Fishing Preparations

What was going on?

Di Tian had just thought Bai Yuan was slow at drawing these things, managing at most a dozen or so a day. Yet in the blink of an eye, he had already made nine?

It was bad enough that something so outrageous had begun to be mass-produced.

He was even drawing them so quickly!

For a moment, Di Tian did not know what to say.

But a sense of relief also rose within him.

Fortunately, Bai Yuan was on bad terms with those human Titled Douluo.

Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Just imagine it: if a war broke out between humans and soul beasts in the future, and every ordinary person held a Sky Flame Starfall Talisman...

Even Di Tian felt his scalp tingle at the thought.

Only after using up all the materials he had prepared beforehand did Bai Yuan finally set down his brush. Drawing talismans did not consume much of his energy, after all, since he was using the Spiritual Qi within the Five Elements Array.

Time flew by, and a year passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, Bai Yuan continued completing various system tasks to obtain Master Virtue Points as system rewards.

Through his accumulated points, Bai Yuan exchanged for a cultivation art suitable for all demon beasts and taught it to the family of three foxes.

At the same time, Bai Yuan continued taking on disciples.

However, Bai Yuan no longer intended to take human disciples. The disciples he accepted were all little ones within the Five Elements Array who had absorbed the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth and only just developed Spiritual Intelligence.

Because the cultivation art he had exchanged for previously was not of a high grade and could be recorded in writing, Bai Yuan taught it to all his disciples as well.

"Ding! Congratulations on successfully accepting a disciple."

"Ding! Congratulations, Host. Your number of disciples has reached twenty-one. Reward: Current Most Needed Treasure Chest *1, 100,000 Master Virtue Points."

Bai Yuan looked at the white snake wrapped around his hand, its Spiritual Intelligence newly awakened, and nodded in satisfaction. "From now on, you will be my registered disciple, Bai Su, ranked eighteenth."

Because the number of disciples had increased dramatically, Bai Yuan divided them into personal disciples and registered disciples.

There were three personal disciples: Bai Yu, Mu Junwu, and Wang Qiuer—the ones bound to Bai Yuan's system.

Over the past year, Bai Yu's cultivation had steadily progressed toward the Foundation Establishment Mid-stage. Meanwhile, with the enhancement of the Five Elements Array, Mu Junwu had reached the astonishing Qi Refining Fifth Layer.

Thanks to her great fortune and the boost from her exclusive cultivation art, Mysterious Heaven Creation Art, Wang Qiuer was evenly matched with Mu Junwu.

Su Yin, Su Yue, and Su Xiaoxiao, the family of three, were all among the eighteen registered disciples. Of them, Su Yin had the highest cultivation, having reached the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.

There was nothing to be done about it. His Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast cultivation translated to more than the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, so improving by more than half a layer in a year was considered normal.

Bai Yuan opened the Attribute Panel.

[Host: Bai Yuan]

[Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Initial]

[Item: Current Most Needed Treasure Chest]

[Special: Intermediate Alchemist, Intermediate Array Master, Intermediate Artifact Refiner, Intermediate Talisman Master]

[Number of Disciples: 21]

[Bound Disciples: Bai Yu, Wang Qiuer, Mu Junwu (Current Binding Limit: 3) (After binding a disciple, whenever that disciple improves, the Host will likewise gain the same amount of cultivation.)]

[Master Virtue Points: 114000]

[Shop: Click to Open]

[Current Task One: Refine a Marrow Cleansing Pill. Reward: 10,000 Master Virtue Points.]

[Current Task Two: Breakthrough to Golden Core Stage. Reward: Binding Disciple Limit *7, 100,000 Master Virtue Points.]

[Current Task Three: Accept 365 disciples (21 currently accepted). Reward: Current Most Needed Treasure Chest, 1,000,000 Master Virtue Points.]

Looking at the outrageous number of disciples required at the bottom, as well as the outrageous amount of Master Virtue Points, Bai Yuan was dumbfounded. But he also knew that it was impossible for him to take in so many disciples in a short time.

"It seems the Array Base for the Five Elements Array costs one million Master Virtue Points in the shop," Bai Yuan muttered.

Then Bai Yuan secretly shook his head. "I should refine the Marrow Cleansing Pill for Task One first."

The Marrow Cleansing Pill was a top-grade pill among Second Grade pills.

For an ordinary Intermediate Alchemist, successfully refining such a pill was basically impossible.

But for Bai Yuan, it was effortless.

The only difficulty was that even after sending out Di Tian, they had still failed to gather all the ingredients for the Marrow Cleansing Pill in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Either the ingredients they found were not old enough, or they had already been eaten by other soul beasts by the time they were found.

"Why hasn't Ning Fengzhi brought Poison Douluo here yet? Does he not want his daughter anymore, or did something happen?" Bai Yuan muttered as he traveled.

Bai Yuan wanted the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes. As long as he occupied that territory, he would no longer lack alchemy ingredients.

Then, whenever the system issued an alchemy task, he would be able to complete it immediately.

Before long, Bai Yuan found Su Yin.

Bai Yuan had far too many disciples, so he handed the newly accepted ones over to Su Yin to manage, having him teach them cultivation techniques and sect rules.

After settling the new disciples, Bai Yuan set off without delay. Before long, he arrived once more at the place where Mu Junwu had taken root.

The enormous pit stretching several thousand meters had now become a vast lake. Bai Yuan had planted all kinds of lotus flowers in it and raised quite a few fish as well.

It was a scene straight out of paradise.

Crossing the lake, Bai Yuan soon arrived beneath Mu Junwu, who had grown another dozen meters taller.

"Master," Mu Junwu said.

Bai Yuan nodded gently. "Junwu, your master will be taking Bai Yu and Qiuer out for a while later. You'll be responsible for looking after your junior disciples."

Whenever Bai Yuan was absent, only Mu Junwu, as the Array Base, could mobilize part of the Five Elements Array's power.

"Alright, Master. Go take care of your business. Leave the junior disciples to me—I won't let anything happen to them," Mu Junwu said.

Bai Yuan nodded and walked inside.

Now that they had such a vast territory within the Five Elements Array, no one lived inside Mu Junwu's trunk anymore. Only Bai Yuan, Bai Yu, and Wang Qiuer came by from time to time to keep her company.

After entering, Bai Yuan did not go upstairs. Instead, he formed hand seals with both hands. The earth split apart, and a young girl whose entire body was bound in vines, with another vine stuffed into her mouth, entered his sight.

The girl immediately began struggling.

But her struggles were utterly futile.

"After all this time, you still refuse to give in, huh?"

Bai Yuan looked at Xiao Wu and sighed.

The girl made a series of strange noises, seemingly cursing Bai Yuan viciously, but he did not care. Instead, he said blandly, "Judging by how you look, you've gotten used to having a vine stuffed in your mouth. You don't seem uncomfortable at all."

Xiao Wu continued to curse indistinctly.

"Since you're this stubborn, then you only have one use left to me," Bai Yuan said.

With that, Bai Yuan ignored Xiao Wu's reaction and simply used spiritual power to drag her outside.

Bai Yuan had once tricked Xiao Wu into becoming his disciple only to increase his disciple count and obtain system rewards to grow stronger.

But now, Bai Yuan no longer lacked disciples. He planned to take Xiao Wu out and use her as bait to fish.

To fish Tang San out.

As the protagonist under normal circumstances and the future God King of the Divine Realm, Tang San's continued existence left Bai Yuan somewhat uneasy.

"Tang San, don't disappoint me. You once said that you wouldn't let anyone hurt Xiao Wu. If anyone wanted to harm her, they would have to step over your corpse first!"