I planted the spiritual roots for my people, and they bestowed upon me a body inscribed with incense

Soon, Li Yuan arrived at the former Sishui Gang's base, which had now become the Sishui Escort Agency.

Upon seeing Li Yuan arrive, the guards immediately lowered their heads respectfully. After entering the escort agency, Li Yuan began to wander around.

Before informing Wang Tiezhu, Li Yuan toured the entire escort agency. Seeing that the agency was now on the right track, Li Yuan left.

Li Yuan wouldn't let this little thing interfere with his important business.

However, when Li Yuan went to Suiyun County, he deliberately avoided Gutuo Temple.

Although he dared not provoke them, Li Yuan still sent someone to inquire. He discovered that the incense at Gutuo Temple was becoming increasingly popular, and even people from small fishing villages had gone to Gutuo Temple to burn incense.

Li Yuan didn't interfere much with this. Only those close to the Li family, such as the bandit-suppressing team, were notified by the Li family to stay away from the ancient temple.

By taking this detour to Suiyun County, Li Yuan traveled more than ten miles. When he arrived in Suiyun County, it was already night. For convenience, Li Yuan found an inn in the city to stay overnight and planned to go to find the temple the next day.

The next day, Li Yuan got up early and went to two places marked on the map that were very popular with worshippers. One of them was called Xuanhuo Temple and the other was called Daozhen Temple.

Looking at the map, Li Yuan found that Daozhen Temple was relatively close, so he went there first. Daozhen Temple enshrines deities very similar to the Three Pure Ones in Li Yuan's previous life, who are also Taoist immortals.

After entering the temple, Li Yuan found a secluded spot and tried to awaken the three-colored pearl within his body. Sure enough, the three-colored pearl seemed to sense something, and after it shot out from Li Yuan's forehead, wisps of golden energy began to appear around it, constantly converging towards the three-colored pearl.

This time, the power of the incense offerings was clearly not as great as before; only eight strands of Geng metal energy condensed within the three-colored bead.

However, Li Yuan stayed for another two hours before leaving. After confirming that there was no more incense offering, Li Yuan left Daozhen Temple and headed towards Xuanhuo Temple.

Two more hours later, Li Yuan arrived at Xuanhuo Temple. Li Yuan once again activated the three-colored bead within his body to see if it could sense the power of incense offerings in this place.

As soon as Li Yuanling sensed it out, the three-colored bead shot out on its own, followed by wisps of golden incense smoke gathering towards it.

This time, time passed even more slowly, taking a full three hours for Li Yuan to retrieve the three-colored pearl. The harvest this time was obviously much richer, reaching twelve strands of Geng metal energy.

Having obtained a total of twenty strands of Geng metal energy from the previous eight strands, the Geng metal energy in the three-colored pearl was now enough for Li Yuan to plant a spiritual root for the Li family again. After retrieving the three-colored pearl back into his body, Li Yuan left the Xuanhuo Temple.

This time, regardless of who he is planting spiritual roots for, Li Yuan will not do it near the Li family or Luoshan City. Li Yuan plans to place the planting of spiritual roots in Daheng Mountain.

This way, both safety and secrecy can be ensured.

After a morning of travel, Li Yuan quickly returned home. At this time, Li Yuan, Li Daqiang, and Zhang Shi were sitting in the courtyard.

"Mother, please grant my request. Li Tong is still young, and I will plant it for him again when he is older."

Looking at Li Yuan, whose face was full of concern for her, Zhang slowly said:

"Yuan'er, I know your feelings, but I am already over forty years old. Cultivating immortality has no appeal to me. Now that I have a grandson and such a well-behaved son as you and Tong'er, why waste this opportunity for me?"

Upon hearing this, Li Daqiang, who was standing to the side, slowly said:

"This is Yuan'er's filial piety. If you don't agree, I'm afraid Yuan'er's cultivation will hardly make any progress in the future."

Upon hearing this, Zhang glared at Li Daqiang, then slowly said:

"Yuan'er, what about your younger brother? If I also develop spiritual roots, and there are four of us in our family except Tong'er, what will he think?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan quickly assured Zhang that he was right, and only then did Zhang reluctantly agree.

In truth, Li Yuan knew that even if he planted spiritual roots in his mother, the chances of her breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage were slim. However, there were some things that a son must do.

Seeing that Zhang agreed, Li Yuan immediately began to make arrangements for the matter.

The first thing to do was to have someone notify Wang Tiezhu to come back and lead the bandit-extermination team to Daheng Mountain under the pretense of hunting.

There are many spirits and monsters in Daheng Mountain, so Li Yuan and Li Daqiang cannot be careless on this trip.

It wasn't until the third day, after everything was ready, that Li Yuan and his men headed towards Daheng Mountain.

Along the way, Li Yuan and Li Daqiang hunted a lot of prey and gave it to Wang Tiezhu and the others. Li Yuan observed the surrounding locations and finally found a suitable place to stop after going more than ten miles into Daheng Mountain.

After dispersing everyone around, Li Yuan guided the remaining spiritual energy in the three-colored bead to merge into Zhang's body.

Seeing this, the spiritual energy lost contact with Li Yuan as soon as it merged into Zhang's body. After a while, dark clouds slowly gathered in the sky, just like before.

Seeing this, Li Yuan quickly summoned the three-colored pearl. At the same time, Li Yuan stood beside Zhang Shi, and while protecting himself, he also channeled his magical power into Zhang Shi's body.

You must know that the shock force generated by this lightning tribulation was something that someone like Zhang Yun'er, who had never practiced martial arts, could not withstand. Without Li Yuan's magical power to protect her, her mother would probably have been shaken to the point of bleeding from all seven orifices in no time.

As the lightning struck from the sky, Li Yuanqiang endured the discomfort and continuously channeled his magic power to protect his mother from the tremors.

At the same time, as the lightning struck, countless wild beasts in Daheng Mountain fled frantically in all directions. Without the bandit-slaying team guarding them, these mountain spirits and beasts vanished completely.

Fortunately, the Geng metal power in the three-colored beads was abundant, so Zhang only experienced some physical discomfort and was otherwise fine.

After the spiritual root planting was completed, Li Yuan took his mother and left first. The members of the bandit extermination team realized that it was the work of the Li family when the tribulation lightning arrived. They looked at each other, all realizing something, but none of them spoke.

Wang Tiezhu, seeing Li Daqiang beckoning to him, slowly let the others take their prey and leave.

At this moment, the old Taoist priest opened his eyes. Although he really wanted to go and see this strange place of lightning tribulation, he only opened his eyes for a moment before closing them again.

Judging from his own state, the old Taoist priest had already begun to prepare for his breakthrough to the Purple Mansion realm. However, even without going to see it in person, he still took out his communication token and sent a message before stopping.

Inside the Medicine Sect Grotto.

"Senior brother, what exactly is that old bastard Daqing up to? This tribulation doesn't seem like the kind of tribulation that can be caused by breaking through to the Purple Mansion realm. The scale of it is too small." The speaker was Yao Lingzi from the Spirit Medicine Peak.

And the mist in the sky began to make a sound.

"This is the second time this lightning tribulation has occurred. Send an elder from your sect down the mountain to the Great Qing Kingdom to investigate and find out what's going on."

"These two kingdoms, Daqing and Mosa, are territories I painstakingly conquered when I opened up Lingyao Peak. If any demons cause trouble, I will eliminate them and then return."

Also, the Heavenly Dragon Buddhist Kingdom's incense-burning system cannot exist within my Medicine Sect's territory. This time, I'll take advantage of the situation to remove all of its outposts before returning.

Upon hearing this, Ling Yaozi nodded and then disappeared into the Lingyao Peak cave.