Chapter 66 – Bug Nerd Xu Feng (Request for Subscription)
Chapter 66 – Bug Nerd Xu Feng (begs for subscription)
“It’s done, Father, Mother hasn’t returned from Aunt Ying’s place yet.”
Sun Furong said.
Sun Sen nodded and said, “I’m inviting Senior Brother Shen for dinner today, so go serve the dinner! Just eat it at the Peach Grove!”
He walked towards the Peach Grove, and Shen Long hurriedly followed.
There was a green stone table and a few green stone stools placed in the Peach Tree Forest, on which was a set of rosewood tea set, and there were quite a number of green peaches hanging on the peach trees, which were not yet ripe.
Family-born disciples all live with their parents, if they have a dual-cultivation couple, the Royal Spirit Sect will provide a residence, the conditions of the residence depends on the disciple’s cultivation level, the higher the cultivation level, the better the conditions of the residence.
Sun Sen sat down, greeted Shen Long and picked up the teapot to pour tea for Shen Long.
“Senior brother Shen, there is nothing to entertain you, crude tea, please don’t mind.”
Sun Sen said.
“Senior brother Sun is polite, you can treat me to a late dinner, I’m more than happy!”
Shen Long said sincerely.
“In a few days it will be the small competition, Senior Brother Shen should attend it!”
Sun Sen took a sip of spirit tea and said casually.
Shen Long nodded his head and said, “Well, is Senior Sister Sun going to participate as well?”
Disciples under the age of sixty could participate in the small competition, and Sun Sen was already over sixty.
“Rong’er’s cultivation is too low to squeeze into the top fifty, there is no need to participate.”
Sun Sen said.
Sun Furong was only at the sixth level of Qi Refining, the chances of squeezing into the top fifty were too low, participating in the small competition now would only expose her strength and spirit beast spirit bugs too early, it would be better to participate in the next small competition and have a little more certainty by then.
The small competition has not yet been held, strong qi refining cultivators have already received attention, if you know what spirit beasts and spirit worms the competitors have raised, you can make preparations in advance, convenient to deal with.
Some Qi Refining cultivators didn’t want to expose their strength too early, and were dedicated to cultivating, and then obtaining a good ranking in the small competition.
“Senior Brother Sun, I heard from Senior Brother Qian that you have participated in many small competitions and at one point squeezed into the top twenty, can you give me some guidance? It’s my first time participating in a small competition and I don’t have much experience.”
Shen Long said politely.
“The small competition is presided over by Senior Uncle Liu or Senior Uncle Xu, two by two, the winner advances to the next round, the loser is eliminated, the disciple who advances to the final round goes to break into the Thousand Demon Tower, and is ranked according to the number of floors broken into and the time, fair and just.”
Sun Sen slowly said, the first two small competitions, the disciples who were able to advance to the top fifty had a minimum cultivation of the eighth level of Qi refining, and a late first stage spirit beast, and a few of the disciples had top-grade magic weapons.
“What is the strength of the fiftieth place in the first two small competitions?”
Shen Long pursued.
“I thought you would inquire about the strength of the first place.”
Sun Sen smiled slightly.
“It’s pointless to inquire about the first place when I can’t even enter the top fifty, my strength is five first-order great circle spells, and it’s hard to get into the top thirty, let alone the first place.”
Shen Long was self-aware, family-born disciples had a natural advantage, after they detected their spiritual roots, their parents chose their natal spirit beasts for them, all they needed to do was to feel at ease with their cultivation, their parents would provide the resources for immortal cultivation.
Some home born disciples inherited a late first stage spirit beast spirit bug at birth, spirit beast spirit bug spirit bird can be inherited, some cultivators will pass on their spirit beast spirit bug to their descendants before they sit down and die, in addition to this, some cultivators know that they can not advance to a higher realm, they will pass on their spirit beast spirit bug to their descendants or disciples.
In this way, the starting point of family-born disciples was generally higher than that of newly initiated disciples.
Shen Long had inquired with Qian Dafu, and the top twenty of the first two small competitions all had late first stage spirit beasts, and a few disciples also had top-grade magic weapons.
In order to ensure relative fairness and safety, the use of second-order talisman seals and talismanic treasures was not allowed in the small competition, and the use of them was not required to break into the Thousand Demon Tower, or else there would be even less of a path for ordinary disciples to get ahead.
“The first two times the 50th place winners of the small competition all had cultivation at the 8th level of Qi Refining, and all had mid 1st rank spirit beasts, three years have passed, their spirit beasts may have advanced to the late 1st rank, the competition is not too difficult, but some disciples don’t look at the little bit of rewards from the small competition, and go out to carry out missions to earn good deeds in preparation for exchanging for the Foundation Establishment Pills.”
Sun Sen took out a blue jade slip, handed it to Shen Long and said, “Senior brother Shen, this is the list of disciples who won the rankings in the previous two small competitions, including their cultivation level, the spells they have used, the spirit bugs and spirit beasts, and the arts they have mastered are all described, you should use it.”
Shen Long was a bit surprised, this information was worth a lot and had a certain reference role for him, Sun Sen took the initiative to give it to him, which made him a bit puzzled.
He did not have much friendship with Sun Sen, Sun Sen took the initiative to show kindness, it was really strange.
Sun Sen saw the confusion in Shen Long’s heart and explained, “I heard that you have cultivated the five first-order spells to the great circle, and I want to ask you to instruct Rong’er.”
He had been observing the new disciples and was more optimistic about Shen Long, who was not yet thirty years old and had cultivated five first-order spells to great perfection, cultivated hard and studied seriously, and most importantly, Shen Long was a loose cultivator in origin.
This information had a certain value for Shen Long, and it was not useful at all for disciples from Immortal Cultivation Families such as Gu Tianhong and Tang Yu Ting, their relatives could help collect it.
Sun Sen gave a copy to Qin Bao, Ye Yuyi and Ye Yutang as well, as a gesture of goodwill, to make good karma, whether the other party appreciated it or not was another story.
At this time, Sun Furong walked over with the food and placed it on top of the stone table.
Two dishes and one soup, steamed eel, small onion with tofu and egg soup, and a pot of rice, fragrant.
“I’ve long heard of Senior Brother Shen’s deeds, there are quite a few senior brothers and sisters who are not opponents of Senior Brother Shen, I would like to ask Senior Brother Shen to give me some guidance.”
Sun Furong said politely.
“Senior sister Sun fallacious praise, guidance can’t be talked about, communicate with each other!”
Shen Long said modestly.
“Let’s chat while eating! The food won’t taste good if it gets cold, the spirit vegetables are grown by us, and the fish are raised by us.”
Sun Sen said enthusiastically.
Sun Furong served the rice and the three of them chatted while eating.
Sun Furong currently cultivated two first-order spells to the great circle, respectively winding and earth wall spells, and she had recently been practicing fireball spells, humbly asking for advice from Shen Long.
Shen Long patiently pointed out, he could see that Sun Furong actually didn’t need him to point out, only needed to practice more, she could cultivate the fireball art to the great circle.
Just think about it, Sun Sen can give lessons to new disciples, the basic knowledge must be very solid, really can’t, the hidden scriptures in the pavilion has the previous person’s experience of practicing various spells, and there is also disciple exchange of cultivation experience in Performing Martial Arts Peak.
After having dinner and chatting for a tea time, Shen Long excused himself and left.
“Rong’er, do you know why father asked master Shen to instruct you?”
Sun Sen asked.
“My daughter understands, father is hoping that I will make good friends with Senior Brother Shen, there is no harm in having multiple friends.”
Sun Furong said.
Sun Sen nodded comfortably and said, “It’s good that you understand, Senior Brother Gu and Senior Sister Tang, these new disciples from Immortal Cultivation Families don’t need our help and can’t look at us, when you advance to the seventh level of Qi Refinement, your mother and I will apply for a transfer to work at the sect’s rudder to accumulate good deeds, you stay at the General Altar to properly cultivate in the hope that you can advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage.”
It is only when one is at home that one feels the cost of firewood and rice, and it is only when one raises a child that one realizes the kindness of one’s parents.
The Imperial Spirit Sect had many rudders, spirit mines, spirit medicine gardens, spirit beast gardens and so on, which needed disciples to work as hands, and many home born disciples usually transferred to rudders or stores opened by the Imperial Spirit Sect to work in order to alleviate the pressure on their descendants, so as to get more good merits and contribute to the exchange of Foundation Establishment Dan for their descendants.
Sun Sen only had one daughter, Sun Furong, and the pressure was less, Lin Cheng had four sons, and the pressure was especially high. “My daughter will work hard, then again, with Senior Brother Shen’s strength, it shouldn’t be difficult to advance into the top fifty, a lot of senior brothers and sisters at the ninth level of Qi Refining have been deployed out to do things, so I don’t know how far he can rank.”
Sun Furong analyzed.
Sun Sen nodded and said, “That’s how I see it too, you have to work hard too, well, you go and cultivate! I’ll clean up the dishes.”
Returning to the residence, Shen Long walked into the basement, sat on the stone bed, took out the jade slip given by Sun Sen, and pasted it on his brow.
After a while, Shen Long removed the jade slip, a thoughtful expression on his face.
The top fifty in the small competition had a minimum cultivation of the seventh level of qi refining, not to say that the higher the cultivation, the higher the ranking, if the strength of the spirit animal is strong, it is just as capable of obtaining a good ranking.
Shen Long put away the jade slip and practiced cultivation.
The night passed quickly, early the next morning, before dawn, Shen Long went out and walked towards the mountain.
He hadn’t gone far when Ye Yuqing’s voice came from behind him, “Senior brother Shen, good morning!”
Shen Long stopped his steps, turned his head to look behind him, and saw Ye Yuqing and Ye Yutang walking head-on.
“Good morning! Senior Sister Ye, today Uncle Xu is preaching at the Dao Discourse Peak, I plan to go over and listen, do you guys want to go over and listen?”
Shen Long said.
“Senior Brother Qian told us earlier, we’ll go over after having breakfast.”
Ye Yutang said.
They arrived at the Spirit Meal Pavilion, and there were only a few disciples dining in the lobby.
They had breakfast and left the Spirit Dining Pavilion.
Ye Yutang released the Flame Leaving Falcon and walked onto the back of the Flame Leaving Falcon, with Ye Yuyi and Shen Long following closely behind.
“Go!”
Ye Yutang’s right hand gently patted the back of the Flying Falcon, and the Flying Falcon’s wings gently flapped, whipping up a hot wind as it flew towards high altitude.
Along the way over, they ran into quite a few qi refining cultivators, most of whom were riding spirit birds for transportation.
Shen Long saw Gu Tianhong, who was standing on the back of a Golden Winged Thunder Lion.
After half an hour, they appeared above a 10,000 feet high emerald green mountain peak, and at the top of the mountain was a green stone square covering a vast area.
In the center of the verdant stone square was a circular high platform more than ten feet large, around the high platform were gathered thousands of Royal Spirit Sect disciples, mostly Qi Refining cultivators, there were also a dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators, a large number of Royal Spirit Sect disciples came from all over the world.
Xu Feng was a well-known bug nerd in the Royal Spirit Sect, and many of the Royal Spirit Sect disciples encountered problems when cultivating spirit bugs, and listening to Xu Feng’s sermon was a way to hopefully answer their confusion.
Shen Long was a little surprised that so many people had actually come, he had underestimated Xu Feng’s influence.
The fire departure falcon landed on the verdant square, Shen Long three people walked down, Ye Yutang put away the fire departure falcon.
“Senior Sister Ye, Senior Brother Shen, I’m here!”
A familiar man’s voice sounded.
Shen Long looked along the source of the voice and saw Qian Dafu.
Shen Long quickly walked over, took out a blue futon and placed it on the ground and sat on it.
“Senior Brother Qian, you came so early!”
Shen Long was surprised.
“It’s rare to run into Uncle Xu’s sermon, so it’s natural to come a little earlier, Senior Sister Ning came earlier than me.”
Qian Dafu pointed in a certain direction and said.
Shen Long looked in the direction Qian Da Fu pointed and saw Ning Qian Qian.
Gu Tianhong was striking up a conversation with Ning Qian Qian, the distance was a bit far, coupled with the conversations of other cultivators, Shen Long could not hear what Gu Tianhong and Ning Qian Qian were chatting about.
As far as he knew, Gu Tianhong had launched a crazy pursuit of Ning Qian Qian.
Ning Qian Qian didn’t pay much attention to Gu Tianhong, Gu Tianhong often meets Ning Qian Qian by chance, even in order to have a common topic, he purchased a golden winged thunder lion, sticking to Ning Qian Qian like a dog skin plaster, Ning Qian Qian has always been nonchalant.
“Senior brother Gu is quite obsessed!”
A rough man’s voice rang out.
Shen Long turned his head and saw Qin Bao.
“Senior brother Qin, long time no see.”
Shen Long opened his mouth to greet.
Qin Bao nodded and said, “Senior Brother Shen, you should be participating in the small competition! I hope you can squeeze into the top fifty!”
“By the auspicious words of Senior Brother Qin.”
Shen Long smiled faintly.
Shen Long and Qin Bao chatted idly, after more than two years of initiation, he didn’t have much contact with disciples from Immortal Cultivation Families such as Gu Tianhong and Tang Yu Ting, and the words they said didn’t add up to more than ten, he chatted with Qin Bao a bit more, we were all from casual cultivators, and there was more of a sense of identity.
After a tea time, I don’t know who shouted out, “Uncle Xu is here.”
The crowd of cultivators stopped talking and looked left and right, searching for Xu Feng.
A golden light appeared in the distant sky, a flash stopped in the sky above the Discourse Peak, the recluse converged, and a golden centipede more than ten zhang long appeared, with four pairs of thin silver wings on its back, a row of scythe-like golden claws under its belly, strangely long tentacles, and a pair of sharp mouthparts exposed, the golden centipede’s body surface had some flame-like patterns, which were all natural.
“A second-ranked Eight-Winged Thunderfire Centipede!”
Qian Dafu recognized this kind of strange insect and was filled with envy, the Eight-Winged Thunderfire Centipede was ranked at the 735th place on the Heaven and Earth Strange Insects List, and was proficient in the two systems of thunder and fire spells.
A good-looking yellow-shirted man sat on the head of the Eight-Winged Thunder Fire Centipede, and the yellow-shirted man had a dozen spirit beast pouches tied around his waist.
The eight-winged Thunderfire Centipede flew down on top of the circular platform, and the yellow-shirted man walked down.
Shen Long and the other Qi Refining disciples stood up, bowed, and said in unison, “Greetings to Uncle Xu.”
Xu Feng nodded, his right hand tapping the golden spirit beast pouch on his waist, a sound cicada flew out from it and landed in front of him, a second-stage sound cicada.
Shen Long didn’t hear his fellow disciples mention Xu Feng, Xu Feng’s ancestors were disciples of the Royal Spirit Sect for eighteen generations, and had produced a number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and he was a single descendant of three generations, and his grandparents’ parents were Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and they were all currently alive.
In terms of wealth alone, Ning Qian Qian is far inferior to Xu Feng.
Under the cultivation of his elders, Xu Feng had shown a keen interest in spirit worms since he was a child, and had inherited a number of spirit worms from his grandparents’ parents, with more than ten second-order spirit worms in his possession.
Unlike most of the Royal Spirit Sect’s disciples, Xu Feng chose spirit bugs to act as his own spirit bugs.
(End of chapter)