The Leisurely Life of a Young Man in the World of Cultivation

Since he had already lost face so much, Ma Changshou didn't bother to hide it anymore.

"Sigh, I can't help it. The previous plan was very successful!"

"But I already have five thousand disciples, and my dojo is only so big. Unless I move outside the sect, there's no place to put more disciples!"

"So I thought, since my master can't tell, he shouldn't be able to tell if I make something fake, right? After all, you said he'll get used to it over time!"

"But two years have passed, how come he still hasn't gotten used to it!"

This time, Lu Changfeng finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Do you think it's possible that your master is constantly monitoring you when you take on apprentices?"

"The previous apprentice was genuine, and the gift was given. But this time you haven't taken on any apprentices, so why do you think he wouldn't notice?"

Ma Changshou was now completely helpless.

"Oh, what a tragedy!"

Suddenly, as if remembering something, he immediately asked Lu Changfeng.

"By the way, Brother Lu, have your apprentices messaged you lately?"

Lu Changfeng shrugged.

"No, they've practically vanished. If it weren't for the occasional video jade slips coming from the Endless Canyon, I'd think they were all done for!"

"However, their cultivation has increased rapidly in recent years, and many of them have now reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage!"

"I estimate they'll break through to the Golden Core stage in a few years!"

"That means they've truly graduated!"

Previously, the cultivation limit corresponding to a low-grade spiritual root was the Qi Refining Perfection stage, a mid-grade spiritual root was the Foundation Establishment Perfection stage, and a high-grade spiritual root was the Golden Core Perfection stage.

However, with the arrival of the glorious era of the Immortal Path, it has now become possible to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage, and even the Golden Core stage, simply by striving for a low-grade spiritual root.

A mid-grade spiritual root can normally reach the Golden Core stage; its limit has not yet been reached.

As for top-grade cultivators, they are usually at the Golden Core stage, with very few breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Therefore, the Golden Core stage is considered a relatively clear threshold, and thus the graduation of the Golden Core stage was determined.

"Well, this is actually not bad at all, at least it's much better than what I was like back then!"

"But Senior Brother Ye Tian's disciple is still the most powerful. That Han Lingxiao is already in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm!"

Even in just three short years, their cultivation levels have reached the Golden Core stage, and Han Lingxiao has reached the mid-Golden Core stage and is about to reach the late Golden Core stage.

However, compared to them, Ye Tian's situation is much better. According to the information they sent, Ye Tian seems to be comprehending something, so he hasn't moved from the early stage of Nascent Soul, and is still at the first level of Nascent Soul.

However, a newly promoted Nascent Soul stage prodigy from Haoran Academy challenged him. This was not a quick-developing genius like Wan Longfei, but a top prodigy with true extraordinary abilities, possessing both a high-grade Golden Core and a special Nascent Soul.

Unfortunately, he was smashed halfway by the Vajra Ring that Ye Tian threw out, and his Dao Heart was shattered. He went straight home!

Although it's just a textual description, one can roughly guess that it's because he killed that genius from the Ten Thousand Demon Palace when he went to the Endless Canyon of the Polar Regions.

So after learning this, he decisively performed a divination.

As expected, Ye Tian successfully absorbed the other party's physique and phenomena, thus forming a symbiotic relationship between immortals and demons. Not only did his physique evolve, but he also gained a second cultivation level.

During this period, Ye Tian was undergoing a period of retraining. Apart from the Foundation Establishment stage Heavenly Demon Tu Cang Sheng, he was focusing on refining his Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages.

If successful, he will transform from a top-tier prodigy into a super genius.

This is the super bonus brought by a super physique. Although his own Azure Lotus Longevity Physique is also good, it provides too little boost to his combat power.

However, he wasn't worried. After all, he could get his own strength from the gift packs, and who knows when he might get a second level of cultivation, which would allow him to reach the next level in one step.

Unlike Ye Tian, ​​he doesn't have to cultivate on his own, crying and laughing.

However, the most likely time for this to happen is probably the 100th anniversary of the system's launch.

After all, the gift packs for the first and tenth anniversaries were quite good, so the hundredth anniversary gift packs will definitely be even better.

27 years have already passed, and there are still 73 years left. This amount of time is nothing compared to my lifespan of 100,000 years!

The only problem is that the cultivation speed in the auto-play section is a bit slow. He has been in the Nascent Soul stage for so many years, but he is only at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage now.

When will the system release a gift pack that increases AFK (away from keyboard) speed?

It should be noted that he has only received one gift pack that increases the cultivation speed in the auto-play mode so far, which increased the cultivation speed from 10 times to 20 times.

If we did it again, I wonder if the AFK effect would double or increase tenfold.

While Lu Changfeng was pondering, at the very edge of the core area of ​​the polar region, Yue Yunjin, along with Xin Modingxiu, Lu Xing, Bai Hua, and Da Huang, were frantically digging in the ice field.

"Hurry everyone! And whatever you do, don't use your spiritual power, or the Yeti will easily spot us!"

The others nodded repeatedly, but the iron pickaxes in their hands were already about to spark.

There's no way around it; the polar ice fields aren't ordinary ice and snow, but real millennia-old ice, which is incredibly hard to begin with, and the great changes in the world will only make it harder.

Fortunately, with the help of the magical pickaxe, the group's digging speed was not too slow.

Before long, the group arrived at the foot of the ice field. Above them were millennia-old ice emitting a faint blue light, and below them was frozen black permafrost.

At that moment, several icicles connecting the two appeared in front of them not far away.

"These are the icicles! Dig quickly, the Extreme Cold Essence is inside!"

Upon hearing this, everyone became excited. They had taken a huge risk to come here to excavate this extremely cold profound marrow. According to Yue Yunjin's description, this was a peerless treasure that could improve cultivation and increase aptitude.

They must know each other, otherwise they would be fighting right now.

After a series of clanging and digging, a small snowball, about the size of a thumbnail, appeared on the cross-section of the icicle in no time.

With just one glance, Yue Yunjin knew this was the target they were looking for, and immediately became excited.

"Excellent! Just as I predicted, even the edge of the core area has yielded Extreme Cold Mystic Marrow!"

Before long, the group had cleared away four or five ice pillars around them, but this also meant that the extremely cold marrow in this area had been completely excavated.

"Very good, everyone, continue!"

Since we're here, we can't just take something and leave!

However, they soon discovered another problem.

"Everyone stop! There's a problem!"

Everyone immediately became alert, and soon the group hid inside the array plate that Bai Hua had set up.

This was one of the three-piece set that Lu Changfeng sold to him for ten top-grade spirit stones.

Once inside, everyone began to ask questions.

"Junior sister, what went wrong?"

Faced with everyone's questions, Yue Yunjin did not hide anything and immediately revealed his discovery.

"Have you all noticed that, under normal circumstances, we are actually moving further and further into the polar regions?"

"However, the amount of Extreme Cold Essence harvested was less than that from the outer areas!"

"So there must be some big problem here! Otherwise, this situation would never have occurred."