Generally, for a Disciple to be able to hunt Yao Beasts, they would need to Cultivate within the Sect for several months, then find a few companions to go with them.
After all, although some Yao Beasts are not high in Rank and their paper strength is not that strong, Yao Beasts are bloodthirsty and brutal, and many times they are not even life-threatening; it is safer to have a suppression in both Realm and numbers.
How long has the Junior Brother been initiated? Half a month?
“Please help me count these and exchange them all for Spirit Stones, thank you.”
Seeing that the person in front of him made no move, An Chen reminded him softly, and only then did the Disciple begin to count An Chen's gains and weigh them.
In the end, the Spirit Medicine and Spirit Plants An Chen harvested were exchanged for about four hundred Spirit Stones, and the Scarlet-Eyed Snake's corpse and inner core were exchanged for eighty and one hundred twenty Spirit Stones, respectively.
An Chen looked at the tray with six hundred Spirit Stones, couldn't help but swallow, and then put them all into his qiankun bag.
This harvest was really good, much more than he had expected.
An Chen did not linger and returned directly to his small house.
With money in his pocket, An Chen even felt a sudden increase in caution.
When he was on Earth, every time An Chen withdrew money, or had a lot of cash, he would be extra careful, fearing that others would snatch it.
Now he felt the same way.
Even though he knew that in Qingfeng Sect, such a thing would not happen.
Upon returning to his room, An Chen immediately took out his Spirit Gathering Array and began to Cultivate.
Before his last Transmigration, he was already on the verge of a Breakthrough to Qi Refining Fifth Level, and An Chen now only wanted to quickly raise his Realm so he could learn Qingfeng Swordplay.
This Transmigration would still last for a full seven days, which was enough time for him to Breakthrough to Qi Refining Fifth Level and stabilize his Realm.
Moreover, he had just received a batch of Cultivation resources...
At this time, not to Cultivate properly would simply be intolerable.
Since he had almost completely exhausted his Spiritual Qi during the escape just now, An Chen first had to absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to restore his Spiritual Qi.
Actually, absorbing Spirit Stones was faster, but An Chen felt that there was no need to consume Spirit Stones at this time.
These were all money, after all.
After his Spiritual Qi was full, An Chen immediately began to Cultivate.
This time, he used the Gathering Qi Pill that Su Xiaojiu gave him; these were Heaven Grade good items for the Qi Refinement Stage, even better than the Gathering Qi Pill given by the Sect by one grade.
After taking it, An Chen could also clearly feel the difference in effect; the degree to which he could compress Spiritual Qi had obviously increased.
This also greatly improved his Cultivation efficiency.
Those fellow Disciples envied his Cultivation progress, but what they lacked was not just a Spiritual Root, but also Cultivation resources.
Ordinary Disciples could only receive one bottle of Medium Grade Gathering Qi Pill for the Qi Refinement Stage per week, while An Chen's quota was almost available on demand, with High Grade Gathering Qi Pill for the Qi Refinement Stage available every day, along with a Gathering Spirit Array for assistance.
His Cultivation progress was naturally rapid.
However, An Chen also envied the Disciples of large Sects.
The Heaven Grade Gathering Qi Pill for the Qi Refinement Stage he had were provided like candy to Core Disciples in places like the Fire Phoenix Sect.
Su Xiaojiu told him this later, and she was even a little indignant for him, feeling that her father had given him too little.
But An Chen was actually content; after all, he was an outsider.
He only envied the gap between people.
In fact, he was already far ahead of many, many people, but there was still a huge gap between him and those who were truly born with a silver spoon in their mouths.
The “treasures” he painstakingly obtained were nothing more than easily accessible common items in the eyes of those people.
No matter how good his talent, even if he tried his best, he seemed to only be able to reach the heights that these people could easily achieve.
This inevitably created a sense of disparity in An Chen's heart, because his efforts seemed not to have received sufficient reward.
However, An Chen was already used to this feeling and disparity, because he had felt this feeling for a very long time, so the envy was only for a short while.
What An Chen thought about was only how to use his current advantages to catch up with, or even surpass, those people.
This was also what An Chen had been doing for a long time, whether in Jiuzhou or on Earth, it was always the case.
After a whole night of Cultivation, An Chen's aura reached a small peak; An Chen could feel that he had reached the Bottleneck.
As long as he pushed through in one go, it would be the next Realm.
An Chen swallowed another Gathering Qi Pill and focused intently on Cultivating.
After a while, An Chen's aura suddenly surged, and the surrounding Spiritual Qi and a part of the Spiritual Qi within his body vibrated.
Qi Refining Fifth Level!
An Chen opened his eyes with a smile.
It's done!
He then swallowed a Foundation Nurturing Pill, quickly stabilizing his Realm while rapidly absorbing Spiritual Qi to fill the empty Spiritual Qi in his Dantian.
An Chen now really wanted to immediately eat that Crimson Eye Flower, so he could directly enter Refining Qi Sixth Level and then Cultivate Qingfeng Swordplay.
But An Chen still held back.
After all, for such a thing, the later it was consumed, the higher the cost-effectiveness, with the best time to take it being at Qi Refining Eighth Stage to Breakthrough to Qi Refining Ninth Stage.
An Chen checked the time, waited a bit longer by Cultivating, and only went out when he felt the time was right, just as he met two Senior Brothers who were looking for him at his door.
“Junior Brother, I heard that the Grand Elder personally took you to the back mountain to gather Spirit Medicine? Your standard for going out is already something we can only dream of!”
Chen Sheng greeted him with a smile and asked.
An Chen gave a bitter smile.
It seemed that the Grand Elder riding a bird and bringing him back yesterday was too ostentatious; now this matter had probably spread throughout Qingfeng Sect.
“It wasn't that he took me to gather Spirit Medicine; he was just secretly protecting me. At that time, several Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters were being chased by a Rank three Yao Beast and were in mortal danger, so the Grand Elder stepped in to resolve it and just happened to bring me back to the Sect.”
“So that's how it is. Now many fellow Disciples in the Sect are saying that the Grand Elder is treating you like a child, doing everything himself and not daring to let you get hurt at all.”
Jiang Cheng nodded and said so.
An Chen gave another bitter smile.
“Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters have misunderstood.”
Now, in Qingfeng Sect, his image was probably going to become a giant baby who relied on the Grand Elder for everything.
But it didn't matter; how others viewed him was not important, and An Chen had never cared about others' opinions and evaluations of him, unless they would directly and practically affect him.
Because no matter what others said, it had no bearing on him whatsoever; it wouldn't make him gain a piece of meat, nor would it make him lose a single hair.
An Chen had understood a truth a long time ago: caring too much about others' opinions and evaluations would only increase worries and lead to endless mental exhaustion.