A distance of three hundred miles, for ordinary people, may require a day's journey by boat to reach. But for Zhao Di, it took less than half an hour to find the deserted island cliff mentioned by Zhang Lao Tou.
As expected, this place is only a few dozen meters in size, and all around are vertical cliffs of several hundred meters high, smooth and steep. This kind of place, ordinary people can't reach.
On the cliff, there was a 7 or 8 year old boy with red lips and white teeth. His dirty face still showed some elegance. At this time, he was digging up an unknown wild grass and stuffing it into his mouth to fill his hunger.
On this barren cliff, only these hardy wild grasses can survive. If not for them, I'm afraid the young man wouldn't have been able to hold on until someone came to rescue him!
Zhao floated over and landed in front of the young man, smiling but saying nothing.
The young man suddenly saw Zhao Di flying from the edge of the sky and hastily cried out: "Immortal, save me!"
"Are you Zhang Mo's grandson?" Zhao Di asked with a smile.
"Really? Ah, it's Grandfather who asked you to come and save me! You're a celestial master!" The young man said happily, he was quite clever and had guessed Zhao Di's origins in an instant.
"Let's go!" Zhao Di said no more, grasping the young man's hand and stepping onto the Wind Chasing Dragon.
"Huh!" Zhao Di grasped the young man's arm and was surprised to find that he too possessed a spiritual root. Earlier, he hadn't carefully examined the young man, but upon contact, he naturally sensed the young man's innate spiritual potential.
He immediately infused a small amount of spiritual energy into the boy's body and carefully identified the boy's spiritual root attribute.
"The Five Elements lack wood, it's the pseudo-spirit root attribute of the Four Spirit Roots, not very good." Zhao Di muttered to himself. The Four Spirit Roots and Five Spirit Roots are both called "pseudo-spirit roots" in the cultivation world, indicating a slow cultivation speed.
Then he didn't say much more, and with a tap of his foot on the Wind Chariot, he sped off towards Huoji Island.
The wind was blowing extremely fast, breaking through the air with a loud whistling sound. The young man, thanks to Zhao Di's spiritual light protecting his body, was not affected by the strong gusts and instead looked around excitedly, overjoyed beyond measure. He had fantasized countless times about flying in the sky, and now it was actually happening!
If this were told to those little friends, wouldn't it make them envious!
The young man even felt that being able to fly freely like this, the hardships of the past dozen days, starving and freezing, eating grass and drinking dew, were all worth it! The young man even hoped that Luliang Island would be farther away, so he could fly for a while longer in the air.
Unfortunately, before long, Zhao Di brought the young man to appear in front of them, amidst the eager anticipation of Zhang Lao and three others.
The three of them were naturally extremely grateful, bowing their heads repeatedly, but Zhao Di's expression remained cold and icy as he said calmly: "You three should say it yourselves, since you've disturbed the island master's quiet cultivation, how should you be dealt with?"
"I am willing to take the blame, I am willing to die for it, but please spare their two lives!" Old Zhang said without hesitation.
"The humble woman is willing to take her husband's place and bear this crime. I beg of you, great immortal master, have mercy and grant my wish!" The young wife kowtowed repeatedly as she spoke.
Even the middle-aged man next to him made a gesture of exasperation towards Zhao Di, leaving him speechless!
He waved his hand to stop the few people from continuing to talk nonsense, and said in a tone without any emotion: "The lives of you three are worthless to the island master! The island master is not interested at all. But you three dare to disturb the quietness of the island master's cave, and you will be punished with death or imprisonment. You three must leave this Luli Island immediately and never set foot on this island again for the rest of your lives! You three must tell other ordinary people that if anyone offends again, they will be killed without mercy! As for the island master saving people, not a single word can be mentioned!"
Zhang Lao heard this and felt a pang of loss. Leaving the island that had once brought him boundless glory, compared to being put to death on the spot, it was hard to say which one was more cruel to him.
Two middle-aged men knocked their heads in gratitude, this punishment was much lighter than they had expected. They had never experienced the anger of Master Xian, but they had heard about it! Being treated like Zhao Di was considered extremely lucky and lightly punished!
Three people took the young man and bid farewell to Zhao Di, just about to leave Hulai Mountain. Only that old Zhang seemed to have not recovered yet, under the support of the middle-aged man, he still looked back from time to time.
Zhao Di let out a light sigh, and suddenly said to the old man: "The island master has a predestined relationship with you, so I'll enlighten you this time. Your grandson has a spiritual root, don't waste his talent."
Zhao Di's casual remark was undoubtedly a thunderbolt to these few people.
"Xiao Er has spiritual roots!" The old man and the young woman both exclaimed in surprise.
"Not bad, although the qualifications are a bit ordinary, it can indeed cultivate immortal methods." Zhao nodded and said.
Several people's expressions suddenly became rich and varied, shocked, delighted, excited, puzzled. Suddenly encountering such a windfall was not something that could be adapted to in a short time.
Zhao Di's figure flashed once, just about to leave, when Old Zhang suddenly said: "Can the Island Master take Xiao Er as a disciple?"
Zhao Di was taken aback by his words, furrowed his brow and muttered: "Take a disciple?"
To speak of it, he has been very low-key since entering the cultivation world, and only thinks about how to keep his life safe every day. He didn't think about accepting a disciple or developing his own power until it was absolutely necessary. Now that he is already a late-stage foundation-building cultivator, if he can luckily advance one more level in his cultivation, he will become a core-forming cultivator.
In today's cultivation world, a Foundation Establishment cultivator is already considered a senior. In the Starry Sea, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, even if not an elder of a sect or the head of a family, can at least serve as the island master of a medium-sized island, managing dozens to thousands of cultivators under him.
Even a loose cultivator like him, would often start to develop his own power after reaching the Yuandan stage, either by joining a certain sect as an elder or by accepting disciples and establishing a new force.
This is because, in fact, there are many inconveniences to practicing alone, for example, the opportunity to communicate with the outside world is very rare, and the information obtained will not be much, it is likely that some opportunities will be missed due to this, and some treasures that could have been obtained will be handed over to others.
After all, after reaching the Dan stage, it is already very difficult to make a breakthrough by relying solely on meditation. At this time, some coincidental factors play an extremely large role.
Especially for the monks in the Condensation Period, the treasures that are useful to them are usually snatched up immediately as soon as they appear, and those who arrive late get nothing. Even if they appear in the market, it's still the same!
Zhao Di had also considered these things and had planned to join a small sect as an elder after the foundation was established, although it couldn't be said that he would rely on the sect's power to protect himself, but at least there were some people who could be used, and he could occupy some advantageous resources. However, since the foundation was still early, this matter had not been deeply considered.
At this point, the other party proposed to take in the young man with the four spiritual roots as his disciple. This made him think of these things. After some thought, he decided to accept the young man, and it seemed that there was no harm in doing so!
Although there is nothing for this young man to do at present, it will inevitably be used in the future.
Anyway, he only needs to give the young man some kung fu rhymes and reward him with some elixirs and artifacts, which is enough for him to cultivate for a long time, without needing Zhao Di to spend too much time.
Even if it was a waste of some elixirs and artifacts that he looked down on, the loss to Zhao Di was negligible!
At this point, he raised an eyebrow and smiled at the young man, saying: "What's your name, how old are you this year, do you want to learn magic?"
Young boy replied fluently: "Greetings, Master Zhao, I am Shi Shuo, 8 years old this year. I wish to learn from you and become your disciple!" After finishing his words, the young boy voluntarily knelt down and kowtowed several times to Master Zhao. The topic that the young boy discussed most with his friends was how powerful the immortal master was and how incredible the divine powers were! Now that he had such an opportunity to also become a legendary immortal master, how could he not be willing?! Therefore, without needing any prompting from the adults around him, he took the initiative to ask Master Zhao to accept him as his disciple.
Zhao Di didn't stop him and still smiled as he said: "Your spiritual root talent is ordinary, and your cultivation will be bitter and slow. Can you bear it?"
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