53: Chapter 53 Eighteen-Year-Old Qi Refining Level Ten!

Yuelai Inn.

The defensive Formation in the inner room was already operating at full power, and a pale blue light curtain wrapped the entire room tightly.

Qi Yang sat cross-legged on the wooden bed in the outer room, holding a cup of coarse tea that had long since gone cold, yet a sharp glint flashed in his cloudy, aged eyes.

Su Qinghan had been inside for a full three hours.

The three-leaf golden lotus, a second-grade upper-tier Spirit Medicine, was a priceless treasure that could not be bought even with a fortune.

Its function was not to explosively increase cultivation, but to cleanse the marrow and wash the bones, purifying the Spiritual Root!

What was most important in the Cultivation World? The Spiritual Root!

Geniuses with Dual Spiritual Roots numbered only five or six among the tens of thousands of people in the entire Xuantian Sect, and they were precious darlings pampered by the Sect as if they were ancestors.

Having Three-element Profound Spiritual Roots was considered upper-middle aptitude. If she could use this three-leaf golden lotus to wash away the impure Spiritual Qi in her body, she would definitely become the most top-tier existence among those with Three-element Profound Spiritual Roots.

As for purifying and transforming into Dual Spiritual Roots?

Until now, no one had ever been heard of achieving it.

Boom!

Just as Qi Yang was pondering to himself, a muffled roar suddenly came from the inner room.

Immediately following that, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the surrounding area began to crazily converge toward the direction of the inn!

Qi Yang abruptly raised his head, his powerful perceptive force piercing through the roof.

He saw that above the inn, the naked-eye-visible Spiritual Qi had actually formed a miniature Spiritual Qi vortex, continuously pouring backward into the inner room!

"Tsk tsk, this spectacle, truly worthy of a Genius."

Qi Yang inwardly clicked his tongue, feeling even a bit sour.

He, with his Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Roots, absorbed Spiritual Qi like a leaky, broken jar, unable to retain much no matter how hard he risked his old life.

When others ate a medicine, even the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi resonated along with it; this was the absolute crushing suppression brought by talent!

However, Qi Yang quickly put away that bit of envy.

Although this Spiritual Qi vortex was not large, in a place mixed with dragons and fish like Qingyun Market, it was simply like lighting a giant lantern in the dark night, afraid that others wouldn't know a treasure was being born here.

Sure enough, less than half an incense stick of time after Qi Yang's perception web spread out, it touched several Spiritual Power fluctuations filled with greed and killing intent.

"Four at the Qi Condensation 8th Layer, their movements are quite fast."

Qi Yang put down the tea cup, a trace of killing intent flashing in his eyes.

These desperate Loose Cultivators spent year-round doing shady businesses of killing people and looting goods on the outskirts of the market, being most sensitive to Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

At this moment, they had already quietly snuck to the second floor of the inn, pressing against the outside of the door while pinching frost-gleaming breaking-Formation Magical Artifacts in their hands.

"Big bro, the commotion inside is so big, someone is definitely making a Breakthrough or refining a heavy treasure!"

Outside the door, Scarface lowered his voice, his eyes full of greed.

"Nonsense! After finishing this job, our brothers won't have to worry for ten years! Later when I break open the Formation, you guys charge right in, and no matter who is inside, hack them to pieces!"

One-Eyed Dragon said fiercely.

Qi Yang inside the room heard it crystal clear.

Go out and fight head-on? That was impossible.

Although he was currently at the Middle Stage of the Qi Condensation 8th Layer and relying on Poison Wood Spiritual Power it wasn't impossible to fight four against one, this was an inn. Once a commotion started from fighting, the market's Law enforcement team would immediately rush over.

By then, Su Qinghan's identity would be exposed, and news of the three-leaf golden lotus would spread out, which would definitely be a huge trouble.

The Dao of Cowering Law: if underhand methods could be used, never fight face-to-face.

Qi Yang slowly fumbled an inconspicuous small black porcelain bottle out of his Storage Pouch.

This was the loot he fished out from the Storage Pouches of those three Blood Fiend Sect demonic Cultivators previously. Called Drunken Immortal Fall, it was a top-grade sleeping incense. Even a Cultivator at the Qi Condensation 9th Layer would have their Spiritual Power collapse and their whole body go limp upon inhaling a breath of it.

Qi Yang pulled open the bottle stopper without pouring it out directly.

The Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art inside his body quietly operated, injecting a wisp of pure Poison Wood Spiritual Power into the bottle.

Under the stimulation of the Poison Wood Spiritual Power, the originally ordinary sleeping incense turned into a few wisps of colorless and odorless cyan smoke.

Qi Yang flicked his finger, and these wisps of cyan smoke, as if they had life, drilled out along the door gap.

Outside the door, One-Eyed Dragon was raising a black Formation-breaking awl in his hand, preparing to fiercely smash it toward the room door.

But at the very moment he raised his hand, a faint, almost imperceptible breeze brushed past the tip of his nose.

"Hmm? What is this smell..."

One-Eyed Dragon hadn't even finished speaking when he suddenly felt the Spiritual Power in his Dantian suddenly stall, as if it had been frozen!

Following closely, a strong sense of soreness and weakness swept through the Meridians of his whole body!

Clang!

The Formation-breaking awl dropped to the ground, making a crisp sound. One-Eyed Dragon rolled his eyes back, and his entire person collapsed limply onto the ground like a puddle of mud.

"Big bro! What's wrong with you?"

Scarface beside him lost all color in his face. Just as he wanted to go and support him, his own legs also turned weak, and he directly toppled over onto One-Eyed Dragon's body.

In less than three breaths of time, the four desperate Loose Cultivators at the Qi Condensation 8th Layer were completely wiped out under this colorless and odorless cyan smoke, collapsing into the hallway to pass out, sleeping even more deeply than a dead pig.

Inside the room, Qi Yang patted his hands in satisfaction, re-plugged the small porcelain bottle and put it back into his Storage Pouch.

"Done."

Time trickled by bit by bit, and the Spiritual Qi vortex above the inn gradually dissipated.

Hum...

The Formation light curtain of the inner room slowly withdrew, and the wooden door was pushed open.

Su Qinghan walked out.

Qi Yang raised his eyes to look, and his heart instantly gave a start.

At this moment, Su Qinghan's temperament had undergone a heaven-and-earth-shaking change.

Her originally icy and otherworldly temperament now added a hint of fierce sharpness.

The Spiritual Qi fluctuations around her body had condensed to the extreme, faintly showing a trend of liquefaction!

Qi Refining Tenth Layer!

She had actually relied on the medicinal efficacy of the three-leaf golden lotus to smash through the Bottleneck in one stroke, officially stepping into the Realm of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer!

In the Xuantian Sect, only upon reaching the Qi Refining Tenth Layer could one be considered a true Inner Sect Disciple!

Previously, Su Qinghan was admitted into the Inner Sect by a special exception, but now, she was an Inner Sect Disciple in both name and reality.

"Congratulations, Fairy! Felicitations, Fairy! Fairy's cultivation has greatly advanced, and the Great Dao can be anticipated!"

Qi Yang immediately stood up, his back hunched, and went to greet her with a face full of smiles.

Su Qinghan felt the surging and pure Spiritual Power within her body, and a rare trace of joy also surfaced on her icy cheeks.

The three-leaf golden lotus had stripped away seven or eight parts of the Impurities in her Three-element Profound Spiritual Root. Now her talent was definitely among the absolute top-tier small handful of people in the Inner Sect, apart from those few Dual Spiritual Roots Disciples!

She looked at Qi Yang and slightly nodded: "Thank you for your hard work as Protector."

Saying this, Su Qinghan pushed open the door of the outer room, preparing to leave.

As soon as the door opened, she saw the four Loose Cultivators lying sprawling in the hallway, as well as the breaking-Formation Magical Artifact dropped on the ground.

Su Qinghan's eyes turned cold, her hand instantly pressing onto the sword hilt.

At a glance, she saw the Qi Condensation 8th Layer cultivation of these four people; they were obviously coming for her.

"This... what is going on here?"

Su Qinghan turned her head to look at Qi Yang.

Qi Yang had long thought of his excuse. He put on a look of lingering fear, patted his chest and said: "Fairy, you wouldn't know! Just now, these four wicked villains wanted to break through the door, and this old man was so scared I didn't even dare to make a sound."

"Who would have known that the moment they touched the door, the Formation you laid down, Fairy, suddenly erupted with a power that directly shocked them unconscious! Fairy, your Formation is truly powerful!"

Hearing this, Su Qinghan slightly raised her eyebrows.

The defensive Formation she deployed did indeed have a counter-shock effect, but these four at the Qi Condensation 8th Layer were actually shocked into fainting without even a trace of resistance?

She carefully checked the bodies of the four people and found that their Spiritual Qi was stagnant within their bodies, and their Meridians were undamaged. It really looked like their resistance had been defeated by some kind of power in an extremely short time.

Although Su Qinghan had some doubts in her heart, looking at Qi Yang's subservient, wrinkle-filled old peasant appearance, she truly couldn't connect him with an expert capable of taking down four Cultivators at the Qi Condensation 8th Layer.

"Consider them unlucky."

Su Qinghan gave a cold snort and did not pursue the matter deeply.

"Let's go, return to the Sect."

She was quite satisfied with Qi Yang's performance of honestly staying in the room to "keep watch".

Although this old man was trash, his advantage lay in being obedient and well-behaved; using him as a human shield was indeed not bad.

The two of them ignored the Loose Cultivators on the ground, directly left the inn, and under the cover of night, set foot on the road returning to the Xuantian Sect.