul fragments of the Magic Cube.

Lin Ming’s alchemy technique wasn’t poor at all. It was just that, every time he mastered a new level of alchemy technique, he would instantly proceed to challenge one with an even higher one. Thus, the results of Lin Ming’s alchemy ended in failure, failure, and more failure.

Unconsciously, Lin Ming’s spiritual sea was subtly influenced by his alchemy training. Waves began to appear in his originally calm spiritual sea, and underneath the crest of these waves shone a gloriously pale azure color.

The great waves smashed together, causing water to splash everywhere, and slowly infiltrating the spear shaped battle spirit in the skies of the spiritual sea.

This battle spirit was only as thick as a chopstick, was and less than a foot long. It seemed to be made from a dark greenish blue metal, as if it were forged from raw bronze. This was the symbol of a bronze level battle spirit.

It was only because Lin Ming’s battle spirit had the attribute of endlessness that it continuously emanated a brilliant azure light.

At a certain moment, the battle spirit suddenly rumbled, issuing a clarion cry. Lin Ming’s spiritual sea furiously roiled, forming rocky waves that shot into the sky, swirling and creating a vortex around the little spear.

In such a twisting vortex, the little spear violently shook, making sounds of excitement.

It slowly began to grow longer, thicker, and the brilliant azure light became increasingly dazzling. Its form became more solid, more primal. ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Perfection
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Silver
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Elementary
After ingesting and absorbing several high grade medicines, his body has transformed into a golden energy. With the support of the Heretical God Sprout, he completely fused his body with the energy even as he tempered every single cell with the power of thunder!
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 838 -- Age 22
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 838 -- Age 22
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is in the Forsaken God Clan's dimension realm cultivating. He is trying to breakthrough the Life Destruction Realm in order to fight in a continuous battle with Life Destruction disciples of the Asura Divine Kingdom.

Even his soul and will underwent a baptism of thunder.

At this time, within the sea of golden energy, the battle spirit in Lin Ming’s spiritual sea was also withstanding being tempered by thunder.

He suddenly felt a burst of stabbing pain from the depths of his soul.

The battle spirit violently trembled, as if something were trying to break free from within it!

Now that Lin Ming was crossing Life Destruction, his battle spirit was about to take another step forwards!

Lin Ming naturally couldn’t miss out on this opportunity. With a thought, the seals on the heavily protected fifth jade box began to unravel.

As the seals were undone, the wood spirit jade box immediately disintegrated into nothing. What was left over was the contents of the box, an exceptionally clear and vibrant purple crystal the size of a fist, along with several smaller fragments around it.

This was the Twinlife Thunder Crystal!

As the vessel that a Thunder Source was bred within, a Twinlife Thunder Crystal only appeared once every several hundred million years or even billions of years. Even within the Realm of the Gods, such a treasure could only be found through a stroke of destiny.

By concentrating the power of his will, the Twinlife Thunder Crystal floated in the air as it began to melt together with Lin Ming’s spear-shaped battle spirit.

In that instant, an energy beyond description suddenly erupted like a volcano. Above Lin Ming’s spear-shaped battle spirit, countless purple Dao patterns began to appear!

As these Dao patterns glowed and rippled, they seemed incomparably mystical, as if they contained the Source Laws and the charm of the Great Dao. Compared to the chaos stone engravings, they had arrived at the same result from different paths!

The reason that the Twinlife Thunder Crystal was able to temper the will was because it had existed for billions of years, bearing witness to the infinite changes through the endless years of the universe. Bit by bit, the thunder energy carved itself into the Twinlife Thunder Crystal, reflecting and manifesting the most essential changes in energy.

And once these changes were engraved into the battle spirit, the source energy would fuse together with the battle spirit and temper the will.

The Dao patterns destroyed and created, washing through every single inch of Lin Ming’s battle spirit. Slowly, the spear-shaped battle spirit lengthened and became increasingly dense. After a quarter hour, the bronze color began to fade away, revealing a touch of silver white radiance!

By crossing Life Destruction and in addition to the baptism of the Twinlife Thunder Crystal, his battle spirit had unexpectedly crossed over bronze perfection and stepped directly into the silver level! ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Small Success
The will of the Demon Emperor noticed that a part of Lin Ming's aura is the Demon Emperor's aura. He guessed that it is because Lin Ming absorbed part of his spirit which was syphoned by the Magic Cube. Being aware of this he passed on to Lin Ming the energy of will light."
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 902 -- Age 24
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is again in the Road of Emperor, the real name of which is Samsara Road according to the will of the Demon Emperor. Also according to the Demon Emperor, the Samsara Road was created by Empyrean Primordius.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 902 -- Age 24
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is again in the Road of Emperor, the real name of which is Samsara Road according to the will of the Demon Emperor. Also according to the Demon Emperor, the Samsara Road was created by Empyrean Primordius.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is again in the Road of Emperor, the real name of which is Samsara Road according to the will of the Demon Emperor. Also according to the Demon Emperor, the Samsara Road was created by Empyrean Primordius.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is again in the Road of Emperor, the real name of which is Samsara Road according to the will of the Demon Emperor. Also according to the Demon Emperor, the Samsara Road was created by Empyrean Primordius.

Lin Ming felt the fog around the battle spirit in his spiritual sea slowly thicken. The battle spirit’s energy rapidly increased. ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Large Success
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 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 903 -- Age 25
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just absorbed the second to the last will light on the Samsara Road (Road of Emperor). This is the will light of a blue soul battle spirit.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 903 -- Age 25
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just absorbed the second to the last will light on the Samsara Road (Road of Emperor). This is the will light of a blue soul battle spirit.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just absorbed the second to the last will light on the Samsara Road (Road of Emperor). This is the will light of a blue soul battle spirit.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming just absorbed the second to the last will light on the Samsara Road (Road of Emperor). This is the will light of a blue soul battle spirit.

Perfection
The totem stone tablet’s martial arts will swept up like a storm, violently rushing towards Lin Ming’s spiritual sea. Within Lin Ming’s spiritual sea, the spear-shaped battle spirit floating in the air was forced to directly bear a baptism of this pressure.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 963 -- Age 27
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is taking the third test of the Saint Artifact Pavilion for the procurement of saint weapons, accessories and artifacts. He is studying and perceiving a totem stone which contains the will of the 26th acting Patriarch of the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Xiao Daoji
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 963 -- Age 27
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is taking the third test of the Saint Artifact Pavilion for the procurement of saint weapons, accessories and artifacts. He is studying and perceiving a totem stone which contains the will of the 26th acting Patriarch of the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Xiao Daoji
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is taking the third test of the Saint Artifact Pavilion for the procurement of saint weapons, accessories and artifacts. He is studying and perceiving a totem stone which contains the will of the 26th acting Patriarch of the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Xiao Daoji
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is taking the third test of the Saint Artifact Pavilion for the procurement of saint weapons, accessories and artifacts. He is studying and perceiving a totem stone which contains the will of the 26th acting Patriarch of the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Xiao Daoji

Lin Ming’s entire body was covered in this pressure.

The entirety of Xiao Daoji’s thoughts were recklessly unleashed onto Lin Ming. And within Lin Ming’s spiritual sea, the mist floating around the spear-shaped battle was compressed to such a terrifying degree that it condensed onto the spear shaft itself.

Lin Ming’s spear-shaped battle spirit erupt with a dazzling light. In the next moment, the battle spirit was reborn. Although the main form was still silver gray as before, it clearly reflected a light trace of gold. Pale gold! That was the sign of a gold battle spirit!
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 987) The spear-shaped battle spirit floated high in the skies above his spiritual sea. His battle spirit was wrapped in a thick silver gray mist, but in the deepest layers of that mist, there was actually a faint golden color.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 987) The spear-shaped battle spirit floated high in the skies above his spiritual sea. His battle spirit was wrapped in a thick silver gray mist, but in the deepest layers of that mist, there was actually a faint golden color.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 987) The spear-shaped battle spirit floated high in the skies above his spiritual sea. His battle spirit was wrapped in a thick silver gray mist, but in the deepest layers of that mist, there was actually a faint golden color.

This meant that after Lin Ming’s battle spirit was tempered through opening the Gate of Opening, it had reached the peak of silver perfection! It would soon break through and become a gold battle spirit! ! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#21ADE3; color:white;" |

Gold
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Elementary
Lin Ming’s mind was filled with knowledge. He felt his spiritual sea suddenly tremble. A boundless aura surged into the world, accompanied with countless Law fragments that overflowed from the chaos stones and poured into Lin Ming’s body.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1008 -- Age 29
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is undergoing the Ancient Phoenix Smelting Trial. He is now absorbing and contemplating the law fragments of 4 chaos stones: the Yin Yang Chaos Stone, the Universe Space Chaos Stone, the Endless Years Chaos Stone, and the Five Elements Chaos Stone.  He meditated on these chaos stones.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1008 -- Age 29
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is undergoing the Ancient Phoenix Smelting Trial. He is now absorbing and contemplating the law fragments of 4 chaos stones: the Yin Yang Chaos Stone, the Universe Space Chaos Stone, the Endless Years Chaos Stone, and the Five Elements Chaos Stone.  He meditated on these chaos stones.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is undergoing the Ancient Phoenix Smelting Trial. He is now absorbing and contemplating the law fragments of 4 chaos stones: the Yin Yang Chaos Stone, the Universe Space Chaos Stone, the Endless Years Chaos Stone, and the Five Elements Chaos Stone.  He meditated on these chaos stones.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |Lin Ming is undergoing the Ancient Phoenix Smelting Trial. He is now absorbing and contemplating the law fragments of 4 chaos stones: the Yin Yang Chaos Stone, the Universe Space Chaos Stone, the Endless Years Chaos Stone, and the Five Elements Chaos Stone.  He meditated on these chaos stones.

These Law fragments were constantly absorbed by Lin Ming, turning into mysterious runes within his body.

And in the skies above Lin Ming’s spiritual sea, the silver gray grandmist battle spirit began to transform.

A faint trace of elementary grandmist energy gathered above the spear-shaped battle spirit. This made the battle spirit emit a brilliantly dazzling radiance. This radiance started silver but slowly began to mix with a golden light. As time passed, more and more golden light appeared, becoming brighter and more abundant until it completely engulfed the silver light!

In that moment, the spear-shaped battle spirit within Lin Ming’s spiritual sea finally turned from silver to a sparkling gold. After a long period of accumulation, his battle spirit finally broke through the bottleneck of silver perfection and became a gold battle spirit!

A gold battle spirit could be projected into the world and form a space of will. At this step, a battle spirit would have a tremendous effect on one’s combat strength!

A gold battle spirit was no longer just a supportive attack method but could also be used as a main attack method.

However, Lin Ming’s gold battle spirit was different from that of an ordinary martial artist. It was not a brilliant shining gold, but had the dark color of grandmist energy fused into it.

It was a dark gold color!

The dark gold battle spirit contained an ancient and boundless aura; this was the atmosphere of chaos. Because Lin Ming had perceived the Chaos Laws, his grandmist battle spirit contained an aura of grandmist energy that was far more vivid than before.

Because of this special attribute, Lin Ming’s battle spirit was only at the formative gold level, but it was actually far more powerful than a normal small success gold battle spirit! ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Small to Large Success
His meridians tore, his body shattered, only his skeleton was able to barely withstand the yin yang tribulation!
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1027 -- Age 31
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |The power of the Heavenly Dao formed runes of yin and yang, falling down upon Lin Ming’s body. It caused his already dilapidated body to collapse, with a massive amount of flesh and blood flying out! This was not just blood splashing out, but a torrent of blood caused by the disintegration of the body!
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1027 -- Age 31
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |The power of the Heavenly Dao formed runes of yin and yang, falling down upon Lin Ming’s body. It caused his already dilapidated body to collapse, with a massive amount of flesh and blood flying out! This was not just blood splashing out, but a torrent of blood caused by the disintegration of the body!
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |The power of the Heavenly Dao formed runes of yin and yang, falling down upon Lin Ming’s body. It caused his already dilapidated body to collapse, with a massive amount of flesh and blood flying out! This was not just blood splashing out, but a torrent of blood caused by the disintegration of the body!
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |The power of the Heavenly Dao formed runes of yin and yang, falling down upon Lin Ming’s body. It caused his already dilapidated body to collapse, with a massive amount of flesh and blood flying out! This was not just blood splashing out, but a torrent of blood caused by the disintegration of the body!

In that moment, Lin Ming felt a strong feeling of despair surge in his mind. This was despair brought about by the Heavenly Dao Laws. Lin Ming felt as if he had instantly arrived in the hell of the death god. There was nothing but gray around him. There was no life and nothing in this world but death and despair.

Death… only by dying would he reach his eternal destination.

A strange voice echoed in Lin Ming’s ears, causing this idea to form in his mind. But, what was strange was that in the face of such a divine soul and will attack, the Magic Cube in Lin Ming’s spiritual sea was completely silent, without a single response.

The Magic Cube didn’t resist the Heavenly Dao Laws?

Could it not resist? Or did the Magic Cube itself represent the world Laws, thus it did not resist?

This thought flashed through Lin Ming’s mind. But, even without the Magic Cube, Lin Ming never believed he would absolutely lose in a battle of divine soul and will.

If the Magic Cube represents the Heavenly Dao, then I will rely on myself!

No matter how high the Heavenly Dao is, I will still defy the heavens’ will!

If the heavens must destroy me, then I shall dye the heavens red with blood!

In that instant, Lin Ming’s mind quaked as if something shattered. The grandmist battle spirit howled out from between his eyebrows!

The battle spirit trembled. It was like a wild dragon, roaring at the skies!

Immediately, the misty elementary grandmist energy around the battle spirit suddenly condensed onto its surface. The spear-shaped battle spirit rapidly grew, growing longer!

The elementary gold battle spirit stage was easily broken through. Then, gold small success, peak of small success, gold large success!

As Lin Ming’s thoughts erupted, his battle spirit actually crossed the small realm of gold small success in a single go and leapt directly into gold large success!

The Heavenly Dao Laws squeezed upon Lin Ming’s will. Not only did it increase the evolutionary rate of his battle spirit, but it was just like the Twinlife Thunder Crystal, digging out all of the potential of Lin Ming’s battle spirit. This was not something that a normal battle spirit tempering technique could compare with. A tempering technique that could increase a battle spirit’s potential could only be found through a stroke of fate! ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Perfection
The dreamland energy was absorbed by Lin Ming and fused into his soul. As a result, his soul force strengthened by several levels.
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 * style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1221) Lin Ming just killed the red-furred monster, which turned out to be a soul life. After being killed, the monster turned into dreamland energy.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1222 -- Age 31
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1221) Lin Ming just killed the red-furred monster, which turned out to be a soul life. After being killed, the monster turned into dreamland energy.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1221) Lin Ming just killed the red-furred monster, which turned out to be a soul life. After being killed, the monster turned into dreamland energy.
 * style="text-indent:20px; " |(Ch 1221) Lin Ming just killed the red-furred monster, which turned out to be a soul life. After being killed, the monster turned into dreamland energy.

(Ch 1222) His soul force was further enhanced when he perceived, and was enlightened, by the memories of the monster regarding the the 3 difference source energies of grandmist, genesis and spirit.

As Lin Ming understood these truths, he felt his spiritual sea suddenly shake. It was like a thin layer of membrane had been pierced through, in that that moment, many truths and Laws were immediately comprehended by him. In that instant Lin Ming could feel his own strength crazily rise and his soul force was again strengthening at a terrifying speed.

Lin Ming’s first four Concepts of Thunder and Fire completely fused together. And in his spiritual sea, his battle spirit also violently trembled. As it trembled, all of its power constantly gathered onto itself, becoming more and more solid and more and more sharp. With this sort of change, Lin Ming’s battle spirit had broken through gold large success to gold perfection.

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Blue Soul
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Small Success
As Lin Ming sat beneath the Bodhi Tree, he soon entered a complete ethereal state.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1407 -- Age 41
 * Lin Ming is in Mount Potala cultivating and meditating.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1407 -- Age 41
 * Lin Ming is in Mount Potala cultivating and meditating.
 * Lin Ming is in Mount Potala cultivating and meditating.
 * Lin Ming is in Mount Potala cultivating and meditating.

Time passed day by day. Lin Ming remained motionless, like a sculpture in a garden.

Every day, there would be a crystalline leaf that gently fell down from the Bodhi Tree. As it fell onto Lin Ming’s body, it would drip with a verdant green.

Occasionally there would be a Bodhi seed that fell down. These fingernail-sized Bodhi seeds were completely covered with ancient patterns that weaved together into images of Buddha, lifelike and spiritual.

The Bodhi leaves and Bodhi seeds would eventually turn into crystalline motes of light that fused into Lin Ming’s body.

The Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist comprehensions that Lin Ming studied began to slowly swirl within him, fusing with his spiritual sea.

The samsara martial intent that was within Lin Ming’s spiritual sea had faded away. It turned into a pure flow of energy that converged onto the Primordius martial intent. The ethereal martial intent was also the same.

All of these changes were sublimated within Lin Ming’s soul, becoming purely lucid.

Like this, Lin Ming sat beneath the Bodhi Tree for 33 days.

33 days later, Lin Ming’s eyes flashed open.

With an incomparably loud whistling sound, a spear-shaped battle spirit the color of blue jade howled into the air, circling in the air before returning to Lin Ming’s spiritual sea.

As for Lin Ming’s aura, it suddenly exploded outwards like an army of galloping horses!

His strength had greatly increased.

His soul had undergone a nirvana, and his martial intents had been thoroughly smoothed out.

Heavenly Demon, Heavenly Mortal, Heavenly God, these three martial intents had fused into the complete Primordius martial intent. As for the samsara martial intent and ethereal martial intent, they had also fused with it.

It was only the black hole horizon and divine dream space that Lin Ming wasn’t able to fuse together. But even so, his understandings of these two martial intents were much clearer than before. ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Large Success
At this time, the Asura blood that had no place to vent this energy burst into Lin Ming’s spiritual sea and inner world like a storm!
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1696 -- Age 123
 * Ling Ming had just absorbed a drop of blood of the Asura Road Master.
 * style="padding:0px" |Chapter 1696 -- Age 123
 * Ling Ming had just absorbed a drop of blood of the Asura Road Master.
 * Ling Ming had just absorbed a drop of blood of the Asura Road Master.
 * Ling Ming had just absorbed a drop of blood of the Asura Road Master.

Although this drop of blood was originally only the size of a pearl, Lin Ming’s spiritual sea and inner world were actually swept up into a raging red sea!

Blood red waves as high as mountains engulfed the world, wildly rampaging about!

Within Lin Ming’s spiritual sea, the blue soul battle spirit bore the brunt of this impact. It was completely sucked up in this Asura blood!

The spear-shaped battle spirit was soaked in this Asura blood, seething about. The essence of the Asura blood wildly plunged into the spear-shaped battle spirit. Lin Ming felt his spiritual sea shake as a severe pain lit up every inch of his mind! ! colspan="2" style="font-size:12pt; padding:2px 0px  0px  10px ; " |

Perfection

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