Earth Source Art

Three days later!

After passing layer upon layer of inspections and assessments, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao finally successfully entered Xuantian Sect after taking the Sect Oath.

Xuantian Sect truly lived up to its name as a Hegemon-level Force. Even after lowering the difficulty of the assessments, nearly one-tenth of the people in the Reception Courtyard were eliminated.

The annual entrance assessment was not particularly difficult, and the requirements for Cultivation Talent, perseverance, and other aspects had been lowered.

However, Xuantian Sect had not relaxed its assessment of personal character. Better None Than Mediocre—they would not let one rat dropping spoil an entire pot of porridge.

Among them, Long Tian, who had clashed with Ye Qingxuan a few days earlier, failed an assessment within an Illusion Array and was unable to enter Xuantian Sect.

In short, Xuantian Sect did not lack disciples!

Since this was merely an annual Entrance Ceremony, Xuantian Sect's high-level figures did not appear.

At most, an Elder-level figure appeared during the Sect Oath ceremony.

This showed that Xuantian Sect did not place much importance on the disciples recruited each year. Most of their talents did not meet the standards for those high-level figures to take them as disciples.

Not long after Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao entered Xuantian Sect, Mo Tian found them. Under Mo Tian's arrangements, the two were quickly separated.

Ye Qingxiao became a Servant Disciple of Xuantian Sect. Mo Tian brought him to the Labor Courtyard to cultivate, where he would also need to complete Xuantian Sect's menial tasks every day.

As for Ye Qingxuan, because he was a Blessed Cultivator Reserve Disciple, he was brought to the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard, a complex at the foot of Xuantian Peak.

As a Blessed Cultivator Reserve of Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan did not need to perform any Sect Missions at all. Xuantian Sect would provide him with sufficient Cultivation Resources for cultivation.

Everyone in the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard was basically the same.

However, those willing to Become A Blessed Cultivator generally had very poor talent, usually possessing one- or two-element Spirit Roots.

Those with even a little talent and a glimmer of prospects generally would not choose to Become A Blessed Cultivator.

Thus, despite not needing to perform Sect Missions and having the sect provide ample resources for cultivation, the people in the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard still cultivated very slowly.

After all the twists and turns, Ye Qingxuan had finally settled down in Xuantian Sect.

After entering the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard, Ye Qingxuan soon received the first Cultivation Method of his life—the Earth Source Art!

The Earth Source Art was also the specialized Cultivation Method of all Blessed Cultivator Reserve Disciples. Every Blessed Cultivator Disciple cultivated the Earth Source Art!

Cultivation Methods were divided into Tier One to Nine. Ye Qingxuan did not know the exact tier of the Earth Source Art, and for now, he had only received its first four layers.

The first four layers of the Earth Source Art were enough for Ye Qingxuan to cultivate all the way to the Golden Core Realm, making it equivalent to a Tier Four Cultivation Method.

After obtaining the Earth Source Art, Ye Qingxuan eagerly entered his Exclusive Courtyard. After activating the Formation that came with it, he began his First Cultivation Experience.

For one's first cultivation, one had to sense the Spiritual Energy between Heaven and Earth, guide it into the body, and refine it into one's own Spiritual Power before truly stepping into the Qi Refining Realm!

Ye Qingxuan sat cross-legged, suppressing the excitement in his heart. He emptied his mind and focused on sensing the Spiritual Energy between Heaven and Earth.

Time passed swiftly in meditation, and in the blink of an eye, an entire day had passed.

When Ye Qingxuan woke from hunger in the Deep Night, he still had not sensed Spiritual Energy or stepped into the Qi Refining Realm.

But Ye Qingxuan was not Discouraged. Rather than hastily continuing his cultivation, he left the courtyard and went to the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard's supply point to Collect Enough Food.

After returning to his Exclusive Courtyard and eating his fill, Ye Qingxuan chose to sleep deeply and recover the mental energy he had expended that day.

This continued for two days.

On the Third Day, thanks to the dense Spiritual Energy within Xuantian Sect and Ye Qingxuan's soul, which was different from that of an Ordinary Person, Ye Qingxuan successfully sensed Spiritual Energy by evening.

He smoothly guided the Spiritual Energy into his body, refined it, and transformed it into his first wisp of Spiritual Power, officially stepping into Qi Refining Layer One.

Ye Qingxuan became the first among those who had entered the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard in the same batch as him to break through the Qi Refining Realm.

After Breaking Through Qi Refining Realm, because he was In an Unfamiliar Environment, Ye Qingxuan, Out of Caution, did not report it at the First Time.

His talent was not the highest among those in his batch. Breaking through so quickly would not be reasonable.

Therefore, after breaking through to Qi Refining Layer One, Ye Qingxuan chose to hide it and had no intention of reporting it to show off.

After all, there was No Reward for being the first to break through. There was no need to report it so quickly.

In any case, he had always been in his courtyard in Deep Cultivation, so no one would pay attention to him.

After Breaking Through Qi Refining Realm, Mortal Food was no longer useful to him. The Spiritual Energy his body naturally absorbed each day was basically enough to provide the energy it consumed.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan concealed his progress while beginning to live in seclusion, consolidating his Qi Refining Layer One cultivation. At the same time, he secretly kept track of the cultivation progress of the others from his batch.

During this period, Ye Qingxuan tried to refine the Mysterious Bead in his mind, but it had no effect at all.

This disappointed Ye Qingxuan, but he did not feel Discouraged. The bead was in his mind and could not run away; Sooner or Later, it would be of use to him.

After consolidating his breakthrough cultivation, Ye Qingxuan took out the Storage Ring Patriarch Ye Yuhong had given him. Using his meager Spiritual Power to refine it, he successfully bound it to himself and opened the Storage Ring.

The Storage Ring contained a space eight cubic meters in size. Inside were many Spirit Herb Seeds prepared by the Patriarch, a pile of Jade Slip Books, and thirty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

With a Heart Stirred, he took out a Spirit Stone, then put it back inside. The sensation felt incredibly marvelous.

"Right, I seem to have ten Qi Gathering Pills and three hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones too!"

At that moment, Ye Qingxuan recalled the reward Ye Yonglun had given him for taking first place in the family assessment.

He found the purple pouch Ye Yonglun had given him among his belongings. After refining it with Spiritual Power as well, Ye Qingxuan discovered that it was a Storage Bag with a space of one cubic meter.

He took out the Qi Gathering Pills and three hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones from the Storage Bag, stored the Spirit Stones in the Storage Ring, and picked up a Qi Gathering Pill to inspect it.

Medicinal Pills were divided into Tier One to Nine!

Qi Gathering Pills were Tier One Pills. They could increase the speed at which Qi Refining Realm Cultivators drew in Spiritual Energy, accelerating a cultivator's Cultivation Speed.

Driven by curiosity, Ye Qingxuan intended to try the feeling of using a Qi Gathering Pill to Assist Cultivation.

Thus, he took out a Qi Gathering Pill, placed it in his mouth, swallowed it, and entered a cultivation state.

Sure enough, with the Qi Gathering Pill's assistance, Ye Qingxuan's speed of drawing in Spiritual Energy increased by around thirty percent.

Ye Qingxuan was quietly delighted and immediately Seized the Time to cultivate, accelerating his refinement of Spiritual Energy.

A First-order Qi Gathering Pill could maintain its effect for two hours!

However, Ye Qingxuan soon discovered a problem.

His speed of drawing in Spiritual Energy had indeed increased, but his efficiency in transforming Spiritual Energy had not improved by much.

After Spiritual Energy entered the body, cultivators needed to use their Spirit Roots to refine it and transform it into their own Spiritual Power.

After taking the Qi Gathering Pill, although his speed of drawing in Spiritual Energy had increased and more Spiritual Energy had entered his body, the increase in conversion efficiency was negligible.

At most, the concentration of Spiritual Energy within his body had increased, passively raising the conversion efficiency by a little.

Noticing this change, Ye Qingxuan said with a Bitter Smile, "Sure enough, even with a cultivation environment as superior as Xuantian Sect's and the effects of medicinal pills, the improvement to a Single Element Spiritual Root's Cultivation Speed remains limited. In the end, my talent is simply too low!"

Spirit Veins were everywhere within Xuantian Sect, and High-grade Spirit Veins were too numerous to count. The concentration of Spiritual Energy inside was at least hundreds of times greater than in the Outside World.

Yet Ye Qingxuan's Cultivation Speed in Xuantian Sect would not be hundreds of times faster than it was in the Outside World.

All of this was because of the innate limitation of a Single Element Spiritual Root's Spiritual Energy conversion efficiency.

Within Xuantian Sect, without any medicinal pill assistance, Ye Qingxuan's Cultivation Speed would at most be three or four times faster than in the Outside World due to the concentration of Spiritual Energy.

"Slow is slow! There is plenty of time ahead, and besides, I refuse to believe that Xuantian Sect has no way to solve this problem!"

Ye Qingxuan thought to himself.

With Xuantian Sect at his back, perhaps he could find solutions to many problems within the sect. That was the confidence that came from relying on a Hegemon-level Force, and one of the reasons he had chosen to enter Xuantian Sect.