The Qi Refining Spirit Water, although only a first-grade elixir, its formula was written on the glass bottle. However, only the cultivators from the Sentence Mang Dao Academy and the Imperial Medical Palace within the Immortal Gate could master its refinement.

The young girl in the white nurse uniform hadn’t even started college yet, and was about the same age as Chen Mobai. It was unlikely that she had extracted and mixed it herself.

Chen Mobai recalled his two purchases at the pharmacy.

The girl had mentioned having a master who was an alchemist.

It was likely that she was just assisting, the Spirit Water was refined by her master, and she was responsible for the final bottling process, which he happened to witness.

Chen Mobai speculated in his heart.

He picked up the empty glass tube and put it in his backpack.

Then he took out the needle box.

He had had this magical tool for over a month now. After learning that it was controlled by magnetism, he spent his free time in the school’s cultivation room, either studying or exploring the use of this magical tool.

His hard work paid off, and he was now quite proficient in using the needle box and the twelve flying needles.

Three needles at once was his standard attack.

In this state, very little spiritual power was needed to perfectly control the flying needles with the magnetic force of the needle box. The speed could be fast or slow, and at its fastest, it could achieve the effect of a bullet. He had tested it, and at this speed, the flying needles could easily pierce the floor tiles of the water mansion.

Chen Mobai could manage up to six needles at once.

Any more than that was not impossible to control, but it would not be as effortless. Instead, they would interfere with each other, and the power would drop sharply.

However, he had never tested the true power of this set of magical tools in actual combat, so he was unsure of its capabilities.

The Immortal Gate had been peaceful for a long time. If he wanted to test the power of the magical tools, he could only go to those specialized clubs, but they all charged fees. Chen Mobai didn’t want to waste his Good Deeds on this.

As he was about to put away the needle box after practicing for a while, Chen Mobai suddenly had a thought.

He took out his phone and entered the keyword “magnetism” into the auxiliary cultivation app. Sure enough, he found several documents on controlling magnetism with spiritual power, and even two demonstration videos.

After spending two hours reading all the documents and watching the videos, Chen Mobai made great progress. He was now able to control eight flying needles at the same time with the needle box.

He felt that if he could fully digest the experiences of others in controlling magnetism that were uploaded, he would soon be able to fully control the twelve flying needles.

Unfortunately, it was almost dawn on the Earth Yuan Star, and Chen Mobai had to rush to class.

“Sigh, I actually feel like going to school is slowing down my cultivation progress.”

Chen Mobai suddenly understood why Yan Bingxuan had dropped out of school. After reaching the late stage of Qi Refining, the free cultivation room provided by the school was of little use, and the knowledge could be slowly made up after entering university.

After all, in the Immortal Gate, realm was the most important thing.

If it weren’t for the fact that representatives from the Dao Academies and Learning Palaces would set exam questions on techniques, elixirs, and formations during the college entrance examination, and select students based on their performance, those geniuses in the late stage of Qi Refining probably wouldn’t even bother coming to school.

“I wonder what the focus of this year’s exam will be?”

Everyone’s college entrance examination paper was the same, but the scores were just the threshold for the various Dao Academies and Learning Palaces.

Only if the college entrance examination score was high enough and one’s own realm met the minimum requirements, could one choose to fill in the Dao Academies and Learning Palaces as their aspirations.

Then there were the entrance tests of the Dao Academies and Learning Palaces themselves. Last year, half of them tested formations.

Chen Mobai felt that the probability of testing techniques this year was very high. However, although he chose the technique major, his grades were always mediocre. Even if he hit the jackpot, it probably wouldn’t be of much use.

“Sigh, I should focus on breaking through to the seventh level of Qi Refining first.”

Once he broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining, even if his college entrance examination scores were not ideal, he should be able to get into the last few of the top ten academies. It would be a great honor for his family, and it would make his parents happy for a long time.

After returning to his room, Chen Mobai pretended to have just woken up. After washing up, he was about to go to school when he noticed that his father was actually making breakfast in the kitchen.

“Eh, Dad, did you take a day off? I thought you said the factory was busy recently?”

Chen Mobai’s father, Chen Xinglan, was a middle-aged man with a square face. He was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin. Although father and son didn’t see each other often, they had a very good relationship.

“You’re up early. I’m almost done here, go call your mom.”

Chen Xinglan didn’t stop his hands, turned off the fire, and brought a pot of steamed egg yolk buns to the dining table.

“I’m here, no need to call.”

Tang Pancui came down from the second floor with a basket of laundry to be washed. Her voice arrived before she did.

“Son, how’s your cultivation going recently?”

At the breakfast table, the family of three were enjoying a rare meal together.

Chen Xinglan casually asked about Chen Mobai’s cultivation progress. The latter didn’t hide anything and said that he had broken through to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

“Eh, didn’t you just advance to the fifth level of Qi Refining during the summer vacation? How come you’ve broken through again in just over a month?”

Chen Xinglan had originally planned to share the good news while asking about his son’s cultivation, but he didn’t expect Chen Mobai to give him a piece of good news first.

“It seems like it was during the summer vacation, after paying respects at the temple in my hometown, I had a sense of enlightenment, and my understanding of the Five Elements Technique suddenly deepened.”

Chen Mobai’s words were half-true, half-false. However, after saying this, he felt that it might be necessary to visit his hometown again during the winter vacation.

Since the turtle shell came from that temple, perhaps the abbot who had a falling out with his mother over a stick of incense, was a hidden expert.

“I knew it, that temple is indeed miraculous. Our village chief’s son, who was on the verge of death at birth…”

Tang Pancui completely forgot her previous curses about the temple when Chen Mobai was hospitalized because of the turtle shell. She began to talk incessantly about the legends she heard about the temple when she was a child.

Chen Xinglan had no interest in these stories. He gently coughed to interrupt her, and a Qi Refining Ninth Layer aura burst out from him.

“Dad, you’ve broken through.”

Chen Mobai’s face was full of excitement.

Chen Xinglan’s aptitude was slightly better than his, with the highest Fire spiritual root reaching 34 points. However, he failed the college entrance examination and had to repeat a year before he was admitted to the local Chixia Academy.

Unfortunately, one step behind led to falling behind at every step. He stayed at Chixia Academy for ten years and barely broke through to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer before he had to join the expedition to explore the sea.

However, every cloud has a silver lining. It was during the sea exploration that he met Tang Pancui. The two fell in love and got married.

Ten years after the exploration, Chen Xinglan brought Tang Pancui back to Danxia City, and the following year, Chen Mobai was born.

It was the birth of his child that elevated Chen Xinglan’s state of mind, allowing him to break through to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.

Now, when Chen Mobai was eighteen years old, he finally reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.

Next, he could start preparing for Foundation Establishment.