Chapter 38 Chapter 38 Shock
Yun Miao's eyes widened: "Mr. Tian, you are deliberately playing tricks on me?"
"I told you to call me uncle, no matter how old or young you are."
Tian Laokou gave a mild reprimand, then changed the subject: "I heard everything you said just now. Mo Aotian's epiphany was because of you, right?"
"If I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I wouldn't have believed those words came from you. I never thought that besides deliberately eating grass to frame me, you actually possessed such great wisdom. In a flash, you helped Mo Aotian break through the miasma that had plagued him for so many years, giving him an instant enlightenment."
It's just that this kind of wisdom really doesn't seem like something that a human brain can come up with, and she calls herself Master Yun or something, which makes him think that she is possessed by an old monster that hates humans.
"Does this count as great wisdom? Actually, it's not that bad. I helped Tan Xiaobai resolve his emotional issues before, and he also had an epiphany and broke through from the fourth level of Qi Refining to the fifth level."
Yun Miao looked at Tian Laokou with deliberate disdain: "Uncle Master, you must be very inexperienced, that's why you're making such a fuss."
Tian Laokou wasn't angry, but instead, some images flashed through his mind: "Yes, Yan'er told us before about how you helped someone gain enlightenment with just a few words on the immortal boat."
Because he didn't see it with his own eyes, he didn't remember it clearly. In addition, Yun Miao's silly look while chewing grass this morning was so vivid in his memory that he almost forgot about this precedent.
Thinking of this, Tian Laokou was completely relieved and looked at Yun Miao three times with an amazed look.
Just when Yun Miao was feeling uneasy because of Mr. Tian's staring, he suddenly waved his sleeves to close the door of the medicine room, then rubbed his hands and smiled flatteringly.
"That nephew... no, Master Yun, for the sake of our friendship over the years... for the past few days, why don't you also say a few words to your uncle?"
"I've been stuck in the Void Refining Stage for too long, and I've long wanted to break through to the Great Perfection Stage. Also, I want to refine my alchemy skills and refine a few furnaces of Ninth-grade Divine Pills, just to try and become an Alchemy Sage. Oh, and by the way, I've been having some trouble developing new pill recipes lately... And... I also want to improve the recipe for the Dead Tree Resurrection Pill..."
Xiao Hei stepped forward silently, trying to block Tian Laokou's steps, but unfortunately his body was too small. Even the short and stocky Tian Laokou could step over him with just one foot.
Yun Miao: "...Uncle Master, I am just your nephew in the Qi Refining Stage, not a turtle in the wishing pool."
Tian Laokou told her not to be modest, she was much more useful than the turtle in the Tianchi Lake of Zhaixing Pavilion!
Yun Miao raised his hand with a dark face and touched his disciple Ling: "Uncle Master, if you do this again, I will tell my master."
Tian Laokou was shocked and quickly begged her to put down his weapon and not to complain to the leader.
Yun Miao: "That Dead Tree Resurrection Pill sounds quite interesting."
Tian Laokou's face was full of pain: "...Okay, as long as you don't complain, I'll give you one."
Yun Miao: "One is too few."
"Too little? This is a sixth-grade pill that can bring back the dead, even just one is too much!"
Tian Lao glared, but when he saw Yun Miao was about to touch the disciple token on her waist again, he quickly softened: "Three, at most, three, any more and there will be no more, or you will take my life."
He was not afraid of being beaten. After all, the beatings from the head senior brother did not hurt him at all. He was just afraid that the head senior brother would be unhappy and deduct the funding applied for by Danfeng.
The large amounts of funding requested by the various branches of the sect required the simultaneous approval of both the sect leader and the elders of the deacon hall. If the sect leader was in seclusion, the elders of the deacon hall and the heads of the various branches would discuss the matter together.
He has been flattering his senior brother every day recently just to get him to agree to allocate more funds and rare treasures to him to research new pill formulas. He can't let this little monkey interfere.
Yun Miao naturally would not take Tian Laokou's life, so he happily put away the three sixth-grade Dead Tree Spring Pills and went upstairs with Xiao Hei in his arms.
Seeing that she was all dirty and was walking upstairs, Tian Laokou had no choice but to use a dust-removing technique to help her clean the dust and dead leaves on her body.
Yun Miao didn't notice this little change in herself at all. As she closed her eyes and chose to log off, the girl lying on the bamboo bed immediately fell into a deep sleep. Xiao Hei curled up beside her pillow, half of his body buried in the quilt, and also closed his eyes to rest.
Tian Laokou listened to the two breathing sounds upstairs gradually becoming longer and longer, and couldn't help but curl his lips: This man and this wolf are really heartless, they fell asleep so quickly.
Poor old man, he got beaten up by the head brother in the morning, and lost three sixth-grade pills in the evening. He was so heartbroken that he couldn't sleep at all. QAQ
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Yun Miao originally thought that he would see Mo Aotian waking up early the next morning, but he actually saw him lying there for nine whole days, and Niu Rao also protected him for nine whole days.
Good news: After the master learned that she had helped Mo Aotian to attain enlightenment, he was very happy with her friendly behavior towards her fellow disciples and specially approved that her punishment time be reduced from five months to three months.
The bad news: Mo Aotian was lying next to her vegetable patch, and in order not to disturb his enlightenment, Yun Miao had to find another empty plot far away and repeat the process of cultivating, sowing, and weeding.
In the afternoon, the scorching sun shone on the earth.
Yun Miao straightened up, wiped his sweat-free forehead, patted his waist, which didn't feel tired at all, and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally finished, I'm exhausted."
Xiao Hei controlled the wind to bring her a water bottle through the air. At that moment, Niu Rao's loud voice suddenly rang out from behind Yun Miao: "Thank you for your hard work, Junior Sister Yun. Very good, very good. You've made great progress compared to before. Look at this land... uh, it's so lively after being cultivated. And look at this land that's been sown... uh, it's so spacious. It's not crowded at all."
Niu Rao, who wanted to give praise, glanced at the crookedly cultivated vegetable field and the sparse seedlings, silently swallowed the flatness and neatness, and then praised the last item vigorously.
"And this time you finally didn't treat the seedlings as weeds and pulled them out. All the seedlings survived. That's fantastic! Congratulations, congratulations!"
Yun Miao, who was originally very satisfied with his own achievements, said: "...Brother Niu, if you praise me again, I will cry in front of you."
Niu Rao also realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly shut up.
Yun Miao took the floating water bottle and took a sip, then turned to look at Niu Rao and Mo Aotian, who had transformed into a human form: "Is the enlightenment over?"
Niu Rao nodded proudly: "It's over. Mo Aotian has directly broken through from the third level of the Golden Core to the sixth level! You know, the higher you go in cultivation, the harder it becomes. This sudden enlightenment has made him jump three levels. This is a great thing!"
Yun Miao raised the kettle and congratulated Mo Aotian.
"Thank you very much."
Mo Aotian walked up to Yun Miao and bowed to her solemnly.
"I haven't made any progress since breaking through the third level of the Golden Core Stage fifty years ago. It was you who showed me the way forward, and I always repay a favor. Didn't you want me to be your mount? I agreed. From now on, just call me with your disciple's token, and I'll be there at your beck and call."
Niu Rao was startled. "Mo Aotian, what did you say? What path? What mount?"
Mo Aotian actually wanted to be a human's mount? Was he crazy? Or was this world crazy?
Mo Aotian simply told Niu Rao what happened that night.
Niu Rao was stunned listening to this, his shock growing. It turned out that Mo Aotian's sudden enlightenment was due to Junior Sister Yun's words. A fifteen-year-old girl in the Qi Refining Stage could actually guide a Golden Core Stage cultivator to enlightenment!
Is this the amazing understanding that the Sect Leader and Peak Master talked about?
Yun Miao only thought for a second before decisively rejecting Mo Aotian's proposal.
"I have already made an appointment with a disciple from Qifeng in the Sky Region. Tomorrow I will bring the Seven-Colored Mysterious Heart Ore to Qifeng and ask that disciple to help forge it into a sword. Once it is forged, I can fly around on the Seven-Colored Flying Sword."
Who would want a pitch-black four-clawed dragon when she has a cool colorful flying sword? She wants other rewards now.
Upon hearing this, Mo Aotian immediately said that he had a lot of beautiful ores in his acupoints that he had collected before, such as Red Yang Iron, Black Iron, Nine Yin Cold Iron, Green Gold, Black Crystal... etc., which were all top-quality refining materials. He could give them all to Yun Miao, and then Yun Miao could discuss with the disciple from the Weapon Peak and pick out some materials that he liked and could use to melt into them.
Yun Miao's eyes lit up and he immediately agreed, and was very satisfied with this thank-you gift.
Seeing that she liked his collection so much, Mo Aotian couldn't help but feel proud. He asked Yun Miao to wait here for a while, and then flew quickly towards Lake Li.
A moment later, a pile of colorful, sparkling stones piled up into a small hill in front of Yun Miao.
Although most of the ores in his collection are not valuable because Mo Aotian is too young and has always collected according to his own preferences, the small amount of high-quality ores in them are still very precious.
Niu Rao was watching in amazement. Mo Aotian always liked to collect beautiful stones. After the fifty taels of gold, his cultivation level did not improve at all, and his habit became even more serious. Not only did he like to use those minerals to build a nest to hide himself, he also refused to let anyone touch them on weekdays. But now he gave them all away.
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Because Mo Aotian's realm was easily unstable after jumping three levels in a row after his enlightenment, Tian Laokou specially approved him to return to Li Lake to practice for half a month to stabilize his realm before coming back.
Yun Miao watched Mo Aotian fly away and looked at Tian Laokou suspiciously, asking why she didn't have this kind of vacation after two enlightenments. "Are you guys not deducting her vacation time?"
Elder Tian hid his hands in his sleeves and squinted at her. "If the spiritual power in your Dantian is compared to a small puddle, then the Dantian spiritual power of the Golden Core Stage is a vast river. Now that he has jumped three levels in a row, not only has the 'river' been widened, but the 'current' has also become more turbulent. He's going back now to dredge the water veins and calm the flow."
"And your little puddle is far from the point of alienation. So when you reach the Foundation Establishment Stage or the Golden Core Stage, come talk to me about a vacation. But remember not to rush for quick success. Otherwise, I won't care if you go astray."
Yun Miao nodded perfunctorily, then turned around and went back to her vegetable garden to continue working.
She was growing low-level fire chives, a very drought-tolerant and barren-resistant low-level spiritual plant with a high yield. As long as there was enough fire spiritual energy, she could quickly harvest one crop after another. At this rate, she would be ready to harvest in two days.
The farming mode in "Asking the Three Thousand Questions" is a little difficult in the early stage. As she gradually mastered the low-level Five Elements Technique, the Small Rain-Calling Technique, the Stone-Splitting Technique, the Vine-Promoting Technique... and other low-level spells, farming became much easier.
Yun Miao also gradually tasted the joy of the crops growing little by little and about to be harvested, and began to become addicted to farming.
Niu Rao thought she had forgotten her plan to go to Qifeng tomorrow, so he asked for leave for her and Tian Laokou.
Tian Laokou was still feeling sorry for his three Dead Wood Revival Pills. Upon hearing this, he immediately pulled his clothes and spoke in a pretentious tone.
"So, Junior-Junior Brother wants to ask for leave. Well... it's not that I can't agree to it, but... you know Danfeng has been very busy recently and is short of manpower... so..."
"stop."
Yun Miao said firmly, "Brother Niu made a mistake. I didn't intend to ask for leave, so Uncle Master, don't overthink it. I will definitely not spit out the meat I've eaten."
Tian Lao choked and turned to look at Niu Rao. Niu Rao frantically touched his horns in embarrassment and turned to look at Yun Miao: "Junior Sister Yun, but didn't you just say..."
Yun Miao said that she did have to go to Qifeng tomorrow, but she really didn't want to ask for leave. She planned to work all night to finish tomorrow's work, and then go out to play with her friends.
"no."
Tian Laokou immediately objected: "You're still growing, how can you go all day and night without rest, let alone working in the fields all the time? Even a cow can't do that much work. If you die of exhaustion, what will happen if the head brother and Shubai come to me? Where can I find another noisy monkey like you to compensate them?"
Niu Rao nodded seriously, indicating that even when he was in the Qi Refining Stage, he worked during the day and returned to the cowshed to rest at night. It was not until he reached the Golden Core Stage that his strength made a qualitative leap, and he had the powerful ability to farm day and night, all year round.
The honest-looking man frowned, his brows heavy with the unique sense of the land: "Junior Sister Yun, farming is a very serious matter and must be taken seriously."
Yun Miao: ...It seems that the rumors in the airspace are true. Senior Brother Niu is really an avid farming enthusiast.
No wonder he looked at the disciples in the fields with such focused and passionate eyes when he was supervising. She had thought that he wanted to whip them for any mistakes they made, but now she thought - it turned out that he was just envious of them for having land to farm.
Given Mr. Tian's stingy nature, shouldn't he have taken the opportunity to exploit Niu Rao to death? Why would he rather spend contribution points to hire disciples from other peaks to help than let Senior Brother Niu work in the fields?
She glanced at Niu Rao and Tian Laokou suspiciously, but did not ask. It was not that she did not want to ask, but because the last time she asked Niu Rao why he never went to the fields, he only responded with a long silence.
Her player radar told her that there was probably an important plot or side quest hidden behind this, and the NPC would never reveal a word to her until she met the triggering conditions.
"It's okay. I still have a lot of Huiling Pills that I bought from you, Senior Brother Niu, using my contribution points. I also have a lot of big meat buns that I bought from my uncle today. These are enough for me."
use?
Tian Laokou keenly caught Yun Miao's strange choice of words. He looked at Yun Miao suspiciously, but did not try to persuade him anymore.
"Well, since you insist on doing this, I won't try to persuade you. You can do whatever you want."
Seeing that he really turned around and left, Niu Rao hurried to follow him.
"Peak Master..."
Tian Laokou sent a telepathic message: "She must have been a bit too carried away by these two sudden realizations and the reputation of a genius, which is why she can't see her own strength clearly. Ha, children are so naive. Don't worry about her. When her back aches and legs cramp, she'll naturally stop and beg me for a day off, wiping her tears."
He imagined the scene of his usually unruly nephew begging him with tears in his eyes, and he immediately felt physically and mentally relaxed. But when he remembered the steamed buns that disappeared yesterday, his face darkened again.
He wasn't particular about food; his master had given him a meat bun when he saved him during the famine, and he'd fallen in love with it. Over the years, he'd perfected the art of making them, and he'd always make some to treat himself when he was tired from refining pills.
As a result, the three steamed buns that were just made this morning were all taken away by that naughty monkey before he even had a bite. Although she put some silver on the stove, what could ten taels of silver do?
Damn it! If this little brat doesn’t apologize to him later, he will definitely not give her a day off!
Tian Laokou thought that his plan was absolutely foolproof and that he could definitely win back a game against Yun Miao. However, as the sun set, he couldn't help but use his spiritual sense to scan the vegetable patch while he was refining the elixir.
Yun Miao was sitting on the ground, pointing his hands at the vegetable field, using the power of fire to ripen the chives.
It was getting dark.
Yun Miao began to use the Earth Control Technique to accurately crush the weeds that appeared.
The moon hangs above the treetops.
Yun Miao began to use the small rain-calling technique to lightly water the fire chives.
The stars began to twinkle.
Yun Miao sat on the ground again and began to use fire spiritual power to ripen the fruits...
Bang!
The massive brass cauldron on the first floor creaked with a muffled thud, and the elixir that was just one step away from condensing into a sixth-grade elixir became a fifth-grade elixir. Tian Laokou ignored the elixir swirling around in the cauldron, frowning and using his spiritual sense to look at Yun Miao.
She has been working in the fields all day. Doesn't she feel tired at all?
At this moment, Yun Miao stopped in the vegetable garden, took out a delicious three-dining bun from the storage bag, and started eating dinner with Xiao Hei, one by one. Then he took out a soul-restoring pill, swallowed it, and sat cross-legged to meditate to restore his spiritual power.
Mr. Tian frowned and relaxed. He said, how could he not be tired after working for so long? It seemed that the child was just pretending to be proud. He would probably come to him crying later... Wait, why is she starting to ripen the chives again?
Tian Laokou was so suspicious, shocked and incredulous that he watched Yun Miao repeat the actions of ripening, weeding, watering, eating, meditating, ripening again, weeding again...
The girl under the moon seemed tireless. She did not pause for a moment from beginning to end, and did not slow down at all. The originally sparse, thin and petite fire chive seedlings grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Tian Laokou's spiritual sense swept across her dantian again and again. He would never do this on ordinary days. It was normal to use spiritual sense to "look" at others, but using spiritual sense to scan other cultivators' purple palace, dantian and other vital points would inevitably give people a sense of being spied on and threatened.
But now he had to do so. Fortunately, the final result made him feel relieved. His nephew was still his good nephew, and his body was normal. He did not turn into an inexplicable farming puppet when he was not paying attention.
Through his divine sense, he could clearly see the fire spiritual power in Yun Miao's dantian constantly draining away, followed by earth spiritual power, water spiritual power, and occasionally she would use wood spiritual power to stimulate growth and gold spiritual power to weed. This cycle continued until all five spiritual powers were exhausted.
Like a sponge absorbing water, she would squeeze every drop out of it before swallowing the Soul-Restoring Pill to restore her spiritual power. Then, she would viciously squeeze it again until not a drop remained. She wouldn't squeeze it a second time, not leaving a single drop.
A normal cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage could indeed achieve this if he was willing to be ruthless, but it is human nature to be lazy and hate work, so most cultivators still advocate a combination of work and rest.
Not everyone can endure pushing themselves to the limit again and again, then meditating to recover, and then continuing to push themselves to the limit. This is not only physical torture, but also mental torture. Only people with great willpower can do it.
This style of training that squeezes out one's potential is quite popular among the Sword Peak and Body Peak, but only a few can actually stick to it.
Tian Laokou thought to himself that based on his understanding of the head senior brother and Shu Bai, they must think that Yun Miao is still in the foundation-laying stage and will not deliberately teach her such harsh training methods to avoid discouraging her enthusiasm for cultivation.
So did she learn it in the airspace, or did she figure it out on her own?
No matter which possibility it was, the ability to have such perseverance was enough to amaze Tian Laokou. As he spent more time observing with his spiritual sense, he discovered another even more shocking thing.
The flow rate of the spiritual power output by Yun Miao was surprisingly steady from beginning to end, without a single fluctuation!
Most cultivators in the world may be able to know the amount of spiritual power stored in their bodies through introspection, but few can accurately calculate when to stop and just draw out all the spiritual power stored in their dantian.
Releasing spiritual power is simple, but it is extremely difficult to maintain a constant output of fire spiritual power from beginning to end like Yun Miao, without any fluctuation in speed.
This kind of precise control over one's own spiritual power is one in a million even in the world of cultivation, which is full of talented people. It usually only appears in cultivators who have deliberately trained in this way.
I heard that the killers in Zhaocai Jinbao Tower had received such training since childhood. Not only could they accurately control the flow of spiritual energy throughout their bodies, making every part of the body a weapon to kill people, but they could also maximize the benefits of every bit of their spiritual power through powerful calculations, thus repeatedly achieving the feat of killing people across levels.
Tian Laokou knew that there was no sign of training on Yun Miao, so she was certainly not a killer from Zhaocai Jinbao Tower. As a mortal before, it was impossible for her to deliberately train in this skill.
So now there are only two possibilities, either she is gifted and is born with this talent, or she has deliberately trained herself in just over ten days and quickly mastered this most energy-saving ability.
The amazement and admiration in Tian Laokou's eyes gradually faded, and his mind couldn't help but recall the ill-fitting green dress that Yun Miao had worn before, and she also remembered how she had said self-deprecatingly that she was an orphan who jumped out of a crack in the rock and was born without a father or a mother.
Fifteen is a lively and innocent age, and it's impossible for an ordinary fifteen-year-old girl to have such great perseverance. So what exactly was Yun Miao's past like...
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On the other side, Yun Miao had no idea of the worries in Tian Laokou's heart. She habitually took out a soul-recovering pill to replenish the blue bar that was half empty, but in the blink of an eye, she saw her master coming.
The clever player immediately put the soul-restoring pill back into the storage bag. After all, the work was done. The master had also taught her breathing and spells in the first half of the class. She could have slowly meditated to restore her mana, so it would be better not to waste it.
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The author has something to say: Tian Laokou: My little nephew must have had a very hard time before! The cabbage field is yellow~ Holding a steamed bun in his hand~ There is not a drop of oil in the dish~ QAQ
Yun Miao, who is enjoying the air conditioning and drinking iced cola in real life: burp~
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