Evening fell.
Chen Yu slowly opened his eyes as he sat cross-legged on the bed.
"After the better part of a day, I've finally cultivated the True Essence Profound Canon to its limit."
Chen Yu checked his panel.
[Currently available Experience Points: 33.12.]
He had imagined that once he cultivated the True Essence Profound Canon to its limit, he would be able to bring the other five cultivation manuals straight to their limits as well. That had not happened.
With the help of the No. 38 Poison Pill, cultivating the True Essence Profound Canon earned Chen Yu 0.001 Experience Points per second,
but the other five cultivation manuals earned him at most 0.0001, only a tenth of what the True Essence Profound Canon provided.
Still, it did not matter. Now that the True Essence Profound Canon had reached its limit, those five cultivation manuals would remain in a constant state of cultivation. In just a few days, he would be able to break through to the third layer of Foundation Establishment.
He converted all those Experience Points into cultivation.
In an instant,
pure true qi surged forth.
His cultivation increased.
"Time to see Shen Fei." Chen Yu put on his robes. "Let's try to hand over the position of Nine-Bend Peak's Senior Master Brother today."
With that thought, Chen Yu left his room. As he passed Senior Sister Lü's residence, he caught a delicious aroma, as though she was cooking something. Senior Sister Lü occasionally prepared dinner herself, so Chen Yu thought nothing of it.
Shen Fei lived higher up on Nine-Bend Peak. Chen Yu followed the main path uphill.
Then he turned onto a smaller trail.
Before long, he spotted Shen Fei's stone house in the distance.
Outside the stone house, beside a campfire,
three people sat