Chu Xun nodded as he listened "Lord Tang ca from a Second Place Graduate background and is most familiar with these things. Listening to him is right."
"Are you still living in that small courtyard in Fenggu City now?"
Huan'er said "Yes, but after going back this ti, I'll have to go to Mingxiu Prefecture."
"Speaking of which, it's strange. Ever since the year of the prefectural examination, the old sophora tree has never blood again. Only its leaves have beco increasingly erald green, looking as beautiful as precious jade."
"When Uncle has free ti, perhaps you can go appreciate it."
Chu Xun smiled and nodded "I'll go when I have ti, no rush."
Huan'er didn't say much more. His uncle was the most patient person he had ever t. No matter what it was, he was never anxious or impatient.
The three words he often hung on his lips were "no rush".
Life is short, and people who can act like this are very few.
"When you return to the town, go find Ah Qiao. That kid didn't pass the college examination this year. When he ca to find a few days ago, he was dejected. Pass on so experience to him."
"When the ti cos, let him also live in the small courtyard to prepare for the exam, and catch so of your literary talent."
"Alright, I'll go find him when I get back."
The two chatted casually. Seeing that the birds and beasts indeed didn't hurt the baby, Liu Yuqing gradually let go of the worry in her heart.
A long ti later, chirping sounds ca from outside.
A few won walked past the courtyard gate with their children.
"Ah, Huan'er!"
Seeing the people in the courtyard, the won hurriedly ca over to greet them.
Liu Yuqing was the wife Tang Shijun had acted as a matchmaker to carefully select for Huan'er.
Her grandfather's generation was a founding Viscount, reaching as high as the Minister of Revenue.
Now her father was the head of the family, serving as the Right Vice Minister of Works, which was the sa official position as that certain Lin who had his nine kinships executed.
Although she was the daughter of an official family, Liu Yuqing didn't have the squeamishness of a young miss, nor did she look down on these rural village won.
Moreover, Chu Xun was in front of her, a figure whom even Tang Shijun praised endlessly, and also her husband's uncle.
In terms of reason and emotion, she couldn't be negligent.
The village won rarely saw such a beautiful daughter of an official family. The last fair-skinned and tender-fleshed person who made them envious was Lin Qiaoxi, who only ca from a wealthy family.
They praised her all at once, making Liu Yuqing feel a bit embarrassed.
After agreeing to leave after eating at ho, Zhang Anxiu went to the woodshed to cook with a beaming smile.
Perhaps because she hadn't seen Huan'er for a long ti, Zhang Anxiu obviously talked a lot more during the al.
She talked about the temple fair, saying it was even livelier now than in previous years.
She heard that when many commoners were paying their respects, they saw the snake immortal under the command of the Songliu Water God.
Nearly five zhang long, with scarlet pupils bigger than water vats!
Chu Xun laughed inwardly as he listened. The two large pythons were indeed nearly five zhang long, but no matter what, their pupils couldn't be bigger than water vats.
A few years had passed, and even that green and white snake was nearly two zhang long. Now it ran to the Songliu River to hide with its parents.
Only occasionally would it secretly crawl out to find Chu Xun.
Huan'er also beca interested and chid in to talk about the news he heard from traveling rchants in Fenggu City.
It was said that one hundred and eighty miles south of Pinecone Village, there was a mountain forest.
There was a valley in the forest, and in the valley, there was a ferocious beast that ate people.
Mountain dwellers often went missing nearby. Over ti, no one dared to go there anymore.
But recently, a strange fragrance ca from near that valley. Several Second-Rank martial artists ventured there and hadn't returned yet. Presumably, they had t with misfortune.
When Huan'er reached this point, there was a flurry of flapping on the eaves.
Then over a dozen crows landed at the door, cawing at the room.
Zhang Anxiu and Liu Yuqing didn't know what was going on. Only Chu Xun looked at the obviously much more irritable crows, revealing a thoughtful expression.
Many years ago, when he married Zhang Anxiu, the crows brought a few fruits.
Chu Xun tasted one. Besides being sweet and delicious, he felt his body seed to have more strength, and only then did he know this fruit was extraordinary.
He let Zhang Anxiu eat the remaining three fruits.
It indeed made his wife's body better than before, but it didn't have too heaven-defying an effect.
He still rembered that when the crows brought the fruits, the flock was missing a few.
Obviously, there was sothing guarding near the fruits, and a fierce battle was fought.
Now that Huan'er ntioned the mountain forest one hundred and eighty miles away, and the crows suddenly beca irritable, Chu Xun naturally rembered the past.
"Could it be that the ferocious beast Huan'er ntioned is the one that fought with the crows for the fruits back then?"
Chu Xun still knew a bit about how powerful Second-Rank martial artists were.
Their skin and flesh were trained to be as hard as iron. Ordinary weapons could hardly hurt them.
Only a re two or three weak spots were their true vital points.
When they reached the First-Rank realm and made up for these few death gates, they could charge towards the Innate Grandmaster realm.
Neither Zhangnan County nor Fenggu City had Innate Grandmasters, at most only First-Rank martial artists.
Therefore, Chu Xun had never seen such a figure with his own eyes, only hearing that this realm had fourteen words.
"Qi and blood like a furnace, body like a cauldron; astral qi transforms into spirit to begin Foundation Establishnt."
No one was more sensitive to the words "Foundation Establishnt" than Chu Xun. Waiting for forty years was just waiting for the Spirit Pearl Grass to bear fruit, to cross the Qi Condensation level and reach the Foundation Establishnt stage.
Whether the Foundation Establishnt of an Innate Grandmaster and the Foundation Establishnt stage of an immortal cultivator ant the sa thing was yet unknown.
But presumably, even if there were differences, they wouldn't be too great.
Theoretically speaking, an Innate Grandmaster was already the manifestation of an ordinary person exerting their potential to the extre.
Going further up could no longer be called martial arts.
Therefore, if what Huan'er said was true.
A ferocious beast that several Second-Rank martial artists couldn't deal with was probably not weaker than a First-Rank martial artist.
Back then, the crows actually only lost a few. It was unknown whether they were too lucky, or the ferocious beast didn't strike to kill.
Speaking of martial artists, Chu Xun thought of Song Jingmin.
After beating his master Cao Yuanhui to death, the Song family invited famous doctors from the provincial capital and bought miraculous pills and wonderful dicines.
Song Jingmin's injuries fully recovered, and he was now full of vigor and vitality.
He forcibly occupied the Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall, dominating exclusively, and was even more arrogant and domineering than before.
Through trickery and force, the Song family seized over two thousand acres of farmland near the county town, forcing many people to beco their tenant farrs.
Not only did they collect fifty percent of the rent, but all kinds of miscellaneous taxes were also paid by the tenant farrs themselves.
Making it so that after farming for a year, they couldn't even keep a few catties of grain.
If anyone had complaints, the several mbers of the Song family were all used to being arrogant.
Lightly, they would beat you until you were injured; heavily, they would even take your life.
It was heard that even Song Jingmin's youngest grandson, who was only four years old, made tenant farrs kneel down and drink urine for fun.
It just so happened that the current County Magistrate, Li Zhaoming, was not as strong as Zheng Xiuwen.
Even if he wanted to manage it, the Song family's farmland was written clearly in black and white.
Those who injured people were also the disciples below. He couldn't find any leverage and it was difficult to punish them.
Looking at the flapping crows at the door, Chu Xun picked up his wine cup and drank it all in one gulp.
When the day of Foundation Establishnt cos, kill those who deserve to be killed!
Go settle the scores that need to be settled!
After eating, Huan'er had to go back.
Zhang Anxiu knew he was going to participate in the spring tropolitan examination next year, which was a matter of great importance, so she couldn't persuade him to stay much.
After sending off his nephew's family, Chu Xun ca to the vegetable patch, squatted down, and ford a spell seal.
Unlike before, now when the spell seal was ford, no drizzle fell.
Instead, fine water mist condensed directly on the leaves and roots of the plants.
This was not the Spiritual Rain Spell!
[Na: Chu Xun]
[Lifespan: 44/75]
[Cultivation: Qi Condensation Stage (Can be hidden)]
[Final Quest Reward: Eternal Life]
[Current Stage 1: Cultivate Spirit Pearl Grass until the fruit matures (Ti remaining until fruit matures: 19 years), Reward: Cultivation raised to Foundation Establishnt Stage, youth restored, lifespan increased by 150 years]
[Five Elents Spells 2/5:
Water Elent Spell 7/100000: Limited control of the water of heaven and earth within a hundred zhang
Earth Elent Spell 8/100000: Limited control of the earth of heaven and earth within a hundred zhang
At the Foundation Establishnt Stage, the three spells of tal, Fire, and Wood can be obtained. When cultivated to completion, the Five Elents Dao Magic is achieved]
Seeing the four words "Five Elents Dao Magic", a figure standing between heaven and earth vaguely appeared in Chu Xun's mind.
Summoning wind and calling rain, moving mountains and filling abysses.
And with mountains full of vegetation, pointing casually, transforming them into the six dostic animals, dragons, and tigers.
Imnse wealth is but for ordinary mortals.
Such miraculous wonders can only be called cultivating immortality!
[End of Chapter]
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