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It has been more than an hour since Li Jing returned to his courtyard.

He was impatiently waiting for his father to return inside his bedroom. He could already imagine absorbing the 100000 Spirit Stones and gained 100000 Experience Points!

He planned to use his Experience Points to increase his cultivation realm. For cultivators, increasing their cultivation realm not only increased their strength but also the Qi reserve in their dantian. A Martial technique consumed QI when used, so the higher the Qi reserve of a cultivator was, the more they could use their Martial techniques. Li Jing was currently only in the second level of the Qi Gathering realm so his Qi reserve was very low.

This time, the fact that he will increase his cultivation realm by many levels will not be seen as suspicious since he could pretext that the mysterious Master Alchemist gifted him a powerful pill to thanks him!

Half an hour later, someone knocked at Li Jing's bedroom door and entered it. Seeing that it was his father, Li Jing stood up and greeted him.

"Jing'er, the pill recipe is real. After talking to the patriarch and the elders, we decided to accept the proposition of the Master Alchemist." Said Li Bai.

Li Bai took out a large chest filled with Spirit Stones from his spatial ring and placed it in front of his son.

"I still don't know why this Master Alchemist only wants to talk with you but don't worry, I placed many shadow guards around your house. This man will not dare to do anything against you if he has bad intentions." He said.

"Thank you, father." Said Li Jing.

"In a few days, I will announce to the whole kingdom that our Heavenly Pill Pavilion sells the Qi Condensing Pills! Come to see me next time the Master Alchemist contacts you." Said Li Bai.

Li Jing agreed and his father left his bedroom.

He knew that once his father will announce that his clan will sell the Qi Condensing Pills it will attract the attention of Teng Fen, but he didn't care. On the contrary, Teng Fen will lose his time searching for an unknown person who knew pill recipes from the Immortal World. Since he didn't know who Li Jing was, Teng Fen will probably never suspect him to be that person.

Li Jing has read the web novel so he knew how Teng Fen was thinking. He was sure that in a few weeks, Teng Fen would sell one of his pill recipes to attract that 'unknown person' once he would not find anything about him. Of course, Li Jing will not stupidly fall into Teng Fen's trap. Since his clan would be financially safe just by selling the Qi Condensing Pills, he wouldn't need to take more risks...

Li Jing sat cross-legged, ready to absorb the Spirit Stones. Thankfully, the many shadow guards around his house couldn't see through the wall of his bedroom so he could peacefully absorb them without anyone noticing.

Absorbing the spiritual energy contained in a Spirit Stone was instant. However, Li Jing could only absorb them one by one. Knowing that there were more than one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, it will take some time to absorb them all.

The Mysterious Box cost him only sixty Spirit Stones, so Li Jing still had 2940 Spirit Stones in his spatial ring. He decided to absorb 2900 of them in addition to the one hundred thousand Spirit Stones he just received from his father.

Li Jing took out one Spirit Stone and focused on absorbing the spiritual energy contained inside it…

It took him more than two full days and nights to absorb the 102900 Spirit Stones. It was now noon and the sun was shining high in the sky.

Inside his bedroom, Li Jing could be seen sitting cross-legged and stretching his arms. Absorbing all these Spirit Stones has been very boring and repetitive. Thankfully, it was worth it!

Once the spiritual energy inside a Spirit Stone was absorbed, it became a simple stone. Li Jing stored all the depleted Spirit Stones inside his spatial ring and decided to throw them later.

He then stood up and displayed his status screen before spending his Experience Points.

[----------STATUS---------

Experience Points (XP): 123616

XP / hour: 16

Strength: 3600 Jin

Qi cultivation realm: Qi Gathering II (XP: 0/9000)

Body cultivation realm: Mortal (XP: 0/5000)

Talent: B-grade

Bloodlines: [Iron Boar], [Thunder Wyvern]

Perks: [Appraisal], [Full Recovery]

Elemental affinities: [Lightning]

Cultivation methods: [Li clan's method]

Martial techniques: [Elusive Smoke Steps], [Instant Flash Step], [Hammer Fist]

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'Use 9000 XP to increase my Qi cultivation realm.' He thought.

[9000 XP has been used. Remaining XP: 114616.]

[Congratulations! Host has reached the third level of the Qi Gathering realm.]

'Use 12000 XP to increase my Qi cultivation realm.'

[12000 XP has been used. Remaining XP: 102616.]

[Congratulations! Host has reached the fourth level of the Qi Gathering realm.]

'Use 15000 XP to increase my Qi cultivation realm.'

[15000 XP has been used. Remaining XP: 87616.]

[Congratulations! Host has reached the fifth level of the Qi Gathering realm.]

[----------STATUS---------

Experience Points (XP): 87616

XP / hour: 16

Strength: 3900 Jin

Qi cultivation realm: Qi Gathering V (XP: 0/18000)

Body cultivation realm: Mortal (XP: 0/5000)

Talent: B-grade

Bloodlines: [Iron Boar], [Thunder Wyvern]

Perks: [Appraisal], [Full Recovery]

Elemental affinities: [Lightning]

Cultivation methods: [Li clan's method]

Martial techniques: [Elusive Smoke Steps], [Instant Flash Step], [Hammer Fist]

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For now, Li Jing decided to stop spending his Experience Points. He will spend the remaining points once he will enter the Dark Forest.

Unfortunately, being the heir of the Li clan meant that he couldn't leave his clan compound by himself or without shadow guards following him. But, he knew how to convince his father to let him go to the Dark Forest alone.

Li Jing left his bedroom and saw Li Hua waiting for him outside it.

"Sister Hua, has anything interesting happened in the past two days?" He asked.

"Master announced this morning that the Heavenly Pill Pavilion will sell the Qi Condensing Pill from tomorrow. The whole clan is busy right now!" She answered.

"Alright, let's go see my father."

They both walked towards the main hall of the clan leader's courtyard. Once they arrived, Li Jing noticed that his father was busy talking with his grandfather.

"... We must be sure that everything is ready… Jing'er you're here. Hum? Your cultivation, how is it possible?" Asked Li Bai, clearly surprised.

"Jing'er tell us, how did you reach the fifth level of the Qi Gathering realm so quickly?" Asked Li Zhang.

Li Jing has anticipated that they will both immediately notice the increase in his cultivation.

"The Master Alchemist gave me a special pill to thanks me. Although he didn't tell me the name of this pill, he told me that it will greatly increase my cultivation if I consume it. I was also very surprised, I didn't expect it to be so powerful." Explained Li Jing.

Hearing this, Li Bai and Li Zhang both wondered what kind of miraculous pill could help someone breakthrough three levels in only two days. But they knew that if this Master Alchemist could enter and exit their clan compound without being spotted by their shadow guards, it meant that he was a league above them. Despite all their investigation, they didn't even find his name! Therefore, they thought that if Li Jing could receive benefits from this man then it was their clan's blessing.

"Alright, did he say anything else?" Asked Li Bai.

"He just said that he will come back next month to take his part of the profits… But I'm also here to ask you something." Said Li Jing.

"Tell us, Jing'er." Said Li Zhang.

"I want to go to the Dark Forest to gain battle experience." He said.