Chapter 74: Long Time No See, Fellow Daoist Qin
"Played yourself?"
Qin Ming stood stunned in place.
"No!"
He focused his mind and sensed slightly, discovering that the black vine had actually burrowed underground.
It seemed somewhat mischievous.
"It can actually transform its form at will, penetrating everywhere."
"Truly unimaginable!"
Qin Ming hurriedly communicated with the black vine, ordering it to emerge.
In an instant.
Countless black vines, like tentacles covered in black eyes, burst forth from the soil.
All of them looked joyfully at Qin Ming.
Qin Ming was also dumbfounded; it seemed that for this innate spiritual plant to reach maturity, the required years were terrifyingly long.
These five 【Leaves of Space-Time】 entries had only allowed it to grow a tiny, negligible bit from its juvenile stage.
"Five hundred years, and it's still only in the seedling stage."
Qin Ming couldn't help but click his tongue in surprise.
On the contrary, the blood beads could make the black vine evolve much faster.
However, this also allowed Qin Ming to enter the introductory level of the
Yet, there still seemed to be a considerable gap before cultivating the preliminary 'Supreme Wood Dharma Body' spiritual form.
He estimated that only after obtaining more blood beads later could he accelerate its advanced growth.
Nowadays, Qin Ming's affinity with plants and trees had greatly increased.
Moreover, his comprehension of wood-attribute spells had also improved slightly.
The
Only when the spiritual form was truly completed would the effects become significant.
Whoosh! Qin Ming casually formed a basic spell, the Wood Arrow Technique.
Boom! The power of the Wood Arrow Technique had increased somewhat.
"Even the Thorn Technique has yielded many new insights."
After pondering for a while, Qin Ming decided that if the opportunity arose in the future, he should find an excellent growing environment for this innate spiritual plant.
After all, places rich in spiritual energy were far more beneficial for the growth of spiritual plants.
Following this.
Qin Ming returned to his cultivation meditation chamber.
He then activated the array formations and restrictions of the courtyard, entering seclusion mode.
He focused his will on the 【Magic Power Crystal】 entry and began a new round of cultivation.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
Qin Ming exhausted all five 【Magic Power Crystal】 entry leaves.
On this day, a surge of intense magic power fluctuations rose within the Clear Cool Abode, resonating with heaven and earth.
Even the isolation array formation within the courtyard failed to conceal this aura.
"Late Qi Condensation?"
"I didn't expect someone nearby to break through to the seventh layer of Qi Condensation."
"It seems to be from Fellow Daoist Qin's courtyard."
"Fellow Daoist Qin, is it actually him?"
"Indeed high-grade; no wonder he is a high-grade spiritual planter, his cultivation realm has progressed so rapidly."
The new neighbors all sensed this aura.
The gazes of many cultivators converged upon the direction of Qin Ming's courtyard.
"Twenty-seven years old, seventh layer of Qi Condensation!"
Qin Ming slowly opened his eyes, feeling the surging Everlasting Spring magic power within his body, and was overcome with joy.
"I'm afraid even that group of old fellows in the clan didn't expect this, did they?"
"That I, relying on a mere four-elemental false spiritual root, could also reach this step."
Qin Ming's heart felt incredibly exhilarated.
The seventh layer of Qi Condensation marked the entry into the late stage of Qi Condensation.
After so many years of accumulating strength to burst forth.
The magic power within his body, which was originally far higher than that of cultivators at the same stage, had also surged several times over, now comparable to the peak of Qi Condensation.
Combined with his body-refining cultivation, both advancing to the late stage, the strength and means Qin Ming could unleash had increased by far more than just several times.
Although the seventh layer of Qi Condensation would at most make one an inner sect disciple within a sect.
But within a Foundation Establishment clan like Qin Ming's, it belonged to the middle-to-high echelons.
If the clan knew about all this, they would probably drop their jaws in shock; Qin Ming stopped thinking further and began to regulate his breath to stabilize his realm.
On this day.
Qin Ming came to his spiritual fields to tend to the spiritual plants.
The three mu of Five-Colored Rice and two mu of Crimson Silver Yellow Hemp were growing quite well, presenting a scene of thriving vitality.
When the Crimson Silver Yellow Hemp first grew tall, the woody fragrance it emitted truly attracted a batch of pests, a type of spiritual insect resembling black threads, which plagued his spiritual plants like maggots clinging to bone.
Later, Qin Ming directly summoned that swarm of Four-Winged Yin Frost Bees and thoroughly eradicated them.
Ever since Qin Ming began cultivating the "Ancient Wood Longevity Art," his affinity with vegetation had grown stronger.
He seemed to get along even more harmoniously with the spiritual plants in these spiritual fields.
He could even faintly sense which spiritual plant looked unwell and which one needed more fertilizer added.
Qin Ming was holding a spiritual hoe, carefully loosening the spiritual soil.
Boom! "Enemy attack!"
A signal talisman representing the Spirit Feather Sect instantly exploded in the sky above the spiritual fields!
Immediately after.
Overhead, a patrol squad from the Spirit Feather Sect flew past Qin Ming's head.
Even an elder at the Foundation Establishment stage had arrived.
Qin Ming's expression changed as he looked up toward the sky ahead.
At this moment, within the vast spiritual fields, dark clouds loomed, and screams of terror and wails of agony constantly rang out.
"Run! It's a demonic cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage!"
"Quickly request reinforcements from the sect!"
In the mid-air above the spiritual fields.
A man shrouded in a black robe stood suspended in the void, emitting a terrifying fluctuation of magic power.
The moment Qin Ming saw this person, his heart pounded and his flesh jumped; he felt an extreme sense of danger.
Without a second word, he immediately prepared to flee.
But just then.
The dark clouds on the horizon, as if commanded by someone, began to churn and gather continuously, surrounding the people inside in a tight encirclement.
The Qi Condensation disciples of the Spirit Feather Sect, in their panic, collided with these black clouds and instantly let out a series of piercing shrieks.
They were directly torn apart by the fierce wind blowing out from within the cloud layer.
"A second-rank trapping formation!"
At this, even that Foundation Establishment elder of the Spirit Feather Sect underwent a drastic change in expression.
The man in the black robe casually waved his hand, and a streak of black light slashed out from his palm.
The Spirit Feather Sect disciples who had come to support and the guards stationed in the spiritual fields were instantly sliced into fragments.
"Stop!"
"I didn't expect your audacity to be so great."
"You actually dare to run wild within the territory controlled by my Spirit Feather Sect!"
Watching his sect disciples being slaughtered like this, the Spirit Feather Sect elder couldn't help but feel extremely anxious in his heart.
He formed a hand seal with his fingers and struck toward the opponent.
The cultivator in the black robe sneered coldly, his demonic energy surging violently throughout his body, and slashed a streak of black light technique at the Spirit Feather Sect elder! Boom! Crash! The techniques of the two great Foundation Establishment cultivators collided in mid-air, emitting a tremendous noise.
However.
The streak of black light emitted by the cultivator in the black robe, after breaking through the technique of the Spirit Feather Sect's Foundation Establishment elder, did not lose momentum.
It fiercely slashed straight onto the opponent's chest! "Ah!"
That Foundation Establishment elder instantly spat out a gush of fresh blood from his chest, and his aura immediately withered.
His figure stumbled as he landed on the ground.
The two sides had only exchanged a single move before the outcome was decided.
Having suffered heavy injuries from a single strike, the Spirit Feather Sect elder, with a horrified expression, cried out involuntarily, "No! You... you are one of the five evil cultivators who attacked Elder Zhuang's medicine garden!"
"Hmph! So noisy!"
The man in the black robe extended a hand as white and smooth as jade, gripped the void, and formed a black giant blade technique several zhang long.
He flicked it toward the Foundation Establishment elder on the ground.
Black light flashed, piercing through the void.
With speed faster than lightning, leaving no time to cover one's ears, the giant blade technique split him in two.
From start to finish.
That Foundation Establishment elder hadn't even had time to react.
Their strength was completely not on the same level.
Watching this, Qin Ming's heart immediately raced wildly, and cold sweat was already streaming down his back.
What should he do? At this moment, there was nowhere to escape.
A few breaths later.
The cultivator in the black robe killed every single person from the Spirit Feather Sect.
Only then did he fly unhurriedly toward Qin Ming's location.
'It seems the opponent's target is actually me.'
Qin Ming took that purple leaf of 【Spell Replication】 out of his storage bag and gripped it tightly in his hand.
In the blink of an eye, the cultivator in the black robe arrived, stopping not far from Qin Ming.
It was just that the opponent's next action left Qin Ming utterly astonished.
Seeing him use his hand to remove the black robe, revealing a face Qin Ming knew all too well, he bared his teeth in a smile at him: "Long time no see, Fellow Daoist Qin!"
Thanks to Fellow Daoist 'Mo Mo Wu Wen Ah' for the donation of 1000 Qidian coins! Deeply grateful! Also thanks to the fellow daoists who cast recommendation tickets and monthly tickets! (End of chapter)
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