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Chapter 697 - Chapter 697 Chapter 697 A Demand for the Out-of-Dust Phase

Chapter 697: Chapter 697: A Demand for the Out-of-Dust Phase Chapter 697: Chapter 697: A Demand for the Out-of-Dust Phase Apart from not wanting to know secrets, what Feng Jun found most troublesome was how to charge for his services after helping other Daoist friends.

In fact, he wasn’t very eager to charge fees, as the Daoist sects of the Earth Realm could all be described as poorer than the next, and he couldn’t bear to exploit them.

With the time he had, he could decipher a few formations in different realms and earn spirit stones by the hundreds.

Did all the Daoist sects of Huaxia Country even have a hundred spirit stones combined?

But not charging a fee after offering help didn’t seem right either. Feng’s labor was still quite valuable–besides, if he dared to offer his services for free, his business would surely boom.

He feared that his yoga time would be significantly reduced as a result, which was, of course, unacceptable.

However, to say that he couldn’t receive proper compensation also seemed incorrect. Feng Jun had helped Maoshan and Weiyu Mountain, receiving yin spirits stones and Hua Hua, both rare treasures. It’s just that he purchased these items with spirit stones, which made him feel somewhat unbalanced.

Of course, if one were to really price these items, it was almost as if he got them at “bargain” prices.

His feelings were quite complex, and in the end, he could only sigh. “The period of transcendence… This secret ground is quite something.”

“I think so too,” Guan Shanyue held back a sigh of relief as he didn’t reject the idea.

She then began to explain her difficulties. “For hundreds of years, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth has been decreasing, and it’s almost gone now. It’s been over six hundred years since Danxia Heaven produced a Qi Refinement Realm cultivator, let alone the transcendence phase…”

At this point, she glanced at Feng Jun and continued, “The other branches of the Daoist sects occasionally have Qi Refinement cultivators, but it’s not convenient for our Danxia Heaven to invite them. Now, it’s rare to even see a great cultivator of the Daoist sects… Thankfully, we now have Daoist friend Feng.”

The truth was, she didn’t quite trust the other branches of the Daoist path, and Feng Jun, a wild expert with a relatively good reputation, was the most suitable partner for Danxia Heaven.

“Finding me may not necessarily be lucky,” Feng Jun smiled. This time, he decided to be a bit shrewder before acting noble, “I’d like to hear about the compensation you plan to offer… My price is high, and there’s no need for me to explain why, right?”

Guan Shanyue pondered before speaking, “Fellow Daoist doesn’t want to be bothered by trifling matters and wants to focus on cultivation… Is my understanding correct?”

Feng Jun smiled and nodded, “Exactly, I like dealing with smart people.”

Guan Shanyue also smiled, “I was quite worried about how to make an offer, but not anymore… You would like to receive some literary works on Earth veins, correct?”

“Uh,” Feng Jun said, despite considering himself to have a strong psyche, he couldn’t help but stroke his chin at these words, “Have I been… that obvious?”

“It’s not about being superficial; it’s just me, liking to ponder idly,” Guan Shanyue was quite the speaker, smiling as she said, “Magu Mountain has both a Cave Heaven and a blessed land, so we do have some understanding of Earth veins, certainly more than Wangwu… By the way, Wangwu also has literary works on Earth veins.”

Feng Jun’s eyebrows rose in surprise, “That’s quite rare.”

He truly meant it; on his mobile phone’s realm, he had never obtained any literary works on Earth veins, at most just some introductions. This showed that despite the decline of the Earth Realm, its depth was not to be underestimated.

“Magu Mountain has a total of three pieces of literature on Earth veins,” Guan Shanyue’s personality was somewhat quirky. She was very cautious when making decisions, but once settled, she dared to take risks.

Like now, she displayed a man’s boldness, “I’ll give you copied versions of the three literary works as a down payment. Whatever else we take from the secret ground, we’ll divide it sixty-forty, sixty for me, forty for you.”

To most who were involved in the cultivation world, duplicate versions of literary works may not seem significant, but they knew full well their importance.

Such duplicates could foster the rise of a power. In the realm of mobile phones, having basic literary works stolen was tantamount to an unresolved vendetta. It wasn’t as simple as just photocopying something–a concept that was vastly different in the realm of Earth.

There was no such thing as patent in the world of cultivation.

So, Guan Shanyue’s attitude was quite commendable, generous and open.

Feng Jun was exactly the type to be impressed by this approach. He smiled and said, “No need for that, just give me the copied versions of the three literary works. As for the rest of the loot from the secret ground… we won’t split it. Instead, I’ll buy what I need at a fair price, and the rest will be yours.”

Seeing his straightforward answer, Guan Shanyue was also pleased, “That’s settled, then. When shall we depart?”

Feng Jun took out his mobile phone to check, “Tomorrow’s Arbor Day, we’ll leave the day after… It’s still early today, why not visit my manor.”

He was also hoping to show off the two Spirit Gathering Arrays in his manor–I really don’t covet the small gains from your secret ground.

Unfortunately, Magu Mountain was indeed in decline, and Guan Shanyue, who was neither a martial artist nor a cultivator, felt the variations in spiritual energy less acutely.

Luckily, when they reached the valley, the fog-shrouded traps, the Lingzhi Formation, and the vast bamboo forest finally made her sense something different, leading her to exclaim, “Is this the Spirit Gathering Array of your esteemed manor?”

Feng Jun smiled and nodded, “There’s a stone path ahead, if Fellow Guan is interested, you can go down and experience it.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a female disciple at Guan Shanyue’s side gasped in surprise, “Look, that crow is digging in the soil.”

The crow digging was naturally King Crow. With its boss, Hua Hua, gone to Funiu Mountain to watch over the cultivators from another realm, it had to take over the work of the Lingzhi Formation.

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What it’s doing is actually loosening the soil, but since it doesn’t have Hua Hua’s cultivation level, it can only use its claws to scratch at the earth.

Fortunately, although the boss was gone, it still didn’t dare to slack off. However, in such a bright and sunny spring day, it couldn’t go out and flirt with other crows, the frustration in its heart is imaginable.

So it kept scratching away nonstop, seemingly venting something, but because of its astonishing speed, to others, it looked a bit like it was losing its mind.

Feng Jun saw this and chuckled, “This crow seems to have some fate with my Luohua Manor, it sure is restless.”

Guan Shanyue rolled her eyes at that and said, “May I ask how your manor plans to take in apprentices?”

If a crow can be this restless, perhaps… it could become a Spirit Bird?

“Taking apprentices…,” Feng Jun pondered for a moment before responding, “Currently, I do not have plans to take apprentices. Such matters… will be left to fate.”

Once he finished speaking, the man who had come with Guan Shanyue smiled and said, “I would like to ask the senior, could this crow be the first to get the moon by being near the water tower?”

Feng Jun thought for a moment before replying, “It has its own destiny, but whether it becomes something or not… that’s another matter.”

Guan Shanyue was genuinely surprised this time, “Does that mean even crows can cultivate?”

Feng Jun answered calmly, “As for the matters of all creatures between heaven and earth, who can say for sure?”

If anyone else had said this, the three visitors from Danxia Heaven would have definitely thought he was talking nonsense, but they had just finished talking with Feng Jun and had witnessed his demeanor.

Setting aside his skepticism towards the Golden Core and his disregard for the requirement of entering the “secret realms during the phase of detachment,” just his attitude towards Daoist Bei He was enough proof of many things.

Daoist Bei He is a famous cultivator in the Nourishing Qi Phase with the backing of Wangwu. Yet, even for such a persona, Feng Jun merely made a casual remark–oh, Wangwu has high-rank cultivators in the Nourishing Qi Phase?

A person like this, who dares say a crow has its own fate, must not be speaking without basis.

So even though the three of them entered the bamboo forest, they couldn’t help but frequently look back at the Lingzhi Formation.

However, although Guan Shanyue had no experience with cultivation, she still had some insight, “Feng Dao-friend, if I may be so bold to ask, those are all Spirit Plants, right?”

“That’s right,” Feng Jun nodded openly and honestly. As his foundation in the Earth Realm became more stable, he was no longer strictly guarding everything, “I got a batch of Spirit Plants a while back, and I planted them here.”

It seemed like there were some large ginseng plants inside, Guan Shanyue mused to herself, but she knew this was not something she could continue to ask about.

The three visitors from Magu Mountain were not very surprised by the dense bamboo forest, but the woman still took out her mobile phone and then glanced at Feng Jun, “May I, Senior Feng, take pictures?”

Feng Jun, always polite when others showed manners, shook his head and apologized with a smile, “I’m truly sorry.”

The three from Magu Mountain spent some time in the Spirit Gathering Array, where even someone without any cultivation could feel a significant refreshment of spirit, let alone the man who was a beginning martial artist.

The trio lingered until dusk before leaving reluctantly.

The next day was the tree-planting festival, which doesn’t need much elaboration. However, at noon, a little incident occurred when Li Qiang unexpectedly called Wang Haifeng, asking if he could capture a few scenes here to do a special feature for the tree-planting festival.

He was Zhengyang’s photographer today, so such a request was quite normal.

Wang Haifeng, of course, refused him, but what made Coach Wang vigilant was something Li Qiang said, “Your Luohua Manor currently has a very high reputation, and many people are saying that your tree planting and forestation are doing well.”

And indeed it was so. As today’s tree-planting festival coincided with the weekend, several families drove over, hoping to enter the manor.

The security guards definitely kept people out, explaining that this was privately contracted land not open to the public.

Two families were quite dissatisfied with this, implying that we came to help you plant trees, yet you are ungrateful– it wasn’t like this before.

The two security guards couldn’t be bothered to care, not even interested in getting angry.

It’s still the same old story, to the surrounding villagers, such a huge mountain here was surely meant for people to enter, right?

Generally speaking, as long as people weren’t driving sheep into the mountains or carrying axes to cut trees, no one really cared if a few people went up to collect some dead branches and wild fruits–of course, coming every day was not allowed.

It was only because Feng Jun was strict that these rules existed; when Li Ning had the contract before, he wasn’t so vigilant.

These were more or less just small incidents. The next morning, Feng Jun, accompanied by Guan Shanyue and the others, headed straight for Magu Mountain.

The driver this time was actually Xu Leigang!

(Updated to here. Yesterday was quite thrilling, almost broke the streak, so the update was late, sorry about that, everyone.)

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