Chapter 612: Chapter 585: The Best Quality Chives
Hidden Spirit Sect, atop the Hundred-Thousand-Li Giant Lake.

Looking at the spiritual ore on Wang Yulun’s fish hook, Xu Fan chuckled and said, “Fishing with you is always interesting. I can never guess what you’ll fish up next.”

Three months after Xu Fan returned to his closed-door cultivation, he solidified the Void Refining Stage, incorporating what he felt and comprehended during the breakthrough into his Dao Scripture.

“It’s strange, I can never fish up a normal fish.” Wang Yulun unhoook the Spirit Iron Ore and casually tossed it back into the lake.

“Brother Xu, I went to check on Chi’er yesterday and noticed something off about him,” Wang Yulun said.

“That simply means your son is about to become enlightened,” Xu Fan smiled and answered.

“Enlightenment?” Wang Yulun asked, puzzled.

“Simply put, your son is about to get smarter.”

“Once enlightened, his aptitude and comprehension will rise to another level.” Xu Fan leisurely said, feeling he needed to relax as soon as he came out of his retreat.

Xu Fan now felt extremely pleased.

“Consider this good news. No need to worry.” Xu Fan laughed.

“What you should worry about is another matter. Elder Xiu Xin seems to be quite taken with you, be careful of trouble in your harem.”

Xu Fan fished up a fish that was one zhang long with light red color and commanded the puppet to send it to the cafeteria.

“How did the Great Master find out?” Wang Yulun asked, amazed.

“A man’s intuition, or perhaps due to your fate.”

“Even though I have helped you conceal it, what’s bound to happen will happen anyway.”

“At least you won’t be forced every time.” Xu Fan cast his fishing rod again, sending the hook into the distance.

“That shouldn’t be too much of a problem, I can just keep my distance in the future.” Wang Yulun replied.

“As long as you’re aware of it,” Xu Fan said and handed a green spirit pearl to Wang Yulun.

“What is this?” Wang Yulun asked, taking it.

“This will help upgrade your Dao Artifact set.”

The moment the spirit pearl came into contact with Wang Yulun, it instantly transformed into a liquified state and entered his body.

“Brother Xu, the Dao Artifact set you refined for me is already formidable. There’s no rush to upgrade it,” Wang Yulun said, moved.

“Don’t worry, I’ve just advanced to an Artifact Refining Grandmaster. This was just an offhand creation, it didn’t take much time.” Xu Fan waved dismissively.

“Brother Xu, you’re now an Artifact Refining Grandmaster!” Wang Yulun exclaimed in shock.

“Yes, in the Wan Jing Tian Gong, I had some insights and eventually ended up advancing to an Artifact Refining Grandmaster,” Xu Fan confirmed, patting Wang Yulun’s shoulder as he did.

“If only I had enough immortal grade spiritual ore, I could have directly refined an Immortal Equipment Set for you, making you invincible in this world,” Xu Fan joked.

“Invincible or not, I am content as long as Brother Xu is with me,” Wang Yulun laughed.

At that moment, a silver puppet appeared beside Xu Fan.

“Greetings to the Great Master,” the silver puppet bowed and said.

“It’s been a while, how are you all adapting after collaborating with the Hidden Spirit Sect?” Xu Fan asked with a smile.

“It feels like we’ve reached the Immortal World. For the first time, our clan feels the freedom of leading our own lives,” the Silver Puppet replied.

After the Lingjia Clan settled in the location arranged by the Hidden Spirit Sect, they felt as if they had arrived in Heaven.

Here, they could purchase a variety of spiritual treasures, spiritual mine devices, and even the Companion Spirit Puppets that drove them mad.

A spirit armor of the Integration Stage implanted on a semi-spirit puppet of the Integration Stage can produce a 1+1=2 effect.

The spirit armors of the Integration Stage from the Lingjia Clan already possess a Dao Artifact Level defense. This is later added to the combat power of controlling the Companion Spirit Puppets.

This is like starting off with an extra defensive Dao device compared to others. How can ordinary people compete with that?

Now, the Lingjia Clan which is cooperating with the Hidden Spirit Sect had become ruthless mission grinding tools for the sake of their desired Companion Spirit Puppets.

This made the demons of the Demon Division who couldn’t take on any missions quite dissatisfied.

“This is good. In recent times, your Clan has undertaken almost 80% of my Hidden Spirit Sect’s missions. Such a tremendous amount of missions were all completed by your Clan with both quality and quantity guaranteed, which is really quite impressive.”

“So the reason I brought you here is to advise you not to rush. Those Companion Spirit Puppets meant exclusively for your Clan are all there for you when the time comes.”

“Companion Spirit Puppets can be remade if they are destroyed, but if your Lingjia Clan falls, that would be a great loss to my Hidden Spirit Sect,” Xu Fan advised.

Now the Lingjia Clan is grinding missions with red eyes. They don’t care about the danger inherent in the missions. If they don’t die, they will do it. This has also led to a significant reduction in the number of the Lingjia Clan.

“I understand the intention of the Great Master. It’s just that the young members of our clan are almost fanatically obsessed with these Companion Spirit Puppets. They all wish to obtain a Companion Spirit Puppet as quickly as possible,” said the Silver Armor Puppet with its head lowered.

“I’ll arrange for Pu Tao to allow your Clan to loan on an installment basis.”

“That means you’ll be given the Companion Spirit Puppets first, and then you pay for them with monthly installments using points,” Xu Fan suggested after some thought.

In his view, the Lingjia Clan is the highest quality leek he has ever seen and he didn’t want to prematurely pluck and spoil his leek field.

“I’ll ask Pu Tao to assign tasks specifically for your Clan to ensure you don’t grind missions recklessly in the way you are now,” Xu Fan said.

“Yes, Great Master.”

The Silver Armor Puppet saluted and then took its leave after the conversation.

“This Lingjia Clan is really peculiar, just like a sentient suit of armor,” Wang Yulun commented.

“It’s a pity that the Lingjia Clan finds cultivation extremely difficult and it’s especially hard for them to produce offspring.”

“If I hadn’t discovered this Clan, they might have gone extinct naturally after ten thousand years,” Xu Fan lamented.

“True, I’ve seen the data on this Clan. The way they reproduce just blew my mind,” Wang Yulun stated.

The Lingjia Clan has no genders. To reproduce, they rely entirely on their own cultivation efforts. They have a chance to split out a small inner core from their own inner core when they promote to the Golden Core Stage, the God Transformation Stage, or the Integration Stage.

After a series of nurturing, this small inner core would then transform into a member of the Lingjia Clan.

“What’s so special about it? I’ve seen stranger things,” Xu Fan said with a smile.

In the underground space, Xu Fan came here after fishing.

At this time, Clone No.1 and No.2 were still listening to Xu Fan’s temporary clone’s storytelling with great pleasure.

“I just realized, you seem to have a talent for storytelling. From now on, we’ll stop reading novels and just have your temporary clone tell us stories,” Clone No.2 said with a laugh.

“How about I add some spicy jokes?” Xu Fan joked.

“Let’s skip that. Too many of those might affect our Dao Heart,” Clone No.1 said with a laugh.

“The reason I’ve called you is because I want to refine another Mahayana Puppet after becoming a Master of Qi Refining.”

“I’ve figured out many key points. There were problems with the Mahayana Puppets we designed before,” Xu Fan pointed out.

“We know that too. Weren’t we just waiting for you to discuss it?”

At this moment, Xu Fan’s temporary clone had just finished a section of the story.