47: Chapter 46 only made a slight move.

"C-Class ranking—doesn't that mean it's all battles between Foundation Establishment Cultivators?"

Wen Xinran leaned in, looking at the message Li Fan had popped up, feeling somewhat worried.

However, Li Fan didn't care in the slightest and patted Wen Xinmei's head.

"It's fine. Let's do Alchemy first."

Seeing Li Fan like this, Wen Xinran picked up the few Pill Formulas on the table.

"Husband, the Medicinal Pill we've been refining during this period is just one of them."

"I've looked at this Pill Formula; the utilization rate of the medicinal herbs is extremely low, and the effect isn't that great."

As she spoke, she pointed to the other Pill Formulas.

"These Pill Formulas look much better, but they have high requirements for the Spiritual Qi environment and the Rank of the Spiritual Fire."

"I'm not confident I can refine them consistently."

Li Fan touched his empty kidneys.

This requires an increased dosage!

"What level of environment is needed?"

Wen Xinran pondered for a moment.

"It must have enough Spiritual Qi for a Golden Core's daily needs. If we're talking about a Spirit Refining Room, roughly..."

Consequently, Wen Xinran explained the general division of the Spirit Refining Tower's levels to Li Fan.

The first forty floors are provided for the vast number of Qi Refining Cultivators, with Spiritual Qi at the Foundation Establishment level.

The following thirty floors correspond to Foundation Establishment Cultivators, where the Spiritual Qi is at the Golden Core level, which is sufficient for Alchemy.

Li Fan nodded and made a prompt decision.

"Then let's change to a different Spirit Refining Room."

Involving Alchemy, this was a major matter concerning his happy life; he couldn't be careless in the slightest.

Thus, under Wen Xinran's guidance, Li Fan arrived in front of the gilded wooden board hanging by the entrance of the Spirit Refining Room.

The board displayed the Spirit Refining Rooms from the second to the thirtieth floor that were available for him to challenge and swap into.

If one wants to move to the best Spirit Refining Room for the Foundation Establishment Realm, one must engage in at least three challenge swaps.

Only after moving to a Spirit Refining Room between the thirty-fifth and thirty-ninth floors can one challenge a fortieth-floor Foundation Establishment Realm Spirit Refining Room.

Once successfully entering a fortieth-floor Foundation Establishment Realm Spirit Refining Room, one can challenge any Spirit Refining Room from the fortieth to the sixty-ninth floor.

Seeing Li Fan directly switch to the thirty-ninth floor, Wen Xinran felt somewhat worried.

"Every Qi Refining Cultivator on the thirty-ninth floor is an individual with extremely high Aptitude."

"To hone the Qi Refining Realm to Perfection, they have been in seclusion in the Spirit Refining Rooms for a long time and detest being disturbed by others."

"There are even those who have broken through to the eleventh layer of Qi Refining and can suppress Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators."

Hearing this, Li Fan raised an eyebrow slightly and chuckled.

"Heh, eleventh layer of Qi Refining?"

"I'd like to see what that's all about."

Thus, Li Fan chose a Spirit Refining Room on the thirty-ninth floor that hadn't been challenged for the longest time.

Inside the corresponding Spirit Refining Room, a young man sat cross-legged with his eyes closed in the center of the Spirit Gathering Array, continuously absorbing massive amounts of Spiritual Qi.

If others were to see this scene, they would certainly be filled with disbelief.

No matter how Heaven-Defying a Qi Refining Realm Cultivator might be, they shouldn't be able to absorb this much Spiritual Qi—it was comparable to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator!

At this moment, the young man's face was tightly furrowed.

He opened his eyes and looked at the wooden board by the door; notification sounds kept ringing, flashing with red light.

"I was just a little bit away from breaking through to the twelfth layer of Qi Refining."

The man was full of irritation as he came to the wooden board.

"Didn't I release a message saying not to disturb me?"

He glanced at the information on the wooden board, wanting to see which blind fool dared to disturb his secluded cultivation.

However, upon seeing the other party's cultivation level, he immediately became interested.

"Oh? Foundation Establishment second layer..."

Meanwhile, in the atrium of the Spirit Refining Tower, a fighting arena was constructed from immense Spiritual Qi.

Before long, it was surrounded by a crowd that had heard the news, and Cultivators who were watching other arena matches nearby curiously crowded over to ask.

"What's going on?"

"You don't know? Someone actually dared to challenge that person on the thirty-ninth floor!"

"Which person? Could it be..."

The person being asked seemed to take pride in even mentioning that name, speaking with great excitement.

"That's right, it's none other than the leader of the Qin Family's new generation, Qin Tianyu."

"Really? Isn't this person undefeated in the Qi Refining Realm? How could someone dare to challenge him?"

A person nearby who knew more about this quickly added.

"It's more than just being undefeated in the Qi Refining Realm; a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator once challenged him... and was no match!"

At this point, the people around drew a cold breath, all lamenting that a Qi Refining Cultivator could be so Heaven-Defying.

"He's here!"

Someone shouted, and everyone looked up.

A figure flew out from the thirty-ninth floor and landed gracefully and composedly on the arena.

He had his hands behind his back, his eyes filled with immense confidence.

He scanned the crowd beneath the arena with a calm gaze and then spoke.

"I wonder which Fellow Daoist at the Foundation Establishment level wishes to spar with me."

The crowd was captivated by Qin Tianyu's confident demeanor; many women had already been staring fixedly at his figure, unable to speak.

A moment later, the entire venue was in an uproar, cheering for Qin Tianyu's appearance.

At this point, a few onlookers finally grasped the key point in Qin Tianyu's words.

"A Foundation Establishment Cultivator!"

The person challenging Qin Tianyu this time was actually a Foundation Establishment Cultivator!

Qin Tianyu even addressed him as Fellow Daoist, placing himself on the same level as the Foundation Establishment Realm.

The Cultivators below were incredibly impressed; was this the confidence of someone undefeated in the Qi Refining Realm?

The noise gradually subsided, but the challenger had not yet taken the stage.

"Could it be that the challenger is afraid of Qin Tianyu?"

The crowd below speculated until Qin Tianyu was getting somewhat impatient; only then did Li Fan arrive late, flying from the second floor to the arena.

Qin Tianyu sized up the person in front of him.

Although his attire and hairstyle were a bit sloppy, he shouldn't be a simple person.

Thus, he silently heightened his guard and asked with a cupped-hand salute.

"Fellow Daoist, are you aware that I have previously defeated a Foundation Establishment second layer Cultivator across Realms?"

Hearing this, Li Fan lowered his head and casually tidied his messy hair.

"Oh, a low-grade Foundation Establishment, is it?"

After speaking, Li Fan finished tidying his messy hair, tossed his black hair, and his gaze was ethereal.

Exclamations immediately rang out from the second floor of the Spirit Refining Tower.

"Husband is so handsome!~"

It was Wen Xinran, who was leaning on the railing cheering for Li Fan.

Seeing this, Li Fan generously returned a smile, looking determined to win.

"Let me finish this up; I'm changing Spirit Refining Rooms immediately after."

Seeing that Li Fan didn't take him seriously, Qin Tianyu was not angry; instead, he slowly asked.

"I wonder if, when you were in the Qi Refining Realm, you were also undefeated below the Foundation Establishment?"

At this moment, the onlookers below echoed.

"Young Master Qin is undefeated below the Foundation Establishment Realm and is famous throughout the region."

"This Cultivator hasn't even been heard of since his Qi Refining days, yet he dares to challenge Young Master Qin."

Hearing this, Qin Tianyu's mouth curled up slightly; it was clear he was very pleased with these words.

Wen Xinran on the second floor was about to retort, but Li Fan raised his hand to stop her.

"Undefeated in the Qi Refining Realm?"

He slowly held up two fingers.

"Two moves, and you are defeated."

The immense Spiritual Qi surrounding the atrium came to a halt; it was Qin Tianyu who acted first, displaying his Spirit Reflection.

Everyone present inexplicably felt a terrifying heavenly might.

He softly uttered a few words.

"The Heavens do not speak, the Myriad Phenomena arise."

The atrium fell silent; all sounds were extinguished.

A flash of spiritual light appeared, and phantom images of all things suddenly manifested.

Golden spears and iron horses, mountains and rivers, exotic beasts and birds of prey all swept toward Li Fan, pressing down upon him.

Such a grand display of Spirit Reflection, yet Li Fan's expression did not change.

He waved the two fingers he had just held up forward.

Two sharp streaks of Sword Qi were slashed out of thin air, one after another.

One streak of Sword Qi completely obliterated the phantom images produced by Qin Tianyu's Spirit Reflection.

The other streak of Sword Qi instantly struck the unreacting Qin Tianyu, and blood splattered on the spot!

It was all over in just a few breaths.

Qin Tianyu was struck off the stage by the Sword Qi, falling into the crowd and rolling several times before stopping.

He hurriedly consumed a Medicinal Pill, slammed his hand hard against the ground, and used the recoil to leap into the air, looking toward the arena at Li Fan's smiling yet unsmiling expression.

"The winner has been decided."

Li Fan's palm, which had been extending two fingers, turned and made a grabbing motion; the Spirit Refining Room token flew from Qin Tianyu's waist into Li Fan's hand.

He weighed the token in his hand.

"At the end of the day, you're just a Qi Refining Cultivator; there are more of you than stray dogs on the side of the road."

Having said that, Li Fan didn't bother looking at Qin Tianyu's dramatic expression; he threw his own Spirit Refining Room token toward Qin Tianyu, turned, leaped, and walked into the depths with the cheering Wen Xinran.

His actions were casual; it was merely a small interlude in ordinary life.

Qin Tianyu let the token Li Fan had thrown fall to the ground; he stared fixedly at Li Fan's back, repeatedly ruminating on the words he had left behind.

Finally, seeming to understand something, he sighed secretly.

"Merely a Qi Refining Cultivator, huh?"

He retrieved the token from the ground into his hand and whispered to himself, "Li Fan, C-Class ranking... just you wait."

After speaking, he turned and flew out of the Spirit Refining Tower, disappearing.

Inside the ascending passage, Wen Xinran hugged Li Fan's arm, "I didn't expect Husband to be so handsome; you solved that so-called Qin Tianyu in one move."

Li Fan shook his head, "I don't even know how a Qi Refining Cultivator dared to act so pretentious."

Before long, the two arrived at the thirty-ninth floor; Wen Xinran skipped about, looking for the corresponding Spirit Refining Room, "I haven't seen the top-tier Qi Refining Spirit Refining Room on the thirty-ninth floor yet either."

Li Fan tapped her head, "What's the rush? Don't you want a Spirit Refining Room at the Golden Core Spiritual Qi level?"

Wen Xinran covered her head, feeling somewhat surprised and confused, "Ah? Are we going there all at once today?"

"What else?"

Consequently, before the crowd in the atrium had time to disperse, two Foundation Establishment Cultivators appeared on the surrounding arena; it was Li Fan and the unlucky fellow he had randomly chosen from the board in the thirty-ninth-floor Spirit Refining Room for the fortieth floor.

"Isn't that the person from just now?"

While the onlookers who had realized what was happening were still in shock, Li Fan defeated the Cultivator opposite him with one move, skillfully swapped the placards, and flew toward the fortieth floor.

Everyone looked at the Foundation Establishment Cultivator rolling and wailing on the ground; before they could point and gossip, two more figures landed on the arena—it was still Li Fan and the unlucky fellow he had randomly chosen from the sixty-eighth floor.

Seeing that Li Fan was about to make a move, this person hurriedly stopped him and bowed with a cupped-hand salute.

"Fellow Daoist, as a Foundation Establishment second layer, you dare to come and spar with me, a Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm; you must have something to rely on."

He continued to probe, "I wonder what your Aptitude is, Fellow Daoist?"

Hearing this, Li Fan raised an eyebrow; it was actually a smart person, and he happened to be an honest person.

He truthfully told him the Aptitude checked by the school terminal, "[Prodigy] Rank, that's all."

The Cultivator opposite heard this and his expression was somewhat stunned—wasn't this the same Aptitude as his? He immediately changed his face and snorted coldly.

"Young friend, you have the same Aptitude as me, yet you dare to ignore the seven or eight-layer gap in the Foundation Establishment Realm and come to challenge me."

"You are truly ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth; disturbing my quiet cultivation, let me make you realize the gap."

"Blades have no eyes; don't blame me for being ruthless."

The speed of his face-changing was so fast that Li Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Thus, this time, his Spirit Reflection and phenomena all came out.

In just a moment, beside the Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator still wailing on the ground, there was an additional Foundation Establishment Perfection Cultivator screaming even louder.

The Early Stage Cultivator glanced at the shocking wounds on his body and only then realized that Li Fan had held back so much.

Instantly, he felt the sword mark on his chest wasn't as painful anymore.

He crawled up and patted the dust off his body, "Tsk tsk, good thing I'm not such a dumbass."

Muttering a word of relief, he hurriedly found a place to heal his wounds.