Chapter 8: Diligent Cultivation

After the New Year, he grew another year older, ten years old in nominal age. Having lived two lifetimes, Lin Zhangqing deeply understands the importance of strength. Here, the law of the jungle is advocated, and the weak are the prey of the strong.

Especially in the cultivation world, the heaven and earth power belongs to oneself, and life, death, honor, and disgrace are tied to a single thought. Lin Zhangqing never dares to forget.

After the lively reunion of the New Year, Lin Zhangqing threw himself into self-disciplined cultivation again.

Because the Qi Refining stage cannot cultivate for a long time, his own meridians cannot withstand this high-intensity cultivation.

So Lin Zhangqing cultivates in the morning, goes to the family spirit medicine garden or his own Baicao Garden at noon to learn and observe the habits of spirit medicines and spirit plants. He goes to the Scripture Pavilion to read in the afternoon, now mainly reading books about spirit medicines and spirit plants.

With Lin Zhangqing's experience, he naturally understands the importance of knowledge, especially since this knowledge is free. That is even more not to be missed.

Often staying in the Scripture Pavilion for an entire afternoon. The Second Elder Lin Fandao, who guards the Scripture Pavilion, knows that the eleventh brother's family has a grandson who loves to read.

The evening is the time for Lin Zhangqing to practice spells: Spirit Rain Technique, Golden Needle Technique, Fireball Technique, Swift Wind Step, and the most important Nourishing Origin Catalysis Technique.

Spirit Rain Technique can now cover a radius of two zhang.

Golden Needle Technique now takes five or six breaths to form. Compared to before, it is two breaths less. Fireball Technique can be as big as an egg, with a range of about four or five zhang. The range, speed, power, and accuracy of the Fireball Technique all need to be improved.

Swift Wind Step significantly increases movement speed, now about thirty or forty percent. Lin Zhangqing hopes to increase it to more than two times.

The most important Nourishing Origin Catalysis Technique, when Lin Zhangqing's dantian is full of spiritual energy, the success rate of casting the spell is about twenty or thirty percent. Each time it can accelerate the growth time of a spirit plant by about one month.

If the spiritual energy is insufficient, it is very difficult to succeed. In the future, he will focus on practicing this secret art.

While cultivating, Lin Zhangqing also goes to see his little friends. Everyone's cultivation progress is not bad, after all, they all have cultivators at home and can get help from their families.

Like the twelfth younger sister Lin Changlian, who is already at the third layer of Qi Refining. The rest are at the second layer of Qi Refining, and all of them advanced earlier than Lin Zhangqing.

Driven by Lin Zhangqing, the little friends also go to the Scripture Pavilion to read books, but after all, they are still children, it's fine occasionally, but they can't persist for a long time.

Lin Zhangqing is also very helpless. Understanding that it cannot be forced.

Time passed like this, in Lin Zhangqing's diligent and fulfilling life.

Half a year passed quickly. This day, it was time for the demon hunting team to set off again. The demon hunting team generally rests for half a year and sets off to hunt demons for half a year.

Of course, sometimes it will be advanced or delayed a little. After executing two demon hunting tasks, one can rest once.

This time, his father will also set off to hunt demons. Lin Zhangqing is especially worried, although his father has a cultivation base of the seventh layer of Qi Refining, which is a bit stronger than Second Uncle, no one knows what demonic beasts they will encounter.

Fortunately, his father and Second Uncle are in the same team. They can still look after each other.

When setting off, Grandfather, Aunt, and Mother holding his younger sister all went to see them off. Setting off to hunt demons is a major event for the family.

Basically, all the cultivators on the ancestral mountain would go to see them off, hoping that everyone would return safely.

Grandfather gave his father and Second Uncle a Heavenly Thunder Bead each. This is a one-time high-power Dharma artifact, which can be used as a trump card after refining. A direct hit can severely injure a Second-Grade early-stage demonic beast.

Aunt sent two bottles each of First-Grade Middle-Quality Qi Recovery Pills and Spring Return Pills. Qi Recovery Pills can recover spiritual energy in battle, and Spring Return Pills are for healing, both are practical pills.

Mother sent three bundles of First-Grade Middle-Quality Golden Armor Talismans and three First-Grade Upper-Quality Earth Escape Talismans to each.

Golden Armor Talismans can form a layer of golden armor on the surface of the body. As long as the golden armor is not broken, the person inside will not be harmed.

Earth Escape Talismans can escape underground when encountering danger. It is said that First-Grade Upper-Quality Earth Escape Talismans can escape one li underground. It is said that Second-Grade Lower-Quality Earth Escape Talismans can escape ten li underground.

Mother is a talisman maker, and this Earth Escape Talisman is the core of her talisman maker inheritance. Because mother is a Xu family cultivator, a daughter married out can only take away the First-Grade inheritance. So for the follow-up, she can only look at whether the family has it, or collect other inheritances outside.

Lin Zhangqing also forcibly stuffed his Spirit Gathering Jade Pendant to his father. Hoping that both of them would return home safely.

Father and Second Uncle patted Lin Zhangqing's head and said goodbye to his family. They set off with the main force.

Looking at the departing team, Lin Zhangqing had never been so urgently eager to possess strength as he was now. To be able to let him replace his father or Second Uncle to go out to hunt demons.

Returning home, Grandfather saw Lin Zhangqing's worry. Comforted him: "Your father and your Second Uncle have been participating in the demon hunting team since they were eighteen, and now they have been for twenty or thirty years, and their experience is very rich. Don't worry about it.

And cultivation itself is going against heaven, and your father and the others have no cultivation skills. If they don't go out to hunt demons, where will the cultivation resources come from?

Besides, going out to hunt demons is both dangerous and an opportunity. Maybe some opportunity is there. It might fall on your father or Second Uncle, who knows."

"Then what opportunity has the family demon hunting team encountered before?" Lin Zhangqing asked.

"There are many. Like the Clan Leader discovered a precious Third-Grade Upper-Quality spirit plant Seven-Colored Pure Heart Lotus a hundred years ago. This spirit plant is the main medicine for refining Seven-Colored Pure Heart Pills.

This kind of pill is a divine pill for fighting heart demons. It can assist cultivators in impacting the Purple Mansion stage. It is also effective for Golden Core stage cultivators.

Through the relationship of your Great-Grandmother at the Qingyun Sect, it was exchanged to a sect cultivator who needed it, and exchanged for two Foundation Establishment Pills."

"Then isn't one spirit plant worth at least eighty thousand spirit stones?" Lin Zhangqing said in surprise.

"Not really, Foundation Establishment Pills are relatively rare outside, and can only be auctioned for forty or fifty thousand spirit stones in the market auction. But in the Qingyun Sect, inner sect disciples only need ten thousand contribution points to exchange for one Foundation Establishment Pill.

So if you really calculate it, that spirit plant is worth about twenty thousand spirit stones.

There is also your Fifth Grandfather Lin Fan Kai, who discovered a Second-Grade Upper-Quality hundred-year spirit peach tree when hunting demons.

Thirty years to bloom, thirty years to bear fruit, thirty years for the fruit to mature, plus ten years to recuperate, so it takes a hundred years to bear fruit once.

Fortunately, the Lin family has a Spirit Plant Master inheritance, which can greatly shorten the growth cycle of the spirit peach tree. But it also takes about twenty years. The spirit peach in your hand was picked from this spirit plant.

Your Fifth Grandfather's family, besides leaving the spirit peaches for their own use, handed over the rest to the family, one thousand contribution points each.

Plus two generations of continuous participation in the demon hunting team and completion of various family tasks. In these forty years, your Fifth Grandfather's family has accumulated enough contribution points to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

The family has no Foundation Establishment Pills now, waiting for the auction in two years. Basically, the destination of the next Foundation Establishment Pill has been very clear, it should be for your Fourteenth Uncle, that is, Lin Maoxiang who tested your spirit root."

After hearing this, Lin Zhangqing was hot-blooded, wishing he could discover such a precious spirit plant himself, and he was not so resistant to his father and Second Uncle going out to hunt demons.

After waiting for a while, Lin Zhangqing reacted. Asked his grandfather: "My spirit peach was exchanged by Grandfather with one thousand contribution points?"

Grandfather smiled, "Not really, Grandfather is the only Second-Grade Upper-Quality Spirit Plant Master in the family, this spirit peach tree is taken care of by Grandfather, and two spirit peaches can be divided each time it matures. The other one was given to your Second Uncle, let him use it when impacting the seventh layer of Qi Refining."

Lin Zhangqing only knows now. It turns out that no matter which world it is in, having a skill is popular everywhere.

Made up his mind to learn spirit plant knowledge more seriously. Become a First-Grade Lower-Quality Spirit Plant Master as soon as possible. However, Lin Zhangqing estimates that he needs to reach the third layer of Qi Refining to ensure that the Nourishing Origin Catalysis Technique is one hundred percent successful.

After thinking it through, he packed up his mood and threw himself into cultivation and learning again, hoping that when his father and Second Uncle return, he can give them a surprise.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 9 =====