Chapter 570: Double Nine

"Before, the five of us played some small tricks, which really made Fellow Daoist laugh..."

Old Man Lv bowed solemnly: "But now, our Poison Dragon Slope has reached a critical moment of survival... Over the past few years, I have finally understood that the Fei family chose the family head before to deliberately set a trap, provoking us families to fight internally, damaging high-level combat power, and when the time comes, they will clean us up one by one... After Green Water Bay, I'm afraid it will be Poison Dragon Slope!"

"So, you are seeking time by marrying into the Fei family, and then you come to beg me?"

Fang Xing felt somewhat funny: "Why do you think I am more reliable than the Fei family again?"

"To test jade, one must burn it for three full days; to identify talent, one must wait for a seven-year period..." Old Man Lv coughed again: "We have ten years of friendship, so I am naturally very reassured about Fellow Daoist..."

"Yes, it's been ten years..."

Fang Xing felt inexplicably emotional.

"Hmph, we helped Fei Cai ascend, but this person turned his face afterwards... Second brother was seriously injured, and I couldn't even beg for a high-level spiritual pill..."

Old Man Lv said: "Since that time, I have known that this Green Dawn Fei family cannot be deeply associated with... Pity, I am already riding a tiger and it's hard to get off."

He looked at Fang Xing, his turbid old eyes carrying expectation: "How much longer until Fellow Daoist breaks through to the seventh level of Qi Sensing? You can use the baleful cave on the Dongfeng as you wish..."

Fang Xing's cultivation on the surface was just at the peak of the sixth level of Qi Sensing.

"Old Man Lv, you are a bit anxious..."

Fang Xing shook his head.

"Yes, after all, the ten-year period is approaching, and what's more... Fei Tianbao has been in seclusion to forge a Dao Foundation for almost five years... whether he is dead or alive, there should be a result. I originally thought that because the Fei family and my family are in-laws, no matter who ascends, it would be easier for my family, but I didn't expect... alas..."

Old Man Lv sighed: "Now I have finally seen it clearly. If Fei Tianbao breaks through successfully, the Fei family will have two Dao Foundations, and they will definitely make our five families submit even more... If he fails, they will also strike at the five families and suck blood along the way..."

"Throughout history, haven't lords and vassals always been like this?"

Fang Xing sighed: "Although I am already at the sixth level of Qi Sensing, breaking through to the Late Stage of Qi Sensing requires looking at aptitude, opportunity, and comprehension... If it really doesn't work, I still need spiritual pills to help."

Mentioning this, the muscles on Old Man Lv's face seemed to be twisted: "Now we families really can't take out talisman coins to beg for breakthrough spiritual pills anymore."

Breaking through from the middle stage of Qi Sensing to the Late Stage is even more difficult than the difficulties Song Yunyun encountered, so it is naturally not so easy to cross, and Old Man Lv didn't have much doubt.

"At worst... we will hold Poison Dragon Slope, rely on the black snake's protection, and hibernate for a period of time."

Fang Xing said: "As for being sucked blood by the Fei family, we can only do so..."

As the bottom layer, when encountering any hardships in life, can't we only grit our teeth and carry it?

What's more, unlike these loose cultivators who can only lie flat, he can upgrade while carrying it.

"Alas... indeed." Old Man Lv said solemnly: "But although we Five Friends of Floating Clouds cannot earn breakthrough spiritual pills for Fellow Daoist, we can ensure that the Fei family's labor and offerings will not be collected from Fellow Daoist."

"Hmm, after I reach the seventh level of Qi Sensing, I will naturally protect the Dongfeng... After all, we have ten years of friendship."

Fang Xing also made a promise.

"In that case, many thanks..."

Old Man Lv bowed again, his departing back looking somewhat desolate.

"The world is full of suffering, parting with loved ones, unable to seek what one wants..."

Fang Xing looked at this scene, but felt quite emotional.

The suffering of the world lies in this.

Take Song Yunyun for example, thinking she could resist and rebel... but she didn't expect that the path her mother arranged for her was the best.

As a result, she missed Elder Qingmu Ridge, and now she can only marry.

It can be called a model of rebelling to the end and pitting oneself.

His eyes moved, scanning the attribute panel:

【Name: Fang Xing】

【Age: 26/225】

【Profession: Druid Level 9】

【Realm: Qi Sensing Level 9】

【Talents: Natural Affinity, Wild Shape, Plant Growth, Toxin Immunity, Eternal Youth, Thorn Spell, Bark Spell, Natural Healing, Enlighten Tree Person】

【Skills: Ten Thousand Hands (Grandmaster 336/800), Origami Art (Proficient 5/100), Insect Taming (Grandmaster 13/800), Art of Qi Restraint (Master 391/400)】

"Five years of cultivation, both the Druid and the cultivation system have made rapid progress..."

Fang Xing stared at the attribute panel, sighing silently.

"Lifespan has increased to more than two hundred years... This is the lifespan that only Dao Foundation cultivators have. Druids reaching Level 9 all increase spell-type ones, but how are they classified into talents? Is it because Druid spells are all naturally awakened, automatically mastered, similar to a warlock's innate spellcasting?"

"And the skills practiced have proficiency from shallow to deep..."

Fang Xing had a guess about this.

And the effects of the four major spells don't need to be said. The Thorn Spell and Bark Spell are combat spells, one for attack and one for defense.

Natural Healing is a healing-type ability, and the effect is better than healing berries.

The final Enlighten Tree Person requires a spiritual plant as a carrier, which can be enlightened into a tree person.

In the eyes of practitioners, it is transformed into a tree demon. According to Fang Xing's current Druid level, he can enlighten at most a few tree people comparable to the ninth level of Qi Sensing.

It can be said that sweeping the other four families of the Green Dawn Swamp is not a big problem. As for spells, there is no need to say more. He just spent a little thought and practiced Ten Thousand Hands to the level of Ten Thousand Hands. Now there is no such thing as failure in folding paper soldiers, paper cranes, and paper kites.

And even if he didn't practice much, the Origami Secret Art automatically reached the proficient stage.

Plus the master-level Art of Qi Restraint, even if a Dao Foundation expert were face-to-face, they might not be able to see through his bottom line.

"With my current combat power, if a lower-level Dao Foundation steps into my home field, it's not impossible for them to fall..."

Fang Xing had a very clear understanding of himself.

He was a dual-system combatant, definitely much stronger than a single practitioner.

If he enlightened a few more tree people, combined with grandmaster-level Insect Taming and various spells to besiege, an ordinary Dao Foundation cultivator might suffer a big loss.

Of course, it's hard to say about those at the late stage of Dao Foundation, or those with upper-level Dao Foundation quality.

"The next stage is also very critical for me."

Fang Xing looked at the attribute panel and thought silently.

"The Profound Wood Art has already been practiced into 'Primordial Dragon-Snake Qi', and there is no further progress. The next step is to forge a Dao Foundation... This step is extremely dangerous; if you don't succeed, you die."

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"I heard that in Elder Qingmu Ridge, there are spiritual objects that can assist, but they are very rare... Even the Fei family can only exchange them with Dragon King Ginseng liquid for sixty years, and loose cultivators don't even have to think about it..."

"This matter can be put aside for now... let's upgrade the Druid level first."

According to Fang Xing's speculation, Druid Level 10 is equivalent to the Dao Foundation of this world.

More importantly, compared to the Dao Foundation, he has a better understanding of the Druid inheritance, and there is no bottleneck for promotion.

As long as the experience is enough, he can be promoted smoothly!

By then, perhaps it will also be of help for forging a Dao Foundation.

"And... Druid Level 10 is the time to truly choose whether to focus on the animal or plant domain. Once the plant domain is chosen, I will obtain the 'Tree Shepherd' talent, and the experience gained from planting trees will skyrocket. If the animal domain is chosen, I will obtain the 'Beast Master' talent, and the experience gained from planting trees will be the same as it is now... instead, the experience gained from grazing and breeding will skyrocket."

Fang Xing currently gains experience through planting trees, relying on natural affinity and sensing nature.

Once he obtains the 'Tree Shepherd' talent, his subsequent advancement will be faster.

"Five years from Druid Level 5 to Level 9... actually, it's nothing..."

It took five years to go from Level 4 to Level 5 before. The first reason was that Fang Xing deliberately suppressed the level, and the second was that in the following five years, the number of bamboo forests increased, and the experience naturally harvested more.

And, suppressing the level doesn't mean no experience was gained.

It's just that these experiences have been stored, and Fang Xing clicked to upgrade in the following five years.

"However, the experience required from Level 9 to Level 10 is a bit much... I'm afraid I'll have to wait another year or two, or even three or four years..."

Fang Xing looked towards the Dongfeng: "When I reach Druid Level 10, I will announce the breakthrough to the seventh level of Qi Sensing..."

He didn't care about this at all; he just wanted to make the Five Friends of Floating Clouds work hard for a while longer.

A few days later.

Poison Dragon Slope Dongfeng.

It was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, and a long, bright red team was sending Song Yunyun off to marry.

After the team had all left, a young man was still standing on the hillside, staring blankly at this scene, with tears seemingly still in his eyes.

"Lv Feng... why don't you go to the banquet?"

A voice suddenly came from behind.

Lv Feng turned his head and was startled: "Uncle... Uncle Fang, I, I..."

"Alas... I know you and Yunyun were childhood sweethearts..." Fang Xing sighed, looking into the distance.

He rarely walked out of the bamboo forest today, just to see the excitement.

"Fei family!"

Lv Feng clenched his fists, clearly the hatred of snatching his wife was irreconcilable.

Pity, Fang Xing didn't have the idea of being an old grandfather for him.

After Lv Feng left, Fang Xing waited for a while, and saw Song Yunqian walking over.

"You have always valued your daughter, why did you agree to send her into the Fei family?"

Fang Xing asked curiously.

"Parents love their children, so they plan for them far-reachingly..." Song Yunqian was cold-faced at this time, like frost: "Yunyun failed to be admitted to Elder Qingmu Ridge, which has already cut off the best path. What's wrong with marrying into a Dao Foundation family? What's more... I have never felt that the few of us can hold on under the Fei family... Although there is no history in the land outside the square, it is passed down by word of mouth among loose cultivators that those who took the wasteland opening order and successfully upgraded to a Dao Foundation family are one in a hundred!"

'This is completely not optimistic about Poison Dragon Slope...'

Fang Xing couldn't help but complain in his heart: 'So sending the daughter away is to plot a line of survival? Why not marry into other Dao Foundation families?'

'Uh, I seem to have overestimated them. It's not bad that there is a Fei family willing...'

And, this kind of marriage alliance of large forces is often a means of detention, equivalent to a hostage.

Even if the Fei family forces the Poison Dragon Slope cultivators to fight to the death in the future, on the surface, they will definitely have to comfort the loyal and take good care of those widows.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 571 =====