Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 167 Returning to Baishan
Over the next month, Fang Jingxuan continuously tested the limits of the Six Bones. The 'Rainbow Light Escape' was indeed powerful. Fang Jingxuan tested it with his own mountain-protecting formation, and it passed right through without blocking anything.

This protective mountain formation was a second-tier low-grade formation that Chen Hei Chan bought at a high price. Even so, it did not play a role in blocking the 'Rainbow Light Escape'.

Finally, more than a month later, Fang Jingxuan released Liu Gu and let it rest in the Spirit Control Bag.

On this day, Fang Jingxuan sat cross-legged in the quiet room of his cave dwelling, quietly contemplating the future.

At this moment, Fang Jingxuan turned his gaze away from his attribute panel; he was now thirty-seven years old.

Having mastered the "Green Wood Nourishing Body Technique," which grants the ability to extend one's lifespan by ten years, Fang Jingxuan's current optimal time for Foundation Establishment is estimated to be around sixty-five years old.

Originally, Fang Jingxuan thought he had eighteen years to plan. He planned to wait until Tuoyuan was also nourished by the Moon Dew and reached the Foundation Establishment stage before he would think about going out to plan for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

But at this moment, the new supernatural power awakened in Liu Gu gave him full confidence.

Fang Jingxuan silently checked the spirit stones in his storage bag. After three years of harvest, his spirit stone reserves had returned to the level of one thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

However, these spirit stones were still not enough to buy a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill. Fang Jingxuan sensed his current total amount of mana, as well as his qi, blood, and physique. He felt that a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill might not be enough for him to successfully establish his foundation.

According to Fang Jingxuan's understanding, the Foundation Establishment Pill is a catalyst, which allows his mana to undergo a violent reaction, thereby generating the liquid mana required by Foundation Establishment cultivators, which is the most crucial element.

For an ordinary cultivator, one high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill is enough, or even more than enough.

However, his total mana is nine or ten times that of an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator. So, would one high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill be enough?
Power comes at a price, and the Xuan Yuan True Explanation technique is so powerful that few cultivators actively practice it, which clearly indicates a hidden danger.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan's eyes narrowed slightly. Relying solely on the original resources of Black Toad Island, he could only guarantee one high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill at the next Guixu Auction seven years later.

Besides that, there's nothing else I can buy, and what I need is more than just one high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill. I need at least three, and relying solely on silently accumulating spirit stones won't work.

Very well, with a weapon in hand, the desire to kill arises naturally. With such supernatural power as the Six Bones, I might as well try to snatch a chestnut from the fire and go to the White Mountain Pill Cauldron Sect. Right now, there's a fierce battle going on over there.

Two years ago, the crisis of the Dan Ding Sect finally erupted completely. With the Dan Ding Patriarch in seclusion, the territory of the Dan Ding Sect was already engulfed in flames of war.

At this time, this place has become a paradise for cultivators who have undergone tribulation, and the original major Foundation Establishment families have all done their best to shrink their territories, abandoning many good spiritual lands and letting them be occupied by cultivators who have undergone tribulation.

In fact, at the very beginning, these Foundation Establishment families dared to send troops to annihilate the Tribulation Cultivators. However, when they discovered that some of the Tribulation Cultivators were more organized and disciplined than they were, and their cultivation techniques were more powerful than theirs, they understood.

These are cultivators dispatched by the surrounding Spiritwood Alliance, Fire Alliance, and some Water Alliance. They are nominally not going to war, but in reality, they have already invaded.

Thus, the four Foundation Establishment families of the Dan Ding Sect—Chu, He, Ning, and Zhang—all retreated into their shells, relying on the market as their stronghold, and endured hardship, waiting for the Dan Ding Sect to send reinforcements to wipe out these treacherous cultivators.

Now, two years have passed, and the situation of the Dan Ding Sect has become increasingly worse. But precisely because of this, more and more rogue cultivators are flocking to it, hoping to seize this opportunity to change their lives.

Fang Jingxuan thought so too. The amount of spirit stones he needed was too great. Considering the shortage of two high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, he would need four thousand mid-grade spirit stones to be safe.

The original owner of this place, Chen Heichan, was a veteran rogue cultivator stuck at the Qi Refining Perfection stage for many years. Even if all his assets were converted, they wouldn't amount to a thousand mid-grade spirit stones. In other words, Fang Jingxuan would have to eliminate at least four such cultivators to gather the remaining two high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills.

The South China Sea is so small, how could it possibly have so many rogue cultivators at the Qi Refining Perfection stage, to be used as monsters for Fang Jingxuan to farm?

These Qi Refining Perfection cultivators were mostly from the Foundation Establishment families of the three Guixu families, or at the very least, guest elders or retainers. The death of even one of them would attract their attention, let alone four.

Therefore, Fang Jingxuan did not want to cause trouble in the South China Sea, nor did he want to go to an unfamiliar place to make a living.

Therefore, the territory of the Baishan Dan Ding Sect, which had been in chaos for two years and was still without order, became his first choice.

For the sake of spirit stones and for the sake of foundation building, Fang Jingxuan felt that taking some risks was acceptable.

Moreover, with the 'Rainbow Light Escape', while it's possible to be unable to win, the possibility of being unable to escape is extremely small.

With the addition of [A Sudden Inspiration] and [Cicada's Hidden Essence], Fang Jingxuan believed that the advantage was in his hands this time!
Three days later, Fang Jingxuan summoned Huang Xie and He Can, instructing them to continue as usual, while he himself needed to go on a long trip and would probably be back in a few months.

Now, three years later, the two have gained Fang Jingxuan's initial trust, and they have handled both domestic and foreign affairs very well.

But that was all. Fang Jingxuan didn't focus too much on that; he only looked at the spirit stones that arrived in his account each month.

The path of immortality values ​​self-interest; all power resides within oneself. The greatest purpose of managing one's influence is to ensure that it serves one's own interests better.

In this respect, the two of them did a good job.

In fact, Fang Jingxuan didn't care much about Black Toad Island. In his view, as long as he successfully established his foundation, he could take back an island like this at any time, and no one would turn against him for such an island.

It can only be said that Fang Jingxuan's thinking has become more insightful through the trials of reality, and his state of mind has become more hardened than when he was in Hongyefang.

After explaining these things, Fang Jingxuan led Tuoyuan towards the direction of Baishan Dan Ding Sect.

Just like the way he came, only this time, his journey was the opposite.

After entering the territory of Lianshui Alliance from the South China Sea, and then traveling upstream along the Nu River, Fang Jingxuan saw a familiar scene in just five days and nights: the great river, the Qinghe River.

Upon arriving here, Fang Jingxuan put Tuoyuan into his Xumi Spirit Control Bag. Tuoyuan was too big and attracted too much attention. Since Fang Jingxuan's mission was not exactly honorable, he needed to keep a low profile.

Continuing upstream along the Qinghe River, Fang Jingxuan witnessed several battles and duels along the way, but the combatants were all at the early and middle stages of Qi Refining, and they did not attract Fang Jingxuan's attention at all.

Fang Jingxuan concealed his presence all the way to the vicinity of Red Leaf Market. Looking at the market that had changed so much, he couldn't help but frown.

(End of this chapter)