Are you really trying to cultivate immortality? Something feels off.

[Come on, keep calling.]

[Where are those idiots who just said Su Boyu had reached Foundation Establishment and Xie Weixing was inferior?]

[And that person who said they'd be eating shit hand-to-hand if they didn't die this time, really? Surely no one actually made a promise and didn't keep it?]

[A Foundation Establishment at 20 is genius? Then what about our Wake Up, who achieved Foundation Establishment at just 18 after gaining spiritual power? Is he your real father? Call me 'Daddy Xie' and let me hear it.]

[Just kidding, the Emperor wouldn't give birth to such a useless person.]

Don't reward them.

[Where are the haters? You refuse to play when you're behind, huh? You shrewd 80s generation old women are the smartest!]

[Why did your darling need several senior brothers and sisters to protect him and desperately use Foundation Establishment Pills to boost his cultivation when he reached Foundation Establishment? How come my darling achieved it so easily?]

It's so hard to guess whose darling is more capable!

"What's going on?" Feng Jilan frowned slightly, looking very imposing. He turned his head. "Xiao Long?"

Tan Suiting looked up and briefly recounted the events of the day.

When Shen Chunri heard Xie Weixing tell him to electrocute him, he almost choked on his own saliva.

Did you know that the sect is haunted?

The sound of water was heard, and Xie Weixing, soaked to the bone, scrambled ashore in a disheveled state.

He wasn't very familiar with the incantations and the use of spiritual power, so he couldn't quickly dry his body and then descend from the sky with an air of otherworldly grace, shouting "God descends!" just like in the TV dramas.

"Hello," but people have mouths to speak, "Could you dry it a little more for me?"

Tan Suiting tilted his head, just about to make a hand gesture.

Nie Zhao, standing to the side, waved casually.

The phoenix fire, imbued with rich spiritual energy, flew out instantly.

"Bang--!"

They fried Xie Weixing until he was burnt to a crisp.

Tan Suiting:

He silently withdrew his hand from the mudra.

"Cough." Xie Weixing exhaled a puff of black smoke, and his whole body had turned into Natasha. Except for the whites of his eyes, there was no part of him that could be seen to be any color other than black.

She was absolutely on par with Shen Chunri, whom she first met at the foot of the mountain.

Nie Zhao gave a slight smile, his tone indifferent: "Sorry. My hand slipped."

System: This is the senior sister of Feng Hua Sect. You almost blew up the back mountain and disturbed her cultivation. She doesn't like you. Just bear with it.

Xie Weixing: Is there an option of not being able to bear it?

System: Probably not. She's awesome.

Xie Weixing scoffed and didn't believe it: You think everyone's awesome? You could scare Wen Fu to death.

Seeing his stubbornness, the system sneered and gave a brief introduction: This Phoenix Maiden, she began Qi Refining at nine, Foundation Establishment at fourteen, and Core Formation at nineteen. She is three years older than you and is currently in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. Tan Suiting couldn't last three moves against her. Go and fight her.

Xie Weixing:

What the hell did he say? He just knelt down to the cheater.

"Very good," Xie Weixing said with a gentle and yielding smile, giving a thumbs-up. "I feel very good, brother, it's very heartwarming."

Nie Zhao: "That's good."

[I'm dying of laughter, who is this woman? She's so awesome!]

Am I really such a filial daughter to my father...? Why am I so happy to see him get blown up?

[Father-daughter relationship in East Asia, it's only natural]

[She is Nie Zhao. The Phoenix Clan has many members in each generation, but each lineage of the Phoenix Clan has only one pure-blooded Phoenix Maiden. Unfortunately, she is one of them.]

[I remember that all Phoenix Clan members have fire elemental roots, just like Dragon Clan members have lightning and water elemental roots, but only the Phoenix Maiden's fire elemental root can be called Phoenix Fire.]

[The most concentrated fire element among all fire spirit roots, bar none, it's practically cheating. In the original book, this woman almost burned the entire protagonist group to death with her Phoenix Fire in a secret realm. Even Su Boyu, a protagonist with a cheat-like advantage, avoided her. It's unknown how many levels he leveled up before daring to fight her.]

What's going on with the Feng Hua Sect? Are they assassins for the main characters?

[Yeah, they were originally the main villain sect in the original book.]

[It's alright, the villains won't last long anyway; they'll be wiped out and punished by the protagonist's group later.]

[So, is that why Tan Suiting couldn't have Xiao Yubao because they were sworn enemies, separated by the deaths of their teachers and fellow disciples? He dared not admit his love. What a bittersweet feeling!]

Xie Weixing's attention was drawn to the barrage of comments.

An entire family wiped out? A tangled web of love and hate?

His lips twitched.

This is so troublesome, maybe I should just run away. I feel like staying here won't end well.

Actually, he had no intention of getting entangled with Su Boyu, as long as she didn't provoke him.

If possible, he wanted to stay away from these inexplicable things and enjoy the happiness of the cultivation world.

Before Xie Weixing could react, Feng Jilan grabbed his shoulder and lifted him out.

Sun and Moon Palace.

The weather was perfect, with a gentle breeze blowing. Fengyu sat on a lounge chair in the garden, basking in the sun and enjoying a leisurely afternoon tea.

"Bang--!!"

Startled, his hand trembled, and the teacup fell with a dull thud onto his clothes, splashing warm tea everywhere.

The next second, his junior brother appeared before him with a black man.

Feng Yu: ...

"This is?"

This charcoal looks kind of familiar.

"Xie Weixing." Feng Jilan's expression was serious as he casually tossed the person in his hand aside. "He's reached Foundation Establishment. Go and see what's going on."

Xie Weixing, who had just broken through to the Qi Refining Realm and was completely exhausted, was thrown about.

Feng Yu: ?

"Who?"

Who did you say has reached the Foundation Establishment stage?

The man with the coal-shaped hair caught his breath, sat up, grinned, and his white teeth gleamed like lightning, making him extremely noticeable.

He made a peace sign: "Me."

Feng Yu almost fainted.

*

Xie Weixing briefly explained the whole story.

"You dare to use the Spirit-Shrinking Wood and forbidden drugs yourself?" Feng Yu exclaimed in astonishment, while the usually composed and serene Liu Yan Zhenren almost frowned deeply.

Xie Weixing, who had originally intended to show off his expertise, said casually, "You flatter me, you flatter me. I was just lucky."

The result was that it looked like a black coal spirit, with its hair all frizzy and curled, making it look very strange.

Feng Yu: ?

Feng Jilan: "Who exactly wants to praise you? You blew up the back mountain like that; I've brought you here to hold you accountable."

Xie Weixing: "Oh, oh."

"Can you use your spiritual root now?" Feng Yu asked.

"Can."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, and wisps of water rose from his palm.

"But for now, we can only cultivate the water elemental root."

Feng Jilan and Feng Yu exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock and disbelief in each other's eyes.

Five spiritual roots.

This is the only one of the five spiritual roots still existing in the cultivation world that can use spiritual power.

Unprecedented in history.

"You must hide the fact that you have five spiritual roots," Feng Yu said with a serious expression. "No matter who asks you, tell them that you can only use one of the five spiritual roots and that the others are useless."

After all, even a cultivator like Su Boyu, who was at the Qi Refining Realm, dared to instigate Wen Fu to dig out his spiritual core. Many people have no bottom line or humanity when it comes to cultivation.

Xie Weixing nodded and smiled, "That's what I think too."

A moment of silence.

"Are you done talking?" Feng Jilan said. "Then let's talk about how you destroyed half of the sect's back mountain."