"Crimson Eye Flower and other Spirit Medicine are graded a bit differently; they aren't based on Realm or grade, but rather on the Realm of the Scarlet-Eyed Snake that feeds them. What you have is a First Grade Crimson Eye Flower."
"Below Qi Refining Eighth Stage, consuming a First Grade Crimson Eye Flower can stably increase one's Realm. This has been verified. The first six levels of the Qi Refinement Stage are relatively easy to Cultivate. Even a Trash with Low Grade Spiritual Root can often Cultivate to this point in two or three years."
"But once you reach Refining Qi Sixth Level and above, Cultivation becomes much more difficult. Many small Cultivator with poor Spiritual Root even find it hard to make any progress. Five or six hundred Spirit Stone are indeed precious, but Spirit Stone are easy to earn, while such treasures are hard to find. So, I suggest you keep it for yourself and use it after you reach Refining Qi Sixth Level."
Hong Shan patiently explained a lot.
An Chen understood.
This Crimson Eye Flower should be one of those good things that are rare but not overly expensive, and the restriction that it can only improve Realms below Qi Refining Eighth Stage prevents its price from being too high.
It makes sense when you think about it.
After all, the Crimson Eye Flower is a Spirit Plant cultivated by the Yao Beast known as the Scarlet-Eyed Snake. Its growth environment is quite demanding, and if it's picked too early, it's not mature, but if it's picked too late, the Scarlet-Eyed Snake will eat it itself, so it's relatively rare.
Moreover, the Scarlet-Eyed Snake doesn't seem like a beast that can be tamed. Even if you kill a Scarlet-Eyed Snake and use the residual essence blood from its corpse to feed it, one snake won't be enough to Cultivate a complete flower; it might take several.
An Chen immediately made a decision.
"Okay, I'll keep it."
Putting down the tongshen jade talisman, An Chen, beaming with joy, continued to search the nearby area to see if there were any other Spirit Plant.
As the saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers. Since there's one Yao Beast here, it's unlikely there will be other Yao Beast nearby, so he can safely make a fortune.
An Chen was busy for about another hour and a half, collecting a small pile of Spirit Plant into his qiankun bag, and the wooden box he brought was almost full.
An Chen planned to head back.
Although he wouldn't be able to return to the entrance of the mountain before dark, he could at least reach the outer perimeter.
The night in the inner perimeter was still a bit dangerous, and An Chen didn't dare to stay too long by himself.
Once in the outer perimeter, even camping for a night wouldn't be a big deal.
More importantly, he had to find a suitable location to Transmigration before six o'clock.
An Chen then activated Qingyun Step, walking back in strides of seven or eight meters. Wherever he passed, weeds flew everywhere, and leaves filled the sky, much like a tornado destroying a parking lot.
An Chen discovered that Qingyun Step was simply the best partner for a cleaner.
When using Qingyun Step to move forward, the airflow would form a vortex behind him.
As long as he walked like this, all the fallen leaves would fly into the sky and then follow the swirling airflow, floating behind him. As long as he kept walking, the leaves behind him wouldn't fall. This made him feel as if he was carrying a large bag on his back, and the bag was full of fallen leaves.
And when he stopped, a large pile of fallen leaves would fall behind him, naturally forming a pile of leaves.
This was much faster than slowly sweeping with a broom.
An Chen suddenly remembered that there was indeed a task in the Hanging Reward Hall to clean the Sect square, but the reward for this task was only fifty Spirit Stone, and the Sect square was too large, so ordinary Disciple were generally unwilling to go.
There were some Utility Disciple in the Sect, but cleaning the Sect square would still require seven or eight people working together for a day.
These people would earn about seven or eight Spirit Stone for a day's work, which was too low in terms of cost-effectiveness compared to helping in the Spirit Medicine garden or assisting the Artifact Refiner in the Heavenly Craft Hall.
Those tasks could earn at least thirty to forty Spirit Stone a day.
If one was stronger, going to the back mountain to kill a Yao Beast and collect some Spirit Plant, then selling them, could earn several hundred Spirit Stone.
There were also tasks for hunting down evil Cultivator, which offered even more rewards.
Who would care about sweeping the square!
But An Chen suddenly felt that he was very suitable for this job.
At his speed, running a full circle around the square would take less than half an hour.
This could earn a full fifty Spirit Stone, making the cost-effectiveness suddenly incredibly high.
An Chen silently made a note, planning to take on this task once he returned to the Sect.
Using Qingyun Step, although the Spiritual Qi consumption was a bit faster, the running speed was indeed very fast.
An Chen now understood why Zhao Qingfeng said that teaching him this footwork was so he could escape when encountering a strong enemy, because it was truly fast!
Although An Chen was only Cultivation level four, even if he encountered a Qi Refining Eighth Stage, his speed would definitely not lose!
Half an hour later, An Chen's spiritual power was almost exhausted, so An Chen simply found a hidden and spacious tree hole, used his knife to clear out some area, then padded it with some soft leaves before sitting down to rest, and then used a broken piece of wood to block the entrance of the tree hole.
He swallowed a Qi Replenishing Pill, feeling the Spiritual Qi in his body rapidly recover.
This was his last Qi Replenishing Pill; once it was used, it would be gone.
He had almost used them all yesterday while learning Qingyun Step from Zhao Qingfeng.
But it was fine, he could still go to the Heavenly Craft Hall to ask for new ones.
There were only a few minutes left, so An Chen also began to regulate his breath. When his Spiritual Qi had almost recovered, An Chen even took out a few Spirit Stone and began to Cultivate.
These Spirit Stone contained pure Spiritual Qi, and they could also be used for Cultivation, which is why they could become the currency of the Cultivation World.
The main thing was that these ten-odd minutes couldn't be wasted.
Time quickly arrived at the return point.
An Chen, precisely timing it, opened his eyes, and the Spirit Stone in his hand had just been completely consumed.
Opening his eyes, the familiar scene was still before him; he was still in Ye Xinning's home.
The four of them opened their eyes almost at the same time, looking at each other.
"You've Breakthrough?"
An Chen noticed that Ye Xinning was already Qi Refining Third Level.
Actually, this was not surprising; she had a Heavenly Spiritual Root, so this Cultivation speed was not at all frightening, and was even a normal speed among Cultivator with a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
"Aren't you too?"
Ye Xinning felt it and realized that An Chen's Realm was still higher than hers, which made her a bit sulky.
She had tried so hard, but still hadn't caught up to An Chen.
"I started Cultivation a few days before you, isn't it normal for my Realm to be higher than yours?"
An Chen scratched his head with a smile and looked at Hong Shan.
"How was it?"
But before Hong Shan could speak, Su Xiaojiu opened her eyes wide, grabbing An Chen's head with both hands and forcibly turning his head back.
"No, aren't you going to care about me? Didn't you notice that my Realm has Breakthrough?"
An Chen was stunned for a long time, opened his mouth, but said nothing.
However, he carefully sensed it and found that Su Xiaojiu's strength had indeed improved a little.
In other words, Su Xiaojiu was now Qi Refining Twelfth Level.
"How about it? How can you still say I'm not talented?"