Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Chapter 44: Chapter 44: The Mysterious Cannot Change Fate

Pot Cave Heaven, in the master bedroom of the Moonlight Listening Wind Pavilion.

Su Ping lay comfortably in the bedroom’s hot spring pool, made with white jade walls.

He felt the cells that had been tired all night being embraced by the warm spring water, nurtured, and filled with a comfortable warmth.

Within just a few minutes, Su Ping felt all fatigue vanish, and then, with some reluctance, he got up and changed into fresh clothes.

Su Ping closed his eyes to inwardly inspect his condition and felt that mana flowed freely throughout his body, with not a single obstruction in his meridians.

It seemed he was almost at the upper limit of Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer. @@novelbin@@

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“At this rate of cultivation, I might not need a year before I can attempt Foundation Establishment!”

“However, if others knew of this progress, they’d surely harbor ill intentions immediately!”

“One can never be too careful!”

“After all, I’ve toiled for twenty years and was stuck at the Qi Cultivation Third Layer. By entering the Mortal World and accumulating experience, I managed to break through to the Middle Period, which is still reasonable.”

“But if, in the Mortal World, I could rely solely on hard cultivation to advance from the Middle Period to the Late Period or even Perfection within a year, and then begin Foundation Establishment.”

“I really can’t find a good excuse to convince other cultivators that I’m not cheating, and that all of this has been achieved through my own hard cultivation!”

Su Ping silently noted this potential danger in his heart, preparing to find an opportunity to resolve it.

If it truly couldn’t be resolved, he would have no choice but to make a drastic move, running away to another Immortal Sect Territory and disguising himself as a hermit before others caught on.

However, unless absolutely necessary, Su Ping was reluctant and unwilling to leave Frost Moon Lake’s Fishing Point.

“It’s also about time for the Fishing Points to refresh.”

Su Ping left the Pot Cave Heaven and then returned to Frost Moon Villa to begin fishing.

The people around were already used to seeing this.

In fact, Su Ping’s fondness for fishing had piqued some of the cultivators’ curiosity, prompting them to intentionally leak it to some Loose Cultivators to covertly imitate.

Frost Moon Lake had become private property, not open to outsiders, deterring mortals but not cultivators.

Even some bold cultivators with advanced skills took the opportunity to imitate Su Ping at the Fishing Point, copying his fishing rhythm and movements exactly.

They even used the exact same fishing gear.

As expected, aside from eventually physically catching a big fish like Su Ping, they gained nothing else.

Over time, people began to lean towards it being merely a hobby and not some mysterious ritual or because Frost Moon Lake contained anything extraordinary.

Su Ping, who had long known about this through the rat swarms, feigned ignorance, well aware of the key difference.

Su Ping spent a day traveling back and forth between Water Blue Star and the Immortal Cultivation World, using up all the refreshed fishing opportunities.

This time, the number of fishing opportunities returned to normal, with 50 for each.

Luckily, the output of Big Bluefish remained consistently on the rise.

Out of a total of 100 tries, he caught 40 Big Bluefish!

Su Ping looked at the information:

[Current Fishing Level: 3 (300/1000)]

[Warehouse: Little Green Fish 140, Big Bluefish 80]

“Hmm… Let’s go for a ten-consecutive draw, just once!”

Su Ping spent 20 Big Bluefish to exchange for 100 Fishing Coins, then went for the ten-consecutive draw.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Nine ordinary white flashes later, Su Ping saw a purple glow.

[Bone Burying Ground, special construction, quality; Rare, specific to Pot Cave Heaven, placement slightly increases the output of Spiritual Energy in the Cave Heaven]

“So it really only guarantees the minimum?”

“Looks like the first time I drew, getting a gold card out was probably a guaranteed minimum from the Cave Heaven Card Pack?”

Su Ping silently criticized his luck, and noticing that this purple card could increase the limit, he hurriedly prepared to set it up.

He soon discovered that the Bone Burying Ground was just a small hill covered in locust trees, with a few tombstones scattered about.

The style doesn’t really match that of Yunlai Immortal Realm.

But right now, Su Ping needed an increase in Spiritual Energy concentration and experience for upgrading his Pot Cave Heaven, so he couldn’t fuss over aesthetics.

Arrangement successful!

A mound shrouded in a faint mist with a deep Yin Qi appeared next to the Moonlight Listening Wind Pavilion.

Once the mound took shape, clusters of blue Ghost Fires emerged, some emitting strange laughter as they attempted to escape.

Suddenly!

Roar!

The Punishment Evil Exorcism Stone Lions let out a low growl towards the mound.

Instantly, all the Ghost Fires shrank and retreated back into the mound at an even faster pace than they came.

“The Spiritual Energy concentration has reached 30. Now, the Spiritual Energy in my Pot Cave Heaven can compete with the core area of a First Tier top-grade Spirit Vein.”

“Those cave mansions in core areas would cost at least three to four Spirit Stones a month to live in regularly.”

“Also, this Bone Burying Ground has given me a little surprise.”

[Bone Burying Ground: Burying corpses can accumulate energy. Every twenty points of energy can summon an obedient ghost with a maximum number of 5.]

“Burying corpses? There’s no specific standard, so using animals should work too, right?”

Su Ping thought of this and immediately tried it, bringing in two fat pig carcasses and throwing them into the Bone Burying Ground.

After noticing no reaction, Su Ping thought of something and with a thought,

Suddenly, the White Crane Child flew above the Bone Burying Ground, first casting the Fireball Technique to create a big pit.

Then it quickly descended, grabbing a pig in each hand and tossing them into the pit, before activating the Earth-shattering Technique to bury them.

Indeed, when they said bury corpses, it had to be literally.

As the fat pigs were engulfed by the soil,

The Bone Burying Ground entered a satiated state and began digesting and accumulating energy.

“The digestive capability is poor, it’s already satiated, and it only accumulates one point of energy per hour?”

Su Ping shook his head slightly and looked at the remaining number of Big Bluefish: 60.

Su Ping hesitated for a moment, then, thinking that the guaranteed draw seemed to at least yield something useful, he gritted his teeth and went for another ten consecutive draws.

As the number of Big Bluefish dropped to 40, the light of the ten consecutive draws appeared in Su Ping’s mind.

It was the familiar nine common and one Rare draw.

Only this time, Su Ping found out that guaranteed Rare items could also be of little use!

[Dawn Castle, main building, quality: Rare, exclusive for Pot Cave Heaven, arranging it can slightly increase the production of Spiritual Energy in the Cave Heaven]

It seems it could increase the Spiritual Energy density.

But here’s the problem… this is a main building, and at the current level, only one main building can be functional!

And judging from the quality, it was apparent that this Dawn Castle couldn’t compare to the Moonlight Listening Wind Pavilion that was currently in use!

“Fortune can’t be forced, nor fate be changed by spending; I shouldn’t have forced that draw.”

Not a single useful item from the ten consecutive draws made Su Ping calm down quite a bit.

Su Ping left the Pot Cave Heaven. The first instruction after coming out was to have the Spiritual Rats White and Grey control some rodents to hasten to the surroundings of Nine Leaf Mountain to gather information.

Although Su Ping still trusted the integrity of the Yun Family to not engage in foul play,

The more information he had at his disposal, the more at ease Su Ping could be.

Time gradually moved towards evening.

The time for the Yun Family’s auction to commence was also approaching.

Su Ping put on a mask and changed into a new set of Magic Robe, then he meticulously arranged several storage bags around his waist.

With the Pot Cave Heaven, Su Ping’s need for storage bags had actually decreased quite a bit.

But when dealing with outsiders, it was still necessary to bring them along.