Time passed quickly and unconsciously. The mountains where the Xuanyue Sect was located were filled with lush trees, and the weather became hot. After finishing today's work in the mine cave, Lin Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Walking out of the mine cave with the chubby Wang Fu, who he had a good relationship with, he looked at the setting sun and couldn't help murmuring, "Unconsciously, it's been almost five months since I came to the Xuanyue Sect."

"Eh! Oh no! Boss, I'll no longer be a new miscellaneous disciple in a few days."

Hearing the words "five months", Wang Fu's face suddenly changed. According to the sect's regulations, newly recruited miscellaneous disciples could only stay in the newcomer area for half a year.

He had come to the sect many days earlier than Lin Hao. Calculating the time, he would be forced to leave here in three days and go to the unfamiliar old miscellaneous disciple area to do more work.

During these five months, with Lin Hao, his boss, taking care of him, Wang Fu had lived a very comfortable life. For him, leaving the newcomer area was even more unbearable than being killed.

"Wang Fu, in these few months, your cultivation has reached the late stage of the first level of Qi Refining. You should be okay when you go to the old miscellaneous disciple area, right?" Lin Hao patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Boss, in the old miscellaneous disciple area, the cultivation level of the late stage of the first level of Qi Refining is nothing at all. Only by cultivating to the second level of Qi Refining can I avoid being bullied by others," Wang Fu said with a sad face. Thinking of those tough guys rumored to be in the old area, he felt his scalp tingle. He had just lived a good life for five months, and now he was about to live a tough life again.

"Come on, Wang Fu. Give your boss a smile. Don't be afraid. Since you can't avoid it, just face it bravely," Lin Hao played the role of a motivational speaker and said, "Just endure it for some time. When your cultivation reaches the second level of Qi Refining and you become an expert in the old area, you can live a good life again. Life! We should always look forward..."

A few more days passed.

The chubby Wang Fu left, extremely reluctantly going to the old miscellaneous disciple area. When he left, he cried his heart out.

Lin Hao watched his back and felt a bit sad. In the Xuanyue Sect, only the chubby guy was his friend. Now that his friend had left, there would be no one to chat and brag with him.

The next day, after Wang Fu moved out, an empty bed was left. A newly recruited miscellaneous disciple was arranged to stay here.

"Senior Brother Lin Hao, I'm Li Feilong. I'm twelve years old this year and have a third-grade fire-wood dual-attribute spiritual root. I just joined the Xuanyue Sect today. I've heard of your great name for a long time. Please take good care of me, Senior Brother Lin Hao," the new miscellaneous disciple said respectfully as soon as he moved in.

Lin Hao was slightly surprised. The other person looked almost as tall as an adult, except for his rather childish face. He didn't expect that he was actually so young.

"How did you know my name when you just got here?" Lin Hao looked at the new miscellaneous disciple for a while and couldn't help asking.

"Senior Brother Lin Hao, I'm from a small immortal cultivation family in the State of Zhao and have some acquaintances in the Xuanyue Sect," Li Feilong clasped his hands and explained, "The reason why I know your name is that I asked Senior Brother Zuo from the outer sect. That Senior Brother Zuo told me some situations here."

"So that's how it is," Lin Hao was slightly startled in his heart.

The other person was actually from an immortal cultivation family and had acquaintances in the Xuanyue Sect. He was much better off than someone like Lin Hao who had no background at all.

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"Senior Brother Lin Hao, I have a favor to ask you," Li Feilong said after thinking for a moment.

"What is it?" Lin Hao thought for a while and said.

"I heard that you are the strongest person in the tenth team of the newcomer area, that not only are the other miscellaneous disciples obedient to you, but you also mine very fast," Li Feilong continued, "I would like to ask you to help me mine every day."

"Ask me to help you mine?" Lin Hao immediately frowned. Did the other person want to bully him by relying on his background from an immortal cultivation family?

"It's not that I want you to help me work for nothing," Li Feilong saw that his face darkened and knew that he had misunderstood. He quickly smiled and said, "Senior Brother Lin Hao, you only have a little over half a month left before you have to go to the old miscellaneous disciple area, right? As long as you help me mine during the remaining days in the newcomer area, I'm willing to pay you a low-grade spirit stone as a reward."

Hearing the word "spirit stone", Lin Hao couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart. In the past few months since he came to the Xuanyue Sect, an immortal cultivation sect, he hadn't seen what a real spirit stone looked like. However, he was quite familiar with the functions of spirit stones.

Spirit stones were used in various aspects such as setting up formations, refining weapons, and cultivation. They were extremely important common currency in the immortal cultivation world.

He was currently at the peak of the first level of Qi Refining and was not far from the second level of Qi Refining. If he had a low-grade spirit stone, he would have a chance to break through before leaving the newcomer area.

"Deal. I can help you mine during the remaining days in the newcomer area," Lin Hao thought for a moment, his expression softened, and he smiled and said.

"Senior Brother Lin Hao, here is the low-grade spirit stone," Li Feilong made a crystal stone that glowed slightly appear out of thin air in his hand and handed it over.

"This is the spirit stone!" Lin Hao reached out to take the spirit stone, and a pure spiritual energy fluctuation came from it. He couldn't help but feel happy in his heart. He felt that with this spirit stone, his cultivation speed would increase significantly, and he would surely be able to break through in about twenty days.

"Junior Brother Li, why are you willing to pay such a precious spirit stone instead of mining by yourself?" Lin Hao carefully put the spirit stone away and looked at Li Feilong, asking curiously.

"Because I'm not the only one from our Li family who joined the Xuanyue Sect," Li Feilong said, "Our Li family has a rule that whoever has the fastest cultivation speed and can become an outer sect disciple of the Xuanyue Sect first will be able to obtain more family cultivation resources for help."

"So, I need to focus wholeheartedly on cultivation and don't want to be delayed by the work of miscellaneous disciples," he continued.

Lin Hao looked at Li Feilong and couldn't help but feel a bit envious. People with family backgrounds were much better off when it came to cultivating immortals than those like them who were like duckweeds floating around.

"Junior Brother Li, since I've accepted your spirit stone, I'll take care of your work," Lin Hao didn't want to offend someone with a background like Li Feilong. He patted his chest and promised.

"Yeah, thank you, Senior Brother Lin Hao," Li Feilong smiled. His family was his confidence, and he wasn't afraid that Lin Hao would take the spirit stone and not do the work.

The two chatted amicably for a while before ending the conversation and starting to cultivate on their own.

In the following days.

During the day, Lin Hao mined with all his strength. With his current strength, it wasn't difficult for him to dig out the amount of spirit iron for two people in the mine cave.

At night, he held that low-grade spirit stone in his hand and absorbed the spiritual energy in it.

With the help of the Eternal Longevity Tower, Lin Hao absorbed the spiritual energy without any loss. The spiritual energy he absorbed from one spirit stone was equivalent to the spiritual energy that others obtained from absorbing two low-grade spirit stones.

In the blink of an eye, there were only a few days left before he had to leave the new miscellaneous disciple area.

In summer, the night was already dark, and the sounds of various insects chirping came one after another.

In the small wooden house, Lin Hao sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, using the Five Elements Longevity Art to guide the spiritual energy to circulate through his meridians for a cycle.

After absorbing the low-grade spirit stone he earned from Li Feilong, the total spiritual energy in his body was at least 20% richer than that more than ten days ago.

Unconsciously, Lin Hao successfully completed another cycle. Subconsciously, he wanted to use the Five Elements Longevity Art to guide the spiritual energy for the next cycle.

Suddenly, a feeling of enlightenment came to him. There was a "boom" in his body, as if some kind of shackle had been broken, and he felt extremely comfortable all over.

After nearly twenty days of hard cultivation, Lin Hao finally broke through from the peak of the first level of Qi Refining to the second level of Qi Refining.