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To Shen Yuan, the edgy little brat he had run into online was merely a bit of seasoning in life, hardly worth his attention.

The sky outside had gradually darkened. After enjoying a lavish dinner, Shen Yuan began his daily cultivation.

Shen Yuan had converted the room in the right-hand corner of the courtyard into a separate cultivation chamber. The entire room contained only a single meditation cushion.

Sitting cross-legged upon the cushion, Shen Yuan turned his gaze to his system interface.

System: Confirm receipt of the beginner guidance reward?

"Confirm."

As Shen Yuan responded, the completed beginner guidance task bar on the system interface gradually vanished. A purple book fell into Shen Yuan's hands—the Violet Cloud Qi Refining Method he had obtained earlier.

After steadying his excited emotions, Shen Yuan slowly opened the Violet Cloud Qi Refining Method and began to read.

The method of refining qi was the foundation of all methods. Any cultivator needed to refine the qi of heaven and earth into their own being before gaining abilities beyond the mortal realm. The Violet Cloud Qi Refining Method was a method for gathering the first wisp of Dawn-Glow Purple Qi born between heaven and earth as day and night changed.

If cultivated to profound depths, it could imbue one's refined origin qi with the might of violet clouds, granting it the power to dispel evil entities and demonic obstructions.

This volume of the Violet Cloud Qi Refining Method contained not only cultivation methods, but also quite a bit of common cultivation knowledge and minor spells.

Though these things had already passed through ten thousand years, they still held considerable value for Shen Yuan.

After studying it over and over, Shen Yuan began cultivating the Violet Cloud Qi Refining Method.

Though it was already deep into the night and he could not gather Dawn-Glow Purple Qi, that did not affect the execution of the Qi Refinement Method.

As his breathing merged with the rhythm of the Cloudmist Breathing Method, gradually becoming long and unbroken, vast amounts of spiritual qi began to surge toward the cultivation chamber.

During this process, the Violet Cloud Qi Refining Method Shen Yuan circulated was like an invisible great hand, constantly seizing the surrounding spiritual qi and forcibly stuffing it into Shen Yuan's dantian, where it was refined into essence.

The Violet Cloud Qi Refining Method and the Cloudmist Breathing Method were techniques passed down through the same lineage of the Falling Cloud Sect. They naturally possessed effects that complemented one another.

The progress brought by his first cultivation of a Qi Refinement Method far exceeded Shen Yuan's expectations.

On Shen Yuan's right hand, the seed of the Pot-Heaven Divine Ability that had already fused into his body once again revealed that gourd-shaped mark resembling a spiritual treasure under the circulation of the Qi Refinement Method.

The emerald-green gourd seemed to solidify into substance. Its mouth continuously captured spiritual qi from the outside world, swallowing immense amounts into the seed of the Pot-Heaven Divine Ability. Yet a small portion still passed through the divine ability seed and fed back into Shen Yuan's body.

The spiritual qi tide had only just arrived, and the faint spiritual qi between heaven and earth was far from enough to satisfy the divine ability seed. The vortex of spiritual qi around Shen Yuan began expanding at a visible speed, rapidly covering more than half of the old district.

The dormant spiritual qi within the old district was gradually stirred up, beginning to rush madly toward Shen Yuan's courtyard.

The jujube tree and green vines in the courtyard stood within the spiritual qi vortex. Although most of the spiritual qi was absorbed by Shen Yuan, a small portion still merged into their bodies during the process.

The jujube tree, which had previously shed many leaves, began to sprout fresh branches and buds. The emerald vines cast off their aged, withered forms and began growing anew, allowing this dilapidated courtyard to once again nurture life.

Although the divine ability seed absorbed most of the spiritual qi, the qi it fed back was the purest of all. Shen Yuan barely needed to refine it before it merged into his essence and strengthened him.

The essence within Shen Yuan's body began growing at an unimaginable speed.

This round of Shen Yuan's qi refinement cultivation stirred up a storm across half the city, yet the old district showed no reaction at all.

As an abandoned industrial area, the old district was already sparsely populated, and most of its residents were elderly. Under such conditions, it was difficult for naturally gifted cultivators to be born.

Those who had not entered cultivation could not perceive changes in spiritual qi at all, so almost no one in the old district noticed.

But just because no humans noticed did not mean no other creatures could sense it.

Within a dark, secluded alley, a gigantic Maine Coon nearly half a person tall silently swept past. Its enormous body made not the slightest sound, as though it had merged into the shadows of the darkness.

Behind it followed dozens of stray cats. Pairs of eerie green eyes flickered in the night, carrying a faintly terrifying and bizarre atmosphere.

But if one shifted their gaze to the top of that half-human-height Maine Coon's head, the terrifying atmosphere that had just taken shape instantly diminished by more than half.

A kitten smaller than a palm was trembling as it lay atop the Maine Coon's head, its tiny paws clutching the Maine Coon's long fur for dear life, terrified of being flung to the ground.

Seeing its king's timid appearance, the Maine Coon could not help raising a paw to cover its face.

"Your Majesty, pay some attention to your image."

At those words, the kitten shakily straightened up. Its heterochromatic eyes swept across the many ordinary feral cats staring at it, and an almost humanlike embarrassment appeared on its little face.

"Mind your own business!"

Its little white-gloved paw smacked the big Maine Coon's head. The kitten asked in a childish voice from its throat:

"How much longer until we get there?"

The Maine Coon glanced at the surrounding environment, and a strange glint flashed through its deep vertical pupils.

"It should be nearby. But speaking of which, Your Majesty, is the location you found using the Box Weapon really accurate?"

Hearing this, the kitten proudly raised its little head.

"Hmph hmph! To get information on that bad guy, I went through enormous trouble to find his phone number, then found the place where he received his deliveries. His residence must be near the delivery point.

"As long as we search door to door, we'll definitely find him!"

"Then, Your Majesty, do you know what that person looks like?" the Maine Coon asked at just the right moment.

At once, the smile on the kitten's face froze considerably.

"But... but I know his name is Shen Yuan!" the kitten hurriedly replied.

The Maine Coon let out a long sigh.

"Your Majesty, you don't know the exact location, nor do you know what that person looks like. What use is knowing his name? We can't exactly go door to door asking people for their names, can we?"

The kitten instantly wilted. Its ears drooped over its head, and it wore a gloomy expression.

Yet the kitten's appearance made the Maine Coon breathe a sigh of relief inwardly.

In truth, it did not want to accompany the kitten in this nonsense. The kitten was simply too small and had no ability to protect itself. If anything went wrong, the consequences would be irreparable.

But it could not disobey the king's orders. The best course of action now was to make the kitten retreat in the face of difficulty and give up on its own.

Judging by the current situation, its goal seemed to have been achieved.

The Maine Coon was about to continue speaking when the ball-of-yarn-sized kitten atop its head suddenly sniffed. Excitement appeared in its heterochromatic feline eyes.

"The spiritual qi fluctuations are abnormal. There must be something good over there!"

The instant the kitten's words fell, the Maine Coon immediately sensed the chaotic spiritual qi continuously spreading through the surroundings. Vast amounts of spiritual qi had formed a huge vortex, converging upon a small courtyard at the heart of it all.