Chapter 3: Practice

Three months have passed since Ye Junlan became Su Yu's apprentice.

Su Yu sat in the room, holding a middle-grade spirit stone in his hand. As he continued to absorb spiritual energy, the last trace of spiritual energy was absorbed by him.

The spirit stone lost all its spiritual energy and turned into a handful of powder, which scattered on the ground.

Su Yu's aura changed, and he suddenly opened his eyes.

"Break through the eighth level of Qi Refining."

In the past three months, Su Yu used a middle-grade spirit stone every month. After using three middle-grade spirit stones, he finally broke through the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Ye Junlan's breakthrough speed was even more amazing. He had broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining in three months.

At this speed, he might be able to try to build a foundation within two years.

Such a cultivation is absolutely terrifying.

The most talented genius Su Yu knew before was the earth spirit root.

It took him ten years to successfully build a foundation.

You know, that person started practicing at the age of fifteen and built a foundation at the age of twenty-five. It is absolutely a speed that is against the sky.

But compared with Ye Junlan, it is far behind.

Thinking that Ye Junlan not only had a natural spiritual root, but also had an immortal spirit body.

Fang Yu felt normal again. Although he didn't know the function of the immortal spirit body, it sounded like immortality was not simple.

Fang Yu took out the storage bag. In addition to an ordinary low-grade magic weapon, there were also ten Qi Condensation Pills for the Qi Refining Stage.

There were only ten low-grade spirit stones left.

His life savings were only one hundred low-grade spirit stones, and in the past three months, he had basically used them all for Ye Junlan.

Now there were only ten left.

Instead, there were ninety medium-grade spirit stones, in addition to the three he used, there were eighty-seven.

Looking at the small pile of medium-grade spirit stones next to the ten low-grade spirit stones, Su Yu couldn't help but feel refreshed. Even some foundation-building cultivators might not use medium-grade spirit stones for cultivation.

Generally speaking, medium-grade spirit stones are suitable for foundation-building and Jindan stage cultivators, and Qi Refining stage cultivators generally use low-grade spirit stones.

The utilization rate of absorbing middle-grade spirit stones in the Qi Refining Stage is not high. The effect of using one middle-grade spirit stone for cultivation is about the same as that of absorbing fifty low-grade spirit stones.

Half of it is wasted in one round trip.

But even so, Su Yu would not use middle-grade spirit stones to exchange for low-grade spirit stones for cultivation. It was too dangerous.

During the meal, Fang Yu gave all the remaining ten low-grade spirit stones to Ye Junlan.

Ye Junlan hesitated with the spirit stones.

"Master, I can actually cultivate without spirit stones."

As Ye Junlan's cultivation level gradually increased, he could slowly feel that Fang Yu's cultivation level was only in the late stage of Qi Refining.

And in the past three months, he has used ninety low-grade spirit stones of his master.

Now his master is going to give him ten more spirit stones, and with the breakthrough of the middle stage of Qi Refining, Ye Junlan seems to be able to vaguely feel that Su Yu's deadline is approaching.

In this way, he is even more reluctant to use Su Yu's spirit stones.

Su Yu raised his eyebrows when he heard Ye Junlan's words.

"It must be used. How can you cultivate without spirit stones!"

Su Yu said decisively.

Are you kidding? If Ye Junlan doesn't use spirit stones, what will he use?

Ye Junlan was even more moved after hearing Su Yu's words.

In his opinion, his master was about to die, and at this time he gave him all the spirit stones for cultivation, just to let him protect himself better after his master left.

Su Yu didn't know what Ye Junlan was thinking.

He just wanted Ye Junlan to use the spirit stones for cultivation.

After dinner, Ye Junlan immediately started to cultivate.

He wanted to break through the foundation building as soon as possible, and then he might be able to get the spirit medicine for his master to prolong his life.

Fang Yu nodded with satisfaction when he saw Ye Junlan's hard work in cultivation.

Ten days later.

After Ye Junlan used up the spirit stones, Fang Yu called him over.

"Junlan, there are no lower-grade spirit stones left, and you can only..."

Before Fang Yu finished speaking, Ye Junlan said:

"Master, don't worry, I can cultivate even if I don't use spirit stones."

Ye Junlan's eyes were firm and his tone was firm.

Fang Yu paused. When did he say that he would not give Ye Junlan spirit stones?

Before Fang Yu could speak, Ye Junlan continued:

"Master, I know that you have good intentions, but I can practice very fast without spirit stones. It is a bit wasteful to use spirit stones."

Ye Junlan was telling the truth. His spirit roots were of heavenly quality, and he had a spirit body. His practice speed was very fast. He only increased his practice speed by a few percent by using low-quality spirit stones.

The worse the talent, the more improvement one will get when practicing with spirit stones. After all, the worse the talent, the slower one will absorb qi, and the faster the speed will be when using spirit stones.

After seeing Ye Junlan finish speaking, Fang Yu said with a strange look:

"I have been practicing with spirit stones recently, but this is not good."

Hearing what Fang Yu said, Ye Junlan nodded quickly.

He was moved that his master finally realized that they were just two small Qi-refining casual practitioners and had no savings.

How could they be so extravagant to practice with spirit stones every day?

Just when Ye Junlan thought Fang Yu was finally going to be frugal, Fang Yu changed his tone.

"You will get tired of using spirit stones if you use them too much. It is time to change them. Here are two bottles of Qi Condensation Pills. Take them."

Fang Yu threw two small jade bottles to Ye Junlan, patted Ye Junlan on the shoulder, and went back to practice.

Ye Junlan was left standing there in a daze, with a frozen smile on his face.

Did he just mean that he was tired of using spirit stones?

Why did he feel that the master didn't understand what he meant at all?

He clearly hoped that the master could be more frugal!

Ye Junlan held two bottles of Qi Condensing Pills with a confused look on his face. He was stunned for a moment before he realized that he had stood up and was about to leave.

He got up quickly.

"Master, this Qi Condensing Pill..."

Before he finished speaking, Fang Yu turned around and said:

"By the way, I forgot to tell you how to use the Qi Condensing Pill."

Ye Junlan was stunned. How to use the elixir? He didn't even want to ask this question.

He obviously wanted Fang Yu to take back the elixir.

After all, Fang Yu needs it more than him.

Fang Yu continued:

"The way to take the Qi Condensing Pill is to swallow it. This is a low-grade Qi Condensing Pill with more erysipelas. Generally, a monk can take one pill every ten days. But you are a wood attribute spirit. Although you don't know what the effect of wood is yet. Attribute spirits have a common characteristic, which is to eliminate erysipelas, so I recommend that you take one pill every three days."

After speaking, Fang Yu looked at Ye Junlan and asked.

"Is there anything else you don't understand?"

Ye Junlan shook his head and suddenly nodded again.

Fang Yu: "Since there is no problem, let's go ahead and practice. As monks, our time is precious. We are born to go against the will of heaven, so we must not neglect it."

After saying that, Fang Yu walked away with a puff of his sleeves.

Ye Junlan looked at Fang Yu's leaving figure and felt that what Fang Yu said was a bit strange.

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized.

When he first arrived, Fang Yu was either lying on the rocking chair to relax or taking a fishing rod to fish in the small pool behind the bamboo building.

There is no such thing as racing against time.

After thinking for a while, Ye Junlan could only attribute it to the fact that Fang Yu must have some unknown secret.

Thinking of the book "Witches and Monsters" he saw on Fang Yu's bookshelf recently, he became more sure of his thoughts.