Chapter 469: Demonstrating Spiritual Energy
Chapter 469: Demonstrating Spiritual Energy
"You still haven’t answered my question," Elder Ru Qi said with a cold glare and continued, "Before going for the Pill Apprentice Examination, you’ve clearly told me that you had managed to breach the 30% efficacy rate... how long ago was that? A couple of weeks ago?
So, tell me, why did you lie to me? Surely, a miracle wouldn’t have happened in these few days that would have pumped up your efficacy rate all the way to 55%... isn’t that right?"
The longer Elder Ru Qi spoke, the more pressured Yi Chen felt, as he was clearly able to sense the anger laced in her voice for having been kept in the dark all this while.
’Well, I can’t just say that I found it too troublesome to explain everything to her now...can I?’ Yi Chen thought while imagining Elder Ru Qi going batshit crazy the moment she heard those words.
’That leaves me with only one choice...’ Yi Chen let out a silent breath while steeling his heart as he lifted his head to meet Elder Ru Qi’s eyes the next moment and thought, ’Heavenly Bullshitting Technique engaged!’
"I-I apologise for lying to you earlier, Elder Ru Qi... at that time, I thought that if I were to tell you about my rate of progress, you would think that I’m lying to gain your attention and wouldn’t believe me at all.
After securing a good result in the Pill Apprentice Examination, I was planning to reveal everything to you with concrete results in front of you... You wouldn’t think that I was lying."
Yi Chen answered with pursed lips, his face shrouded in guilt.
’He... so that’s why he hid it from me...’ Elder Ru Qi’s cold countenance melted the moment she heard those words. ’Yes...I’m ashamed to accept it, but I would have truly looked at him with doubt if he were to mention something so unprecedented to me back then.’
However, Elder Ru Qi didn’t dwell on it for long, as Yi Chen’s revelation had just brought her attention back to an important matter she had discussed with Elder Tao earlier.
Still, wanting to hear it from Yi Chen himself, she asked the very next moment, "Alright, I won’t ask about that matter anymore..."
Hearing those words, Yi Chen let out a silent sigh while closely listening to her following words.
"...However, that still doesn’t explain how someone like you, with no prior experience when it comes to pill refining, was able to refine a pill with a 55% efficacy rate. Just how did you do it? Did you perhaps... have some prior pill refining experience before joining the sect?"
Even though she herself felt that there was no way Yi Chen would have prior experience when it comes to pill refining based on the discussions she had with him in the last few weeks, she still asked him that just in case.
"No, I only started getting into Pill Refining after entering the sect," Yi Chen answered the next moment and continued, "As for how I was able to do it... I used my spiritual energy to sense the changes inside the cauldron and adjusted the refining process accordingly."
"Y-You did what?!" Elder Ru Qi’s eyes widened the moment she heard those words as she couldn’t help but ask again.
Seeing the expression of disbelief in her eyes, Yi Chen knew that showing it to her would be the best way to make her believe in her words
Glancing to his right, his eyes landed on a shelf filled with books the very next moment. With his target set in his mind, he stretched his hand in the direction of the shelf and said, "Look."
Hearing those words, Elder Ru Qi turned in the direction Yi Chen was pointing the very next moment and saw the dozens of books that had been neatly kept on the shelf coming out one after the other and hovering in the air.
’!!!’
Sensing no fluctuation of Qi in the air and noticing the silver gleam in Yi Chen’s eyes, she knew that he was currently utilising his spiritual energy externally.
’But how... isn’t he just at the Ninth Meridian Refinement Stage?!’
She thought with a flabbergasted expression plastered on her face. However, Yi Chen wasn’t done yet.
Using his spiritual energy, he skillfully manoeuvred all the books at the same time, and resting them on top of one another formed a tall tower inside the room.
’...Just how vast is his spiritual sea at this stage for him to be able to use it so dexterously?’ Elder Ru Qi thought, finding it difficult to wrap her head around the sight which she was currently witnessing.
However, Yi Chen was still not done yet.
Wrapping the entire bookshelf in his spiritual energy, the next moment he lifted it up in the air, moving it around for a couple of seconds before finally resting it back on its spot.
"This..."
With her mouth ajar, Elder Ru Qi became completely speechless after witnessing the situation that had just unfolded in front of her eyes.
Meanwhile, scratching the back of his head in an embarrassed manner, Yi Chen said the next moment, "Uhm... I was about to place the books back in their places, but it looks like my spiritual energy has already been exhausted..."
In his excitement to show off his moves in front of Elder Ru Qi, he lost track of his spiritual sea and ended up exhausting it fully.
While refilling it by drinking the Mystical Pond water was an option, that wasn’t something he was willing to reveal to anyone.
Hearing Yi Chen’s words, a subtle trace of relief appeared on Elder Ru Qi’s flabbergasted expression.
’So, he finally exhausted his spiritual sea....’ She momentarily thought to herself.
However, she was instantly reminded of the jaw-dropping feats she had just witnessed as she asked Yi Chen the very next moment, "Y-You, just how is your spiritual sea comparable to that of a Core Building Stage cultivator?!"
"... It’s that vast?" Yi Chen widened his eyes in surprise the very next moment.