A ruthless bandit from the celestial realm, he began his cultivation journey after kidnapping the Em

Ye Chen immediately decided to kill him.

Lin Ningxue glanced at Ye Chen and quickly explained, "Liao Qiyuan and Xu Xiao aren't very close, but they both work at the Spirit Herb Garden and know each other..."

"Senior brother, you don't need to worry too much. After all, there are so many disciples in the outer sect, and there are quite a few people with the same name. Liao Qiyuan probably wouldn't have guessed it, right?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen hesitated and shook his head; he already had a plan in mind.

Regardless of whether the other party suspects identity theft, he must eliminate this potential threat...

"Don't worry, I'll handle it..." Ye Chen looked at Lin Ningxue and smiled at her.

The two returned to their cave...

Lin Ningxue's pent-up anger vanished, and she felt incredibly cheerful. She prepared a table full of delicious dishes in the kitchen to repay Ye Chen...

The enticing aroma wafted far and wide, reaching even the nearby caves, making many disciples' mouths water...

Normally, everyone either cooks their own meals or takes fasting pills. Now, smelling the delicious aroma of the food, they couldn't help but salivate, secretly envying Ye Chen...

"Senior Brother Xu is so lucky, Junior Sister Lin cooks for him every day..."

"Junior Sister Lin's cooking is amazing! I want a bowl too!"

"If only I could taste a bite of Junior Sister Lin's cooking..."

"I can't take even one of these fasting pills..."

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Ye Chen's eyes lit up as he looked at the table laden with dishes; today's meal was exceptionally lavish...

He wondered if this was the imperial court's disaster relief grain.

He couldn't wait to take a bite, and immediately praised it highly...

"Delicious... This braised pork melts in your mouth, it's so tasty..."

"Junior sister, your cooking skills are getting better and better..."

Hearing Ye Chen's praise, Lin Ningxue smiled with delight and looked at Ye Chen with gratitude.

"If you like it, I'll make it for you every day..."

"Thank you so much for your help today, Senior Brother..."

If it weren't for Ye Chen's help, she would have been blackmailed by Liao Qiyuan, punished by the sect, and expelled from the spirit herb garden...

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen waved his hand dismissively and said with a serious expression.

"In the end, this whole thing started because of me. I'm the one who let you hoard the morning dew. That guy surnamed Liao dared to threaten you; he's just messing with me. How could I not take action?"

"I'm still waiting for you to bring me morning dew in the future, I can't let you leave the herb garden..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Ningxue immediately assured her.

"Don't worry, senior brother, I will definitely collect two bottles of morning dew and bring them back to you every day from now on..."

As she spoke, she took out the two bottles of morning dew she had brought back that day and handed them to Ye Chen in front of her...

"Senior brother, here you go..."

Seeing this, Ye Chen didn't stand on ceremony, smiling as he accepted the gift. Then, with a wave of his hand, he conjured a sixth-grade spirit-replenishing pill out of thin air and casually handed it over...

"Take this Grade Six Spirit Replenishing Pill..."

"Senior brother, I don't want to..." Lin Ningxue shook her head and refused.

She felt that Ye Chen had already given her enough; she couldn't accept such precious pills again. How could she ever repay her senior brother's kindness in the future...?

Ye Chen waved his hand, not giving her a chance to refuse, and placed the sixth-grade spirit-replenishing pill in front of her, saying without further ado.

"As agreed before, I'll give you a pill every time I bring back morning dew..."

"You deserve it!"

"You should also start cultivating properly and improve your cultivation level as soon as possible, otherwise what will you do if someone comes to challenge you?"

"Besides, the inner sect selection is in less than a month. Do you really want to stay in the outer sect?"

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"this..."

Lin Ningxue initially wanted to refuse, but considering the widening gap between her cultivation level and Ye Chen's, she nodded and accepted the sixth-grade Spirit Replenishing Pill...

"Thank you, senior brother..."

She naturally wanted to enter the inner sect as well, and after spending this time together, she couldn't bear to part with Ye Chen.

With Ye Chen's strength, she will definitely be able to enter the inner sect smoothly. If her cultivation is too low and she is left in the outer sect, then it will be difficult for her to see Ye Chen in the future...

Lin Ningxue secretly vowed in her heart that she must follow in her senior brother's footsteps and work hard in cultivation, and she must never let her senior brother down!

After finishing his meal, Ye Chen rubbed his round belly and returned to his cave...

As soon as he returned to his room, Ye Chen couldn't wait to pull out a storage bag from his pocket.

This is a storage bag I snatched from Hou Yuan when I went to avenge Lü Luo. It contains all of Hou Yuan's belongings...

"This kid is at least a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator; he should have quite a few spirit stones and pills, right?"

Ye Chen muttered something, then eagerly dumped everything out of his storage bag...

"Splash..."

A dozen or so spirit stones and a white porcelain bottle appeared before my eyes...

Ye Chen stood there, holding the storage bag, stunned for a long while, his expression gradually becoming strange...

"this one?"

"Wait... is this kid really that poor?"

He was a little confused, and even doubted whether he had opened the storage bag correctly...

He never expected that a Foundation Establishment disciple would possess so little. If he had known, he wouldn't have bothered to steal it...

Especially when Ye Chen recalled Hou Yuan's resentful reaction when he snatched the storage bag, he felt an urge to beat him up again...

What's there to be reluctant about with such a small amount of stuff? He wouldn't even bother picking it up if it were lying on the ground...

Ye Chen made a few complaints, then took out another storage bag and retrieved all three hundred Grade Two Spirit Replenishing Pills...

The fragrance emanating from the three hundred pills was already quite rich, and it smelled refreshing and pleasant...

He flipped his hand, took out the purple-gold gourd, and began to pour spiritual liquid into the Spirit-Replenishing Pill with a newfound sense of care, afraid of spilling it...

As before, six drops were poured onto each pill, and in the blink of an eye, the pills in his hand were refined into sixth-grade pills, emitting a rich medicinal fragrance...

Ye Chen had become quite skilled, and his pill-refining speed was much faster than before. In no time, he had refined three hundred Rank 6 Spirit-Replenishing Pills...

In an instant, the enticing aroma of medicine filled the entire room, intoxicating the senses...

He looked down at the mountain of sixth-grade pills piled up in front of him, and his face immediately lit up with a wide grin...

"This purple-gold gourd is truly a wonderful thing..."

Without the spiritual liquid refined from the Purple Gold Gourd, with the pills he possessed, his cultivation speed would probably be as slow as a snail's pace, and he would still be unable to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage...

Ye Chen probed a wisp of his consciousness into the purple-gold gourd. The pool of spiritual liquid that had been there was now almost empty, with only about ten drops remaining...

"It's being used up so quickly..."

A flicker of surprise crossed his face, but recalling that he had refined hundreds of Spirit-Replenishing Pills in the past few days, he quickly recovered...

Just refining three hundred spirit-replenishing pills consumed 1,800 drops of spirit liquid.

"It seems a Nascent Soul stage expert can refine four or five thousand drops of spiritual liquid..."

Ye Chen muttered to himself, a flicker of anticipation crossing his mind...

If only we could have more Nascent Soul stage cultivators!