Wouldn't this disciple be taken in vain? Moreover, it's indirectly harming people. Those who cultivate should naturally avoid getting involved in karmic consequences and evil deeds, lest they be struck by lightning and reduced to ashes when they advance in their cultivation.

However, the sect leader was right about one thing: they don't usually eat like this. They usually eat home-cooked meals and don't eat much meat. In fact, compared to the sect leader, they have a stronger appetite.

But there's nothing we can do about it. In his previous life, the sect leader was in the cultivation world, and he was the sect leader of the largest sect in the cultivation world, the Yuntai Sect. How could he lack pills like the Bigu Pill?

If his cultivation level were higher, he wouldn't even need the Bigu Pill; he could survive solely on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. But these demon cultivators who barely survive in the human realm don't have such resources.

Moreover, before everyone met the sect leader, their lives and cultivation were both difficult. Now that everything has suddenly improved, who wants to take fasting pills? At least they'll wait until they need them.

After dinner, Shang Lin and Fan Mingyu went to school together. On the way upstairs, they ran into Chu Jiusheng, who asked Shang Lin very directly, "Boss, when did you and this kid become so close?"

Shang Lin looked at Chu Jiusheng with a helpless expression. "Didn't I tell you not to call me 'boss'? Why are you still calling me that? I have a name, okay?"

Chu Jiusheng looked at Shang Lin helplessly, "Why are you being so dramatic? It's just a title, and in my heart, you are my boss."

Shang Lin glanced at Chu Jiusheng silently, and he immediately compromised, "Okay, okay, I won't call you that, just call me Shang Lin, okay?" Why is a boy so fussy?

Fan Mingyu looked at Chu Jiusheng as if he were an idiot, but he was too tired to argue with him today, so he simply went into the classroom as soon as he arrived.

Chu Jiusheng stopped Shang Lin, who was about to walk forward, and asked, "When did you two become so close? Did he threaten you?"

Shang Lin patted Chu Jiusheng's shoulder helplessly, "Kid, don't have such a vivid imagination. Who do you think can threaten me? Besides, this is a school, a place for learning, understand?"

As soon as Shang Lin finished speaking, he strode into the corridor. Their class was at the very back of the corridor, but Chu Jiusheng watched his back and silently complained, "Who says school is just a place for studying? Wherever there are people, there will be right and wrong. And who says being threatened always has to involve violence? What if it's something else? Like money."

Chu Jiusheng's impression of Shang Lin was still that of a poor student from a small mountain village, because in his view, his family had basically no income and was just spending their savings.

After all, Shang Lin is a student and a minor, while his godfather is not only old but also has poor eyesight. So how can this combination make money?

When Fan Mingyu and his gang first bullied Shang Lin, it was because their families were rich and powerful. There are many instances of using money and power to intimidate people, so how could Shang Lin be an exception?

However, Shang Lin obviously did not expect that Chu Jiusheng would imagine such a big drama. Instead, he threw himself back into the great task of doing practice questions. Besides, the New Year's gift that Situ Pojun gave him was a complete set of five-year college entrance examination simulation books. He would do them whenever he had time.

Of course, Shang Lin didn't have time to do every single question. He could only focus on the types of questions he hadn't seen before. However, this varied depending on the subject. If it was a foreign language, he could only write them repeatedly.

No matter how talented he is, he still needs to study something he's never encountered before for a period of time, let alone a completely new language.

When Shang Lin came home from school that evening, She Jinxing gave him a demon core, saying, "Lü Yao gave it to me this morning, but I haven't had a chance to give it to you yet."

Shang Lin hurriedly took it and looked at it. "I didn't expect that monster would actually have a demon core! That's quite an unexpected surprise. What about that tree? Did Lü Yao really plant it in the Dragon Spirit Tower?"

"Hmm, I see that Green Yao really cherishes that tree. I don't know if it's because they are both demonic plants, or if that little sapling is really like what the Divine Lord said, it might be a seedling of the Dao Wood."

Shang Lin put away the demon core. "I think it's very unlikely to be Dao Wood. After all, how could something from ancient times have survived to the present? Especially since it was obtained from a monster. I guess it's probably a demonic plant that has already gained sentience. And this demonic plant has a certain... attraction or benefit to the demons, which is why they are protecting it with their lives. I just don't know how they ended up in the sewers of the new city. In the end times of the human realm, how could so many demons appear together? If it were a remote place, it would make sense, but in a densely populated city, it's unlikely. It just feels very incongruous."

Reminded by Shang Lin, She Jinxing also seriously recalled the situation in the morning. "Although bats are social species, the coexistence of demons, evil spirits, and spiritual plants is indeed very incongruous, especially since the number is so astonishing. After all, the sect leader has already cleaned them up twice in the dream."

"Never mind, such a bizarre thing is not something we can figure out just by thinking about it." Shang Lin said as she went to wash her hands. "I'm hungry, I'm going to eat so I can do my homework."

"Alright." Since this matter has already been resolved, they don't need to waste time on it anymore. "Sect Master, please eat. I'm going back to the tower."

Shang Lin paused. "Aren't you going to eat?"

She Jinxing subconsciously touched his stomach. "I ate a bit too much today, so I won't eat tonight."

Shang Lin looked puzzled. "Although the amount of food for lunch and dinner was a bit much, it shouldn't be enough to make you feel stuffed, right?"

"Perhaps it's because of the ginseng and angelica, these ingredients are full of spiritual energy, which indirectly increases the amount of food, so I'm not hungry at all."

“That’s right.” Shang Lin’s eyes lit up. “How come I didn’t think of that? We can improve our cultivation by eating food with spiritual energy! There are restaurants like that in the cultivation world, but the quality varies. Anyway, the area of ​​the herb garden in the Dragon Spirit Tower has almost doubled. Apart from the part needed for the whitening and spot-fading cream, the part I occasionally use for alchemy can all be used to make dishes.”

However, She Jinxing asked a rather poignant question, "Sect Leader, you've already eaten lunch and dinner, so why do you still feel hungry?"

“I didn’t drink ginseng chicken soup or angelica mutton soup. I only drank pork bone soup. Unlike Fan Mingyu, I don’t need to nourish my body, so I perfectly avoided them.”

“And I ate everything clean, adhering to the principle of not leaving any food behind, so…” She Jinxing then smiled and said, “Then let’s try it tomorrow.”

"Okay." Shang Lin picked up his chopsticks and asked again, "Why are you in such a hurry to go back to the Dragon Spirit Tower tonight?"