Longevity: Start by practicing the ruthless way

With the end of the sect competition, the Heming Sect returned to its former busyness.

According to their original plan, Gu Chi and Big Black Dog opened up a hidden cave behind the cascading waterfall.

It was called a cave, but in fact it was not much bigger than a toilet. However, just to open up this cave the size of a toilet, Gu Chi lost six sets of weapons.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning. Although there is only this little space now, I can already secretly cultivate spiritual medicine here. It won't be too late to move in when the space is large enough in the future."

As he spoke, Gu Chi asked the big black dog to bring the cultivated fasting grass seedlings and carefully plant them in the soil.

"Sister Gu Chi, what if we are discovered if we do this?" Big Black Dog said with some concern. Although their cave is hidden, it is only invisible to the naked eye. However, for people with cultivation, they will have nowhere to hide once their spiritual sense sweeps it.

Gu Chi patted its head and said, "Don't worry. Besides being used to make Bigu Pills, Bigu Grass has no other uses. It's not a rare elixir. Besides, we only have the seeds. Even if we're discovered, at most we'll get a few words of criticism, but we won't be severely punished."

However, what Big Black Dog said was correct. Their cave was built behind the waterfall. Although it looked hidden to the naked eye, it could not be hidden from the spiritual sense of the cultivators. If they wanted to avoid being discovered, they would need to set up several more magic arrays.

"That's fine, let's leave it that way for now." Gu Chi pointed to a spot in the medicinal field where a purple-colored, lotus-like spiritual medicine was planted. He said, "It's been ten years since the purple crystal lotus in that medicinal field was planted. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, it will be ready for harvest by the end of this year."

The spiritual medicines in the spiritual medicine garden are divided into three qualities: high, medium and low. The annual quota standard for submission refers to low-grade spiritual medicines such as fasting grass and qi-condensing grass.

Because the low-grade spiritual medicine has a short maturity period and no requirements for the age of the medicine, it can be picked directly as long as it is ripe every year.

As for the growth cycle of mid-grade spiritual medicine, the fastest-maturing Amethyst Lotus takes four years to mature, and the slowest takes as long as fifty years.

Moreover, spiritual medicines of this grade need to wait for five or six years to settle after they mature before they can be picked. If the standard is set based on the amount of mid-grade spiritual medicines submitted, it would be too difficult.

Gu Chi flipped through the diary left by the previous senior brother who was in charge of the spiritual medicine garden. It recorded in detail the planting date, quantity and picking requirements of each mid-grade spiritual medicine.

Among them, there are a total of fifty purple crystal lotus plants planted. It has been ten years since the date of planting. They have already matured and completed the precipitation of medicinal age. They can be picked at the end of this year.

Gu Chi has already inquired with the uncle master of Xuanwu Hall. If the spiritual medicines submitted meet the standards and also include mid-grade spiritual medicines, her and Big Black Dog’s contribution value this year can at least double!

Even before receiving his "salary", Gu Chi had already started making arrangements. He said to the big black dog, "After we get the contribution points, we will first exchange it for a book on formations and come back to practice. If the contribution points are high enough, we can exchange it for a book on "Sword Controlling Technique". What do you think, Old Black?"

"Woof woof woof!" How could the big black dog have any objections? Ever since it saw the senior brothers and sisters using formations to fight in the sect competition last time, it has been fascinated by formations. Now, when it heard that Gu Chi wanted to exchange for books on formations, it naturally agreed with both hands and feet.

In the following days, the man and the dog regarded the fifty glittering purple crystal lotuses as key protected objects and took turns to look after them 24 hours a day.

This is the key to their "salary" increase, and no mistakes are allowed.

In this way, a year passed in worry and fear. Gu Chi and Big Black Dog took the spiritual medicine and the fifty purple crystal lotuses that should be handed in, and strode to the main hall of the Xuanwu Hall, and each received 500 contribution points.

The big black dog's mouth stretched to the back of its ears. It had five hundred, and Gu Chi had five hundred. The two of them together had a thousand contribution points, which should be more than enough to exchange for a book on formations.

"Let's go, Lao Hei! Let's go spend some money!"

"Wang!"

A man and a dog ran to the exchange office, and as soon as they entered, they walked without recognizing any relatives.

The director of the exchange bureau glanced up at them and said, "Isn't this Junior Sister Gu and Junior Brother Gou? Are they going to spend a lot of money again this time?"

"That's natural!"

The man and the dog held their heads high. Gu Chi walked to the counter, slapped two amethysts on it, and said, "Give me the best formation book you have here!"

The supervisor smiled and said, "The best formation book costs 600,000 contribution points."

"What?!"

Gu Chi's momentum suddenly wilted, and the big black dog's eyes were full of fear. He silently lowered his proud head, too embarrassed to say anything.

Gu Chi touched his nose, coughed lightly, and said, "Just give me the most basic, lowest-level, and most common one."

The exchange manager placed a blue book on the counter and said, "Four hundred."

Gu Chi said: "It's only four hundred, not ten thousand, right?"

The director of the exchange bureau said, "If you want to add more, it's not impossible."

Gu Chi patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief. She and Lao Hei together had a thousand contribution points, so four hundred was barely acceptable.

Afterwards, Gu Chi used another 300 contribution points to exchange for a book called "Sword Control Technique".

As for the remaining 300 contribution points, she planned to save them for the time being and exchange them for better things in the future.

After coming out of the exchange office, the man and the dog ran back to the spiritual medicine garden without stopping.

"Old Black, the important task of cultivating the spiritual medicine is now handed over to you. Let me see what this "Sword Controlling Technique" is all about!"

"Don't worry, Sister Gu Chi!" The big black dog nodded seriously.

Gu Chi went straight to the sacred tree in the center of the medicine field, and the jade cutter came out of its sheath with a "clang".

"A knife and a sword are similar, there should be no problem, right?" Gu Chi muttered to himself, shook his head, shook off these messy thoughts, opened the "Sword Control Technique" and began to practice.

One morning a month later, a man and a dog came to an open space with a long knife placed in front of them.

After more than a month of hard training, whether I can fly into the air with a sword depends on today!

For safety reasons, Gu Chi also specially made two parachutes.

Gu Chi swallowed nervously, turned his head to look at the big black dog at his feet, and said, "Old Black, are you ready?"

"Woof! Ready!" The big black dog has put on the parachute backpack made for it by Gu Chi and is in high spirits.

Gu Chi made a strange gesture, mobilizing the magic power in her body. Strands of turbid magic power could be seen flowing out from her fingertips like trickles of water and pouring into the long sword in front of her.

"rise!"

With her light shout, the long sword trembled and slowly rose into the air, half a meter off the ground.