Chapter 75: 75. Huge waves, I repeat. Huge waves.
Lin Xuan gave a slight nod before asking another question.
"And the elders?"
"Did any of them have complaints during my absence?"
Su Qinglan smiled and shook her head.
"None."
Lin Xuan frowned.
"...None?"
"None."
She answered without the slightest hesitation.
That only deepened his confusion.
He had disappeared into seclusion for three months without so much as notifying anyone beforehand.
Did seriously not a single elder come looking for him?
"...What’s exactly going on?"
Rather than answering, Su Qinglan quietly opened one of the drawers beneath her desk.
She retrieved a neatly folded document and placed it before him.
"You’ll understand after reading this."
Lin Xuan accepted the paper with a puzzled expression.
The moment his eyes landed upon the first line, a familiar translucent screen suddenly appeared before him.
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[Ding!]
[Your clan’s Martial Spirit Awakening Ceremony has concluded without any interruptions.]
[Your clan awakened: ]
[ One Grade Eight Martial Spirit, Two Grade Five Martial Spirits, Ten Grade Four Martial Spirits, Three Grade Three Martial Spirits.m and the remainder awakened Grade Two Martial Spirits. ]
[Reward for a successful awakening:]
[Qi Refinement Pills ×1,000]
[Body Tempering Pills ×2,000]
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Lin Xuan’s eyes widened.
"...A Grade Eight?"
He read the notification once more to make sure he had not mistaken it.
"It’s really a grade eight?"
The words escaped his lips almost involuntarily.
Su Qinglan’s smile widened as she watched his reaction.
"Patriarch, that’s only part of the good news."
Her eyes sparkled with unconcealed excitement.
"...There’s more?"
Su Qinglan nodded enthusiastically.
"Much more."
She took a deep breath, trying to suppress the excitement in her voice.
"Over the past three months, the younger generation has advanced at an astonishing pace. Young miss has already solidified her cultivation and has stepped into the fifth layer of qi refinement realm. Lin Zhaowen has also stepped into the Qi Refinement Realm."
"Lin Zhaofeng has also successfully broken through. Lin Zhaohao as well."
She continued counting on her fingers.
" And then there’s also Lin Zhaoqing, Lin Zhaorui and several others. At present, our Lin Family has gained more than enough Qi Refinement cultivators to satisfy the Kingdom’s requirements for promotion."
She looked at Lin Xuan with a radiant smile.
"Patriarch... We can officially apply to become an Eighth Rank Clan!"
For a brief moment, the Treasury Hall fell silent.
Even Lin Xuan was caught off guard.
Three months.
In merely three months, the Lin Family had transformed to such an extent?
No wonder the atmosphere throughout the estate had become so lively.
No wonder not a single elder had come looking for him during his seclusion.
Lin Xuan slowly exhaled.
An Eighth Rank Clan...
A familiar system panel immediately surfaced within his mind.
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[Quest: Raise the Lin Clan to Rank 8]
[Current Rank: 9]
[Reward: An item capable of forcibly increasing any Mortal Rank Martial Spirit by one grade.]
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Back then, he had desperately wanted to complete this quest.
His original intention had been simple.
Once he obtained the item, he would use it to raise Lin Zhaoyue’s Martial Spirit by one grade.
Who could have imagined...
The little girl had awakened what was later confirmed to be an Earth Rank Martial Spirit instead.
Thinking back on it now, Lin Xuan could only conclude that the clan’s awakening altar had likely been defective.
Or perhaps...
It simply lacked the ability to identify Martial Spirits above the Mortal Rank.
Either way, the reward was no longer as urgently needed as before.
The system panel quietly disappeared.
Lin Xuan’s thoughts shifted elsewhere.
With a wave of his hand, one thousand Qi Refinement Pills and two thousand Body Tempering Pills appeared inside the Treasury Hall, neatly stacked in jade bottles.
The sudden mountain of pills caused Su Qinglan’s eyes to widen.
"Patriarch...?"
Lin Xuan calmly looked at her.
"I’m gonna donate all of this so do the math for me and hand me the required contribution points later."
Su Qinglan stared blankly at the thousands of pills before her.
Recovering from her shock, she immediately stood and cupped her fists.
"I understand. I’ll personally oversee the calculation."
A warm smile slowly appeared on Lin Xuan’s face.
Just as Lin Xuan was about to leave, he suddenly stopped.
"...Right."
He still had a quest to complete.
The system had tasked him with refining one hundred Qi Refinement Pills within seven days.
He did not know the recipe but with his Myth Grade Alchemy Talent.
Wouldn’t simply looking at one of these Qi Refinement Pills be enough?
Lin Xuan reached toward one of the jade bottles and uncorked it.
A rich medicinal fragrance immediately drifted into the air.
Almost instantly, countless pieces of information flooded into his mind.
Lin Xuan’s eyes flashed.
This ability is ridiculous, It’s like I’m playing a game.
In the blink of an eye, a pill recipe that would normally require years of study had become second nature to him.
While he was digesting the information, Su Qinglan had been watching expectantly from the side.
When she saw him open the bottle, her eyes immediately brightened.
However, the excitement vanished just as quickly.
A faint look of disappointment appeared on her face before she quietly composed herself again.
Naturally, the subtle change did not escape Lin Xuan’s notice.
Suppressing the surprise in his heart, Lin Xuan calmly put the jade bottle away.
He then looked toward Su Qinglan.
"Elder Su. I couldn’t help but notice something just now. When I opened that bottle, you looked... disappointed."
He glanced at the countless jade bottles stacked throughout the Treasury Hall.
"I’ve just placed one thousand Qi Refinement Pills before you. So why did you react that way?"
Lin Xuan was genuinely puzzled.
Qi Refinement Pills were among the most valuable cultivation resources available to clans of their standing.
The greatest obstacle preventing the Lin Family from producing more Golden Core cultivators was not talent, but resources.
Without sufficient cultivation resources, even the most gifted genius would eventually see their progress grind to a halt.
It was precisely for that reason that powerful clans like the Zhao Family and the Li Family had chosen to send their most talented descendants to the Mystic Sky Sect instead of nurturing them themselves.
The sect simply possessed resources that ordinary clans could never hope to match.
By all logic, obtaining one thousand Qi Refinement Pills should have been cause for celebration.
Yet, for the briefest moment...
Su Qinglan had looked disappointed.
Lin Xuan genuinely wanted to know why.
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