Chen Mobai remembered that he still had a used spiritual stone in the drawer of his room, and immediately ran back to get it with great enthusiasm.

“This stone, when crushed into spirit essence, can filter the poison of two original elixirs, but it also requires a reactant.”

Qing Nv didn’t ask why Chen Mobai had such a thing at home. She had already assumed that her benefactor’s ancestors must have been great cultivators, and now he was a somewhat fallen young master.

“Can the reactant be purchased?”

“It’s very cheap, 100 Good Deeds can buy a large jar, which can be used to combine 50 spirit essences.”

Qing Nv’s words made Chen Mobai breathe a sigh of relief. He didn’t have many Good Deeds left. The three main ingredients for refining Spirit Water could be bought in the Tianhe Realm, but the four auxiliary ingredients could only be bought on the Earth Yuan Star. His Good Deeds could only buy enough for three uses.

“Do we not need a flavor corrector?”

Qing Nv checked the auxiliary ingredients and found that this one was missing. Chen Mobai shook his head, indicating that he had run out of pocket money and couldn’t afford it, so he had to save a bit here.

“Then I’ll first refine a batch of Spirit Water without the flavor corrector. You can try it first. If you can bear it, we’ll continue like this for the next few batches.”

As she said this, Qing Nv felt a lingering fear. She had tasted that flavor before, and it was unbearably bitter.

Chen Mobai nodded, but he was thinking about going to the Nanxi Market to buy some used spiritual stones. He packed up the 20 tubes of Spirit Water that he had successfully refined this time and prepared to leave.

“By the way, you’re the same age as me, how’s your college entrance exam preparation going?”

At this moment, Chen Mobai remembered this and asked with a hint of concern.

“It doesn’t matter whether I take the exam or not, I’ve already been recommended by the school.”

“Really? Which university have you been recommended to?”

“Jumang Taoist Academy!”

“Oh, that’s a good university… Wait, what Taoist Academy did you say…”

Chen Mobai widened his eyes, looking at Qing Nv in disbelief, wanting to confirm whether he had heard wrong.

“Jumang Taoist Academy. Why else do you think the Baoping Pharmacy would rent this alchemy room to me? I’m basically using my own school’s facilities.”

“…”

After a long silence, Chen Mobai looked Qing Nv up and down carefully. He remembered when he went to find her at the Immortal Gate High School, she had to wear a mask and a hat to cover herself when she came out of the school.

He had originally thought it was because she was beautiful and had many pursuers in the school.

Now it seemed that she was probably too famous within the school.

“Now I understand why Valley Master Feng, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, couldn’t help but take you as his disciple when he came to the school to give a lecture. A spiritual root of heaven, even a Golden Elixir Taoist master would probably not be able to resist.”

Chen Mobai sighed, lamenting his previous confusion.

“That’s not necessarily the case. Although the Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivates quickly before forming the elixir, it is precisely because there are no obstacles or bottlenecks in the early stage that the success rate of forming the Elemental Infant is actually lower than those with ordinary spiritual roots who cultivate step by step. Among the Elemental Infants in the Immortal Gate, only four started with the Heavenly Spiritual Root. So if resources are abundant, my future achievements may not be as great as yours.”

Qing Nv shook her head, her words leaving Chen Mobai speechless.

You should know that not long ago, his lifelong goal was to hope to successfully establish the Foundation in his lifetime.

“What’s your current cultivation level?”

“Qi Refining Sixth Level.”

Chen Mobai felt a little better when he heard this, the same as him.

But when he thought about the fact that Qing Nv’s single apartment only had a first-grade lower-level spiritual energy, she should only be able to practice Qi for two hours a day in the school’s practice room.

Being able to cultivate to the Qi Refining Sixth Level under these conditions, the Heavenly Spiritual Root was indeed extraordinary.

“Then you’re busy, I’m going back to review.”

“Okay, come back tomorrow to get the Spirit Water. After filtering the elixir poison with the spirit essence, we should be able to mix about fifteen more tubes.”

Chen Mobai nodded, encouraging himself in his heart. Now that he had the opportunity of the Tianhe Realm, if he really became a major trader between the two realms in the future, the resources of spiritual stones would be endless.

Although he was not a Heavenly Spiritual Root, his future was promising.

The next day, Chen Mobai first went to the Nanxi Market, where he happened to meet Qi Er at the entrance. He was very grateful, saying that without the Green Arrow Talisman, he would have died in the Dream Swamp.

As they were talking, Qi Er wanted to give Chen Mobai the 2 spiritual stones he had obtained as a reward, but the latter shook his head and did not accept.

Then, Chen Mobai asked Qi Er to help him see if he could buy some used spiritual stones, preferably the kind that had exhausted their spiritual energy.

Although Qi Er found it strange, he took on the task. In less than half a day, he had collected all the used spiritual stones from the small scattered cultivators in his circle, a total of 17.

Qi Er said he had paid 10 taels of gold for each spiritual stone, and Chen Mobai nodded, giving him a 500-tael gold note.

These spirit essences were completely enough for Qing Nv to refine, so Chen Mobai didn’t stay in the market any longer.

Stimulated by the fact that Qing Nv had already been recommended to Jumang Taoist Academy, he began to study even harder than before in the next two months.

After getting enough Spirit Water, he stopped wasting time on setting up stalls and focused on studying and cultivating, hoping to get a good score in the college entrance exam.

If he couldn’t get into one of the four major Taoist academies, he should at least get into one of the top ten college palaces.

Let’s set a small goal first, the Pure Yang Academy!

So, Chen Mobai began the most diligent two months of his life.

Every night he practiced Qi in the Water Mansion, and when he came back during the day, he listened attentively to the classes at school while reviewing the basic knowledge of the four subjects he had fallen behind in the past three years.

Cultivating divine consciousness, or opening the orifice as the ancients said, opened the door of wisdom.

The spells, formulas, talismans, and formations that used to feel obscure and difficult to understand, he could slowly comprehend after reading and writing them a few times. Coupled with frequent visits to his teacher’s office and the guidance of these public servants, his foundation gradually solidified and his knowledge became increasingly profound.

However, what surprised Chen Mobai the most was the breakthrough in his realm.

Perhaps it was because he had never given up on the cultivation of the Mind Nurturing God Casting Technique, his divine consciousness had been refined early on, and the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi Refining no longer existed. Coupled with the endless supply of Spirit Water refined by Qing Nv, and the second-order spiritual energy of the Water Mansion, he finally broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining naturally, with the spiritual vortex in his Dantian overflowing, a week before the college entrance examination.

Having reached this step, Chen Mobai finally had the confidence to strive for the entrance examination of the Four Great Daoist Academies.

However, after reaching the seventh level of Qi Refining, there was still a very important question before him.

Should he continue to cultivate the “Five Elements Technique”, or switch to the “Pure Yang Scroll”?