Returning to Gale Bamboo Mountain, in Yang Hong's small courtyard, Yang Hong transmitted various basic cultivation knowledge to Hua Xinlei using several [Spiritual Light Impartation] techniques.
Then came the selection of cultivation techniques.
"Hua Xinlei, do you have any inherited memories, or any cultivation methods or spells?"
"Master, my inherited memories and knowledge are a bit scarce. I only have the method for inhaling and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. I haven't formed a cultivation method, and I can only absorb spiritual energy in my true form. I don't have any spells either."
Hearing Hua Xinlei's words, Yang Hong suddenly understood why this "child" was so foolish. It was likely due to his limited inherited memories.
"Let me see your spiritual root attributes."
Since Hua Xinlei had no inherited cultivation method, Yang Hong had to impart one based on his spiritual root attributes.
With a [Spirit Root Measurement Technique], three spiritual lights of yellow, white, and green emanated from Hua Xinlei's body. These were earth, metal, and wood spiritual roots.
The term "spiritual roots" might not be entirely accurate for demons; perhaps "attribute talent" would be more fitting.
With such spiritual roots, Yang Hong actually had quite a few earth, metal, and wood attribute cultivation methods on hand, but their grade was not high, with the best being only at the Profound rank, mid-grade. It would be better to directly cultivate the Earth rank, upper-grade《Minor Five Elements True Elucidation》.
Thinking of this, Yang Hong immediately made a decision.
"I will first impart a cultivation method to you. Try it out. If the cultivation effect is good, you will primarily cultivate this method."
With a flash of spiritual light, Yang Hong transmitted the《Minor Five Elements True Elucidation》to Hua Xinlei.
"During this time, you will cultivate well here. Every morning, I will come to give you a baptism of cultivation to speed up your progress."
"Thank you, Master. Little Tree will definitely cultivate diligently."
As Hua Xinlei spoke, he knelt down again, a gesture that made Yang Hong feel very weary. "You are a straight and tall tree, why do you like kneeling so much after transforming?"
"Hua Xinlei, remember this, do not kneel without my command. I have already imparted human etiquette to you, learn it well."
"Yes!"
Upon hearing Yang Hong's command, Hua Xinlei immediately stood up.
Yang Hong didn't continue lecturing. After all, he had only just transformed and understood nothing. Let him adapt first, and he could be disciplined slowly later.
Shaking his head, Yang Hong flew away. He still had nine more baptisms to perform today.
With his current cultivation, it would take about half a year to elevate a fifth-grade spiritual plant to the sixth grade. If the spiritual plant was of excellent quality, it would only take three months. The benefit of increased cultivation was that the higher it became, the more things he could do.
At the same time, the daily [Gentle Rain Technique] was indispensable. Although the Gentle Rain Technique couldn't increase the foundation of spiritual plants, it was very necessary for their rapid growth, allowing him to save a lot of baptism opportunities and a large amount of unnecessary time.
His luck with the Iron Bark Birch, Hua Xinlei, was used up today. The subsequent baptisms not only failed to cause spiritual plant evolution, but the return multipliers were only in the teens. This limited him to only two [Gentle Rain Technique] spells today.
"That's right, I can buy spiritual plant seeds from those demons. Demons rarely plant, and they generally eat spiritual plant seeds as food, which is a bit of a waste. Next time I trade, I must remember to add the acquisition of an item."
On Jade Stream Island, only a small number of spiritual fruit trees were planted, with spiritual herbs being more common. After all, spiritual herbs grew faster than spiritual wood and matured quicker, allowing for faster array formations. Now that the array formations on Jade Stream Island were basically complete, they could begin to gradually replace them with spiritual wood that had stronger vitality and richer spiritual energy.
With this decision made, Yang Hong began to remove the spiritual herbs at some non-critical array nodes and replace them with some of his existing high-quality spiritual wood seeds. As for the removed spiritual herbs, they would not be wasted; they would be traded with the demons outside.
Upon hearing that Yang Hong was exchanging spiritual herbs for spiritual wood and spiritual fruit tree seeds, and that the exchange rate was quite favorable, the demon kings, though puzzled, began to collect spiritual wood seeds with all their might. After all, if you don't take advantage of a good deal, you're a fool. Of course, Yang Hong had his requirements; he only wanted seeds of grade four and above.
While planting trees, he didn't forget to teach Hua Xinlei. However, Hua Xinlei's intelligence really had issues. Even with Yang Hong's spiritual light impositions, it took him over a month to fully comprehend the 《Minor Five Elements True Elucidation》. It's worth noting that Yu Kewei only took ten days to learn the Earth rank, extreme-grade 《Great Brightness Buddhist Scripture》.
"Rumble~~"
Three days after Hua Xinlei learned the 《Minor Five Elements True Elucidation》, he successfully advanced to the fourth stage and condensed his demon core. However, stupidity is truly an incurable disease. With a stronger origin, more accumulation, and Yang Hong's baptism, Hua Xinlei's cultivation was indeed slow. It took 90 days to advance from the fourth to the fifth stage, and 200 days from the fifth to the sixth stage. Compared to Yu Kewei, he was far, far behind. It's important to note that from now on, each baptism for Hua Xinlei would be 1050 days. Even with his own foundation and diligent cultivation, he couldn't catch up to Yu Kewei, highlighting the vast difference. Most frighteningly, it wasn't until the sixth stage that he comprehended a complete cultivation method, and it was only a Yellow rank, low-grade trash technique. He still hadn't inherited any spells.
"Hua Xinlei, you are now at the sixth stage, Soul Splitting realm. I will impart spells to you today. Do you have any preferred direction for spell cultivation?"
Upon reaching the sixth stage, Yang Hong decided not to continue baptizing Hua Xinlei. From now on, he would let him cultivate slowly on his own.
"Master, I see you practicing boxing, and it seems very powerful. I want to learn martial arts boxing techniques."
"Hmm~ Boxing?"
Yang Hong was stunned again. Hua Xinlei was truly an anomaly. Yang Hong practiced boxing and swordplay every day to consolidate and improve his artistic conception, as these were his strongest offensive means. He never expected Hua Xinlei to take a liking to boxing. However, thinking of Hua Xinlei's true form, Yang Hong suddenly became interested.
"Alright~ I will impart all my boxing techniques to you. You can learn spells later."
With nine [Spiritual Light Impartation] techniques, all 831 mortal martial arts boxing techniques were transmitted to Hua Xinlei. Yang Hong did not impart any immortal cultivation boxing techniques for now; he wanted to see if this child could cultivate boxing intent. This was because he thought of Guo Jing and the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms. Perhaps foolish people also had talent in boxing.
And as it turned out, Yang Hong's foresight was once again validated.
"Rumble~~ Bang~ Bang~"
In the sky above Gale Bamboo Mountain, terrifying collision sounds reverberated throughout the entire mountain range. Yang Hong and Hua Xinlei, at speeds invisible to the naked eye, continuously collided. With punches and kicks exchanged, space itself rippled. Yang Hong, with his 9.99 million jin of strength, was not only protected by streams of spiritual light from spells but also surrounded by intense artistic conception, with every move accompanied by his intent. Hua Xinlei, opposite him, had no spell assistance, but a faint artistic conception manifested.
"Bang~"
With another loud bang, Yang Hong seized the opportunity to retreat ten steps.
"Stop! No more fighting."
As soon as Yang Hong uttered these words, Hua Xinlei had already appeared within three zhang of him.
"You truly are blessed by foolishness; your progress in boxing is incredibly fast, I am no match for you."
"It's all thanks to Master's good teaching."
Hearing Yang Hong's praise, Hua Xinlei grinned sheepishly, scratching his short hair. He looked harmless.
"It's also your great talent. In 96 days, you've completely mastered 831 boxing techniques and comprehended boxing intent. You are truly a genius."
"Hehe~~"
Hua Xinlei just chuckled foolishly; he was a little proud. Now he had understood the common knowledge of immortal cultivation and realized the speed of his boxing cultivation.
"From now on, I will practice boxing and artistic conception with you for half an hour every day. You are free to do as you please with the rest of your time."
Yang Hong was helpless. In terms of strength and boxing intent, he was now inferior to Hua Xinlei. He had cultivated another monster.