The Lin's Patriarch is weird.

Chapter 6: 6. Martial Spirit, grade error.

Lin Xuan silently watched the girl cultivating in front of him.

The room was quiet apart from the faint sounds of her breathing.

On the surface, everything appeared normal.

Yet the longer he observed her, the more inconsistencies he discovered.

There were simply too many things that didn’t add up.

Even if Lin Zhaoyue was trying her best to act natural, she had already revealed far more than she realized.

The first clue had appeared the moment he handed her the spatial ring.

At the time, he hadn’t thought much of it.

Now, however, the memory resurfaced in his mind.

Before awakening a Martial Spirit, it was impossible for a person to cultivate. Without cultivation, one could not develop spiritual sense.

And without spiritual sense, inspecting the contents of a spatial ring was impossible.

Yet Lin Zhaoyue had immediately looked inside the ring and seen exactly what it contained.

At the time, he had been too distracted by her reaction to notice.

More importantly, he had never intended it as a test.

The thought simply hadn’t crossed his mind.

Only now did he realize how strange that scene had actually been.

His gaze drifted toward the girl.

Especially after what he had discovered today.

Out of curiosity, he had checked the contents of the spatial ring earlier.

The result had nearly made him doubt his own eyes.

More than fourteen hundred Body Tempering Pills were gone.

Lin Xuan stared at her in silence.

How?

That single question had been tormenting him for hours.

Normally, after consuming a Body Tempering Pill, the human body required several days to fully absorb its medicinal effects. Some people even needed an entire week before they could safely consume another. freēwēbnovel.com

The process wasn’t simply about swallowing pills.

The body had limits.

Force-feeding additional pills before properly refining the previous ones would merely waste medicinal energy and potentially damage the body.

Those blessed with higher-grade Martial Spirits could refine the medicinal effects of Body Tempering Pills more efficiently than ordinary cultivators. Their bodies absorbed the energy faster, allowing them to consume more pills within a shorter period of time.

Even so, Lin Xuan had never heard of anyone capable of consuming over fourteen hundred Body Tempering Pills in just two days.

Two days.

That was all it had taken.

His gaze lingered on the girl sitting cross-legged in the center of the room before a familiar odor began spreading through the air once more.

The corner of Lin Xuan’s mouth twitched.

It was time for another bath.

At this point, he no longer found it surprising.

Every time Lin Zhaoyue refined a large amount of medicinal energy, impurities would be expelled from her body.

The process repeated itself so frequently that the servants had started seeing patterns and began preparing the baths.

Deciding that his nose had suffered enough for one day, Lin Xuan rose from his seat and headed for the door.

As he stepped outside, he glanced back at the room one final time.

The little girl was still cultivating diligently, completely unaware of the problems she was creating for him.

A helpless smile appeared on his face.

"At this rate..."

He rubbed his forehead.

"...won’t I have to start finding ways to feed this little rascal of mine?"

For the first time, the reward of two thousand Body Refinement Pills no longer seemed particularly impressive.

In fact, judging by her current pace, Lin Xuan suspected they might not even last much longer.

Lin Xuan opened his spatial pouch and inspected its contents.

Inside were one thousand Qi Refinement Pills.

For a moment, he considered using them himself before shaking his head.

Perhaps he should save them for Zhaoyue.

At the very least, there was still hope for his daughter. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

As that thought crossed his mind, the system interface appeared once more.

[ Quest: Raise the Lin Clan to Rank 8 ]

[ Current Rank: 9 ]

[ Reward: An item capable of forcibly increasing any Mortal Rank Martial Spirit by one grade. ]

Lin Xuan’s eyes brightened.

If he could complete the quest, he would be able to raise Lin Zhaoyue’s Martial Spirit from Grade One to Grade Two.

Although that was hardly enough to transform her into a genius, it would at least allow her to escape the fate of being considered completely talentless.

In this world, even a small increase in talent could dramatically alter a cultivator’s future.

Unfortunately, the quest was much easier to read than it was to accomplish.

Lin Xuan sighed.

Raising a clan’s rank was no simple matter.

To qualify as a Rank Eight Clan, several requirements had to be met.

The first was the easiest.

The clan needed at least one Golden Core expert.

Fortunately, that requirement had already been fulfilled by Lin Xuan himself.

The second requirement was considerably more troublesome.

The clan needed at least twenty Qi Refinement experts.

Currently, the Lin Clan only possessed twelve.

That meant eight more cultivators needed to reach the Qi Refinement Realm before the clan could advance.

Lin Xuan rubbed his temples.

"Hah... I suppose that’s quite the tall order."

Even with the system’s assistance, cultivating eight additional Qi Refinement experts would not happen overnight.

Still, the more he thought about it, the more useful the system appeared to be.

When he had first arrived in this world, he had assumed it was little more than a source of rewards.

Now he was beginning to realize that it might be far more valuable than that.

The starter pack alone had contained a Martial Spirit of unknown grade.

According to the system, the Martial Spirit had already fused with him the moment he accepted the reward.

The strange part was that Lin Xuan had no idea what kind of Martial Spirit it actually was.

Yet the effects were undeniable.

Ever since receiving it, he had noticed a constant stream of Spiritual Qi entering his body.

Even while sitting, walking or even sleeping, his cultivation never stopped.

The technique circulated on its own, refining Spiritual Qi without requiring any conscious effort from him.

In other words, while other cultivators spent hours every day meditating, Lin Xuan cultivated every second of every day.

The realization still felt absurd.