Chapter 95: Ascending to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, Strength Greatly Increased

Several days later.

In Miyun City, Xianxia Sect Cultivator Yan Yi and Lu Family Elder Lu Ming, leading a team of Patrol Guards, searched everywhere for the traces of Ji Bingyu and the others, attempting to find their hiding place.

In order to find their hiding place, they searched basically house by house, conducting a carpet-style search.

However, no matter how hard they tried to search, they could not find any trace of Ji Bingyu and the others.

There were not even many Cultivators who knew them.

After all, Ji Bingyu and the others stayed at home year-round, and even if they met other Cultivators, it was nothing more than a nod of acquaintance.

It could not be considered very familiar.

Even if they wanted to find acquaintances to threaten them into coming out, they could not find such acquaintances.

This also left them with no way to start.

"Damn it, where exactly are these few female Cultivators hiding? Can they really fly into the sky or burrow into the earth?"

"And they have stayed in Miyun City for such a long time, yet they don't even have a single friend. How do they usually make money? Could it be that they are already very wealthy?"

Yan Yi felt very depressed and incomparably frustrated.

Previously, he had been full of confidence, feeling that Ji Bingyu and the others could not escape Miyun City and would be found sooner or later.

But now, he could not even find their traces.

It was as if they had vanished into thin air in Miyun City.

If he hadn't already known the news about Ji Bingyu and the others beforehand, he would have thought these few female Cultivators had popped out of thin air.

"Fellow Daoist Yan Yi, we cannot continue searching like this. The Youmo Sect seems to have intensified their offensive. We must return to the city walls to defend, lest the Demonic Cultivators attack."

Lu Family Elder Lu Ming reminded him.

Now is not the time to mobilize the masses; after all, the Youmo Sect Cultivators outside are eyeing them covetously.

Once the Array Formation is broken, they will be completely finished.

As for those few female Cultivators, they are just a small nuisance.

They are not worth such great attention.

"Forget it, since these little bugs are so good at hiding, then let them go for now."

Yan Yi was also helpless.

After all, even if they continued to investigate like this, there would likely be no gains.

Instead, his own willful behavior would lead to the collapse of Miyun City.

Then he would be a sinner of the Xianxia Sect.

It was precisely because of this that after their grand search yielded no results, they temporarily gave up.

The entire Miyun City also gradually returned to its previous calm.

Those Loose Cultivators who could not escape were all pressed into service, joining the Patrol Guard team.

As for whether they would live or die in the future, that would depend on luck.

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At this moment, in the Underground Shelter, inside a quiet room.

The entire Underground Shelter was also divided into many rooms; some were Alchemy rooms, some were Talisman-drawing rooms, some were Array rooms, etc. Each Dao Companion had their own exclusive room.

After all, as Cultivators, they certainly needed a quiet place to practice so as not to disturb others.

This quiet room was naturally the place where Zhou Sui was in secluded cultivation.

Rumble~~~

At this very moment, after Zhou Sui had calmed his mind and spirit for several days, he raised his essence, Qi, and spirit to the peak, then consumed a pot of Spirit Wine. Instantly, the vast Spirit Wine transformed into a stream of pure energy, which immediately submerged into his body.

He immediately circulated the Gu God Scripture, mobilizing this suddenly surging energy.

His Foundation Establishment Divine Sense guided this energy to circulate through the meridians in his body, cycle after cycle.

The True Essence within his body was also growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

With his body as the center, vast Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi surged over, forming a vortex of Spirit Qi.

These Spirit Qi permeated through his Spirit Root into the depths of his body's meridians, forming a perfect cycle.

Between each breath, a unique rhythm was emitted.

Time also passed bit by bit.

Three hours later.

The aura within Zhou Sui's body suddenly surged, reaching its peak.

Boom~~

In an instant, this energy condensed from the Spirit Wine broke through a certain bottleneck. It was like a flood breaking through a dam; it was simply unstoppable, overwhelming, and unrivaled.

The True Essence within his body surged like a tide, flowing in the depths of his meridians.

He could even hear the sound of the True Essence surging, as if ocean waves were crashing against reefs, with great momentum.

Qi Refining Eighth Layer!

At this moment, he knew he had finally broken through the bottleneck and ascended to the realm of the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.

Compared to before, the True Essence within his body had increased by at least one-third.

The aura on his body also surged further.

The meridians in his body were also broken through once more by a surge of True Essence.

"Haha, great, finally ascended to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer."

Zhou Sui laughed heartily, feeling very joyful.

He had practiced bitterly for almost two years, consuming many Pills and Spirit Wine, plus the daily and nightly Dual Cultivation with his three Dao Companions, and finally ascended from the Qi Refining Seventh Layer to the realm of the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.

It must be said that cultivation in the Qi Refining Late Stage is truly too slow and too difficult.

Especially since he only possessed a Seventh Grade Spiritual Root, his cultivation efficiency was simply terrifyingly slow.

One must know, even he had to exhaust countless resources and spend two years just to progress from the Qi Refining Seventh Layer to the Eighth Layer.

If it were an ordinary Qi Refining Seventh Layer Cultivator, they wouldn't even dream of breaking through without ten or twenty years of time.

It is no wonder that Loose Cultivators at the Qi Refining Late Stage are so rare.

Even if such cultivators truly exist, they are basically all Loose Cultivators who are seventy or eighty years old.

However, these Loose Cultivators are basically all over sixty years old, their life force and blood are in decline, and they have no hope of advancing to Foundation Establishment.

Without a doubt, if he still had his former Ninth Grade Spiritual Root aptitude, he would certainly need to spend even more time to break through.

"No wonder the sect is unwilling to recruit cultivators with Lower Grade Spirit Roots to become Disciples."

"For a cultivator with a Lower Grade Spirit Root, wanting to advance to Foundation Establishment is truly too difficult."

"Even by the age of sixty, they cannot advance to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, let alone the Qi Refining Ninth Layer."

"Although by exhausting a large amount of resources, one can still rapidly raise a cultivator with a Lower Grade Spirit Root to the Qi Refining Late Stage."

"The problem is, why spend so many resources to cultivate one cultivator with a Lower Grade Spirit Root instead of cultivating two or three cultivators with medium-grade spiritual roots? The investment and the harvest are simply not proportional."

"But fortunately, with the power of the Infatuation Gu, my spiritual root aptitude can still be improved."

"It won't take long before I can reach a Sixth Grade Spiritual Root aptitude; this is a medium-grade spiritual root after all."

Zhou Sui also understood the practices of those sects a little bit more.

If he were a Sect Master, he would likely also give up on cultivators with Lower Grade Spirit Roots.

Of course, the Demon Sect is different.

Because the Demon Sect does not cultivate the Disciples under its banner at all; they only bestow some cultivation techniques.

As for resources, one needs to strive for them, snatch them, and plunder them oneself.

This is just like raising Gu.

Whoever wins in the end is the True Disciple of the Demon Sect and obtains supreme power.

Therefore, they naturally teach without discrimination and recruit Disciples desperately.

As for the righteous sects, their cultivation of Disciples is much more refined.

They need to bestow Spirit Stones, bestow Pills and the like, and there is also guidance from famous teachers and elite cultivation.

In this way, the expenditure is naturally huge, and they simply cannot afford to recruit so many Disciples.

(End of this chapter)