Chapter 45 Seventh Level of Qi Training
Chen An sent the other person away.

He took out two jars with great interest.

A pound of first-grade, medium-quality plant essence costs twenty spirit stones, while a pound of top-grade essence costs eighty spirit stones!

It cost him more than three hundred spirit stones!

Even though Chen An was quite wealthy, he couldn't help but grit his teeth.

"This broken immortal seed is really edible. If you can't get any good treasures, I'll chop it off with one sword!"

No matter what he said, Chen An couldn't bear to really chop it down.

Chen An first took out a first-grade medium-quality plant essence and used the Earth Guiding Technique to lead it along the soil to the roots of the Eight Treasures Spiritual Tree.

The flickering halo above the rhizome is like a bloody mouth that can swallow up a whole pound of herbal essence in one gulp.

Afterwards, as if it had eaten its fill, the halo instantly retracted and there was no more movement.

Chen An felt relieved when he saw this familiar situation.

"It's worth it that I spent so many spirit stones. One pound of essence should last for two or three days."

The essence of the best quality is higher and has a richer spiritual energy. About two taels can achieve the same effect.

Chen An took this opportunity to return to the cave.

Take out the perfect quality Qi-nourishing pill, take the pill, and practice.

Now that his cultivation was approaching the late stage of Qi training and he had some free time relying on the essence of plants and trees, it was a good time for him to make a breakthrough in one fell swoop.

In a flash, a month passed.

On this day, Chen An sat cross-legged in the cave without moving.

A small vortex of spiritual power formed above his head, madly absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

After sitting in meditation for several hours, the aura emanating from Chen An suddenly increased significantly.

At this moment, changes also occurred in his dantian.

The six spiritual power clouds have now become seven.

Not only that, after breaking through from the middle stage of Qi training to the late stage of Qi training, the other six clouds also grew a lot bigger.

This is the change brought about by breaking through the bottleneck. The strength has more than doubled compared to the sixth level of Qi training!
Chen An opened his eyes and felt the changes brought about by the breakthrough in strength.

"It took two years to break through from the sixth level to the seventh level. That's not slow!"

More than being slow, ordinary cultivators with inferior spiritual roots, if they don't have the opportunity, may never be able to break through this bottleneck in their entire lives, and will never be able to reach the later stages of Qi training.

Chen An's Qingmu Kungfu has reached great perfection, so his breakthroughs are naturally as smooth as silk.

Compared with cultivators of the same level, his spiritual power is even more powerful and pure.

It took only more than six years to advance from the second level of Qi training to the seventh level of Qi training.

Considering his age of 23, his speed far exceeds that of a cultivator with middle-grade spiritual roots, and is not even slower than that of a cultivator with high-grade spiritual roots.

But they are far inferior to the cultivators with top-grade spiritual roots.

It is said that cultivators with top-grade spiritual roots can cultivate all the way to the Jindan stage without any bottlenecks, and their cultivation speed increases by leaps and bounds.

With the current level of his spiritual power, even without using the essence of plants and trees, and simply using the Soul Condensation Technique, he can barely take care of the Eight Treasures Spirit Tree.

After a whole year, the spiritual plants in the spiritual field had matured yesterday, but Chen An had reached a critical juncture in his cultivation and ignored it.

Now that he had successfully broken through, Chen An simply stood up and walked out of the cave.

In more than a year, the Eight Treasures Spiritual Tree has grown to more than one foot tall.

The saplings were as green as jade, and looked only slightly better than ordinary first-grade, top-quality spiritual plants.

If Chen An had not known that this was a fairy tree, he would not have been able to see any clues and would have just thought it was a spiritual plant of a better variety.

Passing by the fairy tree, Chen An picked the other mature spiritual plants one by one.

[Harvest a Dew Grass, get a Dew Grass Seed] *23
[Harvest a high-quality condensed dew grass and obtain one pound of high-quality plant essence] *12
[Harvest a perfect dew-condensing grass and obtain a Qi-condensing cushion]*3
[The Qi Condensation Cushion, a top-grade magical instrument, can gather the surrounding spiritual energy and speed up cultivation]

The herbal essences are good, saving you the trouble of purchasing them in the future.

It can speed up cultivation, so the Qi Condensing Cushion is a good thing!

After putting away the cushion and essence, Chen An couldn't wait to harvest the other two spiritual plants.

Ordinary dragon elephant horns yield an extra dragon elephant horn, high-quality ones yield a top-grade magic sword, and perfect-quality ones yield a first-class top-grade spell, the Horn Killing Spell. With the experience and insights of the four spells emerging from my heart, my swordsmanship went straight to the minor success level, saving me more than a dozen years of hard training!
Chen An sorted out his thoughts in his mind. The Horn Killing Technique was a fierce offensive spell that consumed a lot of energy, but was also very powerful.

As expected, Jinsizhu still harvested top-grade talisman paper, golden talismans, and the golden talisman secret book.

There are four golden bamboos. Chen An did not harvest the last one. He planned to cultivate it for another half a year to let it bear seeds.

After all, it is not easy to buy the spiritual seeds of golden bamboo.

[Harvest a Youyuetan plant and obtain a bottle of Qi Gathering Pill]

The same went for the two Youyuetan trees, only one was picked.

However, what was harvested this time was not one pill, but a whole bottle, ten pills!

This was an unexpected surprise.

There was only one lightning-struck tree, and Chen An did not pick it.

Over the past year, Chen An has devoted most of his energy to cultivating the fairy tree, resulting in not many other spiritual plants of perfect quality being harvested.

But now that he has made a breakthrough in his cultivation, his spiritual power is a little more sufficient, and there should be some improvement in the next season.

After the harvest, they planted the spiritual seeds bought from the second elder and asked Chen Lun to bring back from the market.

The Spirit Rain Technique and the Earth Attraction Technique are of course indispensable.

Try a few soul-infusing techniques. After all, you have enough spiritual power after the seventh level of Qi training.

Looking at the Eight Treasures Spiritual Tree that was less than two feet tall, Chen An secretly guessed that it would take at least five years for the immortal tree to mature.

It’s not too long, Chen An can wait.

However, now that the quality of the spiritual plants has reached perfection, the Soul Containment Technique has the effect of ripening them. Although I lacked spiritual power before, I can try it now.

Day two.

Chen An used his highly developed Qingmu Gong to restrain his aura. In the eyes of others, he was still at the sixth level of Qi training.

After going out, he found Chen Dazhuang and gave him the few golden bamboos he had harvested.

"Can you make a first-grade, top-quality talisman paper?"

Chen Dazhuang, who was making mid-quality talisman paper, dropped a pot of paper pulp, picked up the golden bamboo, and looked it up and down again and again, like a rich man seeing gold, silver and jewelry.

He was surprised and asked, "Did you grow this?"

Chen An nodded. It was no secret that his spiritual field had been promoted to the highest grade. This was very obvious.

"Yes, I can, but it won't be too fast. After all, this is my first time making first-grade high-quality talisman paper."

Chen Dazhuang's eyes sparkled and he hugged Jinsizhu tightly, unable to let go.

Judging from his appearance, Chen Zhilan’s matter should not have much impact on him.

After so many years, the thoughts in my heart may have long since faded away.

After Chen An handed the golden bamboo to Chen Dazhuang, he did not leave.

The problem of the talisman paper was solved, but the talisman pen in his hand was still of the middle grade of the first level, and the grade of the blood ink was not enough.

Although the third elder died in the battle, his talisman-making tools may have been left behind.

Chen An asked in a deep voice: "Do you have a top-grade talisman pen?"

"Have!"

Chen Dazhuang was stunned for a moment, and said, "The Third Elder's talisman-making tools were not brought with him, but left in the clan. The clan master saw that I was at the sixth level of Qi training and my talisman skills were pretty good, and that I had the potential to be promoted to a first-class upper-grade talisman master in the future, so he temporarily gave the talisman pen to me for safekeeping."

"Can you lend it to me for a few days?"

A first-grade, top-quality talisman pen is very valuable. Although Chen An can buy it, it would be too ostentatious.

He planned to use it first before getting a top-grade talisman pen.

"Borrowing again?"

Chen Dazhuang hesitated for a moment and agreed.

He suddenly remembered something, his eyes widened, and he looked at Chen An in disbelief: "Can you make a first-grade top-grade talisman?"

Chen An took the talisman pen and blood ink and said calmly, "I'm still researching it. I just want to give it a try."

(End of this chapter)