Beast Taming·Chapter 7: Wood Spirit Doll
Ye Yier supported Shi Yan and walked with difficulty. Shi Yan, a 7-foot-tall man, enjoyed putting more than 60 kilograms of weight on Ye Yier, making her stare and groan in pain. But when she saw Shi Yan's clothes stained with blood, she felt guilty and endured it.
At this moment, Ye Yier's emotions were complicated and difficult to describe. Gratitude, guilt, worry, fear, etc. were mixed together like a colorless paste. However, the unhappiness and disgust she had felt before disappeared completely, without any trace left.
With great difficulty, he dragged Shi Yan into Ziyuan Pavilion and asked him to sit on a chair. "Huh." Ye Yier wiped the sweat off her face and sat aside, breathing heavily.
Shi Yan glanced at her and sighed deliberately, "A woman should be graceful when she is quiet, like a beautiful flower reflecting in the water, and be as gentle as a willow in the wind when she moves. How can there be someone like you who is even rougher than a man, panting like a cow, and has lost her elegance!"
Ye Yier glared at him, rolled her eyes and panted, "I don't want to bother with you, your ideas are conservative and outdated, and you can't keep up with the pace of the times! Our minds are liberated, there is no restraint, this is called true nature!"
Shi Yan laughed, not understanding what she said, and smiled. He called a boy and asked, "Is the Second Uncle in the pavilion?" These boys were all cultivators, with low cultivation levels. They did some labor and odd jobs in Ziyuan Pavilion to earn spirit stones and the opportunity to enter Huajian Sect. Every year, dozens of people in Huajian Sect were accepted as outer disciples, and most of them were selected from these cultivators.
"Brother, Grandmaster Uncle is here. He is counting the goods in the warehouse." The boy said respectfully. Even these boys have heard of Caihualang's name.
"Well, I have a message from Senior Sister Mingxiang here, which I want to give to my uncle. Please lead the way." Shi Yan stood up leisurely, stretched his waist, and brushed off the dust on his clothes. He also deliberately glanced at Ye Yier.
Seeing that he was fine and full of energy, Ye Yier was so angry that she wanted to pick up a chair and smash him. However, she still endured it and turned her head to snort coldly.
Shi Yan smiled dumbly, and suddenly remembered the injured man at the door. He quickly instructed the boy, "I almost forgot, there is an injured person lying outside the door. Hurry up and bring him in to treat him. We in Huajian Sect put benevolence first, and saving the dying and the wounded is our duty."
"Okay, senior brother." After saying that, he called two boys over and gave them instructions, then took Shi Yan to the warehouse.
"Wait for me here." Shi Yan said to Ye Yier and followed the boy in.
After passing through the lobby and descending the spiral staircase behind the inner hall, there were many restrictions along the way. The restrictions were numerous and complex, comparable to a protective formation. Shi Yan followed the boy to the warehouse of Ziyuan Pavilion. The door of the warehouse was more than two people tall, made of pure jade, and carved with complex patterns. It looked like another extremely powerful restriction.
The boy stood by the door and tapped the wooden sign hanging by the door. Shi Yan saw that the wooden sign was engraved with a complicated sound transmission array diagram, and there was a sound transmission insect on the center of the array. He was stunned and calculated in his mind: "It is worthy of being the territory of the second uncle! The market price of a sound transmission insect is ten second-grade spirit stones, and the value of this sound transmission insect is probably doubled. It is really extravagant to use it to make a wooden communication sign at the door. I am afraid there will not be only one such insect in Ziyuan Pavilion." Shi Yan was secretly shocked and wanted to take down the insect. I believe that no one will notice if he takes down one or two.
A child's voice came from the wooden voice transmission board: "Who is it?"
The boy said quickly, "It's me. Senior Brother Shiyan said he had a letter from Senior Sister Mingxiang to give to Grandmaster Uncle."
"Got it, wait a moment."
The carved patterns on the jade door glowed like a snake, and then disappeared in a flash. The jade door slowly opened. The boy stood aside and said to Shi Yan, "Brother, please come in. The Grandmaster is inside."
"Okay." Shi Yan nodded and walked into the Jade Gate. The boy stayed outside and did not follow him in. With the boy's level, he could not enter.
There was a little girl waiting behind the Jade Gate. When she saw Shi Yan coming in, she hurriedly came forward and said respectfully, "Senior Brother."
"kindness."
"The Grandmaster is inside, please follow me." The female cultivator bowed slightly and led the way.
The people in the sect are what these young cultivators look up to. Every young cultivator wants to enter the sect to practice the formal mental method. Although they also practice mental methods, those without background can only practice the wild methods passed down by their parents. Although the practice is similar, there are many confusions in the mental method. Without a teacher to solve the confusion, it is difficult to practice. Teachers are almost impossible to find outside the major sects and monasteries. So entering a sect is what these young cultivators desire most.
Therefore, even a loser like Shi Yan who is unable to practice is so high in their eyes.
Just like how the inner and outer sects of a sect view the inner sect.
Shi Yan followed the female cultivator. It was his first time to come to the warehouse of Ziyuan Pavilion, so he was a little curious. From outside, he couldn't see how spacious it was. It was just an underground stone house. But once he entered the jade gate, he was stunned. The hall behind the door was like an underground square. Rows of neat shelves were filled with jade boxes and bottles, filled with spiritual materials and elixirs. In the corner, there were more than a hundred large boxes, piled up like a small mountain, with seals on them, marking the items inside. There were golden bell treasure clothes, green-mouthed flying swords, exquisite treasure temples, beast-taming saddles and other magic weapons.
Next to the box is a small hill of spiritual grains, several times taller than the mountain of boxes. This can also be considered a kind of sect reserve. After all, in times of disaster, only spiritual grains are the greatest guarantee for survival. I believe there are more in the warehouse of Huajian Sect, and this is just the tip of the iceberg!
After passing through a door formed by a water curtain, the temperature suddenly dropped, the air was filled with chill, and the female nun couldn't help but shiver.
This is the place where cold-attributed spiritual beasts and spiritual materials and magic weapons are placed. The cold air emitted by countless cold-attributed things gather together, layer by layer, and the properties are multiplied, forming the current situation. Even for the female cultivators who have better cultivation and are selected to work in the warehouse, they can still feel the bone-chilling cold.
Seeing Shi Yan following behind as if nothing had happened, she couldn't help but become curious. It was said that Shi Yan, the flower collector, was born useless, and his cultivation level was only at the third level of Huamai, not as high as hers. But now it seemed that it was not completely as she had heard. Or did Senior Brother Shi Yan have a breakthrough recently or was he just hiding his abilities?
Shi Yan naturally didn't know what the female cultivator in front of him was thinking. Even if he knew, he was in no mood to care at this moment. At this moment, Shi Yan was stunned by the situation in his body. Shi Yan felt that the surrounding cold air was being absorbed into his body at an astonishing speed. He felt that there was a gas in his body that was slowly changing. The place that was originally empty actually had a sand-sized air mass.
Perhaps this air mass has always been there, but Shi Yan had selectively ignored it until it was discovered at this moment when it absorbed the surrounding cold air. He tried to control this sand-sized air mass, originally just to give it a try, but he didn't expect the air mass to really move according to Shi Yan's thoughts.
Shi Yan was extremely excited. It was not that he had not thought about controlling the coldness in his body, but every time he felt like a mouse pulling a turtle, he had no idea where to start. Once his mind probed into it, it was as if it was frozen forever. But this time, it started to work, and it absorbed the surrounding coldness to strengthen itself. However, Shi Yan also had a little doubt and a little worry in his heart. Doubt, because this was the first time he had discovered this situation. He had not felt this way when he was in the Ice and Snow Cave, which was ten thousand times colder than here. Worry, because he didn't know whether this situation was good or bad.
At this time, Shi Yan followed the female cultivator through the fire door and came to another room. The temperature suddenly rose, the cold retreated, and turned into a raging heat wave. "Brother, the Grandmaster is just ahead."
Shi Yan suddenly woke up from his contemplation and smiled bitterly. Not being able to practice is the worst situation. Is there anything worse than this in the world? For Shi Yan, there is obviously no worse situation than this.
This room, like the previous one, is a place dedicated to storing spiritual beast items with specific attributes.
Behind a row of imprisoned fire-attributed spirit beasts, a woman in green silk was counting the goods. That was the Second Master's Uncle. Shi Yan didn't know what the Second Master's Uncle was called. After he came to Huajian Sect, he only knew that the Second Master's Uncle was the Second Master's Uncle, and didn't know her real name. He also asked Mingxiang privately, but Mingxiang didn't know the Second Master's Uncle's real name either. She just said that she had accidentally heard the head of the sect respectfully call her Aunt Hua.
"I am a guest of the outer sect, Shi Yan, and I am entrusted by Senior Sister Mingxiang to deliver a letter to my uncle." Shi Yan handed over the letter respectfully.
Second Uncle Master put away the recording board in his hand and said with a smile: "Shi Yan? I know you. You are very famous in the sect. Work hard. The sect will not treat unfairly those who have made contributions to the sect."
"Disciple understands. Disciple will do the best he can." Second Uncle-Master waved his hand, and Shi Yan suddenly felt his hands empty. The letter suddenly rose up and floated into Second Uncle-Master's hands.
The Second Uncle Master ordered, "Well, the letter has been delivered. Go to the tent hall to get ten first-grade spirit stones. Go down."
"Yes." Shi Yan stepped back, feeling happy in his heart. He earned ten spirit stones by delivering a letter. This was a good deal. In normal work, finding hundreds of spirit flowers and herbs would only cost about 20 to 30 first-grade spirit stones, but running errands would earn him nearly one-third of that. It seemed that the difference between working for the uncles and the tasks of the disciples was not ordinary. This was a smooth road!
After receiving the spirit stone,
Pleasant.
When he returned to the hall, he saw Ye Yier still with a pale face and shaking hands, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried. He originally wanted to take her out to relax today, but he didn't expect that what happened next would scare her. Although he deliberately teased her to divert her attention in order to comfort her, it didn't seem to have much effect at the moment. Seeing her pale face, Shi Yan felt guilty.
Forget it, forget it, just spend money this time!
Shi Yan endured the pain and spent fifty first-grade spirit stones to buy a wooden spirit puppet. The wooden spirit puppet is a kind of puppet machine, carved from spirit wood, with joints that can swing at will, a magic circle engraved on the back, and spirit stones inlaid to provide energy, which can make it move autonomously.
"I bought you something fun, just as a gift for you." Shi Yan took out a first-grade spirit stone and embedded it into the magic circle behind the wooden spirit doll, and placed it on the table in front of Ye Yier. The doll stood up shakily, doing all kinds of funny and funny movements in a dull manner.
"Puff." Ye Yier watched the puppet's movements and finally couldn't help laughing. Her pale face regained its rosy color. Suddenly, it was like the sunshine in spring, making everything around bright. Inspired by it, Shi Yan couldn't help laughing, and the heartache of spending the spirit stone disappeared without a trace in his smile.
Ye Yier grabbed the wooden spirit doll that was moving stiffly. The doll was a little rough, with some fluff and sawdust on the corners, and the joints were a little twisted. It was obviously not a high-end product. But Ye Yier was very happy. This was the first gift she received after coming to this world, and it was so magical.
She looked at the face of the wooden spirit doll and couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh: "This person is so ugly!"
Shi Yan was suddenly extremely embarrassed. The wooden spirit dolls on the shelf had no faces. Only after they were sold would the doll carver carve the faces requested by the customers. When he bought the doll, he kept urging the doll carver because he was worried about Ye Yier. He didn't expect that the doll carver was so troublesome that he actually carved his own face on it.
But if you really want to carve it, at least carve it properly. If it's carved like a crooked melon or a bad date, it really tarnishes his handsome face!
"If you don't want it, give it back to me." Shi Yan reached out to grab it, "I'm going to ask the boss to return the money. Isn't this cheating consumers?"
Ye Yier's reaction was faster than his, and she hid the wooden spirit doll. "Humph, how can you take back something you gave away?"
"You know it was given by me, but you still insult me like this." Shi Yan complained, "I'll go get you a better one."
"What I said is true. This person is not only ugly, but also wretched. Hehe." Ye Yier glanced at Shi Yan, as if making a comparison, and giggled, "I want this one, stupid and foolish. Next time you bully me, I will bully him!"
Completely defeated, Shi Yan could only cry out to heaven and earth, "Women are so rude."