Chapter 37 (Part 2)

Compared to going outside to seize resources, it was best for her to stay on the mountain and be taken care of by Master and her little junior brother.

On the mountain, she could eat the best spiritual fruit, drink the best spiritual honey, and enjoy cultivating in a place full of abundant spiritual energy. Was that not better than following them outside to fight and kill?

They were a group of grown men. They could live however they wanted outside, but Lingfeng was a young lady. They could not have her rushing with them through fire and wind, could they?

Even if Lingfeng did not mind, as senior brothers, they would feel distressed for her!

Yu Yu peeled the truth open and explained it to Lingfeng, letting her know that everyone still cared about her.

Even when they scolded her, it was only because they hoped she could become better. Having a bad temper was not wrong. Their master’s temper could not be considered good either.

But Lingfeng being unable to control her temper was not good. Cultivators with lightning spiritual roots were already fiery-tempered to begin with, and hers showed even worse.

Cultivation required one to endure loneliness. Right now, Lingfeng was only at Golden Core and could still continue cultivating. But once she reached Nascent Soul, she might go into seclusion for a hundred years at the slightest move. If she could not withstand that loneliness, Nascent Soul would be her limit.

Nascent Soul cultivators lived, at most, eight hundred years. Lingfeng was already a young lady over a hundred years old. Eight hundred years of life sounded like a lot, but in reality, to cultivators, it was only a matter of entering seclusion a few times.

They did not want the day to come when they emerged from seclusion and the news greeting them was that Lingfeng had passed away in meditation.

Qingyang was the same. Among his five disciples, the one he worried about most was Lingfeng, because this girl was far too unserious about cultivating.

Linglong was already at late Golden Core, while she was only at mid Golden Core. When they told her this, she would not listen, thinking she still had plenty of time and spending all day thinking of running outside.

Later, when Linglong reached Nascent Soul and she was still dawdling at Golden Core, maybe she would even blame her elder brother for not waiting for her.

With her original temperament, this was absolutely something Lingfeng could do.

Fortunately, they now had Yu Yu, this little disciple, or little junior brother. After he learned of his master’s and senior brothers’ worries, he did his best to keep her on the mountain and grind down her temperament.

Unless she obtained everyone’s approval, Lingfeng could at most stroll around within the sect. She could not step out of the sect’s mountain-protection array.

They did not even allow her to go to the immortal cultivation market at the foot of the mountain. The reason they used was that she should spend more time accompanying her little junior brother. Yu Yu had become a disciple over three years ago, and even after reaching Foundation Establishment, he had never gone down the mountain, much less visited the market.

Compared to Yu Yu, one could not even tell which of this senior sister and junior brother pair was the child.

Yu Yu, who was being treated as a child, smiled without saying anything. He would remember this account for now.

“So everyone was worried I wouldn’t reach Soul Transformation? Why didn’t anyone tell me? If they’d told me, I definitely would have listened.”

After listening, Lingfeng murmured to herself.

She had not expected everyone to be so worried about her. Thinking back, in recent years, she really had not been as diligent in her cultivation as before, and had even become somewhat lax.

Her elder brother, Linglong, had reminded her many times, but Lingfeng had let it go in one ear and out the other. She had not taken it to heart at all.

“Senior Sister, touch your conscience and ask yourself. Did no one really remind you?”

Yu Yu tilted his head and looked at her. What he said immediately made Lingfeng feel guilty.

No. Everyone had always been reminding her, but she had not cared. Or rather, she had always believed her talent was not bad, so even if she cultivated a bit slowly, it would be fine.

But cultivation was like rowing against the current. If you did not advance, you would retreat.

Lingfeng’s combat strength was actually already not as impressive as it had been ten years ago.

Before Yu Yu became a disciple, everyone had not discovered the problem. It was only after this senior sister and junior brother were placed together and compared that they suddenly realized it.

True obedience was not Lingfeng’s kind of temperament that exploded at the slightest spark, nor was it her lax attitude toward immortal cultivation.

Lingfeng had already been spoiled rotten and was only one step away from becoming unruly.

Fortunately, they had discovered it in time, leaving them with a chance to correct it.

It was just that their methods were a little overcorrected, and Lingfeng was not very used to them. At a time like this, Yu Yu came in very useful.

So I’m just a tool, right?

Yu Yu complained inwardly, but he still had no choice but to clean up the mess for his master and senior brothers. Fortunately, Lingfeng would listen to his advice.

“I’ve touched it. I’ll change in the future.”

Lingfeng said this while touching her chest. Although she said she would change, her expression was somewhat hesitant. After all, everyone knew the saying that one’s nature was hard to change. The moment she thought of having to sit dryly in a cave and cultivate every day, she had not even begun before she already regretted it a little.

“Senior Sister, if you don’t work hard, then after I ascend, you won’t be able to see me anymore.”

Yu Yu decided to give her some strong medicine. With his talent, ascending would naturally be no problem. It was only a question of how quickly or slowly it happened.

“What?”

Sure enough, Lingfeng was shocked.

“And Master and our senior brothers too. Their talents are all very good. Add hard work to that, and I believe they can also ascend safely. When that time comes, you’ll be the only one left in this world.”

Yu Yu’s words were like a heavy hammer striking Lingfeng’s mind.

“I don’t want that. I don’t want to stay in Holy Feather all alone.”

The moment she imagined being the only one left, Lingfeng immediately shouted.

She did not want to be left behind. Her world only had her master, senior brothers, and junior brother. But now her little junior brother was telling her that they would all ascend, and if she did not work hard, she could only be abandoned.

And all of this would be because she did not cultivate properly, so she would not be able to blame everyone for leaving her behind.

“Since you don’t want that, then cultivate properly! Together with me. How about it?”

Yu Yu’s words carried temptation, but Lingfeng could not care about that much anymore. As long as she thought of the image of herself being left behind, her heart felt as if it were being cut by a knife. It was too painful.

“I’m going back to cultivate. Little Junior Brother, when Master comes back, tell him for me.”

When Lingfeng said she would cultivate, she meant it. As soon as the words fell, she had already returned to her own cave residence.

“As expected, you’re the one with ways to deal with her. But Little Yu, what you said counts as fraud, doesn’t it?”

Qingyang returned from Medicine Peak and appeared behind his little disciple. He had heard everything the two disciples had just said.

“What did I defraud her of?”

Yu Yu looked at his master in confusion. Which part of what he had said was a lie?

“As your master remembers it, you cultivate in order to return to Blue Star.”

Qingyang was very unwilling to admit that his charm was inferior to Blue Star’s. He could not even keep a disciple.

“Master, have you gone silly? Since I can go back, why can’t I come back again?”

Yu Yu looked at Qingyang with an expression as if he were looking at an idiot. His master really had gone silly.

He could not even think of such simple logic. Yu Yu needed to go flip through the miscellaneous records of the Medical Sage and see whether there was any method to treat an illness of the brain that made one foolish.

“…”

Qingyang froze. Then his face filled with embarrassment. He had indeed forgotten. Run, run.

Looking at his master fleeing in defeat, Yu Yu shrugged. He took out a basket, intending to pick the azure jade peaches and crystal flowers that had wrapped around him during his enlightenment.

“The fragrance of top-grade spiritual fruit and spiritual flowers is way too good.”

Yu Yu smelled the fragrance of the peaches and flowers. He could not help first picking a peach and a flower, then eating them.

Not to mention, the flavor was superb. They were full of spiritual energy, and he even felt a slight improvement in his spiritual root.

“If I keep eating like this, will there come a day when I become a dual heavenly spiritual root?”

As Yu Yu ate, he began to imagine it. At the same time, he decided to increase the cultivation efforts for the other spiritual fruit trees as well, so that they could also become top-grade spiritual fruits.

He could not be the only heavenly spiritual root. Master, his senior brothers, and Senior Sister also had to become heavenly spiritual roots. They should share blessings together and face difficulties together.

After eating the spiritual fruit and spiritual flower, Yu Yu was not in a hurry to pick them. First, he went to cast spiritual techniques on the wind-thunder fruit, fireflame fruit, golden jade fruit, earth element fruit, and the others.

He was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator. The spiritual energy in his body was ten times greater than when he had been in Qi Refining. Originally, it had taken an entire day to finish casting the spiritual techniques, but now it only required half a day. Fortunately, there was no lightning tribulation from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, or his peach forest would definitely have been destroyed under the lightning tribulation.

Originally, the wind-thunder fruit and the others were already close to ripening. Then Yu Yu increased his spiritual energy input and used the Classic of Nature to push their ripening period backward a little.

In this way, the more spiritual energy they absorbed, the better the effect after they ripened.

Although they temporarily could not reach the level of top-grade spiritual fruit, they were still among the very best of high-grade spiritual fruits.

Yu Yu looked at the several spiritual fruit trees that were continuously absorbing his spiritual energy. Added to the planting method of the five elements generating one another, several of the spiritual plants all showed signs of evolving toward top-grade spiritual plants.

He watched as wind and lightning continuously drifted out from the wind-thunder fruit. These drifting wind and lightning actually struck directly onto the Five Element spirit fruits trees around the outside. The Five Element spirit fruitss received the force of wind and lightning, and the quality of the fruits actually rose by another notch.

Back then, planting the wind fruit tree in the middle of the Five Element spirit fruits trees had been the right choice. Not only did it have an effect of raising the wind-lightning tree’s quality, but at the same time, it could also use the force of wind and lightning to produce a refining effect on the Five Element spirit fruitss.

Yu Yu withdrew the hand he had been using to cast spells and tossed some upper-grade spirit stones around the several spiritual fruit trees. To begin with, the spiritual energy around his little bamboo house was already very dense, almost to the point of liquefying.

And he did not toss these spirit stones at random. Instead, he threw them down according to the positions of a Gathering Spirit Array. So now, the spiritual energy around the spiritual fruit trees had already begun to liquefy.

Spiritual liquid continuously dripped onto the spiritual trees, and the spiritual trees very quickly absorbed a large amount of spiritual liquid. The spiritual fruits on the trees gradually grew toward ripeness.

As the fruits’ colors grew deeper and deeper, Yu Yu took out an array disk and concealed the spiritual fruit trees.

“Done for. I didn’t expect the Classic of Nature to have such a good effect on spiritual plants. Spiritual fruits that originally still needed twenty or thirty years before they could ripen have now started ripening after being given special care by the Classic of Nature, along with sufficient spiritual liquid.”

Yu Yu scratched his head. Before his senior brothers returned, he did not dare pick the spiritual fruits. He could only wait until they came back, let them pick and eat the fruits right away, destroy the evidence, and then pretend nothing had happened!

Before that, this place had to remain concealed with the array.

This was different from the spiritual plants that had been ripened by the spiritual energy storm produced during his enlightenment. These Five Element spirit fruitss and wind-thunder fruits had been accelerated and ripened by him using the Classic of Nature.

That was why he needed to hide them so carefully and could not let outsiders know.

Feeling guilty, Yu Yu returned to the peach forest to pick his own peaches and crystal flowers. As for the Five Element spirit fruitss and the others, what did they have to do with him?

He picked while eating, and every now and then, he looked toward the direction of the Five Element spirit fruits trees.

This guilty conscience lasted until half a year later, when his senior brothers returned from the secret realm.

“Little Junior Brother, come out quick! Look what we brought back for you!”

Linglong’s voice arrived in front of Yu Yu one step ahead of him.

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