Mythical Cultivation

Ever since they were troubled by Liu Lei's men, Wu Ming and the other three have been concentrating on their cultivation. Apart from necessary things, such as buying pills and giving sermons, they basically do not go out.

Among them, Li Fei and his companions successfully broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, becoming outer disciples, adding a touch of color to Wu Ming's otherwise uneventful cultivation life. Three months after Wu Ming began his focused cultivation, Li Fei was the first to break through. Then, within a year, Wang Xiaohu and Ishikawa also broke through, eventually bringing the four of them together again.

The people Liu Lei sent to monitor Wu Ming and the other three did not find any opportunity for them to leave Qingyun Sect, which made them very angry. At the same time, they also made the outer sect a mess, which eventually attracted the attention of the deacon and led to his punishment. Although they were given a light punishment and a severe warning with the intervention of Liu Lei's cousin, the outer sect still calmed down.

The other is the sect mission that must be completed. The four of them only chose the missions within the sect and did not care about the rewards of the missions. What they lacked most now was time and a quiet environment for practice. At this time, Wu Ming also completed the third mission in three years.

"Junior Brother Wu, I am the one who will take over your care of the spiritual field. Please hand over all matters to me, and then you can leave." A young man in white shirt transmitted a message outside the formation. This person was here to replace Wu Ming.

"Senior brother, the number of various spiritual creatures in the spiritual field is recorded on the jade slips. I will take you to the spiritual field first to check the growth of the spiritual creatures." Wu Ming said and took the senior brother to check.

After a thorough inspection and inventory, Wu Ming handed the spiritual farm over to his senior brother, and he could now turn in his mission. Although the mission over the past six months wasn't very tiring, it was also quite tedious. He had to water the spiritual creatures in the farm, catch insects, and weed every now and then to ensure their growth.

Fortunately, aside from the more tedious weeding and insect catching tasks, which required him to do them himself, he could be lazy about everything else. Watering could be done with a Spirit Rain spell, though it would only consume some True Essence. The rest of the time, he continued to cultivate; these things didn't affect his training speed.

Wu Ming chose this mission not only because it was within the sect, but also because of the reward: managing a spiritual field within the Qingyun Sect for six months would earn him a bottle of Qingling Pill.

Qingling Pill is a elixir that regulates Zhen Yuan. While regulating Zhen Yuan, it also has a certain effect on eliminating Dan poison. This elixir belongs to the Qingyun Sect's internal elixir. At least Wu Ming has never seen this elixir in the market outside Qingyun Sect. It is likely that this elixir is also very precious and rare.

Wu Ming chose to undertake this mission because of the Qingling Pill's effects; otherwise, he wouldn't have taken on such a time-consuming task. He'd been constantly taking drugs for the past few years, and while the purification effect of the Kongming Pearl had improved his true essence, it wasn't just superficial; it was even far purer than his fellow disciples. However, the poison from the pills still persisted, and the accumulated poison within his body made Wu Ming feel that his cultivation speed wasn't as fast as before.

When breaking through the sixth level of Qi training, Wu Ming also began to feel a bottleneck. Although it was only a slight one, it should not have appeared. With the purity of his true energy, there were not many people in the entire outer sect who were stronger than him. If he couldn't do it, how could others break through? So this could not be the reason.

When Wu Ming first entered the Eastern King's Palace, he had already reached the ninth level of Qi training. This meant that his spiritual awareness was sufficient up to that point. But now he felt a bottleneck. Apart from these two factors, there was only one reason: the accumulated poison in his body had begun to affect him.

It seems that the thought of single-mindedly cultivating to reach the ninth level of Qi Refining is illusory. But think about it: if one could cultivate single-mindedly to advance, then those geniuses with backers wouldn't need to leave home to fight and gain experience, and could simply focus on cultivation. But that's obviously impossible, so they leave their backers and travel the world to gain experience.

If one only practices with one's whole heart, one will lack experience, resulting in low combat effectiveness when fighting with others in the future, and becoming a floor tile of the same level. As a genius, one cannot bear such a title, nor will such a situation be allowed to occur.

Therefore, working in isolation is undesirable. This has also led to many talented people failing to advance while training outside. If one could truly advance by focusing solely on cultivation without worrying about anything else, then the hierarchy would be completely rigid. There would no longer be so many amazing geniuses, and everyone would simply compete with each other in terms of background, resources, and cultivation speed.

No one had told Wu Ming this before, but after so much training, he gradually came to understand it. Therefore, his decision changed. It was time to go out and gain experience. Only through combat could the poison in his body gradually fade away as his true essence circulated and was consumed, and his combat experience would also increase. As for Liu Lei, with his current strength, he wasn't afraid of them, but at least he was not without the ability to fight back.

The nearly three thousand spirit stones he had before are now almost gone, but Wu Ming has not been just consuming them in the past three years. His talisman-making skills have also greatly improved with his cultivation and proficiency. Now the probability of refining a first-level advanced talisman has reached 50%.

In the past three years, the storage bag has stored more than two hundred low-level talismans and nearly thirty high-level talismans. After leaving Qingyun Sect, Wu Ming will also deal with these talismans, turn them into spirit stones, and make his pockets richer.

Over the past three years, Wu Ming not only advanced his cultivation to the sixth level of Qi Refining and his talisman-making skills, but also completed several tasks that had been accumulating. He also successfully refined the two mid-grade magical instruments he had previously acquired, the Mountain and River Inkstone and the Black Tortoise Shield, bringing them into closer harmony with his own abilities. He now possessed the Qingyun Sword, however, which was too low for him at this point, and had been relegated to the exclusive use of the sword.

Looking at his body again, he still had two Heavenly Thunder Seeds, four second-level low-level Vajra Talismans, and two second-level high-level Lihuo Talismans. This configuration was barely good, but he still lacked a spirit boat for long-distance use. When he arrived at Qingyun Market, he would also purchase one, so that his configuration would be complete.

Sword flying is generally used for short distances. Even at the Qi Training stage, even at full power, a sword flying at full power would exhaust its true energy within two hours at most. Therefore, few people would use a flying sword for long distances. Generally, after an hour at most, they would stop to recover their true energy to ensure their safety, but this would also result in a slower journey.

Therefore, most long-distance journeys were made using spirit boats, which were driven by spirit stones. As long as the spirit stones were replenished, the spirit boat could continue to fly. This not only avoided the consumption of true essence, but also allowed for other activities, even without interrupting cultivation. It did consume a bit of spirit stones, but with Wu Ming's current wealth, he wasn't short of them.