I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 85: Becoming Clouds in the Morning and Rain in the Evening

However, there are also records in the Beast Taming Notes that creatures like this, even if they are only fed one-tenth of their food for a year, their strength will not be affected. In other words, if Lin Qing wanted to, he could feed the Purple Golden Toad the equivalent of fifty spirit stones worth of monster meat for a year without affecting its strength, or even lower.

But this is only a means that should not be used. Feeding it like this will not affect the Purple Golden Toad's strength, but it will also not continue to improve, just like a cultivator stagnating at a certain realm.

Only with a large and sufficient supply of monster meat can its strength continue to improve.

Now that Lin Qing is not lacking in spirit stones, he can fulfill any request from the Purple Golden Toad. As long as it can eat it, Lin Qing will feed it. The improvement in the Purple Golden Toad's strength is also beneficial to him.

After a few days, Lin Qing specifically went out to test the toxicity of the Purple Golden Toad again. He found that the toxicity of the Purple Golden Toad was terrifyingly strong. Even mid-Qi Refining stage monsters couldn't last for ten breaths when they encountered it. This made Lin Qing somewhat puzzled. It was different from what was recorded in the Beast Taming books. The toxicity was at least fifty percent stronger. Lin Qing didn't know the reason, but he thought that maybe it had mutated after eating python meat. But this was definitely a good thing.

With the strength of the Purple Golden Toad combined with his own, they might even have the power to fight in the mid-Foundation Building stage.

This year, Lin Qing was ninety years old and had only been in the Chi Yang Immortal City for four years. Not only did he break through to the Foundation Building stage, but he also opened two shops and acquired a monster in the Foundation Building stage. Lin Qing truly felt that the Chi Yang Immortal City was his blessed land.

Not long after the Purple Golden Toad recovered to the Foundation Building stage, Lin Xuchang also broke through to the mid-Qi Refining stage. Now, apart from the youngest Lin Xuqing, all the cultivators in the family had broken through to the mid-Qi Refining stage. This kind of strength was extremely powerful. As for Lin Xuqing, it would probably take another year or two for him to break through.

But Chao Yun had aged.

From marrying Lin Qing at the age of eighteen, Chao Yun was now sixty-two years old. Although she ate Ling Rice all year round to slow down aging and her figure remained unchanged, the traces of time were becoming more and more evident.

On the other hand, Li Qingyu and Che Yun still looked young. This was not only because they were cultivators, but also because they had taken second-grade inferior pills called Youth-Preserving Pills when they were in the Xuan Yu Pavilion.

But Chao Yun did not take them.

Because she was a mortal.

These pills only had an effect on cultivators and were useless for mortals.

From being a naive girl who sold herself to bury her father to following Lin Qing for so many years, Chao Yun had changed too much. Compared to before, she had gained a kind of wisdom, a wisdom that could only be obtained through time and experience.

Because of this, she and Lin Qing not only did not grow apart due to time, but instead became even closer than before.

At night, in Chao Yun's room, she suddenly spoke to Lin Qing.

"Husband, if I die in the future, don't bury me in the ground."

"Why are you suddenly saying this?" Lin Qing looked at Chao Yun. In the many years they had been together, they had never avoided talking about death or the difference between immortals and mortals. Pretending not to talk about it was even scarier. However, Chao Yun had never mentioned what would happen after her death before.

Chao Yun smiled and looked up at the roof, saying, "Husband, do you know why I don't want to be buried in the ground?"

Lin Qing looked at her, and Chao Yun also turned to look at Lin Qing.

The two of them faced each other on the bed, and in their eyes, Chao Yun smiled and said, "I want you to cremate me after I die. That way, I can return to the sky, to the clouds and mist."

Lin Qing didn't say anything else, he blew out the oil lamp and said, "It's late, go to sleep."

In the following days, Lin Qing stayed in his own house. A few days later, Lin Qing nodded at the morning clouds in the painting. With the lingering memories, he painted the morning clouds in the painting.

Looking at the painting, Lin Qing picked up his brush and wrote:

"Morning meets a cloud, evening becomes a thousand miles of rain. Damp and clear on the tall branches, scattered and moistening the barren soil."

After finishing writing, Lin Qing waited for the ink to dry and put away the painting.

Four years later, Lin Qing broke through to the second level of Foundation Building. Considering his current talent equivalent to three spiritual roots, this speed was not slow.

And one month after the breakthrough, his formation cultivation also advanced to the second-grade superior level.

[Formation Master: Second-grade superior (12/1000000)]

Looking at this terrifying experience value, Lin Qing thought that he was not far from becoming a third-grade formation master. However, being a second-grade superior was already considered top-notch in the formation world of the Zhao Kingdom. Now, he could not only set up a second-grade medium-grade defensive formation, but also set up a second-grade superior spatial formation and sound transmission formation.

Lin Qing had studied these two formations a lot, but he had not personally set them up.

This was because the spatial formation required a material called spatial stone, which was extremely rare and generally only possessed by major powers. It was usually kept as a reserve resource and not sold. As for the sound transmission formation, there were no conditions for setting it up. This formation had a main formation and up to ten auxiliary formations. The auxiliary formations could communicate with the main formation, and the main formation could communicate with all the auxiliary formations at the same time. Building this formation required a huge cost for the main formation, while the auxiliary formations were relatively less costly. However, no power was willing to entrust such a formation to an outsider to set up, as it was considered unsafe.

Therefore, after breaking through to the second-grade superior level, Lin Qing continued to set up the previous formations. In addition to the popular defensive formation, he also set up the Mist Concealment Formation and Gathering Spirit Formation. Compared to the formation experience Goldfinger obtained from going out to set up formations, Lin Qing obtained much less. However, Goldfinger was extremely effective in breaking through bottlenecks.

After setting up defensive formations for the Wujia Fang, Lin Qing had not visited there again for these years. He had been setting up formations outside to earn spirit stones, and even a year ago, he had set up formations in the Yan Kingdom. But unexpectedly, not long after reaching the second-grade superior level as a formation master, news came from the Wujia Fang.

It was said that a group of unidentified cultivators attacked the Wujia Fang and even planted spies before the attack. Fortunately, the Wujia Fang reacted in time and repelled the cultivators, saving the market. However, almost half of the shops in the market were looted, and even the formations suffered severe damage.

The Wujia Fang was not far from the Chiyang Immortal City. According to some cultivators who knew the inside story, the Wujia Fang had been paying spirit stones to the Chiyang Immortal City in exchange for protection.

With the Wujia Fang being attacked, there was a lot of discussion in the Chiyang Immortal City. Afterwards, a disciple of Daoist Chiyang came to the Wujia Fang.

What surprised Lin Qing was that this disciple of Daoist Chiyang returned not long after going to the Wujia Fang and came to his residence.

This disciple was at the mid-stage of Foundation Building and was generally referred to as Fellow Daoist Hua by the cultivators in the city.

"Fellow Daoist Hua, please have some tea," Lin Qing received Fellow Daoist Hua in his residence. They were both in the same realm and could address each other as Fellow Daoist.

Fellow Daoist Hua had a scholarly face and looked somewhat refined. As far as Lin Qing knew, Daoist Chiyang generally did not accept disciples. In these years, he only had two disciples, and Fellow Daoist Hua was one of them. Fellow Daoist Hua had an extraordinary background. It was said that he passed the imperial examination in the mortal world and was discovered by Daoist Chiyang while being appointed as an official. Not only did he have spiritual roots, but he also had dual spiritual roots.

Afterwards, Daoist Chiyang had a conversation with Fellow Daoist Hua, and Fellow Daoist Hua decisively gave up his official position and followed Daoist Chiyang to cultivate. Now, at the age of eighty-three, he had reached the mid-stage of Foundation Building.

(End of this chapter)