Li Qingyun reached the Foundation Establishment Stage directly the next day. He was the first person in this world, aside from Chu Yang, to achieve this.
This was related to his starting cultivation early, but more importantly, his talent was quite formidable. He had only been using a Mortal-Level cultivation technique before, but now that he had switched to an Immortal-Level one, his talent could finally be fully unleashed.
He didn't even need to use a Foundation Establishment Pill. He reached the Foundation Establishment Stage smoothly and naturally.
As for the Foundation Establishment Pill he had obtained for Xue Qianwei, he gave it to Gan Cuicui as her salary.
Gan Cuicui didn't dare to accept it, but Li Qingyun insisted that she must take it, so she reluctantly accepted it.
However, after receiving this Foundation Establishment Pill, Gan Cuicui's gaze towards Li Qingyun became a bit strange.
Yesterday, after the qualification identification, Li Qingyun had become extremely popular.
Many big business owners had offered to sponsor Li Qingyun for free and help him obtain resources for cultivation.
Li Qingyun declined them one by one. He was now just being a laid-back live streamer, casually streaming, and the daily revenue he generated was almost on a par with Chu Yang's.
As for Luo Xiaowei, his status in the Panda Live's Cultivating Immortals section had really dropped to -1.
The green belt in this park had basically been taken care of by him. People from the higher-ups of the country had arranged a special plane to pick him up and drop him off.
Li Qingyun didn't refuse this. He didn't want to join the military because he didn't want to lose his freedom, not because he wanted to reject all the good intentions from the country.
Xue Qianwei was already at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, while Luo Xiaowei was still only at the early stage of Qi Refining.
Both of them were cultivating the same level of cultivation techniques, but the gap between them had already begun to widen faintly.
The further one went in cultivation, the greater the impact of one's qualifications would be.
Now Luo Xiaowei had become Chu Yang's financial manager, responsible for managing the geniuses identified by the [Qualification Identification Stone].
He also had many fans of his own.
When some fans came to get their cultivation techniques and chatted with Luo Xiaowei casually: "Hey, Brother Wei, what's your qualification?"
Luo Xiaowei would never admit that he was only of average qualification. He said mysteriously, "It's not to be spoken of! Anyway, it's awesome!"
"What? You're not of inferior qualification, are you?"
Luo Xiaowei got angry on the spot: "What kind of talk is that? What kind of status do I have? I'm the Sword Cultivation Grandmaster! If you slander me again, I'll expel you from my fan club!"
Although he had entered the group, he knew that he had gotten in by luck.
Xue Qianwei was Chu Yang's boss. It was reasonable for her to appear in the "Pioneers of the Cultivating Immortals Era" small group.
But he was only of average qualification. To cling to Chu Yang's thigh, of course he would do his best. He would even be willing to pick up soap if Chu Yang asked him to!
Chu Yang had specifically gathered these geniuses in a group. He didn't believe that there would be no opportunities given.
Moreover, for this job now, he got one spirit stone per day. Those people had to reach superior qualification to get one Medium-Grade spirit stone, and he got one every day. What kind of salary level was this?
After a day, someone was selling spirit stones online, and a Medium-Grade spirit stone had already been hyped up to 100,000 yuan, and this number was still rising continuously.
Earning 100,000 yuan a day. Wasn't this better than being a live streamer?
Of course, he had just signed a new contract with Panda recently, so he still had to meet the required live streaming duration. So now he was streaming while distributing spirit stones to those with superior qualifications or above.
He held a loudspeaker and shouted: "The next batch of people for qualification identification can come down now!"
At this moment, the whole place was in an uproar.
An old man wearing a Taoist robe walked down from the spectator stand.
His name was Bai Nianchen, from White Stone Cave Heaven among the Thirty-Six Cave Heavens of Taoism. He was already eighty years old.
Actually, for someone like him, it was a bit embarrassing to come and obtain a cultivation technique.
One was his age, and the other was his identity.
As a Taoist, if he came to learn Chu Yang's cultivation techniques, wasn't it equivalent to admitting indirectly that what they had been cultivating before was wrong?
But Bai Nianchen didn't care about such remarks. He had been cultivating on the mountain since he was a child. Even in this era of the end of the Dharma, he still patiently practiced breathing exercises and cultivated his mind and body every day.
He firmly believed that the cultivation methods left by the ancestors were correct. Now, both his state of mind and physical condition were quite strong.
As an eighty-year-old man, he could still carry water by himself and persist in morning exercises.
Mosquitoes didn't bother him when he slept at night. Although he couldn't fly or travel through the ground, he thought that the Taoist methods he had been cultivating were useful. Yesterday, when someone went to offer incense, they told him that his Taoist temple might not be able to continue operating because many real immortals were going to appear outside.
So with a doubtful heart, Bai Nianchen traveled thousands of miles to come to this place.
He didn't hide his identity. Because he remembered that before his master passed away while sitting in meditation, he had instructed him to take good care of the Taoist temple and carry forward White Stone Cave Heaven. Now that he, an old man wearing a Taoist robe, had come, he immediately became the focus of the whole place.
"Ha ha! It's actually an old man!"
"How dare he come to get a cultivation technique wearing a Taoist robe? How interesting!"
"Hehe! This wave of the cultivating immortals craze by Immortal Big Brother has hit these swindling fake immortals hard!"
"I heard that the old Heavenly Master on Longhu Mountain had publicly criticized Immortal Big Brother's cultivation methods as heretical. Now he doesn't dare to say a word!"
"..."
Obviously, everyone had a lot of opinions about these old Taoists. When the real era of cultivating immortals arrived, their previous swindling appearances seemed quite ridiculous.
After all, when you cast a spell, there's not even a bit of special effect. How could you have the nerve to say you're an immortal?
Luo Xiaowei didn't give the old man a good look either and said, "Old grandpa, you're so old and you still come to do this. If something goes wrong here, don't try to extort money from me!"
Bai Nianchen took a look at Luo Xiaowei, his eyes extremely calm.
This was the temperament he had cultivated on the mountain for decades. It was difficult for the words of outsiders to cause big psychological fluctuations in him.
So, under the watchful eyes of many people with a look of watching the fun, Bai Nianchen stretched out his wrinkled hand and touched the [Qualification Identification Stone] in front of him.
"Huh?"
Bai Nianchen's eyes narrowed slightly. He felt that some kind of power within him seemed to have been activated.
Suddenly, strange purple lights flickered on his body.
Everyone was suddenly shocked and looked up at the sky.
A wisp of purple light came from the east and shone on the entire square.
The thick purple qi resonated with the qi within Bai Nianchen's body.
An apparition, Purple Qi Coming from the East!
"Damn it!"
"Another apparition has been triggered. This is at least a superior qualification!" Luo Xiaowei stood up completely, grabbing his head with both hands.
However, this was not just a simple apparition trigger.
Bai Nianchen's Taoist robe fluttered without wind, and his qi continued to rise at this moment. A faint and indescribable Taoist charm emanated from him. He sighed and murmured to himself, "So it turns out that because of the era of the end of the Dharma, spiritual power needs to be stimulated to manifest."