"Finally, I can have a truly safe environment for cultivation and farming!"

This day, Qi Ping had been looking forward to for a long time!

Only after experiencing the constant worry of having his secrets discovered and the constant fear of unforeseen dangers does one realize the value of a stable farming environment.

At this moment, Qi Ping could finally plant various precious spiritual medicines without worrying about being discovered, and he didn't have to collect all of them at the slightest disturbance.

"Now is just the beginning, there's still a long way to go to truly build it up!"

...

With a stable environment for cultivation and nurturing spiritual medicines, Qi Ping became more focused on his research in the days that followed.

The current space of a hundred square meters was really too small for Qi Ping, and it was urgent to raise the level of the illusion array to cover a larger area.

First, he planted all the spiritual medicines he had on him. After the little spirit fox and the little flower demon worked together to build a small wooden house, the remaining space inside the illusion array became quite small, making it somewhat oppressive to move around, and even slightly inconvenient to do a few activities.

However, this situation did not last long. After spending another month and a half, Qi Ping finally researched out a tier one intermediate illusion array.

With Qi Ping's efforts, under his abundant spiritual power and power of divine soul, an array far larger than a tier one low-level illusion array rose from the ground!

"Intermediate illusion array! It worked!"

Qi Ping looked at this array, over ten times larger than before, feeling extremely satisfied!

Nearly two thousand square meters!

The area had almost increased twentyfold!

Although this area was still not particularly large, it was much more spacious compared to the previous one hundred square meters illusion array.

The tasks ahead became straightforward.

Clearing stones, transporting soil....

Though somewhat troublesome, Qi Ping still found joy in it.

For a cultivator with a storage bag and spiritual power, handling such tasks was no hardship, and given Qi Ping's current ninth-layer of Qi Refining status, handling this kind of basic construction was extremely simple.

And after holding back for so long, the little spirit fox and the little flower demon finally could do a great deal, adding lots of flowers, grasses, fruit trees, and such to the illusion array, and several beautiful small wooden houses were quickly expanded and renovated.

As time passed day by day, most of the places inside the illusion array were covered with a layer of thick black soil, and the planted spiritual medicines grew more and more lush.

Moreover, Qi Ping now had about twenty kinds of spiritual medicines planted, such as blood ginseng, fire spirit grass, fire crystal fruit, flowing light grass... These various mystical and extraordinary spiritual medicines combined to make Qi Ping's territory look quite full of spiritual qi.

The concentration of spiritual qi in the air and the fragrance of various spiritual medicines also became more intense.

With the decorations set up by the little flower demon and little spirit fox, and the busy bees flying around, it quite resembled a small paradise, comparing to those barren stones from before, it was vastly improved.

This feeling of building up his territory step by step was incredibly satisfying for Qi Ping.

In his previous life, Qi Ping would occasionally play management or territory-building games, but the games' constraints were far too many, nowhere near the freedom of constructing here.

With the resources of the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Qi Ping was confident in building the most perfect territory.

Moreover, building a territory here meant no rent or taxes to pay, and not being managed by others... This feeling of complete ownership was hard to find elsewhere.

There were only two aspects that were somewhat troublesome for Qi Ping.

One was the construction of the array.

To protect this land of his, he must rely on arrays to hide and protect his territory, requiring him to reach a very high level of mastery in arrays.

Otherwise, after building his territory, having cultivated various precious spiritual medicines and resource-producing spirit trees, they would end up as someone else's gain, and that would be the most tragic.

Fortunately, his talent in the path of array was not bad, and after researching arrays for so long, Qi Ping genuinely enjoyed the path of array.

The other was the creation of spiritual land.

This was the biggest challenge Qi Ping faced in building his own exclusive territory.

"Currently, I still have four Spiritual Origin Stone Pillars, and the spiritual qi they generate should be enough for my use until the early-stage Foundation Establishment, maybe even enough until the mid-stage."

"But this spiritual qi can only satisfy the cultivation needs for me and my animal companions, not enough for planting other things, so I must find a way to create more spiritual land at low cost!"

However, Qi Ping was not too anxious about this; these could wait until after Foundation Establishment.

Once he had Foundation Establishment strength and the bee swarm evolved to tier two, his survival skills would greatly improve, giving him more confidence to accomplish these tasks.

With Foundation Establishment strength and a tier two bee swarm as a baseline, it would be much safer for Qi Ping to return to the Mortal World to find Old Man Zhou, seek out a fifth animal companion, acquire the spiritual medicines needed for Foundation Establishment cultivation, purchase production-type spirit tree seeds, find materials for creating a spirit field... and so on.

...

After setting up the intermediate illusion array and creating the spirit field, Qi Ping gradually settled down.

The intermediate illusion array was already sufficient to conceal Qi Ping here completely.

In the time that followed, Qi Ping focused on researching arrays, nurturing spiritual medicines, and steadily working to cultivate his realm to Qi Refining Perfection.

As long as he achieved Qi Refining Perfection, Qi Ping could attempt to break through to Foundation Establishment.

Thus, Qi Ping planned to focus on cultivation until his breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, except for selling honey and asking Meng Yan to help him find a Foundation Establishment Technique and knowledge on breaking through to Foundation Establishment, he didn't plan to go out for the time being.

If it weren't for needing to earn spirit stones to purchase Foundation Establishment Techniques before breaking through, Qi Ping would have planned to cultivate here all the way to Foundation Establishment.

Anyway, he had not only comprehended the true meaning of fire but had also realized the Dao Heart Realm; breaking through to Foundation Establishment was already as certain as it could be.

After cultivating steadily for two or three months, Qi Ping learned something quite shocking from Meng Yan.

At this time, in a corner of Qingshi County, Meng Yan stood in front of Qi Ping with a slightly pale face, his breath somewhat erratic, clearly having suffered a severe injury.

Even more surprising was that Meng Yan's aura was surprisingly already at Foundation Establishment!

"Brother Qi, the Cyan Origin Sect suffered a crushing defeat at the Foundation Establishment battlefield in Qingshi County... My master has already instructed me to leave here immediately!" Meng Yan said, his tone full of helplessness.

Because Qi Ping's strength was still at the Qi Refining stage, he hadn't been called to participate in the recent battles.

"The Cyan Origin Sect lost?" Qi Ping was slightly shocked to hear this.

After all, in his mind, the Cyan Origin Sect had always been a colossus that was difficult to shake, previously holding the advantage in Qingshi County, where people from other sects foundered repeatedly.

Unexpectedly, within less than half a year, the Cyan Origin Sect was so utterly defeated here!

However, Qi Ping was more concerned about Meng Yan's injuries, so he asked immediately:

"Meng brother, how are your injuries?"

"No fatal wounds, just a bit weak, don't worry!" Meng Yan said with a smile.

These injuries would more or less heal in a few days.

"This is the Foundation Establishment Technique and some breakthrough experiences you asked me to find, Brother Qi. I also documented some of my insights on breaking through to Foundation Establishment in this jade slip..."

As Meng Yan spoke, he handed over a jade slip and a few ancient texts.

On the cover of the top ancient text, there were three bold and forceful characters: "Golden Flame Technique"!

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