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

In the world of cultivation, spiritual veins hold great value.

Whether it's mining spirit stones from the core area or cultivating spiritual plants around it.

Or even building cave dwellings in the nearby vacant areas and selling cultivation slots.

All of these can earn substantial cultivation resources.

When major sects discover untouched spiritual veins during their surveys,

they often dispatch trusted disciples to establish a sect there.

This continues until the spiritual vein's resources are completely exhausted, then they move on to the next one, repeating the cycle.

The Guangji Temple was founded for this reason.

The Guangji Sect in Jiuhua County City happened to discover a spiritual vein in Immortal Trace Valley.

Therefore, they sent the Grand Elder to establish an outer sect there, named Guangji Temple.

Once the spiritual vein in Immortal Trace Valley was depleted,

Guangji Temple relocated to this Peach Blossom Mountain Range.

Every year at a specific time,

Guangji Temple organizes elders to lead disciples to Jiuhua County City under various pretexts.

Their true purpose is to hand over the spirit stones mined from the spiritual vein over the past year,

the spiritual plants that have been cultivated to a certain age,

and the qualification jade tokens used temporarily for cultivation in the cave dwellings near the spiritual vein.

Miao Chenfeng, as the son of the Spiritual Plant Peak Elder, knows a little about these matters.

As the outer sect elder closest to the spiritual vein,

the Guangji Sect's inner sect eats the meat from the various businesses revolving around the spiritual vein, and the Miao family can also drink some soup.

Miao Chenfeng himself can also obtain many qualification jade tokens.

His father had specifically taught him that he could use this item's rarity in Guangji Temple to win people's hearts.

Miao Chenfeng originally planned to take it step by step.

Waiting for Li Lan to be trapped in a cultivation bottleneck for many years and unable to break through,

then give the other party one as a timely help, making him grateful and loyal to the Miao family from then on.

He never expected that Li Lan would easily obtain this qualification jade token after only going to Jiuhua County City once.

Didn't his father say that in order to better control the outer sect disciples,

these kinds of cultivation resources are never sold to low-level cultivators?

How did this kid buy it?

At this moment, Miao Chenfeng couldn't help but mutter to himself.

He naturally didn't know that Li Lan had seized the Aura-Concealing Black Gauze from a demon cultivator during his first encounter on the immortal ship.

"The cultivation cave dwelling slots of my Guangji Temple's spiritual vein are actually being sold in that Jiuhua County City."

"This... this is quite... quite strange, haha..."

Miao Chenfeng didn't know what to say at this moment and even stuttered a bit.

"It's quite strange."

"That shop not only sells Guangji Temple's slots, but even Lingxiao Sect's qualification tokens can be purchased."

"Tsk tsk, it really is a rare and good place."

Li Lan casually chatted with Miao Chenfeng without any real intention, his feet not stopping.

He didn't care what the other party was thinking.

Anyway, this item has never been changed since Guangji Temple settled in the Peach Blossom Mountain Range.

It also has the anti-counterfeiting proof personally left by the Outer Sect Grand Elder, so he's not afraid that the spiritual vein's guard elder won't recognize it.

The two quickly arrived at the spiritual vein planting area.

At this time,

after the initial shock,

Miao Chenfeng's mind gradually calmed down.

Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered to Li Lan:

"Junior Brother Li, it's best that you know about the qualification token being able to be bought in Jiuhua County City yourself."

"Don't tell a third person about it."

"Otherwise, Guangji Temple doesn't know what chaos it will be in."

Now,

it no longer matters how Li Lan managed to get this thing with his second level of Qi Refining cultivation.

What Miao Chenfeng is most worried about is the negative impact after this matter is publicized.

Just imagine,

those outer sect disciples at the bottom, working themselves to death to carry out tasks,

are doing it to accumulate enough sect contribution points, attract the attention of the elders, and obtain a precious opportunity to go to the spiritual vein to cultivate.

Just imagine,

if they were to know,

that this so-called opportunity can be bought for only five or six hundred taels of spirit sand in the most prosperous city of cultivation,

what would they think?

Once the white cloth is torn off their eyes, that donkey may not be willing to pull the millstone in peace anymore.

"Senior Brother Miao, rest assured, I don't have many friends in this Guangji Temple, just you, a creditor."

"I will definitely not do anything clever."

Li Lan said solemnly.

Looking at the other party's serious appearance, Miao Chenfeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If someone else said this, he would definitely not believe it.

But the one who said these words was Li Lan.

Miao Chenfeng has known him for more than just a day or two.

He has thoroughly understood his temperament and habits.

This person is extremely boring, spending his days cultivating and nothing else.

Let alone friends,

looking at the entire Guangji Temple, the number of cultivators who are familiar with him can be counted on one hand.

"That's good."

Miao Chenfeng thought for a while and then said:

"When Junior Brother Li goes in later, just say that I gave you this thing."

"In the future, Junior Brother Li must never mention the shop in Jiuhua County City in Guangji Temple again."

"Otherwise, if people hear it, it will only increase the trouble."

Li Lan also knew the stakes involved.

He cupped his fists and said solemnly:

"Thank you for reminding me, Senior Brother Miao."

"I'll listen to Senior Brother Miao's arrangements in this matter."

Miao Chenfeng was finally relieved to hear this.

Then he curiously asked:

"Junior Brother Li, how did you buy this jade token? Can you tell Chenfeng the process in detail?"

"Of course. To tell you the truth, this thing was sold to me by a Foundation Establishment senior, who charged me a full six or seven hundred taels of spirit sand. He didn't even want spirit sand, saying he only accepted spirit stones..."

Miao Chenfeng listened carefully, already having a guess in his heart.

From the meaning in the other party's words, it can be known that

there should be a Foundation Establishment expert who has started a reselling business.

He bought things from the shop and then resold them to low-level cultivators at a high price.

This matter is important.

It seems that he has to let his father investigate what the identity of that Foundation Establishment cultivator is.

Thinking so in his heart,

Miao Chenfeng asked:

"Does Junior Brother Li still remember what that Foundation Establishment senior looked like?"

"This person covered his appearance, so I really didn't see him clearly..."

...

Not long after.

Li Lan came to the periphery of the spiritual vein again.

This time, it was still Senior Uncle Zhao with white hair and beard who was guarding the spiritual vein on the surface.

When he heard that this qualification token was given by Miao Chenfeng, his pair of old eyes suddenly widened like bull's eggs.

After Li Lan entered the Ding-character cave dwelling,

Senior Uncle Zhao finally spat out all the doubts in his heart.

"Chenfeng, I know you're a spendthrift, but you can't be such a spendthrift, right?"

"You just gave such a valuable thing to that kid so easily?"

"Is Elder Miao aware of such a major matter?"

Finding the cave dwelling with ease,

Li Lan didn't waste a single bit of time.

He immediately activated the cave dwelling's own mechanism formation, sat cross-legged on the futon, and entered a state of cultivation.

He carefully circulated the spiritual energy pouring into his body along the meridians.

Turning it into strands of pure mana, guiding it towards the dantian.

At this moment,

the mana in Li Lan's dantian was already overflowing.

Two mana vortexes were quietly rotating in the dantian along a special trajectory.

To successfully break through to the third level of Qi Refining,

he needed to compress the overflowing mana and condense a new mana vortex, just like the previous two times.

To make room for the subsequent absorption of heaven and earth spiritual energy.

This is easy to say, but extremely dangerous to do.

Li Lan had to find a suitable balance point between the three mana vortexes.

So that they can all stay stably in the dantian at the same time.

In Guangji Temple's Scripture Pavilion,

Li Lan could already recite the cultivation experiences left by those predecessors of the Qi Refining stage backwards.

After two years of continuous attempts, he was already confident about this breakthrough.