Chapter 33: Lin Fan

Inside the Fuxiu Courtyard!

Ye Qingxuan finished his daily cultivation and prepared to go to the market district to sell the elixirs he had refined over the past year.

After lifting the suppression array sealing his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan walked outside and flew away on his sword, leaving the Fuxiu Courtyard.

Not long after Ye Qingxuan left, a young man in a blue robe, gentle and refined, arrived outside Ye Qingxuan's small courtyard and stood quietly waiting.

However, Ye Qingxuan knew nothing of this.

After leaving the Fuxiu Courtyard, he skillfully flew on his sword to a teleportation array and took it to the market district within the Xuantian Sect.

This time, Ye Qingxuan did not look for Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, the young couple, because Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun had already gone out together to complete a sect mission.

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

Upon arriving at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan walked directly toward a small private room inside.

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

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan joked:

"Senior Brother, your position as team leader comes with quite good benefits, doesn't it? Hahaha!"

Shortly after Bai Wenyang advanced to the Purple Mansion realm, he passed the performance assessment of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and smoothly rose to the position of team leader, with his benefits and treatment improving by a level.

"Hahaha, where, where! Junior Brother, please sit!"

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

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

"Junior Brother, your determination in cultivation these years has truly made this senior brother admire you!"

Having known each other for many years, Bai Wenyang was already familiar with the state of the junior brother before him.

Almost every day, without fail, he cultivated and refined elixirs, day after day, without interruption!

Such steadfastness and a mind capable of enduring solitude were something Bai Wenyang himself felt he could not match!

Therefore, despite his junior brother's mediocre talent, Bai Wenyang still held him in high regard.

Ignoring Bai Wenyang's words, Ye Qingxuan took a storage bag that had not yet been refined and bound to his soul from his robes and tossed it directly to Bai Wenyang:

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

Bai Wenyang casually took the storage bag, sent his spiritual sense inside, and immediately exclaimed:

"Damn, so many?"

Then, looking at Ye Qingxuan with disbelief, Bai Wenyang hesitated and asked:

"Are these all the elixirs you refined over the past year?"

A slight smile curled Ye Qingxuan's lips as he nodded and said:

"Recently, refining has gone smoothly, so I just refined a little bit more by habit."

He was not lying; since breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining and switching to a supreme-grade magic treasure alchemy furnace, his speed in refining Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs had indeed increased greatly, and the number of elixirs produced per batch had stabilized at around ten.

Thus, in the following years, the number of Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs Ye Qingxuan refined annually consistently exceeded three thousand.

But upon hearing this, Bai Wenyang rolled his eyes and retorted:

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

Normally, in a year, Ye Qingxuan would give him just over a thousand Spirit-Enhancing Elixirs, but this time, the storage bag contained a full three thousand four hundred.

However, what he did not know was that this included the portion of elixirs originally belonging to Hong Miaomiao, which was why there were so many this time.

Nevertheless, these elixirs were indeed all refined by Ye Qingxuan himself within a single year.

Seeing that Bai Wenyang did not believe him, Ye Qingxuan said nothing, suppressed the pride on his face, and pretended to be calm while sipping his tea.

Helpless, Bai Wenyang could only ask tentatively again:

"You really refined them all by yourself?"

"Yes!"

Ye Qingxuan had no intention of hiding it; anyway, bound by a Dao vow, Bai Wenyang could not reveal any information related to the elixirs.

Moreover, this feeling seemed rather nice...

Let's just consider it a kind of seasoning in cultivation!

While Ye Qingxuan felt comfortable, Bai Wenyang felt miserable; the alchemy talent of this junior brother before him was simply beyond his imagination.

This alchemy talent was absolutely of a monstrous level, yet he could not speak of it, forced to keep it bottled up inside, which was extremely painful.

Especially seeing Ye Qingxuan's feigned calmness, Bai Wenyang suddenly felt anger rise; he immediately took out a storage bag and threw it to Ye Qingxuan, saying:

"Go! Go! Go! Just seeing you now makes me annoyed."

Out of sight, out of mind; Bai Wenyang stated he did not want to see Ye Qingxuan at all right now.

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

"Then this junior brother will take his leave first, hahaha!"

Having said that, he turned and left with a carefree air.

After Ye Qingxuan left, Bai Wenyang sat quietly in the small room for a moment, then suddenly sighed, shaking his head in regret:

"Alas, what a pity!"

With Ye Qingxuan's cultivation talent, his own alchemy talent's ceiling would inevitably be greatly limited.

Bai Wenyang regretted his junior brother, with whom he had a good relationship, and equally regretted Ye Qingxuan's monstrous alchemy talent.

After leaving the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan did not linger in the market district but prepared to return directly to the Fuxiu Courtyard.

Although there were many good things in the market district, the high-grade ones were mostly beyond his means to purchase, while the low-grade 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 district to buy some truly good items.

After teleporting to the teleportation array near the Fuxiu Courtyard, Ye Qingxuan flew on his sword once more, heading toward the Fuxiu Courtyard.

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

As he rode his sword through the high sky, about to approach the space above his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan spotted a young man standing outside his courtyard.

With questions in his heart, Ye Qingxuan descended rapidly and arrived at the entrance of his small courtyard.

Before he could speak, the young man had already opened his mouth first.

"Junior Brother Ye, it is truly not easy to get a chance to see you!"

This Junior Brother Ye lives in seclusion, and when he cultivates, he activates forbidden arrays to block outside disturbances.

If he had not set up an observation array outside Ye Qingxuan's small courtyard, noticed Ye Qingxuan leaving, and come early to wait, he probably would not have been able to see Ye Qingxuan at all.

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

"Who might you be?"

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

"I am Lin Fan. I apologize for my presumptuous disturbance, Junior Brother; please forgive me!"

"Lin Fan?"

Ye Qingxuan murmured the name in his heart, recalling the information Su Daobin had told him earlier.

"This Lin Fan obtained a spot to inherit an ancestral blessed land; I just do not know which tier blessed land he will inherit."

With various thoughts flashing through his mind, Ye Qingxuan immediately spoke:

"So it is Senior Brother Lin. I wonder what Senior Brother Lin wishes to speak with me about?"

"It is nothing major. I have already reached the peak of Qi Refining and am about to leave the Blessed Cultivation Academy to inherit a blessed land. Before I depart, I wish to host a banquet for all the junior brothers. Does Junior Brother Ye have time?"

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

"Peak of Qi Refining!"

This Lin Fan was one of the people who entered in the same batch as him. Now he has already reached the peak of Qi Refining; it seems Lin Fan is one of the few in the Blessed Cultivation Academy who possesses dual spiritual roots.

Is the gap caused by spiritual roots really this large?

He has consumed numerous elixirs and time, yet now even Lin Fan, whose talent with dual spiritual roots is only slightly superior to his own, has a cultivation base far surpassing his?

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

What Ye Qingxuan did not know was that since Lin Fan could obtain a spot to inherit an ancestral blessed land, he naturally had the support of a great power behind him.

In fact, the resources Lin Fan consumed were not less than his; they were even somewhat greater.

Therefore, it is quite normal for Lin Fan to surpass him in cultivation.

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

Temporary progress means nothing; only reaching the end counts as victory.

Coming back to his senses, Ye Qingxuan asked:

"When?"

Seeing that Ye Qingxuan did not directly refuse, the young man Lin Fan opposite smiled even more broadly and spoke out the time and location:

"Three days from now, at dusk, right in the central square within the Blessed Cultivation Academy!"

Hearing the time and location, Ye Qingxuan calculated for a moment in his heart, then agreed.

"Good! Three days from now, this junior brother will definitely be there!"

Nowadays, among the remaining Blessed Cultivation trainees in the Blessed Cultivation Academy, basically only his batch of fellow junior and senior brothers who entered together remain.

It will not cost much time anyway; taking this opportunity to meet and see these junior and senior brothers is not bad!