Breakthrough to the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer!

"Here, Brother Chen. This is the best I could do. The Spirit Stones and Body Tempering Pills you gave me could only be exchanged for six Five-Colored Golden Pheasant eggs." Acting like a thief, Liu Qiaogui handed the six eggs to Chen Huai'an.

"Thank you so much. I just wonder whether these eggs can hatch into chicks." Chen Huai'an smiled.

"I heard from the servant disciples at the chicken farm that these are all fertilized eggs and can hatch into chicks. As for whether they'll hatch into spirit birds, they can't guarantee it. There's only a certain chance of hatching Five-Colored Golden Pheasants, while there's a high chance they'll hatch Five-Colored Chickens. But if they're raised well, Five-Colored Chickens can evolve into Five-Colored Golden Pheasants." Liu Qiaogui explained with a smile.

This result was within Chen Huai'an's acceptable range. Even if Five-Colored Chickens hatched, he could still raise them into Five-Colored Golden Pheasants. It was merely a matter of investing different resources.

He had planted a large amount of Spirit Grain in the space, along with Spirit Grain stalks and husks. All of those could be used to feed the chicks. That was called resource integration.

Sure enough, just as Chen Huai'an had expected, the eggs could be stored in the space.

Hatching chicks required a mother hen, but as long as the temperature was suitable, the chicks could still hatch.

For this, Chen Huai'an made a little nest for the six eggs, putting quite a bit of thought into it. He specifically went up the mountain to find some dried grass that retained warmth—the kind mountain birds used to build their nests—and found two rabbit pelts to cover the eggs.

After doing all that, all he could do was wait. Whether he would get to eat spirit bird eggs and spirit bird meat in the future depended on whether these eggs would prove worthy.

After tinkering around in the space for a while longer and watering all the crops in the fields with Spirit Spring Water, he cooked a pot of spirit rice, finished eating, and began today's cultivation.

Old Li had said that Zhang Biao of the Zhang Family was coming to make trouble for him. Though Chen Huai'an had acted unconcerned, it still put tremendous pressure on him. He took out a high-grade Foundation Nurturing Pill and swallowed it.

Then, Chen Huai'an began circulating his cultivation technique to refine the medicinal power.

Boom!

With a thunderous boom, Chen Huai'an's body shuddered violently. Then, the bottleneck at the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer, which had held him back for several days, was blasted open.

"So this is the strength of the Late Body Tempering Realm? Whether it's my physical condition or strength, it's more than doubled compared to before." Feeling his current state, Chen Huai'an could not help sighing in awe.

In less than a month and a half, he had broken through to the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer. This cultivation speed might not have been heaven-defying, but it was still quite remarkable.

At the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer, Chen Huai'an was already considered among the more outstanding servant disciples of Qingyun Sect. On Servant Peak, he was no longer an ant that others could knead at will.

Rank five hundred on the Spirit Elegance Ranking? Chen Huai'an could enter it with his eyes closed now. He could even contend for the top hundred.

Breaking through to the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer, felt as though he had pushed open a door to a whole new world.

Why were those in the early Body Tempering Realm as insignificant as ants before those in the late stage?

In terms of pure strength alone, the two were simply not on the same level.

Although the Foundation Nurturing Pill's medicinal power had consolidated his foundation after the breakthrough, Chen Huai'an still felt incredibly weak. He had to replenish his Blood-Energy Force.

In the Body Tempering Realm, what one competed in was the richness of one's Blood-Energy Force. The higher the realm, the greater the strength.

Body Tempering was the tempering of the body. It depended on which direction one wished to develop.

Chen Huai'an, however, had chosen the path of extremes. He wanted to forge his body into a perfect vessel. Whether it was the impurities in his meridians, tendons, membranes, or bones, he wanted to temper them all. Every tempering was an elevation, and the Blood-Energy Force consumed was equally terrifying.

That was why Chen Huai'an had set his sights on spirit food.

When laying a foundation, especially in Body Tempering, a solid foundation meant taking far fewer detours upon reaching the Qi Refining Realm.

In Chen Huai'an's understanding, the First Stage of the Body Tempering Realm through the ninth stage were all about tempering the body. Even upon reaching the Qi Refining Realm, one still tempered the body, except instead of relying on pills to expel impurities, one used the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to scour the impurities from within.

"It stinks. Even at the seventh stage of the Body Tempering Realm, I actually expelled so many impurities." When Chen Huai'an finished cultivating, he found that a crust had formed over his body. This grayish-brown layer was the impurities expelled from his body after breaking through to the Late Body Tempering Realm.

He used Spirit Spring Water to take a bath, washing the impurities clean from his body, then changed into a fresh set of clothes.

His whole body felt refreshed and invigorated.

The feeling after a breakthrough was truly wonderful.

Now that Chen Huai'an had broken through, there were still many matters to handle.

He no longer needed to do the servant task of fetching water, but the servant tasks inside the space were growing more numerous by the day. Especially now that he had acquired six eggs, he wanted to hatch them and raise them properly.

Perhaps once the chicks hatched, they could bring him a whole brood in the future.

As for demon beast meat, he craved it as well, but he lacked the strength. Some things were beyond one's ability to enjoy even if one had Spirit Stones.

At the end of the day, Chen Huai'an was still all alone. If he had a power behind him and people supporting him, he could simply focus on cultivation without having to worry about such trivial matters.

Chen Huai'an's gaze deepened as he looked at the Spirit Grain in the space, which was about to mature again, and muttered to himself, "At this rate, should I cultivate some power of my own? Things like running errands could be handed over to them in the future. That would also reduce the risk of exposure. But if I'm looking for people, they have to be trustworthy."

Human strength was ultimately limited. No matter how capable one person was, it was not enough. But with a team, things would be different.

Still, Chen Huai'an had not yet found any suitable candidates. This matter could be put off for now; if he encountered suitable people, he could nurture them.

Among the many servant disciples who fetched water, Liu Qiaogui suited his tastes quite well. But Chen Huai'an did not dare mention it to him. When he had first brought out those things, he knew little about this world and thought they were merely cultivation resources, nothing much. But as he learned more about the world, he realized that taking those resources to sell at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion was an extremely dangerous thing.

At the time, he had only been at the First Stage of the Body Tempering Realm, utterly incomparable to his current self. That he had survived after acting so recklessly was practically a miracle.

Spending more than a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones in a single day—servant disciples of Qingyun Sect might not save up that many Low-Grade Spirit Stones even in several hundred years.

Even outer sect disciples rarely possessed such abundant wealth.

"Chen Huai'an, get your ass out here!" Just as Chen Huai'an emerged from the space, a furious shout rang out in the courtyard.

"Who is it? Who's looking for me?" Chen Huai'an poked his head out and saw a thin young man with a scar across his face.

"You're looking for me? I don't seem to know you." Chen Huai'an frowned as he looked at the young man, who was likewise dressed in servant disciple robes.

Even several water-fetching servant disciples cultivating in the courtyard were alarmed. One after another, they poked their heads out to see what was happening.

At that moment, Li Fugui also arrived in the rear courtyard carrying a bucket of water. When he saw the thin man, his brows merely furrowed slightly before quickly relaxing.

Zhang Biao had moved much faster than he had expected. He had come to trouble Chen Huai'an so soon. Yet Li Fugui could not quite figure out how this man intended to deal with Chen Huai'an in front of so many people.