Qi Refining Realm, Achieved!

Seeing Ran Hua's shock, Chen Changqing smiled faintly and said, "Just a small breakthrough."

Ran Hua was taken aback. He squinted, giving Chen Changqing a few more glances, and muttered to himself: "Senior Brother Chen's breakthrough speed seems a bit fast. Could it be the result of accumulated effort?"

After a brief thought, he didn't dwell on it. Even if Chen Changqing had broken through again, he was only at the Mid Body Tempering Stage, while Ran Hua himself had already been at the Late Body Tempering Stage for some time. He was currently striving to break through to the Qi Refining Realm.

"Senior Brother Chen, I'll take my leave now!" Ran Hua cupped his hands in a salute, didn't overthink it, and promptly got up to leave.

After Ran Hua left, Chen Changqing stood guard at the Mountain Gate. At the fourth ke of You Shi, he closed the gate on time and then returned to his dwelling.

Time flowed on.

In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.

At this moment, Chen Changqing sat cross-legged in his small wooden hut, his mind sinking into the system space.

"System!"

Soon, the system prompt sounded:

[Ding!] [AFK Time: 10 days.] [Practiced Primordial Chaos Stance Technique ×350 times!] [Extract AFK cultivation results?]

"Extract!" Chen Changqing didn't dawdle and directly chose to claim the reward.

"Boom, boom!"

In an instant, wisps of golden light drifted from the Little Golden Figure, vanishing into Chen Changqing's body. At that moment, he felt his blood and qi surging like an enraged dragon, his sinews and bones ringing in unison. His muscles were tempered and strengthened once more. Every inch of flesh and blood throughout his body seemed to have undergone a thousand refinements.

Before long, a vast and mighty force erupted from within him. The space inside the small wooden hut rippled under the invisible wave of air.

The next moment, Chen Changqing's eyes snapped open, a flash of gold flickering in his pupils. He clenched his fist and threw a straight punch forward. As the fist shot out, its immense power surged like a river, causing the air to boom with impact.

Withdrawing his fist, Chen Changqing felt the surging power within his body and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly: "Force breaks two thousand jin! The Late Body Tempering Stage is achieved!"

Chen Changqing was thrilled. He noticed that as his cultivation steadily rose, the effect of AFK cultivation also increased. Previously, ten days of AFK would only yield three hundred repetitions of the Primordial Chaos Stance Technique. But now, ten days of AFK allowed for three hundred and fifty repetitions.

"With this AFK Cultivation System, my cultivation speed is like riding a rocket—shooting straight up!" "Next up is the charge toward the Qi Refining Realm!" "But..."

At this point, Chen Changqing squinted slightly, wearing a contemplative expression. At the Early Body Tempering Stage, force breaks three hundred jin. At the Mid Body Tempering Stage, force breaks a thousand jin. As for the Late Body Tempering Stage, it can achieve force breaking two thousand jin!

Normally, by this point, many cultivators would begin preparing to break through to the Qi Refining Realm.

But Chen Changqing wasn't in a hurry to break through to the Qi Refining Realm.

Because he knew that breaking two thousand jin of force was not yet the limit of the Body Tempering Realm!

In the understanding of ordinary disciples, two thousand jin was the limit of the Body Tempering Realm.

However, through studying the Little Golden Figure, Chen Changqing discovered that it was still AFK cultivating, which meant there was still room for improvement within the Body Tempering Realm.

"I have the AFK system—why not try to push for the Body Refining Extreme Realm?"

Having made up his mind, Chen Changqing continued his AFK cultivation.

Just then, footsteps sounded from outside the house.

Immediately after, a voice came through:

"Senior Brother Chen, it's time to collect this month's cultivation resources."

Hearing this, Chen Changqing quickly composed himself, rose, and stepped outside to take a small pouch from an Outer Disciple's hand.

"Thank you for the trouble, Junior Brother!"

After offering his thanks, Chen Changqing returned to the house and opened the pouch. Inside were two Low-grade Spirit Stones.

Back when he was still in the Qi Nourishing Realm, his monthly cultivation resources consisted of only one Low-grade Spirit Stone.

Earlier, Chen Changqing had gone to find Elder Willow Wood to update his cultivation information.

This month's resource distribution had increased to two Low-grade Spirit Stones.

"Now that I can AFK cultivate, there's no rush to use these spirit stones."

"I'll save them for later when I break through to the Qi Refining Realm."

Chen Changqing muttered to himself as he put away the two Low-grade Spirit Stones.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, another ten days went by.

"System, extract the AFK results!"

"Boom!"

From within the Little Golden Figure, streams of golden light burst forth and surged into Chen Changqing's body.

Then, Chen Changqing's strength reached the level of breaking three thousand jin of force.

Yet even so, he found that he still hadn't reached the limit of Body Tempering.

Chen Changqing didn't dwell on it and continued his AFK cultivation.

Before he knew it, another month had passed.

"System!"

As Chen Changqing's thought transmitted, the system responded:

[Ding!]

[AFK Time: 30 days.]

[Practiced Primordial Chaos Stance Technique ×1200 times!]

[Extract AFK results?]

"Extract!"

Without overthinking, Chen Changqing directly chose to extract the AFK rewards.

"Boom!"

From within the Little Golden Figure, a torrent of golden light violently erupted, plunging straight into Chen Changqing's body.

In an instant, Chen Changqing felt his blood and qi erupt like a volcano, his bones and tendons trembling, his flesh and blood seemingly being restructured.

Golden light blazed all around him, dazzling like a blazing sun!

"Breaking four thousand jin of force!"

At this moment, Chen Changqing clearly sensed that his physical strength had reached an absolute limit.

At the same time, the Little Golden Figure in front of him stopped its AFK cultivation.

"Finally, the Body Refining Extreme Realm!"

"An ordinary Late Body Tempering Stage cultivator can only break two thousand jin of force."

"But I am at the Body Refining Extreme Realm, breaking four thousand jin—a full double."

"It wasn't a waste of over a month of AFK cultivation."

Chen Changqing murmured to himself.

Over a month ago, he had already reached the Late Body Tempering Stage and could have begun breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm.

But he had chosen to walk the path of the extreme realm.

After a brief pause, Chen Changqing took a deep breath and sighed with emotion.

"Now, it's time to break through to the Qi Refining Realm!"

Chen Changqing took out the few Low-grade Spirit Stones he had saved up and placed them before him.

Closing his eyes, he began to draw spiritual energy from the stones to initiate his breakthrough.

Streams of spiritual energy flowed out from the spirit stones, surging into Chen Changqing's body and circulating through his limbs and bones.

With the continuous infusion of spiritual energy, it was as if thunder roared within Chen Changqing's body, and his dantian was shrouded in chaos.

"Hum!"

At that moment, a wisp of pure energy was born in his dantian.

Like the rising sun at dawn, faint yet brimming with vitality!

Refining essence into qi meant refining the world's spiritual energy into one's own essence and storing it in the dantian!

Chen Changqing's mind settled into stillness as he guided the spiritual energy to circulate within his body, constantly condensing it.

Soon, the first strand of essence was successfully formed!

Then came the second, the third...

When the tenth strand of essence hovered like a star within his dantian, Chen Changqing's tightly shut eyes snapped open.

A sharp gleam shone brilliantly in his gaze!

"The Qi Refining Realm—achieved!"