Chapter 641: Senior Sister Is Crazy
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Shu Yi was about to step to the side to take a look at that spirit field but caught sight of a man dressed in green meditating in a pile of weed not far out. It was Zuo Shuming who she'd seen previously in the hall. Her eyes dimmed instantly.
The person meditating on the other side seemed to have sensed people approaching and sobered up directly, then turned to look towards the two people at the entrance. Seeming to have recognized Steward He who was at the front, he walked over with a frown and greeted with cupped fists, "Greetings Senior Brother He, and... Senior Sister."
Shu Yi immediately drew in her killing intent at heart and gave him a calming smile. "You are the disciple farming this land right?"
"I am!" Zuo Shuming answered, then turned towards Steward He. "Is Senior Brother He here to collect the 50 stems of spirit herbs?"
"... Sort of?" Steward He then turned his head over and looked at Zuo Shuming in shock, his breathing slightly rapid as he asked loudly, "This... this spirit field, was farmed by you!"
Zuo Shuming nodded. "I farmed it together with Junior Brother Lonemoon."
"How could this be!" Steward He's voice was even louder now.
Shu Yi's gaze dimmed as a hint of a smile flashed across his eyes, as if confident that he would make things difficult for him, she immediately stepped forward with a sympathetic expression and said, "Senior Brother He, you cannot blame this Junior Brother for this, we all know this land is remote with thin Spirit Qi and still arranged for him to farm here. It was unfair in the first place, how could we expect good spirit herbs to be grown then!"
Steward He was stunned and subconsciously refuted, "No, Junior Sister Shu, I..."
"I know what you want to say!" Shu Yi cut him off with a pained look. "The rules of Gui Yi Sect has always been strict, but his circumstances are considered excusable. If you really want to press the case, I don't mind informing my father directly and have him be the judge!"
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"..." Steward He fell in a momentary daze, not knowing what to say in those moments. No, what was going on?
But Shu Yi thought that he had been stunned and suppressed. Hmph! This sect was indeed full of people who bullied the weak and feared the strong.
A shred of coldness rushed past her heart while her expression remained as she continued to step forward with a worried look and looked at Zuo Shuming opposite her. "Junior Brother, I know you've tried your best, but Senior Brother is right too, Gui Yi Sect has its rules. Tell you what." She brought out a storage bag, "I happen to have a 100 stems of low-level spirit herbs here, how bout you just take it that I'm helping you to hand in the amount for this harvest?" With that said, she handed it over with a sincere expression.
Zuo Shuming: "..."
Steward He: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
The place went completely silent in an instant...
For some reason, Zuo Shuming was suddenly a little enlightened about what that word "idiot" that Brother Lonemoon often cursed during training meant.
He glanced at the bag in her hands and subconsciously took a step back, Brother Lonemoon said that idiocy was contagious.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that he wouldn't take it, Shu Yi's smile became even gentler and kinder. "Why don't we take it that I'm lending this to you?"
Zuo Shuming then lifted his head to look at the female before him. His eyes filled with complexities, frowning, he struggled for moments before saying in all seriousness, "This lady... are... are you crazy?!"
"What!" Shu Yi's hand that was holding out the bag stiffened at once.
Before she could react, she saw him turn towards Steward He beside her and continued to speak with a serious expression. "Senior Brother He, I think this Junior Sister is ill... your cultivation level is high, why don't you help her take a look?"
He spoke very seriously, worry written all over his face, not one bit of ridicule in his words at all, instead he was truly worried about her health. "I think she has most likely injured her head."
"What did you say!" Shu Yi broke out of her pretense directly, the gentleness and kindness on her face vanished instantly and killing intent surfaced.
Pui...
Lonemoon who had been watching the whole time finally could not hold back and laughed out loud.
"Brother Lonemoon!" Zuo Shuming was delighted and hurriedly gestured at him. "Steward He is here to collect the spirit herbs, let's harvest this field quickly." With that said, he turned and was about to walk into the field.
"Don't move!" Steward He suddenly cried out, his voice so loud that it was almost cracking. Seeming to have sobered up then being clear of what to do next, he gripped Zuo Shuming tightly and said nervously, "You can't move! I... I'll go report to Sect Master right away. Remember this, before I return, not one spirit herb... No! Not even half can be touched, clear?"
These were variant spirit herbs, he'd never seen them in his few hundred years of managing the spirit field. Though they were low-level ones, their effectiveness were comparable to high-level spirit herbs and they were so expensive that there was no market for it. He already had no time to consider why such a piece of land could grow variant spirit herbs. He only knew that if he spoiled even one leaf, he wouldn't be able to bear the responsibility.
With that said, he frantically summoned his flying sword and flew in the direction of the main peak, not forgetting to repeatedly instruct them!
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"Don't touch them, don't ever touch them! Never ah~~~"
Zuo Shuming: "..."
Lonemoon: "..."
Did he have to? The weeds on the back mountain of their Invincible Sect were of higher level than these.
Whereas Shu Yi who was on the other side finally shifted her gaze to the spirit field before her and was completely stunned. She was dazed for a long time as she stared at the dense vegetation of spirit herbs. She did not know enough about spirit herbs and could not tell what these were, but judging by Steward He's attitude earlier, she understood that not only did Zuo Shuming manage to grow the spirit herbs, he even did an especially good job.
How could this be, this was a barren land, even the Spirit Qi here was pitifully little, why was he able to grow spirit herbs? If Zuo Shuming had already grown the spirits then earlier on, wasn't she...
Her expression darkened even more, a boundless anger surged in her heart. Zuo Shuming was indeed a despicable scum, he had already grown the spirit herbs but still watched as she would make a fool of herself. He was intentionally having a good laugh at her. In moments, the killing intent in her eyes grew deeper, as if daggers could be shot from them and stabbed right in Zuo Shuming's direction.
Yet a certain naive fool did not receive the death stare at all, he was clueless as he lifted his head to glance in the direction that Steward He flew off in and sighed. "Seems like we have to wait till Senior Brother He returns before we can harvest the land."
With that said, he was intending on returned to that pile of weeds to continue cultivating when something came to mind and he turned back to look at Shu Yi. "Senior Sister..."
Shu Yi did not expect that he would suddenly turn back and could not draw in her resentful expression in time. Frozen, her expression instantly looked slightly contorted and she managed to squeeze out her voice only moments later. "What's... the problem Junior Brother?"
"The spirit field is shabby and bare, why don't you take a rest on this pile of grass?" He glanced at the pile of weeds beside him.
Shu Yi was surprised, not expecting that he offer her that, she was about to reject but Zuo Shuming suddenly added solemnly, "After all, you look like you aren't too well." He even pointed to the head. "You ought to rest well."
Shu Yi: "..."
You are the one who's sick in the head, your whole family is sick!
(╯‵□′)╯(┻━┻
Her expression instantly twisted, I want to kill him! Kill him! Right now, immediately, right away!
[Host, calm down! He cannot die now, owner's mission has yet to be completed!]
Chapter 642: A Field Full Of Variant Plants
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"You still dare mention the mission!" Shu Yi was infuriated and directly replied in her mind, "What's going on with this spirit field? Didn't they say this was the area with the weakest Spirit Qi? Why was he still able to grow spirit herbs. And they're not the ordinary spirit herbs!"
[I don't know either, but this is a high level immortal cultivating world, its Heavenly Dao is much stronger than other elementary worlds. Besides, he is someone who had once ascended in his previous life, those who are able to ascend must have the grace of the Heavenly Dao.]
"Senior Sister?" Seeing that she wasn't replying, Zuo Shuming asked again.
Shu Yi inhaled and exhaled deeply several times before replying with gritted teeth. "No, need!"
"Oh." Zuo Shuming was not bothered too, they weren't close anyway, he turned and sat back in the same spot to continue cultivating.
She then continued to question 001.
"What exactly are those spirit herbs in the ground? Why was that He guy so nervous just now?"
[All these seems to be variant spirit herbs and some are advance spirit herbs.]
"All of them?"
[That's right!]
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"It seems that this Zuo Shuming must still have a trump card." Shu Yi's expression darkened. "He might have gotten other opportunities. 001 can you sense what he has on his body now?"
[No! If I scan directly, the Heavenly Dao will sense it.]
Her long face grew more upset. "Hmph! Forget it, we will find out somehow."
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Say, could this invader's habit of turning on the public... no, the broadcast at every turn not be changed? They really didn't want to get spoilers on her upcoming schemes and plots!
Lonemoon sighed and turned to look at the spirit field before him. Others could only see rows of variant or advanced spirit herbs, but in his eyes, the entire spirit field was covered with a thick layer of authority overhead. It seemed like there were numerous soft voices nagging beside every stem of spirit herb.
"Grow quickly, grow quickly, grow quickly... grow to be prettier, grow to be more good-looking... quick quick quick!"
The corner of Lonemoon's mouth twitched and he immediately turned back to look at Chef who looked equally speechless and sent a voice transmission, "Chef."
"... Mm." Chef nodded before looking up at a certain spot in the sky. "That's enough."
Following that, a faintly soft voice sounded by their ears at the same time. "Alright Boss, no problem Boss!" Leave a good rating!
In the next second, the authority gathered above the spirit field completely dissipated.
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They'd thought once Steward He left, it would take a while before he returned. Unexpectedly, in less than 15 minutes, several figures came flying from the main peak.
The one right at the front looked slightly familiar, it was the Sect Master of Gui Yi Sect. Following behind were several Nascent Soul cultivators, seeming to be the Elders of each mountain. They were also present in the big hall the other day.
Once they landed, the few of them stared right at the spirit field before them, everyone had wide eyes, wearing looks of disbelief.
"It's rea... really variant spirit herbs!" The Sect Master looked wholly agitated.
"Not just that!" Another Nascent Soul cultivator said even more excitedly. "Look at that stem, seven colors on one leaf, that is an advanced spirit herb! And it is at least a second level one."
"This is my first time seeing so many variant spirit herbs." The Sect Master was so excited that his hands were trembling slightly as he quickly grabbed the steward who reported this. "He Fu, who did you say farmed this land?"
"Replying to Sect Master, it was an outer sect disciple named Zuo Shuming." Steward He didn't dare to hide anything and quickly answered with cupped fists.
Everyone then recovered from their agitation and looked towards Lonemoon and Zuo Shuming who stood by the side.
"Greetings Sect Master, Elders!" Both of them could only step forward and bow.
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The Sect Master surveyed the both of them and finally locked his eyes on Zuo Shuming who had perfected the Qi Refinement stage. "You farmed these spirit herbs?!"
"Replying to Sect Master, I did it together with Brother Lonemoon." Zuo Shuming answered.
"Mm." A hint of admiration flashed through the Sect Master's eyes, he doesn't rush to put all the credit on himself, good prospects. "Do you know that variant spirit herbs have not appeared in my Gui Yi Sect for several thousands of years. Though these are low level ones, their effectiveness are already comparable to high level spirit herbs. Are you willing to hand in all of these spirit herbs to the sect?" He asked in a low voice, then added after some thought. "Of course we will reward you for them."
Zuo Shuming looked back at Lonemoon, seeing that he had no intention of objecting, he then replied. "These spirit herbs were arranged to be planted by the sect in the first place. They should naturally be handed in to the sect." Besides, he had yet to start learning about pill refinement, the spirit herbs were actually of no use to him.
"Good good good!" The sect master's gaze became even more pleased. "I will calculate everything and pay spirit stones to both of you according to the market price. Both of your dispositions are not bad, from today onwards, you are official disciples and part of my main peak."
Zuo Shuming was instantly delighted and was about to reply.
But Shu Yi from beside him panicked and cried out, "No!"
The Sect Master faltered, only noticing Shu Yi then. "Oh, Little Yi is here too! Why are you..."
He was about to ask when an urgent call sounded from above. "Where have the variant spirit herbs and advanced spirit herbs appeared!" In the next second, a figure carrying the Spirit Qi of the Soul Formation phase rushed over, instantly appearing beside everyone else.
"Greetings Uncle-Master Tian Yi!" The Nascent Souls all bowed. The person who came was the Soul Formation cultivator who almost took Zuo Shuming under his wing to the Dan Xia Mountain.
However Tian Yi ignored them all and instead turned to stare at the field of spirit herbs, murmuring with a look of disbelief. "It is extremely rare for variant spirit herbs to appear but so many has appeared here at once! And there are also advanced spirit herbs!"
He was wholly agitated, variant spirit herbs are precious not because of its effectiveness that was comparable to high-level spirit herbs but because they naturally came with a blending attribute and could blend other medicinal properties that could directly increase the success rate of refining pills by 10% whereas advanced spirit herbs could boost the effectiveness of elixirs and could be directly refined into supreme-grade elixirs.
"All these... who grew them?" As a Soul Formation Supremacy, even Tian Yi was finding it hard to conceal his inner agitation and quickly asked.
"It's these two disciples." The Sect Master pointed to Lonemoon and Zuo Shuming at the side.
Tian Yi turned and glanced at them both, his eyes fixed onto Zuo Shuming whose cultivation was of a slightly higher level as a hint of doubt flashed across his face. This disciple looked slightly familiar but he temporarily could not recall when he had seen him. He directly spoke up to snatch them up. "Good good good, from today onwards, you both can join my Dan Xia Mountain!" They grew variant spirit herbs once, who knows they might be able to do it again.
Once his words fell, the Sect Master did not say anything but Shu Yi panicked even more. "No way!" If Zuo Shuming went to Dan Xia Mountain, then everything that she had done previously would have been in vain.
"Little Yi is here too!" Tian Yi glanced at her. "Why not?"
"Because..." Shu Yi paled, her eyes shifted around before she replied, "Because... because earlier on sect master already ordered them to join the main peak." Regardless, she absolutely could not allow Zuo Shuming to join Dan Xia Mountain.
"Oh! Really?" Tian Yi turned towards the Sect Master.
The Sect Master faltered for a moment, how would he dare to snatch with the Uncle-Master, but it had already come to this, he could only bite the bullet and nodded.
Chapter 643: Successful Foundation Establishment Cultivators
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"Forget it then!" Tian Yi gave up on the idea of snatching them up with some slight unhappiness. He looked at Shu Yi, then glanced at Zuo Shuming again and suddenly recalled, wasn't this disciple the one he almost recruited into Dan Xia Mountain the other day? Seems like it was also because Shu Yi said something then that he changed his mind. His brows instantly knitted together as a doubt formed in his heart but Shu Yi was the daughter of a Nascent Soul Elder after all, he still did not voice anything out directly.
"Uncle-Master, how do you think these spirit herbs... should be harvested?" The Sect Master looked towards him inquiringly.
"The variant spirit herbs is of course different from other spirit herbs." He conjured seals in both hands and set up several array formations around the spirit field. "I'll use array formations to lock in the surrounding Spirit Qi to prevent it from dissipating, wait for me to go get the Spirit Locking Case."
With that said, his figure flashed as he hurriedly flew back, a short while later, he flew back hugging a case. He then addressed the nervous crowd. "We can begin harvesting now. Don't go too close, in case you affect the Spirit Qi of the spirit herbs."
He then carefully walked towards a level two stem of red variant spirit herb right at the edge.
Zuo Shuming watched on as so many mighty cultivators all looked so nervous and could not help but turn back to look at Lonemoon and said in enlightenment, "Brother Lonemoon, no wonder you wouldn't let me go close to these spirit herbs on usual days, turns out everything is so particular!"
Lonemoon: "..."
Um, I was just worried that the Heavenly Dao thought that you were the one who grew them.
About eight high-leveled cultivators surrounding the spirit field carefully dug for a long time before they finally dug out the entire root of the first stem of spirit herb. Lonemoon felt tired just watching them, it's just pulling out a spirit herb, was there a need to be so cautious?
"Alright, it's done." Tian Yi then grabbed the spirit herb and pulled upwards with a small force, he then lifted it out and hurriedly place it into the Spirit Locking Case and was about to continue digging the next one.
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Suddenly a strong wave of Spirit Qi burst out from the ground, the surrounding Spirit Qi that was initially pitifully thin instantly became tens of times richer, almost about to congeal into a substance, a white fog surrounded them, seeming like it was about to become immortal qi. A white light zoomed and leaped out of the ground, instantly disappearing.
"That was....a spirit vein!" The Sect Master instantly realized and exclaimed, "It's a living spirit vein!"
"Give chase!" Tian Yi's figure darted and he vanished in the direction of that white light.
The several Nascent Soul cultivators were one step behind as they gave chase too. In moments, only the Gui Yi Sect Master was left behind, he wanted to give chase too, but someone needed to watch over these spirit herbs. Intact living spirit veins have never emerged out of the earth's surface so it was extremely rare to see one, not to mention catching it. The so-called spirit veins that every sect has are actually broken veins, just a part of a spirit vein, but the one earlier was a real, living, entire spirit vein!
No wonder so many variant spirit herbs would suddenly appear here, turns out it's because there was an entire spirit vein hidden under the ground.
Lonemoon glanced at Chef from the corner of his eyes, what are you doing?
Yi Qing's expression darkened and directly looked up to the sky. "What's going on?" Told you to put it away properly!
Another voice filled with immense grievance sounded by their ears again.
" *sobs*..." It's because that spirit vein curled up in this little spirit field for too long and fell asleep?
Don't be angry Leader, I was wrong Leader!
Lonemoon: "..."
Psh, the Heavenly Dao of this plane was as unreliable as its owner. Taught by Shen Ying indeed, wastrel disciple!
In a house far away.
Shen Ying was sprawled out on the bed drowsily like a big pancake. "Ah-choo!" She lifted a hand to touch her own forehead, what's going on? Had she caught a cold? Mm, it must be because she's been eating too little that her immunity had weakened.
Say, when was Chef coming back to cook?
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The Sect Master grew increasingly anxious the more he waited on, seeing that everyone else had yet to return, he immediately had the thought of wanting to chase after them and have a look. He was about to call out to the few disciples to come guard the spirit field when the surrounding Spirit Qi suddenly turned violent and started to gather towards the left, he looked over subconsciously and saw that all the Spirit Qi was surrounding Zuo Shuming.
"Two-Bucks Zuo!" Lonemoon shouted and pushed him. "Stop dreaming!"
"Ah?" Zuo Shuming faltered, completely spacing out.
"You're... about to enter the Foundation Establishment phase!" The Sect Master paused in his steps and glanced at him while reminding, "Quickly focus and sit down to meditate, enter Foundation Establishment in ease."
He then reacted, hurriedly sitting down, he started to focus on absorbing the Spirit Qi, the surrounding Spirit Qi grew thicker and continuously surged into his meridians. Perhaps because he'd gotten used to being beaten up by Lonemoon in the past three months, he did not look to be in much agony and his absorption of the Spirit Qi was very smooth-sailing too.
The Gui Yi Sect Master nodded in satisfaction, though this disciple's spirit root was slightly poorer, but his disposition was really not bad, if he was able to successfully enter Foundation Establishment this time, he might be a promising young man, hence he helped him to set up an array formation.
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On the other hand, Shu Yi wore a look of disbelief at the side, looking even more upset. How could this be? She'd stopped him from entering Dan Xia Mountain, without pointers from the Supremacy, why was he still entering Foundation Establishment and this was two years faster than before. He'd achieved this in a mere three months, how was that possible? Could it be that her ruining his chances of entering Dan Xia Mountain had ended up contributing to his success?
Shu Yi was more enraged the more she thought about it, while deep down she was even more certain of the thought that he definitely had another opportunity, that's right, he must have another artifact, otherwise it wouldn't be this quick, it is absolutely so.
In moments, the few people left behind all wore various looks as they looked slightly nervously at Zuo Shuming. Only Gui Yi's sect master was worried that his qualifications weren't high and might end up failing, whereas Shu Yi was nervous that he would succeed.
Instead, Lonemoon was the relaxed one, not to mention that he had successfully ascended in his previous life, just in the three months where he had been guiding him, he had been pushing more Spirit Qi than needed for Foundation Establishment into him in his usual beatings, this would happen whether sooner or later.
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Tian Yi and the few other Nascent Soul Elders ultimately did not catch up to that spirit vein that escaped. Spirit veins could only be obtained by chance, not by force, although they were slightly disappointed, they weren't too bothered. To have a spirit field full of variant spirit herbs were already delighting enough for them.
And Zuo Shuming had successfully entered Foundation Establishment, perhaps because he had a good foundation, he only meditated for a night and had already stabilized his cultivation. He gripped his own hands and excitedly conjured several spells, indeed after his cultivation advanced, the effect was completely different.
He walked out of the room in surprise, wanting to go next door to find Brother Lonemoon but saw him walk out of his room, he went forward immediately.
"Brother Lonemoon, you..." He paused midway as his eyes widened and directly blurted out, "You... you've entered Foundation Establishment too!"
"Mm." Lonemoon nodded, not in the least bit bothered and said, "Yup!"
"..."
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Chapter 644: Dividing the Loot Perfectly
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"You're going out?"
"Ah, yes..." Zuo Shuming looked like he was totally still stunned. "When did Brother Lonemoon enter Foundation Establishment?" He was still at level six of Qi Refinement yesterday!
"Oh, just last night!"
"Just last night?" So fast!
"Yeah, is there a problem?"
Zuo Shuming who initially thought that he himself was already real fast became listless. "N... No." He was suddenly starting to wonder if he had any misunderstandings with regards to cultivation? For example, in the aspect of speed.
"Where are you heading to? Lonemoon asked directly.
Zuo Shuming then gathered himself up and replied, "I was about to get Brother Lonemoon to report to the main peak together!"
"No hurry!" Lonemoon said in a low voice. "Follow me to the Outer Affairs Hall first."
"Outer Affairs Hall?" He faltered. "Yesterday Senior Brother He told me that we just have to report to the main peak, no need to inform them at the Outer Affairs Hall."
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"Who said I was going there to inform them?" Lonemoon shot him a look from the corner of his eyes.
"Then..."
"Of course it's to go collect money?" Lonemoon answered boldly like it was natural and right. "Didn't Sect Master say yesterday that we would be paid according to the market price for those spirit herbs? If we don't know, what if they give us less after this matter passes?" It was still the safest to keep spirit stones in his own pocket, after all, he was someone who had children to feed.
"..."
"Stop dazing, come quickly!" Those spirit stones could only be collected with both of them present. "By the way, remember you still owe me a spirit stone? On the account that you're my friend, I'll take 10% from the division of those spirit stones as interest, you 40% and me 60% will do!"
"..." Do people calculate it this way?
Lonemoon and Zuo Shuming collected a total of eleven thousand two hundred and twenty two pieces of superior-grade spirit stones in total. Don't mention to a Foundation Establishment disciple, even to a Nascent Soul cultivator, this was quite a sum of money. Zuo Shuming felt his hands trembling slightly but Lonemoon looked at the bag in disdain, a line of words evidently printed on his face: Just this bit? Waste of my time!
Then he pulled out an abacus from somewhere and started to do the accounts. For some reason, he had listened very seriously but got more confused as he listened on. At the end, he unknowingly only received one thousand two hundred and twenty-two spirit stones.
"Brother Zuo, your memory is not good, these one thousand two hundred and twenty-two spirit stones are not safe with him. Tell you what, I'll make some losses to keep them for you. I'll just charge you one spirit stone per day, will that do?"
His mind was still ringing with the clattering sounds of the abacus and subconsciously handed them over. "Ah... sure, thank you!"
"You're welcome, we're friends. Take these two pieces of spirit stones, keep them as spare change!"
Hence he was left with two pieces of spirit stones in his hand.
"By the way! You paid the interest for the spirit stones, how about the capital sum of one spirit stone?"
"Oh, here!"
Hence he was left with a piece of spirit stone in his hand.
Shen Ying: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
"By the way, where were you getting me to go to earlier on?" Lonemoon asked.
Zuo Shuming then snapped to his senses. "To report to the Disciple Hall at the Main peak."
"Oh, let's go then!"
"Alright." He then stood up and walked out of the yard quickly, his steps light and his expression an excited one, as if he encountered an immense blessing.
Lonemoon's brows tightened as he turned and asked the invisible master and disciple pair for once, "Was I a little too much in butchering this time?"
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The master and disciple: "..." A despising look for you, figure it out by yourself!
"Was I that overboard?" Lonemoon lifted a brow, then pulled out the bag of spirit stones from earlier. "Then I'll make it up to him with your food allowance for the next two months!"
Both of them were shocked and four paws instantly held his hand down.
"Not too much, not at all!"
"The accounts were clear, unquestionable!"
"Father Niu deals honestly, his conscience is wonderfully good!"
"Father Niu is upright in business deals, money just rolls in!"
"Brother Lonemoon?" Seeing that he had not followed even after a long time, Zuo Shuming could not help but turned back and called out.
Lonemoon glanced at the other two before putting the bag of spirit stones away. "Coming!"
Good thing you two are sensible!
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Lonemoon and Zuo Shuming successfully joined the main peak and successful became official disciples of Gui Yi Sect. Compared to outer sect disciples, the treatment of official disciples was evidently much better. Though they could not compare to those personal disciples or recognized disciples of those Elders, the conditions were not bad, at least each of them had their own courtyard. The surrounding Spirit Qi was also obviously much richer.
The main peak, also known as Dan Lin Mountain, was headed by the Sect Master, Yu Luan. Gui Yi Sect was divided into six mountains, Dan Lin, Dan Xia, Dan Chen, Dan Zhen, Dan Sheng, Dan Gu. From the names, one could tell that this was a sect with core cultivators all around.
They did not realize previously in the outer sect, but the main peak had the scent of various elixirs wafting everywhere. And there were Golden Core cultivators speaking about the Dao everyday at each mountain and Nascent Soul giving monthly lessons, all disciples of the six mountains could attend them. However, most of the content were about the techniques of pill refinement or mental cultivation methods of core cultivators. The sect did have cultivators of other specializations, but their level of cultivation weren't high, amongst the dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators, only three were not core cultivators.
And at the main peak, there was a library, storing all sorts of technique books and ancient records of spells, disciples of the six mountains could borrow books from there.
Zuo Shuming was very excited, disciples like them who'd never officially acknowledged a master naturally didn't have anyone to guide them, so on his first day at the main peak, he went to library. He wanted to pick several books suitable for his own skillset and spells. However, he searched in all seriousness for an entire day and ended up returning dejectedly, not a single book brought back with him.
"Brother Lonemoon..."
"What's wrong?" Lonemoon glanced at him and frowned in disdain. "Why do you look like you've gone bankrupt? Didn't you go to the library."
"I did, but... I didn't find any suitable technique books. For some reason, the more he searched, the more he found that those spells, seemed... less profound than those that Brother Lonemoon had taught to him. Just a closer look at most told him that they were far less powerful from those that Lonemoon had just casually taught to him verbally in the past.
Lonemoon leisurely took a sip of tea before glancing at him. "It's normal, in sects, for the sake of lineage, the higher level technique books are naturally kept by the higher level cultivators and not easily given to anyone." You're not their disciple. "Moreover, the entire Gui Yi Sect was full of core cultivators, the higher level techniques of core cultivators becomes more precious."
"But... I do not wish to become a core cultivator." Zuo Shuming frowned and said.
"Don't wish to become a core cultivator?" Lonemoon glanced at him, if you don't want to be a core cultivator, what are you doing at Gui Yi Sect? "Then what do you want to specialize in?"
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Zuo Shuming thought carefully, subconsciously feeling his empty storage bag before speaking up hesitantly. "Pills, talismans, arrays and weapons are relatively more..." A sudden thought struck him and his eyes lit up instantly. "Oh yes, I can practice the sword, I want to be a sword cultivator!"
Pui...
Lonemoon's mouthful of tea splattered out. He stood up at once with a hand slamming onto the table and hollered.
"Repeat yourself!" Was he hearing things?
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"..."
Chapter 645: Direction of Cultivation
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Zuo Shuming was startled, he drew back but still answered honestly, "I... I want to become a sword cultivator!"
"Really?" Lonemoon was even more agitated and grabbed his collar, questioning word by word. "You're sure it's a sword cultivator and not a body cultivator?"
"It's sword cultivator?" What the hell was a body cultivator? "Is there any problem?"
Lonemoon suddenly stiffened, an odd, inexplicable expression instantly appeared on his face, while it seemed like something was about to spill out of his eyes. He released his collar a while after and said solemnly, "No! No problem at all! Sword cultivator is the best, you're very suitable to be a sword cultivator, especially suitable!"
So many years had passed, finally... finally there was a disciple who wanted to practice the sword, he really felt like crying!
"Re... Really?" Zuo Shuming was delighted but his expression changed a while after when he seemed to have thought of something. "But our sect does not have sword cultivators, there are also very little books regarding sword dharma in the library, but..."
"I have them!" Lonemoon cut him off, completely excited. "Sword dharma is it? What kind do you want? I have everything within the ranks of Heaven, Earth, Mystic and Yellow. Oh yes, you're a triple spirit root of elemental water, wood and fire, then learn the Mist Sword Technique first, you're most suitable, having just entered Foundation Establishment. Also, you're getting older, so your fitness must catch up quickly too, only then will you be able to maximize the potential of your sword dharma, of course you cannot overdo it too!" Too much and he'll end up like those steel barbies in Invincible Sect that became body cultivators. "Also, you can try finding an intrinsic dharmic artifact now, it will help you to master the sword qi..."
He babbled on and said a lot that left Zuo Shuming dumbfounded. He only wanted to practice the sword, why did Brother Lonemoon look even more excited than him.
"By the way, I recall I seemed to have gotten... um traded for a piece of red fiery mystic iron from Xun Shu back in the days. It happens that you have an elemental fire spirit root, after some forging it would be perfect for your intrinsic dharmic artifact." With that said, he brought out an entirely fiery red crystal as big as one's palm that resembled an azure stone. Then also took out a jade slip of the Misty sword technique and handed both over.
"This..." Zuo Shuming's eyes widened abruptly as he looked at the things in his hand. Although he had never seen them before, just by the rich and seemingly solid Spirit Qi around it, he could tell it wasn't something ordinary. He hurriedly shook his head and said, "No! Brother Lonemoon has already helped me a lot, how can I casually take your things. Moreover, this thing looks extremely precious, it must have taken you a lot of effort to obtain it."
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"It's alright, we're all sword... all friends, it didn't take me a lot of effort too." Just conveniently put it in my bag.
But Zuo Shuming shook his head even more firmly. "Simply because we're friends, the more I should not take advantage of Brother Lonemoon."
Lonemoon surveyed him from top to bottom and grinned even wider. "Look at what you're saying, you call me Brother Lonemoon, then there's no need to calculate everything so clearly." He directly shoved the slip into his hands and patted his shoulder. "Come come take it, if there's anything you don't understand, ask me anytime."
"But..." He still looked hesitant.
"No buts!" Lonemoon cut him off and said earnestly, "Don't worry, on the account that we're friends, how could I put you in a difficult spot? I know your difficulties, these techniques and artifacts, I will... put them on credit first!"
His tune changed as he brought out a thick accounts book and started flipping through it. The words 'Fatty' could still be vaguely be seen repeatedly flashing out in the front.
Zuo Shuming: "..." Turns out all these had to be paid for?
"Oh yes, you've yet to learn casting, I don't think you can forge this red fiery mystic iron. I know a friend, his forging skills are not bad. Why don't I get him to forge it into a spirit sword for you first, then have you warm it into your intrinsic dharmic artifact!"
"Ah? Ah!" Zuo Shuming was dumbfounded, completely out of his senses.
"That's set then!" Lonemoon put that crystal away. "The forging cost, materials cost, techniques cost and middleman cost etc, I'll give you a one percent discount, rounded to a whole, it'll be 2.5 million supreme-grade spirit stones, we're all friends right! Don't worry my brother who does forging is very reliable!"
The bankrupt friend Zuo Shuming: "..."
The reliable forging friend Yi Qing: "..."
Zuo Shuming looked at the jade slip containing the technique in his hands and was stunned for a long time.
Hold on, what just happened? Why was he suddenly in a debt of 2.5million and it's even supreme-grade spirit stones? Things were developing too quickly, he totally couldn't react in time.
"The weather today is great!" On the other hand, Lonemoon's smile was as warm as spring beside him, it was rare that his eyes weren't filled with disdain but more of admiration. "There's no time like the present, let's start practicing your sword now!"
"Ah! Ah?" Zuo Shuming was still dazed and subconsciously replied, "But I don't have a spirit sword now, and..." He had yet to read the contents of the jade slip!
"It's fine I have it." Lonemoon pulled out a spirit sword with a whoosh and shoved it into his hands. "Take it, I'll rent it to you for now, not expensive, just one spirit stone a day! We're friends!"
"..." He was close to not knowing the word 'friend' already!
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"Junior Brother Zuo!" A clear and melodious voice came from the doorway, a pretty lady dressed in pink walked in and smiled gently at the two of them. "Congratulations Junior Brothers on entering the inner sect, how has it been at the main peak? Are there any difficulties?"
Zuo Shuming turned back for a look, a trace of surprise flashed through his eyes and he turned and bowed. "Greetings Senior Sister Shu Yi!"
The visitor was that invader Shu Yi, no one knows what's wrong with her, but ever since that incident at the spirit field, she would come over from time to time and move around in front of Zuo Shuming, her attitude gentler with each time as she showed great concern. The way she looked at Zuo Shuming was all sorts of bashfulness, as if she as deeply in love with in, anyone could tell. Such acting was considered excellent already, pity Zuo Shuming seemed to be a little blind!
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"No need to be so courteous Junior Brother Zuo." Shu Yi's smile became even softer. "You can just call me Shu Yi."
"Etiquette cannot be abandoned!" He replied in all seriousness.
Shu Yi could only sigh, looking around, her gaze swept across Lonemoon before saying meaningfully, "Are you good staying here? There are many disciples in the main peak, that steward of the Disciples' Hall searched for a good while before he managed to put the both of you adjacent to each other."
"Turns out Senior Sister had helped to arrange our living quarters." Zuo Shuming's eyes brightened and he said gratefully, "Thank you Senior Sister for your help!" Being able to stay close to someone he knew had saved him a lot of trouble.
"Don't stand on ceremony, it's a small matter." Shu Yi beamed gently. "By the way, I came to inform you that the peak master of Dan Chen Mountain will be personally teaching a lesson tomorrow. My father hasn't done so in decades, don't miss it."