Chapter 37 (Part 1)

“Hmph. She’s so brainless, I thought I’d frighten her and see whether I could scare her brain out.”

Qingyang indicated that he would do it again next time. Lingfeng relied on having his little disciple as her backer and had caused no small amount of trouble on ordinary days. Fortunately, it had all been on Holy Sun Peak, and his little disciple could still clean up her messes for her.

“Master…”

Yu Yu shook his head at him, telling him not to scare Senior Sister anymore, then walked over and took Lingfeng’s hand. She was already frightened silly.

“Senior Sister, it was just that my enlightenment had reached its end. Don’t worry. You didn’t disturb me.”

He shook her hand, telling her not to worry.

But Lingfeng had already been warned by her senior brothers before she went out that she absolutely could not disturb her little junior brother. On top of that, Qingyang kept scaring her, so she probably would not be able to calm down for a while.

“I… I…”

Lingfeng clutched her junior brother’s hand and kept shedding tears. She really had not spoken loudly on purpose, and she really had not released her lightning spiritual energy on purpose.

If she had interrupted her junior brother’s enlightenment, she would not have been able to forgive herself even after several hundred more years.

Enlightenment was the rarest opportunity in the cultivation world. Once interrupted, it was equivalent to ruining the other party’s future. With anyone else, that would absolutely be the start of a feud.

“Senior Sister, stop crying. I know you didn’t do it on purpose, and I really wasn’t disturbed.”

Yu Yu gently patted her back and cast a spell that calmed the mind, allowing his senior sister to settle down.

It was a spell that belonged to medical cultivators. Qingyang recognized it at a glance.

“Huh? Little Yu, what is that in your hand?”

Qingyang had originally been happy for his little disciple, thinking that once he had successfully become a medical cultivator, his personal safety would be guaranteed. Unexpectedly, his attention was drawn to the little branch Yu Yu was holding in his left hand.

Although the little branch was very inconspicuous and had only a single leaf on it, the vitality in that leaf made even him unable to help turning to look.

Vitality. This was something every cultivator would covet. Besides being able to treat injuries, it could also increase a person’s lifespan.

“A Life Tree branch. Martial Uncle Qingquan gave it to me and said I should use it to refine my own bonded spiritual weapon.”

Yu Yu did not let go of Lingfeng’s hand. Instead, he handed the branch in his other hand to Qingyang so he could look at it.

A bonded spiritual weapon. After he reached Foundation Establishment, he would have to consider what kind of spiritual weapon to refine as his bonded spiritual weapon.

Although the water-wood spirit sword was also a spiritual weapon, it was not suitable to become his bonded spiritual weapon. That was because a bonded spiritual weapon had to be refined by oneself, then placed in the dantian to be nourished.

A bonded spiritual weapon could also grow as his cultivation increased. As long as he invested materials into it, it could become a Dao artifact.

And on this point, the already fixed water-wood spirit sword could not do that.

“A Life Tree branch? He even gave this thing to you?”

Qingyang knew about this thing. It was a treasure Qingquan had obtained from a secret realm.

That was a branch from the legendary Tree of Life. Ten thousand years ago, the Tree of Life in their Holy Feather World had suddenly died and disappeared from Holy Feather World, leaving countless people full of regret.

That was because the Tree of Life could bear a kind of spiritual fruit called the Fruit of Life. This fruit could extend the lifespan of a cultivator who was nearing the end of their life by one thousand years.

In order to seize the Fruit of Life, human cultivators and the demon race often fought into one tangled mess. After all, there were many cultivators and demons who were approaching the end of their lifespans because they had been unable to break through.

These people wanted longevity. They wanted to ascend. As soon as the Fruit of Life appeared, it became everyone’s target. For the sake of the Fruit of Life, they nearly smashed Holy Feather World apart.

At that time, it happened to coincide with a war between races, and the Tree of Life was also affected. Some people said that the people who fought over the fruit had destroyed the Tree of Life.

But this claim was denied by those who had fought for the fruit at the time. No matter how stupid they were, they still knew that only with the Tree of Life could there be Fruits of Life.

If the tree was gone, there was no need to even mention the fruit. So they definitely were not the ones who had destroyed the tree!

But no matter how much they denied it, no one believed them. The other races did not believe them either.

Those who obtained the fruit naturally would not do such a thing. But what about those who did not obtain it? In a moment of rage, could they have held to the thought that if they could not have it, no one else should either, and directly destroyed the Tree of Life?

In short, everyone believed the Tree of Life had been destroyed at the hands of the people who fought over the fruit. Whether human race or demon race, both were suspect.

Ten thousand years passed, and the Tree of Life never appeared again. Forget the fruit; no one had even seen a broken branch.

So when Qingquan brought back a Life Tree branch, it aroused everyone’s curiosity. Unfortunately, they were not professional planting masters and could not make anything of it.

“Originally, Senior Brother Qingquan brought it back to study whether it could be planted alive. In the end, after researching it for a thousand years, he still didn’t manage to find any result, so he kept it in his private storehouse as a treasure at the bottom of the chest.”

Once Qingyang talked about this, he got excited. His senior brother had studied it for a thousand years without figuring anything out, yet once it reached his little disciple’s hands, it had now begun growing leaves.

“Has it revived?”

“Replying to Master, no, it hasn’t. It only has a tiny bit of vitality.”

Yu Yu shook his head. The Tree of Life was not an ordinary spiritual plant. It should belong in the category of immortal plants. Even if it were to be revived, that was not something the current him could accomplish.

Moreover, Yu Yu did not hope it would revive now. The current him and Taizhen Immortal Sect could not protect it. A Fruit of Life that could extend a person’s lifespan by one thousand years—if outsiders found out about it, Taizhen Immortal Sect would become the target of every race.

All for the sake of fighting over the Tree of Life.

Taizhen Immortal Sect could still withstand one or two sects, but what about the races of the entire cultivation world?

So Yu Yu did not hope the Tree of Life would revive right now. At the very least, it would have to wait until he was able to protect the sect before it revived.

“That’s true. If it were so easy to revive, your Martial Uncle Qingquan wouldn’t have studied it for a thousand years only to still have a dead branch.”

Still, Qingyang had not expected Senior Brother Qingquan to give this dead branch from the Tree of Life to his little disciple.

Back then, when he wanted to take a look at it, Senior Brother Qingquan had watched him like he was watching a thief, terrified that Qingyang would steal it.

Honestly, he did not even have a wood spiritual root. What would he want this Life Tree branch for? As for looking at it, that had merely been curiosity toward the legendary Tree of Life.

How old had he been back then? Not even a hundred years old. He had never seen the Tree of Life. Was he not allowed to be curious?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. It absolutely was not because Qingquan’s attitude of guarding against him like a thief had made him unhappy.

Qingyang decided he would go find trouble with Senior Brother Qingquan in a moment and have a proper chat with him about how he had been treated like a thief back then.

“Master?”

Yu Yu looked at his huffy appearance and could not quite understand how this broken Life Tree branch had offended him.

“It’s nothing. You keep coaxing your senior sister. I’m going to find your Martial Uncle Qingquan.”

With a flash, Qingyang vanished, leaving Yu Yu to look helplessly at the empty space where he had disappeared.

“Master, at least give me back my Life Tree branch first!”

The hand he had stretched out had not even had time to retrieve the broken branch.

Forget it. Master would not lose his Life Tree branch. He would definitely return it to him later. It was just that Martial Uncle Qingquan might feel a bit pained. He hoped Martial Uncle would not ask him to return the Life Tree branch!

And then there was Senior Sister…

“Wuu…”

Lingfeng was still crying. However, she had gone from hugging Yu Yu’s hand while crying to hugging his entire person while crying.

Looking at his sleeve, now damp with tears, Yu Yu raised his eyes speechlessly to the sky.

Every time his master and senior brothers made Senior Sister cry, he was always the one who ended up coaxing her.

He was still just a child himself. Why did he have to shoulder such an important responsibility as coaxing people?

But aside from himself, when he thought of the whole row of men in their family who only knew how to anger people and not how to coax them, Yu Yu’s head hurt again.

When it came to making trouble, they were good at it. When it came to coaxing people, they were not.

They could only trouble the little disciple, or little junior brother, to coax her more. At worst, they would seize a few more resources and bring them back as compensation for Yu Yu.

It had to be said, the inheritance of the Holy Sun lineage was truly quite powerful. If Lingfeng had not been confined to the peak, she would also have been one of those making trouble.

Of course, Lingfeng being scolded into tears also had some of her own reasons in it. Who asked her to have the worst temper and be unable to sit still for even a moment? That was why she was always stepping into pits.

But for Qingyang, Lingji, and the others to restrain Lingfeng, they could only use force. Only Yu Yu needed merely to call out “Senior Sister” in a soft voice, and she would obediently sit beside him, not making trouble and not speaking. She would only prop up her chin in a daze, look at Yu Yu with a silly smile, then praise her little junior brother for being cute.

It could be said that to Lingfeng, her little junior brother was her fire extinguisher.

How cute was her little junior brother? He would call her Senior Sister in a soft, sweet voice. He would also save all the tasty and fun things for her. He was so much better than Master and their senior brothers.

They only knew how to scold her, and they did not really teach her much either. Unlike her little junior brother, who would softly and gently analyze for her why something could not be done, and why everyone would scold her if she did it.

Look at that difference. No wonder Lingfeng only listened to Yu Yu.

But it would also be a bit unfair to blame this matter entirely on Qingyang, Lingji, and the others. They were all men, and Lingfeng had not been that young when she became a disciple. A little girl had suddenly appeared among a group of men. They had no experience and could only treat her the same as everyone else.

Usually, they doted on her to the utmost, giving her whatever she wanted. If not for Yu Yu becoming a disciple, they really would have spoiled Lingfeng rotten.

After discovering something was wrong, everyone then went to the other extreme. However much they had spoiled her before, that was how readily they scolded her now.

If Lingfeng had not had Yu Yu, this junior brother, to accompany her, believe it or not, she could have been driven mad by her master and senior brothers. You people were all beasts!

Was this any way to be a master and senior brothers?

Either you indulged her with all your might, or you scolded her to death? The fact that she could still sit here properly now was definitely all thanks to her little junior brother.

Because Yu Yu could calm Lingfeng down, whenever they made Lingfeng angry or made her cry, they would stuff the little disciple, or little junior brother, into her arms.

Yu Yu, large-scale plush doll, professional coaxer.

Held in Senior Sister’s arms, he did not have the slightest improper thought. Seriously, why would anyone develop thoughts they should not have toward their own older sister?

Were they still human? They were worse than beasts, all right!

Yu Yu naturally would not develop improper thoughts toward his own older sister. Even if they were not related by blood, Senior Sister was still an older sister!

He gently patted her back, first coaxing her so she would stop crying.

Girls should not cry. Holy Sun Peak only had this one girl. Crying too much was not good for her eyes!

“Little Junior Brother, am I really that useless?”

Lingfeng asked through her sobs. Even when her senior brothers went out to seize resources, they only took Linglong. Her realm was clearly about the same as her brother’s, so why did they not take her?

It was not that she disliked staying on the mountain to guard her little junior brother. What she disliked was the feeling of being left behind.

“That’s not true, Senior Sister. It’s that our senior brothers want to protect you.”

Perhaps their senior brothers were not very good at talking, but their desire to protect Lingfeng had never changed. Seizing resources sounded easy, but doing it was hard.

Lingfeng was a girl. They did not want her to constantly live a life of fighting and killing.

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