Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body First Layer, Jade Skin Realm (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

Watching the words appear before him, Qi Chuan, whose body was growing numb, smiled faintly.

"Sure enough, the Hundredfold Critical Hit works on body refining cultivation methods too!"

At the same time, a faint sensation spread across Qi Chuan's skin.

Once that faint sensation appeared, Qi Chuan could feel something unusual coming from his skin, as though it were being strengthened.

Of course, his flesh, blood vessels, tissues, and everything else within his body also felt something, though it was far fainter. Presumably, they received less strengthening, with the main effect concentrated on his skin.

After receiving this strengthening, even the pain from his surroundings, which had already become numb, seemed to lessen slightly.

"As long as it can improve, that's good enough!"

Qi Chuan smiled faintly. He was not afraid of pain. If this little pain could be exchanged for an improvement in his physical body, then it was far too worthwhile.

"Next, I'll continue cultivating the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body!"

Qi Chuan began circulating the cultivation method of the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body once more.

You circulated the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body within the medicinal bath, absorbed medicinal power, and strengthened your physical body. You triggered a Twelvefold Critical Hit and obtained Twelvefold Harvest. Your physical body was slightly strengthened.

You circulated the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body within the medicinal bath, absorbed medicinal power, and strengthened your physical body. You triggered an Elevenfold Critical Hit and obtained Elevenfold Harvest. Your physical body was slightly strengthened.

Throughout the process, words continued appearing before his eyes, while Qi Chuan's physical body steadily and slowly grew stronger.

Half a day later, Qi Chuan stood up and clenched his fists. He could feel that his strength had increased considerably. Since this was his first medicinal bath, the results were especially obvious.

Though he had not yet directly advanced into a Tier 1 Body Cultivator, his improvement compared to before was already substantial.

At this rate, advancing into a Tier 1 Body Cultivator was only a matter of time.

"Compared to my spell power cultivation base, body refining seems easier for me, and my progress seems faster?"

Feeling the increased strength in his body, Qi Chuan fixed his gaze on the skin of his arm. He seemed to be able to faintly see an extremely tiny trace of jade light.

The First Layer of the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body was the Jade Skin Realm. Once the jade light upon his skin completely emerged, it would mean that he had successfully advanced to the Tier 1 Body Cultivator level. More precisely, he would be an Early Tier 1 Body Cultivator, roughly equivalent in strength to a cultivator at the Early Qi Refining Stage.

At that point, the toughness of his skin would rival a Low-grade Magic Tool.

Yet at this moment, it was precisely the extremely tiny trace of jade light on the skin of his arm that made Qi Chuan hesitate somewhat.

In terms of spell power cultivation, his own Eighth-grade Spiritual Root imposed certain limitations.

But the requirements for the path of a Body Cultivator were lower. Thus, after the Hundredfold Critical Hit, his progress seemed far faster as well.

"If that's the case, then I may advance to an Early Tier 1 Body Cultivator, or even reach the level of a Peak Tier 1 Body Cultivator, sooner than I imagined." Thinking of this, Qi Chuan smiled faintly. This was truly an unexpected delight.

"But likewise, body cultivation consumes even more resources. It's practically piling up resources like a mountain!"

Qi Chuan looked toward the large vat before him. The originally thick, dark-red medicinal liquid had already lightened somewhat.

For this vat of medicinal liquid, he had thrown in all the spirit herb material he had exchanged for five points of Sect Contribution. Yet from the looks of it, it would not sustain much more cultivation.

That was the equivalent of fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones' worth of resources.

Once it was depleted, he would have to go to the Pill Pavilion and spend another five points of contribution to exchange for more. Yet he only had a little over ten points of contribution left on him now.

"I can only take one step at a time and improve slowly."

Qi Chuan sighed softly.

Giving up was impossible. For the sake of attacking Foundation Establishment in the future, he had to cultivate the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body.

Bang, bang.

Just as Qi Chuan sighed, faint impacts unexpectedly sounded from outside the cave dwelling.

"What is that...?"

Hearing the sound, Qi Chuan looked mildly surprised. He stepped out of the large vat, then used spell power to condense a mass of clear water and pour it over himself. He then used spell power to dry himself, becoming refreshed and clean at once.

After that, he dressed and came to the entrance of the cave dwelling.

Not far away, a palm-sized paper crane flapped its wings as it struck the formation outside the cave dwelling. Some writing could even be seen upon the paper crane.

"Someone actually came looking for me?"

Seeing this, Qi Chuan found it strange. Someone was clearly using the Paper Tying Technique to send him a message.

But he had only joined the Inner Sect and did not know many people. Who would be looking for him?

With a wave of his hand, he opened a gap in the formation. The paper crane flapped its wings and flew into the cave dwelling, landing in his hand.

Qi Chuan then unfolded the paper crane and found a letter.

"To Junior Brother Qi: Three days from now will be Ye's birthday. I have arranged a banquet at Baozhai Tower in the Inner Sect and invited the fellow senior and junior brothers who entered the Inner Sect in the same cohort. Junior Brother Qi is the Qi Family Prodigy and possesses exceptional talent. If you think highly of me, please be sure to attend..."

"...Ye Liang."

"This... Ye Liang actually wrote me a letter and invited me to a birthday gathering?"

"We don't seem to be very familiar, do we?"

Looking at the signature, Qi Chuan was exceedingly surprised.

According to the letter, Ye Liang had not only invited him. All the new disciples from the same cohort who had passed disciple recruitment and entered the Inner Sect, including talents from Cultivation Families and Rogue Cultivator talents, would receive invitations from Ye Liang. Qi Chuan simply did not know whether Ye Liang had invited only some people he thought highly of, or everyone.

"They're already cultivating immortality, yet they still go through all this."

Qi Chuan shook his head faintly, unable to tell what the other party was thinking.

But there was no way he would go.

He was still busy cultivating the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body. Going would require him to prepare a gift, and he was not familiar with Ye Liang. Besides, who knew what intentions the other party had?

Qi Chuan immediately turned the paper over and wrote a few lines, politely declining the invitation.

Then he folded the paper back into a paper crane and infused it with spell power. The paper crane immediately flapped its wings and flew up, leaving through the gap in the formation and returning by the way it had come.

"I can't be bothered to deal with so much nonsense from you."

Watching the paper crane leave, Qi Chuan closed the formation and turned back toward the cave dwelling.

As for whether refusing Ye Liang would anger him, Qi Chuan did not care much.

Ye Liang was indeed a fairly impressive prodigy, but in the eyes of Qi Chuan, who possessed the Hundredfold Critical Hit, he was nothing to fear.

As for Ye Liang's background as a member of the number one family beneath the Wind Moon Sect, Qi Chuan was now an Inner Sect disciple of the Wind Moon Sect, with limitless future achievements ahead of him. He had even less reason to worry.

On the contrary, if he went to some birthday gathering, wasted time, consumed resources on a gift, and perhaps had his state of mind disturbed by some unknown matter, that would be the greater loss.

With that in mind, Qi Chuan was about to return to the quiet room.

Bang, bang.

But just then, the sound of a paper crane striking the formation rang out again.

"Again?"

Qi Chuan turned back, looking rather speechless.

Could it be that Ye Liang feared he would not attend and had sent over a second paper crane letter?

However, when Qi Chuan once again came to the entrance of the cave dwelling, opened the formation, drew over the paper crane, and opened the letter, he realized from the information written on it that he had been mistaken.

"To Brother Qi: I am Murong Fan. The Qi Family and the Murong Family have long maintained ties. You and I are both Inner Sect candidates from our respective families. If we help each other in the Inner Sect, it would become a fine tale when passed back to our families..."

"...Murong Fan."

"So it's someone from the Murong Family..."

Qi Chuan pondered slightly. Looking at the letter, a young man dressed in gray with an exceedingly ordinary appearance immediately surfaced in his mind.

When he had entered the Wind Moon Sect, he had seen Murong Fan at the Inner Affairs Hall.

At the time, his first impression of Murong Fan had not been especially clear. He had only vaguely felt that Murong Fan did not seem like a bad person.

"Besides, the Qi Family and the Murong Family do seem to have a good relationship and some cooperation between them. With that connection, it is indeed possible that he would write to me..."

Qi Chuan nodded faintly and continued reading.

The meaning of Murong Fan's letter was that he wanted to establish a connection with Qi Chuan, much like the relationship between the Qi Family and the Murong Family, with a certain degree of cooperation and trust between them.

Although in the Cultivation World, such relationships were exceedingly fragile, and cooperation could end or trust could be severed at any time.

Still, compared to other unfamiliar fellow disciples, such a relationship could barely allow them to exchange what each lacked, benefiting both sides within a certain range.

"This... can be considered."

After pondering for a moment, Qi Chuan ultimately chose to agree and began writing a reply letter on the back of the paper.

However, he clearly stated in the reply that although he agreed to establish this fragile connection, he might not have time to do anything over the next few months.

After all, in the short term, he planned to first cultivate the First Layer of the Minor Profound Crystal Jade Body to completion and advance into a Tier 1 Body Cultivator.