"Chirp chirp..."

  The little monkey, upon seeing the mountain-moving ape on the ice, was filled with fear in its eyes and struggled to climb down from Xu Taiping.

  "Don't worry, I'll take you over there."

  Xu Taipily patted the little monkey's head, then infused his spiritual power into his feet, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of the mountain-moving ape.

  At this moment, the mountain-moving ape was covered with burn marks all over its body, and it was already on the brink of death, but it was still trying to see the little monkey.

  "Chirp chirp..."

  At this moment, the little monkey leaped down from Xu Taiping and rushed to the mountain-moving ape, embrag its face with its hands.

  Then Xu Taiping saw the two monkeys, one big and one small, starting to "chirp" and unicate with each other.

  "The old monkey is expining things to the little monkey, but I don't kly what he's saying."

  The Fairy Lingyue seemed to uand some monkey nguage.

  Xu Taiping wasn't very ed about what the two monkeys were saying, but the se in front of him did bring back memories of his grandfather.

  After all, on that snowy night, his grandfather had expihings to him in a simir way.

  "You... young man..."

  Just then, the mountain-moving ape seemed to have finished expining things to the little monkey. It lightly tapped the little monkey's head with its fihen looked at Xu Taiping and said, " you... take care of... my child? I ... make it form a soul tract with you, serving you for a tury..."

  Xu Taiping had long uood the matter of f a soul tract with a spirit beast, but he hadn't expected su opportunity to be preseo him so easily.

  The Fairy Lingyue didn't interject, but quietly watched from the side, clearly letting Xu Taiping make his own choice.

  "What about you? Are you willing?"

  Xu Taiping didn't directly agree or refuse, but looked at the little monkey.

  Upon hearing this, the mountain-moving ape immediately whispered a few words to the little monkey, seemingly veying Xu Taiping's words to it.

  "Chirp..."

  After hearing the mountain-moving ape's words, the little mourned around and hugged the mountain-moving ape's head. However, uhe mountain-moving ape's persuasion, it soon turned back to look at Xu Taiping and nodded.

  "Then you'll follow me from now on."

  Xu Taiping nodded.

  He felt sorry for the little monkey, and he didn't really want to leave it in the mountains.

  The process of f a soul tract was very simple. The mountain-moving ape took a drop of its inal demon blood from the little monkey's body and dropped it into Xu Taiping's palm, then had the little monkey swear an oath.

  After f a soul tract with the little monkey, Xu Taiping clearly felt that he could and the little monkey with his thoughts, although he certainly wouldn't do so.

  The reasoook itle monkey was mostly out of sympathy, rather than a need for a spirit beast.

  As for why he had to form a soul tract, it was because acc to the rules of the Qingxua, a spirit beast without a soul tract coulder the territory of the Qingxua.

  The mountain-moving ape must have known about this.

  "Young man..."

  Just then, the mountain-moving ape suddenly reached into its mouth and pulled out a piece of transparent crystal ore, then lightly tossed the piece of ore, which weighed over a hundred pounds, in front of Xu Taiping.

  "This thing belongs to you..."

  The mountain-moving ape poi the piece of ore that had rolled to Xu Taiping's feet.

  "What is this?"

  Xu Taiping was a little fused.

  "Ioon Spirit Stone?"

  At the same time, the Fairy Lingyue excimed.

  "Ioon Spirit Stone is a material for f spirit ons, very rare, and in my inal cultivation world, it is sidered a very precious ore."

  She then expio Xu Taiping.

  "Spirit ons?"

  Xu Taiping was also surprised.

  From his current uanding of magical tools and ons, the ons in the cultivation world were divided into magical tools, magical treasures, spiritual treasures, and the legendary immortal treasures.

  Spirit ons were a type of spiritual treasure, specifically referring to ons with extremely strong attack power.

  You see, let alone spirit ons, he hadn't even seen a magical treasure at the moment, let alone a spiritual treasure or spirit on.

  "Quickly take it, and when the nd bears fruit three times, use this Ioon Spirit Stone as nourishment, then pnt it on a spiritual mountain. It might be able to nurture a high-quality spirit on with special abilities."

  The Fairy Lingyue said with a hint of excitement.

  If it were in her inal world, a piece of Ioon Spirit Stone wouldn't have made her so excited, but it was different on this ti. The preciousness of the Ioon Spirit Stone here was parable to the Ice Soul Fairy Spirit Stone in their world.

  "Chirp chirp chirp..."

  Just as Xu Taiping picked up the Ioon Spirit Stohere was a heart-wreng scream from the i front, and when he looked up, he saw that the mountain-moving ape had closed its eyes.

  "It's gone."

  The Fairy Lione was somewhat desote.

  , Xu Taiping found a way to bury the mountain-moving ape's body in the mountains, and then took the snake skin and demon gall of the Fire Mark Python before returning to the Green Bamboo Resideh the little monkey.

  ...

  Ihe bedroom.

  "Little monkey, I'm called Taiping, and you be called Ping'an from now on, okay?"

  Xu Taiping pced the little monkey oable, then wrote the word "Ping'an" on the paper with a brush.

  "Chirp chirp."

  The little monkey nodded as it held the paper.

  It seemed to uand the meaning of Xu Taiping's words.

  Then, Xu Taiping got some food for the little monkey.Perhaps it was due to exhaustion, the little monkey, after dev a pte of mutton, colpsed onto Xu Taiping's bed and fell into a deep sleep, sn loudly.

  "Taiping, it's time to pnt the Earth-Hiding Fruit."

  The soul of the Lingyue Fairy appeared beside Xu Taiping.

  "Mhm."

  Xu Taiping nodded with anticipation.

  ...

  That night.

  "Sister Lihe hole is ready."

  In the spiritual medie garden, Xu Taiping had dug e and three small pits in a space he had reserved earlier.

  "The east is associated with wood and signifies growth; pce the Fire Ganoderma in the small pit to nurture treasures that enhance cultivation speed."

  "The north is associated with water and signifies bance; pce gold and silver treasures in the small pit to nurture treasures that heal aore."

  "The west is associated with metal and signifies destru; pce the Soughing Wind Pearl, tiger head, tiger gall, snake head, and snake gall in the small pit to nurture treasures of destru and onry."

  Uhe guidance of the Lingyue Fairy, Xu Taiping followed her instrus, p the prepared items into the three small pits acc to their respective dires.

  "Finally, pce the Earth-Hiding Fruit into the main pit and wait for three months."

  After filling and c the three small pits, Xu Taiping took out the Earth-Hiding Fruit and carefully pced it into the main pit.

  "Little Taiping, see you in three months."

  The ethereal figure of the Lingyue Fairy floated above the main pit, smiling and winking at Xu Taiping.

  "Mhm, see you in three months, Sister Lingyue."

  Xu Taiping nodded.

  After the sed transformation of the Earth-Hiding Fruit, the fruit would take three months to mature, something the Lingyue Fairy had already expio Xu Taiping.

  "Speaking of which, it's time to sell seeds in the garden. Last year's harvest of the Nine-Leaf Purple Peril was good, but relying solely on the sale of Nine-Leaf Purple Peril for merit, I could only save up about a hundred merit s."

  After pnting the Earth-Hiding Fruit, Xu Taiping looked at the now barren medie garden, where the Nine-Leaf Purple Peril had been sold off, and murmured to himself.

  "Adding the merit s obtained from the Evil Ghosts and Tiger Demon, I now have about five hundred merit s left. Although it's enough for future expenses, it's not suffit to buy medial materials and cultivation teiques. It seems I o pnt some more valuable medial herbs this year."

  He pohis as he returo his bedroom.

  By now, he had deeply realized that cultivation required not only talent and persevera also money, lots and lots of money, and in the Qingxua, money was in the form of merit s.

  "Three months, that should pass quickly, right?"

  Xu Taiping muttered softly to himself, then closed the bedroom door.

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