132: Development forces

Over the next month, to make the blood jade tree grow rapidly, Fang Huai piled a large amount of Yao Beast remains in the underground space.

Under his forced ripening, the blood jade tree had grown to a height of one zhang.

Every few days, Fang Huai would take off a few blood jade leaves and inject them into the bodies of the Yun Family Sisters, Toad Old Seven, and Ji Ming respectively.

With the help of the Blood Jade Worm, these four people could not only absorb Spiritual Qi from Spirit Stones but could even perceive a little bit of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, guiding a small amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into their bodies.

Toad Old Seven and Ji Ming finally stepped into the First Level of Qi Refining. In the morning, the two would absorb Yao Beast blood and Qi at the Purification Bureau, and in the afternoon, they would return to the Barren Lands to command the Refugees to reclaim farmland and plant youming wood.

The cultivation of the Yun Family Sisters also approached the Qi Refining Third Layer.

Among them, Yun Hui made the fastest progress. Because she received Fang Huai's favor from time to time, her Body Tempering Art had already reached the Perfection of the third layer.

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Meanwhile, Wu Yue finally learned the Disguise Technique.

Under Fang Huai's direction, Wu Yue's facial features became almost identical to his, and his physique could also shrink and expand at will.

"Not bad. Your tail has been saved once again."

Fang Huai glanced at Li Zhu and said with satisfaction.

Li Zhu hummed softly: "Hmph, I spent so much effort and suffered so much, and that's the only praise I get?"

Seeing Fang Huai walking straight towards her, the base of Li Zhu's tail tightened. She subconsciously took two steps back and said: "What are you doing? You have no reason to abuse me this time."

Fang Huai stopped in front of her, placed his palm on top of her head, and gently stroked it, saying:

"Is this reward good?"

In his previous life, Fang Huai had raised a kitten. Every time he stroked its head, the kitten would purr and seem very satisfied.

At this moment, when he made this gesture, Li Zhu subconsciously dodged and said: "Childish, I'm not a little fox demon anymore."

But for some reason, she felt that Fang Huai's hand stroking her was so gentle and comfortable that she didn't want to avoid it.

So, while saying words of refusal, her head leaned towards Fang Huai's palm.

Fang Huai smiled. It seemed his cat-stroking technique hadn't rusted; this little fox demon had actually been handled by him.

Then, he suddenly withdrew his hand.

"Hmph, you're sensible enough to stop that childish technique."

Li Zhu muttered, but there was an inexplicable trace of disappointment in her heart.

When Fang Huai placed his palm on her forehead again, her expression regained its luster.

Fang Huai said: "Do a good job for me, and I will reward you again next time."

In the following time, Fang Huai arranged tasks for each of them.

The Yun Family Sisters would manage the Purification Bureau while cultivating with all their might.

Toad Old Seven would search for Refugees suffering from serious illnesses and bring them to the Barren Lands for indoctrination.

After all, the Barren Lands only had about thirty mu of land; there was only so much work to do in terms of planting trees and reclaiming wasteland.

Unexpectedly, so that the newly joined Refugees wouldn't be idle, and to make them obey and believe in Fang Huai, Toad Old Seven actually invented a special operation.

He placed a pile of stones at the easternmost end of the Barren Lands and stipulated that on odd-numbered days, the stones were to be moved to the westernmost end, and on even-numbered days, the stones from the westernmost end were to be moved back to the easternmost end.

When a Refugee questioned the point of this behavior, Toad Old Seven immediately gave him a lash: "This is the will of the God. You just need to follow it. If you don't finish the daily task, you won't be allowed to eat."

Fang Huai lamented that if Toad Old Seven had been in his previous life, he would definitely have made a good capitalist.

As for Ji Ming, Fang Huai's task for him was to select fanatics like himself.

And Ji Ming's method of selecting fanatics was extremely simple.

Like Fang Huai, he would say to the people selected: "The Immortal Master wants you to chop off your hand. Are you willing?"

But even if that person hesitated for a moment, even if they gritted their teeth and chopped off their hands and feet later, Ji Ming would not select them.

Under such circumstances, if one didn't fully believe in Fang Huai, they would either bleed to death or starve to death.

This kind of operation forced those Refugees to self-hypnotize every day:

Believe in the Immortal Master! Believe in the Immortal Master! Must believe in the Immortal Master! The Immortal Master is my only one!

A month later, when Fang Huai returned to the Barren Lands again and saw the people with missing limbs brought by Ji Ming and the severed hands and feet sealed in ice crystals, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Among these people, some had lost only one limb, some had lost both feet, and some had lost all four limbs.

Although these people were incomplete, the looks they directed at Fang Huai were all full of fanaticism.

If Ji Ming hadn't used Spiritual Qi to seal their wounds, they would have bled to death long ago.

Fang Huai's fingertips turned, and the ice crystals melted instantly. He took out a severed hand and attached it to the wrist of a person with a missing limb.

Spiritual light flashed, and the severed hand was reconnected to the wrist. That person's expression was excited, and he knelt on the ground crying, grateful for Fang Huai's miracle.

After everyone had their limbs reattached, Fang Huai clapped his hands, and a black-robed Cultivator walked out from the darkness.

Under the black robe was Wu Yue, who had already learned the Vow Fiend.

Wu Yue was expressionless and said: "Everyone, take an oath with me: to be loyal to Fang Huai in this life, not to reveal Fang Huai's name to the outside world. If there is any betrayal, may the Divine Soul be destroyed..."

Half a year later, the Yun Family Sisters' Breath Circulation Method and Body Tempering Art had both reached the Perfection of the third layer.

In a room in the backyard of the Purification Bureau, Fang Huai had specially set up a Formation. The Formation was not only full of Spiritual Qi but also filled with Evil Qi purified by the blood jade tree.

This was a place for skin-shedding that he had specially prepared for the Yun Family Sisters. Today, he would personally perform the operation to help the Yun Family Sisters shed their mortal skin.

At this moment, the Yun Family Sisters had already removed their clothes and were standing in front of Fang Huai with flushed faces.

Yun Hui glared at Fang Huai and scolded coquettishly: "Husband, you are taking advantage of us, seeing my sister all bare."

Fang Huai shook his head. Not to mention one Yun Ping, even if ten, a hundred, or a thousand beautiful female Cultivators stood in front of him, he wouldn't be moved.

If it wasn't for mutual affection or the needs of cultivation, he would have no interest in affairs between men and women.

"Hold your breath and concentrate, and circulate the Hundred Fiends Art with all your might. In the coming period, the quality of the Fiend Spiritual Root generated will be crucial to your future cultivation!"

The Yun Family Sisters could rely on the Blood Jade Worm to Cultivate, and the growth speed of the blood jade tree wasn't slow, but Fang Huai needed to expand his power, and the Blood Jade Worms consumed every day were not few.

After generating the Fiend Spiritual Root, if one day Fang Huai removed the Blood Jade Worms from the Yun Family Sisters' bodies, they would still have the ability to continue cultivating by relying on the Fiend Spiritual Root.

The skinning knife cut open Yun Hui's skin. She didn't make a sound, just looked at Fang Huai with affection.

"Husband, you are truly amazing."

Fang Huai frowned and said: "Don't be distracted. If you have anything to say, wait until you reach the Qi Refining Fourth Layer."

After the skinning was finished, he buried Yun Hui in the soil.

At this moment, Yun Hui's eyes were tightly closed, her Divine Sense was emptied, and she had entered a state of selflessness.

Fang Huai nodded slightly, came to Yun Ping, and stabbed the skinning knife into her skin.

The cold skinning knife and the warm palm touched Yun Ping at the same time. As the pain struck, the look in Yun Ping's eyes as she looked at Fang Huai also added a trace of inexplicable emotion.

Suddenly, a thought that frightened her even emerged in her heart:

If the person marrying the Immortal Master that day had been me, how good would that be.