Inside Fu Xiu Institute!
Ye Qingxuan finished his daily Cultivation for the day and prepared to head to the market to deal with the Medicinal Pills he had refined over the past year.
After removing the Restriction Formation of his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan walked out and directly flew on his sword, leaving the Fu Xiu Institute.
Not long after Ye Qingxuan left, a gentle and elegant young man in a blue shirt came to Ye Qingxuan's small courtyard and stood waiting quietly.
However, Ye Qingxuan was unaware of all this.
After leaving the Fu Xiu Institute, he skillfully flew on his sword to a teleportation array and took the teleportation array to the market within the Xuantian Sect.
This time, Ye Qingxuan did not look for Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun, because Hong Miaomiao and Bai Qingyun had already gone out together to do a Sect mission.
So, Ye Qingxuan did not waste time on the way and went directly to Baibao Pavilion.
Upon arriving at Baibao Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan walked on his own towards a small private room inside.
After pushing open the door of the small private room, Ye Qingxuan saw Bai Wenyang lying on a lounge chair, sipping tea.
Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan joked:
"Senior Brother, your position as a team leader has quite good benefits, doesn't it? Hahaha!"
Not long after Bai Wenyang advanced to the Purple Mansion Realm, he passed the performance assessment of Baibao Pavilion and successfully advanced to the position of team leader, and his welfare benefits also rose by a level.
"Hahaha, not at all! Junior Brother, please sit!"
Seeing Ye Qingxuan arrive, Bai Wenyang stood up, laughed heartily, and pulled Ye Qingxuan to sit down.
After pouring Ye Qingxuan a cup of tea, Bai Wenyang chuckled:
"Junior Brother, your Cultivation focus over these years truly makes this Senior Brother admire you immensely!"
Having known each other for many years, Bai Wenyang already had some understanding of the state of this Junior Brother in front of him.
Almost every day, he Cultivated and performed Alchemy without fail, day after day, without interruption!
Bai Wenyang felt that his own Heart-Nature was far inferior to such steadfastness and ability to endure loneliness!
Therefore, Bai Wenyang still thought highly of this Junior Brother of his, despite his less-than-stellar talent.
Ye Qingxuan ignored Bai Wenyang's words, took out an unrefined Storage Pouch from his embrace, and directly threw it to Bai Wenyang:
"Here, these are the Medicinal Pills for this time."
Bai Wenyang casually took the Storage Pouch, and when his Divine Sense probed inside, he immediately exclaimed:
"Holy cow, so many?"
Then Bai Wenyang looked at Ye Qingxuan with disbelief and hesitated:
"Are these all the Medicinal Pills you refined this year, Junior Brother?"
Ye Qingxuan's lips curled slightly, and he nodded, saying:
"Recently, I've been refining smoothly, so I just refined a little more."
He wasn't lying. Since breaking through to the Qi Refining Late Stage, and coupled with switching to a top-grade Magical Artifact-level Pill Furnace, his speed in refining Spirit Enhancement Pills had indeed increased significantly, and the number of Medicinal Pills produced per furnace had basically stabilized at ten.
Therefore, in the following few years, the number of Spirit Enhancement Pills Ye Qingxuan refined each year basically exceeded three thousand.
But when Bai Wenyang heard it, he rolled his eyes directly and disbelievingly said:
"This is 'a little more'? This has literally doubled, okay?"
Normally, in a year, the amount of Spirit Enhancement Pills Ye Qingxuan gave him was only a little over a thousand, but this time, there were a full three thousand four hundred Spirit Enhancement Pills in the Storage Pouch.
However, what he didn't know was that this included the portion of Medicinal Pills that originally belonged to Hong Miaomiao, which was why there were so many Medicinal Pills this time.
Nevertheless, these Medicinal Pills were indeed refined by Ye Qingxuan himself within a year.
Seeing Bai Wenyang's disbelief, Ye Qingxuan remained silent, instead suppressing the smugness on his face and pretending to be calm as he drank his tea.
Bai Wenyang was helpless and could only try to ask again:
"Were they really refined by you alone?"
"Yes!"
Ye Qingxuan had no intention of hiding it. Anyway, with the binding of the dao oath, Bai Wenyang couldn't reveal any information related to the Medicinal Pills.
Moreover, this feeling seemed quite good...
Let's just treat it as a kind of condiment in Cultivation!
Ye Qingxuan was comfortable, but Bai Wenyang was uncomfortable. The Alchemy talent of this Junior Brother in front of him simply exceeded his imagination.
This Alchemy talent was definitely at the Prodigy level, but he couldn't tell anyone, so he could only keep it to himself, which was very difficult.
Especially seeing Ye Qingxuan's feigned calm demeanor, Bai Wenyang immediately got angry and directly took out a Storage Pouch, throwing it to Ye Qingxuan, saying:
"Go! Go! Go! I'm annoyed just looking at you now."
Out of sight, out of mind. Bai Wenyang stated that he didn't want to see Ye Qingxuan at all right now.
Ye Qingxuan took the Storage Pouch, deliberately weighing the Spirit Stones inside in front of Bai Wenyang, and chuckled:
"Then this Junior Brother will take his leave first, hahaha!"
After speaking, he turned around elegantly and departed.
After Ye Qingxuan left, Bai Wenyang sat quietly in the small private room for a moment, then suddenly sighed, shaking his head regretfully:
"Alas, what a pity!"
Ye Qingxuan's Cultivation talent would inevitably greatly limit the upper bound of his own Alchemy talent.
Bai Wenyang regretted it for this Junior Brother with whom he had a good relationship, and he also regretted Ye Qingxuan's Prodigy-like Alchemy talent.
After Ye Qingxuan left Baibao Pavilion, he did not linger in the market but prepared to return directly to the Fu Xiu Institute.
Although there were many good things in the market, Ye Qingxuan mostly couldn't afford the high-grade ones, and the low-grade ones were not what he urgently needed.
So, it was better to wait until he had enough Spirit Stones before coming back to the market to purchase some truly good things.
After teleporting to the teleportation array near the Fu Xiu Institute, Ye Qingxuan once again flew on his sword towards the Fu Xiu Institute.
The straight-line distance from this teleportation array to the Fu Xiu Institute was not far, but it was separated by numerous mountains.
While flying on his sword high in the sky, just as he was about to approach the sky above his small courtyard, Ye Qingxuan discovered the young man standing outside his small courtyard.
Ye Qingxuan, with doubt in his heart, quickly descended and arrived at the entrance of his small courtyard.
Before he could even ask, the young man had already spoken first.
"Junior Brother Ye, it's truly not easy to meet you!"
This Junior Brother Ye lived a reclusive life, and when he Cultivated, he activated the Restriction Formation to isolate external disturbances.
If he hadn't set up an observation Formation outside Ye Qingxuan's small courtyard and detected Ye Qingxuan leaving before coming to wait, he probably wouldn't have been able to meet Ye Qingxuan.
Upon hearing the young man's words, Ye Qingxuan's eyebrows twitched, and he curiously asked:
"Your Excellency is?"
Hearing Ye Qingxuan's question, the young man opposite him smiled slightly, then said:
"I am Lin Fan. I apologize for the abrupt intrusion, Junior Brother, and ask for your understanding!"
"Lin Fan?"
Ye Qingxuan silently recited the name in his heart, recalling the information Su Daobin had told him before.
"This Lin Fan obtained the quota to inherit a senior's Blessed Cultivator land, but I wonder what grade of Blessed Cultivator land he inherited?"
Numerous thoughts flashed through his mind, and Ye Qingxuan immediately said:
"So it's Senior Brother Lin. May I ask what Senior Brother Lin needs me for?"
"It's nothing major. It's just that I have already reached Refining Qi Complete and am about to leave the Fu Xiu Institute to inherit a Blessed Cultivator land. Before I leave, I would like to host a banquet for all Junior Brothers. I wonder if Junior Brother Ye has time?"
When Ye Qingxuan heard Lin Fan's words, his attention shifted to Lin Fan's cultivation level.
"Refining Qi Complete!"
This Lin Fan was one of the people who entered at the same time as him, and now he was already at Refining Qi Complete. It seemed that this Lin Fan was one of the few people in the Fu Xiu Institute who possessed a two-element Spiritual Root.
Is the gap in Spiritual Roots really that big?
He had spent so many Medicinal Pills and so much time, yet now even Lin Fan, whose talent was only slightly better than his with a two-element Spiritual Root, had a cultivation level far exceeding his own?
Ye Qingxuan took a deep breath, and his desire for the Spiritual Root-enhancing ability of the Blessed Cultivator land grew even stronger.
Actually, what Ye Qingxuan didn't know was that since Lin Fan could obtain the quota to inherit a senior's Blessed Cultivator land, he naturally had the support of a large force behind him.
In fact, the resources Lin Fan spent were not less than his, and perhaps even more.
Therefore, it was very normal for Lin Fan's cultivation to surpass his.
Ye Qingxuan's thoughts were myriad. Although Lin Fan's appearance stimulated him, it did not shake his Heart-Nature; instead, it ignited Ye Qingxuan's fighting spirit.
Temporary progress means nothing; only reaching the end is victory.
After regaining his composure, Ye Qingxuan asked:
"When?"
Lin Fan, seeing that Ye Qingxuan did not directly refuse, smiled even more brightly and stated the time and place:
"Three days from now, in the evening, at the central plaza within the Fu Xiu Institute!"
Hearing the time and place, Ye Qingxuan pondered for a moment and then agreed.
"Alright! Three days from now, this Junior Brother will definitely be there!"
Currently, the remaining Blessed Cultivator reserve Disciples in the Fu Xiu Institute were basically just his batch of Junior Brothers who had entered together.
Anyway, it wouldn't take much time, and taking this opportunity to meet these Junior Brothers wouldn't be bad!