Chapter 36: Forging Ahead

After the banquet ended.

Ye Qingxuan resumed the rhythm of his cultivation, even reducing his elixir refining and spending more time on cultivation.

Although he possessed eternal life, he did not slack off in his cultivation because of it.

The path to immortality is long; one step slow, every step slow!

Sometimes, missing out means missing out forever; the peak of the immortal path cannot be reached solely by relying on eternal life.

Eternal life, for the true powerhouses on the immortal path, is nothing!

If he wants to reach the very peak, he cannot harbor luck or slack off in his cultivation just because he possesses eternal life.

Heaven's timing, geographical advantages, and human harmony—sometimes if you miss the timing, you miss the opportunity to reach the peak forever!

On the path of cultivation, the further you go, the narrower the road becomes, and the fewer opportunities there are to help yourself. Missing one could potentially cut off your path forward directly.

Only by stepping through thorns step by step, forging ahead, and being persistent can one grasp opportunity after opportunity, transform oneself, and transcend everything!

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan never relied on eternal life when he stepped onto the path of immortality; what he valued was only the help eternal life provided him in the early stages.

If in the future he could exchange this eternal life for an opportunity to go a step further, he would discard this so-called eternal life without hesitation to exchange for the opportunity to go higher.

Since reducing the time spent on alchemy and increasing the time spent on cultivation.

Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base improvement speed had become a sliver faster than before!

Although it was only a sliver faster each day, over time, this sliver of progress began to have significant effects.

In just six years, Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base reached his expectation: the realm of Qi Refining perfection.

A full year ahead of the time he had previously estimated.

After advancing to Qi Refining perfection, the next step was to open up a blessed land and use the feedback from the newly opened blessed land to advance to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Before opening up the blessed land, Ye Qingxuan could not break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm in advance. Once he broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, the essence, Qi, and spirit of the cultivator would begin to solidify.

At that time, if he wanted to separate the essence, Qi, and spirit to merge into the spiritual land's origin, the success rate would be greatly reduced!

However, before that, he prepared to go home first!

Ye Qingxuan stood in the small courtyard, looking at the sky, a trace of reminiscence flashing in his eyes.

"In the blink of an eye, twenty-two years have passed; it's time to go home and take a look!"

He entered the Profound Yi Tianzong at the age of twelve and was now thirty-four. It took twenty-two years to finally break through to Qi Refining perfection.

If he were outside the Profound Yi Tianzong, he might have needed to hesitate for over a hundred years to achieve today's results, right?

Taking one last look at the small courtyard where he had lived for twenty-two years, Ye Qingxuan no longer lingered, opened the courtyard door, stepped out, and his figure walked further and further away!

Arriving at the Affairs Hall of the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard, Ye Qingxuan found the manager of the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard, Bai Zichun, and said respectfully:

"Manager Bai, this disciple has broken through to Qi Refining perfection and has come to register!"

"Broken through? So fast?"

Bai Zichun looked at the disciple before him whom he had only met face-to-face twice, a look of approval appearing in his eyes:

"You, very good!"

He had already tried his best to overestimate Ye Qingxuan's cultivation progress, but he didn't expect that the time Ye Qingxuan took to break through to Qi Refining perfection still exceeded his estimation.

The first time he saw Ye Qingxuan was when Ye Qingxuan first entered the Qi Refining Realm and came to the Affairs Hall to register his cultivation base!

And the second meeting was this one right now.

Although there were restrictive arrays guarding the small courtyards where the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard disciples lived, he could not probe the situation inside each disciple's courtyard.

But he also had some understanding of the general cultivation situation of each disciple through day-to-day observation.

Facing Bai Zichun's praise, Ye Qingxuan's expression remained normal, and he responded modestly:

"Manager, you overpraise me; this disciple is unworthy of such praise!"

This was Ye Qingxuan's true thought; compared to those true geniuses, his cultivation speed was still far behind!

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's modest response, Bai Zichun became even more satisfied with Ye Qingxuan, sighing in his heart:

"Able to endure loneliness, and the temperament is also excellent; this child has the bearing of a true blessed land cultivator!"

Although Ye Qingxuan's talent was not the best batch in the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard, he was able to rely solely on himself to surpass several other dual-element spiritual root disciples and become the second person in the same batch to break through to Qi Refining perfection.

This was within Bai Zichun's expectations, but the time Ye Qingxuan took to break through to Qi Refining perfection was a little faster than he had estimated!

Ever since Ye Qingxuan entered the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard, he had lived in seclusion, and his day-after-day, uninterrupted cultivation rhythm had all been seen by him.

And other Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard disciples, after entering the Profound Yi Tianzong.

Who could be like Ye Qingxuan, able to endure loneliness and not be curious to go everywhere to see the scenery within the Profound Yi Tianzong? How could one ever see enough of the mountain peaks?

Most Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard disciples basically held the mentality of playing as much as they could before officially becoming blessed land cultivators, spending their days traveling in groups to the major peaks of the Profound Heaven Mountain Range, and even calling it work-life balance?

There were even quite a few Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard disciples who, at the last moment, could not withstand the temptations of the outside world and would delay their cultivation speed in various ways, just to delay more time for playing.

Time just slipped away in such an inadvertent manner!

Disciples like Ye Qingxuan were extremely rare in the history of the Dongxuan Fudi Cultivation Courtyard.

For such a disciple, Bai Zichun was naturally very fond of him.

Taking a map from his robes, Bai Zichun said kindly:

"This marks the first-order spiritual lands born in the Profound Heaven Mountain Range; you can choose a spiritual land to contract on your own."

Taking the map in his hand, Ye Qingxuan hesitated:

"Manager, before this disciple contracts a spiritual land, I want to go home to visit my parents. This?"

If he contracted a spiritual land now, wouldn't he be unable to go back?

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, Bai Zichun laughed and said:

"Hehehe, no problem, no problem. You can choose the spiritual vein first, and after choosing and registering, it won't be too late to go home!"

"Although they are all first-order spiritual lands, there will be quite a few differences between first-order spiritual lands. Among the remaining first-order spiritual lands, there are three that have just reached the late first-order."

"Spiritual lands are first come, first served. Determining a good spiritual land first will be of great help to your development in the early stages."

Hearing Bai Zichun's words, Ye Qingxuan's eyes lit up; he naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to refuse Bai Zichun's kindness.

"Thank you for the guidance, Manager!"

After thanking him, Ye Qingxuan opened the map in his hand and saw the markings of over a hundred first-order spiritual lands!

Among them, three markings were very conspicuous; they were precisely the locations of those three late first-order spiritual lands.

One of these three late first-order spiritual lands was not far from the Profound Yi Tianzong's main peak, Profound Heaven Peak, about 20,000 kilometers away, and it was also the closest one to Profound Heaven Peak among all the first-order spiritual lands.

And the other two late first-order spiritual lands were located on the periphery of the Profound Heaven Mountain Range, basically already close to the border line of Xuanzhou.

"Manager, can I go and see these three spiritual lands?"

The Profound Heaven Mountain Range was too large, and Ye Qingxuan did not intend to see all the spiritual lands, so he only planned to see these three late first-order spiritual lands.

Bai Zichun knew the information about these blessed lands like the back of his hand, so he did not refuse Ye Qingxuan:

"Yes, there are teleportation arrays not far from these three spiritual lands that can reach them. It won't waste much time for you to go and see them!"

Afterward, Bai Zichun continued:

"By the way, after officially becoming a blessed land cultivator, you can have two quotas for followers. Just take the opportunity of going home to recruit them yourself!"

"Followers?" ===== CHAPTER 37 =====