In Yaoyue's opinion, with Chu Qinghe's talent, even if he were a little lazy on weekdays, his improvement speed should be faster than that of Qu Feiyan or Xiao Zhao and the other girls.

Not to mention that in the past few months, Yaoyue could also feel the fluctuations of true energy from Chu Qinghe every day, which clearly indicated that he was also cultivating.

Logically speaking, one shouldn't remain in the early stage of the Innate Realm indefinitely.

Therefore, in Yaoyue's view, Chu Qinghe's repeated breakthroughs in cultivation were both unexpected and reasonable.

However, in such a short period of time, he jumped from the early stage of the Innate Realm to the early stage of the Grandmaster Realm.

This situation still made Yaoyue feel a little uneasy.

Not to mention, Chu Qinghe just used this method of dispersing his internal energy.

It should be understood that the essence of a martial artist's internal strength is the internal energy within the meridians that originates from the dantian and circulates throughout the twelve regular meridians and eight extraordinary meridians of the body, along with the essence of the five internal organs.

Even if internal energy transforms into true qi or even true essence thereafter, this essence will not change.

Therefore, internal strength also has an origin.

As long as the original internal energy and original true qi are not lost, the consumed internal energy or true qi can be restored after adjusting the breath.

Therefore, the origin is also called power.

The richer one's origin, the stronger one's internal strength and true qi will be.

But dispersing energy is different.

Dispersing one's power requires that one's very origin also be dispersed.

When a martial artist's original essence dissipates, the previously connected meridians will also close again.

For any martial artist, once their source of power is lost, it is permanent, and even if they want to cultivate it back, it will take a considerable amount of time.

This is why Ren Woxing's "Star Absorbing Technique" is so feared in the martial arts world.

After all, it's okay if internal energy and true qi are absorbed, but if skill is absorbed, it's truly gone.

Unlike Chu Qinghe, whose original internal energy had clearly dissipated during the dissipation of his power, but rebounded immediately just as it was about to reach its limit, and continued to increase in strength.

This is completely contrary to common sense.

At this moment, Jellyfish Yin Ji turned her head to look at Yao Yue and said, "Elder sister, was your breakthrough speed this fast before Qinghe?"

Faced with the question from Jellyfish Yin Ji, Yao Yue forcibly suppressed the shock in her heart and then calmly hummed in agreement.

Sometimes, this is the kind of impact that comes with status and position.

Just like now, Mingming Yaoyue was also surprised, but she couldn't show it in front of Shuimu Yinji.

Otherwise, it would make it seem like Yaoyue doesn't have the dignity of an elder sister.

After a pause, Yaoyue said calmly, "Back in October of last year, Qinghe was only at the early stage of the second-rate cultivation level. After that, when he broke through, he would often break through two or three realms in succession."

Hearing Yaoyue's words, Shuimu Yinji couldn't help but gasp.

"So, during this period, Qinghe was deliberately suppressing his breakthrough in cultivation level?"

After a moment's thought, Yaoyue nodded and said, "Yes!"

Finally, Yaoyue said calmly, "You haven't been in this courtyard for long. You'll understand in time."

Upon hearing this, Jellyfish Yin Ji suddenly understood, and when she looked at Chu Qinghe, her expression became more relaxed.

Having overheard the conversation between Yaoyue and Shuimu Yinji, and understanding that Chu Qinghe's cultivation breakthroughs were usually like this, Qu Feiyan's face fell.

Qu Feiyan was somewhat comforted by her hard work in cultivation during this period, even though her strength was far inferior to Chu Qinghe's.

At least he caught up in terms of cultivation level.

Moreover, given Qu Feiyan's current state, it's estimated that she'll be able to break through again in a few days and surpass Chu Qinghe in cultivation.

Who would have thought?

At this moment, Chu Qinghe was once again using the "accumulating strength for a sudden burst" tactic, and he did it all at once, directly raising his cultivation level by an entire major realm.

In response, Qu Feiyan's gaze towards Chu Qinghe became even more resentful.

Compared to Qu Feiyan and the other women, Shuimu Yinji, having also understood the reason, looked at Chu Qinghe again with sparkling eyes.

Unlike Lianxing and Qu Feiyan, the girls were now marveling at Chu Qinghe's extraordinary talent.

But when Jellyfish Yin Ji looked at Chu Qinghe, all she could think was, "This man belongs to my family."

Their thought processes can be quite different.

Half an hour later, after the fluctuations of true energy in his body subsided, Chu Qinghe slowly opened his eyes.

As Chu Qinghe felt the true energy flowing continuously in his Qi Sea and lower Dantian, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Seeing that Chu Qinghe had stopped cultivating, Yaoyue finally spoke up and asked, "What happened to the dissipation of your internal energy just now?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Qinghe said slowly, "It's nothing. If I had to put it in a way, I'd say it's a kind of destruction followed by construction!"

"Destruction before construction?"

The women all looked at Chu Qinghe with a hint of doubt in their eyes.

Qu Feiyan, standing to the side, seemed to be itching to make a move.

Seeing Qu Feiyan's expression at that moment, how could Chu Qinghe not know what this girl was thinking?

He immediately said, "Don't even think about it. This method is only suitable for me; it won't work for anyone else."

Upon hearing this, Qu Feiyan's face immediately showed disappointment.

After replying to Qu Feiyan, Chu Qinghe tossed the wooden hairpin in his hand to Lin Shiyin.

After Lin Shiyin hurriedly caught it, Chu Qinghe said, "I just used the Absorption Technique to refine the power I had just released and stored it here. It's not much, but after you absorb the refined power here, it should be able to help you advance to the mid-stage of the first-class realm."

Although Chu Qinghe had previously purified his own power using the "Absorption Technique," the amount of power sealed within the wooden carving was extremely small.

However, the "Innate Body-Breaking Formless Sword Qi" that Chu Qinghe cultivates is a high-grade Heaven-rank technique. The quality of its true qi can be said to be among the top tier even among high-grade Heaven-rank techniques.

For Lin Shiyin, absorbing the energy from this wooden hairpin and raising her cultivation level by one small realm should be more than enough.

After all, with this cultivation level card for the early stage of the Grandmaster realm, even if Chu Qinghe himself had no cultivation, he could still enter the early stage of the Grandmaster realm through this cultivation level card.

Since he had the "Absorption Technique" in hand, Chu Qinghe naturally wouldn't waste his cultivation.

This is why Chu Qinghe first dispersed his internal energy before using the cultivation level card.

The key is to make the best use of everything.

However, for Chu Qinghe, this action was merely making the best use of the material, but for Lin Shiyin, the wooden hairpin now contained all of Chu Qinghe's previous martial arts skills.

Naturally, when holding this wooden hairpin, even though it wasn't heavy, Lin Shiyin felt a sense of weight in it.

When she looked at Chu Qinghe, she couldn't help but feel an indescribable emotion.

(End of this chapter)