On Bai Yu's slightly pale face, a hint of hatred and killing intent appeared, gripping the Qingling sword at his waist, he said "More than a month ago, I was driven out of the 27th cultivation hut. This time I'm back, I will take back my lost hut!"

  Ye Chen stayed in Tianyun Xianyuan City for several days, making all sorts of perfect preparations.

  At dawn, Ye Chen left the city gate of Xiancheng and came to the bustling commercial district outside the city. He found a horse dealer, haggled over the price for a while, and spent 110 spirit stones to buy a low-grade spirit steed as his mount. He was ready to set off towards Qing Shan Hu.

  The Ling Chui is not easily startled by wild demonic beasts and its speed is several times faster than that of ordinary precious horses.

  The sunset meadow and the Boarwood Forest outside Xiancheng were already very familiar to Ye Chen, but he didn't know much about Qing Shan Lake, which was even farther away. However, since many large family clans' Qi-refining middle-stage cultivators went to Qing Shan Lake to cultivate, it must be a suitable place for cultivation.

  Ye Chen decided to go and take a look at the situation.

  At this moment, a white and handsome young man with a Qingling sword on his waist rode out of the city on a Lingma, unintentionally catching a glimpse of Ye Chen, who had just bought another Lingma from a merchant outside the city, and was taken aback.

  "Ye Chen!"

  A white-haired young man holding a horse's reins shouted towards the crowd.

  Ye Chen led the Lingma out of the crowd, turned his head and saw a white handsome young man, couldn't help but show surprise, and smiled, "White Young Master, you're also leaving the city!"

  "Where are you going? Out to gather medicine?"

  Bai Yu smiled faintly and said, his smile unconsciously carrying a hint of shyness.

  "No, it's not easy to come across such excellent spiritual herbs. I was lucky to have picked those two Seven-Leaf Ling Ginsengs the other day. This time I'm going out of town, planning to take a look at Qing Shan Lake and cultivate myself."

  Ye Chen stepped onto the stirrup and lightly mounted his spirited horse, holding the reins in hand.

  "With your cultivation at the third layer of Qi Refining, you can also go to that place! I'm also going to Qing Shan Lake to cultivate, since it's on the way, let's go together!"

  Bai Yu looked at Ye Chen for a moment and nodded.

  Two people rode horses on the road outside the city.

  "Brother, you seem not to be from Tianyun Xianyuan Castle. I wonder where you are from and if you have a master?"

  "A loose cultivator from a small country, without any master inheritance, only became a cultivator due to a coincidence of fate."

  Ye Chen smiled faintly and said.

  "You're a loose cultivator, without a master's inheritance?!"

  Bai Yu finally revealed a look of shock.

  Ye Chen's age didn't seem to be much older than his, probably around fifteen or sixteen years old. He just appeared more calm and composed due to having gone through more experiences. At this age, he had already cultivated to the third layer of the Qi Refining stage. If this were placed in a family heir, it wouldn't have been unusual at all.

  However, if it's a loose cultivator, then that would be quite astonishing. Whether it's spiritual roots, innate talent, or perseverance, or even fate with the immortals, they're probably all top-notch to have cultivated to the third layer of Qi Refining at such an age.

  Bai Yu's family was a major clan in Tianyun Xuan Castle, and he usually socialized with fellow major clan disciples or at least outstanding disciples from smaller families. He rarely interacted with loose cultivators. Loose cultivators didn't have fixed powers and wouldn't easily provoke conflict with family disciples without reason.

  "He's a loose cultivator, but it's also worth getting close to him and pulling him in. At least we can't let him get too close to the White family's enemy!"

  Bai Yu nodded slightly in agreement.

  Two riders on swift horses galloped down from Tianyun Peak towards Qing Shan Lake in the distance.

  Ye Chen learned some information about Qing Shan Hu through his conversation with Bai Yu.

  After half a day, the two of them passed through the Sunset Grassland and the Boar Forest, and finally arrived at the Qing Shan Lake area.

  Beyond the porcupine forest, Ye Chen was surprised to see a large number of spiritual fields along this road.

  The area around Qing Shan Lake is a small plain, with rows and rows of estates, planted with spiritual grains in the spiritual fields, and medicinal herbs in the medicinal gardens. Some have already matured, emitting dense spiritual grains and fragrant medicinal aromas. Others have just been planted and are still sprouting.

  All the large and small manors have monks guarding them, as well as high watchtowers, protecting the spiritual fields with arrays to prevent demonic beasts and birds from trampling and stealing food, or monks from stealing.

  "Why are there so many spiritual fields in this area?"

  Ye Chen was shocked.

  "Qingshan Lake is the most suitable place for planting Linggu spirits near Xiancheng. All of them are irrigated with Qingshan Lake's spiritual lake water, and it's very convenient to use spiritual water. The spiritual fields and medicine gardens in this area are almost all owned by the major families of Xiancheng, and my Bai family occupies at least one-twentieth of them!"

  Hakushi was somewhat proud.

  It took them a whole hour to pass through the vast spiritual field and medicinal garden area, and the two riders on horseback finally arrived near the lakeside of Qing Shan Lake.

  There are many more cultivators active around Qing Shan Lake, and most of them are above the second or third layer of Qi Refining. Cultivators at the first layer of Qi Refining are rarely seen. Along the lake shore of Qing Shan Lake, there are large and small tents set up, ranging from simple and low-key mouse skin tents that can accommodate one or two people to luxurious and massive tiger skin tents that can hold over a dozen people. Within sight, there are no less than a thousand tents. In the distance, there are even more.

  Ye Chen looked back and saw that this Qing Shan Lake was hundreds of miles in circumference, with a vast expanse of blue waves rippling in the distance.

  Ye Chen clearly felt that the spiritual energy of Qing Shan Lake was more abundant than the Xian City on top of Tian Yun Peak, no wonder many families with three layers or above of Qi Refining stage came to this place for cultivation.

  "White gentleman, is this the training hut by the Green Mountain Lake? Do all the cultivators set up tents here to cultivate? ... This hundreds of miles long lake shore, the place is extremely large, it seems that there is no need to fight for space?"

  Ye Chen asked in surprise.

  "Of course not here. Look in that direction, those mountains northwest!"

  Bai Yu shook his head and pointed to the distance.

  Ye Chen raised his eyes and looked into the distance.

  To the northwest of Qing Shan Lake, there are dozens of large and small peaks, with the highest being nearly a thousand feet. From afar, it's hard to see anything special about them. However, the water in Qing Shan Lake clearly comes from the streams and gullies of these large and small peaks, flowing down and gathering into hundreds of miles of lake.

  "The lake water of Qing Shan Lake is full of spiritual energy, and those sources, shouldn't the spiritual energy be even thicker!"

  Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat.

  Bai Yu didn't wait for him to guess and directly spoke up.

  "There are a total of 126 spiritual springs on dozens of large and small mountain peaks around Qing Shan Lake!"

  "These spiritual springs vary in size, and the spiritual energy beside them is one to three times more concentrated than Qing Shan Lake. They can quickly restore a cultivator's magical powers. Next to each spring is a cultivation hut that can accommodate one cultivator for residence and cultivation. Cultivators who build huts here and cultivate will see their cultivation speed increase as expected. This place is the closest to Xian City, making it the most suitable location for cultivating magic and yuan Shen. Not only does cultivating here speed up progress, but it also saves on spiritual stone expenditure."

  "In accordance with the rules of Tianyun Xianyuan City, these cultivation houses are specially prepared for the children of Xiancheng to charge into the demon tower. As long as the cultivator's Yuanshen is in the Qi Refining stage below the 6th layer and under the age of 25, they can cultivate in these most suitable cultivation houses."

  "These 126 cottages do not have a fixed master, and according to the quality of the spiritual spring, each cottage has a ranking. As long as one has the strength, anyone can go and seize it, driving out the old master. Those who are able to occupy the cottage with their strength are naturally the most powerful young cultivators in Xian City."

  "As for other ordinary cultivators who failed to seize one of these 126 cultivation cottages, they can only cultivate at Qing Shan Hu."

  On Bai Yu's slightly pale face, a hint of hatred and killing intent appeared, gripping the Qingling sword at his waist, he said "More than a month ago, I was driven out of the 27th cultivation hut. This time I'm back, I will take back my lost hut!"

  He glanced at Ye Chen, "Brother Ye, go find a place to cultivate in Qing Shan Lake by yourself, I'll head to hut number 27!"

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