Chapter 36: Daoist Guangling

On a spiritual mountain towering into the clouds thousands of miles away from the Fuyun Mountain Range, the Carefree Sect's General Affairs Elder, Daoist Guangling, was closing his eyes and resting in the hall.

Before long, a gray-clad Foundation Establishment disciple walked quickly into the hall, holding a red communication talisman in his hand. Seeing Daoist Guangling, he hurriedly said:

"Master, Senior Brother Tian sent a sound talisman, saying that he has found the spirit fruit tree in the Fuyun Mountain Range and is now bringing Junior Brother Li and the others back to the sect. At the speed of his Green Spirit Boat, I think they should be back at Mount Tongxuan in three or four days."

"Congratulations to Master for making another great contribution to the sect. This time, finding a five-element fruit tree for the sect, if the Sect Master Senior Uncle knows, he will definitely reward our General Affairs Hall."

Daoist Guangling slowly opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Obtaining a five-element fruit tree, this kind of spiritual item that can increase the sect's foundation, is naturally the sect's good fortune. Before the beast turmoil in the Northern Frontier, being able to cultivate one or two more Foundation Establishment cultivators for the sect can also add a little help to the sect."

Daoist Guangling, dressed in black, looked young, as if he were only twenty or thirty years old. He narrowed his sharp eyes and nodded with a smile at the person reporting in front of him, then ordered calmly.

"Tianyu, send a disciple to Qinghe Market to notify Lu Yuanfeng that there is no need for the Liu family of Jingyuan Mountain in Qinghe County to exist. Send all cultivators to Huoyan Mountain to mine the black iron vein."

"Master, the cultivators of the Liu family have been sent to Huoyan Mountain. How should the remaining mortals be handled? Should they be assigned to Qinghe Market?"

Daoist Guangling looked at the thoughtful disciple in front of him and smiled, saying: "Let Lu Yuanfeng handle it himself. If he is willing to accept them, assign them to Qinghe Market. If he is not willing, let the Huang family and nearby families accept them. The mistakes of cultivators should not involve the mortals below."

Lin Tianyu nodded and was about to leave, but as if he suddenly thought of something, he asked again: "Master, we also know that this time it was the Liu family who organized people to go to the Fuyun Mountain Range to hunt monsters, and it is not certain that the Liu family knew about the spirit fruit tree. Should we invite the Liu family to ask clearly, so as not to wrong them?"

"No need. The one who established the foundation of the Liu family a hundred years ago must have obtained the Water Spirit Fruit from here. A small Qi Refining family now dares to hide things under the sect's nose. This time, we must also spread the news to deter those dishonest families and let them know the consequences of being clever."

"But Master, the Qi Refining disciple who discovered the spirit fruit tree, why does Master treat him so politely? He is of poor character and is a person who does not hesitate to betray his clan for his own interests."

Daoist Guangling narrowed his eyes and stood up, walked to the hall door, and continued: "I knew you wouldn't understand. It is true that under the Questioning God Talisman, this person is indeed a selfish person. However, the first thing he thought of was to offer this spirit fruit tree to the sect, even if it meant betraying the interests of his own family. The sect must reward such people, and also let the family cultivators below know that the sect is also their protector."

"I hold the position of General Affairs Hall Master, managing hundreds of vassal families under the sect. Nowadays, more and more families below have forgotten the sect's protection of them. They only know the interests of the family and completely ignore the sect. There are many who eat inside and outside. If this continues for a long time, the sect will become more and more alienated. When the beast turmoil in the Northern Frontier comes, what can the sect rely on them for?"

Lin Tianyu nodded blankly. Although he didn't understand his master's arrangements, he never dared to oppose them.

At this time, Du Yucheng, standing on Tian Qinghu's Green Spirit Boat, did not know that when he went to the Carefree Sect to report the news of the Water Spirit Fruit Tree, he had already been thoroughly investigated by the Carefree Sect cultivators using the Questioning God Talisman.

The Questioning God Talisman is a second-level spiritual talisman. Using it on ordinary Qi Refining or even Foundation Establishment cultivators can fix the cultivator's mind in a short time, let the cultivator not lie, and easily ask the questions he wants to know. However, it is useless to cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage.

Although this spiritual talisman is a second-level spiritual talisman and is worth a lot, costing hundreds of spirit stones, in order to confirm the news of the Water Spirit Fruit Tree, Daoist Guangling still used it on Du Yucheng without hesitation. Before using the Questioning God Talisman, he also used the Soul-Drawing Technique on him in advance. Du Yucheng still doesn't know that the Carefree Sect actually wasted a precious Questioning God Talisman on him.

Daoist Guangling's cultivation base at the fourth level of Golden Core is only considered medium among the nine Golden Core cultivators in the Carefree Sect.

Don't look at his appearance as only twenty or thirty years old, but it is because he took the beauty-retaining elixir in his early years. In fact, he has been cultivating for more than three hundred years, which is not small for a Golden Core cultivator.

Golden Core cultivators have a lifespan of five hundred years, plus they can take some third-level life-extending spiritual items, and they can live for another hundred years. If there are no other reasons affecting their lifespan, they can generally live to six hundred years old.

Daoist Guangling formed his core late and tried to form a core three times. It was not until he was nearly two hundred years old that he succeeded in forming a Golden Core by luck. He has been forming a core for nearly two hundred years, but he is only at the fourth level of Golden Core. In the Carefree Sect, he is considered a Golden Core cultivator whose potential is exhausted, so he was assigned the position of General Affairs Hall Elder, who has many chores, by the Sect Master.

However, Daoist Guangling himself is not so desperate about his Dao path. He often thinks about making contributions to the sect, exchanging for more merits, and wanting to speed up his cultivation progress.

Over the years, relying on the convenience of his position as the General Affairs Hall Master, he has also gained a lot of benefits and exchanged for many cultivation resources. It is just that his cultivation speed is really not fast. Whether he can cultivate to the late stage of Golden Core before his lifespan is exhausted is hard to say, let alone impacting the Nascent Soul stage.

This time, for the sake of this Water Spirit Fruit Tree, Daoist Guangling can be considered to have done his best. If it weren't for the many sect affairs recently, he would have wanted to lead the team to the Fuyun Mountain Range himself.

In the Carefree Sect, except for the Supreme Elder, Li Mufeng, who had advanced to the Nascent Soul stage three hundred years ago, among the remaining nine Golden Core cultivators, the only ones with the greatest hope of forming a Nascent Soul are the Sect Master Yao Qian Shu and Bai Yuxian.

Yao Qian Shu, as the Sect Master of the Carefree Sect, can be considered a person who is under one person and above ten thousand people, except for the Supreme Elder Li Mufeng. His cultivation base had long since reached the ninth level of Golden Core, and he had even impacted the Nascent Soul realm once. Now he still has more than a hundred years of lifespan, and there is about a 20-30% hope of forming a Nascent Soul.

Another female Golden Core cultivator, Bai Yuxian, although she is a woman, is a person with extraordinary talent. She is the only Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator in the Wei Kingdom for hundreds of years. She has only been cultivating for more than two hundred years and has already reached the seventh level of Golden Core. The hope of forming a Nascent Soul in the future is even higher than that of the Sect Master Yao Qian Shu.

Most of the resources in the Carefree Sect naturally tend to these two people. Golden Core cultivators like Daoist Guangling in the sect are somewhat dissatisfied with this, but there is no way. After all, whether it is a cultivation family or a large sect like the Carefree Sect, in order to successfully cultivate Nascent Soul cultivators to inherit the sect's inheritance, doing so is also a last resort.

If a Nascent Soul sect is disconnected, and the previous generation of Nascent Soul cultivators pass away, and there are no Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect to sit in town, it will inevitably attract the peeping of surrounding forces, and it will inevitably be difficult to avoid the end of the sect's decline.

However, the Carefree Sect is still good. The Nascent Soul Supreme Elder of this generation, Li Mufeng, is only more than seven hundred years old. Generally, Nascent Soul cultivators have at least 1,200 years of lifespan. Plus they can take some high-grade life-extending spiritual items, they can live for another two or three hundred years. Normally, they can persist until about 1,500 years old. As long as their luck is not too bad, the Carefree Sect should have enough time to cultivate new Nascent Soul cultivators.

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