From the family treasure tree to build an eternal family

Chapter 72 Spiritual Crystal
After circling around a dozen times, he returned home.

He came to the side room alone, closed the door, did not light the candle, took off his black robe in the dark, and then spread out the things on his body in front of him.

Silver bills, money bags, several damaged martial arts books, and twisted and deformed flying swords.

The amount of silver notes was exactly two thousand taels, neither more nor less. It was obvious that Sun Gu did not have any extra silver notes on him.

Sun Gu placed those books on cultivation techniques in his chest pocket, and they were pierced by Xu Xiaogou's chest-piercing flying sword, leaving a gap in the middle.

Xu Xiaogou retrieved the flying sword, but due to the overwhelming power of his innate martial artist's internal energy, the sword became twisted and deformed, becoming unusable.

"Several manuals were damaged, and the only one left is the 'Wan Yan Qi Training Art' on me. I don't know if it's real or fake."

He still couldn't confirm the authenticity of the immortal cultivation method.

Maybe the skills are real, and the stall owner who sells them just wants to "kill and rob".

The greater possibility is that the stall owner is selling fake exercises.

While thinking about this, Xu Xiaogou opened the purse he had found on Sun Gu.

The heavy silk purse contained dozens of taels of loose silver.

"what is this?"

Several transparent crystals the size of fingernails rolled from the purse into Xu Xiaogou's palm.

In the pitch-black house, a few rays of moonlight shone through the window onto his palm. The transparent crystal reflected a faint fluorescence.

"Spirit crystal!"

He realized what the transparent crystal was and quickly closed his palm, holding it tightly in his hand, looking around panically.

This is the spiritual crystal used by immortal cultivators, it is very precious!
Those few spirit crystals were enough to bring him fatal disaster.

"Hu~~"

His heart was pounding. Everything that had happened tonight was too thrilling for him. If he wasn't an innate warrior, the casual cultivator stall owner might have taken his life.

"I have to go home."

As an innate warrior, Xu Xiaogou feels insecure at the moment and just wants to return to his father.

When it was dawn, he rode his own horse to Baihe Village.

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Xu family residence, medicinal food room.

Xu Fugui got up before dawn to make the Five Elements Medicinal Soup and had just finished a pot.

He held a straw fan in his hand and fanned it vigorously to blow away the scorching hot air emitted by the medicinal soup.

"Yesterday I completed the third level of Zhuang Gong, opening up all my meridians and acupoints. I hope to be able to advance to Xiantian today."

He was forty-eight years old, approaching his fifties, and his physical condition had begun to decline, his progress in standing meditation becoming increasingly slow. If it weren't for the nourishing Five Elements Miraculous Herb Soup, he might never have had the opportunity to advance to the Xiantian realm.

"I've been promoted to Xiantian, now I have spiritual roots. Once I wait for the initiation fruit to grant me the cultivation techniques, I'll be able to embark on the path of cultivating immortals..."

Among his sons, Sangou got married and had two sons, and Siyun also got married early and his wife just got pregnant with their second child.

Wu An also got married two years ago, and his wife is nine months pregnant and about to give birth.

The family treasure tree will yield a large amount of offspring in the next few years.

"The Xu family has a promising future..."

Xu Fugui fantasized about it. When the medicine soup cooled down a bit, he drank it down.

Go to the backyard and practice the innate ten dynamic stances of the "Five Elements Posture Exercise".

The movements that had been honed many times were very standard. With each move and each breath, the body gradually became warm.

The Five Elements Elixir Soup in his stomach took effect, transforming into medicinal power and flowing into his body.

Do the standing meditation once, twice, three times...

It was not until he finished four rounds of standing meditation that Xu Fugui realized something was wrong.

When Xu Xiaogou had previously achieved a breakthrough, the fifth round of standing meditation had already begun to generate internal energy within him. However, he still hadn't noticed any internal energy, and his fever had shown signs of fading.

"If I can't break through this time, next time will be even harder!"

Xu Fugui knew that breaking through the realm would only become more difficult each time, so he took out the prepared Qi and Blood Pills, swallowed them, and practiced the stance again.

The digestion of the Qi and Blood Pills caused Xu Fugui's Qi and Blood to quickly reach their peak, exceeding his previous limit. "Boom!"

A wisp of internal energy grew, flowing out from the kidney palace and circulating in the meridians. Internal energy continued to grow from the bones and muscles and flow into the meridians.

After three more rounds of standing meditation, Xu Fugui stopped.

"Is this the Xiantian realm? It's very powerful. I feel much younger."

The innate state can extend life by twenty to thirty years.

“Dad~~!”

At this time, Xu Xiaogou's shouts were heard from outside.

"What a coincidence."

Xu Fugui was just about to share the joy of his promotion to Xiantian with Xu Xiaogou, but when he walked out of the backyard, he saw Xu Xiaogou with a worried look on his face.

"Sangou, what's wrong?"

"Dad, something happened. Let's go talk somewhere where there's no one around."

The two walked into the medicinal food room.

Xu Fugui had originally built the herbal medicine room to keep it secret. Besides brewing the Five Elements elixir soup there, he also frequently entered and exited his inner space. The room had no windows, only a thick wooden door and a few narrow vents on the roof.

After closing the door, Xu Xiaogou whispered in Xu Fugui's ear what happened last night, and then took out the "Wanyan Qi Training Art" and the six spirit crystals.

When Xu Fugui saw the immortal cultivation techniques and spirit crystals, he realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Sangou, you are too impatient."

"Dad, I know I was wrong. I also want to enter the realm of immortal cultivation as soon as possible."

"..."

Xu Fugui couldn't be too harsh on this. After all, with the opportunity to cultivate immortality right in front of him, how many people could resist?
"Dad, do you think this technique is real or fake?"

"It is highly likely to be false, but very unlikely to be true."

How could a casual cultivator who kills and robs people sell real cultivation techniques on the black market?

"Then let me try."

Xu Xiaogou asked tentatively. After all, apart from this cultivation technique, he had no other way to obtain it.

Xu Fugui fell into deep thought. The initiation fruit of the treasure tree still needed to be nurtured by the blood of an offspring before it could mature. It would take at least until next year.

"Okay, let's try it here. Pay attention at all times. If anything goes wrong, stop immediately. Don't get carried away and damage your meridians."

"Ah."

Afterwards, Xu Xiaogou carefully studied the "Wan Yan Qigong Technique" and began to draw qi into the body and open up the qi sea and dantian according to the description of the exercises.

Facts proved that their worries about going astray were unnecessary. Xu Xiaogou did not sense any spiritual energy from heaven and earth at all, let alone draw energy into his body.

"It seems fake."

Both of them felt a little lost.

Xu Fugui comforted San Gou: "You practice martial arts first, and leave the skills to me. Don't act rashly again. If you have any ideas, discuss them with me first."

"Got it, Dad. By the way, I'll keep these spirit crystals with you for now."

"it is good."

Xu Fugui put away the spirit crystal. The spirit crystal could be stored in the space inside his body and was very safe.

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Tonggu County.

There is a grand shop along the main road. The door is five meters wide and there is a plaque on it that reads "Yun'an Wine Shop".

As soon as the day breaks, the shop becomes busy.

Five or six young men were shuttling back and forth, carrying jars of wine to the carriage in front of the shop.

"Drunk Spring Breeze Restaurant needs twenty jars of Yanqi wine and ten jars of sorghum sake. Send them over quickly. And hurry them up to settle the bill; they haven't been paid for the last time."

Xu Xiaoyun, with his gradually getting fatter belly, directed the guys to work.

(End of this chapter)