Xuanwu miscellaneous service area, the third-floor residential area for Qi refining.
Ji Da, who had been in the room for a day and a night, opened the door.
With his hands behind his back, he looked down at the sea of clouds, his eyes filled with an air of grand ambition.
"Qi Refining Level 4! I've reached it! How could that good-for-nothing Ye Feng be worthy of my cousin! Now, it's time to go and cause him some trouble!"
Just then, a figure walked past him from behind.
As he walked, he flicked a blade of grass and hummed a little tune.
"The gentle spring breeze blows in my face... peach blossoms are in full bloom... birds are chirping on the branches..."
"Ye Feng!"
Ji Da then realized that it was Ye Feng who had just walked past.
Ye Feng turned his head and saw that it was this guy. He was fine when he didn't see him, but seeing him immediately reminded him that he still had an engagement that hadn't been called off.
Having screwed over myself for so long, it's time to start paying interest.
Ye Feng shook off the straw, turned his head to look at Ji Da.
"What's wrong? Is something the matter?"
Ji Da stood with one hand behind his back, looking up at Ye Feng.
"I'm warning you, my cousin is not someone you can aspire to. If you don't know what's good for you..."
As he spoke, Ji Da's eyes sharpened.
"Then don't blame me for dealing with you!"
"You mean you want to call off the engagement?"
"It's good that you know!"
Ji Da smiled, surprised that Ye Feng was quite sensible.
He used to be so persistent, getting angry at the mere mention of annulment, but now that his cultivation has declined, he's become much more sensible and actually took the initiative to say it.
"Give it to me!"
"Hmm? What did you bring?"
Ji Da was completely dumbfounded.
Ye Feng said matter-of-factly.
"Of course it's the betrothal gift. I remember it cost five thousand taels of silver back then. Add to that all the odds and ends Ouyang Yan has asked me for over the years, I'll round it up. Just give me 10 spirit stones."
"you!....."
Ji Da blushed. Of course, he didn't have any spirit stones; if he did, he wouldn't have been looked down upon by the Ouyang family.
He used all the little he earned from doing odd jobs to improve his cultivation.
Of course, Ye Feng is penniless now, and the Ouyang family definitely wants to annul the engagement.
But now he is at the fourth level of Qi Refining, an outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect.
Even the sixth-level Qi Refining patriarch of the Ouyang family wouldn't dare underestimate me.
Thinking of this, Ji Da's face gradually turned sinister.
"Ye Feng, since you're so ungrateful, don't blame me!"
After saying that, Ji Da made a hand gesture and muttered something.
"Divine fires from all directions, spiritual energy of heaven and earth..."
Ye Feng leisurely found a place to sit down nearby.
The original owner could recite the fireball spell silently in his mind before, but this guy has to say it aloud.
Three seconds later, Ji Da's fireball finally took shape.
Looking at the fireball in front of him, which was twice the size of the one on the third floor, Ji Da's face lit up with joy.
"Hmph, Ye..."
“Chew...”
Before Ji Da could finish speaking, the fireball in front of him turned into a cloud of swirling white smoke...
Ji Da stared wide-eyed at the spot where the fireball had disappeared, somewhat incredulous.
What just happened?
"What...what did you do?"
"Huh? I didn't do anything, I just sat here."
Ye Feng said with an innocent look on his face.
"Is there something wrong with your spell? Try it again!"
Ji Da had no idea what had happened, and more importantly, he hadn't seen Ye Feng cast a spell, so he assumed there had been a problem with the magic.
Ignoring Ye Feng, he chanted incantations again, summoning a fireball.
“Chew...”
Unsurprisingly, the fireball that was just summoned turned into a cloud of steam.
"This...this...."
For a moment, Ji Da was at a loss and looked to Ye Feng for help.
"I understand... You're finished. You must have an incapacitated constitution and will never be able to use magic in this lifetime!"
"How...is this possible?"
Ji Da's life beliefs almost collapsed, and the joy of just advancing to the fourth level vanished without a trace.
"Do you still know how to use the water polo? Why don't you try again?"
Ye Feng offered a "kind" reminder.
His fireball spell now only requires a little mana to condense a fireball the size of a finger, but its power is no less than the five mana it required when he was at level three.
Now he wants to test whether this method can still cancel out the other way around.
To everyone's surprise, Ji Da's face turned ugly.
"I...I only know how to use Fireball!"
Hearing Ji Da say that, Ye Feng lost interest, stood up, and clenched his fist.
"In that case..."
"Brother Ji! You're here! Did you break through?"
The laborers who had finished their work in the distance gradually returned, and the one running ahead was none other than Song Kun, who had previously curried favor with Ye Feng.
"Ye Feng, what are you doing here? How can someone at the first level of Qi Refining be running around in the third level area? Aren't you afraid of getting beaten up?"
The people approaching from a distance were all Ye Feng's former neighbors, and they all wore expressions of anticipation as they watched Ye Feng's performance.
"Ye Feng, the one who failed his breakthrough and even lost a level, why is he back here again?"
"Could it be that he has regained his cultivation?"
"You think you gain weight from eating...?"
"Stop talking, let's watch the show. Song Kun used to fawn over him the most, now that he's fallen from grace, Song Kun is definitely trying to get back at him."
...
Hearing the whispers around him, Song Kun's face immediately darkened. He had been with the Qingyun Sect for almost three years, but he was still quite a distance from reaching the fourth level of Qi Refining.
With no hope of advancing, he could only focus his energy on currying favor with others. Now that this had been said in public, his resentment only intensified, and he directed his anger at Ye Feng.
"Ye Feng, you ate my beast meat three times and plums five times before. Now it's time to pay me back. I won't ask for much, just give me four spirit crystals, and we'll call it even. If you don't..."
Before he could finish speaking, a spirit stone appeared in Ye Feng's hand, followed by a second, a third, and a fourth...
"Huh? You just mentioned spirit crystals? I thought you meant spirit stones."
As Ye Feng spoke, he put all the spirit stones back into his pocket.
Song Kun's eyes widened as he looked at the spirit stones Ye Feng had taken out.
"Yes, I just said spirit stones, you heard me right, four spirit stones, give them to me now."
"No!"
"You! You were just..."
Seeing Ye Feng's nonchalant attitude, Song Kun was absolutely furious.
You saw it wrong!
"you...."
Seeing the ambiguous smile on Ye Feng's face, Song Kun finally realized he had been tricked.
"You're asking for it!"
After saying that, he rushed over and threw a punch at Ye Feng.
This punch, imbued with magical power, was clearly delivered with full force.
If Ye Feng was truly only at the first level of Qi Refining, then it would be normal for him to be killed.
The onlookers were astonished by this scene.
If someone dies, the sect rules are ruthless; crippling their cultivation would be the least of their worries.
At that critical moment, Song Kun's fist suddenly grazed past Ye Feng...
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