"Murong Hen Hai was very cautious when he set this up, laying down a three-layered formation. The first layer is the Misty Illusory Realm, the second layer is the Bamboo Forest Five Elements Reversal Formation, and the third layer is the Small Seven Stars Killing Formation. Ive already opened the first layer, but the opening methods for the second and third layers are complex and varied, so I need to review them again."

  Qin Lingyun knew the severity of the Bamboo Forest Five Elements Reversal Formation and the Small Seven Stars Killing Formation. These were set up by a friend who was well-versed in formation techniques to help Murong Henhai. It can be said that cultivators below the Dan-forming stage would find it difficult to pass through these two formations. Qin Lingyuns cultivation was only at the fourth layer of Qi Refining, and if she wasnt careful and accidentally triggered the formation, the result would definitely be death and destruction.

  Qin Lingyun sat cross-legged on the lush green grass beside a small stream, feeling the refreshing air around her, while in her minds eye, she was constantly deducing the solution to breaking through two major formations.

  Fortunately, the solution to these two major formations was very complete in Murong Henhais memory. Qin Lingyun spent a day deducing it, and at dawn the next morning, she let out a long breath, opened her eyes, and stood up from the grass.

  Walking to the creek, her slender hands washed clean in the creek water, she untied her shiny black hair and let it flow down her back, making her look refreshed and elegant, with a confident smile on her delicate face. Qin Lingyun stepped over the creek, just as her front foot landed on a green stone, her hind leg retracted, and she took two steps diagonally upwards.

  After jumping over the small stream, take three steps to the left and then three steps to the right. Qin Lingyuns footsteps were light and nimble, not a single step could be wrong.

  Following the cracking method, Qin Lingyun walked to the front of the bamboo forest and could already smell the fragrance of the bamboo leaves. A patch of emerald green bamboo forest hid a deadly killing machine inside. Water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, the five elements change, mysterious and unpredictable. Qin Lingyun stepped into the bamboo forest, her fingers pinched together in a seal, either striking out with a hand seal, or flipping through the air in a circle, or moving sideways several steps.

  After three attempts, Qin Lingyun finally walked out of the bamboo forest and left the Five Elements Reversal Array. She let out a sigh of relief, but although she seemed relaxed on the surface, her heart was still tense.

  After walking out of the bamboo forest, a stone gate appeared in front of him, tightly closed. If an enemy had arrived here, they would have been delighted and their vigilance would have unknowingly decreased. If they relaxed their guard, they would have fallen into Murong Henghais trap. At the entrance was a formidable formation - the Small Seven Star Kill Formation.

  This formation is deadly in its unexpectedness, instantly popping out seven top-grade spiritual instruments forming a sword array, enough to strangle and kill cultivators below the Congealing Dan stage. It was also one of Murong Henghais strongest countermeasures during his Foundation Establishment periods Great Circle Completion boundary.

  Qin Lingyun carefully took seven unpredictable steps and avoided the Small Seven Star Killing Array, walking to the stone gate of the cave mansion.

  "Alright, all the formations have been evaded, next open the cave mansion, and I can finally focus on seclusion for a period of time."

  With such a powerful formation protecting her, Qin Lingyun was naturally able to cultivate with peace of mind. Her fingers moved like fluttering butterflies as she struck out with one beam of spiritual light after another, striking the stone door and opening it with a heavy grinding sound.

  The top of the cave is suspended with fluorescent stones, illuminating the entire cave. At a glance, the structure inside is very simple, with a total of three rooms: a medicine field, an alchemy room and a cultivation room.

  The outermost is the medicine field, Qin Lingyun walked in and saw a large area of dense medicinal herbs growing, Mu Rong Hen Hai has not returned to this place for one or two hundred years, and many of the medicinal herb seedlings from that year have grown up.

  "Next time I go to the town, Ill buy some growth promoter and use it to quickly grow these herbs." Qin Lingyun thought to herself.

  The area of this medicine field is not small, its about 7 or 8 mu. Its all thanks to Mu Rong Hen Hais hard work in opening up this land. Qin Lingyun turned around and walked into the alchemy room, where a brown-colored alchemy furnace was placed inside. The style was ancient and not as good as the Seven Star Yang Fire Cauldron that Mu Rong Hen Hai used later on.

  Inside the innermost practice room, there was only a long strip of bluestone and a stone table, with two stone stools. However, this place had been arranged with a washing array, which did not stain dust, and was very clean.

  "Murong Hen Hai really left me a good place, next I should calm down and sort out the threads, see what to do first."

  Qin Lingyun closed her eyes and pondered for a moment before deciding to try using her own blood to refine the elixir.

  This matter is currently the most important thing to her, Qin Lingyun arrived at the alchemy room, waved her hand, and spiritual power wrapped around the brown alchemy furnace, putting it into a storage bag. Then she patted the storage bag, and a red glow wrapped in white mist appeared in front of her.

  The Qixing Yanghuo Ding scattered a faint red glow, looking simple and elegant.

  Qin Lingyun struck out a series of hand seals to re-ignite the True Yang fire, and the pale red flames danced ceaselessly within the cauldron. This time, she was much more skilled at refining the elixir, and her hand seals were flawless.

  The next step of alchemy is generally the same as before, first refining the medicinal herbs into a liquid, and finally entering the fusion chamber to fuse into a pill.

  This time she didnt add her own blood.

  Closing her eyes to recover her spiritual energy, after a long while, Qin Lingyun struck out with her hand seal and lifted the lid of the cauldron...

  A lump of yellowish thick liquid appeared before ones eyes.

  "Failed, and it ended up as a pile of useless slag!" Qin Lingyun couldnt help but curve the corners of her mouth into a bitter smile.

  "Then next time I will merge with my blood."

  Qin Lings spiritual power pulled out the dregs of the medicine, leading them out of the fusion room. Although these dregs were discarded from refining, they were still a concentrated accumulation of many medicinal materials. Using them as fertilizer for the growing medicinal herbs was a more suitable choice.

  Qin Lingyun pinched her fingers to seal the incantation, and began to refine the Qi-increasing pill once again. There were still many materials for refining the Qi-increasing pill in the storage bag, so she could experiment freely.

  This time when the liquid entered the fusion pill room, Qin Lingyun squeezed out a drop of fresh blood emitting pale purple fluorescence from her fingertips and dripped it into the fusion pill room together with the liquid.

  After a long time, under Qin Lingyuns slightly tense and anxious mood, the lid was opened.

  A loud hum, a large piece of pale yellow light flew out, flying around in the air, Qin Lingyun stepped forward quickly, a series of swift and nimble movements to grab the dan, looking at the hand holding the pale yellow glow emitting Qi-tonifying pill, Qin Lingyuns small face revealed a joyful smile.

  "It succeeded! I didnt think it would really succeed after adding my fresh blood!"

  Qin Lingyuns heart was filled with a great deal of excitement, and although this success still couldnt completely confirm that fresh blood could increase the chances of successful alchemy, it was now only one step away from final confirmation.

  Two days later, Qin Lingyun was still refining the elixir. She not only refined the Qi-increasing Pill but also refined the Huiyuan Dan that could quickly restore her spiritual power, which was even better than a low-grade spirit stone, and the Jisu Dan that could increase flight speed.

  The results of three dan medicine experiments confirmed that as long as Qin Lingyuns fresh blood was added during the refining process, the refining would be completely successful, without a single failure.

  The success rate is too against the sky, Qin Lingyun was also filled with deep doubts and vigilance after being excited. Doubts are why fresh blood has such a strong effect, and vigilance is that with such a major secret exists, she should be more cautious in her future actions.

  Inside the storage bag were a large number of finished elixirs, Qin Lingyun thought to herself: "With enough elixirs, next I should improve my cultivation."

  Sitting cross-legged on the bluestone in the practice room, Qin Lingyun sent a Rejuvenating Pellet into her mouth, which dissolved instantly, releasing a sweet fragrance that wafted and lingered. The spiritual energy swirled within her body, and Qin Lingyun focused her mind on her Dantian, her breathing smooth and continuous, as she transformed the medicinal energy into her own spiritual power, breaking through the meridians restrictions to increase her cultivation.

  Cultivation knows no time. In the midst of diligent closed-door training, two months have passed in the blink of an eye. During these two months, Qin Lingyun has been continuously consuming Qi-Enhancing Pills, increasing her cultivation level, and breaking through meridian bottlenecks one after another, advancing from the fourth layer of Qi Refining to the sixth layer of Qi Refining.

  The benefits brought by the increase in cultivation are not only that the yuan god is further condensed, the spiritual power is more abundant, and even the divine consciousness is stronger.

  "A flash......" A white light streaked across the sky, and a crystal clear ice arrow was nailed to the grass. Qin Lingyun stood by the stream, looking at the ice arrow that was still slightly trembling: "The speed of the ice arrow is much faster, and its even more impossible to defend against, it should have an unexpected effect when used for a sneak attack."

  After Qin Lingyuns spiritual consciousness was enhanced, when she cast the Ice Arrow Technique, she found that the shape of the ice cone kept changing and finally became indistinguishable from a small arrow. Only then did it truly live up to the name "Ice Arrow Technique".

  "One magic trick is far from enough, dont rush to continue upgrading your realm for now. After all, the realm that relies on elixirs to forcibly upgrade is not stable. Its better to focus on solidifying your foundation and cultivating your origin for now, and temporarily focus on learning new magic tricks."

  Qin Lingyun returned to the cave mansion and sat on a stone bench in the practice room, carefully studying the "Water System Magic".

  At first, it introduced some basic knowledge of water-based spells, and then gave some simple methods for practicing water-based spells. However, after Qin Lingyun watched for a while, she found that except for the Water Healing Spell and the Multi-Water Arrow, these spells seemed to have no practical value in actual combat. Flipping to the back, Qin Lingyuns eyes lit up.

  The latter half was no longer water-based magic, but ice-based magic. Upon seeing the cultivation requirements, Qin Lingyuns heart skipped a beat.

  "It turns out that I need to have an ice-based spiritual root to cultivate! Ice-based spiritual roots are a rare variant of spiritual roots formed by the fusion of water-based and gold-based spiritual roots. The ice arrow technique Im cultivating is actually an ice-based technique, could it be that my spiritual root is a variant ice-based spiritual root?"

  Qin Lingyun shook her head: "But the cultivation speed of Ice Spirit Root is almost as good as that of Heaven Spirit Root, but my cultivation speed is extremely slow, and its almost the same as those Five Elements Mixed Spirit Roots. If it werent for the power of elixirs, Im afraid it would be difficult to advance even a level, so how can I be considered an Ice Spirit Root?"

  Qin Lingyun found herself in a state of confusion, her cultivation speed was extremely slow, yet she could still cultivate ice-based spells. How should this be explained?

  "Cant be explained, lets just take a look at the ice system magic first."