Lingzhou

An hour later, Fang Yu arrived at the Chenpi herb garden.

After showing his disciple token, he confirmed the task of making medicine with a senior brother who was guarding the medicine garden and received a batch of fresh dried tangerine peel.

Fang Yu brought the dried tangerine peel back to the courtyard, dumped the mountain of peel into the yard, and began to dry it.

The task he was given was very simple: to dry fresh dried tangerine peel over a flame until it was ready for medicinal use. The control over the heat was not very demanding, and basically any disciple who had practiced fire magic could do it.

However, it is a very tedious task, especially for disciples who have just started and do not yet have much Law Power. Drying a batch of dried tangerine peel will take at least several months.

Therefore, Fang Yu continued his normal cultivation every day, taking a little time each day to process a batch of dried tangerine peel, ensuring that its progress matched his cultivation level.

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Dao of Qi Ingestion.

Fang Yu rode on auspicious clouds, calmly heading west.

The Dao of Qi Refining has basically settled down; people just need to cultivate step by step each day and take on tasks involving processing herbs.

During this spare time, Fang Yu came to Dao of Qi Ingestion to seek his own fortuitous opportunity.

"Xuanzhou is just ahead!"

Fang Yu murmured to himself, and with a thought, the Yuanchen Pearl began to spin rapidly, preemptively concealing himself to avoid being sensed by the Purple Mansion True Person of Mount Longmen as soon as he arrived in Jingzhou.

Although the Purple Mansion sensed him, it couldn't calculate his specific identity. However, the inability to calculate it was still a very obvious result. To the local Purple Mansion, it meant that an unknown Purple Mansion had arrived at their dojo, which would definitely arouse the other party's vigilance and even lead to targeted arrangements.

By concealing the heavenly secrets in advance, we can avoid disturbing the local Purple Mansion.

Upon entering Xuanzhou, the architectural style on the ground changed noticeably, and the clothes and hats worn by mortals were different from those in Jingzhou. However, the mortal world seemed much more prosperous than Jingzhou.

'This place looks quite nice; it's a perfect spot for reincarnation!'

Fang Yu murmured something, descended from the clouds, and landed in a bustling city below. His Divine Thought fluctuated as he listened to the various sounds of the mortal realm.

Through those conversations, he quickly gained a deep understanding of the city and became connected with its destiny.

He kept calculating and sensing with his fingers hidden in his sleeve, and then he arrived at a house.

"This family is your destiny."

Fang Yu spoke, a wisp of true spirit appeared between his brows, flew towards the house, and entered the abdomen of a maid.

Fang Yu did not retain the true spirit's destiny in any way. He simply took out a small notebook and recorded the family the spirit was reincarnated into, using it as an anchor point for future calculations.

In this way, if he ever needs to use this true spirit, he can use it to find the other party.

The advantage of doing this is that you don't have to worry about being found out that your destiny is incomplete, you have the opportunity to enter the local sect, and you also have the opportunity to become a core disciple and come into contact with the core True Disciple.

The downside is that it's completely free-range; he doesn't know what the harvest will be, and there's no way to monitor it at all times, so he can't intervene as needed.

However, the true spirits he is currently raising have all been saved by Zhang Daochang and have been imbued with the destiny of Mount Longhu, which means that their destiny has been greatly enhanced. Even if they are not chosen ones like Embroidered Tiger, their Dao Path will definitely be much smoother, and their probability of achieving the Dao Foundation will be greatly increased.

Next, Fang Yu calculated the fortunes of several other families whose households had long-lasting prosperity and where a woman was pregnant. He then sent several spirits to be reincarnated before leaving the city and continuing westward.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye. Fang Yu traveled westward, passing through several states. Along the way, he sent all the true spirits in his sea of consciousness to be reincarnated, thus burying all the idle chess pieces.

On this day, a thought suddenly struck him: his Dao Foundation of ' Phoenix Sets the Plains Ablaze Across the Plains' had been sensed.

He immediately followed his senses and continued onward. The senses grew stronger and stronger. After flying over a mountain range, he stopped and looked at the boundless desert in front of him.

We've arrived in Lingzhou!

Fang Yu murmured something, and as his thoughts flashed, the Yuanchen Pearl in his sea of consciousness began to spin rapidly, obscuring his own heavenly secrets to prevent them from being sensed by the local Purple Mansion.

At the same time, some information about Lingzhou came to mind:

Lingzhou is the sacred site of the Buddhist Dao holy mountain, the Great Thunderclap Monastery. Although it also reveres Mount Longhu as the ancestral home of Daoism and considers itself a member of the Daoist community, the Buddhist Dao and Daoist teachings it transmits are regarded as "heretical" and not orthodox by Mount Longhu. It is rejected by the Taiyi Profound Gate Daoist sect) and has been confined to Lingzhou for over eight thousand years, preventing the eastward transmission of Buddhism and the eastward migration of monks.

"Could it be that my fortuitous opportunity to achieve the Purple Mansion lies in Buddhist Dao?!"

Fang Yu murmured to himself and continued westward, following the sensations of his own ' Phoenix Sets the Plains Ablaze Across the Plains'.

The endless yellow sand stretched out like a vast sea, and for months no one had been seen. This made Fang Yu's heart pound with anxiety.

"Is the environment in Lingzhou really this harsh? It should be called Shazhou (Sand Prefecture) instead. There's not a trace of spiritual energy here. How can it be called Lingzhou?"

After traveling for several more months, a patch of green finally came into view—an oasis in the desert.

Fang Yu reduced the speed of the cloud platform and used his Divine Thought to perceive the oasis below. The oasis was not large, consisting of only a small lake with some buildings around the lake and some figures visible.

After passing this oasis, Fang Yu traveled for several more days and found another oasis. Continuing westward, he encountered more and more oases. Although most of them were small, some of them were quite large and had city walls built on them.

At the same time, Fang Yu also noticed monks wearing robes in the city, as well as some very special buildings, which should be the monasteries where the monks practiced.

After traveling for several more months, they came to see vast forests, rolling mountains, a great river flowing down the mountains, and large cities built along the banks of the river.

As he drew closer, the ' Phoenix Sets the Plains Ablaze's' senses grew stronger. When Fang Yu descended from the cloud platform and landed within the city, he was certain that his fortuitous opportunity lay within the city.

The cloud platform descended, Fang Yu stepped onto the city's ground. His clothes changed accordingly, and after three steps, he was indistinguishable from the city's residents.

His Divine Thought passively collected information about the city and soon learned that the city was called "Pure Goodness City" and that all the residents were believers of "Sweet Dew Monastery".

"Sweet Dew" symbolizes a miraculous medicine that eliminates illness and nourishes life. If the residents of the city are sick, they only need to go to the Sweet Dew Monastery to obtain the spirit medicine and be cured. Therefore, in this Pure Goodness City, there are only believers who die of old age, and no one dies of illness.

Fang Yu strolled through the city and soon found Sweet Dew Monastery, located beside the river.

This temple is not large, and it doesn't even have a mountain gate. There is only a stone tablet with the three characters "Sweet Dew Monastery" engraved on it standing by the roadside.

Fang Yu glanced at the stone tablet of Sweet Dew Monastery and walked into the temple. As soon as he took a step, the Yuanchen Pearl in his sea of consciousness began to spin rapidly, and the Primordial Qi stored inside was consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

'There is great terror here.'

Fang Yu muttered to himself, turned around and left, disappearing from the roadside in a few steps.