Inside the Blessings Cultivation Court!
Ye Xuanqing finished his daily cultivation routine for the day and prepared to go to the market district to deal with the pills he had refined over the past year.
After deactivating the restrictive array around his small courtyard, Ye Xuanqing stepped outside and directly took to the skies on his flying sword, leaving the Blessings Cultivation Court.
Not long after Ye Xuanqing departed, a young man dressed in a blue robe, gentle and refined in demeanor, arrived outside Ye Xuanqing’s courtyard. He stood there quietly, waiting.
However, Ye Xuanqing was unaware of all this.
After leaving the Blessings Cultivation Court, he skillfully flew on his sword to a teleportation formation. He then used the formation to travel to a market district located within the Xuantian Sect.
This time, Ye Xuanqing didn’t look for the young couple, Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, because the two had gone out together on some sect mission.
Therefore, without wasting any time on the way, Ye Xuanqing headed straight for the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.
Upon arriving at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Ye Xuanqing walked on his own towards a small private room inside.
Pushing open the door to the private room, Ye Xuanqing saw Bai Wenyan lying on a reclining chair, sipping tea.
Seeing this, Ye Xuanqing joked:
“Senior Brother, your position as a team leader seems to come with quite nice perks, huh? Hahaha!”
Not long after Bai Wenyan advanced to the Purple Mansion realm, he passed the Hundred Treasures Pavilion’s performance assessment, successfully promoted to the team leader position. His benefits and treatment had also improved by a level.
“Hahaha, not at all! Not at all! Please, have a seat, Junior Brother!”
Seeing Ye Xuanqing arrive, Bai Wenyan stood up, laughing heartily as he pulled Ye Xuanqing to sit down.
After pouring Ye Xuanqing a cup of tea, Bai Wenyan said with a light laugh:
“Junior Brother, over these years, your perseverance in cultivation is something I truly admire!”
Having known each other for many years, Bai Wenyan had gained some understanding of his junior brother’s habits.
Almost every day, without fail, it was cultivation and alchemy, day after day, never stopping!
Such dedication, such a heart able to endure solitude—Bai Wenyan felt he himself fell short in comparison! So, despite this junior brother’s less-than-stellar innate talent, Bai Wenyan still held him in high regard.
Ye Xuanqing didn’t respond to Bai Wenyan’s comment. He took out an unrefined, unbound storage bag from his robes and tossed it directly to Bai Wenyan:
“Here, this batch’s pills.”
Bai Wenyan casually caught the storage bag. But when he probed inside with his spiritual sense, he suddenly exclaimed in surprise:
“Whoa, this many?”
Then, with a look of disbelief, he stared at Ye Xuanqing and asked hesitantly:
“These were all refined by you in this past year?”
A slight smile curled at the corner of Ye Xuanqing’s mouth as he nodded:
“Lately, refining has been going smoothly, so I just happened to refine a little extra.”
He wasn’t exactly lying. Ever since breaking through to the later stage of Qi Refining and switching to a top-grade magical instrument-level alchemy furnace, his speed at refining Spirit-Growth Pills had indeed increased significantly. Moreover, the number of pills produced per batch had stabilized at around ten.
So, in the following years, the number of Spirit-Growth Pills Ye Xuanqing refined annually had basically surpassed three thousand.
But upon hearing this, Bai Wenyan just rolled his eyes, unconvinced:
“You call this ‘a little extra’? This is literally double the usual amount, okay?”
Usually, in a year, Ye Xuanqing would give him around a thousand-plus Spirit-Growth Pills. But this time, the storage bag contained a full three thousand four hundred pills.
What he didn’t know was that this batch included the share of pills originally meant for Hong Miaomiao, which is why the quantity was so high this time.
Nevertheless, these pills were indeed all refined by Ye Xuanqing himself within the year.
Seeing Bai Wenyan’s disbelief, Ye Xuanqing didn’t say anything more. Suppressing the smug look on his face, he pretended to be calm and casually sipped his tea.
Bai Wenyan, left with no choice, could only tentatively ask again:
“Really refined by you alone?”
“Yes!”
Ye Xuanqing had no intention of hiding it. After all, bound by the Dao Oath, Bai Wenyan couldn’t reveal any information related to the pills.
And besides, this feeling… seemed quite nice.
Consider it a little diversion in the routine of cultivation!
Ye Xuanqing was feeling pleased, but Bai Wenyan was having a hard time. The alchemy talent of this junior brother before him simply exceeded his imagination.
This level of alchemy talent was absolutely monstrous. But he couldn’t talk about it, could only keep it bottled up inside, which was very frustrating.
Especially seeing Ye Xuanqing’s feigned nonchalance, Bai Wenyan felt a surge of irritation. He directly took out another storage bag and tossed it to Ye Xuanqing, saying:
“Go on, get out of here! Seeing you right now is annoying me.”
Out of sight, out of mind. Bai Wenyan indicated he really didn’t want to look at Ye Xuanqing at the moment.
Ye Xuanqing caught the storage bag and made a point of weighing the spirit stones inside it in front of Bai Wenyan. With a light laugh, he said:
“Then this junior brother will take his leave now. Hahaha!”
After speaking, he turned and left with a carefree stride.
After Ye Xuanqing left, Bai Wenyan sat quietly in the private room for a moment. Then he suddenly sighed, shaking his head with regret:
“Ah, what a pity!”
With Ye Xuanqing’s cultivation aptitude, it would inevitably greatly limit the upper potential of his own alchemy talent.
Bai Wenyan regretted it for this junior brother he had a good rapport with, and also regretted that monstrous alchemy talent of Ye Xuanqing’s.
After leaving the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Ye Xuanqing didn’t linger in the market district. He prepared to return directly to the Blessings Cultivation Court.
Although there were many good things in the market district, most of the high-grade items were beyond Ye Xuanqing’s means to purchase. As for the low-grade items, they weren’t urgently needed by him.
So, it was better to wait until he had saved enough spirit stones before coming to the market to procure some truly good stuff.
After teleporting to the formation near the Blessings Cultivation Court, Ye Xuanqing again took to his flying sword, heading towards the direction of the court.
The straight-line distance from this teleportation formation to the Blessings Cultivation Court wasn’t far, but it was still separated by numerous mountain peaks.
Flying on his sword high in the air, as he approached the airspace above his own courtyard, Ye Xuanqing spotted the young man standing outside his small yard.
With curiosity in his heart, Ye Xuanqing quickly descended, landing at the entrance to his courtyard.
Before he could even ask a question, the young man spoke first.
“Junior Brother Ye, getting to see you is truly no easy task!”
This Junior Brother Ye lived a secluded life, and during cultivation, he would activate restrictive arrays to isolate himself from outside disturbances.
If he hadn’t set up a monitoring array outside Ye Xuanqing’s courtyard, detected Ye Xuanqing leaving, and come over early to wait, he probably really wouldn’t have been able to meet Ye Xuanqing.
Hearing the young man’s words, Ye Xuanqing’s eyebrows twitched slightly. He inquired curiously:
“And you are?”
Hearing Ye Xuanqing’s question, the young man opposite smiled slightly before speaking:
“I am Lin Fan. I apologize for disturbing you so presumptuously, Junior Brother!”
“Lin Fan?”
Ye Xuanqing silently repeated the name in his heart, recalling the information Su Daobin had previously told him.
“This Lin Fan obtained a spot to inherit a senior’s Blessed Land. I just wonder what grade of Blessed Land he inherited?”
Various thoughts flashed through his mind. Ye Xuanqing then spoke up:
“So it’s Senior Brother Lin. May I ask what matter brings you to find me?”
“It’s nothing major, really. It’s just that I have reached the peak of Qi Refining and am about to leave the Blessings Cultivation Court to inherit my Blessed Land. Before departing, I wished to host a banquet for my fellow junior brothers. I wonder if Junior Brother Ye might have the time?”
Hearing Lin Fan’s words, Ye Xuanqing’s focus shifted to Lin Fan’s cultivation level.
“Peak of Qi Refining!”
This Lin Fan was one of those who entered the sect in the same batch as him. To already be at the peak of Qi Refining now… it seemed Lin Fan was one of the few in the Blessings Cultivation Court who possessed dual-spiritual roots.
Is the gap caused by spiritual roots really this large?
Despite consuming numerous pills and time, even Lin Fan, whose talent was only slightly better than his own dual-spiritual root aptitude, now far surpassed him in cultivation?
Ye Xuanqing took a deep breath. The desire in his heart for the Blessed Land’s ability to enhance spiritual roots grew even stronger.
Actually, what Ye Xuanqing didn’t know was that since Lin Fan could obtain a spot to inherit a senior’s Blessed Land, he naturally had the support of a major power behind him.
In fact, the resources Lin Fan had consumed were no less than Ye Xuanqing’s, perhaps even more.
So, it was perfectly normal for Lin Fan’s cultivation to surpass his.
A myriad of thoughts raced through Ye Xuanqing’s mind. Although Lin Fan’s appearance had stirred him up, it didn’t shake his resolve. On the contrary, it ignited Ye Xuanqing’s fighting spirit.
Temporary progress meant little. Being able to reach the end was true victory.
Coming back to the present, Ye Xuanqing asked:
“When?”
Seeing that Ye Xuanqing hadn’t directly refused, the smile on Lin Fan’s face grew brighter. He stated the time and place:
“Three days from now, at dusk, right at the central plaza within the Blessings Cultivation Court!”
Hearing the time and location, Ye Xuanqing calculated briefly in his mind before agreeing.
“Alright! Three days from now, this junior brother will definitely be there!”
At present, the remaining reserve disciples in the Blessings Cultivation Court were basically just his fellow junior brothers and sisters from the same entry batch.
It wouldn’t take much time anyway. Taking this opportunity to meet these fellow disciples might be nice!
