Cultivation: The Heaven's Fated Useless Genius

Hou Yixiao, right in front of Gu Feng, hoisted the spy reeking of urine onto his shoulder.

The three of them rode the light back to the guest room at the Yong'an Imperial City residence.

Fortunately, they had the passage token given by the maid earlier; otherwise, with Hou Yixiao's sleazy appearance and the unconscious spy on his shoulder, the guards at the city gate would never have let them pass easily.

Back in the guest room, Fang Feixue immediately suggested returning to her room to rest.

She knew what Gu Feng was about to do next. She had no interest in these secretive schemes and didn't approve of them.

However, Gu Feng's situation was clear; he was caught in the center of the power struggle within the Heroic Spirit City family, unable to extricate himself.

Fang Feixue understood and decided to turn a blind eye, returning to her room, leaving Gu Feng and Hou Yixiao to their devices.

Hou Yixiao threw the spy into the room and took out the Immortal Binding Rope he carried with him, tying the spy up tightly. Gu Feng set up a soundproof barrier around the room.@@novelbin@@

They did this not for any other reason but because the Soul Searching Method would cause extreme pain, struggles, and screams for the person involved, which were unavoidable. Gu Feng didn't want any complications.

Once everything was ready, Gu Feng squinted his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "Let's begin."

Hou Yixiao nodded, formed a seal with his hand, muttered incantations, and pointed a finger at the spy's forehead!

As the Soul Searching Method was executed, the spy's limbs suddenly convulsed violently, and he woke up with a start!

"Ahhh!"

His eyes widened, veins bulging on his forehead, his body constantly struggling, emitting screams like a pig being slaughtered.

The Soul Searching Method directly uses True Core force to destroy the opponent's Divine Sense, invading their soul to search for memories—a cunning method of cultivation.

The pain experienced by the person being soul-searched is a mental torment and a soul-crushing agony, beyond what ordinary people can comprehend.

Even though Gu Feng was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but frown and slowly turned his face away.

If not for the pressing circumstances, he wouldn't have resorted to such desperate measures.

After a while, Hou Yixiao withdrew his finger and silently wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Looking at the spy again, he was already incoherent, his mouth half-open, drooling all over the floor, reduced to a shell of a living fool.

"How is it? Any important information?" Gu Feng asked coldly.

Hou Yixiao cupped his hands and began to report the findings from the soul search.

This person's original name was Tuoba Zhu, a witch cultivator from the White Tiger Witch's Village on the Northern Wilderness border. As Gu Feng and the others had suspected, he was sent by the White Tiger Witch's Village to Yong'an City in the Eastern Region ten years ago, disguised as an ordinary vendor to gather intelligence on the cultivator families of the Eastern Region.

The White Tiger Witch's Village is over thirty thousand miles away from Yong'an City, one of the four major witch villages on the Northern Wilderness border. The cultivators in the village have practiced Gu techniques for generations, relying on collecting Gu sources and mining Spirit Stone veins for a living, thus frequently trading with Yong'an City.

Originally, the people of the White Tiger Witch's Village were self-sufficient, occasionally bartering with the cultivators of the Eastern Region, living a carefree life.

Unfortunately, a hundred years ago, a Spirit Dividing realm powerhouse suddenly appeared, using his sky-reaching means to suppress the villagers, forcibly making the White Tiger Village his vassal.

Since then, this Spirit Dividing realm powerhouse has been exploiting the resources of the White Tiger Village every year, making life extremely difficult for the villagers!

This Spirit Dividing realm powerhouse's Dao title is the Nine Tribulations Witch King, whom Gu Feng and his companions have been seeking!

Hou Yixiao paused, then continued with a smile, "This Tuoba Zhu noticed us inquiring about Gu poison that could break through cultivation levels in a short time, knowing it was the Nine Tribulations Witch King's exclusive method. He immediately reported the matter to the White Tiger Village's higher-ups using a flying kite, but we intercepted it. Truly unfortunate for him!"

Gu Feng pondered for a moment. From Tuoba Zhu's memories, it seemed that although the White Tiger Witch's Village was a vassal of the Nine Tribulations Witch King, they might not willingly submit to him. Perhaps they could find a breakthrough through them to locate the Nine Tribulations Witch King.

With this in mind, Gu Feng immediately ordered Hou Yixiao to start disguising as Tuoba Zhu from tomorrow, using every means possible to infiltrate the White Tiger Village.

Hou Yixiao quickly accepted the order, then suddenly asked how to deal with the real Tuoba Zhu.

Glancing at the foolish Tuoba Zhu, Gu Feng knew he was already a cripple and instructed Hou Yixiao to throw him into the nearby Phantom Mist Marsh overnight, leaving his fate to chance.

Hou Yixiao took a sharp breath. On the surface, he accepted the order, but his heart trembled. The Phantom Mist Marsh was such a dangerous place that even a sane cultivator would face a life-and-death situation if they entered rashly, let alone a foolish Tuoba Zhu.

Gu Feng's move was essentially to eliminate any potential threats for his plan.

With Gu Feng's command, Hou Yixiao transformed into Tuoba Zhu's appearance without a word. Now possessing Tuoba Zhu's memories, he wasn't afraid of being exposed and ruining the plan. He hoisted the now foolish original and left the room with a bow.

Looking out at the night through the window, Gu Feng felt a mix of emotions. In a few months, he would face Gu Kun's challenge. On the arena, it would be a life-and-death situation. Given Gu Kun's resentment towards him, there was no chance he would hold back.

Capturing the Nine Tribulations Witch King was just a backup plan for Gu Feng, aiming to crush the political faction of Gu Huaisheng's lineage within the family in one fell swoop!

If he wanted to firmly establish himself in Heroic Spirit City and no longer be criticized by others, Gu Feng had to defeat Gu Kun in front of all the family members!

This required him to have absolute strength!

Slowly sitting back on the Buddhist mat, Gu Feng closed his eyes and silently circulated his meridians. At this moment, the seven-colored Golden Elixir in his spirit sea was gently flickering, refining countless pure seven-colored True Core to fill his spirit sea.

The Innate Dao Embryo hovered above the spirit sea, legs crossed, eyes closed, seemingly meditating and cultivating as well.

At this moment, Gu Liantian's trace of destiny divine sense was dim within Gu Feng's spiritual sea, because he had already traveled hundreds of thousands of miles away from Heroic Spirit City.

It was as if he had left the range of a server's radiation, unable to receive any signals.

With a series of hand seals, Gu Feng activated the cultivation method of the Heavenly Insight Mysterious Embryo Strategy. The Innate Dao Embryo was immediately awakened, slowly opening its eyes as green spiritual energy poured out from around its body.

The vast spiritual energy was absorbed by the seven-colored Golden Elixir, nourishing its rapid rotation, causing the true core within the spiritual sea to churn.

This spiritual energy was what Gu Feng had previously absorbed from the Immortal Spirit Communication users in Heroic Spirit City. Its quantity was immense, and its purity was rare in the world.

He deliberately stored it within the Innate Dao Embryo, to be slowly digested later, nourishing and strengthening his Golden Elixir.

The so-called Elemental Infant Realm cultivator is one whose Golden Elixir has been nourished and strengthened by spiritual energy to a certain extent, eventually breaking its shell to form an infant. It is a major fusion and transformation of a cultivator's spiritual soul and true core cultivation!

The Elemental Infant is everything to a cultivator! It is the source of their soul and cultivation power!

The reason why Elemental Infant Realm cultivators are so formidable is that their spiritual soul and cultivation power have become one. Their power moves with their will, capable of unleashing immense might with a mere gesture.

Their physical body is no longer as important, merely a vessel for the soul and cultivation power. Even if the body is destroyed, as long as the Elemental Infant remains, they can choose to cultivate the ghost path or use certain unique methods to restore their body or seize another!

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The seven-colored Golden Elixir within Gu Feng had grown fuller with this wave of spiritual energy, its seven-colored radiance even more brilliant than before.

He quickly withdrew his cultivation, allowing the Innate Dao Embryo to fall back into slumber, preventing any more vast spiritual energy from entering the spiritual sea.

Gu Feng dared not be too aggressive, intentionally restraining his cultivation progress. After all, in the path of cultivation, one must avoid impatience. If one forces a breakthrough without consolidating their cultivation, it may seem fruitful on the surface, but it harbors endless troubles.

Gu Kun, who had a drastic change in personality, was a prime example. He used the Gu poison of the Nine Tribulations Witch King to quickly break through to the Elemental Infant Realm, but the side effects were very apparent.

"Blinded by hatred, you dared to conspire with a tiger. Heh, I won't repeat your mistakes."

With a cold laugh, Gu Feng slowly retracted his profound power. Currently, he mainly relied on the Heavenly Insight Mysterious Embryo Strategy and his self-created Capital Harvesting Method to rapidly gather spiritual energy for his cultivation.

Although this method was unconventional and its effects could be described as defying the heavens, it still had many flaws that awaited Gu Feng's improvement and resolution.

Gu Feng had no desire to engage in foolish acts like pulling up seedlings to help them grow or killing the chicken to get the egg.

Opening his eyes, he realized it had been daylight for quite some time.

Gu Feng got up and stretched lazily, smiling wryly. Indeed, in cultivation, time is of no consequence. Although it felt like he had only cultivated for a short while, several hours had passed in the outside world.

With his Golden Elixir fully formed, sleep was merely a means to restore his true core, no longer a necessity. He didn't feel any fatigue at the moment.

Hou Yixiao hadn't returned yet, but Gu Feng wasn't worried about him.