Chapter 4: The Reappearance of the Immortal Web, A Narrow Escape from Death

  Lin Feng arrived at the back of the medicine garden, in a small valley, and saw that there were tens of mu of spiritual herbs inside. He was immediately stunned!

  These spiritual herbs are all of the same variety, but on each and every one of them, there are almost a few yellowed leaves hanging! Lin Feng wants to pick these withered leaves completely, at least needs three days time! But that Yu surname cultivator, actually orders him to complete it before nightfall!

  Yu Xiu Shi is the person in charge of this medicine garden, and what he says is something that a miscellaneous disciple like Lin Feng absolutely does not dare to disobey. So although Lin Feng knows that this is an impossible task, he still works hard at it with all his might, thinking that as long as he works hard, Yu Xiu Shi will not intentionally look for trouble again.

  But it wasn't until night fell that Lin Feng realized how ridiculous his idea was. The Yu surname repairman slowly walked over, and upon seeing that Lin Feng had only picked less than a third of the dry leaves, he suddenly became furious.

  Lin Feng said with a bitter smile: "So many spiritual herbs, I only have one afternoon's time, no matter what, it can't be done!"

  Yu Xiu Shi threw his hand towards Lin Feng's body, and a handful of spiritual seedlings were all thrown onto Lin Feng's body. These seeds were all defective, taken from mature spiritual herbs, and generally could not be planted because their survival rate was extremely low, and their growth rate was extremely slow, so they were all treated as waste products.

  Yu Xiu Shi threw the wheat seeds at Lin Feng's body and then pointed at Lin Feng's nose, scolding loudly: "What are you? How dare you talk back to me?! Starting tomorrow, get yourself to the mountain slope across from here and start digging! If you dare to slack off, be careful or I'll make sure you can't even walk away with your pants on!"

  Yu Xiu Shi finished speaking and left with a huff. Lin Feng looked at his short and stout, yet arrogant back, and suddenly felt a surge of nameless fire in his heart, but it quickly dissipated. After all, Yu Xiu Shi was a practitioner of the Qi Refining stage, first layer, while Lin Feng was only at the sixth layer of the Rotation and Reflection stage; no matter what, he couldn't defeat him.

  To defeat the Yu surname cultivator and avenge himself, Lin Feng must improve his cultivation. However, the spiritual root in his body has been shattered, and Lin Feng can no longer cultivate, this heart-wrenching pain once again hits him, Lin Feng's hatred for Wu Tianbai unknowingly deepens!

  Just as Lin Feng was lost in thought, another miscellaneous disciple walked up to him and whispered, "You're new here, aren't you? You don't understand the rules yet, that's why you're suffering!"

  "What rules?" Lin Feng asked in puzzlement.

  The miscellaneous servant disciple looked around and saw that no one was there, so he said with a sigh of relief: "My name is Sun Liang. At first, I was like you, confused and bullied by others. Later, I finally understood that in the Qingdan Gate, there is an unwritten rule!

  For us, miscellaneous disciples like us, to live comfortably in Qingdan Gate, every month we must take out half of our salary to bribe disciples like Yu Bo who are in charge of collecting herbs! Otherwise, you will suffer endless punishment!"

  Lin Feng's anger surged up again: "Take out half of the salary? I only have a few spirit stones for one month. These medicine gathering disciples are too ruthless!"

  Sun Liang sighed: "Who says it's not? The Qingdanmen's herbal apprentices, each of them has dozens of miscellaneous apprentices under their hands, and some have hundreds. Each miscellaneous apprentice pays one to two pieces of spiritual stone every month, don't you think they're making a fortune?"

  Lin Feng nodded: "No wonder when I came, that Yu Bo disdainfully sent too few miscellaneous disciples. It turns out that there is a lot to it! Are they relying on miscellaneous disciples to make a living?"

  Sun Liang said in a low voice: "Isn't that right! We call Yu Bo 'Yu Paopi' behind his back, he's an expert at squeezing our hard-earned money!"

  "Hmph! You think you can swindle half a spirit stone from me? Don't even think about it!"

  Sun Liang stared blankly at Lin Feng: "What, you don't plan on stirring up some trouble? He's the leader around here!"

  Lin Feng gritted his teeth and said, "The spirit stones I've worked so hard to earn, why should I give him half? Moreover, the spirit stones I'm earning now haven't even reached my hands yet, where would I have spirit stones to give him?"

  Sun Liang advised: "Miscellaneous workers can pay half of their salary in advance, if you can't hand it over tomorrow, Yu Bo will definitely make things difficult for you!"

  Lin Feng didn't care: "Whatever he wants to do with it, I've made up my mind!"

  Sun Liang advised a few more words, but Lin Feng was unmoved. In the end, Sun Liang could only shake his head and leave. Lin Feng looked around and found that there was no one else in sight, it seemed that today's work had come to an end. He identified the direction and headed towards his own quarters.

  All disciples of the Qingdan Gate have their own independent living quarters. They are called living quarters, but in fact they are just simple caves, a cave dug out on the mountain wall.

  All cultivators live in such rooms, but some have abundant spiritual energy and are more suitable for cultivation. However, only those with high strength and seniority can build their caves on the spiritual veins with abundant spiritual energy. The caves where cultivators like Lin Feng reside have very little spiritual energy, so their cultivation speed is naturally slow.

  Lin Feng arrived at the entrance of a cave, took out his own identity jade card from his storage bag, and stuck the card to the door. The cave door opened. This is the unified way for all disciples of Qingdanmen to enter and exit their own caves. The jade card is both proof of one's identity and a key to entering and exiting the cave.

  All masters have their own personal secrets, so when setting up a cave, they will set up some arrays to shield others' divine consciousness and avoid prying eyes. However, for low-level disciples like Lin Feng, the arrays on the cave are the simplest kind.

  The cave was very narrow, Lin Feng lay on his own stone bed, everything in the past seemed like a picture floating before his eyes, from the hard practice since he was a child, to the later cultivation speed standing out, and then to the later Lin family being destroyed, himself escaping from the Taiyi Mountains, all the way to now as a miscellaneous disciple of Qingdan Gate.

  Every fragment, every period, he cannot shake off the shadow of the Xiuzhen Grand School. At that time, the Lin family had already declined, but in the Xiuzhen world, they were not at the bottom, at least stronger than those scattered cultivators who had no backing or support.

  But even so, the Lin family still gave Lin Feng a feeling of living under someone else's roof, they had to be careful with their words and actions, being extremely respectful to those high-ranking members of the Taiyi Sect, one misstep would bring about disaster!

  To be honest, Lin Feng had long been unable to tolerate this kind of life! He couldn't stand the spoiled sons like Wu Gang, relying on Wu Tianbai's power to do whatever they wanted, so in that martial arts competition, he took the opportunity to teach him a lesson, but also suffered Wu Tianbai's revenge of exterminating his family.

  A bloody lesson made Lin Feng understand a truth, the strong prey on the weak is an unchangeable fact in the cultivation world. If he wanted to resist Wu Tianbai and Taiyi Sect's strong men, there was only one way, that is to make himself stronger first!

  However, thinking that his spiritual root had shattered, Lin Feng's heart seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar. He didn't need to say that he couldn't get stronger now, and even making a tiny bit of progress was already impossible.

  Although he knew he couldn't continue to cultivate, Lin Feng had developed a habit over the years. His Quelong Jue would enter its best cultivation state whenever it was quiet at night. The recent family tragedy had made him slack off in his cultivation, but now he was eager to try again.

  The cultivation of the Quelong Jue is divided into more than a dozen stages, each corresponding to different levels of ordinary cultivators. Lin Feng is currently still wandering in the lowest level of the entry stage, equivalent to the Xuanzhao period of ordinary cultivators.

  The Quan Long Jue can be divided into three stages. The first stage is equivalent to the first three layers of the Xuan Zhao period, the second stage is equivalent to the sixth layer of the Xuan Zhao period, and the third stage is equivalent to the ninth layer of the Xuan Zhao period, which is also the final layer of this level.

  The entry phase of the Quelong Jue is cultivated to the third stage, or the Xuanzhao period cultivator is cultivated to the ninth layer. If there is another breakthrough, it will be promoted to the Qigong period. The spiritual power capacity in the body of a Qigong period cultivator is much larger than that of a Xuanzhao period cultivator, so jumping level challenges may exist, but inter-level challenges are very difficult!

  Lin Feng continued to lie in bed, too lazy to get up and meditate properly, because in his opinion, even if he sat up, it would be futile, because since the spiritual root had shattered, the yuan Shen inside his body was fundamentally unable to absorb the external spiritual energy.

  But when he was practicing according to the Qu Long Jue's method, a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared in his body, which shocked him so much that he almost jumped up!

  The primordial spirit inside the dantian, without a spiritual root as its foundation, is still absorbing external spiritual energy just like before!

  However, unlike before, the Yuanshen that had lost its spiritual root support was now connected to the Xianwang inside Lin Feng's body as a whole! The nine flowers in the Xianwang were like powerful air intakes, continuously absorbing the external spiritual energy and then channeling it to the central position of the Yuanshen.

  Lin Feng was overjoyed, for this undoubtedly told him that he could continue to cultivate from now on! As long as he could continuously absorb spiritual energy, the spiritual power in his dantian would gradually become stronger, and his actual strength would also continue to increase!