Among the six grey doves, two of them were at the sixth level of Qi Practice. Guo Hao already made a mental note to draw both of them to Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng’s side.

Xiao Jingting threw out the Spirit Pagoda and covered a sixth level grey dove underneath it, joining forces with Xiao Jinfeng to settle the other sixth level of Qi Practice grey dove.

With one of the sixth level grey dove dead and another trapped, the rest of grey doves were nothing to worry about.

Guo Hao couldn’t help but feel a little sarcastic as he saw Xiao Jingting’s side settle the battle neatly.

Guo Hao had originally thought that if the two Xiao brothers got hurt fighting the grey doves, he wouldn’t have to give any face to the two of them and the Eve Mist wouldn’t have to be shared between them.

He didn’t expect Xiao Jingting’s spirit pagoda to be so powerful, trapping a sixth level grey dove. Xiao Jingting’s hands were also rich and generous, using talismans like they didn’t cost any money and killing the dove at once.

Guo Hao originally also heard that Xiao Jingting’s spirit pagoda was bought with a lot of money. Guo Hao only heard that this spirit pagoda was good for farming, but he didn’t expect that it could also be used to trap demonic beasts.

“The two brothers from Xiao family are really powerful!” Guo Hao smiled with ease, not at all guilty for the tactics he had used before.

Xiao Jinfeng gave Guo Hao a cold look and said, “According to the rules of the mercenary team, more work, more profit. We want two-thirds of Eve Mist.”

Guo Hao, with a gloomy face said, “This isn’t according to the rules, we agreed on it before.”

“When we said it before, we didn’t say that the sixth level grey doves all belonged to me and my second brother. If something happened to me or my second brother, we would not be able to get any share of Eve Mist, right?” Xiao Jingting coldly said.

“Third young master Xiao must be joking. I don’t know why the sixth level grey doves went over to the two of you? Maybe the two of you were just too charming. Anyway, I only take one third of it.” Guo Hao said.

Guo Hao and the people at the fifth level of Qi Practice took the spirit grass and left. Sun Miaomiao and few other people at the fourth level of Qi Practice were all left behind.

Xiao Jinfeng looked at the Spirit Pagoda and said, “Shall we release that grey dove?”

The demonic beast that Xiao Jingting trapped was already close to the seventh level of Qi Practice. If it was released, there would be another battle. Fortunately before that, Xiao Jingting quickly reacted. Otherwise, the situation would be difficult to control.

Xiao Jingting smiled and said, “No need”

“Shrink.” Xiao Jingting ordered the Spirit Pagoda to shrink, the dove trapped under the Spirit Pagoda did not have the same ability so it was squeezed and suffocated to death.

Xiao Jinfeng was filled with amazement as he discovered that the aura of dove was gone.

Xiao Jinfeng stared blankly at Xiao Jingting and said, “Jingting, you still have insight.”

Previously, when Xiao Jingting bought the Spirit Pagoda, Xiao Jinfeng actually felt that it was not worth it. However, he did not expect that Xiao Jingting’s Spirit Pagoda could not only help grow spiritual plants but also have such miraculous effects.This spirit pagoda could squeeze a demon beast to death as long as it trapped it. It could even shrink, crushing the monster to death.

Except for demonic beasts with unique bloodlines, most of them did not have the ability to become bigger or smaller until they reached the Foundation stage.

Sun Miaomiao’s gaze became somewhat complicated when she saw Xiao Jingting’s Spirit Pagoda displaying its power.

“Jinfeng, Jingting you are so powerful now!” Sun Miaomiao stepped forward and complimented.

Xiao Jinfeng smiled and said, “It’s nothing, have you met any other Xiao family members?”

Sun Miaomiao shook her head and said, “No. After entering the secret realm, I was chased by someone, and after escaping, I had been careful to hide my tracks. Later, I met Guo Hao and those people.”

“Guo Hao and those people said that they could provide us with shelter if we turned over our identity cards as a reward, so we did.”

“Those guys said that they would protect us. But as a result, when they saw the spirit grass, they wanted to use us to attract the demon beasts.” Sun Miaomiao said, displeased.

Thinking of the spirit grass that Xiao Jingting harvested, Sun Miaomiao couldn’t help but feel a little envious. The Eve mist could be exchanged for pills which were good things! It was a pity that after Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng received the spirit grass, they had no intention of sharing it with them.

Sun Miaomiao sighed secretly. After entering the secret realm, she was first hunted down to be killed and then met Guo Hao and the others. They helped out but they couldn’t even look at the divided harvest.

“Sister in law, do you have any plans about what to do next?” Xiao Jinfeng asked.

“I’ll follow you.” Sun Miaomiao said without thinking.

Sun Miaomiao had been brought up as a pampered miss of Sun family and didn’t suffer much injustice when she entered the Xiao family. But this time when she entered the competition, Sun Miaomiao gained a deep understanding of the ferocity of this world. Those people didn’t take her into account at all, and after wandering on the edge of life and death several times, Sun Miaomiao’s pride had already disappeared.

“Second Brother and I are going to the depths of the forest to look for opportunities. It’s inconvenient to bring you with us.” Xiao Jingting coolly said.

Sun Miaomiao looked at Xiao Jingting with some complaints but Xiao Jingting was unmoved. He and Sun Miaomiao had no kindness between them. Sun Miaomiao’s brother once thought of attacking the original body owner, so saving Sun Miaomiao’s life was already his limit. The forest was so dangerous, no one could guarantee that he could get out in one piece, so he didn’t want to take a burden with him.

Sun Miaomiao looked at Xiao Jingting’s demeanor, and her heart couldn’t help but feel anxious. “Jingting, you don’t care about me.”

Xiao Jingting shook his head and said, “I can’t help you, sister-in-law. There are many crises in the depths of the forest. It won’t do you any good to enter. Me and second brother may not be able to take care of you.”

According to Xiao Jingting knowledge, the Biyue Forest was a blessed place. There were people in the past who discovered cultivator’s seclusion caves in there. He had many secrets on him, being with Xiao Jinfeng was already the limit. Xiao Jingting did not want Sun Miaomiao following them and getting in the way.

In the light of the Sun family’s relationship with the Xiao family, Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng brought Sun Miaomiao to a secret place before they left.

 

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After getting rid of Sun Miaomiao, Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng wandered in the forest for a few more days with no luck.

Seven days later.

“Evening Primrose, mature.”

“Tri-colored Phalaenopsis, semi-mature.”

“Cyclamen, semi-mature.”

“Seven-leafed Lucky Grass, semi-mature.”

 

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A series of alarms sounded in Xiao Jingting’s ear making him feel a little strange. The spirit grasses would usually repel each other and precious spirit grasses usually wouldn’t grow in one place. But jade pendant popped out a dozen different kinds of spirit grasses all at once, which meant they could have encountered a medicinal garden.

Xiao Jingting couldn’t help but feel a little excited. A medicinal garden! It was a great chance to come across a medicinal garden!

Xiao Jingting followed the instructions of the jade pendant and walked up the mountain and with little effort, he broke the hidden array outside the mountain wall and walked into a cave with Xiao Jinfeng. When Xiao Jingting did it, he kept his eyes wide open and only destroyed a little bit. Afterwards, he made some disguises to avoid others from finding him.

“Jingting, how did you know there was an illusion array in that place outside?” Xiao Jinfeng was filled with curiosity.

“I have wood attribute and I have noticed that the wood aura here is very rich. There should be some high-grade spirit grasses, but I haven’t seen any, so I gave it a try.” Xiao Jingting half-sincerely said.

“This place was so well hidden. It’s really a great opportunity for us to find it.” Xiao Jinfeng was filled with excitement.

Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng walked into the cave and found that inside, it became bigger.

There was a cultivation room, a medicinal garden, and a book room in the cave. A cultivator sat in the cultivation room. Xiao Jinfeng judged that the cultivator should have been in the cultivation room for at least hundred years.

There was a jade tablet beside the seated cultivator, Xiao Jingting learned from it that the seated cultivator was called Wang Huacheng. He was a wood cultivator who once reached the Foundation building stage. But he was secretly plotted against during the Foundation building stage making his cultivation greatly reduced and his lifespan shorten considerably.

In order to avoid his enemies and recover his cultivation, Wang Huacheng hid in a cave in the Biyue mountain and planted spiritual grasses, cultivating while waiting for them to mature.

After Wang Huacheng’s death, the spiritual grasses he planted matured in succession. Wang Huacheng was at the Foundation Building Stage so this cave residence he chose was naturally unusual. Xiao Jingting found that Wang Huacheng’s cave was built on a spiritual vein.

The aura in the cave was very dense, and there was also a stone pool in the cave where a lot of spiritual milk had accumulated.

Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng simply repaired the illusion array at the entrance of the cave and made some disguises to cultivate in the cave.

There was ample spiritual energy in the cave, and there was spirit milk expanding the meridians to regulate the body. In addition, they found some pills on Wang Huacheng’s body and with them, their cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds and they soon entered the seventh level of Qi Practice.

 

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Xiao Jingting divided the mature spirit grasses in the medicinal garden with Xiao Jinfeng, and secretly transplanted some young seedlings into his jade pendant space.

Xiao Jingting discovered that although the jade pendant space could ripen spirit grasses, ripening spirit grasses would cause the aura in the space to decrease.

Therefore, the more spiritual grasses were thrown into the space, the better it was. Jade and spirit stones could improve the aura intensity in jade pendant space and help ripen more spiritual grasses. He needed to earn more spirit stones, so that the aura provided by the spirit stones and the spiritual grasses thrown into the space would maintain a balance.

Xiao Jingting found quite a few low-grade pills on Wang Huacheng’s body. However, not many spirit stones were found. Xiao Jingting guessed that Wang Huacheng had used up all the spirit stones and because of their low grade, pills were spared. After all, Wang Huacheng was a foundation building cultivator. If his cultivation didn’t fall, he would not become so weak.

After more than a month went by, the secret realm was about to close in the blink of an eye. After continuous cultivation, Xiao Jingting and Xiao Jinfeng had smoothly become cultivators of the seventh level of Qi Practice.

“Let’s get out of here.” Xiao Jinfeng said.

Xiao Jingting nodded and said, “Yes.”

When the time came, the Biyue Forest would be closed and it would be more than ten years later when it would open again.

In fact, there were abundant resources in the Biyue forest and some people were willing to stay. But before the forest was closed, the Marquis would send Foundation Building cultivators over to clear out those who hadn’t gone out yet. All the harvests of those who were found to be stranded by the Marquis would be withheld. If there was a problem and you couldn’t get out it was alright but those who stayed with malicious intent would be punished.

At the beginning, there were thousands of cultivators who entered the secret realm. But only one of two out of ten come out, many of them were unkempt.

There were also quite a few who got a chance in the forest and soared into the heavens.

Xiao Jinfeng handed over all the harvest on his body to Xiao Jingting. The first ten in this competition would receive Ice Heart Pill and the time Xiao Jinfeng and Xiao Jingting spent on cultivation put them behind. They could not be compared with those who readily took out a large amount of identity cards. The good thing they had was a lot of spirit grasses from the medicine garden. The high-grade spirit grasses could be exchanged for many points.

Xiao Jingting kept at least one copy of each spirit grass he had obtained, in the secret realm in his jade pendant space. The rest was taken out to be exchanged for points and pills.

After turning in his harvest, Xiao Jingting received the eighth place in exchange for some useful pills.

Xiao Qingyan’s luck wasn’t bad, nor was it too good. Xiao Qingyan and the people from the Bifeng Academy formed a group to jointly participate in the hunting. But as a result, halfway down the road, they went their separate ways because of the uneven division of the spoils. Although Xiao Qingyan used special means to advance to the sixth level of Qi Practice, he was after all still at sixth level of Qi Practice, so he gained quite a bit along the way.

Only when leaving the secret realm, he encountered a team led by a seventh level Qi Cultivator who specialized in blocking cultivators who were leaving the forest. Xiao Qingyan had no choice but to use all of his possessions to save his life, so much that in this competition, he gained nothing, but at least he saved his life.

Many people from the Xiao family who came, died this time. Xiao Muhong disappeared, and Sun Miaomiao survived, but there was no gain.

 

Edited by: Tetsu

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