Ordinary People: Starting with the Chen Clan

When he chose this martial art, his parents were very puzzled, but they agreed after he explained it to them.

First, he didn't test his spiritual root back then. If he didn't have a spiritual root, he wouldn't be willing to be an ordinary mortal.

Having martial arts skills is a means of self-defense. Furthermore, this martial art doesn't require cultivating internal energy, so it won't affect future cultivation. Even if one enters the world of cultivation, it provides an extra layer of protection in the initial stages.

Under Chen Xuanzhou's persuasion, it was his parents who were convinced and began to practice this martial art. With the cultivators' spiritual control over their bodies, practicing it was not difficult and wouldn't waste too much time.

We encountered some people on the way, but everyone was used to it.

"Hey, Xuanzhou, you seem to be even faster today," one of the passing teenagers said, stopping in his tracks.

"Hmm, I've just entered the Qi Refining stage, so I have new insights into this movement technique!"

"What? You've entered the Qi Refining stage?"

"How long have you been cultivating? Less than a month? Are you trying to kill us all?"

The young man's expression changed instantly upon hearing Chen Xuanzhou's words. Suddenly remembering something, he took a step and started to run away.

"You brat, where are you going! Get back here and start cultivating! Look at Xuanzhou, he's even younger than you! And you?!"

Before he had taken more than a few steps, a whip had already wrapped around him.

With a sharp crack, the whip struck just in front of him. If he hadn't stopped, the whip would likely have hit him.

"Dad, if you want to kill me, who will observe mourning for you afterwards?!"

"Heh, it's because of you, you little brat, that I'll have to live several years less."

While the two were bickering, Chen Xuanzhou, having done his good deed, had already drifted away without leaving a trace.

After running one lap, Chen Xuanzhou's speed increased by at least 50% to 60%. Such a significant improvement was naturally not solely due to the enhancement in physical fitness after entering the Qi Refining stage.

After all, when Han Tianzun entered the Qi Refining stage, he felt no different from ordinary people. The reason he could do it was actually because, with the help of the Condensing Pearl, his understanding and mastery of this footwork had reached a superb level.

Even the person who created this footwork might not be able to rival him. It's just that he's still young, and many of the movements require a certain level of physical strength, which he can't achieve.

Another function of the incense burner, or more accurately, its passive function, is that because the incense burner is always present in his dantian, it also gives him the ability to see inside.

Moreover, he had such a thorough grasp of himself that he could accurately control every meridian and muscle. Therefore, Chen Xuanzhou stopped after running only 80% of the original distance, not because he had reached his limit.

The body has been adjusted to its optimal state. At this moment, the red-striped fish in the body has been partially refined and nourished the meridians of the whole body. It is the best time to practice Qi.

So he didn't waste a moment and immediately returned to his room. After greeting his mother, he went back into the room to cultivate.

This time, he took out a spirit stone the size of a fingernail. As soon as he sat down to meditate, he immediately noticed the difference. If the low-grade spirit stone last time was a greyhound, then this time it was a cheetah.

Powerful and fast—that's the most fitting description of Chen Xuanzhou. Besides that, it's also shorter.

Like a cheetah, it can burst out faster and more fiercely, but it can only maintain that for a brief moment, not even as fast as a greyhound.

Of course, such spirit stones also have their advantages. If you can hold several of them when breaking through, the success rate will increase significantly, and it is no less effective than ordinary breakthrough pills.

Because the spiritual energy inside is exceptionally pure, at his level, he basically doesn't need much refining to transform it into his own magical power.

Afterwards, he took out his storage bag and pills to experiment. The pills could also be purified. The pills, which were originally the size of longan, turned into longan kernels after being soaked in incense.

However, the effect of refining it was that he could hardly feel the poison in the pill, and the refining speed was greatly accelerated. Normally, with his cultivation level, even if he had an incense burner as a cheat device, it would take him at least three days to fully utilize a single pill.

Now, only half an hour has passed, and about half of this pill has already been refined. As the medicinal properties of the pill decrease, the refining efficiency of the remaining part will be even faster.

It's already half-refined, so there's no need to rush. The medicinal properties are still present in the body, and not much will dissipate.

Chen Xuanzhou picked up the last storage bag, opened it, and found that there was no difference; it could still hold the same amount of things.

It seems that a single stick of incense is far from enough to change the ritual implements.

Chen Xuanzhou didn't take out the Condensed Pearl to test it; it was just a low-level storage bag, and he couldn't bear to waste it like that.

He continued cultivating for a while until he felt that his meridians had reached their limit, and then he stopped.

However, he didn't rush out. Instead, he began to think about his future cultivation path. Since he had this cheat code, he naturally had to start a side business.

He hadn't considered upgrading the resources directly. Putting aside the changes in appearance of the spirit stones and pills after incense was incorporated, even if he could buy more resources, the amount of incense was too small, and it might not be enough after purchasing them.

Moreover, the greatest benefit of incense is not resource upgrading, but the terrifying enhancement of comprehension. With such comprehension, mastering magic and talisman techniques is extremely easy.

His family now has enough resources to support his initial investment, and the Chen family also started out making talismans. Their family heirloom is the Silver Pen and Golden Book, along with matching secret techniques.

However, they will never have the chance to see this branch of the tree.

However, their branches are no less than the affiliated families of Qingxu Sect in terms of the complete collection of basic talismans. In fact, apart from Yanyue Sect and Lingshou Mountain, other sects basically have no outstanding heritage.

While it's said that the Qingxu Sect excels at talisman making, this is only relative to the other five sects. In terms of lineage, they can't even compare to the Tianfu Sect, which has already fallen to the bottom. These sects in Yue Kingdom are just a makeshift operation, picking the best from the worst.

Among the methods of talisman making is the art of sealing talismans. As long as one comprehends a spell, there is a chance to seal the spell into a talisman. The deeper one's mastery of the spell, the higher the probability of sealing it.

Many talisman makers can only draw a few types of talismans in their entire lives. It's not that they don't want to, but they are stuck by magic and have no way to do so.

While it is possible to create runes by drawing runes, the difficulty level is much higher because these runes themselves represent the concrete manifestation of the principles of magic.

This is similar to a master of chemical theory; given one more step in operating a machine, he can quickly mix various chemical reagents.

However, if you don't understand any of the principles, you can only rely on memorizing the operating steps countless times. Sometimes you make mistakes and don't even know where you went wrong.

This is the difference between the two.

Therefore, at this stage, making talismans allows him to quickly acquire resources, and Qi Refining stage pills are not scarce. If all else fails, spirit stones are just as useful to him.

However, he did not rush to ask his parents for the talisman-making inheritance, but instead began to bury himself in arduous cultivation.

At the first level of Qi Refining, one can't even conjure a fireball.

Wanting to get rich? That's just wishful thinking!