BOOM!

Qin Feng stomped his foot, and a tremendous force trampled the earth. With a BANG, a cold gleam of intermingled black and yellow light shot out from underground.

With a sweep of his large sleeve, Qin Feng instantly caught the object.

It was a long, slender, pitch-black nail, tinged with faint traces of black and yellow light.

A Thousand-Year-Old Earth Evil Nail!

When Qin Feng grasped it, the nail was ice-cold to the touch. A subtle strand of Evil Qi surged through his skin and toward his meridians, but his Innate Primordial True Qi stirred and instantly refined it.

’What a treasure!’ Qin Feng praised inwardly. These Thousand-Year-Old Earth Evil Nails were exceptionally rare; even one was incredibly valuable, yet there were seventy-two of them here, forming a complete set.

Qin Feng’s figure shifted, his large sleeves sweeping like flowing clouds as he pulled out the Earth Evil Nails one by one. After a brief glance, he tucked them away into his Blue Sea and Heaven.

Wisps of spiritual mist began to stir and swirl.

As the Earth Evil Nails were removed one after another, Qin Feng’s powerful Five Senses Spiritual Sense seemed to hear the gurgling sound of a spring bubbling to the surface.

It was the sound of Spiritual Qi flowing!

It was as if countless streams of Spiritual Qi were drilling out from the Earth Vein, transforming into a dense vapor that filled the entire Bishui Cave.

The Spiritual Qi in Bishui Cave was now more than ten times richer than before!

The Innate Primordial True Qi in Qin Feng’s body began to circulate spontaneously. His pores opened, and bathing in the dense Spiritual Qi felt like soaking in a hot spring.

Qin Feng felt a sudden impulse to immediately enter seclusion for cultivation.

He forcefully suppressed the feeling. After thoroughly inspecting every nook and cranny of Bishui Cave, he summoned his three Stewards, gave them detailed instructions, and only then prepared to enter seclusion for cultivation.

Before entering seclusion, Qin Feng made a trip to the Spirit Garden to check on the growth of the various Spirit Medicines within.

At present, there were nine types of Spirit Medicine in the Spirit Garden.

Eight of these were Yellow Rank Advanced Spirit Medicines: the Thousand-year-old Profound Yin Ginseng, Jade Dragon Primordial Yang Flower, Cloud Pattern Ganoderma Grass, Five Hundred Years Red Dragon Yellow Ginseng, Double-headed Polygonum multiflorum, Yin-Yang Lotus, and Gentiana.

There was another Yellow-grade High-level Spiritual Object, but it didn’t grow in the Spirit Garden. Instead, it grew in Celestial Pool Lake.

It was the Pure Water Golden Lotus.

Celestial Pool Lake was rich in Spiritual Qi, making it an ideal environment for this type of Spirit Medicine to grow. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

There was also a Xuan Rank High Level Spirit Wood: a Thousand-Year-Old Mysterious Water Spirit Peach Wood.

This was a peach tree growing on the shore of Celestial Pool Lake. Its canopy reached for the heavens, its branches were dense with lush foliage, and peeking out from between the emerald leaves were large, Shuilingling peaches.

It was a rare Water Attribute Spiritual Peach Wood, and the fruit it bore also had a name: Profound Water Spirit Peach. This was an exceptionally expensive type of Spirit Fruit.

This Spiritual Peach was a Healing Holy Treasure. It could nourish one’s Life Origin, cleanse hidden injuries, and possessed an even more miraculous effect: it could purify Innate True Qi.

Purifying Innate True Qi—this ability was exceptionally precious. The purer one’s Innate True Qi, the higher the chance of condensing a Top-grade Heaven and Earth Seed.

The Profound Water Spirit Peach was one of the few Spirit Fruits capable of purifying and cleansing Innate True Qi.

The Profound Water Spirit Peach took thirty years to blossom, thirty years to bear fruit, and thirty years for the fruit to mature. Each harvest yielded a maximum of nine peaches.

Qin Feng had counted them; there were only four on this peach tree in total.

The first batch of Spiritual Peaches had now ripened, and in a few days, experts from the Medicine King Hall would arrive to harvest them.

Eighth Master, on his shoulder, was drooling with envy, while the blockhead in the sky circled dozens of times. Qin Feng had to scold them several times to restrain the two fierce birds.

Qin Feng knew the Spiritual Peach would be beneficial for Silly Bird and Eighth Master, but he couldn’t touch the Spirit Fruit.

Even he, the Cave Master, could only look! If he touched it, there would undoubtedly be big trouble.

COO! COO!

Silly Bird had its own ideas. Seeing that it couldn’t eat the fruit, it actually started building a nest on the Spiritual Peach tree.

Silly Bird might look dazed and dopey, but it was actually quite shrewd. It knew this Spirit Wood was the place outside of Bishui Cave with the most abundant Spiritual Qi, and its cultivation speed would be much faster here.

Seeing a giant white bird building a nest on the Spirit Wood, a Martial Artist quickly rushed over, intending to drive it away.

Qin Feng stopped the Medicine Boy.

The Medicine Boy jumped in fright upon seeing it was the new, fearsome Cave Master. Hearing Qin Feng’s rebuke, he didn’t dare to linger and hastily retreated.

Eighth Master settled on a withered, ancient tree.

This ancient tree was next to a stone mountain, not far from the Thousand-Year-Old Mysterious Water Spirit Peach Wood. The withered tree was very tall, grayish-brown all over, its branches and leaves long gone. It was completely bare, filled with Death Qi, and gave off an extremely ominous feeling.

Qin Feng’s gaze was sharp; he could tell that this was also a Spiritual Peach Wood. It was just that this Spirit Wood seemed to have had all its Vitality drained by the other Profound Water Spirit Peach Wood.

Shrouded in Death Qi, it was like a sun setting in the west—on its last legs.

Moreover, this Spiritual Peach Wood was growing in a Land of Extreme Yin on Heavenly Red Peak and seemed to be undergoing a strange transformation. Qin Feng’s powerful Spiritual Sense detected that all the Yin Qi and Death Qi in the area were converging on this bizarre, withered tree.

This was especially true when Eighth Master landed on it; the rate at which the ancient tree—which was neither truly alive nor truly dead—gathered Yin Qi and Death Qi increased severalfold.

The entire ancient tree was filled with a soaring Evil Qi and Death Qi.

’Twin trees born of yin and yang, one of life and one of death. Heavenly Red Peak is a Water and Wood Attribute Spirit Mountain Blessed Land, and Water and Wood are manifestations of Vitality. For a Land of Extreme Yin to form within such a place, it must be the most extreme of yin. A Spirit Wood growing in such a place is surely doomed to die!’

’Even if it doesn’t die, a heavenly thunder tribulation will descend. Thunder destroys evil. However, if this Spirit Wood can survive the tribulation and merge the Qis of Life and Death, its future accomplishments will likely be far greater than even that Thousand-Year-Old Mysterious Water Spirit Peach Wood!’

As Qin Feng’s gaze swept over the tree, a trace of amazement showed in his eyes.

After inspecting the Spirit Garden, Qin Feng returned to Bishui Cave and used the Cave Mansion’s control Gold Seal to activate its Prohibitions.

The Bishui Cave Mansion was vast. In addition to the central grand hall, there were palaces and pavilions in the rear, as well as a garden, a rockery, and various Side Halls.

It was like the residence of an immortal.

The seclusion chamber was located beneath the rockery. Qin Feng used the Cave Mansion’s control Gold Seal to directly activate the mechanism.

The chamber wasn’t large, but it wasn’t dark or gloomy. As the stone door opened, points of candlelight appeared. The room was clean and well-ventilated, with dust-repelling pearls embedded in the walls. Qin Feng’s gaze fell on the center of the stone room, where two meditation cushions sat. In front of them was an incense table with a small cauldron, from which the calming scent of sandalwood incense wafted.

Qin Feng scanned his surroundings and, with a brief Sensing, found that the Spiritual Qi here was more than twice as dense as it was outside.

Evidently, a Spirit Gathering Array, a type of Profound Array designed to concentrate Spiritual Qi, must have been built when this chamber was constructed.

Qin Feng sat cross-legged on a cushion. The first thing he prepared to cultivate was the Little Cloud Rain Technique.

The Little Cloud Rain Technique was a Spirit Martial Level, High Tier, Water Attribute Martial Arts Secret Technique, with a total of twelve layers.

The Little Cloud Rain Technique was a secret technique used to assist the growth of Spirit Medicines in a Spirit Garden.

Mastering the Little Cloud Rain Technique offered no combat abilities, but completing this Martial Arts Secret Technique would grant a wondrous new power.

One could use the power of the Little Cloud Rain Technique to create a resonance with Spirit Medicines and even control some of the Water-shaped Spiritual Energy within plants.

If one could cultivate it to the 4th Layer,

this ability would merge with a Martial Artist’s Five Senses Spiritual Sense and evolve further, allowing them to gather the Heaven and Earth Water Spiritual Qi to form Xiao Lingyu.

If one could cultivate it to the 6th Layer, they could condense Spiritual Dew, which could nourish all things in heaven and earth.

If one could cultivate it to the Ninth Layer, they could condense Celestial One True Water, one of the thirty-six types of Post-Innate True Water.

And if one could cultivate it to the Twelfth-Layer Great Perfection, they could directly transform the Little Cloud Rain Technique into a Minor Divine Ability...