Preparing to Set Out

The lively celebration in the village ended early due to the absence of the person involved. After the village chief organized a banquet for the bailiffs and fed them until they were full, the bailiffs left amidst the warm farewell of the villagers of Xiushui Village.

In an instant, Xiushui Village returned to its former tranquility.

Every household couldn't help but secretly rejoice at night that they would be exempt from miscellaneous taxes this year.

Recently, Lin Xiao also took some time to mention to Liao Pantu the matter of going to the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

Liao Pantu asked him to refine a Soul-Nourishing Pendant or something similar that would be easy to carry around, so that his soul could be stored there. Otherwise, if he appeared in the Immortal Cultivation Realm in his current form, Lin Xiao's experience there would probably not be very pleasant.

Putting everything else aside, just the fact that such Dayi movable Soul-Nourishing Wood is enough to attract a lot of attention.

Lin Xiao not only told Liao Pantu about going to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, but also consulted him about the Heart-Questioning Road.

He had no clue about the Heart-Questioning Road" system that the system required him to build.

Liao Pantu was somewhat surprised to hear that he had the idea of building Heart-Questioning Road, but he was very pleased with it. So he said to Lin Xiao:

"The so-called Heart-Questioning Road is naturally for questioning the true intentions of those who pass through it. Almost every sect has its own Heart-Questioning Road. This Heart-Questioning Road needs to Heart-Questioning Stone with the Heart-Questioning Stone, which can only be found at the Heart-Questioning Cliff in the Divine-Hidden Continent of the Immortal Cultivation Realm."

Therefore, on this trip to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Lin Xiao not only had to Make Connections, but also had to go to the Heart-Questioning Cliff to collect Heart-Questioning Stone.

So Lin Xiao has been very busy lately, having to find time to cultivate whenever he can, research how to refine the Soul-Nourishing Pendant, and also think of more ways to protect himself...

Judging that Sun Yigao should be back soon, Lin Xiao quickly found Liu Yunan and entrusted him with the responsibilities of enrolling students in the private school and managing various trivial matters of the sect.

After all, although Sun Yigao was very smart, he hadn't dealt with these kinds of mundane affairs much, so Lin Xiao planned to have the Tuzi assist with the private school's enrollment.

After considering it, he decided to set his departure time five days later.

It wasn't that Lin Xiao was overconfident and wanted to venture into the Immortal Cultivation Realm with only Foundation Establishment cultivation; rather, he had his own considerations regarding the development of his sect.

During their private conversations, Mo Yuanjiao had told him about the general situation of the Pusi Kingdom they were in.

Given their sect's current development trend, it's only a matter of time before they're discovered by the other three major sects Mo Yuanjiao mentioned in the Pusi Kingdom.

The fact that the three major sects are vying for power shows that they would never be happy to have another sect emerge on their existing territory and divide up their original sphere of influence and the already scarce Cultivation Resources in the Mortal Realm.

Therefore, Lin Xiao did not want his sect to be too far behind the three major sects when they discovered it, leaving him with no power to resist and thus failing to make them wary.

Although he wanted to develop peacefully with everyone, others didn't think so.

So he thought that simply making money and food was far from enough for them. Although the sect's facilities were now complete, he felt that it would be best to go to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and open Immortal Cultivation Realm trade and information markets there. This would be beneficial for the rapid development of their sect.

He had to ensure that their Lingxian Sect was powerful enough to be discovered by the three major sects.

This kind of power cannot be the power of one person alone; it must be the power of the entire sect in all aspects.

Clearly, the task rewards provided by the system and the current state of their sect are far from sufficient to achieve this.

Therefore, he didn't want to be delayed too much in terms of departure time.

Moreover, just yesterday, his cultivation level successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Since he couldn't advance to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage anytime soon, he set his departure time for five days later. Five days should be enough time for him to arrange everything.

Thus, in the five days leading up to his departure, Lin Xiao was extremely busy.

He didn't even have time to mine; he handed his little spirit pickaxe to Senior Liao and took him to the Spirit Stone mine at the bottom of the back mountain to help him mine Spirit Stone.

Liao Pantu, was somewhat bewildered as he went down into the mine to dig for Spirit Stone for the first time.

He wanted to tell Lin Xiao several times that although his soul didn't have many Spirit Stone stones, he still had ten or eight thousand.

But after thinking for a long time, he still didn't speak.

Well, Spirit Stone are the universal currency in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. Who would complain about not having enough money? Let him mine then. He's been pretty free lately anyway.

Anyway, if he runs out of Spirit Stone while traveling, he can just take them out again.

And so, Liao the miner was freshly minted.

With the mining issue resolved, Lin Xiao busied himself creating various Cultivation Method and Law Technique.

Unfortunately, as he used Law Technique more frequently, he realized that the Law Technique he had created before were not numerous or refined enough. As for Cultivation Method, he only had one Swordsmanship so far, and he always felt that this was not very safe.

That's the Immortal Cultivation Realm! For the sake of his own life, Lin Xiao, adhering to the principle of the more the better, has been frantically creating all sorts of Cultivation Method and mental cultivation methods whenever he has free time.

He also took the time to draw many practical talismans and formations, and refined many types of healing and recovery pills. These past few days, the medicinal herb field of Senior Liao has been consumed at a rapid rate. Fortunately, he has been almost entirely focused on mining in the Spirit Stone mine and has not had any free time. Otherwise, seeing the rate at which the spirit medicine are being consumed would have made him feel heartbroken for half a day.

On the third day of Lin Xiao's busy schedule, Sun Yigao finally returned to the village with his parents.

After receiving congratulations and thanks from the villagers, he went up the mountain to meet Lin Xiao, who had managed to squeeze in a welcome dinner for him.

The welcome banquet was prepared entirely by Chef Jiang Youfu.

It was at this welcoming banquet that everyone except Liao Pantu and Liu Yunan learned that Lin Xiao would be heading to the unknown Immortal Cultivation Realm in two days.

At the dinner table, Lin Dayou sighed silently. He felt that the food Little Fuzi had cooked didn't taste so good anymore.

Seeing his expression that said, "My son is all grown up and hard to manage," Lin Xiao quickly said:

"Father, don't worry, I'll protect my life tightly and absolutely won't let anyone take it away!"

Before Lin Dayou could say anything, Mo Yuanjiao, sitting next to him, spoke up excitedly:

"Master, Master, if you're worried, let me go with Senior Brother Sect Leader!"

Although Lin Xiao had already clarified his relationship with his father to him, Mo Yuanjiao still called him "Sect Master Senior Brother" and did not change his address.

Lin Xiao figured that since his father probably wouldn't be taking on any more disciples in the future, he might as well call them whatever he wanted, and let the seniority system be messed up. That was all the mess it was. He figured that if there were any new disciples in the future, he could just tell everyone to keep things under control.