"Having them calm their minds means having them cultivate. What nonsense about liveliness and loneliness? Still, they usually busy themselves with cultivation and never go to the medicine garden, so it is not easy for them to guide your cultivation. This is a fine opportunity. When they rest from cultivation, they can give you some pointers! Xiao Hua, can't you show some ambition? Hurry and cultivate to the Qi Cultivation third layer. When will you, this half-disciple... truly become a disciple of my Shang Hua Ming?"
"Hehe, aren't I working hard?" Xiao Hua said with a smile.
"Fine, go on. For these hundred days, let the puppet do more work while you cultivate more!" Xiao Yuehong slapped his storage pouch, took out a yellow talisman and a fist-sized spirit stone, and said, "Take this talisman to the Secret Chamber. You have used the puppet before, so you know how to control it. Take this spirit stone and place it in the puppet's back. It should last for a hundred days without a problem!"
"Master... the puppet needs spirit stones too?" Xiao Hua took them, asking in great surprise.
"You child, how could the puppet move without drawing on the spiritual energy in a spirit stone? How could it plant spirit herbs?" Xiao Yuehong chuckled and scolded him with a smile.
Xiao Hua smiled without saying more. After bidding Xiao Yuehong farewell, he arrived at the rear mountain of Minsi Peak and stood before a smooth, gleaming stone wall. He pressed the yellow talisman onto it, and a faint azure radiance flashed. A cave over a man's height appeared in the stone wall. Xiao Hua entered without hesitation. At the end of the cave was Shang Hua Ming's Secret Chamber, where the collections accumulated over generations by Shang Hua Ming were