"Spiritual roots too miscellaneous?" Qin Shouren was startled for a moment, and then exclaimed, "You can look inside yourself!"

Looking inside oneself.

Hearing this, Lu Li quickly focused his spiritual sense, and his expression instantly became a mix of astonishment and disbelief. "I... What the heck!"

"What's the matter?"

"Nine... Nine spiritual roots!" Lu Li looked at his own qi meridians with nine colors, and his face twitched crazily. "I fucking have nine spiritual roots..."

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, and darkness were all present. Lu Li didn't even know what to say. No wonder he had eaten over seventy Awakening Spirit Pills before his spiritual roots awakened. Could there be any worse spiritual roots than these?

"Co-congratulations!" Qin Shouren in the next room burst out laughing, clutching his stomach and rolling on the ground. Then he rolled to the other side and said, "Hey, fatty, fatty, I've got something to tell you."

Chen Zhong was cultivating at that time and had a pained look on his face. Hearing Qin Shouren's words, he immediately became impatient. "Spit it out if you have something to say."

Qin Shouren cursed and then said, "I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else. Lu Li... he has nine spiritual roots. Hahaha..."

"What?" Chen Zhong was stunned for a moment, scratched his head, and said, "I thought my seven spiritual roots were already bad enough. I didn't expect Lu Li's to be even worse than mine."

"You... You have seven spiritual roots?" Qin Shouren's smile disappeared. "I'm not talking to you anymore. I haven't successfully condensed my spiritual consciousness yet."

Lu Li could hear the laughter of the two from a distance and thought to himself that these two guys were really carefree.

However, Lu Li wasn't too disappointed. Although his spiritual roots were rather useless, at least he could cultivate. Moreover, he had the Time Hall and could completely make up for it with time.

No sooner said than done.

Lu Li directly sat down cross-legged. After calming his mind, with a thought in his mind, his spiritual consciousness instantly entered the Time Hall. The moment he entered, his spiritual consciousness directly transformed into a human figure identical to Lu Li.

With a click, he stepped into the Time Hall.

Looking around, it was truly a large hall. However, the hall was empty. Besides a futon in the center, there was also a standing ruler on the left side of the hall.

There was a pointer on the ruler, and the number it pointed to now was 'ten', representing a tenfold flow rate. That is to say, if he cultivated here for ten days, only one day would pass outside. And as the medicine garden on the first floor of the pagoda expanded, this flow rate would also increase. It was quite miraculous.

The only drawback was that he could only use his mind to enter and cultivate on behalf of his body. Although everything about the cultivation would be truly reflected on his body, his actual body was still outside and couldn't be used as a hiding tool.

Of course, there were advantages as well as disadvantages. In this way, he could blatantly cultivate in front of others, and outsiders would have no way of discovering that he was using the Time Hall.

Lu Li sat down cross-legged in the hall and began to use his spiritual consciousness to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. At this time, although he was sitting cross-legged in the Time Hall, there was no spiritual energy in the Time Hall. What he sensed was just the spiritual energy from the outside world.

After dozens of breaths, he suddenly'saw' a wisp of blueish-black aura wandering around him. The aura was rather violent and contained various violent attributes.

Lu Li understood in his heart. It seemed that this was the so-called spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Although he had sensed the spiritual energy, he didn't have a method for absorbing and refining it. Helplessly, he could only withdraw his spiritual consciousness and withdraw his mind from the Time Hall.

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Now everything was ready except for a cultivation method.

Lu Li lay on the hay, thinking about how he could obtain a cultivation method.

"I don't know if there's a chance to leave. It would be great if I could join the Qingyang Sect," Lu Li muttered to himself.

Before he knew it, it was dawn again.

With a clang, a food basin was pushed in.

This time, Fan Zhengping didn't open the door to let them go out to get some fresh air. This made Lu Li's heart rise again. Could it be that... the hope he had just seen was about to disappear like this?

Disappointed as he was, Lu Li wouldn't go on a hunger strike. After eating, Lu Li began to play with his spiritual consciousness again.

Since he couldn't cultivate, the only thing he could play with was this spiritual consciousness.

In this way, another seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, Qin Shouren also successfully condensed his spiritual consciousness and saw his first qi meridian. Like Fatty Chen, he also had seven spiritual roots.

On this day.

Lu Li was bored out of his mind. Suddenly, he remembered that there seemed to be a strange plant in the Spiritual Object Hall. With a thought in his mind, the scene inside the first floor of the space immediately emerged in his mind.

It was exactly the space he had accidentally entered in the water last time.

The owner of the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda couldn't enter all the spaces in person. Last time when the glazed pagoda first recognized its owner, what was pulled into the first floor of the space was actually his soul. Otherwise, his body wouldn't have sunk to the bottom of the river and filled his stomach with water.

However, the first floor's Spiritual Object Hall could indeed support living things, provided that these living things had signed a soul contract with him.

At this time, that green plant had actually grown to three feet tall. Its branches were becoming more and more lush, and it had also borne ten small green fruits. There was also a flowing glow on the fruits, looking somewhat dreamy.

"What the hell is this? Could it be immortal fruits? Will one become an immortal after eating one?"

Lu Li wanted to pick one and taste it, but it seemed that this thing wasn't ripe yet. After thinking about it, he decided to forget it.

"It's been over twenty days. That old monster is probably really coming back," Lu Li withdrew his spiritual consciousness from the first floor of the glazed pagoda and looked at the window with some worry.

Lu Li's intuition was surprisingly accurate.

In the evening, Zhang Song actually rushed back in a hurry, with a somewhat solemn look on his face.

Fan Zhengping had been looking around at the gate every evening these days. His master had done so many evil deeds, and he always felt a bit uneasy in his heart. Only when he saw Zhang Song come back safely did he breathe a sigh of relief and quickly went up to greet him. "Master, you're finally back. I was so worried about you."

Zhang Song nodded and said with relief, "I was originally planning to catch a few more ordinary people to test drugs on the way back. Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened. I was spotted by people from the Qingyang Sect. We need to move as soon as possible."

"Spotted?" Fan Zhengping's expression changed, and he said in a flustered manner, "Master, then let's go quickly."

"Don't rush." Zhang Song waved his hand. "I've already used a trick to shake them off. They won't be able to catch up here in a short time. Moreover, the ones who came were just a few juniors. Even if they came, it's still uncertain who would win or lose."

"Besides, it's not easy to find a place with earth fire. Let's finish refining these few batches of pills before we leave."

The master and disciple hurriedly rushed back to the main hall.

Zhang Song threw several packages onto the offering table. A strong fragrance of medicine wafted out from the packages. "These are all the spiritual medicines I snatched from those young cultivators who were collecting herbs. Take a look at what spiritual medicines there are and record the combinations."

"Yes, Master." Fan Zhengping picked through the spiritual medicines while recording the combined pill formulas with a pen. Three of the ingredients had already been determined, and only the last spiritual medicine was variable.

"Master, there are quite a lot of medicinal materials this time. There are some medicinal materials that I don't even recognize," Fan Zhengping suddenly said.

Zhang Song sat cross-legged in the hall and said wearily, "Just draw the ones you don't recognize. I didn't have time to check them since I was being watched this time. I'll take a rest for a while."

"Yes, Master." Fan Zhengping shook his head and simply drew the unknown spiritual herbs on the pill formula.

The Acupuncture-Piercing Pill was just a first-order pill, specifically used by Qi Refining Stage cultivators.

The commonly recognized realms in the cultivation world were Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Soul Division, Body Fusion, Great Ascension, and Tribulation Crossing, a total of nine major realms. Except that Qi Refining was divided into twelve or fourteen levels, the other realms were each divided into four minor realms: early stage, middle stage, late stage, and peak stage.

Therefore, medicinal materials and pills were also divided into nine ranks accordingly.

Pills were further divided into four common qualities according to their appearance and the amount of impurities they contained: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. It was said that there were even higher qualities above these, but no one could refine them yet.