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Firewood Town and its surroundings do have mineral resources, quite a few in fact, just no Source Stone mines.

According to the normal script, the Firewood Sect should have been exploiting the locals for labor in this area, filling those mines.

But the Firewood Sect didn’t do that.

They also didn’t make their disciples perform that kind of hard labor.

What Shen Yifeng originally said was,

“These kids came to our Firewood Sect to get a chance to cultivate. Apart from a few manuals, we can’t offer them much. We can’t very well force them into hard labor, can we?”

Farming or working for a living is a necessity. If there’s truly no alternative, otherwise the whole sect would starve.

Now, sending bandits to work as miners solved the bandits’ employment problem and expanded the sect’s resources at the same time—two birds with one stone.

Managing those bandits was a problem.

After this measure was implemented, there were multiple incidents of miners running away.Until you saved enough Source Stones, went to the Trading Market to buy a batch of formation materials, and sealed the mine with a large formation.

Shen Yifeng and Ma Bang were stunned again.

“You can do formations too?”

A while later,

Using the refining materials mined from the pits, you forged a set of intermediate-grade artifacts for everyone in the Firewood Sect, comprehensively improving the sect’s combat capability.

You thought of the disciple who had been killed by the bandits, hoping that with weapons and armor, the disciples could better protect themselves in the future.

“You can refine artifacts too?!”

What was there left to say.

Ma Bang immediately took off his Sect Master’s ceremonial robe and draped it over you.

“Eh? Sect Master Ma, what are you doing?”

Ma Bang looked at you, his eyes wet.

“I once went astray. It was the Founding Ancestor who redeemed me, taught me to cultivate, and passed the sect master position to me.

I always wanted to help him make the Firewood Sect stronger, but my ability is limited, my aptitude dull, so the sect didn’t develop well.

Now that you’ve come, you are the heaven-sent, chosen sect master for the Firewood Sect!

With your leadership, the Firewood Sect will surely replace the Blood Iron Sect and become a first-tier vassal of the Qiu Feng Clan!!”

Your mouth twitched. You wanted to say, “Sect Master Ma, can we have a little ambition…”

You returned the sect master’s robe to him.

“I’m not doing this to become sect master. I just hit a cultivation bottleneck recently and had nothing else to do, so I helped out. Please don’t misunderstand me.”

“No! Young friend Chen! Of course I don’t think you’re trying to usurp the position. Who would usurp such a poor, humble sect!? I’m begging you!”

Ma Bang remained sect master.

After the Firewood Sect’s economy got back on track, you let him manage it, spending more of your time on pill condensation.

Actually, not long after arriving at the Firewood Sect, you asked Shen Yifeng to teach you how to break through into the Core Formation realm.

Shen Yifeng answered without holding anything back.

He systematically explained how True Qi advances into primordial energy, and the essentials of using primordial energy to condense the yuan core.

You could tell at once he had received a “systematic education,” which was worlds apart from those rogue cultivators who patched together cultivation insights randomly.

Of course, all of this is built on the foundation of Qi Refining Arts.

The Qi Refining Arts you practice are different from theirs, so the actual implementation will vary.

To increase the success rate of condensing the core, you handed your own technique to Shen Yifeng to study.

Sharing techniques among cultivators is very rare.

Your trust in Shen Yifeng made your relationship considerably closer.

His experience in this area was relatively rich. After studying your technique, he immediately corrected some parts.

Still, the process of condensing a core is troublesome and cannot be accomplished overnight; it requires repeated attempts and the accumulation of primordial energy.

Shen Yifeng mentioned a pill called the “Great Void Return Core Pill.”

With this pill’s assistance, as long as one’s immortal root isn’t too poor, success in condensing the core and entering the Core Formation realm is almost guaranteed.

But the Great Void Return Core Pill is a Third-Grade pill. Your current alchemy skill can barely make it, and you lack the raw materials.

“May I ask, Chen, what is your immortal root like?”

“Probably fifth or sixth grade.”

“Is it not possible to determine the quality of the immortal root precisely?”

“Well… it’s indeed a bit hard to determine.”

If we speak honestly about your immortal root, you’re effectively Grade Seven, a High-Grade Bone Structure, but with a special Fire affinity at an exceptional level, your cultivation speed surpasses Grade Seven.

Whether you’re six or five is hard to pin down.

“If you’re Grade Five, condensing the core still has hope.

Just follow the energy circulation method I taught and try patiently. Given time, the chance is high.

If you’re Grade Six, it will come down to luck.”

Coincidentally, you are also absurdly lucky.

“Senior Shen, do only Extreme Terrain Realm cultivators possess divine sense? And flying freely—what realm allows that?”

You had grown accustomed to using “divine sense” and “flying freely” in the Void Realm.

You still weren’t used to relying only on eyes and instinct to judge a fight here, or to traveling primarily by foot or mount.

When Shen Yifeng heard your question, his expression changed on the spot. He sized you up from head to toe, his gaze growing much deeper.

“What did you just say? ‘Divine sense’? ‘Flying freely’?”

“Is there a problem?”

“You’re from the Void Realm, aren’t you?”

Shen Yifeng’s words were astonishing.

You were taken aback.

He inferred your true origin from only two words?

That’s cheating!

Seeing your puzzlement, Shen Yifeng explained.

“In our universe… or in what you call the ‘Real Realm,’ our cultivators do not have ‘divine sense’ or ‘flying freely’.”

You spoke with a smile.

“Senior Shen, that’s not accurate. I clearly saw some people behaving as if they had divine sense. As for flying freely, I’ve never seen it directly here either, but I suppose that’s just because their realms aren’t high enough?”

Shen Yifeng shook his head.

“Core Formation cultivators can sense qi, but that’s unrelated to divine sense.

After Core Formation comes Extreme Terrain Realm, where cultivators begin to comprehend divine abilities.

An Extreme Terrain cultivator can comprehend the seventy-two Earthly Fiend divine abilities, while a Transcendent Realm cultivator can comprehend the thirty-six Heavenly Gang divine abilities.

If you saw someone seeming to have divine sense, they did not literally possess divine sense; rather, they had comprehended a divine ability related to divine sense and were utilizing it.

The same applies to flying freely.

Essentially, they are using a divine ability, not a cultivator directly possessing such inherent powers.

This is different from the Void Realm.”

Comprehending divine abilities is a highly random affair.

Moreover, breaking a cultivation level does not require comprehending every divine ability.

So, in theory, it’s possible for an Extreme Terrain cultivator to comprehend a flight-related divine ability while a Transcendent cultivator might not have comprehended it and therefore cannot fly.

Shen Yifeng didn’t say much about divine abilities, after all he himself had only reached Nine Rotations in the Core Formation stage.

“Remember, when you go out from now on, never mention Void Realm terms like ‘divine sense’ or ‘flying freely,’ especially in front of Alien Races! They might, like I did, realize you come from the Void Realm!”

“Would knowing I come from the Void Realm be dangerous?”

“It will get you killed!”