Chapter 34

A full month has passed since Li Yuan and Qin Yin started their journey to the Fox Race's territory. And during this time, Li Yuan's mood was becoming worse each day. Why? Because he could only advance to the Peak of the 1st Stage of Qi Sea Realm!

Due to his Bloodline, most of the Qi he gathers would be absorbed into his blood. Then, a minuscule amount of Silver Qi got released as a compensation.

Even with taking a huge amount of pills, Li Yuan spent the entire month to make his Qi Lakes return to the original size of the 1st Stage of Qi Sea Realm and barely reached the Peak of the 1st stage.

If things continue on this path, it will take 100 years to reach the Peak of Saint Realm. And this is unacceptable to him. 100 years were enough to make him reach the Dao Realm if he didn't awaken this bloodline.

On the other hand, Qin Yin's cultivation improved during this month and reached the 5th stage of Qi Gathering Realm with the pills helps. Li Yuan figured the reason.

Only he possesses the extremely pure Silver Qi. It because Qin Yin's bloodline is an inferior version of his, she doesn't have the right to possess the Silver Qi.

Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh and do some experiments with the Silver Qi which purity is unmatched.

What did he conclude from his experiments?

This Silver Qi is not practical at all! Why? Because if he depleted it, he will need to spend a long time cultivating in order to refill his Qi Lakes.

The Nine Changes of Void Technique give Li Yuan a pure Qi and a fast ability to gather and restore his used Qi. But, because of this Silver Qi, it became harder to refill his Qi Lakes.

This Silver Qi made his Nine Changes of Void Technique look like a low-level technique that even bigger would refuse to learn it.

For a Technique to be called a strong, there are three important requirements to be achieved. One, the purity of the Qi. Two, the speed of Drawing Qi. Three, the speed of regaining the used Qi.

This Silver Qi decided to spit on the technique that Li Yuan spent thousands of years to perfect and makes it look like shit!

If Li Yuan didn't have Soul or Body Cultivation, he will be literally a Glass Cannon.

This Bloodline gave him quite good benefits but it also imposed a severe restriction on him.

Even though the Silver Qi is stronger than his previous pure Qi, how can it be useful if he can only be used a few times in a full month?

"It seems that I have to build a Tier 6 Qi Gathering Formation and cultivate in it for a few months before entering the Fox Race's territory." Said Li Yuan with a hopeless face. He has to gather the materials to make this formation.

"Qin Yin, we will stop at the next big city and will join the Alchemist Association. We have to sell as many as possible pills and elixirs in the span of one month." Said Li Yuan. Alchemy is the best way to get reach in a short amount of time.

With Qin Yin's Qi and Soul cultivation now, she can make Tier 3 Pills without a problem. Tier 4 pills will pose a challenge to her. He, on the other hand, can make Tier 5 Pills without any problem due to his Soul being at the 41st Level.

In order to make sure that no trouble insure, Li Yuan asked Qin Yin to wear a veil.

The two travelled for around two weeks before reaching one of the biggest cities in this region. This city will definitely have an Alchemist Association. The two entered the city and head right away to The Alchemist Association. Also, before entering the city, Li Yuan used a disguise technique and changed his appearance to an average-looking middle-aged man. Qin Yin clicked her tongue in disappointment seeing his new look.

The two entered the Association and Qin Yin used her token as a Tier 3 Alchemist. Li Yuan didn't want her to reveal her status as a Tier 5 Alchemist because he didn't want her to draw attention to herself. In the other hand, Li Yuan took the tests of Tier 1 to Tier 5 and passed them. Then, he challenged the Head Alchemist who was a Tier 5 Alchemist and defeated him which made him the New Head Alchemist. In any branch of the Alchemist Association, the Best Alchemist will become the Head Alchemist of this branch. This is a rule that the association kept and enforced from the day it was established by Li Yuan.

The major clans in the Green Mountain City were shocked by the news of another Tier 5 Alchemist appearing in the city. They rushed to him and sent congratulations gifts to Li Yuan as a way to get into his good side. Also, the number of requests that were issued to the Association suddenly increased by many times. Usually, this branch will receive around 30 to 50 requests each month. But, after Li Yuan taking the lead of this association, the number of the requests jumped all the way to 100. Of course, this is the result of this branch having two Tier 5 Alchemist now. Those requests will give substantial rewards from the clans that issued them to the Association in the form of Gold Coins, favours, and ingredients of all kind.

Then, another piece of news came and once again shocked the major clans.

The new Head Alchemist will accept any request if the person who issued it gave the rewards in the form of a Forging Materials.

The clans were excited as forging materials aren't that hard to get as Alchemy Ingredients. Also, they didn't think much about Li Yuan wanting Forging materials because some alchemists lean other occupations to broaden their horizons and improve in Alchemy in an indirect way.

After one week, the clans were terrified by Li Yuan's abilities! In just a week, he finished all the requests that were issued with forging materials as a reward which numbered in hundreds were finished! The efficacy and speed of this new Head Alchemist are truly shocking!

And because of this, the requests increased in the 2nd week and Li Yuan still finished all of them. In the 3rd week, the requests stopped because they don't have any more things to request from the Alchemists Association! In two weeks, Li Yuan has provided the clans in the Green Mountain City enough cultivation resources to last them for a few years! Also, there was another reason. This branch nearly bankrupt by Li Yuan's actions. Thankfully, Li Yuan gave them the materials that were not Tier 4 or above. You have to know that most of the materials in the city is now in the possession of the Alchemists Association which in turn made the forging masters in the city head to the association in order to buy them. With this, the Association avoided the bankruptcy that nearly threatened it.

Within the Alchemist Association, Li Yuan and Qin Yin stayed in the Head Alchemist room. This room was quite big and had all the equipment that an Alchemist needs.

Qin Yin was cultivating silently while Li Yuan was sorting out all the materials he got from completing the requests.

For Tier 3 and lower requests, Qin Yin handled them while he finished the Tier 4 and 5 Requests. Now, he was sorting the Tier 4 and 5 materials with a satisfied face.

He got a huge amount of Tier 4 materials. For the Tier 5 materials, Li Yuan could consider that he has enough for now. Even though he didn't get Tier 6 materials for the Tier 6 Qi Gathering Formation, he has enough Tier 5 materials to make Tier 5 Qi Gathering Formation with five layers!

This can be achieved by stacking five Tier 5 Formation in a precise manner, which is extremely hard for normal Formation Masters. This will allow it to possess the same ability to gather Qi as the Tier 6 Formation. But, it can only last for one month while the Tier 6 formation lasts for 3 to 4 months. Well, Li Yuan was satisfied with what he has now and started to build the five-layered Tier 5 Qi Gathering Formation. Also, he will make a normal Tier 5 Qi Gathering Formation for Qin Yin to cultivate in as she didn't have any need for the Five Layered Tier 5 formation like him.

His and Qin Yin cultivation didn't improve during this time. But, it was worth it as their cultivation will definitely improve in those formations.

After two days of continuous work, Li Yuan finished the five-layered Tier 5 Formation. Then, he started making the normal Tier 5 formation for Qin Yin which didn't take him long to make.

Seeing that he achieved his goal in this city, Li Yuan decided to leave the city and find a good secluded place for him and Qin Yin to begin cultivating in the Formation.

"Qin Yin, we will leave Green Mountain City." Said Li Yuan. Qin Yin opened her eyes and nodded. After that, the two left the city after Li Yuan gave the Tier 5 Alchemist his position as the Head Alchemist back to him.

The two travelled for a few days before stopping in front of a small mountain. Li Yuan took the M Sword that was still thrusting into the Tier 6 Sheath like crazy. Seeing the M Sword, Li Yuan became disappointed because it was about to advance to the Level of Tied 6 Weapon spirits. It should have reached that level with this sheath.

"It seems that the M Sword don't feel much happiness of the sheath any more." Thought Li Yuan. If he wants to make the M Sword reach the Level of Tier 6 weapon, he should be the one to satisfy this sword. Well, he will leave it after cultivating in the Formation. Mostly because he doesn't have Tier 6 materials to reforge the M Sword into a true Tier 6 Weapon.

Ignoring this matter, Li Yuan used the M Sword to cut parts of the mountain to make a well-hidden cave. He goes all out and built a good one. After that, he put formation around the cave to hid it as he didn't want anyone to annoy him in his cultivation. Of course, Li Yuan was the first to begin cultivating in the Formation he made. Why? Because if two Qi Gathering formations were put near each other, their Qi gathering Abilities will diminish by a large degree due to them affecting each other. Li Yuan decided to be the first to cultivate as his Formation will last for a month while Qin Yin's formation will last for two months due to being a normal one and not formed by multiple layers like his formation.

Li Yuan started the Five Layered Tier 5 Qi Gathering Formation and caused a diagram to appear below him. The Diagram shone with light and started to draw the Qi toward Li Yuan at a terrifying speed.

The Qi came like a tsunami and slammed into Li Yuan's body which begins absorbing it in an extremely fast pace.

"Good! By the end of this month, I will at least reach the 4th Stage Of Qi Sea realm." Thought Li Yuan. After experiencing the extremely slow cultivation that was caused by his bloodline, Li Yuan is satisfied with this speed.

Before awakening his Bloodline, if Li Yuan was at the 1st stage of Qi Sea Realm and entered this formation, he would have reached the absolute Peak of Qi Sea Realm and prepare to breakthrough to the Sage Realm. Now with his bloodline awakened, he will only reach the 4th Stage from the Peak of the 1st stage. And if he is lucky, he might advance to the 5th Stage.