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  As an outer door disciple, Mo Qingchen finally got a separate residence. The residence was a very small courtyard, inside which there were four independent rooms, a kitchen, a toilet, and also a well and a bathhouse. Although it was small, it had all the necessary facilities, just enough for four outer door disciples to live in.

  Apart from Mo Qingchen, this batch of outer disciples who were promoted from miscellaneous chores, there are also some outer disciples who luckily became inner disciples in this sect's small competition and moved from the outer peak to the inner peak. The residence allocated to Mo Qingchen was one that was vacated by an outer disciple who had been promoted to become an inner disciple.

  Although still having to share a courtyard with others, Mo Qingchen was extremely satisfied to have finally escaped the four-person shared room life. The monks were extremely particular about it, and that kind of life where you didn't dare do anything and had to be constantly on guard was really too terrifying.

  Unfortunately, Mo Qingchen and Duan Qingge were not assigned to the same place. It was said that Duan Qingge was assigned to another outer peak, also with four people sharing a courtyard, but those four were all disciples of the same batch who had advanced together.

  Mo Qingchen, as a mid-term joiner, had a rather distant relationship with the other three female cultivators. Moreover, outer sect disciples were not like miscellaneous servants who needed to do chores every day. Most of their time was spent in closed-door cultivation or going to the Execution Hall to receive tasks. The places they went to were no longer just Qingmu Hive, but the entire Yao Guang Sect, and even some cultivations that met the requirements involved tasks outside the sect's scope. Having stayed for over a month, Mo Qingchen had not yet met two of the female cultivators.

  This situation is actually in line with Mo Qingchen's intentions. Since she came to the Yao Guang Sect, the most difficult thing for her has been that she cannot refine alchemy as she pleases. Not only can't she improve her alchemy skills, but also there are no endless supply of pills. With her Four Spirit Root qualifications, her cultivation speed is also greatly discounted.

  Inside the Yao Guang School, there is also a market. Even some elixirs, artifacts, and array techniques that are in high demand among cultivators have more varieties than those outside, and at a lower price. It's considered a kind of welfare for the school's disciples.

  Not only that, but some disciples in the sect can also sell unused items or refined elixirs and spiritual herbs in the market, providing a stable source of income for those with special skills. When Mo Qingchen first heard about this, he was not unmoved, but because his alchemy skills were affected by the Clear Heart Crystal Fire and could not be exposed, he temporarily gave up on this path to wealth.

  Anyway, the spiritual medicine in her portable medicine garden can supply the needs of alchemy, and due to the limitations of her cultivation, she doesn't need to use magic tools, so she doesn't have any large expenses for now.

  To be on the safe side, Mo Qingchen spent more than half of his accumulated spirit stones. He also took out two spiritual medicines that were not particularly precious despite their age and used these spirit stones to exchange for two sets of spell arrays in the market.

  Among these two sets of formations, one was a Spirit Gathering Formation. When cultivating with this formation laid out, the speed at which spiritual energy gathered was much faster than the one Mo Qingchu had used before. Following the principle of utilizing every opportunity to accelerate her cultivation speed, she naturally spared no expense in purchasing it.

  Another set is the Hidden Spirit Formation, which is much stronger than the previous one. With this formation on the fabric, at least cultivators below the Golden Elixir stage cannot detect whether she is cultivating or refining elixirs in the house. Book fans also like to read:

  Mo Qingchen's residence on the outer peaks were all outer sect disciples and miscellaneous duty disciples. With this formation, unless extremely unlucky, its concealment should be guaranteed.

  In short, these two formations are only the most commonly used functions of a cultivator, but they are the most urgently needed for Mo Qingchen at present.

  With these preparations, Mo Qingchen began to focus on his cultivation. Except for cultivating and refining pills, he rarely stepped out of the yard, and even the task quotas that outer disciples had to do every year were also exempted by him with spirit stones.

  They only occasionally received transmission talismans from Duan Qingge, and the two would either exchange their cultivation experiences or listen to Duan Qingge talk about what he had seen and heard on his missions. Both of them were low-key and calm in nature, and as a result, they didn't have many opportunities to meet each other.

  In the blink of an eye, three years had passed, and Mo Qingchen, who had refined countless Furnace Gathering Spirit Pills, could occasionally refine a top-grade Gathering Spirit Pill. Over time, he had accumulated several of them. Moreover, the elixirs commonly used in the Refining Qi stage were all too familiar to him, and he rarely made mistakes when refining them. Because he only refined but didn't sell, the number of ordinary Refining Qi stage elixirs in his possession was astonishingly large.

  Finally on this day, Mo Qingchen took two Jade Bud Pills and several top-grade Gathering Spirit Pills in a row, successfully breaking through to the 9th layer of Qi Refining!

  This year, Mo Qingchen was eighteen years old.

  She finally woke up from the crazy state of burying her head in cultivation, for no other reason than that the 9th layer of Qi refining was extraordinary for cultivators, and she could now use magical tools. From then on, whether it was attack or defense power, it was not something that a Qi-refining beginner or intermediate cultivator could compare to.

  Mo Qingchen pushed open the door and walked out, in the small courtyard was a pomegranate tree, in May, the small pomegranate flowers were bright red like fire, blooming vigorously, warm but not fierce sunlight shone on her body, making Mo Qingchen who often didn't see the sun feel comfortable.

  Mo Qingchen didn't hold back and stretched her arms wide, arching her back in a big yawn, even letting out an unladylike snort.

  Who would have thought that this action was seen by a female cultivator living in the same courtyard, who stood there like she had seen a ghost, while other book friends looked on normally.

  Mo Qingchen didn't expect that as he was stretching, the female cultivator would push open the door and come out. Seeing that she had startled him, her good mood caused her to involuntarily purse her lips and smile slightly.

  The woman's face turned even more shocked, staring straight at Mo Qingchen. After a while, she nodded extremely coldly and pushed open the courtyard door to leave.

  Mo Qingchen was somewhat surprised. The female cultivator's name was Hu Yanran, and she was the most beautiful and had the highest cultivation among the three women. She was now at the 11th layer of Qi Refining.

  I remember when I first came, she rarely paid attention to Mo Qingchen in the middle of refining her aura. Every time they met, it was always faintly, and the disregard in her eyes didn't even bother to hide. Why is she acting like this today?

  Mo Qingchen stretched out his hand and flipped out the crystal mirror. The girl in the mirror had shed her childishness, with eyebrows like distant mountains, green and slender, a pair of peach blossom eyes shining brightly, and a shallow pear-shaped dimple on her lips, drunk with beauty. In an instant, there was a breathtaking beauty that shocked the heart.

  With the crystal mirror in hand, she quickly fastened it on, and a golden sharp edge appeared at her fingertips. With a swift motion, like a knife falling from above, she swept it across her forehead, and her dark hair scattered down like ink. The girl in the mirror transformed back into an indistinct figure, and only then did she let out a sigh of relief.

  Because of the long closed-door period after breaking through to the later stage of Qi Refining, Liu Hai'er's hair had unknowingly grown longer and hung down on both sides, revealing a clear appearance. No wonder Hu Yanran was so shocked.

  Mo Qingchen calmed his mind and came to the entrance of Men Zhong Fang Market, where he put on a mask in an inconspicuous corner before entering the market.

  This mask is specially made by the Yao Guang Sect. After wearing it, cultivators below the Yuan Ying period cannot see through the mask with their divine sense, making it convenient for disciples in the sect to trade freely in the market.

  Now Mo Qingchen has the figure of a grown woman, no longer worrying about being too conspicuous due to her young age. With her mask on, she is indistinguishable from the monks coming and going in the streets, quickly blending in with them.

  She walked around and stopped at one place.