152: Bad news at the border

In the Immortal Cave on Fangmu Mountain’s Green Lotus Pond, as soon as Lin Shiming returned, he took out a large wooden tub. Inside the tub was a full red medicinal liquid.

The Red-haired Demon Monkey followed him back, howling and tugging at Lin Shiming’s clothes.

Lin Shiming rubbed the Red-haired Demon Monkey’s head, then took out an even larger wooden tub and filled it with the same medicinal liquid.

The demonic liquid in this wooden tub was a medicinal liquid concocted with blood crocodile flowers. Lin Shiyi had sold some to the Family, and Lin Shiming had purchased some.

After Cultivating Body Refining techniques, he would soak in this medicinal liquid, and combined with the breathing technique, his Cultivation speed would greatly increase.

As for the Red-haired Demon Monkey, after witnessing Lin Shiming bathing once, it also howled and jumped into the tub, forcing Lin Shiming to prepare another medicinal tub for it.

The Red-haired Demon Monkey also became addicted to soaking, so it turned into a situation where both tubs were used simultaneously.

Lin Shiming watched the Red-haired Demon Monkey lie in the medicinal tub with great enjoyment, only its red head and its fiercely burning tail visible.

Its tail was still burning at this moment, but the Red-haired Demon Monkey could already control the size of the flames, ensuring they wouldn't burn away the medicinal liquid.

Lin Shiming closed his eyes and began to Cultivate the breathing technique.

Three hours later, the color of the medicinal liquid in the tub gradually faded, and its medicinal properties were slowly absorbed completely.

Lin Shiming changed into a new robe and went to the insect chamber, which was specially prepared for the Spirit Devouring Ants.

Inside the insect chamber were rows of insect eggs, numbering over a thousand.

At this moment, the insect eggs were all yellowish-white, clearly having been nurtured for a long time and were about to hatch.

Lin Shiming immediately stepped forward, forced out several drops of essence blood from his finger, sprinkled them evenly over the insect eggs, and then cast a Spirit Contract again.

He couldn't know when the insect eggs would hatch, so he could only establish a Spirit Contract in advance. Otherwise, if the Spirit Devouring Ants appeared and he wasn't there, there was a high possibility that the entire Immortal Cave would be devoured.

He also couldn't take out a large amount of spirit jade to wrap the entire stone chamber.

After the Spirit Contract was cast, Lin Shiming also exited the stone chamber and returned to his Cultivation room, sitting on a meditation cushion to meditate and Cultivate the Purple Wood Heart Sutra, quietly recovering the loss of his essence blood.

Three years of secluded Cultivation had made him more composed, and his Cultivation, without him realizing it, had progressed significantly in the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

Speaking of which, because of his Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivation, his Body Refining Cultivation Technique had no Bottleneck at all. In three years, he had Cultivated to a Realm equivalent to the Late Qi Refining Stage, and Body Refining in turn nourished his Qi Refining Cultivation.

Besides this, his biggest gain was the Minor Achievement of the Spirit Splitting Art, which had elevated his Divine Sense from being superior to an ordinary Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator to now being far superior to a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivator, even capable of competing with a Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator.

Now, even if he beats the Spirit Shocking Drum, he feels no pressure at all.

Of course, this wasn't entirely due to the Spirit Splitting Art; the Mingxin Tea Tree also played a part.

After the Wood Demon entered its main body, a cluster of fresh spirit tea would appear every month, and due to the Wood Demon’s nourishment, its effect was far superior to ordinary second-grade top-tier spirit tea.

This spirit tea, surprisingly, was also highly beneficial for the recovery of a Cultivator’s Divine Sense, which made his post-Divine Sense-splitting recovery and advancement much faster.

However, this also caused some damage to the Wood Demon’s vital energy, but fortunately, his Purple Wood Heart Sutra could replenish it.

This also made Lin Shiming value the Wood Demon even more; one cluster of spirit tea a month was still a bit too little.

On the other hand, he hadn't refined many artifacts in these three years.

After three cycles, Lin Shiming opened his eyes and walked towards the Heavenly Spirit Fruit Tree and Little Divine Tree outside the Immortal Cave.

The changes in these two were still not significant, and the Mingxin Tea Tree also hadn't changed. However, the Golden Thunder Bamboo Spiritual Root had already sprouted two bamboo shoots, one of which was a full three inches long, and the other had only just emerged.

These two bamboo shoots were still completely covered by their sheaths, which, like the Golden Thunder Bamboo itself, were the color of golden thunder.

Furthermore, lightning constantly flowed on the sheaths, and if it rained, lightning would flash down from the sky and strike the two golden bamboo shoots.

Not far from the golden bamboo shoots, the Wood Demon revealed an aged face, its cloudy eyes staring unblinkingly at the Golden Thunder Bamboo.

Lin Shiming was extremely surprised by this and had once used Divine Sense fluctuations to question the Wood Demon, but the latter's intelligence was still lacking and couldn't provide sufficient feedback.

Lin Shiming could only give up, only hoping that the Wood Demon would have some new changes.

After cultivating all the spirit plants one by one, another three days passed.

At this time, a spiritual talisman flew in from outside.

Lin Shiming caught the Spirit Light, and the next moment, his brows furrowed involuntarily.

Sure enough, it finally came!

...In the Council Great Hall of Fangmu Mountain, all the Lin Family Elders were gathered at this moment.

Lin Xianzhi was already seated in the high hall.

To the right of the high hall was Xie An of the Qingxuan Sect.

Everyone looked solemn at this moment, and even Xie An’s expression was not very good.

"Shiming is here."

"Shiming greets Seventh Grand Uncle, greets Senior Brother Xie!" Lin Shiming also greeted the two.

"Shiming, this time, Yan Country has also joined the crusade against Chu Country and Zhao Country. The front lines are retreating steadily, and all Families within Zhao Country are required to be forcibly conscripted into the battlefield. I am here to notify the various Foundation Establishment Families in Yunzhou," Xie An said seriously.

At this moment, Lin Shiming only felt a headache. The Demon Sect of Chu Country had already kept the Three Sects of Zhao Country overwhelmed, and with the addition of Yan Country, especially the Corpse Refinement Sect of Yan Country, that was a Sect even more powerful than the Spirit Beast Sect!

"Foundation Establishment Families must send at least 70% of their Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and another 50% of Late Qi Refining Stage Cultivators. Of course, if the Lin Family's Foundation Establishment Cultivators need to guard the mountain gate, then they can send 80% of Late Qi Refining Stage Cultivators and 50% of Foundation Establishment Cultivators!"

When Xie An said this, he left some leeway, but Lin Shiming also saw an unquestionable expression in Xie An’s eyes.

Allowing the Lin Family to choose was already lenient, which also indicated the severity of the situation.

"Okay, our Lin Family chooses the former!" Lin Shiming nodded. Since they couldn't avoid it, they could only participate in the great war.

At this moment, the Three Sects would not allow anyone to retain sufficient strength in their Sect's heartland.

After seeing that Lin Shiming had made a decision, Xie An also directly bid farewell and left, not even having a sip of mingxin tea, and was seen off by Lin Shiming and Lin Xianzhi.

Apparently, the latter was going to notify other Families in Yunzhou.

Lin Shiming and Lin Xianzhi also returned to the Council Great Hall of Fangmu Mountain.

Everyone's faces were grim. After the beast tide, the Foundation Establishment of Yunzhou had five years of respite. A year later, the Cultivators were somewhat prepared, but now they faced two Cultivation countries, Chu Country and Yan Country. One was a country of demon Cultivators and evil Cultivators, and the other was a country of Corpse cultivators from the Corpse Refinement Sect.

The chances of Zhao Country holding out were extremely slim, unless the Righteous Path countries next to the Righteous Path Alliance provided support to Zhao Country.

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