Chapter 33: Lin Fan

Inside the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard!

Ye Qingxuan finished his daily cultivation and prepared to head to the market to process the elixirs he had refined over the past year.

After deactivating the restrictive array of his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan walked out and flew away on his sword directly, leaving the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard.

Not long after Ye Qingxuan left, a gentle and elegant young man in blue robes arrived outside Ye Qingxuan's courtyard and stood there waiting quietly.

However, Ye Qingxuan was unaware of all this.

After leaving the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard, he flew his sword along a familiar route to a teleportation array and took it to the market inside the Profound Heaven Sect.

This time, Ye Qingxuan did not seek out the young couple Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, because the two had already left together to perform some sect mission.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan did not waste time on the way and went straight to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

After arriving at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan walked on his own toward a small private room inside.

After pushing open the door to the small room, Ye Qingxuan saw Bai Wenyang lying on a recliner, sipping tea.

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan joked:

"Senior Brother, the treatment for your position as a team leader is quite good, isn't it? Hahaha!"

Not long after Bai Wenyang advanced to the Purple Mansion Realm, he passed the Hundred Treasures Pavilion's performance assessment and successfully promoted to the position of team leader, with his benefits and treatment also rising to a new level.

"Hahaha, not at all! Not at all! Junior Brother, please sit!"

Seeing Ye Qingxuan arrive, Bai Wenyang stood up and laughed as he pulled Ye Qingxuan to sit down.

After pouring a cup of tea for Ye Qingxuan, Bai Wenyang smiled lightly:

"Junior Brother, your focus on cultivation over these years has truly made me admire you!"

Having known each other for many years, Bai Wenyang had some understanding of the state of the Junior Brother before him.

Every day was almost an unwavering routine of cultivation and elixir refining, day after day, never stopping!

Such persistence and the temperament to endure loneliness—Bai Wenyang felt he fell far short of this!

Therefore, Bai Wenyang still thought highly of this Junior Brother of his who lacked natural talent.

Ye Qingxuan ignored Bai Wenyang's words, took out an unrefined, unclaimed storage bag from his robes, and tossed it directly to Bai Wenyang:

"Here, these are the elixirs for this time."

Bai Wenyang took the storage bag nonchalantly, probed it with his spiritual sense, and suddenly exclaimed:

"Holy crap, so many?"

Then Bai Wenyang looked at Ye Qingxuan with an incredulous gaze and hesitated:

"Are these all elixirs you refined in this one year?"

The corners of Ye Qingxuan's mouth lifted slightly as he nodded:

"I've been refining smoothly lately, so I just happened to refine a little bit more."

He wasn't lying; ever since he broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining and switched to a Supreme Grade artifact-level alchemy furnace, his speed in refining Spirit-Increasing Pills had indeed become much faster, and the yield per furnace had basically stabilized at ten pills.

Therefore, in the following years, the number of Spirit-Increasing Pills Ye Qingxuan refined annually basically exceeded 3,000.

But when Bai Wenyang heard this, he rolled his eyes and said incredulously:

"You call this a little bit? This is directly doubled, okay?"

In a typical year, the amount of Spirit-Increasing Pills Ye Qingxuan gave him was only about 1,000, but this time, there were a full 3,400 Spirit-Increasing Pills in the storage bag.

But what he didn't know was that this included the share of elixirs that originally belonged to Hong Miaomiao, which was why there were so many this time.

However, these elixirs were indeed refined by Ye Qingxuan himself within the year.

Seeing that Bai Wenyang didn't believe him, Ye Qingxuan didn't speak, but suppressed the pride on his face and pretended to be calm as he drank his tea.

Bai Wenyang was helpless and could only ask tentatively again:

"Is it really refined by you alone?"

"Yes!"

Ye Qingxuan had no intention of hiding it; anyway, with the constraints of the Dao Oath, Bai Wenyang could not reveal any information related to the elixirs.

Moreover, this feeling seemed quite good...

Just consider it a form of adjustment in his cultivation!

Ye Qingxuan was comfortable, but Bai Wenyang was miserable; the alchemy talent of the Junior Brother before him was simply beyond his imagination.

This alchemy talent was definitely at a monstrous level, but he couldn't tell anyone and had to keep it to himself, which was very uncomfortable.

Especially seeing Ye Qingxuan pretending to be indifferent, Bai Wenyang suddenly got angry, took out a storage bag, and threw it to Ye Qingxuan:

"Go! Go! Go! I feel annoyed seeing you now."

Out of sight, out of mind; Bai Wenyang indicated that he didn't want to see Ye Qingxuan at all right now.

Ye Qingxuan took the storage bag, deliberately weighed the spirit stones inside in front of Bai Wenyang, and smiled lightly:

"Then Junior Brother will take his leave first, hahaha!"

After speaking, he turned and left gracefully.

After Ye Qingxuan left, Bai Wenyang sat quietly in the small room for a while, then suddenly sighed and shook his head regretfully:

"Sigh, what a pity!"

With Ye Qingxuan's cultivation talent, it would inevitably severely limit the upper ceiling of his own alchemy talent.

What Bai Wenyang regretted was this Junior Brother with whom he had a good friendship, and he also regretted Ye Qingxuan's monstrous alchemy talent.

After Ye Qingxuan left the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, he did not stay in the market long, but prepared to return directly to the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard.

Although there were many good things in the market, Ye Qingxuan couldn't afford most of the high-order ones, and the low-order ones were not what he urgently needed.

So it was better to wait until he had saved enough spirit stones before coming to the market to purchase some truly good things.

After teleporting to the teleportation array near the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard, Ye Qingxuan flew his sword again, heading toward the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard.

The straight-line distance from this teleportation array to the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard was not far, but it was separated by layers of mountain peaks.

Flying his sword high in the sky, just as he was approaching the sky above his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan discovered the young man standing outside his courtyard.

With doubts in his heart, Ye Qingxuan landed quickly and arrived at the entrance of his small courtyard.

Before he could ask, the young man had already spoken first.

"Junior Brother Ye, it really isn't easy to see you!"

This Junior Brother Ye lived in seclusion and activated a restrictive array during cultivation to isolate himself from outside interference.

If he hadn't set up an observation array outside Ye Qingxuan's courtyard and noticed Ye Qingxuan leaving, then came over to wait in advance, he probably wouldn't have been able to see Ye Qingxuan at all.

Hearing the young man's words, Ye Qingxuan's brows twitched, and he asked curiously:

"Who are you?"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's inquiry, the young man opposite smiled slightly, then said:

"I am Lin Fan. I apologize for the intrusion, Junior Brother, please forgive me!"

"Lin Fan?"

Ye Qingxuan pondered silently, recalling the information Su Daobin had told him before.

"This Lin Fan obtained a quota to inherit a predecessor's blessed land. I just don't know what order of blessed land he inherited?"

Numerous thoughts flashed through his mind, and Ye Qingxuan then said:

"So it is Senior Brother Lin. I wonder what business Senior Brother Lin has with me?"

"It's nothing major. It's just that I have reached the perfection of Qi Refining and am about to leave the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard to inherit a blessed land. Before leaving, I want to host a banquet for all the Junior Brothers. I wonder if Junior Brother Ye has time?"

Hearing Lin Fan's words, Ye Qingxuan's attention shifted to Lin Fan's cultivation base.

"Qi Refining perfection!"

This Lin Fan was one of the people who entered at the same time as him. Now he was already at Qi Refining perfection. It seems this Lin Fan is one of the few people in the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard who possesses dual-element spiritual roots.

Is the gap in spiritual roots really this large?

He had spent so many elixirs and so much time, and now even Lin Fan, who only had dual-element spiritual root talent slightly better than his own, had a cultivation base far exceeding his?

Ye Qingxuan took a deep breath, his desire for the blessed land's ability to increase spiritual roots becoming even stronger.

In fact, what Ye Qingxuan didn't know was that since Lin Fan could obtain the quota to inherit a predecessor's blessed land, he naturally had the support of a major power behind him.

In reality, the resources Lin Fan consumed were no less than his, and perhaps even more.

Therefore, it was very normal for Lin Fan's cultivation base to exceed his.

Ye Qingxuan's thoughts were numerous. Although Lin Fan's appearance stimulated him, it did not shake his inner heart; instead, it ignited Ye Qingxuan's fighting spirit.

A temporary lead is nothing; only by reaching the end can one be considered victorious.

After regaining his composure, Ye Qingxuan asked:

"When?"

Seeing that Ye Qingxuan did not directly refuse, the smile on Lin Fan's face grew brighter, and he stated the time and place:

"The evening three days from now, right at the central plaza within the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard!"

Hearing the time and place, Ye Qingxuan calculated for a moment and agreed.

"Good! Three days later, this Junior Brother will definitely be there!"

Nowadays, the remaining reserve disciples in the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard were basically just the batch of Junior and Senior Brothers who entered at the same time as him.

Anyway, it wouldn't take much time, so taking this opportunity to meet these Junior and Senior Brothers wouldn't be bad! ===== CHAPTER 34 =====