Blue Phoenix Chapter 16 - Return to Riluo City

Hui Yue did not go to sleep after receiving the Qi Grasping pill. Instead, he moved into his bedroom, placed himself on top of his bed and started to cultivate.

Hui Yue allowed his consciousness to submerge into the meridians and flow together with the absorbed essence towards the lower dantian where he saw Lan Feng waiting for him.

Usually, Lan Feng and Hui Yue communicated mentally without actually seeing one another. From time to time, Hui Yue would create a copy of himself with his consciousness, an imprint of his soul, much like Lan Feng was, and the two would sit down within Hui Yue’s qi cave to discuss important subjects.

Today was one of those days. So far Hui Yue had had to rely solely on his own patience to refine qi from essence. Since both he and Lan Feng had incredibly high standards, it was obvious that they needed to seek outside help in the shape of medicinal pills if they wanted to progress at a faster speed.

Hui Yue was perfectly aware that although he was to start relying on medicinal pills, gaining qi that way had its limits. The more foreign qi from pills that was mixed into the internal dantian, the more unstable the qi spiral would become. Adding too much foreign qi without taking the time to perfectly merge it would end in Hui Yue losing control of his entire cultivation base.

That being said, Hui Yue was not worried about hard work, nor did he mind spending a lot of time merging the two types of qi. It would increase his cultivation speed by half. This was an increase which Hui Yue dearly needed considering he was about to embark upon the final three stars within the Student rank.

‘We are unable to really plan anything before we know how much we will be paid for this Qi Grasping pill,’ Hui Yue said with a sigh as he looked at Lan Feng. ‘If we do not gain enough coins to buy a memory stone, we only have one option, but I would prefer if we could avoid it,’ he continued with a sigh, and Lan Feng nodded.

‘Although we can ask the Black Auction House to provide the stones for us, it will put us

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