I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

Cultivating immortality transcends time; one is unaware of the changing seasons.

For those high-ranking and powerful beings, three years is nothing more than the time it takes to take a nap in seclusion.

But for a low-level cultivation family like Qingmufang City, more than a thousand days and nights are enough to smooth out the rough edges and passion of countless young people.

It was midnight, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

On the edge of the spirit fields surrounding the Qingmu Su family, in a secluded and dense spirit bamboo forest.

Su Yu, dressed in a gray-black family inspection uniform, was sitting cross-legged on an inconspicuous blue stone.

This is one of the hidden nodes of the spirit-gathering array that he discovered three years ago.

"Buzz—"

As midnight approached, the formation reached its weakest point, a crucial transition moment.

A wisp of extremely pure, unowned spiritual energy, several times more potent than that found in the outside world, quietly seeped out from the gaps in the nodes.

Su Yu kept his eyes closed, controlling his breathing to perfectly synchronize with the rhythm of the formation.

The overflowing spiritual energy hadn't even had a chance to merge into the air before he swallowed it all up like a whale sucking water.

The spiritual energy flows along the meridians, undergoing repeated cycles of circulation, and finally converges into the dantian.

I don't know how much time passed.

A very faint muffled sound suddenly came from Su Yu's body, and then the spiritual energy fluctuations around him suddenly rose a level!

call--

An invisible gust of wind rippled outwards from him, causing the surrounding bamboo to rustle.

Su Yu slowly opened his eyes, a hint of joy flashing in them.

"Qi Refining Level 4"

"Finally, I've entered the mid-stage of Qi Refining."

He stood up, clenched his fist slightly, and felt the spiritual power within his body, which was several times stronger than before. A satisfied smile appeared on his lips.

Three years!

Despite having a useless ninth-grade spiritual root, he broke through two minor realms in just three years, forcibly rising from the second level of Qi Refining to the fourth level of Qi Refining!

If this gets out, it will absolutely shock the higher-ups of the Aoki Su family.

After all, this speed is already comparable to that of an ordinary mid-grade spiritual root cultivator!

The reason Su Yu was able to create such a miracle was not only because he had lived two lives and possessed exceptional comprehension.

The core reason is the accumulation of resources over the past three years, which have allowed them to quietly amass great wealth.

Three years ago, he was willing to put aside his pride and put on a good show of being a loyal minister to advise the young clan leader Su Hao, and successfully won the job of inspecting the spirit fields, which seemed like a bitter and unprofitable task.

To outsiders, he was Su Hao's lackey.

But only Su Yu himself knew how comfortable he had been for the past three years.

First of all, by using the name of Su Hao's subordinates, the monthly salary of five low-grade spirit stones issued by the Internal Affairs Hall was completely preserved.

After all, Su Hao, this young master, is extremely concerned about his reputation.

If a dignified young clan leader even steals spirit stones from his own followers, how can he lead the team if word gets out?

Others will only laugh at him for being mean and ungrateful.

In fact, Su Yu initially tried to play hard to get by with a feigned indifference.

After receiving his monthly salary, he feigned righteousness and offered spirit stones to Su Hao, claiming that he was willing to give everything for the young clan leader's cultivation career.

Before Su Hao could even express his opinion, the two old lackeys beside him turned green with rage, their faces contorted with anxiety as they winked and whispered curses at Su Yu's ancestors.

Hey kid, you're so shrewd!

If you hand over all the spirit stones, does that mean we should hand them over too?

Isn't this just ripping people off?!

However, in order to maintain the young master's magnanimity and dignity, Su Hao decisively refused, and even scolded Su Yu for underestimating his magnanimity as the young master.

But it was precisely because of this incident that Su Hao's opinion of Su Yu improved dramatically. He felt that this kid was not only eloquent but also extremely loyal.

Secondly, as part of the inspection duties, the family will also provide an additional three spirit stones each month as a stipend for the position.

This means that other collateral descendants can only keep one or two spirit stones a month to survive.

Su Yu, without fail, receives eight spirit stones every month!

It was several times more than everyone else!

In addition, there's the pure spiritual energy that can be obtained for free at this formation node every day at midnight.

With the accumulation of resources, progress was rapid.

"In the world of cultivation, wealth, companions, methods, and land are paramount; the ancients were right."

Su Yu patted the dew off his robes and chuckled softly.

Thinking of this, Su Yu couldn't help but recall those young men of his generation in the courtyard of the Inner Affairs Hall three years ago who accused him of having no backbone.

Over the past three years, those people who defied Su Hao have had their monthly salaries tightly withheld, leaving them with only one or two spirit stones to barely make ends meet.

Without sufficient spiritual energy to support them, coupled with the high-intensity labor they did every day in the spiritual fields.

Three years have passed. The vast majority of those teenagers are still struggling at the second level of Qi Refining, with little progress in their spiritual power.

Only a very few who forcibly squeezed out their own essence and blood to cultivate managed to barely touch the threshold of the third level of Qi Refining, but as a result, they were depleted of Qi and blood, and became pale and emaciated.

Passion and dignity?

Faced with absolute resource monopoly, it was long ago crushed and pulverized by reality, pressed into the mud of the spiritual field.

Nowadays, when those teenagers see Su Yu, who is dressed in patrol uniform and leisurely earns eight spirit stones every month, although their eyes are still complicated, no one dares to openly curse him anymore.

Some who couldn't bear the poverty even came to Su Yu in private, hoping he could put in a good word for them with the young clan leader so they could get a job.

This is the tragedy of those who cultivate immortality at the bottom.

"Qi Refining Level 4, with my current cultivation level, I should be considered among the top of the younger generation in the family, right?"

As Su Yu walked back along the forest path, he pondered in his mind.

The young clan leader, Su Hao, who was supported by the entire clan's resources, used the clan's best pills and spirit-gathering arrays.

Three years have passed, and he has only barely broken through from the fifth level of Qi Refining to the seventh level, just stepping into the late stage of Qi Refining.

The transition from the mid to late stage of Qi Refining is a major hurdle. The further one progresses, the more spiritual energy is required. Breaking through two levels in three years is already the limit for a sixth-grade spiritual root, achieved by exhausting the resources of the entire clan.

Apart from Su Hao, who had just broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Among his generation in the family, only a handful of people have reached the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Moreover, without exception, all of them were descendants of the powerful elders of the main lineage, and had never lacked cultivation resources since childhood.

In other words, Su Yu has built his empire from scratch entirely on his own.

He managed to quietly rise to the top tier of the family's younger generation, despite being an orphan from a collateral branch and possessing a ninth-grade spiritual root!

Of course, Su Yu had no intention of making a fuss about it.

The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.

If a ninth-grade spiritual root's cultivation speed rivals that of a mid-grade spiritual root, once exposed, they will not receive focused cultivation from their family, but rather severe interrogation by the Punishment Hall.

The head of a small family rejects any uncontrollable variables.

With a slight thought, Su Yu brought out the ultimate control he had over his physical body and meridians, a power he had cultivated since his peak in martial arts.

Using the "Heavenly Dragon True Qi" technique of closing acupoints and locking meridians, he forcefully compressed the immense spiritual power within his body to its limit, locking it tightly deep within his dantian.

This method of concealing one's aura, which originates from ordinary martial arts, is not without its flaws.

If one encounters a cultivator at the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining, they can see through this forced Qi-locking disguise at a glance.

However, in the spiritual fields surrounding Qingmufang City, the high-ranking members of the main lineages disdain setting foot in such muddy places.

The people he could usually come into contact with were at most the stewards at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining, and he would never encounter any experts above the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Therefore, this method of breath control is more than sufficient to deal with the current situation.

As his Qi receded, the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from Su Yu quickly subsided, eventually settling steadily at the third level of Qi Refining.

The disguise was just right.

Earning eight spirit stones a month and spending three years breaking through from the second to the third level of Qi Refining seems perfectly reasonable to outsiders.

It demonstrates a value slightly greater than that of ordinary collateral branches, yet it will never arouse the alarm of the main branch.

Su Yu looked up at the pale dawn breaking over the horizon.

It's getting light; it's time to go back and have a bowl of the spirit rice porridge that Qing'er cooked.