Seed of Dao

Breakthrough! First level of qi refining

Some time later, sounds of satisfied laughter accompanied by growls were heard on the mountain.

Looking closer, a young man and an adult tiger faced each other with completely different conditions. For the young man, who was clearly Ye Chen, he wasn't injured at all, looking at the large tiger that was twice the size of his own body in front of him, he appeared very satisfied and repeatedly nodded.

While for the tiger on the other side, it could be said that he was being bullied. His entire body was injured, and fresh blood still moistened his mouth. But he still looked fierce and stared at Ye Chen in front of him angrily.

Previously, when Ye Chen achieved a breakthrough, he ran to the place of the large tiger he named Huang to fight, and the final result matched his expectations.

His strength, speed and reaction to things around him had truly surpassed the limits of ordinary humans. Such qualitative changes truly made Ye Chen satisfied and nod repeatedly.

Becoming Immortal was truly extraordinary. Even if Ye Chen hadn't officially stepped onto the cultivation path, his current strength was already above normal humans.

"Alright," Ye Chen was already satisfied, and looked toward the tiger in front of him with a slight smile.

"I'm satisfied, you better go away when you see me next time. If not, I'll start thinking about roasting your meat."

Finished speaking, whether the tiger understood or not, Ye Chen had already walked in another direction without caring about the tiger beside him.

On the other side, when the tiger saw Ye Chen walking away and beginning to ignore him, he appeared hesitant for a few moments before running in the opposite direction from Ye Chen. After all, a beast has a natural instinct for danger, and a human like Ye Chen was clearly very dangerous to him.

At this time, when Ye Chen had successfully driven away the owner of this mountain, he intended to look for things like the strange fruit that was in the cave. Learning from the snake guarding the tree with valuable fruit, Ye Chen hoped this tiger also had the same thing.

Unfortunately, during his search for almost the entire day, Ye Chen didn't find anything valuable. Besides ordinary fruits that usually grew in the forest, he didn't find anything valuable.

Shaking his head and laughing bitterly at his thoughts, Ye Chen decided to return.

It's impossible for valuable fruit to be found that easily, right?

Judging from himself finding the strange fruit inside the cave, that was purely due to luck and the cave's location being quite hidden. If miraculous things were easy to find, wouldn't they just become ordinary objects?

Returning to the cave and looking at the three remaining strange fruits, Ye Chen thought hard, should he eat them or leave them for now?

In the end he decided to start eating them, after all whether now or in the future, he would surely eat them, so why save them? As long as the fruit could make a breakthrough to the first floor of qi refinement faster, what was wrong with that?

With that decision, without further hesitation Ye Chen began to eat the strange fruit and the sweet taste accompanied by a hot feeling once again permeated his body. But this time was different, this time he knew what to do and immediately sat down to refine the energy content in the fruit.

At the same time, Ye Chen also found that there was restless energy from inside his stomach, it must have come from the fruit.

So, he no longer hesitated and began to guide all the energy to the meridians throughout his body carefully using spiritual consciousness. Next was pain throughout his meridians, and began to spread throughout his body up to his brain.

For the first time, Ye Chen didn't think that guiding spiritual energy would be that painful and difficult. But he didn't give up, and guided that spiritual energy throughout the meridians for seven cycles back and forth to purify it into his own energy. After that, the last and most critical step was to guide it into the dantian to be stored.

It sounded easy, however Ye Chen immediately felt an obstacle, as if there was an invisible barrier blocking the spiritual energy's path to enter the dantian.

Ye Chen didn't give up, he began to guide the spiritual energy that was like a small river to forcefully break through the dantian door. Of course he also felt pain and aches in his lower abdomen.

Fortunately Ye Chen didn't give up easily and gritted his teeth before forcefully pushing it with all his strength repeatedly countless times.

"Click"

Beginning with the sound of glass seemingly breaking, Ye Chen immediately felt his mouth taste sweet, and fresh blood spurted from his mouth.

Ye Chen was panting, his face pale and cold sweat dripped from his forehead, but his gaze appeared sharp, and joy was faintly depicted on his face.

"Haha. I finally succeeded! I finally succeeded in breaking through to qi refinement first level!" Ye Chen shouted joyfully inside the cave, and almost couldn't suppress his happiness.

After two months! Two full months in solitude and without guidance in the isolated forest, he finally succeeded in becoming a qi refinement first level cultivator.

Feeling the power flowing in his body, Ye Chen estimated that with just one punch, he could kill an ordinary human easily. If he fought again with the tiger Huang on the mountain, Ye Chen believed he wouldn't have any difficulty at all.

The feeling he experienced now truly made him uncontrollable and unconsciously looked at the two remaining strange fruits with greedy eyes. If one fruit could make a breakthrough, didn't that mean two fruits would make him experience two breakthroughs to qi refinement third level?

Ye Chen wasn't sure, but he couldn't help but reach out his hand, but moments later he stopped and suppressed the desire in his heart.

Don't be careless again!

Ye Chen sighed softly, trying to forcefully suppress the desire in his heart and closed his eyes again.

Ye Chen, although he was very excited, knew that carelessness would be fatal to him. He still remembered when he carelessly directly took this fruit without caution and finally was on the brink of death.

Now, he began to learn from his past, and stabilizing his heart was the most important thing. After his heart was stable, Ye Chen began to examine his body and found there was a strand of qi in his dantian.

That qi was very thin and small, as small as a strand of hair and was spinning uncontrollably in his dantian. From the restless energy in his dantian, Ye Chen realized that if he didn't immediately stabilize it, that energy would injure him.

Fortunately he could remain calm and no longer followed his heart's urge to eat the strange fruit again, if not, the worst possibility was the uncontrolled energy in his dantian and the incoming energy would collide with each other and finally become chaotic together. The consequences that would occur surely wouldn't be good.

"Calm." Ye Chen said to himself to stay calm, and began to stabilize the rampaging qi in his dantian.

Not easy, but finally he could stabilize it, and automatically the first qi refinement level became stable.

Next, when Ye Chen opened his eyes again, he once again looked at the two strange pouches and the small black dagger. Thinking that he was now already a cultivator, he tried to speculate, would channeling qi into those three objects produce something desired?