Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile

As soon as Ye Chen’s spiritual Qi entered Li Mei’s body, it directly rushed towards her dantian before triggering her yin spiritual root, which was the core of her supreme yin physique.

Swoosh!

In that instant, Li Mei and Ye Chen’s figures were enveloped by cold yin spiritual Qi.

This was visible to the eyes, so Wang Yiyi witnessed this with a dumbfounded look and hurriedly made a distance. There was no way that she could stand near any of them, and if she forced it, she would be gravely injured by cold.

’Why is this happening?!’ She couldn’t help but think with a worried look.

All she understood was that Ye Chen must have caused this, but since there was no struggle or pain on Li Mei’s face, she could only force herself to calm down while cursing the bad guy thousands of times in her head.

Just as she was doing this, Ye Chen’s spiritual Qi ran through the meridians of Li Mei, making her stunned.

’Senior brother had yin spiritual Qi? And so refined at that?’ She thought, feeling baffled.

The first thing was that Ye Chen’s cultivation was at just the ninth stage of Qi-gathering, so it made it impossible for him to have refined spiritual Qi at this realm. The second thing was how could he have only yin spiritual Qi?

One had to know that she had a supreme yin physique, which made her sensitive to any yin objects, herbs, and spiritual Qi. There was no way she would have failed to discover if Ye Chen possessed such refined yin spiritual Qi.

Furthermore, if he had yin spiritual Qi, then how could he fly with Phoenix Wings, which relied on fire spiritual Qi? She just couldn’t make any sense of it no matter how she thought.

In the end, she gave up on thinking and focused on breaking through.

The first step was to refine her spiritual Qi, which was an easy one; however, this process took three to four hours or even more if one wanted to refine their spiritual Qi to pure form.

Although no one could achieve perfection at this stage, it was still better to refine to the limit, as the strength of the cultivator depended on the purity of spiritual Qi.

This purity was divided into a total of four grades.

The first one was ’Initial Refined,’ in which everyone will expel major impurities from their spiritual Qi and break through the next realm without any problems.

Although everyone could refine their Qi further, most of the cultivators didn’t do this as they had to spend a lot of time on refining in the future, especially for low-grade spiritual root cultivators. Then there was another issue, and that was Qi-refining pills and natural treasures, which could help them in the future cultivation.

Unless anyone had a backing or was rich, it was very hard to break through the nine stages of Qi-refining just by relying on talent. They had, after all, had to refine their Qi to the next grade in this stage, and it was very difficult if their grade was already high.

So, unless one was a genius and had backing, not many decided to go past the ’initial refining’ grade.

The second grade was ’Essence Refined’; in this, a cultivator expels all of the remaining impurities no matter how small they are.

Not many could refine their spiritual Qi to the limit of this grade in one sitting; nevertheless, many geniuses did their best to reach this grade before breaking through the next realm.

The third grade was ’True Refined,’ focusing mainly on stabilizing the spiritual Qi and enhancing the efficiency. The number of geniuses who reached this stage when breaking through Qi-refining was a single digit, and it had remained the same for the past thousand years.

There were many factors that played a role here, such as talent, opportunity, and even some rare pills! Without any of this, reaching this grade was impossible.

Furthermore, it was not worth putting everything in the single breakthrough, especially since anyone can reach the ’True Refined’ grade after cultivating up to the ninth stage of Qi-refining.

This grade was the bare minimum for anyone who wanted to break through the Qi-condensation realm, so almost everyone reached this grade sooner or later.

The fourth and the last grade was none other than ’Perfect Refined,’ which was called ’Perfection’ by others.

In this stage, the spiritual Qi would be refined and compressed, making it reach absolute purity, which is fully harmonized with the spiritual root and body.

Only geniuses with resources could reach this grade, as it needed some tier-3 and tier-4 spirit fruits.

Li Mei knew her talent was high, so she was striving to reach the ’Essence Refined’ grade, as for ’True Refined,’ she didn’t think she could achieve it, especially since there were no opportunities, and the pills needed to reach this stage were extinct

Ye Chen, of course, had the pill formula, but it required twenty tier-6 and tier-7 herbs. Let’s not talk about whether or not he can find such rare herbs; the pill refining was no joke, as it would take at least six months to refine one pill.

He didn’t have that much time to wait, and neither did anyone else, so he had put this idea behind and came up with a new trick.

Which was helping Li Mei and others to refine their spiritual Qi with his ’Divine Resonance Arts.’

All he had to do was circulate their spiritual Qi inside his body before sending it back to theirs like anyone would do in the ’Dual Cultivation.’ Of course, he will refine the spiritual Qi in the middle.

He was, after all, a spiritual mountain, and any spiritual Qi entering his body would be pure and would even get refined by his cultivation technique, no matter if the spiritual Qi was his or anyone else’s.

Furthermore, he can do this without taking control over the spiritual Qi of others, which was the most important point.

With such a card in his hand, there was no way he wouldn’t help Li Mei and others. Especially now since his spiritual Qi had been refined beyond the grade of ’Perfection.’

Yes, it was beyond since perfection in purity grade didn’t mean separating the elements and gaining full control over it. He himself was not aware of what grade he was in and even had questions on how to cultivate further in Qi-refining.

After all, what do you do in the Qi-refining realm? It would be bad if he couldn’t break through the small stages after having nothing to refine.

Well, letting this worry aside, Ye Chen started to refine Li Mei’s spiritual Qi; he only did this in a certain amount, which was enough to reach ’True Refined’ grade.

As for the ’Perfection,’ it would be a bad idea if Li Mei failed to cultivate further because of not having to refine anything. Maybe she can reach the same stage as him, but he didn’t gamble on this thought, especially since he can help her reach this stage as long as she doesn’t break through the Qi-condensation realm.

This time was enough for him to figure out how to cultivate further. What if he can’t? Well, he had no choice but to redo his cultivation.

’This!! Senior brother is refining my spiritual Qi! And it is at the third grade!’ Li Mei couldn’t help but become dumbfounded.

Zhen Yunqi and Lan Ming had told her everything she needed to know about the breakthrough, so she was aware of how many grades there were and how difficult it was to achieve them in the breakthrough.

Yet now Ye Chen was doing this casually and without any effort. She couldn’t help but feel pity for the cultivators who did everything to reach ’Essence Refined’ and ’True Refined.’

Swoosh!

Once again, yin Qi erupted from Li Mei’s body, but this time it was pure and more powerful.

Witnessing this, Wang Yiyi’s jaws dropped with shock. How could she not guess what Ye Chen was doing?

’He can increase the purity of spiritual Qi! But how?!’ She thought with a dumbfounded look.

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It took an hour for Ye Chen to refine Li Mei’s spiritual Qi; he could’ve finished it earlier, but he didn’t want any mistakes, so he took his time, and once he was done with it, he moved back.

He could only help in the process of Qi refining, so staying behind her was useless and might even distract her, so he didn’t stay there.

After the Qi refining process was breaking through the next realm, which required Li Mei to guide the spiritual Qi inside her body as her cultivation technique defined it.

This was also not a difficult task, and she circulated the yin spiritual Qi without any trouble.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

With each cycle, the yin spiritual Qi inside her body erupted, turning the soil ground into an icy one.

Boom!

Suddenly a thundering sound echoed from Li Mei’s body, sending out a terrifying Qi wave.

Fortunately, Ye Chen was beside Wang Yiyi and protected her; if not, the little girl would be flying like an eagle.