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"These people must be the ones Su Wanying and her group sent to deal with me." Chen Huai'an changed direction and noticed that the three of them were always hanging far behind him, clearly intending to harm him.

"They outnumber us now, so it's not the time to deal with them. We'll deal with them slowly once we're deeper into the mine." After several tests, Chen Huai'an discovered that there were three people following him. All three of them were very powerful, at the mid-stage of the Qi Refining Realm.

With his current cultivation level, dealing with someone at the mid-stage of the Qi Refining Realm is still a bit difficult. Once he stays deep in the mine for a few days and uses up all the second-grade mid-level Qi Refining Pills that Qin Muyao gave him, his cultivation level will definitely be able to advance further.

Once he breaks through to the sixth level of the mid-stage Qi Refining Realm, dealing with his opponent will be very easy.

Chen Huai'an suddenly used earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic or technique), taking advantage of the complex terrain in the mine to rush into the depths of the mine. In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, he had shaken off his opponent.

"What happened? Didn't we just sense that kid in the mine? How did he disappear in an instant?" Chen Huai'an vanished using his escape technique, leaving the three outer disciples behind him running around like headless flies.

"Boss didn't find this guy. Could it be that he spotted us and ran into the deepest part of the mine?" The three who had split up to search quickly reunited, but they still hadn't found any trace of Chen Huai'an.

"Our divine senses are suppressed in this mine. Although we left a mark on this guy, we can't keep an eye on him all the time. Our main task is to clear out the Yin puppets in the mine and earn sect contribution points. If we encounter this kid, we can just kill him. There's no need to specifically intercept and kill him," the middle-aged man in the lead said.

"The boss is right. We're nothing more than a bunch of cannon fodder, otherwise we wouldn't be here in this mine exterminating the Yin Puppet. If we have the chance to kill Chen Huai'an, that's fine. If not, there's no need to force it."

After being shaken off by Chen Huai'an, the three of them stopped dwelling on the matter.

They are in charge of the cleanup mission, so they definitely have to give an explanation to the sect, instead of just finding a place to hide and drift through life. If they want to break through to a higher realm, they need to have enough contribution points to exchange for sect resources.

"I've run this far already, those three guys shouldn't have followed me, right?" Chen Huai'an found that using earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic or technique) to escape was extremely difficult in this mine.

Fortunately, these mines had all been mined by some miners, so the soil wasn't very hard. Only in the deeper parts of the mine did the soil become as hard as iron, making it impossible to use earth-遁术 (earth-遁术, a type of earth-遁术, or similar techniques) to pass through walls.

If he escapes to an abandoned mine and gets trapped inside, that would be very troublesome.

The mission to eliminate Yin Kui did not specify that one had to return to the mine on the same day. It was said that one could return to the mine if one could not stay there any longer.

Seeing that there was no one else in the mine, Chen Huai'an found a relatively safe place. He used his divine sense to carefully scan the surroundings again, and after confirming that there were no people nearby, he immediately entered the space.

Chen Huai'an hadn't tended to the space for several days, especially the spiritual herbs and the spiritual spring water. The spiritual grains were all ripe and needed to be harvested.

There are also the spirit birds in the space. Before he completely abstains from grains, these things are his food source. These things absorb enough spiritual energy in the space, and their nutritional value is also very high. Even if he breaks through to the Qi Refining Realm, eating these things regularly will still help his cultivation.

Chen Huai'an's current focus is on cultivating spiritual herbs, especially those for refining pills. Once a pill reaches the third rank, the spiritual herbs required must be over a hundred years old.

Therefore, when managing the space, Chen Huai'an reduced the area for planting spirit grains by more than half, and used these areas to grow spirit herbs.

It was a day later when I finished all of this.

The exploitable area of ​​the gourd space has expanded as his cultivation level has increased, but he has been quite busy lately and needs to plan and utilize it properly.

Especially in planting, you need to put in a lot of effort; it's not something you can do without worrying about anything.

Without watering with spiritual spring water, the growth rate of these spiritual herbs will slow down accordingly, especially the spiritual grains. If they are not watered with spiritual spring water, the quality of the spiritual grains they grow will also decline, and they will not reach the top grade, that is, the superior grade.

The quality of this batch of spirit grains was not top-grade. Chen Huai'an guessed that this was probably because he hadn't taken good care of them. Of course, this was probably just his guess and couldn't be taken seriously.

You'll know once you try a few more times.

"Huh, what's going on? A few days ago I tested it, and it only allowed me to refine 100 low-grade spirit stones into high-grade spirit stones each day. But today, there are 200 more high-grade spirit stones." On the second day, Chen Huai'an discovered a problem. Previously, when he put low-grade spirit stones in his space, only 100 low-grade spirit stones would be refined into high-grade spirit stones each day. But today he found that there were 100 more high-grade spirit stones.

"I'm currently inside a spirit stone mine. The fact that I can refine an extra 100 low-grade spirit stones into high-grade ones each day—could it be related to the surrounding spiritual energy? The spiritual energy in the mine is incredibly dense, which speeds up the refining process?"

Chen Huai'an was just guessing; what he needed to do next was to verify whether his guess was true.

Regardless of whether the speculation is true or not, it's generally a good thing for him. With an extra 100 low-grade spirit stones being refined into high-grade spirit stones every day, all the low-grade spirit stones in his space will soon be able to be refined into high-grade spirit stones, giving him an extra layer of protection for future cultivation breakthroughs.

No one would complain about having too many cultivation resources.

Through observation, Chen Huai'an also discovered that the speed of refining spirit stones was faster when he was in the mine, and the growth rate of spirit grains and spirit herbs inside was also faster.

"This place is definitely a good place for secluded cultivation."

What Chen Huai'an didn't know was that there was a spiritual vein beneath this spirit stone mine.

The purple gourd space can temper high-grade spirit stones, but it also needs to absorb spiritual energy. If the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is thin, the tempering speed will definitely be slow, but if the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is rich, the tempering speed will naturally be faster.

Inside the mine, the speed was twice that outside, making it a treasure trove for Chen Huai'an.

"Is this a top-grade Qi Refining Pill? The spiritual energy inside is incredibly rich." Chen Huai'an looked at the second-tier Qi Refining Pill in his hand and discovered that the spiritual energy inside was extremely pure and abundant.

Top-grade Qi Refining Pills are legendary pills in the cultivation world, and very few alchemy masters can refine them.

Of course, it's quite possible that Chen Huai'an was ignorant. Top-tier cultivation resources like the Supreme Qi Refining Pill would never be left out in the open. Once they were refined, they would be snapped up by powerful families and forces.

"I wonder what level my cultivation will advance to after I refine all 20 top-grade Qi Refining Pills." Chen Huai'an swallowed a top-grade Qi Refining Pill and then began to circulate it, using the Chaos Five Elements True Technique to digest the pure medicinal power within.