Level 2 Red-tailed Snake

The next morning, Xu Yunxin slowly opened his eyes, opened his mouth and exhaled a white mist about a foot long, which slowly dispersed into clouds like a white dragon emerging from the water.

Sunlight streamed in through the window, illuminating the clouds and creating golden hues, making Xu Yunxin, who sat upright on the futon, appear like an enlightened immortal.

Although they were surrounded by the glow of the setting sun and the mist of the night, the effects of their qi cultivation were not ideal.

His aptitude has now been improved by the Druid class's [Destiny: Natural Affinity], making his senses more acute and his affinity for spiritual energy greatly enhanced.

Logically speaking, his cultivation speed should be two to three times faster than before, but the effect of this cultivation is about the same as when he was cultivating in the Xu family.

Moreover, this was done while the "Spirit Gathering Array Plate" was in effect.

It seems that the word "wasteland" in "Thousand Lakes Wasteland" refers not only to the poor environment, but also to the severe desolation of spiritual energy here.

Although the energy cultivation effect was poor, a night of meditation was enough for him to clear his mind, calm down, and gradually adjust his pace for the next step.

After finishing his Qi cultivation, Xu Yunxin got up and stretched a bit before going to the mushroom room next door to check on the "red mushrooms" he was growing.

On the humus soil, rows of reddish-brown mushrooms, resembling bean sprouts, stand upright, each one growing very well.

Xu Yunxin used his spiritual energy to nurture the red mushrooms, and counted them; a total of 218 red mushrooms survived.

After nurturing the red mushroom, his Druid experience increased by 0.01, becoming [Class: Druid LV0 (1.04/100)]

The feedback was quite timely, and Xu Yunxin left the mushroom house satisfied.

At this time, the town lord's mansion in Qingxi Town had been renovated, the walls and houses had been repaired, and even the courtyard had been cleaned up.

Walking through the town, everyone, adults and children alike, would bow respectfully to him.

Perhaps because they had been eating scorpion meat these past two days, everyone looked much better, and their faces were filled with genuine, satisfied smiles.

Under the organization of Uncle Fu and Shao Hua, the townspeople cleaned up the empty houses in the town, demolished the dilapidated houses, and stored the wood and stone separately in preparation for repairing the village walls and building watchtowers and arrow towers.

Xu Yunxin watched as everyone worked enthusiastically, but they wouldn't let him help. He could only ask Uncle Fu for some tree seeds and a piece of translucent cloth, and then he left the town alone, heading towards Qifeng Mountain along the Qingxi River.

Uncle Fu gave two kinds of trees: one was red willow and the other was saxaul. The red willow seeds were very small, only a quarter the size of a sesame seed; the saxaul seeds were yellowish-brown and somewhat resembled wintersweet flowers.

As Xu Yunxin walked, he used his senses to examine the vitality of these seeds, removing the bad ones and keeping only the good ones to cultivate.

After climbing up Qifeng Mountain, he chose a sheltered spot close to a water source and dug into the mountain with a half-skill hoe. He dug out a half-person-high embedded earthen bed and then used a half-skill rake to loosen the soil and sift out all the stones.

Then go to the stream to fetch water, thoroughly water the loosened soil, and after it has absorbed most of the water, loosen it again with a rake to finish the job.

After preparing the land for the saplings, Xu Yunxin scattered the seeds on the seedbed and then used his spiritual energy to gently nurture them again, ensuring that most of the saplings received the blessing of the druid's spiritual energy.

After using his spiritual power, he left the pit and covered the entrance with the translucent cloth he had brought to reduce water evaporation and improve the survival rate of the seedlings.

After completing these steps, he checked the system again and found that his Druid experience had indeed increased by 0.01, becoming [Class: Druid LV0 (1.05/100)].

It feels great to receive real feedback for every little thing I do.

Xu Yunxin was in high spirits and started climbing up the mountain again.

He wasn't in a hurry and slowly climbed up. About 15 minutes later, he reached the top of the mountain and ascended to the highest point in the area.

The peaks of Qifeng Mountain are not majestic, but rather flatter. In addition, the seven peaks are connected together, and the area of ​​the summit is quite large, making it very suitable for building houses and serving as a temple.

Xu Yunxin walked along the ridge between the mountains, circling all seven peaks, and finally stopped at the summit of the third peak.

The third peak has the flattest summit, and in the very center of the summit is a large rock that has been polished very smooth by the wind.

Xu Yunxin walked to the rock and sat cross-legged, looking down at the distant wilderness, and suddenly felt that the world had become much wider.

As far as the eye could see, the sea of ​​clouds surged at the edge of the wilderness, and a red sun was about to disappear into the clouds, its golden rays piercing through the clouds and gilding the horizon with a layer of gold and red.

He took a deep breath, as if it were not inhaled into his lungs, but rather went straight to his dantian. His spiritual power surged out, drawing in the faint spiritual energy around him, which gathered towards him in wisps.

Under the call of heaven and earth, his mind became calm, and the spiritual energy within his body flowed slowly, with each breath resonating with the world around him.

His pores opened up, feeling an indescribable sense of comfort and clarity, as if his entire being was about to melt into this magnificent landscape and disappear at any moment.

This feeling lasted until the sun disappeared into the clouds and a silver moon appeared on the horizon.

Xu Yunxin belatedly stopped cultivating, and when he stood up again, his cultivation had quietly advanced to the second level of Qi Refining.

"call!"

Xu Yunxin let out a long sigh, savoring the last bit of feeling in his heart.

"Was that feeling just now something you experienced when you observed the world and felt something in your heart, using your own heart to understand the heart of heaven, and thus entered into enlightenment?"

"Everyone says that enlightenment is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I never thought that I, a concubine's son with only a C-grade aptitude, would have such a good opportunity."

"This shows that if you don't give up, heaven will not let you down!"

Xu Yunxin consciously attributed the credit for [Destiny: Natural Affinity] to himself, after all, this destiny was something he obtained by forging a strong bond with the spiritual plant and implanting it into the world tree species.

"Hiss—hiss!"

Suddenly a strange sound came from behind him. Xu Yunxin was startled and quickly jumped off the boulder.

When I turned around again, a large snake, about ten feet long, with a green body and a red tail tip, slowly slid up the rock, its tongue flicking.

This large snake had a pair of ruby-like eyes. It raised its head and stared straight at Xu Yunxin, as if it were sizing him up or assessing him.

Xu Yunxin's back was covered in cold sweat. Judging from the snake's size, it was at least a first-grade high-level demon beast. In addition, with its crimson tail, could it be a "Crimson-tailed Roaring Serpent"?

But didn't Yue Yinping say yesterday that the Crimson-Striped Serpent's body is earth-colored? How come this one is turquoise?

Could it be a second-tier "Red-tailed Roaring Serpent" that has already advanced?

Xu Yunxin thought about it more and more and it seemed more and more likely!

Second-tier demonic beasts are incredibly powerful, far beyond the capabilities of a mere cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining who has only just condensed their Qi!

To challenge a second-tier demonic beast, you need to be at least at the Foundation Establishment stage!

In other words, even if Xu Yunxin used the [Skill: Wild Transformation], he would still be no match for this second-tier "Red-tailed Roaring Serpent"!