188: Chapter 178 188: Chapter 178 Jiang Tang did not know that because he had contracted the space, everything within it recognized him as the master.
The fish and shrimp were unafraid of him, which was not only due to a sense of kinship they felt towards him, but also a sense of obedience.
Jiang Tang swam freely in the lake, as if he were back in a swimming pool or soaking in a hot spring in his previous life.
He felt the water in the lake possessed spiritual energy that soothed the meridians in his body.
He floated on his back in the shape of the character “大,” gazing at the sun in the sky, wondering if the sun was real and whether he could enter it.
“Daddy, Eryao wants to bathe too.”
Eryao had entered the Transformation Stage and had taken on the form of a dragon, imitating Jiang Tang’s human shape to transform into an adorable child that looked about three or four years old, with white, tender skin and no mortal clothes, only garments made from its dragon scales.
Upon opening its eyes and finding Jiang Tang playing in the lake, Eryao ran excitedly towards the water, jumping in.
Perhaps its aura was too intense, causing the fish and shrimp in the lake to feel a bit startled.
“Moo…” Little Blue Ox galloped over, its body having evolved into that of a sturdy bull.
The Green Ox was also a male bull, with a robust body that raced swiftly into the lake.
Oxen were naturally adept swimmers.
“Eryao, not bad at all, you’re almost catching up to Daddy.”
“Hehe, Daddy is stronger.
When Daddy becomes stronger, Eryao will too, so Daddy won’t need Eryao’s protection and won’t be bullied by others.”
“Mmh, I’ll work harder,” Jiang Tang said as he patted Eryao’s head.
“Moo…” The Green Ox also sought his master’s praise, but unlike Eryao, it wasn’t capable of speech and couldn’t express its thoughts.
Having enjoyed the pleasure of swimming in the lake, Jiang Tang relaxed before realizing that he could not afford to rest on his laurels, with enemies still at large outside.
Jiang Tang flew up from the lake and used Purification Magic, drying his clothes with a controlled gesture.
Just as he was about to meditate for further cultivation, he remembered the effectiveness of the Nourishing Soul Pills he had concocted and thought of his family, who were still spirits and in desperate need of his pills.
Inside the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space, the medicinal garden was always blooming, day and night without distinction.
Flowers that would only bloom during daytime or nighttime in the outside world would instantly regrow here as soon as they were plucked.
Jiang Tang felt he should not waste resources.
As his cultivation grew, the herbs within became more luxuriant, and the efficacy of the Spirit Grass improved.
This life was a mass harvesting of the red flowers; he picked every single blossom in the Nourishing Soul Grass garden.
He filled four or five bamboo baskets, previously used for selling rice grains, with the flowers.
After selecting some additional herbs needed for concocting pills, he took out his Alchemy Furnace from the Storage Bag and began the process of alchemy.
Using the Xuanming Spiritual Fire, which now had a Fire Spirit, he gained better control over the flames, resulting in pills of higher quality and more potent efficacy.
From one batch in the furnace, ten pills were produced.
This time, he did not place each one into bottles.
Instead, he channeled a beam of spiritual light carrying the pills directly into the aura of the two ghostly spirits.
First and foremost, he provided them to his family and parents.
People have their biases; his relatives were the priority.
Only after they had enough did he consider giving pills to the ghost cultivators in the other aura.
Jiang Tang instructed them to queue, each receiving only one pill without taking any extra.
The spirits of his relatives in one aura bounced around excitedly, waiting for the pills to arrive.
As soon as they got their pills, they consumed them immediately and sat down to cultivate improvement.
The ghost cultivators in the other aura could only look on from within their own aura, hoping that Jiang Tang would keep his word and generously share a pill with them.
These mortals, having learned that they could cultivate after death, believed that gaining strength meant no longer being bullied by others.
In the space outside previously, they had been harshly bullied by those other ghosts.
Jiang Tang concocted one batch of pills after another, and after distributing them to his relatives, he intended to distribute some to those mortal ghosts who were not related to him.
Ever since they received her help, the ghosts had advanced from Spirit Movement to Spirit Awakening, gradually cultivating towards the direction of purchasing pills.
Unfortunately, they only had medicinal herbs and pills and had no cultivation methods for Ghost Cultivators, so they could only rely on Spirit Grass and pills for general progression.
Jiang Tang had concocted 20 furnaces of pills, aside from those distributed to her relatives, she also kept a small portion for herself, sitting in meditation to restore her Spiritual Energy amid fatigue.
Eryao had already detected that something was amiss outside while Jiang Tang was concocting pills but had been unable to disturb her process and had to wait until she finished making the pills before reporting.
“Daddy, look quickly, the outside was tumultuous while you were cultivating earlier, and now the space is sealed off.
The aura of living beings that was present before is now gone.”
Upon hearing Eryao’s words, Jiang Tang couldn’t care less about replenishing her Spiritual Energy and took out a Vitality Pill from her Storage Bag to eat.
Her spirit was instantly invigorated a hundredfold, and her Spiritual Energy recovered, with powerful Spiritual Energy circulating in her body.
Using her strong spiritual power, Jiang Tang observed the outside.
At this time, it was almost nightfall, and the Demonic Beasts outside were anxiously stirring.
It seemed as though the space was in flight, and Jiang Tang knew that someone was able to control it, possibly Huang Chen’s master, who had already emerged from the Hell Palace.
He was now directing the flight of the Hell Palace, and for reasons unknown, the interior of the Hell Palace seemed to be extremely hot, leading Jiang Tang to speculate that it must be an Elder using a Magical Treasure to spew fire outward.
Jiang Tang pondered whether she should try to find a way out.
How could she leave this place?
That Taoist had come and gone as he pleased, certainly having some incantation to do so.
Without being able to capture that person for interrogation, she could only speculate about how to break out of her own space to the outside.
At this thought, she wanted to see if that sun was real.
Maybe the sun could be the exit path.
“Eryao, go up to the sun and see if you can get in there.”
“Daddy, why don’t you call for the Green Ox?
It’s so big but never does any work.
I’ve heard that oxen can blow themselves up into the sky.”
Eryao once again glanced at the Green Ox with disdain; it always got to eat, while the one who worked was always her.
It really was unfair to treat a colleague as a pet.
“Moo…” The Green Ox let out a complaining moo.
It was not a Demonic Beast from ancient times, unable to awaken its legacy.
It didn’t have inherited spells or the ability to fly, even up to this moment.
“Eryao, the capable are burdened with more tasks.
It can’t fly, but you have the ability.
Once we get out, we’ll eat and drink well.
We won’t be like now, only able to eat fish and shrimp from the space.”
Jiang Tang tempted her with the promise of delicious food.
“Alright then!” Eryao, thinking of the prospect of getting out and eating fresher meat, agreed.
Eryao deployed her Cultivation Technique Dragon Flying, the Snow Dragon that had reached the Transformation Stage.
She had been a young boy before but now transformed into an adult Dragon, soaring towards the direction of the sun.
As she approached the high-altitude sun, it became hotter and hotter, and as she drew nearer, she felt the sweat on her dragon body break out.
Enduring the burning heat and thinking of the exquisite food her master had mentioned, she could only push forward and look upwards with determination.
As she neared the sun, Eryao cast a spell on herself to make the heat more bearable.
At the same time, she noticed that the sun could project warm rays of light and was, in fact, a Magical Treasure.
Eryao conjured a ring of light to encase her dragon form and burst into the sun.