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After a while, he passed the wine jar with Dragon's Gate Elixir from his right hand to his left hand, rested his right hand on top of the table and kept tapping with his index finger over a period of time with a solemn look on his face.
He closed his eyes briefly, then opened it again to a half-closed one with the thought, 'It's quite hard with such a poor environment for cultivation, if only there were lots of resources, it doesn't matter if I'm the weakest cultivator as long as I have resources for growth, right now, I'm at a stand still, the only knowledge I'm sure of is that I'll reach the 1st Layer of Qi Condensation Realm after 10 or so years, as for alchemy, arrays, and such, it's all a mystery.'
After thinking in shame, he looked at the clear blue sky with the sun hung above, behind the white clouds, with the thought, 'Looks like I have to visit the other sects. Even if they have less resources compared to the sects I've read in my previous life, even a little is better than nothing.'
He was also quite wary. He had massacred a mortal clan without thinking of the consequences because of his unstable mind, if the other sects knew, what would they think of him?
Even if mortals aren't that taken seriously by sects, he had still gone on and massacred an entire clan just because he's annoyed.
He also had to take the fact that he kills people as he pleases, the waiter he had killed just now was proof of that.
He might be seen as an unorthodox cultivator that will be considered for elimination because he has a high cultivation at such a young age and has such an attitude towards life.
He had no knowledge as well about the other sects within the Purple Cloud Continent.
Were they narrow-minded? Or are they people like the people in the Eternal Lotus Sect...
No, the only reasons why the people are kind to him was because he was born and raised in the Eternal Lotus Sect, to be precise, in the view of the elders, he was akin to that of a relative.
The only thing he knew was that the ceiling of cultivation is at the 9th Layer of Qi Refinement Realm, it's rare… no, it could be considered that the Eternal Lotus Sect was unique having a Sect Leader as a Qi Condensation Realm.
With most of the elders hovering at the 7th-9th Layer of Qi Refinement Realm in the Eternal Lotus Sect, the other sects are probably not that much different as there were 4 great sects, even if he didn't know too much about them.
He might have heard of them within the sect when disciples gossiped but he'd already forgotten all about them or his memories are fragmented.
Everything he focused on at that time was, after all, cultivation, he didn't care very much with the affair of the world.
The only reason why he pays attention to it right now was because he didn't have resources.
He sipped a little wine from the wine jar and rested his back against the chair he was sitting on with his eyes closed.
He had remained like this for 12 hours.
Although he had his eyes closed, with his spatial hearing, he was still able to determine the movement within the third floor, he felt Chen Hao's limbs that was trembling as he kowtowed, and the head waitress, who was waiting on him by the entrance of the third floor or the stairs.
She had her knees trembling slightly from standing for an extended period of time.
One should also take into account that the head waitress hadn't eaten.
So Tian Ye's simply said, "That waitress over there on the stairs, you can go ahead and leave me and my trial disciple here alone."
The head waitress was startled hearing Tian Ye's words, after all, the distance between the edge of the third floor, the veranda, and to the other edge, the stairs going down, was 30-40 meters away, but considering that Tian Ye had massacred an entire clan overnight just because he wanted to, anything was possible with this individual so she bowed her head, "Thank you, my lord. I'll leave first, I'll order someone else to wait for your instructions."
Tian Ye didn't reply, and the waitress should probably know that Tian Ye had agreed to her words.
She had already determined that Tian Ye didn't like to speak very much when the answer was obvious.
Tian Ye began to focus on his research about alchemy, for now, he's researching how to control his spiritual qi delicately and accurately to the millimeter. In other words, he's focusing on the basic usage of spiritual qi.
Within the distance of 10 meters, it was all under Tian Ye's control.
He spread his spiritual qi all over the 10 meters, and with his cultivation of 9th Layer of Qi Refinement Realm, his spiritual qi was solid in terms of density but the consumption was huge when materialized over 2 meters.
As if it was the rule of the world, with his current cultivation, when he exceeds 2 meters, his spiritual qi consumption is doubled, when he reaches 5 meters, his spiritual qi consumption is quadrupled, and when he reaches 10 meters in distance, his spiritual qi consumption is decupled.
It can be seen when he stretched his spiritual qi for at least a hundred meters in the clan massacre, half of his overall spiritual qi was consumed within a mere 1 to 2 seconds.
He raised his right hand and began controlling the chairs and tables, making them float one by one with his spiritual qi.
In the distance of within 5 meters, the table set beside him, his control over spiritual qi was a wavy, not only was the consumption of spiritual qi higher, the connection between himself and the spiritual qi at that distance was weaker making him expend a higher level of spiritual qi.
He closed his eyes at this moment, feeling the spiritual qi stretched out as if it was a part of his body, then when he opened his eyes again, he snapped his fingers and the control over spiritual qi was rewritten and then the table set beside him was hovering, 1 meter above air as if there was an invisible floor below it.
With another snap of his finger, as if it was a trigger, the table set began to slowly descend as if an elevator going down the floor.
He tilted his head and thought to himself, 'Although the trigger stabilizes the spiritual qi, it should be eliminated soon. Those old men with the same cultivation as me will have higher combat experience and sole martial arts techniques honed over the years will be quite tough to deal with so I have to gain as much covert advantage as I can before encountering them. Not only that, when I get into a higher plane where cultivators are much higher than me, it'll be even more dangerous then than now.'
Although he thought this, he couldn't help but chuckle, a cold glint visible in his eyes, 'I don't have a pride, after all, I don't have heavenly talent or system to back me up so I'll kneel if needed, if my opponent really won't let me go, I'll risk everything and fight to death until I find an opportunity to escape if the chances of winning are less than 10%.'
After laughing to himself, he drank a sip of wine with the thought, 'Being kind to oneself is being cruel to everyone else, especially in a cruel world like this one.'
After being edgy by himself, he continued testing and honing his spiritual qi control and within the 30 minutes that he had been practicing the use of his spiritual qi, he had consumed about 30%.
Even though he had already lowered his spiritual qi consumption to the lowest he could, it still consumed a total of 1% per minute. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't too good either.
His mood turned a little bad again, 'It might be that my spiritual qi control knowledge that's obscure, or my spiritual qi control that's wrong in the first place, but it's not possible to continuously refine pills with this level of control over spiritual or this level of quantity. In the end I can only limit my ways to my limited views which is to increase my proficiency over the control of spiritual qi as well as increase my cultivation to the Qi Condensation Realm then consume less qi and have a higher level of spiritual qi recovery rate.'
Tian Ye has a rule, that he will not let his spiritual qi get lower than 50% during normal times, and right now, it was hovering between 60-70%, so he's going to recover it before practicing spiritual qi control again.
Tian Ye found it a hassle to stand up and sit down on the ground so he simply put his left elbow on the table, and his left fist to his cheeks and entered the meditative state.
At his level of understanding over meditative state, he could even enter it standing up, sitting upright, or lying down on the bed, but he found this position particularly cool so he did so even if no one was watching to witness the coolness he thought of.
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