In this vast and boundless world of cultivation, a Qi Refining stage cultivator is truly insignificant, and the road ahead is still long.

Throughout the entire night, Henry Bolton stayed in this small grove, contemplating his future path in this world of cultivation.

He did not sleep at all.

The next morning, as the sky began to lighten, the cold air of dawn made Henry Bolton's body feel a slight chill.

Fortunately, with his Qi Refining stage cultivation, spending a night here posed no problem.

After a night of consideration, he had already mapped out a general direction for his development.

In the end, he decided to return to Fangyun Mountain. After all, on Fangyun Mountain, there was still the care of the ancestor from the Windwalker Sect. Moreover, a lone rogue cultivator with no support would find it very difficult to survive in the world of cultivation.

Henry Bolton formed several hand seals in the air, his technique still a bit clumsy, as he had not yet fully merged with this physical body.

The low-grade spiritual artifact, the Wuling Sword, let out a soft hum, emitting a faint blue light. It immediately flew out from his body, transforming into a large sword over four or five feet long, carrying Henry Bolton, this outsider, off into the distance...

Chapter 007: On the Way Back to the Mountain

Henry Bolton stood atop the low-grade spiritual artifact, the Wuling Sword. The biting wind whipped his robes, making them flutter noisily, while the scenery beneath his feet sped rapidly past.

When he first started flying on the spiritual artifact, Henry Bolton was still a bit nervous and didn’t dare to increase his speed.

Although he had completely taken over this body and assimilated all of Edward Foster's consciousness, he was still rather unfamiliar with controlling spells.

However, after all, Henry Bolton had played virtual online games on Earth. The game "Immortal Dao," which he had played for a year or two, was a cultivation-themed virtual online game. In the game, he had also flown on swords before, so he had some experience in this area.

Therefore, he quickly adapted to the knack of controlling the spiritual artifact in flight, and his speed soared. Unconsciously, he pushed his speed to the limit.

With his early Qi Refining stage cultivation, controlling this spiritual artifact was a bit of a stretch; he could only bring out a tenth or so of the artifact’s power. Because spiritual artifacts were meant for Foundation Establishment cultivators, only at the Foundation Establishment stage could one unleash their true power. For Henry Bolton to possess a spiritual artifact at his current level was already quite fortunate.

Fangyun Mountain was not far from Henry Bolton's current location, about a dozen li away. The journey was uneventful, and Henry Bolton quickly reached Fangyun Mountain with his spiritual artifact.

Arriving at Fangyun Mountain did not mean he had reached his own territory, because although Fangyun Mountain was small, it still stretched for several hundred li, and there was more than one sect on the mountain.

From a distance, one could see three tall peaks on Fangyun Mountain, each occupied by one of the three cultivation sects on the mountain. The peak where the Windwalker Sect was located was called Tieling Peak. It was named so because the mountain produced a type of ore called Tieling Stone, which was widely used in artifact forging, though it was not rare.

Other than that, Tieling Peak had no particular distinction and was somewhat inferior to the other two peaks of Fangyun Mountain. But there was nothing to be done about it; the Windwalker Sect was the weakest of the three sects on Fangyun Mountain. Although it had a history of over a thousand years, it had not left behind any particularly powerful spells, only achieving some success in concealment and stealth.

Upon reaching Fangyun Mountain, Henry Bolton had to continue flying, adjusting his speed to a normal pace. This was not because he wanted to keep a low profile, but because before reaching Tieling Peak, he still had to pass by Huoyun Peak and Tianling Peak, which were occupied by the other two sects.

Huoyun Peak and Tianling Peak belonged to the Huoyun Sect and the Xianyun Sect, respectively. Both of these sects were much stronger than the Windwalker Sect. Given Henry Bolton's nature as an Earth homebody, he certainly wouldn’t be foolish enough to speed through someone else’s territory; even the previous Edward Foster wouldn’t have dared to do so.

Before long, Henry Bolton rode the Wuling Sword past Huoyun Peak, encountering a few cultivators from the Huoyun Sect along the way, but there was no conflict. Henry Bolton knew that most disciples of the Huoyun Sect cultivated a rather fierce technique called the Huoyun Art, which was not to be underestimated.

Additionally, because the disciples of the Huoyun Sect practiced this fire-attribute technique, quite a few of them had rather irritable tempers. Of course, if one could cultivate the Huoyun Art to a state of perfection, this would not be the case.

After passing through the territory of the Huoyun Sect, he arrived at Tianling Peak, where the Xianyun Sect was based. The Xianyun Sect was the strongest of the three sects on Fangyun Mountain and also the oldest, with a history spanning several thousand years. It was said that the founder of the Xianyun Sect was a Nascent Soul stage powerhouse, but this was only a legend.

As soon as he reached Tianling Peak, Henry Bolton clearly felt that the spiritual energy here was much richer than in other parts of Fangyun Mountain. From Edward Foster's memories, he knew that there was a spirit-gathering formation on Tianling Peak that had been maintained for thousands of years. The concentration of spiritual energy here was two or three times that of the outside world, making cultivation much more effective.

Overall, Fangyun Mountain was a small mountain with few minerals and scarce spiritual energy. Having such a spirit-gathering formation was a great boon for the cultivation of Xianyun Sect disciples. Therefore, with equal talent, the disciples of the Xianyun Sect generally had deeper cultivation than those of the other two sects.