During the time that followed, Zhang Qingyuan mostly stayed within the rented cave dwelling, waiting for Daoist Ming Shui's summons while comprehending the trace of profundity within the Divine Wood Seal. He also used the Great Evolution Technique to deduce the Grass and Trees Soldier Summoning spell, hoping to formally grasp Wood Life Intent.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, three months had passed.
During this period of time,
Senior Brother Wang Yuènián and Senior Brother Peng Li also invited him out several times to meet some fellow senior brothers under Daoist Ming Shui. Zhang Qingyuan did not refuse.
Although he had always believed that cultivation should place great power in one's own hands, and that everything else was insignificant compared to strength,
before one could sweep aside all beneath heaven, connections in the Cultivation World were themselves a part of a cultivator's strength.
After all, those with broad connections could answer one call with a hundred responses. Having three or five friends gang up on an opponent was also a form of one's own strength, was it not?
Of course,
Zhang Qingyuan had no intention of reaching such a point, much less spending too much effort on it.
His purpose in expanding his connections was merely to broaden his contacts within the cultivation world, so that he could obtain information he did not know, or perhaps hear news through his connections when he needed precious spirit items.
As fellow disciples under the same master, they were always more reliable than strangers with no prior acquaintance.
And precisely because of this,
after several meetings, Zhang Qingyuan had more or less gotten to know most of his nominal senior brothers.
Daoist Ming Shui had a total of sixteen Core Disciples.
Zhang Qingyuan was the latest to enter