Chapter 73 - XIV

In the blink of an eye, more than a year had passed since the outbreak of the giant locust. Yang Junshan was already fourteen years old, and in this period of more than a year, the entire Yuxian could be considered as having gone through the rain and wind.

However, due to the giant locust's calamity from the previous year being too fierce, coupled with the fact that the various counties were not successful in resisting the calamity, a small-scale recurrence of the locust's calamity occurred in the second year. Although it was quickly eliminated, it still caused a certain amount of loss, and adding the fact that the Ling Tian itself required too much time to recover, the spiritual valley's harvest from the second year being affected by the calamity had barely recovered to seventy percent of what it was in the previous year.

Of course, this did not include the Tuqiu Village. Although the Ling Tian s in the Tuqiu Village had also been destroyed by the giant locust larvae, under Yang Junshan's reminder, Yang Tiangang had long since been prepared for this.

During this year, the Heaven-Shaken Sect's food taxes had similarly returned terennial level, and the majority of the Spiritual Farmers s were naturally full of complaints. Many of the Spiritual Farmers s obtained from the villages only maintained their own cultivation, and many of the young cultivators' growth was affected by the further reduction in their cultivation resources. Some of the parents, in order to take care of the future generations, did not even hesitate to lower the cultivation needs of the spiritual valley s, causing their cultivation levels to drop.

As for the news of the old Spiritual Farmers being unable to maintain his cultivation, his lifespan had been shortened and he had even died directly due to it.

All of this did not happen in the Tuqiu Village, and the originally somewhat complacent villagers of the Tuqiu Village also became silent. They silently watched everything that was happening in the surrounding villages, and compared to what was happening, they cherished the fact that their current living conditions were not easy to come by, and Yang Tiangang's prestige had also risen to an incomparable level.

Yang Junping followed behind Yang Junshan and ran towards the west mountain. The two of them never stopped along the way, until they reached the pomegranate forest.

Yang Junshan's breathing did not change at all, but Yang Junping had already started to pant. In the end, he was still a twelve year old child, even though he diligently practiced the Wild Bull Fist and the Lying Tiger Diagram every day under Yang Junshan's supervision for the last two years, causing his body to be extremely outstanding among his peers, the disparity between him and Yang Junshan was not small at all.

"Brother, what are you doing here? You're exhausting me, but you can't slow down on the way. I just tested my spiritual cavities, and the spiritual qi has yet to circulate through my entire body!"

Sitting on the ground, Yang Junping propped himself up on the ground and said: "Brother, quickly pick a pomegranate for me, I'm dying of thirst!"

One month ago, Yang Tiangang brought Yang Junping back to the Bluestone Town and tested his innate talent in the Yang family. Like in his previous life, Yang Junping had three immortal spiritual cavities, and one of them was in the middle of his left and right palms.

Compared to his previous life, when he found out that Yang Junping had a pair of Immortal Spirit Apertures, he did not have the same regretful expression as them. At that time, Yang Tiangang was so excited that he almost shouted out loud three times.

Back then when his son brought the pair of bear palm immortal spirits back from the Banyan Mountain, Yang Tiangang had the thought of exchanging them for Jade Coins s or other cultivation resources. Although the value of this pair of mid quality immortal spirits was comparable to high quality spirit stones, the rarity of this pair of spirit stones was even higher than high quality spirit stones, if it was used to exchange for cultivation resources, it would be an extremely high price.

But in the end, he was still persuaded by Yang Junshan, saying that he still had two younger brothers and sisters.

He had never thought that his son's words would actually come true. His second son actually had a pair of immortal spiritual cavities, and the most precious thing was that they actually appeared in his palm.

Once I'm happy, my son will naturally be unlucky as well. The expectations I have for my second son immediately increased, and after Lao Yang returned to Tuqiu Village, he personally started to train Yang Junping, teaching him hands-on how to use the《 Overlapping Earth Spirit Art》 and teaching him how to absorb spirit energy.

Using Lao Yang's words, it was your big brother risking his life to bring back a pair of mid grade immortal spirits from Banyan Mountain, and you brat were lucky to have such qualifications. If you don't work hard to make this pair of good things go for naught, I will take this opportunity to clean up as soon as possible!

When Yang Junshan said that he wanted to bring him to play in the Western Mountain, Yang Junping was immediately overjoyed and jumped three feet into the air. He quickly agreed, he had been trained by his father to the point that even the pleas for help from Han Xiumei, who cared for her son, were all blocked by Yang Tiangang. Only his brother Yang Junshan, who was getting more and more embarrassed in front of his father, dared to call him out of the door to play.

Yang Junshan picked uuge, red-skinned pomegranate from the tallest tree in the forest and threw it over to him. Then, under Yang Junping's surprised gaze, he flipped through a pile of dried up leaves under the tree and a camouflaged wooden raft was lifted up by Yang Junshan, revealing the cave underneath.

Not bothering to peel off the pomegranate in his hand, Yang Junping stood up and walked to the edge of the cave. He saw that at the bottom of the cave, there was a stone tablet, and this stone tablet was exactly the same as the Spirit Sealing Stone that was on the spirit well in the backyard.

"Bro, what is this? Are you hiding something good here?"

Yang Junshan gavlayful "hehe" laugh, leaned over and suddenly pulled open the Spirit Sealing Slate, and a surge of surging spirit energy immediately gushed out from the cave behind the stone slab. Being caught off guard, Yang Junping immediately sat on the ground with his head raised, and sneezed three times in a row before he managed to recover.

But after recovering, Yang Junshan could not bother to find trouble with his big brother, he laid on the side of the cave and peeked his head out, this time he was more careful, he was not smeared by the dense Spirit Qi.

"Brother, this is the spirit cave you found?" No wonder you always go to the west mountain, I thought you wanted to bring Hu Niu to play, but it turns out that there is such a good place here, the Spirit Qi here is even denser than our Spirit Well! "

Yang Junping first praised, then said unhappily: "Brother, you're too ungrateful, you're the one who brought me here now!"

"Nonsense!" Yang Junshan laughed and scolded, "If I had brought you here earlier, what would you have done? However, the immortal spiritual cavities were unfathomable, and he did not start cultivating. His body could not even absorb a single bit of spiritual energy, and instead brought you up the mountain every day. Instead of arousing suspicion, what should we do if we expose this place? "

Seeing her brother jump into the cave, Yang Junping also quickly followed and continued: "Then you can't hide it from me. You were the one who found this place, does father know?"

Without waiting for Yang Junshan to reply, the bubbling spirit spring water in the cave had already attracted his attention, and immediately gave out a cheer, throwing away the pomegranate in his hand, he ran over to the side of the pool to grab the clear spring water and gulped down two mouthfuls.

On the west side of the cave, there was a large stone platform, and on top of it, there was a Spirit Sealing Box, a small barrel of Rune Ink, and a Green Jade Stone Stones. On top of the stone platform, there was also a brush with a few scattered talismans on it, and some of the talismans had already been drawn with many talismans on it. On top of those talismans, there was alsiece of Cold Mountain Stone that had been carved into a Gold Leopard.

Feeling the dense spirit energy and cool air in the cave, Yang Junshan said enviously: "Brother, the place you're looking for is really good, can I come here to cultivate in the future?"

Yang Junshan laughed: "You're talking nonsense again, the reason why I brought you here today is to tell you that you can come here to train anytime in the future, the spirit energy here is dense, and I believe it can greatly shorten the time for you to absorb spirit energy. Your father is already anxious about when you summon your spirit, the pair of bear-palm immortal spirits, he really wants to press them into your palm right now."

Yang Junping patted the green rock beneath his body, and said: "I'm anxious too brother, you don't know how much I liked that pair of Bear Palm Celestial Spirits, and felt that they were things that I should have refined from them, I have been impatient for a long time, now with the help of this Spirit Point, I will definitely be able to achieve twice the results with half the effort."

"However," Yang Junping said worriedly, "I want to frequently go to the Western Mountain to cultivate, how can Father explain this?"

Yang Junshan laughed: "Do you think your brother doesn't know that I have found sucrecious piece of land? Do you think he is really worried that I will run up to the west mountain every day? Sometimes, it's good that I haven't come home for a few days and nights? "

"Father knows this place?"

Yang Junshan said: "Of course I know, he didn't ask us to leave any space for him!"

Yang Junping nodded his head, and said: "I think father is also worried a lot, moreover, it's in a place that we can't see!"

Yang Junshan nodded, and said: "It's good that you understand, from today onwards, this is your territory, in the future, when little sister starts cultivating, you will also have to bring her here."

Yang Junping laughed: "If you always enter the Western Mountain, at least you will have Hu Niu as an excuse. Then what about me, the two Yang family brats would go to the Western Mountain one after another, even a fool would suspect you."

Yang Junshan said: "Before, I was afraid that someone would steal it from us, but now, this Spirit Spring Cave is being discovered, so what? Who in Wasteland Town dares to rob our Yang Family? "

Yang Junping laughed when he heard this: "That's true, now everyone in Wasteland Town says that our father is one of the top three experts in this town. I think, other than Liu Zhen, no one in the Wasteland Town is a match for Father!"

Yang Junshan also laughed: "From today onwards, not only does the Spirit Spring Cave belong to our Yang Family, the entire Western Mountain will also belong to our Yang Family!"

At this time, Yang Junping seemed to have thought of something, he sat up and asked: "Brother, you gave me the instructions here, are you going out recently?"

Yang Junshan said in surprise, "How did you know?"

Yang Junping replied: "Of course, this year, Xu Jing was first brought to the city by Liu Zhenren, becoming an outer disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect. Soon after, Zhang Huzi's father found him a job as an apprentice at the smithing workshop in the county.