The Fifth Layer of Qi Refining

The entire cultivation room was less than four meters high, and it lacked the faintly visible flowing lights and vibrant colors of the sect hall. From the outside, it looked like an ordinary earth-and-wood building.

The roof was also covered with dusty gray tiles.

However, when Lin Xiao opened the door to the cultivation room and took his first step inside, he knew that the basic spirit-gathering array and the few spirit stones he had placed inside were worth every penny.

Because as soon as he entered, he felt rich spiritual energy surging toward him from all directions!

Drawing Qi into the body in this environment would definitely be a hundred times faster than outside!

Lin Xiao was in a beautiful mood. Without waiting for a moment, or even checking his quest rewards, he immediately sprinted to the thatched shed.

He made a slight noise to interrupt the crowd who were currently cultivating.

Lin Xiao smiled at them and said:

"Come, come, come! Let me take you to a great place for cultivation!"

Saying so, he lifted the curtain of the thatched shed and waved to the crowd.

Everyone followed behind him, puzzled.

When they saw from afar that there was an additional building ahead, they were surprised for a moment. But then they suddenly thought of the sect hall from before and immediately calmed down.

It wasn't like they hadn't seen something like this before, so what was there to be surprised about?

The crowd looked from a distance. The newly appeared building seemed different from the previous sect hall; it just looked like an ordinary house.

However, it definitely looked a bit more refined than their own houses at home.

Because the mud bricks were packed very tightly, and the walls were built very neatly.

When everyone arrived in front of this house and took a closer look.

It seemed it really was just an ordinary house?

But before everyone could voice their doubts, Lin Xiao had already pushed open the door and, with an eager expression, urged everyone to hurry inside.

The crowd was baffled, but they all obediently stepped inside.

Good heavens!

This concentration of spiritual energy!

Looking at the rows of straw mats on both sides of the room, what else was there for everyone not to understand?

At that moment, without needing Lin Xiao to say anything more, the group quickly went in, each found a spot to sit down, and entered a state of cultivation.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao nodded with great gratification, much like an old father.

Cultivation room, done!

Ah, spending the morning opening up a large plot of spirit field and building the cultivation room made him feel a great sense of accomplishment.

Fully satisfied, Lin Xiao bathed in the spring sunlight and leisurely fell asleep.

It wasn't until noon that Lin Xiao was awakened by hunger after smelling the aroma of food.

Turning his head, he found that it was Fuzi and the others heating up lunch next to him.

Lin Xiao looked around but didn't see his brother Lin Yun; he must have already gone down the mountain.

He walked over to the fire the crowd had started, found an empty spot, and plopped down.

"You guys actually didn't call me for lunch."

Jiang Youfu said:

"Brother Xiao, we saw you were sleeping soundly and figured you tired yourself out this morning, so we didn't call you, wanting to let you rest a bit more."

The few people nearby chimed in with agreement.

Seeing everyone heating up dry rations by the fire, Lin Xiao also took out a sweet potato and a steamed bun from his robes.

Sun Yigao took out a food box from his storage bag and opened its lid.

Inside, three dishes and a soup were packed to the brim. Even though it was cold, the aroma still swept through everyone's noses.

Sun Yigao took out the only bowl of white rice from the food box, then placed the box directly in the middle of everyone and called out:

"Let's eat together."

Seeing his generous behavior, everyone didn't stand on ceremony with him. With smiling faces, they thanked him, broke off two nearby twigs to use as chopsticks, and occasionally picked up a bite of the dishes from the food box to eat with their own dry rations, eating heartily.

Such leisurely and cozy cultivation days passed by in a flash, and five days went by.

In Xiushui Village, there were many speculations about Lin Xiao and the others going up the mountain every day.

However, the only ones who knew what they were actually doing were their close family members, as well as the old village chief, Patriarch Hu, and a few village elders who had their own guesses.

They knew because they had personally witnessed immortals taking in disciples thirty years ago.

But for some reason, apart from their closest children and nephews at home, they did not tell anyone else that Lin Xiao and the others might be cultivating to become immortals.

And those who did know kept their mouths tightly shut, never mentioning it to others.

Therefore, most people in the village simply guessed that these youths were probably going up the mountain to practice martial arts every day.

And it was definitely the Lin family's second boy who was the most formidable in martial arts.

Otherwise, how could he have so easily crippled Eldest Liu's hands and feet back then?

So-called gossip was formed by adding fuel to the fire, combining half-true and half-false facts with speculation.

Today was a very ordinary and quiet day for Xiushui Village.

But for Lin Xiao, it was a day well worth celebrating.

Early this morning, not long after he went up the mountain, two things happened.

The first thing.

Following his usual routine, he went to check on the Mo Mulberry field early in the morning, and to his pleasant surprise, he found that the spirit silkworms on it had actually started spinning silk!

And some had clearly already formed cocoons!

This greatly invigorated Lin Xiao, who had originally lost hope of making sect uniforms anytime soon!

The other thing happened not long after he discovered the spirit silkworms spinning silk, when a system notification suddenly rang in his mind.

[Ding—Congratulations, Sect Member Sun Yigao has advanced to the second layer of Qi Condensation. The Host may check the Sect Member panel for details.]

!

Sun Yigao had actually reached the second layer of Qi Condensation!

Lin Xiao immediately opened the Sect Member panel to check.

Sure enough!

[Name: Sun Yigao]

[Gender: Male]

[Bone Age: 15 years old]

[Aptitude: Rare as Phoenix Feathers and Qilin Horns]

[Cultivation: Second Layer of Qi Condensation]

[Sect Status: Core Disciple (Modifiable)]

[Sect Position: Teaching Elder (Modifiable)]

As expected of an aptitude as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns!

Although he wasn't the earliest to join the sect, he was the first among all the members to step into the second layer of Qi Condensation.

Moreover, just yesterday and the day before, Qin Jianghe and Hu Liang, who had a harder time cultivating, also consecutively advanced to the first layer of Qi Condensation.

Now, the entire Lingxian Sect was fully composed of Qi Condensation cultivators!

Lin Xiao felt that for everyone's cultivation speed to be so fast, half of the credit went to their hard work, and the other half had to go to the cultivation room.

To do a good job, an artisan must first sharpen his tools; this saying indeed made sense.

Nowadays, whenever Lin Xiao had free time, he would also immerse himself in the cultivation room and cultivate together with everyone.

The effects of doing so were obvious.

As he personally cultivated, his comprehension of the mental cultivation methods skyrocketed, and his cultivation level continuously rose.

Now, he was just a hair's breadth away from reaching the fifth layer of Qi Condensation.

Lin Xiao had just come out of the mulberry silkworm field and was preparing to go to the cultivation room to complete that final push, when he saw Qin Jianghe walking over. Qin Jianghe was supposed to be delivering betrothal gifts today to the family of the girl he had previously been matched with.

He walked to the front of the cultivation room somewhat absentmindedly, not even noticing Lin Xiao to the side, and was preparing to go in.

Seeing him in this state, Lin Xiao was afraid that he would suffer from qi deviation during cultivation later, so he quickly grabbed him and asked:

"Jianghe, what's wrong with you? Why do you look so down in the dumps?"