"It went up a bit!"0

On the surface, that might not sound like much. But considering Luo Chen had already reached the Perfection level ages ago, any increase was a feat. Back during Perfected Mastery Qi-Refining Realm, his proficiency had hovered around three hundred and fifty.3

After breaking through to Foundation Establishment and spending three full years in secluded cultivation, he’d only managed to push it up by a fifty points. That kind of progress was glacial, snail-paced at best.0

Normally, he’d have to run the technique dozens of times to gain even a single point. Yet this time, using fiend qi, the improvement had come so quickly it caught him off guard.0

“If this pace holds up,” Luo Chen murmured to himself, “with the ten floating rocks I’ve got, that’s roughly a hundred wisps of Earth Fire Fiend Qi, I might just reach Grandmaster level.0

“And if I don’t have enough? I can just borrow some from Brother Wang.”0

He was never worried about whether Wang Yuan would lend him some.0

They were brothers!0

At Grandmaster level, Divine Breaker of Malevolence might finally start yielding tangible growth in his divine soul.0

He glanced toward the alchemy room door. Outside, the muffled sounds of activity filtered in.0

“Bring the herbs in!0

“Over there, yeah, just stack them on the shelf.”0

The morning bustle had begun. Qu Lingjun’s voice, youthful yet steady, rang out crisply among the others.0

The door to the alchemy room opened.0

Qu Lingjun entered and immediately froze upon seeing Luo Chen already inside, calm and composed as if he'd been there for hours.0

“Master, you’re already up?”0

Luo Chen’s expression was stern. “Lingjun, a day’s plan begins in the morning. You’ve grown complacent.”1

With that, he turned and left the alchemy room to prepare for...0