Mortal: I have a Spirit Gathering Cauldron

Lin Feng sighed inwardly, knowing there was no room for negotiation. He said nothing more, solemnly clasped his hands in a fist salute to Lin Xingjian, and resolutely turned to leave.

Stepping out of the stone house, Lin Feng stood at the alley entrance for a while, watching the setting sun dye the distant mountain peaks golden red.

"If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences," he muttered, a cold glint in his eyes.

Since the soft approach didn't work, he had to resort to the hard one. Fortunately, he was prepared.

After returning to his cave, Lin Feng took out a gray butterfly from his spirit beast bag. The butterfly was small and had fine silver patterns on its wings, making it look unremarkable.

The butterfly's antennae trembled slightly, as if it were sniffing something.

Seeking the Spirit Butterfly.

It's a low-level spirit insect with little combat power; even a low-level Qi Refining cultivator could be slapped to death with a single blow.

However, it has a very special characteristic: it is particularly sensitive to certain fragrances, and can find the source of the fragrance even if it is hundreds of miles away.

More importantly, this fragrance is colorless and odorless, making it completely undetectable to human cultivators. Only the Spirit-Seeking Butterfly can sense it, and the fragrance requires multiple contacts to adhere to its target, making it extremely subtle.

Long before his first visit to Lin Xingjian, Lin Feng had made preparations in advance, extracting the fragrance that the Spirit-Seeking Butterfly could detect and making it into a secret fragrance powder.

Over the past six months, he visited more than ten times, and each time he would apply this scented powder to himself. Through these interactions, he successfully got Lin Xingjian to also have this scent on him.

"This scent will last for at least a few months." Lin Feng put away the Spirit-Seeking Butterfly, a slight smile playing on his lips.

According to the original timeline, Lin Xingjian should be about to take action.

Lin Feng wasn't sure if Lin Xingjian would eventually go to Han Li's place, since Han Li had already taken control of the Spirit Eye Spring. But as long as Lin Xingjian left Huangfeng Valley, he could track his movements using the Spirit-Seeking Butterfly.

Whether it will be a transaction or a forced robbery depends on the situation.

Lin Feng sat cross-legged beside the Spirit Eye Spring and took out a palm-sized array plate and several array flags from his storage bag.

This is a good thing he bought on his second trip to Tianxingzong Market in six months.

The array plate and diagram of a high-level spirit gathering array can use mid-grade or even high-grade spirit stones as the array core, and its spirit energy gathering effect is several times that of a basic spirit gathering array. Lin Feng spent a full two thousand spirit stones to acquire this array plate, which was excellent value for money.

He placed the array plate in the center of the cultivation room, and inserted the six array flags in the six positions according to the array diagram. Three mid-grade spirit stones were embedded in the grooves of the array plate, and with a flash of spiritual light, the array plate lit up with a soft white glow.

Spiritual energy began to gather.

The spiritual energy concentration of the Spirit Eye Spring itself was already very high, and with the added blessing of the high-level Spirit Gathering Array, the spiritual energy in the cultivation room was almost starting to vaporize.

Lin Feng took a deep breath, feeling every pore of his body greedily absorbing the spiritual energy.

"This is a place for humans to live." Lin Feng nodded in satisfaction.

As for Qi Yunxiao and the Reversed Five Elements Formation, he instructed Hyacinth of the Tianxing Sect Market to continue keeping an eye on things. However, half a year has passed and there is still no news. Obviously, this matter still requires patience.

In just six months, Lin Feng's gains were far more than that.

The Qi-Harmony Pill I bought at the Tianxing Sect Market was a pill for Foundation Establishment cultivators to enhance their magical power, and its potency was incomparable to the Yellow Dragon Pill.

Lin Feng then upgraded the Spirit Gathering Cauldron to a high-quality one, stuffing the pills into his mouth one by one. With the addition of the Spirit Gathering Array and the Spirit Eye Spring, even a Nascent Soul disciple could only have this kind of cultivation environment.

Over the past six months, the golden true essence within his body has been slowly increasing in his dantian, and his liquid mana has been accumulating more and more.

Although there is still some distance to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, the foundation laid at each step is extremely solid.

The Golden Light Shield spell, which comes with the Golden Light Technique, has also been cultivated to a minor level. With a thought, a layer of light golden spiritual energy shield will appear on the body, which is extremely tough.

Of course, the best news is that the Wind-Escape Shuttle has been successfully forged.

Lin Feng took out a palm-sized, spindle-shaped magic artifact from his storage bag. It was silver-white all over, with fine array patterns engraved on its surface. It shimmered with spiritual light and looked as exquisite as a work of art.

He failed twice in his attempt to forge this top-tier flying artifact.

The first time, the material ratio was wrong; too much Cloud Wind Essence was added, causing the overall structure of the magic artifact to become unstable. It exploded immediately after the spiritual energy was poured in. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and cut off the spiritual energy in time, so it only created a crater and didn't hurt him.

The second time, he learned from his first experience and was extremely careful when making the material proportions. Fortunately, he did not make the same mistake a second time.

However, after the entire shuttle body was refined into a rudimentary embryonic form, an error occurred during the inscription of the array patterns. The Wind-Escape Shuttle required the inscription of numerous array patterns, and each layer could not be flawed.

When he was inscribing the thirty-seventh layer of array patterns, his early Foundation Establishment stage divine sense was already somewhat strained, causing his hand to tremble and one of the array patterns to be drawn crooked, rendering the entire magic artifact unusable.

The two failures resulted in the loss of materials worth several thousand spirit stones. Lin Feng had no choice but to go to the Tianxing Sect market again to buy all the missing materials.

As expected, high-level weapon refiners are all made with spirit stones.

Fortunately, he finally succeeded on his third attempt without any major incident.

The moment the Wind-Traveling Shuttle flew out of the refining furnace, Lin Feng's heart pounded like a drum.

The shuttle is silvery-white, about three feet long, and its entire body is shimmering with iridescent light. Its surface is covered with fine array patterns.

The silver-white shuttle streaked through the air like a streak of light, moving so fast that even his divine sense couldn't keep up.

He couldn't wait to leave the cave and test it out.

Infused with spiritual energy, the Wind-Escape Shuttle flew from his palm, transforming into a silver streak about ten feet long and three feet wide. Lin Feng leaped onto the shuttle, activated his spiritual energy, and his entire body transformed into a silver light, instantly disappearing from the spot.

fast.

too fast.

The speed of the Qingfeng Flag is already quite good, but compared to the Dunfeng Shuttle, it's like the difference between a bicycle and a motorcycle.

When fully activated, the speed of the Wind-Escape Shuttle is at least twice that of the Clear Wind Flag, but it consumes a lot of spiritual energy, so it can only be used in critical moments during the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

"With this, no one in the Foundation Establishment stage should be able to catch me." Lin Feng flew around in the sky, feeling much more at ease.

He spun twice in the air, feeling the strong wind blowing in his face, and a sense of exhilaration welled up in his heart.

Whether he goes to the battlefield or runs away, the Wind-Escape Shuttle will be his greatest asset.

Back in his cave, Lin Feng put the Wind-Escape Shuttle into his storage bag and sat down cross-legged.

"Next, we just need to wait for Senior Brother Lin to leave Huangfeng Valley." Lin Feng closed his eyes, circulating his spiritual energy through his meridians.

The Spirit Eye Spring gurgled forth, and the Spirit Gathering Cauldron floated above the spring, its dark blue body slowly rotating.

Days pass by.

Inside the cave, spiritual energy surged.

Golden spiritual energy surged through his meridians, like tiny golden snakes weaving back and forth.

Lin Feng was so engrossed in his cultivation that he forgot the passage of time.

Half a month later, the Spirit-Seeking Butterfly in the Spirit Beast Pouch suddenly became restless.