This time, Qin Fengming did not look for a cave. Instead, he and Lan Xue'er sat cross-legged atop a lofty mountain peak, merely setting up the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation around them. Just like that, a month passed.
During that time, Lan Xue'er remained seated in meditation, absorbing the Five Elements energy in the air.
Qin Fengming, however, was extremely relaxed. He did not sit down to cultivate, but waved his hand and produced a somewhat ancient beast-skin scroll, then began studying it carefully.
Seeing Qin Fengming act this way, Lan Xue'er, who was meditating beside him, secretly glanced over, greatly puzzled. Although the two of them had not been together for very long, they had already spent nearly a year in one another's company.
Throughout that year, whenever Lan Xue'er had even a little free time, she would hold spirit stones in her hands and cultivate in meditation. As for the young cultivator beside her, she had never once seen him take the initiative to cultivate. Whenever he had time, he instead carefully studied the various classics he had scavenged from different Marketplaces.
This situation would have left anyone bewildered, let alone Lan Xue'er.
Lan Xue'er had been able to advance from the Qi Gathering stage to the Core Formation realm within just a few decades. Aside from her exceptional aptitude, this was naturally inseparable from her diligent cultivation.
Yet the young cultivator before her had advanced so swiftly while never cultivating in his daily life. Such a situation was truly difficult for her to understand.
More than a month later, just as Qin Fengming and Lan Xue'er were sitting inside the formation, a transmission talisman suddenly shot toward Qin Fengming.
Qin Fengming's expression stiffened slightly. He reached out and caught the transmission talisman.
"Fellow Daoist Duan, Guo has