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Ye Chen looked at the crimson Fire Spirit Grass in front of him. The leaves were still somewhat small, and although the color was red, it wasn't vibrant enough, differing from the Fire Spirit Grass he had eaten before...

"This Fire Spirit Grass isn't fully mature yet!"

He frowned and muttered under his breath, "Looks like five drops aren't enough, I'll need six..."

As he spoke, Ye Chen tilted the purple-gold gourd in his hand, dripping a drop of spiritual liquid onto the fire spirit grass...

The next second, the entire Fire Spirit Grass turned a deep red, as if stained with blood, becoming vibrant and luscious, and the leaves that had grown out also expanded...

A rich aroma of herbs wafts towards you!

"This is the taste..."

Ye Chen's expression brightened, a look of anticipation flashing across his face. He eagerly reached out and plucked the Fire Spirit Grass, which was spotless and shimmered with intense light...

"As expected of a fourth-grade spiritual herb, it's truly a wonderful thing!"

He muttered something to himself, picked up the Fire Spirit Grass in his hand, stuffed it into his mouth, and began to chew it heartily...

The scalding juice filled my mouth, and after swallowing it, my whole body felt hot.

Having learned from his previous experience, Ye Chen quickly sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes, and began circulating the Supreme Induction Technique...

Guided by the cultivation technique, the spiritual energy transformed from the Fire Spirit Grass flowed through his body and was rapidly refined, significantly reducing the burning sensation...

After a small cycle of circulation, the pure spiritual energy gathered in the dantian, surging and boiling like a vast ocean, beginning its attempt to break through the bottleneck of the cultivation realm...

"Snap!"

It's a matter of course!

With a slight sound, Ye Chen's aura suddenly changed, and a violent surge of spiritual energy erupted around him!

"Breakthrough to the fifth level of Qi Refining!"

Ye Chen suddenly opened his eyes and exhaled a burst of hot, stale air.

"It's done!"

He was overjoyed; this speed of cultivation gave him hope of breaking through to the Golden Core stage...

"As expected of a fourth-grade spiritual herb, it extracts a lot of spiritual energy..."

This is significantly more spiritual energy than he gained from taking a Grade 2 Spirit Gathering Pill.

Seeing that consuming the fourth-grade Fire Spirit Grass could rapidly increase his cultivation, Ye Chen took the purple-gold gourd in his hand and began to water the remaining seeds with spiritual liquid...

Having learned from his previous experience, he stopped after watering each seed with six drops of spiritual liquid, not wanting to waste even a little more.

Almost as soon as he watered the third seed, the first Fire Spirit Grass had already matured and flourished, its intense fragrance emanating from it wafting from several meters away...

By the time he had watered the eighth seed, the purple-gold gourd in his hand felt much lighter...

"It can't be gone so soon, can it?"

Ye Chen quickly picked up the purple-gold gourd, brought it close to the mouth of the bottle, and looked inside. The turbid spiritual liquid that had originally filled a third of the space now only had a few drops left...

It's only enough to water the eighth Fire Spirit Grass at most.

"This spiritual liquid is being used up way too quickly..."

Ye Chen muttered dejectedly.

He had originally hoped to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage within a single day by cultivating a Grade 4 Fire Spirit Grass, but now it seems impossible...

With the turbid spiritual liquid completely depleted, it's no longer possible to cultivate a fourth-grade fire spirit grass. Relying on natural growth, it might not even mature within a year...

"Looks like I need to find a chance to replenish the Purple Gold Gourd with some 'refining materials'..."

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes, a bold idea forming in his mind...

Last time, he absorbed Lin Qinshuang into the Purple Gold Gourd, and it took about a day to refine her into a small half-bottle of spiritual liquid.

This means that the Purple Gold Gourd needs to devour more creatures with spiritual energy before it can refine the spiritual liquid...

However, the Purple Gold Gourd itself can also absorb the essence of heaven and earth and condense spiritual liquid, but the speed is too slow.

Ye Chen poured all the remaining spiritual liquid onto the eighth Fire Spirit Grass to help it grow to maturity quickly.

In an instant, the courtyard was filled with a rich aroma of herbs...

Looking at the crimson fourth-grade Fire Spirit Grass before him, Ye Chen didn't hesitate to begin picking it...

There were eight Fire Spirit Grasses in total. Holding them in your hand, you could feel a burning heat, as if they were about to burst into flames.

He picked up a Fire Spirit Grass, quickly put it in his mouth and chewed it, then sat cross-legged again and began to circulate the Supreme Sensing Technique to refine it...

Although the medicinal power of the Fire Spirit Grass was fiery and violent, it was being rapidly refined by the Supreme Sensing Technique, so Ye Chen wasn't worried about bursting from eating too much at once...

Other cultivators would consume at most one Fire Spirit Grass a day, otherwise the medicinal power would be too strong to refine, which would undoubtedly consume a lot of time and reduce cultivation efficiency.

Therefore, most people refine the best medicinal herbs into pills for consumption, which makes the effects easier to absorb.

However, Ye Chen himself lacked spiritual roots, and the Supreme Induction Technique he cultivated emphasized seizing the creations of heaven and earth, resulting in an extremely fast refining speed, more than a hundred times stronger than other cultivation methods...

Therefore, Ye Chen consumed the Fire Spirit Grass without any hesitation, immediately eating the second one after finishing the first, completely disregarding its intense medicinal properties...

As Ye Chen swallowed the remnants of the eighth Fire Spirit Grass, his entire body radiated heat. Sweat poured from his forehead, steam rose from his head, and even his skin turned red, as if he had been pulled from a steamer...

"It's so hot..."

Ye Chen muttered to himself, inwardly regretting consuming so many Fire Spirit Grasses in one go...

At this moment, he desperately circulated the Supreme Induction Technique, refining all the medicinal power of the Fire Spirit Grass into pure spiritual energy, which he then gathered in his dantian...

The surging spiritual energy almost burst his meridians, and he was only able to suppress it by relying on the Supreme Induction Technique!

Time passed second by second...

"Snap!"

A crisp sound came from the dantian...

The surging spiritual energy seemed to have found an outlet, rushing through the barrier in a chaotic rush...

"Sixth level of Qi Refining..."

A surge of spiritual energy rippled around Ye Chen, and his aura suddenly surged!

He still had his eyes closed, continuing to refine the medicinal power of the Fire Spirit Grass, circulating it through several small cycles without fully refining it...

Fortunately, with the breakthrough in his cultivation level, his condition improved considerably. He was no longer as feverish as before; his burning skin began to cool down, and the raging spiritual energy within him gradually subsided...

After a long while, Ye Chen finally opened his eyes, exhaling a long, hot breath. He looked as if he had been pulled from the water, his entire body soaking wet...

"The medicinal properties of this Fire Spirit Grass are too extreme; I almost ate myself to death..."

Ye Chen muttered to himself, still shaken.

If it weren't for the suppression provided by the Supreme Induction Technique, he would have undoubtedly died if he had consumed eight Fire Spirit Grasses in one go...

He only managed to hold on because of his amazing martial arts skills.

Feeling the fluctuations of spiritual energy within his body, an excited smile flashed across Ye Chen's face...

Having just broken through to the sixth level of Qi Refining, he vaguely sensed that he was about to break through again...