The Longevity Family: Starting From The Branches And Leaves

Chapter 6: First Tier Upper Grade (Seeking Collection and Follow-up Reading)

Under the skillful arrangement of He Yunxiu, the room had a touch of a new house atmosphere.

A few candles were lit, and some red festive decorations were placed in the room, adding a touch of joy.

Chu Yu sat in front of the bed, her body involuntarily tense, feeling nervous in her heart!

When Chen Ling walked in, she shyly lowered her head, not daring to look up at the man in front of her who had become her husband shortly after they met.

Seeing two blushes appear on Chu Yu's face, spreading all the way to her neck, her well-proportioned body was as full as a ripe peach.

Chen Ling, who had been paying attention to the value of incense, suddenly felt a surge of primitive desire.

"Yuer, let's rest."

He reached out and held Chu Yu's jade-like hand.

"Husband, please be gentle!"

Chu Yu whimpered, raising her beautiful and slender neck, her watery eyes swaying with intoxicating charm.

Hoo.

A breeze blew by.

The candles went out.

Soon.

Chu Yu shed her youthfulness and grew into a perfect woman.

The night was quiet, with unknown insects occasionally making a sound, and the faint moonlight shining through the wooden window, casting a cool-toned hazy light, reflecting two embracing figures.

Chu Yu lay on Chen Ling's chest, sleeping soundly.

Chen Ling squinted his eyes with satisfaction, gently stroking the warm body in his arms.

No words were spoken.

He couldn't wait to open the virtual panel.

Golden characters were flashing on it.

Name: Chen Ling

Incense Value: 20

Spirit Root: Four-element Mixed Spirit Root (Gold, Wood, Fire, Earth, 58/100) (+)

Realm: Qi Refining Third Layer

Cultivation Technique: Qingyan Art (Entry Level: 40/100) (+)

Skill: Basic Refining Art (Initial Understanding: 38/100) (+)

Basic Puppetry Technique (Entry Level: 5/100) (+)

Divine Ability: None

Lifespan: 109 days (+)

Refiner: First Tier Intermediate Grade

Family Members (Viewable)

[Family Progress: Successfully took a concubine, gained 20 Incense Value and Puppetry Technique]

[Tip: Add a wife with Qi Refining Second Layer cultivation every three days! Gain 1 Incense Value!]

Seeing this, Chen Ling breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that there had to be a real husband and wife relationship for the Incense Value to be in place.

But what surprised him even more was that this time, he not only gained 20 Incense Value but also obtained the Puppetry Technique.

Could it be that this was the cultivation technique Chu Yu practiced?

According to the introduction from Shopkeeper Shen, Chu Yu was a spiritual plant husband. How could she cultivate puppetry?

But having more skills wouldn't burden him!

In the past, in order to learn the art of refining, he resolutely married into the He family!

In this world, learning a skill was not an easy task.

Unless one was born into a prestigious family.

But now, he could obtain the skills of his concubine during their time off together, and he could also improve them by using Incense Value. This meant that as long as he kept accumulating, his skills would improve rapidly.

Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes slightly. Indeed, there was a cultivation technique in his sea of consciousness. He naturally understood some methods of puppet refinement.

This was mainly a method of material assembly for puppet refinement!

It felt similar to refining tools, both requiring the refinement and assembly of materials. The difference was the prohibition used in each.

Advanced puppets could even maintain a certain vitality of the materials themselves!

Of course, Chen Ling currently had no intention of cultivating the "Puppetry Technique." It would distract his Incense Value.

His top priority now was to improve his refining skills, as well as his spirit root and lifespan!

There was simply no extra Incense Value to spare!

"Let's put it aside for now! We'll improve it when we have enough incense value."

As the saying goes: in the current situation, everything else is insignificant, only incense value is the real deal!

"Now, I still need to earn enough spirit stones. These 20 incense values should be enough to make me a first-class refiner."

With this in mind, he got up and left the room, heading to the cultivation room.

The night outside was deep.

After turning on the crystal lamp, the cultivation room was as bright as day.

He wasn't in a hurry to allocate points. Instead, he picked up a jar and drank a big bowl of water to calm his excited heart.

Then he took a detoxification pill to remove the evil energy from his body, something he did every day.

After a stick of incense, faint black energy rose from his hands.

With the help of the detoxification pill, it became much easier to remove the evil energy from his body.

After finishing the detoxification, he sat cross-legged on the cushion and took out a Qi Gathering Pill to consume.

While cultivating the pill's power, he opened the panel.

Chen Ling raised an eyebrow. "Tonight, I will break through to the first-class level in the Refining Art, add points for me!"

He added one point to the "+" after the "Refining Art" in his mind.

A familiar figure appeared in his sea of consciousness, quickly drawing various prohibitions.

With each stroke, he comprehended a large number of different prohibitions.

At the same time, information and usage of various spiritual materials also appeared in his sea of consciousness, which he directly grasped.

Similar to before, it took about ten breaths for the breakthrough to be completed.

The panel updated.

Name: Chen Ling

Incense Value: 5

Spirit Roots: Mixed Spirit Roots of Four Elements (Metal, Wood, Fire, Earth, 58/100) (+)

Realm: Qi Refining Third Layer

Cultivation Art: Qingyan Art (Entry: 40/100) (+)

Skills: Basic Refining Art (Proficient: 42/100) (+)

Basic Puppetry (Entry: 5/100) (+)

Divine Ability: None

Lifespan: 109 days (+)

Refiner: First-class

Family Members (Viewable)

[Family Progress: Four family members, 1 incense value can be condensed every three days.]

[Tip: The cultivation of family members can accelerate the condensation of incense value!]

"I've become a first-class refiner."

Chen Ling showed a happy expression. It should be noted that for a refiner to reach the first-class level, they must draw prohibitions of level five or above, which is even more difficult than breaking through to the later stage of Qi Refining.

After a little thought, he used the "Basic Refining Art" as an example. At the entry and initial stages, one incense value could increase the experience by about seven points.

In the skill column, the levels were: Entry, Initial Stage, Proficient, Minor Achievement, Major Achievement, Perfection...

Chen Ling carefully sensed the changes after the breakthrough.

"This breakthrough seems to be different from the previous ones."

He felt that as long as he saw a level five prohibition, he could easily draw it.

Compared to breaking through to the first-class intermediate level, it was a qualitative leap.

One was a point, the other was an area.

"Now, it shouldn't be a problem to draw a level three prohibition."

However, there was still a problem. Drawing prohibitions required sufficient spiritual energy.

With his current cultivation at the third layer of Qi Refining, it would be a huge challenge to draw level five prohibitions due to his own spiritual energy.

"It's still the same problem. Because of the mixed spirit roots of the four elements, the growth of spiritual energy cultivation can no longer keep up."

"For now, being a first-class refiner is enough. There is no need to continue improving in the short term."

"The next step is to improve spiritual energy cultivation!"

Chen Ling's gaze immediately turned to the spiritual root attributes.

With his mixed spirit roots of the four elements, reaching the later stage of Qi Refining was already the limit.

Without good pills, he would remain stagnant.

Even with great opportunities, if he luckily reached Foundation Building, there would be almost no room for further progress.

But now everything had changed. He could improve his spiritual roots by adding points to incense value!

(End of this chapter)