Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists-Chapter 109 - 108 Three Joys Visit the Door (Request for
Chapter 109 -108: Three Joys Visit the Door (Request for Monthly Tickets)_1
Chapter 109 -108: Three Joys Visit the Door (Request for Monthly Tickets)_1
Under the Peach Blossom Tree.
“Fang, I truly regret it now…”
Feng Man Building, now middle-aged with hints of frost at his temples, didn’t opt for his once favorite Peach Blossom Wine. Instead, he filled a large bowl with Red Blood Wine. After downing it in one gulp, he complained gloomily.
“Why bother about these things? If Mu Wen enjoys his moment of glory, it’s because he took risks in the past. You chose stability, and at least you have a loving wife and children, years of leisure — that’s not a loss…”
Fang Xi, in a green robe, looked indifferent.
Looking at Fang Xi, Feng Man Building felt even more saddened as he saw that Fang Xi still looked young and handsome, whereas he himself was aging: “Come… let’s drink!”
Fang Xi did not choose the Red Blood Wine but picked up a bottle of Peach Blossom Wine instead.
This wine was a clear green with a faint aroma of peach blossoms. It tasted smooth and was well-liked by Immortal Cultivators.
He let Widow Wang or Lu Guo take some to the local exchange on Peach Blossom Island to sell occasionally. It was even more popular than the Red Blood Wine, and he got quite a few small items necessary for daily life in return.
Looking at the youthful, handsome figure under the Peach Blossom Tree and feeling the other’s detached, tranquil, yet thriving spirit, Feng Man Building sincerely believed that this was a true ascetic who had seen through fame and fortune and disliked contention: “Brother Fang… I am enlightened!”
“If the world deceives me, betrays me, insults me, what should I do?” Fang Xi plucked a peach blossom and said lightly, “Just endure it, concede to it, avoid it… After a hundred years, look back at it!”
“What about after a hundred years?” Feng Man Building’s eyes lit up.
“After a hundred years, both my enemies and I will have turned to bones. Do you think we both will achieve Foundation Establishment?” Fang Xi rolled his eyes in response.
After sending away Feng Man Building, who was lost in philosophical contemplation, Fang Xi went to the Cultivation Room.
Cycling once through the ‘Eternal Spring Skills,’ there was still not the slightest sign of a breakthrough.
His face completely calm, he pasted a ‘Protection Talisman’ behind the door of the Cultivation Room, then entered a secret passage and arrived at an underground cave.
Splash!
A huge, pitch-black banyan tree almost occupied the entire space of the cave!
The tree was thirty feet tall! Its crown shaded the sky, countless Qi Roots dangled down, and the ground was covered with a network of intertwined roots.
A mid-grade Taisui cowered in the corner, trembling as if afraid that the Monster Tree would eat it…
‘This Taisui… has gotten smarter since advancing to mid-grade…’
‘With such performance, could it be close to becoming a high-grade monster beast?’
Fang Xi comforted the Taisui through the Blood Pact, feeling a bit excited.
If the Taisui reached high-grade status, the growth rate of the Monster Tree would surely increase to another level!
After the usual routine of feeding the tree with flesh, Fang Xi sat cross-legged under the Monster Tree and began to cultivate the ‘Longevity Skills’!
Pop!
Pop! Pop!
This day seemed different from usual!
As one Qi Root after another penetrated Fang Xi’s back, the second and third followed…
Fang Xi, in the state of cultivating ‘Longevity Skills,’ where he forgot both himself and the external world, drew essence from the Monster Tree purely by instinct, absorbing the essence of plants and the power of the yearly growth rings…
Within his Spirit Sense, Fang Xi could ‘see’ that the networks that had taken root within him were finally completing their connections at this moment, allowing the essence of wood to flow through them, spreading throughout his whole body!
‘Green Wood Spiritual Body’ — achieved!
Boom!
The next instant, Fang Xi felt dizzy, and when he came back to his senses, he felt full of life force, which was completely different from before!
“Is this the ‘Green Wood Spiritual Body’?”
He touched his face, and a tear of crystal clarity passed through his eyes: “Ten years… confined to one place, ten years of arduous cultivation… My ‘Green Wood Spiritual Body’ is finally accomplished!”
Almost immediately, Fang Xi couldn’t wait to try and circulate the ‘Eternal Spring Skills’, beginning to sense the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi!
The moment he did so, he was astounded.
Fang Xi felt as if under some Spiritual Pressure from the outside world, a multitude of spiritual energy rushed into his body many times faster than usual!
His own body fully absorbed this energy, which, after circulating through the meridians, merged into the Dantian Qi Ocean, turning into Magic Power!
The speed of cultivation increased several folds in one go!
It felt so wonderful that he immersed himself in the circulation of the skills over and over again, unaware of the passage of time in the outside world.
Finally!
Fang Xi felt the Magic Power within his Dantian Qi Ocean reach a certain limit. It continued to circulate within, opening up new pathways inside his body.
His Magic Power surged nearly double in an instant!
The ‘Eternal Spring Skills’ cultivation advanced a step further, entering the late stage of the Qi Refining seventh level!
“Ha ha… now that I’ve become a genius comparable to those with high-grade Spiritual Roots, the bottleneck of the late phase of Qi Refining is no longer a bottleneck!”
“The accomplishment of the Green Wood Spiritual Body brought with it a breakthrough in the late stage of Qi Refining, today really is a day of double happiness!”
Fang Xi opened his eyes and laughed heartily.
He was only thirty-three, and even if the ‘Longevity Skills’ failed, the Green Wood Spiritual Body was still there.
With his current aptitude, foundation establishment was hopeful! Long life was within reach!
“Eh?”
Fang Xi suddenly felt something was off. He opened his eyes, then closed them… he sensed as if a third ‘eye’ had appeared on his forehead!
With this ‘eye’, even when his eyes were shut, he could clearly see everything within a range of three feet.
Not only that, he could observe himself from different angles.
In his vision, he could see a young man in green clothes sitting cross-legged with eyes slightly closed!
“Is this… Divine Consciousness?!”
Having had the experience of using a magical tool that allowed his Spirit Sense to leave his body at the previous auction, Fang Xi quickly recognized it. This was the ‘Divine Consciousness’ only Foundation Establishment Immortal Cultivators possessed!
“Rumor has it that even a Cultivator at the early stage of Foundation Establishment can project their Divine Consciousness twenty to thirty meters away. Within the range of Divine Consciousness, everything is crystal clear!”
“My limit is only three meters for now, but it is indeed Divine Consciousness!”
“This, this… could this be the special trait of the ‘Green Wood Spiritual Body’, unexpectedly helping Cultivators to develop Divine Consciousness early in the late stages of Qi Refining?!”
“Or is it the peculiarity of the ‘Monster Tree’? Or perhaps a result of various factors combined?”
Fang Xi began to understand the reason why those great Sects were so eager to acquire Cultivators with a Spirit Body.
“Now… with vigorous vitality like a dragon, and having developed Divine Consciousness, I have already flattened two of the three gates of vital energy, spirit, and Qi in Foundation Establishment!”
He found it hard to believe: “Doesn’t that mean once I reach the full maturity of Qi Refining’s tenth level, even without taking any other pills, I’d have a thirty to forty percent chance of breaking through to Foundation Establishment?”
Of course, attempting to break through Foundation Establishment on one’s own meant either death or severe injury, and Fang Xi certainly wouldn’t choose that.
If he were to try for Foundation Establishment, he’d surely opt to take a Foundation Establishment Pill to stabilize his chances.
“Divine Consciousness, I’ve actually managed to cultivate Divine Consciousness!”
Fang Xi couldn’t wait and walked out of the underground cave, using his newly developed Divine Consciousness to observe the world anew.
Inside the pond, Daqing was sneakily cultivating Demon Qi, with dead fish eyes constantly watching Fang Xi, fearing he’d turn it into sashimi.
After all, ten years had passed!
And in the insect chamber, the Golden Turtle progeny from several breedings were mostly showing green hues, evidently quite useful.
Fang Xi then went outside to the nearby fields.
Now that his Divine Consciousness could reach a limit of three meters, which is about ten meters, he had to get closer to observe.
Inside the wooden shed, Lu Guo was diligently sitting in meditation to cultivate.
And in the corner of the ground, several inferior Spirit Stones were buried, and Fang Xi wondered how this lad had managed to save them.
Fang Xi then walked to the door of Widow Wang’s house, swept his Divine Consciousness through and immediately covered his eyes, having seen things he shouldn’t have.
He turned around and left; fortunately, the sweep of his Divine Consciousness went undetected by most Qi Refining Cultivators, otherwise, it would have been rather embarrassing…
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A few days later.
In the courtyard, under the Peach Blossom Tree.
After several days of exploration, Fang Xi had finally gotten the hang of controlling his Divine Consciousness.
At the moment, he was putting down a jade slip he held in his hand.
This jade slip contained the teachings of Array Taoism, the “Beginner’s Guide to Array Taoism”!
This time, those originally complex and profound array patterns suddenly became much simpler.
“With the assistance of Divine Consciousness, everyone is a little genius!”
“No wonder the jade slip said to learn Divine Consciousness before attempting to enter. The difficulty really has decreased a lot…”
Fang Xi felt some emotion.
After cultivating Divine Consciousness, he found that his senses were sharp and even his thoughts moved quicker by several degrees, prompting him to revisit the Four Arts of Cultivation inheritance that he once found difficult to start.
He discovered… those gates that once seemed impossible to him had turned into a smooth road!
“What a pity… my financial resources and time are ultimately limited. Every day I still need to cultivate Eternal Spring Skills and Longevity Skills, as well as farming and tending to the fish…”
Fang Xi thought it over and made his choice.
Given the circumstances, he naturally decided to focus on Arrays, the skill at the top of the hierarchy!
Next, he would learn Talisman forging!
As for Talisman making and painting? He could only leave that to chance…
Of course, should he discover in the process of his studies that he possessed extraordinary talent in one skill, far surpassing the other three, Fang Xi would naturally adjust his focus accordingly.
“Ha ha… now I’m also a little genius at Arrays.”
Fang Xi laughed heartily, taking out the operation jade slip that came with the Little Cloud Rain Array.
With his current Divine Consciousness, reviewing the jade slip gave him many new insights.
“The way I set this Array up before was too rigid…”
“Arrays should be dynamic. These few array points can be altered. By setting it up like this, the power of the Array could be increased even more…”
“There seems to be an oversight here…”
Fang Xi walked among the Arrays, observing them with Divine Consciousness and comparing them to the Array Map, and indeed discovered many differences.
He was practically blind before!
Now he could finally open his eyes to see the full scope of the Array!
At this moment, he swept his Divine Consciousness around and saw that Widow Wang was working nearby. His gaze involuntarily swept over her figure: “I really didn’t see that coming, well concealed indeed…”
The next moment, Fang Xi’s expression remained normal as he exchanged a few polite words with Widow Wang.
Being skilled in Wooden Element cultivation techniques and being considerably higher in realm than both Widow Wang and Lu Guo, with his intentional concealment, these two couldn’t possibly detect that he had already broken through the late stage of Qi Refining!
“About Ruan Xingling though… I need to think of a way to keep it hidden.”
After all, he initially established a persona of a Cultivator with poor talent that bitterly cultivated. Suddenly breaking through, how could he explain that?
He didn’t have a breakthrough pill like the family heads of Feng and Mo!
“Thirty-three years old at the later stage of Qi Refining, this talent is a bit against common sense. Better to keep it under wraps…”
