As a result, he progressed quickly and within just a month had condensed two Cold Dan and only needed one more to perform the three Cold Dan integration technique and step into the Jie Dan realm.
This last Cold Dan still needed more time to break through, however, since the previous two Cold Dan’s took Wang Lin a whole year to condense. Fortunately, he already had a base level of cultivation and so a situation where it would take him years to form the third Cold Dan was impossible.
Wang Lin expected that he would be able to form the third Cold Dan within three months, so his mind was calm and not anxious. In addition to absorbing Cold Yin and collecting the dew from the Heaven Revolting Bead he took some time to slowly start raising his captured devil.
He had tried many times before, but the devil could not be directly controlled with his Divine Consciousness. Therefore, he could only create a connection with it by feeding it slowly..
Speaking of the devil, Wang Lin found it very useful. He would feed the remaining traces of souls captured in the Flag of Souls to it. Within this flag were the souls of Sea of Devils cultivators. Most of them died fighting against disciples of the Dou Xie sect. According to Sang Mu Ya’s explanation, they were all sacrificial victims he ruined by fighting and then sealing their souls to gain favor from his Master.
As time slowly passed, most of the souls contained within the Flag of Souls were absorbed by the devil. At last, Wang Lin condensed a thread of Divine Consciousness that connected to the devil.
Even the devil itself didn’t know that there was now a piece of Wang Lin’s Divine Consciousness in its body and with evil intentions, it still secretly looked for a chance to escape.
By now, Wang Lin had been in closed-door training for three months. His third Cold Dan already had its initial form and over the course of the three months he had gone out a few times. Li Mu Wan’s stone room was covered in medical herbs. He had no idea how, but she even went as far as to get soil to plant some Ling grasses. The Ling grasses were also surrounded by a LingShi formation that she had carefully planned, enabling the grasses to absorb as much Qi as they needed and guaranteeing they would grow up to have abundant amounts of Qi.
There was also a small Dan Furnace set in the middle of the room with a dense stack of failed elixirs next to it. Li Mu Wan had been working hard on refining ever since Wang Lin went into seclusion.
Other than the residues that were left piled up on the ground, there were also some Jade strips scattered around. When Li Mu Wan was refining pills, she would sometimes get a burst of inspiration, or some idea of deviating from the original recipe of some pills and hastily get a Jade strip to quickly write it down..
Of the four rooms in the cave, one was used by Wang Lin for his seclusion training. As for the other three, one became an Alchemy laboratory, another became an herb garden, while the final room had been changed into a shower by Li Mu Wan.
The fog within the Sea of Devils causes things to become damp and the cave was no exception. The clothes on her person would often become wet and stick to her body. Li Mu Wan, as a girl, really couldn’t stand this sensation, especially so when her wet body had a sticky feeling. And so with a large amount of effort, she turned the last room into a shower.
The shower was completely ignored by Wang Lin however, since he could just exert a bit of spiritual power and have his body inhale the Cold Qi clinging on his clothes and into his Cold Dans.
As a result of the Aquatic Dragon’s bones, the nine bone formation outside the cave had an increase in power. According to Li Mu Wan, this Nine Bone Formation can no longer be called that, but instead, should be called the Nine Aquatic Dragon Bone Formation.