"Do as I taught you before and look after the house. If any spirit fish break through, kill them and put them in the storage bag. Remember not to go into the front courtyard. If anyone comes, hide in the usual place."
The usual place was, of course, the bathroom. No ordinary visitor would pay any attention to it.
Besides, under normal circumstances, no one would dare barge into the courtyard of a late Qi Refining cultivator like Ji Yuan.
After giving Tu Yue her instructions, Ji Yuan watched her head into the rear courtyard with that vacant look in her eyes.
Only then did he raise a hand and send several talismans flying, fixing them to the doorway.
Though the cave abode already muffled sound, Ji Yuan still took numerous protective measures to keep other disturbances from interrupting him.
There were spirit-isolation talismans that blocked spiritual energy, safety talismans that protected the room, and so on. They were all inexpensive, middle-grade talismans.
Their strength lay in their practicality.
Heaven was vast and earth was vast, but his breakthrough mattered most!
Once everything was taken care of, Ji Yuan willed nearly five hundred low-grade spirit stones out of his storage bag and piled them around himself. Then he circulated the Azure Sea Tide Art, and wisps of spiritual energy seeped from the surrounding stones into his body.
For breakthroughs during the Qi Refining Stage, as long as enough spiritual energy had been accumulated, things generally fell into place as naturally as water flowing into a channel.
All he had to do next was wait.
Based on his previous breakthroughs, Ji Yuan estimated that even if these five hundred spirit stones were not enough, they would not fall far short.
Advancing from the eighth layer of Qi Refining to the ninth