Clan Immortal Cultivation: I Can See Hints

A month had passed, the urgent tolling of a bell rang out, signaling another attack from the demon cultivators.

At the door, Lin Xianzhi felt anxious. This was already the third attack by the demon cultivators, and Lin Shiming had been absent for the previous two. His absence this time would trigger a forced summons by the three Great Sects.

Countless Transmission Talismans appeared outside the door, all intercepted by Lin Xianzhi one by one!

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Meanwhile, Lin Shiming finally opened his eyes.

He smiled lightly, putting away his meditation cushion.

In these fifteen days, he could say he had achieved nothing, for he had not managed to discern any of the sword techniques from the "Grass Character Sword Technique".

Yet, it could also be said he had made a significant discovery since a seed of dog's tail grass had been planted at his Spirit Platform.

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"Shiming!" The door opened, and Lin Shiming stepped out. The first thing Lin Xianzhi noticed when he saw Lin Shiming was the complete absence of Sword Qi; not even a trace of the sword light he had left in the Jade Slip remained.

One could say, the sword comes from the heart and also departs from the heart.

Lin Xianzhi felt a pang of disappointment, but then he thought of Lin Shiming as a Wood Attribute cultivator and suddenly found it quite normal.

Lin Shiming excelled at control and cultivating Spirit Plants. It would not be surprising if his future accomplishments went beyond Foundation Establishment; that in itself was impressive.

Moreover, the lack of talent for the Sword Dao meant that missing out on the trip to the Profound Grade Secret Realm might actually be good news.

"The attacks from the demon cultivators are getting more and more fierce. With each death, they manage to harvest a great deal of souls and corpses for their vile practices!" Lin Xianzhi warned with concern, subtly changing the subject.

"Thank you for the reminder, Seventh Uncle Xie!" Lin Shiming responded with thanks before heading towards the Artifact Refining Pavilion in Heavenly River City to retrieve his Formation Swords.

Lin Xianzhi, on the other hand, headed straight for the city gate.

Outside the Artifact Refining Pavilion, two cultivators hurried out, evidently also there to retrieve Magic Artifacts.

Lin Shiming entered the pavilion to find Xu Qing and Lin Xuan still there, both obviously elated to see him.

"Daoist Lin, this array sword prototype I've reforged will certainly satisfy you. Though it lacks various formations inscribed, its strength and resilience should rank it at the forefront of Superior Grade Magic Artifacts!" Xu Qing was the first to speak.

And Lin Xuan quickly followed suit:

"Daoist Lin, the Formation Sword I reforged isn't much remarkable, just a bit better than what Daoist Xu Qing has offered!"

Hearing both of them speak like this, Lin Shiming didn't mind, but took the Formation Swords from their hands instead.

All eighty-two prototypes of the Formation Swords were ready, forty-one each person.

As for the forty swords Lin Shiming had requested per person, and the extra one for the other, neither forgot, but each believed they were more skilled and should forge the extra sword.

Lin Shiming couldn't help but have mixed feelings as he looked at the eighty-two Formation Swords; luckily, there was an extra one for spare use. Had there been one less, that would have posed a major problem, preventing the completion of the Purple Wood Profound Heavenly Sword Array.

Holding the eighty-two swords, Lin Shiming caressed each one. To his surprise, not only were these Formation Swords exceptionally crafted and perfect in every way, but they also looked almost identical.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Lin Shiming would have surely thought they were forged by the same person.

"Thank you to the two masters, here are the remaining Spirit Stones and materials!" The cost of the Spirit Stones required to forge these eighty-one Formation Swords wasn't too high—twenty thousand Spirit Stones. After all, it was just the creation of the prototypes, but they each took a thirty percent cut of the refining materials nonetheless.

All three were pleased, and Lin Shiming also made his way toward the city wall.

He certainly hadn't forgotten that twenty early-stage Foundation Establishment demon cultivators could be exchanged for a Cave Heaven Bead.

Moreover, his seclusion had wasted a month, fortunately, aside from the bead's great weight and the inability to refine it, there might have been a possibility for someone to exchange it.

When Lin Shiming arrived on top of the city walls, the cultivators were already engaged in battle.

What made him so solemn was that the Corpse Refining Sect cultivators were becoming increasingly powerful, especially those at the Foundation Establishment level; nearly every Corpse Refining Sect cultivator had seven or eight blood corpses of the same rank.

At the start, two early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators could handle one, yet now it required three to four of them to hold off one.

Although Heavenly River City had reinforcements, Foundation Establishment cultivators were not the same as Qi Cultivators—the situation was visibly getting more severe.

Even worse, Lin Shiming had learned from Xie An that the strength of the Spirit Talisman Sect was clearly weaker than the Spirit Beast Sect, as not only Youzhou but also a majority of Jingzhou had been occupied. If Jingzhou were to fall, half of the Spirit Talisman Sect's territory would end up in the hands of the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Corpse Refining Sect.

And what wrinkled his brow about the situation was that as soon as he entered the battlefield, he saw numerous mid-stage Foundation Establishment body cultivators being divided as spoils by several peak-stage Foundation Establishment demon cultivators and Corpse Refining Sect cultivators.

Their actions were so swift that other cultivators could not intervene, combined with the obscuring black fog, it had practically become a harvesting ground for demon cultivators and the Corpse Refining Sect. Fortunately, a Purple Mansion cultivator from the Spirit Beast Sect suddenly raised an arm, and in the next moment, countless purple Gale Birds took flight within Heavenly River State.

These Gale Birds, being peak third-rank demonic beasts numbering twenty in total, plunged into the battlefield and violently assaulted the demon cultivators.

Only then did the situation stabilize somewhat.

Lin Shiming glanced at Lin Xianzhi and Lin Houyuan, as well as the Qi Cultivators from his family.

Only after confirming that they weren't targeted by high-level demon cultivators did he genuinely engage in battle with a Corpse Refining Sect cultivator at the Foundation Establishment level.

Lin Shiming drew an ordinary third-rank intermediate-grade magic sword and brandished it continuously.

If Zi Xuan Hermit were here at this moment, he would notice that Lin Shiming seemed like a blade of grass, swinging and brandishing his sword in the air.

A sword intent, faint and almost imperceptible, also emanated from around Lin Shiming.

While feeling the movements of the sword technique, the prompt from the system also reappeared in his mind.

The foxtail grass reenacted the scene of nurturing the sword.

His mind half on the grass and half on his opponent, he found himself in a quite tense situation facing three Corpse Refining Sect cultivators of the same rank and one from the Corpse Refining Sect.

However, the seed within his heart shone ever more brightly.

He had a feeling that the moment the seed broke open would be the moment his Sword Intent was born.

For Lin Shiming, this moment was his time for sword practice, but to the Corpse Refining Sect cultivators, Lin Shiming appeared to be flailing in the wind. With a contemptuous smile, they summoned one blood corpse after another.

However, whenever they felt they had the upper hand on Lin Shiming, they always seemed to lack that little something.

As he reached the threshold in learning the Grass Sword Technique, Lin Shiming also began to divide his attention, observing the surrounding demon cultivators and Corpse Refining Sect cultivators.

He was not planning to kill them off one by one slowly, knowing that sooner or later he would attract attention. Instead, he aimed to launch a sudden attack at the end of the battle, taking down twenty cultivators in one fell swoop.

By then, even if he were targeted, he wouldn't have to worry, and after slaying twenty cultivators of the same rank, he could rest for more than two months.

Once the Profound Heavenly Sword Formation was engraved, he would have nothing to fear from mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and he could even battle some of the weaker late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators!