Chapter 57: Mid-Stage Qi Refining

Although there is a pot, there is no rice to put in it.

This is the view Ning Caize, Wei Ming, and the others have regarding the cooking here at Du En's side.

Because the demon tiger meat had long since been "devoured," the ingredients available on a daily basis were only things like strange owls, gray jackals, and ordinary medicinal herbs—mundane items that do not even enter the ranks.

Why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?

Therefore, after trying a few times, Du En shelved the cooked-mud pot.

On the surface, it looks like this.

But in reality, Du En now has a full supply of meat and vegetables.

【Hundred Arts: Gathering and Appraising (Lightly Skilled 0/50), Culinary Cooking (Lightly Skilled 0/50), Spirit Seeking (First Glimpse of the Path 0/20)】

He did not continue to cultivate, rose to his feet, opened the door, and welcomed the morning sun.

The others were busy helping with chores, and while their words and behaviors changed abruptly, it was not without traces, just finally fully exposed.

Because the accumulation of mana cultivation had finally reached the limit of the early stage of Qi Refining.

He found this unbelievable and felt it carefully; the lingering aura that Du En deliberately released after breaking through, without hiding it, was immediately confirmed.

"Are you stupid! Of course it is!"

To outsiders, their relationship still seems quite good.

It is early morning.

【Divine Ability: None】

Du En's expression was calm, as always, as he walked along, preparing for the matters of the workday.

A small portion of first-grade superior mixed vegetable stew, a slightly reduced portion of first-grade middle-grade braised poultry and beast meat; with meat and vegetables paired, he ate very healthily, and naturally, he did not encounter any problems in his cultivation.

On this night at the beginning of the third month.

The others were basically unaffected, because whether it was cultivation techniques or spells, the mastery stages were all quite high.

No longer gathered into a ball, or rather, his mana volume was a bit large; by spreading it out slightly, it could fill the entire dantian Qi sea that had just been widened.

【Cultivation Technique: Yellow Earth Technique (Great Accomplishment 252/500)】

It can be seen that this mixed vegetable stew is not just "eating vegetables."

At least he had never heard before that anyone in the shanty town area could cultivate to the middle stage of Qi Refining in just two years!

Watching them subconsciously hunch over, their expressions quite fawning, the fear in their eyes overriding the respect, Du En's expression remained unchanged, his movements natural, and he turned his head to reply to Ning Caize: "Perhaps, it is because my comprehension is good."

If the other party is not very concerned, then it can prove that in the eyes of people at a certain level, this situation is actually quite common and ordinary, and there is no need to cover it up at all.

Of course, this approach will also bring some bad feedback, such as the steward He Bo who finds Du En an eyesore, or the bully group, the Green Clothes Gang.

Because for someone with ordinary aptitude and average comprehension, it would take at least nearly two hundred years of hard practice to possibly step into this depth of Great Accomplishment!

Then, there is the aspect of cultivation efficiency.

The subsequent cultivation is a process of constant quality addition and concentration.

However, these people never had any good intentions to begin with; although he will become more of an eyesore because of this, isn't there the shield of Ren Li now?

Because there were not many corpses recently, and they would cook spirit meals to improve their diet from time to time, the others were in excellent condition, and early in the morning, they got up and went out full of vitality.

Well, that seems to make sense!

Ning Caize broke out of his shock, and then came to his senses; the strange owls and gray jackals that Du En stewed every day were all first-grade middle-grade spirit meals, and even if they were not as good as pills of the same grade, they were slightly better than first-grade inferior ones.

The current him could easily beat the previous him to death!

Reaching this step, Du En ended his cultivation and withdrew his mana, causing the mana to return to the dantian Qi sea.

In his nighttime wandering visits, besides the medicine garden, he would also visit spirit fields, vegetable gardens, fruit forests, and other places, pilfering various rice, fruits, and vegetables from them as the main ingredients for his cooking.

"Yeah, yeah, Boss... should I call you Lord?"

Du En felt touched, opened his eyes, and saw his panel.

Is this a bit too good?

"Then, eat more and practice more."

"Boss, good morning!"

He is the most knowledgeable person here, so of course he can clearly know the abnormality of this cultivation speed.

The others also nodded repeatedly with emotion, and then their hearts became very heated.

In this way, one can appropriately show one's talent according to the actual situation, avoid some small troubles that could have been avoided, and obtain some feedback on corresponding status and strength.

"Boss, morning!"

Eating a lot, practicing a lot, plus the blessing of comprehension... having this speed is actually quite reasonable.

Only Ning Caize was still a bit conflicted, or rather, too shocked.

"This, Du, Lord, this, it seems, it is still a few months away from being a full two years, right?"

In this shanty town outside the city, it can truly be called a crane standing among chickens...

If the other party feels surprised, then in the future, he should hide and restrain himself, and not be too high-profile or conspicuous.

"Oh my! You don't need to do this yourself; such trivial and messy matters, we can do them!"

They should have some moves.

"My mana, which has just broken into the middle stage, is estimated to be higher than the amount others have cultivated for decades. It is worthy of the Yellow Earth Technique at Great Accomplishment; even if it is only in the inferior rank, it is a depth that cannot be reached in the hands of ordinary bottom-level people."

In this way, winter passed, spring came, and summer approached.

【Spells: Earth Bullet Technique (Small Accomplishment 15/100), Sand Raising Technique (Great Accomplishment 45/500), Breath Concealment Technique (Mastery 233/300), Earth Armor Technique (Mastery 68/300)】

The others were also shocked and silent, stuttering and unable to speak.

His cultivation here is not a normal situation.

Even, although he needs to take time out every night, the cultivation efficiency has increased instead of decreasing; compared to before, the number of times he can circulate his energy has increased by one.

So, the question arises: should he stand tall?

Du En considered this.

Weighing the various pros and cons, deliberating over every risk, in the end, he felt that he could give it a try!

It mainly depended on how Ren Li, this parachuted-in supervisor, would react when the time came.

Lifespan limit increased by ten years.

The surrounding spiritual Qi was swallowed and drawn in; the specially increased portion of dietary power tonight was being frantically squeezed, and the mana within his body seemed to receive a baptism, becoming increasingly refined and condensed, purging excess impurities—it was a rise in both quantity and quality.

By the time Du En made his decision, the room was already beginning to brighten.

【Cultivation: Qi Refining Mid-Stage (0/100)】

When water is full, it overflows; when mana is full, it expands.

"Qi Refining Mid-Stage, ah! In this shanty town, who isn't a big shot with status and face!"

"Eh? You, you—you've reached the Qi Refining Mid-Stage?"

【Spiritual Root: Low Grade】

How could someone in the Qi Refining stage have such a long life?

After the change, it permeated and crossed the ethereal dantian meridians, arriving at the physical bones and skeleton that bore the substance, further tamping down the solid earth of this body.

Du En sat cross-legged on the ground; his vigorous and heavy gaseous mana was traveling through his dantian and meridians, not with the speed of the past, but revealing a sense of constriction and slowness.

Powerful, heavy, forceful!

"Comprehension, good..."

Up until now, they could only eat an extra small bowl, while Du En, from the very beginning, had been eating whole pots at a time.

"The daily accumulation rate has, as expected, become smaller and slower. Judging from the feeling of circulating my power just after the breakthrough, hmm, under normal circumstances, the accumulation time is estimated to be heading toward forty years. Calculating it this way... in less than three years, I can break through to the late stage."

The others first subconsciously stepped back, then immediately reacted.

The greetings that would have continued to cycle through got stuck at Ning Caize.

There were absolutely no shackles or obstacles; the moment the dantian and meridians were completely full, it was like the earth rumbling—the dantian sea of Qi began to be deepened, and the meridians began to be widened.

"Good morning, uh..."

【Age: 20/116】

Eat more, practice more, increase speed and efficiency!

Never mind those with low-grade spiritual roots and average comprehension; even those with mid-grade spiritual roots and excellent comprehension could not keep up with his cultivation efficiency at all.

Because they seemed to be walking on Du En's old path; as long as they followed in his footsteps like this, why worry about not having a day of success!?

At this, their respect surged, and their waists bent even lower.

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