Chapter 627 Breaking through two levels in a row, the fourth level of the golden elixir

After returning to Fangshi, Xu Feng began to retreat after explaining all matters to his Taoist partner Long Yuran.

His main purpose of this retreat was to use the purple crystal spirit milk to improve his cultivation.

In fact, this should have been done long ago, but it was always interrupted by various things and it has been delayed until now.

The reason why he chose to stay in Fangshi instead of returning to the family was that he was still worried about Fangshi. Since the family closed the mountain, no one has disturbed them, and the family members are also practicing seriously.

But it is different here in Fangshi. There are a large number of people moving around every day, and all kinds of tedious things happen every day.

His presence here means that Old Han is here. Even if there is any emergency, he can respond in time and avoid a big mess.

Generally speaking, the retreat of a Jindan cultivator will last at least ten years without being disturbed by outsiders.

But this time Xu Feng's retreat is different. He only wants to refine the spirit milk to improve his cultivation. It is different from the general retreat, so after five years, he walked out of the cave.

During these five years, Xu Feng's cultivation has changed a lot.

At the beginning of his retreat, he took 500 drops of spiritual milk at one time, and then it took him a full year and a half to refine it. At this time, his cultivation level was also raised to the third level of the Golden Core.

Raising one level of cultivation at a time was not his goal at all, so after stabilizing his cultivation for a period of time, he swallowed 500 drops of spiritual milk at one time.

He thought that he could raise his cultivation level to the middle stage of the Golden Core, which is the fourth level of the Golden Core.

But this time, I don’t know if it’s because he took too little spiritual milk or his body developed resistance to spiritual milk. The 500 drops of spiritual milk only pushed his cultivation level forward a little on the third level of the Golden Core, and it was still far from the fourth level of the Golden Core.

Faced with such a situation, Xu Feng was not discouraged. He took 500 drops of spiritual milk again. This time, after spending more than a year refining it, he finally got his wish and entered the middle stage of the Golden Core.

However, after the breakthrough, his magic power was very weak, and the shape of the Golden Core changed irregularly, from the original round to an ellipse.

This made him realize that the spiritual milk could only help him improve his cultivation to the fourth level of the Golden Core. If he continued to take it, it would probably be too much and shake his foundation.

Therefore, he stopped at the right time and ended this retreat.

In addition to the improvement of his cultivation level, his biggest gain from this retreat was the strength of his soul. Before the retreat, his soul strength was about the same as that of a cultivator at the fifth level of the Golden Core.

But when he came out of the retreat, his soul strength was comparable to that of a cultivator at the eighth level of the Golden Core.

The reason why he could make such great progress was not only because he had taken the ‘Strengthening Spirit Pill’ to enhance his consciousness in the foundation-building realm, but also because he took another kind of pill ‘Expanding Spirit Pill’ during his retreat.

As mentioned before, this kind of spiritual medicine is specifically used to enhance the strength of the soul of a Golden Core cultivator, but because the most important main medicine ‘Sky Blue Spirit Pattern Grass’ was not found, it has not been refined.

But last time in the secret realm, he happened to find this kind of spiritual medicine, so after breaking through the third level of Jindan in seclusion, he started to refine two furnaces of "Expanding Spirit Pills", and finally ate the two top-grade pills in it.

It's not that he doesn't want to eat more, but this kind of pill is only the best when it is taken for the first time. The effect is only one-third of the second time, and the third time is just the same as not taking it.

The effect of this pill is generally not as good as the "Strengthening Spirit Pill" he has taken before. It only increases the soul by 20%, but it is not bad.

Originally, after breaking through the fourth level of Jindan, the strength of his soul should be on par with that of an ordinary seventh-level Jindan cultivator, but after taking this pill, it is similar to that of an eighth-level Jindan cultivator, which is also a considerable improvement.

This is the change that happened to Xu Feng during the five years of seclusion. At the same time, other changes also occurred in the Xu family during this period.

First of all, her three Taoist companions with fake Dan cultivation, Liang Wan'er, Xu Tinglan, and Luo Xinran, also chose to retreat in the family shortly after his retreat.

The purpose of their retreat was the same, all to condense the golden elixir and break through the golden elixir stage.

However, the final results were different. Liang Wan'er was the most successful. At the end of the third year after her retreat, she did not use the golden elixir, but only used a portion of the golden elixir jade liquid, and successfully broke through.

Xu Tinglan performed worse than her. She successfully condensed the elixir by using the golden elixir, but it was not bad. As long as she succeeded, she was good.

But Luo Xinran was not as lucky as the two of them. After using the golden elixir without success, she made some adjustments and then used the golden elixir jade liquid to continue to attack the golden elixir stage. Unfortunately, she still failed in the end.

In the middle of the fifth year after Xu Feng's retreat, the three women came out of retreat at the same time. Those who succeeded were naturally very happy, and those who failed were naturally very sad.

Finally, Liang Wan'er discussed with Xu Tinglan again and decided to keep it a secret from the rest of the family and give the golden elixir and golden elixir jade liquid that they did not use to her good sister so that she could try to condense the elixir again.

Facing the road, Luo Xinran did not refuse insincerely. After thanking the two sisters, she resolutely walked into the cave again and continued to retreat. What the final result will be is still unknown.

Besides, the Xu family's industries have also developed quite well in recent years.

Among them, the most noteworthy is the Tenglong Market. Every day, a large number of cultivators come and go. These people come and go not for tourism, but for their own purposes.

Most of them are casual cultivators who sell their harvests by hunting animals and collecting herbs, and buy some things they need for cultivation. These bring a lot of income to the Xu family directly or indirectly.

With the large number of cultivators gathering, the shops that the Xu family did not rent out before are now basically rented out in good locations. The Xu family can make a lot of money in rent alone in a year.

The market is developing well, and the momentum of the mine is not bad either. In recent years, under the command of Xu Lijie, the mineral output there has reached new highs year by year.

Moreover, Xu Lijie followed his father's advice and did not forget to explore the area near the mine in his spare time, because Xu Feng told him that there is a mine group nearby, and there is a high possibility that there are other mines.

Hard work pays off. With his active exploration, he actually discovered two other small veins hundreds of miles away from the obsidian copper concentrate vein. The mineral products were not low-grade, all of them were third-grade.

However, the mining of these veins did not start immediately. Xu Lijie did not dare to do it on his own, but wanted to wait for Xu Feng to come out of retreat before making a decision.