The Heart's Journey

Since he was already a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator, he entered the meditative state exceptionally fast.

Before long, he opened his eyes in profound shock.

Although this cultivation method gave him a somewhat strange sensation in his lower body, setting aside that trivial oddity, the cultivation effect alone was more than ten times faster than his current method!

Furthermore, the spiritual energy density in this cultivation room was at least double that of the outside!

While a doubled spiritual energy density didn't necessarily mean their cultivation speed would double, it was an undeniable fact that denser spiritual energy would accelerate their progress.

For this cultivation room to have such a higher density of spiritual energy compared to the already rich environment outside, it must have something special about it.

With this realization, Liu Chun felt a bit more reassured about the longevity of this small sect.

On Lin Xiao's side, after Baldy finished reporting the recent major and minor affairs within the sect, he started to get to work.

He was going to start building their sect's Path of Heart-Questioning!

Regarding the Path of Heart-Questioning, Lin Xiao actually didn't have any concrete ideas.

But since he had the raw materials and the Item Synthesizer, the problem was essentially more than half solved.

The only thing he needed to consider was that he might need to first conceptualize the details of this Path of Heart-Questioning in his mind.

He instructed Baldy that once everyone finished cultivating, they could go dig a pond.

Then he sent Baldy off to cultivate.

Meanwhile, he himself arrived at the mountain trail entrance near the Ten-Mile Peach Blossom Tree.

He had thought it over: since it was their sect's Path of Heart-Questioning, he might as well set it on the path up the mountain.

From now on, anyone climbing the mountain would have to pass through this Path of Heart-Questioning.

If the Path of Heart-Questioning had some interception function, it could prevent many scoundrels from coming up to pry.

Thus, sitting beneath the peach blossom tree, Lin Xiao finalized his thoughts and opened the Item Synthesizer.

Because of his many previous experiments, he was quite confident in the output of this Item Synthesizer.

So, without hesitation, he tossed the entire Heart-Questioning Stone from his private storage into it.

Then, he threw in a hundred spirit stones.

Don't be fooled by his apparent generosity in putting in a hundred spirit stones; he only did it begrudgingly as a precaution, not wanting the Heart-Questioning Stone, which was worth over a thousand spirit stones, to go down the drain.

Afterwards, just to be safe, he snapped a peach branch with a few blooming peach blossoms from above his head and placed it into the Item Synthesizer as well.

While doing all this, he kept muttering Path of Heart-Questioning, Path of Heart-Questioning in his heart.

Once everything was put in, the Item Synthesizer closed and began to synthesize the item.

The synthesis took a bit longer this time.

But Lin Xiao didn't mind. After all, excluding the peach branch, the synthesis cost was over a thousand spirit stones. Good things always took a little longer to be born.

After a long while.

Accompanied by a ding from the system indicating successful synthesis, Lin Xiao immediately opened his private storage with great anticipation.

He saw that at the end of the newly added items in his private storage was something resembling a carpet covered in peach blossom petals.

Lin Xiao decisively used the appraisal function on it.

[Ten-Mile Path of Heart-Questioning: Can discern the hearts of those who step upon it. After the user claims ownership by branding it with their divine sense, they can set the parameters for character evaluation. The Ten-Mile Path of Heart-Questioning will screen individuals based on the user's settings. Intruders who do not meet the requirements will be sent back to the entrance by the Path and forbidden from advancing.

The user can lay it on any ground surface, and the Ten-Mile Path of Heart-Questioning will automatically generate a road.]

After reading the appraisal details, Lin Xiao took the Ten-Mile Path of Heart-Questioning out of his private storage.

Held in Lin Xiao's hands, the Ten-Mile Path of Heart-Questioning was a thin roll, much like a carpet.

It wasn't wide, roughly about 1.2 or 1.3 meters in width.

As for its length, that was unknown, but looking at the number of layers in the roll, it didn't seem very long either.

Lin Xiao looked at the Path of Heart-Questioning in his hands with considerable novelty.

Throwing in a large, dusty gray stone along with a peach branch had actually transformed them into a soft pink carpet covered in peach petals.

He thought of the appraisal details he had just read.

So, he connected his divine sense to this Ten-Mile Path of Heart-Questioning.

And then, he imprinted it with his divine sense brand.

He immediately felt as if he had established a subtle connection with the Path of Heart-Questioning.

Through this connection, he could modify the character screening parameters of the Path.

But he wasn't in a rush to modify them.

Looking at the carpet in his hands, he hesitated a bit.

He wondered if it would still look like this once the carpet was rolled out.

Therefore, Lin Xiao immediately laid out the Ten-Mile Path of Heart-Questioning from the mountain trail entrance, unrolling it along the path leading down the mountain.

The moment Lin Xiao unrolled the carpet toward the mountain trail, it suddenly became transparent and then draped over the entire trail.

Following the mountain trail, it covered all the way down to the entrance at the foot of the mountain, not far from Sun Yigao's private school.

The next moment, this entire mountain trail suddenly began to change.

The originally potholed and uneven mountain path, a mix of rocks and dirt, seemed to come alive, transforming into neat flights of bluestone steps.

And on both sides of what was once a narrow and messy trail, peach trees sprouted up in the blink of an eye.

Furthermore, every peach tree was laden with blooming peach blossoms in full glory.

As a gentle breeze blew past, it carried away pink petals from these peach trees, letting them fall softly onto the neat bluestone steps.

Before long, they blanketed the entire mountain trail.

Yet, the petals on the peach trees lining the trail didn't seem to lessen at all.

Upon the green mountain, a bluestone stairway paved with peach blossoms and lined with peach trees wound its way through, its fragrance filling the entire mountain.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao was greatly shocked.

It was truly, too beautiful.

The fresh fragrance of these peach blossoms wafted into his face, keeping company with the Ten-Mile Peach Blossom Tree behind him, recklessly spreading throughout this mountain forest and even extending toward the foot of the mountain.

Lin Xiao took a deep, satisfied breath.

Whenever moments like this occurred, he felt from the bottom of his heart that cultivating immortality was truly wonderful.

Because of cultivation, he was able to have these incredibly novel and wondrous experiences.

To witness the different, fantastical sceneries of this world.

Inside the private school at the foot of the mountain.

Sun Yigao was earnestly teaching the children sitting upright and attentively below him.

Some children, because it was their first time studying, were not used to sitting so formally to listen to lectures, and their brains had already turned a bit to mush.

However, right at this moment, a burst of fresh fragrance suddenly blew in from outside the window.

Sun Yigao and the listening children in the private school all smelled it.

In just an instant, everyone's minds became incredibly clear.

And their moods and states of mind all improved.

Sun Yigao keenly noticed this subtle change in his students.