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Wen Zhao frowned and hurriedly stepped forward to check. All he saw was that the medicine field was in a mess. The tender young leaves of all divine herbs were missing, with uneven edges as if they not cut off by someone but rather chewed off by a wild beast.
The tips on the divine herb’s top leaves contain the most spiritual qi. Every time he picked it, he carefully took only one young leaf so that the new shoots could continue to grow. But now, entire plant tips has been chewed off and some even uprooted. This medicinal field was almost useless.
That troublemaker who made all this mess, doesn’t they know what sustainable development is?
Wen Zhou felt oncoming anger, accumulating after the entire day. After all, this medicinal field was cultivated by Wen Fengming. Now two months of hard work have been wasted. He just wants to catch the troublesome beast, skin it, and make a fur collar for his Shizun.
He squatted down without saying a word, straightening the crooked divine herbs, trying to save them at least one bit. Suddenly he found something on the ground— paw prints.
Wen Zhao studied biology and could tell at a glance that these were the paw prints left by a feline. He also recalled the internal organs that were stolen from when he killed a rabbit. There were also similar paw prints left on the snow.
It’s the same species, maybe even the same animal.
“Shixiong,” Feng Shu looked at the divine herbs with a distressed face, “What… should we do?”
Wen Zhao pointed to the paw prints on the ground: “Do you know any animals on Fuyun Peak that would leave such marks?”
Feng Shu carefully observed it: “No, the only animals on the mountain are the deer raised by Shizun, my xiao Shishu’s snow owls, snow hares, foxes and cranes. There should be pheasants and other birds near the foot of the mountain, but they would not come so close.”
None of these things could leave such paw prints.
There must be some unknown spiritual beast hiding on this mountain.
Wen Zhao did not ask further: “It’s nothing, you can go back.”
“Wait a minute, shixiong,” Feng Shu bit his lip hard, “I… I’ve just learned a new spell, let me try it out.”
He concentrated his energy as he spoke, and little green lights appeared in his palms. The green light turned into tiny particles and floated into the medicine field.
The divine herbs that had fallen down stood up little by little in the green light, the wound on the tip healed, and delicate new shoots regenerated.
Wen Zhao was surprised: “Feng Shu, you…”
The first level of the resurrection technique was to bring plants back to life. Generally speaking, it requires cultivation at the Golden Core stage to do it. Feng Shu actually…
His shidi was indeed a genius among geniuses.
“Did I succeed?” Feng Shu himself was still a little unbelievable. His face was red and he was obviously very excited. “Did Feng Shu help shixiong?”
“Mn, you did,” Wen Zhao ruffled his hair, “Thank you, Feng Shu helped shixiong a lot.”
Feng Shu was dancing with joy and was jumping up and down when he left Red Bird Nest.
Like a… little flower that blooms toward the sun after being watered by the person it loves the most.
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Qingzhe raised his voice: “I have called everyone here today for one purpose. Everyone has seen the provocation from Tianjian Sect yesterday. Qingya Sect Leader and your Fengming shixiong worked together to clean up that old man Yuan Cangping and put him on display under the Staircase to Heaven — what does this mean? It shows that the strongest one has the last word, but our sect’s Guardian Beast had been lost. Therefore, Sect Leader decided to send a few chosen disciples to the Monster Realm to find a new spiritual beast. The task is to “conquer spiritual beasts”, using this trial to enhance our strength and spread the majesty of Fuyun Sect.”
Wen Zhao stood at the bottom and listened, thinking that Qingzhe Xianzun was a good material for a spokesperson. Being able to talk about “taking by force” in such a high-sounding manner was considered a skill.
Qingzhe continued: “Due to the high difficulty of this trial, we will send a cultivator in the Divine Formation Realm as the team leader to protect everyone’s safety.”
“Is it led by Qingzhe Xianzun himself?”
Qingzhe coughed twice: “Not by me, by your Qingwu shishu.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the disciples immediately started to take action, raising their hands one after another: “Qingwu shishu? I can do it!”
“I can too!”
“I’m going, I’m going!”
“You’d go with Qingwu shishu, but not with me? Hear what I have to say first!” Qingzhe said with a serious face, “For Fuyun Sect’s guardian beast, we need a monster with at least three thousand years of cultivation, and there is only a handful of such a great monster in the world, so the target of this Monster Realm trial is the “Cave of Three Monsters”. Any of the three big monsters in the Cave of Three Monsters will do.”
The disciples looked at each other: “Qingzhe xianzun, this… isn’t it too difficult? It is said that the three big monsters in the Cave of Three Monsters all have a cultivation above four thousand years. If we go there, isn’t it serving after-dinner snacks on a plate. Even if we have Qingwu shishu to protect us, still…”
Wen Zhao’s eyes lit up when he heard it — the Cave of Three Monsters, that’s where the Silver-Stemmed Jade Grass could be found.
Qingzhe was unmoved: “So, signing up requires courage. Now tell me, who is willing to go?”
Wen Zhao was the first to raise his hand: “I’m willing to go.”
When Qingzhe saw that it was him, his expression suddenly fell, and he deliberately pretended not to see: “Is there no one? No one wants to go? It is said that there is a big demon in the Cave of Three Monsters with dragon blood, who likes to collect treasures. If you can defeat it, the treasures will be yours.”
The disciples were disdainful: “For us who are cultivating immortality, what use are treasures? If they are immortal books, we would be more interested.”
Wen Zhao, who was ignored, was confused and said in a louder voice: “Disciple Fengming is willing to go!”
Qingzhe continued to pretend not to hear: “Come on, is it true that no one has signed up? Didn’t you declare to go with Qingwu Xianzun just now, why are you wilting now?”
Wen Zhao squeezed to the front: “Me, me!”
Qingzhe: “Is there really no one?”
Wen Zhao frowned, took a sharp breath, and yelled with all his strength: “Shibo! Are you doing it on purpose? I said, I am willing to go!”
In the past, Qingzhe had always yelled at others, but now he was suddenly yelled at by others, which made him quite uncomfortable. He grimaced and reached out to pull the other aside: “You… you can’t do it, next one.”
Wen Zhao was dissatisfied: “Why can’t I do it?”
Qingzhe whispered: “Please don’t make trouble, alright? Your Shizun just beat me up yesterday. If you went and something happened to you in this dangerous place, wouldn’t your Shizun slice me alive with his sword?”
He said and pushed the other person away gently: “Be obedient, go to the side, to the side.”
Wen Zhao frowned in anxiety. The Silver-Stemmed Jade Grass grew in the Cave of Three Monsters, how could he not go?
He winked wildly at Cheng Yan who was standing next to him. After seeing this, Cheng Yan shook his head repeatedly, meaning, “I don’t dare to disobey the sect leader either.”
Wen Zhao mouthed to him: “Didn’t you say you’d agree to any conditions I put forward?”
After being threatened by him, Cheng Yan was finally forced to compromise. He braced himself and said loudly: “Disciple…”
Qingzhe’s eyes lit up: “Would you like…”
Cheng Yan: “Disciple feels that Fengming shidi can shoulder this important responsibility!”
Qingzhe: “…”
Taking the risk of being beaten to death by his Shizun, Cheng Yan closed his eyes and continued to speak righteously: “This disciple believes that the Monster Realm rejects the Immortal Realm and has detested our Fuyun Sect for a long time. Instead, it has become closer to the Demon Clan. As a demonic cultivator, perhaps Fengming shidi will be more welcomed by the Monster Realm. Having Fengming shidi in the team can reduce the hostility of the Monster Realm towards us.”
His nonsense succeeded in bluffing everyone, including Wen Zhao.
Qingzhe furrowed his eyebrows and raised his head to slap his nonsense-spouting disciple on the head, but was held lightly by a slender wrist.
Qingwu appeared beside him at some unknown time, winked and said, “I’m sorry for being late. If Fengming wants to go, just let him go. Is shixiong afraid that I can’t protect my Fengming shizi?”
Qingzhe looked troubled: “It’s not because of this…”
Qingwu signaled him to step away and said to his disciples: “Besides Fengming, is there anyone else who wants to come forward? Shishu will protect your safety.”
Cheng Yan was already crying inside, as he shouted loudly: “Fengming shidi is going, why should I not go!”
Other disciples also echoed: “If Fengming shixiong goes, then… then I will go too!”
“Count me in!”
“If I can go with Fengming shixiong, I will die without regrets!”
Wen Zhao looked at the fellow disciples who signed up one after another with a strange expression, wondering if he was more charming than his xiao-Shishu? What script did he get?
The female cultivator who was secretly looking at him accidentally caught his gaze and quickly covered her face. Her ears were red and she did not dare to look at him again.
Wen Zhao touched the demonic marks on his face in confusion.
Pretty sure he was still a demonic cultivator.
Qingwu finally selected ten disciples, including Wen Zhao and Cheng Yan. After coming down, Wen Zhao came up to him and said, “Thank you Shishu.”
“You’re welcome, but I suggest you go back to your place quickly and have a look. You seem to have set a formation trap in the medicine field, and now it caught something special.”
Wen Zhao’s expression changed: “Thank you Shishu for telling me that, I will go back right now!”
When his back disappeared, Qingwu breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: “This is really troublesome.”
Qingzhe: “What happened? According to his temperament, he should go back to his Shizun first. You deliberately drove him away, and Er-di…”
“Shhh, let’s pretend we don’t know anything.”
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Meanwhile, in the White Deer Residence.
The tea cup that the Xianzun used most often had shattered on the ground, and the tea was spilled all over the floor. Yan Lin sat stiffly in the wheelchair, looking in the direction of the secret passage, and had been sitting like this for a long time.
He slept so deeply yesterday that he didn’t wake up until this morning. He had no idea what his disciple had done here while he was asleep.
Until he discovered that there was a spiritual qi that did not belong to him remaining in the bookshelf mechanism.
It was his disciple’s spiritual qi, warm and hot, like fire that moths are attracted to.
Why?
The mechanism he set up with his own hands could be opened by someone else?
Could it be because he had transferred spiritual qi to Wen Zhao before…
Yan Lin’s heart was as cold as tea poured on the ground — did he go in?
Did he see something?
The things in the secret room were restricted, so he shouldn’t be able to see anything.
Even though he knew that Wen Zhao might not have seen anything, he still couldn’t help but think about this possibility, so much so that his hands were trembling slightly.
What would his disciple think of him, seeing that he had kept a secret room in the abode?
Would he think Shizun is strange, gloomy, and scary?
Would he… ignore him again?
Author has something to say:
The secret room in Zhao Zhao’s heart: It must be the place where Shizun cultivates!
The secret room in Shizun’s heart: That is actually intended to be your confinement…
Zhao Zhao: Uh…huh? !
A must-have in a small dark room, the things in the box… everyone should be clear about it.
Maybe it’s better not to tell his shizun about going to the monster realm or he might really get locked up😳
Thanks for the chapter!
Ignore!? 😨 Has something happened in the past?
For some reason, from the beginning I think Yan Li has been reincarnated, bcz he keeps talking about things that either has not taken place in this timeline or things he knows would happen. And hence why he wants to make sure that wen zhao is kept by his side all the time to the point of locking him up so that others won’t harm him bcz maybe he regrets not being able to “save” him in the past timeline? It’s just a theory tho
That is very plausible. Like even the last line points towards this theory. ‘ignore him again’? So he was ignored in the original timeline or so it seems
Ah yessss, cosy, typical dark room~
Thank You for the chapter ♡(˃͈ દ ˂͈ ༶ )