Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 181 A Fellow Friend of Hua Yaoyue [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

His voice was passionate and stirring, but he only got halfway through before it was as if someone had forcibly covered his mouth, and he could no longer make a sound.

Ji Yuan hurriedly turned around and was somewhat delighted to see his long-lost second senior brother.

"Second Senior Brother!"

Yun Qianzai tried his best to open his mouth, but it was no use at all.

Immediately afterwards, Hua Yaoyue appeared out of nowhere and entered the pavilion. "Looks like you want to stay for another ten or twenty years, huh? Or should I just wait until the demonic invasion is over before releasing you?"

"I think this is a good idea!"

Before the person arrived, the sound of the phoenix's peach arrived first.

Upon hearing this, Yun Qianzai immediately became obedient and began to shake his head.

Hua Yaoyue released him, and Yun Qianzai immediately exclaimed, "Master, you just envy my talent!"

"I'm afraid I'll steal your thunder when I go out."

"Talent?"

Hua Yaoyue's gaze swept over Ji Yuan, but finally returned to Yun Qianzai.

Just from Hua Yaoyue's glance, Ji Yuan felt a little flustered... Could it be that his master knows something?

Perhaps frightened by Hua Yaoyue's gaze, Yun Qianzai then spoke more honestly, "Master, don't worry, I'm not stupid. I wouldn't say such a thing without absolute certainty."

"So you still have to say it."

Feng Zhitao muttered to herself from the side.

"Junior sister, you!"

Yun Qianzai glared at him angrily, then waved his hand and said, "Why should I, Yun Qianzai, explain my actions to you?"

After saying this, he immediately summoned his flying boat and left the place.

"Hmph, you've been wanting to slip away for a while now, haven't you?"

Feng Zhitao could naturally tell whether Yun Qianzai was truly angry or just pretending. Right now, he was simply looking for an excuse to leave.

After all, he had been trapped underground for almost a year, which was enough to suffocate him.

Ji Yuan remained silent, but he glanced at the direction Yun Qianzai had left in.

His Tian Shu Island is in the northwest, but he is going to the southwest now. Based on the places he usually goes, this direction should be... Si Fang Island?

Are they going to perform a divine manifestation at the array hall?

Yun Qianzai is gone, and Hua Yaoyue doesn't care.

People who have lived for decades or even centuries, if they really want to die, then so be it.

"Junior brother, what are you doing here with Master?"

As always, Feng Zhitao is curious about everything.

Although Ji Yuan had already broken through, he used the "Concealing Breath Technique" to lower his cultivation level by one level out of thin air, so he still looked no different from the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

"I have something I'd like to ask you, Master."

Ji Yuan told the truth.

"Oh? What is it? You can ask me if you want."

Feng Zhitao said, puffing out her high, firm chest.

Ji Yuan smiled and turned to Hua Yaoyue, "Master, I heard from the sect leader that there are Golden Core Realm demonic cultivators causing trouble in the north, and a Nascent Soul Child from Shangxi has also entered the country."

"What?!"

Feng Zhitao, who had just said she could consult her, now approached with great surprise, "A Nascent Soul cultivator? The three great demonic sects actually sent their Nascent Soul cultivators in? Could it be that there's going to be a Nascent Soul battle this time?"

Hua Yaoyue, unusually, did not sleep on that soft chair, but stood in front of the pavilion, her sleeves fluttering, letting the mountain wind blow her white dress.

"It's true that the Golden Core demonic cultivators made their move; even Nascent Soul cultivators were fighting..."

As Hua Yaoyue said this, she let out a disdainful sneer, "They wouldn't even care if all the Golden Core cultivators died."

Ji Yuan and Feng Zhitao exchanged a glance and both fell silent.

"Alright, if there's nothing else, you can go back now."

As always, Hua Yaoyue dismissed her, but this time Feng Zhitao stepped forward and whispered, "Master, I've come to say goodbye."

"Um?"

"My sect leader has assigned me a mission: to return to Xifeng Kingdom."

"The Western Phoenix Kingdom? Then go there."

"Um."

After they finished speaking, Feng Zhitao returned to Ji Yuan's side with a smile on her face. "Junior Brother, would you like to come and visit our Xifeng Kingdom? This mission is quite easy; it's just about recruiting new disciples. You can just come along and have some fun."

"The mortal realm, oh, junior brother, you must have never been there before."

Ji Yuan remained unmoved, and slightly cupped his hands, saying, "Thank you for your kindness, Senior Sister, but I recently took on a batch of medicinal herbs and need to help people refine pills, so I'm afraid I won't have time to go out for the time being."

White lies are easy to tell.

"Oh well."

Feng Zhitao was a little down after being rejected, but she didn't press the matter.

Ji Yuan cupped his hands to the left and right, indicating that he was taking his leave.

After he left, Feng Zhitao pouted and complained to Hua Yaoyue, "Master, our junior brother is never close to us, and we never see him come to see us."

Hua Yaoyue didn't even turn her head.

Seeing this, Feng Zhitao knew that her master really didn't want to talk to anyone right now, so she left.

After she left, Hua Yaoyue went alone to the highest point of Forget-Worry Island to watch the sunset.

Upon witnessing Ji Yuan's breakthrough today, the first thing Hua Yaoyue did was to conceal his cultivation level. Inevitably, she also thought of the other disciples.

It was precisely for this reason that she released Yun Qianzai.

Of the four disciples...

The eldest disciple was fiercely opposed to evil and determined to kill all the demonic cultivators in the world. That's why he stayed in Shang Mountain for many years, mingling on the front lines of killing demonic cultivators, and refused to return.

His words... Hua Yaoyue could only say, were too righteous.

Little did they know that demonic cultivators could not be completely eradicated. Even if all the current demonic cultivators were killed, without the contrast of demonic cultivators, some righteous cultivators would be classified as demonic cultivators.

To eradicate demonic cultivation, there would have to be no more cultivators in the world.

Determined to slay the demon... but I'm afraid things will go wrong. If things go wrong even just once, there's no going back.

Hua Yaoyue had said similar things to him before.

said.

But he also said that dying on the path of killing demonic cultivators was the fulfillment of his wish.

After that, Hua Yaoyue stopped trying to persuade her.

The second disciple, Yun Qianzai, is extremely talented... well, let's not mention him.

The words of the third disciple, Feng Zhitao.

At first glance, she seems quite good, very much like a female cultivator fairy, but upon closer inspection, her mind is too complicated, and she is forever like a little girl who never grows up.

Playful.

Hua Yaoyue had seen cultivators like her before.

Such people will be happy throughout their lives, even if life is hard. However, their only shortcoming is that they cannot go far on the path of spiritual practice.

Because my mind is too cluttered.

Or rather, their ambitions lie elsewhere.

Hua Yaoyue didn't try to persuade her otherwise; after all, happiness is all that matters in life.

If you risk your entire life only to end up with no breakthrough in your cultivation and no happiness either, then it would be a huge loss.

Only this newly accepted disciple.

Hua Yaoyue thought it over carefully and could only describe it in four words.

"Fellow travelers."

Given time, perhaps I will be able to call him "fellow Daoist".

"..."

The first thing Master Ji did upon returning to Misty Island after his breakthrough was to release the Frost Dragon, but he still didn't put it into the [Fish Pond].

Instead, they let the giant toad take it into the water to frolic in the Cloud Rain Marsh.

At first, the giant toad was naturally unwilling, but it couldn't resist Ji Yuan's "pig seduction" technique.

Soon, the giant toad led the first-tier dragon into the water.

Ji Yuan wasn't worried. As long as they were in this misty area, they were absolutely safe. Even if they went somewhere else, he could sense the location of the Frost Dragon and call it back.

As for being exiled to Yunyu Marsh... that was something that couldn't be helped. Although the spirit pig was delicious, the Frost Dragon preferred to eat fish.

The poor man's dragon learns to take charge early.

The fishpond can't withstand any more disturbances, so we'll have to let it go out and fend for itself as soon as possible.

The second thing is spiritual practice.

Ji Yuan's cultivation level has reached the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, so his spiritual sense strength naturally needs to keep up. Therefore, a meditation room must be arranged.

First, one must make one's spiritual sense far surpass that of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

This way, I feel a bit safer when I'm outside.

Secondly, there are buildings that can be upgraded.

[Chicken Coop: lv3]

[Upgrade Requirements: Cultivation level reaches mid-Foundation Establishment, 50 mid-grade spirit stones, chicken coop crafted from Rotten Firefly Acacia (not yet achieved)]

The initial [chicken coop] has been stuck at level 2 ever since.

There's nothing we can do about it; there's a strict requirement in the upgrade conditions that you have to reach the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

As for the latter two conditions...

50 mid-grade spirit stones... no big deal.

As for the "Rotten Firefly Shadow Locust Tree," Ji Yuan had inquired about it and found that it was a kind of yin object, mostly used by demonic cultivators.

Ji Yuan, relying on his righteous path, believed he couldn't possibly possess such a thing, so he could only look for a freebie... oh no, a fellow Daoist who's freeloading.

I haven't even seen him since I reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

In addition, there's the [beehive]. As far as Ji Yuan is concerned, he has already obtained the most difficult Bloodthirsty Poison Bee. The rest is to get the queen bee to break through to become a second-tier demon beast.

Only in this way can the [beehive] be upgraded.

Previously, Ji Yuan had been feeding these Spirit-Devouring Bees with mid-grade spirit stones, but it seems that it is still a bit slow.

With the imminent invasion of the demonic path, we must improve our strength as soon as possible.

If that's the case, then we'll just have to spend more money... Anyway, Ji Yuan has plenty of spirit stones now, so there's no need for him to be frugal.

So the next day, taking advantage of a break in his cultivation, he went to the west side of Misty Island and into the dense forest next to the [Mass Burial Mound].

As soon as you get to this area, you can hear a "buzzing" sound.

This place is basically a forbidden zone on Misty Island. Even the giant toad doesn't want to come near it. Although the Soul-Eating Bees don't pose much of a threat to it right now, their croaking is quite annoying.

As soon as Ji Yuan arrived, all the Soul-Devouring Bees swarmed around him.

It kept circling around him.

With a quick scan of his divine sense, Ji Yuan gained a general understanding of the bee swarm.

That's not many.

Even including the juvenile bees that haven't fully matured, there are probably only about 8000 of them.

There's still a gap between the 10000 Soul-Eating Bees needed to upgrade the [Beehouse].

If that's the case, then let's increase the dosage.

Ji Yuan tossed out twenty mid-grade spirit stones with a wave of his hand, and immediately sensed the aura of these spirit stones.

Even the spirit-devouring bees in the dense forest flew out and rushed towards the spirit stones.

Ji Yuan walked and stopped intermittently, eventually arriving at the deepest part of this dense forest.

Right in the middle of these ancient trees is a huge beehive.

Outside the hive, a giant Soul-Eating Bee, about one meter long, was flapping its wings and flying.

Queen bee.

The queen bee of the Soul-Eating Bees.

Faced with it, Ji Yuan became even more generous, casually tossing out 5 mid-grade spirit stones.

It's not that we're not giving more, but rather that this is all the amount we can currently process.

Even if it's 5 pieces, it would take it four or five days to fully digest.

After feeding the bees, the giant toad returned with the Frost Dragon. Ji Yuan sensed something was wrong with the sound and immediately summoned a flying boat to cross the island and arrive in front of the two.

The moment he saw Ji Yuan's figure...

The big toad kept croaking, as if it were complaining.

The Frost Dragon darted onto Ji Yuan's body with a "whoosh" and wrapped itself around his arm.

Seeing this, the giant toad stopped croaking and wanted to do the same.

But when its massive body leaped over, Ji Yuan had no choice but to avoid its attack.

The two spirit beasts argued, and Ji Yuan listened for a while before vaguely understanding what had happened. It was nothing more than that after the Frost Dragon went out, it ran around everywhere and completely ignored the big toad's commands.

The big toad wouldn't listen, so it had no choice but to come back and let Ji Yuan take charge.

Since the fate of the matter was difficult to determine, they offered two spirit pigs.

So they both fell silent.

Ji Yuan then took back the gains he had made during this period from Tu Yue before returning to his cave to cultivate diligently.

With this breakthrough in cultivation, whether it's alchemy or talisman drawing, he can make further progress. In addition, there's the unopened weapon crafting skill. Ji Yuan felt overwhelmed.

There's still not enough time.

Moreover, whether it's pills or talismans, once they involve mid-to-high-grade second-tier items, even the pill formulas and talisman techniques become very difficult to obtain; for example, the Hundred Treasures Pavilion doesn't sell them.

These kinds of things are the kind that go up for auction.

For example, a second-tier high-grade talisman, once a Foundation Establishment cultivator masters it, even if it's just a talisman technique, will allow them to live a life of luxury.

At least during the Foundation Establishment stage, there's no need to worry too much about spirit stones.

If you want to buy magical artifacts, saving up spirit stones for a few years should be enough.

The next day, the giant toad came over and told Ji Yuan that it had taken the Frost Dragon into the water... just like taking care of a child.

Ji Yuan was naturally somewhat surprised by this.

But he soon became unsurprised.

In less than a day, the giant toad returned with the Frost Dragon, and then started croaking at Ji Yuan, complaining non-stop. After he finished complaining, he stared at Ji Yuan longingly.

Ji Yuan only gave half a spirit pig to the big toad this time.

The giant toad hesitated for a moment, but still ate it.

Another day passed, and it refused to take the Frost Dragon into the water, preferring to sleep on the island rather than go.

Ji Yuan looked at the Frost Dragon, which was already at the late stage of the first rank, fed it four or five drops of Frost Soul Dew, and then let it go into the water to play by itself.

Fortunately, after two days, the Frost Dragon discovered that there was an even larger world beyond this one.

The small fishpond can be swum to the other side in no time, but in the vast Yunyu Marsh, it can swim and swim all day without ever reaching the other side.

Ji Yuan instructed it that it could only play in this foggy area and could not go any further.

Being far away makes it difficult to deal with other high-level demonic beasts or human cultivators.

After cultivating on this misty island for more than half a month, Ji Yuan had improved his spiritual sense to a sufficient level before deciding to return to the Water Dragon Sect to seek help from Fellow Daoist Bai Piao.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to take the Frost Dragon with him.

Having spent nearly a month roaming in the Cloud and Rain Marsh, it now possesses a wildness reminiscent of a demon beast.

Ji Yuan had seen it fight against other demonic beasts of the same level; it was fearless and ruthless.

In this respect, Ji Yuan estimated that its temperament was influenced by that wisp of dragon energy, which is why it was so bloodthirsty.

Another instance is when it encounters a second-tier monster.

When it encounters an opponent it cannot defeat, it curls up into a ball, hides in the mud, and remains motionless, afraid that the opponent will discover it.

If it is discovered again... it will beg for mercy.

The humility of their posture.

It is rare.

Ji Yuan guessed that this was influenced by the original carp, since that carp was often bullied.

Its influence from the carp's temperament went beyond that. Once it escaped from the jaws of that second-tier demon beast, it returned to Misty Island, summoned the giant toad, and went to kill the second-tier demon beast.

This personality of his left Ji Yuan speechless with astonishment.

"Yes, that's a tough one!"

Ji Yuan was already looking forward to what would happen after it grew into a third-tier demon beast.

A giant toad guards the house, while an ice dragon accompanies it.

As Ji Yuan traveled north, he glanced down as he passed his own house. Dong Qian's Fox Moon Island was shrouded in mist and could no longer be clearly seen.

Seeing her, Ji Yuan couldn't help but think of Du Wanyi.

Logically speaking, she should be close to breaking through as well.

Once she successfully completes her foundation building, Ji Yuan will be able to put his mind at ease, so he won't have to keep thinking about her.

Upon returning to the sect, Ji Yuan once again made a trip to Forget-Worry Island first. After paying his respects to his master, he then turned and headed to All Things Island.

His cultivation had reached the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. Even if he used the "Concealing Breath Technique," he could only disguise his cultivation as the early Foundation Establishment stage. Therefore, the days of Qi Refining stage... were truly gone forever.

He piloted his flying boat down from the sky and went straight to Bai Piao's shop.

The place remains deserted.

Ji Yuan estimated that he probably wouldn't have a single sale in the next few days, and wondered how he was managing to keep the shop running.

Waiting for Ji Yuan to enter the house, Bai Piao finally stopped lying down to sleep and started tending to his flowers and plants.

Ji Yuan also noticed that, compared to before, there were significantly more green plants in Bai Piao's shop now, as for the things that used to exude yin energy.

They've all disappeared.

In short, he transformed his business.

Instead, they sold spiritual plants and spiritual soil, no longer associating themselves with evil spirits.

"I wonder if this fellow Daoist... greets his martial uncle!"

Bai Piao turned around with a smile, and as soon as he saw the deep blue, he immediately bowed and clasped his hands in greeting. The speed of his change in demeanor impressed Ji Yuan.

"Ahem, you don't need to be so polite, junior."

Ji Yuan was joking.

Upon hearing the somewhat familiar voice, Bai Piao immediately looked up, surprised, and said, "It's you, Brother Ji..."

"Um?"

Ji Yuan frowned slightly, and Bai Piao immediately understood.

"Greetings, Uncle Ji."

Seeing that Bai Piao was so sensible, Ji Yuan finally stopped teasing him. He smiled and sat down to the side. "Alright, Brother Piao, just call me Brother Ji. Calling me Uncle-Master sounds too old."

"Brother Ji is still young, how could he be old? Just kidding."

Bai Piao smiled and picked up the brewed spiritual tea beside her, pouring a cup for Ji Yuan.

"Brother Ji, when did you achieve Foundation Establishment? Why didn't you tell me about such a great event? I could have attended the island opening ceremony and broadened my horizons."

"It's been a few years."

Ji Yuan smiled, looked around the shop, and asked, "Brother Piao, what's going on here? Could it be... that you've reformed?"

"Shhh."

Bai Piao made a shushing gesture, then quickly went to the door. He first pretended to look around casually to make sure no one was paying attention to his shop before carefully closing the door.

"Brother Ji, you are unaware of something."

"This is truly a last resort, alas."

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