After cultivating for an unknown amount of time, Lin Tian finally opened his eyes.


    However, the spirit stones in front of him had already been completely used up.


    Now, only a pile of dust was left in front of him.


    He was about to break through again. Just now, he had broken through to the eighth level of the Qi Hai realm, but now with his spiritual energy filling his body, it seemed that he was about to break through to the ninth level of the Qi Hai realm again.


    Lin Tian didn''t dare to be careless. With so many spirit stones, this was definitely a huge opportunity for him to break through to the ninth level of the Qi Hai realm in a single go.


    As such, after Lin Tian broke through to the eighth level of the Qi Hai realm, he did not choose to stop. Instead, he continued to cultivate.


    Of course, there was also another reason. Tomorrow, if nothing unexpected happened, Lin Tian would face match after match.


    A Jindan Stage expert was a little difficult to deal with when facing a seventh level Qi Hai warrior like Lin Tian. However, a ninth level Qi Hai warrior was much easier to deal with.


    Within Lin Tian''s whirlpool in his dantian, there was an irregular looking Jindan. At this time, the Spiritual Energy that the Spirit Stones had transformed into was crazily washing away the irregular Jindan.


    This was the sign that he was about to break through to the ninth level of the Qi Hai realm. Once the aurous core was formed and reformed, the aurous core would produce endless amounts of Yuan Power.


    Not long after, Lin Tian once again opened his eyes.


    He exhaled a breath of white air and said softly, "Finally, I''ve broken through to the ninth level of the Qi Hai realm …"


    Ninth level of the Qi Hai realm. Lin Tian''s Yuan Qi had increased tremendously. Not only that, his strength had also increased tremendously.


    But as Lin Tian looked at the pile of dust in front of him, he was a bit stunned. He never thought that he would need such a huge amount of spiritual energy to continuously break through two levels.


    The spiritual power contained in high-grade spirit stones were already very pure, but he had to spend more than ten thousand spirit stones to break through to the ninth level of the Qi Hai realm. His body was now like a bottomless pit.


    "Tsk, useless brat." At this moment, the Horned Demon in the Divine Palace mocked and then said, "Brat, can you be a bit more promising …"


    Your body, soul, and strength are all the energies of our Dragon race. You have to know, the strength of the dragon race is number one in all the heavens, and your current cultivation is not just a simple breakthrough in the origin energy, but a complete breakthrough in all aspects. The strength of your body and your soul, are also constantly breaking through when you reach a breakthrough in your strength! Horned Demon said in a bad mood.


    "Back then when the Dragon Clan was cultivating, they swallowed a spiritual vein in one go without feeling any pain. Now, after looking at you, you seem to have wasted a lot of resources just because you used over ten thousand spiritual stones …" Horned Demon continued to teach Lin Tian a lesson: "The power of the strong rely on devouring resources. They grow by plundering resources. Cultivating is plundering. Without resources, we can just plunder."


    "Err …" Lin Tian was shocked by Horned Demon''s domineering words.


    Cultivation was a plundering, and what he said was correct.


    Didn''t the rules of the Northern Courtyard mean that the strong possessed everything?


    However, this also implied the Heavenly Dao Laws. There was nothing wrong with the survival of the fittest.


    It''s not easy to form a dragon''s golden core. You will need twice as many spirit stones as you currently have to break through, so you don''t have enough spirit stones, so you should stop for now. Wait until you have a chance to condense your golden core, otherwise, if you don''t condense your golden core well, there will be a lot of barriers to your future cultivation. Horned Demon felt Lin Tian''s current strength and then indifferently said.


    "Yes." Lin Tian nodded his head and did not continue cultivating. This time, he broke through two stages consecutively and had already consumed over ten thousand spirit stones. However, he still had over thirty thousand spirit stones.


    Lin Tian didn''t hesitate and directly wanted to put it into his storage ring, but after hesitating for a bit, his soul moved and a stone tablet suddenly appeared in his Divine Manor.


    That monolith was something he had obtained in front of Xiao Kuangge''s grave. From what Xiao Kuangge had said, what sort of space was it?


    If he were to use this to store the spirit stones, he wouldn''t need the storage ring anymore.


    His spiritual will slightly moved and a golden light suddenly exploded out from the stone tablet. In the next moment, Lin Tian''s body entered the stone tablet.


    Within the stone monument, there was a corpse.


    It was the other treasure that Xiao Kuangge had left him, the Earth Terminus Yin Corpse!


    Seeing this Earth Fiend Yin Corpse, Lin Tian suddenly thought of something. Back then, Xiao Kuangge had even passed down the technique to control the Earth Fiend Yin Corpse.


    With a thought, he recalled the technique that was sealed in his mind.


    "Great Puppet Technique!" Lin Tian softly read out the name of the technique.


    It sounded like an overbearing spell.


    "Cultivating puppet techniques requires the soul''s power. If the soul is not powerful, then it is absolutely forbidden to cultivate it. Otherwise, if you suffer a backlash from the puppet, it would go against the original intent of the technique." The mnemonic chant was a taboo. The Great Puppet Technique required a person with strong soul power to be able to cultivate it.


    However, this little bit of taboo, to Lin Tian, wasn''t a problem at all.


    Lin Tian was a Symbol Master to begin with, so he needed to continuously cultivate his soul.


    Moreover, his Spirit power already far surpassed ordinary people. To Lin Tian, the Great Puppet Technique''s taboo was not a problem at all.


    The first half was all about refining puppets, which was unnecessary for Lin Tian. Lin Tian also did not have any intentions of refining puppets, the main reason was because the method to refine puppets was too complicated, and no matter how much preparation there was, Lin Tian did not have the time.


    He immediately looked through the manipulation method at the back.


    "Earth Fiend Yin Corpses, take the body of a martial artist that is on the verge of death, raise a Magus Gu, place it in your mouth, in the best location of Yin Qi, refine your body, the more Yin Qi there is, the faster the growth of Yin Corpses will be. A hundred year old Yin Corpse, its strength is comparable to a Golden Core Realm martial artist, a thousand year old Yin Corpse, its strength is comparable to a Life and Death Realm martial artist!" A Yin Corpse reaching the King''s Realm could be called a Yin King. At this moment, the Yin Qi in my body has been converted into Earth Terminus Cold Qi. It is extremely terrifying. I am invincible in the same realm! "


    This was the description of the Earth Fiend Yin Corpse from the Great Puppet Technique.


    There were ninety-nine different types of golems recorded within the Grand Puppet Technique.


    They were divided into the Upper Nine, Middle Nine, Lower Nine. Each grade had twenty-seven different puppets. The Earth Terminus Yin Corpse that Lin Tian had was one of the top nine puppets.


    Seeing this, Lin Tian couldn''t help but suck in a breath of cold air. The Earth Fiend Yin Corpse that Lin Tian had was a thousand year old Yin Corpse, because at this time, a thousand years had already passed since Xiao Kuangge passed away. In these thousand years, this Earth Fiend Yin Corpse constantly trained in the Qing Zhou Academy''s cemetery.


    That was the Life and Death Realm! And he was even above the Star River Realm!


    Lin Tian couldn''t help but feel ecstatic in his heart: "I''m rich, rich!"


    Xiao Kuangge''s thousand years of hard work had all benefited Lin Tian.


    Lin Tian suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and continued to look at the large puppet technique, but the method to use it caused Lin Tian Deng''s heart to chill by half.


    The upper echelons were simple, crude, and were powered by spirit stones.


    Ten thousand high grade spirit stones was enough for the Earth Terminus Yin Corpse to use its full strength.


    One strike, ten thousand high grade spirit stones!


    Lin Tian suddenly realized that he himself was in need of spirit stones.