nyslfriends Chapter 124 Three Happinesses
Chapter 124 Three Happinesses
It was precisely because he discovered Mo Gongcheng's secret that Li Lan completely put his mind at ease.
It seemed that he wasn't the only one; every cultivator who risked taking on this sect mission had their own agenda.
Upon careful consideration, it made perfect sense.
After all, the other party came from a renowned immortal cultivation family.
Without any personal gain, even as a concubine-born child, he would never lower himself to do the hard labor of mining spirit stones.
Qian Zibin of the Qian Family Merchant Association was a prime example.
After figuring out the other party's intentions, Li Lan didn't expose him.
He pretended not to know anything and continued to seek guidance from him on cultivation issues every day, just as before.
Although Mo Gongcheng's cultivation realm was low, he had been well-educated within his clan and possessed a considerable amount of theoretical knowledge.
After a month, Li Lan benefited greatly.
Not only in terms of cultivation, but he also gained a basic understanding of the areas of expertise of the immortal cultivation families in Jiuhua County City and the customs of the entire cultivation world.
A month passed.
Seeing that every cultivator was busy with their own affairs and that no one was paying special attention to him, Li Lan finally felt at ease taking out the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core to cultivate.
Perhaps it was because this spiritual plant was incomplete, or perhaps it hadn't been refined into a magical artifact, but the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core caused very little commotion each time it was summoned.
It was completely unlike the legendary magical treasures with earth-shattering power, which caused mountains and rivers to tremble and created a mighty spectacle every time they were summoned.
In the surrounding area, where the spiritual energy was thin, the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core was just an inconspicuous piece of broken wood.
It completely lacked the spirituality that a five-hundred-year-old spiritual plant should possess.
Upon sensing the relatively dense spiritual energy nearby, the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core seemed to be imbued with life.
The annual rings on the core flickered on and off like breathing.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed to be summoned, rushing into the core one after another.
The Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core refined spiritual energy extremely quickly.
In the blink of an eye, clusters of refined pure magical power were generated.
As the most important part of a spiritual plant, this core originally absorbed and refined the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and then transmitted this magical power to the body of the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Tree.
But now that the core was separated from the body of the tree, the magical power refined by the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core had nowhere to go, which instead benefited Li Lan.
He gently placed his palm on the core, and the purified magical power automatically drilled into his body through his pores.
Li Lan found it much easier to refine this filtered magical power.
In just one month, he had already filled his dantian with magical power, reaching the bottleneck of the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
With the assistance of various external aids such as the spiritual vein, the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core, and the Breakthrough Pill, Li Lan easily crossed this minor realm.
His cultivation reached the peak of the second stage of the Qi Refining period, the eighth layer of Qi Refining.
One more step forward, and he would be preparing to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining.
Throughout the entire Qi Refining period, the transition from the fourth to the fifth layer was one hurdle, and the transition from the eighth to the ninth layer was the second hurdle.
Even with the help of sufficient cultivation resources such as pills and spiritual veins, countless cultivators with True Spiritual Roots were stuck at this realm and never managed to break through before death, even in Jiuhua County City.
At this time, Li Lan's lifespan had increased to forty-two years.
In the blink of an eye, three months passed.
In addition to easily completing three sect missions, he not only successfully broke through his realm but also gained an additional one hundred and sixty-five spirit stones.
It could be said that three happy events had occurred.
However, such good days did not last too long.
Over the past three months, the spiritual veins in other areas under the Guangji Sect's name had been repeatedly attacked and frequently fallen, resulting in countless deaths and injuries among the registered disciples sent to mine spirit stones.
Perhaps they discovered that the Hengshan spiritual vein had remained peaceful, as the number of registered disciples who came here to mine spirit stones suddenly increased.
And among the disciples who came by flying boat each time, the proportion of those at the first layer of Qi Refining dropped sharply, while cultivators at the middle and even late stages of Qi Refining were frequently seen.
Clearly, these registered disciples had also discovered that normal spiritual veins with rich spiritual energy were indeed too risky.
They had all finally set their sights on the Hengshan spiritual vein, this auspicious place.
Although the spiritual energy here was a bit thinner, its advantage lay in its safety.
As more and more registered disciples with higher cultivation levels arrived, the original outer disciples of the Hengshan spiritual vein, both in terms of cultivation and number, were clearly no longer suitable to restrain and manage them.
In order to maintain balance, the Guangji Sect finally sent a core disciple at the early stage of Foundation Establishment to take charge.
Cultivators at the late stage of Qi Refining were not a problem, but under the watchful eyes of this core disciple at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, Li Lan did not dare to play any more tricks.
Over the past few months, he had frequently inquired about matters related to the Foundation Establishment stage from Mo Gongcheng.
Naturally, he knew how powerful cultivators of this realm were.
The gap between the late stage of Qi Refining and the Foundation Establishment stage was simply like the difference between a cultivator and a mortal.
The two could not be compared at all.
Li Lan put away all his Spirit Bean Soldiers and did not dare to take out the Purple Sandalwood Spirit Core again.
He honestly started mining spirit stones with his main body.
If it weren't for the fact that each sect mission was for a period of six months and had to be completed before leaving unless there were special circumstances, he would have probably withdrawn long ago, seeing that there was no profit to be made.
Compared to Li Lan, Mo Gongcheng and Junior Brother Huang were the two most wronged people.
He didn't know what deal they had reached in private, but Mo Gongcheng actually gave Junior Brother Huang one of the special puppets.
In the first three months, although it was hard and tiring, they were happy with the large amount of spirit stones they earned every day.
But after the arrival of that core disciple at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, such good fortune clearly did not fall to them.
The Mo family's reputation was too great.
Mo Gongcheng couldn't even withdraw safely like Li Lan.
Even though he had put away the special puppets in advance, he was still keenly noticed by that core disciple through the roll call.
Mo Gongcheng was new to the cultivation world and had no shrewdness to speak of.
Within a few hours, he was tricked into revealing all the information.
Not only were his two special puppets 'borrowed', but he was even half-coerced into agreeing to make five more special puppets for the other party.
When this matter came to light, Junior Brother Huang and Mo Gongcheng, these two disciples with shallow cultivation, were naturally kicked out of the game.
In order to maximize the potential of the special puppets and increase the daily output of spirit stones, that core disciple found two cultivators at the late stage of Qi Refining to be specifically responsible for controlling the puppets.
One of them was Senior Brother Dou, who had been in seclusion for a long time.
Although the other party was already at the late stage of Qi Refining Great Perfection, and was only half a step away from the early stage of Foundation Establishment, in the final analysis, he was still in the Qi Refining period.
There was still an insurmountable gap between him and the Foundation Establishment stage.
Facing this sudden misfortune, he could only swallow his pride and accept his fate.