Inside the shop, Xu Yi still paid a hefty price and, under the shopkeeper's dumbfounded gaze, bought five Supreme-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.
Found: 5 Supreme-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.
System Rewards (Optional):
1.500 Supreme-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.
2.5 Low Grade Spirit Gathering Pills.
If Qi Gathering Pills were the standard Cultivation Level-enhancing Pills for Qi Refining Stage, then Spirit Gathering Pills were used by Foundation Establishment Monks.
Technically, they could be taken during the Qi Refining Stage as well,
but only by high-level cultivators—and only if they weren't afraid of their Meridians being torn apart by the violent surge of Spiritual Power.
So Xu Yi didn't hesitate and chose the 500 Supreme-Grade Qi Gathering Pills.
In the days that followed, Xu Yi returned to his cautious and reclusive lifestyle.
Taking Supreme-Grade Qi Gathering Pills was an ethereal experience.
In terms of raw Spiritual Power, they weren't that different from lower-grade ones.
However, Supreme-Grade Pills had nearly zero impurities, allowing for bulk consumption.
With his dual cultivation in water and wood-element techniques, Xu Yi didn't need to worry about Pill Poison at all.
Well… as long as he only took three to five pills a day.
But twenty pills a day…
Okay, not even a celestial being could avoid Pill Poison buildup at that rate.
Still, the benefits of Supreme-Grade Pills were leagues beyond ordinary ones.
Xu Yi estimated that, for the next twenty years, he wouldn't have to worry about dying from Pill Poison.
He resumed artifact refinement, began studying Ghost Shadow Step, and continued honing his Giant Spirit Palm.
Earth-Rank techniques were not easy to cultivate.
The only reason he'd managed to master Advanced Invisibility Technique to Perfect Mastery…
was probably because that technique happened to suit his personality so well.
Xu Yi felt like he had practically coasted through the process.
But Giant Spirit Palm and Ghost Shadow Step were a brutal grind.
These two Earth-Rank techniques showed him what "Earth-Rank" truly meant.
Despite practicing Giant Spirit Palm for nearly 20 years whenever he had free time,
he was still stuck at the second stage of Level-up Stage, far from mastering it.
Ghost Shadow Step wasn't any easier to cultivate either.
Only as the 700-day mark approached did Xu Yi finally grasp the basics.
At the end of the 700 days, Xu Yi chose Soul Return again.
He went home, had dinner with his parents, and went to school the next day.
More and more, Xu Yi felt like his time in the Federation was just spent coasting along.
He hadn't even visited the school's much-contested training room in ages.
After class, Xu Yi followed his usual routine and returned to the other world.
Although he had been gone for a day, no time had passed here.
Xu Yi didn't understand the mysteries of this,
but he figured the interaction between two different dimensions was far beyond his current knowledge.
And so, he spent another week here.
But in the Minor World, Xu Yi had already experienced thirteen and a half years.
During those years, Xu Yi consumed twenty Supreme-Grade Qi Gathering Pills daily.
His internal True Qi had reached the peak of Level Five.
Thanks to the purity of the Pills, the Pill Poison buildup in his body remained under control.
This body might last another ten years.
After thirty to nearly forty years of cultivation, Giant Spirit Palm finally reached the peak of Level-up Stage.
Xu Yi estimated he might be able to reach Perfect Mastery in another decade or so.
Surprisingly, Ghost Shadow Step's progress didn't lag far behind.
Aside from the initial difficulty, it progressed rapidly.
It was now also at the peak of Level-up Stage and looked likely to reach mastery even earlier than Giant Spirit Palm.
It seemed that stealth and evasion techniques like Advanced Invisibility Technique and Ghost Shadow Step really suited him.
Additionally, Xu Yi picked up a basic Yellow-Rank sword technique for appearance's sake.
He couldn't let his front-facing skillset look too weak.
Of course, his greatest progress remained in artifact refinement.
After another decade of training, his mastery of the Water Refining Technique had reached the peak of Entry-Level.
He had a strong feeling that as long as his Spiritual Power could keep up,
he'd soon be able to break through and reach the second stage of Level-up Stage in artifact crafting.
After nearly thirty years of painstaking work,
and burning through a fortune that would make even Nascent Soul Monks flinch,
Xu Yi had finally developed true skill.
For a typical Qi Refining Stage Monk to reach Entry-Level in artifact refinement was already remarkable-
a sign of great talent in the field.
Level-up Stage-level artifact refinement was the dream of the most talented Foundation Establishment artifact smiths.
Even many famous Golden Core artifact cultivators had only barely reached the second stage of Level-up Stage.
Xu Yi was just one step away. All he needed now was the right opportunity.
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