Cosmic Trading System

"Boom——"

About half an hour later, Lin Yun's moving body suddenly paused. The internal energy in his body broke through a bottleneck and began to enter a new meridian. With this process, his internal energy grew stronger and clearer.

At the same time, he felt streams of warmth being born throughout his body, quickly flowing in all directions, and his physical fitness rapidly became stronger during this process.

This was a significant transformation, and it was evident.

Lin Yun took a pellet to stabilize his newfound state, helping his body to absorb more energy faster and to stabilize his realm more quickly. Then, he closed his eyes and slowly experienced the process.

An hour later, Lin Yun opened his eyes and threw a punch in front of him.

"Boom——"

A powerful blast of air was produced in the air, attesting to the power of the punch.

"The initial stage of Huajin, but much stronger than the average initial stage of Huajin..."

Lin Yun faintly smiled, lightly saying this.

He was very satisfied with his current strength, showing that his previous preparations were not in vain.

When he was in the latter stage of Dark Strength, his actual power already surpassed that of the average peak of Huajin. When he was at the peak of Dark Strength, he was almost invincible within the realm of the peak of Huajin, confident in facing any peak of Huajin powerful warriors, as long as no Innate warriors showed up.

Now, could his powers enable him to fight against the early-stage Innate warriors?

Lin Yun thought to himself.

The progression from Huajin to Innate was a significant leap, even surpassing the breakthroughs from Mingjin to Dark Strength, and from Dark Strength to Huajin.

Because the three states of Mingjin, Dark Strength, and Huajin belong to the acquired realm. After a breakthrough, one enters the innate realm, a different level where internal and external sensations, Yin and Yang, mutually emerge and influence each other, with every action drawing upon the strength of heaven and earth.

If an extraordinarily strong Dark Strength at its peak, finds it hard to contend with an initial stage of Huajin, then five or six exceptionally strong in Dark Strength combined can compete with a warrior at the early stage of Huajin.

However, even ten or so peak Huajin stages combined are no match for an initial stage innate martial artist.

That's the gap.

In order to verify his current power.

Lin Yun asked Lin Yu, who was near him, to suppress his strength to the initial stage of Innate before they sparred.

About ten minutes later, they stopped sparring, and Lin Yun shook his head.

Although his strength dramatically increased after the breakthrough from Dark Strength to the initial stage of Huajin, he still couldn't go against an early-stage innate martial artist.

The amplification of a martial artist's power by the strength of heaven and earth was too significant.

All he could say was, his current strength was even more invincible among the Huajin peak warriors.

In the universe, countless civilizations, countless cultivators, there were also many Huajin peak warriors who could sweep most of the same level warriors. Now, Lin Yun could crush these people.

Of course, he couldn't deal with some extremely individual outliers.

Like him, being just at the early stage of Huajin, he could stand unmatched among average Huajin peak warriors.

The universe was vast, and there were many cultivators. Some outstanding Huajin warriors could challenge Innate martial artists while at the peak of Huajin, and even challenge Innate warriors when at the latter stage of Huajin. Lin Yun had seen such examples on the Cosmic Trading System, and not just one or two.

Naturally, Lin Yun couldn't beat this type of warrior.

"Now, my body has upgraded to the early stage of Huajin, my Mental Strength can also upgrade to the lower tier of the fifth level. This is another significant transformation. I wonder if I can combat warriors at the early stage of the Innate realm after this transformation..."

Lin Yun wondered.

Now, his Mental Strength had risen to the peak of the fourth level, only a small step away from the fifth level. However, the gap in this small step was a significant difference in quality.

Because he just moved up from the peak of the fourth level to the lower tier of the fifth level, Lin Yun only needed to spend two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals this time.

Besides the ten million Spirit Crystals, Lin Yun had saved over two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals in the past few days.

"Boom——"

Two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals were deducted, and a thrumming sound echoed in Lin Yun's mind. Large pulses of pure spiritual energy suddenly appeared, swiftly melding with the mental strength in his cerebral space. His mental strength's quantity and quality rapidly increased.

An hour later, Lin Yun's mental strength stabilized.

Low-level Grade 5 mental strength allowed Lin Yun's perceptions of the world to be clearer.

At that moment, Lin Yun could even see certain special trajectories in space. They seemed like doors, giving him the feeling that if he wished, he could easily pass from one door to another.

Could this be... teleportation?

As this thought surfaced, Lin Yun willed it.

The next moment, his body disappeared from its original place, re-emerging at a location dozens of meters away.

"Teleportation! I can actually teleport, this is an ability of a Golden Core martial artist..."

Lin Yun felt a jolt in his heart, excitedly thinking.

However, soon after, he felt extremely weak. His body swayed, nearly collapsing onto the ground.

He understood that his body was overdrawn.

He quickly took out a pellet for reinforcing the foundation and fostering the origin and consumed it, which restored much of his strength.

"Master, you forgot that as long as one reaches the realm of a level 5 cultivator, regardless of whether it is cultivating mental strength, training as a martial artist, or cultivating immortality, all can teleport. Master's mental strength has been upgraded to grade 5, so in a way, you're a level 5 cultivator in mental strength," Lin Yu's voice rang beside Lin Yun, laughing.

"However, Master's physical strength is too weak. Teleportation has a high demand on the body's strength. If Master wishes to teleport without any impact on the body, Master can learn some defensive spells or minor magics. Casting defensive spells while teleporting won't pose any problems..." After a pause, Lin Yu continued.

"Magic? Aren't martial artists in the first three realms advised not to practice magic, otherwise it will affect the Foundation-building process of martial arts?" Lin Yun frowned.

The first three martial arts realms were foundational realms. Once he broke through these three realms, there would be no need to be as cautious in his cultivation.

"Just some minor defensive magics. As long as it doesn't exceed the range of level 1 magic, there won't be any problem. However, this will elevate Master's defenses greatly.

This sort of defense is unlike a general energy shield as when teleporting, the utilization of spatial forces impacts the defense of the usual energy shield but won't affect the casting of one's own minor magics," Lin Yu shook his head, and said.

"I'll check it on the Cosmic Trading System." Lin Yun nodded slightly.

It was not that he didn't trust Lin Yu, but rather, Lin Yu was just a robot, and the information he had might not necessarily be accurate.

Now that he had cultivated to the realm of Huajin and was about to complete his foundation-building for his martial arts, any unforeseen circumstances at this juncture would not be ideal.

One minute... Two minutes... Three minutes...

Soon, Lin Yun confirmed that he could indeed practice some level 1 magic in his situation. As long as it didn't exceed the range of level 1 magic, it wouldn't affect his martial arts foundation building.

Once he broke through the Huajin realm and completed his martial arts foundation building, he could even cultivate in both magic and martial arts.

At that time, due to his martial arts realm, even the power of his cultivated magic would exceed that of a typical magician of the same level.

To be on the safe side, Lin Yun began with studying low-level Grade 1 magic.

Perhaps, the main reason to extensively cultivate mental strength is to become a magician.

The official separation of magic levels on the Cosmic Trading System aligned perfectly with the separation of mental strength levels. Your journey continues at empire

It was rumored that many civilizations also classified in the same way.

Only a handful of magical civilizations maintained a few special titles for the initial realms of magic, such as magical apprentices, magicians, magical mentors, and so forth, due to the lack of contact with other civilizations in their early stages.

A minor fireball spell, a water orb spell, an earth wall spell...

Learning low-level grade 1 magic rapidly using the Cosmic Trading System required only ten Spirit Crystals.

Lin Yun quickly selected a skill and swiftly completed the learning process.

Seeing a small fireball spring into existence at his fingertips, a small water orb rolling on the surface of his palm, and an earth wall suddenly appearing...

Lin Yun couldn't help but feel extremely astonished and intrigued.