Chapter 248 The shared love between master and disciple
Yaofeng's elder Lin Zhi's newly appointed master, Ren Hebo, is a slightly fat old man with a white beard and a very amiable look. He introduces the situation of Guiyi Sect to Lin Zhi in a solemn voice.
"Guiyi Sect has a total of twelve peaks, four Sword Peaks, two Pill Peaks, two Instrument Peaks, one Medicine Peak, one Beast Peak, and one Sound Peak. The last one is where we are going now, the Deacon Hall. The Deacon Hall is responsible for all matters in the sect other than cultivation, such as punishment, training, and changes in disciples. You will see the other specific contents when you arrive at the Deacon Hall."
From his master's introduction, Lin Zhi roughly learned about the situation of Guiyi Sect.
The main body of Guiyi Sect is twelve peaks, surrounded by countless small hills. There are six gates in total. The first person in each gate is called the peak master. For example, Ting Yan is the peak master of four sword peaks and is located on the main peak. The masters of the other three sword peaks are the sword peak masters.
The number of twelve peaks is not fixed. Guiyi Sect has grown from three peaks to its current size and has become a giant in the field of cultivation. Therefore, the sect encourages capable disciples to open up new fields.
The leader of Guiyi Sect is in charge of the entire sect. Under the leader are five elders. The first elder is the former leader of Jianfeng and Tingyan's master. He has been in seclusion for a long time. The second elder is the leader of Qifeng. He likes to go around looking for materials for forging magical instruments. He is not in the sect at the moment.
The third elder is Ren Hebo himself, and the fourth elder is Danfeng Peak Master Wu Dong.
"In fact, there are more elders than these, but the motto of our Guiyi Sect is to eliminate the dust between heaven and earth and return to dust. Only a few words are left on the inscription. Practicing Taoism is to fight against fate with heaven. It is even better to leave some blessings for future generations." Ren Hebo stroked his beard and smiled to change the topic. "As for the fifth elder, it is the Sword Master Tingyan you just met."
"The path of sword is like the collision of metal and stone, which will never turn back. A path that is not compatible with spiritual roots is destined to be difficult to walk. You are a rare single wood spiritual root. There is a vast world for you to create in the mountains and rivers. A good medicine cultivator is more rare than a good sword cultivator."
The old man was still worried that this rare talent would develop a mental block because he couldn't practice sword, which would not be conducive to his cultivation.
Lin Zhi understood his relief and just smiled and nodded without raising any objections.
Ren Hebo was glad to see that he could understand, and said, "Even if we are not good at fighting, why do we have to do it ourselves? Offer some precious spiritual plants as rewards, and there will be experts to do it for you. Even if you go to the secret realm to train in the future, you will not have to fight with others."
Ordinary medicine practitioners may not be able to do so, but can a medicine practitioner who has walked the Immortal Stairway with a single wood spiritual root do the same? Ren Hebo believes that his disciple will definitely be able to bring the reputation of medicine practitioners to a new level.
"Thank you for your teaching, Master."
The young man had an obedient expression on his handsome face, which made Ren Hebo even more happy. He began to explain to his disciple the share of the sect.
"Because you haven't established your foundation yet, inner disciples are given three bottles of middle-grade fasting pills, two bottles of lower-grade replenishing essence pills, two bottles of lower-grade clearing heart pills, and one bottle of lower-grade rejuvenation pill every month. As your cultivation level increases, these things will increase."
In addition, they are medicine practitioners, so no one can blame them for using some of the things they grow themselves to cook together with the alchemy disciples. However, this is a bit far-fetched at the moment, so Ren Hebo did not say anything and planned to bring it up later.
Lin Zhi wrote down these contents, with a strong interest in new things in his heart.
He was in a good mood, but the system obviously didn't think so.
01 Grievance: [Why, why did the target reject me? 】
01's grievance was mixed with some resentment. Haha, there will be a time when you regret. Do you know whose love you rejected? You rejected the love of your beautiful wife, your most beloved wife. Die, and use your soul to knock him down!
Lin Zhi comforted him: [This is not bad either. 】
01Sobbing: [It’s so far away. 】
There is a saying that goes, "The one who is close to the water gets the moon first, and rabbits eat grass near their burrows." In 01's opinion, it is easier to get things done if you are close, which will facilitate the redemption mission.
Lin Zhi absorbed the wood spirit in the air, looked at the faint green light at his fingertips, and said nonchalantly: [It’s better if it’s far away. 】
If it were an ordinary world, the closer the better. However, this was a world of cultivation, and it would be inconvenient to be watched by others. Besides, they were all in the sect, so how far could they go? Moreover, someone would come to find him.
The host had a plan in mind, and 01 soon became motivated.
01: [Okay, host, you are the best! This time the additional ability enhancement has been unlocked after seeing the target! 】
Like the golden finger in the previous world, the ability gained in this world is also intangible. It is an enhancement of soul power, which will make Lin Zhi's cultivation speed faster.
Lin Zhi was quite satisfied. In a world where the strong are respected, strength is the most important thing.
The transportation tool stopped in front of the Deacon Hall and walked into a wide hall. There were several halls inside, and a wall for disciples in the sect to post and accept tasks.
The disciples of the Deacon Hall bowed to Ren Hebo and after hearing the purpose of Ren Hebo's visit, they led Lin Zhi forward and said, "Brother, follow me."
Lin Zhi was taken to register and received this month's share, which he placed in an intermediate storage spirit ring, which also contained disciple uniforms and the basic mental method of Guiyi Sect.
After registering, Lin Zhi returned to the hall. At Ren Hebo's signal, he followed him through several doors and stopped in front of a guardian beast inside the Deacon's Hall.
A bead surrounded by red and green spiritual light appeared in Ren Hebo's hand and was placed on the forehead of the beast. After a while, a gap of stairs appeared on the ground that allowed two people to walk side by side.
"I will use your soul fire to light the soul lamp in a moment. No matter where you are in the future, the soul lamp can indicate your safety."
Walking through the long corridor, the two disciples guarding the soul lamps greeted Ren Hebo and Lin Zhi and led them to the corresponding positions.
Ren Hebo glanced at him and said, "Hasn't Tingyan brought his apprentice here yet?"
In the entire Guiyi Sect, probably only Ren Hebo and Wu Dong would call Tingyan so impolitely. In Ren Hebo's own words, that was as he should do.
Ever since Ting Yan's inner palace was destroyed, it has been him and Wu Dong who have taken care of him carefully. They have brought him back from the brink of life and death countless times and consumed countless medicinal herbs and elixirs. Ren Hebo's several great treasures were even used to keep him alive. He always felt that this kid might not survive the next day, but this man just kept coughing and ascending. He and Wu Dong have only reached the late Nascent Soul stage in their cultivation so far, while Ting Yan has already reached the Spirit Transformation stage, catching up with his old master.
The disciple said, "Sword Master previously sent a message through a paper crane, saying that he would personally guard Senior Brother Yuan Zhi's soul lamp and would not place it in the lamp hall."
"Oh, he really treasures his disciple, and that's as it should be. He is indeed a good seedling, maybe the second him," Ren Hebo immediately looked at Lin Zhi and said, "It's not that I don't treasure you, but my cultivation is not as high as his, so I can't pay attention to you all the time. Sometimes I will forget things when I am too focused on growing flowers. It's better for me to leave you here."
Lin Zhi responded with a smile, indicating that she understood her master's love for her.
Yuan Zhi himself is just a soul and a spirit, so where does the soul fire come from to light the soul lamp?
After leaving the Deacon Hall, Ren Hebo checked the mental method that Lin Zhi had obtained, and after confirming that there was no problem, he took out a jade pendant.
"You can leave the spiritual ring in here. It's not a valuable treasure. Take this one of mine. It contains some basic spells..."
Because Lin Zhi had just started to draw Qi into his body, Ren Hebo helped him use his mental power to have the jade pendant recognize its owner, allowing Lin Zhi to check it himself.
Lin Zhi took a quick look and found that his master was indeed good to him. The things inside were all carefully arranged, including the bookcase, clothes, medicinal herbs, and talismans. The inner disciple's share of the tonic pills, rejuvenation pills, and heart-purifying pills were all in the storage jade pendant. A rough look showed that there were at least forty or fifty bottles, and from the labels on them, they were all top grade. There was also a cabinet with some medicinal herbs used by medicine practitioners, and on the bookcase there were illustrations of spiritual plants and various medicine practice books.
Lin Zhi thanked him sincerely: "Thank you, Master."
It had been a long time since he had received the caring and selfless care from his elders, and his perception of the world had changed.
Ren Hebo stroked his beard with a smile, feeling very happy.
Because Lin Zhi had just started practicing, Ren Hebo asked him to first familiarize himself with the cultivation of spiritual plants in the spiritual fields of the main peak, and then give him a mountain when he had experience.
Lin Zhi looked at the situation at Yaofeng, as if he had entered a large plant breeding base.
Ren Hebo was busy taking care of the magical herbs he had recently cultivated, so he asked his third disciple to take care of his younger disciple.
Lin Zhi was led to his residence, and he took note of all the key points of cultivation that his senior brother had told him, and knew the content of his current lessons.
"Just water this creeping plant with spiritual liquid once a day. As for the Thousand Heart Flower over there, your current cultivation is too low, so don't get close to it."
The third senior brother Yan Peng is a man with a simple and honest look, and his expression was a little serious when he talked about Qianxinhua.
In the nursery not far from the creeping weeds, patches of small white flowers sway in the wind. The plants do not look very special, just like the beautiful wild flowers that can be seen everywhere on the roadside, making people unable to be vigilant.
“Is this patch of flowers dangerous?”
"That's not a clump, it's a plant," the third brother corrected, with a complicated look on his face, "so don't get close to it, it will swallow you up and suck you dry."
This emphasis aroused Lin Zhi's interest, but he did not show it on his face and nodded in agreement.
After the third senior brother left, Lin Zhi moved closer. After careful observation, he found that the white flowers did not grow out of the soil, but grew from branches or vines that were similar in color to the soil. It could be seen that if someone approached the vines without being defensive, they would be strangled instantly.
Interesting, I wonder if it can be tamed and used as a weapon.
Lin Zhi had thought about this feasibility at the very beginning, and now he had a goal, but the most urgent task was still to practice.
There is a simple spirit gathering array driven by spirit stones in the house where Lin Zhi lives. The master gave him a lot of spirit stones. After setting it up, Lin Zhi meditated on the cushion and asked 01 to act as an alarm clock to remind him to water the grass. He absorbed the spiritual energy into his body, circulated it in the meridians according to the mental method, and merged it into his inner palace, entering a state of oblivion of both himself and the world.
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The main peak of Yaofeng is called Yunwu Mountain. In the early morning, Yunwu Mountain is wet with dew. Various spiritual plants gently stretch their branches in the morning sun. Occasionally, some naughty high-level spiritual herbs will stretch out their branches and leaves to entangle the corners of disciples' clothes.
Yan Peng touched the spiritual plant with wood spiritual energy, waited for it to retract its branches and leaves, then stood up. He looked at the young man not far away who was bending over to inject spiritual energy into the vines.
The young man's long hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin. He had a handsome face and a natural, unpretentious gentleness. Whenever his fingertips touched a vine, the vine would wrap around his fingertips, reluctant to see him leave.
Yan Peng couldn't help but sigh, is this the ability of a single wood spiritual root? He has dual water and wood spiritual roots, and it took him three months of watering the vines before he could reach the third level of Qi training. He could try injecting spiritual energy into the vines instead of watering them with spiritual liquid. His junior brother did it in just one month, and the vines he cultivated were of higher quality, and the quality of both the finished medicine and the finished pill would be better.
Whether in cultivation or in the ability to cultivate spiritual plants, he is enviable.
"Third Brother."
Lin Zhi nodded in greeting, and continued to inject spiritual energy into the spiritual plants at the same speed.
There is no time in cultivation, so this month is very short for him.
After he mastered the ability to use spiritual energy to nourish spiritual plants, he no longer had to water them every day and could spend more time practicing and reading.
"Feeding Qianxinhua again?"
Seeing Lin Zhi's direction, Yan Peng asked without surprise. After all, it was not the first day he saw her.
Spiritual energy is very important for cultivators. After using it up, they should either take Yuan-replenishing Pills or meditate immediately to absorb and refine it. Yan Peng's internal organs were so dry after feeding the vines that he had to go back to the room to meditate, but the junior brother still had energy left after feeding them every time to go and look at the Thousand Heart Flowers.
The junior brother did as he said and did not get close. He stood at the edge and looked at it, then used his spiritual energy to nourish it a little. Yan Peng asked why, and the junior brother said it was because the Thousand Heart Flower was beautiful.
Yan Peng didn’t understand, maybe this was one of the differences between him and a genius.
To him, the Thousand Heart Flower was a relatively dangerous spiritual plant. Even though he was already in the late stage of foundation building, if it weren't for the formation left by his master, he would not have gone there, let alone appreciated its beauty.
Lin Zhi responded, fed the vines, and headed towards Qianxinhua.
In the nursery, the thousand-heart flowers are in full bloom, and each small white flower looks very lively.
If you look at it overall, the Thousand Heart Flower is not beautiful, it's even a little scary.
Its roots can penetrate dozens of meters underground, growing and spreading mimic rhizomes everywhere. The rhizomes are covered with white flowers, and a large mature plant is a sea of flowers. If you want to kill this spiritual plant, setting it on fire is not enough, as it will also 'cut off its tail to survive', hence the name 'Qianxin'.
At present, the size of the Thousand Heart Flower in the nursery is medium. Ren Hebo controls its growth space. If there is no formation, it may take four disciples in the late foundation building stage to kill it. If it is in the early golden elixir stage, one will be enough.
The Thousand Heart Flower matures once every thirty years. When it matures, its white flowers will turn red and emit an exceptionally sweet fragrance. This fragrance is extremely seductive and can be used to lure large numbers of prey to replenish stored nutrients, or it can be used as a parasite to allow them to spread their seeds for itself.
After the maturity period, its flowers will turn light blue. At this time, its petals are of extremely high value and are a necessary material for the top-grade Qingxin Pill. Of course, safflower is also a material, but it will cause people to go crazy. Yaofeng strictly forbids disciples to pick safflower.
From a distance, Lin Zhi condensed the wood spirit into a drop of dew, flew to a flower of the Thousand Hearts Flower, and fell down gently.
The petals in the nursery swayed one after another, looking beautiful in the sunshine.
The wood spirit root has a unique plant perception ability and knows the status of the spirit plant. Just like now, Lin Zhi knows that Qian Xinhua is very happy.
Spiritual plants prefer wood spiritual energy to spiritual liquid for watering. This Thousand Heart Flower has matured thirty times in Yunwu Mountain. It only drank Ren Hebo's wood spiritual energy when it was first cultivated. Since then, it has been in the nursery where the formation was arranged, absorbing the spiritual liquid sprinkled from the sky by disciples above the seventh level of Qi training every day. It has not absorbed wood spiritual energy for a long time. The Thousand Heart Flower moved its branches and felt that it tasted better than the one given by the fat old man in its memory.
Lin Zhi felt the dryness of his inner palace, so he absorbed the spiritual energy in the air to replenish himself and returned to the house.
After replacing the spirit stones on the spirit gathering array, the spiritual energy in the room condensed around him and drilled into his body at several times the speed. After Lin Zhi had a good rest, he did not read a book as usual, but unbuttoned his clothes and looked at the light red crescent on his abdomen.
It has been more than a month, and there has been no strange changes here. The light red spiritual energy has not appeared in the inner palace again. Lin Zhi frowned slightly and closed his clothes.
01Looking at this mark, I was very worried, and I was getting more and more worried.
The system's old-fashioned sigh made Lin Zhi want to laugh. He stood up, poured a glass of water, and asked while drinking: [What's wrong? 】
[It's been a month, host, aren't we going to find a target yet? 】
Damn this stinky man, why hasn’t he come to see his host for a month? He is no longer the man that let it watch cartoons for a week!
The host was not in a hurry, as if the flower was more worthy of attention than the target.
What happened? Has the love expired? 01 was very panicked, like a weak and helpless electronic baby who was cold and helpless when he saw his parents.
It is not known whether the artificial intelligence will dream of electronic butterfly 01, but it has dreamed of itself crying so much that the program has become garbled.
Hearing 01's worry, Lin Zhi leaned back in the rattan chair and smiled softly.
"Don't worry, we will meet naturally when the time comes."
After the devaluation of time, using it as a measure would require lengthening the line.
It is not a good deal to chase after others. Sometimes you have to take the initiative, and sometimes you have to retreat and build a network.
Lin Zhi recalled the look in the eyes of the young man in black in her memory, and was certain that he would come, sooner or later.
Lin Zhi touched the rattan chair beneath him, and the vines trembled slightly, and a small light pink flower bloomed.
There was no such thing in the house, so Lin Zhi moved a vine from the mountain to the corner, watered and tamed it, and let the vine wrap around it to form an original rattan chair. Lin Zhi stood up, injected luck and spiritual energy into the vine, and began to train it to retract.
It is good to nourish the spiritual plants of a mountain or even a peak with spiritual energy, and become a doctor who saves people or a wholesaler of medicinal materials who raises the price at will, but it is more interesting to use the characteristics of various plants to prevent wood spiritual roots from becoming the symbol of peace.
The main peak of Jianfeng is Wujian Mountain.
Tingyan got up from the warm jade bed and casually tied up his loose hair.
The forced separation of his soul had caused considerable damage to his body, so he went into seclusion immediately after returning from registering with Yuan Zhi. He casually calculated that more than a month had passed.
After such a long time, there should be some progress on the emotional issue.
He left the cave wearing a cloak. Wujian Mountain is the main peak of the largest Jianfeng Mountains. The snow on the top of the mountain never melts all year round, so it is somewhat cold.
Previously, Uncle Wu Dong advised him to build another warmer cave, but he refused. Such a place is most suitable for practicing sword and enlightenment. Besides, his cold disease is not caused by the climate. When the cave was broken, the cold air entered his body and spread across his meridians, which has long been difficult to get rid of. Therefore, why should he care about winter and spring in the mountains.
On the wide stone platform, the young man in black was like an ink sword, the sword marks he left behind were like ink marks, and his strokes were as graceful as dragons and snakes, and as light as a startled wild goose.
Tingyan lowered his eyes, and the fine snow fell on his eyelashes, adding a hint of coldness to his handsome face.
He asked, "Why are you still here?"
I examine myself three times a day: Have I noticed the emotional calamity, have I talked to the emotional calamity, and have I resolved the emotional calamity?
Yuan Zhi stopped and thought he was talking nonsense and asked, "If not here, where should I be?"
Ting Yan smiled: "Don't tell me you've been practicing sword for the past month."
Yuan Zhi: "That's not it, I'm still meditating and practicing."
A gust of cold wind blew by, and a pine tree on the top of the mountain was cut in half, and snow rolled down.
Tingyan coughed lightly a few times, his cheeks pale.
At this moment, his mood reached a strange consensus with 01, whom he didn't know, what on earth was this thing doing.
Ting Yan reminded: "Didn't you go to see Love Tribulation? Don't forget your business."
He didn't need Yuan Zhi to help him through cultivation. He separated him just to overcome the tribulation.
You say that the person belongs to him, but you do nothing and just wait for him to run away?
"I want to ask him to go to the secret realm, but I'm not strong enough to protect him."
Yuan Zhi didn't know what Ting Yan was talking about. Of course he wanted to see him and was trying to ask him out. Otherwise, how could he start a conversation?
Ting Yan took a look at Yuan Zhi's cultivation level, probably at the sixth level of Qi training, which was enough to enter the initial secret realm of the Qi training period. As long as he didn't go to dangerous places... No, he should go to dangerous places, otherwise how could he show his deep friendship.
Ting Yan casually caught a snowflake and injected it into Yuan Zhi's body, and said, "That's enough. Take him to Tingyuan Realm. There is a Wuqing grass in the east. He should like it."
Yuan Zhi knew that he had a sword energy stored in his body, so he didn't say much. He put away the sword neatly and walked out, his back showing anxiety.
At Yunwu Mountain, Lin Zhi readily agreed to Yuan Zhi's invitation and went to the Deacon Hall with him.
Tingyuan Realm is a small secret realm within Guiyi Sect, used for disciples who practice Qi to complete tasks.
Yuan Zhi, who is in the Qi training stage, is not yet able to fly with a sword, so he uses the cranes raised on the Beast Peak to get around. Lin Zhi does the same.
"Lin Zhi! Yuan Zhi! Are you guys coming to do the mission too? Do you want to join us?"
As soon as Lin Zhi walked in, she heard Xi Tongying's voice.
Yuan Zhi was about to refuse when he heard Lin Zhi say, "Okay."
Yuan Zhi's face fell, somewhat reluctant.
Lin Zhi noticed his expression and kept smiling.
The mind of the young man, who was made up of only one soul and one spirit, was too simple. He didn't know that many people in this world, especially the ones he admired, could not be seen whenever he wanted, nor could he be alone whenever he wanted.
Since it's a love disaster, how can it be so easy to succeed?
And based on their current superficial relationship, are they very familiar with each other?
"We have registered with the sign and are waiting for you."
Xi Tongying pointed to the wooden sign on the wall. She and Ji Jiao both became disciples of a master at Jianfeng. This time, their task was to bring back materials from the monsters.
Yuan Zhi took the top card in the Tingyuan Realm mission, and Lin Zhi picked it up and chose the mission of forty spiritual herbs.
According to the distribution map in the "Book of All Spirits", there are a total of forty spiritual plants of five kinds, which are spread throughout the Qi training period of Tingyuan Realm, suitable for him to explore and see.
During the registration, the young disciple from the Steward's Hall reminded Yuan Zhi, "The Twin Snakes are the most powerful monsters in the easternmost part of the Tingyuan Realm. Last time, the senior sister who was about to establish her foundation failed in the mission of this snake fang."
I heard that the original realm only allows cultivators below the foundation-building stage to enter. Even cultivators who are one step away from building the foundation can fall down, which shows how difficult it is. The disciple at the ninth level of Qi training saw that Yuan Zhi was at the sixth level of cultivation and couldn't help but admonish him.
Yuan Zhi said with satisfaction: "Well, this is it."
He originally wanted to get the most powerful one, and this thing was on the easternmost side, which was perfect.
He turned to look at Lin Zhi and said, "There is some Wuqing grass in the east. I picked some and gave it to you."
Wujian Mountain, Tingyan wiped away the water mirror with an expressionless face.
He began to think seriously about Yuan Zhi's brain structure. He hinted that he should be a hero and save the beauty, not a flower-stealing thug.
He remembered that he was separating the souls of love and hate. Why didn't he understand even such a simple thing?
It’s better to explain it more clearly next time, Tingyan rubbed his eyebrows and lit the water mirror again.
The mirror reflected the young man's sparkling eyes. He was clearly smiling, but he uttered words of rejection.
"No merit, no reward. No need."
Yuan Zhi was puzzled, and he said: "But I like you, so I give it to you."
Ting Yan subconsciously moved the water mirror and stared at the young man's face, not missing any change.
The young man didn't seem surprised at all, and his expression didn't change at all, but his eyes, which had softened a little, showed his joy in subtle ways, adding a bit of tenderness.
"That's why I can't accept it. I don't want to take advantage of my friend."
What beautiful eyes, what ruthless lips.
Ting Yan thought, this is indeed a love tribulation, it is hard to be tempted by it just by looking at it.
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