Chapter 42: Refining One's Mind

  Half a month has passed, and during this time, the operation of various county cities has gradually returned to normal. The number of believers is increasing, although some will be left for the divided city gods, but a larger part is transmitted to Pan Hao's body through the god seat. For a time, the power of faith and incense offerings has not decreased, but has increased significantly.

  Boom, Pan Hao's divine soul leapt out, its red light shining brightly, majestic and awe-inspiring. Pan Hao stretched out his right hand, a dense red glow swirling around it. Boom, the red glow condensed and then exploded. However, all of this transformation took place within Pan Hao's hand. After the explosion, it was as if a singularity in the universe had burst forth, forming a small dimensional space.

  This facet is wrapped in a bubble on the outside, with mountains, rivers, lakes, grasslands and valleys inside. However, the vegetation is sparse and still needs to grow. The entire small facet is pinched in Pan Hao's hand.

  Pan Hao's face turned slightly pale, his divine energy greatly depleted. Fortunately, he had managed to find a place to settle down. Unfortunately, there was no legendary divine artifact, otherwise the realm he opened would not be just a dimension, but a world, an existence that could grow into a great world. Pan Hao let out a faint sigh and bitterly smiled at his own greed.

  A loud, piercing sound, and the space was suddenly torn apart by Pan Hao's hand. Pan Hao's face turned even paler, and cold sweat dripped down his forehead. With a swift motion, he sent the newly-born miniature plane into the spatial rift, and it vanished within. Pan Hao hastily closed the rift, but at great cost to his divine energy. Even the divine throne within his body began to feel somewhat illusory.

  Pan Hao hastily returned his divine soul to his physical body, or else the newly condensed divine throne would shatter again, and all his efforts over these days would be destroyed in an instant.

  The divine soul returned to the body for nourishment, and Pan Hao was also sensing the small facet that had just been sent into the spatial rift. This facet existed outside of space, attached to this world, absorbing energy from the outside world and slowly growing.

  In the future, this plane will grow up and become Pan Hao's exclusive plane. If Pan Hao can continue to reach the purple body of the divine way, then this plane is where Pan Hao will open the heavenly court in the future.

  In Pingzhou Prefecture of Song Dynasty, this prefecture is adjacent to Qingyu Prefecture, and the commercial exchanges and cultural exchanges with Qingyu Prefecture are very frequent and dense.

  In the city of Rongcheng, Yongzhou Prefecture, business was booming and people were coming and going in an endless stream. In a luxurious inn in Rongcheng, two men and two women sat in a second-floor private room.

  The windows here face the bustling streets below, and the situation below is clear at a glance. One of the men, dressed in a green shirt, wore a jade crown on his head, with a white jade hairpin passing through it, his face was like a jade crown, and he had a elegant demeanor.

  He looked at the bustling streets below and sighed: "This mortal world is indeed prosperous, but it can't withstand the erosion of time!"

  "What Brother Song said is absolutely right! We cultivators also hope to be able to defy the heavens and live forever. Otherwise, we would end up like ordinary people, turning into a handful of yellow earth in the end and unable to escape the cycle of reincarnation!" A young man wearing a blue shirt, who was equally elegant and refined, took over the conversation.

  The two girls next to them heard this and a pink-clothed girl smiled: "Brother Song is a first-rate talent, and it's only taken him fifty years to achieve his current level of cultivation. If he can take it one step further, he'll be a Golden Dan True Person! When that happens, don't forget to take care of us younger siblings!"

  "Exactly, exactly!"

  Upon hearing this sentence, the green-clothed girl beside him also smiled and chimed in.

  "Refining golden elixirs is not that easy, or else Master would not have sent me down the mountain to temper myself and cleanse my mind!" Song Qing said with a bitter smile.

  The little butterfly in the pink dress opposite blinked her eyes cutely: "I believe Brother Song will be able to condense his dan soon! You are the top elite among our generation of disciples, if you can't condense your dan, how can we live?"

  "We must refine our golden elixir before we can be said to have a boundless future!"

  The green-clad flower girl couldn't help but sigh upon hearing the small butterfly's words.

  "Haha, Brother Song, don't be modest, you're already fully prepared, just one step away from success! As for me, I'm still in the early stages of my journey, a long way to go!" Blue-shirted young man Zhang Jun laughed loudly.

  After a burst of laughter, the small butterfly, who looked spirited and peculiar, said: "Have you guys heard? On the other side of Qingyu County, I heard that some divine spirit has appeared. Our next stop will be to go take a look, what do you say?"

  "I've also heard about this. During our stay, the inn has been circulating quite a few rumors." Zhang Jun nodded, and such strange things had also piqued his interest.

  "You guys said, could it be that there's a monk playing tricks on us!" The delicate face of the flower language was deeply thinking.

  "It should be a master, possibly also in the mortal world, we can't be rash and cause conflict."

  Otherwise, what leisure time would there be to mingle among ordinary people!

  "Think about it, it's really true!"

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  Qingyu County, Pan Hao was sitting leisurely in a courtyard, sipping tea from time to time. On his lap sat Xiao Lian, the little loli, playing with a small necklace that Pan Hao had given her a few days ago. Her delicate and tender face would occasionally burst out laughing like a silver bell, and then she would kiss Pan Hao on the mouth.

  They were followed by two newly purchased maidservants, and this mansion was empty with only himself and Xiwen, which was really too cold. So he recruited and bought a lot of maidservants, cooks and old ladies, and finally added a lot of people to the mansion. When he was busy, someone could take care of Xiwen.

  As for the courtyard in Qu County, it hasn't been sold yet, and Li Bo and others are still taking care of it.

  Pan Hao closed his eyes, but in fact, a part of his consciousness had been observing the small space-time that he had opened up earlier. This space-time had grown from the size of a palm to over a hundred square meters and was still rapidly expanding. Pan Hao gazed at this space-time with delight, for it would be his future stronghold!

  Suddenly, Pan Hao's heart moved, and four cultivators actually entered his own territory. However, Pan Hao relaxed immediately, seeing that the highest among the four was only in the Prenatal Dan period; as long as they didn't cause trouble, he couldn't be bothered to care about them.

  However, Pan Hao still left a part of his consciousness to pay attention to the small world of Wan Nian Chuan. Although he was already at the deep red body level, in the Xiu Shi Da Shi Jie book, Pan Hao knew that there were many terrifying existences among the cultivators. It's not that the small ones are not feared, but rather that after getting rid of the small ones, the old ones will come out again, and it will never end.

  The order of Qingyu County has been initially completed, and the next step is to expand outward. Qingyu County is adjacent to three counties: Dongrong County, Beifu Tian County, and Xihong County. Among them, Rong County and Qingyun County have the closest exchanges. The flow of information between the two counties is much faster than that of the other two counties, and the local customs are also more consistent.

  The next goal is then Rong County! Pan Hao concluded after comparing the situation of the three counties.