In the early morning, the light of the rising sun shines into the practice room through the window.

Shen Yuan closed his eyes slightly, and the "Purple Cloud Refining Qi Method" in his body slowly circulated, inhaling and exhaling the last trace of purple energy extracted from the morning glow.

As the sun gradually rose into the sky, the final ray of purple morning glow transformed into a dragon and flew into Shen Yuan's mouth, merging into the vast essence.

After finishing the daily morning class, Shen Yuan in the practice room slowly opened his eyes and showed a hint of joy.

Since finishing his trip to the Fu family a week ago, Shen Yuan has remained in the courtyard and has not gone out.

During these few days, Shen Yuan first completed the refining of the essence he had previously accumulated, and then with the help of the accelerated cultivation of the Hutian magical power seed, he successfully moved from the middle stage of refining essence to the late stage of refining essence.

Even though Shen Yuan was mentally prepared, he still felt a little shocked by such a speed of cultivation.

You have to know that this is the early stage of the revival of the spiritual energy tide, and spiritual energy is extremely scarce. In addition, the refinement stage is a process that focuses on accumulation. In an environment with scarce spiritual energy, the time required will naturally increase exponentially.

During the heyday of spiritual practice ten thousand years ago, there was indeed a legend that a gifted person could consume rare treasures and complete the process of refining essence into qi within a single day.

But times have changed after all, and Shen Yuan did not have the opportunity to consume rare treasures. He was just practicing daily. It was still too exaggerated to jump from the middle stage to the late stage in seven days.

However, if the demons killed by Shen Yuan knew what he was thinking, they might burst into tears.

Shen Yuan, who possesses the seed of Hutian magical power, can absorb the spiritual energy of most of the old city in one practice. His power is comparable to that of a great monk in the realm of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation.

If the progress of cultivation is still slow at this absorption speed, then other practitioners will also die.

"Since the progress of cultivation is so fast, it is time to prepare for refining essence into qi in advance."

Shen Yuan was secretly calculating in his mind.

The state of refining essence is actually a foundation-laying state among the four steps of ascending to immortality. As long as the accumulation is sufficient, one can enter the later stage of refining essence even if it takes time.

However, it is not an easy task to refine essence into Qi and enter the Qi transformation stage.

Once one achieves the Qi Transformation Realm and derives magical powers, one can use the magical powers to cast all kinds of mysterious spells. Even in the ancient heyday of cultivation, one would be called a cultivator and truly step into the door of cultivation.

In terms of power alone, spells are naturally far inferior to magical powers, but in terms of convenience and functionality, spells have their own unique advantages.

After all, the threshold for learning spells is low and does not require precious seeds of magical powers, which provides a foundation for the vigorous development of spells.

During the heyday of the cultivation world, basic magic had been integrated into every aspect of people's lives. Practitioners were even able to rely on magic to produce large quantities of crops to feed billions of people, and their living convenience was no less than that of modern times.

However, the arrival of the period of spiritual energy depletion destroyed the foundation of civilization built by magic.

No matter what, magic is definitely something that practitioners must master.

Moreover, normal practitioners only possess true extraordinary combat power after entering the Qi Transformation Realm and mastering magic. Before that, they only rely on the strength of their physical body and essence.

When Shen Yuan thought of the records about magic in the diaries of the Luoyun Sect's disciples, his heart was filled with anticipation.

Just as Shen Yuan was about to finish today's morning class, a crisp voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"bite!"

Shen Yuan was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized that this was a system prompt, and quickly opened the system interface. Ever since Shen Yuan completed the novice guide by becoming the leader of Luoyun Sect, the system seemed to have entered a state of logical bug and disappeared for a long time.

The previous hidden achievement was completed only after Shen Yuan defeated the sword slave. The active prompt sound appeared again after such a long time, which made Shen Yuan have a bad feeling in his heart.

System: Congratulations to the host for completing the 100-day foundation-building process and advancing to the late stage of essence refining.

Shen Yuan recalled carefully, the time he had spent from the initial stage of refining essence to the later stage of refining essence was less than a hundred days in total, and he fell silent for a moment.

However, subsequent prompts still pop up on the system interface.

System: When the host is promoted to the late stage of refining essence, he can start preparing to refine essence into qi. Once he enters the stage of transforming qi, he will be freed from the status of menial servant￥% sect master@# and promoted to an outer disciple.

Shen Yuan glanced at the system interface and saw the golden words "Sect Master" hanging below his name. He fell silent again.

The sect leader was promoted to an outer disciple. This matter seemed outrageous no matter how you looked at it.

Even a system as mentally retarded as the system seemed to sense the logical conflict and fell into a state of logical confusion.

Garbled characters began to appear on the system interface in front of Shen Yuan, and even the screen showed signs of freezing.

Finally, the artificial intelligence system seemed to stabilize after a period of chaotic judgment, and a message prompt popped up again.

System: You are about to be promoted to an outer disciple, triggering the last part of the novice guidance task.

Guide for newbies: Please go to the sect's spirit pond and use it to refine your essence into qi.

Mission Reward: Luoyun Sect Cave Mansion Order (disciples above the Qi Transformation Realm can use this order to open a cave mansion)

Looking at the so-called novice guide in front of him, Shen Yuan felt his eyelids twitching wildly.

The so-called sect spirit pond, Shen Yuan saw someone mention it in the Luoyun Sect diary. This is not a pond in the conventional sense.

The sect's spirit pond is a piece of spiritual land set up by the Luoyun Sect's elders using a sect protection formation to gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Its spiritual energy is as rich as water, so it is called a spirit pond. It is also the place where the disciples of the Luoyun Sect go into seclusion.

Even the lowest-level menial disciples can apply to enter the spirit pool for breakthrough when they reach a realm breakthrough.

With the help of the rich spiritual energy in the spirit pool when refining essence into qi, the magic power derived will be purer and more powerful than that of ordinary qi transformation realm.

Although the sect's spirit pool cannot compare to the real spirit pool of heaven and earth, the value of the sect's spirit pool is self-evident. Even in the heyday of cultivation ten thousand years ago, only a hidden immortal sect like the Luoyun Sect that gave birth to earth immortals could have such a foundation.

If Shen Yuan was really a menial disciple of the Luoyun Sect ten thousand years ago, he only needed to accumulate his essence to its peak state and then he could enter the sect's spirit pool to break through.

However, this was tens of thousands of years later. Not to mention the Luoyun Sect which had been destroyed tens of thousands of years ago, I'm afraid that those inherited sects no longer have the foundation to build a sect spirit pool.

The huge resources and massive amounts of spiritual energy needed to rebuild the sect protection formation are almost impossible to obtain in this era when the spiritual energy tide has just returned.

But if we want to complete this task right now, rebuilding the sect protection formation and creating the sect spirit pool seems to be the only way.

At this moment, Luo Yun, the last leader of the Wanzai Xian Sect and the first peerless swordsman in the era of spiritual energy tides, fell into deep doubt.

“You call this a beginner’s guide?”