Seeking Immortality

After the formation was arranged, fog began to rise three feet away from the two wooden houses. Although the night wind continued, the white fog showed no sign of being blown away. Surrounded by the shade of the trees, Xu Qingfan's cave was more ethereal in its tranquility.

The formation that Xu Qingfan arranged around his cave this time was called the "Three Yuan Formation". It was a composite formation composed of a mid-level defense formation, a low-level spirit gathering formation, and a low-level enemy trapping formation. It was not a simple mid-level defense formation.

In fact, Xu Qingfan made a fuss by arranging such a formation around his cave. Because the back mountain where Xu Qingfan's cave was located was already in the Jiuhua Mountain's mountain protection formation, the defensive power of this formation was like a chicken rib to Xu Qingfan. If an enemy could break through the Jiuhua Mountain's mountain protection formation, Xu Qingfan's defensive formation would not be of much use.

Generally speaking, only casual cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation use this kind of defensive formation with neither good nor bad defense. Because of their insufficient strength or weak power, the caves they live in are often located in remote areas, so generally speaking, they will arrange this kind of relatively advanced defensive formation around the caves to prevent people with evil intentions from killing and stealing treasures. After all, the world of immortal cultivation is essentially a world where the strong prey on the weak. Disciples of major sects who are already protected by the sect's mountain protection formation rarely use this formation. When they build caves, they often only arrange a primary spirit gathering formation and a primary defensive formation to prevent others from entering and leaving casually.

In fact, Xu Qingfan himself knows this, but because Xu Qingfan read too many books about immortal cultivation in the mortal world when he was young, the description of immortal cultivation above has a profound impact on Xu Qingfan. Even now, I still think that there should be a large formation around the immortal cave and surrounded by fairy mist, and it would be better if there were more fairy cranes. So Xu Qingfan finally decided to arrange this formation.

Looking at the protective formation around him, Xu Qingfan nodded with satisfaction, then turned and walked towards his room. After this arrangement of the formation, Xu Qingfan's originally somewhat anxious mood was relieved a lot, and in addition, Xu Qingfan's spiritual energy in his body was now mostly consumed, so when he sat cross-legged on the bed again, Xu Qingfan could finally calm down and enter into meditation.

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The next day, the sun was shining brightly and the breeze was warm. Under the control of the mountain protection formation, Jiuhua Mountain was as sunny as ever.

When the sun shone on the white mist created by the "Three Yuan Formation", the white mist reflected colorful fairy clouds, adding a psychedelic color to the entire back mountain.

Although blocked by the white mist, there were still a few rays of sunlight shining through the white mist into Xu Qingfan's room, bringing some warmth to Xu Qingfan's room.

Feeling the warmth of the sun shining on his face, Xu Qingfan slowly opened his eyes. After a full half day of meditation. Xu Qingfan's spiritual energy had recovered almost completely at this time. But after Xu Qingfan woke up. But he didn't look happy at all, instead he frowned. Because he felt that in the wooden house next to him, there were still waves of fire spirit and demonic energy, just like before he meditated.

"Did Ting'er not rest all night? She has been practicing fire magic?" Xu Qingfan frowned and thought.

Ting'er has only been practicing Taoism for a few days, and there is still little spirit in her body. How can she bear practicing Taoism for so long? Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan hurried out of the room and walked quickly to Ting'er's room.

When Xu Qingfan pushed open the door of Ting'er's room. Just saw a black flame slowly coming out of Ting'er's fingertips, and soon after it was slowly retracted, and then it came out again, and so on. After practicing all night, Ting'er's face was very pale at this time, but she was still practicing unremittingly. She looked at the black flame on her fingertips with a focused look, with three points of persistence, and three points... hatred.

After this night, Xiaobi seemed to have adapted to the black flame. Although her eyes were still horrified when she saw the black flame, her body was no longer shaking like before.

Looking at Ting'er's pale face, Xu Qingfan knew that Ting'er could not hold on for much longer, so he walked quickly to Ting'er's side and slapped down Ting'er's right hand that was performing the fire method. As Ting'er's right hand fell, the black flame that had just risen on her fingertips also extinguished.

Looking at Ting'er looking up at him, with a hint of confusion and anger in her cold expression, Xu Qingfan's expression was calm, and he slowly asked.

"Ting'er, you are so eager to practice Taoism, do you want to find me to avenge your father's murder as soon as possible?"

...

Xu Qingfan controlled the "Wanli Cloud" and flew quickly to the front mountain. His expression was unprecedentedly gloomy, and he kept thinking about the scene just now.

"Yes."

This was the third sentence Xu Qingfan had heard Ting'er say in the past year.

Hearing this, Xu Qingfan felt a pain in his heart.

He knew that Ting'er saw with her own eyes that he killed his father, and it was impossible for her not to hate him, but the uncle and nephew had been getting along well for the past year, and Xu Qingfan sometimes had illusions.

After a year of getting along, perhaps Ting'er had faded the words she said to her son, but it shattered Xu Qingfan's illusions.

When you only have one relative left in this world, but you find that this relative has a deep hatred for you, the pain of that moment will never be understood by those who have not experienced it. For Xu Qingfan, who has always longed for his relatives to be around, this pain will only be worse.

But Xu Qingfan had been mentally prepared, so this pain only lasted for a short moment before he suppressed it in his heart. Then he said to Ting'er in a calm tone: "Since you want to seek revenge on me, you should protect yourself first. I am now in the spiritual period of cultivation. As long as I am not too unlucky, it should be no problem to live to more than 200 years old. There is still a lot of time left for you, so there is no need to rush."

As he said this, Xu Qingfan crushed a "God-enchanting Flower". Under the dual effects of the hypnotic fragrance of the God-enchanting Flower and fatigue, Ting'er finally couldn't help but fall asleep on the bed. Xu Qingfan ignored Xiaobi's threatening roar and slowly walked out of the room. He began to be surrounded by a faint loneliness in his heart.

With a sigh, Xu Qingfan controlled the "Wanli Cloud" and rushed out of the mist of the guardian formation, flying quickly towards the front mountain of Jiuhua.

This time he went down the mountain to collect many seeds of exotic flowers and plants. In addition to those collected in the southern wilderness, there are many that he found during his travels in the Middle Earth in the past six months, such as "exotic Qin Wang Rong" and "mud fruit", which are impossible to find in China.

Before Xu Qingfan went down the mountain, he had promised Uncle Liu of "Baicao Garden" to help him collect seeds of various exotic flowers and plants in the vast land of Shenzhou. Xu Qingfan was going to deliver these seeds to Uncle Liu today.

But when Xu Qingfan flew halfway, he suddenly sighed and turned his head to fly towards the kitchen in the front mountain. Although immortals can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for their own use, immortals in the Qi Refining Stage still have to eat fireworks in the world after all, and half of the disciples in Jiuhua Sect are in the Qi Refining Stage, so the kitchen in Jiuhua Mountain occupies a large area.

After Xu Qingfan came to the kitchen, he found a disciple of the "Yu" generation who was in charge of the canteen and arranged for him to deliver some meals to his cave in the back mountain on a regular basis every day. Because Ting'er is still a mortal, using "Bigu Pills" to fill her stomach every day is not a long-term solution. And Jiuhua Mountain cannot hunt animals in the mountains as freely as in the secular world, so Xu Qingfan thought of coming to the kitchen to settle down.

As for Xiaobi's big-bellied beast, Xu Qingfan could only think of another way.

After doing all this, Xu Qingfan controlled the "Wanli Cloud" and flew back to the "Herb Garden".

Because the "Herb Garden" is to plant various spiritual herbs, it is located on the top of the mountain where the spiritual energy is relatively sufficient in Jiuhua Mountain. However, although there is abundant spiritual energy here, it is due to the steep terrain and the cold and windy climate, and the strange temper of Uncle Liu who is in charge of the "Herb Garden", so few people set foot here.

Uncle Liu's name is Liu Huaxiang. This person is very mysterious. It is said that five hundred years ago, he was just a very inconspicuous one among the "Hua" generation disciples in Jiuhua Mountain. But five hundred years ago, his power suddenly increased greatly, and he had the strength to compete with the headmaster Zhang Hualing, the supreme protector Zhou Huahai and others. The previous headmaster appointed him to be in charge of the "Baicao Garden" before his death.

But after taking charge of the "Baicao Garden", he seemed to be a little unemployed. The spiritual medicines in the "Baicao Garden" often disappeared for no reason, and since he took charge of the "Baicao Garden", the "Baicao Garden" has never handed over a spiritual herb to the master, but what is surprising is that the head of Jiuhua, Zhang Hualing, did not care. So he did whatever he wanted, and in the end he planted many exotic flowers and herbs with strong attack power in the "Baicao Garden", making it difficult for the disciples who came to ask for medicine to move.

It is said that Wu Huamian, who was in charge of the "Alchemy Room", could no longer bear it and went to ask for spiritual medicine from Uncle Liu. It is unknown what happened later, but from then on, when the "Alchemy Room" made elixirs, the spiritual medicine needed was sent to the foot of the mountain to collect.

Xu Qingfan sometimes wondered how Uncle Liu would treat him if he had not been interested in exotic flowers and plants because of practicing "Withering and Flourishing Art".

Just as Xu Qingfan was thinking about it, "Wanliyun" had already carried him to the top of Jiuhua Mountain. Although the sun was shining brightly at the top of Jiuhua Mountain, the cold wind was raging. In the cold wind, a dilapidated courtyard with a large area was located on it. Above the door of the courtyard, there was a plaque with the three words "Baicao Garden" vaguely visible.

"Xu Shixiong, you have only been out for a year, and you are back?"

Xu Qingfan had just landed in front of the door with "Wanliyun" when an old and hoarse voice sounded in the courtyard.