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

"Damn that skinflint Zhou! He's making us work before dawn! Is he trying to kill us with exhaustion? How are we supposed to have any extra time to cultivate?" A string of curses came from the next room.

Even in Chen Huai'an's room, the sound of a door being kicked could be heard.

When water is used in the kitchen, there is consumption, so they have to start working to replenish the water.

In the first few days, these newcomers will definitely not be able to adapt, but they will naturally adapt over time.

Working all day, they really didn't have any extra time for cultivation.

They can use spiritual spring water to aid their cultivation, but how far they can go depends on their own destiny.

"Chen Huai'an, you're late. You'll have to fill an extra vat of water today. If it's not full, you won't get any food today." As soon as Chen Huai'an entered the courtyard, Old Man Li launched into a tirade of abuse at him.

"I understand." Chen Huai'an didn't argue and replied casually, then picked up the carrying pole and bucket to fetch water.

Old Man Li was the strongest among the water carriers. Yesterday, a boy who disobeyed him was slapped and sent flying. Now, half of the boy's face is still swollen.

Someone has already tested it for him. These people, who are also menial disciples, will not stick together for warmth. He has no reason to deliberately flatter or offend them. He just needs to do his job well.

They all came this way, and Chen Huai'an can too.

Today, Chen Huai'an's goal is to fill the gourd with as much water as possible, ideally filling it to the brim.

Furthermore, besides using the purified and evolved spiritual spring water to irrigate the medicinal herbs in the space, he should find a few jars to store this spiritual spring water.

The more spiritual spring water there is, the better it will be for his future development.

When he was halfway up the mountain, he took out his purple gourd and drank some spiritual spring water. The water tasted even better, sweeter, and after one sip, he felt completely refreshed, all the fatigue from his journey vanished, and even his cultivation improved slightly.

This is just from drinking water and it has such an effect. And this is only the effect of a low-grade spiritual spring. What kind of effect would a mid-grade or even high-grade spiritual spring have?

When Chen Huai'an arrived at the Spirit Spring pool, there were no disciples fetching water; they had just left.

Chen Huai'an untied the purple gourd, tied it with a rope, found a relatively secluded place, and put the gourd into the spiritual spring water to let it fill up on its own. He was determined to fill it up to the brim today, otherwise, it would be a waste of his hard work.

After finishing all this, Chen Huai'an immediately picked up the buckets and chased after his companions.

Although Chen Huai'an was the last to arrive, his strength had already broken through the first level of the Body Refinement Realm. His endurance and stamina were unmatched by the new disciples, and he quickly caught up.

As soon as Chen Huai'an caught up with his companions, he slowed down and followed at a distance.

On the way down the mountain, he was at the very front again. His bucket was full of water, but he lingered until the very end, took a sip of the spiritual spring water, and then continued on his way.

He repeated this process until the gourd was full of water before carefully putting the purple gourd away from his body.

The purple gourd was his greatest asset and source of confidence, and he didn't want any unexpected events to happen.

Chen Huai'an's purple gourd space was full of spiritual spring water, and the spiritual spring water in the miscellaneous servant peak pool was also reduced by a large amount.

However, the spiritual spring is consumed every day, and the decrease is not of much concern to them, the menial disciples.

The spring water is not an inexhaustible resource; it will eventually run out.

Chen Huai'an was punished by having to carry an extra vat of water, and Old Man Li didn't help out at all today.

In order to avoid attracting the attention of certain people, Chen Huai'an waited until very late and slowly filled the last water tank.

After finishing his work, Chen Huai'an didn't feel tired at all, and his cultivation had even improved a bit. However, he still pretended to be very tired and, like everyone else, lay on the bed to rest like a dead dog.

Without the purple gourd, Chen Huai'an would have been just like them, exhausted after a long day, with no extra time to cultivate.

Once I'm in bed, I don't want to get up. As for cultivation, to hell with that.

This is why many menial disciples are stuck at the Body Refinement stage and cannot break through to the Qi Refining stage.

The cultivation world is exceptionally cruel; if you don't advance, you fall behind.

Without cultivation resources, one can only rely on the passage of time to break through, unless one possesses extraordinary talent.

This leads to two extremes: those with good talent will naturally become more and more outstanding, and they will not lack cultivation resources.

Those with poor talent have never been able to obtain cultivation resources, so their cultivation level is naturally difficult to improve.

This is why Old Man Li, who is over sixty years old and has been a menial disciple of Qingyun Sect for nearly sixty years, has never broken through to the Qi Refining Realm.

Let alone breaking through the Qi Refining Realm, he hasn't even broken through to the late stage of the Body Refining Realm.

There are many disciples like him in the Qingyun Sect. They are all seasoned veterans on the Miscellaneous Service Peak, and these are the most dangerous people.

Chen Huai'an didn't want to flaunt his wealth and become the target of these people, who would definitely take risks for cultivation resources.

Especially since he is still very weak.

Old Man Li and Steward Wu are no good people; they'll exploit us in various ways. Once they find out Chen Huai'an's secret, they'll probably be devoured, leaving not even bones or scraps.

These past two days, Chen Huai'an hasn't dared to fully unleash his cultivation potential, nor has he dared to casually enter the spatial realm.

Through these elderly people, Chen Huai'an also learned that if he wanted a quiet place, he needed to break through to the Qi Refining Realm, pass the outer sect assessment, and become an outer sect disciple, thus obtaining an independent cave dwelling.

Although outer disciples also have to do tasks, they don't have as many tasks as the outer disciples every day. As long as they complete the tasks assigned by the sect, they can have plenty of time to cultivate.

Why did Old Man Li linger in the canteen? At his age, he had been a menial servant in the Qingyun Sect for nearly sixty years. In the sect, even if he hadn't made any great contributions, he had certainly worked hard. If they were willing, they could apply to leave the sect, and the sect would give them some preferential treatment and a generous reward so they could return to their hometowns to spend their old age in peace.

However, Old Man Li did not; he wanted to break through to the Qi Refining Realm.

Breaking through to the Qi Refining Realm is like heaven and earth compared to his current state, and he can even gain several decades more in lifespan, which is why he's lingering here.

Old Li and his old folks are refusing to leave, which is making things difficult for the newcomers.

Give them tasks to do, let them do whatever they want, and give them time to break through higher cultivation bottlenecks.

If Chen Huai'an were strong enough to reach the late stage of Body Refinement, he could do the same.

While Chen Huai'an was in charge of fetching water in the canteen, Zhang Hu, after making inquiries, learned that Chen Huai'an was hiding in the canteen helping to fetch water.

"Kid, do you think you can escape my grasp by hiding in the cafeteria as a cook?" Zhang Hu had been consolidating his cultivation these past two days. He had already reached the second level of the early stage of Body Refinement. He wanted to deal with Chen Huai'an, and he had to do it as soon as possible. He was worried that if it dragged on for too long, it would be disadvantageous for him.

Sure enough, Zhang Hu had just found some free time and came to cause trouble for Chen Huai'an.

Zhang Hu didn't go to the canteen at Zayi Peak, but instead ambushed Chen Huai'an on their usual route for fetching water.

Zhang Hu saw Chen Huai'an lagging behind at the back of the group, so he jumped down from a tree and blocked Chen Huai'an's path.

"Boy, are you going to tell me the location of that spirit spring or not?"