After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

"This is practically tailor-made for me to go all out when I'm in a dead end."

Xu Ze hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and reluctantly bought the three pills.

[Ding! Successfully purchased 'Lanbo Maru' using 300 points!]

[Remaining points: 200.]

It's really expensive.

But I can't not buy it.

Three for 300 points, which is equivalent to the price of a [Celestial Protection Talisman] each.

However cost-effective the [Immortal Concealment Talisman] may be, it is merely an item that helps you survive; it cannot provide any combat power.

This [Lanbo Pill] can help you turn the tide at crucial moments.

After making the purchase, only the locked green bottle remained in the store, so Xu Ze clicked the refresh button.

[Refresh successful]

【Name: Premium Qi-Nourishing Pill】

Price: 50 points

[Description: Pack of 25. When ingested, it can aid in cultivation and assist with breathing exercises when one's true energy is abundant. During combat, it can rapidly and significantly restore true energy and enhance spiritual power.]

[Note: It has a strong effect on cultivators below the Golden Core stage. It is truly an essential medicine for home and travel.]

"not bad."

Xu Ze glanced at it and decisively bought the bottle of premium pills.

If it can be judged as "high-quality" by the system, it must be of extremely high quality.

This was exactly what he needed in the early stages.

Purchase successful! Remaining points: 150.

"There seems to be some kind of pattern to how this store refreshes?"

After buying the two types of pills, and considering yesterday's update, Xu Ze seemed to have discovered something.

The [Immortal Concealment Talisman] is a [Magic Treasure]. After refreshing, the [Heaven Devouring Bottle], which is also a [Magic Treasure], appeared.

Although they are vastly different in quality, they are ultimately of the same kind.

Today, after buying the [Blue Wave Pill], the refreshed menu also showed [Essence].

Does this mean that when the store refreshes, only items of the same category will appear?

"There have only been two occurrences so far, which is not enough to determine whether it is a coincidence or a mechanism. We need to try a few more times."

Xu Ze felt the sample size was too small to be of any use, so he put his guess aside for the time being.

He pulled his thoughts away from the system and returned to the game.

"Om-"

In Qingyun Sword's opinion, the kid was just spacing out for a moment and was definitely slacking off.

So it tapped Xu Ze on the head with the hilt of its sword, reminding him to concentrate.

"Hehe, Brother Jian, don't be so harsh."

Xu Ze scratched his head, took out the 'Spirit Essence Pill' that Ding Wan had just given him, poured out one, and put it in his mouth.

After carefully experiencing it, he flipped his palm over and poured out one of the newly purchased 'Premium Qi-Nourishing Pills,' which he also swallowed.

Logically speaking, the Lingyuan Pill is a seventh-grade pill, and its effects should be far stronger than those of the ninth-grade Yangqi Pill.

However, Xu Ze's comparison yielded vastly different results.

With just the addition of the word "premium," this Qi Nourishing Pill is several times more effective than the Spirit Essence Pill!

He could even feel the abundant spiritual energy circulating on its own. Just one drop had slightly loosened his cultivation at the ninth level of Qi Refining!

"Eating this one is equivalent to refining a whole gourd of alms, isn't it?"

"I'm afraid it's not just that..."

Xu Ze felt angry whenever he thought of that old man.

He almost possessed me twice. I traded my life for his in my previous life, it was too good for him.

Of course, there's also that Wan Yi from Biyang!

Turning his resentment into motivation, he immediately stood up, grabbed the Qingyun Sword, and began carving with great concentration.

The time spent cultivating always seems to pass quickly.

……

Time flies, and day and night alternate.

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed.

With the Qingyun Sword by my side, these days haven't been boring.

Xu Ze also changed from the way he held the pencil at the beginning to the standard posture.

He was able to grip the hilt of the sword, thus controlling the power of the tip.

Sword cultivators often possess immense destructive power, making it easy for them to unleash it.

However, in a real battle, unrestrained release of power can lead to a disadvantage if the opponent dodges it after just a few moves, revealing a fatal weakness.

At this point, training in control becomes especially important.

In other words, every sword cultivator can cut through iron and stone with ease.

The highest level of skill is to strike a feather without harming it in the slightest, to handle something lightly yet with great force.

Once you truly understand its mysteries, your level of power will also break through and reach new heights.

"I feel like... something's still different?"

Xu Ze seems to have hit a bottleneck.

However, his bottleneck was not his inability to control his own power.

But... the statue I carved myself is so ugly!!

Looking at the lifelike 'sample' left by Ding Wan before she left, Xu Ze then looked at his masterpiece of the past few days.

Although each one looks like a person.

But it only stays at the stage of "looking like a human".

"That shouldn't be the case. I do have a bit of an artistic streak."

Xu Ze was very upset.

During this time, he not only finished carving the stone left by Ding Wan.

He also goes up the mountain to collect stones on his own.

As time went by, the disciples of the Preparatory Sect witnessed his power to cleave mountains with his sword and once again revered him as a senior and great master.

Under Sun Dehai's leadership, they began to imitate Xu Ze's behavior again, just like in their previous life.

There's no time to mourn the circus.

Next up is the Sculpture Association!

"Senior Brother, do you think my sculpture looks lifelike?"

One morning, dozens of disciples were on the mountaintop, hammers in their left hands and chisels in their right, working hard and sweating profusely.

Xiao Li looked at his work with satisfaction.

Although he was honest and simple, he was also very skillful and had a great talent for carving.

"Who told you to sculpt such a lifelike figure!"

Upon seeing the sculpture that bore a striking resemblance to himself, Sun Dehai sternly rebuked it:

"Have you carefully studied the works of your predecessors? You must be somewhere between human and beast, just enough to discern some basic human characteristics!"

"What's the use of just a picture? Do you think... the senior couldn't sculpt it?"

"Smash it right now!"

"Yes!" Xiao Li's voice was loud and clear.

……

Inside the room, Xu Ze, who was practicing his internal energy cultivation technique, sneezed.

That's strange. He's already at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, how could he catch a cold?

The idea hadn't even been formed yet.

Beside him, the Qingyun Sword, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly lit up, emitting a silvery-white light.

The master has returned!

"teacher?"

A ray of light streaked across the sky and landed steadily in front of Xu Ze.

Ding Wan's face was slightly pale, and her lips were far from their usual rosy color.

"Are you injured?"

Xu Ze stepped forward and helped the other person up with great concern.

"It's just that my true energy was overused, it's nothing serious."

Ding Wan waved her hand, a hint of weariness in her eyes.

Upon hearing this, Xu Ze was moved and couldn't help but sigh, "I never imagined that even a single Foundation Establishment herb would be so rare. The cultivation world is truly a place where progress is incredibly difficult..."

Based on the strength the teacher has demonstrated, he is definitely not just someone at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul level.

Even she has to go to such great lengths to obtain a large medicinal herb?

Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! It's truly a matter of being so precise that even the slightest difference can ruin everything...