Chapter 35

"Here!" Bu Zheng didn't say much, directly taking out his identity token. The black iron material indicated he was a miscellaneous disciple, and the three words "Alchemical Peak" engraved on the black iron token made it clear that this Alchemical Peak indeed existed.

Unless this token was fake, there was no way it could be wrong, and even if it was wrong, it couldn't have been wrong for so long.

"There really is such a place. Why do we always find outsiders to refine our pills?" Qiuyue said, puzzled.

"Perhaps it's because our Alchemical Peak only refines basic pills like Qi Refinement Pills and never refines anything else. Also, there are only three of us..." Bu Zheng replied.

"Three people? That's too few. With only three people working, why not have more?" Qiuyue was very curious. Since there was an Alchemical Peak, why wasn't it more active?

"It's not that only three people are working; there are only three people, including the peak master." Bu Zheng shook his head, revealing something even more speechless.

Including the peak master, there were only three people, which basically meant that at most, only two people were doing the work. In such a situation, what could the Alchemical Peak accomplish? It was impossible for them to refine pills for us; they were just a dispensable existence.

This might be the arrangement of the sect, always focusing on improving martial prowess, while alchemy and weapon forging were very weak. It was just that before, they only thought it was weak, but they never imagined it would be this weak.

It was just a nominal facility!

This was everyone's evaluation of the Alchemical Peak. As for Bu Zheng, a miscellaneous disciple of the Alchemical Peak, there was also an evaluation or a conclusion: he had no future.

At this moment, Chu Xiong didn't think so, because the poison Bu Zheng refined was indeed very good. Even if he didn't have a great future, he should still have some minor achievements.

"As long as you work hard, you can turn things around even in adversity." Chu Xiong patted Bu Zheng's shoulder to encourage him and then asked, "Little junior brother, tell me your cultivation level. How many layers of the first meridian have you reached?"

Among the disciples Chu Xiong had interacted with, even the new disciples were at least at the fifth or sixth layer of the first meridian. Therefore, even if Bu Zheng, a miscellaneous disciple, was a bit weaker, he should still be at a few layers of the first meridian.

And how strong Bu Zheng was, the team leader needed to know to better arrange his position.

How many layers of the first meridian?

For this term, Junior Brother Bu was a bit dismissive because he was already a "high-level" expert at the third layer of the second meridian, having long become a regular disciple. Although he was still a new disciple, this was just the duration of being a new disciple and didn't represent the disciple's level.

Incidentally, Chu Xiong and the others were already at the fifth layer of the third meridian or higher. The earlier realms were relatively easy to advance, but the key was whether one could enter the fourth meridian. After the fourth meridian, the progress would be a matter for the future.

Among the top ten disciples of the Qingyun Sword Sect, only three had entered the fourth meridian realm, while the rest were all at the ninth layer of the third meridian. This threshold could trap some people for their entire lives.

It was normal for ordinary people to be stuck for ten years or more, and even geniuses would be stuck for one or two years. This threshold was also known as the Martial Dao Gate.

This term had two meanings: first, it was a gate, and one had to open this gate to pass through. The other meaning was that for high-level martial artists, this was the true entry point, and before this, one was still just an outsider.

Of course, this was for high-level martial artists. In Bu Zheng's view, even a first meridian martial artist was an expert because he hadn't even reached the first meridian!

"I, I'm still before the first meridian..." Bu Zheng said weakly. Although he thought this was normal, he wasn't someone who pursued martial arts, so it was natural to be weaker than others.

However, since everyone else was at the first meridian or higher, he felt a bit embarrassed and ashamed.

"Before the first meridian?" Chu Xiong was stunned, not expecting Bu Zheng to not even have reached the first meridian. This was something he hadn't anticipated. In theory, the first meridian was very simple. Even if Bu Zheng was only fifteen years old and his talent wasn't very high, he should have entered the first meridian after joining the Qingyun Sword Sect.

The Qingyun Sword Sect was built on a spirit vein, and the cultivation speed in a place with a spirit vein was fundamentally different from a place without one, even if it was the poorest kind of spirit vein.

And the first meridian was the easiest to break through; even the worst talent would quickly break through here.

"Try to gather your energy to its full extent." Chu Xiong said, placing his hand on Bu Zheng.

Bu Zheng began to gather his energy...

"Alright, although you haven't reached the second meridian, your Conception Vessel is almost fully cultivated, and the difference is negligible. The initial realm isn't too important anyway." Chu Xiong quickly withdrew his hand. This method of probing by placing a hand on someone was the most accurate, as long as the other person was willing.

Although the initial realm had its distinctions, in actual combat, a difference of one or two minor levels didn't matter much. Therefore, although Bu Zheng wasn't at the first meridian, he was almost there.

Everyone didn't pay much attention to this, and Chu Xiong quickly made arrangements. Since Bu Zheng's role was dispensable, he would basically just do odd jobs and be a spare person, with no special arrangements.

At this moment, if Murong Qing and Ling Aoxue were here, they would be very puzzled. Why did Chu Xiong just say the Conception Vessel? They remembered that Bu Zheng was clearly cultivating the Belt Vessel. How did it change to the Conception Vessel?

Could it be that Bu Zheng thought the Belt Vessel wasn't suitable for him and switched to the Conception Vessel?

This seemed a bit unlikely because there were no special rules about which meridian to cultivate first. If one chose a meridian to cultivate, there was no point in switching to another, as it would just waste time. Even if the chosen meridian was a bit harder, the time spent switching would be enough to make up for it.

One should either decide from the beginning which meridian to cultivate or continue cultivating the same meridian until starting the second one!

The main reason Bu Zheng switched from the Belt Vessel to the Conception Vessel and was still at the first meridian, not cultivating two meridians simultaneously, was that he had no one to guide him. His cultivation was entirely self-taught.

He didn't abandon the Belt Vessel to switch to the Conception Vessel but completed the Belt Vessel and then moved on to other meridians. He didn't know that after completing the first meridian, one should cultivate two meridians simultaneously.

After the first meridian, he moved on to another, and so on. The Conception Vessel was already his sixth meridian. After cultivating two more, he would have cultivated all eight meridians, but he did them one by one, not simultaneously.

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