Town Chief Zhang pushed open the door and immediately saw a young man in a dark cyan Daoist robe, tall and slender, with extraordinary looks, sitting quietly beside a stone table.
His black hair was tied high, his heroic air striking. His expression was calm, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
Without the slightest hesitation, Town Chief Zhang strode over, dropped to his knees with a thud, and said respectfully:
"Zhang Yang of Qingniu Town pays respects to Immortal Master!"
Zhang Xuanchen nodded and flicked his sleeve.
A gentle breeze drifted past, lifting Zhang Yang from the ground.
He said softly, "No need for such courtesy. I did not come here for anything important. I only wish to ask where Wang Yumei and Granny Wang live."
Hearing that the Immortal Master before him had actually come looking for Wang Yumei, Zhang Yang was greatly astonished.
At the same time, he secretly thought that Wang Yumei had truly stumbled upon good fortune.
She had actually drawn an Immortal Master down from the mountain to seek her out.
Though he did not know the exact circumstances, it had to be a good thing.
Otherwise, the Immortal Master would not have had this attitude.
Still, he did not ask further and replied:
"To be honest with you, Immortal Master, I just arranged lodging for Wang Yumei and her mother yesterday. It is at the westernmost end. I will take you there at once."
Seeing that Zhang Yang knew, Zhang Xuanchen did not waste words.
Clang!
A First-grade Top-tier Magic Tool longsword suddenly landed on the ground.
Grabbing Zhang Yang by the collar, he flew into the air. They were not very high up, only three or four meters above the ground.
"Show me the way!"
Zhang Yang cried out in alarm as he was carried into the air. Because they were not high off the ground, he quickly adapted and pointed the way for Zhang Xuanchen.
Wang Yumei lived in a newly built house made of earth and wood.
It was crude, but tidy.
This showed that Zhang Yang had not lied.
Upon reaching their destination, Zhang Xuanchen stopped Zhang Yang, who had wanted to knock on the door.
He went to a chicken coop containing only an old hen.
He looked at the egg beneath the old hen's rear, which was surrounded by wisps of spiritual energy.
On the surface, it looked no different from an ordinary egg.
Delight flashed across Zhang Xuanchen's face!
There really was one!
After taking the egg, he thoroughly examined the old hen and found that it was nothing more than an ordinary old hen, so he put it back.
Walking over to Zhang Yang, who was obediently standing where he was, he took out some First-grade Low-tier Spirit Rice he had prepared beforehand and said:
"There are ten jin of Spirit Rice here. Take five jin for yourself. The remaining five jin will serve as payment for this egg. After dawn, help me pass it on to Granny Wang, and tell her how much to eat each time. Do not disappoint me."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yang immediately thumped his chest and promised, "Rest assured, Immortal Master! Tomorrow, I will deliver all five jin of Spirit Rice to Wang Yumei, not a single grain missing!"
He could not have been happier.
Though Spirit Rice could not turn him into a cultivator, it could improve one's physique and prolong one's life.
It was of tremendous help to mortal martial artists.
Five jin of Spirit Rice was no small amount. It was enough for a Houtian Martial Artist to cultivate for half a year!
An ordinary person could not even finish it in a year!
He decided that tomorrow, he would directly build Wang Yumei's family a brick-and-tile house as a show of gratitude!
Zhang Xuanchen nodded. Zhang Yang would not dare deceive him.
After sending Zhang Yang home, he left in grand fashion.
A blessing lingered in the air: "May you soon father an Immortal Seedling with a Spiritual Root!"
Zhang Yang froze, then burst into wild joy!
The Immortal Master had blessed him!
Tonight was surely his lucky night!
He could not let it go to waste!
He immediately stripped off his clothes, ran into the bedroom, and shouted:
"Wife! Do not sleep! Let us battle for three hundred rounds!"
"You rascal~"
Yet Zhang Xuanchen, who had caused all this, knew nothing about it.
By then, he had already returned to his room and begun closed-door cultivation to make a breakthrough.
His cultivation was indeed somewhat low.
But there was nothing to be done about it. A Golden Core Family still had quite a few businesses.
Some matters truly were unsuitable for those dim-witted members of the Lineage to handle.
Especially dealings with the people from merchant associations.
They could be sold off and still help count the spirit stones for the person who sold them—it was not an exaggeration in the slightest.
Inside the room.
Zhang Xuanchen sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion and circulated the Sky Burning Wind Control Art.
In an instant, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy around him gathered, forming a Spiritual Power Vortex around his body.
Spiritual power surged madly into his body, racing through his meridians.
It produced wave after wave of humming sounds.
Xuanxiao Mountain's Spirit Vein was as high as Third-grade Top-tier. Its spiritual energy was rich, and with the aid of the Spirit Gathering Array, the Qi Refining members of the Lineage on the mountain did not need spirit stones at all to cultivate and break through.
They had never experienced the feeling of not having enough spiritual energy.
As for the Sky Burning Wind Control Art, it was a Wind and Fire Dual Attributes Golden Core Cultivation Method, sufficient for cultivation all the way to Late Golden Core.
It also included three First-tier Spells: Fireball Spell, Chain Fireball Spell, and Wind Shield.
There were also two Second-tier Spells: Repelling Fire Ring!
It could instantly unleash a Circular Shockwave. Its damage was not high, but at critical moments, it could break free from encirclement and control the distance.
Wind Blade Technique!
It highly compressed Wind Attribute Spiritual Energy into a semi-transparent air blade as thin as a cicada's wing and incomparably sharp, possessing tremendous cutting power.
There was also one Third-tier Spell—Wind Fire Tornado! It devoured and shredded everything, its power astonishing.
Besides these, he had cultivated several First Stage Sword Dao Spells.
They were more than enough to keep Zhang Xuanchen cultivating for a long time.
When he had first encountered this cultivation method, Zhang Xuanchen had been deeply moved.
This was the foundation of a Golden Core Family!
Those transmigrators in the novels of his previous life had not even had a decent cultivation method in the early stages.
The only shortcoming was the lack of an escape technique.
After this breakthrough, he planned to visit the Family Scripture Pavilion and choose an escape technique.
With a Wind Spiritual Root, how could he not learn an escape technique?
Three days later.
The spiritual energy in Zhang Xuanchen's dantian reached its peak, and his meridians were brimming with spiritual energy.
Suddenly, his body trembled.
The bottleneck of Late Qi Refining shattered directly!
A powerful aura erupted from within him.
He opened his eyes, and a sharp gleam flashed through them.
Clenching his fist and feeling the surging power within his body, delight appeared in his eyes.
At fifteen, he had reached Qi Refining Level 7. With the cultivation speed of his Dual Spirit Root, reaching Foundation Establishment before the age of twenty would not be a problem.
"Now that my foundation is solid and my spiritual energy pure, and I am also a sword cultivator, my killing power naturally needs no mention.
"But my body is not tough enough. This is also the common ailment of all sword cultivators. Unfortunately, the Lineage does not have any Fire Attribute Body Tempering Method, let alone one with Wind and Fire Dual Attributes.
"It seems I will have to keep an eye out for this kind of cultivation method in the future."
After identifying his own weakness, Zhang Xuanchen took out the egg surrounded by spiritual energy.
Upon closer inspection, Golden Patterns even flickered across the eggshell.
He had never expected an utterly ordinary old hen to lay an egg containing a trace of Phoenix Bloodline.
The cultivation world truly contained all sorts of strange wonders.
Together with Three-leaf Orchid Grass Juice, this egg could raise the strength of my body to the level of a First-grade Top-tier Magic Tool.
Should I eat it?
The moment that thought arose, Zhang Xuanchen suppressed it.
What if the demonic beast hatched from this egg had the potential to reach Golden Core? Would that not be an enormous loss?
That was Phoenix Bloodline. No matter how faint it was, it should still be able to break through to Foundation Establishment, right?
It was far better than merely strengthening his physique a little.
With that thought, Zhang Xuanchen rose and headed toward the Spirit Beast Garden.
He did not know how to hatch eggs, but Thirteenth Grandfather, a Second-grade Top-tier Beast Tamer, surely did.
Leaving it to him could not go wrong.
Because the Lineage's Spirit Beast Garden covered a vast area, it had been built beneath a protruding hill on the easternmost side of Xuanxiao Mountain.
The Lineage's largest Spirit Lake, Moon Gazing Lake, was located there.
Within it were more than ten second-grade mid-tier Red Pearl Spirit Fish.
Their fish eyes contained Red Spirit Pearls, and each one produced a pearl every year.
They could improve the cultivation of Foundation Establishment Cultivators without any side effects, making them rare treasures.
However, they were extremely difficult to raise. They were still in the observation stage and had not been bred on a large scale, lest everything be lost.
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