Adding and Patching Things Up

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone saw Ling Hui, who had been silently working with his head down, stop peeling the bark from the wood, take out ten Storage Bag from his pocket, and then take out from one of the Storage Bag... ten perfectly intact peach trees?

These ten peach trees are very well preserved. They were dug up with large chunks of soil around their roots and planted in huge flowerpots... or rather, large vats. Not many flowers have fallen from the branches, showing that they have been carefully cared for.

Everyone looked at the ten peach trees, then at Ling Hui, who continued peeling the bark from the remaining wood with a blank expression.

"Ling Hui, why do you carry so many peach trees with you?" Mo Yuanjiao asked, voicing everyone's question.

Ling Hui replied, "I found that I cultivated faster under the peach trees, so I dug some up and kept them indoors. I brought them with me to the summer camp this time because I didn't know what the situation was like in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, so I brought a few extra."

He cultivates the "Peach Blossom Spring Myriad Void Instruction," and it seems that he has occasionally heard others in the sect mention that it is easier to enter a meditative state when cultivating under a peach tree.

However, the space under the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree in the sect is limited, and it is not very convenient for people to meditate there all the time. Most people still meditate and cultivate in their normal cultivation rooms or their own residences, and only occasionally go to the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree to seek some inspiration when they reach a bottleneck in their cultivation.

Unexpectedly, Ling Hui even dug up a peach tree and placed it in the house for cultivation.

However, Ling Hui's peach trees are just ordinary trees, not high-grade spiritual trees like the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree, so it's unknown how effective they will be.

With the peach trees in hand, the group quickly planted nine of them along the mountain path. They planted the most beautiful one next to the thatched hut and left one for Ling Hui, which they put back in his Storage Bag in case he needed it.

With the peach tree issue resolved, all that's left is to build the house.

The sect's main hall, the Four Arts Hall, the cultivation room, the dormitory...

"What should we do about the Spirit Vein?" Han Weishu asked.

They have no Spirit Vein here, and the Spiritual Qi is much thinner than near Yuanling City, which is clearly inconsistent with the setup of a sect.

No matter how poor the Spiritual Qi in a sect, it cannot be as barren as the outside world.

Then everyone turned their attention to Mo Yuanjiao.

Mo Yuanjiao obediently rummaged through his Lock Ring for a while before taking out a formation plate. "This should have enough coverage."

"How effective is this Spirit Gathering Formation? It's not too powerful, is it?" Xuanyuan Haoyue asked.

While surveying the area to determine the best location for the formation, Mo Yuanjiao replied, "It should be able to more than double the current Spiritual Qi concentration, encompassing the area of this one mountain. That should be sufficient, right?"

Xuanyuan Haoyue nodded knowingly. "It's alright, less than twice as much, so it shouldn't be very noticeable."

If the Spirit Gathering Formation is too strong, it will drain the surrounding Spiritual Qi too quickly. If the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi cannot replenish itself naturally, it will affect the concentration of Spiritual Qi in the surrounding area. This change will be too obvious and easily attract attention, which is not good.

They just wanted to set up a fake base to accumulate some reserve forces for the sect, and didn't want to make it too high-profile or attract attention.

Fortunately, the mountain they chose was not large; doubling the concentration of Spiritual Qi within its area wouldn't have a significant impact, as it should be absorbed by the natural flow of Spiritual Qi generated by heaven and earth.

As for the cultivation room, Mo Yuanjiao only needed to take out one small Spirit Gathering Formation that he had researched himself, which would be more than enough.

After resolving the issue of Spiritual Qi, the eight of them began the enjoyable project of building a house.

This was not unfamiliar to them, after all, they had built many parts of the sect themselves.

The efficiency of two Golden Core cultivators and six Foundation Establishment cultivators was quite rapid; they completed the construction of all the main buildings in just a few hours.

They even made the tables, chairs, cabinets, and shelves inside.

The group stood in front of the building they had completed, quite satisfied.

"And all the supplies in the Four Arts Hall!" Han Weishu reminded her.

So they started rummaging through their Storage Bag and Lock Ring.

Everyone chipped in to contribute a bunch of basic talisman paper, talisman pens, array plates, engraving knives, various basic crafting materials, and blacksmithing tools.

The basic supplies for three of the four arts of cultivating immortality were instantly collected in large quantities.

However, there was no Pill Furnace or herbs.

The eight people looked at each other in bewilderment.

"None of you... brought your Pill Furnace?" Xuanyuan Haoyue asked.

Everyone shook their heads.

"I spend all my time in the Formation Hall, I don't have time to refine pills at all." Mo Yuanjiao shrugged.

"Besides cultivating, I've been busy with the City Lord's Mansion and the Cage Compound. I've hardly ever been inside the Alchemy Chamber," Yuan Jinsheng said.

"..."

Everyone has their own reasons for not practicing alchemy.

It was such a coincidence that none of the eight people who came to summer camp this time were from the Alchemy Chamber.

So everyone had to contribute one hundred Spirit Stone each, planning to go to Yuanling City later to find a few cheap Pill Furnace to decorate and display for the time being.

It's not that they're stingy, it's just that this is a fake sect headquarters, and their sect already has all these things, and they're far better than what's available outside. It's really unnecessary to spend Spirit Stone to buy expensive ones.

Moreover, although they receive generous stipends from the sect, they still need to cultivate and buy things—the sect's resources are not provided to them without restraint, and they still have to spend Spirit Stone for various additional needs.

Besides, the establishment of this fake sect's headquarters was their own decision, so it wouldn't be appropriate for them to ask the sect for reimbursement.

So it's perfectly reasonable to be a little frugal with these expenses!

Knowing they would need to enter the secret realm the day after tomorrow, the group split into two. Four people stayed at their makeshift base to tidy up and make up for any missing items, while the other four went to Yuanling City to buy the items their makeshift base needed and to gather the necessary supplies for the secret realm they would be visiting the day after tomorrow.

Yuan Jinsheng took Bai Zhu, Ling Hui, and Gu Yuxiao to Yuanling City to be in charge of procurement.

Mo Yuanjiao and the other three stayed behind to continue working.

After setting up all the Spirit Gathering Formation and Heart-Questioning Illusion Formation, he suddenly realized that they had overlooked a very important Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation for the sect!

If a sect doesn't have Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation, isn't that tantamount to saying "Welcome" to all the cultivators outside?

Although the Heart-Questioning Illusion Formation has some defensive capabilities, it can't compare to a proper Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation; after all, each has its own specialty.

So Mo Yuanjiao started rummaging through his Lock Ring again, trying to select the most suitable one to serve as the Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation for this fake Lingxian Sect Sect's base.

He was obsessed with various formations every day in the sect, but many of them were useless in the sect and Xiushui City.

Now that this pseudo-sect base has been built, the array formations he usually researches and creates can finally be put to use!