Looking at the Qi Nourishing Pills in his hand, Chu Feng took a few deep breaths and suppressed the excitement in his heart.
He opened it and took a whiff. Instantly, a fragrant scent overflowed.
"Mmm, it smells so good!"
Chu Feng couldn't help but say.
No perfume in his previous life could compare to this smell.
The effects were not weak either. Just by smelling it, Chu Feng could feel that the spiritual energy in his body had become much more active.
Chu Feng hurriedly sat cross-legged on the bed and impatiently placed a Qi Nourishing Pill into his mouth.
The moment it entered his mouth, a tremendous amount of spiritual energy exploded in Chu Feng's mouth.
"Oh no!"
Chu Feng felt the spiritual power in his mouth and his expression changed drastically.
This was the first time he had taken it. He did not know that the spiritual energy released by the medicinal pill was so terrifying!
For a moment, he was actually shaken by this dense spiritual aura.
Chu Feng knew that he had to speed up.
Otherwise, the spiritual energy in his mouth would dissipate significantly.
The effect would then definitely not be as good as expected.
He bit her tongue and forced himself to focus.
He hurriedly circulated the Intermediate Qi Cultivation Technique to sort out the spiritual energy that had erupted.
A few minutes later, the power of the spiritual energy was slowly resolved.
Chu Feng wiped the cold sweat off his forehead.
He thought to himself that he was lucky this time. Next time, he had to be extremely careful!
Actually, this was also because Chu Feng couldn't come into contact with medicinal pills at his level.
People who had such pills usually wouldn't consume them so easily.
After all, for cultivators of the Qi Refinement realm, medicinal pills were extremely precious. Any one of them was not easy to obtain.
As a result, most people would check the corresponding ancient records when consuming pills, or request an outer sect elder to explain and protect them before consuming it.
Chu Feng naturally didn't know. He didn't even dare to tell others that he possessed the Qi Nourishing Pills.
Otherwise, it was hard to explain how he had even gotten his hands on them!
At the moment, he did not consider all these and continued to digest the huge amount of spiritual energy.
As he digested the spiritual energy, he felt that it was different from the heaven and earth spiritual energy he had absorbed.
This spiritual energy was clearer, had better quality, and had a higher refinement rate.
Thanks to the Intermediate Cultivation Technique's refinement speed, Chu Feng quickly finished absorbing it.
After absorbing it, he checked his Qi Sea.
There was now even more spiritual energy inside.
If it was the size of a thumb before, it was now nearly half the size of a fist.
According to the elder's explanation, when the spiritual energy in his Qi Sea reached the size of a fist, it meant that he had broken through to the realm of Early-stage Qi Refinement.
At the thought of this, Chu Feng no longer hesitated and continued to swallow the pills.
With this experience, Chu Feng no longer panicked.
A few hours later, he finally finished consuming all the Qi Nourishing Pills.
After he absorbed the last wisp of spiritual energy, a huge wave of energy came from his body.
"I have broken through?"
Chu Feng felt the changes in his body.
The spiritual energy in his body circulated wildly and continuously cleansed Chu Feng's body.
Within moments, Chu Feng's body turned red.
He now looked like a cooked shrimp.
White mist kept rose from his body.
Chu Feng gritted his teeth.
He had seen people breaking through to the Early-stage Qi Refinement realm.
Such a scene was normal.
The most important characteristic of breaking through to the Early-stage Qi Refinement realm was to cleanse one's flesh and blood.
This would allow his body to adapt to the spiritual energy of the world.
Before long, the cleansing ended and the spiritual energy returned to his Qi Sea.
His body gradually returned to its normal color.
At this moment, his body began to expel black matter.
Chu Feng knew that this was the poison accumulated over time.
Fortunately, his body was young and there wasn't much of it.
A few minutes later, the poison was discharged.
It began to emit an extremely strong stench.
Upon smelling this smell, Chu Feng couldn't help but retch. He hurriedly ran out of the door and washed up.
After washing up, he returned to his room and felt extremely comfortable.
It was as if the poison had removed the shackles on his body.
Furthermore, his strength had also doubled.
If he were to fight against Dong Bichao who was at the fifth level of Qi Refinement, it would not be as difficult as before.
Unfortunately, the chances to challenge today were all gone!
Otherwise, he would be very interested in Dong Bichao's Intermediate spirit root.
According to the outer sect elder, cultivation techniques increased the refinement rate of spiritual energy while spirit roots increased the absorption rate of spiritual energy.
Furthermore, depending on the spirit root, the spiritual energy absorbed would also be different.
The five different types of spirit roots corresponded to five types of spiritual energy. The purer the spiritual root, the higher the purity of the spiritual energy absorbed.
At the same time, it would also increase the speed of the cultivation technique's refinement.
This was also why spirit roots were especially emphasized in cultivation.
Take an example where there were two people who cultivated the same cultivation technique but had different spirit roots. One had an Elementary spirit root while the other had an Intermediate spirit root. The difference in strength of those two people would constantly increase.
It was still alright in the early stages as the spiritual energy required to advance wasn't much.
However, when they reached the later stages of cultivation, the demand for spiritual energy would increase and the problem of the spirit root would become even more obvious.
These were the outer sect elder's explanations.
At that time, Chu Feng was confused and didn't understand at that point in time. He merely remembered it.
Only now did Chu Feng completely absorb and digest this knowledge.
At the same time, he was extremely glad. Without the system, even if he was lucky enough to break through to the Early-stage Qi Refinement realm, his future growth would probably be very limited!
At the thought of this, Chu Feng prepared to continue cultivating in the mirror world.
However, he suddenly felt a sense of weakness in his mind, causing him to almost fall to the ground.
He hurriedly supported his body to recover.
Upon closer inspection, he had a realization.
It turned out that entering the mirror world required mental energy, although it didn't consume much of it.
On the contrary, breaking through consumed a large amount of Chu Feng's mental energy!
Following this, Chu Feng gave up on cultivating and turned around to sleep.
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The next day, Chu Feng woke up on time.
After breaking through to the Early-stage Qi Refinement realm, he could clearly feel that his body's recovery ability had become much stronger.
After a night of restoration, he was extremely energetic.
Taking a few deep breaths, he began his cultivation for the day.
But at this moment, a voice interrupted his plan.
"Good morning, Chu Feng. You don't know what we did last night."
Chu Feng followed the voice and looked over.
It was Zhang Lin.
Zhang Lin walked over proudly.
He said again, "Tsk tsk, it's a pity that you didn't go yesterday and missed out on the best opportunity! Those ladies are really beautiful, especially those who have achieved success in their cultivation. Their skin is so fair and tender, especially that pair of big treasures on their chests. They're so juicy, as if water could be squeezed out from them!"
After hearing Zhang Lin's words, Chu Feng couldn't help but shake his head.
However, some expectations built up in his heart.
If ordinary Qi Refinement cultivators had such good skin, what about higher-leveled cultivators?
But as soon as he thought about it, he shook his head and cleared the distracting thoughts from his mind.
To the current him, be it women or anything else, they were all distracting thoughts that obstructed his cultivation.
It would have been fine if it was before.
Without success in cultivation, the road ahead was uncertain.
But now, he wished he could devote every second he had to cultivation.
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