Lin Xuan made a decision. He would begin his body tempering cultivation directly in the Heavenly Realm, also known as the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Following his cultivation plan, he used the 750,000 battle merit points he had just obtained to exchange for a large amount of precious cultivation resources, most of which were specifically designed to promote physical body enhancement!
Immediately afterwards, he left the Heavenly Court protection zone and headed towards the vast uninhabited areas of the Thirty-Three Heavens. This was a far more dangerous place, filled with various Gang Feng Lei Huo and other dangerous places, with various levels of intensity.
Soon, he found a suitable location for himself, ready to enter seclusion and cultivate.
All around him were howling winds, each gust like a divine weapon capable of easily slicing through the flesh of a True Immortal. Even as a late-stage True Immortal in the body tempering path, he felt his body aching.
The howling winds here were much stronger than the weakened Gang Feng within the Heavenly Court's training array, not even in the same league!
However, the more challenging and dangerous the environment, the more it could strengthen the tempering and polishing of his physical body, pushing his body to its limits and providing greater pressure, enough to help him improve his physical body cultivation at the fastest rate possible!
"I'll make a push for it, first I'll break through my physical body to the Xuanxian realm!"
Lin Xuan immediately began refining the body tempering resources he had exchanged, activating the red word 'True Dragon Nine Transformations', then began his body tempering cultivation under the relentless pounding of the howling winds around him.
With the abundant supply of resources and the guidance of the cultivation skill word, the improvement of his physical body was immediate. He could see progress every second, every minute, every day. Every passing day, his body grew stronger!
The extremely sharp howling winds of Heaven and Earth transformed into countless hammers, forging every inch of his body, allowing him to digest the resources at the fastest speed, and strengthen his physical body even faster. It was a painful but joyful experience.
After less than a few months, his physical body cultivation had reached the peak of the True Immortal Realm.
Without any hesitation, Lin Xuan continued to refine pills and other resources, while moving towards areas with even stronger howling winds, increasing the pressure on his body and continuously improving his physical body cultivation.
This went on for a dozen years before he finally broke through his physical body to the early stage of the Xuanxian Realm!
Boom!
Lin Xuan's blood energy erupted, far surpassing its previous strength by an unknown number of times, causing the howling winds around him to disperse. The howling winds that had once caused him great pain could no longer harm him in the slightest.
"It wasn't easy, the resources needed to cultivate the physical body are truly far greater than those needed for cultivating the Primordial Spirit."
"Raising my physical body to the early stage of Xuanxian has consumed far more resources than I expected..."
He shook his head helplessly, realizing the difficulties of the body tempering path. Not only did it require enduring the hardships of the tempering environment, but the resource consumption was also incredibly high. It had taken him at least 700,000 battle merit points worth of resources to reach his current Xuanxian physical body!
Of course, with the high consumption of resources came greater strength than that of ordinary mediocre early stage Xuanxian in the primordial spirit path, especially in terms of defensive power. Most primordial spirit Xuanxian couldn't even compare, even with defensive artifacts and techniques, their ability to survive would never be as good as that of a strong physical body!
It would be very difficult for a Xuanxian cultivator to harm Lin Xuan, and even more difficult to seriously injure him. If he were to fight against Jin Da Sheng, the Xuanxian peak, again, he wouldn't be easily killed as before.
"Time to enhance the Primordial Spirit."
Lin Xuan sighed, looking at the small amount of resources he had left, he sat cross-legged on the spot and began cultivating the Heavenly Soldier Art.
Of course, even though the remaining resources were a small portion, they were still a significant amount, as he had exchanged for a massive amount of resources before.
After decades of continuous cultivation, he had refined all the resources he had left, only raising his Primordial Spirit to the peak of the True Immortal Realm!
"Not enough, still not enough, my Primordial Spirit also needs to reach the Xuanxian Realm, it's better to be qualified to hold the position of Heavenly Soldier."
Lin Xuan thought to himself, even though he was out of resources, he was not going to end his cultivation. Even if he was on the body tempering path, his Primordial Spirit cultivation usually progressed faster, it was just that his Primordial Spirit techniques were not very strong.
For now, he could just pretend to be injured. After all, he had reported that he was severely injured, and it was completely normal that he wouldn't recover in a short time. He could simply continue his cultivation.
And for the Heavenly Court, their previous losses were quite significant. They hadn't recruited many Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to begin with, and most of them had been lost at Mei Mountain last time. Now, they must be urgently recruiting new Heavenly Soldiers and Generals across Heaven and Earth. They probably wouldn't be able to continue their campaign for the time being.
"I wonder what happened to Yuan Hong."
Lin Xuan thought to himself as he absorbed the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth to cultivate.
However, he knew that Yuan Hong would likely survive. This guy's roots were too special, his innate supernatural powers were terrifying, and his physical body was also incredibly strong. Even a Taiyi Jinxian probably couldn't do anything to him!
Of course, none of that mattered much to him right now.
Then, Lin Xuan focused his mind and concentrated on his cultivation.
He was, after all, a Superior Innate Root. As long as he had enough time, even reaching the Golden Immortal Realm would be a breeze. There wouldn't be any bottlenecks, and his cultivation speed would be very fast, much faster than the turtle speed of ordinary beings. This was the benefit of having a strong root!
In this way, he operated the Heavenly Soldier Art, and with the aid of the blue word 'Eat Qi', he continuously absorbed massive amounts of Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, continuously absorbing the spiritual energy to transform it into magical power, continuously strengthening his Primordial Spirit.
Such cultivation was naturally far less efficient in terms of speed than refining pre-made resources, but he could still see his gradual accumulation, and over long years, he could still achieve great gains.
Cultivation has no time, Lin Xuan remained immersed in his cultivation, unable to extricate himself, like a rock in the ocean.
Until one day, his body suddenly trembled, his Primordial Spirit aura surged, and he broke through to the early stage of the Xuanxian Realm!
"Finally, I've become a Xuanxian in the Primordial Spirit!"
Lin Xuan opened his eyes, a trace of emotion flashing across them. His Primordial Spirit was perfectly clear, and he hadn't noticed it while immersed in cultivation. Now that he had finished cultivating, he instinctively realized that the time he had spent in seclusion was almost 100,000 years!
Of course, this amount of time, in the vast world of Hong Huang, wasn't considered very long. To be able to break through realms, even major realms, without relying on resources, was already quite fast.
"Both my physical body and Primordial Spirit have broken through to Xuanxian, my strength has greatly increased, and the power of the Chixiao Sword will also be enhanced."
"If I encounter another great demon like Jin Da Sheng, I'll be able to kill him without sacrificing my life!"
Lin Xuan thought confidently, he raised his hand and flipped it over, the Chixiao Sword appeared in his hand, he began to refine it again, the sword body faintly carried a more terrifying sharpness!