Qi Training Stage 5 (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

Qi Training Stage 5 (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

Ye Jingyong spoke with exceptional excitement, while Ye Jingyu wore a faint smile, creating two sharply contrasting scenes in the courtyard.

Hearing this, Ye Jingcheng felt somewhat dazed. He had not expected that not only was there no need to worry, but the family seemed to value him even more.

This somewhat confirmed his own speculation.

He estimated that if the Crimson Flame Fox performed even better next, he might learn more of the Ye Family's secrets!

At that thought, his curiosity deepened.

In the end, he kept refilling Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong's tea.

It seemed Ye Jingyu had noticed Ye Jingcheng's confusion.

Jingyu spoke up. "Jingcheng, focus on improving your cultivation, and properly raise your Spirit Beasts. With alchemy as well, your future will surely be limitless!"

"However, you must also understand that the family's finances have always been a major problem. You are now feeding two Monster Beasts, so for the most part, you can only rely on yourself!"

As Ye Jingyu spoke, he placed particular emphasis on the words "Spirit Beasts."

Hearing this, Ye Jingyong nodded and added:

"Jingcheng, once you break through to become a First-Order Grade-Middle Alchemist, together with the Crimson Flame Fox, it would be best for you to oversee the Ye Family's shop in Taihang Market. Hunting Monster Beasts in Mount Taihang Mountain Range is risky in the end!"

"Thank you for your advice, Fourth Brother, Second Brother. Jingcheng will consider it carefully!" Ye Jingcheng nodded.

That was what he had been thinking as well. Yet when it came to the family's finances, he found something strange. The Ye Family's methods of amassing wealth were no fewer than those of other families, yet every cultivator outside had the same impression: the Ye Family was poor!

A faint suspicion rose in his heart. Was the family so poor because it was raising high-order Spirit Beasts?

Once the thought appeared, it refused to leave his mind.

After all, the current Ye Family Head's Spirit Beast was a second-order Blue-Eyed Hanging-Eye Tiger. The spiritual food and Spirit Valley it consumed each day were astronomical in amount.

And that was only what Ye Jingcheng knew.

Still, what delighted him most now was that he could learn new pill formulas for free, without paying Contribution Points.

After all, the Contribution Points needed to learn a new pill formula were no small sum.

Only, the trial-and-error costs of refining a new pill formula would certainly not be small either.

In an instant, the hand clutching his Family Token no longer felt quite so burning hot.

After drinking some spiritual tea, Ye Jingyu and Ye Jingyong took their leave. Besides giving Ye Jingcheng Contribution Points, they still had to deliver Contribution Points to Jing Li.

Once the two had gone far away, Ye Jingcheng resumed his cultivation.

Having returned from Mount Taihang Mountain Range and finally seized this opportune moment, he naturally had to grasp it.

He took out a fist-sized pill bottle from his Storage Bag. Inside was a single pill.

The pill was called the Azure Spirit Pill. It was suitable for mid-stage Qi Training cultivators seeking to advance their cultivation. A single pill cost ten Spirit Stones, and ordinarily, he could not bear to use one.

Now that he had reached the critical point of a breakthrough, and using it would also help him control the heat and improve his alchemy, he naturally would not hesitate.

As the Azure Spirit Pill went down his throat, a surge of dense spiritual energy instantly appeared in his body and rushed toward his sea of qi.

Ye Jingcheng did not dare slacken in the slightest and hurriedly circulated the Li Fire Art.

As ripples spread in ring after ring, the room soon fell quiet.

Ye Jingcheng sank into cultivation. The Crimson Flame Fox lay curled at the doorway, while the Jade Ring Rat occasionally darted outside.

Cultivation knew no years. In the blink of an eye, ten days passed.

A red glow suddenly flared from Ye Jingcheng's body. The next moment, a faint ripple of spiritual energy rose and slowly spread outward! The Crimson Flame Fox, which had been lying nearby, sprang up and stared wide-eyed at him.

Ye Jingcheng opened his eyes as well, waking from cultivation.

"I've finally reached Qi Training Stage 5!" Thinking of how he had languished at Qi Training Stage 4 for four whole years, Ye Jingcheng could not help but sigh.

At the same time, joy welled up in his heart.

He picked up the Crimson Flame Fox and poured a great deal of spiritual radiance into it.

As the spiritual radiance entered its body, the Crimson Flame Fox's fur became increasingly fiery red. At that moment, Ye Jingcheng even had the illusion that its fur had come alive like flames.

The Crimson Flame Fox began chirping. Its large tail lightly patted Ye Jingcheng.

Its sky-blue pupils gazed at Ye Jingcheng, while its tongue moved unconsciously.

Hungry again! Ye Jingcheng took out some Azure Cloud Wolf meat and a large bowl of Spring Water.

Long-Eared Deer meat was rather expensive, so none of the four had kept any. What they had kept was only first-order Azure Cloud Wolf meat.

After feeding the Crimson Flame Fox until it was full, Ye Jingcheng tidied the room, making sure it remained spotless, fresh, and bright before leaving the courtyard.

He headed for the Treasure Pavilion.

The Ye Family's Treasure Pavilion had three floors in total. The first floor was for exchanging Spirit Stones and various spiritual materials, while the second floor was where the Ye Family kept its cultivation arts and secret manuals.

Ordinary Ye Family cultivators could enter the second floor of the Treasure Pavilion for free three times in their lives. The first was when they first came up the mountain to cultivate, to choose a cultivation art. The second was at Qi Training Stage 7, when they could choose to switch cultivation arts or obtain the latter half of their cultivation art. The third was after Foundation Establishment.

Of course, the privileges of those three visits differed, especially the first opportunity, which offered very few choices.

Other than those free opportunities, one had to spend Contribution Points to exchange for spells and pill formulas! Fireball Spell, Wood Vine Spell, and Quicksand Spell, for instance, were all basic spells, yet each still cost more than ten Contribution Points.

Ye Jingcheng passed through the winding stone steps, and the Treasure Pavilion appeared before him. Its doors stood open. At a glance, Ye Jingcheng saw Ye Haiping sorting through some things. He held a Jade Slip in his hand and seemed to be studying something.

Ye Jingcheng did not speak. He simply stood there quietly.

After several breaths, Ye Haiping finally noticed Ye Jingcheng.

"Jingcheng, why are you standing there? Come in!"

"Eighth Grandfather, I was worried about disturbing you while you were sorting through the materials." Ye Jingcheng replied.

"You're not disturbing me. You broke through?" Ye Haiping shook his head, then examined Ye Jingcheng from head to toe before asking in surprise.

"Yes. Your grandson is dull-witted and only managed to break through now. Please don't laugh at me, Eighth Grandfather!"

"What is there to laugh about? For someone with Four Spiritual Roots to reach Qi Training Stage 5 at your age is already no easy feat!" Ye Haiping interrupted.

"You're here to choose a pill formula, right?"

"Yes!" Ye Jingcheng nodded.

Ye Haiping nodded after hearing this. Without saying more, he led Ye Jingcheng upstairs to the second floor.

The rooms on the second floor were narrower than those on the first.

There were many bookshelves inside. Some held Ancient Books, while most held Jade Slips.

After passing two rows of shelves packed with Ancient Books and one row packed with Jade Slips, Ye Haiping finally stopped.

"Jingcheng, there are seven First-Order Grade-Middle pill formulas here in total. Choose freely!"

Ye Jingcheng nodded and looked over the Jade Slips. The very first one was the Azure Spirit Pill formula, the very pill he had taken.

There were also the Body Tempering Pill, Azure Origin Pill, Qi Blood Pill, and more...

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng hesitated. Naturally, he wanted the Azure Spirit Pill, for it was considered the most valuable. A single pill could sell for ten Spirit Stones. If one batch yielded three or four pills, the profits would be easy to imagine.

But the Azure Spirit Pill was also the most difficult to refine.

As for raising Spirit Beasts, the Spirit Feeding Pill was similar to a pill that promoted cultivation and qi-blood growth. Its strength lay in balance, but if one truly wanted to raise a Spirit Beast's strength, the Body Tempering Pill was indispensable as well.

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