It turned out Yang Hong had worried too much.
When he arrived in front of the small building, he saw a group of women exercising with sounds of "Heng heng ha hey~".
Their cultivation had also surged.
Zhou Guiren's cultivation had reached the peak of Xiantian, and with a moment of enlightenment, she could break through to the Grandmaster realm.
The other 21 people were all at the peak of Yiliu, also just needing that one moment of enlightenment to break through.
They hadn't sought out Yang Hong because they were too excited.
After taking a couple of glances from afar, Yang Hong turned back to his own small building.
He needed to bid farewell to Li Lizhi and the other two.
"Husband, we're leaving. We'll meet again if fate allows."
Just as Yang Hong had predicted, Li Lizhi, Zhu Yuyan, and Wanwan had already finished packing, waiting to bid farewell to Yang Hong.
Yang Hong even suspected that if he had been any slower, they would have left without saying goodbye.
"Then I wish you good luck. Oh~ right, should I wish you an everlasting immortal path, or a swift path to becoming an immortal?"
Yang Hong harbored no deep feelings for these three. At most, it was a relationship of mutual utilization.
Therefore, he dared to tease them without restraint.
"Hehe~ Husband, just wish your servant an early path to becoming an immortal. When I ascend, I will fulfill our marital duties."
Zhu Yuyan was the boldest. She put down the tightly covered basket in her hands, walked up to Yang Hong, cupped his face, examined it for a moment, and then planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Ahem~ Then I wish my lady an early path to becoming an immortal. Husband will wait for the day my lady fulfills her promise."
"Haha~ Then you just wait."
Zhu Yuyan looked at Yang Hong and laughed heartily with disdain.
While cupping Yang Hong's face, she also probed his condition. He still had no internal energy.
Even after eating plenty of dog meat yesterday, Yang Hong still had no internal energy.
Such a person was destined to be a mortal for his entire life.
Such a mortal had a lifespan of less than a hundred years. She was now in the Tianren realm and had at least 180 years of life. By the time Yang Hong died and his bones turned to dust, she would still be alive.
Of course, she wouldn't become an immortal in that short time.
She had heard that there were nine realms of cultivation, and each realm was more difficult than the last.
To become an immortal was harder than ascending to heaven.
"Husband, we'll meet again."
Li Lizhi had her own considerations. She knew she would return to the Wufang Dynasty within thirty years, and she would definitely meet Yang Hong again then.
"Mm~ Farewell."
Yang Hong did not look forward to Li Lizhi's promise of meeting again either.
He had read many novels and naturally knew that once these people entered immortal cultivation sects, they would consider themselves superior and look down on mortals as ants.
It was better not to meet such people.
"Husband, remember me, hehe~"
Wanwan stepped forward, hugged Yang Hong's face, and pecked him three times on both cheeks before letting go and playfully skipping away.
"I probably won't remember you."
Yang Hong, being very blunt, spoke the truth.
"Hehe~ You'll definitely remember me."
Wanwan didn't care about Yang Hong's words and smiled confidently. She picked up her equally well-covered basket and followed Zhu Yuyan.
"Husband, farewell."
Li Lizhi said farewell once more and also left.
Having achieved their goals, these three prospective cultivators naturally departed.
Yang Hong's lips curled upwards, a hint of disdain in his heart. He had sensed their general cultivation levels.
Apart from Li Lizhi who was a Qi Refining cultivator, the other two had no true qi; they were merely martial artists.
If it weren't for the need to test the so-called "fortune," Yang Hong could have killed all three with a single palm strike.
Yes,
He could have killed all three with a single palm strike.
"Husband, there's no need to be angry. After this parting, we are on different paths from them, and we will never intersect again. Just think of them as passersby, insignificant passersby."
Song Yuzhi watched Li Lizhi and the other two walk away with a touch of envy. Seeing Yang Hong's displeased expression, she quietly approached and comforted him.
"Mm~ They are all just passersby. Don't mind them.
Go change into some light clothing, and come down to the fields with me."
Yang Hong didn't have time to dwell on these three passersby. His mind was now focused on how to establish his foundation.
When he had channeled energy to the plants this morning, although he had received cultivation returns, his cultivation was stuck at 999 years, unable to advance further.
Even though his cultivation couldn't increase, Yang Hong could still feel his true qi becoming more potent.
He was just one step away from a breakthrough.
This breakthrough might be reaching the maximum level of the Intermediate Breath-Nourishing Technique, or it might be another evolution of the technique, or it might simply be the accumulation of true qi to a certain degree.
Regardless, he wasn't a legitimate immortal cultivator, so he didn't need enlightenment or anything like that. He just needed to keep channeling energy to the plants.
Song Yuzhi was very curious why Yang Hong still needed to farm, and even she, as a prince's consort, had to farm. But she didn't ask further and went to her room to change into a tight-fitting dark blue silk outfit before coming out.
"Mm~ This looks good. Let's go check the medicinal garden first."
After glancing at Song Yuzhi in her new outfit, Yang Hong nodded in satisfaction.
Song Yuzhi had a decent appearance: a melon seed face, willow-leaf eyebrows, delicate features, although her mouth was a bit large, detracting from the overall aesthetic. Still, she was an 80-point beauty.
Now, dressed like this, coupled with her height of just under 1.60 meters, she exuded a more delicate and refined charm.
This was the aura Yang Hong admired in the girl he fancied.
"As long as Husband likes it."
A blush appeared on Song Yuzhi's pretty face, and she lowered her head.
She didn't know why, but the more they interacted, the more she cared about Yang Hong's opinion.
They arrived at the medicinal garden one after the other.
Li Lizhi and the other two had some sense and hadn't completely ruined Yang Hong's medicinal garden. They had left at least three seeds of each herb.
Yang Hong decided that for the next period, he would not channel energy to his two main spiritual plants. Instead, he would focus on channeling energy to the 59 plants of 18 types of herbs in the medicinal garden.
His goal was not to cultivate spiritual plants, but to hasten the maturation of these herbs so he could harvest their seeds for replanting.
Time passed quickly, and it was autumn once again. Seeing that the herbs in the medicinal garden had fully matured and were ready to yield seeds, Yang Hong also received the long-awaited harvest.
"Ding~ You infused 50 days of true qi into the honeysuckle, gaining a 500x return, for a return of 25,000 days of true qi cultivation."
"Ding~ Cultivating the 'Intermediate Breath-Nourishing Technique' for 25,000 days, the Intermediate Breath-Nourishing Technique has advanced to level 51."
"Ding~ Your cultivation accumulation is sufficient. Your cultivation realm has advanced to the Foundation Establishment realm."
As the prompt sounded, a warm current emerged from Yang Hong's dantian and instantly flowed throughout his body.
"Oh~"
Yang Hong felt as if he had received a full-body massage, and a wave of comfort washed over him, causing him to groan involuntarily.
The warm current lasted for three minutes before dissipating, and a foul odor reached Yang Hong's nose.
"Holy crap! Is this still me? It stinks so bad!"
There was no need to ask; this was the process of cleansing the marrow and expelling toxins and impurities during Foundation Establishment.
"Good thing, good thing, no one is nearby, or it would be too embarrassing."
Yang Hong mumbled to himself and then flashed towards a nearby unoccupied small building.
These vacant small buildings all had dedicated wells for convenience, which would now serve him well for bathing.
Yang Hong's Foundation Establishment was thus easily completed.
The first trial for immortal cultivators, a hurdle that blocked 99% of them, was easily overcome by him.
One must know that the Foundation Establishment for immortal cultivators has three major trials:
Body Trial: Immortal cultivators need to temper their bodies to a level that can accommodate the true qi of Foundation Establishment before they can establish their foundation.
True Qi Trial: The true qi in the Qi Refining realm is merely a transformed state of internal energy, still retaining the properties of internal energy. It must be completely transformed into pure true qi before Foundation Establishment can occur.
Spiritual Consciousness Trial: This trial is also known as the mental trial, the mindset trial, and the tempering trial. It requires immortal cultivators to possess sufficient mental cultivation to combine spiritual power and true qi to form spiritual consciousness during Foundation Establishment.
In short, 99% of Qi Refining cultivators fail to pass the Foundation Establishment trial.
However, none of these posed a problem for Yang Hong.
Because he had the system!