At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

"Master, that Evening Primrose really isn't on me."

"How about this, disciple will return to the downstream of that river to search again?"

Although Elder Jian Chen's conditions were quite tempting to Li Lan.

He wasn't stupid either, so naturally, he couldn't admit that the spiritual herb was indeed on him.

Elder Jian Chen pointed with one hand, and a storage bag floated out, landing in front of Li Lan.

"Go, find it, and give it to A'Hua."

Li Lan opened the storage bag to take a look.

Inside were a jade-white short stick, a emerald-green jade slip, and a pile of spirit sand.

This was exactly the condition Elder Jian Chen had promised earlier.

He seemed certain that Li Lan could find the Evening Primrose, so he gave the cultivation resources to him in advance.

Of course.

This action also meant to prevent Li Lan from trading with others.

All indications showed that Elder Jian Chen was determined to obtain this spiritual herb.

Li Lan clicked his tongue inwardly, raising his vigilance against him once again.

His face remained unchanged, and seeing that there was nothing else, he cupped his hands and took his leave.

As Li Lan left, the hall fell silent once again.

The crisp and rhythmic tapping sound rang out once more.

After a long while.

Elder Jian Chen softly gave his assessment.

"This child is cunning and has a deep mind, possessing some of my style back then."

"It's a pity that his nature is too kind."

"If it were me, none of those present, including A'Hua, would leave alive."

"Liu Yan, what do you think?"

After speaking.

He turned his head to look at the child beside him, gently stroking the other's head.

Heavenly Spiritual Root Liu Yan's eyes were dull, somewhat wooden, and he did not speak.

Elder Jian Chen was not surprised by this scene.

He shook his head and chuckled, saying:

"I forgot."

"It's too early now, it's not the time yet."

......

After leaving Sword Spirit Peak, Li Lan ignored A'Hua and Tie Niu's gazes.

He went straight back to his bamboo hut.

Only now.

Did he have the time to open the storage bag and carefully inspect it.

The emerald-green jade slip was in Elder Jian Chen's own handwriting, and the content was very long.

The general idea was to say.

Li Lan performed well and was recommended to enter the outer cave of the spirit vein to cultivate for twelve hours.

Looking at the ink marks on it, it didn't seem to be a temporary draft, but was prepared long ago.

Li Lan guessed that Jian Chen was very likely to have guessed that he might be the one who laughed last when A'Hua first reported the results of the trip.

So he prepared this in advance as a condition for exchanging the Evening Primrose.

Elder Jian Chen's deep scheming was among the top of all the people Li Lan had seen in his life.

The other item was the jade-white short stick.

This object was shaped like a short stick, but one end was thicker, with a lifelike coiling dragon winding around it.

Rather than calling it a short stick, in Li Lan's view, it was more like the unpopular weapon, the iron mace.

The moment he held it in both hands.

Many understandings of this jade mace appeared out of nowhere in Li Lan's mind.

This seemed to be the memory left by the weapon refiner who refined this magical tool.

This object was called the Coiling Dragon Earth-Shaking Mace, a first-order middle-grade magical tool.

Because when it collided with other magical tools, the sound of a dragon's roar often came out, hence the name.

The Coiling Dragon Earth-Shaking Mace was open and powerful, mainly focusing on using overwhelming force to overcome all techniques.

After injecting mana, it could gain the power to shock the mountain and terrify the tiger.

During combat, if the opposing cultivator did not understand this type of magical tool, they would often suffer a great loss.

There were many advantages, and the disadvantages were also particularly obvious.

Compared to conventional magical tools like swords, controlling this object required consuming more mana and spiritual consciousness.

However, Li Lan, who cultivated the "Chaotic Origin Five Elements True Art", had much more mana than ordinary cultivators.

This magical tool was also considered suitable for him.

Li Lan tried to activate it according to the magic formula that appeared out of nowhere in his mind.

The short stick-shaped jade mace immediately sensed it, and every dragon scale of the coiling dragon seemed to light up.

Immediately.

The Earth-Shaking Mace trembled slightly twice, and a faint roar sounded.

After hearing this, Li Lan's expression became a little strange.

Was this the sound of the dragon's roar that the strange memory in his mind spoke of?

Having used the Myriad Brush Creates Dragon technique, he knew very well that this was not a real dragon's roar.

It seemed that the forger of this Earth-Shaking Mace had never seen a real dragon.

After Li Lan injected nearly half of the mana in his body into it.

The jade mace seemed to be given vitality.

It began to fly up and down in the air according to his thoughts.

This object looked bulky, but it was actually much more flexible than the Spirit Bean Soldiers when controlled.

As long as the spiritual consciousness and mana were sufficient.

It could complete every command of Li Lan.

It could almost reach the point of being used like an arm.

After trying it out.

Li Lan also had a clearer concept of magical tools in his mind.

Miao Chenfeng was right about one thing.

His current cultivation realm was indeed somewhat difficult to control magical tools.

He couldn't exert the full power of the magical tool.

Even if the mana in Li Lan's dantian was much higher than that of ordinary cultivators, he could only control the magical tool for a dozen breaths at most.

It was no wonder that A'Hua didn't use the magical tool immediately when fighting with the middle-aged female cultivator in Immortal Trace Valley.

For cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining, due to the limitations of mana.

Magical tools were indeed more suitable as trump cards to be used at the bottom of the box.

Despite this.

Li Lan was still very satisfied with this magical tool.

Having this object meant that he had one more life-saving method.

In the future, when encountering matters of fighting with others again.

In addition to running away, the choices Li Lan could make had also increased a lot.

For the next period of time.

Li Lan took the time to hand over the Evening Primrose to A'Hua.

Then he began a new round of closed-door cultivation.

Elder Jian Chen said that he would help him solve the sect contribution for the next year.

This meant that Li Lan would not have to go out to perform sect tasks for the next year.

He would naturally not miss this excellent opportunity for cultivation.

Li Lan restrained his mind, emptied his distracting thoughts, and began to launch an attack towards the second level of Qi Refining.

Apart from the daily needs for food.

He almost completely locked himself in the bamboo hut and rarely went out.

......

The sun and moon revolved, and the cold and heat came and went.

Two years passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day.

Li Lan, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes.

Gently exhaling a mouthful of turbid air.

On the path of cultivating immortality.

If the Qi Refining stage was compared to the foundation.

Then the first level of Qi Refining was the foundation of the foundation.

The basis for judging whether a cultivator had broken through the first level of Qi Refining.

Was whether they could compress and condense the loose mana in the dantian into a vortex shape.

This was the most basic ability for immortal cultivators.

The Qi Refining stage was divided into thirteen levels.

Each time one advanced a level, they had to condense an additional mana vortex in the dantian.

This sounded simple, but it was actually extremely dangerous to do.

It was already very difficult for ordinary cultivators to condense the first vortex.

How could the difficulty of condensing the second one not increase geometrically?

To compress mana into a stable vortex structure in the limited space of the dantian.

Leaving more space to absorb and transform more mana.

The difficulty was like allowing two whirlwinds to rotate stably at the same time in a small room.

Cultivators needed to accurately control the volume, flow direction, and speed of the two mana vortices at the same time.

With the slightest deviation, the vortex might collapse.

The gathered mana would also dissipate.

The pure mana that had been painstakingly circulated and transformed before would be completely lost.

Those with poor luck might even have their dantian burst by the excessive mana and die on the spot.

After two years of hard work.

Li Lan had successfully condensed two smaller mana vortices in his dantian.

And kept them in a delicate balance at the same time.

But this state could not last too long, and Li Lan could only be called a quasi-second level of Qi Refining at this time.

With the aptitude of mixed spiritual roots, it was already the limit to be able to do this with the help of the Qi Refining Yuan Cultivation Pill.

If Li Lan wanted to go further.

He had to rely on more effective external forces to increase the efficiency of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Thinking of this.

He took out the emerald-green jade slip he had exchanged from Elder Jian Chen.