Chapter 49 (Part 1)

Soon, more than a dozen spiritual bamboo shoots were piled beside them. At that point, Yuanyuan stopped digging too. Instead, it plopped down on the ground, picked up a shoot, and peeled the husk with its mouth. Very quickly, the peeled shoot revealed its plump, pale flesh.

Yuanyuan bit into it. With a crisp crunch, Yuanyuan’s eating broadcast began.

Seriously, watching a giant panda eat really was appetizing.

How many people had watched one eat until they got hungry themselves? Yu Yu had once been one of them.

So while Yuanyuan ate bamboo shoots, he also took out some food and ate together with Yuanyuan.

He had to. He did not want to make himself hungry again by watching. Eating along with it made things much better.

Crunch.

Yuanyuan bit into the tender shoot again, and very soon, it finished off a whole shoot.

Yu Yu handed it a second one, already peeled.

However, he only peeled that one for it. It peeled all the rest by itself.

Yu Yu did not think that just because he was raising Yuanyuan, it ought to lose its beast nature, lose itself, and obey his arrangements.

On the contrary, Yu Yu respected Yuanyuan very much, and he also hoped to preserve its beast nature. That way, after Yuanyuan reached adulthood, it would still be able to live well if it left.

He had never thought of making Yuanyuan stay by his side for the rest of its life.

If Yuanyuan were already an adult bear, Yu Yu would have released it back into the wild. It was still a cub, which was why Yu Yu had kept raising it.

Once Yuanyuan’s strength grew powerful enough, it could return to the place where it and its mother had once lived. There was delicious spiritual bamboo there, as well as many spiritual plants.

Yu Yu had not discussed this with Yuanyuan yet, because he felt Yuanyuan was still young. The adulthood period of spirit beasts was also long. For all he knew, even by the time Yu Yu left, Yuanyuan might still be in its cub state.

Still, spirit beasts truly did have long lifespans. And although advancement seemed easy for them, it also restricted the speed of their advancement.

Take Yuanyuan, for example. The spiritual plants it had eaten alone would have been enough to cultivate two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

In the end, it was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining. It was still far from Foundation Establishment!

After eating the bamboo shoots, Yuanyuan took out another bottle of spiritual honey milk and hugged it while drinking.

It lay on the ground, holding the milk bottle with both paws, its little feet lifted to brace against the bottom of the bottle. That made drinking milk a little easier too.

Most importantly, it also sped up its milk-drinking.

In any case, under Yu Yu’s feeding, Yuanyuan’s fur had become much brighter than when it had first arrived at Holy Sun Peak. There was no longer any dusty little mud on it, only glossy fur that made people unable to resist wanting to touch it a few times.

However, the fur of an iron-eating beast was not as soft as other animals’ fur. But to the cultivators of the Holy Feather World, it was excellent material for defensive treasure armor.

Yes, everyone had heard correctly. The fur of an iron-eating beast could be used to make defensive treasure armor.

Iron-eating beasts ate anything, even mineral deposits. Perhaps because they ate so much, and because they were tough-skinned and thick-fleshed, the fur of an iron-eating beast was both soft and hard. If someone wore treasure armor made from it, even a Soul Transformation cultivator would have no way to kill them with a single sword strike.

Fortunately, the Iron-Eating Beast clan had quite good combat strength. That was how they had escaped wave after wave of cultivators who wanted to peel off their hides and make treasure armor.

Yuanyuan’s mother had died because of this. It was just that before she died, she fled back to her territory and said goodbye to her child.

No matter which world they were in, they could not escape slaughter.

Thankfully, the giant pandas on Blue Star had already gone from endangered to vulnerable. Otherwise, without their existence, the Huaxia people would have one fewer national treasure.

Ever since going down the mountain to the immortal cultivation market, Yu Yu had never left the mountain again.

Because everyone was cultivating desperately. The aura of tribulation lightning around Eldest Senior Brother Lingji was also growing heavier and heavier. His tribulation was not far off.

Yu Yu also wanted to advance to Nascent Soul sooner, so when he cultivated, he worked even harder than his senior brothers.

Of course, he did not forget to accelerate the spiritual plants in the little secret realm until they matured, then split them in half. One half was exchanged with the sect for resources, and the other half was distributed among everyone.

Although they were all high-grade spiritual plants, their effects were better than those grown by other planting masters. They were only a tiny bit away from supreme-grade spiritual plants.

As long as he was given a little more time, he was confident he could cultivate a vast field of supreme-grade spiritual plants.

Do not think high-grade spiritual plants and supreme-grade spiritual plants were only one grade apart. The difference between the two was like heaven and earth. The spiritual energy contained in supreme-grade spiritual plants was four times that of high-grade spiritual plants.

Even their effects were five times those of high-grade spiritual plants.

Once he finished cultivating them, he would have Senior Brother Sect Master distribute them to the various peaks. Even if he left afterward, the sect would still have supreme-grade spiritual plants to use.

He would leave the sect eventually. Giving someone a fish was not as good as teaching them how to fish.

As long as they cared for them properly, supreme-grade spiritual plants would not degrade. On top of that, spiritual plants had extremely long lifespans. It was not as though no one had ever seen a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual plant. They were merely rare.

Before he left, he had to make the proper arrangements.

Yu Yu had thought it through very well. It was just that everyone else had no idea he had such thoughts. They only sighed over how each batch of spiritual plants and spirit fruits sent over was better than the last.

Ever since their Little Martial Uncle took a master, when it came to spiritual plants and spirit fruits, the sect had already surpassed the other sects. Even sects like Medical Valley, which specialized in growing spiritual plants, could not compare to the Taizhen Immortal Sect.

However, Lingbao and the others kept this matter tightly sealed within the sect. The outside world only knew that the Taizhen Immortal Sect had gained a batch of disciples with decent planting talent, which was why their sect’s spiritual plants were no worse than those of other families.

In truth, how was it merely no worse? They were simply too good.

“Right now, I only dare send out spiritual plants and spirit fruits grown by other people for sale. The ones Little Junior Brother sends over can only be consumed by our own sect.”

Lingbao complained about the trouble with his mouth, but in reality, the smile on his face could not be hidden at all.

Little Junior Brother gave a lot, but there were also many people in the sect. Once everyone casually divided things up, there was nothing left.

As for outsiders, when they did not even have enough for themselves, how could they bear to sell any? There would not be the slightest benefit to the sect.

If they took them out and sold them, first, it would easily expose Yu Yu’s existence. Second, after distributing them outside, their own people would receive less.

Everyone calculated it in their hearts and knew this matter could not be done. Thus, Yu Yu’s planting talent was hidden from the outside world with extreme strictness.

Of course, what was hidden was only his planting talent. The rest was also somewhat concealed. The outside world only knew that Qingyang had accepted a young disciple with decent talent, and that he was also a medical cultivator.

Ever since Yu Yu cured Wushang, his name had spread throughout the Taizhen Immortal Sect’s territory. His medical skills even made many people come asking for treatment.

However, Lingbao blocked this matter very tightly and did not give outsiders any opportunity. He only said that Little Junior Brother was young, and the previous treatment had merely been a blind cat running into a dead mouse. It was nothing more than a coincidence.

Lingbao’s explanation was accepted by most people, and the number of people who came seeking treatment dropped by more than half. Only a small portion came seeking help while clinging to their final hope.

Looking at these people, Lingbao felt somewhat troubled too.

Still, he first had Martial Uncle Qingquan examine them. If Qingquan could cure them, then there was no need to ask Little Junior Brother whether he was willing to treat them.

If he could not, it would not be too late to ask then.

After Qingquan examined them, he discovered that he could only resolve some of the cases. Half still remained that he could not treat either, because he could not find the source of the illness.

At this point, Lingbao could only send Wuchen to find Little Junior Brother and ask what he thought.

Saving people could accumulate merit. Lingbao would not make the choice on Yu Yu’s behalf.

Since Yu Yu had taken the path of a medical cultivator, he could not keep hiding forever. He would have to face the world sooner or later.

Yu Yu thought for a moment and agreed. Holding his bonded spiritual weapon, which had turned into a tree branch, he went down the mountain to treat people.

As for why his bonded spiritual weapon was not in his dantian but instead held outside, that was also what made Yu Yu’s bonded spiritual weapon special.

Who knew which material had caused the problem, but Yu Yu’s bonded spiritual weapon only needed him to input spiritual power into it every day, and that was equivalent to nurturing it inside his dantian.

In this way, it actually gave Yu Yu a wonderful idea. Everyone else’s bonded spiritual weapons were nurtured in their dantians and were only summoned when needed.

But his bonded spiritual weapon was always outside. People would think what he held in his hand was an ordinary spiritual weapon and would not guard against it.

When something happened, he could use it to ambush people.

Oh wow, this mutation was truly excellent. No one would ever imagine that what he held in his hand was his bonded spiritual weapon. While everyone was guarding against his bonded spiritual weapon, he would be able to quietly use its second form to ambush people.

Who could have thought that the tree branch he held in his hand to treat patients was actually his bonded spiritual weapon?

It was even more impossible for anyone to imagine that his bonded spiritual weapon could have a second form. It could simply be called a divine tool for ambushing people, and it suited Yu Yu’s heart perfectly.

A mature spiritual weapon ought to know how to share its master’s worries.

Because Lingji was in seclusion, Lingbao had Wuchen serve as Yu Yu’s medicine boy, letting him protect Little Martial Uncle at his side.

“Haha, eldest nephew, I’ll have to trouble you to be my medicine boy today.”

After Yu Yu heard Wuchen’s retelling, he immediately burst into laughter.

Where in the world was there a Soul Transformation cultivator serving as an attendant? Fortunately, there were no outsiders here. Otherwise, the world would think the Taizhen Immortal Sect had gotten arrogant, using a Soul Transformation cultivator as an attendant.

“Little Martial Uncle…”

Wuchen looked at him helplessly as he laughed. Only after Yu Yu had laughed enough did he lead him to the temporary treatment point.

They did not know whether there were spies among the people who had come, so Lingbao would not let them into the mountain gate. Instead, he had a temporary shed set up outside the mountain gate as the treatment point.

Although it was only a shed, everything inside was available, and it could block wind and rain. The shed was built very large and was completed in half a day. The patients all lived in the shed. The sun outside was strong, and their bodies could not withstand being baked by it.

Before Yu Yu arrived, the patients and their families were all extremely worried, not knowing whether this legendary Little Martial Uncle would be willing to save them.

They did not want to stay here with such thick faces either, but they truly had no other way.

Even a Supreme Elder of the Taizhen Immortal Sect had personally taken action and been helpless. Who else could they find to treat their illnesses?

“This is my Little Martial Uncle. Because he mistakenly ate a vermilion fruit, he has maintained a child’s appearance.”

Wuchen was afraid that these patients and family members would see that Little Junior Brother was young and still a child, then misunderstand and think the sect had deliberately brought out a child to humiliate everyone.

Although the Taizhen Immortal Sect did not care about outsiders’ opinions, they did not want to invite trouble for Yu Yu.

“Yes. Many thanks to the little divine doctor for being willing to treat us.”

Everyone naturally knew the characteristics of the vermilion fruit. On top of that, Wuchen’s respect toward Yu Yu also made everyone clearly understand that the adorable child before their eyes was the rumored Little Martial Uncle.

“No need for formalities. Everyone, line up first. I’ll diagnose and treat you one by one.”

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