Rapid Development

Once Xu Yunxin has leveled up his Druid class and acquired a few more skills, he will return to the Xu family in Wancheng with Uncle Fu.

This time, he planned to take Xiaoqing to meet the clan leader Xu Shimao, to communicate with the only Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Xu family, and to ask for some support.

Judging from the fact that he was exiled to the Thousand Lakes Wilderness, although Xu Shimao didn't care much about family affairs, he was still very clear-headed and didn't favor his first wife or let her do whatever she wanted.

Although Xu Yunxin is only a member of the Xu family by marriage, he still has the blood of the Xu family flowing through his veins. His cultivation has reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, and he has also contracted with Xiaoqing, a second-tier high-grade spirit beast. This time, his return home can definitely be considered a triumphant homecoming, and he will surely be valued by his grandfather, Xu Shimao!

As long as Xu Shimao attaches great importance to it, he can use the Xu family's resources to find spirit beasts.

The Xu family is, after all, a large family that specializes in the path of Qiling.

Its strength and influence are firmly among the top three in Wancheng.

With the Xu family's help in searching for spirit beasts, or by providing him with information on rare spirit beasts, it would be much more convenient than if he searched for them himself!

Xu Yunxin already had an idea for the second spirit beast he would contract, and he was just waiting to go back and see if there was a suitable one.

"I wonder if a newly contracted spirit beast can share another innate spell?"

The more you think about something beautiful, the more beautiful it seems, but you must start by doing it in a down-to-earth way.

The next morning, Xu Yunxin first nourished "Golden Sunflower" and then went up Qifeng Mountain to take care of "Green Jade Ginseng" and "Jade Bowl Lotus".

After being nurtured continuously for some time, the "Green Jade Ginseng" has grown a little taller, and the lotus flower of the "Jade Bowl Lotus" is already showing signs of wilting. In a few more days, the lotus seeds in the lotus pod will be fully grown.

Xu Yunxin picked the nearly withered lotus petals from the "Jade Bowl Lotus" to prepare a "Lotus Spirit Rice Porridge" for lunch.

Due to his amazing culinary skills, at the strong request of three of the four elders of Qingxi Town and Xiaoqing, he was promoted to the position of "Head Chef," responsible for preparing a sumptuous spiritual food for everyone every day.

Xu Yunxin is not at all averse to cooking; on the contrary, he enjoys it quite a bit.

It's rare to have time, so I'll treat myself to something delicious and watch others being filled with the food I've made. It's a rare pastime to while away the leisure time.

The saplings on the third peak of Qifeng Mountain have grown to a considerable size and are ready for planting.

That morning, Uncle Fu organized some villagers to go up the mountain and dig tree pits along the Qingxi River.

Xu Yunxin plans to plant these saplings along the Qingxi River. With the nourishment of the river water and his occasional care, the saplings are basically guaranteed to survive.

With these saplings as seeds, and after several more rounds of planting, this barren land can be transformed into a small oasis.

The townspeople can handle the planting of the saplings themselves; he only needs to come back and nurture them once after they've been planted.

After descending from Qifeng Mountain, Xu Yunxin began preparing lunch.

After lunch was ready, Yue's two daughters and Uncle Fu, who had been busy outside, also returned.

Xu Yunxin's "Lotus Spirit Rice Porridge" once again received unanimous praise.

Yue Yinping and Yue Shaohua loved it so much that they drank several bowls.

In the past two days, Yue Yinping has led the town soldiers to clean up the collapsed town wall and rebuild a new wall with the broken bricks and stones.

Xu Yunxin went to see it and said that although it was a new wall, it didn't really have much protective function. But these were the only resources the town had, so they had to make do with it.

On his way back to the Xu family, he planned to have a good talk with Lin Qingsheng when he passed through Shuangmu Town, to see if he could get some tall, fast-growing spirit trees to replace the town wall of Qingxi Town with spirit trees.

The two daughters of the Yue family and Uncle Fu all agreed with his idea.

After lunch, Uncle Fu and Yue Yinping went about their business, while Yue Shaohua excitedly took Xu Yunxin to watch her refine pills.

Yue Shaohua's alchemy room is located deep in the backyard of the Yue family mansion. It is a separate barrel-shaped building with a pointed roof.

Upon entering the alchemy room, in the center stands a large, pot-bellied alchemy furnace, taller than a person.

Beneath the furnace were eight toads with their mouths wide open, and beneath their bodies were dense, crimson array patterns.

Yue Shaohua was still refining the "Qingling Pill".

This pill is a low-grade first-tier healing pill with a certain effect of restoring spirit. It is quite popular among Qi Refining cultivators, and one bottle is worth five first-tier spirit stones.

Seeing that Xu Yunxin was ready.

Yue Shaohua made a hand seal and let out a soft shout.

He raised his hand and unleashed an orange-red magic spell.

The incantation was applied to the magic array beneath the central alchemy furnace, and simultaneously, a crimson line of fire shot out from the mouths of the eight large, open toads beneath the furnace.

The eight fire lines struck the large, round alchemy furnace in the center of the magic array simultaneously. The furnace trembled slightly, floated upwards, and gradually changed from iron-colored to crimson.

After the entire alchemy furnace turned crimson red, Yue Shaohua changed her incantation again, opened the lid of the furnace, and then put the spiritual herbs into the furnace in different orders for refining.

During this time, Yue Shaohua also kept changing his magic incantations, extinguishing or igniting the fire threads in the mouths of the eight toads, using different fire levels to refine the medicinal liquid.

Once all the medicinal liquids have been refined, they are combined together to form the final elixir.

Yue Shaohua had refined the "Qingling Pill" countless times, and his technique was already very skilled.

The pill-making process proceeded without any unexpected incidents. With her incantation, the flames in the mouths of the eight toads went out, and accompanied by a refreshing fragrance of pills, six cyan pills flew out of the furnace and were collected into a pill bottle by Yue Shaohua. The pills were thus successfully refined.

Yue Shaohua took the pill bottle in her hand, and then took out fourteen identical pill bottles from her storage bag and handed them to Xu Yunxin, saying, "Here, Young Master Xu, these are the 'Qingling Pills' I've been refining recently, a total of fifteen bottles. You can take them."

Xu Yunxin clapped and praised, then reached out and took the pill bottle, saying, "Shaohua, your alchemy skills are truly superb! Even I, a complete novice, am filled with admiration!"

Xu Yunxin, having received the elixir, naturally praised it enthusiastically. Yue Shaohua was also very pleased to hear this and excitedly wanted to teach Xu Yunxin how to refine elixirs.

Xu Yunxin was busy enough already, and he had no interest in alchemy, so he quickly made an excuse that he didn't know how to use fire magic, and that's how he managed to escape from Yue Shaohua's place.

After leaving the Yue residence, Xu Yunxin went to check on the red mushrooms. After nurturing all of them, it was already dark.

He then began traveling back and forth to Qifeng Mountain to nurture the spiritual rice.

Five days later, Xu Yunxin's Druid experience level once again exceeded one thousand, and his Druid class level was upgraded from LV6 to LV7.

Your Druid class has been upgraded!

You have gained a new extended skill: World Tree Blessing (Beasts)

Because you have always adhered to the principles of natural balance and cultivated things beneficial to heaven and earth, you have received nature's blessings!