Immortal Cultivation Families: The Rise of the Jinling Immortal Clan

Finally, after repeatedly declining, Xia Yuhui reluctantly accepted the gift.

After the business was settled, the group started drinking again, and this time they were all much more relaxed.

Although the topics covered a wide range of aspects, they were all only touched upon briefly, indicating that the relationship among the individuals had not yet reached that level of depth.

Nearly an hour later, Xia Yuhui finally got up to say goodbye.

As Xia Yuhui walked down the street, one name kept popping into her mind—Zhou Gulin.

In a way, he had some connection with this person. He had fought against him in the last great battle and had suffered a considerable loss at his hands.

After the great battle, Xia Yuhui arrived at the market and began investigating the identities of those people from the previous battle. Jinling County was not large, and Xia Yuhui had already identified several people, including this one.

This person was the body-refining cultivator he fought last time.

Because both of Zhou Gulin's parents were independent cultivators, after being discovered to possess spiritual roots, he began cultivating like a disciple of a cultivation family. Due to his excellent spiritual roots and affinity for immortality, he broke through to the Qi Refining Perfection stage early on, and being a body cultivator, he became famous throughout the market.

After learning about this person, Xia Yuhui hurried back to the family shop, greeted a few family members, and then rushed into his room to begin his cultivation.

Because the last time he was healed took too long, he had to hurry up and cultivate.

This time, Xia Yuhui decided to give up using pills for cultivation. After all, taking too many pills would also harm his body, and he was about to establish his foundation, so he could not increase the pill poisoning.

The next day, Xia Yuhui arrived at the center of Panyunfang.

Although Panyun Market has a second-tier spiritual vein, the spiritual energy within the market does not actually reach the second-tier level, with most of the spiritual energy being diverted elsewhere by the Jin family.

The Jin family channeled this spiritual energy into more than ten cave dwellings, and then sold the cave dwellings to those rogue cultivators to help them break through their cultivation levels. As a result, the Jin family was able to earn tens of thousands of spirit stones every year through this method.

The Xia family did the same; as long as one had sufficient contribution points or made significant contributions to the family, one could go to a special cave to cultivate every day.

Xia Yuhui came today to rent a cave for cultivation.

Panyun Market is located on the mountainside, with the second-tier spiritual vein originating at the base of the mountain. Therefore, one can enjoy the mountain scenery from the center of Panyun Market.

"Fellow Daoist, are you here to rent a cave dwelling?" As Xia Yuhui approached, a cultivator dressed in Jin family attire came forward with a smile.

Xia Yuhui had already covered his face with a mask, so the newcomer could not recognize him. Of course, this was intentional on his part. After all, if the Jin family knew that he had come here to rent the cave, they might cause trouble. So, it was better to avoid trouble, and he put on the black robe he wore when he went out to fight.

“Indeed! Fellow Daoist, I wish to rent a superior-grade cave dwelling for one month. Here are the spirit stones.” After saying this, he handed over 100 spirit stones.

These cave dwellings are divided into three grades: upper, middle, and lower, with spirit stones costing 20, 50, and 100 respectively. The spiritual energy concentration inside a cave dwelling costing 100 spirit stones is comparable to that emitted by a second-tier spiritual vein.

For Xia Yuhui in the present day, this is extremely effective, as it can rapidly increase his cultivation level without the accumulation of poison in his body.

Although spirit stones are expensive, Xia Yuhui can afford them with his current wealth.

After obtaining the spirit stone, the Jin family cultivator led Xia Yuhui up the mountain. When they arrived at a cave dwelling, he gave Xia Yuhui a token.

"May your cultivation advance by leaps and bounds, fellow Daoist." After saying this, he bowed to Xia Yuhui and withdrew.

Xia Yuhui infused the token with magical power, and a gap immediately opened in the barrier outside the cave. Xia Yuhui entered and then closed the barrier again. This barrier could not only lock the spiritual energy inside, but also protect the cultivators from disturbance. Furthermore, there were Jin family cultivators patrolling back and forth outside the cave, making it extremely safe.

Thus, Xia Yuhui cultivated in the rented cave dwelling, occasionally taking the time to refine several magical artifacts to send to the family shop.

Five months later, inside Xia Yuhui's cave, he was constantly circulating his internal energy, absorbing and refining the surrounding spiritual energy into his body, and his cultivation level was gradually improving.

During this May, in addition to refining a batch of magical artifacts for the family shop's daily use in the following month, Xia Yuhui also took some time to refine several artifacts for the cultivators who came to order them.

After completing the task, he hurriedly returned to his cave to continue his cultivation.

Having cultivated diligently in an environment rich in spiritual energy for over four months, Xia Yuhui's cultivation has greatly improved. If given another month or two, he is confident that he will be able to break through to the ninth level of Qi Refining, at which point he can begin preparing for Foundation Establishment in the future.

However, just as Xia Yuhui was cultivating with great enthusiasm, a strange change suddenly occurred within his body. For some unknown reason, the crimson lightning within him suddenly became violent, and no matter how hard Xia Yuhui tried to stop it, he could not suppress it.

In just a few breaths, crimson lightning began to surge wildly around him, a change that left Xia Yuhui utterly astonished.

Xia Yuhui immediately resorted to various means to try to turn the tide, but all his efforts were in vain.

Before long, he began to feel unbearable pain all over his body. At first, it was only a slight stinging pain, but then the pain intensified. Eventually, even Xia Yuhui, a body-refining cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining, could not bear the pain and rolled on the ground.

However, Xia Yuhui did not lose his composure; instead, he racked his brains for a good solution.

With his brain working at lightning speed, Xia Yuhui quickly came up with a solution: to deplete the crimson lightning within his body and prevent it from running rampant.

Thinking of this, Xia Yuhui immediately took action, continuously unleashing crimson lightning to strike the surrounding ground, with "bang" sounds echoing across the earth.

However, this result was destined to be a great disappointment to him. Although it could consume the crimson lightning, the speed was too slow. Before the crimson lightning was exhausted, he might be in danger of losing his life.

Just when Xia Yuhui was in despair, the situation suddenly took a turn for the better. After the crimson lightning circulated in his body for more than ten weeks, he was restored to normal.

Just as Xia Yuhui was filled with doubt and wanted to find out the reason, his body suddenly began to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy at an astonishing speed.

In less than ten breaths, the spiritual energy inside the cave had been completely absorbed, and Xia Yuhui's entire body turned crimson. However, the absorption did not stop, and it then devoured all the spiritual energy outside the cave.

However, once the spiritual energy within the restriction was completely absorbed, the process stopped because there was no more spiritual energy to absorb. Upon seeing this, Xia Yuhui seemed to suddenly remember something and immediately took out nearly five hundred spirit stones from his storage bag.

The suction force was perfectly attuned; as soon as Xia Yuhui's spirit stone appeared, it began to frantically absorb it. Gradually, the spirit stone rapidly changed from its initial bluish-green color to gray, then turned into a pile of ordinary stones, and finally into a pile of fragments, dissipating into the cave.

However, after the spirit stones were exhausted, Xia Yuhui felt as if there was an indestructible high wall blocking his body, which he could not overcome no matter how hard the crimson lightning in his body tried to strike it.

He was frantic, emptying his entire storage bag and frantically searching the ground for anything that could help him. After all, if he couldn't break through this barrier now, he feared he would lose his life.

In a moment, he pulled out a box. Xia Yuhui's eyes blazed, and he hurriedly took out the spirit peach inside. Instantly, a powerful suction force devoured the second-tier spirit peach without a trace, and a few breaths later, the feeling disappeared as well.

Just when he thought it was all over, that strange feeling from the beginning returned.

Xia Yuhui took out more than a hundred spirit stones from his storage bag and absorbed them before stopping.

After this absorption, the pain, which had stopped, surged back like a tidal wave from all parts of the body, and the pain became even more intense.

Xia Yuhui took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, gritted his teeth and struggled to hold on, fine beads of sweat constantly seeping from all parts of his body.

After some time, the pain finally subsided. Just as Xia Yuhui breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that everything was over, her whole body began to itch uncontrollably again.

Xia Yuhui hurriedly reached out to scratch, but found it had no effect; in fact, the feeling only intensified.

The itching only stopped when he had scratched deep claw marks all over his body. After it stopped, Xia Yuhui felt lightheaded and extremely uncomfortable.

When he opened his eyes and looked closely, he was shocked to find that his skin was covered with filth, which covered his entire body and the ground around him, and was constantly emitting a foul stench.

Xia Yuhui acted decisively, casting a spell to cleanse his body and the surrounding filth. However, after casting the spell, he was surprised to find that he had unknowingly broken through to a higher level.