I've already reached the Nascent Soul stage, and you're saying I didn't time travel?

Chapter 7: Awakening of Abilities!
Qi Xuan spent the night nestled inside the tree hollow.

To be honest, the environment inside the tree hole was really not good.

It tasted strange, damp and moldy, with a slightly rotten smell.

The surroundings were constantly rustling and buzzing; all sorts of insects were flying, jumping, crawling, and buzzing, one after another taking the stage.

Despite his great mercy, giving each insect only one slap, he still slapped them intermittently all night long.

One has to admire those extraordinary people in online novels who dare to meditate in the wild; no wonder they can cultivate immortality.

Look at his composure in the face of a swarm of insects; that's something he can't match.

Still have to practice.

Fortunately, after working all night, he still achieved some results on his end.

A total of 127 small insects were killed.

No, no.

He has successfully entered the first level of Qi Refining.

The little bugs really do affect cultivation and are very annoying, but he has high aptitude. Even though his cultivation was choppy, he still made it to the first level of Qi Refining. It was a natural progression.

However, if there is water at the first level of Qi Refining, he has only covered the bottom thin layer, which is only about one-tenth of the total water level.

To be honest, this cultivation speed was hard for him to accept.

What happened to the Chaosless Spiritual Root?

What happened to the world's top talent?

Even if you can't reach the Foundation Establishment stage overnight, you should at least cultivate to the third or fourth level of Qi Refining overnight, right? What the hell is one-tenth of the first level? People who don't know the situation would think I'm about to turn a useless person into a hero.

Did you get the wrong script, bro?

Despite his complaints, Qi Xuan was quite clear about the reasons behind it.

There's a reason why monks seek quiet rooms. Like last night, he wasted about half his time on sex and the other half on preparing for sex.

With you spending all night having sex, how can you possibly focus on cultivation?

More importantly, there is the external environment.

Cultivation requires a large amount of spiritual energy, but the external environment simply doesn't provide it.

The spiritual energy was so thin that it was almost imperceptible, like a krill placed in front of a whale—even taking a bite was too much effort.

In any case, Qi Xuan was temporarily at a loss with these two troubles. He could only try to find a place with fewer mosquitoes and higher spiritual energy to cultivate in—hopefully, it hadn't been taken over by wild beasts beforehand.

However, reaching the first level of Qi Refining still brought him considerable benefits.

Yesterday he was just an ordinary person, but today he is a genuine cultivator.

This is a qualitative change.

Specifically, his five senses were further enhanced—

The stench inside the tree hole was even worse, the sound of mosquitoes and flies was clearer, and I got even more goosebumps when insects crawled on my body.

Moreover, his night blindness was cured on the spot, and he could see all kinds of insects and ants crawling on the trees at a glance.

In addition, their physical condition has also been greatly enhanced.

However, this is difficult to test inside a tree hole.

Qi Xuan pushed aside the grass covering the entrance of the hole and crawled out.

I'll try a 100-meter sprint first; I estimate it will take about eleven seconds.

On flat ground, one can easily become an international athlete.

Before this, he was a homebody who never exercised.

This improvement is simply terrifying.

He then excitedly took on other tests: long jump, high jump, push-ups, obstacle course, boxing… After a series of tests, the final results were quite impressive. Except for boxing, which he had to give up due to excessive pain in his hand, his performance in all other areas was comparable to that of top athletes.

This is an all-round improvement in strength, speed, endurance, and nerve reaction!

"No wonder everyone wants to cultivate immortality."

Qi Xuan felt a surge of emotions.

If he were to return to Earth, not to mention participating in competitions across the country to earn a fortune in prize money, even if he were to deliver food, he could still become a top-selling individual.

This is only the first level of Qi Refining. If it were the ninth level of Qi Refining, or even the Foundation Establishment or Golden Core stage, wouldn't they be flying around delivering takeout?

Pulling his wandering thoughts back, Qi Xuan focused his attention on his abilities.

The Qi Refining Realm of "The Ultimate Technique of Myriad Transformations" is also known as the Nine Transformations of Qi Refining, where each level awakens a unique ability.

He has now entered the first level of Qi Refining, and naturally, he has also awakened the corresponding abilities.

[Refining Essence], this is the ability he awakened.

Those who frequently read cultivation novels should be familiar with the concept of "refining essence into qi," which generally refers to the initial stage of cultivation, where one consumes large amounts of food and refines its essence to nourish oneself and aid in cultivation.

To give an example, if your strength is insufficient and spiritual energy, that little bitch, ignores you, but you still need to cultivate, then you can only generate your own energy through [refining essence into qi].

Unfortunately, Qi Xuan possesses the top-tier cultivation aptitude of the Chaotic Limitless Spiritual Root, so he doesn't have this problem at all.

He doesn't have to do anything; just standing there, those spirit-filled little bitches rush to burrow into his body, afraid they won't burrow in fast enough.

Therefore, the effect of refining essence into qi is not very useful to him.

On the contrary, its inherent devouring properties are very important to him.

[Refining Essence] can refine food, but what exactly constitutes food?

The answer is simple: whatever you eat counts, and that's how you refine it.

Of course, whether someone can successfully practice it is another matter entirely.

If you were to swallow a stone, it might take forty-nine days to digest it, and you wouldn't even get much nutrition from it.

Furthermore, while it's possible to refine potent poisons, the effects of such poisons might be faster, potentially killing the person before the process is complete.

Therefore, this ability still has many implicit limitations.

However, this ability is the most suitable for Qi Xuan, especially since he is currently in a dense forest. If he can't find any food, he can just gnaw on a few tree branches to sustain himself for a while longer, instead of being choked to death by tree bark like the starving people in a disaster year.

With this in mind, Qi Xuan casually took out a pomegranate, and after quickly devouring the flesh, he found himself even hungrier.

[Refining Essence] is indeed a good thing, but refining it too quickly is not good either.

Left with no other choice, he ate five or six more durians to barely fill his stomach.

At this rate, the pomegranates he harvested yesterday might only be enough for him to eat today.

We still need to find something to eat.

We need to stock up on more.

Having food at home means you won't panic.

After glancing at the sun in the sky, Qi Xuan decided to continue walking in the direction he had explored the day before.

Retracing this path, thanks to his enhanced senses, he discovered many easily overlooked details, even finding two wild potatoes growing in the roadside grass, marking a successful start.

When he arrived at the spot where he had knocked down the pomegranate tree yesterday, broken branches of the tree were still scattered on the ground, and there were no animal footprints around, almost exactly the same as when he left.

But people have changed.

"Now that I've reached the first level of Qi Refining, I'm a genuine cultivator, so I should be able to stream for a bit longer than yesterday, right?"

With a slightly apprehensive feeling, Qi Xuan started the live stream.

(End of this chapter)