Chapter 2242: Chapter 2244: Change in Chaoyang

Twenty days later, Feng Jun successfully broke through the Second Layer Golden Core, stepping into the Third Layer Golden Core, and directly surged to the peak of the third layer.

It was still due to the transformation granted by Domain Care! As Feng Jun broke through that instant, a hint of enlightenment flashed across his mind: otherwise, breaking through the Second Layer Golden Core wouldn’t have been so smooth!

After the secluded meditation ended, he proceeded to deduce some accumulated tasks from before, then greeted Yi Jue, "I need to leave for a while. The place I’m heading to isn’t suitable for you to come along, so I’ll trouble you to look after the house for me."

Yi Jue’s brows furrowed, then seemed to recall something and whispered, "Is it to handle other organs?"

"More or less," Feng Jun chuckled, "Also, regarding the matter of stone gambling, it’s time to hurry up. I plan to bring a few people over."

True Immortal Yi Jue nodded, "Among your people, some have a knack for business, like Qingzhu..."

Feng Jun’s figure flickered, already at Earth’s Ni Hong, taking a quick look around, finding no one, and at this moment, it was deep night, just right for him to fly back to Luohua.

Now, his physical flying speed can reach three thousand miles per hour, flying back to Luohua is quite easy. However, during this process, he checks around to find where it’s more suitable to bury the organs of the Tunxing Clan.

Indeed, he returned this time to truly enhance the Spirit Mechanism of the Earth Realm.

They say now is the era of Spiritual Energy revival, and the Electric Power Gathering Array he developed seems to corroborate this point. However, in reality, the Electric Spirit Gathering Array only aids in gathering spirit energy and cannot increase the absolute value of spiritual energy on Earth.

To put it bluntly, it can absorb the free spiritual energy within the atmosphere without using Spirit Stones.

Yet using the corpse of the Tunxing Clan can attract free spiritual energy from Outer Space, which is the essence of spiritual energy revival.

He wandered around until almost dawn before returning to Luohua. To avoid disturbing Beauty Lin and others, he directly used the trace to return.

Upon landing, he noticed something unusual, "Eh, it’s raining again?"

A light laugh sounded not far away, surprisingly it’s Zhang Caixin’s voice, "Oh, finally willing to come back?"

"Xiao Caixin?" Feng Jun was a bit surprised, "Why are you at my place?"

Luohua now has five cultivation sites, three main and two auxiliary, the three main are the backyard of the villa, the mountain valley bamboo forest, and this area where Feng Jun is. This place only has a few rows of temporary buildings, and the conditions are actually quite simple.

Initially, he was the only one cultivating here, he didn’t want to affect others, but soon enough, Yang Yuxin, unable to find a spot in the manor, followed along. For quite a long period afterward, only the two of them practiced here.

Later, Zhong Lijing, who was unexpectedly favored, was somewhat unaccepted by the elder members, thus frequently came to this place to cultivate.

As for the other two auxiliary ones, those are the newly built conference center and Pump One, both with Electric Power Gathering Arrays, Pump One is where Chen Shengwang resides when he’s not in Australia, usually accompanied by two female cultivators at this place for cultivation.

The conference center, don’t even mention it, aside from a large number of guests visiting, it hasn’t been in use.

Feng Jun was a bit puzzled about why Zhang Caixin ended up here, but Xiao Caixin informed him, "Today I’m responsible for guarding here; since you didn’t return, we’re all not very accustomed, so everyone thought it should be done in shifts!"

"Oh," Feng Jun nodded, but didn’t ask much, "Tell them I intend to bring a few people over there for long-term residency, see who’s interested to sign up."

Before long, the news of the boss returning spread throughout Luohua, except for those whose involvement was truly unavoidable, everyone else gathered, even those somewhat pushed to the sidelines like Xu Leigang and Li Shishi showed up.

Feng Jun shared his decision; everyone fell silent, and after a good while, Zhong Lijing expressed her willingness, "I am willing to go."

With Feng Jun’s special attention, her cultivation lasted barely a year, now she’s at the Sixth Layer Mortal Transformation, the champion among Luohua’s second-generation disciples, but compared to Kunhao over there, it’s almost indistinguishable from a mortal.

The positive aspect is she truly doesn’t have any particularly close acquaintances in the Earth Realm, the fate of a lone celestial being is such, classmates don’t dare interact much with her.

Initially, Feng Jun wanted to call out Gu Jiahui, only to realize she wasn’t present, "Where did Jia Hui go?"

"She’s graduating, thesis defense," Li Shishi’s face had an odd expression, having already embarked on cultivation, yet still preparing for a bachelor’s thesis defense, always leaves people feeling peculiar.

"Then discuss among yourselves," Feng Jun glanced at Yu Qingzhu, "Okay, I will stay here for a day... Director Yang, please stay, others can leave if there’s nothing else."

Li Shishi swiftly slipped away, she felt the boss’s aura becoming increasingly imposing, staying by his side gave a sense of breathlessness.

Others had various matters, finally arriving at Xu Leigang, he hesitantly stated that he was already a high-rank martial master and hoped for more resources to quickly advance to Innate.

He confidently declared that if the boss needed, he was willing to guard the opposite world.

Feng Jun found it somewhat strange, did this doting father just figure out something? "You’re not minding your Little Princess anymore?"

"She’s in her third year now, has her own thoughts," Xu Leigang replied sullenly, "She won’t communicate with me, doesn’t even listen to Zhao Xia much... I’d rather not annoy her anymore."

"You really shouldn’t be the one guarding her," Feng Jun shook his head, but giving less indulgence to daughters might be a good thing, at least you can do something serious, "Wang Haifeng is at least Innate; you should focus on cultivating now... If you lack any resources, borrow them from Cai Xin."

After Xu Leigang left, besides Feng Jun, only Yang Yuxin, Zhang Caixin, Good Scenery, and Zhong Lijing remained at the scene. The latter three seemed uninterested in what Feng Jun wanted to discuss with Director Yang and just casually stayed around.

However, Feng Jun felt there was no need to hide from them, "I’m planning to enhance the Spirit Mechanism in the Earth Realm, do you have any good suggestions? Like where to bury it?"

"Definitely Luohua," Zhang Caixin responded without hesitation, "Something obviously beneficial, we shouldn’t let others take advantage."

Good Scenery had other thoughts, "Will another big mountain rise up?"

"Probably not," Feng Jun answered seriously, "Last time’s reaction was unexpected, although it ended well, I made improvements anyway. But... Earth and Kunhao are different, the effects I can’t definitively say."

Good Scenery’s question made Zhang Caixin react, "Given such risks, why not test it at the Alps Mountains first? If there’s no major response, we can then relocate it domestically."

"That’s impossible," Feng Jun shook his head, refusing decisively, "Once Domain Joy is triggered, can there be a second occurrence? Better cause a commotion at home than let it benefit outsiders!"

"So where do you plan to bury it?" Zhang Caixin asked curiously.

"Chaoyang still," Feng Jun spoke solemnly, "No noise would be ideal, but if there’s noise... this is a chance I’ve arranged for my parents, don’t push me to flip out."

"There’s the elder factor," Yang Yuxin nodded hearing this, "In that case, it does make sense."

"With you saying that, I feel more assured," Feng Jun smiled, stood up, "No time to waste, since it’s raining over there, I’ll go to work."

"Count me in," Zhang Caixin volunteered, she had an unusual interest in meeting Feng Jun’s parents.

"Just keep an eye on the house," Feng Jun took out his mobile phone, "When I’m ready to start, I’ll naturally bring you all over."

The next moment, he was already in the mountains of Chaoyang, releasing his Divine Sense to perceive, shortly finding a suitable spot. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The forest here wasn’t too dense, crucially there weren’t many big trees, and ten or so meters underground, there was hardened rock.

Generally, those doing excavation don’t like encountering rock, but Feng Jun was quite the opposite; the solid rock allowed him to save Spiritual Energy when casting spells, whereas mixed soil and stones were harder to handle.

The land the Feng Family contracted in Chaoyang added up to nearly twenty square kilometers front and back, but there weren’t many suitable spots for digging a big pit. After selecting a site, Feng Jun first set up a Rain Prayer Array.

Whether digging a pit or causing a hill to grow, such a large commotion would easily be noticed unless some clouds covered the sky. Right now, the rain was natural, but after clearing, they’d rely on the Rain Prayer Array to conceal.

Feng Jun started digging at night, and after a full night wasn’t finished, he continued another night, barely meeting expectations.

This pit was half the size of the one on the Kunhao Plane, because this time it was only half a lung.

As for why just half, why Feng Jun didn’t place the whole lung in the Earth Realm, simply put, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to care for his homeland; the main issue was the Earth Realm... it was truly fragile, not only is it Absolutely Spirit Land, its area is also small.

In contrast to the Kunhao Realm, the land surface of one realm was at least tens of thousands times larger than Earth’s.

To be safe, Feng Jun wouldn’t place the entire lung on Earth, he’d first try half a lung here, if that wasn’t enough, he could later bring good resources to nourish Earth, better than having it overloaded.

So the pit dug by Feng Jun was five hundred meters long and wide, and four hundred meters deep, just right for storing half a lung.

For caution’s sake, on the third night, he excavated a bit more, then placed the lung into the pit and began backfilling.

Backfilling took another two nights because he also had to restore the forest atop, couldn’t do it carelessly.

During the whole process, it rained continuously from the sky, both natural and artificial rain.

He spent a full five days and nights on this, then began setting up formations—the improved ones, aiming to prevent this place from sprouting a mountain peak.

He was busy setting up formations when he let his guard down, and clouds drifted away, revealing the sun.

"Could it be... the Swallowed Star Demon?" A thought suddenly appeared in Feng Jun’s mind, immediately followed by a spinning sensation...

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