Foundation Establishment Late Stage

The people of the Lingxian Sect were very reluctant to part with the versatile and good-natured Mo Yuanjiao, and they all spoke up to urge him to stay.

However, Mo Yuanjiao was determined, so everyone had no choice but to change their tune and tell him to come back soon.

Thus, after leaving behind a promise to return in a few months, Mo Yuanjiao took his guard Mo Que and temporarily left the Lingxian Sect, setting foot on the journey home.

Without Mo Yuanjiao, who would laugh heartily every time he learned a new array, pill, or talisman, the Lingxian Sect suddenly became much quieter.

Jiang Youfu's Lingxian Eatery served dishes punctually once every ten days, attracting an increasing number of tourists to Xiushui Village.

Moreover, as more people ate there, they gradually discovered that the dishes sold at the Lingxian Eatery were not only delicious but also seemed to be extremely beneficial to the body!

Previously, there was a solitary man who had recently been diagnosed with tuberculosis by a doctor. Feeling that his days were numbered, he thought about how he had worked hard to earn money his whole life only to end up with this fatal disease without enjoying any blessings.

He simply squandered all his wealth, scraping together a hundred taels to snatch a celestial meal here.

To his surprise, after eating and returning home, he found that he was no longer coughing or wheezing, and was completely fine!

At the time, he didn't quite believe it, so he ran to several clinics to see doctors, only to find that their answers were all the same: there was absolutely nothing wrong with his body.

There were even some wealthy families in nearby towns who were unwell and specially came to stay here just to line up early and snatch a celestial meal.

However, gradually, Tietou noticed that Jiang Youfu seemed a bit unhappy.

But recently Baldy was too busy, and he couldn't find anyone to talk to, so ignoring his own clumsiness with words, he went up and asked Jiang Youfu, who was staring blankly at the stove:

"Fuzi, what's on your mind lately? Why are you unhappy?"

Hearing the voice, Jiang Youfu snapped out of his daze. Seeing it was him, he didn't hide anything. He sighed and said to him:

"Tietou, tell me, are the dishes I sell at the foot of the mountain too expensive? A hundred taels, wealthy people can afford it, but commoners cannot..."

When those rich people get sick, they can spend a hundred taels, which doesn't hurt them at all, to line up here and buy a dish.

But when commoners who can barely make ends meet get sick, it is absolutely impossible for them to come up with so much money.

Hearing this, Tietou scratched his head, thought for a long time, and said:

"Otherwise, should we lower the price?"

Hearing this, Jiang Youfu puffed out his cheeks and said somewhat gloomily:

"I asked Senior Liao before, but Senior Liao asked me, how much of a reduction would be appropriate?"

"He said that the poverty in this world cannot be completely saved, nor can the suffering, so he told me it's best not to care too much about this matter, otherwise I will only trap myself."

Although he felt that Senior Liao seemed to be right, he still felt a bit uncomfortable in his heart.

Tietou beside him nodded and said:

"Senior Liao is right, that's the logic. When my dad goes out to work, he often comes back and tells me about the things he encounters outside. He often meets people who cry about their poverty and hardship to him, wanting him to help them do more work, or to share more of the credit with them.

But my dad told me that his current ability is only enough to feed our family, and he doesn't have the extra ability to care for outsiders. When his ability becomes especially great, then we can talk."

Hearing his words, Jiang Youfu still felt a bit awkward.

It seemed they weren't quite talking about the same thing.

But he couldn't put his finger on exactly what the problem was.

However, for some reason, he was miraculously comforted.

So he nodded and said to Tietou:

"You're right, my current ability is still too weak. It's not the time to consider these things. I need to cultivate hard like Brother Xiao. When my cultivation base rises high, I'll host a three-day and three-night continuous banquet for all the surrounding villages! Let everyone eat their fill, hehe."

While the entire Xiushui Village was busy entertaining guests from all directions and frantically harvesting grain, Lin Xiao was immersed in his cultivation at the Nature Platform.

A few months passed.

Now, his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, soaring from having just recently broken through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage all the way to the late-Foundation Establishment stage.

One must know that cultivation becomes harder the further up one goes.

Ever since he started his secluded cultivation a few months ago, doing nothing every day but cultivating, he discovered that cultivation was actually quite addictive!

Because previously he mostly relied on the system's built-in idle cultivation function and had never cultivated consistently by himself, he hadn't felt much about it before.

Now it was different.

Cultivating wholeheartedly every day, comprehending the mental cultivation method bit by bit.

As the mental cultivation method circulated, he felt the surrounding spiritual energy enter his body, roam through his meridians, nourish his body bit by bit, and finally turn into a trickling stream that gathered in his Dantian Qi Sea.

And gradually, he found that the spiritual energy in his body not only nourished his physical body but also soaked into his divine soul.

The reason he discovered this was that the spiritual energy, after soaking the soul, became somewhat different from before.

This made him feel it was very interesting.

Since he did nothing but cultivate every day, all his attention was on himself.

When he was focused, he especially liked to observe minute details.

Therefore, as the days of cultivation increased, he gradually discovered the differences.

The spiritual energy he absorbed and refined into his body would circulate through his body again and again, and finally fuse with a faint layer of something. Lin Xiao tentatively called this divine soul aura.

Because as his cultivation increased, this divine soul aura on the spiritual energy in his body would also deepen.

And the reason he knew this was related to his divine soul was that as this divine soul aura deepened, his control over the spiritual energy became increasingly smooth, and his sensitivity to this spiritual energy grew higher and higher.

As for why he believed the spiritual energy was soaking into his divine soul, it was because after each time, his divine soul would feel more relaxed and solid, giving him an inexplicable feeling of being nourished.

Although it wasn't very obvious, and this feeling could even be said to be extremely subtle.

This was probably the result of the interaction between the divine soul and spiritual energy.

To verify his thoughts, he frantically circulated his spiritual energy, enjoying himself immensely.

Because he discovered this subtle change, he felt that meditating and cultivating like this every day was not boring at all, and was even somewhat fun.

Lin Xiao had an intuition.

If he continued to cultivate like this, perhaps before long, this spiritual energy would thoroughly interact with his divine soul, leading to a qualitative leap.

Although he didn't know if this situation was common in normal cultivation, perhaps he could ask Senior Liao after he got out.

However, he had a favorable impression of this change in the spiritual energy.

He always felt that this kind of spiritual energy seemed to become closer and closer to him.

As such, Lin Xiao suddenly became increasingly confident in cultivating to the Golden Core stage.