Mid Qi Refining Stage

Spring gave way to autumn, and in the blink of an eye, another year had passed!

Ye Qingxuan, who was seated in meditation cultivation within the small courtyard, slowly exhaled a stream of white mist.

He took out his vibrating disciple token and infused it with spiritual power. A voice entered Ye Qingxuan's mind:

"Junior Brother Ye, I've broken through to Qi Refining Perfection and have already left the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard to choose a Blessed Land and become a Blessed Cultivator. You need to work hard too! Don't let me down!"

Hearing that voice, Ye Qingxuan was taken aback. Once he reacted, he slowly said:

"Senior Brother Su Daobin? Time really flies! In the blink of an eye, another year has passed!"

After thinking for a moment, Ye Qingxuan sent Su Daobin a reply as well:

"Junior Brother Ye Qingxuan wishes Senior Brother an Immortal Path Evergreen!"

Then, putting away his disciple token, Ye Qingxuan began taking stock of his gains over the past year.

Over the past year, with the assistance of a large number of Spirit Augmentation Pills in cultivation, his cultivation speed had not slowed but quickened. In just one year, he had broken through the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining and entered the Mid Qi Refining Stage.

Over the course of the year, Ye Qingxuan had not only made a breakthrough in cultivation; his alchemy skill had also advanced by long strides.

By now, he could steadily control the pill yield of a furnace of Spirit Augmentation Pills to between eight and nine pills!

The reason each furnace of Spirit Augmentation Pills had failed to reach ten pills was not because Ye Qingxuan had encountered a bottleneck, but because of the alchemy furnace limitation.

The higher a medicinal pill's grade, the more enormous the energy it required, and the harsher the corresponding refinement requirements became.

High-grade pills not only demanded an extremely high alchemy furnace grade, but their pill yield was often exceedingly low.

Why was that?

Because the higher a medicinal pill's grade, the more spiritual energy had to be infused into it when the pill formed.

Even high-grade alchemists, in order to ensure pill refinement success, had no choice but to reduce the pill yield in exchange for a higher pill success rate.

By the eighth and ninth tier of medicinal pills, a furnace of pills could, in most cases, produce only a single pill.

Although the Spirit Augmentation Pills Ye Qingxuan refined were merely Tier One Peak Pills, his alchemy furnace was only at the mid-grade artifact level, and the spiritual energy it could gather during pill formation was limited.

Thus, when he refined Spirit Augmentation Pills, he could only control a furnace's pill yield at eight or nine pills!

But even so, it could still be called an enormous profit for Ye Qingxuan.

A batch of Spirit Augmentation Pill's spirit medicine sold for ten low-grade spirit stones at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, while the Hundred Treasures Pavilion bought back a single Spirit Augmentation Pill for nine low-grade spirit stones.

From one batch of spirit medicine, Ye Qingxuan could refine eight to nine Spirit Augmentation Pills, bringing the profit to seven or eight times the cost!

Of course, if he set up a stall and sold them himself, the profit would be a little higher, but it would waste a great deal of time. For Ye Qingxuan, that was somewhat not worth the loss.

Over the past year, after deducting his own cultivation consumption, Ye Qingxuan had accumulated 2,365 Spirit Augmentation Pills.

He had used 389 batches of Spirit Augmentation Pill's spirit medicine, and currently had 2,911 batches remaining.

Aside from when he had first begun refining Spirit Augmentation Pills, when Ye Qingxuan needed to consume several batches of spirit medicine every day for practice, once he had truly mastered their refinement, he only needed to use one batch of Spirit Augmentation Pill's spirit medicine per day.

The remaining spirit medicine was enough for Ye Qingxuan to refine pills for nearly eight years!

But he did not intend to remain in closed-door cultivation for another eight years. Instead, he planned to go out.

Before leaving, Ye Qingxuan thought for a moment and sent a message to Senior Sister Hong Miaomiao, whom he had met previously at the marketplace:

"Senior Sister Hong, do you buy Spirit Augmentation Pills?"

Just as he was about to put away his disciple token, he did not expect Hong Miaomiao on the other side to have already replied:

"Yes! Yes! Yes! How many Spirit Augmentation Pills does Junior Brother have? Senior Sister will take them all!"

"Not many. Let's meet near our previous stall!"

"Alright, Junior Brother!"

After arranging things with Hong Miaomiao, Ye Qingxuan sent another message to Bai Wenyang, a senior brother at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion:

"Senior Brother Bai, my Spirit Augmentation Pills have been successfully refined. I'll come find you at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion shortly!"

With his Qi Refining Realm cultivation, the number of Spirit Augmentation Pills he had refined was simply far too great, far too abnormal.

To avoid drawing attention, Ye Qingxuan decided to sell the Spirit Augmentation Pills in batches, reducing the risk of exposing himself.

Since he had chosen to become a Blessed Cultivator, he should honestly stay hidden and develop in secret. He should avoid attracting the outside world's attention as much as possible and reduce the risk of exposing his uniqueness.

This was the path Ye Qingxuan had already planned when he entered the Xuantian Sect.

Wanted to show off? He could wait until he found a method to differentiate a clone or refine a puppet, then create an alternate identity unrelated to his main body!

In any case, his main body absolutely could not go wild!

How safe was it to honestly live in seclusion behind the scenes and cultivate within the Xuantian Sect? If he went out to fool around, one careless moment could see him battered to death by the waves.

After his daily self-reflection once again strengthened his Dao heart!

Ye Qingxuan put away his disciple token, summoned his flying sword, and flew towards the teleportation array near the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard.

As he passed a mountain peak, Ye Qingxuan could not help casually casting a Spring Wind and Rain Art!

After Ye Qingxuan left, spirit clouds began gathering above that mountain peak, and spirit rain that nourished all things slowly began to fall.

As time passed, the spirit rain fell ever more heavily, continuing for a full hour.

This spirit rain greatly increased the spiritual essence of the vegetation on the mountain below. A few mortal plants on the verge of breakthrough even underwent transformations and evolved into spirit plants.

After a year, Ye Qingxuan's Spring Wind and Rain Art had long since reached perfection, which was why it produced such an effect.

Ye Qingxuan had never forgotten his path. The Blessed Land he would control after becoming a Blessed Cultivator was his true foundation.

Before then, aside from striving to improve his cultivation, the most important thing was to pave the way for the future development of his Blessed Land.

Now that he had entered the Pill Dao and mastered the changes of alchemy, Ye Qingxuan had become a true alchemist!

But that was still not enough. Becoming an alchemist could only guarantee Ye Qingxuan's cultivation resources after becoming a Blessed Cultivator; it had little direct impact on a Blessed Land.

To accelerate a Blessed Land's promotion speed, cultivating all kinds of spirit plants was indispensable.

And the Spring Wind and Rain Art was one of the methods he would use in the future to assist the growth of spirit plants.

But that still was not enough. He knew far too little about the various spirit plants, especially their growth environments and their assistance effects on a Blessed Land's advancement. He knew almost nothing!

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan's main purpose in going out this time was to seek knowledge related to spirit plants and Blessed Lands, to study it and prepare for the future development of his Blessed Land.

Handling the Spirit Augmentation Pills he had accumulated came second.

Inside the Xuantian Sect's marketplace, within the Hundred Treasures Pavilion!

After Bai Wenyang finished serving a customer, he finally took out the faintly vibrating disciple token from his arms.

His spiritual sense entered it, and he saw the message Ye Qingxuan had sent. Somewhat astonished, he said:

"He refined them successfully already? Those are Tier One Peak Pills?"

"It seems this Junior Brother Ye of mine has decent alchemy talent. At the Early Qi Refining stage, he refined Spirit Augmentation Pills in only one short year?"

However, he was only mildly interested in Ye Qingxuan's alchemy talent. As for the number of Spirit Augmentation Pills in Ye Qingxuan's hands, he did not care much!

For an Early Qi Refining cultivator who had only just begun learning to refine Spirit Augmentation Pills, after accounting for the time spent exploring and the failures over a year, the most he could refine would be around a hundred pills.

If that small amount of medicinal pills could satisfy his daily cultivation requirements, it would already be quite good.

He reckoned that this Junior Brother Ye of his merely wanted to sell some pills and recover a little spirit stone.