Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 36: Breaking through to the Fourth Layer of Tempering Body!

"Flying bird-type spirit beasts can be considered one of the most valuable species among spirit beasts."

"Just by providing high-altitude vision alone, they can surpass other spirit beasts."

After playing with it for a while and familiarizing himself with the various operations of the Songbird, Su Ping let the tired bird fly back to rest.

Afterwards, Su Ping remembered that there were still spirit rice and monster meat in his storage bag that he hadn't tasted.

Taking advantage of his good mood today, Su Ping prepared to celebrate with a delicious meal.

He took out a large blue fish and chose to steam it.

Su Ping started a fire and cooked, processing the monster meat into several stir-fried dishes.

Buzz!

Opening the lid, a large pot of cooked spirit rice appeared before Su Ping's eyes.

Each grain of this spirit rice was as clear and dazzling as a small crystal bead, and its fragrance wafted over, making Su Ping salivate and his appetite increase.

"The quality of this spirit rice is much better than the ones I used to buy at the outer sect!"

"It seems those few robbers are quite generous when it comes to food!"

Su Ping took out his bowl and chopsticks, with the contract beasts around him staring with their watery eyes. He started eating.

Gobbling it down, a large pot of five kilograms of spirit rice quickly disappeared.

Only the bones and remnants of the monster meat and blue fish were left.

Su Ping finally stopped using his chopsticks.

Immediately, the White Mouse and Gray Mouse occupied the remains of the blue fish, the Songbird pecked at the broken rice in the rice bowl, and the Little Dog and Black Cat chose to compete with the monster bones.

"Phew!"

"My cultivation has improved, especially after reaching the early stage of Tempering Body. My appetite has also increased."

"This is a good thing, as it allows me to absorb more nutrients and accelerate my cultivation for a certain period of time!"

"But the consumption of resources has also intensified. Fortunately, I will soon have the Pot-In-A-Pot Immortal Realm, and when I have this secret realm, I can be a little more daring."

Taking advantage of his full stomach, Su Ping began to sit cross-legged and cultivate.

............

Su Ping spent three days eating twenty kilograms of monster meat and nearly a hundred kilograms of spirit rice.

In addition, he also had the waste Qi and Blood Pills every night.

Then, during a Tempering Body bath, after taking the purifying medicine to cleanse the poison, his body shook and he broke through to the Fourth Layer of Tempering Body!

Becoming a cultivator in the mid-stage of Qi Refining and Body Tempering!

In the outer sect, a cultivator who has reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining and Body Tempering is enough to have a certain level of fame and receive some care from the outer sect elders.

Su Ping naturally wouldn't expose his true strength just for that bit of care.

He chose to continue celebrating quietly.

However, there were always people disturbing his cultivation.

On the second day after breaking through to the Fourth Layer of Tempering Body.

A wandering cultivator came to visit Su Ping with a letter from the City Lord's Mansion.

Su Ping received the visitor and found that he was a Buddhist monk in his thirties.

With a cultivation base at the Second Layer of Qi Refining, he was considered quite good among wandering cultivators.

"Amitabha, I am Hui Neng, I have seen the Lord Inspector."

The monk bowed and, after seeing Su Ping's appearance, felt a movement in his heart.

He immediately realized that the intelligence was wrong. The aura of this Lord Inspector was unfathomable in his eyes, with an extraordinary bearing and shining eyes.

He didn't look like those old cultivators who gave up on cultivation and acted recklessly.

He couldn't help but sweat a little for this mission, but he could only grit his teeth and say:

"Your Excellency, I am a monk from the Xiaojinguang Temple. I have come on behalf of our abbot to invite you."

"The abbot hopes that the honorable inspector can visit Xiaojinguang Temple for a gathering."

"The abbot attaches great importance to this small meeting and is willing to share a hundred years' worth of bitter tea with the fellow cultivators."

"Hmm?"

Su Ping was slightly taken aback by the words, then recalled the information about Xiaojinguang Temple.

Xiaojinguang Temple is mainly composed of Buddhist cultivators. It is rumored that the previous abbot was a true disciple of the Great Jinguang Temple, a righteous sect that is no less prestigious than the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

However, it is unclear what happened, but later he returned to his hometown, which happened to be within the jurisdiction of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect. With the sect's tacit approval, he purchased a second-grade inferior spiritual vein from a cultivation family and built Xiaojinguang Temple.

The people accepted into Xiaojinguang Temple are mainly wandering cultivators, and the few with better spiritual roots are either adopted by the temple from other places or raised from a young age.

Although occasionally some immortal sect cultivators feel dissatisfied with Xiaojinguang Temple's establishment of banks and acquisition of large amounts of land in the mortal world, which has gradually increased its influence on ordinary people, they have not taken any real action against Xiaojinguang Temple.

Overall, Xiaojinguang Temple can be considered a sensible and orderly force.

However, going to someone else's place at this time is still too dangerous!

Su Ping shook his head and declined the invitation on the grounds of being busy with affairs.

The monk was taken aback.

Was the firm denial due to resisting the temptation of the hundred years' bitter tea?

That is a spiritual object that is also beneficial to mid to late Qi Refining stage cultivators!

"Please see the guest off!"

Su Ping waved his hand, intending to have the maid ask the monk to leave.

"Wait... please wait!"

The monk quickly took out a jade slip from his storage bag.

"The abbot asked me to give this to the honorable inspector to read before making a decision."

"This is what the abbot specifically instructed. Even if there are those who are unwilling to come, they can at least read it before making a decision."

Su Ping activated the vision of his spirit mouse, Xiaobai, and after confirming that the jade slip was not abnormal, he extended his right hand and held the jade slip in his palm.

"You Xiaojinguang Temple truly have compassionate hearts."

"Go back and tell the abbot that since it involves countering evil spirits, Jinque City agrees to this matter."

Su Ping read the contents of the jade slip and learned about the abbot's thoughts.

It turns out that recently, evil spirits have been appearing during the surge of evil energy, and the abbot of Xiaojinguang Temple has sensed the suffering of the people.

He hopes to set up water and land training grounds supported by the authorities in the suburbs of major cities, using the faith of the people to erode the seals placed on the evil spirits by the temples. This would allow these artifacts to be freed, so that righteous cultivators can use them to seal more evil spirits.

"Sealing artifacts for evil spirits?"

"Such artifacts are probably not something Xiaojinguang Temple can produce. It is most likely the work of the Great Jinguang Temple, right?"

"For Xiaojinguang Temple to dare to do this, the upper levels of the immortal sect must have tacitly agreed. Is this one of the compromises reached with the Great Jinguang Temple?"

"It is rumored that it is difficult to eliminate evil spirits and can only be slowly eroded by divine consciousness. It seems that the immortal sect also focuses on sealing, while the Buddhist sect replaces divine consciousness with faith, which seems feasible."

"Just that they are so proactive."

"Perhaps there are many benefits to eroding evil spirits itself?"

Su Ping is quite interested in this aspect.

After all, even the little gray and little white mice, contracted by the faith of the people on the Water Blue Star, can control the size of the mice.

The Water Blue Star still has the power of faith, but because it lacks spiritual energy, this power often cannot become a major force and will dissipate.

Therefore, if he can learn a way to erode evil spirits himself...

Perhaps he can try to use the unowned power of faith in his hometown to erode one or two evil spirits and see what benefits are inside?

(End of this chapter)