Chapter 48 – Pantothenes

At the foot of the western mountain, almost all of the six thousand plus villagers of the Tuqiu Village had arrived today. They surrounded a small flat ground, forming a sea of people.

In the center of this flat land, there was a group of people with the least number of people. However, they occupied the best positions, while the other two groups did not question the status of this group.

The leader of this group was indeed the number one expert of the Tuqiu Village, a cultivator at the peak of the second level of Mortal Realm, Yang Tiangang. At the same time, he was also the Village Head of the Tuqiu Village, the person who presided over the cultivation of Tuqiu Village’s Ling Tian.

Standing a little behind Yang Tiangang waerson that the entire Tuqiu Village was extremely unfamiliar with. However, the surging aura that the people of Tuqiu Village emitted caused everyone present to be shocked.

The two cultivators with peak Mortal Realm standing behind him were extremely familiar with each other, they were Yang Cunzheng’s right-hand men, the brothers Yang Qingniu and Yang TienNiu. Behind them were more than ten Tuqiu Village s, including Su Baozhang who was also standing amongst them.

To the left of Yang Tiangang and the rest were twenty to thirty people led by a thirty year old young woman. This young woman was the leader of the Xu Family, the greatest goal of the Tuqiu Village, and the only member of the Xu Family, Xu Sanniang.

However, at this time, there was another cultivator standing next to Xu Sanniang standing not too far away from the Xu family, and the aura this person gave off was even stronger than Yang Tiangang’s.

However, although this person looked to be in the same position as the Xu family, in reality, from the distance that he had maintained with Xu Sanniang, he still wanted to show off his superior status on the surface.

Behind the two were twenty to thirty Xu Clan members, all with cultivation in the Spiritual Farmers, and the newly-arranged marriage Xu Lei and Xu Jing, together with the young man and woman, were also standing in the middle of the Xu Clan. The two of them were normally at the Great Circle of the Spirit Realm, but Xu Jing’s presence was obviously more imposing than Xu Lei, while Xu Lei was deep in thought.

However, what made Yang Tiangang alarmed was that the Blacksmith Zhang actually managed to break through into the second stage of the martial arts realm without anyone noticing. Even though his entire body was emitting a strong aura, it was clear that his dantian’s foul energy had just recently advanced to the second stage, and he was not a match for Yang Tiangang, the position of the Tuqiu Village’s only cultivator of the second stage of the martial arts realm was actually broken.

Although Blacksmith Zhang’s group had a large number of people, it was obviously not as crowded as Yang Tiangang’s and the Xu Clan’s. When forty to fifty people gathered together, they would constantly whisper in each other’s ears.

Originally, these people were all under the lead of the Blacksmith Zhang, mainly fighting against the biggest clan in the village, the Xu. However, after Yang Tiangang descended onto the Tuqiu Village, not only were their various wrists soft and hard, they were also experts at the second stage of martial arts realm. The success of the cultivation of the Ling Tian especially caused many people in the Tuqiu Village to side with the Village Head, and at the same time, there were quite a few people who were still on the side of the Blacksmith Zhang.

How could the Blacksmith Zhang not know the thoughts of these people? Previously, because Yang Tiangang had just arrived in the Tuqiu Village and his foundation was still shallow, the Blacksmith Zhang was still able to rope in the people’s hearts and stand by his side, allowing them to stand by his side. However, as Yang Tiangang displayed a series of methods, the entire situation of the Tuqiu Village was completely controlled by Yang Tiangang.

Originally, he had planned to use the power of Zhang Chenghong, a distant relative, to increase his prestige in the Tuqiu Village. Not to mention that Zhang Chenghong had a good son who was a disciple of the inner sect of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, he himself was also a somewhat capable pharmacist, he could make a fool of himself in the Tuqiu Village.

Not long after, many evil deeds of deceit and deceit were spread around the village. If not for him, the genius son of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, would have already been beaten up by the people of the Tuqiu Village, which made the Blacksmith Zhang, who had been focusing all of his attention on breaking through his cultivation, to be surprised. He did not expect that this fellow had already become crazy just for the sake of the Jade Coins.

Fortunately, his cultivation had successfully advanced to the second stage, so he once again had the qualifications to challenge Yang Tiangang.

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If a person who had not cultivated yet was said to be a wasteland that had yet to be dug, then the first thing he needed to do was naturally to stimulate the flow of water. In this way, the first level of Mortal Realm would require one to use the spirit energy to create irrigation ditches on the wasteland; the second level would require one to use the spirit energy to replace a suitable place to dig a cistern on the wasteland.

Regardless of whether it was the first stage of the Spirit Absorbing Room or the second stage of the Spirit Summoning Room, although the meridians and meridians of the cultivator’s body had been opened up, and the spirit energy circulating within their body was increasing, all of this spirit energy waootless wood. Other than being used to nourish the body, any other use of this spirit energy would cause the spirit energy stored within the meridians to be completely drained.

Therefore, cultivators were unable to use any magic techniques for the first two stages of Mortal Realm. They could only control magic tools and other methods, and could only attach a little bit of spiritual power to their weapons to fight. At most, they could use magic talismans, symbol swords, and the like, and it only took a little bit of spiritual power to activate the methods.

However, after a cultivator had activated the third stage of the Mortal Realm, all of this became completely different. Cultivators with the Spiritual Cauldron were like fields witeservoir, and when circulating the Spiritual Energy in their body, they could finally store a portion of their excess Spiritual Energy into the Spiritual Aperture. This way, they wouldn’t have to worry about the embarrassing scene where the Spiritual Energy in their body would be completely used up.

Of course, witeservoir like the Divine Spirit Aperture, it did not mean that cultivators could cast spells out of thin air, not to mention that the amount of spirit energy that could be gathered in the Divine Spirit Aperture was already limited, even if Yang Junshan’s space was expanded to be far beyond that of an ordinary person’s, allowing him to store even more spirit energy than other people, he would still not be able to bear the consumption of using spells out of thin air.

The reason for this was that even though cultivators had expanded their celestial spiritual cavities to store spiritual energy, they were still unable to break away from the nature of a rootless tree, so they still had to continuously absorb spiritual energy to convert it.

In reality, when a cultivator could truly use spells, they would only be able to do it when they had reached the peak of the Mortal Realm. In the middle of all this, the cultivator would also have to completely convert the immortal spiritual cavities into immortal roots, and this process was the fourth layer of the Mortal Realm, the Immortal Foundation.

However, even though the third layer cultivators were unable to use magic techniques out of thin air, they were still able to use other methods. The most common methods among them were talismans and talismans.

Different from the techniques which can only activate talismans and weapons in the first and second stage of Mortal Realm, cultivators who have opened the Immortal Spirit Aperture are already able to use the accumulated spiritual energy in their bodies to draw talismans and inscribe talismans on their own. Although they are not able to complete these talismans in one breath, they are able to prepare, release and freely control them in advance, which is countless times stronger than the first and second stages.

More importantly, cultivators who had opened their immortal spiritual cavities already had the ability to control magic tools. Even though they only had the qualifications, many of them were not familiar with controlling magic tools at this time, but Yang Junshan was not one of them because he had the rich experience of controlling magic tools in his previous life. He also had a perception far stronger than normal and more importantly, his immortal spiritual cavities possessed an enormous space that could store spirit energy that far surpassed others.

Of course, wanting to own a spirit weapon wasn’t an easy thing to do. One only had to look at how Yang Tiangang’s martial arts realm was only at the second level of martial arts realm, and he only had a High quality magical equipment’s smoke stick, and that was enough to know about the rarity of a spirit weapon.

It was said that in the entire Tuqiu Village, there were only four magic tools. Other than the number one ranked High quality magical equipment in Yang Tiangang’s hands, the Blacksmith Zhang’s Forging Tie Hammer was also a mid-ranked magic tool, and it was said that it was passed down through his master. Five years ago, the Blacksmith Zhang had used this hammer to create the only magic tool to this day, but in the end, he sold it in exchange for a mid-ranked Yellow-Jade Fruit Tree and Zhang Huzi’s mid-ranked immortal spirit.

As for the other two artifacts, they were in the hands of the Xu family. Other than the mid-grade artifact, the Scythe of the Severed Head, in the hands of Patriarch Xu Sanniang, there was also another low-grade artifact that no one had ever seen before.

Although Yang Junshan now had a piece of the low-grade spirit material, the field yellow mud, it was not easy to refine this piece of spirit material into a magic tool. Furthermore, with his current cultivation, even if he did have a magic tool, he would bhree-year-old boy holding a gold ingot in his arms.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Yang Junshan could not wait to exit the underground cave. Before Yang Junshan, who was still immersed in the excitement of breaking through, left the mountain, he saw a large group of Tuqiu Village villagers surrounding the Ling Tian at the foot of the western mountain. He also saw the three groups of people in confrontation within the circle.

Yang Junshan’s heart skipped a beat as he thought to himself: What’s going on, aren’t Ling Tian still half a month away from maturity?

After hastily descending the mountain, Hu Niu seemed to have detected Yang Junshan’s aura very far away as she ran towards him from afar. Behind him, Yang Junping, Yang Junxin, Yang Junhao and a few other children were also shouting.

When they were near, without waiting for Yang Junshan to ask, Yang Junping asked loudly: “Brother, where have you been these past seven to eight days? We couldn’t replace you anywhere, so Hu Niu ignored us!”

“Seven or eight days?” Yang Junshan was startled. He had stayed in the underground cave for seven or eight days? How could this be, a mere cultivator with a cultivation of the second level of the Mortal Realm be able to withstand the effects of the spirit energy on his body for seven or eight days?

But then he thought about it. From refining a top quality celestial spirit to reaching the peak of the Celestial Realm and then opening the Celestial Essences, only seven or eight days had passed. Who would believe it if he told others?

“What’s going on? Why are so many people gathered here? Isn’t it time for the Ling Tian to mature?”

“Brother, it’s just a spiritual force. The earth suddenly shook two days ago, and the Ling Tian at the foot of the western mountain not only matured early due to the spiritual force, it also expanded an entire acre. More importantly, it has an extra seventy percent of middle tier Ling Tian!”