Chapter 147: Chapter 102: There Are Fishing Enthusiasts in the Cultivation Realm Too

Zhou Changwang naturally would not join in the chaos.

As the world outside raged with floods, he merely hid in his own courtyard, not leaving his home.

So, for the next few days, Zhou Changwang peacefully farmed, drew talismans, and cultivated.

Finally, after seven days, he felt a slight movement of his Spiritual Power.

Cultivation +1

"After breaking through to the Qi Refining Fourth Layer, the growth of strength has indeed become much slower.

And this is even with a daily meal of Thunder Spirit Rice."

Zhou Changwang slowly stopped his cultivation, feeling an increasing urgency for top-level cultivation methods.

Even after achieving perfection in the Five Elements Technique, his cultivation speed only matched that of a Three-Attribute Spirit Root Cultivator. Top-level cultivation methods, once practiced, are comparable to Three-Attribute Spirit Root Cultivators, allowing Five Elements Spiritual Root Cultivators to establish their foundation before sixty— the gap is enormous.

Naturally, he was eager to change cultivation methods.

Previously, he had no choice.

Now, with thousands of Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, he certainly wanted to plan a thing or two.

He stood up and routinely used the Calming Technique on the small golden egg.

He immediately felt emotions of joy and trust coming from the egg, but besides trust, there was also hunger and longing.

"Hunger and longing?

Hungry? Is there not enough Spiritual Qi?"

Zhou Changwang was puzzled.

He also knew that the concentration of Spiritual Qi in his cultivation secret room couldn’t compare to that of Xue Tong’s estate.

"This can be somewhat remedied."

If there’s not enough Spiritual Qi, make up with Spirit Stones.

At this moment, Zhou Changwang was not concerned with being frugal, directly took out three pieces of Lower-Grade Spirit Stone, and placed them around the golden egg.

After realizing that Spiritual Qi was indeed being slowly absorbed by the golden egg, Zhou Changwang finally breathed a sigh of relief, then truly rose to leave the cultivation secret room.

In the courtyard.

The third form of the Celestial Essence Eight Techniques ends.

Zhou Changwang couldn’t help but clench his fists, his knuckles popping. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

A punch was thrown out.

Immediately, there was a sound of an air explosion, through the force of the punch, a terrifying aura of fist strength roared forward, shattering a lantern three zhang away.

Third-Layer Body Refining.

A few days ago, with the small success of the Celestial Essence Eight Techniques, his body refining cultivation also broke through to the Third Stage of Body Refining Realm, and every action contained immense strength.

He felt that now his fist strength could shatter boulders and break wrought iron.

Shattering a paper lantern three zhang away was quite a normal thing.

He slowly exhaled.

After performing a Cleaning Technique, Zhou Changwang exited the door.

He first went to Shuiyun Pavilion and through Qian Xiaoyue, sought Shen Xinyue.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t there; it was said she was busy inviting someone to start an alchemy furnace to refine the Spirit Gathering Grass she had bought from him into Spirit Pills.

This was to be expected, and since it was partly his doing, Zhou Changwang didn’t ask much, then chatted with Qian Xiaoyue, sharing each other’s updates.

Of course, they couldn’t avoid mentioning the recent assassination of Bai Clan members.

However, the Tribulation Cultivator had fled, and capturing them wasn’t an easy task. Although the Bai Family intensified their crackdown on Tribulation Cultivator crimes and captured several to make examples of, hanging them at the marketplace entrance, it ultimately failed to quell their anger.

After all, many people could guess that this assassination was inextricably linked to the Chen Family.

Of course, perhaps the Bai Family had other countermeasures, but outsiders could only speculate blindly without knowing the inside story.

At least, the Bai Family’s recent purge of Tribulation Cultivators greatly enhanced the security around the marketplace.

The presence of Tribulation Cultivators significantly decreased.

After parting ways with Qian Xiaoyue.

Zhou Changwang went to the Independent Cultivator Marketplace.

"This time, there are actually two pieces of news related to Five Elements Techniques.

One is that it is said that someone discovered a top-level Five Elements Technique in the ruins of the Five Elements Hall on Tianya Mountain, a branch of the Celestial Spirit Sect.

The person who obtained the technique is a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator, though it is far away, the specifics still need to be explored."

Another one, from thirty years ago, involves a fisherman.

The Jade Lake fisherman, known to everyone as Elder Peng, also a Five Elements Spiritual Root Cultivator, had cultivated to the Eighth-Layer Qi Cultivation.

It is suspected that he cultivated with a High-tier Five Elements Technique."

Zhou Changwang found Brother Xiu, Tuoba Xiu, who quickly spoke of two pieces of news regarding high-tier Five Elements Techniques.

One shares the same origin as the message from Luoxia Fairy: there was a rumor of someone obtaining a top-level Five Elements Technique from the Five Elements Hall ruins on Tianya Mountain.

However, Brother Xiu needed to investigate further.

While Luoxia Fairy claimed she had elders familiar with the person and could help with planning.

In terms of this information, he naturally leaned towards Luoxia Fairy.

The other, the Jade Lake fisherman, was simply ’suspected’ of having cultivated with a high-tier Five Elements Technique.

Regardless, there was at least one possibility, so Zhou Changwang promptly asked, "Then where is this Elder Peng now?"

As for Jade Lake.

Zhou Changwang knew it was a massive lake located thirty li west of Fengming Dock Marketplace, home to many precious Spirit Fish, particularly a kind known as the White Jade Spotted Fish, which not only tastes delicious but also helps to ease cultivator bottlenecks and purify constitutions.

He recently saw its name on the Immortal Tower’s menu, priced at two hundred and thirty-eight Lower-Grade Spirit Stones each, but he couldn’t bring himself to order...

Besides the Spirit Fish, there are also High-tier Fish Demons in Jade Lake, so any cultivators going there to fish need either sufficient cultivation or a group, or they might encounter danger and be devoured by Fish Demons instead.