"So, starting from today, you and I won't bother each other. You be your Immortal Fairy, and I'll Cultivate my medicinal field, right?"
Hope appeared in Han Feng's eyes.
As long as it doesn't affect my slacking off, you can do whatever you want.
However, Jiang Surou said,
"It can't be considered not bothering each other. I used you as a shield and indeed caused you trouble. You should Cultivate diligently. After you open your Spiritual Connection, you can come find me for Double Cultivation once every ten days. This will be beneficial for both our cultivation. Additionally, if Ye Longyuan causes you trouble, you can tell me, and I will deal with him. These are the Spirit Stones given by the Elder as a reward. We each get ten, and I'll give them all to you."
Jiang Surou threw a storage bag to Han Feng, then directly flew away on her sword.
Diligently? Double Cultivation?
Those words sound so troublesome.
Han Feng held the storage bag, sighed, returned to his medicinal garden, and continued tending to the herbs.
After Jiang Surou returned to her residence, she surrounded herself with Spirit Stones. This time, she was going to break through to Cultivation Level Seven.
Han Feng held the cold ice dagger in his hand. This dagger was quite useful. After cutting down mature herbs, it could freeze the cut ends, preventing the medicinal properties from being lost.
Han Feng quite liked it.
When night fell, Han Feng returned to his residence. It was a double room, also occupied by his good buddy Wang Mian, but Wang Mian hadn't returned yet. He was probably doing intimate things with his little Dao Companion.
Han Feng placed the dagger by the head of the bed. Just as he was about to take off his clothes to sleep, a surge of majestic spiritual energy suddenly appeared within his body.
【Han Feng's Dao Companion Jiang Surou has broken through from Qi Training Stage Level Six to Level Seven. The blessing returns ten times the increase in cultivation gained by the Dao Companion's Breakthrough.】
The spiritual energy within Han Feng's body continuously increased. In great surprise, he quickly sat cross-legged, circulated his energy according to the Cultivation Technique he had learned before, and mobilized the spiritual energy to Cultivate.
He had to Cultivate. With such vast spiritual energy, if it wasn't guided, he was afraid he might directly explode and die.
Soon, Han Feng's spiritual meridians were cleared, and a Spiritual Root appeared within his Dantian, shining brightly and extremely pure.
【Han Feng has cleared his spiritual meridians and activated his Spiritual Root. It is a mutated Heavenly Grade Spiritual Root, the Wind Spiritual Root!】
Han Feng entered Qi Training Stage Level One.
But this wasn't over. His cultivation was still continuously breaking through.
Qi Training Stage Level One,
Qi Training Stage Level Two,
Level Three...
Within just one hour, Han Feng's cultivation broke through to the Peak of Qi Training Stage Level Seven.
In the Qi Training Stage, the cultivation of each level is more profound than the previous one. However, what Han Feng gained was only ten times the increase in cultivation Jiang Surou obtained by breaking through from Qi Training Level Six to Level Seven, not ten times the entire cultivation from Level One to Seven.
The increased portion multiplied by ten directly raised Han Feng's cultivation from zero to the Peak of Level Seven.
Is this... the feeling of having spiritual energy?
Han Feng felt the power within his body, and then suddenly remembered that he now had spiritual energy and could open the storage bag.
He quickly dripped blood on the storage bag to make it his master, picked it up, and after opening it, saw the twenty Spirit Stones inside.
He took out a Spirit Stone, wanting to absorb the spiritual energy within it, but couldn't absorb even a bit.
It seemed he was indeed still a good-for-nothing who couldn't Cultivate, even though he had a Spiritual Root.
At this moment, a voice came from his mind again.
【You are only unable to improve your cultivation yourself. You need to rely on your Dao Companion's improvement to improve. Currently, your spiritual energy is saturated, and you cannot absorb spiritual energy. You need to consume it before you can absorb more, but after saturation, you still cannot absorb it.】
Upon hearing this, Han Feng understood. His cultivation Realm was like a container, and spiritual energy was the water inside. The water could be poured out and refilled, but he couldn't expand the container by himself to hold more water.
Just then, a sinister voice suddenly came from outside,
"Is Junior Brother Han home?"
Hearing this, Han Feng's eyes narrowed, and he asked,
"Is that Gang Leader Ma?"
"Yes, it's me. Junior Brother, come out for a moment. I need to talk to you."
This Ma Laoda was the manager of the medicinal gardens in their area, considered Han Feng's immediate superior. He was at Qi Training Level Four, treacherous and vicious, often exploiting those below him. Han Feng had also been bullied by him before.
Han Feng kept his wits about him, hid the dagger at his back, and walked outside.
Opening the door, he saw that familiar long face, which looked like a horse's face.
"Gang Leader Ma, what do you need me for?"
Ma Laoda said with a fake smile,
"Congratulations, Junior Brother Han! You actually became Dao Companions with our Luoxia Peak's Senior Sister Jiang today. It's truly enviable! It seems your rise to prominence is just around the corner. After successfully holding hands, you also got Spirit Stones, didn't you?"
"Does Gang Leader Ma want my Spirit Stones?"
Han Feng's eyes narrowed slightly.
However, Ma Laoda shook his head and slowly said,
"No, I don't just want your Spirit Stones, I want your life. You still don't know who you offended today, do you? Anyway, you're going to die, so there's no harm in telling you. The one you offended today is the Young Master of the Ye Family, Ye Longyuan. Do you know how powerful the Ye Family is? They have Core Formation experts! They can crush you with just one finger. Tell me, you, a good-for-nothing who can't Cultivate, why would you go and offend their family at such an unfortunate time?"
"So, Ye Longyuan sent you to kill me?"
"No, no, no. Elder Brother Ye said to torture you properly, first cripple your Yang Root so you become an eunuch. Aren't you Senior Sister Jiang's Double Cultivation Dao Companion? Then I'll make sure you can see but never taste for the rest of your life. Then I'll break your legs and slowly torture you. But I'm afraid you'll complain to the Elder, and I'll be unlucky again. So, I can only tell Young Master Ye that you struggled fiercely, and I accidentally beat you to death. Do you understand?"
"I understand."
Han Feng nodded, and at the same time sighed in his heart.
Alas, he just wanted to continue slacking off. Why was it so difficult?
Ma Laoda let out a sinister laugh and struck a palm towards Han Feng.
Han Feng also knew that if he didn't want to die, he had to kill the other party.
He mobilized the spiritual energy within his body, drew the dagger in his hand, and poured spiritual energy into the cold ice dagger. In an instant, an extremely low temperature appeared, and Ma Laoda felt his movements become sluggish.
In his eyes, Han Feng was as fast as a gust of wind, reaching him in the blink of an eye.
The Wind Spirit Root was naturally skilled in speed. Coupled with Han Feng's strength being far superior to his, he naturally didn't have time to defend.
Then, Ma Laoda felt a pain in his chest. Looking down, a dagger had completely plunged into his chest.
"You... how could you... Aren't you... a good-for-nothing?"
Ma Laoda spat out fresh blood and looked at Han Feng in disbelief.
Han Feng pulled out the dagger and said calmly,
"Yes, I'm a good-for-nothing, but I'm a good-for-nothing at Qi Training Stage Level Seven, while you are a good-for-nothing who only reached Qi Training Stage Level Four at over thirty years old."
Han Feng wasn't smug. Without the Marriage Blessing, he wouldn't even be as good as Ma Laoda when he was over thirty.
Ma Laoda collapsed powerlessly, his eyes wide, dying on the spot.
Han Feng sighed, got up, picked up a shovel, dug a deep pit in the medicinal garden, threw Ma Laoda's corpse into it, burned the clothes separately, then buried the pit, planted medicinal herbs on top, and destroyed all traces of the body.
He wasn't worried about being discovered. Ma Laoda's Dao Companion had already left him ten years ago, disliking his poor Aptitude and running off with someone else. No one would care about a Disciple at Qi Training Stage Level Four.
Except for Ye Longyuan.