As soon as the Qi Gathering Pill entered his stomach, it transformed into a stream of clear energy that spread throughout his limbs and bones.
This mass of clear energy gathered more and more, finally surging within his body like a great wave, cleansing his body.
The mass of airflow that he had condensed earlier also began to expand rapidly. Before long, it was more than ten times larger than before!
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Two hours later, Chen Mu opened his eyes.
The world in front of him became even clearer. He could even clearly see some fine dust, and he could even faintly hear the sound of air flowing in his ears.
Looking at the cultivation level displayed by the Little Assistant, he had successfully entered the first-stage of Qi Refinement.
Even with his mediocre potential, he had successfully advanced to the first-stage Qi Refinement Realm with just one Qi Gathering Pill. This showed how extraordinary the Qi Gathering Pill was.
Sensing that his strength had grown explosively, Chen Mu walked to the bed without a word and lifted it forcefully!
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He still could not lift it!
He had no choice but to walk out of the cave.
Not long after, there was the sound of stones shattering outside the cave.
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After a while, Chen Mu returned to the cave.
It had to be said that this kind of extraordinary power was very intoxicating. After successfully stepping into the Qi Refinement Realm, his desire to become stronger grew more intense.
However, before he started cultivating, he had to come up with a complete cultivation plan.
He had to come up with a plan before attempting to do anything big. This was a good habit he had developed in his previous life.
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Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Two days later in the morning, Chen Mu sat in front of the table and began to plan his cultivation journey.
In the past two days, he did not use the Little Assistant on the first day and only relied on himself to cultivate.
The next day, he did not cultivate. Instead, he read some miscellaneous books and absorbed the cultivation power stored in the Little Assistant.
He had absorbed a total of five points of cultivation power in a single day.
In comparison, the effect of the second day's training was about 20 times that of the first day.
In other words, if the Little Assistant had sufficient attributes, absorbing attributes for one day was equivalent to cultivating for twenty days.
If the Little Assistant was filled with the power of cultivation and had enough for him to absorb for twenty days, it would be equivalent to him cultivating for four hundred days.
In fact, both could be done simultaneously.
The reason why he did not absorb the attributes in the Little Assistant while cultivating was to strictly control the variables so that he could obtain more accurate data now.
In the end, he concluded that under the premise that the Little Assistant had sufficient stored attributes, his cultivation speed was roughly 21 times that of a cultivator with the same talent as him.
Oh, there was another prerequisite. That cultivator with the same talent had to have the same cultivation environment as him.
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Chen Mu started writing furiously.
Since he had the Little Assistant, he had to make the best use of it.
The same Little Assistant would have different effects when used on different people.
According to the characteristics of the Little Assistant, he should first improve his defensive ability.
The stronger his defense, the closer he could get to a high-level battle.
Among the five elemental spiritual roots, the one with the strongest defense was the earth spiritual root.
He had to have an earth spiritual root.
As for the matter of the earth spiritual root, it would depend on Zhou Jinglei.
Chen Mu noted it down silently.
After his defense increased, his movement ability for escaping would need to be raised.
Astonishing defensive power coupled with rapid escape. These were the two great conditions needed to safely watch the battle of powerhouses.
According to the books he read yesterday, there were two spiritual roots that were good at escaping techniques.
One was a wind spiritual root that was good at long-distance running. The other was a lightning spiritual root that was good at sprinting.
Both of them were mutated spiritual roots and were extremely rare.
It was unknown if there were any cultivators in the Azure Yang Sect who possessed these two spiritual roots.
He had to ask around when he was free.
After his defense and escape techniques were strong enough, he would study other things.
It would be even better if he could learn spells like Invisibility or Transformation.
Of course, this was only the development route.
The final goal was to become an all-rounded warrior with no weaknesses.
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Other than that, he needed to raise his physical strength.
If his physical strength was strengthened, his defense, escape, and attack would all be strengthened.
However, cultivating the physical body was considered a demonic path in the cultivation world.
Cultivating Qi as per the decree of the Heavenly Dao, that was immortal.
Defying heaven and cultivating the body, that was demonic.
Unorthodox cultivation methods were considered heretical.
Although the demonic path was not equivalent to heretical as both sides had different ideologies, the Azure Yang Sect would not be able to accept a demonic cultivator appearing amongst their disciples.
Therefore, he had to try his best to hide the fact that he was raising his physical strength.
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After he finished writing this paragraph, Chen Mu continued to write the second paragraph.
A cultivator's comprehensive strength was not only reflected in their own cultivation, but also in some external objects.
For example, pills and treasures.
If he were to obtain a powerful treasure, it would not be difficult for him to fight someone stronger than him.
Little Assistant would not be able to help in this aspect. He could only rely on himself.
And if he wanted to possess medicinal pills and powerful treasures, he needed a medium.
That was spirit stones.
He needed a lot of spirit stones.
Because compared to other cultivators, he still needed to upgrade the Little Assistant.
Level 1 was 100 low-grade spirit stones, Level 2 required 1,000 low-grade spirit stones…
If that was the case, one could imagine the future.
How could he obtain more spirit stones?
The fastest way…
Of course it was to snatch!
However, robbing once in a while was fine, but he could not treat robbery as his main business.
Otherwise, what would he say when others asked?
"Chen Mu, why do you have so many spirit stones?"
"Oh, I stole it. I just killed two cultivators and made a fortune. I'm a professional robber."
A normal cultivator group should not have such a conversation.
Furthermore, if he snatched too much, not only would he be easily affected by karma, he might even kick an iron plate.
The consequences would be dire.
Therefore, he had to master a skill to earn spirit stones.
Chen Mu called it a life skill.
That way, if someone asked him why he had so many spirit stones, he would be able to explain it openly.
"Oh, that's how I got it."
In the cultivation world, there were only a few techniques that could earn large amounts of spirit stones.
Pill refinement, weapon refinement, array formation…
Chen Mu made a mental calculation.
If he relied solely on his own abilities, he would have to spend a lot of effort to enter the top three professions.
Because he had to spend most of his energy improving his strength, the cost-efficiency ratio would be much higher than studying these three professions.
Therefore, these three paths were not suitable for him.
He did not have the time now.
However, it did not mean that there were no skills that suited him.
Yesterday, he studied for a long time and finally took a fancy to the branch of Dao talismans.
Dao talismans sealed skills into spirit talismans for others to use.
This method was slightly unorthodox, but the Little Assistant might be able to help.
He still remembered that when he sparred with his master, because he did not have the corresponding talent, he ended up getting a chance to use the mortal deduction skill.
In terms of cultivation, this was very easy to understand.
For example, if he did not have the water spiritual root now, he would not be able to learn the basic water spiritual techniques. If the Little Assistant obtained such a spiritual technique, it would only become a single-use skill.
To him…
The stronger ones were fine, but the weaker ones were useless.
Instead of using them, he might as well use a spell he casually cast.
In addition, it would take up too much space if he were to save them up and unleash them at once.
Therefore, the best way was to seal them in talismans and sell them to those who needed them, turning them into spirit stones.
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Chen Mu slowly perfected his plan. An hour later, he stopped writing.
After the plan was completed, his path to becoming stronger was very clear.
The first step was to obtain the earth spiritual root!