After Tian Xiaoding summoned everyone in the village at the Juyi Hall of Tianyao Village, he announced to everyone the matters related to spring planting and announced that he was about to retreat.
This time, he planned to retreat for two months. When the spring planting could start, he would temporarily come out to check the situation.
For the place of retreat, he chose the huge cave on Xiangtian Peak, which was the place where the people in the original village once lived.
The reason why I chose this place is that Xiao Ding had previously set up a small psychedelic array at the entrance of the cave. People who do not understand the array cannot enter the cave.
Therefore, when he arrived in the cave, he could enter his own Qiankun Pot to practice at will, and no one else would notice.
During this retreat, he planned to take his sister Tian Xiaoe and brother-in-law Ou Muyun to practice in the Qiankun Pot. After all, they are their relatives. Given such a good opportunity, they will naturally not be forgotten.
Although Tian Xiao'e was only his relative after traveling through ancient times, he had already integrated himself into the Tian family at that time and treated the Tian family as his own relatives.
The person who knew that Xiao Ding owned the Qiankun Pot was his confidante Yue Yurou. However, Yue Yurou's Dantian was damaged and could not be repaired yet, so Xiao Ding did not take Yue Yurou to retreat together. After all, time passed too fast in the world inside the pot. If you don't practice inside, you will only waste a lot of time in vain. For humans with limited lifespan, this is not a good thing.
However, Xiao Ding left a jade token and gave it to Yue Yurou, and told everyone that if something unexpected happened in the village during his retreat, Yue Yurou could go to Tianfeng Cave to look for him.
On this jade token, there is a method of breaking the formation carved by Xiao Ding. As long as you hold the jade token, you can enter the psychedelic formation at the entrance of the cave.
The reason why she chose to give the jade tablet to Yue Yurou instead of giving it to Senior Sister or Li Tianliang and the others was because Yue Yurou knew that Xiao Ding owned the Qiankun Pot, but Senior Sister and others did not know this secret.
The main reason is to avoid that if something happens in the cottage and someone else goes to the cave to look for Xiao Ding, it will be revealed that Xiao Ding owns the Qiankun Pot.
Before going to the Xiangtian Peak Cave for retreat, Xiao Ding took the time to refine a lot of low-grade spiritual energy pills, low-grade Huiyuan Pills, and low-grade detoxification pills.
He took these pills and personally drove the Feiyun Shuttle to Qingxuan City, which was the closest to Tianyao Village.
In Qingxuan City, he sold all his elixirs and exchanged them for spiritual stones.
In order to obtain more spiritual stones, he went to the world inside the pot to take out a blue water purple lotus, and took it to the auction in Qingxuan City to bid for it.
This suddenly caused quite a stir.
You know, one of the main materials for refining the Foundation Building Pill, no matter which city it is in, it is a very sought-after good thing.
Because every cultivator will face the day of foundation building. There are so many cultivation sects on Fengluan Continent, and each sect will have a large number of Qi-training period disciples. Coupled with the casual cultivators outside the various sects, there are simply as many Qi-training period monks on Fengluan Continent as there are.
So many monks in the Qi training stage are waiting for the day of foundation building, but there are more wolves and less meat, so it is not that easy to get the foundation building pill.
Therefore, as soon as Xiao Ding's blue water purple lotus appeared at the auction, it immediately became a hot item.
In the end, the owner of a Dan Pavilion in Qingxuan City bid for this blue water purple lotus at a high price of 100,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
Xiao Ding returned to Tianyao Village with the 100,000 low-grade spiritual stones obtained from the auction of the Purple Water Purple Lotus and the tens of thousands of low-grade spiritual stones obtained from the sale of the elixirs.
In addition to taking out the funds needed for the cottage in the next two months and giving them to Li Tianliang, Deng Feng, and Shan Tong to take charge of, he temporarily collected the other spiritual stones himself.
After all, the expenses for so many people in the village are not small. All his previous spiritual stones were spent in more than half a year, so he just went to get some more spiritual stones.
After arranging everything in the cottage, Xiao Ding took Tian Xiao'e and Ou Muyun to the huge cave on the mountainside of Xiangtian Peak.
The space inside the cave is very huge, but the light is still relatively dim. After all, the cave entrance is only so big. The light coming from the cave entrance is limited and cannot illuminate all the locations in the cave.
When Xiao Ding came to this cave to retreat, he was actually putting on a show for the people in the village, making them mistakenly think that he would always be in retreat there.
In fact, as soon as he entered the cave, he immediately pulled Tian Xiao'e and Ou Muyun into his Qiankun Pot.
Xiao Ding also gave Tian Xiao'e and Ou Muyun some longevity pills. Each longevity pill can increase their lifespan by five hundred years. Therefore, they don't have to worry about practicing in the pot and quickly depleting their limited longevity.
The world inside the pot is still peaceful. The Bagua Weapon Spirit can very well help Xiao Ding take care of everything in the world inside the pot.
The eight monsters that Xiao Ding contracted have now broken through to the third level of Dzogchen. Even the Little Fire Wolf and Shui Ling Snake who came here later have caught up in cultivation and are on par with the cultivation of other monsters.
This is mainly due to the Baguio Pool that Xiaoding brought back from the Sea and Sky Secret Realm.
There is a spiritual marrow spring in this Baguio pool, and the spiritual marrow liquid in it will continuously flow up into the pool. In fact, there is a huge spiritual marrow crystal buried at the bottom of the Baguio Pool. However, for unknown reasons, the spiritual marrow crystal began to melt into the spiritual marrow liquid underground, and then surged up due to the underground pressure. The surface of the earth then flows into the pool.
The various spiritual plants planted in Xiao Ding Qiankun's pot are closely watched by the Bagua Weapon Spirit, and these monsters are not allowed to eat randomly.
There is only this Baguio pool that Xiaoding allows them to use. Therefore, the eight monsters that Xiao Ding contracted, four golden bamboo sword pigs, a stone monster, a water snake, a red wood peach spirit, and a blazing fire wolf, will come to this Baguio Pond to practice every day.
Therefore, the spiritual marrow liquid flowing out of the spiritual marrow spring in Baguio Pool will be consumed by eight of them every day.
Xiao Ding was also very happy to see that the cultivation of all the monsters had reached the third level of perfection from the early stage of the third level. After all these monsters advance to the fourth level, they will be equivalent to the foundation-building stage of human monks. You must know that they are all followers contracted by Xiao Ding and completely obey Xiao Ding's command.
With so many helpers in the foundation building period, wouldn't Xiao Ding's overall strength have grown a lot?
When the Bagua Artifact Spirit saw Xiao Ding coming in, he stepped forward to say hello.
Xiao Ding told the Bagua Artifact Spirit that he, his sister, and brother-in-law would stay in the world inside the pot for a few years, and asked it to prepare three meals a day for the three of them on time every day.
The Bagua Weapon Spirit grinned upon hearing this. The thing it hates the most is cooking for Xiao Ding.
