Big Data Cultivation

Feng Jun originally didn't want to negotiate conditions with Yue Qing, three favors… are enough to last him to the Golden Core stage.

But since the lad is boasting like this, not asking for some benefits seems a bit foolish.

Ultimately, Feng Jun is too eager to enhance the Earth Realm's Earth veins. The Earth Vein Spirit Manual he obtained from Taiqing can elevate the Earth veins to establish a Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the high-rank level, but it only contains two rudimentary Earth Vein Traction Formations.

Such formations can only elevate the Earth veins to set up a Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the initial rank level.

This brings us to the cost of setting up a Spirit Gathering Array. If Feng Jun doesn't mind the expense, whether setting up a Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the initial rank level in Luohua Manor or a high-rank one on Mount Zhige, it's achievable.

The key is… the cost is too high.

In fact, setting up a Spirit Gathering Array at Luohua Manor, the limit is the Qi Refining Initial Stage, going beyond that is extremely uneconomical.

At Luohua Manor alone, there are three Spirit Gathering Arrays at the mid-stage Qi Refining level. Feng Jun's extravagance is considered luxurious even in the Cultivation World—the consumption of Spirit Stones is truly enormous.

However, Feng Jun currently values not the consumption of Spirit Stones, but… at Luohua Manor, he can only build a Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the initial rank level.

Apart from the massive consumption of Spirit Stones, Feng Jun simply cannot afford too long a Spiritual Energy gathering period. If he could aggregate Spiritual Energy for three to five years, he might gather enough for a Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the intermediate rank level.

The time cost and Spirit Stone cost are already considerable, but the most crucial issue is that Feng Jun knows very well, if the Earth veins of Luohua Manor don't change, even with great effort, it's merely the Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the intermediate rank level.

But for Feng Jun's breakthrough, the Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the intermediate stage is entirely insufficient. Although his current level is five layers of Spirit Dust, advancing to six layers is absolutely within the intermediate range, yet what he's cultivating is… the Devouring Primordial Heaven Technique.

Feng Jun wants to conduct Earth Vein Traction in the Earth Realm, and not just based on the Standard Spirit Dust Gathering Array at the initial rank. He wants to elevate the Earth veins even higher, so the traction formations in "Earth Vein Spirit" no longer satisfy his needs.

Originally, he thought he could just make do, spending a bit more time and Spirit Stones—of course, if it wasn't for his own cultivation, it would have been enough for others.

But since Yue Qing is so skillful, he can ask him to bring some traction array plates—Taiqing's manual doesn't have information on higher-level array plates, could you help me get some?

Yue Qing gives him a glance of sympathy, yes, it's sympathy, "I can help inquire about array plates, getting involved with these Earth Vein Traction folks can be tricky, what type of array plates do you want?"

Feng Jun clears his throat, "I got the Earth Vein Spirit manual from Taiqing, just lacking slightly higher-level array plates."

"So it's the Earth Vein Spirit," Yue Qing nods, this manual is very famous, "It's a typical Taiqing inheritance, but quite tricky… wanting related high-level array plates, is that it? I'll help you find them."

Feng Jun touches his chin thoughtfully, "How long will it take to find them?"

"Collecting those things is two days," Yue Qing feels he might have gotten into some trouble, but he's no afraid, "Including the array plates, five days… how does that sound?"

The Big Boss bursts out again, it's now so inflated that it practically doesn't care about Yue Qing's feelings, "Feng Jun, considering the time you have, you might as well advance a stage first. These little guys at the Golden Core stage… aren't worth taking seriously."

Yue Qing furrows his brow slightly, glancing around without showing any sign of emotions, feeling that something seems off.

Feng Jun nods, "Then we'll wait for five days. By the way, next time you come, bring something random, let me deduce it publicly, as a way to cover things up."

Yue Qing regains his focus, nods slightly, "Good, that's indeed something I thought about… besides traction arrays, do you want anything else?"

Feng Jun turns his head to think, then answers, "Since you have channels, help me with some other things as well."

He thought of the Flood Dragon's Cyan Carp Egg he acquired; he originally planned to find an opportunity to hatch it, preparing some relevant materials, but a few materials are still missing, so why not bother him with it too.

Yue Qing, however, thinks since Feng Jun is fond of resource, just getting him two traction array plates might not suffice.

As long as Feng Jun's demands increase, his satisfaction rises—Spirit Stone solvable issues aren't true issues.

Only if the relationship between both sides is strong enough will this major matter push through more smoothly.

Five days later, Yue Qing indeed visits again, accompanied by a disciple of the Qinggang Sect with a cultivation level of six layers of Spirit Dust.

This man's name is Dong Qianjun, the third disciple under Yue Qing. Over thirty years ago, during body tempering, he encountered an extremely powerful outer Fierce Wind, sustaining severe injuries while protecting his fellow disciples, yet hasn't fully recovered since, affecting his cultivation level.

Yue Qing cares for his disciple greatly, but the damage from the outer Fierce Wind is hard to heal, and even though the Qinggang Sect is experienced with such matters, it still got dragged to this situation.

But regardless, Master Yue prioritizes avenging his master first, delaying Dong Qianjun's treatment, and when Feng Jun mentioned finding someone to cover up the issues, he took the opportunity to bring his disciple over.

Dong Qianjun, upon seeing Feng Jun, first apologized—before, he was also a part of the Battle Hall and had a good relationship with Liang Chao, knowing that Hall Master Liang had offended this person, he first expressed his apologies.

Feng Jun replied that the issue was in the past, and at the time of the incident, you were no longer considered a member of the Battle Hall, there's no need to be so polite.

Next came the deduction. The damage caused by the Fierce Wind was severe, not only causing external injuries and meridian damage but even invading the soul.

Dong Qianjun was relatively fortunate, using the secret arts of the Qinggang Sect to treat it for years, healing his soul, but the damage within the Dantian could not fully recover, and outwardly, it manifested as the Fierce Wind's bone-tethering poison.

Feng Jun deduced that continuing treatment according to the Qinggang Sect's method would take at least eighty years for Dong Qianjun to fully recover, and due to gradual resistance to medicine, more and more herbs would be needed over those eighty years, resulting in astounding costs.

Of course, this was considered lucky, as at least he could recover.

After deducing the results, Feng Jun informed the other party, to which Dong Qianjun responded with a dark expression, "It seems there's no hope for forming a Golden Core."

He was two hundred years old when attacked by the Fierce Wind. Without this accident, he could have reached the pinnacle of the Dust-Free realm by two hundred seventy or eighty years old. Now, not only was there a thirty-plus year delay, but another eighty years were needed for treatment.

The key issue is that the treatment costs would continue to rise, something he was very much aware of. Even with the support of his master and the filial respect of his disciples, he could no longer afford the treatment costs.

After three hundred plus years, starting again from Level Six of Dust-Free and being heavily in debt, it's essentially impossible to form a Golden Core.

Yue Qing cupped his hands towards Feng Jun, "I ask Mountain Master Feng to help, see if there are other treatment methods."

"The problem is, I have no leads on treating this extraterrestrial Fierce Wind," Feng Jun answered, frowning, "I tried several drug combinations, and Qinggang's own way of matching them is quite reasonable."

"We also have body tempering techniques to complement it," Yue Qing unhesitatingly pulled out two cultivation techniques, "One is a body tempering technique, and the other is Qianjun's 'True Spirit Nine Qi' technique. I trouble Mountain Master Feng to deduce further."

"Master," Dong Qianjun was shocked at this, as True Spirit Nine Qi was one of the fundamental techniques of the Qinggang Sect, directly pointing to the True Immortal Great Dao and extremely important to the Qinggang Sect, "how did you manage to bring out this technique?"

"Why shouldn't I bring it out?" Yue Qing responded carelessly, "As if anyone could snatch the technique from my hands? Qianjun, since I brought you here, it means I'm trying hard to get you healed. Missing Mountain Master Feng means there's no better chance."

This showed how undeniably strong Master Yue was; of the true masters Feng Jun had encountered, none dared to travel alone with their sect's fundamental techniques—normally at least two True Immortals would team up for such a venture.

This showed that Yue Qing was not only extremely confident in his combat strength but also had absolute authority in the sect, not fearing the gossip of others.

Dong Qianjun was so moved that tears welled up in his eyes, "Master…"

Feng Jun furrowed his brows, pondered for a moment, and then opened his mobile phone, "Alright, let me try again…"

There weren't too many good methods to try; he even asked Yue Qing, "Taiqing also seems to have a concept of Fierce Wind body tempering. Do you know their relevant treatment methods?"

Though Dong Qianjun's deduction was just incidental, Yue Qing couldn't help but reveal a disdainful expression when he heard "Taiqing," "Taiqing's body tempering? Ha, they have a method of gathering Fierce Wind, but few dare to directly face powerful Fierce Wind."

Taiqing disciples also trained in the Fierce Wind Layer, but they usually chose particularly safe places, collecting the Fierce Wind bit by bit before tempering their bodies, greatly reducing the danger. Even Golden Core Elders would collect Fierce Wind to take back to Taiqing for disciples to use.

Compared to Qinggang Sect's wild approach, Taiqing was relatively prudent in this respect, which is one of the reasons for their enmity.

In short, Qinggang Sect's body tempering greatly increased danger but made the disciples relatively aggro and gave them stronger treatment methods than Taiqing, hence Yue Qing's disdain for Taiqing.

Feng Jun couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile, suddenly having a thought—why not try fighting poison with poison?

A few days ago, he had obtained a database of over sixty thousand types of poisons, a number considered among the top in the entire Kunhao Plane.

On a whim, he attempted a few tests and indeed discovered a new result: through the combination of different poisons, Dong Qianjun could be cured in at most thirty years, but doing so would severely harm the root, requiring at least ten years of recuperation.

In other words, in a little over forty years, Dong Qianjun could resume cultivation and improve his cultivation level.

The downside was that the cost would be higher than the eighty-year treatment plan—many poisons were extremely rare and, naturally, expensive.

Dong Qianjun didn't hesitate to declare, "Then I choose this option… Master, once I reach the Advanced Dust-Free Level, I'll work hard to earn Spirit Stones to repay you."

Yue Qing smiled and was about to speak when suddenly Feng Jun spoke, "Hold on, Yun Shan… go and invite Sun Rongxun."

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