Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 229 Preparing for Tongxuan

A cave dwelling, a cave dwelling—if there's no cave, can it be called a cave dwelling?

Yes, that works too.

If Pei Xia clears the land properly, it won't be a problem to build some houses on the vacant land, enough for them to cultivate and rest in.

However, Pei Xia did not refuse Li Shixiong's suggestion to open the hole.

Some things are best done discreetly, to avoid being noticed by someone later and having difficulty explaining yourself.

Senior Brother Li nodded and turned to leave, saying that he would help Pei Xia complete the formalities regarding the cave dwelling after he returned.

Pei Xia quickly stepped forward, rolled up a silver note, and handed it to Senior Brother Li.

He, who hadn't shown Pei Xia a kind look the whole way, finally softened his expression: "Master also instructed me to give you a Mixed Spirit Pill. I'll send someone to deliver it to you later. I wish Junior Brother Pei a speedy breakthrough to the Profound Realm."

After watching Senior Brother Li leave, Pei Xia looked around and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After leaving Weishan for so long, and since escaping Beishi City, this is the first long-term place Pei Xia has found to stay.

The pear had already climbed up a nearby tree, picking unknown fruits while sticking out its nose to sniff them.

Han Youzhi, meanwhile, scooped up a handful of water by the stream and washed her face.

“The spring water is quite sweet,” she stood up and turned to look at Pei Xia. “What are your plans next?”

Pei Xia's goal is the Liancheng Illusionary Realm six months from now, and to achieve this, breaking through to the Tongxuan realm is the first step he must take.

Although Pei Xia's cultivation has almost no bottlenecks, at this level, his exaggerated inner cauldron has become a hindrance.

Inside the belly of the Sea God, with the abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he had already completed the tempering of most of the spiritual power manifestation. However, even for the remaining ones, it would take a lot of time to proceed step by step.

This is why he asked Huang Bing for a cave dwelling; he really needed to go into seclusion.

"First, do the surface work well."

The cave has just opened, and it might attract some attention, so now is not the time to rush into important matters.

By the time the people tasked with opening the tunnel for Pei Xia arrived, Pei Xia and Han Youzhi had already cleared most of the open space by the stream.

After exchanging polite greetings, Pei Xia led the other person on a tour of the surrounding area.

Actually, there weren't many other options. The east bank of the stream was adjacent to a mountain, so Pei Xia could only build his cave here.

As expected, Senior Brother Li was reliable after taking the money. Pei Xia struck up a conversation with him and asked about these people. They were also subordinates of an outer elder of the Changjing Sect. They regularly accepted commissions to open holes for people and earned commissions. They were very professional in their work.

Forget about internal energy; just look at the magical artifacts they use—each of them has a pickaxe, which they say their master specially obtained for them from the weapon-refining hall.

It takes many hands to make light work; before nightfall, a mountain cave dwelling was already taking shape.

The "construction team" enthusiastically offered to help Pei Xia widen and renovate the area, but Pei Xia politely declined, citing the current small population and the lack of need for such services.

When night fell, the three of them, the two adults and the child Pei Xia, could only squat by the stream, light a campfire, and rest with the little dry food they had brought with them.

"Why do I feel like I'm not much different from when I was wandering the world?" Han Youzhi asked first.

Pei Xia didn't refute him. Instead, she sighed and muttered to herself, "It's like the subtle feeling of sleeping in your own unfinished house and watching the renovation."

Pear spat out a core with a "pui" sound: "This tree fruit tastes awful."

Just as Pei Xia had predicted, he indeed became his own renovation team for the next few days.

First, they cleared out all the open space by the stream, and then together with Lao Han, they built three wooden houses, two of which were used for resting and one for storing miscellaneous items.

Next was the cave dwelling connected to the open space. The reason Pei Xia had sent the sect's cultivators who had opened the cave back was because it would be used for some unspeakable purposes later.

With the help of the Flying Hundred Swords, Pei Xia was also very fast at opening holes.

He used the space he had first cleared as the main body and expanded it inwards to include several stone caves, including an alchemy room, a weapon-refining room, and a room reserved for planting spiritual plants.

The promised Mixed Spirit Pill from Sect Leader Huang has arrived. This pill can help cultivators in the Cauldron Refining stage to accelerate the tempering and manifestation of spiritual power, and its effects are amazing. For ordinary cultivators, as long as they are not hindered by bottlenecks, one pill is enough to digest the inner cauldron.

But for Pei Xia, one is far from enough; he must find a way to get more.

The Hunling Pill can only be used for alchemy, but the required formula is expensive, so alchemists are generally unwilling to make it. It is also difficult to convert into cash, so its circulation is also low. The best way to meet Pei Xia's needs is to make it himself.

This made it necessary to consider the medicinal herbs, which is why Pei Xia paid special attention to the sect's medicinal herb garden at that time.

The level of the Long Whale Sect is not high enough, and neither the Jade Ginseng nor the Xuanji Grass required for the Mixed Spirit Pill are produced.

The good news is that these two medicinal herbs are essentially red ginseng and spirit stone grass. Red ginseng has a chance to transform into jade-colored herbs in an extremely rich spiritual energy environment, while spirit stone grass needs to be irrigated with a large amount of spirit stone grass juice to be cultivated into Xuanji grass.

It's not impossible to accumulate a batch of Mixed Spirit Pills if you're willing to invest the resources, but the process of cultivating these spiritual plants shouldn't be revealed to others.

After a period of busy work, this streamside cave is finally beginning to resemble a secluded paradise.

Han Youzhi, in particular, took advantage of Pei Xia's inattention and actually started raising rabbits next to the house again.

For Han Youzhi, the rabbit is both the key to her ability to manifest her supernatural powers and a reflection of her life circumstances.

She raised rabbits when she was in charge of the Holy Palace, and she raised rabbits when she lived in seclusion in Youzhou. Pei Xia originally thought that having a snake keeper on her side should be a thorn in her side, but she didn't expect that Han Youzhi would start raising rabbits again right in front of her.

This made Pei Xia feel inexplicably uneasy.

While tidying up the alchemy room inside the cave, Pei Xia asked Lu Li, "How's your research on the restrictions on Old Han's back going?"

Pear casually replied, "About 70-80%. If you're willing to lend me the power of the Calamity Pig, I'm 100% confident."

In other words, Pear now has a thorough understanding of how to get rid of the snake breeder; the rest is simply a matter of computing power.

After the battle in the underground palace, Pei Xia dared not let Li Zi touch the calamity pig again.

All I can say is, "When you have nothing to do, you can try to solve it. If you can't, you can take it one step at a time."

The snake keeper has six fire snakes that are interconnected and form a powerful restriction. In principle, Lu Li can try to slowly break the restriction one snake at a time.

Pear blinked and looked at him: "Are you really going to let Lao Han go?"

Pei Xia glared at her back: "What did you say?"

Pear shook her head and muttered, "Actually, I feel that Sister Han doesn't seem to be too resistant to following you. Anyway, she's wandering the world and has nowhere to go... tsk, right?"

"That's bullshit, you're a little devil."

Pei Xia slapped her on the forehead: "I'm going to Liancheng Fire Vein, do you think I can take her with me?"

What level of existence is Ru Tao? Even the Sea Patrol God, with his Void Returning power, couldn't contend with her. Let alone Han Youzhi being a Transformation Yuan, even if she broke through to the Heavenly Consciousness level, she would definitely not be able to face Ru Tao directly. Taking her to the Liancheng Fire Vein would be tantamount to sending her to her death.

Pear rolled her eyes. Are we talking about the same thing?
Forget it, I'll just let you live alone forever and save myself the trouble of taking care of your kids in the future!
Lu Li lowered her head, preparing to continue drawing her array that focused firepower for future use in alchemy.

Suddenly, some noisy sounds came from outside the cave, mixed with Han Youzhi's somewhat impatient warning.

Pei Xia pressed her hand, signaling Li Zi to continue, and then got up and walked out of the cave.

(End of this chapter)