With a long exhalation of turbid breath, expelling the last trace of dirt generated by the advancement in his body, Huang Chang stood up and closed his eyes slightly, feeling a purer and grander source of mana flowing wantonly in the meridians of his body. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Five layers of qi refining, five heavens realm......"

The arduous retreat that lasted for more than ten days finally achieved corresponding results, and I reached a higher level in the "middle stage of qi refining", reaching the fifth level of qi refining, that is, the proficiency stage of the middle stage of qi refining.

――Since officially becoming an immortal cultivator, Huang Chang has learned more about the various rules and concepts on the path of immortal cultivation. For example, the division of the realm level of an immortal cultivator is much more detailed than what he originally understood-especially for the cultivators in the Qi refining period, on the basis of the original rough division into these small realms of the early stage, middle stage, and late stage, each small realm is divided into three stages: "I have just entered this realm, everything is still very rusty", "I have mastered it and can play to a normal level", and "I am very proficient and have some understanding, and I am about to break through to the next realm", plus the final Great Perfection period, it is divided into ten levels in total. The monks likened it to ascending to the heavens, and each time they ascended a level, they ascended to the heavens. When the ten heavens are full and the heavenly tribulation is over, it is to step into the Fa Yuan Immortal Realm, and he is truly qualified to be called an immortal.

The fifth layer of qi refining and the fivefold heaven realm mean that Huang Chang is now a standard immortal cultivator who can skillfully exert the ability that a cultivator in the middle stage of qi refining should have, and this is also the life wish of the vast majority of immortal cultivators in the human world - the lower realm human world is far from having such good conditions as on West Kunlun Mountain, if there is no special opportunity, the qi refiners in the human world can only reach the middle stage of qi refining at most, and it is rare to be able to break through to the late stage. And the vast majority of mortal cultivators can only be the same as Huang Chang's current situation: the fifth layer of qi refining, the fivefold heaven realm, unless those who have particularly deep skills and have accumulated dozens or even hundreds of years of mana, it is possible to reach the sixfold heaven realm, that is, the appearance of the peak of the middle stage.

And how long did it take Huang Chang to practice to this level?--His gaze slowly slid over the stone wall of this ashram room, where there were some signs carved on it, recording the days and nights he had been cultivating here since he went up the mountain.

"It's been eight years......!"

Huang Chang gently spit out a sigh of emotion from his mouth, which not only sighed that time flies and time flies, but also faintly carried a bit of pride - he has been on the mountain for eight years, and it has only been five years since he really started cultivating after breaking through the induction level! He has finally caught up with the average level of disciples in West Kunlun Mountain, and he is not lagging behind among this group of blue-clothed disciples.

In fact, Huang Chang's requirements for himself were a bit too strict - Xi Kunlun's requirements for his disciples were that within ten years, they must at least reach the middle stage of qi refining, that is, the level of the fourth level of qi refining, before going down the mountain. Now in their group of more than 90 junior brothers, there are only about 30 people who have reached the fifth level of qi refining and above, more than half of them are still hovering at the fourth layer stage, and a few are only at the third level, and they have not even been able to enter the middle stage realm.

Moreover, Huang Chang only broke through the induction level three years after he started, and it has only been five years since he really started cultivating, and he has improved his realm by one level on average in a year, which is a super high speed that even those "geniuses" who are born with the bone veins of the Immortal Family may not be able to achieve!

However, Huang Chang was in such a hurry and also had his own considerations - the fourth layer of qi refining was only the minimum requirement. The real test of each class of disciples in West Kunlun is to require them to have fought the Bronze Horse Hall Formation. And if you want to break through the Bronze Horse Hall and obtain the qualification of a true disciple, according to the evaluation of the predecessors of the past dynasties: Generally speaking, the sixth layer of qi refining is more certain, the fifth layer is relatively reluctant, and the fourth layer is basically hopeless.

Although each class of disciples can stay on the mountain for ten years, the test of the Grand Calibrator and the Bronze Horse Hall is carried out in the ninth year. The remaining year is just for the disciples who are preparing to go down the mountain to choose their own positions among the many halls of the sect and receive corresponding training, which is equivalent to the graduation season in the university.

It doesn't matter if others can't beat the Bronze Horse Hall, but they have to do it, otherwise it will be a joke for Master Changqingzi to accept him as a personal disciple in advance. And if he wants to fight the Bronze Horse Hall, he only has one year left to hone his skills, purify his mana, and strive to meet the test in the best state of the Five Heavens when the time comes—Huang Chang didn't think that he would be able to improve his realm again in the remaining year.

In fact, it was already an unexpected joy to be able to rush to the fifth layer of qi refining this time, he didn't expect to be able to improve so smoothly. After all, according to Master Changqingzi's evaluation of him at the beginning: his talent is only in the middle level, and it is already relatively reluctant to reach the middle stage of qi refining, and if he sprints to the late stage of qi refining, he will have to use the secret method of "Chaotic Heaven Five Elements Qianyuan True Solution" to make up for his lack of spiritual root and slow mana absorption by practicing one more Five Elements Technique.

However, at least during these five years, he didn't feel how difficult it was for him to cultivate. Of course, there is a reason for this--my cultivation conditions are really good. Not to mention those ordinary sects in the mortal nether realm, even above the West Kunlun Immortal Mountain, among the disciples in the Qi refining period, it is estimated that there are very few people who can surpass themselves in external conditions......

When he thought of this, Huang Chang's eyes unconsciously wandered around this quiet room for a while--in the small spirit gathering array that was the core of this cultivation quiet room, there was still half a spirit stone left that had not been used up, and the powder of more than ten spirit stones had been broken nearby - during the ten days of retreat and cultivation, the small spirit gathering array was always open. Even when he didn't have the luck of practicing gong for the time being, the concentration of spiritual energy in the pure room still remained at an extremely high level.

In fact, in the past five years, as long as he was running the exercises, he would definitely use the Spirit Gathering Array, and the spirit stones consumed for this were not a small amount. At least for a Qi Refining Cultivator, it is a lot, if there is no strong backing behind him, he will definitely not be able to hold on.

On the side of the meditation room, on the side of the table against the wall, there were a number of pill bottles, which were all kinds of qi-replenishing elixirs or secret elixirs that were very beneficial to the Qi refining period cultivators. Although the cultivation methods of Xi Kunlun do not particularly advocate relying on pills to improve, these pills refined with various spiritual materials and secret techniques are very obvious for the efficiency of monks when practicing.

It's just that because of the high price, even if it is a disciple of a major sect like Xi Kunlun, most of them can only prepare one or two bottles, and take a few pills when they reach a critical moment in their cultivation to break through the realm. And Huang Chang's side, although he can't be said to be rich enough to eat the elixir as a jelly bean, he usually takes it when he cultivates, and he never has to worry about the supply of the elixir.

- Because he has a big backer!