"Blessing?" Vivian could not figure out how a birthmark that made her face a little disfigured was considered a blessing.

"Come on sister Vivian, do you really want to dig into my private matter? How about sister tell me about Elder Bobori instead? How did that fierce-looking guy manage to win sister's heart?" Anda reversed the topic.

"Fine! I'm not asking anymore!" Vivian also didn't want to gossip about her love life to other people.

Suddenly, Vivian expression turned serious, she was about to discuss something important with Anda.

"In a year, an Alchemy Conference for young alchemy genius will be held by the South Region Alchemy Association at their south region main branch headquarters. All young alchemists of the age of 30 and below were invited." Vivian paused a bit.

"What do you think? Interested?" She observed Anda's expression closely.

"Why not?" Anda smiled. She heard the news about the Alchemy conference already and decided to participate. It would be a waste if she didn't participate in a big event like this.

"Hehe, I knew you would be interested, later I will make sure Lilian accompanies you to the conference. It's about time for her to travel, this girl is always in her garden, rarely going out." Vivian was determined to make sure her younger sister touch some grass, uh, touch some outside grass this time.

"Sister Vivian, I'm afraid that's not possible," Anda rejected.

"Ehh..Why?" Vivian wanted to know why.

"Because I plan to bring my husband on a honeymoon! We will depart immediately and travel by ourselves while heading to the conference." Anda said her plan excitedly.

"Noooo..what about Lilian? Please bring her along!" Vivian begged.

"Come on sister Vivian, why are you making us bring a third wheel on our honeymoon?" Anda pouted.

Vivian brought herself to Anda and hugged her from behind. "Please...bring her along...she hasn't gone outside for a long time," Vivian pleaded while shaking Anda's body.

"Fine..fine... stop shaking me like a tree. If something happens to her don't blame me okay?" Anda warned her. This lady was so old but still acted so childish. Not to mention, what in the holy mother of fertility are those mountains? They were so big! No wonder so many people pursue her even though she only wears an oversized loose dress.

Vivian smiled, "Why would anything happen to her? I'm not asking you to protect her, she's a peak-stage Foundation Building realm cultivator you know. Because she was always in the garden, she doesn't have much world experience and can't form her core for quite some time already."

Anda immediately understood why she insisted so much. Anda had met Lilian a few times and knew that she was really introverted. Suddenly an idea popped into her mind and she smiled.

After the conversation, Anda asked Leyvi to stop by her house later using the communication array device.

Leyvi who received Anda's message smiled. Maybe she wanted to taste his newfound power again.

Later that night. Leyvi won again! Anda who was tired started to gather her energy again. While gathering her energy, she told him about the Alchemy Conference that would be held in a year and her plans.

"Lilian? The younger sister of your teacher? Are you fine with her joining us?" Leyvi asked Anda. He didn't mind at all. If this girl is nice he wouldn't mind giving a talent to her. It's been a while and he was quite itching to give someone a talent.

"I'm okay. I already warned sister Vivian that if something happened to her, I would not be responsible! hehe," Anda laughed mischievously.

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Leyvi was dumbfounded. That laugh! Oh no...What is she planning again?

"So, when are we departing?" Leyvi decided not to think about what mischieve she was brewing and changed the topic.

"After you break through to the Foundation Building realm!" As she replied, she took out 100 bottles of peak-grade qi refining pills and gave them to Leyvi. Anda is a wealthy wife now so there was no need to go out and find alchemy ingredients anymore. She could just purchase any ingredients she wanted from the Alchemy Hall.

"You are at the peak of the Qi Refinement realm now. This should be more than enough to break through the realm."

"Hahaha! When your husband enters Foundation Building soon, it will be difficult for you to win ever again." Leyvi was quite confident with his new secret technique.

"Hmph! You won't be arrogant for long! I'll bring reinforcement soon.." Anda only muttered the last sentence so Leyvi didn't hear it.

The next day.

Leyvi returned to his house and got ready to make the final push to the Foundation building realm.

He assumed the meditative position and consumed a peak-grade qi refining pill. A large amount of the utmost quality refined qi circulated through his meridians nourishing his body and settled in his dantian.

Leyvi consumed more of the pills and repeated the process again and again. A few days later, Leyvi dantian reached the maximum limit and couldn't contain any more refined qi. At this moment, he proceeded to the final step which was to condense the refined qi into the liquid form.

The foundation of the cultivator is decided by the amount of liquid qi they were able to condense. The bigger the pool of liquid qi condensed, the better the foundation for future cultivation.

If you have better aptitude, you can refine better quality qi faster. If you have better quality qi, you can condense more liquid qi which results in a better foundation.

During the last two years, Leyvi has been refining qi with far better quality than anyone else in the sect. All of his qi right now are being condensed at a very fast rate forming a puddle, a pool, and soon it become an entire lake!

It was 100 times bigger than a normal cultivator in the Foundation Building realm! Leyvi finally stepped into the early stage of the Foundation Building realm. As soon as Leyvi entered the Foundation Building realm, spiritual sense started to leak out of his body.

He began to have a clearer picture of the things surrounding him. Without directly looking with his eyes, he could perceive the shape, the position, the size, and even the life aura emitted by living beings.

The spiritual sense is the sixth sense that comes from achieving a higher degree of control toward spiritual energy which happens, most of the time, when a cultivator reaches the Foundation Building realm.

10 meters, 20 meters, 50 meters, 100 meters, 500 meters! And soon it reaches a 1000-meter radius! Leyvi's spiritual sense can extend up to a kilometer away in all directions. Every single thing and living being in this range are all under his perceptions.

"Oh! It's there. Huh? How did this thing get here? Damn! Who buried a voodoo doll to curse me?" Using his spiritual sense, Leyvi found some small things that he had lost throughout the years and some weird things.

Leyvi withdrew his spiritual sense, concentrated it into his body, and started to inspect every inch of his body. Leyvi smile. He can feel the power coursing through his body. His breakthrough can be considered very easy. Other people usually need a foundation building pill to assist them because their refined qi is not pure enough to be condensed.

It was all thanks to the pills that his panda wife, no, succubus panda wife refined for him. If not for the pills, it would probably take at least another 20 years to reach the Foundation Building realm or even longer if he wanted a better foundation without a shortcut.

After reaching the Foundation Building realm, a cultivator would have enough control and force over their spiritual energy to be able to fly for a while.

Leyvi immediately went to his backyard and practiced flying in the air.

"Hahaha! This feels so good!" Previously, he could only use his martial skills to jump and run a little in the air, now he could fly easily. Due to his lake-sized liquified qi, Leyvi could fly for much longer than the average cultivator in the same realm.

"Stripey! Come back, we are going on a journey soon!" While flying, Leyvi sent a mental message to the small monkey. Stripey size stayed the same because he deliberately wanted to stay small. Usually, when an animal becomes a demonic beast, they grow larger as the result of nourishment by spiritual energy. However, some demonic beast that has much better control over spiritual energy can freely control their size like Stripey.

"It's time to say goodbye to this house." Leyvi looked at his house of many years from above with a sigh. It's been 10 years after all since he came here. Now that he's a Foundation Building realm disciple, he needs to move to the area for the inner disciple. But before that, he needed to inform the sect first.

Leyvi then packed everything he owned in the house and put them in the internal storage room. Afterward, Leyvi came to the office of the sect elder who was in charge of the outer sect disciple.

"Elder Cherry, I wanted to report that I reached the Foundation Building realm and wanted to transfer to the inner disciple area," Said Leyvi politely with a smile.

A petite figure stood up from her chair and turned to see Leyvi.