Sitting down and beginning the refining of the treasure spatial rings, the spiritual marks left behind in each one of them begun disappearing as Ling Xu used his formless qi to erase it.

Although they were all of treasure level, since there were several of them and he first had to erase the spiritual marks left by their previous owners it took him many times more the time it took him to solely refine the spatial ring that was owned by the late swordsman who left his will in the cave.

After an hour and a half of refining the rings, he had taken everything out and divided the items into what was of value and those that were useless he would throw them off later.

In the previous division of categories, he counted first the spiritual stones as he now had made the small mountain slightly bigger.

After adding the low grade spiritual stones from the rings he added 65 more, making a total value of 1165 low grade spiritual stones.

"They were so poor." He felt that the amount of spiritual stones was too small for their cultivation levels, but this was normal. Cultivation takes time and spiritual stones are the source used to speed the refinement of qi and a means to buy techniques, weapons and other items.

"It is okay since each one of them had a middle grade treasure sword of their own." Ling Xu added since he was more than satisfied with his current possessions, coming the majority from the people he killed. "With them I will be able to get more than enough spiritual stones."

Where the four treasure sword were located there wasn't anything new since it seemed that they only had that weapon alone. This was quite normal since outer disciples would sell anything of value that they could use to improve their strength.

Buying a middle grade treasure sword isn't easy at all and they must have used their previous weapon to help them upgrade to it.

"At least this Lu Wenjie was quite rich." He observed as he looked at the last section where the bottles containing pills were located. Although Lu Wenjie was the weakest out of the three man he had killed, he was the first young master of the Lu Family back at Bright Moon City.

The only middle grade treasure spatial ring he obtained came from him, not any of the seniors who were in the seventh and eight stage of Qi Refining.

Apart from that, after erasing the spiritual mark on it and refining it he took out three bottles containing middle grade qi refining pills. Two of them were full since they had ten each and the last one had five remaining.

He also got a bottle of middle grade qi replenishing pills with eight pills remaining. Apart from that there still was another bottle with seven low grade qi replenishing pills.

Now in total, Ling Xu possessed forty-five middle grade qi refining pills, eight middle grade qi replenishing pills and ten low grade qi replenishing pills. Between the pills he obtained there wasn't a single low grade qi refining pill since qi refining pills are the most used pills and they all had long surpassed the lower stages of Qi Refining.

Only those who are between the first and third stages would use these low grade qi refining pills since it is the level where it has the most effect. There are even those who have yet to use them and refine these pills while being in the fourth stage of Qi Refining, but their effects significantly drop after being in this stage since the purity of the qi contained in the pill isn't as high as the qi that they possess in their body.

This is also why Ling Xu is seeing the efficiency from the low grade qi refining pills greatly diminished since his current qi has become so abundant and dense that the purity from these pills is incomparable to his qi.

Seeing all the valuable things that he had on the ground, Ling Xu felt surprised and very calm. "The harvest obtained from the mission is incomparable to what I imagined I would have gotten." He began analyzing and realized that he wouldn't have to worry about cultivation resources for a while now that he had so many spiritual stones.

"With the belongings from Lu Wenjie and the two seniors plus the small inheritance left behind by the great swordsman in the cave, I have far surpassed what any cultivator in my current level should have!" Feeling excited about it, he decided to use his time from now until his spiritual stones became scarce to cultivate and practice with all his heart.

He saved everything he currently had in his current spatial ring, the one left behind by the sword cultivator in the cave and only left in his room a white bottle containing five middle grade qi refining pills.

"It surely feels much stronger than the low grade ones." A middle grade qi refining pill was between two of his fingers as he sensed its energy which was several times stronger.

Taking the pill to his mouth, he swallowed it directly and waited until the effects begun to take place. The pill begun dissolving once it was in his stomach and pure qi came out from it, it headed to his meridian as it begun madly absorbing all this qi, transforming it next into the formless qi that circulated through his meridians and refined his acupoints.

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Ling Xu's breathing was stable and very profound, every breathing he took lasted a dozen seconds before exhaling and then inhaling air once again.

Almost three hours later, the effect from the pill was completely faded as he felt that the refining speed of his acupoints with his formless qi returned to its normal state.

"Status panel." He willed and a transparent window that only he could see appeared out of thin air.

[Name]: Ling Xu

[Realm]: 2nd stage of Qi Refining (63%)

[Cultivation]: Formless Qi Breathing (perfection), Existence Shadow Will (58%)

[Techniques]: Gale Wind (small success 37%), Flowing Stream Sword (perfection), Three Purities Sword (perfection), Blood Thread Transformation (completed)

[Avenue]: Sword Intent (24%)

"My refining speed has almost doubled!" Ling Xu observed that he advanced 15% in his cultivation realm after absorbing the pill. "Taking this speed of refining qi into the body I won't need to wait even a week before breaking through the third stage."

With his current speed he would advance after just another two days of cultivating since Ling Xu was planning to consume two qi refining pills per day, taking six hours to advance in his cultivation realm.

If every pill helped him progress 15%, after using the next three he would be just a breath away from completing the second stage of Qi Refining and once he completed it he would be able to breakthrough directly.

"It is already very dark, let's continue tomorrow morning." He decided since he had returned with Sun Qinglan in the afternoon and after returning to his room, settling his loot and trying to cultivate with the middle grade qi refining pill a few hours had already passed since the sun set off.

The following day, Ling Xu woke up when the sun begun rising.

Going to his special spot in the outer sect, he practiced four hours in a row in the forest. Sword marks could be seen everywhere since he had already cut several trees and even the ground. There was even the boulder that had been cut vertically, leaving an opening between one and two feet wide and a few meters long.

Afterwards he would go to the Dining Hall to eat and then he would return to his room where he would continue cultivating.

Two days later, the sun could be seen starting to descend from the horizon and hiding in the mountains. An orange color bathed the outer sect as it created a beautiful scenery appreciated by every member of the sect.

Unfortunately, Ling Xu couldn't see it since he was in his room.

The surging qi in his body was refining his acupoints, his dantian was filled to the brim as no more formless qi could be refined and stored within it. After an incense stick of time he opened his eyes.

[Name]: Ling Xu

[Realm]: 2nd stage of Qi Refining (98%)

[Cultivation]: Formless Qi Breathing (perfection), Existence Shadow Will (58%)

[Techniques]: Gale Wind (small success 53%), Flowing Stream Sword (perfection), Three Purities Sword (perfection), Blood Thread Transformation (completed)

[Avenue]: Sword Intent (24%)

Everything progressed smoothly since his movement technique had already reached halfway through the small success level. Ling Xu felt that the progress had decreased a little compared to before as he noticed that from advancing 10% after hours of training in one day it had slowed down to half the speed once he reached 50%.

But it still was very fast so he didn't feel burdened at all, even if it took longer he would only train more until he completed it. Although Ling Xu valued his gift of entering enlightenment through the path between his eyes, he felt most satisfied when his efforts bore fruit.

Then he focused on what mattered the most to him right now.

"The effect from the pill has been completely used up." He looked at the last 2% he had in his status panel and he could feel it. "I am just a breath away of completing the second stage in the Qi Refining Realm, now I only need to refine my acupoints a little more until they reach their limit and I can breakthrough to the third stage."

He didn't take a second middle grade qi refining pill since he was just about to completely refine it and he didn't want to waste the rest of the medicinal effect contained on it.

After a little less than an hour, he felt that his acupoints couldn't be further refined. He continued until a complete hour had passed but he felt that it had completely stopped absorbing his formless qi.

"I first have to reach my peak condition so there are no problems while breaking through." Taking in a middle grade qi replenishing pill into his mouth he swallowed it whole and after it dissolved he felt how rapidly his qi recovered.

Ling Xu had to take in the middle grade one since his qi was already far above the level where a low grade one could help and when he used them he would have less than a third of his qi recovered.

It barely took a few minutes before his dantian was filled to its full capacity once again, he remained with his eyes closed and calmed his mind. After entering enlightenment so many times, Ling Xu had realized how important it was to make his mind feel as light as possible, helping him progress much faster in anything he desired.

Half an incense stick of time later, he had completely calmed down, keeping his mind in complete silence.

"Let's begin the breakthrough, I wonder how many acupoints will be opened this time."

The formless qi in his body came out of his dantian and begun circulating through the meridians of his body. Driven by the force from his 31 acupoints he could feel the speed from his qi fastening with each breath he took.

Ling Xu made sure to control his formless qi so it wouldn't seep through the meridians and become absorbed by his body since it would weaken his breakthrough.

The speed of his qi flowing through his body in a cycle form continued until he reached its maximum speed.

"Now!" He yelled inwardly and all his formless qi that was travelling through the meridians connecting between his opened acupoints begun their attack as they advanced towards one which wasn't refined.

It took a second before it was opened up completely and another meridian was unblocked, his whole qi continued refining the next acupoint.

2…3…7…9…11…13

One acupoint was opened right after the other, this process went pretty fast until his formless qi decreased significantly and the pressure couldn't open the acupoints right away like before.

15…17…20…22…24

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