Cultivation begins with harvest.

With all worldly concerns removed, Chen Guang needed to consider something else.

You can start building your persona as a drug-addicted prince now. Do it subtly, so that people in your sub-forum know that you've started taking drugs frequently in order to improve your cultivation level quickly. Once people in your sub-forum know, this persona will spread.

"Once I reach the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and after a few more trips out seeking opportunities, my rapid progress will become more and more reasonable. People's attention to my weak aptitude will gradually shift to amazement at my luck. In reality, that's pretty much the case. If I also acquire some spiritual items and pills to improve my aptitude, I won't have to worry about attracting too much attention for my rapid progress."

The main issue is the efficiency of weaklings in refining spiritual energy. Even without any bottlenecks, if someone else's one day is equivalent to two days for a weakling, then this excessively fast cultivation speed is problematic. Chen Guang still needs some personas to dispel some doubts from the public.

If someone has a cultivation level of the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining, these gazes will automatically retreat.

In truth, it's because I'm too weak and worried that I won't be able to protect this opportunity. That's why I can't help but overthink things, worrying about exposing my special abilities, or even being overly anxious.

Placing one's own safety in the moral standards of others is a helpless compromise, but Chen Guang does not intend to blindly follow them.

Once he has enough strength, this worry will naturally dissipate. Before he has the strength to deal with any situation, Chen Guang feels that there is nothing wrong with doing this.

One should always be wary of others.

"After the Jade Heart Grass matures next year, I'll break through to the third level of Qi Refining. The cultivation level reward from the light orb includes opening acupoints and widening meridians. In other words, the bottleneck that should exist in the mid-stage of Qi Refining doesn't apply to me. Even if I break through slowly in the mid-stage of Qi Refining, I might still be able to maintain a breakthrough rate of once every two years?"

Chen Guang pondered. If it was too fast, suppressing it for a year wouldn't be a problem. After all, the barrier between the sixth and seventh levels of Qi Refining was about understanding the cultivation technique. A cultivation technique was for general situations, but in the later stages of Qi Refining, some content needed to be adjusted more personally to suit individual circumstances. Only after the cultivation technique was more suitable could one use the accompanying spells.

Modifying a practice is extremely dangerous. Even minor adjustments can only be made within the strictly defined scope of the "Purple Qi Facing the Brightness" manual. This manual is a condensation of the wisdom of our predecessors. Only modifications within this scope can ensure that the practice is more compatible with oneself and will not cause irreparable errors.

This tests a cultivator's understanding of the cultivation method and their own circumstances. Outsiders can only share their insights but cannot directly help complete this process; it all depends on the cultivator's own abilities.

This process will be very difficult. Even if you try to get through it step by step, three years wouldn't be enough time to do it.

The sect's three-year mini-exams, before reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining, test aptitude, ability to acquire and manage resources, and coordination of cultivation. Upon reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining, they become a test of personal talent.

If one cannot break through to the late stage of Qi Refining within three years, there may be some late bloomers who slip through the net, but more than 90% of outstanding talents will show their abilities and get through this hurdle.

If you're mediocre, then use the methods of mediocre people to gradually break through.

With the help of the Purple Flower and Azure Guidance, Chen Guang felt he could now focus his mind on understanding the cultivation method.

Chen Guang was having a strange feeling right now, and he was circulating his magical power in a specific way, with some acupoints responding as well.

A tiny white vortex naturally formed in the dantian.

With the help of this training, he finally grasped the key essence of the Spirit Gathering Slash and mastered it.

Each time the mana is circulated, the power of the Spirit-Nourishing Slash will increase. Theoretically, there is no upper limit. In reality, due to the dantian's capacity, it will be actively sealed by the cultivator when it reaches a certain level. Continuing to increase the power of the Spirit-Nourishing Slash carries the risk of dantian damage and loss of control. The risk increases sharply, while the benefits are very limited.

The fact that the vulgarity was completely removed had such a great impact was something Chen Guang himself had never expected.

After finishing his cultivation, Chen Guangcai began to set up spiritual energy arrays for the spiritual fields that did not yet have them. At first, he thought that after comprehending the "Basic Formation" manual, setting up spiritual energy arrays would definitely yield different results. He was an amateur before, but now he was an expert, so he should gain something special.

But after this idea was actually put into practice, Chen Guang realized that he had been thinking too simply.

The spiritual energy array uses spiritual energy and has already reached the third level of the Yanhuang array, which uses the secret of drawing in Qi. Chen Guang, a beginner, wanted to understand the spiritual energy array from the perspective of an array, but he was even more confused than when he was an outsider. That's why he was willing to set it up like this.

Chen Guang also grimaced as he read "Basic Formations". Using some experiences from his previous life as an analogy, he said that the first volume was very simple. There is a kind of "this is 1, this is also 1", so we can get the derivation 1+1=2. But from the second volume onwards, it became complicated. The argument of 1+1 can be easily deduced to higher functions.

If that's the case, it's simple: just study it.

However, "Basic Formations" takes geography, geometry, arithmetic, the properties of materials, and so on into a comprehensive view. The content is extremely large. The deeper you go, the more things it talks about. In particular, those difficult and strange terms and jargon made it a lot of effort for Chen Guangguang to understand the meaning of those words.

To this day, Chen Guangdu is still only exploring basic knowledge, and has not yet entered the realm of metaphysical design involving the interaction of spiritual energy, spiritual mechanisms, and the principles of heaven and earth.

"It's time to go to the library," Chen Guang sighed.

The "Basic Formations" in the Library contains insights from predecessors, and when you feel extremely confused, you need this knowledge to clear up your doubts.

It is not advisable to work in isolation.

Unfortunately, the sect does not have any high-level cultivators who teach in a way similar to open classes for outer disciples. Only those who become steward disciples have this privilege and can listen to high-level cultivators' lectures regularly.

For farming-related skills, you can go to Chunyuan Residence. For skills like formations, you can only rely on the insights from the Scripture Pavilion.

There wasn't much going on in the spirit field, so Chen Guang took some time to visit. He immediately felt he had benefited greatly, and after three days of visits, his doubts and uncertainties were resolved, allowing him to continue his research.

More than twenty days passed in a flash before Cao Fang finally returned. Seeing the Fire Peach Tree safe and sound, she happily gifted it two spirit plants with the Yin-cold attribute as a token of her gratitude.

In fact, Chen Guang had forgotten that when he first heard that Cao Fang was going to Fanglin, he had asked her to buy a spiritual plant with the Yin-cold attribute. Since it was just a casual remark, Cao Fang had also forgotten about it. It wasn't until she saw this spiritual plant in Dongdu Market that she remembered it. She guessed that Chen Guang hadn't asked her a second time, so he probably wasn't in a hurry. Therefore, she only bought two plants as a gift for Chen Guang.

The main reason was that Cao Fang missed out on a certain spiritual object she was interested in. She failed to get her wish at the Dongdufang Market auction this time. Since she had a lot of the prepared Suiyuan, she didn't mind buying two to give to Chen Guang to win him over.

The two spiritual plants, named "Cold Fragrance Orchid," were immediately examined by Chen Guang upon acquisition.

Spiritual Plant: [Cold-fragrant Orchid]

Grade: Tier 1 Common

Attributes: Ice/Floral/Perennial/Herbal

Description: Possesses a cold fragrance that can travel for miles even in the cold, and its aroma has the ability to fascinate spirit insects, making them willing to rest in its flowers. It is often used as an essential item in the insect nests built by [Mushishi]. However, the odor produced after the flowers wither can easily cause the plant itself to rot and spirit insects to become infected with diseases, so it needs to be removed in time.

Using ice flower stones can make cold-fragrant orchids bloom for one more season each year; using a 1:6 mixture of moon essence and cold water essence can extend the flowering period of cold-fragrant orchids by up to 90 days, which can be maintained by watering every ten days during the flowering period.

Unlock the next level of cultivation content: 0/50 (Number of mature Cymbidium goeringii)

The cold-fragrant orchid is just a potted plant, but Chen Guang thought of another use for it, which could help Bing Lusong solve the problem of blue-blooded mosquitoes.