He leaned closer to Xiao Shou and looked at the scenery rapidly passing by on both sides.

"Master, where are we going? Is it very far from Azure Origin City?"

"Snowy Cave Mountain. My cave abode is there. It is neither too close nor too far from Azure Origin City. A Tier 3 wooden crane takes about five hours of flight time. With the Tier 3 acceleration talisman, it will take about two and a half hours, just enough to arrive around nightfall." While speaking, Xiao Shou suddenly felt stiffness in his facial muscles and remembered that he had blocked his facial meridians earlier.

He quickly dispersed the spiritual energy in them.

He then rubbed his face hard and said, "Ah, my face feels so sore. It feels completely stiff now."

"Who told you to seal the meridians in your face with spiritual energy? If you keep them sealed for too long, your face might stay like that forever." Fu Young said with an expression that clearly said you are so dumb, so foolish, I really cannot do anything about you.

Hearing this, Xiao Shou’s face turned slightly red. Then he angrily pinched Fu Young’s cheeks while rubbing his fair and slightly rosy face until it turned completely red before saying, "Tell me honestly, how did you know that?"

"I guessed." Fu Young said while covering his face, dodging left and right to avoid Xiao Shou’s mischievous hands.

How could Master bully a him like this?

He was really too bad.

Xiao Shou blinked and asked suspiciously, "Really? How could you possibly guess that?"

"It is very simple! At the inn, Master was clearly a person who likes to talk and laugh, with a bright expression. When I teased you at the Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall, your eyes were clearly smiling, but your face did not move at all. That can only mean the facial nerves are having a problem." Fu Young blinked his bright big eyes, with his focus seemingly resting on Xiao Shou’s head as if saying your brain is okay?

Xiao Shou only felt a vein twitch on his forehead. He said word by word in a fierce tone, "You little brat, you are really smart, aren’t you! Even if you are smart, you still have to respect your teacher. Do not look down on your master’s brain, otherwise I will punish you."

"What punishment?" Fu Young blinked, wanting to know what price he would pay for occasionally teasing his master.

Xiao Shou lifted his hand with a wicked smile and threatened, "Of course it is to pull down your pants and spank your butt."

"Master, you are really too bad." Fu Young was so frightened that he quickly covered his butt and hid to the side while wearing an expression of accusation.

Seeing his reaction, Xiao Shou became even more pleased, "Who told me I am the master and you are the disciple!"

"Master!"

The master and disciple chatted and played around like this, and before long two and a half hours passed before they finally arrived at Xiao Shou’s cave residence on Snow Cave Mountain.

By then it was already completely dark.

Xiao Shou pushed open the stone door and pulled Fu Young along as they walked deeper through the passage.

Fu Young only saw that after entering the huge stone door nearly three meters high, they entered a rock passage about two meters wide.

Inside the passage, every ten meters or so, bright night light stones were embedded on both sides of the wall.

There was also something strange.

Outside the stone door earlier, the entire mountain clearly had extremely thin spiritual energy, almost close to none, but inside this passage the spiritual energy actually had the same density as inside Azure Origin City.

After walking for nearly a thousand meters like this, a formation barrier appeared before their eyes.

The barrier was blue.

According to formation ranking conventions, formations are divided into nine tiers, and the formation light of the nine tiers corresponds to nine colors: white, green, red, blue, purple, black, yellow, profound, and chaos.

The blue formation corresponds to a Tier 4 formation, which is the level of the Nascent Soul stage.

Thinking of this, Fu Young’s heart jumped in shock.

He turned his head to look at Xiao Shou, only to see Xiao Shou forming a hand seal with one hand.

The barrier immediately stretched open, forming a door wide enough for two people to pass through.

The moment this door opened, a dense surge of spiritual energy rushed toward him.

His whole body’s meridians and pores trembled in excitement, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy.

This spiritual energy was even richer than what he felt when he visited his family ancestor.

For a moment, he even felt that he could immediately break through to the first level of Qi Refining.

And this was only outside the barrier.

What about inside the barrier?

He really wanted to start cultivating immediately.

Just then, a hand patted his head and said, "Do not rush. It is already late today. You should rest first. Tomorrow I will teach you a new cultivation technique. That technique is more suitable for your spiritual roots."

"Yes, Master." Fu Young felt that his master at this moment was extremely unfathomable, unlike how he was in Azure Origin City when he seemed a bit naive.

He should have felt excited to have such a mysterious and unpredictable master, but he actually wanted to be closer to that fox-eyed brother-like master who would joke around and laugh with him.

Xiao Shou did not know what Fu Young was thinking on the side.

He pulled him into the barrier and snapped his fingers.

The barrier door immediately closed.

The two of them entered the interior of the mountain.

The extremely dense spiritual energy in the mountain belly lingered around them.

Seeing that Fu Young was about to lose control of his instinct to cultivate, he simply took out a spirit constraining talisman and handed it to him, saying, "Take this. The spirit constraining talisman can temporarily seal your spiritual energy and prevent spiritual energy from entering your body."