Chapter 25

The outer city area does have spiritual energy.

Whether it's the natural energy filling the heavens and earth, the overflow from the millions of mountains in the Eastern Wasteland, or the leakage from the inner city, there is more or less spiritual energy everywhere.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many rogue cultivators gathering here from all over.

But that concentration of spiritual energy is barely enough for people to cultivate.

It's really barely enough; before Luo Chen crossed over, his cultivation progress bar would only move a tiny bit after half a month of bitter cultivation.

In other words, if he wanted to fill the 100-point progress bar for the third level of Qi Refining, it would take a full four or five years.

And he couldn't waste spiritual power in the meantime, ensuring every session of cultivation yielded a gain.

In reality, the original owner did indeed struggle for over three years without his cultivation making any progress.

Of course, there was also the reason of struggling for a livelihood and not having enough time to cultivate.

It was only after Luo Chen crossed over and relied on the proficiency panel to grind his Everlasting Spring Art to the mastery level that the situation improved bit by bit.

Even under these circumstances, he had been stuck at a progress bar of seventy-something for a long time.

Finally, relying on a bottle of Qi-Nurturing Pills and the perfect-level Everlasting Spring Art, Luo Chen managed to struggle through to the fourth level.

But if he had been cultivating in the inner city at that time...

That time could have been shortened by at least one-third!

"This is the charm of a spiritual vein!"

"And this is just a first-rank spiritual vein!"

"It's hard to imagine how fast the cultivation speed of those sect disciples situated on second-rank or third-rank spiritual veins must be!"

Luo Chen let out three exclamations in a row, which shows how restless his mood was.

If he were in those places, could he cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining before his lifespan ended?

Luo Chen didn't know; he only knew that his life was already much better than before.

Next, he must strive to live in the inner city for a long time; this is the true place for cultivation.

Not that murky place in the outer city mixed with dirt and excrement, with the occasional smell of blood.

However, after this exclamation, Luo Chen was stunned by the cold when midnight arrived.

"Why is it so cold?"

"Even my fourth-level Qi Refining physique can barely hold up."

"I must buy a quilt tomorrow!"

No, it was so cold he couldn't sleep at all.

Luo Chen climbed out of bed and decided to find something to do.

Processing medicinal herbs was out of the question; he lacked tools and some ingredients.

Luo Chen took out that set of jade blades and tried to inject spiritual power into them.

Hum...

A crisp humming sound rang out, but the seven flying blades remained motionless.

"Did something go wrong?"

He thought for a moment and injected spiritual power into them one by one, until he injected it into the largest wooden blade, at which point all seven blades simultaneously bloomed with a jade-green radiance.

"So the child blades are controlled by the mother blade."

After realizing this principle, Luo Chen played with them with increasing interest.

Under his control, the seven flying blades were like floating turrets, flying slowly around him.

"Go!"

Luo Chen pointed at the corner of the wall on the ground, and a child blade flew out instantly.

Like an arrow, the child blade emitted a humming sound and whistled as it pierced into the ground.

The speed was fast, and the power was decent.

The blue brick ground was pierced through as if it were tofu.

And this was just one child blade; what if all seven were used together?

What if the seven blades formed a formation that could attack when advancing and defend when retreating?

Luo Chen was very interested, then awkwardly ran to the corner and pulled out the small wooden blade.

"I must buy a book on the Traction Art; this money cannot be saved!"

Yes, he hadn't learned the Traction Art yet, so his magic power could only move in a straight line.

That is, the kind of fighting style where "I just use force, and you're responsible for the miracle."

The Soul-Breaking Nail was fine; it was a one-way trip anyway.

But this set of jade blades was about moving and retreating freely, like a forest of trees.

Without the coordination of the Traction Art, it was really a waste of this set of magic tools.

After playing with the jade blades for a while longer, Luo Chen reluctantly put them into his storage bag.

Logically speaking, the Traction Art is actually a flexible application of spiritual power; if one is familiar enough with spiritual power, even without this set of spells, one can freely control various magic tools.

But clearly, Luo Chen didn't have that proficiency, nor did he have that level of comprehension.

Or rather, the vast majority of low-level cultivators couldn't reach that level.

Their spiritual power was limited to begin with, so where would they get the opportunity to become familiar with it?

Therefore, this led to the pioneering feat of high-level cultivators creating the Traction Art for low-level cultivators.

Done playing with the jade blades, Luo Chen had other things to kill time with.

Lightness skills and reading!

It was perfect that the room hadn't been furnished yet, so the space was large enough.

The Li Li Xiaoyao Travel wasn't just a lightness skill that pursued speed; when practiced to a high level, it emphasized being carefree, at ease, and unhurried.

Luo Chen moved around the room, sometimes on the roof, sometimes on the ground, trying his best to restrain his power each time.

Believe it or not, compared to the previous wide-open running, there was another kind of experience.

Holding the book "Records of the Six Domains' Customs" in his hand, Luo Chen had only read half of it.

Before, he knew the most about the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect and the Hehuan Sect.

After all, one was a local top sect, and the other was a sect with many romantic anecdotes.

"The six great assassins of Tianfan City, the Mandarin Duck Axes Mu Qingcheng, a rare female powerhouse among Core Formation cultivators; the two mother-and-child Mandarin Duck Axes have the power to overturn heaven and earth and sever yin and yang."

Luo Chen read it and clicked his tongue in wonder.

Among the six great top sects of the Far East, one sect was famous for casting tools, and that was Tianfan City.

The Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion in Dahe Square was an industry of Tianfan City.

This sect was extremely skilled in casting tools; besides common magic tools, they especially liked to cast various exotic weapons.

Over so many years, they had managed to cast six powerful exotic magic treasures.

Tianfan City bestowed them upon six great Core Formation cultivators, and over the years, they had carved out a resounding reputation.

Just like the Mu Qingcheng with the Mandarin Duck Axes he was reading about now, she reached Foundation Establishment in ten years and Core Formation in a hundred; although she hadn't participated in the opening wars, she had now made a resounding name for herself among Core Formation cultivators.

Relying on her Mandarin Duck Axe magic treasure, she had single-handedly opened up the situation for Tianfan City's industries in the territories outside the six domains of the Far East.

After finishing the story of this female cultivator, Luo Chen, besides marveling at her strength, only came to one realization.

"So even Core Formation big shots have to work hard to earn spirit stones!"

What he was doing now was actually no different from them.

In other words, I am equivalent to a Core Formation big shot!

Squeak!

The layout of this Sihe Academy was very traditional; the gatehouse and the inverted rooms were adjacent.

Therefore, when Luo Chen got up early in the morning, preparing to go out for purchases, he happened to run into Miss Caiyi returning from work.

"Good morning!"

"Good morning, ugh..." Caiyi yawned, her slender waist eye-catching.

"Back so late?"

Caiyi said helplessly, "Business at the Tianxiang Pavilion has been excessively good lately; those of us who dance and sing naturally have to suffer."

Excessively good?

Hasn't business at the Tianxiang Pavilion always been good?

Looking at Luo Chen, who was preparing to go out, Caiyi asked curiously, "Are you going out? By the way, I haven't asked you what you do; you have spirit stones to live in the inner city at the fourth level of Qi Refining."

"I'm an alchemist, usually setting up a stall at the rogue cultivator market in the south of the city. If there's anything you want to buy, I can help you bring it back," Luo Chen said.

"An alchemist!"

Caiyi's sleepiness vanished instantly.

Her neighbor was actually so capable.

"Talk later, I'm busy today."

Luo Chen waved his hand and hurried out the door.

Miss Caiyi leaned against the doorway, watching Luo Chen's departing back, not knowing what she was thinking.