Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists-Chapter 115 - 114 Promotion and Going Out

Chapter 115 -114: Promotion and Going Out (Congratulations in Silver!)_1

Chapter 115 -114: Promotion and Going Out (Congratulations in Silver!)_1

Jadeite Cliff.

“Sigh, I really should go out less often!”

Having gotten himself into trouble just by stepping out, Fang Xi was somewhat depressed.

To him, a little girl’s resentment was just like a joke.

As for the so-called ‘three-year pact’?

He hadn’t agreed to it anyway!

It was better to just quietly pursue cultivation, as a hot-blooded style didn’t suit him.

In the alchemy room.

Fang Xi opened the furnace and started the fire for alchemy.

Having gone out today, he had bought some materials for forging ‘Beast Food Pills’ and was ready to start another batch.

This pill was a first-grade mid-level product, not as difficult to make as Hemostatic Pills.

Fang Xi had tried before and ruined several batches.

But now, he was quite confident.

Heating the furnace, adding medicinal herbs, raising the temperature, harmonizing the medicinal properties, and condensing the medicine liquid…

Every move of Fang Xi’s was calm and unhurried, as if he had everything under control.

A few hours later, the furnace roared, and a fragrant scent wafted out.

“Collect!”

He cast the pill-collecting magic spell, and several earth-yellow pills flew out of the furnace, landing in his palm.

Crack!

Three of the pills made a snapping sound as soon as they left the furnace, breaking apart on their own.

Among the remaining three, another one showed a dull grey color, which was obviously a waste pill!

Fang Xi, holding two genuine Beast Food Pills, paid no attention to the dead salted fish in the courtyard and headed down to the underground cavern.

“Here, eat up!”

He tossed the two pills casually, and they landed on Taisui.

Taisui silently wriggled, swallowed the pills, and dissolved them…

Then, Fang Xi looked at the waste pill in his hand with contemplation.

This waste pill, although formed, had severely exceeded the limit of pill toxins, with discordant medicinal properties and more harm than benefit!

In fact, since he started alchemy, the waste pills he had produced had piled up considerably and were utterly worthless.

But looking at the Monster Tree, Fang Xi had an idea: “Come… eat!”

The Monster Tree extended a Qi Root to curl around the waste pill in Fang Xi’s hand, swallowing it into its canopy.

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“Hmm… it seems like there’s no problem at all!”

“From now on, all waste pills will be fed to the Monster Tree; at least that counts as recycling…”

While Fang Xi was thinking, he was startled by a change in the spiritual energy within the cavern.

He saw a massive amount of spiritual energy gathering, even forming a small whirlpool!

At the center of the whirlpool, Taisui, which resembled a white dough ball, started to ‘rise’ rapidly.

“Advanced to a first-grade high-level Monster Beast?”

Fang Xi knew that this was not the work of the Beast Food Pill, but that Taisui had been at the peak of the first-grade mid-level and just needed the pills as a breakthrough opportunity.

“Good, this is great…”

He couldn’t help but show joy on his face.

After all, Taisui was much more impressive than that dead salted fish!

Fang Xi began to assess Taisui’s capabilities immediately and found that its strength was still pathetically weak, able to defiantly wriggle a little when attacked at most, though its recovery and self-healing capabilities had indeed improved.

And what’s more, it had nearly doubled in size compared to before!

“You’ll have to work harder for me in the future,”

he said as he stroked Taisui’s smooth, tender skin, quite touched.

Without this demon, his tree farming venture would have been bloody and ferocious, totally at odds with his detached style of cultivation…

After testing, Taisui Meat of a first-grade high-level indeed suited the Monster Tree’s palate better.

Unfortunately, the Monster Tree had already grown to the top of the cave, and Fang Xi couldn’t let it break through the bottom and grow out into Jadeite Cliff, so he ordered it to grow horizontally as much as possible and develop its roots more.

Now, when Fang Xi saw the Monster Tree hunting, its vast root system in the lake formed a net that could easily scoop up plenty of fish, river clams, crabs, and green shrimps…

“It’s a pity that salted fish is not up to snuff, otherwise…”

…

Winter passed and spring arrived, as the years cycled on.

In the blink of an eye, the Blood Replenishing Grass and Snake Orchid Fruit in the medicinal herb garden had reached a maturity of five years.

Inside the underground cavern, numerous Qi Roots hung down, and the ground was covered with banyan root-like entities, resembling another world of plants.

Beneath the banyan tree.

Fang Xi sat cross-legged, slowly ending his cultivation practice.

He opened his eyes, which flashed a leaping green luminescence: “Qi Refining Level Eight now… Ever since achieving the Green Wood Spiritual Body, even the minor bottleneck from Qi Refining Level Seven to Level Eight was like nothing.”

He reckoned that if he still had a low-grade Spiritual Root, he might have gotten stuck at this level for a decade or more.

Some Qi Refining cultivators might even spend their whole lives unable to break through the bottleneck!

Not only that, over the past few years, Fang Xi had devoted himself to studying both alchemy and Array Taoist arts, and could now produce four pills in a batch of Beast Food Pills, reaching the peak of a first-grade mid-level alchemist and ready to try making some first-grade high-level medicinal pills.

As for Array Taoist arts?

He fully analyzed the Little Cloud Rain Array and steadily advanced to a first-grade mid-level in Array Taoist arts.

Array Taoist methods were indeed more challenging, and he sometimes fell behind in progress, often getting stuck at difficult points.

Alchemy, however, could be improved by practicing with a massive amount of resources.

The Array was confounded by a problem, and before understanding it clear, there was simply no solution!

Fang Xi too was utterly helpless in this matter.

After feeding the Monster Tree, he returned to the courtyard and looked at the big Daqing fish at the bottom of the pond with an even more helpless expression.

Several years had passed, and Taisui had become a first-stage superior product, but even after devouring the last drop of Snake Dragon essence blood concocted into a pill by him, the big Daqing fish was still stuck at the first-stage mid-grade!

If he hadn’t promised the other party ten years, and only five had passed so far, he would have made up his mind to directly make sweet and sour fish fillet soup!

“As for Cultivation, it’s exactly as I expected, Qi Refining Eighth Layer at thirty-eight!”

Fang Xi sat under the Peach Blossom Tree, took out a yellow gourd, and poured a sip of Peach Blossom Brew into his mouth.

This was an improvement he had refined from Peach Blossom Wine, aged for three years, with an even richer peach aroma that didn’t overpower the senses.

Half an hour later, a Voice Transmission Talisman flew in.

Fang Xi casually caught it, muttering a few words before tossing it out.

Not long after, in came Lu Guo, who had grown into a youth of about fifteen or sixteen, dressed in grey.

By this time, his Cultivation had impressively reached the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining!

Outside, he would no longer be easily humiliated.

“Greetings, Master!”

Lu Guo, with his sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, had a rather handsome face, and his features bore a resilience nurtured from years of tilling the land.

“Have you really decided, no regrets?”

Fang Xi looked at him and said flatly, “Joining the joint law enforcement squad, you could be killed at any moment!”

“No regrets!”

Lu Guo clenched his teeth, his expression resolute.

In recent years, that ‘Silver Armor man’ had still not been caught, and there were even rumors that the Foundation Establishment Cultivator ‘Yu Lingzi’ had personally attempted to capture and kill him, only for him to escape. He gradually gained the infamous title of ‘the foremost under Foundation Establishment’!

Moreover, the ‘Silver Armor man’ was known for his brutal ways, lying low for a while after being pursued but coming back to commit more heinous crimes!

Business in the Ling Kong Market was increasingly affected, even causing distress among Foundation Establishment Cultivators!

With no other choice, Taishu, Yuchi and Xiahou, the three families, jointly promoted a resolution during the Thirty Six Island Alliance meeting to establish a joint law enforcement squad, patrolling a hundred-mile radius around Ling Kong Island!

They needed a large number of Cultivators for this task; even the three major islands found it hard to manage and were also reluctant to deplete their own strength, hence they requested manpower from other islands.

After all, they were part of the Thirty Six Island Alliance, and had even given them stores…

Peach Blossom Island was naturally included in this, and had already started recruiting Individual Cultivators.

The task was extremely dangerous, but Lu Guo saw it as an opportunity!

Under normal circumstances, with his status as a criminal’s son, he could never leave the island; he might have even been doomed to farming on Jadeite Cliff for a lifetime!

Recently, his advancement in Cultivation had already slowed down significantly, due to the lack of sufficient resources such as pills.

This was unbearable for Lu Guo who had long been planning to leave the island.

He viewed the island’s recruitment as a godsend opportunity!

If there was no danger of life and death, every Cultivator on the island would have flocked to it; who would let him go?

Only a dangerously high-risk mission like ‘filling the trenches’ would have few volunteers, possibly giving him a chance to leave undisputed.

“A good decision after all, whether you live or die out there is up to your own fate now,”

Fang Xi took another sip of Peach Blossom Brew, “We can’t afford to lose anyone to tend to the fields here, don’t even mention Wang Xiaohu, he’s still young…”

Lu Guo didn’t dare to argue but quickly replied, “I have found a replacement, an Individual Cultivator who came here from outside, named ‘Hai Dagui’, about the same age as me, with the Cultivation of Qi Refining Third Layer.”

“Hmm, bring him over tomorrow to have a look.”

Fang Xi was rather pleased with Lu Guo’s intelligence. Thinking for a while, he took out ten Spirit Stones from his Storage Bag, “You’ve been tilling the land for me for many years. This time you are setting out on an extremely dangerous journey. Here are ten low-grade Spirit Stones on my part. Coupled with your savings, it should be enough for you to buy a mid-grade magic weapon for self-defense…”

Lu Guo was shocked.

He had always been secretive about his stash of Spirit Stones, not expecting to be so easily discovered.

Cold sweat surfaced on his forehead, a sense of alarm rising in him.

“Thank you, Master!”

But on the surface, he gratefully accepted the Spirit Stones with tears in his eyes.

“You may go now…”

Fang Xi waved his hand and let Lu Guo leave.

He didn’t care too much about what would happen to this man in the future.

After all, how could he truly nurture the son of an enemy to power?

In fact, Lu Guo had also sensed that he could only ever be destined to farm to death on Jadeite Cliff, which was why he was willing to grab any opportunity to leave the island at all costs!

…

After Lu Guo had left, Fang Xi sat in silence for a moment before resuming his enjoyment of the fine wine.

Several hours later.

Within the secretly built Talisman room.

He picked up a talisman brush, dipped it in spirit ink, and began to dance wildly on a piece of talisman paper.

With each brush stroke that touched down, streaks of spiritual power flowed.

Shortly after, a lower-grade ‘Qi Returning Talisman’ was completed.

The light on the surface of the talisman flashed for a moment, and then turned subtle.

Fang Xi’s face remained expressionless as he put the talisman away and exhaled a long breath.

“Fifteen years planting trees, fifteen years studying the Four Arts of Cultivation. The first ten were hard to get by, the last five saw rapid progress…”

But even so, due to only skimming the surface, his skill in talisman arts was still stuck at first-grade lower rank.

As for talisman forging? It was still far from proficient!

Fang Xi had confirmed that he did not have the talent for talisman forging, nor should he continue wasting a significant amount of resources on it.

Even drawing talismans was merely an occasional pastime.