Ji An felt the pressure he was enduring gradually diminishing, the cultivation technique spontaneously circulating without entering a meditative state.

Green grass bloomed with red flowers, flowers wilted revealing seeds; the green trees bore fruit, ripe fruits fell to the ground.

A new cycle begins again.

Sprouting, growing, withering, hiding, sprouting again.

No matter how time passes, the wildflowers by the roadside remain lush.

’Manifestation of the cultivation technique divine intent with phenomena, this is far more difficult than magic intent transformation!’

At this moment, Lin Qiu Bai understood why Junior Brother Jia Yu had greeted him.

Such an outstanding spirit farmer should stay in the sect, the fighting and killing should be left to other senior and junior brothers!

Under the pressure of his sword intent, the other’s cultivation technique divine intent transformed and manifested phenomena, which is no different from breakthroughs made by sword cultivators in battle.

"With such strength, you can certainly go into battle.

Tomorrow at 7:30 AM, wait for me at the southernmost part of the west side city wall."

Lin Qiu Bai stopped urging the sword intent, as further urging would necessitate the activation of powers controllable only at the Chao Origin Stage, purely bullying the weak with the strong, so he slowly withdrew the sword intent.

Ji An sensed the other’s intention and withdrew his aura at the same time.

When the divine intent was fully retracted, he suddenly found his magical power within was nearly depleted, barely able to hold out.

He cupped his hands in acceptance:

"As you command!"

"Take out your jade token for me to see."

Seeing the pale golden jade token, Lin Qiu Bai nodded slightly.

A-class disciple’s jade token can withstand three attacks at Chao Origin Stage level, providing some degree of safety.

...

The next day, beside the west side city wall.

When Ji An saw several cultivators following behind Lin Qiu Bai, he revealed a long-lost smile as he recognized Liu Yu and Ge Luoying.

"Greetings, Junior Martial Uncle, Senior Brother, Senior Sister."

Liu Yu and Ge Luoying both smiled and waved, as a form of greeting.

Lin Qiu Bai "Hmm" with a nod, saying:

"Ji An, your task today is to assist in defending a twenty-zhang area and ensure the city wall is not lost.

If attacked by a great demon, don’t hesitate, jump off the city wall and avoid."

Ji An cupped his hands:

"I heed Junior Martial Uncle’s guidance."

Lin Qiu Bai nodded slightly and further instructed:

"Liu Yu, your defense area is adjacent to Ji An, as both of you are disciples of the Ningcui Cliff lineage, it’s perfect for mutual support."

"As you command."

Lin Qiu Bai exhorted a few more words and lead the other disciples towards the north.

Ji An immediately approached Liu Yu, smiling:

"Senior Brother, was your trip to the secret realm smooth? Did you teleport together with Senior Sister Ge?"

In his view, the other party must have made rich gains.

Canglan Secret Realm is a mature resource secret realm, with the other’s strength being top-tier among all cultivators.

Even not being with Ge Luoying doesn’t affect resource gathering.

Liu Yu’s eyes flashed a trace of unnaturalness, saying:

"It started off smoothly, teleported to the same area as Senior Sister Ge.

Later the situation in the secret realm got out of control, a very fierce battle erupted.

Fortunately, Senior Sister and I were lucky and weren’t injured, even obtained two celestial essence ginsengs with sufficient medicinal age."

"That’s a pretty good harvest! By the way, did a demon beast riot cause the fierce battle? Were there significant casualties among the sect disciples?"

After a breath of silence, Liu Yu transmitted:

"The secret realm trip was a nightmare, Junior Brother, don’t ask further, the sect requires secrecy about the situation there, in due time, you’ll naturally know what happened then."

Ji An’s heart sank, the sect unexpectedly ordered the news to be sealed, surely something major occurred in the secret realm.

Liu Yu continued:

"Junior Brother’s talisman soldier and spiritual artifact were a great help to me, otherwise I likely wouldn’t have left the secret realm whole.

Though the harvest was substantial, I’ve left the good things in the sect, will hand them over when returning."

He had used up all the resources supported by the other party.

Ji An smiled: "Receipts from the Senior Brother’s acknowledgment must be good things."

Risk investment has paid off!

...

Ji An and Liu Yu leapt onto the city wall, each having five cultivators under command.

Under Ji An’s command are three loose cultivators and two fellow sect members, with only one Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, a loose cultivator.

He is now at Late-stage Foundation Establishment, with strong spirit soul, a sweep of divine sense allows perception of others’ realms, undetected.

The Foundation Establishment loose cultivator saw them two, immediately stepping forward:

"Turned out to be Senior Brother Liu Yu in person, I, Wang Dachui, offer my respects.

Long time no see, Senior Brother, today in person, you look even more impressive!"

Wang Dachui was gleeful inside, now the battle area is intense, deaths happen frequently.

If able to work under a powerful cultivator, his own safety is more assured.

He had seen Liu Yu displaying great power many times, leaving deep impressions, recognizing him at once.

Liu Yu showed a polite smile, nodding:

"Fellow Daoist works under my Junior Brother today, the area we’re responsible for is adjacent."

Wang Dachui laughed heartily, cupping his hands:

"May I ask this Senior Brother’s name?"

"I’m Ji An."

Wang Dachui recalled in his mind, finding no impression of this name but it didn’t affect his flattery:

"Senior Brother Ji, renowned, renowned!"

He thought, being deployed here now must not be a rabble.

Even if the other’s strength was lackluster, he could retreat to Liu Yu’s area for shelter.

Damn renowned, many cultivators in the sect don’t know me.

Ji An seeing the other’s seemingly ’honest and sincere’ smile, showed a business-like smile:

"Let’s join forces, do the defense well today."

"Junior Brother, I’m going to arrange the tasks," Liu Yu said and flew to his defense area, looking forward to his junior brother’s performance in war.