"I've broken through!"
Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes, and the oppressive aura around him erupted suddenly. An ancient and unchanging aura surged from his body.
The phenomenon of Lin Chen's breakthrough in cultivation slowly dissipated at this moment.
The ancient aura brought about by the breakthrough in cultivation, along with various Great Dao concepts Lin Chen comprehended, filled this world, continually expanding it.
As the Spirit of the Cave Mansion, Xiaoyu could clearly feel that Lin Chen's breakthrough brought great benefits to this world.
The most direct change was that the world became more expansive, a result of those Great Dao concepts expanding the world after Lin Chen's breakthrough.
At the same time, Xiaoyu, being the Spirit of the Descension Cave Mansion, also gained significant benefits. She was extremely delighted, although she was anxious during every breakthrough of Lin Chen, the benefits that followed his breakthroughs were something she eagerly anticipated.
After Lin Chen's cultivation broke through to the Eighth Layer of the Nirvana Realm, he felt a tremendous change in his strength compared to before.
Now the abundance of Lin Chen's spiritual power was more than ten times that of the past, finally giving him the strength to confront Yun Kaige and the others head-on.
After breaking through in cultivation, Lin Chen further refined this Descension Cave Mansion, and now he had refined sixty to seventy percent of it.
Yet, even so, Lin Chen still couldn't probe the true situation within the transmission place of the Descending Heaven Hall.
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Jade Cauldron Sect, Lingxi Commerce Guild.
After enduring countless hardships, Gu Zhiyong finally secured a captain position in the Dark Division. It is known that not just anyone can take up a position in the Dark Division.
Even if you bravely kill the enemy at the front lines with great strength, you may not occupy a captain position in the Dark Division.
Because the Dark Division has two kinds of positions, one for executing assassination missions and the other for gathering intelligence.
What Gu Zhiyong excels at happens to be the latter.
After taking up this position, Gu Zhiyong felt increasingly comfortable, handling all affairs smoothly, as if he was born for intelligence work.
However, recently, what troubled Gu Zhiyong was the lack of cultivation resources in the Dark Division.
It is understood that the operation of the Dark Division relies on intelligence that cannot be easily obtained except by spending large sums of money.
But recently, the Jade Cauldron Sect's resources allocation was insufficient, so Gu Zhiyong had to bite the bullet and go to Zhao Lingxi to issue resources.
In the past, when he went to Zhao Lingxi, the latter always delayed him with various reasons or meticulously checked his accounts several times to find some issues.
Coming to the Lingxi Commerce Guild, Gu Zhiyong handed over his account book. This time, he double-checked everything multiple times to ensure there were no issues before daring to seek resources from Zhao Lingxi, otherwise, being sent back again, it would be hard to explain to his brothers.
However, to Gu Zhiyong's surprise, Zhao Lingxi didn't check his account book but sealed it directly and let him go to the warehouse to get the resources.
Gu Zhiyong was bewildered and couldn't understand why Zhao Lingxi, usually so stingy, seemed like a different person today, suddenly becoming so generous.
Allocating resources without even looking at the account book.
It should be known that, in the past, any officers coming to the Lingxi Commerce Guild to collect resources were troubled by Zhao Lingxi for various reasons.
Gu Zhiyong couldn't figure it out, nor did he bother to think, and quickly went to the warehouse to get hold of the resources.
When he got the resources promptly, Gu Zhiyong still felt as if he was dreaming.
"Isn't this a dream?"
Gu Zhiyong couldn't be sure if he was dreaming. After all, when was it ever this easy to get resources from Zhao Lingxi?
However, little did Gu Zhiyong know that the reason Zhao Lingxi suddenly became so generous was because Lin Chen suddenly came back and gave her cultivation resources worth one billion low-grade spirit crystals.
When the warehouse was out of money, Zhao Lingxi was stingy to maximize the utilization of resources, thus squeezing everyone, but now that resources were abundant, she naturally wouldn't do so.
Gu Zhiyong quickly returned to the Dark Division and distributed the resources.
When other War Departments learned that the Dark Division had obtained resources so easily this month, the officers inquired from Gu Zhiyong and only then learned that Zhao Lingxi had suddenly become so generous, approving resources without a word.
Consequently, commanders from various War Departments also went to Zhao Lingxi to get this month's cultivation resources.
Surprisingly, no one encountered any obstacles, and they soon got the resources, making everyone delighted.
They knew very well what kind of person Zhao Lingxi was, and the only person who could prompt such a change in her was Lin Chen.
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After breaking through in cultivation, Lin Chen exited the Descension Cave Mansion and received spirit crystals and spirit stones given by Zhao Lingxi from the Second Soul Division.
Then, he entered the Primordial Myriad Transformation Cauldron and allowed it to refine the spirit crystals and illuminate the star map.
As the Primordial Myriad Transformation Cauldron absorbed the energy from the spirit crystals, the eleventh star map within, which had been largely absorbed by the Little Profound Turtle, was completely illuminated in no time.
Moreover, more than half of the twelfth star map was quickly illuminated.
However, completely illuminating the twelfth star map still required over twenty million low-grade spirit crystals.
Although Lin Chen had many valuable treasures, it was challenging to gather so many spirit crystals in a short time in the Eastern Domain without attracting attention, so Lin Chen could only temporarily give up on the idea of illuminating the twelfth star map.
After illuminating the eleventh star map, Lin Chen entered that unfamiliar world to temper his body.
Now that the eleventh star map was illuminated, the Primordial Myriad Transformation Cauldron could support Lin Chen's body tempering in that unfamiliar world for two hundred breaths of time.
However, Lin Chen currently could not endure two hundred breaths and only reached his physical limit at one hundred and fifty breaths before being pulled back by the Primordial Myriad Transformation Cauldron.
Subsequently, Lin Chen's physical body began to reshape.
Buzz—
After reshaping his body, Lin Chen immediately noticed the changes.
"My Ancient Divine Body has broken through again, reaching the Fourth Realm."
Lin Chen felt the enhancement in his physique, and he was immensely delighted.
During his time on Yang Flame Island, Lin Chen underwent countless temperings, but his physical body never broke through.
Now, after a long time, having illuminated the eleventh star map, perhaps enduring an unprecedented time in the unfamiliar world triggered this breakthrough.