My Optimized Immortal Life

Forget it, don't think too much. I'm only nineteen now, approaching twenty, and I still have forty years to spend. As long as it takes more than ten years to improve my cultivation level, I can barely accept it.

Chen Qing sighed. The path to immortality was difficult. It took him more than two years to advance from the fourth level of Qi Refining to the fifth level. It would probably take him another five years to reach the sixth level. Then, breaking through from the sixth level to the seventh level would be another leap into a new realm. Once he broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, the difficulty of cultivation would increase again.

Fortunately, Chen Qing still has his natural talents. If he were really an ordinary cultivator, it would be basically impossible for him to break through to the perfection of Qi Refining unless he encountered some good opportunity.

Blackwater Pond.

This place is located on the border of Song State, adjacent to the Baiduan Mountains. It is said that the black water of the Black Water Pond, which covers an area of ​​100 miles, is the aftermath of the fierce battle between the ancient great cultivator and the demon from outer space. After the ancient great cultivator defeated the demon from outer space, he also sealed it in the depths of the Black Water Pond. Affected by the demon from outer space, the water of the Black Water Pond is pitch black.

In the center of the Black Water Pond, within a ten-mile-wide fog, lies the mountain gate of the Black Water Sect. The first leader of the Black Water Sect discovered an island in the lake with an area of ​​seven miles in the fog, and thus founded the Black Water Sect.

On the island in the lake, various attics are scattered around, and in the center is a continuous complex of buildings, which is the main hall of the Black Water Sect.

Inside the main hall, the middle-aged cultivator who had come to Maple Valley with Ye Rouyu before was now half-kneeling in front of a cultivator with gray hair.

"Master, Lu Feng of the Qingyu Sect has obtained the Skyfire Pearl, the magical treasure left behind by the Skyfire Sect's golden elixir. Xue Peng and I are unable to take it down together. Please punish me, Master."

The cultivator with graying temples shook his head upon hearing this. "The Skyfire Pearl is a True Immortal's magical weapon, with unparalleled power. It's normal that you were defeated. However, the three True Immortals from Taixuan Sect, Baihua Palace, and Lieyang Sect don't want the Skyfire Pearl to be lost, so the Qingyu Sect will definitely hand it over. There's no need to worry too much. It will take Huang Yu another forty or fifty years to advance to the late Foundation Establishment stage. Even then, he won't be my match."

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Time flies, and you don’t know the passing of time. In the blink of an eye, a year has passed.

Chen Qing put down his brush and put away a newly drawn golden talisman. In the past year, he had obtained the method of drawing the golden talisman from the market and successfully drew this first-grade mid-quality defensive talisman. His talisman-making level also broke through to the first-grade mid-quality level. This was not his biggest gain in the past year.

During the year, although Zuo Ze was by his side, Chen Qing also opened up a basement outside as a place for seclusion to make a large number of talismans. At the same time, during the year, Chen Qing also successfully mastered the art of refining instruments and could barely refine low-grade magic instruments, but the failure rate was very high. After investing a hundred or so spirit stones, Chen Qing temporarily put refining instruments on hold. With his current wealth, he could not afford to support a large-scale instrument refining business.

As for the Qi-gazing Technique, just as Chen Qing had expected, it was extremely difficult to comprehend. Chen Qing had been observing it for a year but hadn't made any progress. This made him even more determined to use his innate abilities to the maximum. However, he planned to wait until his cultivation level broke through to the ninth level of Qi Refining before doing so. After all, he didn't know how much cultivation level was required to optimize the Qi-gazing Technique, but it would be a lot anyway.

In addition to the art of qi-reading, Chen Qing also learned and mastered all the spells he needed to learn in the past year.

After a cultivator enters the fourth level of Qi Refining, he is considered to have entered the middle stage of Qi Refining. His mana surges, and he can easily cast spells without having his mana drained. Therefore, most cultivators study spells after they enter the middle stage of Qi Refining. In the early stages, most cultivators, like Chen Qing, practice the small spells used by spiritual farmers.

Chen Qing's current cultivation level has reached the fifth level of Qi Refining. He has been taking a Qi Refining Pill every seven days, which allows his body to maximize the excretion of the pill poison while ensuring the improvement of his cultivation level. Because of this, his breakthrough time was eight days earlier than initially expected, which saved him some time.

As for the problem of accumulated poison, Chen Qing also found a solution through the market, which was the body refining technique.

Erysipelas is actually the toxicity of medicinal herbs. This part of the toxicity will accumulate in the body, but it can be removed by cleansing the body, so Chen Qing only needs to practice a method to cleanse the body. The effect does not need to be excellent, as long as there is this effect. Chen Qing can optimize it through his innate abilities to improve the effect.

Since the Yuncang Mountain Secret Realm brought a large amount of resources to Fenglin Valley Market, there are now many more things in Fenglin Valley Market than before. Chen Qing also purchased a body-refining technique called "Hundred Beasts Technique" from Cui Yunlai of Wanbao Tower, which has the effect of cleansing the body.

This method refines the body by refining the essence and blood of monsters, allowing the cultivator to enter the body refining stage, but it requires the assistance of a lot of monster essence and blood. Breaking through to the initial stage of body refining requires at least thirty kinds of monster essence and blood, sixty kinds in the middle stage, and ninety kinds in the late stage.

Monster blood is a material needed for making talismans and refining pills, so it is not cheap. Chen Qing spent more than a hundred spirit stones to buy seven bottles, which is not enough for the initial stage of body refining. Fortunately, his purpose is not this, but to rely on the effect of cleansing the body to eliminate the poison of the pill. After spending more than ten days to initially comprehend the "Hundred Beasts Art", Chen Qing refined the monster blood according to the formula on it, and focused on eliminating the poison accumulated in himself in the process. However, the effect was not good.

Even after refining a bottle of monster blood, Chen Qing could only eliminate one percent of the poison in his body, so he could only wait until his cultivation level was improved and he optimized the "Hundred Beasts Skill" before trying again.

After walking out of the basement where he was in seclusion, Chen Qing came to an open space next to a spiritual field. The green spiritual lotus was being planted in this spiritual field. It was the spiritual field that Chen Qing had rented when he was a spiritual farmer.

After Chen Qing stopped renting this spiritual field, it was rented by other cultivators. Now the field is full of spiritual lotus, and it is green and charming.

Chen Qing also stopped to watch and left after a while.

Returning to the outside of the courtyard, Chen Qing walked into the yard. At this time, the doors and windows of the house where Zuo Ze lived were closed, and it was dim. He must have gone out again.

Seeing this, Chen Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Even if he had been promoted to the fifth level of Qi Refining, he could not be a match for Zuo Ze, a late-stage cultivator of the eighth level of Qi Refining. Therefore, Chen Qing had been avoiding too much contact with this person. In the past year, the two of them had talked no more than twenty times. Apart from knowing that Zuo Ze was a cultivator of the eighth level of Qi Refining and possessed a top-grade flying sword, Chen Qing knew nothing else.

Zuo Ze is just like him, a thousand-year-old turtle spirit. He is mysterious all day long and no one knows what he is doing.

Something seems to be wrong...

Chen Qing shook his head and put it behind him. Since Zuo Ze was not there, he could go to the market to sell the talismans he had accumulated in the past half month.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing walked towards the market.