Chapter 79 The Genius Cultivator Used as Cannon Fodder (Part 8) Talent Skills…
The wolf cub's innate skill clearly tells him that his current contracted partner will be his future Daoist companion.
They bow to heaven and earth and enter the bridal chamber, a match made in heaven—the kind of couple!
Poor Ling Ye felt his vision go black, his head spin, and all his strength was drained away. His future looked bleak and his prospects were bleak!
What sins did he commit to deserve being paired with such a vicious woman who wanted to rip out his testicles the moment they met?
Ye Zhen looked at the listless little wolf cub and hurriedly used her spiritual power to dry its fur, but it was too late. The little wolf cub was burning hot to the touch, as if it had a fever.
The Ye family didn't have a pet hospital, so Ye Zhen took out a healing pill and a restorative pill, pried open the wolf cub's tightly closed mouth, and forced them in.
"The Fifth Elder also has a pet. Let's go ask him for help." Lin You took out a blanket and wrapped it around the wolf cub.
The two hurriedly ran to the Fifth Elder's courtyard, but when they arrived at the gate, they were at a loss. The condition for seeing the Fifth Elder was to pass the test of the spirit fox.
Only after gaining the little fox's approval will it lead you to see the Fifth Elder.
The fox looked at the two of them, gave a very human-like snort, and swished its fluffy tail triumphantly, as if to say, "You've finally met your match."
Ye Zhen was always flexible and adaptable. With a fawning smile on her face, she bowed to the spirit fox and showered it with praise, but unfortunately, she only received a glare in return.
Lin You leaned in at the opportune moment, smiling gently and warmly: "Master said last time that the little fox in the Fifth Elder's family is the most clever. Now it seems that it is indeed exceptionally intelligent."
When the fox heard her mention Ye Xinglan, it felt a throbbing pain at the base of its tail. Its smug expression subsided slightly, but it still snorted and showed no intention of letting them in.
Ye Xinglan is indeed terrifying, but she is currently in seclusion. If we just let the two of them in like this, wouldn't it lose face?
Upon seeing this, Ye Zhen immediately took out the candied hawthorn that Lin You had made with the Spirit Vermilion Fruit from her storage bag and handed it to the spirit fox.
"Candied hawthorn, come and try it, my little husky loves this the most."
The little fox wrinkled its nose, looking at the Spirit Vermilion Fruit wrapped in sugar threads. The sugar threads looked messy, but this fruit was its favorite.
The Lingzhu fruit tree is its companion plant. When its owner brought it home, he specially transplanted the tree. It diligently waters it every day, and it takes a month to produce a basket of Lingzhu fruits.
It would carefully time its consumption of that basket of fruit, eating it for a whole month at a time!
As a result, not only did Ye Xinglan badmouth it last time, but she also stole all the fruit it had just picked. That was simply too much!
The fox looked at the fruit on the bamboo skewer, angrily opened its mouth, and bit off two fruits in one gulp.
The crisp, sweet sugar strands paired with the sweet and sour fruit create a taste that has been proven over thousands of years. Even though it's just ordinary sugar, the fox spirit's eyes immediately lit up.
It quickly finished a skewer and continued to tilt its head to look at the two of them. Lin You took out five more and handed them over, saying, "This is all we have, but you can write down the recipe."
If you wait until it finishes one before giving it the next, five skewers of candied hawthorns might not be enough to satisfy it. But if you take out five skewers at once and add a few small conditions, it's easy to negotiate a successful deal.
This is the method I learned from Chu Qing back then.
The fox nodded in agreement, put the candied hawthorns and the recipe into its storage bag, and then wagged its fluffy tail to lead the two inside.
The Fifth Elder was working on a math test. Compared to the Third Elder, who was skilled in formations, he was not proficient in this area. Lin You glanced at him and could tell that at least half of the test was blank.
Upon seeing the two of them enter, the Fifth Elder immediately rolled up the test paper and stuffed it aside, his speed resembling that of a slacker who had just heard the school bell ring.
"Why are you two here?" The Fifth Elder stroked his beard and opened a scroll beside him. It was an unfinished landscape painting, but the skill of the artist was already evident.
Lin You and Ye Zhen exchanged a glance. It seemed that this Fifth Elder was also a liberal arts student.
After the two bowed respectfully, they brought the wolf cub to the Fifth Elder. Ye Zhen said helplessly, "You also have a spirit pet. Could you help take a look at my cub? Master said it was a demon, but it got sick after just getting caught in the rain."
Ling Ye raised his eyelids to glance at Ye Zhen, then slumped back down weakly. He wasn't sick because of the rain at all! He wasn't that weak!
He just used his innate skill and is a little tired. He'll be fine after a few days of rest. There's no need for him to see a doctor!
The Fifth Elder was aware of the commotion outside. He never expected that the two of them had been making such a fuss at the door for so long, only to come here to treat the little guy.
Since they were both pet owners, the Fifth Elder, who could tolerate his pets causing trouble everywhere, immediately had a much better impression of the two.
He touched the little wolf's head with his hand, and his pure spiritual energy circulated around once. "There's nothing seriously wrong. He's just exhausted and his spiritual energy is depleted. He has serious injuries, so he should rest for now."
After saying that, he took out two bottles of pills and handed them to Ye Zhen, "These are healing medicines suitable for demons. Take one a day, and you should be almost fully recovered after you finish them."
"Seriously injured?" Ye Zhen hurriedly pulled the wolf cub out of the blanket and examined it from head to toe.
Before Ling Ye could react, she had already touched him all over, even the little bell.
He stood there stunned for a while before he came to his senses. He tried to get up by kicking his legs, but his limbs were too weak to break free.
When Ling Ye looked up, he met the Fifth Elder's mocking gaze. He quickly covered his eyes with his paws, feeling his head buzzing and his whole demon body going haywire.
The Fifth Elder chuckled and didn't expose the fact that the man was pretending to be a child. In any case, it wasn't the Ye family who suffered a loss.
"It's not a big problem. Feeding him more spiritual fruits will help him recover."
The Fifth Elder generously gifted them a basket of spiritual fruits. The two took the medicine and fruits and left with profuse thanks.
The little fox was furious, because it had clearly been agreed that the basket of spirit fruits was for it to eat as a snack!
The Fifth Elder held the little fox and coaxed it for a long time, promising to take it to pick more spirit fruits later. He also promised to make candied hawthorns from next month's spirit fruits, which saved his pants.
Ling Ye waited anxiously for the old man to expose his identity, wondering if the fierce woman would burn him to ashes after learning the truth.
But the old man didn't mention it once until they left, except for a meaningful look in his eyes.
Ye Zhen may seem a bit unreliable, but she is a very competent pet owner. She wanted to have a pet when she was in modern times, but she was too busy and had to postpone the plan until after she retired.
But she did her homework on what it takes to raise a pet, and even learned how to make nutritious and delicious pet meals.
Although she prefers snow-white Samoyeds, a husky with a cute, gentle voice that doesn't destroy the house is also acceptable.
After learning that her wolf cubs were injured, Ye Zhen stopped eating spirit fruits and would go hunting in the back mountains to catch small ferocious beasts to nourish the wolf cubs.
Even if the spiritual fruit has more spiritual energy, wolves are still carnivores, and eating meat is more nutritious than eating fruit.
In addition, she used high-grade spirit stones to set up a spirit-gathering array for the wolf cub. Ling Ye lay in the array, looking at Ye Zhen with complicated eyes.
Ye Zhen and Lin You never avoided talking to him. He knew that the high-grade spirit stones used to set up the formation were almost half of Ye Zhen's wealth, and this was a gift from her master after she became his disciple.
Add to that the spiritual fruit and meat—if these things were on the black market, they could be exchanged for ten healthy demon cubs. Why is she so good to me?
Enjoying delicious food and living in a place full of spiritual energy, Ling Ye's injuries gradually healed. If this continued, he would be able to open his storage space in less than half a year.
There are spiritual medicines suitable for his healing in the space, as well as many things suitable for human cultivators. He will definitely repay this woman's kindness when the time comes.
Ling Ye's gaze towards Ye Zhen became increasingly gentle, which, in Ye Zhen's eyes, was a sign that he had been tamed.
Although she knew the wolf cub was a demon, he had never transformed and occasionally sent a message in a childish voice, which meant Ye Zhen was completely unaware that the wolf cub was of the opposite sex.
She not only cuddled it while sleeping and bathed it herself, but also liked to bury her face in its soft belly and rub against it. At first, Ling Ye struggled to avoid it, but later he resigned himself to lying down.
Anyway, she's my future wife, not a stranger, so what's wrong with letting her touch me a few times?
After becoming an apprentice, Ye Zhen moved to a place not far from Ye Xinglan's courtyard. Lin You's new courtyard was right next to hers. However, she and Lin You were inseparable. Sometimes, when she was too lazy to go back at night, she would occupy half of Lin You's bed.
Now that she has a family to support, it's no longer appropriate for her to stay in her girlfriends' rooms. She went back to her own yard and specially prepared a kitchen to make it easier to cook for the wolf cubs.
Watching her stew and cook meat, Lin You suddenly remembered that she also had cooking skills; she had even mastered a dessert skill book!
Lin You already had the ingredients in her space. Brother Ze was very thoughtful and prepared everything for her. Now that she had used them, she could just go back to the mortal town to get more.
Under Ye Zhen's amazed gaze, Lin You skillfully kneaded the dough, prepared the filling, baked, and fried it. Soon, a delicious and visually appealing pastry was ready.
The delicate pink petals are made up of more than a dozen layers of flaky pastry, each layer as thin as a cicada's wing, with tender yellow stamens and small lotus pods in the middle, and resting on emerald green lotus leaves. This is the lotus flower pastry.
Ye Zhen eagerly grabbed one, took a bite, and her eyes immediately lit up. "Delicious! Youyou, your cooking is amazing!"
Lin You happily continued kneading the dough and made jujube flower cake, almond shortbread, osmanthus cake, mung bean cake, water chestnut cake, and so on. She even built a small oven and baked a bunch of small shortbreads.
She made all the desserts in the dessert skill book, and Ye Zhen watched and ate them. At first, she would eat two, but later she would only have a taste.
When Lin You finished, she realized that she had made more than twenty kinds of pastries, and made about ten of each kind. When they were laid out, they almost filled Ye Zhen's courtyard.
In the end, the two divided the food and stored it in their spatial storage as snacks. They also took two of each item and put them in a large food box to send to the little fox at the Fifth Elder's house.
They remembered the little fox's shocked and aggrieved expression when the Fifth Elder gave her the spirit fruit. Anyway, her wolf cub liked to eat snacks, so the little fox should be no exception.
As for the fox spirit's fuss about making the Fifth Elder learn cooking skills after eating the snacks, that was something neither of them could have predicted.
Even with friends by your side, staying in one place for too long can get boring.
After they had explored every tree and blade of grass on the back mountain, Lin You and Ye Zhen began to spend more and more time cultivating each day.
In the Ye family, cultivators who are not at the Foundation Establishment stage are not allowed to leave the mountain, and cultivators who are not at the Nascent Soul stage are not allowed to go to sea. Even Ye Xinglan was no exception back then.
I've heard there are many islands overseas, and aquatic creatures of the demon race live there. It must be a lot of fun, but unfortunately, the two of them won't be able to dream about it anytime soon.
In the Ye family, disciples who are over fifty years old and have not yet entered the Qi Refining stage, or over one hundred years old and have not yet established their foundation, are allowed to leave the mountain, but they can only settle down at the foot of the mountain and cannot return to the mountain.
There's only one mountain, and not much entertainment. Besides cultivation, there's really nothing else for everyone to do. The only places where the Ye family members are concentrated, besides the library, are the sword-testing platform.
The Ye family is a sword-cultivating family, and ninety percent of its disciples practice swordsmanship. Lin You has only been practicing for a short time and has not yet received any lessons in this area, but Ye Zhen has already been assigned sword practice.
The one who taught her swordsmanship was none other than their junior uncle, Ye Xinghan. After Lin You had the good fortune to witness one of his performances, she missed her master terribly.
This junior uncle's swordsmanship is superb, and he is one of the best in the Ye family. However, he learns swordsmanship entirely through his own comprehension. His teaching method is very similar to that of a teacher in her previous life.
That teacher was a graduate student from a top university, and had published some very prestigious papers. He was hired by the school at a high salary.
But when he taught students, he always felt that everyone was as gifted as him. Every class he would say things like, "This question is a basic question that you can answer at a glance," or "That question is so simple that I don't need to explain it."
Then they quickly assign a bunch of homework, and before leaving, they say, "When you have time, you can look at book xxx, and it would be best if you could memorize the whole thing."
Lin You looked at her friend Ye Zhen, who couldn't even do a proper sword flourish, and asked her to perform a series of smooth sword moves from the sword manual. Her gaze was filled with deep sympathy.
Hopefully, her master will be able to emerge from seclusion before she even begins practicing Qi cultivation; she has absolutely no desire to learn swordsmanship from her junior uncle.
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