90: Qi Refining Level 6, Inner Sect Grand Competition

You watched the duels for a full two hours before reluctantly heading toward your residence in the Inner Sect.

The residence of an Inner Sect Disciple is not like the Immortal Cave where Outer Sect Disciples live; it is a massive courtyard.

The courtyard is more luxurious and spacious than an Immortal Cave, and the vast grounds even feature an exclusive spiritual plot and a spiritual pond.

The spiritual plot is planted with ornamental spiritual plants, while the spiritual pond ripples with clear water, with a few spiritual fish swimming within, adding a touch of elegance to your time outside of Cultivate.

Even more thoughtfully, the Sect has specially equipped each Inner Sect Disciple with two sophisticated intelligent Puppet units.

Not only are they well-versed in various daily chores, but they can also manage the courtyard in an orderly fashion according to their master's routine, allowing you to focus on Cultivate without distraction.

You walked into the courtyard's Cultivate room; it was very simple, containing only a meditation cushion.

This cushion is a Magical Artifact; sitting cross-legged on it to Cultivate helps one focus their mind and enter a meditative state faster, with better effects than a Mental Concentration Talisman.

This means your Mental Concentration Talisman is useless to Inner Sect Disciples, as it does not stack with the cushion's effects.

Fortunately, even after entering the Inner Sect, you can still do business with Outer Sect Disciples, and your Talisman business remains booming.

Of course, the Rank of the Mental Concentration Talisman is still too low. It is fine for now, but once your Realm improves, the profits from the Mental Concentration Talisman may no longer be of much help to you.

Therefore, you intend to improve your Talisman Master Rank in your spare time, while also delving into Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and even Formation.

In the Azure Cloud Sect, introductory knowledge for these hundred arts of immortality is very cheap. You spent 150 Contribution Points to buy three books: "Introduction to Medicinal Pill", "Introduction to Formation", and "Introduction to Artifact Refining".

You also spent 60 Contribution Points to buy the drawing methods for three types of Rank 8 Talisman.

Afterward, it only took you one month to successfully draw Rank 8 Talisman.

Not only that, but you also successfully comprehended those three books; you were only one step away from becoming a true Artifact Refiner, Alchemist, and Formation Master, needing only practical experience.

Since that was the case, you spent another sum of Contribution Points to purchase some Materials.

In the end, you successfully refined a low-tier Magical Artifact and a furnace of Qi Gathering Pills, and successfully set up a Rank 9 Formation.

In this world, Formation are also divided from Rank 9 to Rank 1, from low to high. However, unlike Medicinal Pill and Talisman, it is said that above Rank 1 Formation, there are world-shaking Great Formations capable of changing the heavens and the earth.

At this moment, you possess four secondary professions: Talisman Master, Alchemist, Artifact Refiner, and Formation Master.

In the following time, besides Cultivate, you would go to the Inner Sect arena every month to duel. Relying on your Perfection-level Small Five Elements Qi Refining Technique and numerous Perfection-level Spell, you have never lost a duel against peers.

At eighteen years old, you spent many Contribution Points to purchase a large quantity of Materials. Using Artifact Refining techniques, you successfully built a fully automatic Talisman-drawing assembly line.

Under your control, this entire set of machinery can produce 2,000 Mental Concentration Talisman per day.

It can be said that with this set of machinery, your speed of earning money has greatly improved.

Three months after building this machine, you achieved Breakthrough to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.

After reaching the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, your Dantian expanded once again. Moreover, the use of Qi at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer has reached a level of Perfection, allowing you to use Qi to condense the images of all things, achieving a level that is indistinguishable from reality.

As soon as you reached the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, you couldn't wait to spar with others. After sparring, you discovered that although your mana bar was insufficient due to your recent promotion, you were able to fight against veteran Qi Refining Fifth Layer cultivators by relying on your Spell.

Even if they were high-grade spiritual root cultivators with purer Qi, they were still no match for you.

At twenty years old, your Cultivate reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer. Needless to say, your Dantian expanded again. Moreover, at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, your Qi possesses sentience, allowing you to use it to condense humanoid shapes that can roam in all directions.

At twenty-two years old, your Cultivate reached the end of the Qi Refining Sixth Layer; this is also the highest Realm that the Small Five Elements Qi Refining Technique can reach.

In the Azure Cloud Sect, as long as your Cultivate reaches the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, you can participate in the Inner Sect Tournament held once every ten years. As long as you Rank in the top 100, you can become a True Disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect.

After becoming a True Disciple, the Azure Cloud Sect will teach you the Cultivate methods for the last three layers of Qi Refining for free, as well as the method for forging a Dao Foundation.

Of course, even if you cannot become a True Disciple, you can still use Contribution Points to purchase Cultivation Technique for the last three layers of Qi Refining and forging a Dao Foundation.

However, these Cultivation Technique are not only very expensive, but the ones you can buy with Contribution Points are far inferior to the Cultivation Technique distributed by the Sect after becoming a True Disciple.

At this time, there are still two years until the Inner Sect Tournament, and you decide to do your best to enhance your own strength during this period.

You purchased several Advanced Spell.

However, although you successfully mastered these Spell, the Qi required for Advanced Spell is immense; you only have the power for one strike, and after that strike, your Dantian is empty.

Therefore, after cultivating these Advanced Spell to Perfection, you began trying to modify them to see if you could maintain their original power while reducing consumption.

At twenty-three years old, after research, you successfully created several Spell that fall between mid-grade and Advanced. The consumption of these Spell is about one-tenth of an Advanced Spell, yet their power reaches one-half.

At twenty-four years old, the Azure Cloud Sect's Inner Sect Tournament—the number of which you do not know—officially begins. You signed up immediately through your disciple token.

The Inner Sect Tournament consists of three rounds. The first round is called the Battle Royale, and the venue for the Battle Royale is a massive arena located in the center of the Azure Cloud Sect's Inner Sect.

This arena is known as the Inner Sect Tournament Competition Platform. The platform is circular, ten meters high, and has a radius of over a hundred miles. Even more shockingly, the entire platform is not paved with bricks or stones, but is a single, solid entity.

Rumor has it that this arena is actually a powerful Magic Treasure, possessing infinite power and extreme hardness; in any case, those at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer have no hope of leaving even a scratch on it.

Before the Inner Sect Tournament had officially begun, the area around the competition platform was already crowded with people; these were all Inner Sect Disciples at the Qi Refining Fourth or Fifth Layer.

In addition to those present at the scene, others in the Azure Cloud Sect can also watch this duel through their disciple token. To use the words of your past life, the Inner Sect Tournament is being broadcast live in its entirety.

Just like when you first joined the Sect, the Sect Master and the Elders, nine people in total, hovered above the competition platform, announcing the Rule of the competition according to the procedure.

"For this Inner Sect Tournament, any Disciple at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer who has not cultivated the Cultivation Technique for the last three layers of Qi Refining may participate. During the competition, the use of external objects is prohibited. The top 100 participants may join the Ranks of the Azure Cloud Sect's True Disciple." The person speaking was none other than the Azure Cloud Sect Sect Master Yun Qingzi.