54: Chapter 54 Huge Consumption of Elixirs

After returning to the Xuantian Sect inner sect, Su Qinghan's status rose with the tide.

At eighteen years old, Qi Refining Tenth Layer!

Furthermore, her Spiritual Root purity increased drastically!

As soon as this news spread, the entire Jianzhi Peak was in an uproar.

Peak Master Wu Lie, the master of Jianzhi Peak, even came out of seclusion personally to summon her, instantly announcing the promotion of Su Qinghan from a Named Disciple directly to a Personal Disciple, bestowing a vast amount of Cultivate resources and an independent Immortal Cave rich in Spiritual Qi.

In the Xuantian Sect, a Personal Disciple is a future Elder candidate, and their status and position are vastly superior to those ordinary inner sect stewards.

Before moving to the new Immortal Cave, Su Qinghan came to the Nether Grass Field.

Qi Yang was squatting on the ridge of the field, slowly watering the nether grass.

Seeing Su Qinghan's magnificent Personal Disciple attire, he immediately put down the water scoop and walked up with a hunchbacked waist.

"Now that Fairy has been promoted to a Personal Disciple, this old man is here to congratulate Fairy."

Qi Yang smiled with his face full of wrinkles.

Looking at Qi Yang's unchanging old farmer appearance, a trace of complexity flashed in Su Qinghan's eyes.

She took out a crystal-clear Jade Slip from her sleeve and handed it in front of Qi Yang.

"This is my private communication Jade Slip."

Su Qinghan's voice remained cold and clear, but it carried an extra trace of solemnity.

"The inner sect waters run deep; although this Nether Grass Field of yours is remote, it is still inevitable that some blind people will come to make trouble. If anyone bullies you in the future, directly crush the Jade Slip to send a message to me. On this Jianzhi Peak, my, Su Qinghan's, words still carry some weight."

Qi Yang was slightly stunned.

Private communication Jade Slip?

This gadget is an extremely private thing, and it is only exchanged between the most trusted people.

Su Qinghan actually gave one to her nominal husband of the Qi Condensation Third Layer?

This lass is truly clear-cut on gratitude and grudges to her core.

"Many thanks to Fairy for the protection! This old bones of mine will completely rely on Fairy from now on!"

Qi Yang did not refuse, taking the Jade Slip with trembling hands and putting on a look of extreme gratitude.

Su Qinghan did not say anything more, turning into a sword light that soared into the sky and disappeared into the clouds.

Watching the retreating figure of Su Qinghan, the expression of gratitude on Qi Yang's face restrained, and a flash of sharp light crossed his turbid old eyes.

"Qi Refining Tenth Layer ah... truly an enviable talent."

Qi Yang weighed the Jade Slip in his hand and casually shoved it deep into the Storage Pouch.

Relying on mountains makes them collapse, relying on people makes them run; Su Qinghan's protection can indeed block some minor troubles, but true life-and-death crises can only rely on the trump cards in one's own hands!

He turned around and walked back to the dilapidated thatched cottage, locked the wooden door, and immediately pressed the mechanism under the bed.

Walking down the stone steps into the secret chamber fifteen zhang deep underground, Qi Yang sat cross-legged on the bronze stone platform, and his expression turned incomparably solemn.

Su Qinghan could cleanse her marrow and wash her bones with just a single three-leaf golden lotus, easily breaking through the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.

What about him? He was a Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Roots!

Absorbing Spiritual Qi with a Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Roots was like a leaking broken vat; when others took one share of medicine they could absorb nine shares, but if he took ten shares of medicine and absorbed one share, it would already be not bad!

If he wanted to Breakthrough, he had to use a massive amount of resources to forcefully pile up! To fight with his life!

"Qi Condensation 8th Layer Middle Stage, still a huge gap away from the Qi Condensation 9th Layer; conventional Cultivate methods are completely useless to me, I can only continue using poison!"

Qi Yang patted the Storage Pouch, and with a rustling sound, thousands of Low-Grade Spirit Stone piled up on the stone platform.

These were all spoils of war seized from those three Blood Fiend Sect demonic cultivators.

He did not keep these Spirit Stone to buy Magical Artifact, but instead exchanged all of them through various underground channels for the seeds of second-grade extremely toxic Spiritual Plant!

heartbreak grass, bone-corroding vine, seven-step life-taking flower... all of them were highly toxic items that made people terrified at the mere mention!

Qi Yang took out the black gourd and carefully dripped out that mysterious emerald-green liquid.

For the next whole month, Qi Yang completely entered a frantic drug-taking mode.

Utilizing the green liquid of the black gourd, he ripened over three hundred stalks of second-grade extremely toxic Spiritual Plant!

If this were taken out to sell, it could definitely be exchanged for a small golden mountain.

But Qi Yang did not even blink an eye, directly shoving these poisonous plants into his mouth stalk by stalk!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The poisonous plants entered his abdomen, and the terrifying toxicity exploded within his body!

The Five Elements Grindstone transformed by the Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Roots began to operate at overload!

The five spiritual powers of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth crazily strangled, stripped, and transformed these fatal toxins.

"Ugh ah!!!"

Qi Yang clenched his teeth tightly, a series of low roars emitting from his throat.

Too painful!

The toxicity of over three hundred stalks of second-grade extremely toxic Spiritual Plant overlapping together was simply a thousand cuts!

He could clearly feel that his fragile Meridians were being torn apart inch by inch by the violent toxic qi, and then painfully reshaped under the nourishment of the top-grade medicine power!

Torn apart, reshaped! Torn apart again, reshaped again!

This inhumane torture, if given to any Genius, even with Dual Spiritual Roots, would have long since suffered a mental breakdown and Qi Deviation.

But Qi Yang forcibly endured it!

Having lived cautiously for so many years, his desire to survive was stronger than anyone else's!

As the poisonous plants were continuously refined, the Poison Wood Spiritual Power within his Dantian became increasingly rich, and its color gradually transitioned from dark green to deep ink-green.

Just when this power reached its peak, Qi Yang abruptly took out that remaining small half-piece of poison fiend crystal bought from the black market and swallowed it in one gulp!

"Break for me!!!"

Qi Yang let out a hysterical roar in the bottom of his heart.

The massive poison fiend power and the Poison Wood Spiritual Power accumulated in his body violently collided, transforming into an unstoppable sharp sword that fiercely stabbed towards the barrier of the Qi Condensation 9th Layer!

Crack!

Accompanied by a dull cracking sound within his body, that indestructible barrier finally developed a huge crack!

Although he did not completely Breakthrough, Qi Yang's cultivation had solidly stepped into the Realm of the half-step Qi Condensation 9th Layer!

From the true Qi Condensation 9th Layer, only the final trace of polishing remained!

Qi Yang collapsed onto the stone platform, his entire body soaked in black toxic sweat, exuding a pungent, fishy stench.

He gasped heavily, and although he was weak to the extreme, a frantic joy burned within his turbid old eyes.

"Half-step Qi Condensation 9th Layer... as long as you give me a bit more time, Qi Condensation Great Completion, Foundation Establishment, none of these are dreams!"

Just when Qi Yang was frantically taking drugs in the underground secret chamber, inside a secretive teahouse in Qingyun Market, the atmosphere was suffocatingly oppressive.

An old man wearing a gray robe and possessing a gloomy visage sat upright in the main seat.

He did not deliberately release coercion, but the surrounding air seemed to have frozen, making people find it difficult even to breathe.

Qi Condensation 12th Layer Great Perfection!

A terrifying existence only a hair's breadth away from the Foundation Establishment Stage!

This person was precisely the traitor of the Luoxia Sect, Second Elder Lu Wei!

"Second Elder, this subordinate has already investigated it clearly."

A black-clothed spy knelt on the ground, reporting while trembling all over.

"The Three Fiends of the Blood Fiend Sect indeed took our bounty to intercept and kill Su Qinghan, but... but they have gone missing."

"We found traces of battle in the abandoned mining area, as well as three pools of blood emanating extreme cold and corrosive auras. After identification by people from the Blood Fiend Sect, those were precisely the corpses of the Three Fiends..."

Crack!

The teacup in Second Elder Lu Wei's hand turned into powder, and before the tea water even hit the ground, it was evaporated into white mist by the Spiritual Qi in his palm.

"Three Qi Refining Tenth Layer, dead to the point not even bone scraps were left?"

Second Elder Lu Wei's voice was hoarse.

"Even if that little vixen Su Qinghan broke through the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, it is absolutely impossible for her to achieve this step! That kind of extreme cold and corrosive extreme poison is at least a method that can only be exerted by a Qi Condensation 12th Layer proficient in the poison Dao, or even a Foundation Establishment Stage expert!"

Second Elder Lu Wei stood up, pacing back and forth in the room, malicious light flickering in his eyes.

"Someone is secretly protecting her Dao! People from the Xuantian Sect? Impossible, if that group of hypocrites from the Xuantian Sect knew about the internal strife of our Luoxia Sect, they would have long since taken the opportunity to annex us, how could they secretly protect her?"

Second Elder Lu Wei's mind rapidly filtered through all the possible experts around Su Qinghan.

Suddenly, his movements paused.

"Go investigate what kind of people Su Qinghan has contacted in the Xuantian Sect! Especially that nominal trash husband of hers!"

Second Elder Lu Wei ordered coldly.

The spy was slightly stunned: "Second Elder, we have investigated that Qi Yang; he is one hundred years old this year, with a Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Roots, only at the Qi Condensation Third Layer. How could a piece of trash like this whose body is already half-buried be an expert?"

"Foolish!"

Second Elder Lu Wei slapped the spy flying away with a single palm.

"The Cultivation World hides dragons and crouching tigers; are there few old monsters who act like pigs to eat tigers? Why can a trash of the Qi Condensation Third Layer live to be one hundred years old? Why can he remain safe and sound in the Special Grade Herb Garden where two successive stewards died? Go investigate him! Investigate him fiercely!"

Second Elder Lu Wei's intuition was terrifyingly accurate.

Although he did not believe that Qi Yang was the expert who poisoned the Three Fiends, he would never let go of any suspicious clues.