Chapter 73: Incense

Mount Wuzhi, third peak, by the Fire Spirit Spring Pool, Hua Changxi lay on the top-grade fire spirit stone bed, her brows relaxed, fully immersed in cultivation.

At this moment, as long as she absorbed spiritual energy, her cultivation would increase.

Cultivating for one day, her realm data could increase by 120,000.

Watching her cultivation increase bit by bit, she found the thrill she had when she was a Qi Refining Realm and Qi Sea Realm cultivator again.

Originally, she hadn't planned to stay in Mount Wuzhi for long, but she couldn't bear to interrupt her cultivation. Thinking that Old You and Guo Yu were covering for her at the Medicine Valley anyway, she stayed in Mount Wuzhi with peace of mind.

Time flew by, and more than two months passed.

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Hua Changxi ended her cultivation. It wasn't that she didn't want to continue, but she knew that with the New Year approaching, her family would definitely go to the Medicine Valley to see her, so she had to set off to return to the Medicine Valley.

【Realm: Golden Core Realm 10.01 million/10 million】

After more than two months of cultivation, her cultivation had finally broken through 10 million.

Looking at the dazzling, round, and smooth Inner Core hanging above her Qi Sea like a bright sun, Hua Changxi was very happy.

"Cultivating during this period, there wasn't any stuttering or stagnation."

Hua Changxi recalled her cultivation journey after advancing to the Golden Core Realm and found that when the Inner Core disappeared, no matter how she absorbed spiritual energy, her cultivation could not increase.

Only when her consciousness entered the center of the Qi Sea and could see the Inner Core could the Inner Core absorb spiritual energy and continuously grow.

During these two months, her consciousness stood directly on the Inner Core, and her cultivation speed was even faster. During this period, her cultivation increased as much as she absorbed.

From this, it can be seen that the key to Golden Core Realm cultivation lies in the Inner Core.

Only by ensuring that the Inner Core is always suspended in the center of the Qi Sea can her cultivation continue to increase.

Still the same question, why would the Inner Core run away?

Why did the Inner Core stand steadily in the center of the Qi Sea after being angered by Old You and the other three last time, and after this trip to Mount Wuzhi?

Hua Changxi felt that there must be a trick to it that she didn't know, but unfortunately, no one told her what this trick was.

Suddenly, Hua Changxi saw the Mountain Spirit bouncing over, and her eyes lit up: "Fatty, come here, I have a question to ask you."

Seeing that Hua Changxi was not cultivating, the Mountain Spirit was overjoyed, ran over happily, and asked: "Fairy, are you done cultivating? Can you play with me now?"

Hua Changxi's expression stiffened: "Well, there are so many spirits in the mountain to play with you, are you still bored?"

After entering into a contract with Mount Wuzhi, she could sense some general situations in the mountain.

For example, many plants and trees in the mountain had become spirits, and there were even more animals that had become spirit beasts.

She could vaguely feel that if her cultivation improved, she could actually control Mount Wuzhi more thoroughly. Now, limited by her strength, there were many things she couldn't do.

The Mountain Spirit pouted: "Don't mention those little spirits; they are all very stupid and extremely boring."

Hua Changxi laughed: "Then I'll tell you something interesting."

The Mountain Spirit looked over expectantly.

Hua Changxi hurriedly told him about the Inner Core running away on its own: "Do you know what the reason for this is?"

The Mountain Spirit widened its eyes, with clear confusion in them: "Why would it run away?"

Hua Changxi was choked: "When you cultivate, don't you encounter this problem?"

The Mountain Spirit shook its head: "No."

Hua Changxi: "Then how do you cultivate?"

Mountain Spirit: "Just absorb spiritual energy, and eat and drink some spirit fruits and spirit liquids. If someone makes it, I can also have some spirit beast meat or something. By the way, I can also cultivate with the help of incense."

Hua Changxi became interested: "Incense? Is it the kind of incense in temples?"

The Mountain Spirit hadn't actually practiced it either; it was just mentioned in its heritage, and it didn't quite understand it: "I suppose so."

Hua Changxi: "Then do you want to build a few Mountain Spirit temples outside Mount Wuzhi?"

Mountain Spirit: "Can I build them?"

Hua Changxi: "Of course, you can build as many as you want, provided you can manage them."

Upon hearing this, the Mountain Spirit was eager to try: "Then I'll build one first to try. Fairy, don't worry, I won't leave you out, and I'll build one for you too."

A row of black lines appeared on Hua Changxi's forehead: "I don't need people to worship me."

What qualifications did she have to be worshipped by others?

Just because she luckily got Mount Wuzhi?

It wasn't like she had made any great contributions. Being worshipped, she was afraid of being struck by lightning.

The Mountain Spirit tilted its head: "But only with your permission can outsiders enter Mount Wuzhi. These two months, I've seen many people wandering outside Mount Wuzhi."

"Fairy, everything in the world emphasizes a cycle of balance. You can't use up all the resources in Mount Wuzhi by yourself. What do you plan to do with the rest?"

Having suddenly obtained Mount Wuzhi, to be honest, Hua Changxi hadn't thought about the follow-up matters: "I don't mind people from outside coming into the mountain to find some cultivation resources."

Mount Wuzhi is very large. Excluding the five most prominent peaks, there are actually many small peaks crisscrossed with gullies inside, as well as thousands of canyons of all sizes.

The richness of the cultivation resources within is several levels higher than that of the Three-Fork Medicine Valley.

The Mountain Spirit's expression was joyful: "That settles it. I'll build a temple for you, and then let people from outside go to the temple to request your permission. Once they get your permission, they can enter the mountain for training."

Hua Changxi: "But I can't stay in Mount Wuzhi all the time." As she spoke, she looked at the Mountain Spirit with a smile, "Can you help me watch over it?"

The Mountain Spirit thought that it didn't even have enough time to play, so how could it have time to watch the temple for the Fairy? But it couldn't refuse directly, so it had to lower its head and play with its little hands, whispering: "I still have to watch over my Mountain Spirit temple."

"You little smarty-pants."

Hua Changxi hummed, and suddenly had an idea: "There is a welcoming pine on the top of the third peak. Observing its spiritual energy fluctuations, it has already reached the Qi Sea Realm. How about I hire it to help me watch over it?"

The Mountain Spirit thought about what the welcoming pine looked like: "Little Pine... that's fine. Apart from liking to prick people with pine needles, it has no other flaws."

Hua Changxi began to ponder. She had to think carefully about the follow-up matters of Mount Wuzhi.

Things like the Asura Gate digging and stealing the Mineral Spirit must definitely not happen again.

No sooner said than done, Hua Changxi immediately took the Mountain Spirit and rode a cloud to the third peak, found the welcoming pine: "Little Pine, I am a friend of the Mountain Spirit, and I want to ask you for a favor..."

"This little spirit is willing."

Before Hua Changxi could finish speaking, the welcoming pine snatched the answer with a little milky voice.

Hua Changxi didn't expect the welcoming pine to be a little female, was stunned for a moment, and then quickly told it that she couldn't stay in Mount Wuzhi for a long time and needed it to help her deal with those who wanted to enter Mount Wuzhi.

"Fairy, this little spirit is willing."

As it spoke, green light flared from the welcoming pine, and then, a miniature little pine tree flew out from the trunk and floated in front of Hua Changxi.

This action confused Hua Changxi, and she looked at the Mountain Spirit in confusion.

The Mountain Spirit also looked at her. They looked at each other for a while, and then it slapped its forehead hard. It almost forgot, the Fairy was relatively stupid and didn't understand anything, so it had to remind her: "Fairy, hurry up and enter into a contract with Little Pine."

Hua Changxi pretended to be calm and said 'Oh'. She understood entering into a contract; it was just bleeding.

Breaking her fingertip, a drop of essence blood flew out and merged into the little pine tree. Red light immediately appeared around the little pine tree. When the red light disappeared, Hua Changxi felt that she had some kind of connection with the little pine tree.

The little pine tree flew back into the welcoming pine, and the welcoming pine immediately said happily: "Little Pine greets the Master."

Then the whole pine tree stood up, floated in front of Hua Changxi, and turned a circle: "Master, Master, look, what do I look like?"

This appearance was exactly the same as when the Mountain Spirit was asking for a title.

Hua Changxi turned her face blankly to look at the Mountain Spirit, and the Mountain Spirit looked back innocently.

She knew it; there was no such thing as a free lunch in the world.

It was a pity that she had just thought the welcoming pine was simple, taking the initiative to enter into a contract with her. After all that, the simple person was her, and it was waiting for her here.

On the path of cultivation, she still had a lot to learn.

"Master, Master, look, what do I look like?"

"I think you look like a person!"

As soon as Hua Changxi finished speaking, green light flared from the welcoming pine, the branches and trunk began to shrink, slowly condensing into a half-meter-high green ball. The green ball twisted for a while, and finally transformed into a three- or four-year-old girl.

The girl was in green clothes, a green skirt, and green shoes, with two little buns on her head, looking like a carved jade, cute and naive.

"Little Pine greets the Master."

Hua Changxi looked at the Mountain Spirit, then at Little Pine, a real-life boy and girl. She immediately smiled: "You two can play together, and you won't be bored in the future."

The Mountain Spirit circled around Little Pine, nodded with satisfaction: "I can take you to play."

For the next few days, Hua Changxi wandered around Mount Wuzhi, buried all the exposed ore veins, picked some needed spirit plants and put them into the Shennong Cauldron, and after confirming that there were no problems, she prepared to go and give instructions to the Mountain Spirit and Little Pine again, and then return to the Three-Fork Medicine Valley.

However, after searching for a circle, she actually couldn't find the Mountain Spirit and Little Pine.

At the same time, the Mountain Spirit was full of energy and took Little Pine out of Mount Wuzhi.

"Mountain Spirit, where are we going?"

"Aren't we going to build a temple? Of course, we are going to find people to build the temple."

"Where are we going to find people?"

"There are many families around Mount Wuzhi. There must be craftsmen who know how to build houses and sculpt statues. I must make my statue look the best, hmm, and the Fairy's too."

"But the Master said she doesn't want to be worshipped."

"Then what should we do? By the way, I can let them sculpt a fire lotus for the Fairy. Worshipping the fire lotus is equivalent to worshipping the Fairy."

"Can we do that?"

"Yes, we can, listen to me and you won't be wrong."

Thumb Village, An Ze and An Ran, brother and sister, were just about to go to the fields to do farm work when they saw two cute, chubby dolls appear out of thin air at the entrance of the village.

The two dolls ran toward them jumping and bouncing. The brother and sister immediately remembered that everyone had been talking about spirits in Mount Wuzhi for the past two months. Seeing the two chubby dolls coming, they were so scared that they fell to the ground.

"Mountain Spirit, look, those two are so stupid, they actually fell down. I have never fallen down since I learned to walk."

"They are indeed quite stupid."

While speaking, the Mountain Spirit and Little Pine had already arrived in front of An Ze and An Ran. The two dolls curiously looked at the two people who were pale and trembling all over.

Little Pine blinked her watery eyes and poked the trembling An Ran: "What's wrong with them?"

Mountain Spirit: "... Hungry, I heard that people tremble all over when they are hungry."

Little Pine hurriedly took a handful of pine nuts out of her pocket: "I have pine nuts, I'll give them pine nuts to eat."

The Mountain Spirit stopped her: "Your pine nuts are too hard, better eat cherries."

An Ze and An Ran looked at the handful of mouth-watering cherries that appeared out of thin air in the Mountain Spirit's hand, and they trembled even more violently.

"Eat quickly, you won't be hungry after eating."

Seeing that the two didn't eat, the Mountain Spirit even thoughtfully fed them.

As soon as the cherries entered their mouths, they melted upon breaking the skin. An Ze and An Ran swore that these were the best cherries they had ever eaten.

However, the next moment, their expressions twisted in pain, their veins bulged, their bodies curled up, and painful roars came from their mouths.

The Mountain Spirit and Little Pine were startled.

"What's wrong with them?"

"I don't know."

"What should we do now?"

"I don't know."

At this time, someone in the village heard the painful roars of An Ze and An Ran and ran over.

Seeing someone coming, the Mountain Spirit grabbed Little Pine and rode a cloud back into Mount Wuzhi.

"An Ze, An Ran, what's wrong with you?"

"Quick, take them to see a doctor."

"Oh no, they seem to be dying."

The Mountain Spirit and Little Pine hid behind the vegetation, listening to the noisy shouts of the villagers, and looked at each other innocently.

"We seem to have done something wrong."

"What should we do now?"

"Go, find the Fairy."

As soon as the Mountain Spirit and Little Pine returned to the third peak and saw that Hua Changxi was really by the Fire Spirit Spring Pool, they immediately rushed over: "Fairy, Fairy, we met two fragile people, they ate two cherries, and they are about to die."

Hua Changxi looked at the Mountain Spirit's incredulous look, then looked at the spirit fruit in his hand, and had a headache: "Mortals cannot eat spirit fruits. The spiritual energy in the spirit fruits is too rich, and it will burst their bodies."

"Go, take me to see them quickly, see if we can still save them."

Hua Changxi grabbed one doll in each hand and rode a cloud quickly toward Thumb Village.

Arriving at Thumb Village, Hua Changxi couldn't appear with the two dolls, so she let them hide behind the vegetation and wait, while she walked into the village.

"An Ze, An Ran, such good children, what kind of evil did they encounter? They are going to die at such a young age, what a pity, what a pity."

The people of Thumb Village were discussing because of the accident with An Ze and An Ran.

Without even asking where the victims' home was, Hua Changxi followed the villagers' discussions and the place with the most people and found it.

"I am a traveling physician, I can cure the illness of those two."

Hua Changxi walked into An Ze and An Ran's house and walked straight to the oldest elder.

The village chief of Thumb Village looked at Hua Changxi, saw that her brows were upright and honest, and the village doctor couldn't cure An Ze and An Ran, so he nodded and let her into An Ze and An Ran's room.

As soon as Hua Changxi entered the room, she saw the two victims lying on the bed with painful expressions.

Seeing that they were only in pain but had no signs of exploding, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Hua Changxi let the others in the room go out, closed the door, used her spiritual power, quickly forced the spiritual energy out of the two victims' bodies, and gave them healing pills to repair their bodies.

"Alright, they should be fine now."

After saying this, Hua Changxi ignored the inquiries of the village chief and the villagers, left Thumb Village quickly, grabbed the two dolls at the entrance of the village, and returned to Mount Wuzhi.

"In the future, you are not allowed to feed people randomly."

The Mountain Spirit still had lingering fears: "Fairy, are those two people okay?"

"They are fine."

Hua Changxi compared the situation of the two with that of Yang Chuan. Yang Chuan relied on the internal energy of three masters to avoid exploding, while the two had no signs of exploding.

Could it be that both of them have spiritual roots?

Having spiritual roots, they can accommodate some spiritual energy, so there were no signs of exploding.

On the way back, Hua Changxi exhorted the Mountain Spirit and Little Pine: "Tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, I have to go back. When I have time, I will come to see you."

"Little Pine, remember the rules for entering the mountain."

"Fatty, don't build any temple for me. Build a house. As long as outsiders request to enter the mountain according to the rules, Little Pine can give them a pine needle. No need to do anything else."

The Mountain Spirit agreed readily: "Fairy, I know." ===== CHAPTER 74 =====