Chapter 106: Bloodline Atavism

After leaving the Xu Pharmacy, Hua Changxi drove her somersault cloud directly back to Mount Wuzhi.

She now had the formula for the spirit medicine to stimulate the bloodline totem power and wanted to see if she could collect the spirit medicine on the formula in Mount Wuzhi.

"Fairy!"

"Master!"

As soon as they arrived at the thumb-sized mountain peak, the mountain spirit and the welcoming pine sensed Hua Changxi's return and immediately greeted her.

Hua Changxi looked at the two little guys with a smile: "How have you been during this time?"

The mountain spirit smiled: "We are doing great." Then he started to claim credit, "Fairy, Xiaosong and I helped Anze and Anran plant spirit rice. The spirit rice will be ready for harvest in more than a month."

Xiaosong interrupted: "Master, it was me and the mountain spirit who helped set up the spirit gathering array and spirit energy cover, and we also cast the spirit rain technique in the fields every few days."

Hua Changxi praised them without stint: "You did a great job, thank you for your hard work. With you watching and staring, I'm much more relaxed."

Both the mountain spirit and Xiaosong smiled and squinted their eyes, shaking their bodies and jumping up and down, very happy.

Hua Changxi took the mountain spirit and Xiaosong to see the fields where spirit rice was planted, and just happened to meet Anze and Anran who were guiding the villagers to remove insects.

"Fairy, you're here!"

Seeing Hua Changxi, the brother and sister stepped forward one after another.

Hua Changxi looked at the two with a smile: "Your cultivation speed is very fast, you are Qi Refining late-stage cultivators in just over four months."

Anran smiled and replied: "We cultivate so fast, first because the technique you gave is good, second because we have the guidance of the mountain spirit and Xiaosong, and third because the spiritual energy in Mount Wuzhi is too rich."

Anze nodded: "Our cultivation conditions are much better than those cultivators outside."

Speaking of cultivators, Hua Changxi asked: "Are there many cultivators entering and leaving Mount Wuzhi during this time?"

Since unlocking the Qihuang Pavilions and starting to teach medicine in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, her cultivation speed had been increasing every day. She couldn't judge whether the increase in speed came from the incense fire on Mount Wuzhi's side or from the preaching in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall.

Anran: "Many, the number of cultivators has increased significantly in the past two months."

Hua Changxi asked again: "Is anyone making trouble?"

The fire lotus only had a deterrent effect on those who entered Mount Wuzhi. Those who stayed outside Mount Wuzhi needed Anze and his sister to maintain stability.

Coming here this time, she found that many houses were being repaired outside Mount Wuzhi.

Anran replied: "There will be some, but my brother and I are cultivators and can solve it."

Anze followed: "Fairy, I have to report something to you. Because more and more people are coming to Mount Wuzhi, my sister and I discussed with several village heads to build some inns."

"First, it can increase the income of the villagers, and second, it can give people who come to Mount Wuzhi a place to rest."

Hua Changxi affirmed: "You did the right thing. I haven't stayed here to maintain stability outside Mount Wuzhi, so many places are beyond my reach, and many things are what I didn't think of. Thank you for watching more."

As she spoke, she took out four communication talismans and gave them to the mountain spirit, Xiaosong, Anze, and Anran.

"In the future, if you have anything, you can contact me using the communication talisman."

The mountain spirit took the spirit talisman: "Fairy, you can make spirit talismans? There is a large area of talisman trees specifically for making talisman paper in the Nameless Finger Peak of Mount Wuzhi."

Hua Changxi: "I have too many things to do every day, no time to learn talisman making."

During this time, in order to unlock the Qihuang Pavilions, she spent too much time on it, and even her alchemy level was still at the first grade, let alone learning other things.

Hua Changxi looked at Anze and Anran and took out a hand-copied version of "Introduction to the Four Arts" for them: "This book is an introductory teaching on alchemy, talisman making, artifact refining, and array formation. Take it and have a look."

Anran and Anze happily took "Introduction to the Four Arts": "Thank you, Fairy, we will study hard."

Under the leadership of Anran and Anze, Hua Changxi looked at all the spirit rice. During this time, she also saw some other villagers.

The spiritual energy in Mount Wuzhi is rich, and the overflowing spiritual energy can actually nourish the surrounding land. Many fields, after a little tidying up, are spirit fields.

Hua Changxi thought for a while and said to Anze and Anran: "Do you still have extra energy to teach the surrounding people to plant spirit rice?"

Hearing this, Anze and Anran were both happy: "We have energy."

After becoming cultivators, their lives were much better, but others in the village were still the same. The brother and sister saw it and wanted to pull the villagers, but this was their selfishness, and they were embarrassed to tell the Fairy.

Hua Changxi: "If you have extra energy, you can teach the surrounding people to plant spirit rice." She paused, "The harvested spirit rice can be put into the shop for unified sale."

As she spoke, she looked at Anze and Anran, "Take time to go to the city to see if there are any suitable shops. If there are, buy them directly. I want to open a Shennong Grain Shop specifically for selling spirit rice and spirit grains."

Hua Changxi gave Anze and Anran 5,000 taels of silver notes directly and asked them to keep the accounts.

"Teaching spirit rice and spirit grains, opening shops, maintaining stability outside Mount Wuzhi, these all need manpower..."

Hua Changxi looked at Anze and Anran: "Do you have anyone you particularly look favorably upon who is suitable to follow us to do these things?"

Anran nodded: "The villagers here are not afraid of hardship. They are very grateful to the Fairy and all want to do things for the Fairy."

Hua Changxi thought for a while, took out the spirit-testing stone, handed it to Xiaosong, and said to Anze and Anran: "Go and call the villagers around who can do things, and test their spirit veins."

Anze and Anran understood that Hua Changxi was going to take in people again, so they went to the village to call people.

Hua Changxi looked at Xiaosong: "Xiaosong, you are responsible for watching the villagers test their spirit veins later. The mountain spirit and I are going into the mountains to collect medicine."

Xiaosong had already become familiar with the surrounding people. Although she was a bit disappointed that she couldn't follow Hua Changxi, she was very happy to be able to help: "Master, don't worry, I will definitely complete the task."

Hua Changxi rubbed her head and then took the mountain spirit into Mount Wuzhi.

The medicinal bath formula for stimulating bloodline totem power requires more than twenty kinds of spirit medicine. The mountain spirit is most familiar with Mount Wuzhi. In order to solve the search time, she needs him to lead the way.

"I don't know if I can collect all the spirit medicine for the medicinal bath?"

"Fairy, don't worry. Mount Wuzhi has another name, called Five Elements Mountain. Everything in the world comes from the five elements, and the types of spirit medicine in the Five Elements Mountain are definitely the most."

Hua Changxi was happy to hear the mountain spirit say this: "Really?"

The mountain spirit nodded affirmatively, led Hua Changxi around the mountains until dark, and sure enough, collected all the spirit medicine needed for the medicinal bath formula.

The types of spirit medicine in the Five Elements Mountain are rich, but the quantity of spirit medicine is uneven. Some are everywhere, and some can only be found in small quantities.

The medicinal bath medicine Hua Changxi collected was only five hundred copies. She thought before that there were not many people born with spirit veins, and others could take the path of stimulating bloodline totem power.

Now it seems that this path is also not easy to walk.

Seeing that the collected spirit medicine was not much, the mountain spirit comforted: "Fairy, spiritual energy recovery has just begun. There will be more and more spirit medicine in the mountains in the future."

Hua Changxi smiled: "If you encounter these spirit medicines I collected today in the future, help me collect them."

The mountain spirit nodded: "I will."

Afterward, Hua Changxi took the mountain spirit back to Thumb Village.

The spirit vein test had long ended. Anze and Anran brought more than a thousand villagers over, and finally tested fifty-five people with spirit veins.

Hua Changxi felt that this number was not small.

The mountain spirit was a bit dissatisfied: "Mount Wuzhi has a deep foundation, and there are so few people with spirit veins?"

Hua Changxi smiled: "There are so many surrounding people, and many haven't been tested yet."

The mountain spirit thought it was the same: "Fairy, why don't you leave the spirit-testing stone, and I will test other villagers."

Hua Changxi shook her head: "I don't need so many people to do things for me."

The mountain spirit was puzzled: "Isn't it the more people under your hand, the better?"

Hua Changxi laughed: "What do I need so many subordinates for?"

The mountain spirit said directly: "To compete for the world."

Hua Changxi laughed: "I don't have such a big ambition. I just want to live my own life well and enjoy life well."

The mountain spirit shook his head: "Fairy, in the struggle of the general trend, no one can stay out of it."

Hua Changxi didn't agree with this: "If I become the most powerful person, who can force me?"

The mountain spirit's bun face wrinkled: "Fairy, you are wrong. People who only care about themselves cannot become the most powerful people."

Hua Changxi was stunned: "What kind of crooked reason is this?"

The mountain spirit stared with wide eyes: "This is the law of heaven's operation."

Hua Changxi didn't take it seriously: "Are you talking nonsense? You were just born not long ago, how can you know the law of heaven's operation?"

Seeing that she didn't believe him, the mountain spirit pouted, but he really couldn't produce evidence to prove himself. He hugged his arms and turned his head away from Hua Changxi.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi found it funny and didn't say anything more to him, looking at the fifty-five people standing behind Anze and Anran.

Afterward, Hua Changxi asked these fifty-five people if they were willing to do things for her. If they were willing, she would give them cultivation techniques, but they had to take a Heart Demon Oath not to betray her.

She wouldn't interfere with their lives, but the things she handed down must be done well.

The surrounding villagers had no chance to come into contact with the path of cultivation and had long been jealous of Anze and Anran who worked for the Fire Lotus Fairy. Now that the Fire Lotus Fairy was willing to take them in, naturally there was no one who was unwilling.

The cultivation techniques obtained from Jiang Laodao and the monk in white covered all attribute spirit veins. Hua Changxi gave the techniques to Anze and Anran, asking them to either expand or hand-copy a batch of techniques, and then distribute them to those who tested spirit veins today.

The Shennong Pharmacy was still being watched by the Embroidered Uniform Guards. After giving instructions regarding the matter, Hua Changxi returned to the capital overnight.

Seeing Hua Changxi leave, Xiaosong comforted the mountain spirit who was still angry: "Master has already left, she can't see you being angry."

The mountain spirit sighed and pointed to his head: "Fairy's thinking has a problem, which is unfavorable to her cultivation. She only cares about herself and won't go far on the road of cultivation."

Xiaosong was puzzled: "Is it that serious?"

The mountain spirit nodded heavily: "Yes."

Xiaosong was anxious: "Then let's remind Master more."

The mountain spirit wrinkled his face: "Some things have to be realized by oneself. No matter how much others remind, if the Fairy doesn't take it to heart, it's useless."

After returning from Mount Wuzhi, Hua Changxi went directly to Feng'an Square and learned from Pucao that the Embroidered Uniform Guard didn't come to the pharmacy to cause trouble.

Except for Pang Shaoyu leading people to come once in the morning, no one came again.

Hua Changxi didn't know what the Embroidered Uniform Guard was planning, so she could only ask Pucao and Aniu to be careful and notify her in time if anything happened.

She didn't spend the night at the pharmacy but returned to the seventh Qihuang Pavilion.

Hua Changxi was a bit impatient to try the effect of the atavism medicinal bath. As soon as she returned to the seventh Qihuang Pavilion, she set up an isolation array and began to boil the atavism medicinal soup.

After the medicinal soup was boiled, Hua Changxi soaked in it herself.

As soon as she entered the medicinal soup, Hua Changxi felt her blood boil. After a while, she felt two forces slowly recovering in her body.

One was the burning force that erased everything, and the other was the flexible and firm defensive force.

"Hoo~"

Flames burned on Hua Changxi's body, and a colorful fire bird circled in the flames.

After a period of time, lotus fragrance filled the courtyard. In the raging flames, the lotus bloomed, and Hua Changxi sat cross-legged in the lotus.

At this moment, Hua Changxi was very uncomfortable, with a painful look on her face. The two forces in her body were incompatible and were fiercely fighting for her body.

Not long after, the fire bird suppressed the lotus, and the two forces began to merge, slowly intertwining, and finally merged into one force, quickly gathering at Hua Changxi's brow.

Hua Changxi felt her brow begin to burn and swell, her head feeling like it was going to explode. When she couldn't bear it anymore, something broke through the ground at her brow.

The flames disappeared, the lotus retreated, and Hua Changxi leaned in the bath barrel and fell asleep.

After the sky was bright the next day, Hua Changxi woke up.

As soon as she woke up, she found that her whole body was in pain as if it had been reorganized, but in the pain, she could clearly feel the powerful force contained in her body.

Hua Changxi gritted her teeth and endured the pain to get out of the bath barrel and put on her clothes.

Thinking of the two forces that recovered in her body when soaking in the medicinal bath, Hua Changxi flipped her right hand, and a fire lotus instantly condensed into shape.

This fire lotus was no longer the fire lotus of the past.

The previous fire lotus only had thirty-six lotus petals. Now the fire lotus had a full seventy-two lotus petals. At the same time, in the center of the lotus, there was a miniature fire bird circling.

Bloodline atavism, obtaining atavism supernatural powers.

She obtained two supernatural powers last night. One was Lotus Domain. The fire lotus could continue to enlarge with the improvement of her strength, but anyone who fell into the area covered by the fire lotus would not be able to escape.

The other supernatural power was God-Extinguishing, which was burning the primordial spirit

Having gained two more divine abilities and increased her strength, Hua Changxi was very happy. Seeing that the sword pattern on the No. 7 wooden plaque placed in the main room had become even more 'three-dimensional,' the smile on her face deepened.

However, the smile did not last long before it froze.

On the stone wall, another pattern had revealed itself.

This pattern depicted a scene of blood sacrifice, where countless humans and countless demons had been drained of their blood to refine blood rich in totem power, which was then consumed by someone.

The person who drank the blood could then obtain the atavistic divine ability.

Looking at this pattern, Hua Changxi frowned and couldn't help but recall the time she was kidnapped and bled by the demon Daoist; it was so similar to the drawing on this pattern.

If she could encounter such a thing, what about others?

Hua Changxi's joy from obtaining a divine ability due to bloodline atavism diminished significantly. She put away the No. 7 wooden plaque and prepared to go teach her class.

Yesterday, she lectured at the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 Qihuang Pavilions; today, she was to lecture at the No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6 Qihuang Pavilions.

"Good morning, Manager Hua."

In the No. 4 Qihuang Pavilion, many people were already waiting.

As soon as Hua Changxi arrived, everyone greeted her one after another.

"Manager Hua, the flower decoration on your forehead is drawn so beautifully, it's as if a red lotus has grown right between your brows."

Hearing this, Hua Changxi was stunned. She asked everyone to sit for a while, then went into the east wing room, took a mirror out of her storage ring, and looked at herself.

In the mirror, there was indeed an extra red lotus between her brows.