You think I have mixed spiritual roots? I became an immortal through a spirit gourd, so what are you

"Huh, Fireball." With a thought, Chen Huai'an activated his magic power, and a fireball appeared in his palm.

To Chen Huai'an's surprise, this fireball spell was different from the fireball spell he had used before; a terrifying heat wave was released from the flames in his palm.

"This chaotic true energy allows me to cast the fireball spell, so can I also cast the earth spike spell, the entanglement spell, and other spells?" Seeing the fireball spell he cast, Chen Huai'an wondered if he could also cast his other spells.

Chen Huai'an acted on his thought immediately, casting an Entangling spell. Then, under the influence of his internal magic power, a vine quickly grew out and shot towards the stone table in the courtyard, rapidly covering it.

"The Chaos Five Elements True Technique is truly domineering. Its power has increased considerably. From now on, I won't need to deliberately cultivate a certain type of magical power. I can just continuously refine natural treasures and spirit stones that possess the power of the five elements. I just don't know if absorbing the spiritual energy from ordinary spirit stones can increase the Chaos True Qi in my body and improve my cultivation." Chen Huai'an felt his current state, which was better than ever before.

Chen Huai'an possesses the space of the purple gourd, which allows him to cultivate a large number of rare and precious materials. However, if he wants to cultivate the Five Elements Qi Refining Technique, he needs to consume rare and precious materials of the corresponding attributes, refine pills from them, and find Five Elements Spirit Stones, which will be very troublesome.

But now it's different. He has cultivated the Chaos Five Elements True Technique, so he no longer needs to absorb the power of the five elements to strengthen the Chaos True Qi in his body.

Chen Huai'an took out a high-grade spirit stone from his storage bag and then circulated the Chaos Five Elements True Technique. In just a short while, the spiritual power within the high-grade spirit stone was transformed into his refined cultivation.

"No way, the speed at which he absorbs the spiritual energy from the spirit stone is too fast." High-grade spirit stones contain terrifying spiritual power, but Chen Huai'an only needed to circulate his energy once to absorb all the spiritual power from a high-grade spirit stone.

"This Chaos Five Elements True Technique is truly a glutton! After consuming this high-grade spirit stone, the Chaos True Qi within my body has only increased slightly."

"Wait, something's not right. My cultivation level has actually reached the peak of the first level of the early stage of Qi Refining. Judging from this, it won't be long before I reach the second level of the early stage of Qi Refining." Chen Huai'an suddenly realized that his cultivation level had improved again.

"Could it be because I just absorbed the spiritual energy from a high-grade spirit stone? But that doesn't make sense either."

Then Chen Huai'an began to cultivate the Chaos Five Elements True Technique, absorbing all the spirit stones in his hand.

One by one, the top-grade spirit stones were refined and absorbed, and the spiritual power within them was transformed into his refined cultivation.

Such a speed of refining and absorption directly shocked Chen Huai'an. In less than half a day, the chaotic true energy in his dantian had grown from the thickness of a hair to the thickness of a chopstick.

Similarly, his cultivation level also broke through from the first level of the initial stage of Qi Refining to the peak of the second level of the initial stage of Qi Refining.

Such a cultivation speed is terrifying. In less than a day, his cultivation level broke through one level, reaching the second level of the early stage of Qi Refining.

"I've used up all the spirit stones I have, and I have to find a way to get some more." He felt extremely heartbroken when he thought about how Chen Huai'an had exchanged a large number of Five Elements Spirit Stones at a ratio of 1:10.

If he hadn't exchanged those ordinary spirit stones for five-element spirit stones, then by refining those spirit stones into high-grade spirit stones through the gourd space, his cultivation would have broken through to the third level of the Qi Refining Realm, and it's even possible that he could have successfully broken through to the fourth level of the mid-stage Qi Refining Realm.

However, there's nothing to regret. What needs to be done now is to find a way to get more spirit stones to help him cultivate.

The cultivation level improved rapidly, but the cultivation resources consumed were also terrifying.

The Chaos Five Elements True Technique can be cultivated by anyone with the five elemental spiritual roots, but the cultivation resources it consumes are beyond the capacity of ordinary disciples. Even some inner disciples cannot withstand Chen Huai'an's reckless actions.

If other Qi Refining disciples were to consume and absorb the cultivation resources in Chen Huai'an's possession, they might not only break through to the second level of Qi Refining, but even reach the peak of the late stage of Qi Refining.

Previously, Chen Huai'an had only signed up to participate in the battle at the first level of Qi Refining, and he wasn't very confident in dealing with the invasion of the Yin Sha Sect. But now that Chen Huai'an's cultivation has reached the peak of the second level of Qi Refining, his cultivation is no longer at the bottom. He just doesn't know where the sect will send them.

If he were to guard the sect's spirit stone mine, that would be fantastic. Wouldn't he be able to secretly send the spirit stones from the mine into his spatial storage? He would then have countless high-grade spirit stones, and probably even top-grade spirit stones.

Chen Huai'an was very much looking forward to the upcoming unification action of the sects.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Huai'an had spent another three days in the outer gate.

During these three days, Chen Huai'an's cultivation was put on hold because he lacked spirit stones and pills to aid his practice. However, he did not remain idle during these three days; instead, he meticulously managed his space.

Inside the space were the spirit grains and herbs he had cultivated. Besides consuming the spirit grains, he also had some spirit birds. He hadn't touched the herbs in the space. The longer these herbs stayed in the space, the more they would grow to the age of several years. When he took them to the market, he could sell them for a large amount of spirit stones and pills. Then, he could refine these spirit stones and pills through the purple gourd space to maximize his profits.

Although consuming and refining all the spiritual herbs in the space will increase his cultivation level, the increase will be limited and he will not be able to maximize his benefits.

In particular, the spiritual herbs in the space are not planted like the spiritual valley, which can mature quickly. For the spiritual herbs in the space to become truly valuable high-level spiritual herbs, they also need a lot of time.

"The sect has started summoning disciples. Is this an impending operation?" As soon as Chen Huai'an came out of the space, he noticed that his identity token was vibrating incessantly. This was a message from the sect's higher-ups, summoning outer disciples to gather at the martial arts arena.

Soon, Chen Huai'an arrived at the training ground following the information on his waist tag.

All those involved in this operation were disciples who had registered to participate in the competition.

What puzzled Chen Huai'an was that he also saw several familiar strangers in the crowd. These people were the outer disciples living in the nearby courtyard. They all had long faces, as if someone owed them money.

Through this experience, Chen Huai'an understood why these people looked so listless and dejected, like wilted eggplants.

The reason is that these outer disciples living in the courtyards do not have good backgrounds or powerful backers, and the sect crisis is very serious. They were forcibly assigned to participate in this unified action of the outer disciples.

This also demonstrates Chen Huai'an's brilliance; there is a significant difference between being proactive and being passive.

If you are proactive, you have high ideological awareness and are willing to contribute to the sect, so you will naturally be able to obtain corresponding benefits. However, those who are passively and forcibly conscripted are not as lucky as Chen Huai'an and the others.

These people can enter the Scripture Pavilion to choose cultivation techniques, but they will not receive the reward of one thousand sect contribution points.

To obtain sect contribution points, one must kill enemies in battle to earn battle merits, which can then be exchanged for sect contribution points.

"This is a unified operation of the sect. All outer disciples will be managed and dispatched by inner disciples. One inner disciple will lead ten outer disciples to my Qingyun Sect's spirit stone mine to reclaim lost territory." The voice of the inner sect's Golden Core elder resounded in the training ground.