Promoted to the middle stage of Yuan Gang

The Little Fox Girl, Hu Yunxi, was currently cleaning the courtyard, and when she saw Xiao Ming return with three large bags on his back, a look of surprise immediately appeared on her small face.

However, she was very sensible and did not ask any questions.

Xiao Ming smiled, pulled her into the spacious living room, and then closed the door tightly.

Afterward, he opened the first large bag.

Clatter!

A large pile of mid-grade Origin Stones filled the floor.

Xiao Ming didn't know the exact number of Origin Stones, only that they weighed eight hundred catties.

Opening the second large bag, countless medicine bottles appeared before Xiao Ming.

The medicine weighed one hundred catties!

To be honest, Xiao Ming had lived on the Xianwu Continent for so many years, and this was the first time he had heard of medicine being measured by the catty!

Generally speaking, medicine was counted by the pill or by the bottle.

His own master, however, simply gave him one hundred catties of medicine!

Each bottle of medicine, including the weight of the bottle, was about half a catty, which meant that Li Changfeng had given him a full two hundred bottles of medicine!

Opening the stopper of a medicine bottle, a rich medicinal fragrance immediately wafted out, quickly filling the entire living room.

Inside the bottle were five white, jade-like pills, each perfectly round, like a piece of jade.

His gaze swept over them, and Xiao Ming activated his detection function; the information about the pills immediately appeared before his eyes:

Name: Earth Core White Jade Pill

Type: Cultivation Advancement

Grade: Earth-grade Low-tier

Earth-grade Low-tier White Jade Pill!

Cultivation Advancement type!

Any one of these five pills, in terms of medicinal power, was equivalent to the Earth Flow Clear Frost Pill that Xiao Ming had obtained earlier in the Tianyun Mountain Range!

With anticipation, Xiao Ming opened several more bottles of medicine, and the result was that all of them contained Earth Core White Jade Pills.

“One medicine bottle contains five White Jade Pills, and I have two hundred medicine bottles, which means the number of White Jade Pills is about a thousand?!”

“I’m rich, I’m rich now!”

Xiao Ming was both surprised and delighted.

In terms of value, so many White Jade Pills were much more expensive than eight hundred catties of mid-grade Origin Stones!

However.

Because Xiao Ming had already cultivated to the Yuangang Realm, although the White Jade Pills were also Earth-grade Low-tier, they certainly wouldn't have as great an effect as before.

But with such a large quantity of pills, it would be enough for Xiao Ming to use for a considerable period.

Yuangang Realm martial artists, or cultivators, basically consumed Earth-grade Low-tier pills.

Xiao Ming looked at the third large bag.

He ripped it open!

Immediately, thirty thousand-year-old spirit herbs, emitting various spiritual lights, appeared neatly before Xiao Ming.

These spirit herbs each emitted spiritual light of different colors, and the multicolored radiance filled the entire living room; at the same time, the medicinal fragrance in the living room became even more intense.

It was refreshing!

Hu Yunxi had long been stunned.

She looked at the Origin Stones, pills, and spirit herbs on the ground, then looked at Xiao Ming, and asked in a flustered voice, “Young Master, where did you get all these things? You, you didn’t rob the sect’s treasure vault, did you?!”

Xiao Ming smiled and shook his head.

He then explained, “These things were all given to me by the Sect Master, so I could cultivate well. Oh, and I am the Sect Master’s personally accepted true disciple; I hold a quite significant position in the sect.”

“So that’s how it is, Young Master is truly amazing!” Hu Yunxi clapped her small hands and praised.

“Come on, Little Yunxi, you can pick whatever you like from these things!” Xiao Ming said generously.

“Ah? For me to use? But I don’t know how to cultivate.” Hu Yunxi said with difficulty.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming scratched his head.

Doesn't know how to cultivate?

This meant that Hu Yunxi's Empress physique had not yet awakened... Just as Xiao Ming was cataloging the various resources.

On the other side.

Inside a Cultivation Level chamber in the Lei Family Fortress, Lei Fang, who had escaped back to his family, was spitting out thick blood.

After he shook off Xiao Ming’s pursuit, he immediately returned to his family. His family was shocked by his appearance and immediately bestowed upon him a large pile of pills that could stabilize his injuries.

Lei Fang swallowed the pills without hesitation, and after stabilizing his injuries, he entered the Cultivation Level chamber.

He wanted to cultivate a secret technique; he wanted revenge!

As the most famous genius of the Lei Family Fortress, Lei Fang had always had a smooth life since childhood and had never suffered such a great loss!

Even one of his arms had been severed by Xiao Ming!

Lei Fang secretly vowed that no matter what position Xiao Ming held in the Spirit Sword Sect, he would kill Xiao Ming to vent the hatred in his heart!

However.

The cultivation process was extremely difficult.

He actually suffered a cultivation deviation!

Not only did he fail to cultivate the secret technique successfully, but he also kept spitting out fresh blood, and even his own Cultivation Level was precarious, looking like it could drop at any moment.

This plunged Lei Fang into extreme confusion.

“How could this happen... how could this happen?!”

“I consider my talent outstanding and my luck very strong; cultivating a secret technique should be very smooth, so why has it turned out like this?”

Lei Fang mumbled at the corner of his mouth, fresh blood continuously flowing from his lips.

He vaguely sensed that there seemed to be an invisible force obstructing his cultivation, and it was under the influence of this force that he suffered a cultivation deviation and his cultivation collapsed.

Suddenly.

Lei Fang’s throat sweetened, and he spat out another large mouthful of fresh blood.

As the blood was expelled, his aura decayed at a visible speed; after just a few breaths, his Cultivation Level plummeted from Xiantian Great Perfection to the Xiantian Realm Mid-stage.

He dropped two minor Cultivation Levels!

The drastic drop in strength made Lei Fang’s heart ache as if it were being twisted.

“Ah!”

Lei Fang let out a painful scream and fainted.

In his hazy consciousness, Lei Fang seemed to see a Nine-tailed Fox shadow. The fox shadow looked at him coldly, like a peerless fierce beast staring at a tiny ant.

Under the gaze of the fox shadow, Lei Fang only felt that he was greatly suppressed, but he couldn't explain exactly how he was suppressed!

...Spirit Sword Sect.

Inside Xiao Ming’s small courtyard.

Hu Yunxi walked out of the living room and stood at the doorway; in her words, she was going to stand guard for Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming, meanwhile, took the numerous resources into his room and began to cultivate.

Sitting cross-legged, Xiao Ming first consumed a bottle of Earth Core White Jade Pills in one go, then held a mid-grade Origin Stone in each hand, absorbing the elemental energy within them.

The medicinal power of the pills and the energy of the Origin Stones poured into his body, transforming into a torrent of energy that flowed through Xiao Ming's limbs and bones, enhancing his strength.

Before long.

All the energy was absorbed by Xiao Ming, but the true essence liquid in his dantian did not increase by many drops.

This was because as his Cultivation Level increased, his demand for energy also rose.

Although Earth-grade Low-tier pills contained rich energy, for a Yuangang Realm martial artist, they were merely normal pills to consume.

Things like before, in the Xiantian Realm, where consuming one Earth Flow Clear Frost Pill could lead to jumping several minor Cultivation Levels, would not happen in the Yuangang Realm.

But that didn’t matter.

Xiao Ming had plenty of pills!

Picking up another bottle of pills, he poured them all into his mouth, and at the same time, Xiao Ming picked up two more mid-grade Origin Stones, once again refining the energy.

This situation repeated itself.

As he absorbed bottle after bottle of pills and the energy from the Origin Stones, Xiao Ming’s aura became increasingly formidable and sharp.

After half a day, a powerful force suddenly erupted from Xiao Ming’s body!

He had cultivated to the critical point and was about to break through!

With a “bang”!

A low booming sound emanated from Xiao Ming’s body.

Subsequently, a spiritual energy cloud appeared above his dantian. The spiritual energy cloud contracted and condensed, like rain, dripping drops of true essence liquid.

The liquid became more and more abundant, denser and denser!

It strengthened the small puddle in Xiao Ming’s dantian.

Once the total amount of true essence liquid reached three hundred points, Xiao Ming’s aura could no longer be controlled, sweeping out in all directions like a flood from an open dam!

And with the dissipation of his aura, Xiao Ming’s Cultivation Level successfully advanced.

Yuangang Realm Mid-stage!