Immortal Cultivation: Starting as a Fortune Cultivator - Chapter 36

After the banquet concluded.

Ye Qingxuan returned to his cultivation routine, even reducing the time spent on alchemy to dedicate more hours to his cultivation.

Although he possessed eternal life, he did not let this make him slack off in his practice.

The path of immortality is long and arduous; falling behind in one step means lagging at every subsequent step!

Sometimes, missing an opportunity means missing it forever. The pinnacle of the immortal path cannot be reached by eternal life alone.

Eternal life is nothing remarkable to the true powerhouses on the immortal path!
If he wanted to reach the absolute peak, he could not afford complacency or neglect in his cultivation simply because he possessed eternal life.

Opportunities of timing, advantage, and favorable conditions are crucial. Sometimes, missing the right moment means forever losing the chance to ascend to the peak!
On the cultivation path, the higher one climbs, the narrower the road becomes, and the fewer the opportunities that can aid oneself. Missing just one could directly sever one’s future path.

Only by treading step by step, breaking through thorns and brambles, forging ahead with unwavering perseverance, can one seize each successive opportunity, transform oneself, and transcend all limits!
Therefore, the foundation of Ye Qingxuan’s journey on the immortal path was never his eternal life. What he valued was merely the assistance eternal life provided him in the early stages.

If, in the future, he could exchange this eternal life for a chance to advance to the next level, he would not hesitate to discard this so-called eternal life in exchange for that pivotal opportunity.

Since reducing his alchemy time and increasing his cultivation time,

Ye Qingxuan’s cultivation speed had become slightly faster than before!
Although the daily improvement was minuscule, accumulating day by day, this slight progress began to show noticeable effects.

In just six years, Ye Qingxuan’s cultivation reached his target: the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

This was a full year earlier than his previous estimate.

After reaching Great Perfection of Qi Refining, the next step was to open a Blessed Land and use the feedback from its initial opening to advance to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Before opening his Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan could not prematurely break through to Foundation Establishment. Once a cultivator breaks through to Foundation Establishment, the essence of their vitality, energy, and spirit begins to solidify.

Attempting to separate that essence to merge with the origin of a spirit land afterwards would drastically reduce the success rate!
However, before that, he planned to return home once!

Ye Qingxuan stood in his small courtyard, looking at the sky, a trace of reminiscence flashing in his eyes.

“In the blink of an eye, twenty-two years have already passed. It’s time to go home and see!”

He had joined the Xuantian Sect at the age of twelve. Now he was thirty-four, having spent twenty-two years finally breaking through to Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

If he were outside the Xuantian Sect, he might have needed to struggle for over a hundred years to achieve his current results, right?

Taking one last look at the small courtyard he had lived in for twenty-two years, Ye Qingxuan felt no lingering attachment. He opened the courtyard gate, took a step out, and his figure moved farther and farther away!

Arriving at the Affairs Hall of the Fortune Cultivators’ Hall, Ye Qingxuan found the manager, Bai Zichun, and respectfully said:
“Manager Bai, this disciple has broken through to Great Perfection of Qi Refining and has come to register!”

“Broken through? So quickly?”

Bai Zichun looked at this disciple he had only met face-to-face twice before, his eyes showing approval:
“You… are very good!”

He had already tried to estimate Ye Qingxuan’s cultivation progress generously, yet the time Ye Qingxuan took to break through to Great Perfection of Qi Refining still exceeded his expectations.
His first meeting with Ye Qingxuan was when Ye Qingxuan had first entered the Qi Refining realm and came to the Affairs Hall to register his cultivation level!
Their second meeting was now, this very time.

Although the small courtyards where Fortune Cultivator Hall disciples lived had protective array formations, preventing him from probing into each one,

he still had a general understanding of each disciple’s cultivation situation through his daily observations.

Facing Bai Zichun’s praise, Ye Qingxuan’s expression remained calm as he modestly responded:
“You flatter me, Manager. This disciple feels undeserving.”

This was Ye Qingxuan’s sincere thought. Compared to those true geniuses, his cultivation speed was still far behind!

Hearing Ye Qingxuan’s humble response, Bai Zichun grew even more satisfied with him, sighing inwardly:
“Can endure solitude, possesses an excellent temperament… This lad truly has the makings of a genuine Fortune Cultivator!”

Although Ye Qingxuan’s talent wasn’t among the very best in the Fortune Cultivators’ Hall, he had managed to surpass several other disciples with dual spiritual roots solely by his own efforts, becoming the second in his cohort to break through to Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

This was within Bai Zichun’s expectations; it was just that Ye Qingxuan’s breakthrough time was slightly faster than he had anticipated!
Ever since Ye Qingxuan entered the Fortune Cultivators’ Hall, his reclusive lifestyle and uninterrupted, day-after-day cultivation routine had been observed by Bai Zichun.

As for the other Fortune Cultivator Hall disciples, after entering the Xuantian Sect,

which of them could resist the curiosity to explore the various sights within the sect like Ye Qingxuan did? How could they get enough of visiting the countless peaks?

Most Fortune Cultivator Hall disciples basically adopted a ‘play while you can before officially becoming a Fortune Cultivator’ mindset, spending their days traveling in groups to various peaks of the Xuantian Mountain Range, even justifying it as ‘balancing work and rest’?
Many even delayed their cultivation progress at the last moment, unable to resist external temptations, just to extend their time for fun and leisure.

Time slipped away unnoticed in such ways!

Disciples like Ye Qingxuan were extremely rare among the generations of the Fortune Cultivators’ Hall.

Naturally, Bai Zichun was very fond of such disciples.

Taking out a map from his robe, Bai Zichun said kindly:
“This map marks the first-grade spirit lands that have emerged within the Xuantian Mountain Range. You may choose one to contract on your own.”

Taking the map, Ye Qingxuan hesitated:

“Manager, before contracting a spirit land, this disciple wishes to return home once to visit my parents. Would that…?”

If he contracted a spirit land now, wouldn’t that prevent him from going back?
Hearing Ye Qingxuan’s words, Bai Zichun chuckled:

“Hehe, it’s no trouble, no trouble at all. You can first select a spirit vein. After choosing and registering it, you can still return home without issue!”

“Although they are all first-grade spirit lands, there can be significant differences among them. Among the remaining first-grade lands, three have just reached the late first-grade stage.”

“Spirit lands are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Securing a good one first will provide considerable help for your early development.”

Hearing Bai Zichun’s words, Ye Qingxuan’s eyes brightened. He naturally wouldn’t foolishly refuse such well-meant advice.

“Thank you for your guidance, Manager!”

After expressing his gratitude, Ye Qingxuan opened the map and saw markings for over a hundred first-grade spirit lands!

Among them, three markings stood out prominently, indicating the locations of those three late first-grade spirit lands.

Of these three late first-grade lands, one was not far from the Xuantian Sect’s main peak, Xuantian Peak—roughly only 20,000 kilometers away. It was also the closest among all first-grade spirit lands to Xuantian Peak.

The other two late first-grade spirit lands were located on the periphery of the Xuantian Mountain Range, basically near the border of Xuan Province.

“Manager, may I go and see these three spirit lands?”

The Xuantian Mountain Range was vast. Ye Qingxuan didn’t plan to inspect every single spirit land, so he intended only to visit these three late first-grade ones.

Bai Zichun was thoroughly familiar with the information on these Blessed Lands and thus did not refuse Ye Qingxuan:
“Of course. There are teleportation formations not far from these three spirit lands. Going to see them won’t waste much of your time!”

Then, Bai Zichun continued:

“Ah, right. After officially becoming a Fortune Cultivator, you will be entitled to two attendant slots. This would be a good opportunity for you to recruit them yourself during your trip home!”

“Attendants?”