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"Deduce the foundations of swordsmanship!"

[Consume 8,000 spirit stones for the mirror body to deduce the foundations of swordsmanship to the mastered level, taking 16 days; consume 16,000 spirit stones to halve the time]

"Consume 8,000 spirit stones to deduce it."

Every spirit stone was hard-earned. Although he had quite a few now, Qin Huaian did not choose to double the cost.

Day after day passed as his true body cultivated and his mirror body carried out deductions.

After the foundations of swordsmanship had been deduced to the mastered level, Qin Huaian spent another 80,000 low-grade spirit stones to optimize them to perfection.

Another thirty-two days passed before the foundations of swordsmanship finally reached the perfect level. Qin Huaian's understanding of the sword had reached an extremely lofty realm. He vaguely sensed that after perfecting the foundations of swordsmanship, there should be a higher realm of swordsmanship beyond it, yet he could not see through it.

Qin Huaian felt that with his current swordsmanship, setting aside cultivation level and speaking only of sword techniques, he could already instantly kill the puppet on the third-floor arena of the Trial Tower.

Afterward, Qin Huaian spent another seven days deducing the refining of the Essence Cultivation Pill to the minor mastery level.

He still had 106 sets of spirit herbs for refining Essence Cultivation Pills. Refining one batch of Essence Cultivation Pills took roughly a little over half a shichen.

Qin Huaian decided to spend a little time each day refining some Essence Cultivation Pills. He refined three batches a day, treating it as a seasoning in the course of cultivation.

During this time, Qin Huaian spent 40,000 spirit stones to deduce the Spirit Tempering Formula.

Forty days later, insights into the Spirit Tempering Formula flooded into Qin Huaian's mind, bringing the formula to the minor mastery level. Circulating the minor mastery Spirit Tempering Formula, Qin Huaian felt that the rate at which his divine sense strengthened had accelerated considerably.

If he continued cultivating like this, having his divine sense leave his body should not be far off.

Qin Huaian had already used up the True Essence Pills he had obtained last time, so he needed to replenish them. At his current realm, cultivating with True Essence Pills still produced remarkable results.

Leaving his cave abode, Qin Huaian headed toward the Lin Family Pill Shop.

Neither Lin Zhenglan nor Fu Jingwen was in the shop today. It was the clerk, Lin Dong, who received Qin Huaian.

"Brother Lin, I'm selling seventy bottles of Essence Cultivation Pills." Qin Huaian had successfully refined seventy-five bottles in total, with three pills per bottle. He kept five bottles for emergencies and sold all the rest.

"Greetings, Brother Qin. Our purchase price for Essence Cultivation Pills is 230 spirit stones per bottle. For seventy bottles, that comes to 16,100 low-grade spirit stones." Lin Dong was at the fifth level of Qi Refinement. He had been present when Qin Huaian came last time and knew that Qin Huaian was already a seventh-level Qi Refinement cultivator, so he treated him with great courtesy.

"Good. Brother Lin, I'll also buy fifty bottles of True Essence Pills. These are the additional spirit stones." Qin Huaian took out another 33,900 spirit stones and placed them on the counter.

"Please wait a moment, Brother Qin. Let me see how many True Essence Pills we have in stock." A moment later, Lin Dong took out forty-three bottles of True Essence Pills. "Sorry, Brother Qin, but we only have forty-three bottles of True Essence Pills left in stock. If you need more, you can come back in a few days."

"Then I'll buy the forty-three bottles first." Qin Huaian added another 26,900 spirit stones, then put the forty-three bottles of True Essence Pills into his storage pouch. These should be enough for quite some time.

After leaving the Lin Family Pill Shop, Qin Huaian spent most of another day buying seventeen sets of supplementary ingredients for refining Breakthrough Essence Pills from several pill shops, spending 17,000 spirit stones.

Once he had finished buying them, Qin Huaian returned to his cave abode. This time, he could cultivate properly for a while.

"Deduce the Spirit Tempering Formula!"

[Consume 80,000 spirit stones for the mirror body to deduce the Spirit Tempering Formula to the mastered level, taking 80 days; consume 160,000 spirit stones to halve the time]

"Consume 80,000 spirit stones to deduce it."

Qin Huaian returned to his cave abode and continued deducing the Spirit Tempering Formula. To do a good job, one must first sharpen one's tools!

Qin Huaian once again began his days of refining Breakthrough Essence Pills while cultivating.

This time, of Qin Huaian's seventeen sets of spirit herbs, thirteen batches of Breakthrough Essence Pills were successfully refined.

Just two days after Qin Huaian finished refining the Breakthrough Essence Pills, a knock suddenly sounded outside.

Then Fu Jingwen's voice called out, "Brother Qin, are you there?"

What was Brother Fu doing here? Usually, he rarely came looking for him. With that question in mind, Qin Huaian walked out of the cultivation room. "Brother Fu, please wait a moment. I'll be right there."

When Qin Huaian opened the door, he discovered that Fu Jingwen had not come alone. Lin Qingxuan was also standing at the entrance.

"Haha, Brother Qin, long time no see. Brother Lin Dong said you bought quite a few True Essence Pills. Have you been in seclusion cultivating? Did we disturb you?" Fu Jingwen asked with a smile.

"No. It's just my usual daily cultivation. Brother Fu, Junior Sister Lin, come in and talk." Qin Huaian invited the two into the reception hall of his cave abode.

"Senior Brother Qin, I came to New Peace City with my cousin to take care of something. While I was at it, I came to see you too, Senior Brother Qin." Lin Qingxuan said, looking at Qin Huaian with a hint of excitement in her eyes.

Fu Jingwen shot Lin Qingxuan a sidelong glance. Heh, just happened to come see him, did she?

After not seeing her for several months, Qin Huaian noticed that Lin Qingxuan's cultivation had already reached the sixth level of Qi Refinement.

"Haha, thank you, Junior Sister Lin. Congratulations on breaking through to the sixth level of Qi Refinement."

"Senior Brother Qin, when are you returning to the sect? I'll be going back in a couple of days. Do you want to return with me?" Lin Qingxuan asked expectantly.

"No, I still need to cultivate here for a while longer. Probably a few more months." Qin Huaian had decided to stay and cultivate for some more time. It was more convenient to earn spirit stones here.

"Oh, right, Brother Qin, I just remembered that I have a batch of pills currently being refined. I'll head back to the shop and check on it first. You two keep talking." Fu Jingwen stood and took his leave.

Brother Fu, don't try to fool me. I'm an alchemist too. Do you think pill refining is cooking, where you can leave the house and forget to turn off the fire? Qin Huaian gave Fu Jingwen a faint look, silently grumbling to himself.

"Ah? Cousin, then hurry back to the shop and take a look. I can go back by myself later," Lin Qingxuan hurriedly said.

With an awkward laugh, Fu Jingwen cupped his fists and turned to leave.

Qin Huaian looked somewhat dumbfounded at Fu Jingwen's departing back. What was that about?

"Haha, Cousin really is so careless. How could he forget something like that? Senior Brother Qin, never mind him. Let's talk." Lin Qingxuan said with a slightly flushed smile.

Qin Huaian glanced at Lin Qingxuan. Why are you blushing? Of course, he did not say that aloud.

"Oh, right, Senior Brother Qin, I went to the Trial Tower again a few days ago. This time, I passed the third floor and rose to a rank of a little over 5,100. When will you go back and challenge it again, Senior Brother?"

"I haven't practiced swordsmanship much lately. I'll go after my sword skills improve a little more."

"Mm, Senior Brother, my understanding of swordsmanship has improved somewhat lately, and I also gained some insights from the Trial Tower. Once you return, we can spar again." Lin Qingxuan said, clenching her small fists.

From the sound of it, Junior Sister Lin wants to give me some pointers, Qin Huaian thought to himself.

They chatted some more about the sect's recent affairs before Lin Qingxuan took her leave. As she departed, she reminded Qin Huaian to remember to find her when he returned.

After closing the door, Qin Huaian shook his head with a bitter smile. In the world of cultivation, he had no sense of security at all right now. Better to raise his cultivation realm first before worrying about anything else.

Lin Family Pill Shop.

"Qingxuan, this is the True Essence Pill your eldest brother asked me to bring you. Cultivate well. Your eldest brother said that once you're close to breaking through the bottleneck of the seventh level, he'll send you a Breakthrough Essence Pill."

"Mm, thank you, Fifth Uncle."