Eighteen Years Old

Eighteen Years Old

The pills refined by the Li Family's alchemists were not all put up for sale.

Some of the higher-quality pills were kept in the Clan Treasury for the family's cultivators to exchange for.

For example, the Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pill cost two hundred Contribution Points to exchange for within the family, but those exchanged were all the finest Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.

The better the quality, the better the pill's effects naturally were.

Compared with ordinary pills, most high-quality pills had an advantage of ten to twenty percent.

"The Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills have all been counted. Go get some rest."

"Yes, Ninth Aunt."

Among the Li Generation, Li Liding was primarily responsible for deliveries. Aside from his cultivation of a swift movement technique, this also had much to do with his cautious and meticulous nature.

Loose Cultivators could be found anywhere in the Cultivation World.

The several groups of Loose Cultivators in Xiangshui Prefecture generally did not rob the goods of the three Foundation Establishment cultivation families, because the risk was too great.

The cultivators making deliveries each carried a Signal Spirit Talisman, which could instantly relay news of encountering Loose Cultivators to the family Patriarch.

When using a Sound Transmission Talisman, there was still a process of recording the message, whereas the Signal Spirit Talisman skipped that process entirely.

Once their location was locked down, the Loose Cultivators would next have to face the fury of a Foundation Establishment Clan.

The likelihood of being robbed was low, but that did not mean it was impossible. Thus, even cultivators delivering goods for a Foundation Establishment Clan had to remain vigilant at all times. It was best not to be discovered; even if they were discovered and unfortunately became targets, strong escape abilities still gave them a chance to get away.

So far, Li Liding had never encountered Loose Cultivators, which also had something to do with how frequently he changed his delivery routes.

After resting and cultivating in Tongyang County for two or three days, he would leave to deliver some pills to Changqing Mountain, replenishing the family's Clan Treasury.

Li Dixing quickly put the Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills on the shelves.

The Li Family had three shops in Tongyang County.

The three shops respectively sold pills, Spirit Rice and Fasting Pills, and magic tools and miscellaneous goods. The shop where Li Dixing currently was dealt in pills, carrying everything from Rank 1 Low-Grade Pills to Rank 1 High-Grade Pills.

These shops were the Li Family's main source of spirit stones.

Besides Li Dixing herself, the family had assigned three Late-Stage Qi Refining cultivators to guard this place, worried that trouble might break out in the Cultivator Market one day.

In the Cultivation World, unrest was nothing strange at all.

Less than ten days after the Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills were put on the shelves, many cultivators came to purchase them.

"The Li Family shop has just stocked Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills. Buy three, and one of them is guaranteed to be high-quality. Are you sure you don't want to take a look?"

"One high-quality pill for every three purchased? Wasn't it one for every five before?"

"Seems like the Li Family has produced another fairly talented alchemist."

"I remember the Li Family has two alchemists. Now there's another one—doesn't that make the Li Family the family with the most alchemists in all of Xiangshui Prefecture?"

"That's right. By the way, are you going to the Li Family shop?"

"Of course. I'm buying three Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills for my precious daughter."

"I know you have a good daughter. Stop bringing her up every day."

"Hahaha, I'm happy to."

In the Cultivator Market, the Li Family's business had been especially good these past few days. This was all thanks to the fine proportion of high-quality Qi Gathering Pills among this batch of Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.

This year, Li Qianqing not only refined Fasting Pills, but also Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.

In terms of family Contribution Points, he could earn an additional three thousand Contribution Points this year.

Among the family cultivators at Mid-Stage Qi Refining, he earned the most Contribution Points each year, followed by Li Qianyin.

Aside from possessing a Dual Spiritual Root, Li Qianyin had already gained the ability to refine most Low-Grade Magic Tools. With her decent talent for Artifact Refining, she was even more deserving of the Li Family's cultivation.

Late February.

Three days ago, Li Qianqing had just turned eighteen.

At dawn today, when the sky was only beginning to brighten, he completed his breakthrough from Qi Refining Fifth Layer to Qi Refining Sixth Layer.

By his reckoning, the time he had spent advancing from Qi Refining Fifth Layer to Qi Refining Sixth Layer had been even less than the time required to go from Qi Refining Fourth Layer to Qi Refining Fifth Layer.

The reason, naturally, had to do with the Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.

Because he had taken too many Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills, he had developed drug resistance to them.

This drug resistance only applied to Rank 1 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills. Though Rank 1 Mid-Grade Qi Gathering Pills were also called Qi Gathering Pills, the spiritual herbs used to refine the two were completely different.

"My divine sense's maximum range has already reached Seven Zhang. Once I break through to Late-Stage Qi Refining, the strength of my divine sense will surpass that of ordinary Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators. By then, Void God Needle will also have quite an effect against Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators."

As his realm improved, what Li Qianqing cared about most was still the changes in the strength of his divine sense.

Because he cultivated a Divine Sense Secret Technique, improvements in his divine sense had the greatest impact on his strength.

His cultivation of the Divine Sense Secret Technique Void God Needle had entered the Lesser Mastery Realm a year ago. Now that the strength of his divine sense had risen again, it had no small effect on the speed of his Void God Needle cultivation. According to his current cultivation plan, it would take no more than another five years for Void God Needle to reach the Greater Mastery Realm.

"When I went from Early-Stage Qi Refining into Mid-Stage Qi Refining, a small portion of the sealed cultivation techniques and secret arts in my Sea of Consciousness was unlocked. When I reach Late-Stage Qi Refining, another small portion should be unlocked as well."

From Qi Refining Fourth Layer to Qi Refining Sixth Layer, Li Qianqing had not experienced the changes he did when entering Mid-Stage Qi Refining from Early-Stage Qi Refining, just as had been the case from Qi Refining First Layer to Qi Refining Third Layer.

In his previous life, he had been able to cultivate to the Tribulation Transcendence stage because he had obtained many fortuitous opportunities. In this life, he had no interest in inheritances such as pure cultivation techniques and secret arts, because they were all currently sealed within his Sea of Consciousness. Once his strength reached a certain level, they would naturally be unlocked.

But resources such as treasures absolutely had to be taken wholesale. They could not only raise his strength, but also strengthen the family's power.

"Grand Ancestral Aunt seemed to have Passed Away in May of this year in my previous life." Li Qianqing recalled vaguely. In two months, he would need to keep a close watch on the situation.

His Grand Ancestral Aunt, Li Cunlan, was the youngest cultivator of the Cun Generation and was already one hundred and three years old.

Over the course of a cultivator's life, they went through battles great and small, and many cultivators were left with hidden injuries. Very few Qi Refining stage cultivators truly lived to one hundred and twenty.

Hidden injuries were extremely difficult to heal. Other than certain specific heavenly treasures, the only way to heal them was through a breakthrough in a major realm, raising one's level of life. After undergoing that cleansing, all previously sustained hidden injuries would disappear.

Li Cunlan clearly had no possibility of making another breakthrough.

For ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivators, their vitality and blood began to decline gradually after sixty, and their chances of breaking through the Physical Body Barrier in Foundation Establishment plummeted. After a hundred, even using a Foundation Establishment Pill could not carry them through the Physical Body Barrier. However, cultivators who also trained their bodies and reached the late stage in Body Refinement could delay the decline of vitality and blood that began at sixty by forty years.

Therefore, Li Qianqing currently had no way at all to change Li Cunlan's passing.