Fatty Wang Had Made It!

"Brother Xiao, what kind of incense did you light?"

Fatty Wang opened his eyes and saw Ye Xiao sticking a stick of incense into the gap between the table boards.

The incense was about as long as two palms.

As it began to burn,

the surrounding spiritual energy seemed to be drawn toward it, intentionally or otherwise,

gathering around the spot where the incense stood.

A mysterious smile appeared on Ye Xiao's face.

"Fatty, keep cultivating and see how it feels."

Though Fatty Wang was confused, he did as Ye Xiao said.

He entered the Qi Refining state once more.

But this time,

Fatty Wang suddenly noticed that the spiritual energy around him had grown denser!

The increase wasn't much,

but compared to how he'd previously struggled to draw even a little spiritual energy into his body,

it was already a huge help!

The surrounding spiritual energy had grown denser!

Cultivating became much easier for Fatty Wang.

"My goodness!"

"Brother Xiao, what kind of incense is this?"

"This incense is amazing. It can actually gather spiritual energy!"

Ye Xiao gave a mysterious smile.

"It's my secret."

"Fatty, if you trust me, just enjoy it."

Fatty Wang nodded vigorously.

"Brother Xiao, I understand. Everyone has their own secrets!"

"I have secrets of my own that I don't want anyone else to know, too."

"So I won't ask. Thanks, Brother Xiao!"

Ye Xiao observed the changes in the Qi Refining process within Fatty Wang's body.

The spiritual energy entering his body

coursed along his blood vessels and meridians, through his internal organs and every part of his body.

It continually flushed away the impurities in his body while nourishing him, causing every part of his body to evolve.

That was the essence of cultivating spiritual energy.

A little while later,

Fatty Wang noticed that the surrounding spiritual energy had grown another ten percent denser!

He opened his eyes in surprise.

To his astonishment, Ye Xiao had lit another stick of Spirit Gathering Incense!

"Brother Xiao, what are you doing?"

"The first stick hasn't even burned out yet. Why did you light another one?"

Ye Xiao replied, "I wanted to see if lighting two sticks at once would double the effect."

Just then,

Ye Xiao and Fatty Wang could see with their own eyes

the spiritual energy gathering in their dorm room slowly taking shape, turning a milky white.

Fatty Wang exclaimed in shock,

"My goodness! Brother Xiao, this incense is incredibly powerful!"

"Milky-white spiritual energy means the spiritual energy here is dense enough!"

"It's almost so dense that it's condensing into liquid!"

As soon as he finished speaking,

Ye Xiao pulled out a full ten more sticks of Spirit Gathering Incense!

He had just bought them from the Martial Heart Mall, spending a full 150 Martial Value!

That was no small amount.

But Ye Xiao had never been a stingy person.

He always repaid even the smallest kindness many times over.

Besides,

ever since he'd transmigrated into this world,

most of the people he'd met had mocked him. Few had truly looked out for him.

Fatty Wang was one of the people who genuinely cared about him.

So Ye Xiao was entirely willing to spend so much Martial Value on Fatty Wang.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Into the gaps between the boards of their dorm-room table,

he stuck ten more sticks of Spirit Gathering Incense and lit every one!

In an instant,

the spiritual energy gathering around them surged by a full 100%!

By now,

the floor of Ye Xiao and Fatty Wang's dorm room had grown sticky and slick.

It wasn't some mysterious white liquid.

It was liquid spiritual energy, something countless people dreamed of!

"My goodness!"

Fatty Wang was utterly dumbfounded.

"Brother Xiao, I've lived this long, and this is the first time I've ever seen spiritual energy become so dense that it flows like water!"

Ye Xiao glanced at how quickly the Spirit Gathering Incense was burning.

He warned him,

"Fatty, each stick will burn for half an hour at most. You'd better hurry and absorb it!"

Without another word,

Fatty Wang threw himself into serious meditation and Qi cultivation.

Fatty Wang had been worrying about how slowly he absorbed spiritual energy.

Now, though,

he couldn't absorb it as fast as it was turning into liquid.

Before long, the dorm-room floor

had collected a thin layer of spiritual-energy water.

Fatty Wang panicked.

Each stick could burn for only half an hour.

Now twelve sticks were burning at once.

Even if he gave it everything he had for that whole half hour, he couldn't absorb one-tenth of it all!

In his desperation,

Fatty Wang did something that left Ye Xiao utterly astonished!

He simply gave up meditating and cultivating.

Instead, he lay down on the floor

and started drinking the spiritual-energy water!

If he couldn't absorb it fast enough,

then he'd absorb it the physical way!

He'd drink it all!

Ye Xiao was completely stunned by the sight.

He thought, Fatty is one tough guy!

He hurried to stop him.

"Fatty, don't do that. It's too dirty."

"When the incense runs out, I'll find a way to get more."

Fatty Wang might have seemed lazy and laid-back in his everyday life, the sort who never fought or competed with anyone, and was easygoing by nature.

But whenever it came to the serious business of getting stronger,

his attitude, determination, and sheer ferocity

surpassed anyone else's!

He might even have gone further than Ye Xiao!

At least Ye Xiao really couldn't bring himself to do it.

Drink water off the floor.

Even if it was the purest spiritual-energy water,

he couldn't get past that mental hurdle!

"Glug, glug!"

"Cough, cough."

Fatty Wang ignored Ye Xiao's attempts to stop him completely.

He kept going even when he choked and drank until he was full.

Ye Xiao hesitated for a long time.

In the end, he didn't stop Fatty Wang.

And so,

half an hour later,

the twelve sticks of Spirit Gathering Incense burned down completely.

The spiritual energy gathered in their dorm room slowly dissipated, too.

The sight of the room filled with dense, milky-white spiritual energy was gone.

The residue of spiritual energy on the floor quickly dried up.

Fatty Wang had spent half an hour drinking.

At last, he clutched his stomach and lay on the floor, unable to move.

Ye Xiao asked with a complicated expression, "Fatty, are you okay?"

"I... I'm fine... hic!"

"It's a good thing... hic! I mopped the floor this afternoon..."

"Otherwise, I really wouldn't have been able to drink it."

"My stomach hurts so much."

"This is... this is a breakthrough!"

Fatty Wang endured the pain in his body.

He hurriedly returned to a seated position and began meditating again.

His current realm was the Second Realm of Qi Refining!

Fatty Wang had thought

it would take him at least a year to break through to the Third Realm.

But he'd never imagined

that with Ye Xiao's help,

he'd start breaking through to the Third Realm in just half an hour!

After an hour-long breakthrough,

Fatty Wang let out a long, booming fart.

At last,

Ye Xiao pinched his nose and watched with his own eyes as Fatty Wang broke through!

Third Realm of Qi Refining!

"Fatty Wang had made it!" Fatty Wang cried, overjoyed.

On top of that,

Fatty Wang's career potential had also advanced!

[Qi Refiner · C-rank] evolved into [Qi Cultivator · B-rank]!