Chapter 31: Closed Door

  Nine months later, at the task handover location of Qian Ya Zong's Ling Ji Pavilion, an old man wearing a gray robe took out three piles of spirit stones in a distracted manner and said to the three young men in front of him: "One hundred thirty-seven spirit stones per person. If you want to continue taking on tasks, choose well and come find me."

  Seeing this, the three young men were all excited, quickly took out their storage bags and each picked up a piece of spiritual stone. One of the gray-clothed youths had thick excitement in his eyes, looking around cautiously to see if there was anyone else, carefully touched his storage bag.

  "Liú Qián, why are you acting like a thief? This is what we got in exchange for the bodies of these demonic beasts." At this time, a purple-robed youth laughed and said, another white-clothed youth also smiled slightly, with a hint of satisfaction flashing in his eyes.

  These few youngsters were the three Ye Fei who returned from Qian Duan Ya half a year ago. Originally, according to Wan Feng's idea, they wanted to stay in Qian Duan Ya for a while longer. After all, Ye Fei was able to discover high-level demon beasts ahead of time and turn bad luck into good fortune every time.

  They encountered low-level demon beasts, and after discussing their plan, they succeeded every time, except for once when a three-tailed demon fox escaped. So this time, everyone's harvest was quite good.

  Actually, Ye Fei didn't want to return so quickly either. After all, he hadn't found any trace of Qingyuan Snake, and this trip had already taken up a year's time. This time at Qian Duan Cliff, he only stayed for more than three months.

  But Ye Fei was different from others, he didn't have much time to waste there. Now Ye Fei is already sixteen years and three months old, and only about two years are left before the end of his lifespan.

  But in these two years or more, it's possible that time will flash by and I'll end up returning to the earth, but there's also a chance for a miracle to occur and break free from fate's shackles. However, no matter what, I shouldn't waste too much time at Qian Duan Cliff. But after this year or more of time, Ye Fei faintly feels that the bottleneck on the eighth floor seems to have loosened up a bit, so he prepares to go into seclusion for a period of time.

  "Let's go back first." Thinking of this, Ye Fei had a somewhat disappointed look and let out a soft sigh.

  As he walked, Liu Gan couldn't help but feel a bit puzzled and asked, "Ye Shixiong, you're not upset because of the unfair distribution of spiritual stones, are you? If that's the case, I'll give you some of mine, and so will Wan Feng. Don't look so worried."

  Upon hearing this, Ye Fei couldn't help but smile slightly and shook his head, saying: "It has nothing to do with these things, I just thought of something, it's my personal matter."

  "Oh, personal matters? I've never heard you mention it before. What's going on, tell us and we'll help you share the burden." Liu Gan said with a smile, as the three of them walked out of Lingji Pavilion.

  ……

  Three days later, in a continuous mountain range of Qian Ya Sect, the surroundings were filled with plants of various colors, and warm sunlight poured onto the earth, bringing forth lush vitality.

  In a corner of a low mountain peak, there is a simple cave, which looks like an ordinary mountain cave at first glance. However, if one carefully senses it, they can detect a subtle restrictive force emanating from the surroundings of the cave.

  The area inside the cave is not large, about three zhang in size, with a height of about one zhang. Inside, except for a simple mud platform, there is nothing else.

  At this moment, Ye Fei and two others appeared out of nowhere.

  "Ye Shixiong, if it's not going to work out, then let's just forget about renting this place. This cave is too expensive, it costs 10 low-grade spirit stones per month. If you're worried about being disturbed while cultivating, I and Liu Qian can stand guard outside the door and absolutely won't let Shao Yu come in to bother you." Wan Feng said with a somewhat painful expression, as if he was spending his own spirit stones.

  "Impossible, the Qian Ya Sect has rules, how can we occupy a room alone? That would be chaotic! This cave may look ordinary to you, but I've tried it before. Even if I use mid-grade artifacts to attack, I couldn't damage the walls in the slightest." Ye Fei said with satisfaction, looking around the entire cave.

  Upon hearing this, Liu Gan sighed and shook his head, saying: "Alas, this rent is at least half a year, that's sixty pieces of spirit stone. If we cultivate here, we can't chat, I won't waste spirit stones accompanying you, let's talk when you come out, heh."

  Wan Feng nodded and said in a low voice, "Then I won't disturb you for now. Strive to leave the barrier early and hopefully break through to the eighth layer this time, heh heh."

  A few people chatted for a while, and then Wan Feng and Liu Qian left, leaving only Ye Fei alone, sitting cross-legged on the mud platform, staring blankly at the outside of the cave entrance.

  In fact, this kind of cave mansion, any formal disciple of Qian Ya Sect has one, the difference lies in the good or bad location, and the distance from the underground spiritual vein. If it is directly above the spiritual vein, then the spiritual energy of the cave mansion will be more concentrated, and cultivation will be twice as effective with half the effort.

  But if it's a place far from the spiritual vein, with thin spiritual energy, the cultivation speed will definitely be greatly discounted. And the named disciples do not have the treatment of being assigned a cave, they can only rent one, and the rental price also varies depending on the distance from the spiritual vein.

  Ye Fei rented a relatively ordinary cave, the better ones were really hard to afford. Although Jin Xuan wanted to help several times, he was rejected by Ye Fei every time. He didn't want to owe too many people favors.

  "Now there are only over twenty pieces of spiritual stones left, hehe, it seems that in the future, I will have to find a way to refine some elixirs myself, otherwise it would be really hard to afford them. These few Yuan Lings Dans alone cost tens of spiritual stones." Ye Fei said with a bitter smile as he looked at the pale yellow jade bottle in his hand.

  And the thing in the bottle was actually the Yuanshen Pill that could increase the chances of breaking through the bottleneck of Qi training, for this breakthrough, Ye Fei really spent a lot of money, almost emptying his hand of spiritual stones, but if he didn't quickly advance, his own life might really come to an end.

  Even Lian Na Kongming said that my damaged meridians do not affect my cultivation before building the foundation. With my Five Elements complete and true spiritual root, I should be able to cultivate up to the ninth level without too much difficulty, it's just a matter of time.

  And my biggest problem is time. It seems that I need to hurry up and cultivate.” After finishing speaking, Ye Fei patted his waist with one hand, and a bright red triangular token appeared in his hand.

  The next moment, with a single-handed seal, the token in his hand flashed red, and a red light enveloped him, whooshing into the entrance of the cave.

  A loud, dull thud.

  The entrance of the cave emitted waves of restrictive fluctuations, and a heavy stone gate fell down, sealing the entire cave tightly. However, inside the cave, there were several night pearls that burst forth with soft and gentle light.

  He put away the token in his hand, placed the jade bottle on the mud platform beside him, and closed his eyes to start meditating. (End of chapter)

  PS. I'm taking the train home for Chinese New Year today, so updates might be delayed, but I'll try my best to get them out, I've prepared two portable chargers and three batteries for my phone. Hehe, also wishing everyone a happy reunion, spend more time with your elderly, may all things go as you wish.