Southern Border.
Fine rain drifted in the cold wind. In the dim yellow evening, verdant mountains lay tranquil and peaceful.
On an unnamed mountain peak stood a gigantic pine tree, its canopy like a pavilion. Six years had passed since it sprouted.
Almost, almost. In another half hour, I'll be able to refine a Rank 7 Pine Needle Immortal Gu. Six years of arduous labor... Rank 7 lone immortal Zheng Qing waited in anticipation.
He was a wood path Gu Immortal, and this Gu refinement employed a wood refinement method.
Although it took quite a long time, it used Immortal Venerable Yuan Lian's marvelous method, so the success rate was quite high.
Zheng Qing had originally been a mortal. While chopping firewood on the mountain, he fell from a cliff, only to be caught by a gigantic lotus in the valley, towering as high as a mansion.
By a twist of fate, Zheng Qing inherited a wood path inheritance left behind by Immortal Venerable Yuan Lian.
After arduous cultivation, he became a Gu Immortal. Then he steadily focused on cultivation, rarely going outside, and after several hundred years, he reached Rank 7.
His temperament favored tranquility. It had to be said that the Yuan Lian True Inheritance was truly suited to him. In this Gu refinement, he had transformed into a pine tree and remained still for six years, uninterrupted by wind or rain, silently cultivating while the outside world's winds and clouds shifted.
Rumble...
At that moment, a deep rumbling suddenly rose from the depths beneath the earth, as though ten thousand colossal beasts were roaring.
"What is going on?" Zheng Qing naturally heard the sound and immediately became vigilant.
"There's no reason for this. My refining Gu method comes from Immortal Venerable Yuan Lian. Whether during the refinement