Chapter 78 The Genius Cultivator Used as Cannon Fodder (Part 7) Half a person's height...

The potted plant, about half a person's height, is laden with bunches of fruit, some still green, others already milky white, exuding a refreshing fruity fragrance.

Lin You picked a ripe one, about the size of a cherry tomato, and popped it whole into her mouth. With a gentle bite, the juice burst in her mouth, a unique sweetness mixed with a rich milky aroma that immediately made Lin You's eyes light up.

Seeing this, Ye Zhen also tried one and was equally captivated by its taste. She immediately decided to take good care of the fruit tree.

They went to the library to find out how to grow milk fruit, and then planted it next to Lin You's bedroom.

A barrier had been erected around Ye Xinglan's secluded cultivation area, providing strong soundproofing, so their movements would not disturb their master's seclusion.

With nothing else to do, the two set up a spirit-gathering array for the milk-fragrant fruit and went to the spirit spring in the back mountain to fetch water to irrigate it. The milk-fragrant fruit is a climbing vine, and it quickly climbed half of the yard along the rope they had set up.

The carefully tended fruit trees were very considerate, with bunches of fruit hanging from the branches, within easy reach. The two of them never tired of eating them and would show off a basket of them almost every day.

Not only Lin You and Ye Zhen liked it, but even the little wolf cub loved the taste and would sneak a bite every now and then. After Ye Zhen discovered this, she specially picked half a basket for him as well.

Of course, Ling Ye firmly denied Ye Zhen's claim that it might not have been weaned yet, which was why it liked this kind of fruit.

With the occasional watering from the spiritual spring, the milk-fragrant fruit grew better and better. Despite being constantly fed, it didn't decrease in number; instead, it grew more and more abundant.

The Lingzhu Fruit tastes different from the Milk Fragrance Fruit. The flesh is sandy and has a sweet and sour taste. Lin You looked at the rock candy that Shen Zechen had stuffed into her space at some point, and her eyes lit up. She actually wanted to make the Lingzhu Fruit into candied hawthorn.

Ye Zhen helped control the temperature of the syrup, and Lin You rolled the string of Lingzhu fruits in the syrup, then rubbed them vigorously. The syrup was flung out in spiderweb-like threads, which she quickly rolled onto the candied hawthorn.

She learned how to make candied hawthorns from a master chef teaching his apprentices when she was squatting in the food street. On her first try, she actually succeeded.

"Youyou, you're amazing!" Ye Zhen took the candied hawthorn skewer from her, took a small bite, and felt the fine sugar threads melt in her mouth. Combined with the sweet and sour taste of the fruit, it was indeed even more delicious.

Amid the wolf cub's whimpering protests, it received a small string of candied hawthorns. Although there were only three fruits, the little guy ate them with great satisfaction.

"Children shouldn't eat so much candy, or they'll get toothaches." Ye Zhen gently stroked the wolf cub's head and explained softly. Ever since the little guy started communicating with her telepathically in his baby voice, she had been raising the wolf cub as her younger brother.

However, in Lin You's view, it didn't seem like raising a younger brother, but more like raising a son.

Ling Ye scoffed at the child's words. He would soon be two hundred years old, and the three people in the courtyard combined were less than half his age.

As for his attempts to act cute and charming to compensate for his stutter, no one else knows anyway; what matters is getting the food into his mouth.

After finishing her candied hawthorn, Ye Zhen went to find a spirit-gathering array to cultivate. The array was already set up, so it would be a waste not to use it.

Lin You was casual about cultivation, but unfortunately, she had a friend named Ye Zhen who cultivated for at least six hours every day.

She looked at her thoughtful friend who had left her the most spiritually powerful spirit-gathering array, and Lin You couldn't ignore the frugality ingrained in her bones.

Although the spirit stones they used to set up the formation were almost depleted, they were still spirit stones. In the mortal world, they could be exchanged for several thousand taels of silver.

Lin You had no choice but to cultivate together. Anyway, if Ye Zhen didn't play with her, there was nothing fun for her to do by herself. It was better to keep in sync with her best friend's schedule.

The wolf cubs cultivated for even longer periods each day than the others. Despite being mischievous and restless most of the time, these little ones were remarkably calm and focused, cultivating for at least nine hours every day.

The cultivation world is indeed full of "scroll kings".

When Ye Xinglan went into seclusion, she must have informed Ye Xingyu, who would come to check on Lin You and Ye Zhen every ten days or so.

Check on their cultivation progress, answer some cultivation-related questions, ask if they have any difficulties, and bring them some spiritual fruits or mortal snacks each time.

In Ye Zhen and Lin You's view, this is similar to caring for left-behind children.

As two left-behind children, the Ye family always took special care of them during any group activities. Even when they were learning math, they received an extra test paper compared to the others.

Lin You/Ye Zhen: Although I was very touched, it really wasn't necessary!

In particular, the Third Elder personally came to their home to correct their papers. Watching the ethereal Golden Core cultivator, with a brush dipped in cinnabar, correcting the college entrance examination math papers, really gave them a feeling of being out of touch with time.

Cultivation might really improve intelligence; the two of them achieved a 92% accuracy rate this time, which would rank them among the top ten in the entire Ye family.

The Third Elder looked at the basic formation they had set up and the milk-scented fruit that was being taken such good care of, and nodded in satisfaction.

He left the two with jade slips containing basic array diagrams and some basic array-setting materials before turning to leave.

"Is this a new assignment? When will the Third Elder come to check it?" Lin You asked her friend, somewhat uncertainly.

"Probably." Ye Zhen wasn't too sure either. She looked at the entire storage bag of materials and was more troubled by another problem, "Where are we going to set up the formation? There's not enough space in the yard."

Ling Ye secretly rolled his eyes. Wasn't this just a reward given casually by an elder who liked a junior?

He, a demon, knew this, so why did these two fierce women think it was homework? They really aren't quite normal.

"Let's go to the back mountain then. Not many people go there anyway, and we might be able to find another husky."

Upon hearing the name, Ling Ye couldn't help but roll his eyes again. But as the young master of the demon race, he was renowned and couldn't bear to lose face like that.

Ye Zhen held the wolf cub by the scruff of its neck and watched it roll its eyes. She couldn't help but marvel, "Isn't this a husky? Even the way it rolls its eyes is exactly the same!"

"I'm a wolf! A wolf! Not some dog called a husky!" A childish protest immediately echoed in Ye Zhen's mind, and the wolf cub in her hands also howled.

The way its four little legs were flapping back and forth made it look even more like a husky.

"Alright, alright, I know you're a wolf, a big bad wolf, Coco's all so cool! But little kids shouldn't swear." Ye Zhen's coaxing tone shut Ling Ye up.

He didn't want to be a cub either! But his injuries were too severe back then, and this was a side effect of the secret healing method he used!

Looking at the now quiet, fluffy creature, Lin You couldn't help but reach out and rub its head. The wolf cub's fur was fluffy and soft, with an amazing feel to it.

Ye Zhen held the wolf cub in her arms, stroked it from head to tail, and seeing Lin You's envious look, suggested:

"If you like, you can raise a spirit beast yourself. It's much easier than before. It can eat and go to the toilet by itself, it won't destroy the house, it will come back by itself when it goes out to play, and it won't run away."

"No, I'm not really suited to keeping pets." Lin You suppressed her excitement and shook her head. Even if modern dogs could live for twenty years, she probably couldn't stay that long.

However, why hasn't this mission been completed yet? Didn't you already help the Ye family escape the massacre by the demons?

Lin You glanced at the tasks written on the system and frowned slightly.

Is the demon who wiped out the Ye family still alive?

Or will other demons come after the Ye family?

Or should we eliminate the possibility of the demons annihilating the Ye family?

Regarding the first point, Lin You found a usable item in the system shop: the World Search Engine. It can search for people or things mentioned in the plot introduction of the world you are in. Each search requires ten points.

She immediately searched for the great demon and received a system notification that the demon was dead beyond recognition, which relieved her slightly.

What should we do with the rest?

Shen Zechen once told her that there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days; when encountering an enemy, one should take the initiative to attack.

Let's set a small goal first: wipe out the demon race.

Having been here for so long, Lin You has gained a lot of knowledge about this world. The demons here are not the kind of demonic cultivators in novels who just have different cultivation methods.

They are a race from another world who climbed up from the passage of the abyss. They can absorb the essence and even the souls of humans and demons in this world to enhance their own power.

Every demon that appears has blood on its hands, but the passage to the abyss appears randomly each time, making it impossible to defend against.

Seeing Lin You standing there in a daze, not saying a word for a while, Ye Zhen waved her hand in front of her eyes.

"Youyou, snap out of it, what are you thinking about?" Ye Zhen asked carefully.

"Huh? Thinking about how to wipe out the demon race?" Lin You replied casually, then looked up to see her best friend and the wolf cub in her arms looking at her with the kind of loving gaze one might give someone mentally challenged.

Ye Zhen hesitated for a while before finally advising her to give up this unrealistic dream. "Youyou, not to mention the demons that will come through the abyss passage, the most powerful demon that has appeared now is already equivalent to the cultivation of a Nascent Soul Ancestor."

"Oh." Lin You responded calmly, looking at Ye Zhen and saying, "That great demon, wasn't he already killed by you?"

Seeing Ye Zhen's bewildered expression, Lin You kindly reminded her, "It was last time, when you just stabbed him with your sword, that guy was screaming. Later, you even burned his body and scattered the ashes."

The wolf cub was also completely dumbfounded. The cunning and treacherous weakling demon he was fighting was actually a Nascent Soul cultivator?!

Are the cultivation levels of demons really that high?

But then Lin You explained, "That guy had dispersed his cultivation and started cultivating as a succubus again. He must have been in a weakened state at the time."

Ye Zhen accepted the explanation fairly well, but Ling Ye was still a little confused. A demon in the Nascent Soul stage, how could he die so hastily?

As the most powerful being in the demon race, even during his weakened state, he should have had ways to protect himself, yet he was still killed by this woman, leaving not even a trace behind.

She must have some special methods!

Since I'm in her hands, it's better to behave myself.

Ye Zhen initially thought her best friend was joking, but seeing her serious expression, she opened her mouth, and finally uttered two words: "Holy crap!"

"How could I... why did I..." Ye Zhen was struggling to find the right words.

Lin You patted her on the shoulder, "Because you are the protagonist, the big boss is destined to be eliminated by the protagonist."

The only problem is that this boss was defeated a bit too early; he died before the story even started.

It took Ye Zhen a while to understand Lin You's words. She blinked and asked in a low voice, "Did you transmigrate into a book and have a plot twist?"

"More or less," Lin You replied vaguely.

"Am I the main character?" Ye Zhen couldn't help but ask.

"An orphanage, poor boys, and a harem." Lin You thought for a moment and gave a tiny hint without spoiling the plot.

The last two words were alright, but the words "orphanage" sent a chill down Ye Zhen's spine. She recalled the scene from that day, the boy who was completely out of her sensibilities, and couldn't help but shudder.

Those demons are so treacherous and cunning, they actually used a honey trap!!

"Good sister, count me in on this matter of wiping out the demon race!" Ye Zhen gritted her teeth, revealing a fierce expression.

A mere Qi Refining stage novice and another Qi Refining stage novice who hadn't even entered the first stage were discussing how to deal with the entire demon race and scheming how to eliminate them completely.

Ling Ye rolled his eyes at the sound of it. Tsk, youth is wonderful, even the dreams they have are so fantastical.

Discussing plans didn't stop the two sisters from working. Lin You chose an open space to practice the wind formation, while Ye Zhen found a spot to practice the rain formation. Amidst the wind and rain, the two also took the opportunity to water the plants on the back mountain.

Their teamwork was still perfect. Apart from the wolf cub being unable to dodge in time and getting soaked, no other accidents occurred.

The wolf cub huddled shivering in Ye Zhen's arms, looking utterly miserable. It wasn't because he was cold from being caught in the rain, but because he had secretly used his innate skill while the two were practicing the formation.

Ling Ye possesses a trace of the bloodline of the ancient divine beast Bai Ze, but it has become extremely faint over time, leaving only the ability of precognition, which he cannot use frequently.

After hearing what Lin You had said about succubi, he reluctantly activated his talent skill to check it out, since the emergence of another succubus would inevitably lead to another bloodbath in the cultivation world.

Unexpectedly, the demon race did not amount to anything in the future, but Ling Ye was also quite frightened by something else.

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