Three days later!
After layers of inspections and assessments, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao finally successfully joined the Xuantian Sect after making a Sect dao oath.
It can only be said that Xuantian Sect is indeed a hegemonic force; even with reduced assessment difficulty, nearly ten percent of the people in the reception area were eliminated.
The annual Sect entry assessment, although not very difficult, had lower requirements for Cultivation talent and perseverance.
However, Xuantian Sect did not lower its standards for personal character assessment; it preferred to have nothing rather than be substandard, as Xuantian Sect would not let one bad apple spoil the bunch.
Among them, Long Tian, who had a conflict with Ye Qingxuan a few days ago, failed the assessment in an illusion Formation and was unable to join Xuantian Sect.
In a word, Xuantian Sect does not lack Disciples!
Because it was only an annual entry ceremony, the high-level members of Xuantian Sect did not appear.
At most, an Elder-level figure appeared during the Sect dao oath segment.
It is evident that Xuantian Sect does not care much about the Disciples recruited annually; the talents of most people do not meet the standards for those high-level members to take Disciples.
Soon after Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao joined Xuantian Sect, Mo Tian found them, and under Mo Tian's arrangement, Ye Qingxuan and Ye Qingxiao were quickly separated.
Ye Qingxiao became a Utility Disciple of Xuantian Sect and was taken by Mo Tian to the Utility Institute of Xuantian Sect to Cultivate, and he also needed to complete the Utility tasks of Xuantian Sect daily.
As for Ye Qingxuan, because he was a Blessed Cultivator Disciple in waiting for the Sect, he was taken to the Fu Xiu Institute, a building at the foot of Xuantian Peak.
As a Blessed Cultivator in waiting for Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan did not need to do any Sect tasks at all; Xuantian Sect would provide enough Cultivation resources for him to Cultivate.
Basically, everyone in the Fu Xiu Institute was like this.
However, those willing to become Blessed Cultivators generally had very poor talent, mostly one or two-system Spiritual Roots.
Those with even a little talent and a glimmer of prospect generally would not choose to become Blessed Cultivators.
Therefore, even though they did not need to do Sect tasks and the Sect provided sufficient resources for Cultivation, the Cultivation speed of people in the Fu Xiu Institute was still very slow.
After all this time, Ye Qingxuan finally settled down in Xuantian Sect.
After Ye Qingxuan entered the Fu Xiu Institute, he quickly received his first Cultivation Technique in his life—the Earth Source Art!
The Earth Source Art is also the exclusive Cultivation Technique for all Blessed Cultivator Disciples in waiting; all Blessed Cultivator Disciples Cultivate the Earth Source Art!
Cultivation Techniques are divided into first to ninth orders. Ye Qingxuan did not know the specific order of the Earth Source Art; he had only temporarily obtained the first four layers of the Earth Source Art.
The first four layers of the Earth Source Art are enough for Ye Qingxuan to Cultivate to the Golden Core Realm, equivalent to a fourth-order Cultivation Technique.
After obtaining the Earth Source Art, Ye Qingxuan eagerly entered his exclusive small courtyard, activated the Formation that came with the courtyard, and began his first Cultivation experience in his life.
For initial Cultivation, one needs to sense the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth, guide the Spiritual Qi into the body, and refine it into one's own spiritual power to truly enter the Qi Refining Realm!
Ye Qingxuan sat cross-legged, suppressed the excitement in his heart, emptied his mind, and diligently sensed the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth.
In a meditative state, time passed quickly, and a day went by in a flash.
It wasn't until late at night, when Ye Qingxuan woke up hungry, that he still hadn't sensed Spiritual Qi or entered the Qi Refining Realm.
But Ye Qingxuan was not discouraged and did not rush to continue Cultivating; instead, he left the courtyard to collect enough food from the Fu Xiu Institute's supply point.
After returning to his small courtyard and having a full meal, Ye Qingxuan chose to sleep soundly to recover the mental energy expended that day.
This continued for two days.
By the third day, thanks to the rich Spiritual Qi environment within Xuantian Sect and Ye Qingxuan's extraordinary Soul.
On the evening of the third day, Ye Qingxuan successfully sensed Spiritual Qi, smoothly guided Qi into his body, refined the Spiritual Qi to transform it into his first wisp of spiritual power, and officially stepped into the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm.
Ye Qingxuan became the first among those who entered the Fu Xiu Institute in his batch to Breakthrough to the Qi Refining Realm.
After Breakthrough to the Qi Refining Realm, due to being in an unfamiliar environment, Ye Qingxuan, out of caution, did not report it immediately.
His talent was not the highest among those in the same batch, so Breakthrough too quickly was not reasonable.
Therefore, after Ye Qingxuan Breakthrough to the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm, he chose to hide it and did not want to report it to show off.
After all, there was no reward for being the first to Breakthrough, so there was no need to report it so quickly.
Anyway, he had always been Cultivating in seclusion in his small courtyard, so no one would notice him.
After Breakthrough to the Qi Refining Realm, mundane food was no longer useful to him; basically, the Spiritual Qi automatically absorbed by his body daily was enough to provide the energy needed for his body.
Thus, Ye Qingxuan, while hiding his progress, began to live in seclusion, consolidating his cultivation at the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm; at the same time, he secretly monitored the Cultivation progress of others in the same batch.
During this period, Ye Qingxuan tried to refine the mysterious bead in his mind, but it had no effect.
This disappointed Ye Qingxuan, but he was not discouraged; after all, the bead was in his mind and wouldn't run away, so it would be used by him sooner or later.
After consolidating his Breakthrough cultivation, Ye Qingxuan took out the Storage Pouch that Family Head Ye Yuhong had given him, refined it with his meager spiritual power, and successfully recognized it as his master, opening the Storage Pouch.
Inside the Storage Pouch was an 8-cubic-meter space, containing many Spirit Medicine seeds, a pile of Jade Slip books, and thirty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones that the Family Head had prepared for him.
With a thought, he took out a Spirit Stone from it and then put it back, feeling very surprised.
"Right, I seem to still have ten Qi Induction Pills and three hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones!"
At this moment, Ye Qingxuan remembered the reward Ye Yonglun had given him for winning first place in the Family assessment.
Finding the small purple bag Ye Yonglun had given him from his package, Ye Qingxuan likewise refined it with spiritual power and found it to be a 1-cubic-meter Storage Pouch.
He took out the Qi Induction Pills and three hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones from the Storage Pouch, put the Spirit Stones into his Storage Pouch, and picked up the Qi Induction Pill to examine it.
Medicinal Pills are divided into first to ninth orders!
The Qi Induction Pill is a First Order Medicinal Pill that can increase the speed at which Qi Refining Realm Cultivators draw in spiritual power, accelerating the Cultivation speed of Cultivators.
Driven by curiosity, Ye Qingxuan decided to try the feeling of Cultivating with the aid of a Qi Induction Pill.
So he took out a Qi Induction Pill, put it in his mouth and swallowed it, then entered a Cultivation state.
Indeed, with the aid of the Qi Induction Pill, Ye Qingxuan's speed in drawing in Spiritual Qi increased by about thirty percent.
Ye Qingxuan was slightly pleased and immediately seized the time to Cultivate, accelerating the refinement of Spiritual Qi.
One First Order Qi Induction Pill can maintain its effect for two hours!
But soon, Ye Qingxuan discovered a problem.
His speed of drawing in Spiritual Qi did indeed increase, but his efficiency in transforming Spiritual Qi did not improve much.
After Spiritual Qi enters the body, Cultivators need to use their Spiritual Root to refine the Spiritual Qi and transform it into their own spiritual power.
After taking the Qi Induction Pill, although the speed of drawing in Spiritual Qi increased and more Spiritual Qi was guided into his body, the improvement in transformation efficiency was negligible.
At most, it could only be considered that the Spiritual Qi concentration in his body increased, and the transformation efficiency passively improved a little.
Noticing this change, Ye Qingxuan said with a wry smile:
"Indeed, even with the superior Cultivation environment of Xuantian Sect and the effect of Medicinal Pills, the improvement in Cultivation speed for a single-system Spiritual Root is still limited; after all, the talent is still too low!"
Within Xuantian Sect, Spiritual Veins are everywhere, and high-order Spiritual Veins are countless, with the internal Spiritual Qi concentration being at least a hundred times that of the outside.
But Ye Qingxuan's Cultivation speed within Xuantian Sect would not be a hundred times faster than outside.
All of this was due to the Innate limitation of Ye Qingxuan's single-system Spiritual Root's Spiritual Qi transformation efficiency.
Within Xuantian Sect, Ye Qingxuan's Cultivation speed, at most, due to the influence of Spiritual Qi concentration, and without any Medicinal Pill assistance, would be about three or four times faster than outside.
"Slow is slow! There's plenty of time, and besides, I don't believe there's no way to solve this problem within Xuantian Sect!"
Ye Qingxuan thought to himself.
Relying on Xuantian Sect, he might be able to find solutions to many problems within Xuantian Sect; this was the confidence of relying on a hegemonic force, and also one of the reasons he chose to join Xuantian Sect.