Vampire Cultivation Notes

Chapter 104 Breakthrough, Qi Refining Perfected

Yu Mingwu stroked his beard smugly. He had managed the family business for many years and was adept at scheming. Just like the Jinwu Master's hard-earned business, once they had something to worry about, they could no longer defeat him.

The Yu family is currently locked in a fierce battle with Jinwu Shangren, so how could they allow Xuezhu Island to remain closed off and happily watch the show from the sidelines?

I'm not afraid of the Moon Gazing Taoist getting angry, I'm only afraid of him remaining completely still, making him impossible to figure out.

Under the cover of night, Yu Ming, Wu Yu, and Fan Qian's figures disappeared into the distance.

Outside Blood Bamboo Island.

Fifteen minutes after Yu Mingwu and Yu Fanqian disappeared.

Li Jieqing appeared on the water outside the island, watching the two figures leave with a mocking expression.

Is this what a cultivator is supposed to be?

Those who don't know the situation might think it's some low-class merchant dealing with a competitor, using some despicable and offensive tactics.

When Li Jieqing sensed that Yu Fanqian had come to his door and that Yu Mingwu was squatting outside, he assumed that the two of them were suddenly planning to make a move against him.

We prepared thoroughly, and this is the result?

"You are short-sighted. We have given you a wonderful spiritual land, but instead of focusing on cultivating yourselves and improving your cultivation level, you only care about fighting and fighting for petty gains."

"Very well, with families like yours standing in the open, plotting how to gradually encroach upon the elephant's territory, I have no worries."

Li Jieqing's black and white overcoat swayed and he disappeared from the spot.

They were still thinking about affecting his spirit stone income, little did they know that if they took out 200,000 spirit stones from their inventory, they could force the entire Yu family to sell themselves.

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Cultivators have always prioritized their own cultivation level.

However, for the Yu family, in order to maintain the family's long-term survival, individual cultivation could be temporarily abandoned. As long as they occupy all the spiritual lands in the Swimming Serpent Sea, the family will naturally prosper.

This demonstrates foresight and deep thinking.

It seems a bit like putting the cart before the horse.

Two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Blood Bamboo Island, by the miasma lake.

A pavilion was built from a group of giant rocks and logs, surrounded by earthen walls. Inside the walls, a square acre of spiritual plants was planted, and there was a small bridge and a stream. Auspicious blue lotuses swam in the water and stretched their petals on the Great Evolution Chessboard.

Li Jieqing sat cross-legged by the bridge, his chest heaving, his magical power surging violently, spreading outwards like a vortex.

Inside the medicinal herb garden.

Mature spiritual plants are scattered throughout, including thirteen clumps of 260-year-old Vermilion Fruit Trees, covered with Chicken Blood Vine; a small acre of 800-year-old ginseng, with baby hands and feet beginning to grow from its roots; and spiritual herbs such as Rejuvenating Grass and Large-leaved Lingzhi. Even by the wall are seven 500-year-old white corn plants, specially left by Li Jieqing when he harvested the first batch of spiritual rice underground. They once covered a small acre, and after being ripened by the Ruyi Green Lotus for over twenty years, the others have all died of old age, leaving only these seven alive.

Huang Chong'er also huddled in the corner, guarding the seven rare, broken-level white jade spirit rice plants as his own provisions.

The vortex that spread from Li Jieqing's body near the bridge reached Bai Yuzhu, but Huang Chong'er opened its mouth and exhaled, dispersing the vortex so as not to affect its precious treasure.

Among the various medicinal plants in the herb garden, two stand out the most.

One of them is a snow lotus.

It was obtained by Li Jieqing from Wanbaoge in the past and planted there. It has been exactly three hundred years since then. According to Dong Liuzhi, it is the main ingredient for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Li Jieqing had been pondering the uses of the snow lotus, and after discovering that it could be used to refine foundation-building pills, he had been taking good care of it.

The other tree is a sapling of the Immaculate Jade Peach.

The origin of this story is that Li Jieqing found a flawless jade peach in the storage bag of Zhou Leiwang, a top-grade weapon refiner, which had the miraculous effect of prolonging life.

Then it just sat there and rotted.

Finally, only one peach pit remained. Li Jieqing tentatively planted it, and it actually grew. It took twenty years, ten years to sprout from the soil, and ten years to grow into a two-foot sapling after the Ruyi Green Lotus helped it mature.

Just by looking at how slowly it grows, you can tell it's a treasure.

It can be said that this peach sapling and the snow lotus are the two most precious spiritual items in Li Jieqing's medicinal garden.

After protecting its white jade plant, Huang Chong'er saw the magical energy vortex heading towards the snow lotus and peach seedlings. After hesitating for a moment, it carefully stretched its tail into the herb garden and blocked the vortex.

Beside the small bridge.

Li Jieqing's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and a red light slowly shone from his chest.

Within the crimson light, a phantom image of a blood-red heart appeared, and as it pulsed, the magical energy vortex emanating from the surrounding area was dyed red.

Magic power is originally colorless, but at this moment it is stained by blood.

This state lasted for fifteen minutes, then the heartbeat suddenly stopped, and the overflowing magical energy vortex also stopped moving.

The next instant, the crimson magical energy vortex stopped dissipating and returned to Li Jieqing himself like a bird returning to its nest.

Along with it came countless spiritual energies gathered by the Ruyi Green Lotus, which Li Jieqing then snatched away, absorbing them into his body to replenish his magical power.

The blood heart resumed beating, and as the red light gradually faded, it disappeared completely.

Li Jieqing slowly opened his eyes.

"I'm almost a hundred years old, and I've finally broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining!"

Li Jieqing first glanced at the herb garden and saw that three of the ten clumps of Vermilion Fruit trees had fallen, and many of the other spiritual herbs had also collapsed. Only the snow lotus and peach seedlings... oh, and the white jade plant was also unharmed.

Li Jieqing was relieved at this point. It was his first time breaking through to the ninth level of Qi Refining, and he hadn't expected such a commotion.

After all, this level is the final stage of the Qi Refining period.

For those who cultivate lower-level true qi, such as Li Jieqing's "Liu Ming Jue", once they break through to the ninth level of Qi Refining, there is no more room for improvement, and their magical power will not advance further, stopping at the early stage of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Only by cultivating superior true qi, such as the blood and heart true qi that Li Jieqing possesses now, can one continue to refine their magical power, reach the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, and begin the process of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

The difference between the two is that the True Qi is refined to ninety-one levels versus the True Qi is refined to one hundred levels.

"I have accumulated a considerable amount of energy. Within the next three to five years, I will surely refine my true energy to perfection, and my cultivation of true energy will be complete."

Li Jieqing assessed his own cultivation and nodded in satisfaction.

First, I got up and called Huang Chong'er to help tidy up the fallen medicinal herb garden. Then I sent it to patrol the miasma lake and see which side of the blood bamboo was more corroded and needed to be transplanted.

After doing all this, Li Jieqing finally sat back down by the small bridge.

On one side is the mixed fragrance of hundreds of herbs in the herb garden, and on the other side is the pure fragrance of the auspicious blue lotus by the water.

Li Jieqing reached into his sleeve and took out a bracelet.

This bracelet is none other than a magical artifact found in the stone chamber where Fairy Shecai was in seclusion. It cannot be put into a storage bag and can only be carried with one's person.

When he first received it, Li Jieqing didn't recognize it. It was only after he had thoroughly read the books in the Wanbaoge collection that he was able to figure out its significance.

Even a seemingly ordinary magical artifact belonging to Fairy Shecai is probably worth more spirit stones than this five-hundred-mile-long snake-swimming sea.

"After searching for twenty years, I finally found the spiritual artifact restriction inside this bracelet. And after all this time, I was unable to make it my owner because my magic power was insufficient."

"Now that my cultivation has reached its pinnacle, I am confident I can subdue you, you stubborn creature!"

Li Jieqing swallowed a high-grade Qi-nourishing pill, regulated his breathing, and stabilized his state of mind.

They were eager to make this legendary magical artifact their master.

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