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

Chapter 99 The Two Elders, Pine and Crane

"You Qi people are certainly living a carefree life, ruling over such a vast land with abundant resources. Killing a few of you will certainly make you quite wealthy. Kid, I bet you have quite a few good things to offer, hehe!"

"Sigh! What an annoying thing." Song Chuan shook his head and sighed.

After saying that, he released the aura of a Foundation Establishment cultivator and gently made a hand seal.

Before the two could react, they were surrounded by spikes that suddenly appeared on the ground.

"Oh dear, senior, spare us! Spare us! We were so blind to your greatness!"

Upon seeing that he was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, the two were shocked and exclaimed in surprise. They thought to themselves that they were really unlucky. This person had come to Mount Dai, pretended to be an eighth-level Qi Refining cultivator, and wandered around aimlessly. Could it be that he was fishing?

"Why have you come to Qi?" Song Chuan shouted.

"This—" One of the people in the mound looked troubled.

"Senior, we two can no longer survive in the State of Jing, so we came to the State of Qi to see if there are any opportunities. We beg you to show mercy, we will never dare to do it again!"

Song Chuan snorted coldly: "Not telling the truth."

He made a hand gesture, and the person speaking behind him was immediately suffocated by the earth and rocks. The mound of earth writhed and sank into the ground, disappearing without a sound, leaving only a storage bag lying quietly on the ground.

The other man, trembling with fear, said, "Senior, I'll tell you, I'll tell you. It's about the 'Two Elders of Pine and Crane' from the Qi Kingdom, who are recruiting late-stage Qi Refining cultivators from the scattered cultivators of the Jing Kingdom. They say that coming to Qi Kingdom to serve them will bring great rewards."

"The two elders, Song and He? What are their names?"

"This junior really doesn't know! The title of the two elders, Song and He, was only revealed unintentionally by the person who recruited them, but one of their Taoist names seems to be Cisong Daoren."

"What did they send you here to do?"

"They said it was related to alchemy and told us to meet in Daicheng, Baiquan County. We figured we had plenty of time, so we decided to rob someone here. It wasn't like he said, that we killed several people. We only robbed and killed one person, and that person didn't look like a good guy, so we did it."

"Heh! I believed what you said before, but do you even believe what you say afterward?"

Song Chuan scoffed, about to ask something else, when he suddenly froze, pointing a finger. This person, like the other, was buried underground. With a flick of his fingers, two storage bags were snatched away.

"Here are the roots of a giant corpse flower; you can use them as fertilizer."

With a light laugh, he summoned the Azure Mist Shuttle and fled into the distance.

A short while after Song Chuan left, two people landed in the woods.

Both men had aged faces; one had a wrinkled face and a long, flowing beard, while the other had an ancient, weathered appearance with white hair and beard. Both were Foundation Establishment cultivators!

"Brother He, are you sure someone was here just now?"

"Not bad, we're kindred spirits."

"So, this person sensed our presence and left first. Could it be that their spiritual sense is even higher than ours?"

"That's not the case. I didn't fully unleash my divine sense just now. I only glanced around and found that there seemed to be a cultivator here. This person should be at most in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage."

"Since there's nothing else, let's continue. My sect's cave dwelling outside has prepared spirit wine and beautiful women for Brother He. Enjoy yourself!"

After saying that, the two boarded their flying magical artifact and left the forest.

On the Azure Cloud Shuttle, Song Chuan's expression changed slightly. Just now, with the help of the Yellow Pearl, he sensed two powerful individuals approaching, so he quickly left.

Could it be that people from the Hanging Gourd Pavilion are tracking me? Impossible, the Hanging Gourd Pavilion must be bored out of their minds. Besides, those two should have noticed me too, but they didn't chase after me.

One of them seemed familiar, but due to the great distance, the scent was very faint and could not be identified.

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Could it be those "Two Elders of Pine and Crane" who recruited Qi-refining rogue cultivators from the State of Jing and came to the State of Qi to refine pills? He couldn't quite figure it out. Oh well, it had nothing to do with him anyway.

He opened the storage bags of Jing Guo and the other man and glanced at them.

"Huh? Insect crystal? Why does it look like this?" Song Chuan held a crystal about an inch in size, feeling very puzzled.

This object is vastly different from ordinary insect crystals. It is pale white all over, but looks murky, as if it has been rolled in mud.

Song Chuan sniffed it, his face showing shock.

Turbid energy! And it's extremely deep-seated turbid energy from the earth's veins!

This turbid air is vastly different from the turbid air from the earth veins after the abandonment of Canxiang Garden; it is extremely pure.

His expression suddenly turned strange. The "Earth Prison Seed Yuan Technique" mentioned a rare type of earth vein called "Turbid Heart Vein". The Turbid Heart Vein described in the text was exactly the same as the turbid energy emitted by this insect crystal.

Could it be that the Jing Kingdom has demonic insects living on these veins of earth? Doesn't that mean the Jing Kingdom has a turbid heart vein?

His eyes flickered, and the orchid worm in his arms silently crawled out. With a swift movement of his sickle, Song Chuan loosened his grip, and the worm crystal was hooked back by the orchid worm, which began to chew and swallow it slowly.

"Jing Kingdom!" He muttered to himself, shaking his head, then patted the Azure Shuttle, increasing its speed slightly before disappearing into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

Several days later, in Wisteria Valley.

Song Chuan had already switched back to the green leaf magic artifact and landed in front of a remote mountain range.

Wisteria Valley is actually located in a mountain range called Wisteria Mountain Range in Hexi County. The place he is in now is a branch of this mountain range.

This branch is located on the southwest side of the Wisteria Mountain Range, with undulating peaks and a strong spiritual atmosphere. It is formed by the intersection of dozens of second-order spiritual veins!

If Song Chuan hadn't been aiming to cultivate the "Earth Prison Seed Yuan Technique," he could have easily found any spiritual vein cave here.

He flew freely among the branches, occasionally catching glimpses of the caves of other Foundation Establishment disciples, but they were all concealed by arrays, making it impossible to see clearly. He also didn't know how many people stayed here to cultivate, or how many were out there on missions.

After winding around for a while, we finally arrived at the lower edge of a ridge, which is the tail end of the mountain range.

This place is quite secluded, with no other Foundation Establishment cultivators' caves nearby.

He looked at the mountain wall in front of him, where there was a tightly closed stone door, about ten feet high, that blended into the mountain wall.

To the left of the stone gate, a stream three or four feet wide flows gently. This place should have originally been a small spiritual garden, built around the stream.

But over time, only traces remain, though a few worthless first-tier spiritual plants are growing.

To the right of the stone gate were some thick, withered vines. After thinking for a moment, Song Chuan decided to burn them first.

In a place like Vine Valley, it's best to avoid seeing any vines in private. The sect has all sorts of spiritual vines, many of which have the ability to detect things.

Now that he has reached the Foundation Establishment stage, he can exchange for several useful spirit vines within the sect in the future.

With a flick of the incantation, the stone door slowly opened, revealing a passage.

This cave is currently undefended, but the stone door is indestructible and cannot be opened by cultivators of Qi Refining. It is made of a special type of bluestone.

As you step inside, a refreshing, earthy scent washes over you.

The passage is not long, and at the end is a rather large stone hall with stone tables and benches, which is a place for receiving guests.

On one side of the stone hall, another stone door opened, behind which a slightly longer passage led to four stone chambers.

Song Chuan went inside and looked around. There was a quiet room for meditation and cultivation, a spacious room with solid walls for practicing magic, and a spirit beast room for raising spirit beasts.

The last room has a soft, spiritual soil floor instead of hard stone, and is a secret place for cultivating rare spiritual plants.

Song Chuan's figure flashed and disappeared underground. A moment later, he returned to the ground and nodded in satisfaction.

He took out the array flags that came with the cave dwelling and went out to set them up.