Chapter 16.

　　With this persistence, Bai Xiaochun lay in the courtyard, and although his body was sore and limp, he could vaguely see that his skin seemed to have hardened significantly, a sight that made him even more excited about becoming a pharmacist. 　　It wasn't until he had been lying in the courtyard for the better part of an hour that the soreness dissipated, and Bai Xiaochun immediately climbed up and sat down on his knees, taking out the bottle of pills he had gotten after becoming an outer disciple as well as the incense from within his storage bag as his eyes flickered. 　　After taking a careful look at them, he took a deep breath and glanced around again before turning back to the wooden house and taking out the Turtle Pot straight away. 　　"These pills can be used right now, and after refining the spirit, they should allow my cultivation to break through from the third level of qi condensation to the fourth level of qi condensation... It's a shame that the materials for the dichromatic fire are so expensive, and even though there's one in the Fire Stove Room, I'm not an odd-job man in the Fire Stove Room these days, so it's a bit inconvenient." Bai Xiaochun was extremely interested in pills nowadays, and after a brief moment of thought, without hesitation, he took out the wood for the one-color fire. 　　"Just refine the spirit for once!" He immediately ignited the wood, and instantly, the one-color fire burned, and a line on the tortoise pot quickly brightened, and Bai Xiaochun directly opened the dan bottle, which contained three dragon's-eye-sized pills that were split into three times for spirit refining. 　　A burst of silver light flashed, and in no time at all, three pills with silver lines appeared in Bai Xiaochun's hands, until he had refined the green incense as well, and after looking at the four spirit medicines in front of him that had been spirit-refined once, Bai Xiaochun sat down on his knees, and after placing the clear incense in front of him, he picked up the three pills and threw them all in his mouth. 　　He then assumed the appearance of the fourth diagram of the Purple Qi Harnessing Tripod Technique and practiced according to the mantra, and very quickly, aura tumbled through his body, and this time, he held on for significantly longer, and the cultivation within his body became active in this instant and began to increase. 　　After the burning of an incense stick, the small river of aura in his body, was already running all over his body, getting more and more in shape as he began to impact the fourth layer of Qi Condensation. 　　"Hold on for another hundred breaths, and you'll reach the fourth level of Qi Condensation!" Bai Xiaochun gritted his teeth and endured the movements of the fourth diagram, his body almost swinging into a ball as clicking sounds emanated from his entire body and beads of sweat continued to fall. 　　But at that moment, suddenly the aura in his body appeared somewhat depleted, and Bai Xiaochun's eyes condensed as he suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of aura toward the green incense in front of him. 　　As soon as the aura touched the green incense, the incense immediately burned on its own, sending out wisps of green smoke, which, like a green snake, went straight to Bai Xiaochun after it appeared, drilling into his seven orifices as well as his sweat pores, and transforming into a rich aura within his body, which caused the small river of aura to directly expand by a factor of two. 　　With a boom, a wave of qi spread out from Bai Xiaochun's body, spreading the wooden house and dispersing out into the courtyard as if a gale had blown through the area, and Bai Xiaochun smiled with joy showing within his eyes. 　　"Fourth level of qi condensation!" 　　He immediately sensed that the aura within his body was carrying a strong sense of vitality at the moment, and under the constant wandering, his entire body was incredibly light, and when he looked down, he saw countless black dirt sticking to his body, knowing that it was the impurities within his body being forced out once again. 　　With a shake of his body, he floated out of the cabin and cleaned himself up in the courtyard. Bai Xiaochun was refreshed, and with a pinch of his right hand, a wooden sword immediately flew out of his storage bag and headed straight ahead, turning into a rainbow with its speed. 　　After manipulating the wooden sword and flying back and forth in the courtyard several times, Bai Xiaochun's eyes were even more satisfied, his wooden sword was not bad, and with the fourth level of qi condensation cultivation, it already had a certain killing intent. 　　"Spirit refining is good, if only there were three-colored fire, but pills are just as powerful!" Bai Xiaochun felt more and more that elixirs were magical, and that whether it was a dan or an incense, it was a must-have for cultivation. 　　"I must become a great medicine master, refine the immortality dan, and then refine the spirit ten times ...... no, a hundred times!" Bai Xiaochun's thoughts about becoming a pill master were even stronger, and as he thought about it, he slapped his storage pouch and removed a jade slip from within it. 　　This jade slip was one that Hou Yunfei had taken when he had brought him to the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion earlier, and inside it was an introduction to ten thousand types of grasses and trees as well as diagrams, a special tome that only Fragrant Cloud Mountain had, and which was something that one had to master in order to be a Spirit Child. 　　And just 10,000 types of grasses and trees wasn't enough; Bai Xiaochun remembered that Hou Yunfei had said that only after memorizing the 10,000 types could he go and exchange them for the next volume. 　　As he psyched himself up, his spirit qi running through his body, all sorts of different grasses and trees gradually appeared in his mind, and the more he looked at them, the more novel they became, as if they were opening up another door in his life, and there were even herbs in there that he would need to exchange for the Life Extension Pills. 　　After a cursory look at all of them, Bai Xiaochun felt that if he wanted to memorize all 10,000 of them, it wouldn't be difficult, but what kind of person was he? His goal was to become a great pharmacist who could make the Longevity Extension Dan. 　　So the ruthlessness hidden in his character, it once again erupted, not to simply memorize, but each kind of medicinal herb is observed extremely carefully, to each kind of medicinal herb, to understand to the extreme degree, before going to look at the next kind. 　　Back then, under the pressure of Xu Baozai, Bai Xiaochun had been able to cultivate madly for half a year, and now, under the great ideal, he had exploded with the same potential. 　　The illustrations of the herbs had been studied to such an extent that he was even close to subtle, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he could outline the herbs in his mind in a direct image. 　　He even felt that it was not enough, lamenting that there was no physical object, otherwise he would have liked to dismantle it directly to observe it more thoroughly from the inside, and had no way to do so, he could only look at it more and more carefully, no matter whether it was the lines or the branches and leaves, and would never stop until he had studied it thoroughly. 　　In the end, he felt that it was not enough, so Bai Xiaochun even the roots, fruits are not spared, as is the herbs in front of the eyes magnified countless times, to dig a little bit. 　　He even felt uneasy, and in the end, he actually deeply explored the fuzz on each plant and the tiny holes under the hairs. 　　Time passed, and soon a month had passed, a month in which Bai Xiaochun had been practicing the fourth layer of the Purple Qi Harnessing Tripod Technique every day, and the cultivation within his body had finally loosened up a bit, and at the same time the Immortal Longevity Technique he hadn't stopped, and every day he had endured excruciating pains, running back and forth in the courtyard while holding the Herb and Tree Jade Slip and memorizing all sorts of medicinal herbs in silence, and at the moment he had already managed to do it to the point that he had begun comparing the herbs in his head, which had already been This is something that is not recorded in the jade slip, so he can only go and feel and study it by himself. 　　In addition to that, every time he ran in the courtyard, he would pause at the upper right corner of the courtyard, where there was a spiritual field, and within these spiritual fields he had planted ten seeds of herbs. 　　The herb was called Spirit Winter Bamboo, and it was a clan task that he had managed to find without any danger when he had gone out half a month ago and gone under the mission stone monument for the outer disciples of Fragrant Cloud Mountain. 　　Li Qinghou's words were not something Bai Xiaochun dared not take to heart, and the rule that sect disciples had to complete at least one mission every six months was something Bai Xiaochun had memorized. 　　The task he had chosen, the contribution points given were not small, and even increased according to the quality of the final delivery. After all, although it was simple, it consumed a lot of time, and had to be planted in the hands for at least three months before it could be considered qualified. 　　Moreover, this Spirit Winter Bamboo could be catalyzed with its own aura, which would allow it to grow faster, except that Bai Xiaochun really didn't have the time to take care of it, so after retrieving it, he threw it in the spirit field. 　　"It's growing so slowly." Bai Xiaochun glanced at the spirit field and frowned; he'd seen an introduction to the Spirit Winter Bamboo from within the herb jade slip, and knew that this herb was very demanding of aura, and if there was no land with a rich aura, then the best way to farm it was to use the cultivator's own aura as a nutrient. 　　"It should be that the spiritual fields in this courtyard of mine are already much thinner in spiritual qi, so it's making the seeds of these Spirit Winter Bamboos grow slowly." Bai Xiaochun squatted down and grabbed a handful of soil from the spirit field, and after a long time, he murmured and whispered. 　　"What's the best way to make this spirit field's aura a bit thicker?......" Bai Xiaochun thought for a moment, and then suddenly his expression changed, and when he lifted his right hand to point, the tortoise-patterned cauldron appeared noiselessly. 　　Looking at this pot, and then at the Spirit Field, Bai Xiaochun's eyes revealed light. 　　"This pot can refine the spirit of anything, so can ...... the spirit soil also refine the spirit?" Bai Xiaochun was instantly curious when he thought of this, and after removing those Spirit Winter Bamboo seeds from the soil, he immediately dug down quite a bit of spirit soil and threw it inside the tortoise pot, and then took out the wood from the one-color fire and began to try it out. 　　Soon after, the silver light flashed, and the spirit soil inside the tortoise pattern pot even appeared the same silver pattern that had appeared once in the Spirit Refining, only it was much dimmer, but the soil in the pot was obviously much too rich in spirit qi. 　　Bai Xiaochun was instantly happy, and didn't mind the hassle, pouring out a pot, throwing in another pot, and so on, and so on, and after half an hour, when his one-color fire wood was almost used up, this piece of spiritual land had been refined once by all of him. 　　Only refining the spirit of the soil are the surface layer, deep place he wood is not enough, also did not go to refining the spirit, so that the spirit of the soil is rootless, it is difficult to maintain for a long time, with the passage of time will gradually return to ordinary. 　　In spite of this, the spiritual qi of this spiritual field had already undergone a sea change from before, and the qi was so thick that it even smelled like a clear fragrance. 　　Bai Xiaochun hurriedly planted the seeds of the Spirit Winter Bamboo, and stood watching with rapt attention. Soon, he saw a green bud break through at a speed visible to the naked eye, and grow wildly. 　　The speed of that growth, in the blink of an eye to more than three feet high, if there are disciples within the clan specializing in planting medicinal herbs to see, will certainly be sucking in their breath, because even if the cultivator with their own spiritual qi to nourish, but also very difficult to grow so fast. 　　After all,...... looking at the entire cultivation world, there has never been any one who could be extravagant enough to use the Spirit Refining on the land just to grow ten Spirit Winter Bamboos ...... 　　Even the prestigious Spirit Refining Patriarch would never do this, it was just too wasteful. 　　Seeing that these Spirit Winter Bamboos were growing well, Bai Xiaochun was satisfied, and turned around, no longer paying attention to them, continuing to run around the courtyard, continuing to study the grasses and trees within the jade brief in great detail. 　　Sunset, with the sky darkening, Bai Xiaochun yard in the spirit field of those spirit winter bamboo, has skyrocketed to a height of nearly three feet ...... and looks, seems to be far from the limit, do not know three months later, will grow to what amazing degree ...... 　　It was also on this night that Bai Xiaochun put down the grass and wood jade brief in his hand, and the 10,000 kinds of grasses and trees within the jade brief had already been memorized by him thoroughly and completely by virtue of that ruthlessness, and each one of them had been done to an astonishingly detailed degree, and he even saw that there seemed to be a contradiction in the introduction of individual medicinal plants within the jade brief's illustrations. 　　"Early tomorrow morning, I'm going to exchange the second chapter of the Herbs and Trees... I wonder what method the Ten Thousand Medicinal Pavilion uses to assess whether or not a person is qualified to learn the second chapter... Could it be memorization?" 　　Bai Xiaochun lifted his chin and fluttered his small sleeves, and was just about to make some grandiose remarks, but then felt uneasy and coughed dryly as he picked up the jade slip and once again studied it, worried that there would be a problem with the test for exchanging the second chapter of the Grasswood tomorrow.