Journey to the Cultivation World

Hearing this, Lin Dayou repeatedly shook his head:

"If you go along, I'll be even more worried! No, no, don't go and cause trouble."

Being rejected so mercilessly, Mo Yuanjiao had no choice but to turn his expectant gaze to Lin Xiao. Who knew he would see him trying to hold back his laughter as he said:

"Well, Yuanjiao, I think it's better for you to stay in the sect and cultivate properly for now. Look, you are already at the third level of Qi Refining. Wouldn't it be great to strike while the iron is hot and push straight to the fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth level in one breath! This time I'm just going over to scout the way. Next time there's a chance, I'll take all of you who want to go out to play together."

Over this period, staying inside the sect and spending every day either cultivating or learning the Four Arts of Cultivation, Mo Yuanjiao's cultivation base had rapidly surged to the third level of Qi Refining. Moreover, Lin Xiao could tell that it wouldn't be long before he reached the fourth level.

Therefore, Lin Xiao genuinely hoped he would seize the time to continue cultivating and reach Foundation Establishment as soon as possible.

Only when the disciples within the sect became strong would their sect be considered truly powerful.

Furthermore, for this trip to the cultivation world, Lin Xiao had originally planned for only himself and Liao Pantu to go. He had no intention of bringing anyone else.

Although he would occasionally get a glimpse of it from Senior Liao's words on ordinary days, he had never actually been there, and his understanding of the specific situation in the cultivation world was very vague.

Thus, he was unwilling to take the other disciples on an adventure when he was completely ignorant of the situation.

After eating and drinking his fill, Lin Xiao once again instructed everyone to cultivate diligently and to practice skills like artifact refining and talisman crafting more during their free time.

Not long after chatting, Lin Xiao took the lead to leave the banquet.

There was no helping it; he still had a lot of preparation work left unfinished.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

This was the departure date set by Lin Xiao.

During these past five days, Liao Pantu had practically squatted in the spirit stone mine digging day and night. He had even developed a knack for it. Now, he could perfectly grasp the optimal balance between recovering his stamina and mining, achieving the maximum number of spirit stones mined per unit of time.

As of early this morning, he had mined over fifty thousand spirit stones in total.

From his soul body, he picked out an idle storage ring of moderate size that could just fit these fifty thousand-plus spirit stones, and handed it to Lin Xiao.

Looking at the storage ring in his hand, Lin Xiao felt a sense of novelty.

So storage rings actually existed.

Under Liao Pantu's guidance, he dripped blood on the storage ring to bind it as its master.

This was the difference between ordinary storage bags and these relatively high-level storage items.

Ordinary storage bags did not have a master-binding function; even a mortal could open them. They were the lowest level of storage tools in the cultivation world.

The storage bags Lin Xiao synthesized using ordinary fabric and spirit stones through the Item Synthesizer were the same.

Moreover, although theoretically it seemed that the size of the fabric used would dictate the space of the resulting storage bag, this was not the case in reality.

Regarding this point, Lin Xiao had consulted the system. The system's reply was that even if larger fabric was put in, the number of spatial folding layers would also increase. An increase in spatial folding layers meant more spatial loss. Therefore, while putting in larger fabric could yield a larger space, it was not a one-to-one ratio. Instead, the larger the fabric, the more the increased space would actually experience diminishing returns.

Thus, Lin Xiao never gathered a massive pile of fabric just to make a slightly larger storage bag; instead, he always went for quantity.

But a higher-level storage item like the storage ring Liao Pantu gave him required dripping blood to bind it to a master before it could be used. Furthermore, apart from the master's divine sense, no one else could open it.

After Lin Xiao dripped his blood to bind the storage ring, he felt that his divine sense could control the opening and closing of the ring.

This made him find it very interesting.

However, seeing that the sun had already poked half its head over the mountain, and the people of the Lingxian Sect had all gone up the mountain to wait in front of the sect hall to see him off, he didn't delay any further. After encouraging everyone once again to cultivate diligently, he took out a pitch-black, peach-blossom-shaped jade pendant from his private storehouse and handed it to Liao Pantu, saying:

"Senior Liao, try this Soul Nourishing Pendant."

He had recently synthesized this using Soul Nourishing Wood in the Item Synthesizer. The Encyclopedia of Basic Artifact Refining Techniques did not record how to refine a Soul Nourishing Pendant, and as a novice in artifact refining, Lin Xiao naturally lacked the ability to figure out how to refine it himself. Thus, he naturally tried using the Item Synthesizer.

Of course, this Soul Nourishing Pendant couldn't have been made without the generous sponsorship of the Ten-Mile Peach Tree.

Lin Xiao originally wanted to use a peach branch, but he suddenly remembered that peach branches warded off evil. Would that be unfriendly to a soul body? So he didn't dare to use a peach branch and only picked a peach blossom.

Liao Pantu took the pitch-black Soul Nourishing Pendant, drilled into it, and thus moved from that massive piece of Soul Nourishing Wood into this Soul Nourishing Pendant.

He controlled the Soul Nourishing Pendant to float in the air, feeling quite satisfied in his heart.

This thing was finally unlike that clumsy Soul Nourishing Wood, which forced him to use his soul body to prop it up to move. It could be controlled to float in the air and move around freely. It was extremely convenient!

If he had known earlier, he would have had this kid get him one sooner...

The surrounding crowd watched with their own eyes as Senior Liao, whom they had finally gotten used to looking at, suddenly drilled out of that block of black wood and into the pitch-black jade pendant. They couldn't help but feel amazed, staring intently at the jade pendant. Liu Yunan even struck up a conversation with him:

"Senior Liao, can you still speak like this? Can you still move?"

Liao - Black Jade Pendant - Pantu let out a light cough, then controlled the jade pendant to sway in the air, even flying over to Liu Yunan to spin in a circle.

The crowd found it highly amusing to watch. Tietou asked again:

"Senior, then can you still manifest your form? Will we still be able to see what you look like in the future?"

The next second, everyone saw a figure slowly drop out from within the pitch-black jade pendant.

The translucent Liao Pantu appeared in front of everyone with that pitch-black jade pendant resting on top of his forehead.

Seeing this, the spectating sect disciples couldn't help but burst into applause.

Lin Xiao shook his head and smiled. This Senior Liao really didn't act like an elder who was over five hundred years old.

He then took out the Heaven and Earth Transfer Array Disk from his private storehouse and handed it over. Using his divine sense, he also opened the storage ring full of spirit stones and handed it to him, saying:

"Senior Liao, we need to set off quickly. This is the Heaven and Earth Transfer Array, you use it. Try to choose a sparsely populated and convenient location to teleport to. Here are the spirit stones for you."

Liao Pantu did not stand on ceremony. He took the storage ring and the array disk. After placing the array disk on the ground, he casually pulled out two thousand spirit stones from the storage ring and tossed them all at once into the array disk.

As soon as the spirit stones touched the groove in the very center of the array disk, they disappeared, absorbed by the array disk.

Seeing him act so extravagantly, Lin Xiao's heart twitched.

This was two thousand spirit stones!

But on second thought, since this teleportation array would always be used anyway, whatever wasn't used up would be stored inside and wouldn't go to waste. With that, he felt relieved again.

Once the spirit stones were set in place, the formation disk on the ground emitted a dazzling burst of light. The crowd then watched as an intricately complex, glowing formation pattern unfurled from within the disk, spreading across the ground to cover an area roughly three meters in diameter.