Zhao Di put away the flying needles and other tools, as well as the opponent's storage bag, and quickly tidied up the scene, "destroying all traces".

  Then he walked to the restricted exit of Zhao Yin Peak with an air as if nothing had happened.

  Two newly-entered Qi-refining disciples were in charge of guarding the restricted area. Seeing a Foundation Establishment cultivator approaching, they hastily bowed and saluted. One of the disciples spoke with neither arrogance nor humility: "Greetings, Master Uncle! Please forgive us for not recognizing you earlier. Could Master Uncle please tell us your name? We are also on duty, so we hope Master Uncle will excuse us."

  "Uh, I'm Zhao Di! I'll go out for a bit, you two disciples open the exit." Zhao Di said calmly.

  "Yes, Master!" The two of them immediately opened the exit and let Zhao Di leave. If a Qi Refining stage disciple were to pass through this restriction, they would inevitably be asked about their identity and what they were doing there. However, facing a Foundation Establishment stage senior, the two naturally didn't dare to make things difficult.

  After Zhao Di left Zhao Yin Peak, he didn't go directly to Han Yang Peak, but instead went to Gu Lian Peak first. He found out that Jian Xiang'er had chosen the location of her cave after building the foundation, and it was located in this very peak.

  He rushed to the Valley of the Veil, and indeed saw a forbidden array near the waist of the mountain, not far from the Spring of the Veil. Zhao Di took out a transmission talisman, whispered a few words to it, and then threw it into the forbidden area.

  The Transmission Token drew a red light and disappeared into the seal. However, Zhao Di waited for a while, but still didn't see any movement from the seal. It seemed that Jian Xiner was either not in a critical period of her closed-door training and couldn't go out, or she wasn't in the cave at this time.

  Zhao Di let out a soft sigh and turned around to head towards Hanyang Peak.

  As soon as he entered the Wenshutang, he saw the white-bearded old man Xiong Yue sitting on a taishi chair with his eyes closed.

  "Senior Master, it's been a long time! I hope you've been well!"

  The old man immediately stood up and bowed his head in return, saying: "Junior brother is polite, it's been a long time since we met, junior brother's demeanor is still the same!" The old man was puzzled in his heart, wondering which young foundation-building cultivator this was from their sect. The voice seemed familiar, but he couldn't quite recall who it was for the moment. When he couldn't help but take a closer look at the other person's face, he suddenly recognized Zhao Di and exclaimed in surprise: "It's you! You're that five-element root junior brother of mine! You've actually succeeded in building your foundation too!"

  "Hehe, I must also thank Eldest Brother for the three Foundation Establishment Pills. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have been able to successfully establish my foundation by coincidence. If I had one less pill, I absolutely wouldn't have been able to do it." Zhao Di said with a smile.

  "With your junior brother's qualifications, it's not easy to lay the foundation with just three Foundation Establishment Pills! This shows that your junior brother's luck is extremely good, and in the future, there may be other opportunities for his cultivation to make great progress!" The old man also smiled and nodded in approval, then changed the subject and asked: "Junior brother, you've come this time to handle the certification of the new disciples who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage, right?"

  "Not bad! Younger brother wants to get this matter done as soon as possible, just like the sect leader said. Perhaps it's my turn of fate, so I want to leave the sect for a while and travel around to see if there are any strange encounters." Zhao Di made his intentions clear.

  The old man nodded and said: "Younger brother, sit for a moment, I'll be right back."

  As expected, before half a stick of incense had burned, the old man arrived in front of Zhao with several things in his arms.

  "These two pieces of middle-grade spirit stones are rewards given by the sect to your junior brother, and there will be some every year. This white robe is the attire for building foundation period disciples within the sect, also made from the fur of Fire Light Beast, but during the refining process, several defensive spells were added inside, still having a bit of protective ability." The old man handed over the items to Zhao Di, explaining one by one.

  "This red token is a token of trust for your junior brother in our sect, and it's also a good defensive artifact. When your junior brother needs to enter or leave the mountain gate, he just needs to show this token. Disciples in the foundation-building period can enter and leave the mountain gate without restrictions. Unless there are special circumstances, they still need to come to the World Hall to receive their salary every few years. This set of flags and the jade plate are used to set up the Misty Cloud Array. After your junior brother finds the cave, he can set up this array around it. Although the Misty Cloud Array is not very powerful, it's still difficult for Qi-refining cultivators to break through. The specific method of setting up the array is engraved on the jade plate with a mnemonic."

  As Zhao Di carefully put away the items, the old man solemnly took out a jade box about one foot long. Inside were a scroll made of unknown animal skin and an ordinary-looking symbol pen. The old man slowly opened the animal skin scroll, which was densely filled with tiny characters the size of rice grains. When he reached the blank section, he said to Zhao Di: "Please, Brother Zhao, drop a drop of your pure blood on this sect's scroll and leave your name behind! For thousands of years, every disciple of Tai Xu Men who has reached the foundation period or above is recorded in this scroll."

  Zhao took out a small red dagger, lightly wiped it on his finger, and instantly cut open a small wound, dripping a few drops of fresh blood onto the brush tip. Then he cast a Wood-attribute Qi-refining first-level spell "Regeneration Technique" on himself, and the bleeding from his finger stopped immediately, healing quickly without leaving any trace.

  Zhao Di picked up the brush, and on the blank space of the scroll, he wrote down the two characters "Zhao Di" with a flourish. As soon as he finished writing, the beast skin shone brightly, and these two characters seemed to come alive, twisting and turning, shrinking to the size of rice grains, and automatically arranging themselves among the countless names on the scroll.

  After doing all this, Zhao Di officially became a member of the Tai Xuan Men's foundation-building disciples. After bidding farewell to the old man with the surname Xiong, he did not go directly to the mountain gate, but instead went to "Bai Lu Ge" first.

  He is now a foundation-building period cultivator and can go to the second floor of the White Deer Pavilion to take a look.

  With the red token and wearing a white long gown, Zhao Di easily entered the second floor of the White Deer Pavilion. Although it was called the second floor, it wasn't directly above the first floor, but rather accessed through a transmission array from the first floor.

  But what made him greatly disappointed was that there were very few books here, less than a tenth of the first floor! And most of them were biographies of predecessors' travels and cultivation careers, which were not very valuable. The cultivation method books that Zhao Di wanted the most only had more than ten volumes, all of which were common foundation-building methods such as "Chaotic Sea Formula", "One Yang Formula" and "Breaking Ground Formula". In addition, there were some books introducing the foundation-building period's talismans, alchemy, array methods and elixirs, but they were all brief and concise, without any detailed introduction.

  There wasn't much time for Zhao Di to carefully read through, he just roughly scanned the introductions of these classics, then picked out a few dozen jade slips that might be useful to himself and threw them at a Qi Refining stage disciple, saying: "I want to copy all of these jade slips!"

  "Master uncle wants all of them? Copying one jade slip requires five pieces of spirit stone!" The disciple was stunned.

  "Hurry up and take them! Zhao Di threw out two mid-grade spirit stones and said impatiently."

  "Yes, Master!" The disciple's movements were also very quick and agile, immediately taking out dozens of blank jade slips, placing them one by one on top of the dozens of jade slips chosen by Zhao Di, then continuously casting spells.

  After a moment, the disciple handed over dozens of jade slips to Zhao Di and held up a pile of spirit stones, saying: "These are the spirit stones for Master!"

  "It's not necessary!" Zhao Di waved his sleeve, and after a flash of white light, he put all the jade slips into his storage bag. The spirit stone was left to the disciple, then he turned around and left Bailu Pavilion without looking back.

  He then returned to Hanyang Peak and arrived at the mountain gate exit of Taixu Gate.

  After showing the red token, Zhao Di indeed passed through the mountain gate exit without encountering any obstruction or inquiry.

  After leaving the mountain gate for a distance, Zhao Di took out a piece of white jade in the shape of a dragon and threw it into the air. The jade swelled with the wind and instantly turned into a jade dragon that was over one zhang long and more than two chi thick.

  This is Zhao Di's flying artifact made from the dorsal fin of a Jiaolong, personally refined by him - Treading Wind Jiaolong.

  Zhao Di stood on the Treading Wind Chui, pouring a large amount of spiritual energy into the Treading Wind Chui artifact through his feet. The artifact let out a loud whistle and flew towards the east at an astonishing speed.

  At this time, Zhao Di couldn't help but turn his head and gaze at the Kunlun Mountains below, sighing in his heart: "This time, I don't know when I'll be able to return!"

  In this way, a cultivator who had just established his foundation quietly left the Tai Xu Men. This matter did not cause any waves within the Tai Xu Men. Except for a few people, even most of the sect members were unaware that such a cultivator in the foundation period existed among them. Some individual cultivators had searched everywhere to gather information about Zhao Di, but they found nothing.

  In the end, like other monks who had vanished without a trace, Zhao Di's name was never mentioned again in the Tai Xu Sect.

  More than two hundred years later, and the scene was exactly the opposite of when he left, Zhao Di returned to Tai Xu Men once again, causing a huge stir throughout the entire sect, even changing the landscape of Jin Yan Guo's Xian Jie.

  (End of Volume 1)

  (Fourth update! The second volume has started to unfold some plot, hoping everyone will continue to support! Seeking collection and recommendation!)