I want to go back to my original world and live an ordinary life.

After chatting with Bai Xiaoer for a while, they both went to rest. Bai Xiaoer fell asleep without a care in the world, snoring loudly. Qiu Yan was not in the mood to sleep, but practiced as usual. However, in order to prevent Bai Xiaoer from disturbing her practice, Qiu Yan built a barrier in front of her room to isolate the sound.

The next day, just after dawn, Qiu Yan, who was practicing, heard some noises coming from outside the door, so Qiu Yan stopped practicing, opened his eyes and looked outside, only to see Bai Xiaoer, who had gotten up at some point, talking to the tattooed man outside. Seeing this, Qiu Yan put on his school uniform, removed the barrier, walked up to Bai Xiaoer and asked, "Brother Bai, what are you talking about?"

Bai Xiaoer turned his head and glanced at Qiu Yan after hearing what he said, then casually said, "Xiao Dongfei asked me to sweep the floor right now, and I said I hadn't slept well yet, and I was discussing with him about sleeping a little longer!"

After listening to Bai Xiaoer's words, Qiu Yan looked up at the sky which was already bright, then looked at the tattooed man and said, "Brother Xiaodong, right? Since Brother Bai hasn't woken up yet, I'll go clean up with you. Let him sleep a little longer."

After hearing Qiu Yan's words, Xiao Dong said helplessly, "Brother Wang Ling, you don't know, he said that on the first day, but he slept until noon! If I hadn't said that the female student from the Talisman Painting Institute came to see him, he would have slept until the next day, so we can't let him sleep anymore!"

After hearing what Xiaodong said, Qiu Yan looked at Bai Xiaoer in surprise, then he thought for a moment and said to Bai Xiaoer, "Brother Bai, if that's the case, I think you really can't sleep any longer. Don't you think that if you sleep until noon, you won't have to touch the hands of a dozen female students less? And the female students should be cleaning now, right? If you go and help them clean, you might get a lot of benefits!"

Qiu Yan now understood Bai Xiaoer's temper. As soon as Qiu Yan finished speaking, Bai Xiaoer immediately became energetic and said to Qiu Yan, "Your brother is right! It doesn't matter if I fall asleep, but a dozen girls won't be able to touch my hands!" After that, Bai Xiaoer took Qiu Yan and Xiaodong and walked out of the hospital.

The cleaning area of ​​Qiu Yan's courtyard is right at the large square where freshmen gather. Since there are so many D-level students, each person is not given a lot of areas, but they still have to clean thoroughly, and they cannot use other means when cleaning; they must use a broom. This is the academy's rule. At least the academy also has an explanation for why there is such a rule, saying that it is so that D-level students can use this method to motivate themselves to practice hard. No one knows if it works, but the rules are like this anyway.

After the three of them finished cleaning their respective areas, Bai Xiaoer actually went to help the female students sweep the floor. Qiuyan and Xiaodong were both helpless about this, but they didn't care much. After talking about their respective plans for today, they separated. After separating from Xiaodong, Qiuyan came to Ziyang's courtyard. At this time, Ziyang had already drawn the formation and was waiting for Qiuyan. When he saw Qiuyan coming, he pointed at the formation on the ground and said to Qiuyan, "This formation is called the Five Mysterious True Spirit Formation. It needs five crystals to be activated. This formation can help practitioners increase their practice speed by at least twenty times. The spiritual power of the five crystals can last for about four days, so if you practice inside for four days, it is equivalent to practicing outside for about three months."

"Twenty times!" Qiu Yan was shocked when he heard Zi Yang say this. This was too incredible! Thinking of this, Qiu Yan looked at Zi Yang with disbelief, and then said, "Instructor Zi Yang, if you practice with this method, then it shouldn't be difficult to reach the Holy Spirit Master at the age of fifty, right?"

After listening to Qiu Yan's words, Zi Yang thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "If you practice like this every day, there is indeed no problem, but it also depends on your own cultivation talent. For example, the cultivation speed of ordinary practitioners after the second level is about one level every two months, while some practitioners can break through three levels or even more in a month, so even with this method, not everyone can be promoted to the Holy Spirit Master level. Moreover, there are bottlenecks in cultivation. Some people are born unable to break through the bottleneck of cultivation, so once his cultivation reaches a bottleneck, then no matter how long he practices, he will not be able to continue to break through." At this point, Zi Yang looked at Qiu Yan with curiosity, and then asked, "By the way. How many levels can you break through in a month now?"

Hearing Zi Yang's question, Qiu Yan didn't know how to answer for a moment, because since he absorbed the elixir and raised his light attribute spiritual power to level 200, Qiu Yan hasn't practiced light attribute spiritual power much, so he doesn't know how fast he is practicing now, but if he refers to the practice speed of a first-level great spiritual master, he should be able to reach level three in a month. So thinking of this, Qiu Yan said to Zi Yang, "I'm not sure now, but I think level three in a month should be no problem, right?"

"Oh?" Zi Yang seemed very interested after hearing Qiu Yan's answer, and then asked, "You seem very confident that you can improve your strength by three levels in a month!"

In the four months before the Heavenly Competition, Qiu Yan had raised his light attribute spiritual power by twenty-four levels, an average of six levels per month. Although his cultivation was only at the first level of a great spiritual master at that time, even if the second level was twice as difficult as the first level, it could at least guarantee a speed of three levels per month. So Qiu Yan felt that it would be no problem for him to reach three levels per month, so he nodded and said to Zi Yang, "It should be no problem for a second level cultivator to reach three levels per month."

After Qiu Yan finished speaking, Zi Yang nodded in satisfaction, and then said, "I was called a genius before. When I was in the second stage, my fastest cultivation speed was level three, but that was after I took the Tian Ling Pill. If I didn't use the Tian Ling Pill, I could only level one a month at most. So if you can really improve three levels a month, then you are undoubtedly the fastest cultivator on this continent."

After hearing Zi Yang's words, Qiu Yan smiled embarrassedly, and then said, "Instructor Zi Yang, the three-level improvement in one month that I mentioned just now is possible only if I don't do anything. It's not like the average practitioner who may only practice for one or two hours a day. So it's not that I practice fast, but that I practice for a longer time." Qiu Yan was really not modest at all, because since he came down the mountain, he had never seen a practitioner who practiced like him. For example, Jin Ling'er, Qiu Yan seldom saw him practice. And for someone like Bai Xiaoer, he might not even have half an hour of practice time a day. It would naturally be difficult to improve in a month with that kind of practice time. That's why Qiu Yan felt that he practiced fast not because he was more talented than others, but because he worked harder than others.

"You misunderstood. What I just said was the progress of a general practitioner's cultivation in a month without rest, not just a few hours of cultivation every day as you said. For a practitioner who only cultivates for a few hours every day, it is already very good if he can improve one level in a few months. After all, after reaching the second level, the general practitioner will not have the state of mind to cultivate with peace of mind, especially the second-level great spiritual masters over the age of fifty. At that time, their cultivation speed will be much slower, and they don't have much time to cultivate, so it is good to improve one level in a year. So in this case, not only the second-level great spiritual masters, but also spiritual masters or masters of other classes will give up cultivation after the age of fifty and choose to enjoy their own lives. After all, a first-level great spiritual master has a lifespan of one thousand years. If you don't enjoy it, wouldn't it be a waste?"

After listening to Zi Yang's words, Qiu Yan finally understood that his cultivation speed was much faster than that of ordinary people. After thinking about it, Qiu Yan felt that this was normal. After all, he had the help of the Spirit of Destruction, so it was normal for him to cultivate faster. What made Qiu Yan curious and interested was that Zi Yang said that a first-level great spiritual master would have a lifespan of a thousand years. But if that was the case, then this continent should be full of talents, but the fact is that there are not many people on this continent. So thinking of this, Qiu Yan asked curiously, "Instructor Zi Yang, according to what you said, a first-level great spiritual master would have a lifespan of a thousand years. If so many great spiritual masters have been alive for a thousand years, shouldn't this True Spirit Continent be crowded with people? Why don't I see many people on this continent?"

After Qiu Yan finished speaking, Zi Yang looked at Qiu Yan with a surprised look, as if she was very curious about why Qiu Yan asked this question, but she still answered this point to Qiu Yan, saying, "You are right. If every cultivator can live to a natural death, it should be like this, but the world of cultivators is very cruel. Not to mention that the fights between the various forces will kill and injure many cultivators, even those organizations that specialize in taking human elixirs may kill hundreds of thousands of cultivators or even more every year. The True Spirit Continent is very chaotic, and there are very few first- and second-level great spiritual masters who can live for a long time. Even those above the fifth level can not live for more than a thousand years. Therefore, there is a difference between theoretical lifespan and actual lifespan. Do you understand now?"

"Oh!" After hearing what Zi Yang said, Qiu Yan seemed to understand a little bit. Moreover, Qiu Yan had also heard his master mention such an organization that specialized in taking human elixirs. However, what made Qiu Yan curious was that he had been down the mountain for such a long time, and he had never seen any organization that specialized in taking human elixirs. So Qiu Yan doubted whether what Zi Yang said about at least hundreds of thousands of practitioners dying every year was true or not. So thinking of this, Qiu Yan said to Zi Yang, "Instructor Zi Yang, although I have not traveled much in the mainland, I seem to have never met such an organization that specialized in taking human elixirs? Are they really as crazy as you said? Can they kill hundreds of thousands of practitioners a year?"

Hearing Qiu Yan's doubt, Zi Yang smiled faintly, and then said, "First of all, these organizations that specialize in taking people's elixirs mainly target cultivators over fifty years old, because the older the cultivator is, the more valuable the elixir is. So unless there are special circumstances, they generally won't target young cultivators like you. Secondly, these organizations that kill people to get elixirs are generally hidden in places you won't go to now, so you naturally can't contact them, which is why you haven't met them until now."