Calabash Fairy

Soon, two days later.

Led by Xu Hu and Wang Shi, a group of able-bodied men from the village drove their carriages and horses away from Xiahe Village and into the forest.

"Giddy up! Giddy up!"

Along the mountain road, the sounds of horses' hooves and cart wheels rolling on the ground echoed continuously.

Xu Hu drove the bumpy carriage, feeling the intense gazes coming from behind.

He shook his head helplessly and said to the girl sitting next to him:

"Qiu'er, with the protective charm bestowed by the Mountain God, you didn't actually need to come here to suffer."

Driving a horse-drawn carriage through the mountains is not a comfortable experience.

Leaving aside wind and rain, and the hardships of eating, drinking, and relieving oneself, the rugged mountain roads alone are enough to make one suffer a lot.

In Xu Hu's eyes, Qiu'er was still the little girl he had watched grow up. Things were different now, and there was no need for her to suffer with a group of men.

Furthermore, even without looking, the burning gazes of those hot-blooded young men were already giving him a headache...

Qiu'er casually stroked her long hair and said with a playful smile:

"Uncle Xu~ Although my skills are not as good as my master's, I have learned some magic. The mountain path is difficult to walk, so maybe I can be of help on this trip~"

She didn't need to care about those silly boys behind her.

Sooner or later, she will follow in her master's footsteps and leave this place...

Upon hearing this, Xu Hu could only sigh softly, nod, and focus on driving the carriage.

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Within the Qingfeng Secret Realm, Fang Yan stood before a lush, verdant tea tree, personally plucking each tea leaf and placing them into a jade tea caddy engraved with the ancient character for "tea."

This tea tree, planted in the center of the sacred field, looks no different from an ordinary tea tree from a distance.

However, if you look closely, you will find that each tea leaf has fine, hair-like pale gold lines interwoven together, forming one mysterious natural rune after another.

After a while, once Fang Yan had picked all the pale gold rune-inscribed tea leaves from the Spirit Enlightenment Tea Tree, he looked at the tea caddy in his hand and chuckled:

"It takes three years to grow, three years to bloom, and another three years to mature. Only five ounces of tea leaves can be produced in one batch."

"It will be another six years before the next batch of Lingwu tea leaves grows."

As he frequently uses his Spring Returns to All Things divine power, many spiritual roots are still growing very well on the spiritual fields that are now divided into several sections.

Even the spiritual root of the Lingwu Tea in front of us is slowly but steadily increasing in strength.

"Hopefully, this spiritual root will produce more tea leaves in six years."

He has gradually grown accustomed to this subtle, imperceptible passage of time.

Just like when he went into seclusion to refine pills, he unknowingly became addicted to it. By the time he ran out of spiritual materials and came out of seclusion, the outside world had already gone from early spring to deep winter.

Such days will inevitably increase in the future, and a single seclusion may last for several years or even decades.

Having cultivated for so long, he increasingly needed a "proxy" to handle various matters while he focused on his cultivation, and this person was undoubtedly Yang Sheng.

The same applies to the gods outside the Ten Thousand Mountains. In the temples of gods such as the Earth God and the Mountain God, there is usually a position called Temple Keeper.

They are responsible for managing the incense offerings in the temple and also serve as a bridge between humans and gods.

Ordinary temple keepers are just ordinary people, but some of them, if they are favored by the gods, will gain special abilities, which is also a way to accumulate merit.

Fang Yan, however, did not intend to do so; he would make Yang Sheng his first subordinate god.

Such a virtuous, capable, and completely trustworthy god is both Yang Sheng's good fortune and Fang Yan's good fortune.

However, Yang Sheng still needs to oversee the management of Xiahe Village, so the matter of the temple keeper can only be discussed after the next generation of villagers has grown up...

Fang Yan strode towards another spiritual field.

The Qingfeng Secret Realm is now very different from before. Many empty areas have been transformed into spirit fields, and there are many more spirit plants than before.

One by one, the spirit bees, their glimmers of light shimmering, were busily working among the many spirit fields, constantly transporting nectar back to their hives.

Fang Yan smiled as he looked at the little ones, until a feeling of warmth entered his mind.

"Master, the Spirit Enlightenment Flower Honey has been brewed."

Fang Yan flashed and appeared in front of the four Phoenix Spirit Pear roots, looking at the open crystal yellow beehive.

Inside the beehive, there was a clump of crystal-like honey and a clump of seven-colored honey.

【Spiritual Enlightenment Honey: Spiritual honey brewed by a swarm of spirit bees from the spiritual flowers and roots of the Spiritual Enlightenment Tea Tree. It has a slight and temporary effect on enhancing enlightenment.】

【Hundred Flowers Spirit Honey: A special spirit honey made by spirit bees using nectar from over a hundred different spirit flowers. It is pure in spirit energy and is an excellent product for nourishing the body and beautifying the skin】

"As expected, the Queen Bee of Spirits has completed her transformation, and the spirit honey produced by the swarm of spirit bees that transformed along with her has also become of a higher grade and with stronger effects."

With a casual wave of his hand, Fang Yan skillfully collected the two clumps of spiritual honey into the flying jade bottle, which then quickly flew back to the medicine cabinet.

"You can give the little ones some of the Lingwu Honey to try."

"As for the Hundred Flower Spirit Honey... if Qiu'er leaves the mountains and returns to the Rainbow Garment Immortal Sect in the future, let that girl bring some back for her master and grandmaster."

After Fang Yan collected all the mature spiritual materials from the spiritual field into the medicine cabinet, he returned to the stone bed, sat down, and closed his eyes to meditate.

With the help of the Yin-Yang Bagua diagram, Fang Yan has gradually gained some understanding of the innate Bagua.

Perhaps it won't be long before he can master the divination skills of Plum Blossom Divination using this diagram.

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About half a month later.

At this moment, near Baimajian, a young man dressed in a dark blue robe with animal patterns slowly walked out of the valley.

At this moment, there was still a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, but it wasn't his own blood...

"The beast within me is becoming increasingly uncontrollable..."

Qi Lian murmured, his light blue beast eyes flashing with complex emotions such as violence, bloodlust, and pain. His expression changed so quickly that it was as if several souls were constantly displaying their emotions.

"I must find the Soul-Melting Grass as soon as possible, otherwise the flaw in my soul will ultimately lead me to destruction..."

His awakening and rebirth were an accident, but even after becoming a demon, even after constantly enduring the tearing pain in his soul, he did not want to give up so easily.

Because even a trace of demonic energy remains in his true spirit, even if he enters reincarnation to cleanse himself, there's a high chance he'll be reborn as a mentally challenged being, forever trapped in a cycle of delusion...

His biggest problem right now is to resolve the inner turmoil he is experiencing.

His soul was already incomplete, but because he was buried in a very special spiritual place, his body and soul merged with four incomplete demon souls and bodies in the same spiritual place, which is why he was resurrected thousands of years later.

However, this fusion is not perfect; in fact, it can be said to have significant flaws.

Although the other four demonic souls had lost their intelligence, the four remaining powerful demonic natures were still tearing at him. If this continued, he would only become a monster that acted on instinct.