My Optimized Immortal Life

Two years later, Akihabara Island.

On the second floor of Liuguang Pavilion, Chen Qing sat cross-legged on a cushion with his eyes closed. He kept making hand gestures, and then his magic power began to fluctuate like a tide. At the same time, his aura became stronger and stronger. Finally, after breaking through a certain limit, Chen Qing's magic power surged. The surging magic power continued to surge in his room, but was blocked by the thick earth spirit formation and could not affect the outside world.

After a while, the surging magic power in the room finally began to calm down and was completely absorbed by Chen Qing.

Chen Qing opened his eyes and exhaled.

"At the age of twenty-two, I finally advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining."

He sighed like this and felt that cultivating immortality was really difficult.

Two years have passed since he first arrived on Qiuye Island. He finally perfected the fifth level of Qi Refining. Today, he successfully broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining and was able to see the scenery of the late stage of Qi Refining.

Having said that, Chen Qing's practice was not easy. With his qualifications, it would take at least five years for him to advance from the fifth level of Qi Refining to the sixth level without external help. With the help of a few Qi-Combining Pills every week, he could save three years of time to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refining. In these two years, he had used more than a hundred Qi-Combining Pills alone. If it weren't for his talisman-making skills, how could he have earned so many spirit stones to buy these pills.

This also made Chen Qing more aware of the importance of the four arts of cultivating immortals, and he picked up the art of refining weapons that he had originally given up. Although he earned a lot of spirit stones from making talismans, Chen Qing had to buy materials for making talismans and refining weapons, and he had to set aside some spirit stones to activate the formation, so he couldn't save many spirit stones now. The days when he was worth thousands of spirit stones were gone.

Having said that, after Chen Qing started to pick up refining tools again, his attainments in refining tools have been steadily improving. Ignoring the burnt spirit stones, Chen Qing can now stably refine low-grade magic tools. Although the success rate is only about 70%, which is much lower than the 90% on the talisman, Chen Qing did not use his innate abilities in refining tools. He relied entirely on himself and just borrowed a lot of things he had learned from the talisman.

Well, I, Chen Qing, can refine weapons without cheating.

After advancing to the sixth level of Qi Refining and with the late stage of Qi Refining in sight, Chen Qing also had to consider the matter of building the foundation, which was the first major hurdle on the road to immortality for cultivators.

The so-called foundation-building is the process in which the cultivator compresses his own gaseous magic power to form a liquid. It sounds easy, but it is actually very difficult. In the entire Song Dynasty's cultivation world, there are at least 70,000 to 80,000 Qi-refining cultivators, but only more than 3,000 people can build the foundation. In other words, out of 20 Qi-refining cultivators, there may be only one or two who can build the foundation. The success rate is a bit too low.

However, in fact, this is not the way to look at it. Among the 70,000 to 80,000 Qi-refining cultivators in Song State, the majority are mid-stage Qi-refining cultivators like Chen Qing. There are probably only about 10,000 to 20,000 cultivators who have perfected Qi-refining. Among these 10,000 to 20,000 cultivators who have perfected Qi-refining, about one-third can be promoted to the foundation-building stage. This ratio is not bad, but this is also thanks to the existence of elixirs such as the foundation-building pill that help with foundation-building. Otherwise, most cultivators probably cannot pass this level. Although Chen Qing has confidence in himself, he also wants the foundation-building pill that can increase the probability of foundation-building by at least 30%. Unfortunately, this thing is difficult to buy even if you have money.

Although the Foundation Establishment Pill has excellent effects, it is not easy to refine this pill. The main reason is that the materials are rare. There are three main ingredients for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, Shaoyang Flower, Xuanyin Fruit, and Five Elements Spirit Liquid. Among these three main ingredients, Shaoyang Flower and Xuanyin Fruit are rare, but they can always be found in the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Beasts. The difficult part is the Five Elements Spirit Liquid, which can only be extracted from the Spirit Liquid. The Spirit Liquid is a spiritual object that can only be obtained from the mid-grade spirit veins or spirit eyes. It is something that can play a role when a Jindan cultivator breaks through.

Although the amount of Five Elements Spiritual Liquid needed to refine a furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills is very small, the demand for it is huge. The middle-grade spiritual veins are all located in the dojo of the major Dan-forming forces. If you want to get this spiritual liquid, you either have to join the sect or spend a lot of money to exchange it from the sect. Otherwise, how can it be said that it is difficult to be a casual cultivator?

Chen Qing is also a casual cultivator, and for a guy as cautious as him, it is impossible for him to join a sect. It is better to be safe than sorry. It would be fine if he does not expose his innate abilities. If he does, what awaits Chen Qing is not intensive training, but a happy life as a tool.

Chen Qing has been a tool enough in the other world, so forget about joining the sect.

Since he doesn't want to join the sect, Chen Qing will have to consider spending a lot of money to exchange a portion of Five Elements Spirit Liquid from the sect, which is not easy.

Of course, Chen Qing is just considering it now. He still has a long way to go before he can complete the Qi Refining. The issue of building a foundation now is just an advance plan.

After finishing his training, Chen Qing stood up from the cushion. He had now advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining and had reached the end of the middle stage. Next, he had to prepare to break through the bottleneck of the seventh level of Qi Refining. He still had the Ninghua Pill he got from Jie Xiu, but after such a long time, the medicinal power would probably decrease. He planned to buy another Ninghua Pill as a backup, in case the medicinal power was insufficient and he could not break through the bottleneck.

After walking out of the room, Chen Qing went down to the first floor and opened the door. The sunlight outside immediately rushed into the room, illuminating the room.

Outside the door, the stretch of small buildings, with clear bluestone slabs arranged in an orderly manner, are interspersed with monks and mortals. Smoke rises from cooking fires, and the sounds of hawking continue. The bustling atmosphere of the world is fully integrated here. Even though Chen Qing has lived here for two years, he still finds this beautiful scenery nice.

Although Qiuye Island is a place for cultivating immortals in Qiubo Lake, in fact, the number of mortals is greater than that of cultivators. Spiritual roots are rare. Even if both parents are cultivators, unless the cultivation level is extremely high, the offspring may also be mortals.

It is also for this reason that after hundreds of years of development, except for the necessary markets for monks to trade, most of the other places on Qiuye Island have been built into small towns by mortals. Although Chen Qing is a monk, he still likes to live in such a secluded corner of a small town.

As for the cultivators like Li Hulin, they were settled here with their families, which made them very different from Chen Qing.

It was morning, a good time for Chen Qing to open his shop. After he opened the door, a middle-aged monk walked in. Upon seeing Chen Qing, the monk immediately said, "Greetings, Shopkeeper Jiang."

Chen Qing nodded and said with a smile: "Old Xu, there's really no need to come so early. You know I'm slow to open the door."

Xu Dong said helplessly: "Boss, I'm bored sitting at home, so I had no choice but to come to your place first."

After Xu Dong took over the shop, Chen Qing went into seclusion to practice every day, or to refine instruments and comprehend the art of seeing qi. This was another reason why he broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining in just two years.

After letting Xu Dong look after the shop, Chen Qing went out. He heard that a new shop called Tianxianfang had recently opened in the market. It was packed with customers on the first day of its opening. Even Li Hulin recommended him to go and have a look. This made Chen Qing very curious.

After all, this is ancient times. Although one can cultivate immortality, Chen Qing would also feel bored when he was comprehending the art of refining weapons and observing qi, so there must be relaxing activities.