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

Just as Song Chuan was taking stock of his harvest, in the distant Kongsang Mountains, a huge forest clearing was piled high with human corpses.

These are all cultivators who perished here while exploring Kongsang. Some were incomplete, some died with their eyes wide open, and others had severed limbs and were scattered here.

Beside the pile of corpses, several kinds of demons gathered.

The five demonic beasts who had been dealing with the human elder who had reached the Core Formation stage stood aside, looking at the pile of corpses with varying expressions.

"Many of the human race's little bastards died this time," the burly man, whose true form resembled a vulture, laughed.

"They just happened to arrive when the cicadas were emerging from the ground, along with those hunting ants that seemed to have come from some unknown mountain. Fellow Daoist Ye, could they have come from your ant mountain?"

The middle-aged woman said that the opossum on her body was crawling around.

The stunningly beautiful woman, dressed in emerald green and with tentacles occasionally extending from her head, revealed a hint of hatred in her eyes:

"You must have heard about what happened decades ago, right?"

We third-tier demon ants were originally unable to transform into human form, but a spiritual fruit was discovered in Ant Mountain. After consuming it, the third-tier demon ants could temporarily transform into human form.

The hunter ant colonies were a major threat to all ant tribes. Taking advantage of the infighting among the ant tribes over the spirit fruit, they attacked and wiped out several ant tribes one by one.

Only then did the various ant colonies unite and fight a great battle against them. The main force of the hunter-gatherer ant colony was severely weakened and fled in defeat. Unexpectedly, some miscellaneous fish appeared here!

"Hehe! They're quite lucky. By the way, did any of the third-tier queen ants of the hunting ants get that fruit?" the middle-aged woman asked.

The woman in the emerald green dress nodded: "One person obtained it, but this person has not shown up since. I wonder if he has mingled with the human race."

"How often does that fruit become ineffective?" Old Wind Fox suddenly interjected.

"Fellow Daoist Li, I'm afraid I can't tell you that," the woman in the emerald green dress said with a light laugh.

"Alright, let's not stand here any longer. The little demons are too scared to move. The matter of Kongsang is over. I'll go report to the master and then go back to my rat's den."

The middle-aged woman said, and as she finished speaking, hair suddenly sprouted from her pale face, resembling a rat's head. She then vanished without a trace.

The burly man beside the woman stroked the tangled black hair on his chin, causing the fleshy growth to sway. He glanced at a group of ugly, monstrous insects beside the pile of corpses: "I hate these hair-eating worms the most!"

He patted his shoulder and back, and a pair of vulture-like wings sprouted from his back, with a wingspan of over three zhang (approximately 10 meters). The feathers on them were like sharp blades, looking extremely razor-sharp. With a flap of his wings, he was already a hundred zhang (approximately 33 meters) away, disappearing into the sky in the blink of an eye.

Old Wind Fox chuckled, grabbed Little Wind Fox by the scruff of its neck, gently stroked its long eyebrows, and transformed into a white wisp of wind, drifting away even faster than the burly man from before.

The woman surnamed Ye, dressed in emerald green, tilted her head and smiled, "I'll go visit your Firefly Night Clan."

The woman in black, who had remained silent throughout, shimmered with fluorescent light. She nodded her head slightly, and her entire being transformed into starlight fragments.

The woman surnamed Ye tossed the leaf she was playing with into the wind. It grew larger and closed up on her, and she seemed to melt into the leaf, disappearing from sight. Only the leaf shot away into the distance.

As soon as the five men left, a commotion broke out around the pile of corpses.

A flock of sharp-beaked demonic birds landed on the corpses first. With a peck of their beaks, the already dried and congealed wounds on the corpses reopened, and dark purple blood gushed out. The demonic birds began to suck the blood.

The hair-eating worms the burly man spoke of had large, flat heads and shiny, oily bodies, completely devoid of hair. These swarms crawled across the corpses, feeding on human body hair!

Afterwards, several kinds of demonic beasts and insects selected various parts of these corpses and feasted on them.

Several hours later, only bones remained of the corpse, and a flock of vultures that had been waiting nearby began to descend.

Although these cultivators are only at the Qi Refining stage, they are still genuinely absorbing spiritual energy and consuming elixirs for cultivation. Their bodies, bones, and hair all contain spiritual power, which is of great nourishment to these demon-transforming stage and first-order demons who specialize in consuming such substances.

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When Song Chuan arrived in the garden, his clothes fluttered, and the orchid insect instantly teleported out and disappeared without a trace.

He stepped on the ground and disappeared into the earth.

Canxiang Garden is only four or five acres in size, and there are some miscellaneous tiny ley lines underground.

Using the beads, he found a place where the earth veins met, placed the earth locust stone there, and saw if the earth veins could nourish it.

Earth Locust Stone is an earth-elemental object with a spirit, completely different from items refined like Thunderclap Talisman, and its power is naturally much greater. With this object, even after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, one will not be too afraid of others.

After settling the earth locust stones, he flipped through the "Earth Prison Seed Cultivation Technique" with great interest. After enjoying the sight for a while, he sighed and began to cultivate the "Earth Absorption Technique".

Two days later, Song Chuan came to the ground, activated the formation, and a cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Refining stood outside the garden.

"Junior Brother Ma, what brings you here?" Song Chuan said with a smile.

It turned out to be Ma Dating from the Salary Hall. It took him five years to barely reach the sixth level of Qi Refining. No wonder he could only stay in the Salary Hall and calculate.

"Senior Brother Song, I'm here to deliver the sect's reward to you," Ma Dating said respectfully.

"Oh? The reward has been announced?" Song Chuan's face lit up with joy.

"Senior Brother Song, please keep this storage bag safe. It has special restrictions on it, so we disciples who are giving it as a reward dare not touch it."

Ma Dating handed Song Chuan a storage bag, looking on with envy.

Song Chuan accepted it: "Thank you for your trouble, Junior Brother. Why don't you come in and have a seat?"

"No, Senior Brother, I'll come again another day. I still have matters to attend to at the Salary Hall." Ma Da Ting said goodbye and left.

Song Chuan took the storage bag and returned to the wooden house.

"Foundation Building Pill, Foundation Building Pill..." he muttered to himself.

Upon opening the storage bag, a porcelain bottle immediately caught his eye. He pulled it out with a swift motion—ha, it really is a Foundation Establishment Pill!

He looked at it for a long time with a broad smile, then carefully put it away.

There were two other things in the storage bag, one of which was spirit stones. Song Chuan checked and there were two hundred of them!

Two years' worth of salary, not bad!

The last thing was a thin book with the title "The Secret of Cultivating Soil" on the cover.

Hey! Did this reward even take into account the disciple's strengths?

He flipped through the book and discovered it contained a secret technique for preparing spiritual soil specifically for spiritual plants! The spiritual soil prepared using this technique could slightly accelerate the growth time of spiritual plants.

It is quite complicated, but it can be of great use to me because it also mentions some relationships between ley lines and the preparation of special spiritual soil.

It even touches on how to transform the original earth vein structure into another type of earth vein. Wouldn't that be useful if I cultivated the "Earth Primordial Seed Technique"?

The big sects are great!

This Earth Cultivation Technique was probably bestowed upon him because he had a great chance of establishing his foundation in the future and was a pure earth-type cultivator.

Otherwise, if one cannot establish one's foundation, what use is a powerful Qi Refining cultivator to the sect?