"Apprentices, move aside, or you'll get hurt in the crowd!"

"After all, we are old and young, and we can't afford any bumps or knocks!"

Lin Xue had her two young apprentices stand at the edge of the entrance before activating the formation.

While everyone was rushing inside, 629 had already rushed out and stood next to the entrance.

"I only picked this many, but these are the best-tasting fruits!"

629 opened his pocket and showed the others the spiritual fruit inside.

Zhao Yunting and Li Zichen were unaware of the specifics inside and were still lamenting why they hadn't picked more fruit.

"Come on, apprentices! Eat quickly."

Lin Xue stuffed two fruits into each person's hands, found a clean spot, and sat down to munch on them.

Those who had been watching them closely were furious upon seeing this scene.

Why don't these people have any sense of martial ethics?

Having obtained so many fruits, why not keep them safe and take them out of the secret realm to exchange for money?

Why are you already ruining it after just picking it?

It's such a waste for that little old lady and those two little old men to eat such good spiritual fruit.

But these people are too proud to take action at this time.

They only slumped down beside him, clutching their stomachs, after they discovered that these people had no intention of leaving a single one behind and had eaten all the spiritual fruits the child had picked.

"They're like wild boars who can't appreciate fine food; they just waste all the good stuff!"

Even spiritual fruits can be used as materials for alchemy. Only after being refined can spiritual fruits exert their best medicinal effects and achieve the greatest results.

These people, on the other hand, treated it like ordinary fruit, ruining it all.

Originally, they planned to rob the group of three cultivators after everyone had dispersed, but they had to abandon their plan to continue following them.

All the good stuff has been eaten by pigs, so there's no point in following up anymore.

However, there didn't seem to be as many fruit trees in the orchard as when we were outside.

I was initially confident that I would return with a full harvest, but upon entering, I discovered that the fruit trees were mostly located near the outer perimeter, with almost none inside.

The group arrived full of enthusiasm but left disappointed.

Although spirit fruit trees die if moved, some sects possess unique secret techniques that allow them to transplant the trees.

For example, the cultivator who spoke earlier, his sect has a secret technique, and they have already brought in all the magical treasures.

I just want to collect the spirit fruit trees in the secret realm.

After the others had finished picking the spiritual fruits and left, these cultivators began to dig up the spiritual fruit trees.

She was even thinking that if no one knew how to transplant the spirit fruit trees, she could harvest all the fruit trees here in one fell swoop.

Seeing that someone was capable of taking these fruit trees away, Lin Xue decided not to linger and led her apprentices to continue exploring other places.

She thought the three of them looked quite fun, so she didn't change her makeup.

The master and his disciples became addicted to the role, evolving from serious young cultivators into a carefree group of elderly people.

Without using their real identities, they act with even greater impunity.

They don't care about saving face at all; they rush towards anything good they see, and if other cultivators happen to be there, they snatch it away.

If you can't win a fight, run away; if you can't outrun someone, give in.

In short, stories about the three people and the child quickly spread throughout the secret realm.

Everyone knows that these old scoundrels, plus one little scoundrel, have absolutely no sense of shame.

They are masters at extorting money from people.

I've heard that several self-proclaimed upright monks have been extorted by them.

In short, whenever the cultivators encountered these people on their journey ahead, they would keep their distance.

Even when the group wanted to ask someone a question, no one dared to get even a fraction of a step closer to him.

"Master, do you think we went too far? I feel like they're all avoiding us."

Li Zichen touched a strand of hair that had fallen from his forehead and said with some distress.

"This is all your fault. If you hadn't clung to their leg and begged them to give you the elixir, people wouldn't have thought the three of us were a professional scammer team!"

Zhao Yunting rubbed his forehead. He really hadn't expected his junior brother to have such a shameless side.

"Senior Brother, why don't you say that you stole the other team's elixirs first and even scratched their face, which is why everyone thought we were a bandit group!"

"Junior brother, I'm so kind and adorable, at most I'll be a beggar a few times, it's not shameful for me to be a beggar for the sake of spiritual herbs!"

The two brothers started arguing again about who was more sarcastic.

Lin Xue calmly followed behind the two of them, feeling that her two apprentices' behavior was somewhat despicable.

She absolutely refused to admit that her apprentices' behavior was entirely learned from her, their master.

After all, once they leave this secret realm, they can remove their disguise.

She was still that beautiful, delicate, and frail master.

"Stop arguing! It looks like another cultivator has found something good up ahead!"

629 had been observing the surroundings, and when he spotted someone, he immediately reminded the two to stop fighting amongst themselves.

Where is it?

Zhao Yunting immediately stopped arguing with his junior brother. The quarrels between fellow disciples were nothing special; they were just for fun when they were bored. They couldn't afford to waste time on serious matters.

"No, no! Let me go right away!"

Li Zichen wiped his sleeves up, his facial features began to twitch, and he was preparing his emotions.

"It's over there, do you see it on that hilltop?"

The child pointed to a hillside not far away, where several groups of people were wary of each other.

Between them was a medicinal herb in full bloom.

"This is the Thousand-Machine Grass!"

Lin Xue recognized the identity of this spiritual herb at a glance.

"This is one thousand spirit stones!"

629 was even more direct, revealing the value of this medicinal herb.

"Senior brother, let's hurry over there, or we'll be in trouble if they steal it!"

Those teams all seem to be quite strong, so I doubt they'll be able to extort the Thousand Machine Grass by pestering them relentlessly.

"Those are all disciples of major sects; our chances of winning are slim!"

"Instead of wasting time with them here, we might as well go and look around elsewhere!"

Lin Xue can teach her apprentices to cheat, be cunning, and throw tantrums.

But she would never teach her disciples to overestimate their abilities and seek their own death.

Whether or not they can extort money depends on the person. They can pester those cultivators who are not as strong, as numerous, or as powerful as them.

After all, people don't know their specific situation. Seeing their fearlessness, they might assume that they have a powerful backer.

That's why they chose to back down, give way a little, and swallow this loss in silence.

But the disciples of those major sects are different. They have powerful sects as their backers and are not afraid of anyone.

If the master and his disciples dared to try and extort money from them, they would probably be taken for fools and killed.