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Chapter 109: Breakthrough to Foundation Building Third Layer
Chapter 109: Breakthrough to Foundation Building Third Layer
"Senior Sect Brother Xiao, long time no see."
Ye Fei greeted with a smile. "Ever since we entered the second sub-academy together, you've always been the first to breakthrough."
"I actually thought this time I could finally catch up to you."
"Never expected you'd still reach Foundation Building first."
Xiao Chen looked at Ye Fei, feeling the irony of fate.
This kid had been missing for months, still stuck at the Eighth Layer of Qi Cultivation when he vanished.
During the sect's major investigation, no clues were found. Many disciples, even several elders, assumed he'd been killed.
Only Xiao Chen, relying on his experience, suspected Ye Fei wouldn't die so easily.
Sure enough, he returned safely—and seemed to have turned misfortune into fortune, successfully breaking through to Foundation Building.
"Senior Sect Brother Xiao, this is..."
Beside Ye Fei stood a shapely female cultivator in tight-fitting martial attire, who politely bowed.
Her aura revealed she'd already reached mid-stage Foundation Building.
Xiao Chen raised an eyebrow at Ye Fei.
"Senior Sect Brother, she's a good friend I met during this trip. Without her help, I wouldn't have escaped the demonic den."
"Her name is Wen Shishi. She's a wandering cultivator without a sect."
"I hope to introduce her to our sect this time."
"I see", Xiao Chen nodded. "Pleased to meet you. Please, come inside for tea."
The three entered the courtyard and sat in the garden pavilion.
Ye Fei spoke first. "I've already taken Shishi to meet Senior Sect Brother Mei, but he said positions are tight everywhere now."
"Only the Chu Mo Dian still has two inspector vacancies."
"I heard you're now the manager of Chu Mo Dian. I hope you'll look after us."
He handed Xiao Chen an octagonal enamel bottle.
Opening it, Xiao Chen found it filled with Six Harmonies Spirit Water—a rare treasure among second-tier wood-element spirit liquids, invaluable for early-stage Foundation Building cultivators.
Xiao Chen frowned. "Brother Ye, what's your intention?"
"No misunderstanding", Ye Fei explained. "I just hope that when the Hall assigns external missions, you might pair me and Shishi together."
Xiao Chen hesitated. The request seemed reasonable, but why such a lavish gift? Still, he accepted the treasure first. "Easy enough. Our Chu Mo Dian operates freely, no strict rules."
After brief small talk, Ye Fei and Wen Shishi departed. She'd barely spoken the entire time, appearing unusually reserved.
The next day brought shocking news.
It turned out Ye Fei had submitted a map of suspected Luotian Sect hideouts during his meeting with Mei Yong. Said to be seized from a demonic cultivator during his escape.
Last night, Mei Yong launched a surprise attack on a nearby base. Though no enemies were captured, traces of their activities confirmed the map's authenticity.
The sect immediately summoned all Foundation Building cultivators without urgent duties to the grand hall, assigning them targets for a sweeping operation against the Luotian Sect.
Xiao Chen joined without exception, raiding four locations over three days. He captured nine demonic cultivators acting as spies, earning substantial contribution points.
Unfortunately, the Luotian Sect's core members escaped quickly, yielding minimal results.
Mei Yong sighed, "If these raids hadn't exposed so many nests, we'd never know how secretly the Luotian Sect has grown."
"We must prioritize eliminating them in the coming years."
Over the next fortnight, Huang Haoran, Ye Fei, and Wen Shishi led multiple expeditions, tracking demonic cultivators based on interrogation leads.
Meanwhile, Xiao Chen returned to Cuiwei Valley, resuming his cultivation.
With Six Harmonies Spirit Water, his progress felt completely different. Though he'd used spirit liquids before, their effects were mediocre. Now, he could clearly sense daily improvements.
Perhaps due to the Yu Ling Jue's nature, which inherently favored wood-element spirit herbs to accelerate cultivation.
The manual didn't distinguish between herb types, but the difference between ordinary spirit liquids and Six Harmonies Spirit Water was staggering.
Xiao Chen even bought 300 spirit stones worth of Fragrant Secret Dew from the Treasure Pavilion for comparison.
Experiments confirmed that the Featherweight class also amplified the Yu Ling Jue's absorption of wood-element herbs by tenfold.
Thus, the rarer and higher-grade the herb, the more pronounced the cultivation boost.
Thanks to this, Xiao Chen broke through to Foundation Building Third Layer just before exhausting his Six Harmonies Spirit Water.
His dantian's spirit flower seedling grew taller, sprouting two new leaves.
"Hmph, this feeling..." He examined his progress. "Almost nothing noticeable."
For other cultivation methods, each breakthrough unlocked new techniques.
But the Yu Ling Jue treated such arts as unnecessary frills, stripping them away entirely.
Besides his dantian's mana capacity increasing to 48 channels, Xiao Chen felt almost unchanged from his Foundation Building Second Layer state.
A classic case of gains and losses.
Fortunately, technique deficiencies could be remedied with time.
Recently, his progress in the Seven Stars Sword Technique brought joy, having already mastered the first three forms: Tianshu, Tianxuan, and Tianji.
"Now I've got three solid moves. Can I call myself half a sword cultivator?"
As he practiced the fourth form, Tianquan, a disciple approached from afar.
"Manager Xiao, Elder Chen summons you to the weapon forging hall urgently."
Elder Chen? Xiao Chen paused. The Chen brothers all served as elders now, but this must refer to Chen Tianfeng.
He'd nearly forgotten about the jade bone left in the weapon forging hall during his month of intense cultivation.
Following the disciple, he entered the weapon forging hall's inner chamber.
There sat Chen Tianfeng, exhausted but with burning eyes, clutching the jade bone and a golden scripture.
"I found the records", Chen Tianfeng said, voice hoarse. "This is a specially crafted Buddha bone."
(End of Chapter)
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