Chapter 254

Blue Star.

Villa No. 69 in the Blue Sea District.

Fang Xing received a communication from Xiao Lan, opened the video, and saw two people standing outside the gate.

One was Song Jingang, and the other was Gu Yun.

"Since you two have come, why bring fruit?"

He had Xiao Lan open the villa gate and went to greet them personally.

"Haha, this is my first time coming to your villa, Boss."

Song Jingang looked left and right, saw a private spaceship in the back, and his eyes widened: "Boss, your villa was worth buying... Ever since the new Chief Executive took office, the real estate market has warmed up; you've made a fortune, Boss."

He was wearing the uniform of the Public Security Bureau, appearing tall and sturdy, and it was evident he had inside information from his internship.

It was just a pity that his face looked even more mature, leading to him not being able to find a girlfriend even now.

Beside him, Gu Yun was wearing a black dress and light makeup, which made her features appear even more delicate and soft: "Senior... long time no see."

"Hmm."

Fang Xing nodded with a smile and invited them to sit down.

Now they were all nearing university graduation, the busiest time, so today could be considered stealing some leisure amidst the busyness.

"Boss, you're studying for a Jin Dan postgraduate degree; did you participate in that Interstellar Number One Martial Arts Competition?"

Song Jingang drank a beverage and immediately brought up the hottest topic in the Federation today.

The Federation Holographic Universe Company had spent a fortune on publicity to hold this competition back then.

Moreover, it had an immeasurable promoting effect on martial arts, and it wasn't just a matter of selecting a champion and being done with it.

There was a series of follow-up publicity and documentaries, as well as promotional activities.

"The first place in this competition was a martial artist professional named 'Blue Stone'; I watched his competition videos, and he is indeed very strong."

Fang Xing opened his mouth.

That 'Blue Stone' didn't give him the feeling of some Wu Shen or Martial Saint coming down to pretend to be young, but was a true-blue martial arts genius!

"Yeah, it's said that the first-place prize is for the Wu Shen to personally take him as a disciple... and in the future, the Federation Holographic Universe Company will also fully support Blue Stone in building his own mecha..."

Song Jingang said this, and could not help but be full of envy.

"For us martial artists, mecha are just external objects..."

Fang Xing shook his head with a smile and looked at Gu Yun again: "How is your study going recently?"

"It's quite good, and the internship is also very good... After graduation, I plan to join the army and go to the battlefield to kill the Evil Deity's kin."

Gu Yun's voice was very soft, yet very firm: "I and the Evil Deity are irreconcilable!"

"Hmm."

Fang Xing scratched his face, appearing somewhat uncomfortable.

At the same time.

Federation, inside a simple public rental apartment.

Fang Xing's cultivation clone was summoning the believer of the Sect of the Gate—Sunny.

"Great Sect Master... I have already made contact with organizations on forty-three planets; they are willing to continue listening to your leadership."

Sunny's words were very humble: "Besides that, I have already investigated the matter you ordered before... Recently, among the groups of other gods' believers, there are indeed prophecies like 'The Creator is about to awaken'..."

"Creator Sect... is it just a prophecy?"

Fang Xing fell into deep thought, and subsequently threw out a briefcase: "You did well, continue to work hard."

"Yes!"

Sunny took the briefcase, feeling full of motivation throughout his entire body.

After he left, Fang Xing was thoughtful: "'Red Peach 3'... what exactly do they want to do?"

"However, it's definitely not anything good."

"Perhaps, should I leave Blue Star to hide?"

……

After sending Sunny away, Fang Xing walked out of the public rental apartment building, changed to another one, arrived at the 1132nd floor, and opened it casually.

He still understood the principle of a "cunning rabbit having three burrows".

Moreover, Blue Star's public rental apartments were considered a safety net for those poor people with Blue Star household registration, where all kinds of people were mixed together, making it very troublesome to investigate.

He walked into the rental room, and his figure vanished in an instant.

……

Cultivation World.

Yunzhou.

"The Nascent Soul Zhenjuns of both the righteous and demonic sides have a pile of things to do; how could they possibly block me every day..."

Fang Xing's large sleeves fluttered, a style of an immortal family.

Subsequently, he quickly set up a cave dwelling formation and began to count his harvest this time one by one.

"Spiritual treasure, Divine Infant Fruit, fourth-rank demonic fire... let's not discuss them for now."

"Just the spiritual stones alone are a huge sum, and even..."

Fang Xing had three boxes placed in front of him, inside which were placed a greyish stone, a pale golden ore, and a jade-green wood heart, respectively.

"Top-grade earth spiritual stone, gold spiritual stone, and wood spiritual stone... plus the water spiritual stone from last time..."

"In this way, the top-grade five-element spiritual stones are only missing the fire element... Besides that, the total of high-grade and mid-grade spiritual stones exceeds ten million..."

"Sure enough, if you want to snatch, you should snatch high-rank cultivators; that's the best way to get rich overnight."

"In terms of magic treasures, besides the Jiaowei Zither, there is also the quasi-fourth-rank Blood God Banner... and a large number of high-grade and top-grade magic treasures... I can find an opportunity to fence the stolen goods."

"In terms of spiritual medicine, besides the 'Ten-Thousand-Year Stone Milk', there are large amounts of 'Spirit Marrow Ganoderma', 'Five-Cloud Flower', and 'Flying Immortal Fruit', and the auxiliary materials are also basically gathered; as long as I go to the market to buy some basic materials... I can refine large amounts of 'Spirit Ganoderma Pill', 'Five-Cloud Pill', and 'Marrow-Passing Pill'..."

These were all pills used by Jin Dan cultivators to increase their magic power; ordinary Jin Dan Zhenren would have to thank heaven and earth if they could obtain a few grains.

Now, they were all taken into Fang Xing's possession, sufficient to allow his magic power to advance all the way to the perfect Jin Dan realm!

Of course, the price was that the reputations of Master Feng and that unknown body practitioner were completely stinking, and they were almost becoming street rats in the cultivation world.

However, Fang Xing didn't care anyway.

"Now that I've obtained a pile of resources, I'm just about to go into seclusion to refine pills and cultivate..."

"I'm not lacking anything now, only a top-notch cave dwelling; if I want to cultivate to the condensation of a Nascent Soul in one go, then a fourth-rank spiritual vein is best!"

"It's not easy to return to the Heaven Sword Sect for the time being, and other Nascent Soul sects are even more impossible..."

"Xiancheng? Most immortal cities are third-rank spiritual veins... Only a few established by Nascent Soul rogue cultivators have fourth-rank spiritual veins, but I'm afraid they don't support outsiders refining a Nascent Soul..."

"Wait, besides immortal cities, it seems that the former Nascent Soul family station can also be considered."

Fang Xing immediately thought of the Mu family. The Mu family was a former Nascent Soul family; they should have a fourth-rank spiritual vein, right?

The most crucial thing was that they had now fallen, and there was no Nascent Soul Zhenjun sitting in charge, so they could be considered a soft persimmon.

What was even worse was that the Mu family head, in order to make a gamble, had tilted a large amount of family resources toward Mu Qinglan, and this time even brought out the spiritual treasure Jiaowei Zither.

As a result, it was all fed to the dogs... cough cough, no, it was "acting on behalf of heaven".

Originally, relying on the great formation and the spiritual treasure, Fang Xing couldn't have sneaked into the Mu family silently.

But now it was hard to say.

'Just right... I still need the bloodline and soul of a direct descendant of the Mu family to replace one of the people in the 'Nine Infant Pearl'...'

Fang Xing definitely wouldn't use the identity of 'Master Feng' ever again.

'By the way... I'll also loot the refining formula for the Jiaowei Zither.'

Thinking of this, Fang Xing took out the 'Nine Infant Pearl' and chose one of the identities.

In an instant, he transformed into a graceful scholar, with a refined appearance and a head full of white hair.

This 'Life-Taking Scholar' was a rogue cultivator who was both righteous and demonic, who had been secretly killed by Huo Moqing and became one of his fake identities.

"... Just right to go and plot against the Mu family; in the Linlang Fudi, that Mu family head had quite a good eye and didn't charge into the Divine Infant Cliff, so he shouldn't have fallen... But his days after going back definitely won't be good."

Fang Xing sorted out the miscellaneous items in his hand again and felt somewhat overwhelmed.

Having too many spoils of war was not a good thing either.

Even though the storage bags of Jin Dan cultivators were high-quality products with large capacities, he had also been promoted to a six-bag elder of the Beggar Gang.

Various miscellaneous items filled a full six storage bags!

'Damn it, the capacity is still too small; it serves the merchant caravans of the cultivation world right to make money...'

He sorted them out and pulled out a corpse-hiding bag.

Slightly inputting a strand of magic power, a black mist flashed, and five golden-armored corpses appeared on the flat ground.

These refined corpses were each above the third rank, which was no small matter, and each had its own uniqueness.

There were Flying Yakshas, Four-Armed Golden Corpses, and female golden corpses...

"They were all powerful body practitioners once, later captured by the Myriad Image Demonic Sect and refined into 'Heaven-Turning Golden Corpses'... There are too many restrictions from the Myriad Image Demonic Sect on these golden corpses; they definitely need to be changed..."

This was just like the 'Myriad Dharma Ghost Infant'; even if the restrictions on the Heaven-Turning Golden Corpses were very perfect, they were ultimately not made by himself, so he couldn't rest easy.

Fang Xing thought for a moment, and a jade slip appeared in his hand, which recorded a large number of corpse-refining techniques.

"Hmm... these five third-rank corpses, combined with the large amount of demonic materials in my hands, seem just right to put together... and make a 'Five-Mixed Demon'."

Although the 'Five-Mixed Demon' was not as good as the Ten-Absolute Yin Corpses and the like, and could not rival a Nascent Soul Zhenjun.

But among the third rank, it could already be considered "killing gods if gods block, killing Buddhas if Buddhas block".

The most crucial thing was that the general steps had been completed for him by the Myriad Dharma Demonic Sect, so Fang Xing didn't mind spending a few days to re-restrict these few refined corpses.

"A top-notch Five-Mixed Demon is best based on five-element spiritual roots, which can be put together into a 'Five-Child Demon Formation'..."

"The spiritual roots of these few corpses can't make up the five elements, so I can only think of a way from the refined materials... Blood-sacrificing a large amount of five-element spiritual items is enough to make the refined corpses carry some five-element attributes."

This principle was about the same as refining magic treasures.

Anyway, living people couldn't use them, as they were easily refined to death, but it didn't matter for dead people.

……

There were many cultivation families in Yunzhou.

Among them, the most famous was the 'Mu family'.

The 'Mu family' occupied the 'Mount Baihua' spiritual vein, where the spiritual energy was extremely abundant, and there was even a family great formation guarding it.

This formation was also set up by a Nascent Soul Zhenjun back then, named 'Myriad Flowers and Thousand Illusions Great Formation', ranked fourth, and although it had suffered some damage to the formation base after several major chaotic events later, regressing to quasi-fourth-rank, combined with the 'Jiaowei Zither' spiritual treasure, it still had the power of a fourth-rank formation.

The Mu family had also always been the head of the righteous Jin Dan families in Dajing.

Alas... once the news of the Linlang Linlang Fudi spread, the Mu family immediately had a somewhat precarious appearance.

If it were any other Jin Dan family that encountered the death of a late-stage Jin Dan Nascent Soul seed and the loss of a family spiritual treasure, they would definitely vomit blood.

By comparison, the Mu family was only slightly unstable, which could already be considered having a deep foundation.

Mount Baihua.

Inside the Mu family ancestral hall.

The originally aged Mu family head turned white-haired overnight, appearing as if his limit was not far off.

In reality, as a peak mid-stage Jin Dan cultivator, he still had a hundred years of lifespan; this appearance was because his grief was greater than his heart's death.

"Elders..."

The Mu family head's turbid gaze swept over the several Jin Dan and fake Dan cultivators present, his voice dry like a dead person's: "This time, Qinglan's death and the loss of the family-protecting spiritual treasure... are all my fault! I will immediately resign from the position of family head and ask the sect elders to punish me!"

"You cannot!"

At this time, a middle-aged cultivator with a heroic appearance opened his mouth: "Family head, you are not at fault; it is just that our Mu family did not have the timing..."

He stood up, his gaze like lightning, looking at the other Jin Dan and fake Dan Zhenrens: "Does everyone still remember, three hundred years ago, the previous Mu family head was muddled, gambled with others, and lost twelve shops in the Lihuo Xiancheng in a row; it was Brother Wanlong who succeeded in Jin Dan, single-handedly and with a single sword, winning them back one by one on the fighting stage... After that blood fight, Brother Wanlong's magic treasures were all shattered, and he almost became a bloody person; if it weren't for that time when his vitality was damaged, with Brother Wanlong's talent, how could he only be in the mid-stage Jin Dan realm now?"

"And Brother Wan Qing, where did you get the 'Jin Dan' for your Jin Dan breakthrough? It was Brother Wanlong who used his family battle merits to exchange it for you from the Qiankun Dao!"

"And you few, do you know that the family lacked resources, and it was all Brother Wanlong who dabbled in pill alchemy, promoted himself to a third-rank alchemist, and cultivated you all..."

"Even Mu Qinglan was discovered by Brother Wanlong's wise eyes, supported all the way to Jin Dan, and even the 'Sound Phoenix Pill' that was beneficial for breaking through to the late Jin Dan stage was given to the other party... This trip to the Linlang Linlang Fudi was also approved by us at the clan meeting, agreeing to bring out the Jiaowei Zither ancestor."

"With such a family head, what fault is there?"

The middle-aged Jin Dan cultivator had glowing eyes, sweeping over everyone present.

A group of Jin Dan Zhenrens also moved one after another: "Not bad... the crime is not with the family head, only that we don't have this fate."

"Sigh..."

Mu Wanlong's eyes were filled with tears: "The family losing the spiritual treasure is nothing; as long as we can work together, we will definitely be able to revitalize the family in the future... Very well, now that a great disaster is at hand, this old man will hold on for another hundred years!"

"Family head, elders, something bad has happened!"

At this time, a Foundation Establishment cultivator walked into the ancestral hall hurriedly, kneeling to report: "Unknown cultivators are attacking the Xiaoyuan Mountain mineral vein!"

"Xiaoyuan Mountain? That is our Mu family's last spiritual stone mine; what unknown cultivators? It must be those few families hiring rogue cultivators and demonic cultivators to test us. How long has it been since the righteous and demonic sides stopped the war? And they are already so impatient?"

Mu Wanlong was furious: "Bring five hundred clan guards, take the 'Tenglong' spiritual boat, this family head wants to go on an expedition personally!"

After Mu Wanlong left, the atmosphere in the ancestral hall was somewhat mysterious again.

"Hehe... Brother Wanlv, you are indeed deep and calculating."

Mu Wan Qing smiled and said: "The family head admitting his guilt is just going to enjoy his old age... Now that he is still in the position, the family is precarious, but he has to be the one to top it... I don't know how much of what you said before, Brother Wanlv, was sincere?"

Mu Wanlv snorted coldly: "It's all for the family, half true and half false... Sigh, how could I not want to see Qinglan soar into the sky and bring us back to the glory of a Nascent Soul family?"

Thinking of this, many Zhenrens could not help but sigh.

After a long time, someone cursed in a low voice: "That damn 'Gua Banxian', a mere third-rank diviner, full of nonsense, saying something about a phoenix perching on a parasol tree fate; it was just the family head who took it seriously..."

(End of chapter)