Chapter 165 True Strength
The brilliance of the cloud-stepping boots circulated, and Lin Mu flew towards Linwufang.
After three months of hard training, his cultivation has advanced to the middle stage of foundation building. Now that he activates his cloud-stepping boots, his escape speed has also accelerated a lot.
For ordinary cultivators in the Spiritual Silence stage, even if they fly with a sword, it is difficult to catch up with Lin Mu's speed.
After his cultivation level advanced, Lin Mu felt a little more confident.
With his current strength, he won't have much problem dealing with a cultivator in the middle stage of spiritual silence.
This is not blind confidence. Lin Mu has read a large number of spiritual practices of other sects and has a certain understanding of the realm of cultivators.
In his opinion, cultivators in the Spiritual Silence Stage are not as powerful as imagined.
Although cultivators in the Spiritual Silence Stage are one level higher than those in the Foundation Establishment Stage, their cultivation is not much deeper than those in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
This needs to start with the difference between the foundation building period and the spiritual silence period.
For practitioners in the foundation-building stage, the spiritual power in their bodies is mixed, and the five elements are mixed together, making them unable to exert their full strength.
After building the foundation, most cultivators will choose to cultivate a certain system of spiritual power alone, constantly refining this system of spiritual power, and excluding the other four systems of spiritual power.
For example, a fire cultivator, after building the foundation, practices the fire heart method. From then on, he specialized in fire spiritual power, and the other four spiritual powers were slowly expelled from his body. Until all the spiritual power in the body is transformed into pure and single fire spiritual power, it is considered to have advanced to the spiritual silence stage.
Most practitioners in the foundation building stage choose this path.
Because cultivators in the Spirit Silence Stage have extremely pure spiritual energy in their bodies, the power of their spells is much stronger than those in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
It is also easier to control the flying sword, and the power of the flying sword can be fully exerted.
This is a great advantage compared to practitioners in the foundation building stage.
In the eyes of many people, the Soul Silence Stage is several times more powerful than the Foundation Establishment Stage, or even ten times more powerful.
However, this is not absolute.
Cultivators in the foundation-building stage need to exclude all the other four lines of spiritual power in their bodies before they can advance to the spiritual silence stage.
This means that a cultivator in the early stage of spiritual silence has only one-fifth of the amount of spiritual power in his body that he has in the early stage of foundation building!
Of course, cultivators continue to practice after building the foundation.
Even so, the amount of spiritual power of a cultivator in the Spiritual Silence Stage is at most equivalent to that of a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
But qualitatively, the spiritual power of cultivators in the Spirit Silence Stage is several times more powerful than that of Jingchun in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
This is also the reason why cultivators in the early stage of Lingji, whose cultivation is not as profound as those in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, can defeat those in the later stage of Foundation Establishment.
However, Lin Mu is not afraid of cultivators in the spiritual silence stage.
He is completely different from ordinary practitioners in the foundation building stage.
The mental method he cultivates is the "Five Elements Mental Method", which is as high as level 5. In this regard, he has many advantages over others.
He also has five elements of spiritual roots, which are very balanced. Although the spiritual power in his body is not outstanding, it is solid and profound, far beyond the comparison of ordinary practitioners in the foundation building stage.
The average practitioner in the early stages of spiritual silence has a level of cultivation that is comparable to those in the early stages of foundation building.
Lin Mu's current cultivation level is comparable to those in the middle stage of spiritual silence in terms of quantity.
Although in terms of quality, it is much inferior to practitioners in the Spiritual Silence stage.
The strength should not be as good as those in the middle stage of spiritual silence.
But he has the Five Elements Ring, which can change a lot.
The "Small Five Elements Formation" in the Five Elements Ring allows the five elements of spiritual power in his body to be unified into one, and he can perform spells that are no less powerful than practitioners in the Spiritual Silence Stage. Even because the Five Elements Ring is of such high grade, it is much more powerful.
Moreover, Lin Mu's high-grade magic weapon was not only the Five Elements Ring.
Several other high-grade magic weapons are equally powerful.
An ordinary cultivator in the middle stage of spiritual silence would not be able to compete with him.
This is his unique advantage.
The Five Elements Ring was refined by Master Tianzhu. Although it was just a test product, it was the only one.
Tianzhu Zhenren is a Nascent Soul cultivator. It would be extremely difficult for other cultivators to refine the Five Elements Ring.
If you want to refine a five-element ring that can be continuously advanced, it will be even more difficult to reach the sky.
There is also the "Five Elements Heart Method", which was also left by Tianzhu Zhenren.
Although Tianzhu Zhenren has died long ago, Lin Mu is truly grateful to this real person he has never met.
Whether it is the Five Elements Ring or the "Five Elements Heart Method", they are all tailor-made for him.
These two things gave him the confidence to fight with practitioners in the Lingji period.
But while Lin Mu was happy about this, he was also worried.
Although "The Five Elements Mind Method" is good, it is not without its drawbacks.
Practitioners who practice the "Five Elements Mind Method" will be fellow practitioners of the five elements, and the five elements of spiritual power will coexist.
He will not be like ordinary cultivators, with only a single line of pure spiritual power left in his body.
Generally, when cultivators are tempered with pure single-line spiritual power, they will enter the period of spiritual silence and gain more than a hundred years of life out of thin air, reaching a life span of more than 300 years.
People who practice the "Five Elements Heart Method" will not have the situation of pure spiritual power tempering.
To be more precise, people who practice the "Five Elements Mind Method" do not have a period of spiritual silence.
From the foundation building stage, it will directly impact the golden elixir stage.
This sounds like a good thing. There is one less process in the middle, which is equivalent to taking a shortcut.
But Lin Mu knew that the situation was not optimistic at all.
By practicing the "Five Elements Heart Method", you can directly attack the golden elixir from foundation building.
However, the lifespan of practitioners in the Foundation Establishment Stage is only about two hundred years, which is more than a hundred years shorter than those in the Spiritual Silence Stage.
Many cultivators in the Lingji period have a life span of more than 300 years, but they are unable to successfully attack the golden elixir.
Lin Mu really didn't have much confidence that he could successfully attack the golden elixir in more than two hundred years.
Especially for fellow practitioners of the fifth system, compared with others who cultivate one system alone, their speed is five times slower!
The early stage was good, and Lin Mu had advanced to the middle stage of foundation building without taking too much time.
But the further back you go, the slower it becomes.
Lin Mu really didn't have much confidence that he could successfully form the golden elixir.
If I have only a little hope, then my parents have no spiritual roots, so my hope is even slimmer.
Fortunately, he owns the Xuan Yue Pendant, and a lot of spiritual fields have been cultivated on the island in the middle of the lake, so he has a little more hope.
If I could get that top-quality elixir furnace and purple incense burner in this auction, my hope might be greater.
Lin Mu secretly made up his mind to get the purple incense burner no matter what!
The Cloud-Stepping Boots disappeared suddenly, and Lin Mu slowly fell to the ground and appeared outside Linwufang.
Lin Mu looked calm and walked towards Linwufang.
In Linwufang, there are more cultivators coming and going than before.
Many people are already in the late stage of foundation building, and there are even many cultivators in the spiritual silence stage.
Lin Mu felt awe-struck, most of these people should be here for the auction.
This auction is a major auction that is held only once every three years.
There are many high-grade magical instruments and even top-quality magical instruments waiting to be auctioned.
Many practitioners in the Spiritual Silence period come here because of its reputation.
Among these people, there are many true disciples of the sect, and even direct relatives of the sect leader. Their status, strength and financial resources are not weak.
Some people are even richer than themselves.
After all, an individual's strength cannot be compared with that of the entire sect.
Lin Mu didn't care too much about these people, as long as they didn't compete with him for the purple incense burner.
He just wants the purple incense burner!
Lin Mu turned around a few streets and came to a deserted street corner. When he saw no one around, his spiritual power flashed and his appearance suddenly changed, becoming an ordinary young man.
It's the "Bone Reduction Technique"!
Lin Mu has now reached the level of proficiency in performing the "Bone Shrinking Technique".
Not only does the appearance change drastically, but even the voice becomes completely different from before.
Even if Lin's father, Lin's mother, and Shitou were here, it would not be an easy task to recognize Lin Mu.
There was everyone at this auction, and Lin Mu didn't want to be too pushy.
He is also deeply afraid that others will take advantage of his wealth and kill people to seize the treasure.
But the purple incense burner ranked among the top three on the list of rare treasures. Lin Mu was bound to win it. It would be difficult if he didn't get the limelight.
Changing your appearance might save you a lot of trouble.
Lin Mu walked out of the street corner and followed the crowd towards the auction.
This auction is a grand event in Linwufang.
In front of the auction house, there was a sea of people, cultivators gathered, and they were noisy.
Lin Mu walked forward and saw a huge bluestone standing in front of the auction hall.
The stone tablet contained information about the auction, and Lin Mu read it carefully.
After reading it, Lin Mu had an idea.
This auction will be held by several sects, and there will be several golden elixir cultivators who will come to take charge of the auction to ensure that no one causes trouble.
There was another point that Lin Mu also kept in mind.
In this auction, no matter how high the price is, the auction house will not interfere.
However, for all treasures, 10% of the proceeds will be taken from the auction.
In other words, if a treasure is auctioned for a high price of 80,000 yuan of low-grade spiritual stones, the auction house will take away 8,000 yuan, and the rest will belong to the treasure owner.
In addition, when practitioners bid, their bids must be realistic and not inflated.
If this was done on purpose, after taking the treasure, he would not be able to pay the necessary spiritual stones.
The auction house will give you a period of time during which you can collect the spiritual stones and then give the treasure to you.
But if you can't get it all together, you will be taken by the auction house as a mining slave, and you will go to the spiritual mine to mine spiritual stones until you pay off the debt. But the treasure belongs to the auction house.
There are a few other rules, but they don’t matter.
After reading this, Lin Mu understood.
Then he followed the crowd and walked towards the auction hall.
The auction hall was already filled with people.
Thousands of seats are densely packed and packed.
Lin Mu searched for a long time and found a seat in a corner at the back.
Sitting next to them were two late-stage foundation-building cultivators. When they saw Lin Mu walk in and sit down, they all looked up at Lin Mu, and then turned their heads.
They didn't take a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building seriously.
After Lin Mu sat down, his face was calm and he looked around from time to time.
The auction has not started yet, everyone is waiting.
The two practitioners in the late stage of foundation building next to them were talking loudly as if there was no one else around.
One of the thin cultivators showed off: "I have saved spiritual stones for more than two years, and this time I can buy a high-grade flying sword."
Another fat cultivator sneered: "High-grade magic weapons are nothing! I plan to buy the treasures on the rare treasure list this time. I am bound to get the Qingmiao sword I told you last time."
Qingmiao sword?
Isn't this the flying sword that I want to auction?
Lin Mu listened to the two people showing off next to him, with a faint smile on his face.
Suddenly!
A sound of gong shocked the whole audience.
Everyone hurriedly looked towards the stage.
A middle-aged man walked onto the stage holding a gong.
clang!
The sound of the gong is crisp and clearly audible.
The middle-aged man struck the gong and announced loudly: "The auction has officially begun."