Immediately after, the cultivation progress bar before Chen Changqing's eyes vanished, replaced by three Little Golden Men appearing before him.
"Three Little Golden Men?"
Chen Changqing wore a look of astonishment.
He had originally been agonizing over the fact that there was only one AFK Little Golden Man. Of the three cultivation arts, which should he prioritize for AFK cultivation?
Who would have thought that three Little Golden Men would appear all at once?
What Chen Changqing found even more unbelievable was this.
At that moment, the three Little Golden Men were each performing their own duties.
The first Little Golden Man held a wooden sword, waving it through the air as it cultivated the Sword Control Technique!
The second Little Golden Man's fist wind roared like thunder, lightning flickering around it as it cultivated Thunder Fist!
The third Little Golden Man sat cross-legged, spiritual energy swirling around its body as it cultivated the Nine-Turn Qi Refining Art!
"Holy shit! It can do that too?"
Chen Changqing's eyes widened, then he was overwhelmed with delight.
"This is awesome!"
"I don't have to worry about which cultivation art to AFK cultivate first anymore."
"Three cultivation arts AFK cultivating at once—the efficiency is maxed out!"
Chen Changqing was beside himself with excitement.
But immediately afterward, doubts arose in his heart.
"If I AFK cultivate three cultivation arts at once, will it affect the cultivation speed of each one?"
"Or do they not conflict at all?"
"Besides that, can this AFK Cultivation System add even more cultivation arts?"
"How many cultivation arts can it AFK cultivate at most?"
"..."
For a moment, Chen Changqing's thoughts became a tangled mess.
"Forget it."
"I shouldn't overthink it."
"It's not like I have to put in any effort."
"I just need to wait and collect the AFK results."
After thinking it over, Chen Changqing let out a long breath and leisurely stood guard at the mountain gate.
Before he knew it, it was already the fourth quarter of the Rooster hour.
Chen Changqing stretched. After closing the mountain gate, he headed toward his residence.
Once he returned, he did not waste a word. He flopped onto the bed, pulled the quilt over himself, and went straight to sleep!
For Chen Changqing—
Cultivating? Impossible!
He would never cultivate in this life!
While Chen Changqing slept, Ran Hua silently arrived outside the window.
He had wanted to secretly see just how Chen Changqing cultivated.
Why had he broken through to the Qi Refining realm so quickly?
Yet what Ran Hua never could have imagined, even in his dreams, was this.
Through the narrow crack in the window, he saw Chen Changqing return after closing the mountain gate and promptly begin snoring away.
"This?"
"He's asleep?"
Ran Hua froze, his mind going dazed.
"Could it be... Senior Brother Chen cultivates in his dreams?"
Suddenly, such a thought flashed through Ran Hua's mind.
But after giving it another thought, he could not help laughing at himself and muttering softly:
"I must have become obsessed with breaking through."
"How could anyone in this world cultivate while asleep?"
"Perhaps Senior Brother Chen truly had accumulated deeply before suddenly bursting forth."
After that, Ran Hua shook his head and sighed helplessly before leaving in disappointment.
Time slipped away.
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.
That day, Chen Changqing stretched and sat up from bed, lazily yawning.
"I've been AFK cultivating for over a month."
"It's about time to collect the AFK results."
With that thought, Chen Changqing hurriedly connected with the system.
"System, collect the AFK results!"
Soon, the system's response sounded in his mind:
[ Ding! ] [AFK time: 30 days.] [Practiced Sword Control Technique ×300 times!] [Practiced Thunder Fist ×300 times!] [Practiced Nine-Turn Qi Refining Art ×300 times!] [Extract AFK cultivation results?]
"Extract!"
Chen Changqing did not give it much thought and chose to extract them directly.
"Boom boom!"
In an instant, the three Little Golden Men before him abruptly came to a stop.
Immediately afterward, three brilliant streams of golden light burst from within the three Little Golden Men through the system panel and surged into Chen Changqing's body in an instant!
As the AFK results of the Nine-Turn Qi Refining Art were extracted—
Chen Changqing's cultivation immediately soared by leaps and bounds.
Originally at the first level of Qi Refining, he broke through two realms in succession and stepped into the third level of Qi Refining!
Within his dantian, nine thousand strands of vital essence flowed like a galaxy, more than triple that of ordinary Qi Refining cultivators!
"One month of AFK cultivating the Nine-Turn Qi Refining Art actually raised my cultivation straight to the third level of Qi Refining!"
"With the support of a full nine thousand strands of vital essence."
"!"
Chen Changqing was wildly excited, his face flushing slightly with exhilaration.
At the same time, extracting the AFK results of the Sword Control Technique caused all sorts of control principles to flood into Chen Changqing's mind in an instant.
To Chen Changqing, those principles felt deeply branded into him, as though they had been innate from birth.
The next moment, Chen Changqing raised a hand and waved it.
An ordinary iron sword in the room rose into the air, cold light flashing from its blade!
Chen Changqing was brimming with interest as he prepared to try flying on a sword.
Yet what he had not expected was this.
As his spiritual energy poured into it, the iron sword immediately buzzed and trembled.
Bang!
With a crisp sound, the iron sword shattered outright!
"Damn! This broken sword can't withstand spiritual energy?"
Chen Changqing cried out in shock.
Only then did he realize that the Sword Control Technique required the support of a true magic artifact. Ordinary mortal iron simply could not bear the circulation of spiritual energy!
In the cultivation world, magical treasures were divided into four major grades:
Magic artifacts, magical treasures, spiritual treasures, and Immortal Artifacts.
Magic artifacts were used by ordinary cultivators and were fairly common.
Magical treasures, meanwhile, were considered relatively good magic artifacts.
As for spiritual treasures, only cultivators at the Golden Core level or above generally possessed them.
And Immortal Artifacts, the highest grade—
As the name implied, they were treasures left behind by immortals.
They were usually treasures that suppressed an entire sect!
"Looks like I'll have to find a way to get myself a magic artifact."
Chen Changsheng muttered to himself. He had originally wanted to try sword flight and the like.
"Since sword control won't work for now, I'll test the power of Thunder Fist instead."
The AFK results he had extracted just now had included Thunder Fist as well.
After a month of AFK cultivation by the system, this fist technique had already achieved modest success.
With the extraction, all the principles for executing Thunder Fist entered Chen Changqing's mind.
At the same time, Chen Changqing instantly became familiar with the route his vital essence traveled through his body when unleashing the fist technique, as if he had practiced it hundreds of times.
Next, Chen Changqing did not linger in the room. Instead, he went to the rear of his residence.
Before him stood a small mountain peak.
"Hoo!"
Chen Changqing took a deep breath, instantly gathering the nine thousand strands of vital essence in his body at his fist, then unleashed it according to the principles of Thunder Fist.
Boom!
As his fist shot out, thunderlight exploded!
Bang!
The next instant, the massive boulder blocking Chen Changqing's path shattered into pieces!
In an instant, shattered rocks soared through the sky and dust filled the air!
"Hiss..."
"That power—one punch could split a mountain!"
"Terrifying beyond belief!"
Even Chen Changqing himself was startled.
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