Cultivation Starting from Choosing Augments-Chapter 111 - 108: Breaking Through to the Third Level of Foundation Establishment

Chapter 111: Chapter 108: Breaking Through to the Third Level of Foundation Establishment

"Xiao, long time no see."

Ye Fei smiled and greeted him. "Ever since we entered the Second Division together, you’ve always been one step ahead of me in breaking through."

"I honestly thought I might surpass you this time."

"I never expected you to reach Foundation Establishment first again."

Xiao Chen looked at Ye Fei, also feeling a bit amazed at the strangeness of fate.

When this kid disappeared a few months ago, he was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Later, the sect conducted a major investigation but found no clues. At the time, many disciples, including several Elders, thought he had been killed.

Only Xiao Chen, relying on his own experience, felt that Ye Fei wouldn’t die so easily.

Sure enough, he had returned safely, and it seemed he had even benefited from the disaster, successfully breaking through to Foundation Establishment.

"Greetings, Xiao."

Next to Ye Fei, a female cultivator with a curvaceous figure, dressed in a practical, tight-fitting outfit, also offered a greeting.

Judging from her aura, she had surprisingly already entered the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment.

Xiao Chen looked at Ye Fei curiously. "And this is?"

Ye Fei introduced her, "Xiao, she’s a friend I met while I was away. It’s thanks to her that I was able to escape the demon’s lair."

"Her name is Miao Yuqing. She’s a Loose Cultivator with no sect or faction."

"Now that I’m back, I was hoping to recommend her to the sect as well."

"I see." Xiao Chen nodded. "A pleasure to meet you. Come, come, please come in for some tea."

The three of them entered the large courtyard and sat down in the pavilion.

Ye Fei took the initiative to explain, "I already took Yuqing to see the Sect Leader, but he said that with the current special circumstances, there are no staff shortages anywhere."

"Only the Demon Extermination Hall has two vacant monitoring positions."

"I heard you are now a Steward in the Demon Extermination Hall, so I hope you’ll look out for us in the future."

As he spoke, he handed over an Enamel Octagonal Bottle.

Xiao Chen took it and looked inside. The bottle was completely full of Six Harmonies Divine Water.

Six Harmonies Divine Water was one of the top Tier Two Wood Element Spirit Liquids, and it was especially beneficial for the cultivation of Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

This sort of thing was a rare treasure.

Xiao Chen looked at him. "Junior Brother Ye, what is the meaning of this?"

But Ye Fei explained, "Don’t misunderstand, Xiao. I don’t mean anything else by it. I just hope that when there are missions outside the sect, you can arrange for Yuqing and me to go together."

Xiao Chen couldn’t quite grasp Ye Fei’s true intentions.

His request was actually perfectly reasonable. ’Was it really necessary to give me something so valuable for that?’

But a gift in hand was a gift in hand. He decided to accept it first. "That’s easy enough. Don’t worry, Junior Brother. The Demon Extermination Hall is very flexible; we don’t have all those rigid rules."

After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Ye Fei and Miao Yuqing stood up to leave.

From beginning to end, Miao Yuqing barely said a word, appearing very introverted and shy.

The next day, new information arrived.

It turned out that just yesterday, when Ye Fei met with Mei Yong, he had submitted a map of suspected Luotian Sect strongholds to the sect.

It was said to be internal intelligence he had snatched from a Demon Cultivator while breaking out of an encirclement.

Last night, Mei Yong launched a surprise raid on the nearest stronghold. Although he didn’t catch any Demon Cultivators, he found traces of their activities.

This successfully verified the map’s authenticity.

As a result, all Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the sect who weren’t on important missions were summoned to the main hall to receive their assigned targets.

A cleanup operation targeting the Luotian Sect was launched.

Xiao Chen was no exception. For three consecutive days, he rushed to four different locations.

He captured nine Qi Refining-level Demon Cultivators who were serving as lookouts and racked up a decent amount of Contribution Points.

Unfortunately, the core members of the Luotian Sect were all very fast to flee, so the overall results were minimal.

Instead, it left Mei Yong quite worried. "If we hadn’t uncovered so many strongholds these past few days, I would have never known that the Luotian Sect had grown so strong without us realizing it."

"Since we didn’t complete the sweep this time, we must take this threat seriously in the coming years."

For the better part of the next month, Huang Haoran, Ye Fei, and Miao Yuqing frequently led teams out to investigate Demon Cultivators based on interrogation clues.

They were busy with their own affairs, however.

Xiao Chen, on the other hand, returned to Cuiwei Valley and resumed focusing on his cultivation as before.

This time, with the Six Harmonies Divine Water, the feeling of cultivating was completely different from before.

Although he had consumed Spiritual Liquids before, the effects had always felt average at best.

Now, however, he could clearly feel himself making obvious progress almost every day.

Of course, this might also be due to the nature of the Spirit-Nurturing Technique itself, which was inherently suited for using Wood Element Spiritual Objects to accelerate cultivation speed.

The cultivation technique didn’t specify any difference between these Wood Element Spiritual Objects.

But based on the actual results, the difference between consuming ordinary Spiritual Liquid before and consuming the Six Harmonies Divine Water now was incredibly vast.

To test this, Xiao Chen even made a special trip to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to buy three hundred Spirit Stones’ worth of Fragrant Secret Dew for comparison.

The experiment proved that the Featherweight talent also provided a tenfold boost to the Spirit-Nurturing Technique’s characteristic of absorbing Wood Element Spiritual Objects to speed up cultivation.

Therefore, the rarer and more advanced the Wood Element Spiritual Object he consumed, the more pronounced and powerful the enhancement effect he received.

The concrete result of this was that before the Six Harmonies Divine Water ran out, Xiao Chen successfully broke through to the third level of Foundation Establishment.

The Spirit Flower Seedling in his Dantian had grown noticeably taller and sprouted two new leaves.

"Hss, this feeling..."

Xiao Chen assessed his progress. "It doesn’t really feel like much."

With any other cultivation technique, each breakthrough would bring changes to one’s Magic and unlock more spells as their cultivation advanced.

But the Spirit-Nurturing Technique treated all of that as unnecessary side branches, cutting them away completely.

As a result, aside from the total capacity of his Dantian’s Magical Power increasing again to forty-eight strands, Xiao Chen was virtually unchanged from when he was at the second level of Foundation Establishment.

’You win some, you lose some, I suppose.’

Fortunately, the issue with Magic was something that could be compensated for, given time.

His recent progress in cultivating the Seven-Star Sword Technique was also gratifying. For now, he had grasped the entry-level of the first three forms: Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.

"I’ve got three solid moves now. I guess that makes me half a Sword Cultivator."

Xiao Chen practiced the fourth form, Megrez, while relaxing his mind a bit, treating it as a form of active rest.

Just then, he saw a disciple running over from a distance. "Steward Xiao, Elder Chen requests your presence at the Artifact Refining Hall for an important matter."

’Elder Chen?’

Xiao Chen paused for a moment, suddenly realizing that all three brothers of the Chen Family actually held the position of Elder in the sect.

However, the one being referred to here was naturally Chen Tianfeng.

’Since he sent someone to summon me, it must mean there’s news about the Jade Bone.’

He had been so busy cultivating for the past month that he had almost lost track of time, nearly forgetting that the Jade Bone was still at the Artifact Refining Hall.

Xiao Chen followed the disciple to the Artifact Refining Hall.

As soon as he entered the back hall, he saw Chen Tianfeng, his face looking haggard.

The man was holding the Jade Bone in one hand and a gold-bound book in the other.

Despite his appearance, his eyes were still bright with excitement. "Nephew Xiao, I’ve found some relevant information. This should be a specially crafted Buddha’s Bone."