Chapter 29: Do Not Disturb My Dao Heart!

Qi Refining level five!

A cultivation realm that Su Ping had craved but could not attain before descending the mountain.

He had stepped into it just like that, smoothly and easily.

It made Su Ping recall the memories of his bitter cultivation, and then, feeling the wonder of his current realm, he felt somewhat unreal.

However, this sense of unreality could not suppress the excitement surging in his heart, causing Su Ping to stand up and open the door to his practice room.

He wanted to announce the fact of his breakthrough to the outside world.

To make everyone, especially those Outer Sect fellow disciples and those high-and-mighty Deacons, look at him with new eyes!

Yet, just as this thought emerged, the night wind blew in as the door opened.

Su Ping's body shivered, and he thought of those Foundation Establishment great cultivators who came and went in the sky.

He thought of those bloodthirsty demons and Evil Spirits from the rumors.

Su Ping's reason, which had temporarily gone offline due to his breakthrough, regained the high ground.

"Heh, it's just Qi Refining level five; how could it make me so carried away?"

"Twenty years of bitter cultivation truly smoothed out my ambition; to think I am so satisfied and joyful just from reaching Qi Refining level five!"

"Announce what? I've broken through, so I've broken through. I haven't slept in a long time; I should get a good night's sleep tonight!"

After Su Ping figured this out, sleepiness struck, and he quickly returned to his bedroom and fell fast asleep.

Meditation during cultivation can also replace sleep.

But if one doesn't sleep for a while, one will always feel like something is missing when awake.

After his cultivation broke through and he had a good night's rest.

Su Ping summoned Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui.

He left Xiaohui to lead the remaining Elite Mice and let these controlled mice, who had adapted to the local environment, disperse to act as his secret agents, spreading out across the Jinque City region to collect information.

Su Ping had not promoted these Elite Mice brought from Water Blue Star to Spirit Mice.

On one hand, in a sense, they were all reserves for extraordinary self-detonating mice; if they were promoted to Spirit Mice prematurely, they might develop self-awareness, leading to variables.

On the other hand, as they were used as Scouts at this time, they were in direct mental communication with Xiaobai and Xiaohui through a subtle connection.

The spiritual power fluctuations generated by this process were imperceptible.

When the target of investigation was a possessor of extraordinary power, the fact that they were merely ordinary mice could actually serve as a better cover for investigation.

After all, those high-and-mighty Cultivators didn't even look down on mortals, so how would they care about the ordinary mice that were everywhere? Su Ping left a portion of spiked food for Xiaohui to facilitate its control over these mice.

Afterward, he carried Xiaobai and headed toward a more distant Market depicted on the map.

Su Ping could not fly on a sword, though he could use the Object Manipulation Technique to make it look like he was riding a wooden sword in the air.

In fact, without considering the subsequent consumption of Dharma Power, the speed was not faster than his own running.

Su Ping chose the most plain and unadorned method of travel... long-distance running.

Su Ping changed into a tight-fitting swordsman outfit, carried a sword sheath on his back, and stepped into Cloud-Treading Boots, sprinting at high speed along the official road.

At first, his body felt a bit awkward, but the more he ran, the more coordinated he became.

And gradually, Su Ping discovered that his running speed was getting faster and faster, yet he seemed to consume little physical strength.

The physical strength consumed in tens of seconds was recovered in a single breath.

This made Su Ping increasingly delighted, and he secretly guessed that this should be the effect of the Body Tempering level three from that one-tenth Saint Body.

It seemed that relying on the Red Blood Rainbow Carp, becoming a Body Cultivator had more prospects? After sprinting for half a day, he passed by several post stations.

He even left the territory of Jinque City and arrived at another large city, the territory under the jurisdiction of Golden Spring City.

When he was almost at his destination, Su Ping stopped abruptly and looked at the village to his front left. It was a village by the side of the official road, near a small stream, with about thirty or forty tile-roofed houses.

It was already noon, which was generally the time to finish work and rest.

As for cooking lunch, that was not done; three meals a day was the standard for wealthy families.

Ordinary landlords and self-cultivating farmers only ate two meals, morning and evening.

But... even so, this village was excessively quiet! Su Ping did not intend to enter the village, but instead leaped into the air to a height of fifty or sixty meters.

Then, through the vision of Spirit Mouse Xiaobai, he saw the layout and specific situation of the village in the distance.

Through Xiaobai, Su Ping saw mottled bloodstains everywhere in the village.

The strange thing was that apart from the bloodstains, he could not see a single corpse or a single living creature.

The whole village seemed to have become a dead thing...

"This feeling, it's either an Evil Spirit causing trouble or I've encountered an Evil Cultivator."

"If it were demons, the village should have already been leveled."

Su Ping landed slowly, took a fire candle out of his Storage Bag, lit it, and stuck it in the ground.

After the fire candle was lit, it spewed out a stream of red smoke that hung in the air.

This fire candle was an early-warning fire candle distributed by the Immortal Sect to the City Lord Mansions in various places, capable of producing a red cloud for a long time to issue a warning.

Su Ping naturally brought some along for emergencies before he came.

If the visibility was good, both post stations and nearby towns could see this red cloud.

Thereby understanding that something had happened here! And it was related to a Cultivator! According to the normal process, if it were fast, a Loose Cultivator would come to check within an hour.

And then notify the local City Lord Mansion and Inspector to handle it.

If the Inspector was lazy enough, plus having recently encountered reminders from the Immortal Sect, there was a high probability they would send people to blockade the surroundings and wait for people from the Immortal Sect to arrive.

After Su Ping finished, he turned and moved away from this village.

Just as he was about to move away, Su Ping suddenly felt as if some strange treasure had appeared in the village.

Looking back, he saw a faint halo emerging in the village, sacred and magnificent.

Seeing this, Su Ping gasped, and ran even faster! Regardless of whether it was truly a strange treasure appearing or an Evil Spirit playing tricks.

He, Su Ping, did not need these external things to disturb his Dao Heart!

Not until he could no longer see the red smoke he had released did Su Ping slowly adjust his pace and let out a long sigh of relief.

After tidying his appearance, Su Ping took out a silver-white mask and placed it on his face.

At the same time, he moved his body slightly, relying on the techniques of bone-shrinking from mortal martial arts to change his physique just a little bit.

Only then did Su Ping walk into the Hundred Treasures Workshop, a large Market located within a Great Canyon on the outskirts of Golden Spring City!

The scale of the Hundred Treasures Workshop was slightly inferior to official Markets like the Yunshan Market that Outer Sect Disciples like Su Ping often visited.

Its Spirit Vein and Dharma Array were also a grade lower.

Yet, many people from Immortal cultivation families conducted business in this Market.

Furthermore, it was rumored that there was a black market that sold some inconvenient items.

This made the number of Cultivators coming and going here not much less than at the Yunshan Market.

The reason Su Ping had traveled such a long distance to come here was that he had taken a fancy to the fact that this place was a mix of snakes and rats, and it did not inquire about the identities of the Cultivators passing through.

The layout of the Hundred Treasures Workshop looked more like a mortal town.

After Su Ping paid an entrance fee worth one Blood Qi Pill and entered the Market, the first thing he saw at the city gate was a row of shops all decorated with lanterns and streamers, with beautiful female Cultivators sitting at the entrances smiling at him.

(End of this chapter)