Chapter 21 - 19: Breaking Through to the Fifth Layer of the Acquired Stage!
Returning to his room, Ye Chen began his closed-door cultivation, gathering dew to refine medicine liquid.
Due to the recent rain and fog, the process of collecting the dew from medicinal herbs had sped up by several times, and this time, the medicine liquid being refined was not the Hundred Herbs Liquid. It only took three days to successfully collect ten large bowls of dew from the medicinal herbs.
Over the following days, he focused on preparing the medicine liquid, and all of this was done in secrecy, which filled outsiders with curiosity.
Even as his parents, Ye Ao and Xia Wei were quite curious, they respected their son’s actions and refrained from inquiring.
During this time, Ye Hua personally visited, intending to seek revenge on Ye Chen. Unfortunately, Family Head Ye Ao had issued a strict order not allowing anyone to barge into Ye Chen’s courtyard without permission, under threat of family law.
Ye Hua could only squat in front of Ye Chen’s courtyard for three days, and upon not seeing Ye Chen leave, left angrily.
Ye Chen, for his part, was completely unaware of all this and even if he had known, he would not bother with outsiders like Ye Hua.
Finally, after a full eight days, ten bottles filled with green-colored liquid were neatly lined upon a table.
Looking at these ten bottles of swirling liquid, Ye Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead, let out a sigh of relief, and slowly curled the corners of his mouth upwards into a smile.
Now, the effort he had put into preparing the medicine liquid over these past days could be tested, and likewise, he felt it was time for him to break through once again.
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