Chapter 7 Why can Junior Brother eat meat?!
Several days later.
As everyone was eating in the dining room, a tall, slender man walked in.
Ye Luo looked up and saw that he was dressed in plain clothes. His handsome face had deep and three-dimensional features, and his angular face had a rugged look as if it had been carved by a knife and axe.
"Senior Brother, you're done with your seclusion!" Cen Feng dropped the steamed bun in his hand and rushed over to give him a bear hug.
Nan Muyin smiled and patted his shoulder, "Alright, look what this is?"
"Snow Spirit Fruit!"
"Take it and eat it."
"Hehe, thank you, Senior Brother! I'm almost dying from eating Second Senior Sister's terrible cooking these past few days."
"You little rascal, you're the one who eats the most every day!"
Yu Xian'er came out with the bowl and chopsticks, glared angrily at Cen Feng, and looked behind Nan Muyin, "Where are Third Junior Sister and Fourth Junior Brother?"
"Fourth Junior Brother has returned to his cave. Third Junior Sister said she's going to the market to buy some things and will be back later."
At this moment, Nan Muyin saw Ye Luo and asked with a warm smile, "And this is...?"
Cen Feng: "He's Master's newly accepted junior brother!"
Ye Luo stood up, bowed, and said, "Greetings, Senior Brother. My name is Ye Luo."
"No need for formalities." Nan Muyin waved her hand, looked him over, and asked, "You have a pseudo-spiritual root? What path do you cultivate?"
Ye Luo paused for a moment and then said, "The Dao of Alchemy."
"oh."
Seeing Nan Muyin frown, Ye Luo roughly guessed what he was thinking, so he tentatively asked, "Senior Brother... is my aptitude unsuitable for alchemy cultivation?"
Seeing the worry on his face, Nan Muyin patted his head and comforted him, "It's not that... If you put in ten times more effort than others in the future, you can still become a great alchemist."
"..."
Ye Luo's lips twitched. Was this a veiled criticism of him?
Nan Muyin took out five spirit fruits from her storage bag. "These are Spirit Condensation Fruits. Take them; they'll be good for you."
Spirit Condensation Fruit?
Looking at the fruit in his hand that contained spiritual power, Ye Luo recalled that Bai Ruoqian in the original story had painstakingly killed a level two demon beast in one of the secret realms to obtain only one Spirit Condensation Fruit. Now, however, he was generously giving her five.
Looking at his senior brother whom he was meeting for the first time, a warm feeling seemed to flow through his heart. "This is what you earned through your hard work, senior brother. I think I should accept it."
Although Ye Luo was saying that, her eyes were fixed on the spiritual fruit in his hand, and she swallowed her saliva as she smelled the sweet aroma.
Nan Muyin laughed heartily, "It's not hard work at all. I just picked these casually. I should have picked more if I had known."
You just picked it casually?!
Seeing Ye Luo standing there in a daze, Nan Muyin placed the Spirit Condensation Fruit in his hand. "I'm already at the Nascent Soul stage, so this fruit is useless to me. But it's incredibly effective for those with shallow cultivation. Take it!"
Ye Luo looked at the spiritual fruit in her hand and chuckled, "Then I'll accept it without hesitation. Thank you, Senior Brother!"
"Remember to meditate and cultivate after you finish eating. When you reach the sixth level of Qi cultivation, I will teach you basic techniques. Even alchemists cannot neglect the cultivation of techniques."
"Okay!"
At this moment, Yu Xian'er walked in and said softly, "Senior Brother, Master requests your presence here, saying he has something important to discuss."
"Okay, sure." Nan Muyin stuffed the spirit stone bag into her hand, smiled, and strode away.
Yu Xian'er gripped the bag tightly in her hand, a smile playing on her lips, her beautiful eyes filled with tenderness.
Ye Luo was somewhat surprised when she saw this scene. Could the two of them actually be a couple?
He tried hard to recall the original work, and it seemed that there was no description of their love until the two of them died one after the other. So, villains and cannon fodder are not worth much ink?
Ye Luo gripped the spiritual fruit in her hand, frowning as she fell into deep thought.
He returned to his cave, jumped onto the rock in the center of the spiritual spring, sat cross-legged and ate a Spirit Condensation Fruit. The sweet and delicious fruit contained spiritual power, and he closed his eyes to begin cultivating his Qi.
With the help of the spiritual spring, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, directly breaking through two levels to reach the third level of the Qi Refining stage.
Ye Luo exhaled a breath of stale air, feeling much more refreshed. "Indeed, the spiritual fruit is a good thing. No wonder so many people risk their lives to fight for it."
It's just a pity that his meridians are somewhat fragile, so he can't take another one.
"Forget it, haste makes waste. Let's eat it tomorrow."
Over the next few days, Ye Luo stayed in her cave to cultivate, and her cultivation level quickly reached the fifth level of the Qi Refining stage.
During this time, he also went to the library and took some books on basic talismans and formations.
The more he studied and researched, the more he felt the mystery of array formations, and his interest in it became even stronger than that in alchemy and talisman making.
However, there were many key points that he couldn't grasp at all, and he only had a superficial understanding of them.
"I'll need to ask someone for guidance next time..."
After cultivating for a long time, Ye Luo got up and stretched his body. When he walked to the cave entrance, he saw food again.
He picked up the small basket, lifted the white cloth covering it, and inside was a roasted chicken. "Wow, it smells so good!"
He was a little puzzled. These days, his second senior sister had been sending him roasted rabbit, roasted fish, roasted duck, etc. Almost every meal was meat. Could it be that the sect had become prosperous?
After devouring a whole roasted chicken in no time, Ye Luo let out a satisfied burp, sprawled on the rock, and gazed at the night view above the courtyard. "Beautiful scenery and delicious food are the joys of life. I don't understand why anyone would want to fast!"
Thinking that he hadn't seen her for several days, and that his second senior sister had been bringing him food, how could he not thank such a warm and considerate older sister in person?
He sprang up with a swift movement, grabbed his small basket, and left the cave. On the way, he encountered a kind-hearted senior brother who was sweeping the steps, muttering to himself.
"Hehe, if I sweep all these steps, I can eat three more steamed buns today."
"..." Indeed, there are also those who are good for nothing in the cultivation world.
When Ye Luo arrived at the dining hall, she only saw Cen Feng. "Good morning, Fifth Senior Brother!"
"Wow, you've reached the fifth level of Qi Refining! Congratulations!"
Ye Luo's face showed a smug look, and he said, "Hehe, thanks to Senior Brother's Spirit Condensation Fruit and the pills given by Second Senior Sister."
"Huh? Senior Brother, where are Second Senior Sister and the others?"
Cen Feng took a bite of his steamed bun and said indistinctly, "It seems that Senior Brother has gone out on business, and Second Senior Sister went into seclusion to form her core a few days ago."
"Second Senior Sister has gone into seclusion?"
Ye Luo looked puzzled and pointed to the basket on the table, "Then who delivered the roast chicken yesterday?"
Upon hearing this, Cen Feng swallowed a mouthful of steamed bun. "What roast chicken?!"
Seeing his surprised look, Ye Luo continued, "Yeah, it seems like the day before yesterday it was roasted rabbit, and the day before that it was roasted fish..."
Cen Feng looked aggrieved and threw the half-eaten steamed bun in his hand at the stove. "Fourth Senior Brother, you've gone too far!"
Fourth Senior Brother? Feng Yue?
Ye Luo stood up and looked in that direction, and saw a person wearing a black cloak timidly peeking half of their body out from under the stove.
This person is actually the future Demon Lord Feng Yue, but his temperament doesn't seem to match at all.
"Why does Junior Brother get to eat meat while I have to eat steamed buns every day!" Cen Feng demanded angrily.
"Junior Brother... He's still young and growing, so he needs to get enough nutrition. Fifth Junior Brother, don't be upset... I'll go to the mountains later to hunt some game for you."
"Hmph! That's more like it!"
Ye Luo was astonished, never expecting that the person who secretly delivered his meals every day was actually his fourth senior brother, whom he had never met before.
And all that meat... was it all hunted by him in the mountains?
But that's understandable. The sect is so poor, how could they afford to eat meat every day?
Thinking of this, Ye Luo felt a surge of warmth in his heart. In his previous life, he lived in an interstellar orphanage, where almost everyone ignored him. No one had ever done anything so kind for him.
Ye Luo's nose tingled with emotion as she walked towards Feng Yue, "Fourth Senior Brother, thank you—"
But before he could finish speaking, a blurry figure darted out the door and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"..."
Ye Luo looked at the still-shaking door and asked Cen Feng with a puzzled expression, "Fourth Senior Brother... what's wrong with him?"
Cen Feng picked up some pickled vegetables from the plate. "Oh, it's nothing. It's an old problem of his. He's just afraid of seeing people."
"Afraid of meeting people?" Ye Luo's lips twitched. So this fourth senior brother was actually a social phobia?
Several days later.
Ye Luo, who was cultivating, received a transmission talisman from her master and hurriedly rushed to the council hall.
As soon as I entered, I saw a woman in red sitting on a chair with her legs crossed, sipping tea. She looked to be about twenty years old, with delicate and beautiful features. A red ribbon tied her black hair up high, and she exuded a heroic and spirited aura.
"Oh, this must be Junior Brother?" The girl in red rushed over and gave Ye Luo a bear hug, so tight that Ye Luo's eyes rolled back and he could barely breathe.
Seeing Ye Luo's distressed state, Nan Muyin reminded her, "Third Junior Sister, let go quickly!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Qianling put him down on the ground. Seeing that his face was flushed and his eyes were bloodshot, he said apologetically, "Hehe, I'm sorry, I got too excited for a moment. Please don't be offended, junior brother!"
Ye Luo calmed his breathing a few times and looked at his third senior sister, Yu Qianling. Her enthusiasm was a bit overwhelming for him.
"Ye Luo greets Third Senior Sister!"
"Alright, alright, I'll take you to fight from now on!"
"You brat, you can go off to do whatever you want, but don't lead him astray!" Ming Cang scolded.
"Hehe, Master, I just wanted to take my junior brother out for some training."
Sure enough, just as described in the book, this girl, though a woman, was no less capable than any man, and was a well-known battle maniac in the cultivation world.
Before long, everyone except the second senior sister who was in seclusion had arrived.
Ye Luo looked at her fourth senior brother sitting in the corner in the distance. She had finally seen his physical form these past few days, but his face was still covered by a black hood.
Just how severe is this guy's social anxiety?
Ming Cang glanced at his disciples. "Alright, I called you all here today because I just received news from the Immortal Alliance that the Spirit Mansion Forbidden Ground will open in half a month. We've only been given three spots. You guys discuss who's the most suitable to go."
Forbidden Land of the Spirit Realm?
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