Fifth Opening! [Seeking Recommendation Tickets!]

Meng Nan looked at Qian Yu.

"Thank you for trusting me!"

Qian Yu then reached for her waist, took out a beast skin bag, and tossed it to Meng Nan. A slight twitch at the corner of her lips couldn't be suppressed as she said, "You know the whereabouts of good things thousands of miles away. You're truly capable!"

The beast skin bag contained Spirit Sand.

During the half-year Meng Nan spent assisting with childbirth in Yinlian Village, he had truly utilized Qian Yu to the fullest—

Connecting with rogue cultivators.

Searching for magical artifacts.

He had even sent her to mine Spirit Sand.

Especially the latter, even though Meng Nan had given her three locations near the three hundred tribal villages, the total distance to travel to all of them was likely tens of thousands of miles.

Just the travel alone would take two months.

Adding the mining, this trip took a full four months, which was not ordinary hardship.

"But Auntie can't rest yet. I've finished refining these pills, and Auntie hasn't contacted those rogue cultivators for four months. You'll have to travel again soon to trade the pills for medicinal herbs."

As Meng Nan spoke, Zhao Xiaoshuang immediately took out two small bottles from her personal bag and handed them over.

Meng Nan looked at Qian Yu. "This bottle is Qi Circulation Powder, seven pills in total. This bottle contains Yellow Spirit Pills, two pills in total."

He and Qian Yu had officially started cooperating in early November last year.

In the first three months, Qian Yu had contacted a total of 424 rogue cultivators and obtained 75 portions of medicinal herbs for refining Qi Circulation Powder and 11 portions for Yellow Spirit Pills from them.

Meng Nan's success rate for refining these two types of pills was as high as 90%. He ultimately refined 70 pills of Qi Circulation Powder and 9 pills of Yellow Spirit Pills.

He kept half for himself, totaling 35 pills of Qi Circulation Powder and 5 pills of Yellow Spirit Pills.

This couldn't compare to pharmaceutical companies in his previous life.

Those companies had investments in research and development, production, sales, and other stages, and they also had to pay taxes. The raw material costs weren't high, but the total costs added up significantly.

And most importantly, pharmaceutical companies were almost monopolies and held patents. Even if the pricing was outrageous, people had to buy them.

But in the cultivation world, refining pills...

This wasn't a unique business, and there were no intellectual property rights or patents to speak of.

Everyone here could refine pills.

It was just that some people weren't skilled, and only one or two out of ten furnaces would succeed. Thus, they were willing to trade ten portions of medicinal herbs for one or two portions of finished pills.

But if it were any more, they might as well refine them themselves.

In the cultivation world, you could do everything yourself. There was a bottom line. Unless you could do what others couldn't and had a unique selling point, like unique pills. But even with unique pills, you had to have no alternatives of the same type to make a huge profit; otherwise, they would still be ignored.

It couldn't be compared.

Meng Nan wasn't greedy. Relying on his skill to earn half was enough to satisfy him.

The rest went to Qian Yu.

Meng Nan didn't concern himself with the specifics of how she procured medicinal herbs from the rogue cultivators.

What he took out now was the last batch from that time, which he hadn't had a chance to give to Qian Yu yet. Now, with these pills, she could go and contact those rogue cultivators again.

"After four months, they should have accumulated quite a few medicinal herbs."

"I'll go tomorrow!"

Qian Yu, seemingly tireless, took the pills and became even more excited. With a continuous supply of Qi Circulation Powder and Yellow Spirit Pills, she could quickly complete the True Qi Stage and advance to True Essence sooner.

The world was vast.

She had truly experienced it over the past half-year and was now full of energy, not feeling tired at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of June.

On this day.

Meng Xingzhe, who had just turned a hundred days old, was hung in a tree, swaying and watching his mother practice her sword.

The hanging basket was comfortable.

The sword moves were spectacular.

This made Meng Xingzhe giggle non-stop.

He would fall asleep when he got tired of laughing.

This child was not troublesome.

Zhao Xiaoshuang was focused, practicing the Gale Thunder Sword Technique. Meng Nan had obtained this sword technique in his third life, and it was already the pinnacle among mortal sword techniques.

Anything above this was true sorcery.

For example, Palm Thunder.

For example, Five Thunder Technique.

Zhao Xiaoshuang's cultivation was still low, making her sorcery difficult to sustain. She still needed swordsmanship and mortal martial arts to protect herself.

She was engrossed in her sword practice.

Three months after giving birth, her body had fully recovered. She had been on Angming Mountain for about a month, and had mostly adapted to the environment and lifestyle. Her heart gradually quieted, and she spent her days immersed in cultivation, gradually discovering its joys and finding pleasure in it.

She finished a round of sword practice.

At this moment.

Suddenly.

She saw a flash of light from the cave behind the wooden house not far away. Before Zhao Xiaoshuang could react, a giant over two zhang tall appeared before her.

Over two zhang!

Nearly seven meters!

The pressure was truly astonishing.

As soon as the giant appeared, it slapped down with its palm without a word--

"Hah!"

Zhao Xiaoshuang was neither surprised nor flustered. She leaped into the air, and as she descended, the giant flipped its palm, and she landed right on its hand.

She stood steadily.

This giant was none other than Meng Nan, who had just mastered his secret technique.

"Is this the 'Giant Spirit God' secret technique?"

Zhao Xiaoshuang stood on Meng Nan's palm, held up to his eye level, several meters off the ground, her face full of curiosity.

She had heard Meng Nan talk about the 'Giant Spirit God' secret technique. This time, after obtaining the Spirit Sand, Meng Nan had spent a month and, with a surge of effort, had finally mastered it in reality!

"Indeed."

"With my current cultivation, I can at most transform into a two-zhang-tall giant, but my combat power is not weak. Ordinary cultivators in the True Essence Stage might not be my match!"

Meng Nan said, holding Zhao Xiaoshuang in one hand and forming a spell with the other. He flicked his finger in the air--

Boom!

A roar sounded, and lightning flashed.

Using the 'Five Thunder Technique' in his 'Giant Spirit God' form could now pose a fatal threat to cultivators in the True Essence Stage.

With this technique mastered.

Meng Nan's foundation in reality was now truly established.

"Next--"

"I should defeat True Qi cultivators at the peak of Inner Qi, then frequently open future timelines, and begin to break through to the True Essence Stage and Qi Condensation!"

Meng Nan felt a surge of exhilaration.

He played with Zhao Xiaoshuang in his giant form for a while before transforming back.

"So powerful!"

After Meng Nan transformed back, Zhao Xiaoshuang also descended from the sky. Her face was flushed, and she touched Meng Nan's body up and down with her hands, exclaiming repeatedly.

She came from a barbaric village and had only seen some mortal martial arts at most. How could she have imagined the power of true immortal techniques and Spiritual Powers like the 'Giant Spirit God' and 'Five Thunder Technique'?

Seeing it for the first time today, she was filled with awe.

"When you cultivate to that level, you won't be any worse."

Meng Nan smiled, in an excellent mood.

When in a good mood, it was time to kill!

After eight months, it was time to open a future timeline once more.

"I'm going out for a few days and will be back soon."

Meng Nan briefly instructed Zhao Xiaoshuang and then descended Angming Mountain.

He strode out!

Off to kill!

Yinlian Village.

At Meng Ba's home.

It was late at night, and Meng Ba and Sun Mei were whispering.

"Have you thought it through?"

Sun Mei nudged Meng Ba. "My little brother-in-law has always been decisive. Don't let his age fool you; his mind is much stronger than yours or mine. In my opinion, sticking with him won't hurt."

But Meng Ba still hesitated--

"He's been smart since he was little, not one for many words, but kind-hearted."

"But right now, we're only at the Inner Qi stage. If we leave the village with them, we'll have no way back. Can he protect us?"

A month prior.

Meng Nan bid farewell to Meng Ba and Sun Mei; his family was leaving Yinlian Village.

Before leaving, he asked Meng Ba and Sun Mei for their opinion, saying that once he settled down, he wanted to know if they were willing to join him.

Leaving Yinlian Village.

Leaving the crowd.

Heading into the deep mountains and old forests, they stayed for several years.

Meng Ba hesitated.

Sun Mei also hesitated.

But—

"Let's do it for the children!"

"Meng Nan said that as long as we're willing to follow him, he guarantees that all three of his nephews and nieces will be able to cultivate True Essence when they grow up."

"That sounds incredibly arrogant, but I believe him."

Sun Mei was moved.

It was also because Meng Nan usually gave off a very reliable impression, and his words made people believe him without reason.

Thinking about the children's future, living in the deep mountains and old forests wasn't impossible.

Staying in the village for ten or twenty years would be the same, right?

It was better to take a chance.

"He's my own brother, he wouldn't harm us, would he?"

Sun Mei pinched Meng Ba. Seeing that Meng Ba couldn't even utter a word, she was furious.

"You can only start cultivating at sixteen."

"Our eldest is only four, and the youngest can't even talk yet. Is there really a need to rush? Can't we just bring them over when they're older?"

Meng Ba couldn't understand.

"Sigh!"

"You wooden head!"

"Meng Nan made it very clear. Staying in the village, being born and raised here, has no future. Your Meng family members don't have good aptitude; you need drastic measures. Only by leaving the village can you cultivate some notable figures."

Sun Mei explained it to Meng Ba in great detail.

Actually, if it weren't for the troublesome village system, it would have been best for Meng Nan to directly take the three children with him, and Meng Ba could stay in the village if he wanted.

Unfortunately, the system didn't allow it.

Tribal villages like Yinlian Village valued their population the most. Meng Nan's family had Qian Yu's guarantee, so leaving temporarily was fine. But if their three children disappeared, both parents would be in trouble.

If they were to leave, they had to leave together.

"Think about the children!"

Seeing that Meng Ba was silent, Sun Mei patted him again.

"Fine, fine, fine."

"I'll listen to you."

Meng Ba finally relented.

"That's more like it!"

As soon as Sun Mei heard this, she immediately smiled.

She got on her horse and they spent the night together.

Immortal Calendar Year 19, July 10th.

Meng Nan returned with Qian Yu. Also accompanying them were Qian Yu's three children, one boy and two girls. They had been secretly brought out of Yinlian Village under the cover of darkness.

Meng Ba and Sun Mei, the couple, had also been persuaded by Meng Nan and brought their three children with them.

With this, Angming Mountain now had twelve people.

It was beginning to have a population.

On the same day.

Meng Nan consumed his cultivation base and entered his fifth life.