38 yuan is too expensive!

  At night, Ye Chen returned to the small inn with fatigue.

  What happened in the refining workshop today made him indignant, but also helpless. The warriors were doing the most tiring and dirty chores in Tianyun Xianyuan City, but the warriors who worked and earned money in the fairy city were all willing to stay here.

  If you can't stand this treatment, go to the big and small countries of Yunzhou early, come out and enjoy the worldly glory and wealth, why stay in this small workshop and suffer from it!

  However, the Tianyun Xianyuan Castle has the most opportunities, and the Xianyuan is almost within reach. Who knows when the Xianyuan will make a big breakthrough, breaking through the nine layers of the Lian Ti period and becoming a cultivator who transcends the mundane world.

  Who else is willing to leave?

  Ye Chen didn't have this intention.

  Few other warriors in the fairy city were willing to leave, it was easy to get out of the city, but hard to come back. Who knows if they would have another chance to enter the Tianyun Fairyland again in this lifetime!

  Yan Han and Wei Xunyu also returned one after another.

  Ye Chen only found out by asking the two of them that Yan Han was working in another small workshop in the city, while Wei Xuan Yu had found a job feeding spiritual silkworms at a silk armor shop. Although Yan Han was only at the eighth layer of the Refining Body stage, he knew the Tiger Leaping Triple Slash technique, so his wages were much higher. Wei Xuan Yu's monthly wages weren't high, and by next month, she might have to rent a house with other female warriors in order to save money.

  Ye Chen did not plan to live with other warriors, his immortal mansion painting was easy to be discovered.

  The three of them temporarily settled down in the Immortal City, and from now on, the most important thing was to intensify their physical cultivation every day, breaking through the ninth layer of the Refining Body stage.

  Ye Chen returned to his own room, sat on the bed, and prepared to cultivate his body.

  "There's only this one stalk of Nine-Grade Herb left! This is the last remaining one that I cultivated three months ago using the jade pendant and jade stone from the Town Faraway Pass. Once this Blood Python Grass is used up, there won't be any more herbs to temper my body and nourish my Qi and blood. Can only wait for a month later to earn back spirit stones from the small workshop."

  Ye Chen took out the last strain of Blood Python Grass from his bosom, cut off a small piece and put it in his mouth to slowly chew, "This strain of Blood Python Grass must be used sparingly!"

  The next morning, Ye Chen got up early and hurriedly went to work in the small workshop of Lian Qi, not returning until evening.

  Perhaps because he promised to only do it for a month, the hostility and exclusion from the majority of the martial artists in the small workshop were significantly reduced. Just wait another month to see if Ye Chen will keep this promise.

  The days slowly pass by one after another.

  After working hard and getting tired, Ye Chen returned to the inn and gradually became less talkative with Yan Han and Wei Xiangyu.

  Ye Chen returned to the inn every night and practiced his internal energy cultivation.

  Before I knew it, a month had already passed.

  Ye Chen took the last small piece of Blood Vine Grass and sat in meditation as usual.

  "Refine essence into energy, refine energy into spirit! The way of cultivation lies in essence, energy and spirit."

  "Martial artists in the tempering body phase, focus on refining their essence and tempering their bodies. In the final stage of the tempering body phase, 'transforming energy', once broken through, one can transform the abundant energy and blood essence throughout their body into extremely precious primordial energy. The more concentrated a martial artist's energy and blood essence is, the greater the hope for transforming it into primordial energy."

  "In the Yuan Shen period of a cultivator, it is the stage of refining Qi to transform into Spirit. The acquired Yuan Qi and a strand of one's own Yin Soul are combined, and the fusion of Yuan Qi and Yin Soul gives birth to the Yuan Shen!"

  "When the primordial spirit is formed, one becomes a cultivator of immortality and formally embarks on the path of cultivating immortality; magical powers and divine abilities are unfathomable."

  Ye Chen sat cross-legged, immersed in his cultivation.

  At Beifeng Shuyuan, Ye Chen already knew the mantra 'Refine essence, transform energy, transform spirit', which is the guiding principle for martial artists' cultivation. However, most martial artists usually stop at the 'refining essence' stage. The latter half of the sentence 'transforming energy' is generally useless to them. 'Transforming energy into spirit' is even more an unattainable dream.

  After several months of tempering, he has reached the peak of the 9th layer of the Refining Body stage, and the essence of his body's qi and blood has flourished to its extreme.

  In Ye Chen's body, deep within his bone marrow, the medicinal properties of Blood Python Grass were activated, causing an abundance of vital energy and blood essence to surge forth, emitting a faint crimson glow. Thin strands of weak primal energy wandered through his body, as various impurities within him were expelled through his skin pores.

  A wisp of yuanqi finally entered the sea of consciousness within Muduan Cave.

  The entire sea of consciousness was pitch black, without a single glimmer of light.

  A faint, almost imperceptible wisp of Ye Chen's soul drifted in this dull, lightless space of consciousness. It couldn't see anything clearly, nor could it distinguish direction, and could only float lonely and still, as if it was the only existence in this dark sea of consciousness.

  This faint wisp of primordial energy entered the sea of consciousness and emitted an extremely faint glow.

  Although the light is extremely weak, it ultimately brings a glimmer of light to this dark sea of consciousness.

  Ye Chen's yin soul discovered this strand of yuanqi with a faint glow, and excitedly approached it. The strand of yuanqi carried a warm breath that gave it a very safe feeling.

  The dark soul inadvertently touched that strand of yuan energy.

  An almost imperceptible yin soul and a strand of yuan qi merged quickly, the yin soul itself also carrying an extremely weak light.

  Another wisp of yuanqi entered the sea of consciousness, and the yin soul swiftly pounced on it.

  Ye Chen's internal vital energy gradually decreased, slowly transforming into yuanqi. The blood essence in the Blood Jade Ring quickly flowed out, making up for his lack of vital energy.

  "Boom!"

  In the dark sea of consciousness, the primordial spirit is born!

  This strand of yuan god, a weak light group the size of a soybean, was moving rapidly in the sea of consciousness of Mudan Cave, with unparalleled joy and excitement.

  It can finally see clearly the dark and gloomy sea of consciousness, it can finally see itself, see far away, and feel the things around.

  It looked at itself and found a very faint red mark on its primordial spirit. However, it didn't know what that was either.

  "Refine essence into energy, refine energy into spirit, refine and perfect the primordial spirit!!!"

  "Finally took this most crucial step!"

  Ye Chen was overjoyed and almost shouted out loud.

  Ordinary people, including warriors, rely on their ears to hear, eyes to see, nose to smell, tongue to taste, skin to feel, and soul to perceive the external world. However, the soul is too weak and trapped in the sea of consciousness, most of the time it can't even perceive the external world.

  A warrior's five senses are stronger than those of ordinary people, but they have only become more acute and cannot enhance the soul's consciousness.

  Ye Chen has now given birth to his Yuan Shen, and his consciousness has been upgraded to a stronger divine sense. Even the weakest divine sense is much stronger than consciousness. After obtaining the Yuan Shen, the divine sense broke through the limitations of the physical body and extended to the external world around him, breaking through the limitations of the physical senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch, allowing him to directly perceive the external world.

  Ye Chen sat on the bed with his eyes closed, carefully sensing the wonders of his spiritual awareness. Without relying on any other senses, he could clearly see and hear even the slightest movements within a radius of one square meter, the sound of ants in the bed, the cold wind outside the window.

  "I should now be at the initial stage of the first layer of the Cultivator's Qi Refining period. My yuan soul is still too weak, if it becomes stronger, I should be able to sense even farther places."

  Ye Chen broke through the Qi Refining stage and was excited for a whole night.

  Unconsciously, daylight has already arrived.

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