Chapter 14

Three days later!

After layers of inspection and assessment, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao finally successfully joined the Xuantian Sect after taking the sect's Dao oath.

It can only be said that the Xuantian Sect is worthy of being a hegemon-level force; even with the lowered assessment difficulty, nearly ten percent of the people in the reception courtyard were eliminated.

Although the annual entrance assessment was not very difficult and had lower requirements for cultivation talent, perseverance, and other aspects.

But the Xuantian Sect did not lower its assessment of personal character; it would rather have a vacancy than accept someone inferior. The Xuantian Sect would not let a single rat turd ruin a whole pot of porridge.

Among them, Long Tian, who had a conflict with Ye Qingxuan a few days ago, failed the assessment in an illusion array and missed the chance to join the Xuantian Sect.

In a word, the Xuantian Sect does not lack disciples!

Because it was only an annual entrance ceremony, the high-level officials of the Xuantian Sect did not appear.

At most, an Elder-level figure appeared during the sect Dao oath segment.

It can be seen that the Xuantian Sect does not care about these disciples recruited annually; most people's talent does not reach the standard for those high-level officials to accept disciples.

Not long after Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao joined the Xuantian Sect, Mo Tian found them, and under Mo Tian's arrangement, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao were soon separated.

Ye Qingxiao became a handyman disciple of the Xuantian Sect and was taken by Mo Tian to the Xuantian Sect's handyman courtyard to cultivate, and he needed to complete the Xuantian Sect's handyman tasks every day.

As for Ye Qingxuan, because he was a Blessed Land cultivator reserve disciple of the sect, he was taken to the Blessed Land Cultivator Courtyard, inside a building at the foot of Xuan Peak.

As a Blessed Land cultivator reserve of the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan did not need to do any sect tasks at all, and the Xuantian Sect would provide enough cultivation resources for him to cultivate.

Everyone in the Blessed Land Cultivator Courtyard was basically like this.

However, those willing to become Blessed Land cultivators basically had very poor talent, mostly having single or dual-element spiritual roots.

Those who had a little talent and could have a glimmer of prospects basically would not choose to become Blessed Land cultivators.

Therefore, even though they did not need to do sect tasks and the sect provided enough resources for cultivation, the cultivation speed of the people in the Blessed Land Cultivator Courtyard was still very slow.

After going around in circles for so long, at this point, Ye Qingxuan finally settled down in the Xuantian Sect.

After Ye Qingxuan entered the Blessed Land Cultivator Courtyard, he soon received the first cultivation technique of his life—the Earth Source Art!

The Earth Source Art was also the exclusive cultivation technique for all Blessed Land cultivator reserve disciples; all Blessed Land cultivator disciples practiced the Earth Source Art!

Cultivation techniques are divided into one to nine orders. Ye Qingxuan did not know the specific grade of the Earth Source Art; he only received the first four layers of the Earth Source Art for the time being.

The first four layers of the Earth Source Art were enough for Ye Qingxuan to cultivate to the Golden Core Realm, equivalent to a fourth-order technique.

After obtaining the Earth Source Art, Ye Qingxuan could not wait to enter his own small courtyard, and after activating the array that came with the courtyard, he began the first cultivation experience of his life.

For the first cultivation, one needs to sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and only after guiding the spiritual energy into the body and refining it into one's own spiritual power can one truly step into the Qi Refining Realm!

Ye Qingxuan sat cross-legged, suppressed the excitement in his heart, emptied his mind, and tried hard to sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

In a state of meditation, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a day had passed.

It was not until late at night, when Ye Qingxuan was woken up by hunger, that he still had not been able to sense the spiritual energy and step into the Qi Refining Realm.

But Ye Qingxuan was not discouraged; he was not in a hurry to continue cultivating, but instead went out of the courtyard to the Blessed Land Cultivator Courtyard's supply point to collect enough food.

After returning to his small courtyard and having a full meal, Ye Qingxuan chose to sleep soundly to recover the mental energy consumed that day.

This continued for two days.

On the third day, thanks to the rich spiritual energy environment within the Xuantian Sect and Ye Qingxuan's soul, which was different from ordinary people.

On the evening of the third day, Ye Qingxuan successfully sensed the spiritual energy and smoothly guided it into his body, refining the spiritual energy to transform his first wisp of spiritual power, officially stepping into the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm.

Ye Qingxuan became the first person among those who entered the Blessed Land Cultivator Courtyard in the same batch as him to break through to the Qi Refining Realm.

After breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm, because he was in an unfamiliar environment, Ye Qingxuan, out of caution, did not report it immediately.

His talent was not the highest among those in the same batch, and breaking through too quickly was not reasonable.

So after Ye Qingxuan broke through to the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm, he chose to hide it and did not want to report it to show off.

After all, there was no reward for being the first to break through, so it was not worth reporting so quickly.

In any case, he had always been cultivating in seclusion in the small courtyard, and no one would notice him.

After breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm, worldly food was no longer useful to him; basically, the spiritual energy that the body automatically absorbed daily was enough to provide the energy consumed by the body.

Just like that, Ye Qingxuan hid his own progress, began to stay indoors, and consolidated his cultivation base at the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm; at the same time, he secretly paid attention to the cultivation progress of others in the same batch.

During this period, Ye Qingxuan tried to refine the mysterious bead in his mind, but it had no effect.

This made Ye Qingxuan a little disappointed, but he did not feel discouraged; in any case, the bead was in his mind and could not run away, and sooner or later it would be used by him.

After consolidating his breakthrough cultivation base, Ye Qingxuan took out the storage ring given to him by the family head, Ye Yu Hong, refined it with his meager spiritual power, and successfully recognized it as his own to open the storage ring.

Inside the storage ring was a space 8 cubic meters in size, containing many spirit herb seeds prepared for him by the family head, a pile of jade slips and books, and 30,000 Lower Grade spirit stones.

With a thought, he took out a spirit stone and put it back in, feeling very amazed.

"By the way, I seem to have ten Qi-Inducing Pills and 300 Lower Grade spirit stones!"

At this time, Ye Qingxuan remembered the reward given to him by Ye Yonglun after he obtained first place in the family assessment.

Finding the small purple pouch given to him by Ye Yonglun from his package, Ye Qingxuan also refined it with spiritual power and found it was a storage bag 1 cubic meter in size.

Taking out the Qi-Inducing Pills and 300 Lower Grade spirit stones from the storage bag and putting the spirit stones into the storage ring, Ye Qingxuan picked up a Qi-Inducing Pill to examine it.

Elixirs are divided into one to nine orders!

The Qi-Inducing Pill is a first-order elixir that can increase the speed at which Qi Refining Realm cultivators pull spiritual energy, accelerating the cultivator's cultivation speed.

Driven by curiosity, Ye Qingxuan intended to try the feeling of using the Qi-Inducing Pill to assist in cultivation.

So he took out a Qi-Inducing Pill, put it in his mouth, swallowed it, and then entered a state of cultivation.

Sure enough, with the assistance of the Qi-Inducing Pill, Ye Qingxuan's speed of pulling spiritual energy increased by about thirty percent.

Ye Qingxuan felt a little happy in his heart and immediately seized the time to cultivate, accelerating the refining of spiritual energy.

One first-order Qi-Inducing Pill can maintain its effect for two hours!

But soon, Ye Qingxuan discovered a problem.

His speed of pulling spiritual energy had indeed become faster, but his efficiency in transforming spiritual energy had not increased much.

After spiritual energy enters the body, the cultivator needs to use their spiritual roots to refine the spiritual energy and transform it into their own spiritual power.

After he took the Qi-Inducing Pill, although the speed of pulling spiritual energy increased and the spiritual energy introduced into the body became more, the improvement in transformation efficiency was minimal.

At most, it could only be considered that the concentration of spiritual energy in the body had increased, and the transformation efficiency had been passively improved a little.

Noticing this change, Ye Qingxuan said with a bitter smile:

"Sure enough, even in the superior cultivation environment of the Xuantian Sect and with the effect of elixirs, the improvement in the cultivation speed of single-element spiritual roots is still limited; in the end, my talent is still too low!"

There are spirit veins everywhere in the Xuantian Sect, and there are countless high-order spirit veins; the concentration of spiritual energy inside is at least a hundred times higher than outside.

But Ye Qingxuan's cultivation speed in the Xuantian Sect would not be a hundred times faster than in the outside world.

All of this is because of the innate limitation of Ye Qingxuan's single-element spiritual root's spiritual energy transformation efficiency.

Within the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan's cultivation speed, at most due to the influence of spiritual energy concentration, would be three or four times faster than in the outside world without any elixir assistance.

"Slow is slow! There is plenty of time, and besides, I don't believe there is no way to solve this problem in the Xuantian Sect!"

Ye Qingxuan thought in his heart.

Backed by the Xuantian Sect, perhaps he could find a solution to many problems within the Xuantian Sect; this is the confidence of being backed by a hegemon-level force, and it is also one of the reasons why he chose to join the Xuantian Sect.