Although his Spirit Root was a Four-Spirit Root, Ji Yuan felt his comprehension was still pretty decent.

But if he could boost it a bit more, that would be even better—just like those novels he'd read in his previous life, with things like "God-level comprehension" or "Ten Thousand Times Comprehension."

So as soon as he got home, Ji Yuan immediately grabbed paper and brush, and once again wrote out the words "Enlightenment Room."

He looked around, and in the end stuck the ink-black words on white paper to the door of his storage room.

Right at that moment when he posted it, the system panel refreshed.

Success!

[Enlightenment Room lv0]

[lv1: Spirit Effect: Calms the mind and focuses qi, increases personal comprehension by 10%]

[Upgrade requirements: Low-grade Spirit Stones ×10, Clear Heart Grass ×3, Black Crystal Sand 1 jin (not met)]

Ji Yuan glanced over it—the Spirit Effect was extremely simple, just a 10% boost to comprehension.

Perfect, just perfect.

This [Enlightenment Room] really ought to be this simple and direct.

Although compared to the others, 10% feels a bit low… It must be because comprehension is so precious and rare—in other words, being able to get a 10% increase in comprehension already makes it incredibly powerful.

As for the upgrade materials, they're not hard.

Clear Heart Grass, they sell it in Zengtou City. Not some legendary treasure, just a herb for elixir-making, and it's only 1 Spirit Stone per stalk.

Black Crystal Sand is an artifact-refining material, also sold there, a bit pricier at 5 Spirit Stones per jin.

But that's still fine, for Ji Yuan nowadays, it's no big deal.

So, having just gotten home, he turned around and went out again.

Outside the yard, the Wen Lin couple and their child were fishing at the gate—well, it was really Wen Lin and his wife babysitting more than fishing.

Seeing Ji Yuan come out, Wen Lin handed the fishing rod to Zhao Yuechan and stood up, smiling: "Brother Ji just got back, and now you're heading out again?"

"Yeah, I bought too few things—need to run back to the city for one more trip."

Ji Yuan smiled. He had a pretty good impression of the Wen family, especially since they'd helped him out before.

"Ji Big Pot, are you going to buy festival goodies? Don't forget to get some tasty snacks for me!"

Wen Linger shook her head, holding her mini fishing rod as she spoke.

"Festival goodies?"

Just as Ji Yuan was about to pull out his Dharma Ship, he paused—then suddenly remembered that this world also had the tradition of celebrating New Year, and right now, it was indeed almost New Year's Eve.

In past years, the original Ji Yuan had always celebrated with his parents, but this year, it seemed he was on his own.

Between these two lifetimes, it seemed this was actually his first time spending New Year all alone… He smiled and replied.

"No problem, Ling'er will definitely get her share."

The Wen Lin couple replied warmly, then watched Ji Yuan summon his Dharma Ship and depart.

The ship entered the water; fishing was done for the day. Wen Lin simply put down his rod, while Zhao Yuechan gazed into the distance at Ji Yuan's departing figure and quietly asked, "Husband, was that a mid-grade Dharma Ship?"

"Mm, and a fine one for its grade. If he hadn't been short on materials, he might've made it to high-grade."

Wen Lin was clearly knowledgeable.

"So these past few days while he's been away…"

Wen Lin tucked his hands into his sleeves, smiling: "Where else would he go? He must've struck it rich!"

But after chuckling, Wen Lin grew a bit thoughtful. "Who would've thought, we just randomly picked a place to rent and ended up with a neighbor like him. Seems we should definitely cultivate a good relationship."

"It's fate,"

Zhao Yuechan wholeheartedly agreed.

Before long, Ji Yuan sailed back, handed Wen Linger a few sugar-figures he'd picked up along the way, then hurried inside.

He walked into the living room, gazed at the junk room… Enlightenment Room, and immediately selected upgrade.

With the disappearance of three items from his Storage Bag, the system panel refreshed again.

The effect for [Enlightenment Room] level 2 appeared.

[Enlightenment Room lv2]

[Spirit Effect: Comprehension boost increased to 20%. When facing a bottleneck, gain an extra 10% comprehension bonus.]

[Upgrade requirements: Mid-grade Spirit Stones ×20, Illusion Heart Flower ×3 stems, Earth Vein Spirit Marrow ×1 jar, one intermediate Magic at entry level (not met)]

The upgrade materials were, again, pretty similar—Spirit Stones plus some immortal talent materials.

The only new part was needing to unlock an intermediate Magic.

But this Spirit Effect… what an absolute tool for closed-door cultivation! Extra comprehension bonus at a bottleneck—this system really gets what cultivators suffer!

Whenever he hit a bottleneck, comprehension went up 30%—what more could you ask for?

Cultivation, let's cultivate!

Ji Yuan didn't dare waste such perfect conditions, so for this stretch of time, aside from trips to Zengtou City to stock up on survival and cultivation supplies, he didn't go anywhere else.

If it were before, he'd still have to paint Talisman once in a while just to make ends meet.

But now there was no need—just half a liang of Blood Essence per day was worth 10 Spirit Stones.

Plus 30 Spirit Eggs, not to mention Cock's Crown Blood, and now Ji Yuan had started raising a Spirit Pig as well.

After keeping that Spirit Pig, he pretty much stopped eating Spirit Egg Shells—instead, most of it went to feed the pig.

On top of that, his half-Spirit Fish would even evolve from time to time.

Ji Yuan declared: Can't even spend all this, really can't.

With Spirit Stones piling up, Ji Yuan got extravagant in his cultivation, switching to… popping pills.

The best cultivation Pill for the Qi Cultivation Stage was the Spirit Gathering Pill, which increased a cultivator's absorption rate for Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, shortening the cycle time.

The price wasn't cheap—10 Spirit Stones per pill.

Still, Ji Yuan could afford it, so he would spend the daytime in the Enlightenment Room comprehending Magic, or go to the Talisman Room and paint Talisman.

At night, he started pill cultivation.

With this training method, the first breakthrough came quick—the second tier of [Water Drop Finger].

He figured having the first tier as a foundation helped, so after three days of closed-door practice, he understood the "Piercing Stone" technique.

He even headed out to a patch of reeds just to try it—watching as three thread-thin strands of Spiritual Light gathered at his fingertip.

Compared to before, this second tier, Piercing Stone, was even more hidden than the first.

But getting all three strands of Spiritual Light to hit the same spot was a bit tricky.

He'd have to use it in tandem with the [Canglang Sword Technique] for better results.

After some practice, Ji Yuan headed home and resumed his cultivation.

He had thought his second breakthrough might either be grasping the first tier of the [Canglang Sword Technique], or, failing that, pushing to the edge of his cultivation for a breakthrough.

But unexpectedly, that sword technique just wouldn't unlock; instead, he broke through on talisman-making.

Ji Yuan actually forgot he was in the [Enlightenment Room] and not the [Talisman Room] at the time—he pulled out his Talisman Brush and started painting, and before he knew it, he cleared the bottleneck for mid-grade Talisman, which had troubled him for ages.

First thing he did was draw a life-saving Golden Body Talisman—after he finished the first one, Ji Yuan moved straight to the [Talisman Room].

With the success rate bonus, each mid-grade Talisman could sell for about 10 Spirit Stones…

Ji Yuan, who already wasn't short on Spirit Stones, just got even wealthier.

That evening.

Still unable to unlock [Canglang Sword Technique], Ji Yuan wrapped up his day's cultivation, ready to dive into another night of pill training.

But just then, he suddenly noticed both neighboring courtyards were noisier than usual.

After a short while, Zengtou City itself erupted with the sounds of fireworks.

After days of seclusion, Ji Yuan thought for a moment before realizing—today was New Year's Eve.

"Well, I suppose I should give myself a break."

Ji Yuan got up and went to his front yard, where fireworks kept blooming over Zengtou City, like silver blossoms opening across the night sky.

Laughter and chatter drifted in from the neighboring courtyards.

Wu Qin was unusually loud, arguing with Lin Hu about whose fireworks were the prettiest.

From the other direction came Wen Linger's childish voice in bursts, and Zhao Yuechan telling her to slow down.

All at once, Ji Yuan felt a rare touch of loneliness.

The excitement belonged to them—it seemed he had nothing at all… Plus, his sword technique had refused to unlock for days, piling on the sense of dejection.

On instinct, he summoned his Flying Sword, White Water.

The White Water Flying Sword curled gently around his finger.

"Bang—"

A firework burst overhead; Ji Yuan looked up: the night sky was ablaze like blossoming fire-trees.

Somewhere between dream and waking, he felt a sudden insight and thought, "Go."

The White Water Flying Sword slipped from his fingers, twisting out like crashing waves.

New Year's Eve.

Ji Yuan unlocked [Canglang Sword Technique].

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