Chapter 153: Harvest and the Start of School (Subscription Required)

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Li Yan's body fell to the ground, his eyes widened, and a look of disbelief condensed on his face.

Although Zhou Ling and He Zijian succeeded in killing it, the consumption was not small.

He Zijian looked pale and his spiritual power was less than 10%. After taking the Heqi Pill, he sat cross-legged and meditated to recover.

Zhou Ling used the beast flames to use the Five Elements Sword, and the backlash was also huge.

At this moment, the animal inflammation in the body is only as big as a little finger, and the light is extremely weak. It will take a long time to recover before it can recover.

Then, Zhou Ling's consciousness swept over Li Yan's body and saw a silver-gray ring on the finger of his right hand.

With a thought, the ring flew away from Li Yan's hand and landed on Zhou Ling's hand.

Zhou Ling took it into his arms.

This is a storage ring worn by Foundation Establishment monks, and the space inside it is much larger than that of a storage bag.

After doing all this, Zhou Ling glanced around.

Although the pharmacists did not have the numerical advantage, with the help of the thunder fire balls, more than a dozen thunder fire balls blasted out at the same time, directly killing three Li family monks, and two more were seriously injured.

Combat strength plummeted.

Now that they saw that the head of the family, Li Yan, had actually been killed, the others had no intention of joining the fight. They just wanted to break out of the encirclement and escape from this place as soon as possible.

Li Mu was disgraced and in a state of disarray under Chu Xing's fierce attack.

His Black Evil Fist is quite powerful, but it has no advantage against the Chu Xinghuo attribute spell.

Seeing Li Yan being killed, he was frightened and eager to escape.

In a moment of panic, the experienced Chu Xing found the right opportunity and hit him hard, causing him serious injuries.

What followed was a one-sided fight.

All nine Li family monks, including Li Mu, were killed.

Medicine seekers search for medicine in the mountains every day and face the threat of monsters all the time. Naturally, they know that they must never be merciful to their enemies.

Otherwise, you will be the one who dies next time.

Of course, each of the six medicine seekers was seriously injured, even if Chu Xing and Zhou Shan were wearing black robes.

But the opponent they faced was also the strongest, so they were hurt the most at this moment.

Fortunately, none of the injuries were life-threatening.

Li Yan, who was on the second floor of the foundation building, was actually killed by two late-stage Qi training monks.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Chu Xing and the others looked at the scene in front of them, with disbelief on their faces.

In Lingxia Fairy City, the foundation-building monks were aloof to them.

And Zhou Ling and He Zijian are just two teenagers.

Either they witnessed this with their own eyes or others mentioned it to them, but no one would believe it.

Especially Zhou Shan, now he truly realizes that his son's strength has already surpassed him.

I am also happy and excited in my heart. From now on, the old Zhou family will have a foundation-building monk, and this time it is stable!

As for the storage bag for killing the opponent, everyone collects it individually.

Of course, what excites them the most is that now that the Li family has been destroyed, this spiritual mine will be theirs from now on.

Therefore, even though their injuries were serious, the faces of all the medicine seekers were filled with excitement and joy.

"Brother Ling, what do you think we should do next?"

Chu Xing asked Zhou Ling with a pale face and a hoarse voice.

In the world of immortality, the strong are respected.

Although Zhou Ling is not old, he is very powerful and decisive in his actions.

The achievements in the future will definitely not be low.

You know, how difficult is it for casual cultivators like them to survive?

With limited resources at hand, it is already extremely difficult to reach the late stage of Qi training.

Now, Zhou Ling is already in the late stage of Qi training and is likely to enter foundation building in the future.

Zhou Ling thought for a while and said, "Uncle Chu, please don't make any publicity about killing the Li family monks."

"Let's keep a low profile and mine here from now on!"

After the Li family's crisis was resolved, he felt a lot more relaxed.

As for the matter of the spirit mine, He Zijian arranged a magic circle outside, plus He Zijian's name.

In Lingxia Fairy City, no one will dare to take advantage of this spiritual mine in the future.

Chu Xing nodded with a complicated expression. This boy, at such a young age, already knows how to make a fortune silently!

Of course, with this spiritual mine, as long as it can be mined for a month, the brothers can live a good life.

Afterwards, everyone began to cultivate and recover from the injuries in their bodies.

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The next day, Zhou Ling and He Zijian returned to Lingxia Fairy City dusty.

"Zhou Ling, after these spiritual mines are refined, I will send you the spiritual stones!"

He Zijian's eyes were bright, his posture was upright, and the complexion on his face had returned.

Obviously this battle also gained him a lot.

The He family has its own workshop for refining spiritual minerals.

Therefore, Zhou Ling gave all the raw stone spirit mines mined this time to He Zijian and asked him to take them back to the workshop for refining.

"Brother He can decide this matter by himself!"

Zhou Ling said with a smile.

This time, he killed Li Yan and Li Mu, his two most important enemies, and collected Li Yan's storage ring.

The harvest was already considerable, but as for the spiritual mine, he didn't pay too much attention to whether it was more or less.

Of course, they also agreed that the destruction of the Li family should not be leaked.

Although it is a battle for mineral veins that Xuantingsi will not care about, it will also cause other troubles.

He Zijian nodded. This battle gave him a deeper understanding of Zhou Ling. This boy had the ruthlessness of a casual cultivator.

He dares to take risks, he is courageous, and his strength is not low.

Now his view of Zhou Ling has changed again. He originally thought that Zhou Ling could help him expand his realm in the future.

After all, he is not just satisfied with the three-acre land in Lingxia Fairy City.

But now it seems that this kid Zhou Ling also has his own ideas.

However, he also knew in his heart that entering the Taoist Academy would be their real stage.

Lingxia Immortal City is only a second-grade Immortal City with limited resources.

Afterwards, the two waved goodbye and blended into the crowd.

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Seeing his son return home, Li Rucai breathed a sigh of relief and asked hurriedly, "Why didn't your father come back?"

"Uncle Chu and Uncle Liu were injured this time, and dad will have to stay in the mountains for a few more days!"

Zhou Ling replied with a smile.

With [Restore as before] and [Spiritual Flame Conservation], he recovered very quickly, and now 80% of his mana has been restored.

Under [Spiritual Flame Cultivation], the damage to the meridians originally caused by stimulating the animal flames with all his strength also recovered quickly.

After hearing his son's words, Li Ru was completely relieved.

After all, the Li family is also a foundation-building family. How can they be easily dealt with by casual cultivators?

Fortunately, my husband and son are fine!

As for the specific situation, she didn't ask. Not to mention the risks, she knew it.

"Mom, you don't have to worry about the mineral vein this time!"

Zhou Ling looked relaxed and looked at his mother's bloodshot eyes, knowing that her mother must have been worried these days.

Worried that Li Ru would think too much, he changed the subject and said, "Mom, is there anything delicious at home?"

"I'll do it for you right now!"

Li Ru walked towards the kitchen with easy steps.

After a while, four dishes and one soup, animal meat soup, fried eggs, green vegetables, etc. were served, steaming hot.

Zhou Ling happily ate a delicious meal of spiritual food.

After eating, I took a shower and then returned to the room.

I poured another cup of spiritual tea, sat comfortably on the wooden chair, and drank it slowly.

In the midsummer afternoon, the sun is hot.

In the room covered by the magic circle, it is extra cool and cool breeze blows.

Zhou Ling took a sip of the spirit tea and felt relaxed all over.

From birth to now, these few days have been the most stressful days for him.

He has self-knowledge in his heart.

He is only a seventh-level qi-training monk. Although he is assisted by methods such as beast flames, there is still a big gap between him and the foundation-building monks.

The reason why he was able to successfully kill Li Yan this time was thanks to the help of He Zijian.

His sword formation and giant sword attack contained at least 40% of Li Yan's combat power.

Two cracking fire thunders wiped out 30% of the opponent's combat power.

What's left is the power of his Fire Gang Sword combined with the sword formation and beast flames.

Of course, there are also many factors such as the opponent's practice of skills that are not suitable for long-range attacks.

So in terms of true strength, he alone is definitely far from the opponent's opponent.

While drinking tea, Zhou Ling carefully summarized the gains and losses of this battle.

"If you have more spiritual swords in your hands, the power of this portable sword formation can be increased to another level!"

Zhou Ling murmured.

However, he also knew that with his current spiritual cultivation level, if it were not for the talent of [Sword Controlling], he would only be able to control one spiritual sword at most.

With the [Sword Controlling] talent, you should be able to control two or three spiritual swords at the same time.

But it is not easy to find the spirit sword.

"Let's see if we can make the Five Elements Spiritual Sword by ourselves, so that if we encounter a foundation-building monk like Li Yan in the future, even if we lose, it won't be too dangerous!"

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

Just looking for the second-level five-element ore is also a big problem.

Perhaps, we can only wait until we get to the Taoist Academy and then think of a solution.

After all, Qingyun Immortal City is a fourth-grade Immortal City, and its resources far exceed those of Lingxia Immortal City.

Moreover, Xuanyuan Taoist Academy focuses on techniques, so there will definitely be materials with different properties.

Now that the threat to the Li family has been lifted, there is no need to be too anxious.

Next, other exercises and techniques are practiced step by step.

Thinking of this, he took out an ancient silver ring from his arms.

It is Li Yan's storage ring.

"I hope the things inside are worthy of Li Yan's status!"

Zhou Ling chuckled.

Of course, the price of this storage ring alone is already worth thousands of spiritual stones.

As a weapon refiner.

Through [Intermediate Observation], he could see that this storage ring was made from the second-level mineral Xuan Jingshi, fused with the second-level spatial attribute imprint.

Black crystal contains the power of space and is extremely expensive, so the price of the storage ring is naturally not cheap.

With a thought from Zhou Ling, the storage ring floated in the air, glowing with a faint silver glow.

However, the storage ring is different from the storage bag. It is a spiritual object used by foundation-building monks.

It has the spiritual brand of a foundation-building monk and needs to be removed before it can be opened.

Although Zhou Ling's current spiritual consciousness is not weak, it has not yet reached the level of a foundation-building monk. The reason why he is able to condense his divine soul to attack is mainly due to his talent of [spiritual soul is like a knife].

However, he has spiritual fire.

Spiritual flames can also remove these marks of divine consciousness.

Then with a thought, a leaping cyan spirit flame appeared in his hand.

Then, the spiritual flames flashed and wrapped the storage ring inside.

Immediately, it was slowly refined to remove the mark of the divine soul on it.

night.

With a muffled sound, the mark of the soul on the storage ring was completely erased.

Zhou Ling's face was filled with joy. With the spirit flame, he successfully activated the storage ring without much consumption.

His spiritual consciousness immediately entered it and slowly scanned the spiritual ring space.

The space is indeed vast, estimated to be half an acre in area.

"It's really crazy now!"

Looking at the dazzling array of items in the space, which were arranged in an orderly manner, Zhou Ling swallowed, his eyes gleaming.

In the large space, pills, elixirs, ores, magical instruments, runes, jade slips of martial arts, etc. were placed in an orderly manner.

There are eight pill bottles, including Heqi Pill, Blood Yuan Pill, and a bottle of Heyuan Pill taken by Foundation Establishment monks.

In the south corner, there is also a small pile of spirit stones.

Zhou Ling checked it carefully with his spiritual consciousness.

Among them are a thousand low-grade spiritual stones and four medium-grade spiritual stones.

"More than five thousand spirit stones!"

Zhou Ling felt happy, this was a huge fortune.

Moreover, this medium-grade spiritual stone is rarely seen on the market.

It is also circulated in the hands of big forces such as aristocratic families and sects.

Because the spiritual power contained in it is pure and suitable for rapid absorption.

The effect is somewhat better than that of elixirs of the same level.

Therefore, it is very difficult for casual cultivators to obtain middle-grade spiritual stones.

After calming down, Zhou Ling continued counting.

First, I scanned the small pile of elixirs and saw that there must be at least two or three hundred plants.

And they all look fresh and in good condition.

"These elixirs are not meant to rob other medicine seekers these days!"

Looking at the elixir, Zhou Ling secretly guessed.

Otherwise, where would so many elixirs come from?

Then Zhou Ling continued to count, and not far away were some ores and crystals.

Among them, there are four pieces of second-level ore, such as Wujin Stone, and the other six pieces are first-level.

Not far from the ore, there are some magic weapons.

There are nine pieces in total, seven of which are high-grade instruments.

There are also two spiritual weapons.

One of them is a topaz ring, which has become dull and dull.

The other piece is the blood jade cauldron.

[You are observing Huang Yuhuan and Blood Jade Cauldron, Intermediate Observation +1]

[You are analyzing Huang Yuhuan and Blood Jade Cauldron, intermediate analysis +1]

The topaz ring is a second-grade topaz jade fused with black iron, and then imprinted with a second-grade low-grade earth-attribute earth ring.

The imprint inside it has been destroyed, but after repairing it, it can still be used.

Zhou Ling also saw its defensive power with his own eyes. It blocked several thunder sword attacks in a row, and its power was not low.

And the Blood Jade Cauldron surprised him even more.

This blood jade cauldron is a second-level mid-grade spiritual treasure, mainly used to assist in physical training.

It can refine the power of elixirs, temper the physical body, etc.

Zhou Ling guessed that this was an auxiliary thing for Li Yan to practice the Black Evil Fist.

He can actually use both of the two spiritual weapons.

These two spiritual weapons alone are quite expensive, probably costing several thousand spiritual stones.

There are also two first-level top-grade robes, which appear to be of extremely fine workmanship.

Then, Zhou Ling's consciousness scanned the jade slips of the martial arts.

The most important of them is the Heisha Fist that the Li family specializes in, and the Huang-level top-grade magic arts.

Similar to Dayang Jue, it also uses boxing to practice martial arts.

But now that there is "Three Yang Jue", this black evil fist, Zhou Ling doesn't take it to heart.

The other several techniques are more common, all of which are at the middle level of the yellow rank.

Of course, a middle-level yellow-level skill is extremely rare for casual cultivators.

In addition to these, there are other miscellaneous things, such as account books, sound transmission jade and other things.

"Ling'er, it's time to eat!"

At this time, my mother's voice came from outside.

"OK!"

Zhou Ling responded, and immediately his consciousness exited the storage ring.

The excitement could not subside for a long time. This harvest alone was worth tens of thousands of spiritual stones.

You must know that mother is planning every day to save a few broken souls.

These tens of thousands of spirit stones are undoubtedly an astronomical figure to him.

After drinking the cool tea in the cup, Zhou Ling walked out of the room.

It was already nightfall outside.

Under the soft light of the crystal lamp, the main room is bright.

On the wooden table, which was steaming hot, a table full of spiritual food was already placed.

“Mom, there’s no need to save on spiritual food from now on. Just buy mid-level first-order monster meat!”

Zhou Ling further explained, "The spiritual mine discovered this time contains a lot of ore, which is enough for our monthly expenses."

Although spiritual food is available for three meals a day at home, they are basically ordinary spiritual food and do not contain much spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy contained in spiritual food will be easier to absorb and refine.

My mother is currently at the fifth level of Qi training and is in her early thirties. If she does not enter the later stage of Qi training as soon as possible in the next few years.

It will be very difficult to build a foundation in the future.

"Ling'er, our spiritual food now is pretty good!"

Li Ru gave Zhou Ling a piece of big chicken drumstick.

Nowadays, just to buy food every day requires a multi-spirit stone, which was something that was unthinkable before.

Moreover, if my son wants to enter a Taoist temple in the future, the expenses will definitely be high.

In addition, you have to save enough spirit stones to buy foundation-building pills, which are all big expenses.

Although life is much better now, she never spends money recklessly.

You should save more spiritual stones, buy foundation-building pills for your son, marry a wife and have children.

Moreover, when my son goes to Qingyun Fairy City, he will definitely develop in Qingyun Fairy City in the future.

Qingyun Immortal City is rich in spiritual energy. It is said that every inch of land is extremely valuable. Just to purchase a property, it would cost tens of thousands of spirit stones.

The spiritual stones I have in hand now are not even a fraction.

Therefore, she was frugal even though she had some spiritual stones on hand.

Zhou Ling knows his mother's habits, and he probably won't be able to change them for a while.

Today's life is much better than before, but she still takes turns changing into those two simple dresses every day.

I didn’t even think about buying a few new clothes.

Immediately, he took out about two hundred low-grade spirit stones from the storage bag, put them on the wooden chair, and said with a smile, "I will take care of the expenses for the spirit stones. You can save the spirit stones earned by the wine shop to buy elixirs and other cultivation resources!"

"You and Dad's cultivation must be improved as soon as possible, otherwise after forty, it will be troublesome to build a foundation."

Looking at the spirit stones, Li Ru knew that her son had a medium-grade spirit stone, so she was not surprised, but asked, "Ling'er, do you think your mother can also build a foundation?"

Li Ru had never thought about building a foundation for herself.

After all, since the birth of her child, she only thought about cultivating her child into a talent. As for her own cultivation, she never thought too much about it.

She dared not even think about building a foundation. After all, for casual cultivators, building a foundation is an extremely distant thing.

"Mom, don't worry."

"In the future, you will definitely be able to build a foundation, and my father will be able to enter the second level of body refining."

Zhou Ling said confidently while gnawing on a chicken leg.

The life span of a Qi-cultivating cultivator is only 20 to 30 years longer than that of a mortal, but it is different for a foundation-building cultivator.

Once the foundation is successfully built, the life span will exceed 200 years.

So Zhou Ling was also thinking in his heart that no matter what, he must let his mother build the foundation and his father enter the second stage of body refining to increase his life span!

"If you have this intention, mother will be satisfied."

Li Ru looked relieved, and poured another bowl of meat soup for Zhou Ling, and said with a smile, "The biggest hope of mother in this life is to watch you get married and have children."

"As for whether to build the foundation or not, it doesn't matter!"

Then, he put away the spiritual stone on the chair.

Zhou Ling didn't say anything more. After dinner, he returned to the room and continued to count the harvest.

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In the following days, Zhou Ling's life returned to peace.

He went to Maple Leaf Mountain to practice step by step every day.

He went to Tiangongsi once every ten days or so.

His life was also extremely busy.

As for the news of the destruction of the Li family, it did not cause much waves in Lingxia Fairy City.

After all, the lower-level casual cultivators are more concerned about their own survival.

They generally don't ask much about the affairs of the foundation-building family.

The mining of the spiritual ore is also going smoothly!

But Zhou Ling didn't pay too much attention to it. With Chu Xing and his father's character, they would not do such treacherous things.

When it is mined, his share will not be missing.

However, after all, it is just a small vein. By the end of August, the ore of the spiritual mine has been mined.

According to the original agreement, Zhou Ling received a total of more than 3,000 pieces of low-grade, plus the spiritual stones he had in his hands.

Now his net worth, in spiritual stones alone, is 12,000.

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Time quickly came to the end of September.

During this period, Zhou Ling stimulated two more spiritual acupoints, and the number of spiritual acupoints in his body reached 64.

However, the progress of "Five Elements Qianyang True Secret" was average.

It was not that he encountered any difficulties in cultivation.

With the guidance of the master, plus the two talents of [More courageous after setbacks] and [Born with talent] assisted.

In terms of comprehension, he had no problem, but he was practicing the circulation of the three meridians of gold, earth, and water. Without sufficient spiritual energy, his progress was slow.

However, there was nothing he could do about it.

After all, each spiritual vein had different properties and contained different concentrations of spiritual energy.

"In less than a year, the progress of the Five Elements Qianyang True Art is already pretty good."

"Next, go to Xuanyuan Taoist Temple. The spiritual energy there is much richer than Lingxia Fairy City. As long as you practice step by step and fill up the spiritual power circulating in the five meridians, the first level of the Five Elements Qianyang True Art is almost there!"

That day, in the Maple Leaf Mountain Courtyard, Zi Ling took a sip of wine from the wine gourd and said to Zhou Ling.

"Master, next, will you stay here or follow us to Xuanyuan Taoist Temple?"

Zhou Ling got up from the meditation mat under the Fire Spirit Maple Tree and asked his master.

"At the beginning, I only promised Wang Yu to teach you and pass the six academy competitions."

"Now it's done. You have to rely on yourself for the next practice!"

Zi Ling took another sip of wine and said lightly.

"Disciple, thank you for your teaching, Master!"

Zhou Ling bowed respectfully to his master.

Let alone the Qinglian Lingyan, "Five Elements Qianyang True Secret" and "Qinghui Yangshenshu", they are all priceless treasures.

"Thank you for your teaching, Master!"

Wang Xin also bowed.

Zi Ling stopped and continued to drink without saying much.

"Master, can we meet again in the future?"

Zhou Ling asked with concern.

"It depends on fate!"

Zi Ling smiled and said.