Lin Fan

Inside the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard!

Ye Qingxuan finished his daily cultivation for the day and prepared to head to the marketplace to deal with the pills he had refined over nearly a year.

After lifting the restriction formation around his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan stepped outside and directly took off on his sword, leaving the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard.

Not long after Ye Qingxuan left, a refined and gentle young man in a blue robe arrived outside his courtyard and stood there quietly, waiting.

However, Ye Qingxuan knew nothing of this.

After leaving the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard, he followed the familiar route on sword flight to a teleportation array, taking it to the marketplace within the Xuantian Sect Interior.

This time, Ye Qingxuan did not seek out Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, since the young couple had gone out together to carry out some Sect Mission.

Thus, Ye Qingxuan did not waste time on the way and headed straight for the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

After arriving at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan made his way into a private room.

Pushing open the door, Ye Qingxuan saw Bai Wenyang lying in a reclining chair, leisurely sipping tea.

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan joked:

"Senior Brother, the benefits and treatment of your team leader position seem pretty good, huh? Hahaha!"

Not long after Bai Wenyang advanced to the Purple Mansion Realm, he passed the Hundred Treasures Pavilion's performance appraisal and smoothly rose to the position of team leader. His benefits and treatment rose by a level as well.

"Hahaha, not at all, not at all! Junior Brother, please sit!"

Seeing Ye Qingxuan arrive, Bai Wenyang rose to his feet and laughingly pulled him over to sit down.

After pouring a cup of tea for Ye Qingxuan, Bai Wenyang said with a light laugh:

"Junior Brother, your steadfastness in cultivation over these years has truly earned my admiration!"

Having known each other for many years, Bai Wenyang already understood the habits of the junior brother before him.

Every day, almost without fail, Ye Qingxuan cultivated and refined pills, day after day, never stopping!

Bai Wenyang deeply felt that he himself fell far short of such persistence and such a temperament capable of enduring loneliness!

Therefore, Bai Wenyang still thought highly of this junior brother of his, whose talent was poor.

Ye Qingxuan paid no attention to Bai Wenyang's words. He took out a storage bag from his robes that had not been refined to acknowledge an owner and tossed it directly to Bai Wenyang.

"Here, these are this batch of pills."

Bai Wenyang took the storage bag without much concern. But when he swept it with his spiritual sense, he immediately cried out:

"Wocao, this many?"

Then Bai Wenyang stared at Ye Qingxuan with disbelief in his eyes and hesitantly asked:

"Were all these pills refined by you over the past year, Junior Brother?"

The corner of Ye Qingxuan's mouth lifted slightly. He nodded and said:

"I've been getting the hang of it recently, so I just refined a little more along the way."

He was not lying. Ever since breaking through to the Late Qi Refining Stage, coupled with changing to an alchemy furnace at the Top-grade Artifact Level, his speed in refining Spirit Augmentation Pills had indeed increased greatly. Moreover, the number of pills produced per batch had basically stabilized at ten.

Thus, in the following years, the number of Spirit Augmentation Pills Ye Qingxuan refined each year had basically exceeded three thousand.

But upon hearing this, Bai Wenyang directly rolled his eyes and said disbelievingly:

"You call this a little more? This directly doubled, all right?"

In a typical year, Ye Qingxuan would give him only a little over one thousand Spirit Augmentation Pills. Yet this time, there were a full three thousand four hundred Spirit Augmentation Pills in the storage bag.

What he did not know was that this included the portion of pills originally belonging to Hong Miaomiao, which was why there were so many this time.

However, these pills had indeed all been refined by Ye Qingxuan himself within a single year.

Seeing that Bai Wenyang did not believe him, Ye Qingxuan said nothing. He suppressed the smugness on his face and pretended to calmly sip his tea.

Helpless, Bai Wenyang could only probe again:

"Did you really refine them all by yourself?"

"Yes!"

Ye Qingxuan had no intention of hiding it. In any case, bound by the Dao oath restraint, Bai Wenyang could not reveal any information related to the pills.

Besides, this feeling seemed rather nice.

He would take it as a little seasoning in the course of cultivation!

Ye Qingxuan felt great, but Bai Wenyang felt miserable. The alchemy talent of the junior brother before him was simply beyond his imagination.

Such alchemy talent was absolutely at the level of a prodigy, yet Bai Wenyang could not tell anyone about it. He could only bottle it up inside, feeling utterly stifled.

Especially when he saw Ye Qingxuan putting on that calm act, Bai Wenyang's anger surged up. He directly took out a storage bag and tossed it to Ye Qingxuan.

"Go, go, go! The sight of you is irritating me now."

Out of sight, out of mind. Bai Wenyang did not want to see Ye Qingxuan in the slightest right now.

Ye Qingxuan caught the storage bag, deliberately weighed the spirit stones inside before Bai Wenyang, and said with a light laugh:

"Then this junior brother will take his leave first. Hahaha!"

With that, he turned and left in a dashing manner.

After Ye Qingxuan left, Bai Wenyang sat quietly in the private room for a while before suddenly sighing and shaking his head regretfully.

"Ah, what a pity!"

With Ye Qingxuan's cultivation talent, it would surely greatly limit the upper bound of his alchemy talent.

Bai Wenyang regretted the fate of this junior brother with whom he had a good relationship, and he also regretted Ye Qingxuan's prodigy-like alchemy talent.

After leaving the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan did not linger in the marketplace. Instead, he prepared to return directly to the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard.

Although there were quite a few good things in the marketplace, he could not afford most of the high-grade ones, while the low-grade ones were not things he urgently needed.

So it was better to wait until he had saved enough spirit stones before coming back to purchase some truly good items.

After teleporting to the teleportation array near the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard, Ye Qingxuan once again took to the air on his sword and headed toward the courtyard.

The teleportation array was not far from the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard in a straight line, though layers upon layers of peaks lay between them.

Flying high through the air on his sword, just as he was about to approach the skies above his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan spotted the young man standing outside it.

With doubt in his heart, Ye Qingxuan swiftly descended and arrived at the gate of his small courtyard.

Before he could ask anything, the young man spoke first.

"Junior Brother Ye, seeing you even once has truly not been easy!"

This Junior Brother Ye kept a low profile, rarely going out. Whenever he cultivated, he activated the restriction formation to shut out disturbances from the outside world.

Had he not set up an observation formation outside Ye Qingxuan's small courtyard, noticed Ye Qingxuan leaving, and come to wait ahead of time, he likely would not have been able to meet Ye Qingxuan at all.

Hearing the young man before him, Ye Qingxuan's brow twitched. He asked curiously:

"And you are?"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's question, the young man opposite him gave a slight smile before speaking.

"I am Lin Fan. I have presumptuously disturbed you, Junior Brother. I hope you will forgive me!"

"Lin Fan?"

Ye Qingxuan repeated the name silently in his heart, recalling the information Su Daobin had previously told him.

"This Lin Fan obtained a spot to inherit an ancestor's Blessed Land. I wonder what rank of Blessed Land he inherited?"

Countless thoughts flashed through Ye Qingxuan's mind before he spoke.

"So it is Senior Brother Lin. May I ask what business Senior Brother Lin has with me?"

"It is nothing major. I have already reached Qi Refining Perfection and will soon leave the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard to inherit a Blessed Land. Before leaving, I wish to host a banquet for all my junior brothers. I wonder whether Junior Brother Ye has the time?"

Upon hearing Lin Fan's words, Ye Qingxuan's attention shifted to Lin Fan's cultivation level.

"Qi Refining Perfection!"

Lin Fan had entered at the same time as him, yet he had already reached Qi Refining Perfection. It seemed Lin Fan was one of the few people in the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard who possessed Dual Element Spiritual Roots.

Was the gap between spiritual roots really that great?

He had spent countless pills and so much time, yet now even Lin Fan, whose Dual Element Spiritual Root Talent was only somewhat better than his own, had a cultivation level that far surpassed his?

Ye Qingxuan took a deep breath. His desire for the Blessed Land's ability to grow spiritual roots became even stronger.

What Ye Qingxuan did not know was that since Lin Fan had obtained a spot to inherit an ancestor's Blessed Land, he naturally had the support of a great force behind him.

In truth, the resources Lin Fan had expended were not less than Ye Qingxuan's, and may even have been greater.

Thus, it was perfectly normal for Lin Fan's cultivation level to exceed his.

Ye Qingxuan's thoughts churned. Although Lin Fan's appearance had stimulated him, it did not shake his heart. Instead, it ignited Ye Qingxuan's fighting spirit.

A momentary lead meant nothing. Only reaching the end counted as victory.

After coming back to himself, Ye Qingxuan asked:

"When?"

Seeing that Ye Qingxuan had not directly refused, Lin Fan's smile deepened as he gave the time and place.

"Three days from now, at dusk, in the Central Plaza within the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard!"

After hearing the time and place, Ye Qingxuan considered it for a moment before agreeing.

"Alright! This junior brother will definitely be there in three days!"

By now, the Blessed Cultivator Reserve Disciples remaining in the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard were basically just the senior brothers who had entered alongside him in the same batch.

In any case, it would not waste much time. Taking this opportunity to meet these senior brothers would not be bad either!