It was almost time to start working. Lin Hao, who had been sitting cross-legged in meditation, stopped cultivating and got up from the small wooden bed.

"Set a small goal first, to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining," he said, full of fighting spirit.

As long as he cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining using the Five Elements Longevity Art, he would have a lifespan that was one and a half times longer than that of cultivators of the same realm, which meant he could live up to 180 years.

"Boss, have you broken through to the first level of Qi Refining?"

The chubby Wang Fu chatted with Lin Hao. He had heard Lin Hao mention that he might be able to break through in the next few days. So early in the morning, he asked with concern.

"Yeah, I've already broken through," Lin Hao replied with a smile.

"Boss, as expected of a genius disciple recruited by Senior Sister Liu. You're really amazing," Wang Fu said, envy showing on his chubby face.

"Don't mention that I'm a genius disciple anymore. We should keep a low profile," Lin Hao's expression became unnatural when he heard the chubby guy mention "Senior Sister Liu."

His real spiritual root was just a first-grade five-element spiritual root. He wondered what kind of expression Wang Fu would have if he knew the truth. Would he still be willing to call him boss?

While chatting, the two walked out of the room side by side and headed for the spirit iron mine.

After receiving the mining tools, Lin Hao and the chubby guy entered the mine cave.

"Clang! Clang! Ding! Ding!"

A large number of miscellaneous disciples were mining, and the sounds of chiseling and knocking on stones kept ringing out.

"My strength has increased!"

Lin Hao swung the pickaxe in his hand and found that after breaking through to the first level of Qi Refining, his strength was at least three times greater than before.

Before the breakthrough, after eating spirit porridge for half a month, he only had a strength of nearly two hundred catties, but now it was at least six hundred catties.

With his greatly increased strength, Lin Hao's mining speed soared.

In just two hours, he had dug out enough spirit iron to exchange for a meal.

This was still under the situation where he deliberately held back. If he used the spiritual power in his body to mine with all his strength, it was estimated that he could dig out enough spirit iron to exchange for a meal in just over an hour.

"Boss, you're too awesome!"

The chubby Wang Fu, who was not far away, looked at Lin Hao with admiration and said, "Even Yan Heng, whose cultivation level is almost at the second level of Qi Refining, can't match your mining speed!"

"Hehe, it's just so-so," Lin Hao replied with a modest smile. In his heart, however, he was very excited. The remnant soul of the Immortal Venerable of Longevity had said that the five-element spiritual root was invincible in the same realm, and it turned out that he hadn't lied.

Just from the strength, one could tell.

Lin Hao was delighted in his heart, but on his face, he still smiled at the chubby guy calmly and said, "Let's work hard at mining. Let's try to get more spirit porridge today."

In the first few days after arriving at the Xuanyue Sect, he couldn't dig enough spirit iron to exchange for five catties every day. Thanks to the chubby guy's help, he was able to eat spirit porridge.

Now that he had broken through to the first level of Qi Refining and his mining speed had become faster, he could exchange for more spirit porridge. He didn't mind sharing some with the chubby guy to repay his kindness before.

"As expected of the genius favored by Senior Sister Liu. Lin Hao has broken through in just half a month," the outer sect disciples supervising in the mine cave were attracted by Lin Hao, who was mining quickly.

"Lin Hao was able to enter the first level of Qi Refining in half a month. His aptitude must be at least a sixth-grade single spiritual root," another outer sect disciple said with an admiring tone, "His future achievements will be limitless. We can't compare with him."

"It's a good thing we didn't provoke him," Yan Heng, whose cultivation level in the mine cave was about to break through to the second level of Qi Refining, couldn't help but feel a bit lucky when he heard the conversation of several outer sect disciples. That day, because he was afraid of Senior Sister Liu, he didn't beat Lin Hao up.

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If he had offended such a genius, his days in the sect would be difficult.

"Pay respects to the sect leader, pay respects to Senior Sister Liu."

Just when the other miscellaneous disciples were all amazed at Lin Hao's extraordinary talent.

Suddenly, all the outer sect disciples in the mine cave knelt down to pay their respects.

A smiling old man, accompanied by Liu Qinghan, who was wearing a long purple dress and was extremely beautiful, walked in with several inner sect disciples of the Xuanyue Sect.

"All of you, get up. There's no need to pay respects," Chi Yunzi, the sect leader of the Xuanyue Sect, was in a good mood when he learned that his disciple Liu Qinghan had recruited a disciple with a sixth-grade fire-attribute single spiritual root, and he seemed very approachable.

"Thank you, sect leader," the outer sect disciples of the Xuanyue Sect in the mine cave thanked him, feeling flattered, and then got up from the ground.

"Qinghan, who is Lin Hao, the one with the sixth-grade fire-attribute single spiritual root?" Chi Yunzi asked.

The outer sect disciples and miscellaneous disciples present knew that the sect leader had been attracted by Lin Hao, and they couldn't help but envy him extremely.

They wished they could take Lin Hao's place.

They all sighed in their hearts that Lin Hao was about to rise to prominence.

"That's him," Liu Qinghan stretched out her fair and jade-like hand and pointed at the young man holding the mining tools.

Immediately, Chi Yunzi, the sect leader of the Xuanyue Sect, and the several inner sect disciples who had come with him all turned their eyes to Lin Hao.

"They've come so soon!"

Being the focus of everyone's attention, Lin Hao didn't feel happy at all. Instead, he felt as if needles were pricking his back.

He was just a first-grade five-element spiritual root. Although his master, the remnant soul of the Immortal Venerable of Longevity, had manipulated things and faked him as a sixth-grade single fire-attribute spiritual root, as long as the spirit root testing stone was used, he would be exposed.

"He has such a thick aura of fire spiritual energy. Eh! His cultivation level has already reached the first level of Qi Refining so quickly. This kid is good!"

As soon as Chi Yunzi, the sect leader of the Xuanyue Sect, set his eyes on Lin Hao, he couldn't hide his joy on his face and said, "Getting such a genius is a sign that heaven wants our Xuanyue Sect to thrive!"

His face was flushed with excitement. He hadn't been this happy even when he broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage back then.

If a disciple with a sixth-grade fire-attribute single spiritual root grew up, and combined with his own closed-door disciple with a fifth-grade wood-attribute single spiritual root, they would surely be able to change the situation of the Xuanyue Sect being at the bottom among the four major immortal sects in the State of Zhao, and might even rise to become the strongest immortal sect in the State of Zhao.

Suddenly, Chi Yunzi, the sect leader of the Xuanyue Sect, flashed. No one present could clearly see his moving figure.

In an instant, he appeared in front of Lin Hao.

"Good boy, come on. Quickly put your hand on this spirit root testing stone," Chi Yunzi took out a transparent stone from his storage bag, with a kind smile on his face and said in a gentle tone.

Looking at the old man in front of him with an expectant look, Lin Hao felt his scalp tingle and his back was covered in cold sweat. He knew his own situation. He was not a sixth-grade single fire-attribute spiritual root at all.

Under the gaze of so many people, he couldn't avoid it.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and stretch out his hand to put it on the spirit root testing stone.

After a while, the transparent stone lit up with the light representing the five-element spiritual root.

"Eh...! This...!"

Chi Yunzi, who had been smiling all over his face just now, froze when he looked at the spirit root testing stone, and he felt his Dao heart becoming unstable.

"Impossible! Judging from the aura he emits, he should be a sixth-grade single fire-attribute spiritual root."

Liu Qinghan's fair face showed disbelief, and her delicate body trembled slightly as she said, "How could he be just a first-grade five-element spiritual root?"

"Could it be that the testing stone is malfunctioning?"

Chi Yunzi was unwilling to accept it. Judging from the pure fire-attribute aura of the young man in front of him and the fact that he had cultivated to the first level of Qi Refining so quickly, he couldn't possibly be just a first-grade five-element spiritual root.

He took out another new spirit root testing stone and asked Lin Hao to put his hand on it.

As a result, it was still the five-colored light.

"The testing stone is fine. Did I and Qinghan misjudge?"

Chi Yunzi's face looked extremely ugly, and he could hardly accept the fact.

"He's really just a first-grade five-element spiritual root."

He tested it several more times, but the result was still the same.

Chi Yunzi tried hard to calm down his state of mind. He had a certain guess in his mind. He stretched out his old hand, grasped Lin Hao's wrist, and sent a wisp of spiritual power into Lin Hao's meridians to check.

After about a quarter of an hour, he stared at Lin Hao with sharp eyes and asked, "Did you eat some strange spirit medicine or spirit fruit before?"

"Reply... Sect leader," Lin Hao felt as if a huge mountain was pressing down on him under the old man's sharp gaze, making it hard for him to breathe. He said nervously, "I... I once... encountered a... very fragrant fiery red fruit on a mountain... I was thirsty and hungry at that time, so I couldn't help but pick it and eat it..."

"What a waste! What a terrible waste!"

Before Lin Hao could finish speaking, Chi Yunzi shouted repeatedly, so angry that he clenched his fists, "This spirit fruit must be a supreme treasure of the fire attribute. It was actually eaten by someone with only a five-element spiritual root. Alas... What a waste..."

"The five-element spiritual root is a useless spiritual root that is rarely seen in a thousand years and doesn't even rank in grades."

"This young man's five-element spiritual root can reach the first grade. It's very likely that the supreme treasure spirit fruit he ate has the effect of improving the grade of the spiritual root. If a genius with a fire-attribute single spiritual root had eaten this spirit fruit, how much better it would be... I'm so angry!"

The more Chi Yunzi, the sect leader of the Xuanyue Sect, thought about it, the angrier he became, and he was almost on the verge of developing inner demons.

Looking at Chi Yunzi, who had become a bit crazy, Lin Hao was suffering greatly in his heart.

He was extremely worried, afraid that the old man would be unable to think straight and, in a fit of extreme anger, slap him to death with one blow.