Chapter 165 True Strength

The glow of his Cloud-Stepping Boots shone as Lin Mu flew towards Linwufang.

After three months of hard training, his cultivation had advanced to the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage. Now that he was using his Cloud-Stepping Boots, his speed had also increased a lot.

Even if ordinary Spiritual Silence cultivators were flying with a sword, it would be difficult for them to catch up with Lin Mu.

After his cultivation had advanced, Lin Mu felt more confident.

With his current strength, it would not be a big problem for him to deal with a middle stage Spiritual Silence cultivator.

This was not blind confidence. Lin Mu had read a lot of cultivation techniques from other sects and had a certain understanding of the realm of cultivators.

In his opinion, Spiritual Silence cultivators were not as powerful as he had imagined.

Although Spiritual Silence cultivators were one level higher than Foundation Establishment cultivators in terms of realm, their cultivation was not much deeper than Foundation Establishment cultivators.

This needed to start with the difference between Foundation Establishment and Spiritual Silence.

Foundation Establishment cultivators had mixed spiritual energy in their bodies, and the five elements were mixed together, so they could not exert their full strength.

Generally, after building the foundation, cultivators will choose to cultivate a certain spiritual power, constantly refine this spiritual power, and exclude the other four spiritual powers from the body.

For example, a fire cultivator, after building the foundation, practices the fire mental method. From then on, he specializes in the fire spiritual power, and the other four spiritual powers are slowly expelled from his body. Until all the spiritual power in the body is transformed into a pure single fire spiritual power, it is considered to have advanced to the spiritual silence stage.

Most foundation-building cultivators choose this path.

Because the spiritual power in the spiritual silence stage cultivators is extremely pure, the power of the spells they cast is much stronger than that of the foundation-building cultivators.

It is also more handy to control the flying sword, and the power of the flying sword can be fully exerted.

Compared with the foundation-building cultivators, this is a great advantage.

In the eyes of many people, the spiritual silence stage is several times stronger than the foundation-building stage, or even more than ten times.

However, this is not absolute.

A cultivator in the foundation building stage needs to exclude all the other four spiritual powers in his body before he can advance to the spiritual silence stage.

This means that the spiritual power of a cultivator in the early stage of the spiritual silence stage is only one-fifth of that in the early stage of the foundation building stage!

Of course, the cultivator is constantly practicing after the foundation building.

Even so, the spiritual power of a cultivator in the spiritual silence stage is at most equivalent to that of a cultivator in the early stage of the foundation building stage.

But in terms of quality, the spiritual power of a cultivator in the spiritual silence stage is several times more pure and powerful than that of the foundation building stage.

This is also the reason why a cultivator in the early stage of the spiritual silence stage can defeat a cultivator in the late stage of the foundation building stage even though his cultivation is not as profound as that of a cultivator in the late stage of the foundation building stage.

However, Lin Mu is not afraid of a cultivator in the spiritual silence stage.

He is completely different from ordinary cultivators in the foundation building stage.

The mental method he practices is the "Five Elements Mental Method", which is as high as the fifth grade. In this regard, he has many more advantages than others.

He is also a five-element spiritual root, which is very balanced. Although the spiritual power in his body is not outstanding, it is solid and deep, far beyond the comparison of ordinary cultivators in the foundation building stage.

The depth of cultivation of ordinary early stage spiritual silence cultivators is comparable to that of early stage foundation building cultivators.

Lin Mu's current cultivation level is comparable to that of middle stage spiritual silence cultivators in terms of quantity.

Although it is much inferior to that of middle stage spiritual silence cultivators in terms of quality.

His strength should not be as good as that of middle stage spiritual silence cultivators.

But he has the Five Elements Ring, which can change a lot.

The "Small Five Elements Formation" in the Five Elements Ring can make his spiritual power and five elements in his body unite and perform magic, which is no less powerful than that of a spiritual silence cultivator. Even because the Five Elements Ring is too high in grade, its power is much stronger.

Moreover, the Five Elements Ring is not the only top-grade magic weapon on Lin Mu's body.

The power of several other top-grade magic weapons is equally strong.

If it is an ordinary middle stage spiritual silence cultivator, he can't compete with him at all.

This is his advantage, unique.

The Five Elements Ring was refined by Tian Zhu Zhenren. Although it is only a test product, it is the only one.

Tian Zhu Zhenren is a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage. It would be extremely difficult for other cultivators to refine the Five Elements Ring.

If you want to refine a Five Elements Ring that can continuously advance, it is even more difficult than ascending to heaven.

There is also the "Five Elements Heart Method", which was also left by Tian Zhu Zhenren.

Although Tian Zhu Zhenren has long died, Lin Mu is truly grateful to this Zhenren whom he has never met.

Whether it is the Five Elements Ring or the "Five Elements Heart Method", they are all tailor-made for him.

These two things make him feel confident when fighting with the cultivators in the Spiritual Silence stage.

However, in addition to his joy, Lin Mu is also worried about this.

Although the "Five Elements Heart Method" is good, it is not without drawbacks.

When a cultivator practices the "Five Elements Heart Method", he will practice the five elements together and the five elements of spiritual power will coexist.

It will not be like ordinary cultivators, with only pure single-element spiritual power left in the body.

Generally, when a cultivator is tempered with pure single-line spiritual power, he will enter the spiritual silence stage, and his life span will be increased by more than 100 years, reaching more than 300 years.

People who practice the "Five Elements Heart Sutra" will not experience the situation of pure single-line spiritual power tempering.

To be precise, people who practice the "Five Elements Heart Sutra" do not have the spiritual silence stage.

They will directly impact the golden elixir stage from the foundation-building stage.

This sounds like a good thing, with one less process in the middle, which is equivalent to taking a shortcut.

But Lin Mu knew that the situation was not optimistic at all.

Practicing the "Five Elements Heart Method" can directly impact the golden elixir from the foundation building stage.

However, the life span of a foundation building cultivator is only about 200 years, which is more than 100 years less than that of a spiritual solitude cultivator.

Many spiritual solitude cultivators cannot successfully impact the golden elixir after a life span of more than 300 years.

Lin Mu really didn't have much confidence that he could successfully impact the golden elixir in more than 200 years.

Especially for five-element cultivators, the speed is five times slower than that of others who only cultivate one element!

Fortunately, Lin Mu did not spend too much time in the early stage and advanced to the middle stage of foundation building.

But the further he goes, the slower the speed will be.

Lin Mu really didn't have much confidence that he could successfully form a golden elixir.

If he only had a little hope, then his parents had no spiritual roots, and the hope was even slimmer.

Fortunately, he had the Xuanyue Pei, and the island in the center of the lake had also cultivated a lot of spiritual fields, which gave him a little more hope.

If he could get the top-grade purple incense burner in this auction, his hope might be a little greater.

Lin Mu secretly made up his mind that he must get the purple incense burner no matter what!

The cloud-stepping boots suddenly disappeared, and Lin Mu's figure slowly landed and appeared outside Linwufang.

Lin Mu's face was calm, and he walked towards Linwufang.

There were more cultivators coming and going in Linwufang than before.

Many people were already in the late stage of foundation building, and there were even many spiritual solitude cultivators.

Lin Mu's heart was awed, most of these people should have come for the auction.

This auction was a big auction held only once every three years.

There were many top-grade magic tools, even top-grade magic tools to be auctioned.

Many spiritual solitude cultivators came here because of their reputation.

Among these people, there were many true disciples of major sects, and even the direct relatives of the sect leader, with strong status, strength and financial resources.

Some people were even richer than himself.

After all, the strength of an individual cannot be compared with that of an entire sect.

Lin Mu didn't care too much about these people, as long as they didn't compete with him for the purple incense burner.

He only wanted that purple incense burner!

Lin Mu turned a few streets and stood at a deserted corner. Seeing that there was no one around, his spiritual power flashed, and his face changed instantly, becoming an ordinary young man.

It was the "Bone Shrinking Technique"!

Lin Mu has now performed the "Bone Shrinking Technique" to perfection.

Not only did his appearance change drastically, but even his voice could become completely different from before.

Even if Lin's father, mother, and Shitou were here, it would not be easy to recognize Lin Mu.

There were all kinds of people at this auction, and Lin Mu didn't want to be too prominent.

He was also afraid that others would be tempted by the money and kill people for the treasure.

But the purple incense burner ranked in the top three of the rare treasure list, and Lin Mu was determined to get it. It would be difficult not to be prominent.

Changing his appearance might save a lot of trouble.

Lin Mu walked out of the street corner and followed the crowd to the auction house.

This auction was a grand event in Linwufang.

In front of the auction house, there were crowds of people, cultivators gathered and made a lot of noise.

Lin Mu walked forward and saw a huge bluestone tablet in front of the auction hall.

The relevant matters of this auction were written on the tablet, and Lin Mu hurriedly read it carefully.

After reading it, Lin Mu had a clear idea in his mind.

This auction was held by several major sects, and there would be several Jindan stage cultivators to come and take charge to ensure that no one would make trouble.

There was another point that Lin Mu also secretly remembered in his mind.

No matter how high the auction price was, the auction house would not interfere.

However, for all treasures, the auction house would take 10% of the proceeds.

In other words, if a treasure was auctioned at a high price of 80,000 low-grade spirit stones, the auction house would take 8,000, and the rest would belong to the treasure owner.

In addition, when a cultivator bids, the price he bids must be realistic and not inflated.

If you do this intentionally, you will not be able to pay the required spiritual stones after you win the treasure.

The auction house will give you a deadline, during which you must collect the spiritual stones, and then the treasure will be given to you.

But if you cannot collect them, you will be taken as a mining slave by the auction house and go to the spiritual mine to mine spiritual stones until you pay off your debt. But the treasure belongs to the auction house.

There are several other regulations, but they are not important.

After reading these, Lin Mu understood.

Then he followed the crowd and walked towards the auction hall.

The auction hall was already full of people.

There were thousands of seats, all of which were occupied.

Lin Mu searched for a long time before he found a seat in a corner at the back.

There were two late-stage foundation-building cultivators sitting next to him. When they saw Lin Mu walk in and sit down, they all looked up at Lin Mu and then turned their heads away.

They didn't take a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building seriously.

After Lin Mu sat down, his face was calm, and he looked around from time to time.

The auction had not yet started, and everyone was waiting.

The two cultivators in the late stage of foundation building beside him were talking loudly as if no one was around.

One of the skinny cultivators boasted, "I have been saving spirit stones for more than two years. This time I can buy a top-grade flying sword."

Another fat cultivator sneered, "Top-grade magic tools are nothing! This time I plan to buy treasures on the rare treasure list. I must get the Qingmiao Sword that I told you about last time."

Qingmiao Sword?

Isn't this the flying sword he wants to auction?

Lin Mu listened to the two people next to him showing off, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Suddenly!

A gong sounded, shocking the whole audience.

Everyone hurriedly looked at the stage.

A middle-aged man walked up to the stage with a gong.

Dang!

The gong sounded crisp and clear.

The middle-aged man struck the gong and announced loudly, "The auction officially begins."