“Forget it then!” Tian Yi gave up on the idea of snatching them up with some slight unhappiness. He looked at Shu Yi, then glanced at Zuo Shuming again and suddenly recalled, wasn’t this disciple the one he almost recruited into Dan Xia Mountain the other day? Seems like it was also because Shu Yi said something then that he changed his mind. His brows instantly knitted together as a doubt formed in his heart but Shu Yi was the daughter of a Nascent Soul Elder after all, he still did not voice anything out directly.

“Uncle-Master, how do you think these spirit herbs… should be harvested?” The Sect Master looked towards him inquiringly.

“The variant spirit herbs is of course different from other spirit herbs.” He conjured seals in both hands and set up several array formations around the spirit field. “I’ll use array formations to lock in the surrounding Spirit Qi to prevent it from dissipating, wait for me to go get the Spirit Locking Case.”

With that said, his figure flashed as he hurriedly flew back, a short while later, he flew back hugging a case. He then addressed the nervous crowd. “We can begin harvesting now. Don’t go too close, in case you affect the Spirit Qi of the spirit herbs.”

He then carefully walked towards a level two stem of red variant spirit herb right at the edge.

Zuo Shuming watched on as so many mighty cultivators all looked so nervous and could not help but turn back to look at Lonemoon and said in enlightenment, “Brother Lonemoon, no wonder you wouldn’t let me go close to these spirit herbs on usual days, turns out everything is so particular!”

Lonemoon: “…”

Um, I was just worried that the Heavenly Dao thought that you were the one who grew them.

About eight high-leveled cultivators surrounding the spirit field carefully dug for a long time before they finally dug out the entire root of the first stem of spirit herb. Lonemoon felt tired just watching them, it’s just pulling out a spirit herb, was there a need to be so cautious?

“Alright, it’s done.” Tian Yi then grabbed the spirit herb and pulled upwards with a small force, he then lifted it out and hurriedly place it into the Spirit Locking Case and was about to continue digging the next one.

Suddenly a strong wave of Spirit Qi burst out from the ground, the surrounding Spirit Qi that was initially pitifully thin instantly became tens of times richer, almost about to congeal into a substance, a white fog surrounded them, seeming like it was about to become immortal qi. A white light zoomed and leaped out of the ground, instantly disappearing.

“That was….a spirit vein!” The Sect Master instantly realized and exclaimed, “It’s a living spirit vein!”

“Give chase!” Tian Yi’s figure darted and he vanished in the direction of that white light.

The several Nascent Soul cultivators were one step behind as they gave chase too. In moments, only the Gui Yi Sect Master was left behind, he wanted to give chase too, but someone needed to watch over these spirit herbs. Intact living spirit veins have never emerged out of the earth’s surface so it was extremely rare to see one, not to mention catching it. The so-called spirit veins that every sect has are actually broken veins, just a part of a spirit vein, but the one earlier was a real, living, entire spirit vein!

No wonder so many variant spirit herbs would suddenly appear here, turns out it’s because there was an entire spirit vein hidden under the ground.

Lonemoon glanced at Chef from the corner of his eyes, what are you doing?

Yi Qing’s expression darkened and directly looked up to the sky. “What’s going on?” Told you to put it away properly!

Another voice filled with immense grievance sounded by their ears again.

” *sobs*…” It’s because that spirit vein curled up in this little spirit field for too long and fell asleep?

Don’t be angry Leader, I was wrong Leader!

Lonemoon: “…”

Psh, the Heavenly Dao of this plane was as unreliable as its owner. Taught by Shen Ying indeed, wastrel disciple!

In a house far away.

Shen Ying was sprawled out on the bed drowsily like a big pancake. “Ah-choo!” She lifted a hand to touch her own forehead, what’s going on? Had she caught a cold? Mm, it must be because she’s been eating too little that her immunity had weakened.

Say, when was Chef coming back to cook?

*****

The Sect Master grew increasingly anxious the more he waited on, seeing that everyone else had yet to return, he immediately had the thought of wanting to chase after them and have a look. He was about to call out to the few disciples to come guard the spirit field when the surrounding Spirit Qi suddenly turned violent and started to gather towards the left, he looked over subconsciously and saw that all the Spirit Qi was surrounding Zuo Shuming.

“Two-Bucks Zuo!” Lonemoon shouted and pushed him. “Stop dreaming!”

“Ah?” Zuo Shuming faltered, completely spacing out.

“You’re… about to enter the Foundation Establishment phase!” The Sect Master paused in his steps and glanced at him while reminding, “Quickly focus and sit down to meditate, enter Foundation Establishment in ease.”

He then reacted, hurriedly sitting down, he started to focus on absorbing the Spirit Qi, the surrounding Spirit Qi grew thicker and continuously surged into his meridians. Perhaps because he’d gotten used to being beaten up by Lonemoon in the past three months, he did not look to be in much agony and his absorption of the Spirit Qi was very smooth-sailing too.

The Gui Yi Sect Master nodded in satisfaction, though this disciple’s spirit root was slightly poorer, but his disposition was really not bad, if he was able to successfully enter Foundation Establishment this time, he might be a promising young man, hence he helped him to set up an array formation.

On the other hand, Shu Yi wore a look of disbelief at the side, looking even more upset. How could this be? She’d stopped him from entering Dan Xia Mountain, without pointers from the Supremacy, why was he still entering Foundation Establishment and this was two years faster than before. He’d achieved this in a mere three months, how was that possible? Could it be that her ruining his chances of entering Dan Xia Mountain had ended up contributing to his success?

Shu Yi was more enraged the more she thought about it, while deep down she was even more certain of the thought that he definitely had another opportunity, that’s right, he must have another artifact, otherwise it wouldn’t be this quick, it is absolutely so.

In moments, the few people left behind all wore various looks as they looked slightly nervously at Zuo Shuming. Only Gui Yi’s sect master was worried that his qualifications weren’t high and might end up failing, whereas Shu Yi was nervous that he would succeed.

Instead, Lonemoon was the relaxed one, not to mention that he had successfully ascended in his previous life, just in the three months where he had been guiding him, he had been pushing more Spirit Qi than needed for Foundation Establishment into him in his usual beatings, this would happen whether sooner or later.

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Tian Yi and the few other Nascent Soul Elders ultimately did not catch up to that spirit vein that escaped. Spirit veins could only be obtained by chance, not by force, although they were slightly disappointed, they weren’t too bothered. To have a spirit field full of variant spirit herbs were already delighting enough for them.

And Zuo Shuming had successfully entered Foundation Establishment, perhaps because he had a good foundation, he only meditated for a night and had already stabilized his cultivation. He gripped his own hands and excitedly conjured several spells, indeed after his cultivation advanced, the effect was completely different.

He walked out of the room in surprise, wanting to go next door to find Brother Lonemoon but saw him walk out of his room, he went forward immediately.

“Brother Lonemoon, you…” He paused midway as his eyes widened and directly blurted out, “You… you’ve entered Foundation Establishment too!”

“Mm.” Lonemoon nodded, not in the least bit bothered and said, “Yup!”

“…”

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