Starting as a spiritual plant master, may I eventually become the master of all lands.

Chapter 104 Dai Lingjun

"That's all. My master is a hermit who practices asceticism. He took me as his disciple because he was bored and wanted to relax. He went to Zaolin County to clear his mind and saw that I had good aptitude, so he brought me back." Cheng Tu shook his head.

He seemed to have thought of something else and said, "My senior brother and master have a rather unusual relationship. If I'm not mistaken, they might be related by blood."

"Uh... Senior Brother Xuan wouldn't be Master Kuzhuo's son, would he?" Song Chuan said, somewhat speechless, his voice lowered.

"What are you thinking! It's probably just a relative of Master in the mortal world, nothing important." Cheng Tu glared at him.

"Hehe!" Song Chuan chuckled awkwardly, then changed the subject, asking, "Have you ever met your teacher's wife?"

"Never seen you before, what's wrong?" Cheng Tu asked suspiciously, wondering why Song Chuan was asking her.

"I heard that the Canxiang Garden I manage belongs to your teacher's wife, so I just asked casually," Song Chuan said.

"Hey! Master only remembered this dilapidated garden because he needed to break through his cultivation level. Guess who's taking care of it now?"

"Do you think I know him?"

"Ge Yaoqing, haha!" Cheng Tu laughed loudly.

Upon hearing this, Song Chuan's expression turned strange.

"She volunteered herself. Didn't you two come to the sect together? Maybe she saw that you had reached the Foundation Establishment stage and thought you had gotten some benefits at the Canxiang Garden. I didn't realize it when I first met this girl, but she's quite shrewd," Cheng Tu added.

"Hehe! Canxiang Garden is indeed a place with excellent feng shui." Song Chuan didn't know what to say for a moment.

"I brought some second-tier spirit wine, but it's all gone in the wind. How can we Qi people not drink? I saw you buried in the ground cultivating diligently during your Qi Refining stage, without even enjoying yourself. Let's have a drink today to celebrate your Foundation Establishment!"

After saying that, Cheng Tu patted his storage bag, took out a pot of spirit wine and two cups, filled one for himself and Song Chuan, and drank them together. The wine was clear and bright.

The Qi Kingdom, from the mortal realm to the cultivation world, has a reputation for its love of wine and is famous throughout the Eastern Region.

Song Chuan recalled Chen Yuntian jokingly telling the Fairy Zhaohua that the wine was graded by the wind.

The second-tier cultivator, upon being exposed to the wind, not only gains a slight boost to their cultivation but can also intoxicate Foundation Establishment cultivators.

The two drank and chatted for most of the day before Cheng Tu finally staggered away, without using any magic to force the effects of the alcohol to kick in.

If one drinks too much of this wine, even with magical power, it cannot be completely eliminated, leaving one with a slight intoxication. It is considered a very precious spiritual wine.

Song Chuan squinted as he watched Cheng Tu leap onto the magical artifact and soar into the sky, his thoughts unreadable.

Brother Cheng, was Master Kuzhuo's advice to you to go and gain experience truly from the heart of a master?

He might have assigned you other tasks, but you just don't want to tell him.

The State of Qi is invading the State of Jing! Wow! I have to say, these six major sects are really something. I've only ever heard about other people being invaded, but I never thought I'd become the invader myself.

I'm not going. I'll see if there's any time-saving and labor-saving task I can find in three years.

However, I need to take some time to research some information about the demonic forces, so as not to be completely confused about the opposing forces and cause any accidents. Also, how did my aunt obtain the Wood Clan talismans? Does the Wood Clan have a market open to humans?

Or did it just happen to appear in another market and be bought by my aunt?

He spent half a day sobering up after a period of drunken reverie before heading towards the cave with the Earth Spirit Vein.

The sect's underground is not a place where one can easily use earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic or magic to escape from). The entire Vine Flower Valley has a top-tier array that is at least of the fourth rank, and countless third-rank and second-rank arrays are embedded within it!

And then there's that strange spirit vine; its roots might be spread all over the sect's underground.

If you casually use Earth Escape, and accidentally end up in some forbidden area, you'll either be instantly killed by the formation or used as fertilizer by the spirit vines. In that case, your newly established Foundation Establishment will become a laughing stock in the sect.

Song Chuan remembered that there was an unused cave dwelling in the Wutu spiritual vein, located on another branch of the Zifang Mountain Range.

He would sometimes use earth magic to travel through time, and sometimes return to the ground to fly around using his green leaf artifact.

In some places underground, thick fog lingered, just like the earth-born fog he had seen when he was fleeing from Jiao Chuncheng's pursuit, near the sect's stone tablet.

The mist that rises from the ground must be something derived from the formation. Not to mention Foundation Establishment cultivators, even Core Formation cultivators would surely die if they rashly ventured in.

After wandering around for most of the day, he finally arrived at that branch. Here were the cave dwellings of another group of Foundation Establishment cultivators, far more than on the branch he had chosen.

Earth-based escape techniques are more convenient here. The sect's formation beneath a Foundation Establishment cultivator's cave is relatively loose and won't be activated.

Pretending to be looking for fellow disciples, he flew and stopped along this branch vein until he finally saw the unused cave dwelling on the Wutu spiritual vein.

There were no array formations in front of the cave, and it seemed that no one was inside.

This Earth element (戊土) corresponds to a different celestial phenomenon than Earth element (己土). In the sky, it is represented by rosy clouds (霞), which are the afterglow of the sun and are associated with Fire element (丙火). When Fire element (丙火) falls and encounters Water element (癸水) such as rain or dew, it forms the shape of a high mountain!

It is heavy and rigid, which is completely opposite to the gentle and warm nature of the Earth element.

As soon as Song Chuan approached, he felt a strong earth energy rushing towards him. Most earth-based cultivation techniques focus on cultivating the energy of the Earth element, which is excellent in defense and has a strong ability to fight head-on, but it is a bit clumsy.

He used the technique of "borrowing earth to chase clouds," descending through the earth and heading straight into the core node of the Wu Earth Spirit Vein directly beneath the cave.

"Well----"

A moment later, below the cave, Song Chuan stood there, looking slightly embarrassed. A person opposite him was making eye contact.

When he was about 80 or 90 feet away from the spot, he used the Qianhuang Pearl to probe it slightly, but the divine sense attached to it did not detect anyone.

Does this person possess a treasure capable of concealing divine sense? Or has she cultivated an extremely powerful concealment technique? The crucial question is, what is she doing in this abandoned cave dwelling?

This woman was in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and judging from her aura, she had entered the Foundation Establishment stage more than ten years earlier than I had, yet she had an apricot-shaped face and peach-like cheeks, and looked frail and delicate.

When she saw Song Chuan, she seemed surprised as well. Her cherry lips parted slightly, and her two fair hands each gripped a corner of her shirt, rubbing them incessantly.

Her body trembled slightly, as if she were extremely timid, and her face flushed red, as if she were extremely shy.

Song Chuan calmed himself down and looked her over a few times. Why would a Foundation Establishment stage female cultivator act like this upon seeing someone? What a strange person!

"Fellow Daoist, how shall I address you?" Song Chuan asked gently.

"Dai—Lingjun." The woman lowered her head slightly, her voice barely audible.

Song Chuan chuckled. Even a junior doesn't need to act like this when meeting a senior, especially since they are all of the same generation.

"My name is Song Chuan. I was unaware that anyone was here. Please forgive my intrusion. Does this cave belong to Fellow Daoist Dai?"

Dai Lingjun hurriedly waved her hands repeatedly: "No—no—I—"

He stopped talking mid-sentence.

This woman doesn't stutter, but she speaks with great difficulty, whether it's because she's not good at dealing with strangers or for some other reason.

"How can someone like this achieve Foundation Establishment?" Song Chuan wondered.

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