Chapter 42: 41. The Correct Way to Cultivate

41. The Correct Way to Cultivate

Unknowingly, more than a month has passed.

Life in the Core Area remains peaceful.

The chaos in the Cheap Area has also gradually subsided.

It is not that the war between the Bamboo Leaf Gang and the Black Iron Villa has ended, but rather that both sides have shifted the battlefield to the border area.

No more small skirmishes.

No more mutual probing.

They have begun direct confrontations.

The main force on the battlefield has also changed from Qi Refining Mid-Stage to Qi Refining Late Stage.

The level of cruelty has risen exponentially.

However, none of this has really affected Chen An.

He is an Alchemist, and he only needs to stay at home and silently practice Alchemy.

At most, the amount of pills he needs to provide has increased a bit.

This day.

Chen An has just finished a furnace of pills.

Very tired.

He rests by sitting on the ground with his back against the wall.

Incidentally, with a thought, he opens the panel to check his personal attributes.

【Name: Chen An】

【Cultivation: Qi Refining Fifth Layer】

【Wealth: 502 Low-grade Spirit Stones】

【Alchemy: First-tier Advanced (666/2500)】

【Divine Sense: First-tier Advanced (589/2500)】

【Golden Finger: Proficient (423/500)】

【Sleep Aid Technique: Proficient (108/500)】

【Spouses: Song Huaying, Gu Xinyue】

【Offspring: Chen Yuejian】

From top to bottom, Chen An reads through it all very seriously.

Every attribute has improved significantly.

The Sleep Aid Technique has broken through to the Proficient realm.

The Golden Finger is also about to break through to the next realm.

It is just his cultivation that has not moved at all, remaining at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.

This system is good in every way, except that it cannot directly increase cultivation.

Chen An worries about this.

Now, this Bamboo Leaf Forest is becoming more and more chaotic.

No matter how strong his Divine Sense is or how high his Alchemy attainments are, as long as his cultivation is not high, his life will always be at the mercy of others.

"It seems I must speed up the pace of winning over Wen Zhiyun."

"Perhaps, when my daughter grows up and starts cultivating, as a father, I should be able to receive feedback from it."

"After all, since I can receive feedback from my wives and concubines, it stands to reason that I can also receive it from my daughter."

At this very moment, Chen An, just like his little darling wife Song Huaying, is looking forward to Chen Yuejian growing up quickly.

Just as he is thinking about these random things, a series of urgent knocks on the door suddenly rings out from outside, along with the excited voice of his little darling wife Song Huaying.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

"Husband, come out and see, Xiao Yuejian has learned to walk!"

What? She learned to walk?

So fast?

She is only five months old.

Too busy to think, Chen An immediately comes out of the Alchemy Room and follows Song Huaying to the front courtyard.

Then he sees the tiny Chen Yuejian, under the care of Wen Zhiyun and Gu Xinyue, wobbling as she walks around the courtyard, her little face full of a bright smile.

"Yao yao yao..."

Seeing her father and mother come out of the house, Chen Yuejian immediately walks over with her short little legs, saying something unintelligible.

【Your daughter Chen Yuejian has learned to walk, reward: one Gathering Qi Pill.】

Chen An has just seen the notification pop up when, the next second, he finds an extra pill appearing out of thin air in his hand.

He looks down and sees a small, light purple pill.

There is a faint purple aura lingering on the surface, and it is emitting a faint, refreshing fragrance.

"Yao yao yao..."

Chen Yuejian walks up to her father, reaches out to grab his pant leg to steady herself, and looks up at him with her chubby baby face, seemingly asking to be held.

Chen An picks up his daughter and shakes her, making her giggle non-stop.

"Don't shake the child like that, it's not good for her body!"

Wen Zhiyun walks over and says with a huff, looking exactly like Chen Yuejian's own mother.

Chen An ignores her, hands the daughter in his arms to his little darling wife nearby, and hurriedly returns to the Alchemy Room.

The system had just rewarded him with a Gathering Qi Pill, and he couldn't wait to consume it now to see the effect of the medicinal pill and how much his cultivation could improve.

Watching Chen An's departing back, and thinking of the lukewarm attitude he had just shown her, Wen Zhiyun felt very unsettled inside.

She knew that Chen An was playing hard to get, but she happened to fall for it anyway.

……

Inside the Alchemy Room.

Chen An found a spot to sit down, and without a second thought, he popped the Gathering Qi Pill in his hand into his mouth.

The medicinal pill melted upon contact, transforming into wisps of warm current that flowed throughout his body.

Wherever it passed, his blood vessels expanded and his pores opened wide.

In an instant, his entire body became like a black hole, creating a powerful suction force out of thin air from within, drawing the Spirit Qi contained in the air into his body through his pores.

Suddenly flooded by so much Spirit Qi being forced in, Chen An felt as if every cell in his body was being sliced by knives, and he hissed in pain.

About an hour later.

A striking notification popped up before his eyes.

【Cultivation: Qi Refining Sixth Layer】

"Hoo~"

Looking at the notification before him, Chen An let out a long, deep breath of stale air, his face filled with a satisfied smile.

He had broken through.

One Gathering Qi Pill, and he had broken through directly from Qi Refining Fifth Layer to Qi Refining Sixth Layer.

As expected, raising is better than birthing.

When his daughter was born, it only rewarded him with a Sleep Aid Technique.

But learning to walk rewarded him with a Gathering Qi Pill.

In the future, there would be learning to speak, learning to guide Qi into the body, and various other learning stages to go through.

Chen An was very much looking forward to the rewards at those times.

His requirements weren't high; a guaranteed one Gathering Qi Pill each time would suffice.

"Husband, come out to eat!"

The voice of his little wife, Song Huaying, came from outside the door.

Chen An got up to open the door, but instead of rushing to the hall to eat, he pulled his little wife inside.

It had been a long time since he taught his little wife alchemy; since he was already in the Alchemy Room, he might as well teach her and improve her alchemy skills.

About the time it takes for an incense stick to burn later.

【Alchemy Experience +3】

【Alchemy Experience +3】

【Alchemy Experience +3】

"Ying, which of these three alchemy methods do you prefer?"

"I like them all."

"That's too perfunctory."

"If I really have to say which one I prefer, it would probably still be the conventional alchemy method, but sometimes when I get tired of the conventional way, I want to try a different approach."

"Let's go, let's eat first, and tonight I will teach you alchemy again."

After speaking, the two wiped away the sweat they had worked up, tidied up their clothes which had been loosened due to the heat, and soon got up to head to the hall for dinner.

Arriving at the hall.

As soon as Chen An sat down at the dining table, Wen Zhiyun opposite him said with a look of surprise:

"You broke through?"

"Mm, broke through from Qi Refining Fifth Layer to Qi Refining Sixth Layer."

Chen An said with a calm expression.

Wen Zhiyun felt it was hard to believe.

She still remembered that when she first met Chen An last year, he was only a bottom-tier cultivator at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.

Now, in the blink of an eye, he had reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer.

In just a short year, he had broken through twice in a row.

What kind of cultivation speed is this?!

Wen Zhiyun's heart could not calm down for a long time.

Seeing this, Chen An felt it was a good opportunity to bluff her, so he said to her:

"Fellow Daoist Wen, I told you before."

"Marrying and having children as nature intended, without excessively suppressing one's seven emotions and six desires, is the correct way of cultivation."

"The reason you have Qi Refining Eighth Layer cultivation despite your bitter cultivation is simply because your talent is high, not because of the bitter cultivation of suppressing your desires."

Is it really like that...

Wen Zhiyun was shaken, beginning to doubt if her previous cultivation philosophy was truly wrong.

Seeing that his goal was achieved, Chen An said no more and ate his meal in silence.

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