Chapter 1: When the father suffers humiliation, the son will surely avenge him

  During this period, he also experimented continuously and found that with his current spiritual strength, he could only barely refine the elixirs used by the foundation-building cultivators. As for decomposing the medicinal properties to upgrade the elixir's grade, it was temporarily impossible. Moreover, refining the elixirs used by the foundation-building cultivators consumed too much spiritual energy, and calculating it wasn't as cost-effective as refining the elixirs for the Qi-refining stage. Therefore, Xiao Chen only refined a dozen or so elixirs to prepare for breaking through the bottleneck, and spent the rest of his time refining Lingathering Pills and other spirit elixirs suitable for the Qi-refining stage. Furthermore, as the number of refinements increased, the spiritual energy and time consumed by each refinement continued to decrease, which further accelerated Xiao Chen's cultivation speed.

  As a nominal disciple, although Yao Daozi appreciated Xiao Chen's calm temperament, he didn't have any spiritual roots and hadn't appeared in front of him for a long time. Gradually, this nominal disciple of the Spiritual Medicine Valley seemed to be forgotten by everyone.

  But it was during this half-year period that Xiao Chen underwent an experience similar to a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, and he officially embarked on the path of cultivating immortality.

  In the stone room, Xiao Chen suddenly opened his eyes from meditation, and his entire face seemed to emit a few points of phosphorescence before returning to normal. His divine sense swept outwards, with the mountain's medicinal garden as its center, and any movement within a hundred feet could not escape his perception.

  "Seventh layer of the Refining Qi period!" Xiao Chen clenched his fists tightly, a faint smile hanging on his face. In this half year, he had been constantly consuming various Refining Qi period spirit pills, his cultivation advancing by leaps and bounds, making rapid progress within half a year, and in one go reaching the seventh layer of the Refining Qi period realm!

  At this speed of cultivation, even compared to some of the so-called geniuses among the top sects' cultivators, it's more than enough.

  Hurry!

  Xiao Chen pointed with a low growl, and the spiritual sword in front of him suddenly flew up, quickly circling around him three times before slowly stopping in front of him. Xiao Chen nodded in satisfaction, this top-grade spiritual artifact was something he had obtained from that Black Wind Old Ghost, after half a year of nurturing, it could finally reach the realm where the sword moved with his heart. After playing with it for a while, Xiao Chen reluctantly put it away in his storage bag. Although with his current strength he could completely control the sword to fly and move, he couldn't expose his true power, otherwise he would definitely attract extremely big trouble.

  "Although I have now reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining, I don't have even a single attacking technique, and can't fully utilize my strength. It seems it's time to think of ways to cultivate some techniques." Xiao Chen's face revealed a hint of contemplation, as the "Wood and Plant Life Transformation Technique" he cultivated had an extremely low threshold for entry, and didn't even come with half a shred of divine ability attached.

  Half a day later, Xiao Chen walked out of the mountain's medicinal garden, carefully covering the entrance to the cave. He then slowly headed towards the outside of the valley. The Mirage Array and Warning Array at the mouth of the valley were still operating, with no signs of outsiders entering. Xiao Chen nodded in satisfaction, replaced two spirit stones that had little spiritual energy left, and immediately exited the valley.

  Half a year ago, he had just entered Luoyun Valley and was an ordinary kid with no ability at all.

  Half a year later, he had golden seals on his body and obtained the alchemy technique that defied heaven with this. From then on, the vast ocean and sky were at his disposal!

  Thinking of the changes over the past six months, Xiao Chen's face couldn't help but reveal a faint smile.

  Although Luoyun Valley is not large, there are many disciples under its gate. Each person's cultivation needs cannot be fully met by the sect, so a tacitly acknowledged internal disciple exchange fair gradually took shape within the sect.

  On the 1st and 15th of each month, disciples who need to attend the exchange meeting must pay one spirit stone as an entrance fee, and they can get a black robe that blocks divine sense scanning. After all, people who come to participate in the exchange, except for familiar friends, don't want to be secretly remembered by others after getting treasures. Although they are fellow disciples, it's not like there have never been cases of secretly making a move for treasures.

  Xiao Chen arrived at the venue of the exchange meeting, expressionless, and handed over a spirit stone to the sect disciple in charge. He then put on a black robe and walked in.

  This black robe is quite extraordinary, Xiao Chen tried it out and his divine sense couldn't penetrate through. Although he was only at the seventh layer of Qi Refining stage, with the help of the Golden Seal, his divine sense was absolutely not weaker than that of an average Foundation Building initial stage cultivator, so he also relaxed a bit in his heart.

  "Gentlemen, the time has come. It seems that only we have arrived at this exchange meeting today. In that case, I'll take the lead and start first." The speaker's voice was hoarse, clearly intentionally altered to prevent being recognized.

  Everyone would be like this, so naturally no one is surprised.

  "The little brother has five fireball spell scrolls in his hand, each exchanged for a low-grade spirit stone." As he spoke, the man took out five scrolls from his storage bag, deep yellow in color. Xiaochen raised his head to look and indeed they were exactly the same as the one Liu Tao had given him before.

  The Fireball Technique talisman can only be considered a first-rate talisman, and after being activated by spiritual energy, it can release a blow equivalent to the fifth layer of Qi Refining. Xiao Chen took one look and turned his head away, with his current seventh-layer Qi Refining cultivation, this talisman had no attraction to him whatsoever.

  However, not everyone has his cultivation. He is in the fifth layer of the Qi Refining stage, and among the disciples of Luoyun Valley, he is also quite strong. After all, most outer door disciples are lingering in the two or three layers of the Qi Refining stage, and it's rare for a true disciple to reach the fifth layer at this age, which is at least a middle to upper spiritual root.

  As a result, the five fireball talismans instantly attracted many people to exchange them, but there were still many people who, like Xiao Chen, remained unmoved and unimpressed. These people were all true masters, looking down on this with disdain.

  The five fireball talismans were exchanged quickly, and then another person stood up.

  "One inferior spiritual artifact, exchange for spiritual stones and elixirs, highest bidder wins!"

  Awesome!

  This kind of thing is something that only foundation-building cultivators can commonly use; having a spiritual tool during the Qi Refining stage is a very rare occurrence.

  As the clear speech was made, a spiritual instrument similar to Wu Gou surrounded him and flew slowly. The enthusiasm of the Lu Yun Gu disciples was immediately mobilized, and they began to bid enthusiastically.

  "Fifteen pieces of Low-Grade Spirit Stones!"

  "Twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones!"

  "I'm over thirty, no one wants to fight with me for this treasure, I'll take it!"

  "Cut, thirty spirit stones and you want to exchange for a spiritual artifact? No vision, I'll give fifty!"

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  After some bidding, only two people were left competing.

  "Two hundred, that's all the spirit stones I've saved up." The speaker was speaking in a low voice, but their petite figure revealed that they were a woman. After a brief hesitation, the woman gritted her teeth and said: "This spiritual instrument is very important to me, so I'll add three portions of Clear Mind Powder as an exchange."

  Qing Xin San is also a spiritual medicine that can be used by practitioners in the Lian Qi period. When used during cultivation, it has the effect of calming the mind and enhancing the effectiveness of cultivation. However, its rank is extremely low, even lower than Ju Ling Dan, barely qualifying as a first-grade elixir.