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Chapter 219 - Princess
🕑 Added 2025-01-15 07:00:08 +0000 UTCHe had also thought about making use of Fantylia when convenient in the future, but when it came out of Anda's mouth, it sounded ominous for some reason.
How could there be such a contrast?
Leyvi realized why there was such a contrast. One was said by a stupid... ahem... an innocent country bumpkin, while the other was said by a villainous, evil panda mastermind.
Leyvi nodded, agreeing with his logic.
Anda's eyebrow twitched as she stared at Leyvi's head movements. She felt that her husband was thinking something slanderous about her. Though she couldn't prove it, her instincts were almost never wrong.
Hmph! How dare he. I must punish him for this!
Anda stripped Leyvi's pants with a swift movement and proceeded to punish him.
...
A few days later, Dorin finally woke up from her deep slumber. She felt like she had been having a very long dream, but she couldn't remember what the dream was. She felt extremely sluggish when trying to move her body around, as if she hadn't done it in a while.
Layla told her everything that had happened.
"WHAT?? NOOOOOO!"
Dorin's shocked reaction was within Layla's expectations. Who wouldn't be surprised if told that they had been possessed? They could have died without even knowing. The idea of losing control over one's own body was chilling on a fundamental level.
"I'm over two years older now! Give me my youth back! I could have recruited so many handsome men during that time! This is not fair!" Dorin lashed out.
Layla was stunned. As the city lord, she had to deal with all kinds of people. It wasn't that easy to make her speechless, but Dorin succeeded. Well... there was nothing wrong with what Dorin said. Those were all valid concerns. She wasn't wrong to be mad.
Dorin continued making a fuss about her lost two years for a while until Tasya saved the day by treating her to her favorite food, calming her down. Tasya felt bad that she thought it was the real Dorin then just because the gentle Dorin liked the same food as the real Dorin. It caused the suspicions to die down.
...
At this moment, Leyvi was meditating in his room, trying to adjust his mentality before he started cultivating at full speed.
He consumed a fasting pill prior to this, ensuring that he wouldn't feel hungry for at least half a year.
Leyvi had started his seclusion, meaning he wouldn't come out or meet with anyone until he advanced to the Core Formation realm or reached the time limit for the Mystic Realm.
He had stored a massive amount of natural liquid Qi in his internal storage room and would be using it to cultivate during the seclusion.
However, Leyvi wasn't sure if he could reach the Core Formation realm in time, even with all the extravagant resources. It seemed that the Qi lake in his dantian required more and more resources before it was fully filled as his stage increased from early to late stage.
It wasn't just a two- or threefold increase but far more.
Now, at the late stage of the Foundation Building realm, his lake-sized liquid Qi had grown much bigger. From what Sawi had told him, his Qi capacity had already exceeded what an average Core Formation cultivator possessed.
He became more confident in his theory and instructed Tal and Tasya to take their time in the Qi Refinement realm to learn how to contain their Qi. He believed it would allow them to have a larger Qi capacity in the future.
However, with a larger Qi capacity, he naturally needed more resources. If he were still as poor as he was before Anda became rich using her alchemy, God knows how long it would take for him to fill up his dantian to the limit. Leyvi often reflected on how much their circumstances had changed since Anda's success.
And so, Leyvi dipped his hand in a basin full of natural liquid Qi and started his secluded cultivation after adjusting his mindset.
Absorbing the spiritual energy contained in the natural liquid Qi was about twenty times faster than absorbing the same amount of spiritual energy from spirit stones due to the nature of the Qi, making it the best cultivation resource for Foundation Building cultivators.
However, Leyvi still felt that even with this cultivation speed, which should be considered extremely fast for someone like him, it wouldn't be enough to expand his Qi lake to the limit in time.
Suddenly, a thought came to Leyvi's mind.
Wait a minute. Didn't he already have a solution to this problem recently? That was right! How could he forget?
He had used his dual mind to cultivate and learn how to control multiple elements of Qi simultaneously for two years.
This time, instead of using his dual mind to do two separate actions, he could use both of his minds to cultivate together. The difference this time was that he would need to use different meridians in his body only to ensure that the spiritual energy absorption wouldn't clash. This would be much easier than what he had been doing previously.
Leyvi felt stupid. Why hadn't he realized this much sooner? Was he really in the same group as Mr. Bison and Dorin? Thinking about this made him depressed and disturbed his cultivation.
Leyvi stopped and adjusted his mentality again before continuing.
Using his dual mind, he let one mind control the right part of his body and the other control the left side.
He then made some adjustments to his cultivation method so that both sides could act as independent systems to absorb the spiritual energy. This would ensure that they wouldn't interrupt each other.
Due to some slight limitations, he couldn't reach a cultivation speed exactly two times faster, but it was close.
Leyvi now believed that he could reach the peak of the Foundation Building realm before the time limit.
But as for whether he could advance to the Core Formation realm, that would depend on whether he had a bottleneck or not.
...
Three years later...
"Sister Anda, do you think Husband can break through in time? You guys only have a month left before you have to depart for Holy Cat City," Layla asked Anda.
They were enjoying their breakfast in the dining room.
"Hehe. Don't worry, Layla. Leyvi messaged me in advance. He'll be breaking through anytime soon," Anda replied happily. She took a sip of her coffee, the usual Coffeezilla. Her relaxed demeanor contrasts with Layla's slight tension.
"Is that so? Then I can relax."
"I know you're missing the real thing like me. I'm already bored of using the holy rod artifact. We need the real holy rod. Right, Layla?" Anda asked teasingly.
Layla could only roll her eyes as the image of Leyvi's holy rod appeared in her mind. Though she wouldn't admit it, the thought made her cheeks flush slightly.
Layla had been a city lord for over six years, nearing seven years by now.
During these years, Bara City's economy improved greatly, enabling many Qi Refinement cultivators to earn more spirit stones for their cultivation. As a result, Bara City was experiencing a meteoric rise in the number of Foundation Building realm cultivators.
Two years ago, Anda shook the entire city again after she put a single tier-4 alchemy product on the market, causing the wealthiest in Bara City to engage in a bidding war over it.
The tier-4 alchemy product was made from the alchemy formula she had chosen from the Alchemy Association as one of the top ten rewards: the Spiritual Sense Enhancing Pill.
It allowed a cultivator to increase the range of their spiritual sense by up to ten percent.
She wasn't allowed to divulge the alchemy formula to other people, but selling the product she made was entirely within her rights.
The pill naturally caused a storm in Bara City because not only was it the first tier-4 product to appear in Bara City in centuries, but it also indicated that an Alchemist Grandmaster had emerged from Bara City.
The Champion of the Alchemy Competition, Alchemist Panda, had become an Alchemist Grandmaster!
After the news of Anda becoming an Alchemist Grandmaster spread across the entire South Region, all the alchemists who needed her help became restless, constantly requesting her expertise.
Feeling annoyed by the constant requests, Anda decided to hold a special event and invited all the alchemists to Bara City a year later.
As an evil panda mastermind, she devised a way to exploit all those desperate alchemists who were probably at their wits' end trying to figure out the correct ratios for their new alchemy formulas. All she had to do was use her Alchemy Vision to figure out the most ideal essence ratio on their alchemy formula research and profit.
They didn't have to pay her anything, but aside from leaking them to any third party, she demanded that the Leyan Family have the right to use all the alchemy formulas she successfully helped decipher however the family wished.
Money? I can obtain money by myself. Just give me all those alchemy formulas. I will be the one to monopolize them in the future. This was Anda's thought.
At first, many voiced their discontent, saying she was greedy. But desperate to end their long alchemy formula research, they still came to Bara City a year later. However, some alchemists refused to attend as they were against Anda's condition.
A few months after the event ended, hundreds of new alchemy products emerged in the market across the South Region, shocking everyone.
Many alchemists with big egos, who had decided not to attend the Bara City event, were full of regrets. Seeing their peers succeed while they remained stagnant was a bitter pill to swallow.
While others were gaining popularity with their new alchemy products and moving on to other things, these alchemists were still stuck with their unfinished alchemy formulas.
Due to these events, Anda's reputation in the alchemy world skyrocketed once again. Even the higher-ups of the Alchemy Association gave Anda a new official title for her massive contributions to the alchemy world.
The Princess of Alchemy Formulas!
