Immortal Cultivation: Starting as a Fortune Cultivator - Chapter 23

Spring passed and autumn arrived; in the blink of an eye, another year had gone by!

Inside the small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan, who had been meditating and cultivating, slowly exhaled a faint, misty cloud of white vapor.

He took out his vibrating disciple token, channeled spiritual power into it, and a voice immediately transmitted into his mind:

“Junior Brother Ye, your senior brother has reached the Perfected stage of Qi Refining and has left the Blessings Cultivation Pavilion to select a Blessed Land and become a Blessings Cultivator. You must keep working hard! Don’t let your senior brother down!”

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan was momentarily stunned. After a moment, he reacted and murmured slowly:

“Senior Brother Su Daobin? Time flies so quickly. Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.”

After a moment’s thought, Ye Qingxuan sent a reply to Su Daobin:
“This is your junior brother, Ye Qingxuan. I wish you everlasting progress on your immortal path, Senior Brother!”

Then, putting away his disciple token, Ye Qingxuan began taking stock of his gains from the past year.

This year, aided by a large supply of Qi Increasing Pills for his cultivation, his progress hadn’t slowed but had instead accelerated. In just one year, he had broken through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining, stepping into the Middle Stage of Qi Refining.

Over the year, Ye Qingxuan hadn’t just made breakthroughs in his cultivation; his alchemy skills had also improved significantly.

He could now consistently produce eight to nine Qi Increasing Pills per batch!

The reason he hadn’t managed to produce a full ten pills per batch wasn’t due to hitting a bottleneck, but rather the limitations of his alchemy cauldron.

Higher-grade pills required vast amounts of energy, and correspondingly, the refining requirements became more stringent. High-grade pills not only demanded a high-grade cauldron but also often resulted in a very small number of successful pills per batch.

This was because the higher the grade of the pill, the more spiritual energy was required during the final pill formation stage. Even master alchemists, to ensure a successful refinement, often had to reduce the number of pills formed per batch to increase the overall success rate.

For eighth or ninth-grade pills, it was common for a single batch to yield only one successful pill.

Although the Qi Increasing Pills Ye Qingxuan was refining were only top-grade first-grade pills, his cauldron was only a mid-grade magical instrument. Its capacity to gather spiritual energy during the pill formation phase was limited.

This resulted in him being able to produce only eight or nine pills per batch of Qi Increasing Pills!

Even so, for Ye Qingxuan, this was considered highly profitable.

One set of ingredients for Qi Increasing Pills cost ten low-grade spirit stones at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, while a single Qi Increasing Pill was bought back by them for nine low-grade spirit stones.

Since Ye Qingxuan could produce eight or nine pills from one set of ingredients, his profit margin could reach seven to eight times!

Of course, setting up a stall to sell them himself would yield slightly higher profits, but it would waste a significant amount of time, which, for Ye Qingxuan, wasn’t worth the trade-off.

Over the past year, after deducting his own cultivation expenses, Ye Qingxuan had accumulated 2,365 Qi Increasing Pills.

He had used 389 sets of ingredients and still had 2,911 sets remaining.

Apart from the initial practice period where he consumed several sets of ingredients daily, once he truly mastered the refinement of Qi Increasing Pills, Ye Qingxuan only consumed one set of ingredients per day.

The remaining ingredients were enough for him to continue refining for nearly eight years!

However, he didn’t plan to continue secluded cultivation for another eight years. Instead, he intended to make a trip outside.

Before leaving, after some thought, Ye Qingxuan sent a message to Senior Sister Hong Miaomiao, whom he had befriended in the market:
“Senior Sister Hong, are you buying Qi Increasing Pills?”

Just as he was about to put his disciple token away, he unexpectedly received an immediate reply from Hong Miaomiao:

“Yes! Yes! Yes! How many does Junior Brother have? Your Senior Sister will take them all!”

“Not too many. Let’s meet near our previous stall location.”

“Alright, Junior Brother!”

After arranging with Hong Miaomiao, Ye Qingxuan sent another message to Senior Brother Bai Wenyang at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion:
“Senior Brother Bai, I’ve successfully refined some Qi Increasing Pills. I’ll come to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to see you shortly.”

Given his Qi Refining realm cultivation level, the sheer quantity of Qi Increasing Pills he could produce was simply too abnormal.

To avoid drawing attention, Ye Qingxuan decided to sell the pills in batches, reducing the risk of exposing himself.

Since you’ve chosen to become a Blessings Cultivator, then you should honestly stay hidden and develop in the shadows, trying your best not to attract outside attention and reduce the risk of exposing your special nature.

This was the path Ye Qingxuan had planned for himself when he first joined the Profound Heaven Sect.

Wanting to show off? He could consider that later, after he found a method to create avatars or puppets, and established a separate identity unrelated to his main body!

Anyway, his main body absolutely could not afford to be reckless!
Is it really safer to stay hidden behind the scenes and cultivate in the Xuan Tian Sect? Going out and having fun could easily get you swept away by the waves.

After his daily self-reflection, once again consolidating his Dao Heart!
Ye Qingxuan put away his disciple token, summoned his flying sword, and flew towards the teleportation array near the Blessings Cultivation Pavilion.

Passing by a mountain peak, Ye Qingxuan couldn’t resist casually casting the Spring Breeze Transforms to Rain technique!

After he left, spiritual clouds began to gather above that mountain peak, slowly releasing a nourishing rain that benefited all living things.

As time passed, the spiritual rain fell heavier and lasted for a full hour.

This rain significantly increased the spiritual vitality of the vegetation on the mountain below. A few ordinary plants on the verge of a breakthrough directly transformed, evolving into spiritual plants.

A year had passed, and Ye Qingxuan’s Spring Breeze Transforms to Rain technique had long reached the Perfected stage, hence its remarkable effect.

Ye Qingxuan had never forgotten his chosen path. The Blessed Land he would control after becoming a Blessings Cultivator was his true foundation.

Before that, besides striving to improve his cultivation, the most important task was to lay the groundwork for the future development of his Blessed Land.

Now that he had entered the path of Alchemy and grasped the variations in pill refining, Ye Qingxuan had become a true alchemist!
But this wasn’t enough. Becoming an alchemist only ensured a supply of cultivation resources after he became a Blessings Cultivator; it didn’t have a direct impact on the Blessed Land itself.

To accelerate the advancement of his Blessed Land, the cultivation of various spiritual plants was essential.

The Spring Breeze Transforms to Rain technique was one of the methods he would use to assist the growth of spiritual plants in the future.

But this still wasn’t sufficient. His understanding of various spiritual plants was still too limited, especially regarding their growth environments and their auxiliary effects on the advancement of a Blessed Land. He knew almost nothing about these aspects!
Therefore, the main purpose of this trip was to seek out knowledge related to spiritual plants and Blessed Lands for study, preparing for the future development of his Blessed Land.

Selling the accumulated Qi Increasing Pills was only a secondary objective.

Inside the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, located in the Profound Heaven Sect’s internal market:
Bai Wenyang finished serving a customer before retrieving his slightly vibrating disciple token from his robe.

Sending his spiritual sense into it, he saw the message from Ye Qingxuan and remarked with some surprise:

“He succeeded already? Those are top-grade first-grade pills?”

“It seems this Junior Brother Ye of mine has quite some talent for alchemy? At the early Qi Refining stage, he managed to refine Qi Increasing Pills in just a year?”

However, he was only mildly interested in Ye Qingxuan’s alchemical talent. He didn’t pay much mind to the quantity of pills Ye Qingxuan might have.

A cultivator at the early Qi Refining stage who had just started learning to refine Qi Increasing Pills could, at most, produce around a hundred pills over a year, accounting for the initial learning phase and failed attempts.

At best, this number of pills might barely cover one’s own daily cultivation needs.

He estimated that his Junior Brother Ye probably just wanted to sell some pills to recoup some spirit stones.