Cave Dwelling Site Selection, Divine Silk Seeks Spirit

Fang Shu strolled leisurely to the Beast Hall.

According to the rules of the Five Viscera Temple, any disciple who successfully refined qi could select a mountain peak within the temple—somewhere unimportant and not occupied by any hall—to establish a cave dwelling of their own.

They could carve open a mountain and hollow out a cave, build a cottage to live in, create woodland gardens, or anything else besides. It was entirely up to them.

The only problem was that the mountain peaks still freely available for disciples to choose were not places rich in spiritual energy.

Any location where spiritual veins converged would first be occupied by the major halls, then by the great clans and merchants, who would build refined residences there, and after that, by predecessors who had opened cave dwellings year after year.

As a result, the land that remained was either dangerous, excessively remote and barren, or utterly ordinary in spiritual energy.

Fortunately for Fang Shu, he had another option: he could find himself a small mountain near the Venom Hall and open a cave dwelling there.

That way, his cave dwelling would not only be closer to the Venom Hall for convenient travel, but the valley where the Venom Hall stood was itself rich in spiritual energy. Even outside the valley, the spiritual energy was twenty to thirty percent higher than at Toad Shoal.

Although the outer regions around a given hall were nominally available for disciples to establish cave dwellings, no one who had not become a hall master's disciple dared to develop such places. Even if someone did dare, no one would come help them build, lest they offend the hall.

Yet precisely because of this, when Fang Shu arrived at the Beast Hall and announced that he wished to hire a