Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

After a while, the tear stains on his face slowly dried, and Wei Changqing rubbed his eyes. The inexplicable heartache gradually dissipated. He got up expressionlessly and continued to sort through the Spirit Grass.

A moment later, a figure slowly stopped in front of him.

Wei Changqing instinctively looked up and saw a young man with bright red lips and white teeth.

"You..." Wei Changqing was startled. He had only seen this young man once when he joined the sect and was unclear about the identity of the person before him.

"Follow me," Feng Qiyuan said slowly.

Wei Changqing instinctively looked down at the piles of Spirit Grass in front of him.

Feng Qiyuan stepped forward, took his hand, and, using the Void Object Control technique, rose into the air.

A voice came through the wind:

"No need to continue. From now on, you will cultivate with me, call me master."

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Great Zhou Dynasty, the border.

On the wide imperial road, a carriage sped forward, pulled by two extraordinary steeds, their bodies bright red and muscular, nearly a zhang tall at the shoulders.

The driver was a young man around sixteen or seventeen, his face clean and filled with a scholarly air.

Inside the carriage, Chu Zheng sat with closed eyes, concentrating as he slowly absorbed the Yuan Qi from the heavens and earth to increase his cultivation.

Song Lingxue sat beside him, occasionally glancing at Chu Zheng, her expression somewhat dreamy.

Even now, she felt as if she were in a dream, hardly believing that she was already married.

Although the wedding was very simple, with hardly any guests present, only her father and a few others including Li Mingzhou, she and Chu Zheng had indeed bowed to heaven and earth and become husband and wife, legitimate and justified.

These past few days, Chu Zheng had done a lot. After returning to the Capital of the Great Zhou, he first rescued Li Mingzhou and his companions.

As for what happened on that day, Li Mingzhou and the others didn't know and didn't ask further.

For safety's sake, Chu Zheng directly sent Song Tonghai and these Great Grandmasters into a Small World he carried with him.

The pursuit of martial cultivators by various Holy Lands was still ongoing. For Li Mingzhou and the other Great Grandmasters, staying in the Great Zhou posed too great a risk and could leave traces, far less secure than keeping them by his side.

What surprised Chu Zheng the most was that on his wedding day, after offering a ritual to the Ancestral Dao, he received a faint response from the void.

Although the response was very weak, as a Qi Cultivator, Chu Zheng still sensed it.

The content of the response was indistinct and unclear, but at least it proved that there was indeed an Ancestral Dao above this stretch of stars.

As a Qi Cultivator, he was not alone. This realization oddly comforted Chu Zheng; he was not walking an isolated path.

There were others ahead, proving that this path was viable.

After getting through the recent great disaster, Chu Zheng distinctly noticed some changes.

The affinity of the Yuan Qi between heaven and earth had clearly increased compared to before. In other words, the speed of his Qi refinement had increased.

It had nearly doubled.

This indicated that this part of the world's acknowledgment of him was gradually increasing.

Similar to the different grades of Immortal Bone among cultivators of the Immortal Path, among Qi Cultivators, there are also those naturally extraordinary, favored by the world, with exceptional understanding. In one year they reach the Jade Bone, in three the Dao Embryo, in ten the Golden Core, and in a hundred, they refine their spirit.

Such individuals are destined for greatness from birth, unfamiliar with what a cultivation bottleneck is, perhaps due to significant karma from a previous life leading to brilliance in this one.

Unlike Immortal Path cultivators, Qi Cultivators do not require a specific environment to cultivate; they can practice under any conditions, it's just a matter of efficiency.

No matter how harsh the environment, the worst outcome is dying of old age on the path of cultivation.

For Immortal Path cultivators, however, if the concentration of Spiritual Energy is too low, not only can they not cultivate, but their cultivation might even regress, eventually losing all their mana.

Now that the world's recognition of Chu Zheng had increased, he possessed a cultivation speed in the mundane world not inferior to that within a Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

Add to this the Superior Quality Spirit Stones, and within a short time, Chu Zheng's cultivation had already improved greatly, stepping into the late stage of Spirit Transformation, just one step away from the Jade Bone Realm.

It had been less than a year since Chu Zheng had started on the path of cultivation, and his achievements were already modestly noteworthy.

However, the sense of urgency in his heart had not relaxed in the slightest.

Now that people had died in both holy lands, the next people to come would only be more terrifying than Ling Qi and Fang Jiong, even possibly, a mighty one from the Tongxuan Secret Realm himself.

Facing such existence, even the Lihuo Spear would be suppressed on the spot, unable to stir up the slightest storm.

He needed to strike first before the storm arrived, making all necessary preparations for ascending Taixuan.

Among these, the most critical task was to quickly digest the inheritance left by Fang Jiong.

For safety, Chu Zheng checked everything of Fang Jiong's in the Small World to prevent any leaking of aura.

From Fang Jiong's last words, those methods of the holy lands could not divine objects inside a Small World.

The reason the holy lands had never found Ye Yulou's remains over so many years was precisely because of this.

In these times, through Fang Jiong's relics, Chu Zheng had grown increasingly more familiar with Taixuan Holy Land.

Due to the prevalence of Divine Fire, Taixuan Holy Land was abundant with Alchemists and Casting Masters; the strongest Alchemist of the entire Southern Region used to be from Taixuan Holy Land.

Taixuan Holy Land was also one of the only two lineages currently capable of refining Immortal Pills.

Learning this, Chu Zheng's intention to enter Taixuan became even more resolute, setting aside some unavoidable risks, Taixuan Holy Land was almost a perfect place to settle.

"Husband... where do we go now?"

Song Lingxue was still somewhat uncomfortable with this somewhat foreign title,

Changing habits was not so easy, and another reason was somewhat related to Chu Zheng's current appearance.

As a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Realm, he had a lifespan of 360 years. Now that his cultivation had advanced, Chu Zheng's appearance had once more undergone rejuvenation.

Compared to before, even if Chu Zheng's frame was taller and his skeleton well-proportioned, he now looked to be only around fourteen or fifteen years old, which made Song Lingxue somewhat uncomfortable.

Rather than a couple, the two of them now looked more like siblings.

Chu Zheng slowly opened his eyes, his pupils showing a maturity entirely unlike his appearance:

"First, let's go to Giant Marsh, find Ling Qing, report safety, have a family reunion, avoid this storm, then go to Taixuan."

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In the blink of an eye, night fell.

The carriage slowly stopped, and Chu Zheng opened a world passage, leading Song Lingxue and Bai Nian into the Small World slowly by foot.

Currently, they were unclear about the outside situation. Though this way of travelling was slow, it was safe and unlikely to draw the attention of other cultivators.

Chu Zheng walked alone into a wilderness and summoned the relics left by Fang Jiong.

[Heavenly Star Flame (Fifth Order): Derived from the fire of a meteor moving between the stars in space, refined into a seed, quite rare.]

Looking at the flickering Fire Seed in front of him, Chu Zheng took a deep breath, sat down cross-legged, and swallowed the Fire Seed in one gulp.

According to the Taixuan Divine Fire Scripture, if he could refine this Fifth Order Fire Seed, his speed of cultivation on the Immortal Path would be comparable to that of a high-quality Immortal Bone.

While assimilating the Divine Fire, Chu Zheng concentrated his thoughts on the back of his head and slowly crushed a piece of bone.

Having seen Ling Qing's fragmented Immortal Bone, he could easily imitate it. Although it was quite uncomfortable to have several broken bones at the back of his head, this disguise was indispensable.

The absorption of the Divine Fire went smoothly. In less than half a day, Chu Zheng's aura had changed.

[Name: Chu Zheng]

[Cultivation: Qi Refining: Late Spirit Transformation Realm, Immortal Path: Late Spirit Spring Realm]

[Cultivation Technique: Taixuan Divine Fire Scripture (Eighth Order), Great Circulatory Qi Guideline (Sixth Order/Incomplete), Heavenly Star Body Refining Technique (Fifth Order), Dragon-Tiger Body (Fourth Order/Incomplete)…]

[Divine Skills: Xuan Tian Seal Third Form (Fifth Order), Space Condensing Art (Sixth Order), Object Control (First Order), Transmute Stone to Gold (First Order), Invisibility Technique (First Order)…]

[Repair Master: Second Order (565/1000)]

[Remaining Repair Attempts Today: 5]

[Currently Repairable: Great Circulatory Qi Guideline - Upper Volume (0/1000), Dragon Tiger Body - Middle Volume (0/500), Phantom Spirit Technique (0/10000), Five Elements Shaping Pill (245/500)]