Deep Cultivation

After returning to the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard!

Ye Qingxuan began another round of deep cultivation.

Following his own cultivation rhythm, Ye Qingxuan resumed his reclusive lifestyle, enjoying the pleasure of his cultivation slowly growing.

Every day, he was either refining pills or meditating in cultivation, practicing alone in his small courtyard with no mind for the turmoil of the outside world!

Only Ye Qingxiao, after gaining a sufficient resource supply, had become much more idle and often came over to sponge off him.

However, Ye Qingxiao had now successfully reached Foundation Establishment and had long been unable to resist wandering out of the sect a few years ago.

Occasionally, Ye Qingxuan would also visit the Library Pavilion to make copies of a large batch of books, reading them in his leisure time to broaden his horizons and build up his knowledge.

These books covered nearly all aspects of the Dihuan Realm!

From terrain appearance, wondrous scenery, and local customs to introductions of various powers and descriptions of major cultivation danger zones, they had almost everything one could need.

Perhaps he had no use for these things now, but there would always come a day when they would prove useful.

Every day, Ye Qingxuan gained something. Though each gain was small, gathering sand into a pagoda would eventually build something great.

Ye Qingxuan became so immersed in this seemingly slow yet orderly cultivation that he could not pull himself free, overlooking the passage of time.

Days passed after days, years after years, and before long, ten years had gone by.

Over those ten years, Ye Qingxiao's cultivation had long since broken through Foundation Establishment, leaving Ye Qingxuan far behind.

Yet Ye Qingxuan did not grow anxious because of this, continuing to maintain his cultivation rhythm day after day.

Over those ten years, his cultivation had also broken through the Qi Refining Realm Seventh Layer, smoothly reaching the Qi Refining Realm Late Stage. Qi Refining Perfection was no longer far away.

During ten years of deep cultivation, Ye Qingxuan refined every Tier One Pill recipe he possessed.

Relying on his exceptional pill success rate, Ye Qingxuan earned nearly Thirty Thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones each year.

The pills he refined were basically all sold through Bai Wenyang and Hong Miaomiao.

After ten years, Hong Miaomiao and her Dao Companion, Bai Qingyun, had both broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm. Bai Wenyang had even broken through Foundation Establishment and advanced to the Purple Mansion Realm, becoming an Inner Sect Disciple of the Xuantian Sect.

The few friends Ye Qingxuan had gotten acquainted with in the sect were gradually pulling farther and farther ahead of him in cultivation.

Yet Ye Qingxuan's friendship with them had not grown distant because of this. Although he met with them rarely, their relationship remained within the bounds of a gentleman's friendship.

Even Su Daobin, whom he had met only once and who had now contracted a spirit land to become a Lord of Blessed Land, would occasionally contact him through messages to ease the misery of being trapped in one place.

As for Ye Qingxuan himself, besides refining pills and cultivating in seclusion, he was also preparing for the Blessed Land he would contract before long.

Ye Qingxuan earned roughly Twenty to Thirty Thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones each year, yet he did not keep many Spirit Stones in his pockets.

Ye Qingxuan had Bai Wenyang use most of those Spirit Stones to purchase the seeds of various spirit plants, including Spirit Purifying Tree seeds!

The spirit herb seeds the Ye Family had given him were still too few and too limited in variety.

After all, the Ye Family was merely a Golden Core Family. How could it compare to the abundant resources within the Xuantian Sect?

Over those ten years, Ye Qingxuan mastered the methods for refining nearly every Tier One Pill available on the market.

Afterward, he also attempted to refine Tier Two Pills.

For this, he spent Three Thousand One Hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to buy an alchemy furnace of Top-grade Artifact Level.

Unfortunately, his cultivation was ultimately insufficient. The spiritual power within Ye Qingxuan's body could not sustain him to the end, causing all his efforts to fall short at the final step. He was never able to successfully refine a Tier Two Pill.

In the third year of his deep cultivation, Ye Qingxuan's resistance to Spirit Augmentation Pills finally began to show, causing their effects to grow worse and worse.

Left with no choice, Ye Qingxuan could only go to the Law Transmission Hall and obtain a Beginner Spell—the Spirit Washing Art. He relied on the Spirit Washing Art to slowly remove the lingering Spirit Augmentation Pill toxin from his body.

After obtaining the Spirit Washing Art, Ye Qingxuan focused on cultivating it. With his exceptional comprehension, he cultivated the Spirit Washing Art to the Perfection Realm in just ten days.

Relying on the Spirit Washing Art at the Perfected Realm, Ye Qingxuan spent only one month completely removing the Spirit Augmentation Pill toxin from his body, restoring the pill's effects on him.

Over ten years, Ye Qingxuan obtained Three Thousand Six Hundred Contribution Points through his welfare stipend. Coupled with the Contribution Points he had accumulated during the more than a year before his deep cultivation, he had just over Four Thousand Contribution Points in total.

Besides spending One Thousand Contribution Points to exchange for the Spirit Washing Art, Ye Qingxuan also exchanged for three other Beginner Spells.

They were the Revival Art, Sword Escape Technique, and Spirit Gathering Art!

Of these,

The Revival Art could treat spirit plants on a small scale and promote the growth of spirit plants within a small range. Ye Qingxuan had prepared it for cultivating spirit plants in his Blessed Land in the future.

The Spirit Gathering Art could attract and gather the surrounding spiritual energy for a short time.

Originally, Ye Qingxuan had intended to exchange for a formation inheritance, study formations as a secondary discipline, and use formations in place of the Spirit Gathering Art.

But the formation inheritance required too many Contribution Points, so he could only give up on it for now.

Had he known, he would have been a little thicker-skinned when asking his lineage for support back then. Whether he asked for more or less, was he not asking all the same?

As for the Sword Escape Technique, Ye Qingxuan had prepared it for returning to the Ye Family.

Before reaching Qi Refining Perfection and contracting a spirit land, Ye Qingxuan intended to go home and see his parents.

On the road from the Xuantian Sect to the Ye Family, he could almost travel the entire way directly by teleportation array.

Coupled with the fact that he would be within Xuantian Sect territory, as a Xuantian Sect Disciple, he presumably would not encounter any danger.

But out of caution, he still chose this Sword Escape Technique just in case.

The Sword Escape Technique could attack or flee. The speed it unleashed in a short time was several times faster than ordinary Sword Riding Technique, and its amplification effect varied according to its realm.

Over those ten years, he had already cultivated all four Beginner Spells to the Perfection Realm.

A Perfection Level Sword Escape Technique was, in a short time, four times faster than a beginner-level Sword Riding Technique among cultivators of the same realm, and one time faster than a Perfection Level Sword Riding Technique.

Although leaving the Xuantian Sect was somewhat risky, his parents were a part of him that he could not sever. Before he Formally Became A Blessed Cultivator, he could not rest easy without personally returning to see them.

After breaking through to the Late Qi Refining Stage, relying on the Xuantian Sect's environment and abundant cultivation resources, Ye Qingxuan estimated that he would Only Need Seven Years more to reach the perfected Qi Refining Realm Ninth Layer.

When the time came, it would be the time for him to choose a Spirit Land Contract and Become A Blessed Cultivator.

Ye Qingxuan had already prepared himself for the worst.

If, when the time came, he could not rely on his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle, and the Mysterious Bead in his mind to break the deadlock, then the only one he could rely on would be himself.

Even relying only on himself, Ye Qingxuan remained confident that, with his astonishing comprehension and years of planning, he could slowly develop his Blessed Land.

It was simply that, in that case, the future path would become far more difficult. The limitations of being a lone Blessed Cultivator were truly too great.

If he could successfully use the Eternal Turtle to contract the Blessed Land and have it bear all the Blessed Land's restrictions on his behalf, there could be nothing better.

Besides that, Ye Qingxuan also held great expectations for the bead that had crossed over with him into his mind. His expectations for it were even greater than those for his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle.

After all, the unknown also represented hope for breaking the deadlock!

Ye Qingxuan had already done his utmost to make every preparation he could.

As for what lay on the future path, it would depend on the moment he Formally Became A Blessed Cultivator!