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

As soon as Li Mei broke through the Qi-refining, a warm current coursed through her body, expanding her meridians and dantian.

It was a normal process for everyone, as for how much the expansion will be, it depended on talent and the purity of spiritual Qi.

Because Li Mei had a supreme yin physique and 'True Refined' spiritual Qi, her benefits were greater.

Soon her dantian, which was the size of a house, expanded into the size of two football fields, while her meridians widened by three centimeters, making spiritual Qi flow like a river.

If anyone saw these results, their eyes would pop out from the shock because no one had achieved such a feat at the first big realm breakthrough.

One had to know that normal people had a dantian of a small bedroom or even smaller; only geniuses could have a little bigger. As for meridians, they were just one centimeter or below it.

Although at the breakthrough they can enlarge them, it would be only ten to fifteen percent for normal cultivators and for geniuses twenty to forty percent. Even the top geniuses in the past thousand years couldn't get past fifty percent.

So, Li Mei's expansion was pretty wild. However, if they knew Ye Chen had a dantian that could contain five football fields, and the meridian, which is five centimeters wide, they would question reality; after all, he had yet to break through the Qi-refining.

Furthermore, each small breakthrough in the Qi-refining will expand the dantian and meridians by a small percentage, which would be a lot for both Li Mei and Ye Chen.

Not to mention the current expansion was alone enough to increase the strength by five times. Li Mei would have no trouble fighting with the fourth or fifth level of Qi-refining; if she utilized her yin physique, then her strength would increase further.

These were the benefits of refining the spiritual Qi at the 'True Refined' grade. Of course, she also got strong physically, but it wasn't much since the first three realms were focused on spiritual Qi.

"Bad guy, why does it look like Sister Li Mei's spiritual Qi had reached 'True Refined' grade?"

Just as Li Mei was busy consolidating her cultivation, Wang Yiyi inquired with a dumbfounded look.

"Because her Qi had reached 'True Refined' grade," Ye Chen replied and dragged the little girl to another corner of the cave.

"Sit here and start the breakthrough," he instructed without any nonsense.

Wang Yiyi understood that he was capable of helping, so she didn't hesitate and started to break through with excitement.

After all, the number of people who were able to reach 'True Refined' was a single-digit number, and soon she will be a part of it.

The more she thought, the more excited she became and forgot about inquiring about why Li Mei's spiritual Qi contained only one element.

As soon as she started, Ye Chen repeated the same process. The little girl had a low-tier Heaven-grade spiritual root, and it was triggered by Ye Chen's spiritual Qi.

This time his Qi contained all the elements, as Wang Yiyi doesn't have any mutated spiritual root or special physique. Furthermore, the time taken for refining was less as her dantian wasn't too big, which made the amount of spiritual Qi low.

Within half an hour, Ye Chen was done and left her to break through. In the meantime, Li Mei had already finished consolidating her cultivation and was waiting calmly.

"Senior brother, your spiritual Qi has reached perfection, right? Then how are you going to cultivate further and break through?" Li Mei inquired with worry after knowing what kind of difficulty he will be facing in the future.

"Hehe, you are here to help me with this, aren't you?" Ye Chen chuckled in her response as he embraced her.

While hearing him, Li Mei was confused.

"I can help you? But how?" She inquired if there was a way she could help him.

But no matter how much she thought, she just couldn't figure it out.

"There is no hurry; you will know in the future," Ye Chen said with a mysterious smile and ignored her complaints about not telling her anything.

How could he tell her that he was going to rely on dual cultivation to break through? Li Mei, after all, had a supreme yin physique, which is greatly beneficial for both. As long as they both dual cultivate her cultivation and even his, it would make a breakthrough.

Furthermore, with his divine cultivation technique relying on dual cultivation, it was not impossible for him to cultivate further even with the unknown grade of spiritual Qi.

It's just he didn't know if his spiritual Qi would be refined further.

'I have control over all elementals, including the various rare ones, such as spatial, yin, yang, and more. Although many of them are just a few strands Qi, as long as I can continue to absorb and refine spiritual Qi into pure elemental form, I will have plenty of it.'

'A pity that there is no mention of such grade or similar situation in the Myriad Book,' Ye Chen sighed inwardly.

Although in the later realms of cultivation gaining control over elemental Qi was possible, one had to know that they had condensed their Qi in liquid form only after they were able to pull out such a thing.

Of course there were expectations, such as Li Mei with a supreme physique or Lan Ming with a mutated fire spiritual root.

Ye Chen might have an abnormal spiritual root, but still, this didn't make sense. As for a special physique or whatever the Divine Dao Physique the old man was referring to, there was no such thing.

In the end he could only attribute this change to the Heavenly Dao Crystal and him being the spiritual mountain.

Boom!

Just as he was busy in his thoughts, Wang Yiyi broke through the Qi-refining realm.

"Yay! I broke through with the 'True Refined' grade! I am a genius!" She jumped up and down happily, not even bothering to consolidate her cultivation.

Watching her like this, Ye Chen rolled his eyes.

From the moment he had started cultivating, his spiritual Qi was 'Essence Refined,' and he was sure to reach 'True Refined' at the mystic pond, but because of a broken crystal shard, now his grade was beyond perfection.

"Yiyi, consolidate your realm first," Li Mei reminded with a stern tone.

Only after hearing this did Wang Yiyi calm down and sit down to adjust her realm.

"Senior brother, are you leaving?" Li Mei inquired with a hint of reluctance as she saw him taking out pills and a talisman to give her.

"Hey, it looks like my junior sister misses me too much," Ye Chen chuckled faintly and patted her head.

"Take this and go to the west; all the good opportunities and inheritance trials are in that direction, so don't waste any time running here and there, okay?" He said with a serious look.

"Mhhm, I understand."

"Good girl, just wait for a few days, and I will be there too."

"Huh, a few days? Is the distance too long, or are you going to break through? Then why not let me be on guard?"

"No, I am not going to break through, and the distance is not that long; it's just something that is mine ran away, and I had to capture it back."

"Then what about inheritance? What if someone else gets it first?"

"Someone else? How could that be possible if my cute junior sister is there?"

"Senior brother, I am not joking!"

"I know, and don't worry, the interlace trial won't start without me."

"Mhhm, I will believe in your lies and wait for you!" Li Mei nodded with a sulky look.

Watching her like this, Ye Chen pinched her small nose and kissed her forehead before saying goodbye.

'Humph, smelly senior brother leaving me alone again,' Li Mei thought unhappily as she saw the red dot in the sky disappearing.

It had been, after all, three weeks, although the time passed quickly in the mystic pond; she was used to getting bullied daily, and since he hadn't done anything provoking, now she was a little upset.

In the end, she sighed faintly and waited for Wang Yiyi to consolidate her cultivation.

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"Sister Su Ying, is it really okay for us to steal that?" Lan Ming inquired as she looked at the lake where a beautiful pink lotus was blooming.

"Don't worry, we can do this!" Su Ying, who was beside her, nodded.

"But what about those two thirty-foot white snakes? I can feel their cultivation is at least the third stage of Qi-refining; why don't we wait until Sister Su Ying breaks through the Qi-refining realm?" Lan Ming suggested.

"No, the lotus is a rare tier-6 herb and is about to mature. If we don't get it now, it will be eaten by those snakes," Su Ying rejected her immediately.

At first, she was going to break through, but when she was searching for a place to do this, she encountered Lan Ming, after which both of them grouped up and found a tier-6 herb nearing its maturity.

However, the problem was the two white snakes, which were strong enough to kill them.