Chapter 32: Secluded Cultivation

After returning to Fuxiu Courtyard!

Ye Qingxuan began a new round of secluded cultivation.

Following his own cultivation rhythm, Ye Qingxuan resumed his reclusive state, enjoying the pleasure of his cultivation base growing slowly.

Every day, he was either refining elixirs or sitting in meditation, cultivating alone in the small courtyard, indifferent to the turmoil of the outside world!

Only Ye Qingxiao, since having sufficient resources supplied, became much more idle and often came to his place to mooch.

However, Ye Qingxiao had already successfully reached Foundation Establishment years ago and had long since couldn't resist venturing out of the sect.

Occasionally, Ye Qingxuan would go to the Library to copy a large batch of books to read during leisure time, thereby increasing his knowledge and reserves.

These books covered almost every aspect of the Di Xuan Realm!

From terrain and appearance, strange wonders and scenery, local customs, to introductions of various powers and descriptions of major cultivation dangerous zones, almost everything was included.

These things might not be useful to him now, but there would surely be a day when he needed them.

Every day, Ye Qingxuan gained something; though the gains were small, they would eventually accumulate like sand into a tower.

Ye Qingxuan was immersed in this seemingly slow but orderly cultivation, unable to extricate himself, ignoring the flow of time...

Time passed day after day, year after year; soon, ten years had gone by.

In those ten years, Ye Qingxiao's cultivation base had long surpassed Foundation Establishment, leaving Ye Qingxuan far behind.

But Ye Qingxuan did not become anxious because of this, still maintaining his cultivation rhythm day after day.

And his cultivation base had also broken through to the seventh layer of the Qi Refining realm during these ten years, smoothly reaching the late stage of Qi Refining, not far from Qi Refining Perfection...

During the ten years of seclusion, Ye Qingxuan refined all the first-grade elixir formulas he possessed.

Relying on his outstanding number of successful elixirs, Ye Qingxuan earned about twenty or thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones annually.

The elixirs he refined were mostly sold by Bai Wenyang and Hong Miaomiao.

Ten years passed; Hong Miaomiao and her Dao Companion Bai Qingyun had both broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm, while Bai Wenyang had even broken through to Foundation Establishment and advanced to the Purple Mansion realm, becoming an inner sect disciple of Xuantian Sect.

The few friends Ye Qingxuan made in the sect were gradually pulling away from him in cultivation, moving further and further apart.

However, Ye Qingxuan's friendship with these few did not grow distant because of this; although they met rarely, they still maintained a relationship of gentlemanly friendship.

Even Su Daobin, who had only met him once and had now contracted a spiritual land to become the master of a blessed land, occasionally sent messages to contact him to alleviate the boredom of being confined to one place.

As for Ye Qingxuan himself, besides refining elixirs in seclusion, he was also preparing for the blessed land he would soon contract.

Ye Qingxuan earned about twenty or thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones annually from his welfare salary, but he did not keep many spirit stones in his pocket.

Most of the spirit stones were used by Ye Qingxuan to have Bai Wenyang help purchase various spiritual plant seeds, including the seeds of the Spirit-Purifying Tree!

The spiritual medicine seeds given to him by the Ye family were too few and too limited in variety.

After all, the Ye family was only a Jin Dan family; how could they compare to the abundant resources within Xuantian Sect?

In ten years, Ye Qingxuan mastered the refining methods for almost all first-grade elixirs on the market.

After that, he also attempted to refine second-grade elixirs.

For this, he spent three thousand one hundred low-grade spirit stones to purchase a supreme-grade magic treasure level elixir cauldron at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

Unfortunately, in the end, due to insufficient cultivation base, the spiritual power in Ye Qingxuan's body could not sustain until the very end, causing him to fail at the last moment, and he was never able to successfully refine a second-grade elixir.

In the third year of seclusion, the resistance to the Spirit-Increasing Elixir in Ye Qingxuan's body finally began to manifest, causing the effect of consuming the Spirit-Increasing Elixir to worsen.

With no choice, Ye Qingxuan went to the Dharma Hall to find a basic spell—the Spirit-Washing Technique—and relied on it to slowly remove the residual elixir poison of the Spirit-Increasing Elixir from his body.

After obtaining the Spirit-Washing Technique, Ye Qingxuan focused on cultivating this spell; under his exceptional comprehension, he mastered the Spirit-Washing Technique to perfection in just ten days.

Relying on the perfected Spirit-Washing Technique, Ye Qingxuan completely removed the elixir poison of the Spirit-Increasing Elixir from his body in just one month, restoring the effect of the Spirit-Increasing Elixir on him.

Over ten years, Ye Qingxuan gained three thousand six hundred contribution points from his welfare salary; adding the contribution points accumulated during the more than one year before seclusion, the total was just over four thousand.

Besides spending one thousand contribution points to exchange for the Spirit-Washing Technique, Ye Qingxuan also exchanged for three other basic spells.

They were the Revival Technique, the Sword Escape Technique, and the Spirit-Gathering Technique!

Among them,

the Revival Technique could treat spiritual plants on a small scale and promote the growth of spiritual plants within a small area; it was prepared by Ye Qingxuan for cultivating spiritual plants in his future blessed land.

The Spirit-Gathering Technique could attract and gather surrounding spiritual energy within a short time.

Originally, regarding the effect of the Spirit-Gathering Technique, Ye Qingxuan intended to exchange for array inheritance, practice arrays as a secondary skill, and use arrays as a substitute.

But since the array inheritance required too many contribution points, he could only temporarily give it up.

If he had known earlier, he should have been bolder when asking his family for support; whether asking for more or less, wasn't it all just asking?

As for the Sword Escape Technique, Ye Qingxuan prepared it for returning to the Ye family.

Before reaching Qi Refining Perfection and contracting a spiritual land, Ye Qingxuan planned to return home to see his parents.

On the journey from Xuantian Sect to the Ye family, one could almost travel directly by taking teleportation arrays.

Furthermore, within the territory of Xuantian Sect, as a disciple of Xuantian Sect, he should not encounter any dangers.

But out of caution, he still chose this Sword Escape Technique just in case.

The Sword Escape Technique could be used for attack or escape; the speed activated within a short time was several times faster than normal sword riding. The effect of the amplification varied depending on the realm of the Sword Escape Technique.

In ten years, he had already cultivated these four basic spells to perfection.

At the perfected level, the Sword Escape Technique was four times faster than the entry-level Sword Riding Technique and twice as fast as the perfected-level Sword Riding Technique within the same realm for cultivators in a short time.

Although leaving Xuantian Sect was still somewhat risky, his parents were an inseparable part of him; before formally becoming a Fuxiu, he could not rest easy without personally returning to see them...

After breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining, relying on the environment of Xuantian Sect and abundant cultivation resources, Ye Qingxuan estimated that he would only need another seven years to reach the ninth layer of the Qi Refining realm, the state of perfection.

At that time, it would be when he chose a spiritual land to contract and become a Fuxiu.

Ye Qingxuan had already made the worst-case scenario in his mind.

If at that time he could not break the deadlock relying on his innate clone, the Eternal Turtle, and the mysterious pearl in his mind, then the only thing he could rely on would be himself.

Relying solely on himself, Ye Qingxuan was still confident that, with his astonishing comprehension and years of planning, he could slowly develop the blessed land.

However, in that case, the road ahead would be much more difficult; a single Fuxiu faced too many limitations.

If he could successfully use the Eternal Turtle contract to let the blessed land bear all its restrictions on his behalf, that would be ideal.

Beyond that, Ye Qingxuan placed great expectations on the bead that traveled with him into this world, expectations even higher than those for his innate avatar, the Eternal Turtle.

After all, the unknown also represents hope for breaking the deadlock!

Ye Qingxuan had already done as much preparation as possible.

How the road ahead unfolds depends on the moment he officially becomes a Blessed Cultivator!