Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 117 Conspiracy
After drinking until dawn, the music eventually ended and the guests left one by one, leaving only Du Huaiyuan.

"Junior brother, when will you start burning the spiritual charcoal you promised me?"

"We have to wait another three or four months. Before I took over Scarlet Flame Peak, the sect cut down all the mature spiritual trees. Brother, you can see that the Qingling Bamboo has grown so well now, all thanks to my daily magic."

Ji An smiled and said that the spiritual materials required by the other party to make the two kinds of spiritual charcoal did not have a one-year growth period, so it was impossible to make good spiritual charcoal.

He was able to start making charcoal almost seven or eight months after taking over Chiyan Peak, all because his planting skills were at a high enough level.

He paused and asked the question he had before:
"Brother, what exactly do you want from such a large amount of spiritual charcoal?"

Du Huaiyuan laughed a few times, and without further guessing, he gave the answer:

"If you use spiritual charcoal as the cooking source for the food that Junior Brother is going to serve you today, it will taste even better."

In his opinion, a major motivation for supporting his cultivation is to drink spiritual wine and eat delicious food every day. It is very worthwhile to spend some spiritual stones to buy resources that do not improve his cultivation.

"Brother, you are very particular. When the spiritual charcoal supply is sufficient in the future, I will also try your method."

Ji An laughed, wondering how much extra money the other party would have to spend for this.

He does not reject this kind of enjoyment, but the prerequisite is that it can only be enjoyed when it satisfies his spiritual practice.

The other party's daily supply of elixirs is not sufficient, but he spends a lot on brewing spirit wine and cooking food. He is really not a good example.

However, everyone has their own aspirations, and I am in no position to comfort them.

“Haha, Junior Brother, you will fall in love with this cooking method once you try it.

In my experience, meat is most delicious when cooked with Ziyang charcoal, while vegetables are best cooked with Qingling bamboo charcoal to preserve their freshness and fragrance."

Du Huaiyuan talked about various cooking methods incessantly as if he had met a close friend. Liang Qiu, who was standing next to him, had bright eyes as he listened and asked questions from time to time.

Whenever he asked about the wonderful points, Du Huaiyuan became even more excited to talk.

The sun rose, and golden light shone on the Red Flame Peak. A night had passed.

On the top of the mountain, golden-red mist rose up. Du Huaiyuan shook his head with a lingering feeling:

"It's tough. I practice the water-based martial arts, and I can't stand the strong fire-based spiritual energy that burns my meridians and boils my veins. I'll come back someday to have a drink and chat with you all."

He took out jars of spirit wine from his storage bag and said:
"Thirty jars of passion fruit wine in total. Place them in the mud at the bottom of the pond and seal them. After five years, the flavor will ferment to its peak."

Ji An nodded slightly:

"I don't know water control magic, so I can't help you. Brother, go and place the spirit wine yourself."

Liang Qiu volunteered, "I'll help. Breeding spirit fish requires diving. Over the years, my water control skills have reached perfection."

After the foundation-building celebration, Chiyan Peak returned to its deserted state, and it was rare to see people outdoors during the day.

The past two months of such peace and tranquility were finally broken.

Huang Feihu brought a dozen spiritual farmers and rode on talisman birds to pick pine nuts in the red cloud pine forest.

Although there is moonlight at night, the light is ultimately not as bright as during the day, and collecting at night will miss too much.

The pine nuts of red cloud pine not only contain a lot of spiritual energy, but are also extremely delicious after being fried.

Ji An does not need to complete the sect's mission this year, but he has to pay rent for the land he rented from the sect. Roasted pine nuts are a type of rent and cannot be replaced by spirit stones.

Zhang Erniu looked at the pine nuts in his hand and said:

"This year's pine nuts are much fuller than before."

He had a loud voice and spoke like shouting, so people working nearby could hear him clearly.

Huang Feihu laughed and said:
“Red Cloud Pine is a first-grade, top-grade spiritual wood, and is the most valuable on Red Flame Peak.

My uncle comes here every day to cast spells, so the current harvest is not surprising."

The red cloud pine forest is only more than 40 acres, and the task of collecting pine nuts was completed in less than a day.

A few days later, during dinner, Huang Feihu reported:
"Fellow Daoist, the pine nuts have been roasted and fried.

In addition to the seeds left behind, we will still have four to five thousand kilograms of pine nuts left after handing them over to the sect this year.

According to the price I inquired about, I can earn 700 to 800 spirit stones this year."

"Leave a thousand kilograms for us to eat, and pick out some good quality ones to give to the monks we know, fifty kilograms each.

I'll go and plant the seeds later. The season is right now, and we can plant these spiritual seeds tomorrow."

With the concentration of spiritual energy here, even if Ji An breaks through the Chaoyuan period, it can still be used as a cave.

In other words, he will most likely stay here for hundreds of years.

The spiritual vein here belongs to the branch of the main spiritual vein that the sect is cultivating. Once the sect cultivates the main vein to the third level, the Red Flame Peak can be upgraded to at least the second-level intermediate quality. At that time, the coverage of the spiritual vein will be greatly improved.

He had already made plans for the red cloud pine forest and planned to leave more than ten acres uncut, specifically for the production of pine nuts.

The older the red cloud pine, the more pine nuts it produces and the better the quality. You can also ask Du Huaiyuan to help brew pine nut wine.

Ji An paused and said:
"Based on the growth of several other spiritual trees, they can already be cut down and burned into spiritual charcoal. In four months, the sect will collect them, so you need to make plans."

"Well, I've already thought about it. Once the red cloud pine seeds are planted, I'll hire people to start cutting down and burning them."

Ji An smiled and said:

"Thanks to your help, I can save time to practice and cultivate. Later, you and Liang Qiu will also take 50 kilograms of pine nuts."

"This is what we should do," Huang Feihu and the others agreed. "After the spiritual charcoal is made, except for the amount we hand over to the sect and trade with Senior Brother Du, we will keep it all for our own use this year.

Fellow Daoist Liang uses spiritual charcoal to start a fire when he cooks. I want to see how much the fire that Senior Brother Du praised can enhance the taste."

"Then we will enjoy a delicious meal."

Liang Qiu smiled and said that his shop once hosted a foundation-building cultivator who requested to use spiritual charcoal for cooking, and the fish soup made was indeed unique in flavor.

After eating, Ji An went to the storage room to stimulate the growth of seeds. This step was to enhance the activity of the seeds.

He first released the Green Wood Transformation Technique, and bits of wood-element spiritual light fell into the seeds.

Li Lingyu had done the same thing when he bought peach seeds before, but the other party used a secret technique that could be mastered by disciples in the Qi Refining Stage, which was far inferior to the effect of the Bi Mu Hua Sheng Gong.

Ji An could feel the vigorous vitality hidden in the seeds, which would then give birth to stronger saplings.

After waiting for half a minute, the seal in his hand changed, and the stone chamber was lit up with an orange-red light, filled with warmth.

Red Cloud Pine is a fire-element spiritual plant, and the fire-element spiritual energy contained in the Flame Curse can nourish the pine seeds.

Huang Feihu was born into a spiritual farming family. The nearby spiritual farmers were very familiar with the planting tasks on Chiyan Peak, so Ji An didn't need to worry about planting pine seeds.

He only needed to wait for these people to plant the pine seeds and then cast the foundation-building planting spell to ensure that more pine seedlings could survive the violent and harsh daytime.

If the pine seedlings can grow to half a person's height, they can survive.

Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Ji An stopped practicing magic and focused his mind on his dantian.

[Master: Ji An]

【Daoyun: 0】

Spiritual Ability: Kan Spirit 636.9, Gen Spirit 611.8, Zhen Spirit 16.4, Xun Spirit 79.4, Kun Spirit 81.8, Qian Spirit 82.4, Dui Spirit 72.3, Li Spirit 136.4

[Spell: Jade Wood Transformation (Minor Success 42%)

Explosive Flame Technique (66% success).】

The improvement of spells at the foundation-building stage was too slow. Even though he often pondered the essence of the spells and used them every day, his Green Wood Transformation Skill had not improved much in the past six months.

Now that he has accumulated some inspiration, he can draw the explosive fire talisman after a good improvement. Ji An began to refine the inspiration to improve his spell feeling.

The related inspirations are constantly decreasing, and the comprehension of spells is constantly improving.

[Spell: Jade Wood Transformation (Minor Success 42% → Major Success 2%)

Explosive Fire Technique (Great Mastery 66% → Perfection 1%)]

A cave in Chitong Mountain.

Chen Xingzhou said anxiously:

"Myna, we don't have much time left. If we don't take action now, we won't be able to hide this anymore.

This time, I followed the orders of the clan leader to lure him out, resolve the hidden danger, and then rent Chiyan Peak again.

My brother is in the sect, can you find out more about his situation and see if there are any opportunities we can exploit?"

There are only about three months left before the Red Flame Peak erupts again, so they can't help but be anxious.

Chen Xingyun frowned and said with a wry smile:
"I have already inquired about the other party's situation. He is from Qingsong Taoist Temple in Xiaocangshan and has no relatives at home.

After entering the sect, he made a living by planting and had a good understanding of planting techniques, which is why he was able to become a disciple of the Ningcui Ya lineage.

Shortly after establishing her foundation, she and her fellow senior sister went to Qingyun Fairy City, but they took the sect's flying boat to and from the city and never went to any black market, so we had no chance to attack them.

After that, he never left Scarlet Flame Peak, only occasionally leaving the formation to cast spells for the spiritual fields in the valley."

He recounted all the information he had obtained in full, with an even more bitter look on his face. He simply could not understand why a spiritual farmer would choose Chiyan Peak as his cave dwelling.

Chen Xingzhou's face was equally grim. There was really no good way to deal with this kind of cultivator who never left his house and devoted himself to cultivation.

A stern look appeared on his face, and he said fiercely:
"If it really doesn't work, we can only take action when the other party goes to the spiritual field."

Once the other party discovers that spiritual objects erupted from the Red Flame Peak after the Earth Lung Fire Vein erupted, they would certainly think of the gains they had gained from it over the years.

By then, the other party will definitely realize how great the hatred between them is.

They must act before the Earth Lung Fire Vein erupts, otherwise the other party will be extremely wary of them, making it even more difficult to find the right time to act.

Chen Xingyun nodded:

"We must deliver a fatal blow. As long as the enemy uses the sect's jade token to send out a distress message, it will be difficult for the participating cultivators to escape.

There can’t be anything in these people that could point to the family, or we’re all doomed.”

Attacking the sect's foundation-building cultivators within the sect's jurisdiction is a blatant slap in the face of the Jinling Sect and will inevitably cause the sect's wrath.

In addition, the other party has joined the Ningcui Ya lineage, and his master has considerable influence in the sect, so the Law Enforcement Hall must investigate thoroughly.

If the clues point to their Chen family, it would mean the genocide of the family, and he would not be able to escape responsibility.

"Don't worry, Big Brother, we all know how serious the matter is, and the family will definitely not be implicated."

(End of this chapter)