At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

With his worries completely dispelled, Li Lan was finally able to relax.

He put down the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core and began to carefully arrange the spirit stone cave again.

After all the spirit stones were laid out,

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the surrounding area became somewhat misty due to the excessive concentration of spiritual energy.

In such an environment,

the light emitted by the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core became even more intense.

Strands of spiritual energy, like thin veils, spun as they were absorbed into the wood,

and then transferred to Li Lan's body for him to refine.

It was fortunate that the current Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core had no intelligence,

otherwise, who knows what it would think upon seeing the spiritual energy it painstakingly refined all going to benefit someone else.

Li Lan didn't hesitate and immediately entered a meditative state.

At this moment,

he was already at the sixth level of Qi Refining, having successfully condensed six mana vortexes in his dantian.

With the help of this spirit stone cave and the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core,

Li Lan felt that it was time for him to try to advance further.

However,

being a cautious person, he didn't rush into it.

Li Lan knew the saying, 'Haste makes waste,'

therefore,

he, as before,

slowly and steadily refined the spiritual energy within his body, consolidating his cultivation,

while recalling the Qi Refining cultivation insights left behind by senior brothers in the Guangji Temple's Scripture Pavilion.

He anticipated all possible worst-case scenarios

and actively prepared for any potential problems.

Six months passed in a flash.

Only when he had sufficient confidence did Li Lan officially begin to attempt to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

On this day,

Li Lan consumed a low-grade breakthrough pill.

The familiar, gentle medicinal power dissolved within his body,

eventually merging into the six mana vortexes in his dantian.

Over time,

the rotation speed of the six vortexes gradually slowed down.

Although after breaking through to the middle stage of Qi Refining,

Li Lan's Qi sense and spiritual sense had been further enhanced,

and he could simultaneously control the seven mana vortexes with multiple thoughts,

breaking through the small bottleneck between the sixth and seventh levels of Qi Refining was no longer as difficult as it had been in the early stage of Qi Refining. Logically speaking, he could have done it without using a breakthrough pill.

However, for the sake of caution,

Li Lan still chose to use the power of the pill to break through.

This low-grade breakthrough pill only had an effect on cultivators from the first to eighth levels of Qi Refining.

It wouldn't be of much help to cultivators breaking through the ninth level of Qi Refining or those in the later stages of Qi Refining.

Li Lan still had some of the low-grade breakthrough pills he had refined in the Immortal Trace Valley.

If he didn't use them now, he wouldn't be able to use them later,

so he naturally didn't want to waste them.

That's why he chose to make the best use of them now, adding another layer of security to his successful breakthrough.

After taking the pill,

Li Lan quickly entered a meditative state, beginning to absorb and convert the spiritual energy from the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core.

This refined spiritual energy was easily converted into pure mana.

As strands of pure mana merged in,

the seventh mana vortex in his dantian began to condense and expand at an unimaginable speed.

Under the effect of the breakthrough pill,

before the remaining six vortexes could even reject it,

the new mana vortex had already condensed for the most part.

Once the medicinal effect disappeared,

and the six mana vortexes began to become chaotic,

the new vortex had already taken shape, and it was only a matter of time before it was completely formed.

Li Lan focused his spiritual sense, continuously injecting mana to stabilize the new vortex,

while also attending to the stability of the other six formed mana vortexes.

This was something he would never have dared to imagine in the past.

Back when Li Lan was in the early stage of Qi Refining,

even simultaneously attending to four mana vortexes was his limit.

Not to mention splitting his spiritual sense into seven parts now.

But at this moment,

after breaking through to the middle stage of Qi Refining,

Li Lan's spiritual sense was already different from what it used to be.

Dividing his spiritual sense into seven parts at the same time was quite effortless.

In fact, for cultivators,

breaking through each small realm of the Qi Refining stage was not considered difficult.

What was truly difficult was crossing the major realms of the early, middle, and late stages.

The reason why Li Lan's breakthroughs to each small realm had seemed particularly difficult in the past

was mainly because his spiritual root aptitude was too poor, resulting in a slow rate of absorbing and refining spiritual energy.

During a breakthrough,

a slow rate of converting spiritual energy would slow down the formation of the mana vortex.

And a slower formation rate of the new mana vortex

would lead to a significant increase in the time a cultivator needed to spend stabilizing the vortex.

Over time,

the consumption of a cultivator's spiritual sense would be considerable.

This was also one of the reasons why those with poor spiritual root aptitude

cultivated far slower than other cultivators.

Each small realm breakthrough for them was as difficult as a major realm breakthrough for those with true spiritual roots.

But now,

with the dual blessing of the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core and the spirit stone cave,

Li Lan's speed of absorbing and converting spiritual energy was no longer what it used to be.

He had only just begun to feel fatigue in his spiritual sense

when he had already successfully condensed and formed the seventh mana vortex and, based on the experience he had summarized from the Qi Refining cultivation insights over the past six months,

found the balance point between the seven mana vortexes, forming a new delicate balance in his dantian.

At this point,

Li Lan successfully broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining,

and his remaining lifespan also increased to forty years.

Feeling the rich mana flowing through his body, a hint of joy couldn't help but appear on his face.

Since embarking on the path of cultivation,

it was the first time Li Lan had felt that breaking through could be so easy and natural.

And he owed his rapid progress to the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core.

Thinking of this,

Li Lan patted the purple wooden stake with satisfaction,

regardless of whether the other party had intelligence or could understand, and said with a smile:

"This time, I really have to thank you. Don't worry, when I have enough strength in the future, I will definitely plant you on the most fertile spirit stone mine in the entire cultivation world."

Li Lan put away the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core, stood up, and stretched.

At this moment,

the air in the cave was slightly cold, and the light was particularly dim.

Because the spirit stones emitted their own light after filling the cave, Li Lan hadn't placed any lighting objects here.

Now that the spiritual energy in these spirit stones had been almost completely absorbed due to the breakthrough, they had naturally lost their original luster.

Over the past six months,

the spirit stones in the cave had been replaced many times.

The spirit stones that Li Lan had accumulated from mining in the Immortal Trace Valley were also running low,

making it difficult to support his daily cultivation needs.

And without the support of this abundant spiritual energy,

no matter how mysterious the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core was, it would naturally be like trying to make bricks without straw.

Spiritual veins, places where spiritual energy gathers,

are so sought after throughout the cultivation world for this reason.

Hiding in the deep mountains and forests, while ensuring a worry-free life in terms of food and clothing, might be possible,

but wanting to take another step forward in cultivation would definitely be wishful thinking.

In this cultivation world, where there is no competition, no struggle,

the ultimate fate of a cultivator is nothing more than a handful of yellow earth.

Li Lan wasn't a combative person,

but in order to extend his life, in order to live better,

he could only be forced to leave the mountain again, stepping into the treacherous cultivation world to seek a future.