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Cultivating to Foundation Establishment, Lu Qing gained a trace of confidence.

He was no longer a Cultivator at the very bottom of the Cultivation World.

He glanced at the spiritual field; the red, golden, and crescent-white plants inside swayed in the wind.

This batch of spiritual rice was another new round of sowing.

"My Contribution Points have reached exactly one hundred."

The spells Lu Qing currently had on hand were almost fully cultivated, and his sole foundational cultivation technique, cultivated day and night, had finally stepped into the third layer.

The third layer seemed high, but this top-tier cultivation technique had a total of eighteen layers.

Cultivating to Core Formation was definitely not a problem.

After cultivating to the third layer, a warm current flowed through his entire body, cleansing his heart and soul.

The Profound Heaven Origin Scripture embraced all things, resembling water and wind.

The spiritual power condensed in the hands of Lu Qing also inherited the characteristics of this cultivation technique, broad and natural, just like water nurturing all things.

He continued to cultivation.

The wind and rain outside the Mountain Gate could not fall upon his head.

The years of Cultivation were long.

In the blink of an eye, another month passed.

"Lu Qing, Lu Qing, are you home?"

White Crane Boy happened to return to the Mountain Gate today.

Lu Qing opened the Formation, saying, "Child, you came back today, how do you have time to come over to my place?"

White Crane Boy spread his wings, fluttering down onto the ground.

"The White Cranes I know here have all gone out, so I just came to find you."

He followed Lu Qing into the courtyard. In front of the archaic stone table sat a person and a White Crane respectively.

The clear tea in the cup was limpid. Having nothing to do in his spare time, Lu Qing had planted a tea tree in a corner of the courtyard, which had no major use other than a grade-one clear Spiritual Qi.

"Heh, I happen to be thirsty."

White Crane Boy went glug glug, the clear tea entering his mouth, pouring the tea water down his long neck like a cow chewing peonies.

After drinking a cup of tea.

"Delicious, delicious!"

Lu Qing did not expect that a cup of clear tea would make White Crane Boy full of praise.

"It is really delicious, Lu Qing, you are still the first person to brew tea for me."

Lu Qing said: "If Child wants to drink, I still have a lot of tea leaves here."

The tea tree in the courtyard, having been cultivated with Spiritual Qi, was somewhat more delicious than ordinary mortal tea water.

However, after Lu Qing started cooking spiritual rice and making meals himself, and got used to eating them, he did not find the things he planted all that amazing.

Hearing what White Crane Boy said, it was simply that the other party had never drunk tea before.

White Crane Boy smacked his lips, thought about it, and pulled out a feather from the feathers under his chest.

"Here, Lu Qing, this is for you."

This snow-white feather with black wing-tips had auspicious light flowing over it, looking extraordinary at a glance.

"Child, you and I are also acquaintances, how could I accept such a precious gift."

White Crane Boy chuckled, "Not precious, not precious, you treated Child to a cup of tea, so I should also treat you back."

"Is this not what the Human Race often says, friends should visit each other often."

Hearing this, Lu Qing smiled amusedly.

He never expected that his first friend upon coming to the Dao Academy would be the White Crane Boy before him.

"This feather of mine is not precious. I see that you should be farming here. Insert this feather into the spiritual field; with my Qi present, you will not need to worry about pests and disasters."

So that was how it was.

"Child, thank you very much."

Although he cultivated the spiritual field and had started Cultivating the Geng Jin Finger, he had not found any pests appearing yet.

But with the White Crane feather of Child here, it could deter some pests to some extent.

He poured another cup of tea into the teacup of Child.

White Crane Boy was truly thirsty and truly liked the tea water.

This clear and limpid Qi had always been loved by the White Crane clan.

However, good things like planting tea trees, brewing tea, and boiling tea had nothing to do with the White Crane clan.

Now that he had drunk tea at the place of Lu Qing, White Crane Boy felt completely comfortable all over.

With a few gulps down, White Crane Boy even felt that from now on, spiritual tea would become his favorite just like Spirit Stones.

Lu Qing said: "Child, you said you returned a month ago, why did you only come back today?"

Because of the Spiritual Vein explosion accident that occurred a month ago, some disciples on that kind of battlefield whose minds were mesmerized by greed during the Killing Tribulation watched as mountains collapsed and the earth overturned, and the Long River flowed backwards, resembling the end of the world, and were filled with lingering fear for a time.

Many disciples had already set out on the road back to the Mountain Gate.

When Lu Qing occasionally sat by the cliff at the edge of the mountain to absorb the essence of heaven and earth and Spiritual Qi to cultivation.

He would also see countless flying lights, flying boats, treasure ships, or cranes and green phoenixes soaring high in the sky.

He knew in his heart that most likely the disciples outside had also returned.

As soon as Lu Qing brought this up.

White Crane Boy immediately became incomparably furious, "I am telling you, Lu Qing, those Demonic Cultivators are utterly devoid of human conscience!"

His crisp, gender-indistinct voice was full of indignation.

"Originally they could escape. We said it was to eliminate demons and defend the Dao, but later on when I saw the Small Realm, I knew that the ones above did not want a demon nest at all."

"As a result, no one could bear to give it up, so this earth vein explosion broke out."

"Then even that Small Realm was implicated by the earth veins, shattering in all directions and being affected. If not for strong experts taking action on the spot to fix the entrance, I am afraid this Small Realm would have been completely destroyed in the the void turbulence."

White Crane Boy originally wanted to go loot a treasure, but ended up encountering such a thing and almost failed to fly back. One could imagine how angry he was at the Demonic Cultivators.

"This time, a batch of disciples was lost, and several Elders were also injured. They are estimated to finish their mission and return soon, but manpower is still needed over there to stabilize the earth veins, and it is estimated that another batch of disciples will be sent over."

White Crane Boy said everything he knew.

Lu Qing comforted him with a couple of sentences.

A lot of people died, and he knew this point.

After all, some people already had great fame, and after perishing, it caused quite a bit of turmoil.

"Fortunately you did not go this time. Heh, being afraid of death still has its benefits."

Just as Lu Qing was thinking about things, upon hearing these words, black lines instantly fell down his face.

He said with a serious expression, "White Crane Boy, Cultivation is for longevity. If you lose your life, how can you speak of longevity?"

Not to mention, that Ominous Divination had been lingering in his mind all along; how could he dare to take a single step out of the Mountain Gate?

I am afraid his left foot would step out of the Mountain Gate and his right foot would see his head fall off.

White Crane Boy shook his entire body of feathers. His eyes, the size of black beans, were at this moment filled with wholehearted agreement.

Blood mist filled the sky, corpses fell, and a fishy stench was everywhere.

These were all things that truly happened.

The White Crane clan liked the clear and limpid, and naturally detested turbid Qi.

White Crane Boy: "As expected, Lu Qing, you are right."

After chatting for a while, White Crane Boy flew away again.

"Garrison missions outside are basically things that every Cultivator must consider after becoming a Foundation Establishment Cultivator."

Lu Qing did not return to the cultivation room to cultivation.

Pondering over this garrison mission, Xuantian Dao Academy was not a Cultivation force sitting high in the clouds.

On the contrary, it was extremely closely connected with the twelve prefectures of the Profound Heaven Domain.

Within the prefectures, there were no dynasties and no countries; there was only the single Sovereign force of Xuantian Dao Academy.

In those places like city lords or county neighborhoods, branch Dao Academies were established, with small openings every three years and recruitment every five years.

The path Lu Qing took was the three-year path, and this path valued Aptitude.

The five-year recruitment was a true sense of widely opening the Mountain Gate, selecting comprehensively based on Aptitude, mental state, Comprehension, and so on.

All rivers run into the sea; tolerance is a great virtue.

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