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The night was deep, and the courtyard was quiet...

After dinner, Lin Ningxue and Ye Chen recounted many things about the Qingyun Sect and the Baoping Continent...

This cultivation world is called Dongsheng Divine Continent, which is divided into nine continents, and Treasure Bottle Continent is one of them...

The continent of Baoping is vast, home to numerous dynasties and sects, and has tens of thousands of cultivators.

The Qingyun Sect is just one of many sects, and its power is only at a mid-level.

Above this is the Holy Land, the only Holy Land in Baoping Continent, named Xuantian Holy Land!

Founded by the Lord of Aquarius Continent, it is the strongest force in the entire continent...

"The Lord of Treasure Aquarius?"

For some reason, Ye Chen suddenly thought of Liu Ruyan. He remembered that when she first brought him here, she had mentioned that she was the ruler of Bao Ping Continent...

That was the most powerful expert in the entire Treasure Bottle Continent, an existence that could only be looked up to and admired. How could it possibly be that woman?

After listening to Lin Ningxue's story, Ye Chen became even more convinced that Liu Ruyan was exaggerating...

If he were really that powerful, how could he have been severely injured and kidnapped by a group of mortals?

The current sect leader of Qingyun Sect is only at the Nascent Soul stage, like an ant before the Lord of Baoping Continent. Ye Chen has no doubt that if the Lord heard Liu Ruyan's boast, he would beat her to a pulp...

He asked Lin Ningxue many questions about the Qingyun Sect, learning that the sect's eighteen peaks housed over two hundred thousand disciples, and that each year, highly talented disciples were selected to enter the inner sect and obtain more cultivation resources...

As for the selection criteria, they were chosen from among the hundred caves in front of the eighteen peaks.

After all, the disciples who could occupy luxurious cave dwellings on each mountain peak were undoubtedly the strongest among all the disciples...

The two chatted for a long time, and Ye Chen gained a clear understanding of both Bao Ping Continent and Qingyun Sect...

After Lin Ningxue returned to her room...

Ye Chen sat cross-legged on the bed in the room, with bottles and jars of pills and a pile of spirit stones in front of him.

He knew he had to become stronger as quickly as possible, because the Qingyun Sect's annual inner disciple selection was coming up soon. Only by guarding his cave dwelling could he have a chance to become an inner disciple and thus obtain a large amount of resources for training...

After consuming an entire bottle of Grade Two Spirit Gathering Pills, Ye Chen activated the Supreme Sensing Technique, rapidly refining the warm spiritual energy generated by the medicinal effects...

At the same time, the surrounding spiritual energy was also surging into his body, continuously gathering in his dantian...

Gradually, Ye Chen discovered the extraordinary nature of the Supreme Induction Technique: it allowed him to endlessly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth without any restrictions...

Once the refined spiritual energy reaches its bottleneck, the cultivation level will break through!

This cultivation method seems tailor-made for people without spiritual roots; without the limitations of spiritual root talent, they can absorb spiritual energy without any hindrance...

"Clatter!"

The spirit stone in Ye Chen's hand shattered instantly.

He didn't even lift his eyelids, casually grabbing a spirit stone to continue absorbing spiritual energy...

The sky outside the window brightened without us even noticing...

"Snap!"

A sound of breaking through a bottleneck emanated from Ye Chen's body...

The frenzied spiritual energy surged outwards, unleashing a powerful pressure from his body!

He opened his eyes, quickly concealing his escaping aura, and gradually returned to calm...

"Fourth level of Qi Refining..."

"Finally, I've broken through!"

A look of joy appeared on Ye Chen's face as he muttered to himself.

He originally thought he could break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining in just a few hours, but he didn't expect to cultivate all night, consuming a lot of pills and spirit stones, before he was able to break through successfully...

This was much slower than he had imagined.

"It seems that girl wasn't wrong after all..."

"As one's cultivation level increases, the difficulty of breaking through becomes increasingly greater..."

Ye Chen could clearly feel the obstacle he encountered when breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Refining last night, unlike before when he broke through easily...

"No wonder those people spend their entire lives only to reach the Golden Core stage..."

Others might spend a lifetime accumulating cultivation, but he doesn't have that much time. He doesn't even want to spend a year, let alone decades...

If he really has to wait that long to break through to the Golden Core stage, not only will his younger sister Ye Qing'er be impatient, but Liu Ruyan, who made a promise with him, might just stab him to death with her sword first...

"Fortunately, I cultivate the Supreme Induction Technique, which allows me to improve my cultivation level as long as I have enough spiritual energy..."

"Looks like I'll need to find more pills and spirit stones..."

Ye Chen looked down at the empty spirit stone fragments and the porcelain bottle of pills in front of him, and muttered something under his breath...

Although he still had a considerable amount of pills and spirit stones in his storage bag, at his terrifying cultivation speed, they would be exhausted in just a few days...

We can't just sit around and live off our savings, can we?

Besides, he was in a hurry to cultivate...

Ye Chen yawned, intending to lie down and take a nap; he was quite tired after a night of cultivation...

"Senior brother...are you awake?"

Lin Ningxue's voice came from outside...

Ye Chen was taken aback and frowned slightly.

"This girl gets up so early?"

He got up and walked outside.

"Eeya!"

As the door opened, a gentle breeze wafted in, instantly bringing a sense of coolness...

"Why are you up so early? It's barely dawn..."

"Go back to sleep for a while!"

Ye Chen couldn't help but yawn, and looked at Lin Ningxue standing in the courtyard.

Upon hearing this, Lin Ningxue hesitated.

"Senior brother, it'll be too late if you sleep any longer..."

"Didn't you say yesterday that you wanted me to take you to the herb garden?"

"We should set off now, otherwise we won't be able to collect the morning dew once the sun rises, and if we can't deliver on our mission, Elder Sun will punish us..."

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen's expression changed...

"Going to work before dawn?"

Even cows and horses don't get up this early...

He complained, but in order to impersonate "Xu Xiao," he could only close the door and leave with Lin Ningxue...

"Does the Spirit Herb Garden provide meals?" Ye Chen asked as he walked.

"No..."

Lin Ningxue shook her head, then took out a sesame seed cake and handed it to Ye Chen.

"Senior brother, have some of the pancakes I made earlier..."

"Okay, thank you!" Ye Chen reached out and took the pancake, finding it was still warm.

This means Lin Ningxue got up before dawn and prepared dry food in advance...

Do outer disciples also have to work this hard?

When he was working in the menial affairs office, he thought that becoming an outer disciple would allow him to become a landlord...

Lin Ningxue shook her head, "Senior brother, there's no need to be so polite with me..."

"If I hadn't stayed overnight at my senior brother's cave last night, I would have had to get up even earlier today, otherwise it would have taken me quite a while to get up the mountain..."

At this moment, she also felt the benefits of living in a luxurious cave dwelling on the mountaintop and couldn't help but yearn for it. Unfortunately, with her strength, she was simply not qualified to seize these cave dwellings...

Suddenly, Lin Ningxue sensed something was amiss, abruptly stopped in her tracks, and stared at Ye Chen in shock.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Why are you staring at me like that?"

"Could it be that there's something on my face?"

Ye Chen touched his cheek in confusion, but there was nothing there...

Lin Ningxue blinked her clear eyes and spoke with an incredulous expression.

"Senior brother..."

"You...you've broken through again?"