Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Chapter 49: Chapter 49 Quietly leaving without taking a single cloud away

Zhou Xuan’s zeal for the path of cultivation greatly pleased Su Ping.

However, Su Ping was not willing to readily agree to Zhou Xuan’s request to further enter Yunlai Immortal Realm to continue his cultivation.

It was not because he was jealous that Zhou Xuan’s talent surpassed what he once had.

Despite Zhou Xuan having at least a mid-grade Spirit Root, Su Ping now possessed a Ten Directions Annihilation Body, which meant his talent was only higher!

Plus, with drug-enhanced cultivation and the ability to continue fishing to improve his talent…

Truth be told, Su Ping in no way worried that one day he would be unable to keep Little Taoist Zhou Xuan in check!

It’s just that Su Ping knew that things that come too easily are often not cherished.

Once he had initiated Qi Refining into his body, he had to start working for the Immortal Sect to earn Spirit Stones.

The Immortal Sect doesn’t support the idle!

The Yunlai Immortal Sect he founded on Water Blue Star would naturally follow suit!

Su Ping said gently to Zhou Xuan:

“You have initiated Qi Refining, which marks the beginning of your journey in Immortal Cultivation. How can you be so impatient?”

“Bear in mind, impatience is a great taboo in the cultivation journey!”

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Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan felt enlightened and hurriedly bowed and nodded in thanks.

Fully trusting Su Ping, Zhou Xuan took every word Su Ping said as the truth to live by.

“In this period, I will leave behind talisman, alchemy, artifact making, and Array Formation books for you. You can summon Mana to your eyes to read them in detail.”

“Once you have thoroughly learned these books, reflect on them well.”

“Next time you go to Yunlai Immortal Realm, we’ll see how much of the knowledge from the books you’ve managed to master.”

Su Ping spoke to this point, paused as he watched Zhou Xuan nodding repeatedly, and then continued:

“My boy, study hard!”

“After all, you are tied to me by the bond we share with East King Temple. I am truly rooting for you!”

“Safeguard this Spirit Stone carefully; when your Mana is depleted, clasp it with both hands and circulate your spell to recover your Mana slowly.”

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan trembled all over, deeply moved, and hastily acknowledged.

In that moment, aside from the ambition for Immortal Cultivation, Zhou Xuan felt an additional weight on his shoulders—a weight of expectation and trust from an elder!

This trust was precious beyond measure, as heavy as a thousand catties!

Su Ping, having left the relevant books in the hall and given Zhou Xuan a crystal clear Spirit Stone to replenish his Mana, then left with a hearty laugh.

All these books were written in Immortal Text.

In the eyes of mortals, it was akin to Ghost Talismans.

And so there was no fear that they would cause any great commotion if someone happened to see them by accident.

Having completed the experiment with inviting outsiders to Pot Cave Heaven, Su Ping didn’t rush back to the Immortal Realm.

Instead, he took the cell phone provided by Little Taoist Zhouxuan and began his journey.

Yushu City was nothing more than a small city near the mountains.

It was too conspicuous for so many anomalies to concentrate here.

Moreover, even though the news media had chosen to downplay the issue of the Red Blood Rainbow Carp, Su Ping was well aware that this place must have caught the attention of certain individuals.

There was no need for him to add difficulty to his unobtrusiveness at this point!

After casting an Invisibility Spell and putting on an Illusion Jade Pendant to alter his height and appearance in the eyes of others,

Su Ping, while reading an Array Formation Book, got to the bus station from the street where East King Temple was located by hitching a ride.

He then went to another city from the bus station.

Traveling along the way, Su Ping noticed that small cities still maintained their original appearance.

Yet, the infrastructure inside the major cities was quietly undergoing earth-shattering changes.

The transportation of large goods in many big cities had fully automated and unmanned, using dedicated underground pipelines for transit, combined with a primarily automated public transit system, greatly relieving traffic pressure on the surface.

The intelligent Heavenly Eye system in the big cities had also been fully developed.

Su Ping, after pondering at the train station for a long time, decided it was safer to visit those small and medium-sized cities that were falling behind the times.

Su Ping was headed for a small to medium-sized city in the southwest direction. In each city, he would make a brief stop to release the Spiritual Rats, White and Grey, to subdue a group of spiritually endowed rodents.

He then used these rodent groups to gather information and sought out worthy individuals to coax…

Ahem… that is, he looked for those with a fated connection to the Yunlai Immortal Realm!

During this period, Su Ping also tested the Wen Birds and cats and dogs.

But he found that while they could intimidate the groups, they were only a deterrent, not a means of subjugation.

They couldn’t be commanded to do major tasks.

Su Ping could only guess that this was perhaps related to the Wen Birds’ low intelligence, while animals like cats and dogs were too independently minded?

It was like how he, though transcendent himself, could only make ordinary people think, “This Taoist is so handsome, his temperament is so good…”

Su Ping did ponder whether he could find some insects.

However, it seemed that the smaller the creature, the less likely it was to possess spirituality.

Even in the Immortal Cultivation World, let alone on Water Blue Star, he had never heard of insects with spirituality.

The Spiritual Worms in the hands of those cultivators skilled in bug manipulation were said to have been bred from generation to generation.

Whether the original Spiritual Worms were born naturally or created artificially, no one could say for sure.

Three days later.

Su Ping stopped in a small town near the border.

After trying out the local snacks, Su Ping, as usual, dispatched the Spiritual Rats, White and Grey, to start recruiting a rat pack.

White and Grey had been living the good life with Su Ping for a while; they were even able to train in the Pot Cave Heaven with the White Crane Child.

Their strength had increased at a rapid rate.

Now, White and Grey, with cultivation equivalent to a Second Layer Qi Cultivation Spiritual Beast, had greatly improved their ability and limits in controlling the rodent groups.

Under their guidance, the recruitment of the rat pack didn’t cause the massive upheaval it did before.

Squeak squeak squeak!

After recruiting a hundred rats with a fated connection to the Immortal Realm, with White standing up and squeaking a few times, a large group of rats scattered like a tide in a dense forest area.

White and Grey then skillfully began to enlighten those spiritually endowed rats and distributed food to pacify them.

After they had handled everything and the rats had dispersed,

Su Ping, through the connection between White and the rat pack, found out about some interesting events happening nearby.

On the outskirts of the town, the dispersed rat pack happened to pass through a farmhouse,

where there was a group of people engaged in an adult-only party.

These people were in a more and more disgusting frenzy, and Su Ping could tell at a glance that they were a lost cause, drug users beyond help.

However, what caught Su Ping’s attention was that as he sent White deeper into to get a clearer view, he discovered several long and short guns and a large number of matching bullets

hidden in the farmhouse’s closet and some secret compartments.

Clearly, these people were deeply problematic.

But no matter how deep the waters were, this was a world without transcendent beings.

After confirming that the farmhouse only had two working surveillance cameras at the main entrance and no other surveillance elsewhere,

the Spiritual Rats, White and Grey sprang into action, confiscating these people’s weapons.

Then, White sneaked out from behind a couch, observed for a bit, and quickly took action, snatching a smartphone that was left on a stool with its camera function on.

“Hmm?”

The bald man, slumped on the couch and inebriated, squinted his eyes and murmured, but then feeling like his eyes were playing tricks on him, laid back down and resumed snoring.

Having acquired the phone, White promptly turned off the camera function and started composing a text message to send to all the enforcement agencies in the area that could be found online.

And… feeling that wasn’t persuasive enough, White also sent a clip of footage previously recorded by the phone.

After doing all this, White, who had run out of the farmhouse, crunched the commendable phone to pieces and buried it in the forest soil before turning to leave…

quietly, without leaving a single cloud behind!