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 swearing the Sect Oath.

Xuantian Sect truly deserved to be called a hegemon-level force. Even after lowering the assessment difficulty, nearly ten percent of the people in the Reception Courtyard had still been 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 lowered its standards for evaluating personal character. Better none than mediocre—Xuantian Sect 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 ago, failed an assessment within an Illusion Array and lost his chance to enter Xuantian Sect.

In a word, Xuantian Sect did not lack disciples!

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

At most, an elder-level figure had appeared during the Sect Oath.

This showed that Xuantian Sect did not place much importance on these 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. Mo Tian brought him to Xuantian Sect's Labor Courtyard to cultivate, and he needed 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 Mission at all. Xuantian Sect would provide sufficient cultivation resources for his cultivation.

Everyone in the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard was basically the same.

It was simply that those willing to become Blessed Cultivators generally had very poor talent, mostly possessing Single Element Spiritual Roots or Dual Element Spiritual Roots.

Those with even slightly better talent, those who had a sliver of future prospects, basically would not choose to become Blessed Cultivators.

Thus, despite not needing to undertake Sect Missions and having sufficient resources provided by the sect, the people of the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard still cultivated at an extremely slow pace.

After all this winding and turning, 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 dedicated 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 Earth Source Art's exact tier; for now, he had only obtained its first four layers.

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

After receiving the Earth Source Art, Ye Qingxuan impatiently entered his Exclusive Courtyard. After activating the formation that came with it, he began the first cultivation experience of his life.

For one's first cultivation, one needed 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.

In a meditative state, time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, an entire day had gone by.

Until deep night, when Ye Qingxuan woke from hunger, he still had not sensed Spiritual Energy or stepped into the Qi Refining Realm.

Yet Ye Qingxuan was not discouraged. Rather than hurriedly 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 own courtyard and eating his fill, Ye Qingxuan chose to sleep deeply, restoring the mental energy he had expended that day.

This continued for two days.

By the third day, thanks to Xuantian Sect's Spiritual Energy-rich environment and Ye Qingxuan's soul, which differed from that of an ordinary person,

Ye Qingxuan successfully sensed Spiritual Energy on the evening of the third day. He smoothly guided Qi into his body, refined the Spiritual Energy, 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 the Qi Refining Realm, since he was in an unfamiliar environment, Ye Qingxuan did not report it immediately out of caution.

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

Thus, after breaking through to Qi Refining Layer One, Ye Qingxuan chose to conceal 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 deep cultivation within his courtyard, 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 automatically absorbed each day was basically enough to supply the energy his body consumed.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan concealed his progress while beginning to keep a low profile and consolidating his Qi Refining Layer One cultivation. At the same time, he secretly watched the cultivation progress of the others from the same batch.

During this time, Ye Qingxuan tried refining 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 could not run away from his mind anyway; sooner or later, it would be his to use.

After consolidating his post-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 claimed it as his master and opened the Storage Ring.

There was an eight-cubic-meter space inside the Storage Ring. It contained many Spirit Herb Seeds the Patriarch had prepared for him, a pile of Jade Slip Books, and thirty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

His heart stirred. He took out a Spirit Stone, then put it back inside, finding it incredibly wondrous.

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

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

Finding the purple pouch Ye Yonglun had given him among his belongings, Ye Qingxuan likewise refined it with Spiritual Power and discovered that it was a one-cubic-meter Storage Bag.

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, then picked up a Qi Gathering Pill and examined 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 Power, accelerating a cultivator's Cultivation Speed.

Driven by curiosity, Ye Qingxuan intended to experience how it felt to use 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 in drawing in Spiritual Energy increased by roughly thirty percent.

A trace of joy arose in Ye Qingxuan's heart. He immediately seized the time to cultivate, accelerating his refinement of Spiritual Energy.

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

But Ye Qingxuan soon discovered a problem.

His speed in 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, a cultivator needed to use his Spirit Root to refine it and transform it into his own Spiritual Power.

Although taking the Qi Gathering Pill increased the speed at which he drew in Spiritual Energy and brought more Spiritual Energy into his body, the increase in transformation efficiency was negligible.

At most, the concentration of Spiritual Energy in his body had increased, passively raising the transformation efficiency by a tiny amount.

Noticing this change, Ye Qingxuan wore a bitter smile and said:

"Sure enough, even with such a superior Cultivation Environment as Xuantian Sect and the effects of medicinal pills, the increase in cultivation speed for a Single Element Spiritual Root is still limited. In the end, my cultivation 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 due to the innate limitation of Ye Qingxuan's Single Element Spiritual Root in transforming Spiritual Energy.

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! The days ahead are long, and besides, I refuse to believe Xuantian Sect has no way to solve this problem!"

Ye Qingxuan thought in his heart.

With Xuantian Sect at his back, perhaps he could find solutions to many problems within Xuantian Sect. That was the confidence of having a hegemon-level force behind him, and one of the reasons he had chosen to enter Xuantian Sect.