Chapter 32: Secluded Cultivation

After returning to the Fuxiu Academy!

Ye Qingxuan began a new round of secluded cultivation.

Following his own cultivation rhythm, Ye Qingxuan returned to a state of living in seclusion, enjoying the pleasure of his slowly increasing cultivation base.

Every day was spent either refining pills or meditating. Cultivating alone in his small courtyard, he remained indifferent to the disturbances of the outside world!

Only Ye Qingxiao, having secured an adequate supply of resources, had become much more leisure-oriented, frequently dropping by to "mooch" from him.

However, the current Ye Qingxiao had already successfully established his foundation and had been unable to resist wandering outside the sect for several years.

Occasionally, Ye Qingxuan would go to the Library Pavilion to make rubbings of a large number of books to read during his leisure time, using them to expand his horizons and knowledge base.

These books covered almost every aspect of the Dizuan Realm!

From topography and landscapes, wonders and spectacles, to local customs and traditions, as well as introductions to various factions and descriptions of major cultivation danger zones—it was almost everything imaginable.

He might not need these things now, but there would surely come a day when they would be useful.

Every day, Ye Qingxuan gained some form of harvest. Though the gains were small, they would eventually accumulate like grains of sand forming a pagoda.

Immersed in this seemingly slow yet orderly cultivation, Ye Qingxuan became unable to extricate himself, losing track of the passage of time...

Days turned into years, and soon, ten years had passed.

During these ten years, Ye Qingxiao's cultivation had long since broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, leaving Ye Qingxuan far behind.

But Ye Qingxuan did not feel anxious because of this; he continued to maintain his cultivation rhythm day after day.

And his cultivation had also broken through the seventh layer of the Qi Refining stage during these ten years, smoothly reaching the late stage of Qi Refining. He was not far from the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining stage.

During his ten years of secluded cultivation, Ye Qingxuan had refined every single Tier 1 pill recipe he possessed.

Relying on his excellent pill-making success rate, Ye Qingxuan earned nearly twenty to thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones annually.

The pills he refined were basically sold through Bai Wenyang and Hong Miaomiao.

Ten years had passed, and Hong Miaomiao and her Dao companion, Bai Qingyun, had both broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, while Bai Wenyang had broken through to Foundation Establishment and advanced to the Purple Mansion stage, becoming an inner disciple of the Xuantian Sect.

The few friends Ye Qingxuan had made in the sect were gradually pulling away from him in terms of cultivation, drifting further and further apart.

However, Ye Qingxuan's friendship with them did not grow distant because of this. Although he met with them rarely, he maintained a relationship within the bounds of a "gentleman's friendship."

Even Su Daobin, whom he had only met once and who had now contracted a spiritual land to become a master of a Blessed Land, would occasionally send messages to contact him to alleviate the boredom of being confined to one place.

As for Ye Qingxuan himself, besides refining pills and cultivating in seclusion, he was also preparing for the Blessed Land he would soon contract.

Ye Qingxuan earned about twenty to thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones every year, but he did not keep much in his pocket.

He had asked Bai Wenyang to help him use most of those spirit stones to purchase various spiritual plant seeds, including the seeds of the Spirit Purifying Tree!

The spiritual medicine seeds provided by the Ye family were still too few and too singular.

After all, the Ye family was only a Golden Core family; how could they compare to the abundant resources within the Xuantian Sect?

Over the ten years, Ye Qingxuan had mastered the refinement methods for almost all Tier 1 pills on the market.

After that, he also attempted to refine Tier 2 pills.

To this end, he spent three thousand one hundred low-grade spirit stones to purchase a top-grade Dharma tool-level pill furnace from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

Unfortunately, in the end, due to insufficient cultivation, the spiritual power in Ye Qingxuan's body could not support him to the very end, causing his efforts to fail. He was never able to successfully refine Tier 2 pills.

In the third year of his seclusion, the resistance to the Spirit Augmentation Pill in Ye Qingxuan's body finally began to manifest, causing the effect of the pills to become increasingly poor.

Out of necessity, Ye Qingxuan had to go to the Hall of Dharma Transmission to find a primary spell—the Spirit Cleansing Technique—relying on it to slowly remove the residual pill toxins of the Spirit Augmentation Pill from his body.

After obtaining the Spirit Cleansing Technique, Ye Qingxuan focused on practicing this spell. With his exceptional comprehension, he reached the state of Great Perfection with the Spirit Cleansing Technique in just ten days.

Relying on the perfected Spirit Cleansing Technique, Ye Qingxuan spent only one month to completely eliminate the pill toxins of the Spirit Augmentation Pill from his body, restoring the pill's effectiveness for him.

Over ten years, Ye Qingxuan had earned three thousand six hundred contribution points through his welfare stipends, plus the contribution points accumulated during the year prior to his seclusion, totaling a bit over four thousand contribution points.

Aside from spending one thousand contribution points to exchange for the Spirit Cleansing Technique, Ye Qingxuan also exchanged for three other primary spells.

They were the Recovery Technique, the Sword Flight Technique, and the Spirit Gathering Technique!

Among them

The Recovery Technique could provide small-scale healing for spiritual plants and promote growth within a small area; this was Ye Qingxuan's preparation for cultivating spiritual plants in his future Blessed Land.

The Spirit Gathering Technique could attract and gather surrounding spiritual energy within a short period.

Originally, regarding the effect of the Spirit Gathering Technique, Ye Qingxuan had intended to exchange for an array inheritance to study arrays as a secondary skill to replace it.

However, since the contribution points required for array inheritances were too high, he could only temporarily give up on that idea.

Had he known, he would have been thicker-skinned when asking the family for support; whether he asked for more or less, it was all asking, wasn't it?

As for the Sword Flight Technique, Ye Qingxuan prepared it for his return to the Ye family.

Before reaching the Great Perfection of Qi Refining and contracting a spiritual land, Ye Qingxuan planned to go home to see his parents.

On the journey from the Xuantian Sect to the Ye family, one could travel almost directly via teleportation arrays.

Furthermore, within the territory of the Xuantian Sect, as a disciple of the sect, he shouldn't encounter much danger.

But out of caution, he chose this Sword Flight Technique just in case.

The Sword Flight Technique could be used for both offense and escape, and the speed it triggered in a short burst was several times faster than normal sword control. Different realms of the Sword Flight Technique yielded different amplification effects.

During these ten years, he had already practiced these four primary spells to the state of Great Perfection.

A Great Perfection level Sword Flight Technique was, in a short burst, four times faster than the entry-level Sword Control Technique among cultivators of the same realm, and twice as fast as a Great Perfection level Sword Control Technique.

Although leaving the Xuantian Sect was somewhat risky, his parents were a part of him he could not sever. Before officially becoming a Fuxiu, he could not feel at peace without personally going back to see them...

After breaking through to the late stage of Qi Refining, relying on the environment and abundant cultivation resources of the Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan estimated he would only need another seven years to reach the Great Perfection of the ninth layer of the Qi Refining stage.

At that time, it would be his moment to choose a spiritual land to contract and become a Fuxiu.

Ye Qingxuan had already prepared for the worst in his heart.

If he could not rely on his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle, and the mysterious bead in his mind to break the deadlock when the time came, then he could only rely on himself.

Relying solely on himself, Ye Qingxuan still had confidence that with his amazing comprehension and years of planning, he could slowly develop the Blessed Land.

However, if he did it that way, the road ahead would be much more difficult; the limitations of being a single Fuxiu were simply too great.

If he could successfully use the Eternal Turtle to contract the Blessed Land and bear all the restrictions of the Blessed Land for him, that would be best.

In addition, Ye Qingxuan placed great expectations on the bead that had traveled with him through time, with his expectations even exceeding those for his natal clone, the Eternal Turtle.

After all, the unknown also represented the hope of breaking the deadlock!

Ye Qingxuan had done as much preparation as he could.

What lay ahead would depend on the moment he officially became a Fuxiu!