Chapter 48

The crowd dispersed!

He Pingsheng returned to his room.

He had wanted to use the Ju Bao Pen to reinforce this formation, but now he didn't dare.

Why?

Because if a formation of too high a level was reinforced and recognized by someone at a glance, it would be trouble instead.

Let's just make do with it for now.

Thus, He Pingsheng spent a day setting up the formation.

Actually, this kind of low-level formation is very simple to set up, with no complex parts.

All the formation flags and the formation disk just need to be placed according to their positions.

Finally, insert the spirit stones to provide an energy source, and then activate it.

"Open..." He Pingsheng said softly.

Hum hum hum...

Immediately, an earthy-yellow formation light film rose up, covering He Pingsheng's room and half of the small courtyard.

"Close!" He swiped the formation token, and the formation closed immediately.

After entering the formation, he swiped the formation token again: "Open!"

The formation rumbled and opened again.

The energy source for this thing is spirit stones.

One low-tier spirit stone can support the operation of this formation for about two months.

The consumption is neither too much nor too little, and every inner sect disciple can accept it.

Walking into the formation, He Pingsheng took out a top-tier Qi-Gathering Pill.

Immediately, a familiar, rich fragrance came.

He Pingsheng even ran outside the formation to test it, and sure enough, not a single bit of fragrance could be smelled outside.

Great!

In this way, he wouldn't have to worry about others recognizing that he was cultivating with top-tier pills.

Then let's cultivate honestly.

One day, two days, three days!

For the next three months, He Pingsheng spent his time swallowing pills and cultivating.

During this period, every month he would set aside some time to refine pills and send them to Zhao Linger; as for how Zhao Linger distributed them, that was none of his business.

Of course, the materials needed for refining pills were provided by the sect.

Five batches of pills were refined each time, and fifty portions of materials were provided.

He Pingsheng would not waste a single bit.

He gave the refined pills to the sect, and took the failed pills to reinforce them into top-tier 【Qi-Gathering Pills】 to keep and eat himself.

One day, three months later, a slight "pop" sound suddenly came from He Pingsheng's room.

He had broken through.

Sixth layer of the Qi Condensation Stage.

Because he had told Master Yu Ning when he became her apprentice that he was about to break through, this breakthrough would not seem abrupt.

But from now on, he had to be careful.

He Pingsheng took out the 【Miscellaneous Records of Cultivation】 and flipped through it again.

Very quickly, he found the information he wanted: In the Cultivation World, the speed of cultivation is related to a cultivator's talent. Single-spirit-root cultivators, in the middle and late stages of Qi Condensation, break through about one layer per year; ordinary two or three-spirit-root cultivators need two years or more.

Phew...

He Pingsheng let out a deep breath: Two years.

We are five-spirit-root cultivators; even if we swallow pills, it shouldn't be shorter than two years.

One layer every two years, others might not suspect.

But it definitely cannot be faster.

Then the problem arises again.

He Pingsheng usually swallows top-tier pills, and can break through one layer in at most half a year.

What about the remaining time?

"Refine the spirit!" He Pingsheng found an excuse for himself: "Besides refining the spirit, I can also cultivate the wood-attribute dantian and bring the cultivation base of this wood-attribute dantian up as well!"

If the speed is still fast, then continue to develop other dantians and cultivate the gold, water, and earth attribute dantians as well.

In this way, it won't be too abrupt.

Spring goes and winter comes!

In the blink of an eye, it was the season of flying snowflakes again.

He Pingsheng's cultivation base had reached the sixth layer of the Qi Condensation Stage, not just one dantian, but both the fire-attribute dantian and the wood-attribute dantian had reached the sixth layer.

Of course, others couldn't tell.

His 【Profound Sect Meditation True Art】 had also been cultivated to the sixth layer.

There was nothing left to cultivate.

The key is that this was only a mere year or less.

There was still more than a year until the next breakthrough time point He Pingsheng had set for himself!

What to do?

Can't just waste time, right?

He Pingsheng stood in his house and looked at the spirit stones in his hand: only seven left.

These spirit stones were only enough for the formation to consume for one year.

It was time to go out and see.

He planned to go to the market at Mount Matou to sell some things and exchange them for some spirit stones.

However, before leaving, He Pingsheng directly took back the formation.

He threw all four parts—the formation disk, formation flags, formation talismans, and formation map—into the 【Ju Bao Pen】.

After one night, the reinforcement was complete.

A set of 【Confinement Formation】 materials was reinforced into two sets, and the level was also improved.

Previously, this was a low-tier Confinement Formation; now, this thing could construct a top-tier 【Confinement Formation】.

What is the difference?

First, the defensive ability has improved.

Secondly, the defensive range has also improved; this top-tier formation's coverage area expanded from a radius of ten zhang to a radius of one hundred zhang.

Not to mention He Pingsheng's small courtyard, if this were spread out, it could cover several small courtyards around it.

Of course, a top-tier formation has its own flexibility; this thing can cover a distance of one hundred zhang, and of course, it can also shrink the distance to cover only ten zhang.

"I just don't know how much this thing can sell for?"

He Pingsheng put all his things into his dantian, then went out and visited Senior Sister Zhao Linger.

"You are going down the mountain?" Zhao Linger looked at He Pingsheng with some surprise and said, "How long?"

He Pingsheng said: "Just going down the mountain to handle some business, about... one day!"

"Oh!" Zhao Linger nodded and said: "If it's only for one day, you don't need to inform Master, but if you go out for more than three days, you must tell Master!"

"Okay!"

He Pingsheng nodded and then went down the mountain.

When he reached a hidden place, he took out the 【Paper Crane】 to activate it, and with a "whoosh," it flew into the high sky and headed towards Mount Matou.

This was He Pingsheng's third time going to the Mount Matou market.

The first time was with Wang Dun to sell 【Blazing Sun Flower】 pollen.

The second time was when he secretly ran over to sell 【Blazing Sun Flower】 pollen.

This time, He Pingsheng's main purpose was to sell off the magic treasures in his hands one by one.

If possible, buy another storage bag.

Without a storage bag, it is really too inconvenient.

Riding on the yellow crane, He Pingsheng took out the things in his dantian one by one and put them into his treasure bag.

One top-tier magic treasure flying sword!

One top-tier magic treasure 【Vine Armor Shield】.

One top-tier magic treasure 【Pill Furnace】.

One full set of top-tier formation 【Confinement Formation】 materials.

Because after arriving at the market, it would be inconvenient to take things in and out of the Ju Bao Pen, so he had to prepare in advance to avoid unnecessary trouble.

As for how much these things could sell for?

He Pingsheng didn't know either.

Take it one step at a time; let others estimate the price first, and then talk after the estimation is finished.

After doing this, He Pingsheng changed his clothes, changing his inner sect disciple uniform into ordinary Daoist robes without any markings.

Why?

To avoid running into fellow disciples.

Whoosh...

More than an hour later, He Pingsheng rode the paper crane and landed at the entrance of the Mount Matou market.

With a wave of his hand, the paper crane returned to his hand.