Immortal Cultivation: Starting as a Fortune Cultivator - Chapter 32

After returning to the Fortune Cultivation Court!

Ye Qingxuan began a new round of secluded cultivation.

Following his own cultivation rhythm, Ye Qingxuan resumed his reclusive state, enjoying the slow but steady increase in his cultivation level.

Every day was spent either alchemy refining or meditating and cultivating, practicing alone in his small courtyard, indifferent to the distractions of the outside world!
Only Ye Qingxiao, having secured sufficient resources, had become much more idle and often came by to freeload a bit.

However, the current Ye Qingxiao had already successfully reached Foundation Establishment. A few years ago, unable to resist, he had ventured out of the sect.

Occasionally, Ye Qingxuan would also go to the Library Pavilion to copy a large batch of books, reading them during his leisure time to broaden his knowledge and accumulate information.

These books covered almost every aspect of the Earth Profound Realm!

From geography, landscapes, wonders, and local customs, to introductions of various factions, descriptions of major cultivation danger zones, etc., they were almost all-encompassing.

He might not need these things now, but there would surely come a day when they would be useful.

Every day, Ye Qingxuan gained something, however small. Little by little, these gains would accumulate into something significant.

Ye Qingxuan immersed himself in this seemingly slow yet orderly cultivation, unable to extricate himself, oblivious to the passage of time.
Day after day, year after year, soon, a full decade had passed.

During these ten years, Ye Qingxiao’s cultivation had long since broken through to Foundation Establishment, leaving Ye Qingxuan far behind.

But Ye Qingxuan was not anxious because of this. He still maintained his daily cultivation rhythm day after day.

His own cultivation had also broken through to the seventh layer of Qi Refining during this decade, smoothly reaching the late Qi Refining stage. He was not far from reaching the peak of Qi Refining now.
During his ten years of secluded cultivation, Ye Qingxuan had attempted to refine every first-grade pill formula he possessed.

Relying on his excellent pill yield, Ye Qingxuan earned roughly twenty to thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones every year.

The pills he refined were basically all sold through Bai Wenyang and Hong Miaomiao.

Ten years later, Hong Miaomiao and her Dao companion Bai Qingyun had both broken through to Foundation Establishment, while Bai Wenyang had advanced further, breaking through to the Purple Mansion realm and becoming an inner disciple of the Profound Heaven Sect.

The few friends Ye Qingxuan had made in the sect were gradually pulling further and further away from him in terms of cultivation.

However, Ye Qingxuan’s friendships with them did not grow distant because of this. Although they met very infrequently, their relationships remained within the bounds of gentlemanly acquaintance.

Even Su Daobin, whom he had met only once and who had now contracted a spiritual land and become a Blessed Land Lord, would occasionally contact him via transmission to alleviate the boredom of being confined to one place.

As for Ye Qingxuan himself, aside from alchemy and secluded cultivation, he was also making preparations for the Blessed Land he would soon contract.

Ye Qingxuan earned around twenty to thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones annually, but he didn’t keep many spirit stones in his pocket.

He had Bai Wenyang use most of the spirit stones to purchase seeds of various spiritual plants for him, including the Purifying Spirit Tree seeds!
The spirit herb seeds given to him by the Ye family were still too few and limited in variety.

After all, the Ye family was only a Golden Core family. How could it compare to the abundant resources within the Profound Heaven Sect?

Over the decade, Ye Qingxuan mastered the refining methods for almost all first-grade pills available on the market.

After that, he also attempted to refine second-grade pills.

For this purpose, he spent three thousand one hundred low-grade spirit stones at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to purchase a top-grade magical instrument-level alchemy furnace.

Unfortunately, due to insufficient cultivation level in the end, the spiritual energy within Ye Qingxuan’s body couldn’t sustain the process to completion, leading to repeated failures. He simply couldn’t successfully refine second-grade pills yet.

In the third year of his secluded cultivation, the resistance to the Spirit-Boosting Pills within Ye Qingxuan’s body finally began to manifest, causing their effectiveness to diminish more and more.

Left with no choice, Ye Qingxuan went to the Techniques Transmission Hall to find a primary spell—Spiritual Cleansing Art. He relied on this art to slowly purge the residual pill toxins from the Spirit-Boosting Pills from his system.

After obtaining the Spiritual Cleansing Art, Ye Qingxuan focused on cultivating this spell. With his exceptional comprehension, he reached the Perfection stage of the Spiritual Cleansing Art in just ten days.
Relying on the Perfection-level Spiritual Cleansing Art, Ye Qingxuan spent only one month to completely remove the Spirit-Boosting Pill toxins from his body, restoring the pills’ effectiveness for him.

Over the ten years, Ye Qingxuan earned three thousand six hundred Contribution Points from his sect benefits and stipend. Adding the points accumulated during the year or so before his secluded cultivation, he had just over four thousand Contribution Points in total.

Besides spending one thousand Contribution Points to exchange for the Spiritual Cleansing Art, Ye Qingxuan also exchanged for three other primary spells.

They were: Rejuvenation Art, Sword Escape Art, and Spirit Gathering Art!

Among them:

The Rejuvenation Art could treat spiritual plants on a small scale and promote their growth within a limited area. Ye Qingxuan prepared this for cultivating plants in his future Blessed Land.

The Spirit Gathering Art could temporarily attract and gather surrounding spiritual energy.

Originally, for the effect of gathering spiritual energy, Ye Qingxuan had intended to exchange for a Formation inheritance, supplement his studies with formations, and use formations as a substitute.

But alas, the Formation inheritance required too many Contribution Points, so he had to give up on that for now.

If only he had been thicker-skinned back when he asked his family for support. Asking for more or less—wasn’t it all asking anyway?
As for the Sword Escape Art, Ye Qingxuan prepared it for his return trip to the Ye family.

Before reaching Qi Refining perfection and contracting a spiritual land, Ye Qingxuan planned to go home to see his parents.

On the journey from the Profound Heaven Sect to the Ye family, one could almost travel entirely using teleportation arrays.

Furthermore, within the Profound Heaven Sect’s territory, as a disciple of the sect, he probably wouldn’t encounter any danger.

But out of caution, he still chose this Sword Escape Art just in case, to be prepared for any eventuality.

The Sword Escape Art could be used for both attack and escape. The speed it could unleash in a short period was several times faster than normal sword flight. The effects varied depending on the mastery level of the Sword Escape Art.

Over the decade, he had long since cultivated all four of these primary spells to the Perfection stage.

At the Perfection level, the Sword Escape Art was, for a short time, four times faster than the Sword Flight Art at the Introductory level among cultivators of the same realm, and twice as fast as the Sword Flight Art at the Perfection level.

Although leaving the Profound Heaven Sect still carried some risk, his parents were a part of him he could not abandon. Before officially becoming a Fortune Cultivator, he would not feel at ease without personally returning to see them.
After breaking through to late Qi Refining, relying on the Profound Heaven Sect’s environment and ample cultivation resources, Ye Qingxuan estimated he would need only another seven years to reach the ninth layer of Qi Refining, the Perfection stage.

That would be the time for him to choose a spiritual land to contract and become a Fortune Cultivator.

Ye Qingxuan had already prepared for the worst in his heart.

If, by then, he couldn’t rely on his innate clone, the Eternal Tortoise, and the mysterious pearl in his mind to break the deadlock, then he could only rely on himself.

Even relying solely on himself, Ye Qingxuan was still confident that, with his astonishing comprehension and years of planning, he could gradually develop his Blessed Land.

However, the path forward would be much more difficult this way. The limitations of being solely a Fortune Cultivator were truly too great.

If he could successfully use the Eternal Tortoise to contract the Blessed Land, bearing all its restrictions for him, that would be the best outcome.

Apart from this, Ye Qingxuan also placed great expectations on the pearl in his mind that had crossed over with him. His hopes for it were even higher than for his innate clone, the Eternal Tortoise.

After all, the unknown also represented hope for breaking the deadlock!
Ye Qingxuan had already done his best to make the necessary preparations.

What lay ahead would depend on the moment he officially became a Fortune Cultivator!