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

After breaking through the fifth level of Qi Refining.

Besides the doubling of mana in the dantian.

Li Lan felt that his body had also undergone a baptism from the inside out.

He could clearly feel that,

every meridian in his body seemed to have been sublimated,

becoming more flexible and solid.

Every trace of mana flowing through such meridians was like a roaring and surging tide.

If it had been at the fourth level of Qi Refining,

circulating such a majestic amount of mana once would have inevitably led to meridian breakage and death.

But after advancing to this middle stage of Qi Refining,

circulating mana in this way was as easy as flipping one's hand.

Completing the first transformation on the path of immortal cultivation,

brought far more benefits than just these.

Li Lan could now clearly perceive that he seemed to have become somewhat different.

There was a subtle difference between him and his mortal body.

This difference was more directly reflected in the aura, divine sense, and lifespan.

In the past, Li Lan needed to concentrate and focus on sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth,

carefully searching, capturing, and guiding it to circulate in his body,

in order to refine a trace of usable mana.

The whole process was quite cumbersome.

But now.

These spiritual energies of heaven and earth seemed to have become much more active,

and were no longer as resistant to him as before.

This meant that,

Li Lan's efficiency in absorbing and converting mana would also be significantly improved in the future.

In addition to this,

his divine sense had also experienced a small increase.

Li Lan clearly felt that,

his control over the spirit bean soldiers was becoming more and more effortless.

After carefully sensing it,

the strength of his divine sense should have increased by about one-tenth compared to before.

Although it didn't sound like much, one shouldn't underestimate this little bit of increase in divine sense.

This type of extremely mysterious ability,

not only affects the speed of casting spells, the strength of magical tools, and the number of puppets that can be controlled,

but also concerns how far a cultivator can go on the path of immortal cultivation.

If Li Lan had possessed this level of divine sense earlier,

would he have needed to mine, lay spirit stone caves, and so on to break through to the middle stage of Qi Refining?

Don't even mention dividing his mind into five threads to simultaneously control five vortexes of mana.

Even dividing his mind into six or seven threads would not be difficult.

The difference between the early and middle stages of Qi Refining,

is not only reflected in mana,

but also in the difference in divine sense, which can be described as like mud and clouds.

Moreover.

Whether divine sense is strong or weak,

is already predetermined at birth,

there are few means to temper and change it later on, and the effects are often unsatisfactory.

The increase in divine sense from the improvement of ordinary small realms is also minimal.

Only after experiencing such baptism-like transformations as breaking through to the middle stage of Qi Refining each time,

can a relatively large increase be obtained.

As he officially entered the middle stage of Qi Refining.

Li Lan's lifespan also increased from the original thirty-one years to thirty-six years.

He slowly opened his eyes,

a flash of brilliance flashed in his eyes and disappeared.

Looking at the spirit stones in the cave, which were still flashing with a faint blue light,

Li Lan pondered for a moment, then closed his eyes again and entered a state of cultivation.

These spirit stone cultivation resources were hard-won,

and the spiritual energy contained in them had not yet been exhausted.

Li Lan naturally didn't want to waste them like this.

Every pore of his body was greedily absorbing the rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him.

He was immersed in cultivation, and had even forgotten the passage of time.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already two months later.

Having cultivated to the middle stage of Qi Refining, he had already initially achieved grain avoidance and could go without food for a hundred days.

After meditating for two months,

a thin layer of dust had even fallen on Li Lan's body.

But he didn't feel the slightest bit of hunger.

Raising his hand and casting a spell to shake off the floating dust.

Li Lan slowly stood up.

If a mortal maintained a posture for so long, I'm afraid all the joints in their body would collapse.

But he didn't feel any discomfort,

after slightly moving around, he only felt unspeakable comfort.

This was the difference between a mortal body of flesh and blood and a semi-spiritual body.

This was only the middle stage of Qi Refining,

when he breaks through the ninth level of Qi Refining, washes away the lead and enters the late stage of Qi Refining.

He can completely avoid grains, replace meals with qi, and no longer eat those vulgar things of the mortal world.

At that time, he will be truly transformed into an immortal cultivator.

Looking around.

The cave was dark.

The spiritual energy contained in those spirit stones,

had all been absorbed by Li Lan, and now they had been reduced to a pile of lusterless waste stones.

If it weren't for the fluctuations in the nearby spiritual energy,

he might have had to wait until a hundred days later,

when a sense of hunger came from his belly, before he would have withdrawn from the state of cultivation.

In two months' time,

Li Lan's harvest was also not small.

In addition to the spirit bean soldier, he also dug up more than sixty spirit stones.

His cultivation had also improved a lot.

Although the fourth and fifth levels of Qi Refining were only one realm apart.

But in terms of cultivation speed, there was indeed a world of difference.

In just two months' time,

the mana in Li Lan's body had grown vigorously by about three-tenths.

At this rate,

in about half a year, he would be able to try to break through the sixth level of Qi Refining.

If it were in the past,

Li Lan would probably not have dared to think that,

he, a pseudo-spiritual root, could also have such a fast cultivation speed.

Of course.

To have this kind of cultivation speed,

in addition to the significant improvement in physical fitness in all aspects after advancing to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

the environment of this spirit stone cave played a crucial role.

After all.

Spiritual veins are the rarest cultivation resources in the world of immortal cultivation.

And this spirit stone cave is also known as a pseudo-spiritual vein.

If it couldn't provide such help to cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, then it would be strange.

Holding more than sixty spirit stones, Li Lan pondered for a moment.

In the end.

He took back all the spirit bean soldiers that had been released.

After simply tidying up the cave,

Li Lan quietly left Immortal Trace Valley and headed towards the direction of Guangji Temple in Peach Blossom Mountain Range.

During this time, he had been busy with various chores such as cultivation, exploring the depths of Immortal Trace Valley, and mining.

He hadn't returned to the sect to take a look for a long time.

He hadn't even taken the time to collect his monthly eight taels of spirit sand salary.

Li Lan planned to go and see this time,

to see if he could find a way to make up for the salary he had missed in the previous months.

In addition to this.

He also planned to pay back the spirit sand he owed to Miao Chenfeng and Zhou Huairen.

Li Lan was a grateful person,

both of them had provided a lot of help when he was most difficult.

Now that he had some wealth, he naturally thought of repaying his debts as soon as possible.

Besides,

it's not difficult to borrow again if you borrow and repay.

It is said that when breaking through from the middle stage of Qi Refining to the later stage,

this low-level breakthrough pill is not very useful.

Only the mid-level breakthrough pill can have an effect.

I don't know if the Spirit Plant Peak has this mid-level breakthrough pill formula.

Since Guangji Temple has been standing in the world of immortal cultivation for many years,

and has the inner sect in Jiuhua County City as its backing, it should have this thing, right?

Thinking so in his heart,

Li Lan didn't stop, carefully shuttling through the jungle.

Since controlling the spirit bean soldiers to explore the depths of Immortal Trace Valley,

Li Lan's body had not left the cave for a long time.

Now that he had just left the customs,

walking in the periphery of this Immortal Trace Valley.

Before long, he keenly noticed something was wrong.