"Junior Nephew, have you chosen a Spell?"
Inside the Scripture Storage Hall on Yu Long Peak, the Old Grey-robed Man looked at He Pingsheng.
He Pingsheng returned all twenty-plus Spell books, then shook his head and said, "I didn't choose any, none of them are suitable!"
The Old Grey-robed Man's face fell, "Then... why don't you go look at others, Junior Nephew!"
"Alright!" He Pingsheng walked over and pretended to browse again, finally shaking his head and saying, "They're too trashy, not even as good as the Spells I bought from a street stall on Matou Mountain!"
After speaking, He Pingsheng strode away.
The Old Grey-robed Man's mouth hung open.
Outside?
Matou Mountain?
And on a damn street stall?
You can buy good stuff?
...
"Little Junior Brother... Senior Sister Qiao from Tianfu Mountain had someone bring you a furnace of Qi Gathering Pills..."
"Take them!"
Zhao Ling'er handed He Pingsheng a porcelain bottle.
He Pingsheng opened the bottle and took a look; sure enough, they were Gathering Qi Pills.
And they were all High Grade.
No wonder she had someone specially deliver them.
If they were just ordinary Low Grade or Medium Grade, she certainly wouldn't have been so formal.
So Senior Sister Qiao cares about me too!
He Pingsheng smiled and said, "Thank you, Senior Sister Zhao!"
"Why thank me?" Zhao Ling'er said, "Go thank your wife!"
"I'm leaving!"
Zhao Ling'er left!
He Pingsheng also walked into his small courtyard and hung a "In Closed Cultivation" sign on the door.
Then he returned to his bedroom, immediately activated the First Grade Defense Array, and began his closed-door Cultivation.
On one hand, he Cultivated the Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Technique; on the other hand, he simultaneously swallowed High Grade Medicinal Pills and Cultivated the Li Fire True Method.
He was doing two things at once.
A month later, He Pingsheng had Cultivated the Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Technique to the Realm of Minor Achievement!
"Open!"
In the small courtyard, He Pingsheng lightly shouted.
On a spot of ground about ten zhang away from his body, a green thorn suddenly emerged from the earth without warning.
It shot up two zhang high into the Void Realm with a whoosh.
From that thorn, seven more thorns flew out, stabbing in different directions.
Each thorn carried potent poison.
When He Pingsheng Cultivated the Nine Poison Golden Body, he absorbed many potent poisons into his body. He himself was immune to all poisons, yet also contained potent poisons.
Previously, he had no method for using poison.
Now that he had refined the Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Technique, the poison in his body had an outlet for release.
If used by surprise, it would certainly give his opponent a 'surprise'.
Of course, this poison Spell could be cast as long as it was within the range of He Pingsheng's Divine Thought.
Currently, He Pingsheng's Divine Thought covered a range of about eighty zhang.
This was much higher than Cultivators of the same Realm, and even not far from the Divine Sense of those Foundation Establishment Stage Disciples.
In other words, it could be cast within eighty zhang.
Putting away his Divine Ability, He Pingsheng returned to his small courtyard.
He would continue to Cultivate.
Day after day!
Every one or two months, He Pingsheng would receive various supplements from Tianfu Mountain.
Among them, Qi Gathering Pills were the most numerous.
And each time, the Qi Gathering Pills were High Grade.
He Pingsheng felt a warmth in his heart.
He didn't know about others, but at least he saw Senior Sister Qiao's actions.
Half a year later, He Pingsheng's Cultivation Breakthrough to the Qi Refinement Stage Ninth Layer.
However, he did not come out of closed Cultivation, so no one else knew about his Breakthrough.
He wasn't in a hurry to assault the tenth layer's physical barrier. Instead, he followed his usual routine and directly began Cultivating the remaining four Dantians: Metal, Wood, Water, and Earth.
Once a Dantian's physical barrier was broken, the other Dantians would improve much faster.
Basically, they could be Cultivated in one or two months.
Cultivation knows no time!
In a blink of an eye, two years passed.
He Pingsheng's Cultivation, as he wished, reached the Qi Refinement Stage Tenth Layer.
Moreover, all five of his Dantians reached the Tenth Layer.
After reaching the Tenth Layer, his Divine Thought also greatly increased!
Now, when his Divine Sense erupted, it could easily scan a hundred zhang around his body.
A hundred zhang was also his casting distance.
"Open..." He Pingsheng, sitting in his room, lightly shouted.
Around his body, nine Fire Crows condensed.
This Divine Ability could only condense a maximum of nine Fire Crows at a time, and He Pingsheng had now Cultivated it to the Perfection Realm.
His Fire-attribute Dantian was also sufficient to support the simultaneous operation of nine Fire Crows.
The nine Fire Crows, with their internal fire Qi, flew around his body. Under the control of his Divine Thought, these Fire Crows could even easily pass through the bedspread and screen window's covered area.
Because the fire Qi was contained, it would not ignite any objects.
"Collect!"
The next moment, He Pingsheng lightly shouted again, and the nine Fire Crows lost their form, turning back into Fire Spiritual Qi which He Pingsheng absorbed back into his Dantian.
"Hoo..." He Pingsheng let out a deep breath.
Over these two years, he had been in closed Cultivation day and night, and finally, he reached the Tenth Layer.
Of course, he wasn't overly rushed; this was just a normal Cultivation speed.
After all his Dantians had Breakthrough to the Tenth Layer, He Pingsheng attempted to continue Cultivating, climbing towards the Eleventh Layer.
Then, the awkward situation arose.
He swallowed a High Grade Qi Gathering Pill, but it couldn't increase his Cultivation by even a tiny bit.
He Pingsheng knew that his Bottleneck had arrived, as expected.
There was a Bottleneck at the Tenth Layer.
That also meant that the Eleventh Layer and Twelfth Layer would similarly have Bottlenecks in the future.
According to the cultivation notes, in this situation, if he reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, Golden Core Stage, or Nascent Soul Stage later.
Similarly, at the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Layers of those stages, Bottlenecks would also appear.
It was quite despairing.
The Water Essence Spirit Apricot could indeed allow him to Breakthrough from the Tenth Layer to the Eleventh Layer, but what about the Eleventh Layer?
"Hoo..." He Pingsheng exhaled again.
Forget it, he'd worry about future matters later.
The boat will naturally straighten when it reaches the bridge.
He should first resolve the current matter.
He Pingsheng was not in a hurry to come out of closed Cultivation. Instead, he directly took out the Nine Poison Golden Body method and began to Cultivate.
He wouldn't refine his Spirit for now.
Because He Pingsheng felt that his current hundred-zhang Divine Thought distance was already sufficient.
He would refine his Body first.
If there was still time after Body Refining, he would then choose Spirit Refining.
In a flash, another year passed.
He Pingsheng's Dantians were all at the Tenth Layer, his Spirit Refining was at the Tenth Layer, and his Body Refining also reached the Tenth Layer.
He came out of closed Cultivation.
"That you could reach the Qi Refinement Stage Tenth Layer, this Old Ancestor is truly pleased!"
In Yu Ning Palace, Old Ancestor Chongyang stroked his beard with a smile and said, "Your Cultivation has caught up, so the first hurdle is passed!"
"As for whether you can win later, that's the second hurdle!"
"Let's go!" Old Ancestor Chongyang waved his sleeve and said, "By my reckoning, there's only half a day left until the original three-year agreement!"
"The time for your two's competition is at noon today!"
"I heard that Ice Peak Sect has already invited many fellow Disciples from the Dao Xuan Alliance, it's about time we went over too!"
"Little He, tell me first, how confident are you?"
"So this Old Ancestor can be prepared!"
He Pingsheng thought for a moment and said, "Old Ancestor, rest assured, I shouldn't lose too badly!"
With my five Dantians, if I still lose too badly, then there's really no point in trying anymore.