Although Qi Zhiheng's chances of entering the Nascent Soul stage greatly increased after the spirit object understood the laws, this was not a short process.
Two years later.
The God-Slaying Sect continues to operate according to its original trajectory.
After setting up the alchemy pathways for the sect, the Danfeng disciples, and his own disciples, Qi Zhiheng went into seclusion.
Thanks to the mediation of Ye Hanyuan and Feng Yuanyi, the cooperation between the two sides was relatively harmonious, and many of Qi Zhiheng's disciples even became second-level alchemists.
Rong Gu, on the other hand, had recently entered the Golden Core stage. At the age of twenty-three, Rong Gu's achievement of becoming a Golden Core cultivator caused a great stir within the sect. People from the Slaughter God Sect would praise him, saying, "Like master, like disciple."
Rong Gu also felt deeply honored to have Qi Zhiheng as his master. Having reached the Golden Core stage, he had already begun refining level three pills, although his success rate was still somewhat low. Fortunately, the sect was now able to provide them with a considerable amount of spiritual herbs, and with these herbs to practice with, Rong Gu's pill-making rate and the quality of his pills were gradually improving.
Ye Hanyuan is also studying level three pills, but he is currently only learning about the relevant spiritual herbs and the key points of pill refining. His spiritual power needs to be refined more and stored up more before he can successfully refine them. Therefore, for now, he can only master the level two pills.
Feng Yuanyi finally became a second-level alchemist, hoping to catch up with his senior brothers, but the quality of the pills he refined was still somewhat lacking.
During the time Qi Zhiheng was in seclusion, Yang Yitian also successfully reached the Nascent Soul stage because he was not calm in his cultivation, thus advancing even faster than Qi Zhiheng.
Fortunately, Qi Zhiheng didn't know about this yet, otherwise his mentality would have collapsed! You have to understand that in order to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, he had been in seclusion for years. Yang Yitian drew talismans every day, and not only did his cultivation level naturally increase, but he also didn't encounter any bottlenecks. Anyone who heard this would be furious.
The triplets were already five years old, and by then they were able to leave the academy where they originally learned to read and write and enter the ranks of students who had begun their spiritual practice.
Erbao is still as sturdy as ever, but he has become obsessed with one thing: earning spirit stones.
He often exchanged spirit stones for drawing talismans, but unfortunately, he was the kind of person who couldn't hold onto spirit stones. He would earn them and then spend them all at once. He wasn't stingy with his friends either. Once he secretly ran out of the sect, the spirit stones in his hands would be gone like water flowing away.
After finishing the drawing, if he ran out of capital, he would borrow from Da Bao, San Bao, and some of his friends. After borrowing, he would buy materials to draw talismans and sell them, and then repay the people who lent him the spirit stones with interest.
Da Bao deeply resented Er Bao's behavior, feeling that Er Bao was spending spirit stones too quickly and only buying useless things.
Erbao felt that Dabao was too stingy. Although he had saved up a lot of spirit stones, there was no use in having so many spirit stones. Aren't spirit stones meant to be spent? Keeping so many spirit stones wouldn't generate any more spirit stones.
Da Bao secretly went to the alchemy hall to refine some pills, and then took them out to sell with Er Bao. However, the spirit stones that could be earned from first-level pills and first-level talismans were ultimately limited.
Sanbao was very willing to lend spirit stones to Erbao because the interest Erbao returned each time was quite substantial; he could buy many good things just by collecting the interest. However, he usually wouldn't buy anything.
Sanbao usually doesn't buy anything. If he wants something, he usually just asks someone around him for a gesture, and someone will buy it for him and bring it to him. To some extent, he's popular with both men and women.
The reason for this phenomenon is that the triplets all felt that their family was very poor, so they avoided asking Yang Yitian for spirit stones whenever possible.
The main reason for this situation is Qi Jia's educational issues...
Firstly, the Qi family all came from a place with very little spiritual energy.
When the Qi family ate and chatted, they often talked about the past, and even mentioned Spirit Pearls. You should know that in the Slaughtering God Sect, no one had ever heard of a unit called Spirit Pearl.
Secondly, Yang Yitian is rather careless; he usually only gives out the one spirit stone used for the flying belt. Of course, the triplets no longer play with the flying belt; they've found other fun things to do.
Yang Yitian himself couldn't think of what kind of spirit stones to give the children. The triplets felt embarrassed to ask because they thought their father was too poor. Even when the academy needed to use spirit stones, they would use his own private savings.
Thirdly, many of my classmates have contracted with spirit beasts, but Sanbaotai has not.
The triplets were very envious, but even with the little spirit stones they earned, they couldn't afford a spirit beast. Even if they could barely afford one, it would only be a spirit beast of average quality.
Sanbao was interested in such things and inquired about the prices. He learned that some high-quality spirit beast cubs could cost hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of millions of high-grade spirit stones. Sanbao was shocked and realized that he would never be able to afford a spirit beast even if he relied on his father.
In reality, the spirit beast cubs that classmates contract with are generally worth only tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of low-grade spirit stones.
Because of Qi Zhiheng's previous reminder, Que Hanhai thoroughly investigated all the disciples and found hidden demonic energy in several outstanding disciples. However, to remove this demonic energy, it would probably require spiritual energy or objects with holy light attributes, or the intervention of Buddhist cultivators to completely resolve the hidden danger.
If they were to search for these things in a high-profile manner, it would inevitably alert the enemy. Therefore, Que Hanhai decided to search for the relevant items in secret while also instructing his disciples not to attempt major breakthroughs in their cultivation levels.
Among the disciples who failed in the past, some issues were also discovered, but these issues were more serious. After all, once the inner demons have truly affected them, it is not as easy to correct them as it was in the beginning.
After learning of this situation, Que Hanhai secretly contacted several sect leaders with whom he had good relations, informing them of the matter and requesting them to thoroughly investigate whether similar situations existed within their sects. Upon learning that these sects indeed had the same issue, Que Hanhai revealed some details about the possibility of the Tianyuan Sect being involved, warning them to be extra cautious. He then privately contacted the Buddhist cultivators of Wuchen Temple, hoping they would visit the sect and provide medical treatment to the disciples for their demonic energy. This plan has not yet been implemented.
Que Hanhai's birthday celebration had just passed, and Zuo Qiuman's celebration of reaching the Nascent Soul stage had also passed. At this time, it seemed that there was no good excuse to invite people to the Slaughtering God Sect.
This matter can only be put aside for now.
On this day, the Qi family gathered together for a family banquet. Whenever they reunite, the Qi family inevitably mentions Qi Zhiheng.
The triplets hadn't seen Qi Zhiheng in the past two years, so their memories of him were a little fading, but as cultivators, their memories were still quite good.
Erbao asked at the dinner table, "Dad, when is Father coming back?"
Yang Yitian had no idea about this, so he could only reply perfunctorily, "Soon, soon." Actually, he wanted to complain, he had already reached the Nascent Soul stage, so why hadn't Qi Zhiheng entered the Nascent Soul stage yet?
Originally, Nascent Soul cultivators were already capable of taking over a mountain on their own, especially someone as young as Yang Yitian, who was highly valued by the sect.
However, Yang Yitian felt it was better to wait until Qi Zhiheng returned before discussing it further. After all, he and Qi Zhiheng would definitely be living on the same mountain in the future, and they would need to discuss which mountain to choose. Therefore, they were still living on Panyun Peak for the time being.
Living on Panyun Peak didn't diminish his status, after all, the peak master of Panyun Peak was one of only two Nascent Soul stage cultivators in the sect, and all the disciples of Panyun Peak were proud of this. Their decision not to establish their own sect didn't attract much attention.
Erbao was very disgusted with Yang Yitian's answer: "Dad, you said the same thing a year ago." It's been a year and you're still giving such a perfunctory answer.
Yang Yitian took a bite of rice and said, "What do you know? In the path of cultivation, a hundred years is but a blink of an eye. Your father has only been in seclusion for two years. Even a blink of an eye isn't enough time. How can you say it's not fast?"
The family gave Yang Yitian a reproachful look, strongly disapproving of his trick of fooling the child.
Qi Dong was relatively patient. He said to Erbao, "The time a cultivator spends in seclusion is always uncertain. For example, your great-grandfather had experience of seclusion for seven or eight years. Your father has only been in seclusion for two years, which is not a long time."
Erbao's mouth was slightly open as he stuffed some spiritual rice: "Seven or eight years, I've never experienced such a long time before." He was only five years old and couldn't understand what seven or eight years felt like.
Yang Yitian comforted him, "Your father has good talent. I don't think he'll need seven or eight years to go into seclusion. Don't worry."
Erbao looked at Qi Wantian: "Is Great-Grandpa not talented enough? He actually had to go into seclusion for so long."
Yang Yitian choked. What kind of son would dig such a pit for his own father?
Qi Wantian chuckled and explained, "Your great-grandfather's long period of seclusion had nothing to do with talent. It was because the spiritual energy in the small world he was in was scarce, making it extremely difficult to advance his cultivation. Moreover, there were no suitable cultivation methods back then, so he took many detours. In our area, becoming a Golden Core cultivator was the highest one could achieve." In reality, they weren't even considered Golden Core cultivators; they were mostly pseudo-Golden Core cultivators.
Erbao felt that this touched on his family's painful past. After all, they came from a small town and were very poor. He was no longer a three-year-old child and couldn't bear to reopen his family's wounds.
Feeling that he was old enough to understand, Erbao obediently shut his mouth and quietly ate his rice.
Seeing that Erbao remained silent, Qi Wantian, who was about to speak again, was interrupted by a thunderous roar!
The perceptive members of the Qi family immediately stopped eating and headed outside.
They all had the same thought in their minds at that moment! After exchanging glances, they all looked in the same direction, which was the mountain where Qi Zhiheng was in seclusion.
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