Chapter 149: News Has Arrived

While Qin Ming was cultivating just now, the Profound Water Crocodile had somehow wandered over, lay down beside him, and began absorbing the scattered essence of plants and trees.

It squinted its eyes, its large mouth twitching in an expression of ecstatic bliss, while the aura emanating from its body grew significantly stronger; it was not far from breaking through to become a mid-stage Tier-Two Great Demon.

After Qin Ming finished his cultivation and withdrew his technique, he lifted his gaze to look at the Longevity Vine.

He discovered that over a hundred skull-shaped purple flower buds had bloomed upon it once again.

Furthermore, three golden entries had refreshed:

【Name】: Longevity Vine 【Entry】: Faint Lifespan x5 (Maturity 1%)

【Name】: Longevity Vine 【Entry】: Space-Time Leaves x5 (Maturity 1%)

【Name】: Longevity Vine 【Entry】: Spiritual Plant Endowment (Maturity 1%)

【Spiritual Plant Endowment】: After use, enables a spiritual plant to birth a certain degree of spirituality.

"It can actually cause spiritual plants to birth spirituality!"

"Another fifty years of lifespan." Gazing at the entries on the Longevity Vine, Qin Ming revealed a faint smile.

One must know that even for lifespan-extending miraculous pills, not only is the amount of lifespan they can add extremely limited, but once consumed excessively, their life-prolonging effect gradually diminishes.

Yet the lifespan entries on his Longevity Vine did not suffer from this problem; as long as they were used, they could increase lifespan infinitely.

"There is hope for eternal life!"

"In terms of lifespan, I must similarly crush all other cultivators."

In quite a good mood today, Qin Ming fed each of his spiritual pets another Dragon Blood Divine Fruit.

Afterwards, he concealed his cultivation aura and walked down from the island.

Upon reaching the lower grounds, he found Wu Wangfeng and his wife tending to their spiritual fields; within the fields, the Beast-Tooth Rice had already grown into lush green spiritual grain, covering fully more than ten mu.

It seemed Wu Wangfeng had made great progress once again in planting spiritual rice.

"Not bad, not bad!"

This also meant that in two years, Qin Ming could collect more rent in Beast-Tooth Rice.

Seeing Qin Ming approach, Wu Wangfeng put down his work, strode over to him, and smiled, saying, "Fellow Daoist Qin, look, is what I've planted acceptable?"

"Mm, not bad at all; for you to grow Beast-Tooth Rice like this is already commendable," Qin Ming said, nodding in appreciation.

Then he turned his head to look around and asked puzzledly, "Where are your two children?"

"Why don't I see them following behind you to work today?"

Hearing this, a look of proud triumph floated across Wu Wangfeng's face, and he immediately answered with great animation, "A few days ago, I sent them to Lei Yuanzong to cultivate."

"Wangfeng was accepted as a closed-door disciple by Lei Yuanzong's Great Elder, and Wangyue was also taken as a disciple by the Third Elder."

Originally, Wu Wangfeng's intention had been to have the two children bow as disciples under Qin Ming, but unfortunately, he had no desire to take disciples.

Watching his children grow day by day, Wu Wangfeng, as a parent, naturally hoped his sons and daughters would become dragons and phoenixes, find good masters, and have a smooth path on the immortal road.

With the spiritual root talents of Wu Wangfeng and Wu Wangyue, they were sought-after seedlings for cultivation anywhere; after much deliberation, Wu Wangfeng and his wife decided to send the two children to Lei Yuanzong.

Hearing Wu Wangfeng's words, however, Qin Ming's brows furrowed slightly; in times of peace and stability, having the two children join a hegemonic sect like Lei Yuanzong, which ruled an entire nation, would naturally pose no problem.

But now, Wu Wangfeng and his wife were unaware that the conflict between the Spirit Feather Sect and Lei Yuanzong was about to escalate, and feared the situation would remain unsettled for some time to come.

Sending the children into Lei Yuanzong at this time was therefore not a wise move.

If Lei Yuanzong won the war, it would be fine; as disciples of elders, those two children would receive priority supply regarding both cultivation resources and their cultivation environment.

But if they were defeated, given the Spirit Feather Sect's style of leaving no survivors, they would not spare a single person from any opposing sect.

However, seeing Wu Wangfeng so happy, Qin Ming did not have the heart to tell him the truth.

Since they had already entered the sect and bowed to their masters, saying anything now was too late.

'Let us hope it is not as I fear.'

If Lei Yuanzong could stabilize the overall situation of the Wei State's Immortal Realm, then with the talents of his two children, becoming a peerless genius would only be a matter of time.

Over these years, while farming on Qin Ming's Wangyue Island, Wu Wangfeng had gained quite a lot, and his cultivation had gradually climbed to the ninth layer of Qi Condensation; his Dao companion, Mu Ruyin, had also advanced to the late stage of the seventh layer of Qi Condensation.

This was something they would never have dared to imagine back when they shamefully boarded the Jingxue Pavilion's dharma boat to return to the spiritual energy Archipelago, yet now they had achieved it.

Some time ago, after the turmoil on Thousand Leaf Spirit Island ended, the Wu clan leader, Wu Hanyuan, led part of the clansmen back to Bai Yandao.

After all, Bai Yandao was their foundation, and they had to return to rebuild it.

Initially, Qin Ming had only agreed to let them take temporary shelter here in consideration of Wu Wangfeng having followed him for many years.

Now, leaving behind a few spiritual farmers to tend the fields was sufficient.

Qin Ming returned to the main peak.

"Mm, today joyfully coincides with the grand occasion of a breakthrough; I must float a great white!" A smile floated across his face.

Then he went to the Purple-Gold Bamboo Forest, located the spot where he had previously buried and brewed the 'Spirit Fire Wine,' took out a spiritual hoe, and began to dig.

After a short while, he unearthed two jars of Spirit Fire Wine; the rest he continued to bury, as the longer it aged, the more fragrant it became.

"I hope this brewing was successful!"

One must know that this Spirit Fire Wine was brewed using his own consumption of the raw materials intended for refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

Qin Ming patted the jar's body, then opened the sealed lid.

Immediately, a misty white spiritual essence drifted out from within the wine jar.

A rich aroma of spiritual wine rushed to his nose, causing Qin Ming's spirit to invigorate instantly.

Just one whiff was enough to make one intoxicated and enchanted.

"The brewing succeeded!"

Delighted, Qin Ming immediately lifted the jar and began drinking directly from it.

"Truly fine wine!" Bright light flickered in Qin Ming's eyes.

The moment he swallowed, a uniquely mellow and extremely fragrant spiritual wine aroma lingered in his throat, followed by a warm current that spread throughout his entire body, actually increasing his magic power slightly.

However, this Spirit Fire Wine was meant to enhance the magic power cultivation of early Foundation Establishment; for Qin Ming, now at mid Foundation Establishment, its effect on increasing magic power was almost negligible.

Nevertheless, the unique taste and flavor of this Spirit Fire Wine would surely be regarded as a sacred treasure in the eyes of those devoted to the Dao of Wine.

Sitting alone within the Purple-Gold Forest, Qin Ming leisurely savored the spirit wine for a while, then took out the book "Divine Recipes of the Wine Immortal" and began reading it again.

His gaze settled upon a recipe called 'Bai Yulin Wine'; this type of spirit wine had a certain effect on enhancing cultivation from mid Foundation Establishment up to late Foundation Establishment.

Even more precious was the fact that, according to the introduction by the Wine Immortal senior who created these divine recipes, Bai Yulin Wine was a unique nectar and jade liquid found nowhere else in the Immortal Realm.

Even he himself held it in the highest esteem.

What made it even more coincidental was that Qin Ming already possessed more than half of the spiritual materials needed to brew Bai Yulin Wine; he only needed to gather a few other ingredients.

After all, he had previously collected storage bags from so many Foundation Establishment cultivators, which inevitably contained some stockpiled items.

"Now my magic power cultivation has already broken through to mid Foundation Establishment."

"For the second transformation of the 'Hundred Treasures Glazed Sutra' at Foundation Establishment, only demonic beast essence blood remains; I am reluctant to use essence blood of too low a grade, so I must devise a plan."

Having experienced the power brought by the first transformation of True Qi Manifestation, Qin Ming knew that the higher the grade of demonic beast essence blood refined, the stronger the power of the technique once completed.

Just as he was pondering this,

a message arrived via the communication talisman on his person.

Qin Ming opened it to see it was from Aunt Long of the Mirror Snow Pavilion.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, there is news regarding the high-grade demonic beast essence blood and the third-grade spiritual plant seeds you previously entrusted the Pavilion Master to keep an eye on."

(End of Chapter)