Eternal Life: Hundredfold Rewards-Chapter 102 - 82: Qi Refining Ninth Layer! Consuming the Barrier-Breaking Pill!

Chapter 102: Chapter 82: Qi Refining Ninth Layer! Consuming the Barrier-Breaking Pill!

However, it’s not a reward of contribution points, but of True Inheritance Merit Points.

True Inheritance Merit Points can be exchanged for contribution points at a higher rate, used for purchasing various resources.

But more importantly, they help improve the rankings among True Disciples, with those higher in rank getting priority access to Foundation Establishment Pills.

Additionally, if a True Disciple is promoted to Elder, True Inheritance Merit Points can directly become Elder Merit Points.

Elders with high merit can become powerful elders within the sect, wielding great authority, overseeing many major affairs, and enjoying substantial benefits.

If one only has cultivation but lacks merit, they can only become an ordinary elder, enjoying standard elder benefits with relatively limited decision-making power in sect matters.

During this trip, Qi Chuan obtained a total of one hundred and thirty-two True Inheritance Merit Points.

Among them, the mandatory task itself earned him one hundred True Inheritance Merit Points.

Twenty-two points were bonus rewards for Qi Chuan’s performance in killing enemies during the task.

As for the last ten points, they were obtained by handing over Ye Liang’s black scroll.

This amount of reward is already quite good.

Because a typical True Inheritance task might yield only 10 to 30 True Inheritance Merit Points.

The base reward for this task was one hundred points because it was an unusual mission involving eliminating the Ye Family. Although there was sect planning, making it safer, the True Inheritance Merit should not be too low.

"For now, I don’t have anything urgent to exchange for, so I’ll save these True Inheritance Merit Points for when I can directly convert them to Elder Merit after entering Foundation Establishment,"

Qi Chuan thought to himself.

Currently, many of his various skills have reached the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, with the only lacking aspect being his cultivation level.

For cultivation, having Spirit Ginseng Pills as support is sufficient.

Even now, of the twenty Spirit Ginseng Pills rewarded upon promotion to True Disciple, a few are still left. Once consumed, he can use Spirit Stones to exchange for more easily, as each Spirit Ginseng Pill only requires twenty Lower Grade Spirit Stones. There’s no need to use the hard-earned True Inheritance Merit Points.

At this moment, in one of the True Inheritance Islands over Wind Moon Lake, within Qi Chuan’s Tier Two Lower Grade True Inheritance Cave Mansion.

Inside a bamboo hut, Qi Chuan sat cross-legged on a couch, eyes closed.

It was the second day after the journey to Profound Leaf Mountain. After a night of circulating his energy and adjusting his state, Qi Chuan had fully recovered the mana consumed during the task, and his mindset had returned to normal.

Inside his body, as the Evergreen Technique operated, traces of the medicinal power of the Spirit Ginseng Pill began to emerge from his limbs, mixing with the Spiritual Qi absorbed from the outside world, flowing through his meridians. After a Grand Circulation, all of it was refined into mana and stored within his Dantian.

Then, Qi Chuan opened his eyes to see a line of text gradually appearing in front of him.

"You operated the Evergreen Technique, absorbing Spiritual Qi, refining medicinal power, transforming it into your own mana, triggering a twenty-five times critical strike, gaining a twenty-five times return, and slightly increasing your total mana."

With the appearance of the text, the mana in his Dantian multiplied twenty-five times instantaneously.

"At this rate, I should be able to advance to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer in about two years,"

Qi Chuan thought to himself, feeling the increased mana in his Dantian.

During his cultivation, the critical strike multiplier of his Golden Finger fluctuates constantly, making it uncertain when exactly he will break through.

It’s possible that it might take even more than two years.

However, he just needs to proceed methodically, and eventually, he will break through, no need to rush.

Once he reaches the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, he will be considered a high cultivator in the Qi Refining Late Stage, just a step away from Qi Refining Perfection in the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.

Moreover, he has the Barrier-Breaking Pill bestowed by the Sect Leader that, when taken at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, can greatly increase mana without side effects, with a fifty percent chance of directly advancing to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.

With the assistance of the Golden Finger’s critical strikes, advancing to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer is assured! Then he can proceed to attempt Foundation Establishment!

"I still need to work on my Divine Soul, see if I can advance further and directly cultivate Divine Sense while in the Qi Refining Realm..."

Qi Chuan contemplated internally.

Currently, his physical body has long reached the peak of a Tier One Body Cultivator, and advancing to Tier Two Body Cultivation is not so easy, at least not for the time being.

For Foundation Establishment, mana, physical body, and Divine Soul are the three major hurdles. The only way to push the limits further and increase the likelihood of Foundation Establishment is through the Divine Soul.

His Divine Soul now is comparable to most Qi Refining Tenth Layers, which is almost sufficient.

But if he could cultivate Divine Sense in the Qi Refining stage, it would equate to having the strength of a Foundation Establishment level Divine Soul early on, providing significant benefits towards successful Foundation Establishment.

So given the chance, naturally, he must seize the opportunity.

Therefore, after operating the Evergreen Technique and improving his mana each day, Qi Chuan devoted any remaining time and effort to practicing the Celestial Punishment Thunder Prison Visualization Method.

Through such diligent efforts, both his mana and Divine Soul steadily improved at a commendable rate.

...

In the blink of an eye, a year and eight months passed.

During this period, the friction between the Wind Moon Sect and the Celestial Soul Hall gradually increased, with most conflicts occurring along the border areas shared by the two sects.

Many resources along the border had ownership disputes.

Previously, the two sects had approximately outlined their territorial boundaries and resource allocations based on actual control areas and certain exchanges of interests.

Although there were occasional frictions, both sects restrained themselves within a certain range, not escalating into more significant conflicts.

However, over the past year or two, things have been different.

The Celestial Soul Hall has frequently found various excuses to rekindle frictions in areas where the territorial boundaries and resource allocations were previously implicitly delineated.

Moreover, once minor friction arises, instead of calming and resolving it, they guide it to expand, turning minor issues into significant local conflicts.

And these major conflicts are developing not in isolation but along multiple lines, showing signs of intensification.

The casualties incurred during this period became hard for the Wind Moon Sect to ignore, and voices of discontent gradually emerged within the sect, growing louder and more numerous.

As a result, the lower and middle ranks of the Wind Moon Sect began to voluntarily move towards the borders with Celestial Soul Hall to retaliate in kind, initiating incidents within the Celestial Soul Hall’s territories.

The higher-ups of the Wind Moon Sect seemed to turn a blind eye to these developments, allowing them to unfold.

As a result, frictions between the two sects increased, and the term "sect war" began to surface in discussions among the members of the Wind Moon Sect.

This, in turn, incited both fearful and excited emotions within the Wind Moon Sect.

However, these events had relatively limited impact on Qi Chuan.

He continued to cultivate as usual.

On this day, inside the Cave Mansion.

"You operated the Evergreen Technique, absorbing Spiritual Qi, refining medicinal power, transforming it into your mana, triggering a forty times critical strike, gaining a forty times return, and slightly increasing your total mana, you have advanced to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer."

After completing a Grand Circulation with the Evergreen Technique, and having all the mana return to his Dantian, Qi Chuan opened his eyes and saw this line of text.

"Finally reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer."

Qi Chuan smiled slightly.

Now, compared to the peak of the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, his mana within his body had increased significantly, approximately by forty percent.

The increase in strength was notable, but more importantly, upon reaching the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, Qi Chuan could now consume the Barrier-Breaking Pill!

Qi Chuan’s hand brushed over his Qiankun Bag at his waist, revealing an inconspicuous Jade Bottle, which he uncorked to reveal a dragon-eye-sized, light green pill, exuding an enticing fragrance. Just a whiff created ripples within his Qi Refining Ninth Layer mana.

This pill also bore the presence of Pill Patterns!

"Consuming this Barrier-Breaking Pill can greatly increase mana without side effects. Could it allow me to advance directly to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer?"

Gazing at the light green Barrier-Breaking Pill for a moment, Qi Chuan directly swallowed it.