Now that they had benefited from consuming qi, they no longer doubted its value. Besides, earning it through their own hard work still brought a greater sense of accomplishment than simply being handed it.
Ye Chen's gains were even more impressive. Just as the large-scale qi surge was about to end, he encountered someone who had suffered severe injuries. Although Ye Chen's attempted ambush failed, he ultimately dragged the other party to death and obtained the spoils of an Emperor Realm cultivator with a Human Flower.
That person's temporal soul pearl was not of particularly high quality, but killing an Emperor Realm cultivator for the first time—even if it was because the other party had been in poor condition—still had Ye Chen's blood boiling to this day...
In the 1,638,238th year, your eighty-ninth year after entering the Temporal Ancestral Land. Three years had passed since the large-scale qi surge. You had consumed all three portions of orange qi you obtained, and your strength had improved somewhat.
Another small surprise came from either reaching a certain stage in consuming qi or refining too many temporal soul pearls. You discovered that the speed at which you refined temporal soul pearls had also increased considerably. This was still very important to you, because you had obtained quite a number of temporal soul pearls this time. Refining them all would otherwise consume a great deal of your time.
Had it not been for this unexpected delight, you could only have selected a few high-quality temporal soul pearls to refine, leaving all the rest to Ye Chen and the other two.
Though that would not exactly have been a waste, your goal was ultimately a seventh-grade reward. This would undoubtedly make your burden heavier later on. After all, no one could say how many people