Apart from opening up mountain caves and stone houses and passages, he also made some improvements to the earth fire room, making it more suitable for his own use.

  After spending several days of hard work, Zhao Di was extremely exhausted, his spirit and energy were consumed a lot, so he fell on the bed and slept for two whole days.

  When he woke up, his divine sense had recovered more than half, and the rest only needed to rest for a while. Then he held a high-grade water-attribute spirit stone, replenishing his spiritual power while using his divine sense to inscribe a red jade slip.

  This jade slip was obtained from the storage bag of Master Kuang, a cultivator of the Tai Xu Men sect. This Master Kuang is indeed a great master of alchemy, although his own cultivation is only at the initial stage of foundation building, but he has a very deep understanding and rich experience in the refining of magical instruments. This jade slip contains detailed descriptions of the methods and experiences of refining hundreds of various magical instruments throughout his life. For Zhao Di, the significance of this jade slip is no less than that set of Red Cloud Thirteen Needle Instruments.

  He wanted to use some of the demon beast materials in his hands to refine a few pieces of spiritual instruments that could enhance his strength without being too showy. His Frost Serpent Bow and Ice Fire Shield, two mid-grade spiritual instruments for offense and defense, were indeed very useful, but he didn't dare to easily display them in front of people. Because these two spiritual instruments both required the use of mid-tier ice attribute spirit stones, which were too expensive, really eye-catching!

  In order to improve the success rate of alchemy and further enhance the quality of elixirs and spiritual instruments, it is still very necessary for him to fully comprehend and integrate all the alchemical classics in his possession.

  Zhao Di, who was deeply immersed in the jade slip, suddenly remembered something and temporarily stopped contemplating the alchemy classics. Instead, he took out the jade slip that recorded "Yu Ling Qian Tan" (Spiritual Discourse of a Thousand Talks), which he had obtained from a certain Baolingmen cultivator in Xianglong Valley.

  Zhaodi had roughly read the jade slip before and didn't think much of it at the time. Later, after obtaining several Frost Serpent beast eggs, he re-read "The Thousand Talks on Spiritual Cultivation" and found a way to hatch these beast eggs.

  The method is very simple, even if nothing is done, the beast egg may hatch on its own at any time, but the time spent may be several years or even decades, exceeding a hundred years! If you put the beast egg next to an object with abundant spiritual energy, it can help the beast egg hatch. Generally, it will hatch within a short period of several months to several years.

  After Zhao Di came out of the Dragon Descending Valley, he was either closed in the Alchemy Room or rushing on the road, and never had a chance to settle down and hatch these few beast eggs. Now that he has obtained a Lingyan Spring, although it is extremely small, it can be considered as a Lingyan object, and using it to hatch the beast eggs should not be a problem!

  Before hatching, he had to perform a ritual of recognition on these beast eggs. In this way, the demon beasts that were born would completely obey his command and become his spiritual beasts, helping him with all their might! With Bi Han Jiang's strength and the endless evolutionary potential of the Jiao Long clan, Zhao Di still had great expectations for the spiritual beasts after hatching.

  Zhao took out a jade bowl, filled it with half a bowl of Lingshui Spring water, and used a small knife to cut his finger, squeezing out a few drops of blood, which he dripped into the bowl.

  Fresh blood floats on the surface of the spring water, like several blooming red flowers, gathering but not dispersing.

  Then he picked up the symbol pen, stirred the bowl of blood water, and dipped it full of blood water. According to the instructions in "Yu Ling Qian Tan", he drew a circular pattern more than two feet wide on a flat ground. After doing all this, Zhao Di took out five Bi Han Jiao beast eggs from the spiritual beast bag, four blue and one white, and placed them on top of the circular pattern.

  He then cut open his fingers and dripped a few drops of essence blood onto each beast egg. Afterwards, he followed the instructions in the jade slip, softly reciting a short incantation before striking a spell seal on the circular symbol.

  A circular symbol burst out a faint blood light, and the red essence of the beast egg suddenly penetrated into the shell, disappearing without leaving any trace.

  Zhao Di felt a little delighted, it seemed that he had successfully acknowledged his master.

  He then put the several beast eggs that had successfully recognized their master into the Spirit Eye Spring, and placed a few high-grade ice-attributed spirit stones next to the beast eggs to increase the spiritual energy. After thinking for a moment, he also added a piece of wind-attributed high-grade spirit stone.

  In the market, Zhao Di deliberately exchanged some low-grade spirit stones with variant attributes multiple times, including wind spirit stone, ice spirit stone and thunder spirit stone, and cultivated them into high-grade spirit stones, keeping them for future use.

  After completing the beast egg's recognition ceremony, Zhao Di continued to immerse himself in the refinement of the jade slips.

  ……

  Half a month later, Zhao Di brought the refining material to the Earth Fire Room.

  Half a month later, he came out of the Earth Fire Room with satisfaction and returned to the cave mansion, starting to refine a batch of high-grade talismans in the Refining Qi stage.

  For foundation-building cultivators, although these talismans' might is somewhat insufficient, if there are enough of them, they can still be of great assistance.

  And for Zhao Di, who was in the early stages of building his foundation, whether it was practicing high-level Qi-refining techniques or crafting talismans, everything had become effortless and easy. Although the success rate of crafting talismans wasn't particularly high, at around 30%, it was still enough to yield a considerable number of talismans for him.

  Months later, Zhao Di, who thought he had made sufficient preparations, left Hualian Island and flew to Xixing Island.

  Before leaving, he found that the Bi Han Jiao Beast egg still had no signs of hatching and could only continue to soak in the Lingyan Spring. As for those few pieces of high-grade spirit stones, Zhao Di thought about it and decided to put them back into his storage bag one by one.

  Although the Six-Wheel Absolute Spirit Formation and the Heaven-Covering Two-Extreme Formation are guarding it, if a cultivator with some sort of secret technique were to break in and see the high-grade spirit stone, that would be very bad.

  In case of any unexpected event, he set up some mechanisms and marks in various parts of the cave. Although they had no defensive capabilities, if someone had ever broken into his cave, he could see it at a glance.

  After finishing all these, Zhao Di flew to Xingxing Island.

  In the midst of Xingxing Island's bustling streets, there was a local largest monster material shop with a name like a poetry house teahouse - Lunding Hall!

  This Daodao Xuan occupies a vast area and has three floors. The first and second floors are all counters selling various demon beast materials, while the third floor is actually a tea room that offers free hospitality to foundation-building cultivators.

  It naturally became the best place for monks in the foundation period to make friends and socialize on Xingxing Island.

  As the name of this Ludao Xuan became more and more famous, these three-story teahouses gradually also became a place for foundation-building monks to get to know each other and find teammates to hunt and kill demons together.

  It just so happened that during this period, it coincided with the peak of demon-slaying, and inside the tea house, there were also many foundation-building cultivators present, making it more lively than usual.

  For a foundation-building cultivator, teaming up with four or five people to hunt and kill demonic beasts is much safer and faster than doing it alone. Zhao Di also felt that it was necessary to join a hunting team first, accumulate some experience, and then consider whether to act alone!

  Originally thought that he was unknown and low-key, Zhao Di had just entered the teahouse when he was unexpectedly recognized by someone!

  "Zhao Daoyou! It's been more than half a year since we last met, how have you been lately?" The loud voice of the big man was not transmitted through any magical means, but it immediately caught the attention of over twenty cultivators in the teahouse. This big man was none other than Xun San, the bearded man who had competed with him for the Lingji Island and became acquainted with him without fighting.

  "It's actually Fellow Daoist! Not having seen you for half a year, your cultivation has become even more refined!" Zhao Di charged forward with a big smile and clasped his fists in greeting, returning the smiles one by one from the gazes that were cast upon him. All of these people were Foundation Establishment cultivators, and most of them were at the mid-stage or above; there were also two or three who had reached the late stage.

  However, Zhao Di found that although these people were meeting for the first time, the gazes they cast were completely different. Some were very kind, some were abnormally cold, and there were even those who had a hint of anger in their eyes, making Zhao Di feel inexplicably puzzled. Nevertheless, most of the gazes were still flat and expressionless.

  Under the enthusiastic hospitality of the Great Han, Zhao Di had no choice but to sit down at a tea table near the Great Han. Also sitting near the Great Han was a young man with a cold face, who was also in the middle of his foundation-building cultivation. As soon as Zhao Di sat down, a plump and beautiful girl immediately brought over a cup of fragrant spiritual tea.

  As the girl approached, Zhao Di caught a whiff of a faintly elegant and refreshing scent, unable to describe what it was, but it made him feel very comfortable, so he took another two glances at the girl.

  The young girl politely bowed to Zhao Di and said "Please take your time, senior" before leaving with a smile.

  The Great Han looked at the girl several times and said in a low voice, "How do you think this girl is? However, if we talk about beauty, there are many on Xing Star Island who surpass her! Not to mention others, just take our Fourth Brother, he's also very beautiful! Second Brother, don't you think so?" The last sentence was directed at the indifferent young man beside him.

  Zhao Di and the cold youth had not yet spoken, when a gentle girl's voice came from the entrance of the teahouse: "Xun San Ge, you praise this young woman so much, aren't you afraid people will laugh at you?"

  (First update, three updates today! Please collect and recommend!)