This is how immortals are cultivated

A corner of the Bone Spore's shell shattered, and a slender white arm stretched out from the hole in that corner.

The moment the palm of this arm stretched out, it suddenly slapped the bone shell beneath it. As its five fingers opened, a sharp sword energy burst out, completely shattering the entire huge bone spore.

Bone fragments flew in all directions, and one of them landed on the tree trunk next to the tall pole.

Gaogan seemed completely unconscious, staring intently ahead. His slender figure reappeared in the forest. With his reappearance, the temperature in the woods suddenly dropped.

The dark blue Taoist robe that the figure was wearing had already become tattered due to the friction of the bone spurs, like pieces of rags draped over the body.

But the skin beneath the rags was still as flawless as jade, without any scars.

The figure took a step forward, and the large pieces of bone fragments under his feet were instantly shattered.

The silvery-white, metallic-like long hair fluttered in the wind blowing through the forest.

The figure walked towards Gaogan, and Gaogan's face showed despair.

Finally, the figure came in front of him and placed a hand on his head.

Chapter 44: Explanation

There was an icy air in his breath, as if he was spewing out death.

The palm pressing on the top of his head was icy cold, and even the spiritual essence of his flesh and blood seemed to be frozen.

Looking at the figure in front of him with long silver-white hair fluttering, like a god or a devil, Gao Gan completely gave up on himself in despair and actively embraced the madness brought by the weirdness.

Unless there was absolute restraint or a significant difference in strength between the two, the two would generally not fight to the death. This was because when a Gui cultivator died, especially one above the Spiritual Secret Realm, they could transform themselves into a stink bomb and explode, spreading horrific contamination.

When Gao Gan completely gave up on himself in despair, madness and pollution immediately erupted from his broken body.

Its body begins to swell instantly, like a balloon that expands to the extreme and then bursts, polluting its flesh and blood. All the plants and animals in this forest will be polluted and turned into deformed monsters that are deadly to ordinary people. Even cultivators will be affected to a certain extent, and their flesh and blood will be deformed.

But just when Gao Gan's flesh and blood began to expand wildly, the next moment his body shrank rapidly like a punctured balloon.

The mad spiritual energy could no longer overflow, but instead focused on a single point: the hand pressing on Gao Gan's crown. The palm of that hand was like a black hole, absorbing the erupting madness and strange spiritual energy completely. Because of this, Gao Gan's humanity and strangeness were reconciled, allowing him to regain his sense of self.

But being awake at this moment was undoubtedly not a good thing for him. Instead, it made him feel as if he had witnessed something incredible and incomprehensible, and he felt only endless fear.

He felt like he was being eaten, and even the toxic pollution was being eaten up completely. The other party easily chewed up and digested his cunning tricks.

What on earth is this?

Is it a ghost disguised as a human, a big trick?

"It tastes good, thank you for the hospitality."

When being devoured by the other party, Gao Gan's consciousness was also chewed up and turned into nutrients for the other party. When he completely lost consciousness, he could only hear these words.

Gao Gan's body quickly shrank in Fang Suichu's hands until it completely disappeared.

When Gao Gan decided to release madness and pollution to cause Fang Suichu to explode, Fang Suichu undoubtedly triggered another adventure in the system.

It is still a mechanism of 'transmitting power' and 'initiation'. It seems that as long as the cultivator chooses to release all his own pollution in the end, this option will be triggered.

Otherwise, normally after the cultivator of the strangeness was killed by Fang Suichu, the strangeness would only fall out in the form of 'materials'.

After receiving Gao Gan's 'transmission of power,' Fang Suichu felt a sense of relief. Of course, the comfort was far less than the last time Chang Yinzi had instilled it. After all, the gap between Fang Suichu and Chang Yinzi was quite large, and Chang Yinzi's nourishing effect was also very obvious. In fact, in terms of pure quantity and quality, as a genuine spiritual secret, the resources Gao Gan provided Fang Suichu far surpassed Chang Yinzi's.

"Then again, the resources extracted from the 'Initiation and Transmission' encounter seem to be higher than those dropped from the 'Elixir' encounter."

After a cultivator dies, their magical artifacts are released, and during this process, a portion of their spiritual energy will always be dispersed into the universe. This causes the experience points gained from elixirs to be slightly lower than those gained from initiation.

"In other words, from an efficiency perspective, it's best not to kill monsters directly in the future. Instead, I should stimulate them a bit, preferably letting them actively fight me. That way, I can maximize my gains."

"It seems a bit cruel to torture someone before dying. Forget it. After all, I am a righteous person..."

"In the future, try to be gentler and give more warmth to the dying."

Fang Suichu muttered to himself and started his return journey with a full harvest.

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Outside Quyang City, on the official road.

Gao Gan and Fang Suichu, one fleeing and the other chasing, soon disappeared, disappearing into the forest outside the official road.

This development of the situation left the convoy, which was still outside the official road, at a loss for what to do.

After calming himself down, Jin Bailu stepped forward at this moment, calming the somewhat agitated convoy and asking everyone to wait where they were.

It was impossible to enter the city at this time, because the fight between Fang Suichu and Gao Gan, two spiritual secrets, outside the city gate had alarmed the officers and soldiers in Quyang City.

The city gates were temporarily closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. Even if their convoy gave up Fang Suichu, it would be impossible for them to enter the city and hide.

Fortunately, Fang Suichu had clearly had the upper hand in the previous clash with Gao Gan. Even if he lost him, returning safely wouldn't be a problem.

Just as the Tongxiang Escort Agency's convoy was waiting outside the city, three figures appeared on the official road.

They came from the direction of Quyang City and were obviously people from the city.

These three are two men and one woman, two males, a Taoist and a Confucian, and they are the images of a middle-aged Taoist priest and an old Confucian scholar.

As for the woman, she was about 28 years old, wearing a pink palace dress, and looked very charming.

The ghost that Jin Bailu had just stabilized became wildly agitated again.

Obviously the three in front are not human.

There are three strange veins in Quyang City that enjoy the blood talismans offered by the Wu Kingdom, which means that they are guarded by three cultivators in the spiritual secret realm.

Quyang City is considered to be a relatively large city in Shuzhou, and it can indeed afford to support three spiritual secrets.

Two spiritual secrets were fighting outside the city. To be more precise, it was a spiritual secret named Gaogan. Their aura was so diffuse and the noise was so loud that it was normal to attract the three spiritual secrets in the city to come and check it out.

The three of them simultaneously glanced at the strange object, the Tongxiang Escort Agency flag, carried by the deputy escort leader, and then looked at Jin Bailu who also had the strange object, and finally at Li Qingming and Wu Yuanshuo, the two girls who had already sensed the qi and whose spirituality was much stronger than that of ordinary people just by their qi and blood.

Of course, they just took a quick glance. Obviously, as the Lord of Lingmi, nothing in the convoy before them was worth their attention.

Let them care only about their own fellow practitioners, that is obviously a spiritual secret realm from outside.

"My two brothers, how are you?"

The three women in the mysterious spiritual realm smiled sweetly, but just one smile carried a strange distortion that made people mentally confused, with endless peach-colored illusions in their eyes.

"No, how..."

The old scholar snorted coldly.

"He took action outside the Quyang city gate and caused such a big commotion. He must give us an explanation."

"That strange spirit seems to have been attracted by this convoy. Let's detain it for now."

The old scholar waved his arms, his sleeves fluttering, and a cold wind howled, like the roars of thousands of people, blowing away people's souls.

But at this moment, a sharp cold sword energy appeared between heaven and earth, and slashed directly towards the old Confucian scholar. The old Confucian scholar was caught off guard for a moment. Fortunately, the Taoist priest next to him swung the whisk in his hand to meet the sword energy, and the old Confucian scholar avoided the fate of having his arm cut off.

"What do you want to be told?"

Fang Suichu's figure walked out of the forest and came to the official road. He looked at the three people in front of him, and between his white palms, extremely evil and sinister energy was flowing.

Chapter 45 Misunderstanding

The old scholar was almost chopped by a knife. He was still frightened and subconsciously became angry. He wanted to respond with some means, but was held back by the charming woman.

"Brother Sima..."

The enchanting woman signaled the elderly Confucian scholar named Sima with her eyes to look at the middle-aged Taoist priest, but he saw a crack on the black whisk in the middle-aged Taoist priest's hand.

This pitch-black whisk is a powerful and strange object, and the opponent injured it so badly with a single blow, which instantly made the scholar gasp for air. He then calmed down and looked tensely at the young man in the blue Taoist robe in front of him.

"I think there's some misunderstanding..."

The enchanting woman uttered a charming voice and walked out from the group of three people with her beautiful waist twisted. Even if she did not use any deliberate means, as a spiritual secret, her every move brought out a corresponding strange influence, which made the people in the convoy behind Fang Suichu a little unbearable.

Fang Suichu raised his eyebrows, and the sword energy in his palm burst out and slashed in front of the woman. The ground in front of the woman was deeply torn, and the wide official road was almost cut off.

The cold and desolate feeling carried by the sharp sword energy made the woman shiver, and the smile on her face froze.

"Talk normally, or I'll be scared."

The woman heard Fang Suichu, who had swung the terrifying sword, speak softly.

"When I get scared, I tend to have a stress response, and when I get stressed, I can't control what I do."

"do you understand?"

The question in her ear caused the woman to nod nervously. The cunning way she cultivated had the ability to manipulate and influence people's hearts. Because of this cunning way, she also had a certain control over her outward emotions.

And when Fang Suichu spoke just now, she really felt the extremely cold and murderous intention.

There are indeed several extremely aggressive and dangerous paths within the treacherous path. Those who practice these paths are generally murderous maniacs, ruthless individuals who desire to inflict fear and despair. In terms of pure destructive power, they are also much stronger than practitioners of other paths.

In the woman's opinion, Fang Suichu was just such a madman.

The woman gathered all her energy and felt the cold energy that was locking onto her slowly dissipate.

"I am the head of the Tianfang Pavilion in Quyang City. Everyone calls me Madam Hu."

"As for the two brothers behind me, they are also the Dao Veins stationed in Quyang City."

"We have the obligation to protect Quyang City. We came here to check the situation because we sensed a fight among our fellow practitioners outside the city."

"Tongxiang Escort Agency is a well-known escort agency in Shuzhou City, and I met Chief Escort Wu at Madam Shenmeng's banquet a few years ago..."

Madam Hu secretly looked at Fang Suichu, and seeing that there was no reaction on his face, she immediately realized that this person had no connection with Tongxiang Escort Agency, and must have a connection with the employer of Tongxiang Escort Agency.

"The Tongxiang escort team wouldn't act recklessly. I think it was the Lingmi who broke the rules with Brother Dao earlier."

"The 'explanation' that my elder brother mentioned earlier was actually the spiritual secret that had caused the dispute with Brother Dao."

"That's it..."

Hearing this, Fang Suichu nodded. He first looked at Madam Hu and the scholar and Taoist behind her with some regret.

I thought I was about to trigger another side quest, but it turned out to be three neutral NPCs. It would have been fine if they were just neutral NPCs, but after I slashed at them, which was clearly an aggressive move, none of the three NPCs turned red.

If your name turns red, you will have no choice but to kill it.

Fang Suichu's eyes made the three spiritual secretaries of Quyang City feel frightened.

And when they heard Fang Suichu's next words, they became even more nervous.

Fang Suichu smiled very friendly and said, "You mean that fellow Taoist? You don't need to ask him for an explanation. He's already dead."

Looking at Fang Suichu's friendly smile, the three of them felt a chill.

Will Lingmi die if he says so?

No matter how weak a spiritual secret is, it is still a spiritual secret. Even if the three of them fight against a spiritual secret that is much weaker than their own, they cannot completely defeat it, at least not in a short period of time.

And the person in front of him was definitely not talking nonsense. The terrifying sword energy really proved that he had the ability to do this.

The three of them all had the same thought in their minds - how could such a ruthless person come to Shuzhou?

"Now that the misunderstanding is resolved, can we enter the city now? Come to think of it, I'm starving."

"sure..."

Mrs. Hu smiled, but it was a somewhat forced smile.

"I'm sorry for almost hurting you, my friend. I thought we were going to fight..."

"And fellow Daoist, I'm sorry to have damaged your magical weapon, but I'm really short of money."

"It's okay, it's okay..."

“It’s okay, it’s okay…”

Yi Ru and Yi Dao also forced a smile on their faces, turned their backs to Quyang City, and raised their hands to invite Fang Suichu.

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The martial law in Quyang City was lifted and the city gates were reopened.

Fang Suichu's group's convoy entered Quyang City.

Quyang City is indeed much larger than the previous Cangsong County, and it is also more prosperous.

After entering the city and checking into the best inn, Fang Suichu went to the best restaurant in Quyang.

They almost replicated their previous actions in Cangsong County, eating and drinking to their heart's content.

At this time, Fang Suichu had already reached the stage of refining essence into qi. His practice of transforming essence into qi through grains was relatively inefficient, but for him, the more essence and qi he could gain, the better. It would be better to take it for free anyway.

"The local gangs are so rude."