Chapter 206: Dividing Treasures (2)
Gu Lin, however, seemed to have gotten used to it and didn't even bother to say a word.
Upon seeing Ji Rong, he straightened his robes, then bowed and said, "Uncle-Master Ji, I heard from my master that..."
In addition to presiding over the disciple-acceptance ceremony on your behalf, the Palace Master will also select a scenic peak with abundant spiritual energy as your training ground.
"You should take Shan Zhongfeng with you then. Your status is not what it used to be, and it's not appropriate for your junior disciple to leave him in the Kundan Room any longer." The old Taoist Gu Lin spoke respectfully and with impeccable manners, but Ji Rong did not believe him.
Along Ji Rong's journey, very few of the myriad races she encountered were cultivators who paid attention to kinship ranking.
The Jade Void Palace only discusses the master-disciple relationship, not kinship.
Many alchemists' relatives served as medicine attendants or miscellaneous servants; in short, there were countless such cultivators in the Jade Void Palace.
Looking at Shan Zhongfeng, Ji Rong felt that it must be because Shan Zhongfeng had become increasingly arrogant lately, causing the old Taoist Gu Lin to lose face again.
Therefore, this old Taoist priest from Gulin deliberately wanted to send Shan Zhongfeng, that silly tiger, out in a legitimate way.
Ji Rong was currently in need of a talented cultivator, and since Shan Zhongfeng was a powerful emperor and her adopted father, she naturally wouldn't refuse. She nodded and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Pill Saint."
Upon hearing this, Shan Zhongfeng felt that his life had reached a new level. He roared with joy and rolled around next to the old Taoist priest Gu Lin, saying, "Thank you, Master!"
The old Taoist priest looked at him, his lips twitching, and then sighed, "You are the godfather of Uncle Ji, but you have not yet completed your apprenticeship and cannot be considered my formal disciple. From now on, you don't need to call me master anymore. Just follow Uncle Ji properly."
Shan Zhongfeng shook his head repeatedly and loudly refused, "How can that be? Master, I still have to take care of you in your old age and see you off when you die. All your disciples were taken in by you halfway through your life. None of them were raised from childhood like I have."
Last time, my daughter and I arranged the funeral for the virtuous fox Huang Pinjie, and I learned about burial methods.
If you pass away before me, I will certainly hold a ceremony for you; if I pass away first, my good daughter will take care of my funeral arrangements.
Gu Lin still felt a little reluctant, but after hearing Shan Zhongfeng's sincere words, he took a deep breath and let the gloom in his heart dissipate into the air with his exhale.
"Never mind," Gu Lin thought to himself, "I'll send this fellow out first."
As for whether or not I sever this title, that's not important. As long as Shan Zhongfeng can go far, that's all that matters! If he's still in my sight, he'll keep embarrassing me.
As Gu Lin squatted on the ground watching Ji Rong empty the items from her storage ring, he couldn't help but recall how he had been humiliated by Shan Zhongfeng just moments before.
So, where did Shan Zhongfeng catch Gu Lin from? He dragged him out of his third senior sister's alchemy room.
This boy, as if he had never walked before, swaggered past several medicine servants and then barged into Third Senior Sister's tea room.
He did know to pay his respects to his senior uncles and aunts, but after he did so, Shan Zhongfeng pulled him, who was drinking tea, outside, and said in front of his third senior sister and the others, "Master, Ji Rong asked you to distribute the gifts to her."
Gu Lin was a little slower, and Shan Zhongfeng tore his robe to shreds. The array patterns engraved on the robe were torn, making a "whoosh" sound as air leaked out.
This caused the third senior sister's skin to stretch out a bit, and she laughed loudly, "Junior brother, go ahead and do your work. But we're getting old now, and you, the tiger you raised, are still as brainless as ever."
Gu Lin didn't mention this to Shan Zhongfeng along the way, because that fellow had such fine fur that he didn't need to wear clothes to appear wealthy.
Another point is that Gu Lin was originally poor and couldn't bear to buy such impractical clothes, so it's normal that Shan Zhongfeng wasn't used to it. But Gu Lin really lost face!
After Ji Rong, Shan Wu, and Shan Zhongfeng quickly emptied the items from the storage ring, Gu Lin stopped thinking about it.
He figured that since his junior uncle would likely live alone on a peak, it wouldn't be so easy for him to find him after he passed through the mountain's central peak.
Gu Lin thought to himself, "I'll have to send this guy some treasures to squander regularly from now on, so he won't come back so often."
But after Gu Lin began sorting through the massive amount of items for Ji Rong, he changed his mind.
He felt that he had a deep connection with his Uncle-Master Ji, as he was Ji Rong's first disciple in the Jade Void Palace who could be treated with the respect due to a half-master.
Even if it meant staying there to serve me for three to five days, that would be fine, as long as Uncle-Master Ji could occasionally reward me with some pills refined by my master and the palace master for my research.
Palace Master Qingpingzi had disciples, but each one he took in died. When the ninth disciple died, he stopped taking in disciples.
In fact, if Qingpingzi still had a few disciples, he probably wouldn't have accepted them on behalf of his master. Instead, he would have taken Ji Rong as his disciple and kept her as a mascot on Yunya.
Unfortunately, Yunya couldn't keep Qingpingzi's disciple.
Perhaps because he had no younger generation, Qingpingzi had always been lonely and had accumulated a lot of precious materials and pills. Now that he was going to take on a disciple on behalf of his master, he stuffed a bunch of the materials that he didn't need into Ji Rong's possession.
These things are nothing to Qingpingzi, who is skilled in alchemy, but they are a very valuable resource for Gulin, whose skills still have much room for improvement.
So as he picked out things and put them into the bag, he was thinking about how to politely ask Ji Rong for them, which naturally slowed down his filling speed.
Shan Zhongfeng urged, "Master, hurry up! My daughter said that we can only share the leftovers after we've finished dividing everything."
Upon hearing this, Gu Lin immediately perked up. He pulled Shan Zhongfeng aside and whispered to him, promising him numerous benefits.
Then Gu Lin put aside everything that was valuable to him, took out his storage ring, and filled it with the same-level pills he had refined.
Shan Zhongfeng lay prone to the side like a guardian beast, pressing down with his claws on the part that the old Taoist Gu Lin had picked out.
By the time all 1,135 bags were filled, it was already midnight.
Ji Rong had already seen Gu Lin and Shan Zhongfeng's actions, but now that she was a wealthy woman, how could she bother with Gu Lin over such a small amount? Besides, Gu Lin had even used his own storage ring to make up the difference.
Ji Rong didn't even glance at the thing that Shan Zhongfeng was holding in his claws, and warmly invited the old Taoist Gu Lin to sit down and rest.
Then she directed Shan Wutong to divide the remaining wealth on the ground into four equal parts, saying, "Everyone has worked hard today. There are still some of these precious materials and elixirs left. Please don't mind, let's each take one part, so that everyone who sees it gets a share."
Gu Lin blushed a little at these words. Ji Rong thought to herself that although Gu Lin was old, he was still a skilled alchemist who had never been beaten into poverty. He didn't even want this stuff when it was right in front of him.
Even if you don't like it yourself, it's not bad to keep it for your disciples or servants.
But Ji Rong's idea came too soon. Gu Lin blushed, but continued Ji Rong's words, saying, "Feng'er, since Uncle Ji is so kind, I can't bear to refuse her kindness."
Your storage ring has always been empty, so please accept it on my behalf.
"Uncle-Master Ji, I only need what Feng'er has caught."
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