With the Eight Immortals' magical treasures in hand, even a mortal like myself! Ha!

Upon seeing this, Gu Qing burst into laughter and said, "Very good. Becoming my puppet is not necessarily a bad thing. Now, do the first thing for me: find me a place to live with a spirit field."

What bad intentions could Gu Qing possibly have? The pill she just gave Qi Yunxiao was just an ordinary pill with no side effects.

But now Gu Qing really needs someone to do things for her.

"That's a small matter. I'll find you a place to live with a spiritual field right away. But when will you be able to give me the thousand-year-old spiritual herb?" Qi Yunxiao still hadn't forgotten about the thousand-year-old spiritual herb.

Gu Qing naturally wouldn't give away the thousand-year-old elixir so easily, so he said, "Take care of what I've arranged first, and I'll give you the thousand-year-old elixir later."

Qi Yunxiao felt somewhat helpless after hearing this, but he could only do as Gu Qing said and find Gu Qing a place to live with a spiritual field.

A few days later, Qi Yunxiao found a place for Gu Qing to stay in a mountain range. After the matter was settled, Qi Yunxiao couldn't help but say, "Senior, I've taken care of the first thing for you. Is there anything else you need? Just say it. I'll do my best to do it for you."

Gu Qing was very satisfied with Qi Yunxiao's anxious look. He liked people like that—quick, efficient, and decisive.

"Very good. Here is a prescription. Collect all the seeds and seedlings according to this prescription and give them to me. You must do this discreetly. Once this is done, this thousand-year-old spiritual herb will be yours." As he spoke, Gu Qing took out a wooden box and shook it.

Qi Yunxiao's eyes were filled with longing, and he couldn't help but reach out with both hands, but in the end he naturally grabbed nothing.

Gu Qing chuckled and said directly, "Go get to work. What's yours won't run away."

"Heh, heh heh, yes, senior, don't worry, I'll go and collect everything you need right away." With that, Qi Yunxiao left the thatched hut and hurriedly set off on his mission, riding his magical artifact.

Watching Qi Yunxiao leave, Gu Qing felt uneasy and muttered to herself, "I still need to be prepared for this idiot to be discovered, so I need to open up another cave for myself."

With this in mind, Gu Qing left a letter in the thatched hut, instructing Qi Yunxiao to prepare the seeds and place them in the hut. He promised to leave him a thousand-year-old medicinal herb.

After making all the preparations, Gu Qing left the spiritual field prepared by Qi Yunxiao. He randomly found a mountain range, used his iron crutch to split it open, and entered the mountain to cultivate.

I bought two pills from Star Dust Pavilion to improve my cultivation. I put them into a gourd and nurtured them for eight days. After eight days, I took them out and absorbed them at the same time.

More than a month passed during this absorption process. After absorbing all the pills, Gu Qing emerged from the mountain.

"Two months have passed. I wonder how Qi Yunxiao's collection of spiritual herbs is going." Gu Qing kept this matter on his mind, as it concerned his cultivation level.

After tidying up a bit, Gu Qing used his magical artifact to return to the thatched hut prepared by Qi Yunxiao. Upon entering, he discovered a storage bag.

Gu Qing picked up the storage bag and used his divine sense to check inside. The seeds he needed were already prepared.

"I didn't expect Qi Yunxiao to be so efficient. He collected everything I needed so quickly. With these seeds, cultivating a batch of medicinal herbs and then going into seclusion for two or three years won't be a problem." Gu Qing smiled.

Without hesitation, he stepped out of the thatched house and stopped at the "spirit field" outside. It was called a spirit field, but it was actually just a piece of farmland in the mountains, with a mountain spring flowing by.

Qi Yunxiao was, after all, just a Qi Refining disciple; what good spiritual fields could he possibly find?

However, this amount of farmland was enough for Gu Qing to use. Gu Qing planted hundreds of seeds in the prepared farmland, then opened the restrictions on the surrounding farmland, causing a mist to rise around them.

With everything ready, Gu Qing focused his mind on the Eight Immortals image within his divine sense, and the purple-gold flute appeared vividly in his hand under the guidance of his divine sense.

The purple-gold flute is covered with golden runes and ancient seal script. Even when it is not being played, it radiates a precious light, making it clear at a glance that it is no ordinary item.

Gu Qing moved her ten fingers and began to play the music vividly. The surrounding spiritual energy slowly gathered and eventually formed a mist that fell into the farmland to nourish the spiritual plants. The spiritual plants broke through the soil and sprouted green buds, and their age slowly increased.

One hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years... one thousand years, the spiritual plant continued to grow until the thousandth year.

It seems that the upper limit of the Purple Gold Flute's ability to induce birth is a thousand years. I wonder if this age can be extended as my divine sense becomes stronger.

After the spiritual plants matured, Gu Qing collected them one by one. There were a total of one hundred spiritual herbs here, but he didn't know how many could be made into pills.

After spending the morning collecting all the spiritual plants, Gu Qing restored the spiritual field to its original state. Once everything was done, he removed the array.

After the formation was dispelled, Gu Qing was slightly startled: "How did you manage to catch up with us? Did you see anything just now?"

The one guarding outside the formation was none other than the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Qin family whom they had encountered in the Yuanwu Kingdom's market. Accompanying him was another early Foundation Establishment cultivator, dressed in a dark blue robe, who appeared to be around forty or fifty years old and was presumably also a member of the Qin family.

"Oh, so what shady things did you do inside the formation?" the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Qin family sneered.

Upon hearing this, Gu Qing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He absolutely couldn't let outsiders know that he could accelerate the ripening of spiritual herbs.

"Why do you keep bothering me? I'll give you a chance now. Leave me and I'll pretend nothing ever happened," Gu Qing said in one last attempt.

Upon hearing this, the Qin family cultivator burst into laughter. He then looked Gu Qing up and down and said, "Boy, don't you understand the situation? We should be giving you a chance. Hand over the thousand-year-old spiritual herb, and we'll leave."

Seeing that the person opposite was still fixated on that thousand-year-old spiritual herb, Gu Qing was speechless. It seemed that this knot could not be untied.

Gu Qing didn't waste any words and immediately summoned the Lesser Three Array he had just acquired, saying, "Then be careful, don't blame me if you die."

With the array flags raised, Gu Qing thrust four top-tier magical artifacts into the array's core: Senior Brother Lu's wind banner, a mirror, a knife, and a sword.

Gu Qing collected so many storage bags in front of the Crimson Forbidden Land, including four top-tier magical artifacts.

Four top-tier magical artifacts flew into the center of the formation. Then, a strong wind arose, and the four artifacts began to spin, emitting astonishing light. Finally, they transformed into a bluebird, a black tortoise, and a wild bull.

The three beasts roared, and a fierce wind arose, uprooting trees from the ground.

Gu Qingfei landed on the Xuan Turtle, placed his hands in front of his chest, and an octagonal mirror began to spin rapidly in the center of his hands.

A beam of azure light shone upon them, and the flying swords of the two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Qin family instantly lost their spirituality.