Free Web NovelChapter 379: Chapter 301: Five Elements Consummation, Changing the Pill Discourse
After returning to the White Mountain Beast Taming Sect, Lechuan gave Fang Qingyuan a large portion of the spiritual materials he’d gotten from the Nanchu Sect. As they had agreed from the start, Lechuan took only one of the five high-grade Tier Three Spiritual Materials, giving the rest to Fang Qingyuan.
In addition to these, some of the Nanchu Sect’s Talisman Elixirs were factored into the deal. Lechuan had really fleeced the Nanchu Sect this time.
With the Pill Alliance affair concluded and the gains from the trip sold off, Fang Qingyuan saw that it was time to take Jiang Wanqin back to the Qingyuan Sect.
But just as they were about to leave, Lechuan asked,
"Are you going to attend Situ Jingyu’s succession ceremony?"
Fang Qingyuan shook his head. When Situ Jingyu was with him a few days ago, she hadn’t mentioned it. ’So I don’t need to go.’
Seeing his reaction, Lechuan sighed.
"You should really think about it. At your age, it’s about time you thought of yourself. I think that girl, Jingyu, is a good match. She’s one of us, we know her background. If you don’t make a move, what if someone else beats you to it?"
Unable to withstand Lechuan’s nagging, Fang Qingyuan quickly grabbed Jiang Wanqin and fled.
After Fang Qingyuan left, Lechuan broke into a smug grin. ’That’s what you get for being so smug earlier, kid.’
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Back at the Qingyuan Sect, everything was the same as always. Fang Qingyuan loved these peaceful days, living his quiet life and watching his cultivation increase bit by bit. Nothing was more satisfying.
He took out several bottles of Tier Two Elixirs and two Second-order Magical Artifacts and gave them to Jiang Wanqin as a reward for her trip to the Barbaric Wilderness.
Seeing Jiang Wanqin happily accept them with a look of pure satisfaction, Fang Qingyuan felt like he was watching a little girl who had just gotten a beloved toy. Except, in the blink of an eye, this "little girl" was already over sixty years old.
’Perhaps I should find a Daoist companion for Jiang Wanqin. I can’t let one of the Qingyuan Sect’s only two Foundation Establishment cultivators stay single for a hundred years just like me.’
After instructing others not to disturb him unless it was important, Fang Qingyuan focused his mind. In his Quiet Chamber, he sent his divine soul through the gateway in his mind and into the Immortal Mansion.
As soon as he entered the Immortal Mansion, Fang Qingyuan saw Nanli, the large bird, imperiously directing the troop of Long-armed Apes in their work.
The troop of Long-armed Apes that Fang Qingyuan had "persuaded" to come from the Barbaric Wilderness had clearly adapted to the environment in the Immortal Mansion. After two months, they seemed completely at ease, all their initial fear and anxiety gone.
Nanli spotted Fang Qingyuan’s figure and immediately strode over on her long legs, trotting up to him to ask for praise.
Inside the Immortal Mansion, the Bee Queen and Jinbao were both deep in slumber, and Yinbao was outside enjoying the good life with his wife and kids. So, she had taken it upon herself to hold down the fort.
Patting Nanli’s little head, Fang Qingyuan gestured for her to continue her... efforts, then summoned Yuan Yi to ask if they needed anything.
Yuan Yi was the leader of the apes. Fang Qingyuan couldn’t be bothered to think of names, so he called him Yuan Yi. If there was a successor, he would be Yuan Er, and so on.
As a Foundation Establishment Stage ape, Yuan Yi couldn’t normally speak, but thanks to Fang Qingyuan’s Voice of All Things Divine Techniques, they could communicate simply in their minds.
Yuan Yi prostrated himself on the ground, bowed to Fang Qingyuan, and said in his mind:
"Master, we’re all doing well. It’s just that there aren’t any fruit trees here, so we can’t find any fruit. We can’t brew our favorite Monkey Wine."
Hearing this, Fang Qingyuan slapped his forehead. ’How could I have forgotten about that? I was so focused on having these Long-armed Apes farm the land that I completely overlooked the ingredients for their wine.’
So, Fang Qingyuan made a decision.
"Set aside two hundred mu for fruit trees. In the future, these trees can also be a source of food for you. Otherwise, eating nothing but Spirit Rice is too monotonous."
After Yuan Yi happily left, Fang Qingyuan went to the Purple Bamboo Forest to check on the Bee Queen and Jinbao.
Disabling the Array, he saw that the Bee Queen was sleeping soundly. After eating the Great Barrier Breaking Pill Fang Qingyuan had given her, she had collapsed into a deep slumber.
The Bee Queen had been stuck at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage Realm for many years. This Great Barrier Breaking Pill was just what she needed to break through her bottleneck and enter a deep sleep for her next evolution.
The Voice of All Things Divine Techniques that the Bee Queen had previously awakened was of immense help to Fang Qingyuan. Because of this, he had high hopes for the Bee Queen this time. He wasn’t expecting another Divine Technique on par with the Voice of All Things, but something slightly less powerful would be fine too.
After checking on the Bee Queen, Fang Qingyuan went over to Jinbao. Jinbao was not as quiet a sleeper as the Bee Queen; he would twitch his arms and legs from time to time, making a complete mess of his surroundings.
Seeing that Jinbao was sleeping soundly and everything was stable, Fang Qingyuan withdrew, relieved.
After deactivating the Array protecting Jinbao, Fang Qingyuan began the long-awaited task: feeding the newly acquired high-grade Tier Three Spiritual Materials to his Five Elements Illusion Beasts.
Taking out a ball of Mysterious Blue Flame, a handful of golden sand that radiated a stellar aura, and a piece of hollowed-out Geng Metal Source Ore, Fang Qingyuan summoned three of his Five Elements Illusion Beasts and had them "consume" their respective Tier Three Spiritual Materials.
’Void Fire, Golden Star Sand, Geng Metal Source Ore.’
These three spiritual materials were the treasures the Nanchu Sect had been forced to produce. Each one was priceless and difficult to obtain even with Spirit Stones.
Once a spiritual material surpassed high-grade Tier Three, especially at Tier Four, it was no longer something one could simply buy with Spirit Stones.
Spiritual materials of this caliber were mostly stored in the great vaults of Nascent Soul Sects. Without the right connections or sufficient status, they wouldn’t even give you the time of day, no matter how much you begged.
That was why for Loose Cultivators, the Golden Core realm was basically the end of the road. Fang Qingyuan had heard of Golden Core Loose Cultivators, but never of a Nascent Soul Loose Cultivator.
