Cultivation starts from devouring the Dao fruits

"Mission accomplished! It was a success, and it's a high-quality Golden Core Pill at that!"

Zhao Yu smiled faintly, took out a jade box and opened it. Inside the box, a pill as clear as jade was nestled, emitting a pale green Spiritual Light.

"Amazing! Master Zhao, I can't thank you enough! This is a Jiaolong inner core, please accept it!"

The Shiyang Hermit was ecstatic, his trembling hands lifted the jade box. After a careful inspection, he closed the lid, affixed a Spirit Talisman, and then took out another jade box to hand to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu received the jade box, and after inspecting it, his face showed a hint of satisfaction as he stored it away.

With a hearty laugh, the Shiyang Hermit turned to leave, "From this day forward, you are the best friend of this Shiyang Hermit! I have urgent matters to attend to, so I must be off. Next time, you must visit my new Shiyang City. I will entertain you well!"

The Shiyang Hermit truly seemed to be a good person through and through! What a pity that if he were a villain, the White Ghost Emperor could have made a move.

Zhao Yu watched the Shiyang Hermit's departing figure with eyes brimming with gratification and a touch of regret.

Although the Shiyang Hermit was a top-notch Foundation Establishment Cultivator, renowned as the strongest below the Golden Core cultivators of the Northern Desolation, he would be no match for the White Ghost Emperor here in Little Dan Ridge.

"However, this alchemy session was a huge win!"

The corners of Zhao Yu's mouth lifted slightly, and with a flip of his hand, two jade boxes appeared. Inside them lay a high-quality Wood Attribute Golden Core Pill and an ordinary-quality Wood Attribute Golden Core Pill, respectively.

Even though these were merely Wood Attribute Golden Core Pills, their value in the Northern Desolation was inestimable. Those Wood Attribute Foundation Establishment Cultivators would go crazy for them.

Zhao Yu continued to lead a peaceful cultivation life. Whenever he felt the monotony of cultivation, he would go out with Shangguan Lingxiu, Tuoba Xue, and Wei Xinlan for a refreshing excursion.

Four months later, in a spiritual peach garden in Little Dan Ridge, the peach blossoms were in full bloom, the scent charming, creating a picturesque scene.

At the best spot in the peach garden, a spacious carpet was spread out. Zhao Yu was lying on the carpet, his head resting on Shangguan Lingxiu's thighs.

Wei Xinlan was tenderly massaging Zhao Yu's legs with a smiling face, while Tuoba Xue prepared small slices of Spirit Fruits, skewering them before feeding them to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu sighed contentedly, "Life is truly blissful; I could live for another hundred thousand years without growing tired of this!"

Shangguan Lingxiu smiled tenderly, "It's indeed wonderful, but life is short. Even Golden Core ancestors only live to six hundred. But every day I can spend with my husband is a treasure to me!"

When Shangguan Lingxiu first agreed to marry on her master's behalf, she thought she would live a miserable life: after all, she was marrying a cultivator who frequented the Hundred Flowers Building. However, after the marriage, she found life to be very comfortable.

Not only did her husband help her to successfully advance to Foundation Establishment, but he was also handsome, did not gamble, did not indulge in hallucinatory pills, and treated her with utmost respect and love.

Shangguan Lingxiu was very satisfied with her current life. Although Tuoba Xue and Wei Xinlan were now also by Zhao Yu's side, she had long accepted Zhao Yu's flirtatious nature. As long as he didn't frequent the Hundred Flowers Building or become bewitched by the enchantresses of the Thousand Mysteries Sect, she was content.

"Lingxiu!"

Zhao Yu's heart warmed, and he sat up abruptly to embrace Shangguan Lingxiu's slender waist.

Shangguan Lingxiu's face flushed with a touch of red, and she bit her silver teeth and gently pushed Zhao Yu away, "My lord, this is a garden! Xue'er and Xinlan are here!"

Tuoba Xue and Wei Xinlan both chuckled softly to the side.

"My lord, this is a letter from the new Shiyang City!"

Cui Lihua arrived at the Peach Blossom Garden and handed a letter to Zhao Yu.

After carefully reading the letter, Zhao Yu's eyebrows slightly furrowed as he fell into deep contemplation.

Tuoba Xue asked curiously, "Master, what happened?"

Zhao Yu said slowly, "A Shiyang itinerant cultivator has advanced to the Golden Core stage. He has invited me to attend his Golden Core ceremony in the new Shiyang City."

Tuoba Xue said curiously, "That's good news, isn't it? It shows that the Master is highly regarded by the Golden Core ancestors. There aren't many Foundation Establishment cultivators in the entire Northern Desolation honored by Golden Core ancestors."

Shangguan Lingxiu smiled gracefully and said, "Husband must be worried that going to the new Shiyang City will attract trouble! The Golden Core ancestor's ceremony will surely invite countless cultivators to attend, and Husband is concerned about conflicts with other cultivators."

The master's actions are, perhaps, not so much timid, no, rather too cautious.

Tuoba Xue glanced at Zhao Yu somewhat oddly.

Zhao Yu laughed lightly and said, "That's right, and so, Lingxiu, this time to the new Shiyang City, I must go alone."

Shangguan Lingxiu nodded slightly and said, "I understand!"

A month later, an Escape Light descended into the sky above new Shiyang City, revealing Zhao Yu's form.

Zhao Yu looked around and saw streams of Escape Light flying from all directions, descending in front of the city gates of new Shiyang City, entering through the gates.

Next to new Shiyang City sat sixteen mortal cities which had also become quite prosperous. The mortals living in those sixteen cities were mostly the descendants of mortals and cultivators who had previously lived around Shiyang City.

Zhao Yu inwardly praised, "To carve out such a magnificent city within the Canglong mountain range in such a short time is indeed worthy of Shiyang City."

In addition to the Shiyang hermit, Shiyang City housed several Foundation Establishment cultivators, as well as a large number of Qi Refinement cultivators, having an immensely deep foundation that allowed them to establish such a grand city and sixteen mortal cities within the Canglong range so quickly.

"There's also the Hundred Flowers Building, the Thousand Mysteries Sect is truly formidable! They're everywhere!" he mused to himself after passing through a street and catching sight of the imposing and luxuriously expansive Hundred Flowers Building not far away.

In important Immortal Cities and Markets across the four nations, there would almost always be branches of the Hundred Flowers Building because the enchantresses of the Thousand Mysteries Sect had strong powers of seduction, and the Hundred Flowers Building would pay a large amount of Spirit Stones to the markets and Immortal Cities.

For the sake of Spirit Stones, the major powers would turn a blind eye.

The Thousand Mysteries Sect would also cultivate many outstanding female disciples to offer to the other three major sects as beautiful concubines and servant girls.

Apart from the Dan Ling Sect's Colorful Fairy who detested the Thousand Mysteries Sect, the Beast Taming Sect and the Cang Ling Sect had fairly good relations with it. Many Foundation Establishment cultivators from Beast Taming Sect and Cang Ling Sect owned beautiful concubines and servant girls cultivated by the Thousand Mysteries Sect.

"Greetings, Uncle-Master Zhao!"

A voice rang out from behind, and Zhao Yu turned to see not far behind him, the younger sister of Shangguan Lingxiu, Fang Lingdie, and Wu Wan, along with a young beauty wearing a goose-yellow silk dress, with a graceful figure, skin white as jade, and a beautiful appearance, appearing and bowing to him.

After the three beauties bowed, their gazes fell onto the signboard of the Hundred Flowers Building nearby, and a hint of a peculiar expression flashed across their eyes.

He wants to enter the Hundred Flowers Building, he really is a lecherous man. However, if one disregards this flaw, he truly is not bad.

A trace of contempt followed by surging warmth flickered in Fang Lingdie's eyes.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om