Looking at the platform covered with all kinds of herbs, Liam Foster felt as if he were seeing a field of gold.

However, Liam Foster quickly sobered up. Whether it was his experience from his previous life or what he had gone through in this world, both clearly told him one thing: having money without the strength to match it makes you nothing but a fat pig in others’ eyes—sooner or later, someone will come and slaughter you.

And taking control of one’s own fate is not just a matter of words—it requires real strength.

“This is the Eagle-Serpent Fruit.” Liam Foster walked to the left side of the platform and looked at a red fruit, about the size of a fist, hanging from a small branch. The fruit had two distinct protrusions, one shaped like an eagle, the other like a serpent.

Eagle-Serpent Fruit, an eighth-grade spiritual herb!

If sold to Treasure Pavilion, it would fetch at least ten thousand taels of gold.

But compared to gold, what attracted Liam Foster even more was the effect of the Eagle-Serpent Fruit.

For cultivators below the seventh level of Qi Refinement, a single Eagle-Serpent Fruit could help them break through one level.

For most cultivators, this kind of Eagle-Serpent Fruit was a rare treasure, something you could only hope to come across by chance. Although, using it a second time would have no effect.

After hesitating for just a moment, Liam Foster picked the Eagle-Serpent Fruit and slowly put it into his mouth. At this moment, strength was the most important thing; as for how to break through in the future, that was a problem for later.

As the Eagle-Serpent Fruit entered his mouth, Liam Foster felt a surge of heat running through his chest and abdomen. Following the original owner’s memories, Liam Foster slowly activated the Fang family’s ancestral Nourishing Energy Technique, and his internal energy began to circulate rapidly within his body.

That surge of heat, as if it had seen a beautiful woman in spring, quickly merged into his internal energy. Liam Foster felt his internal energy circulating twice as fast as before.

One cycle, two cycles, three cycles...

After twenty-four cycles, Liam Foster started to feel nervous.

The barrier from the second to the third level of Qi Refinement was breaking through from twenty-four to twenty-five cycles of internal energy.

Although it was just one more cycle, many people, unable to achieve it naturally, forced a breakthrough and ended up suffering from qi deviation.

The original owner had stumbled at this very hurdle not long ago.

“Boom!”

With a light tremor, the twenty-fifth cycle that had caused the original owner so much pain was instantly broken through by Liam Foster.

Internal energy surged rapidly within Liam Foster’s body, and he felt his meridians expand by a third, with the speed of his internal energy circulation increasing even more.

“Whoosh!”

A breath of white air, like a three-foot-long white sword, was exhaled from Liam Foster’s mouth.

Under the sunlight, the white air refracted into specks of rainbow light.

Breath like a sword—third level of Qi Refinement.

Drawing the white air back into his abdomen, Liam Foster felt a surge of excitement. According to the original owner’s memories, at the third level of Qi Refinement, one could lift two thousand jin.

He glanced around and spotted a stone about the size of a table, lying quietly on the ground.

That stone should weigh about two thousand jin.

Liam Foster grabbed two corners of the stone with both hands, circulated his internal energy, and lifted the stone straight up.

“Bang!”

Liam Foster threw the stone to the ground. Watching it roll, Liam Foster actually felt an urge to cry.

This feeling must have come from the original owner’s subconscious.

The third level of Qi Refinement, which the original owner had pursued so bitterly, was easily achieved thanks to the Eagle-Serpent Fruit.

Sitting on the stone, Liam Foster was filled with emotion. The reason he was able to obtain the Eagle-Serpent Fruit was all thanks to the Lushan Tour Map.

“Hm? What’s this?”

As Liam Foster’s fingers unconsciously brushed over the surface of the stone, he suddenly felt a slight indentation.

Looking down, he saw some small human figures carved on the back of the stone, as if they were flipping through the air. Below the figures, there were also some words.

However, the writing was now very faint, as if it was about to be worn away by the passage of time.

“Golden Wild Goose Soars, Walking in the Void, an occasional insight, casually inscribed... Benjamin Franklin!”

The last three characters made Liam Foster’s mouth drop open in surprise.

Benjamin Franklin—isn’t that the Changchunzi of the Quanzhen Sect?

It was said that Xianglong Temple was where he cultivated back in the day. It seems this rumor is true.

The Xianglong Temple in the Lushan secret realm wasn’t missing—it had simply been erased by the passage of time. All that remained was this piece of mountain rock and the inscription upon it.

Liam Foster carefully examined all the writing, realizing that on a certain night, Benjamin Franklin watched wild geese fly north and was inspired, allowing him to further improve the Quanzhen Sect’s Golden Wild Goose Technique.

In his joy, he recorded his insight on a piece of mountain rock.

Liam Foster had some impression of the Golden Wild Goose Technique from his previous life, and now, with Benjamin Franklin’s handwritten note, how could he not study it carefully?

At some point, moonlight shone down on the platform. Liam Foster, who had been sitting motionless like a stone, suddenly leapt into the air, soaring three zhang high.

Normally, a person would fall at this point, but as Liam Foster was about to descend, he tapped his feet and took thirteen steps in midair.