Big Data Cultivation-Chapter 2021 - 2023: Seeking Trouble

The Earth Spirit’s resentment mainly stemmed from their weakness. If Feng Jun were to speak with it, it would surely comply obediently.

However, it concealed its true emotions and responded indifferently, "Refining the Golden Breath in the Qi Refinement Realm... my yawn could suffice for ten of you. But in the future, if you have needs, just speak up. If you try to extort me again, I’m not falling for it!"

"I didn’t extort you!" Yun Buyao’s face turned beet red—she felt embarrassed for lying with her eyes open.

But Sister Hong had repeatedly reminded her that, as an extorter, she must never admit to extortion, or everyone would be put in a difficult position.

Therefore, despite Sister Hong’s advice conflicting with her initial intentions, she followed the instructions, "You find me annoying and keep me from supervising the construction, so I turned a blind eye; you should reciprocate!"

Upon saying this, she felt a bit embarrassed, but recalling Sister Hong’s words, she felt relieved.

—"One must fight for cultivation resources; no one’s resources fall from the sky. Your master has already arranged for you, and you don’t have to do anything immoral. At least you haven’t killed anyone to seize their treasures, so why are you hesitating?"

She felt that Sister Hong was right, her master had been generous to her, and she wasn’t young anymore. She couldn’t wait for all resources to be delivered into her storage bag; she needed to learn to act for herself.

At this moment, Yun Buyao felt she had grown up. She even considered competing for resources on behalf of her junior brothers and sisters in the future!

However, her response made the Earth Spirit somewhat angry, but it dared not erupt and merely noted the grievance internally.

In the blink of an eye, another twenty days had passed, and according to the Earth Spirit’s promise, the Six Harmonies Combined Leylines should be nearly complete.

However, it harbored resentment and found ways to be lazy, only completing barely half of the project so far.

The other five sects didn’t notice and assumed the Earth Spirit was making considerable progress.

Master Qingya even commented, "The legend is indeed true; the Earth Spirit’s mastery of leyline details seems to be innate, and its speed is impressively swift. Our annex hasn’t even been built yet, and it’s already halfway through."

She was an expert in leyline techniques, and Gu Yue couldn’t let her outshine him, or else how could Taiqing boast of being the pinnacle of Earth Vein Technique across Kunhao? Hence, he casually remarked, "This is just the juvenile phase of the Earth Spirit; it’ll be faster in maturity."

Faster at maturity? Feng Jun was the first not to agree. He hadn’t put much thought into the Earth Spirit yet understood its intentions. However... he wasn’t in a hurry to pursue this!

Currently, he was refining a three-in-one contract. The simulation had been performed previously, but too many varieties had emerged; he needed to screen, compare, and correct them, and this slow pace was discouraging.

Moreover, he was assisting others with simulations, treating ailments, Golden Core induction, healing and such. For a stretch, people were consecutively forming Golden Cores, leaving him three months without doing simulations for others, accumulating many clients.

And as honors from various sects and entities gradually arrived, it significantly increased his workload. These honors sought to form their Golden Cores, requiring simulation to adjust their current states first, followed by another simulation after some time.

Even with this, many older individuals in the Exuding realm didn’t qualify for simulations—those lacking tokens and sect support received no initial simulations from Feng Jun.

Who do you think you are, coming here hoping to form a Golden Core? Sorry, that job I don’t take—what? Not short on Spirit Stones? Even with more Spirit Stones, I won’t take it!

Actually, it’s not just Feng Jun’s perspective; the three sects and two entities also desire this practice, even hinting—the Golden Core Masters in Kunhao Plane’s quantity would affect the balance of power among various forces, and Mountain Master Feng should exercise restraint in accepting tasks.

To save one by eliminating another—it’s your rule, we can’t stop it, but why help various miscellaneous individuals? It would lower your status.

In fact, there’s a theory that the number of Golden Core individuals Kunhao Plane can sustain is limited, and currently, Kunhao’s spiritual energy is weakening—the Golden Cores that transcend and ascend after condensing Nascent Souls take away Kunhao’s foundation.

Of course, the overall decline in Kunhao’s spiritual energy is so subtle that it’s almost unnoticeable, but everyone analyzes it. Three thousand years ago, Nascent Souls could deliver three moves in Kunhao, yet today, managing a full move is challenging.

Hence, Kunhao’s spiritual energy has continually weakened, and perhaps after tens of millions of years, it might become a Dharma-restricted plane.

This is everyone’s hidden concern, which might not become reality, and if someday, a Fusion stage Big Boss descends onto the plane and evolves into Heavenly Dao—a Divine Spirit would suffice, for this could sustain it for tens of millions of years.

No matter what, controlling the quantity of Golden Cores is something major forces have consistently pursued,

Feng Jun originally didn’t want to be overly busy, so since others hoped he’d control, he readily decided to manage, freeing up time for his three-in-one simulation.

However, such a conjuring simulation was markedly challenging. Seizing Spirit, Soul Capture, and Life Seizing—the three secret techniques, though mature theories, had never been successfully combined before.

No one has done it, but that doesn’t mean no one has tried. It means those who tried didn’t succeed, and those who dared to try are certainly remarkable talents. Therefore, the difficulty of Feng Jun attempting such a deduction is conceivable.

Strictly speaking, deducing it is not particularly difficult; verifying the process is what’s hard—if the verification fails, then the deduction is a failure.

Feng Jun’s frustration is precisely here. In fact, he is good at verification, but the key issue is that he can pair others with an Earth Spirit contract in a three-way integration, but he can’t deduce himself.

After all, he currently only has one Golden Core Mirror Talisman from the Qinggang Sect, and he is reluctant to use it—the lesson from the last tribulation thunder was too profound. He’s determined that no matter the circumstances, he must always keep some cards up his sleeve.

As for the verification taking time? Let it take long, the reason being he’s embarrassed to accept Yan Yuxi’s Golden Core Substitute Soul Puppet.

Some reckless actions are self-inflicted, but he does not regret it—shouldn’t cultivators adhere to their original intentions and stick to their principles?

Anyway, he never used the Golden Core Mirror Talisman, which eventually led to deducing a relatively reliable three-in-one secret technique.

Once the secret technique was deduced, he was finally about to exert himself. "Earth Spirit, come by the manor. I feel you haven’t been putting in effort lately."

Upon hearing his summons, the Earth Spirit scrambled over immediately. "No, I’ve been working hard to enhance the Earth Vein... the Spirit Vein’s traction has begun, so there will definitely be some impact."

In fact, the Spirit Vein traction only began five days ago—with so many families wanting to invest in the Spirit Vein, coordinating interests is a significant issue. Moreover, the Spirit Vein is ultimately different from the Earth Vein, with many preliminary preparations, so it’s quite normal that it started work this late.

However, the Earth Spirit’s potential shouldn’t be underestimated; apart from orchestrating the Six Harmonies Ley Line Combination, it can simultaneously initiate Spirit Vein traction, which makes its multitasking capabilities truly astonishing.

But Feng Jun merely laughed coldly, "Come, make a declaration to the contract—you have been working hard enough!"

Contract declarations don’t carry much significance. The strong don’t need them; their own principles are enough. For those who aren’t strong enough, even if a contract declaration proves you’ve won, it’s only that you’ve won—execution is another matter.

However, the Earth Spirit really didn’t dare to gamble because Feng Jun has the ability to execute. It hesitated before speaking, "I was a bit distracted in between, helping Yun Buyao temper the body... she insisted on my help, being an Innate Pure Gold Body. I couldn’t refuse, right?"

"Not refusing is normal," Feng Jun said in defense of his disciple, but then his eyebrows furrowed slightly, "Are you saying you helped a cultivator in the Qi Refinement Realm to temper and wasted so much time?"

The Earth Spirit feared this issue most because it was indeed deliberately dragging things out—it was upset.

However, it could plausibly argue with others, but when Feng Jun asked, it had no courage to fabricate lies—both are Golden Cores, sharing knowledge of the situation, not to mention Feng Jun controls its life and death.

"Not exactly," Earth Spirit stammered slightly, unsure why the more reasonable Feng Jun seemed, the stronger its sense of unease, "The key is the traction of the Earth Vein, and the tempering with Yun Buyao involves Spiritual Energy transformation."

"And that Spiritual Energy transformation took so long?" Feng Jun slammed the table in anger, "Do you think I’m easy to fool?"

"No, no, no, that’s not what I meant," the Earth Spirit was genuinely frightened; it knew it couldn’t hide the details from Feng Jun and hurriedly stated, "I just feel that since it’s Earth Vein traction, especially combined leylines, being more cautious is good, right?"

"More cautious?" Feng Jun sneered, "Then do you know there’s only one month left until my Golden Core celebration?"

For the Golden Core celebration in the Earth Realm, it was announced a month in advance to allow guests to come, but on the Kunhao Plane, it was announced three months ahead; as of now, two months have passed.

Bear in mind, in the Earth Realm, he only had to consider Huaxia, but the Kunhao Plane is much larger than Earth, not to mention compared to Huaxia. The point is, "Do you know that I invited friends from the Tianqin Plane?"

"Friends from the Tianqin Plane?" The Earth Spirit was utterly bewildered. "This... you didn’t tell me."

"Do I need to tell you?" Feng Jun looked at it with disdain. "Your task is to wholeheartedly manage the Earth Vein for me, correct? I haven’t asked anything more of you... is that the case?"

"That’s the case," the Earth Spirit couldn’t deny this point and lacked the courage to argue. "However... I really didn’t know someone from the Tianqin Plane was coming."

It was truly flustered; if the Tianqin people were coming, you should have informed me earlier.

Feng Jun’s next words were sharp, "So if no one from Tianqin was coming... do you think your actions would be appropriate?"

(Update to, summon monthly tickets.)