Chapter 13 A Year of Sect Life: Cleansing Pill

"Who are you calling old?" Qi Zibo's tone was calm, but anyone could sense the danger in his voice.

Oh no, the situation is bad, we should retreat first!

As Song Yin approached the gate, she took off running out of Qi Zibo's courtyard.

Qi Zibo chased after her, holding a watering ladle. He pointed at Song Yin with the ladle and said, "You brat, you stop right there!"

Song Yin darted into her yard and quickly closed the gate. "No, if I stop, I'll definitely get beaten up."

Qi Zibo still pointed the ladle at Song Yin's door, saying, "Open the door, and I promise I won't beat you up."

Song Yin peeked through the crack in the door: "Then put the ladle down first."

Qi Zibo then realized what he had done. He had actually grabbed a ladle and chased after her without thinking. A ladle?

The passing disciples of the Bamboo House looked at Qi Zibo with curiosity.

Qi Zibo remained silent...

Qi Zibo fell silent again...

My lifelong wisdom! If my mortal enemy saw this, wouldn't he be laughed to death? He quickly put away the gourd, "Open the door quickly, I'm here to check your flowers."

Once she was sure that Qi Zibo was really not angry anymore, Song Yin carefully opened the door.

"Come in."

Qi Zibo was a man of his word; he didn't beat Song Yin when he came in. Instead, he went to check the flowers in Song Yin's courtyard. This girl had indeed cultivated the flowers quite well; no wonder she had a wood spirit root!

Seeing that he showed no signs of anger, Song Yin finally relaxed completely. She placed a bunch of grapes on the stone table and ran a few steps to Qi Zibo's side.

"How about it? The flowers I planted are just as good as the ones in your yard, aren't they?"

Qi Zibo nodded: "It's very good. As agreed, these pills are your reward." He waved his hand, and six pill bottles appeared next to the grapes.

Song Yin checked the pills; the highest grade was third-grade, and the lowest was second-grade. They were still the same old fasting pills and spirit-restoring pills commonly used by Qi Refining disciples. Satisfied, Song Yin put them into her storage bag. She washed the grapes with well water, put them on a plate, and served them to Qi Zibo, saying, "Here, eat some grapes."

Qi Zibo casually picked up a grape and said, "Trying to fob me off with my grapes, huh?"

Song Yin: "Hehe."

Qi Zibo: "Have you noticed any changes in yourself during this time?"

Song Yin nodded: "It really is. It's not the plant perception you mentioned, but I've noticed that my meridians have widened, allowing me to absorb more spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy flows more smoothly through my meridians." After getting to know each other better, she stopped using the formal "you" and started calling me "you" directly.

Qi Zibo ignored the harmless form of address and nodded in satisfaction. "It seems you haven't been slacking off lately. You can't widen your meridians by slacking off. You've felt the benefits of cultivating by growing flowers, haven't you? Now, get rid of these flowers. I'll give you a batch of spiritual plant seeds. Try planting some spiritual plants."

Song Yin: "Huh?"

Qi Zibo: "What 'huh'? Are you going to listen to me or not?"

Song Yin: "Listen to this, the flowers have only just bloomed, it would be such a waste to get rid of them." She naturally listened to Qi Zibo's words, because they were indeed useful.

These flowers were blooming so brightly that it would be a shame to just dig them up, so Song Yin went to Master Heming for advice.

Shi Heming's yard was also bare. She and Shi Heming transplanted flowers into Shi Heming's yard, and Shi Heming's yard was completely transformed.

Song Yin planted the spiritual plants again. Qi Zibo gave her seeds for grapes, peaches, and apples, saying that since she was going to plant spiritual plants anyway, she might as well plant some edible ones. Song Yin thought so too, and in order to have free fruit to eat in the future, she began to cultivate them carefully with great care.

Little did she know that Qi Zibo had deliberately prepared these three seeds to give her a sense of anticipation and a good harvest, so that she would cultivate them diligently every day and continuously expand her meridians.

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A year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Song Yin has been living in the Xianxiao Sect for a year. She has not left the sect during this year, but she has never felt bored or restricted. On the contrary, she feels very fulfilled.

After learning about Song Yin's cultivation method, Shi Heming tried to cultivate using a similar method. Since he had a lightning spiritual root, cultivating plants was definitely not an option, so he sought a different approach. The key to Song Yin's cultivation method was to use up all the wood-attribute spiritual energy within her body before absorbing new spiritual energy. Therefore, Shi Heming directly released lightning-attribute spiritual energy while practicing swordsmanship. Once his internal spiritual energy was depleted, he immediately stopped practicing and began absorbing spiritual energy to cultivate.

As a result, Shi Heming's spiritual energy became more and more solid, just like Song Yin's, and his swordsmanship also steadily improved.

Zhou Xinren, who was teaching Song Yin and Shi Heming, couldn't help but wonder, is a single spiritual root really that powerful? Their cultivation speed is much faster than others. If these two continue like this, they will soon break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

That year, Song Yin and Shi Heming frequently traveled to Spirit Herb Peak and Spirit Pill Peak for their missions. Each mission required delivering different spirit herbs, and Steward Tian gradually became familiar with the two of them. Later, whenever they went to Spirit Herb Peak, Steward Tian would even pour them a cup of hot water.

In the words of Steward Tian, ​​the two children consistently arrived early, which was much better than the other disciples, so he was naturally pleased.

As for Lingdan Peak, Song Yin found that the three direct disciples of Lingdan Peak were very enthusiastic towards her, and she often saw the elders of Lingdan Peak, whom others rarely saw.

Now, the two of them don't need to show their mission tokens when going to Lingcao Peak and Lingdan Peak; they can move freely within the designated areas.

It's another day off.

Song Yin is seven years old this year, and Shi Heming is eight. The two obtained the spiritual herbs early and headed to Lingdan Peak, but the atmosphere there was clearly off.

The ordinary alchemy disciples who joined Lingdan Peak all had solemn expressions on their faces, and even Shao Yangtian, who was receiving the spiritual herbs, did not have his usual cheerful smile.

"It's Junior Sister and Junior Brother He. Put the spirit herbs on the ground and the spirit stones on the table. Just take them yourselves." After saying that, Shao Yangtian went to another room to rummage through his things, ignoring the two of them.

Shao Yangtian called Song Yin "Junior Sister," but calling Shi Heming "Junior Brother" seemed a bit strange, so he simply called him "Junior Brother He."

Shi Heming: "Something's not right at Lingdan Peak. Let's leave first."

Song Yin took the spirit stone: "Let's go quickly."

Why is something wrong with Lingdan Peak? The two people are outsiders to Lingdan Peak, and the specific situation is unknown.

Song Yin: "Let's go to Wanbaolou and buy some other flavors of fasting pills."

There are three grades of Bigu Pills available. Grade one Bigu Pills are colorless and tasteless, but grades two and above have different flavors. Last time, Song Yin ate a Bigu Pill that Shi Heming bought; its flavor was sweet and sour, like eating strawberries, and she immediately fell in love with it. She still had many Bigu Pills left, but that didn't stop her from buying flavored ones. After all, even the grade three Bigu Pills that Qi Zibo gave her were still bland and tasteless.

Shi Heming: "Okay."

The two set off for Wanbaolou.

Inside Lingdan Peak.

Shao Yangtian searched every corner of the area but still couldn't find the Cleansing Spirit Pill.

Shao Yangtian stopped an ordinary disciple from Lingdan Peak: "Have you found the Spirit Cleansing Pill mixed in with the Bigu Pill?"

"Reporting to Senior Brother Shao, we haven't found it yet."

Shao Yangtian: "Keep searching!"

Ordinary disciple: "Could it be that the bottle of fasting pills mixed with the Spirit Cleansing Pill has already been taken away?"

Shao Yangtian: "Who came to collect the pills the day before yesterday?"

Ordinary disciple: "The day before yesterday, Wanbaolou sent people to collect it."

Shao Yangtian: "I will report this to my master and then retrieve the pills that were sold the day before yesterday."

The Diling Pill looks exactly like the Bigu Pill, but it has no taste. Mixing it with the Bigu Pill could cause a big problem!

There is a kind of elixir called the Marrow Cleansing Pill, which cleanses the body of impurities, making cultivation smoother.

Diling Dan is an advanced version of Xisui Dan, and its medicinal effects are even stronger.

The Marrow Cleansing Pill can be taken at any cultivation level, but the advanced Spirit Cleansing Pill requires at least the Foundation Establishment stage to be taken due to abundant spiritual energy; otherwise, one's meridians will be severed and the body will explode, resulting in death!

Shao Yangtian was anxious, but the ordinary disciples below were even more anxious. This basic mistake of confusing the pills originated from them!

"What should we do? That batch of pills has already been sold to Wanbaolou. I'm afraid the bottle with the Cleansing Spirit Pill will be bought by a Qi Refining stage disciple!" The male disciple who made the mistake was anxious and paced back and forth.

The female disciple in the same group as the male disciple who made the mistake said, "There's no hope. Go and pray to our founder of Lingdan Peak, pray that the pills don't fall into the hands of a Qi Refining disciple, otherwise you'll be preparing to collect that disciple's corpse and accept the sect's punishment."

The male disciple who had made the mistake suddenly brightened up. "You're right!" He turned around and went to burn incense and pray to the founder of Lingdan Peak.

"I'm furious! How could I have been so blind as to team up with you for alchemy? I'll go apologize to the elder first, and then I'll come back and deal with you!" The female disciple was enraged and turned to fly to the top of Lingdan Peak to find Elder Xin.

Inside Wanbaolou, Song Yin asked someone to get her a bottle of second-grade Bigu Pills with a sweet and sour taste.

After the two returned to the bamboo hut with their purchases, they spotted a person they rarely encountered in the distance.

Song Tian stood at the entrance of Qi Zibo's courtyard, seemingly talking to Qi Zibo about something.

As the oldest disciple in their group, Song Tian rarely approached Song Yin and Shi Heming to speak. Song Yin and Shi Heming thought Song Tian was just average-looking, but he had a very good reputation among the other disciples. They had heard people praise Song Tian more than once, saying he was kind, that they could ask him for help if needed, and that he was a helpful new disciple, and so on.

New disciples from the mortal realm rarely interact with those who originally lived in the cultivation world, but Song Tian was able to get along well with the disciples who originally lived in the cultivation world and had a good reputation among them. Everyone praised Song Tian.

Song Yin and Shi Heming had no intention of eavesdropping on other people's conversations, and out of respect, they did not rush over.

From afar, Song Tian seemed to be talking incessantly to Qi Zibo, but Qi Zibo rarely responded. In the end, Qi Zibo must have said something to refuse, because Song Tian left looking dejected and crestfallen.

After everyone left, Song Yin and Shi Heming went over.

"What are you two doing standing so far away?" Qi Zibo had noticed the two of them long ago.

Song Yin: "I think Song Tian wants to see you, but we don't like Song Tian, ​​so we'll stand far away and not greet him."

Qi Zibo: "You always have so many excuses."

Song Yin's eyes crinkled into a smile: "Hehe."

Qi Zibo: "Alright, everyone go back to your rooms."

Song Yin returned to her small courtyard, her mouth watering. She took out the newly bought sweet and sour fasting pills.

She could eat as many fasting pills as she wanted, so she poured one out and threw it into her mouth.

Chew, chew, chew.

Hmm? No smell?

Song Yin took the medicine bottle to check the label. It was indeed a Bigu Pill, so why didn't it have any taste?

Could I have been scammed and bought some tasteless fasting pills?

She poured out another one, ate it, and chewed it.

Hmm, it's a familiar taste. It seems only the first fasting pill is the problem.

Satisfied with her favorite fasting pill, Song Yin then went to water her spiritual plant and channel wood-attribute spiritual energy into it. If she persisted a little longer, her fruit tree would bloom!

Halfway through transferring spiritual energy, Song Yin suddenly felt something was wrong with her stomach; it started to throb and she felt like she was going to have diarrhea!

A note from the author:

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Song Yin: Do not disturb, I took the wrong medicine, currently experiencing a detoxifying shower in my anus [clown]

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