“Begin!”
Lin Yun immediately started absorbing the demonic crystals.
The energy within each demonic crystal was rapidly absorbed into Lin Yun’s body.
Since the energy in the demonic crystals would continuously dissipate, Lin Yun first absorbed their energy into his body, then slowly converted it.
Three days later.
Lin Yun opened his eyes, his gaze radiant and full of vitality, his entire being brimming with energy.
“Mysterious Saint realm, achieved!”
Feeling the abundant and powerful inner strength within, Lin Yun’s heart was filled with indescribable joy.
This time, the demonic crystals gained from the contest for the blood demon flower allowed Lin Yun to swiftly reach the Mysterious Saint realm.
The seventh-grade and eighth-grade demonic crystals played a pivotal role in directly advancing to the Mysterious Saint realm.
Without these two crystals, even if Lin Yun had absorbed all the remaining crystals, he would still have fallen short of the Mysterious Saint realm, without a doubt!
Each higher grade of demonic crystal yielded significantly better effects, with the gap becoming more pronounced at higher grades. The difference between a sixth-grade and a seventh-grade demonic crystal was particularly stark!
Grades one to three were one tier, four to six another, and seven to nine yet another entirely new tier!
Originally, Lin Yun had planned to hunt demons in the Border Mountains for decades to reach the Mysterious Saint realm. Now, he had drastically shortened that time.
This gave Lin Yun greater confidence in reaching the Heavenly Saint realm before the Skyfire Trial.
Moreover, having reached the Mysterious Saint realm, Lin Yun now felt more assured and capable of navigating the border.
When he was still at the Initial Saint realm, Lin Yun could handle Mysterious Saints, but it required his full strength.
If faced with multiple Mysterious Saints attacking him, Lin Yun would find it challenging and difficult to cope.
As for Heavenly Saints, even with his full effort at the Initial Saint realm, Lin Yun could at best fight to a stalemate, finding it hard to defeat them.
But now, at the Mysterious Saint realm, with his powerful physical body and techniques like the dragon clan’s inherited secrets, Lin Yun could easily overpower Mysterious Saints.
Even against ordinary Heavenly Saints, he could hold an absolute advantage, with a high chance of victory!
Of course, Heavenly Saints were rare in the Border Mountains.
After reaching the Heavenly Saint realm, one hits a bottleneck. Continuing to hunt demons becomes ineffective, and a breakthrough is needed.
Additionally, with a higher realm, demon hunting would also improve.
Previously, Lin Yun struggled to hunt sixth-tier demons.
Since arriving in the Border Mountains, he had encountered sixth-tier demons twice but failed to kill them.
Now, at the Mysterious Saint realm, Lin Yun was confident he could handle sixth-tier demons!
Next, Lin Yun carefully savoured the sensation of the Mysterious Saint realm.
“The realm elevated through absorbing demonic crystals seems indeed stronger and more solid,” Lin Yun remarked.
In the same realm, assuming all other techniques and strengths were identical, someone who advanced to the Mysterious Saint realm through demon hunting would undoubtedly be stronger than someone who advanced using Haoyue crystals.
“Next, it’s time to check the other gains,” Lin Yun said with anticipation, beginning to open the storage rings he had collected.
Lin Yun had gathered eighty-three storage rings, fewer than the number of demonic crystals, as during the battle on the lake, his time to collect spoils underwater was limited. He prioritised demonic crystals, then collected the storage rings.
Of these eighty-three rings, most contained tens of thousands of Haoyue crystals, with some holding a few million.
These belonged to Saint realm cultivators. Not all had tens of millions of Haoyue crystals like Lin Yun; most used theirs up, and a few million was considered wealthy.
Even so, Lin Yun amassed a total of fifty-one million Haoyue crystals from these ninety-three storage rings!
“So many, haha, this time I’ve really struck it rich!”
When Lin Yun tallied the number, his heart pounded, and he couldn’t suppress his overwhelming joy.
This haul was a fortune!
These were the possessions of eighty-three Saint realm cultivators.
Lin Yun knew that encountering such an opportunity again would be nearly impossible!
Normally, acquiring such spoils would mean hunting down this many Saint realm cultivators, which was simply unfeasible!
And this was just the Haoyue crystals from the storage rings, not counting other resources.
If other resources were included, the total would be even higher!
Lin Yun felt that after this trip, he might have enough funds to upgrade his weapon to a True Saint Artifact!
“The Border Mountains are indeed a place where miracles can happen, a place to get rich quick,” Lin Yun said with a smile, reflecting quietly.
Though the border was fraught with dangers, danger and opportunity always coexist.
Many avoided the Border Mountains, but why were there still teams in the mountains? Why did some still come? Because there were indeed many opportunities here, allowing people to turn their fortunes around, rise rapidly, and seize success!
Of course, for most, their fate might be to perish here.
Next, Lin Yun gathered his spoils and headed out of the cave.
The three Wu brothers had left the cave two days earlier, guarding outside and waiting for Lin Yun while protecting him.
Since they had fewer demonic crystals than Lin Yun, they naturally didn’t need as much time.
At the cave entrance.
“Friend Lin Yun, how did it go? How’s your progress?” the three Wu brothers asked as Lin Yun emerged.
“Not bad. With this batch of demonic crystals, I’ve successfully reached the Mysterious Saint realm,” Lin Yun said, smiling.
“Friend Lin Yun reached the Mysterious Saint realm? Congratulations!” Wu Yue and Wu Qing hurriedly offered their congratulations.
“You three, what are your plans next?” Lin Yun asked.
“I plan to escort my two younger brothers down the mountain first. After that, I’ll head deeper in. I have teammates there. To advance, I need to hunt higher-level demons, which requires going deeper. As for my brothers, I’ll protect them while they hunt fourth- to sixth-tier demons out here once I’ve advanced,” Wu Chengtian said.
“In that case, we’ll have to part ways for now,” Lin Yun said.
Lin Yun had no intention of leaving the mountain.
