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

"Manager Wu, thank you so much for your kindness. There's nothing wrong with being a water-carrying disciple. The workload is heavy, but the daily training is real. I want to use this to strengthen my body." Chen Huai'an could only desperately find an excuse.

Carrying water really does, as he said, strengthen the body.

After Chen Huai'an said that, Manager Wu had no choice but to give up. The reason he was trying to curry favor with Chen Huai'an was entirely because he was able to break through to the mid-stage of the Body Refinement Realm in such a short time. This guy, as long as he survives, will definitely be a talent.

However, he never expected that he would be rejected this time, after he had only shown interest in talent once every few years. This made him somewhat unhappy.

Manager Wu sighed. Since Chen Huai'an didn't accept, he wouldn't force him.

Chen Huai'an came out of the house, somewhat speechless. Zhao Junhao had come to cause him trouble, and this time, he had refused Manager Wu's overtures. He was worried that the other party might make things difficult for him.

However, Chen Huai'an couldn't care less about that now. Compared to Steward Wu, he was more worried about the retaliation from the Zhao and Zhang families, especially the Zhang family.

The Zhang family is like a persistent ghost. He has made several moves, each one flawless, but they still manage to cause him trouble.

He just wanted to cultivate in peace and quiet, so why did so many troubles keep coming his way?

"Never mind, these things are not my concern right now. What I need to do now is prepare for the next few battles." Chen Huai'an knew that the challenge competition was extremely cruel. As long as you wanted to climb up, those ranked lower than you would find ways to step on you to get ahead.

This is just the basic challenge rules. It doesn't even include the variables involving the Zhang and Zhao families. These two major forces will definitely tamper with the challenge, and the difficulty will only increase exponentially.

"If I could leave Qingyun Sect now, I could go to Wanbao Pavilion and get some good stuff to improve my strength. Without the aid of pills to aid cultivation, the cultivation speed is too slow." Chen Huai'an felt a lot of pressure. As the saying goes, pressure is the driving force, and he will become stronger and stronger.

If Chen Huai'an wanted to leave Qingyun Sect, he could have an outer disciple take him out. However, frequent trips would also cause a lot of trouble.

If this trip causes trouble, it will be a real problem. It would be best to deal with these resources within the Qingyun Sect.

The point is to leave Qingyun Sect. Without the strength of the Qi Refining Realm, you'll just be cannon fodder.

At the Qi Refining Realm, in the market of Qingyun Sect, which is, after all, Qingyun Sect territory, there is still a certain degree of protection.

Over the next two days, Chen Huai'an spent most of his time cultivating and tending to the spiritual grains and medicinal herbs in his space.

My schedule is very regular. Every day I cultivate, fetch water from the foot of the mountain, and then manage the gourd space. It's a routine of three points, very busy, but very fulfilling.

After reaching the seventh level of the late Body Refinement Realm, Chen Huai'an made progress every day, but his cultivation speed was not as fast as before.

This speed was only possible because he had top-grade spiritual grains to aid his cultivation. If it were other ordinary disciples, they wouldn't have as many cultivation resources, and their speed would definitely not be as fast as Chen Huai'an's.

This is why many menial disciples remain at the late stage of Body Refinement and their cultivation has not improved.

At this level, aptitude can no longer change much. Without resources, let alone those disciples with mixed five-element spiritual roots, even those with superior single spiritual roots will not make much progress in their cultivation through meditation. In the end, they can only rely on gradual accumulation over time.

Purple gourd space.

Chen Huai'an went into the wooden house and felt the temperature of the rabbit skin. He sensed movement coming from under the chicken coop where the chicks were hatching. "Huh, these eggs... they're moving?"

Chen Huai'an carefully lifted a corner of the rabbit skin used for warmth and discovered that one of the eggs had cracked open, revealing a fluffy little head.

"What's going on? Counting the time, this egg shouldn't have hatched so quickly. Could it be that this space can really accelerate time?" Chen Huai'an looked at the hatched egg and seriously doubted whether the flow of time inside the space was different from that outside.

However, while he was in the space, he did not feel the rapid passage of time at all.

The egg, once inside the space, only took three or four days. Based on his experience raising chickens in the countryside, it takes a hen more than twenty days to hatch chicks, while this egg only took three or four days to incubate in the space. Yet, the chick started pecking at the shell.

According to this calculation, the time flow inside the purple gourd should be equivalent to seven days outside for one day inside.

However, this is not right either. The spiritual grains in this space take a year to mature in the outside world.

However, it only takes three or four days to mature in this space. Based on this time ratio, is one day in this space equivalent to four months in the outside world?

Having this time to use as a reference point completely baffled Chen Huai'an.

Regardless of whether the flow of time inside is related to the outside world, as long as Chen Huai'an makes good use of it, his future achievements are limitless.

Furthermore, he didn't know how to determine the age of these medicinal herbs. He felt that the medicinal herbs grown in this space should be another reference point.

"The chicks have hatched, so the aquaculture industry should be developed." Chen Huai'an shook his head, putting those unsolved mysteries to the back of his mind. The purple gourd was in his hand, and the reason he couldn't figure it out now was probably related to his cultivation level. As long as he had some more time, he would definitely be able to figure it out once his cultivation level improved.

A vegetable garden, a medicinal herb garden, and a few chickens, ducks, and fish to raise—self-sufficient produce and self-sold—will make life much more pleasant in the future.

Anything that can flow out of the space is a good thing.

The chicks are about to hatch, and he needs to prepare a small yard for them to raise in enclosures. These spirit grain husks, spirit rice, and straw are all excellent chicken feed.

I'll feed them these from now on. This chicken will definitely taste delicious and be nutritious.

Soon all six eggs hatched, producing one rooster and five hens.

These five-colored brocade eggs are considered spirit bird eggs, and there is a high chance that the chicks hatched from them will be spirit birds from birth.

These eggs were in the purple gourd space. Chen Huai'an didn't know why, but these six chickens reached the level of spirit birds as soon as they were born, unlike what Liu Qiaogui said, which had a certain chance of hatching one or two colorful golden pheasants.

This time, he successfully caught six golden pheasants, a 100% success rate, much higher than Liu Qiaogui had said.

This is a good thing.

Moreover, at this rate, the hen will lay eggs in at most a month, and those eggs can hatch into chicks, at which point he will have an endless supply of spirit bird meat.

Everything is moving in a positive direction.

To expand the breeding scale, it would take at least a year and a half to grow a large scale with just these six chicks. Since the hatching speed of chicks is faster in the space, we can go to the breeding farm on the miscellaneous peak and find some miscellaneous disciples who raise chickens to get some fertilized eggs. At this breeding speed, we can be able to eat the spirit bird meat we produce ourselves in at most a month.