"What?" Wuchen Daoist's face turned cold and then ashen. His lips parted slightly, then closed again.
Liu Luolan slapped her thigh hard and said decisively, "Cultivation! The Martial King drove us out of the Cloud Mist Mountains and even wanted to kill us all! How can we let him have his way! We must kill him and take back the Ruthless Sect!"
After she finished speaking, Huan Qingsha's face turned ashen, and she gasped in pain as her fair thigh swelled up. This was because Liu Luolan had slapped her thigh.
Huan Qingsha wanted nothing more than to hug her thigh and cry.
Li Xiaoyao remained calm and said composedly, "Only by eliminating the bandits can we return to our hometown."
Ye Tian agreed. To return to the Cloud Mist Mountains, one must have the strength to defeat a Martial King. If one cannot defeat this expert at the peak of the twelfth level of the Golden Immortal realm, there is no way to return.
Now, Gu Shi, a mere Grand Luo Golden Immortal at the first level, whose sea of consciousness was half shattered, almost crippled Ye Tian. If his cultivation level doesn't improve, how can he defeat a Martial King?
Intensive training must be conducted in a planned manner.
There's a saying that sharpening your axe won't delay your work. Before embarking on a planned cultivation journey, Ye Tian must first lay the foundation for the Ruthless Sect. Even within the academy, they need a spirit-gathering array of their own.
The Spirit Gathering Array was already an old piece of equipment for Ye Tian, so setting it up was a piece of cake for him.
Ye Tian, with his junior brother Su Muchen assisting, easily used a spirit-gathering array to surround the back mountain territory where the Ruthless Sect was temporarily residing. With the array here, the cultivation speed would definitely increase threefold.
Formations alone are not enough.
If breaking through with just formations were enough, reaching the Immortal Realm wouldn't be so difficult.
The Immortal Realm is known for its constant bottlenecks; progress is as difficult as ascending to heaven. Ye Tian's rapid advancement is already legendary in the history of cultivation. This achievement could only be attained through extraordinary abilities.
However, Ye Tian was still not satisfied, as reaching the second level of the Golden Immortal realm was too slow.
The only way to rapidly improve a sect's speed is through alchemy and the use of elixirs. Any other method is virtually impossible.
Although the Hanlin Academy is located in a prime location, its back mountain is rarely open to the public. Therefore, this place, shrouded in mist, is actually quite sparsely populated.
Ye Tian first went down the mountain to meet someone.
Of course, it's Kong Chan. He has to discuss it with the dean and seek some herbal remedies.
The Ten-Ingredient Tonic Pill contains Bezoar Extract and Ancient Spirit Gathering Root.
These three types of herbs are extremely rare for Ye Tian in alchemy. Only by gathering all of them can Ye Tian possibly refine a medicinal herb that can dramatically increase the cultivation speed of the entire sect.
He's too slow now, so he has no choice but to ask the academy's dean, Kong Chan, for help.
Given the academy's control over the bookstore and its abundant inventory, the problem should be easily solved.
Ye Tian said very seriously, "Dean Kong, if we can get your help, it will be very easy to gather these herbs. Otherwise, it will be difficult for our sect to survive in this turmoil."
He said these things to Kong Chan, and he said them with such emotion.
To Kong Chan, it sounded like a single sentence: "Old man, it's time to invest more!"
Kong Chan frowned, a helpless look on his face, and complained, "Ye Tian, it's not that the academy doesn't want to help you. It's just that although our academy can control the lifeline of the book city, we can't be too wasteful of resources and manpower. We just gathered the masses to find medicinal herbs to heal your injuries, and now we want to find these strange medicinal herbs again. This is really not in line with the academy's principles."
Ye Tian listened carefully from beginning to end and realized that the old man had essentially said one thing: There's no money coming in, and forget about any further investment. Give up.
Fortunately, Ye Tian had encountered this situation countless times before. In his previous life, he only did one thing: cater to their preferences. He would do the same in this life.
What could impress Kong Chan of the academy? Poetry, of course.
Ye Tian tapped the table with one finger and looked into Kong Chan's study. On the wall hung a painting: a horse, swift as the wind, galloping like snow. Beside it was a couplet written in beautiful regular script.
The characters were written with the fluidity of a coiled dragon and the strength of a pine tree, conveying a powerful sense of sinewiness. Unfortunately, even someone like Ye Tian, who was unfamiliar with poetry, could tell that the poem was utterly unremarkable and utterly mediocre.
Ye Tian chuckled and said, "Dean Kong's study is missing a piece of calligraphy. It's also missing a poem."
These suggestive words caught Kong Chan's eye, and he certainly couldn't resist such temptation. What an honor it would be to have a poem, originally written by Ye Tian and personally composed, hanging in his study! And if he could then call over Chen Zhang and Chen Dexing, those two old fogies, to show it off, wouldn't he become a true winner in life?
Kong Chan swallowed hard, his heart pounding, and asked, "Can you really sing another one?"
It wasn't that he didn't believe in Ye Tian's abilities; no one dared to underestimate his skill in poetry and prose, which was enough to call him a master of his generation.
He only wrote one poem recently, and if Ye Tian were asked to write another one today, even with his exceptional talent, it would likely raise doubts.
"With herbs, we can write," Ye Tian stated decisively.
It's not that these poems by famous figures from the past can't be copied, but rather that they should be copied to realize their proper value. It's wrong to copy a timeless classic without gaining any benefit, simply to show off. That doesn't align with Ye Tian's profit-driven values.
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