The speed of rotation kept increasing, and once Lin Feng successfully rotated it to a certain limit, he would need to absorb more spirit qi from nature itself to facilitate his breakthrough without stopping the rotation.
Absorption of spirit qi halts once the meridians are completely filled, and expanding them without absorbing more spirit qi becomes impossible, which is required for a breakthrough.
Hence, all this qi rotation was to make the meridians stretchable so that he could absorb more spirit qi easily, which would expand the girth of the meridians to a new size. Once this happened, he would successfully break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.
After a few breaths, Lin Feng reached the required rotation speed, which made his meridians stretched enough. He immediately used his cultivation technique to pull spirit qi from nature.
The more spirit qi he absorbed, the more his meridians expanded to a new limit, and since they were also being refined in the process, their overall strength and toughness increased as well.
His blood was also flowing through his body tremendously, and because of this, his body heated up so much that steam formed around him. This was happening because his body cultivation was also breaking through to the next realm, the Blood Awakening stage.
In this stage, blood mixed with qi, producing blood qi, just like how spirit qi worked for qi cultivators.
Suddenly, he felt his meridians expanding on their own and absorbing spirit qi from nature automatically. His blood began boiling too.
This meant he had successfully broken through. All he had to do was wait for his meridians to absorb the required amount of spirit qi, as their girth was now double their initial size, and the spirit qi they could hold was four times their initial volume.
In just a few breaths, his meridians were filled to the brim again, and Lin Feng could feel a subtle rise in his strength.
He felt like he could break a mountain with a single punch, although it was just an illusion due to the tremendous increase in strength of both his body and qi cultivation from his previous self in such a short amount of time.
"Finally, Foundation Establishment realm... phew," his improvement was really fast, but he wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about it.
His real cultivation would only start once he used Chaos qi to advance and refine his body. Only then would he truly be using the full potential of his physique and cultivation technique.
Should he really have to nudge his master like last time? He was sure he could do it, and she wouldn’t resist, but he really wanted her to do it on her own, not in the impulse of his advances.
"Fine, whatever, I’ll have to take that step if she doesn’t agree in a month." He didn’t know if it was his desire to feel the warmth of her sacred cave or his eagerness to cultivate, if he thought thoroughly, it might be both.
Lin Feng was really eager to know how it would feel to be enveloped by a tender slit and how it would feel to cultivate using Chaos qi, the strongest qi in the whole world. The changes it would bring must be heaven-defying.
Lin Feng looked down toward his crotch as his spear was fully taut; the breakthrough to a major realm had increased his yang essence to its peak. He sighed and used sheer willpower to curb every lustful desire in his body.
Slowly and steadily, his spear became limp again.
He stood up, and since no one was available to talk right now, he decided to go on a mission. He could have gone to his aunt Ning, but she might be busy.
After coming out of the abode, Lin Feng went to Mission Peak. The mission pavilion was situated a little lower than the peak. He could already see many disciples from every peak entering and leaving it.
Doing missions was the only way to earn credits in the sect, and you could only use credits to get treasures or anything you wanted from the sect treasury.
When Lin Feng arrived near the hall, many gazes fell on him. He was already prepared for it. Since he rarely came to a sect area where disciples were usually present, others must be too curious to not stare at him. There was his cultivation realm too; those who had spiritual sense must have been shocked.
He might be quite famous in the sect, the skills shown in the sect competition were enough to make it happen, not to mention he was the only man in this entire sect.
Lin Feng didn’t pay much attention to the gazes of others and entered the hall. It was good that none of them seemed curious enough to approach him, or else he might have been surrounded by them.
The mission pavilion was very large, with nine floors for each realm. He went directly to the second floor, which stunned even the disciples who didn’t have spiritual sense.
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"Why is Chief Disciple Lin going to the second floor?" one of the young disciples, who was in the late stage of Qi Refinement, couldn’t help but ask.
Before it escalated into a topic of discussion, the disciple working as the receptionist for approving missions spoke, "Chief Disciple Lin is already in the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment realm, now don’t create a fuss here and go outside if you have picked your missions." She herself was stunned when she sensed Lin Feng’s cultivation realm.
The others nodded hurriedly and left.
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Lin Feng came to the second floor, it didn’t have fewer disciples or anything, and their reactions were similar. Lin Feng shook his head internally and went to the mission board, starting to read each mission available.
Most of the missions were related to gathering specific types of spirit herbs, followed by hunting specific types of beasts for resources. Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a mission related to unknown targets.
Intrigued by it, he picked the parchment off the board and read it: boys and girls were being abducted from some villages near Xueyin City.
The age of all the children was below 12 years. Although the mission had not stated any target and advised only to find clues and report to sect, since it was dangerous to fight an unknown target, Lin Feng had a good guess about who the target could be.