Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 225 Construction of the Dojo
Fang Jingxuan, focused on refining pills, was unaware of the enormous changes happening outside. He simply felt content, as the increase in his lifespan limit made him incredibly at ease.

Of course, this is on the premise that he does not feel that his life is threatened. But at present, in this wild land, Fang Jingxuan has directly increased the goodwill of the three Golden Core demon beasts by relying on his supernatural talent and his wonderful alchemy skills.

In this territory, Fang Jingxuan can currently be said to hold a position below the Three Demons and above all other beasts.

However, Fang Jingxuan has not yet found out the ultimate lord of this area, the lord shared by the beautiful snake, the crow Xiao Hei, and the returning earth beast, which is an ancient beast in the Nascent Soul stage.

In fact, the distribution of power in this wilderness is similar to the structure of human society. The lower-level demon beasts are only busy with survival, but once they reach the Foundation Establishment and Core Formation realms, they understand many principles.

Once they gained sentience, they naturally learned to seek advantage and avoid harm, and they also knew how to submit to powerful demonic beasts in order to gain protection.

Within the territory of a Nascent Soul Ancient Beast, there should be four or five territories belonging to Golden Core Demon Beasts. A Golden Core Demon Beast's territory will house more than a dozen Foundation Establishment communities. Further subdivided, there are the most basic Qi Refining Demon Beast individuals.

After four or five years of exploration, Fang Jingxuan has roughly figured out the Foundation Establishment monster groups in the territory of the Beautiful Serpent and the Returning Earth Beast.

For this reason, he also recruited a few clever Foundation Establishment demon beasts to serve as his errand runners, entrusting them with some basic tasks.

People will always try their best to find ways to overcome their laziness, and Fang Jingxuan, as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, is no exception.

What we are seeing right now is a typical example of this kind of behavior.

In front of the fourth-tier spirit pine, a group of Qi Refining apes, driven by several Foundation Establishment apes, carried spirit wood and stones, continuously transporting them to a cleared area.

Further away, a dozen or so enormous bulls, each carrying heavy stones on their backs, were driving this way.

Their source of goods was a large river fifty miles away, where Tuoyuan, as the overseer, directed a group of turtle-like monsters to drag logs that floated down from upstream to the shore.

These logs came from a wild and desolate region 1,300 miles away, where a second-tier spiritual wood called Blood Sandalwood is abundant. This wood is very hard and has a unique fragrance. Cultivating under this wood for a long time allows one to absorb the blood essence within it, making it an absolute treasure for demonic beasts.

After traversing the territory of the Returning Earth Beast, Fang Jingxuan discovered this wood and, naturally, he made no attempt to keep it for himself.

Since he didn't have a cave dwelling in front of this fourth-tier spirit pine tree, he commanded these demonic beasts to build a residence for himself.

The Golden Core Returning to Earth Beast had some reservations about Fang Jingxuan's behavior, since Fang Jingxuan's large-scale construction was disturbing its sleep.

As for Fang Jingxuan's act of mining the blood sandalwood in its territory, it didn't care. This earth-returning beast didn't have a strong sense of territory. As long as Fang Jingxuan didn't covet the spiritual vein minerals where it was located, it didn't care about these things.

Fang Jingxuan took the objections of the Returning Earth Beast seriously, so he took it upon himself to increase the monthly supply of 'Imperial Jade Dew Pills' from one to two. The Golden Core Returning Earth Beast then happily continued its deep sleep, no longer caring about Fang Jingxuan's antics.

Seeing that their lord was not taking any action, the other Foundation Establishment demon beasts in the Golden Core Returning Earth Beast territory naturally had to submit to Fang Jingxuan's tyranny. Thus, the scene before them came to be: various spirit trees and spirit stones, transported by the river, were continuously gathering in front of this fourth-tier spirit pine.

Fang Jingxuan knew that he was not capable of taking away this fourth-order spiritual pine at present, so he simply built his cave here and made this spiritual pine a part of his own dojo. In this way, he would have ownership of this spiritual pine in the future.

Fang Jingxuan planned a training ground for himself, covering an area of ​​8,000 acres. He mainly surrounded this spiritual pine tree in the center, and his own meditation room was built under this spiritual pine tree. His alchemy room and medicine room were also located here.

Furthermore, the edge of the Daoist temple is where the spiritual vein of the Golden Core Returning to Earth Beast is located. As its neighbor, Fang Jingxuan naturally considered its needs and did not occupy the entire area.

According to the plan, it will take more than a year for this training ground to be initially completed. After all, even with Fang Jingxuan overseeing it, problems will frequently arise when a group of demonic beasts are involved in its construction, so the progress will not be fast.

However, the most important meditation room and alchemy room have been built. All the wood is blood sandalwood, and the ground under the spirit pine tree is paved with white jade.

Fang Jingxuan leveled the ground under the spirit pine tree and created a white jade stone courtyard covering dozens of acres. A little further away, he built a spirit garden and released the Enlightenment Vine and the Green Gourd Sword Vine from the Green Wood Treasure Garden and transplanted them here.

The Green Wood Garden can only keep the spiritual plants alive, but it doesn't do much good for their growth. So, in order for these two spiritual plants to grow as quickly as possible, Fang Jingxuan released them and let them absorb some of the pure wood spiritual energy of this fourth-order spiritual pine.

This fourth-order spiritual pine tree is enormous, standing tens of feet tall and covering hundreds of acres. Its underground roots can stretch for seven or eight miles, and it absorbs and releases a massive amount of spiritual energy every day.

Cultivating under this tree is a blessed land for cultivators with wood-attribute spiritual roots. Even if one's innate nature is not pine or cypress, one can still reap great benefits.

Not to mention Fang Jingxuan, a cultivator whose natal element is pine and cypress. In the past few years, whenever he comprehended with this spiritual pine, he could feel the illusory image of his natal element in his sea of ​​consciousness becoming more and more solid, far exceeding the changes he experienced during his previous cultivation.

The individual's destiny is undergoing positive changes, manifesting in their innate supernatural abilities. This is thanks to the [Moon Dew Nectar] and [Eternal Life of the Cypress Tree] from the [Thousand Spirit Cypress Tree], which naturally elevate their abilities.

Currently, Fang Jingxuan can collect enough moon dew to fill fifteen jade bottles after using [Moon Dew Nectar] once. This change occurs every month, with an additional seven or eight drops. At present, Fang Jingxuan has not yet felt the limit of this innate divine power.

Meanwhile, the [Eternal Life Cypress] is also undergoing internal changes. The effect of extending life by thirty years when advancing to a higher realm has become even more significant, and is now increasing towards extending life by thirty-five years.

This is the real change that this fourth-tier spiritual pine brought to Fang Jingxuan. Therefore, Fang Jingxuan lost the idea of ​​continuing to travel around and prepared to build a dojo here to cultivate diligently. He planned not to go out until he reached the Great Perfection of the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Now, the Taoist temple built by Fang Jingxuan has taken initial shape, and Fang Jingxuan is very satisfied. He specially took a large stone from the temple gate and carved three large characters on it:

"Eight Views Palace".

(End of this chapter)