Immortal!!!

"Are you done?". Wei Hen asked him after he puts on his robe.

"Yes, Young Master Wei Hen". Shi Lei replied to him.

"Hmmm...". Wei Hen contemplated as he gazed at the stream water.

"What is it, Young Master Wei Hen?". Asked Shi Lei as he heard Wei Hen hum earlier.

"There are fish in this stream". Wei Hen stated.

"Yes, there are. Later, when we get back to the camp, I will ask some of the servants who know how to catch a fish to come here and catch as many as they can before sunset". Shi Lei told Wei Hen about his plan for later.

Wei Hen felt weird. Why not do it earlier? He thought to himself.

"Why do you not ask them to do it earlier? We can prepare the food ahead if you had asked them to do it earlier". He said what he thought to Shi Lei.

"Yes, I did. Some of the team went to the downstream area because there are more fish". Shi Lei said. "I will ask them later to come here". He continued.

Shi Lei also added that he felt Wei Hen yearn so much to take a bath so he informed him as soon as they reported that there is a stream nearby.

"You're such a considerate person". Stated Wei Hen.

"I'm flattered, Young Master Wei Hen". Replied Shi Lei as he bows down a bit.

...

There are few bonfires are being made to stew or roast the food. There are a lot of women among the cooks. The men help when it times to carry a pot or keep the fire alive. For now, the people picked by Zhi Peng have no problem. Be it attitude or conduct. So, Wei Hen couldn't help but be impressed by Zhi Peng's work.

The things they got as a result of their hunting, foraging and catching the fish in the river are plentiful. There are twenty-three hares, an adult female deer hunt by Zhi Peng, three baskets of fish, five baskets of many kinds of wild fruit, a basket of edible wild mushrooms and plentiful edible fern.

There is a lot of food served for this evening as a result of this afternoon hunting, foraging and catching fish in the river. The servants are scattered while forming a circle around the bonfire. The women and men who act as chefs were eating after they were done serving the others. The women form their own circle of the group though while men just scattered around. The ones who still felt hungry served themselves after that.

Not all the men among the servants eating near the bonfires, some became the watchmen to stand on guard against unknown dangers lurking out there because they were in the forest right now and in an unfamiliar place. They would switch with the servants who are finished eating their meal. Zhi Peng and Zhinu were among the watchmen tonight.

While people are eating near the bonfires, Wei Hen and Shi Lei eat near Wei Hen's carriage. They were eating so nicely. Their movement was neat and clean. The onlookers couldn't help but look at them from time to time as their look and presence were like an alien out here. Especially when it comes to Wei Hen. The newly bought servants who didn't yet see Wei Hen's otherworldly stunning face were very shocked by what they have seen. These past few days Wei Jen always eating inside his carriage. So, they couldn't see what Wei Hen's face was like. They can only hear a word about his rumoured genuine facial feature from Zhinu and other old servants' mouths. It's quite a rare sight to behold for those who had lived in a remote area where the people who own the best feature there is the average-looking people. Even some of Wei Hen's old servants that were present there didn't quite familiar yet with Wei Hen's new glow-up look. The sight becomes extra eye-catching when there were two superfluous good-looking people together. The additional presence of Shi Lei who was known as the infamous 'Handsome Ice Cube' of Hexing Town. If this were a modern world, people will call them a 'bl couple'. Shi Lei would be the 'Gong' and Wei Hen would be the 'Shou'. As if they are the entertainment for tonight.

The food was enough to fill the stomach of all of the servants to the fullest. It was a beautiful sight to see the word happiness carved on their face. Some keep patting their stomach because they felt bloated. In fact, some of them here never had a plentiful meal in their lifetime. Before, when they were back at the slave tavern, they only could eat porridge and hard bread. Right now, they could eat a bowl of rice and stew that contains edible ferns, edible mushrooms, and hare and deer meats. Plus, the roasted Koi fish. So they felt very grateful for the food they ate today.

After they all finish eating. They begin to tidy and clean up the area and prepare to sleep. There are still some leftovers, so they keep them together in one enormous cooking pot and will heat them tomorrow morning for breakfast.

...

It is in the middle of the night when Wei Hen tried to comprehend the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex'. While Shi Lei was outside guarding the carriage, sitting in the coachman's seat.

In these past few days, Wei Hen already comprehends the preliminary level of the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex'. He doesn't know how but he can comprehend it while he awake and do something. He also can do it even in his sleep.

Basically, the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex' is one of the cultivation methods practice by the cultivator.

It was a special cultivation method practice by the heavenly demonic beast race bloodline called 'Ninetail'.

Wei Hen then sits cross-leg. Meditative posture.

"Okay, now let's try to do as the instructions said in the cultivation method". He said as he whispered to himself.

Wei Hen tries to feel the 'Qi' in the air as it flows in and out of the body. Not to his surprise, he can feel it effortlessly. It was because the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex' in him contained mysterious energy called 'Qi'. So he can feel it in the nick of time. It was warm and gentle at the same time.

So, after he felt the qi in the air around him, he tried to absorb it into his 'dantian'. The qi then spread all over his body through his blood vessels after it enters his dantian. He felt energetic and a lot healthy. The exhaustion from the trip was vanish in an instant. He felt excited when he felt the sensation of it.

Now, it is time to try the next step mentioned in the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex'.

Through qi energy inside his body, he leads his sea of consciousness into his dantian. There he sees three orbs of colour. Purple, black and white.

According to the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex'. These things were called 'spiritual roots. The colour of each orb represents its elements. There are many types of spiritual roots. The most common spiritual root is water, fire, earth, plants and gold. The blue spiritual root is representing water, red is fire, brown is earth and green is plants. Among them gold is special. It holds holiness and it's beneficial to the one who owns it. The owner can cultivate any type of cultivation. And if they were to cultivate the way of buddha they would become more powerful be it in offence or defence and their progression in cultivation become much faster.

Aside from common spiritual roots, there were also mutated type spiritual roots. Thunder, Lightness, Darkness, Wind, Ice, and more. The one who owns these types of spiritual roots is elite among the elite if they have a single spiritual root body.

The more spiritual root one has in their body, the harder it becomes for one to pursue immortality. While, the lesser spiritual root in their body, the easier it becomes for them to pursue immortality. Because the qi absorbed by dantian from heaven and earth will be distributed among the spiritual root. That is why most people who reach the highest level of cultivation is the one who owns a single spiritual root in their body.

In Wei Hen's case, he owns three spiritual roots and all three of them are mutated spiritual roots. Thunder, lightness and darkness. For him, this is bad news because according to the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex' the spiritual roots' properties must not contrast with each other. Otherwise, the owner's dantian would explode when reaching the Foundation Establishment state.

It may cost the owner their life or if he or she is lucky, they will be crippled and live like a mortal and die of old age.

In the 'Heavenly Ninetail Codex', there was no solution written to solve this problem. It means he can not cultivate to a higher level in the future.

Wei Hen doesn't want to let this opportunity to pursue immortality become waste just because his spiritual roots' elements are contrary to one another. He has to think of one way to fix this issue now or never.

"A new way to fix it...". He mumbled to himself as he opened his eyes slowly.

A few seconds later he closes his eyes and meditates again...

Boom!!!

The air pulsating around the carriage, the air current around the carriage was so violent that Shi Lei who was outside the carriage thrown away from the coachman seat of the carriage by the strong wind.

" Young Master Wei Hen!". He shouted at the top of his lungs. What is going on right now?! He asked himself in his mind.

The skies rumble suddenly. The view of the moon and stars are shrouded by the sudden appearance of a thick cloud. The cloud is spinning high above Wei Hen's carriage forming a gigantic cumulonimbus.

The peaceful night abruptly became chaotic because of this occurrence. All of the people who are either sleeping or doing night duty were panicking.

Zhi Peng who was on duty tonight was as panicked as everyone else as well. He sprinted toward Wei Hen's carriage and try to reach it but the air pressure around it was so turbulent. It keeps pushing him away.

The lightning flashes about in the cloudy night sky, revealing the spinning humongous body of the turbulent cloud.

Suddenly...

The skies rumbled loudly before the thunder eye hit straight at Wei Hen.

Boom!!!

Destroying the carriage into several pieces and incinerating the donkey that was tied to the carriage, until it was black as charcoal. The burnt smell of it wafted around the area by the turbulent air.

The thunder just now created a big wave of explosions, sending Zhi Peng and Shi Lei flying far away from where they at just now.

"Young Master Wei Hen!!!". Shouted, Shi Lei and Zhi Peng as they recovered from the fall.

Wei Hen was there on the ground. His robe was tattered and burnt. Revealing his poor condition. He was lying on the ground pitifully.

But to the spectator's surprise, he still moves and sits in a meditation posture. Some of them gasped in surprise.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

.....

" Young Master Wei Hen!!!". Yelled Shi Lei again as he was about to run towards Wei Hen but was restrained by Zhi Peng who was not far from him. "Calm down lad, you cannot go there!". Said Zhi Peng to him.

The thunder strikes Wei Hen continuously thirty-six times. The event happened for about several minutes. But contrary to reality Wei Hen miraculously did not die. He is still in his meditation posture.

The situation slowly calms down. Returning the view of the moon and stars. The air also gets back to normal.

" Look he is fine". said Zhi Peng after a moment of shock.

The bystander's mouths all gape widely when they digested what they saw just now. Shi Lei was also stunted for a while before he sprint towards Wei Hen and hold him in his arms.

Zhi Peng who was confirming that there was no more incoming thunder, no longer bother to prevent him from approaching their young master.

The blood flowed down from the edge of his mouth.

He was extremely exhausted right now and his body was numb. His condition is bad. He looks terrifyingly pale.

Suddenly...

"Immortal!!!".