Chapter 51 (Part 2)

“Hehe, I’ve taken advantage of you again.”

Afraid that Little Junior Brother would see his worry, Lingbao temporarily cast aside his troubles and focused on talking with Yu Yu.

He knew Yu Yu did not care about these things, but Lingbao could not take them for nothing.

He decided that once he finished his tribulation and stabilized his cultivation, he would go outside and search for some resources Little Junior Brother could use. Even if their level was too high for him to use at the moment, he could still use them once his cultivation rose later.

In short, among the people who pampered Little Junior Brother, he would definitely have a place.

After picking the Purple Dawn Grass the next day, Yu Yu personally decocted the medicine and watched Jingxin drink it.

“Martial Uncle-Grandmaster, this medicine isn’t bitter!”

After Jingxin finished drinking, his eyes shone. It was the first time he had ever drunk medicine that was not bitter.

“Hmph. You’re not my enemy. Why would I give you bitter medicine to drink?”

Yu Yu spoke softly. The medicine he prescribed was never bitter. At most, the flavor was a little bland, completely different from medicine prescribed by other medical cultivators.

This was what surprised Qingquan the most. The medicinal effect clearly had not changed, but in terms of taste, it did not make people feel it was bitter. When Yu Yu prescribed medicine for children, the decoction was even sweet water, and even the smallest child was willing to drink it.

“Then has Martial Uncle-Grandmaster ever prescribed bitter medicine for anyone?”

After Jingxin came to Holy Sun Peak, he had learned quite a few things about Martial Uncle-Grandmaster from the menial workers. He did not think Martial Uncle-Grandmaster, who had only taken a master ten years ago, would have formed a grudge with anyone.

Martial Uncle-Grandmaster was so cute. It definitely was not his fault. If there was a fault, it was the other party’s.

“Of course. Disobedient patients should drink bitter medicine.”

Yu Yu smiled.

The medicinal effect was the same. Only the taste was a little worse. He was a medical cultivator with ethics and would not deliberately treat a patient badly. It was just that the process might be slightly more uncomfortable. The result was the same.

“Oh.”

Jingxin stopped asking. He had already guessed those people’s endings.

Last night, holding the jade pendant that Martial Uncle-Grandmaster had given him while he slept, Jingxin had not felt uncomfortable the entire night. He slept straight through until broad daylight.

By the time he hurriedly crawled up and ran toward the spiritual herb field, he found that Martial Uncle-Grandmaster had already picked the Purple Dawn Grass and was decocting medicine in the courtyard.

“You’re awake. Come drink your medicine!”

That was how the previous conversation had happened.

“Many thanks, Martial Uncle-Grandmaster. This disciple overslept today.”

Jingxin set down the medicine bowl and said this somewhat ashamedly.

“It’s fine. It’s understandable when someone finally sleeps well.”

Yu Yu waved a hand, not particularly minding. He had known long ago this would happen.

Jingxin had not slept well for ten years. Last night, he had finally not suffered an attack, so of course he would oversleep.

That was why Yu Yu had personally gotten up early in the morning to gather the herbs, incidentally letting Jingxin sleep a little longer.

This child had it difficult too. Being able to have a proper sleep was a rare opportunity for him.

Now it was fine. Under his treatment, Jingxin would only get better and better. Once he became Wuchen’s disciple, he would have to enter the world of kings of grinding and cultivate with all his might.

Because of his yin meridians, Jingxin had not cultivated again after he turned six. His cultivation was still at the first level of Qi Refining.

But once his constitution had been fully converted, his cultivation speed would certainly be astonishing. As long as he worked a little hard, he would soon catch up to his fellow disciples.

This could also be considered fortune and misfortune depending on each other.

After drinking the medicine, Jingxin continued learning medicine from Yu Yu. He could not cultivate right now, and aside from learning medicine from Martial Uncle-Grandmaster, he could not find anything else to do.

“This is a medical book I wrote myself. Everything on it is cases I’ve seen. Read through it more.”

Yu Yu tossed the book to Jingxin, then headed toward the peach grove. He had not yet completed his sword practice and cultivation for the day. Now he was going to make them up.

“Yes. This disciple obeys.”

Jingxin took the medical book and began flipping through it. Very soon, he was immersed in the book.

“Chirp, chirp!”

“Ying, ying!”

Yu Yu had just walked outside the peach grove when he heard one bear and one bird arguing. Occasionally, there were also sounds of fighting.

“…”

His feet turned, and he walked in another direction.

Break up the fight? Not happening. He did not want to be dragged over to judge who was right and wrong. Better to cultivate somewhere else!

At the very beginning, he had honestly tried to mediate, but the result was that he was wrong to both sides. From that, he knew it was best not to get involved in this kind of thing. Otherwise, the one put in a difficult position at the end would definitely be himself.

Thinking of this, Yu Yu shed a handful of bitter tears in his heart. This was all experience talking!

Yu Yu casually found a place far away from the bear and bird and began cultivating.

Yuanyuan and the azure spirit bird had originally been waiting for Yu Yu to come judge between them, only to wait until spiritual energy began gathering somewhere else.

They angrily turned their heads away and refused to look at each other. Then one lay under a tree, while the other crouched in the tree.

Papa Nanny was cultivating. They could not go over and disturb him.

They were no longer newborn cubs and fledglings who could not leave Papa Nanny. They had to be considerate of Papa Nanny. They knew Papa Nanny wanted to grow taller, and that was why he cultivated with all his might.

As Papa Nanny’s well-behaved cubs, they had to be sensible.

The little cubs began comforting themselves. Very soon, they had murmured themselves to sleep.

After all, they had eaten quite a few spirit fruits in the morning. Now it was just the right time to fall asleep and refine the spiritual energy inside their bodies.

After finishing cultivation, Yu Yu began practicing the sword again. First, he swung the sword one thousand times, then began practicing sword arts.

This was already something Yu Yu had to do every day. When he practiced the sword, every movement was very standard and very proper.

In Lingzhen’s words, it was too proper. Although the sword arts looked good, he could not become a sword cultivator.

After hearing Lingzhen’s evaluation of his little disciple, Qingyang’s expression became extremely strange. He merely patted his third disciple on the shoulder without saying anything.

Lingzhen was completely confused by his master’s action, but he did not have much time to think about it. His senior brother had already gone into seclusion, so he also had to go into seclusion. When he came out, he would be in Soul Transformation.

Seeing that both his senior brothers had gone into seclusion, Linglong simply went into seclusion as well. When he came out, he would also be in Nascent Soul.

So as long as one person started grinding, the rest would follow and grind along with them.

Yu Yu, on the other hand, did not need anyone to lead him, because he grinded harder than anyone else. It was just that he did not need to cultivate by entering seclusion right now. Otherwise, there would be no one to take care of the spiritual plants and spirit fruit trees he had planted.

Without anyone caring for them, he would have no way to exchange them for resources. At the same time, it would also affect Yu Yu’s cultivation speed.

So Yu Yu made himself a timetable. Aside from sleeping for two double-hours at night, the rest of his time was either spent cultivating or taking care of the spiritual field.

And honestly, the results were quite good. At the very least, relying on spiritual plants and spirit fruits, his cultivation resources could just barely keep up. Adding on the occasional side income he earned, he was not lacking resources for the time being.

Of course, as his cultivation increased, the resources he needed also grew more and more numerous. He had to think of ways to work even harder to earn money.

Fortunately, with higher cultivation, the spiritual plants he grew were also better. The resources he could exchange for them were also greater. This had already become a virtuous cycle.

Now, every half a year, he could produce a batch of high-grade spiritual plants and spirit fruits. As for those that were close to upgrading into supreme-grade spiritual plants, they needed one or even two years before they could mature.

Yu Yu was not in a hurry either. Once they advanced, the benefits he reaped would be even higher.

It was just that all these spiritual plants had been transferred into the secret realm by him. Outside, there were only ordinary high-grade spiritual plants.

Although his backer was powerful, supreme-grade spiritual plants were still very frightening. Even counting all the sect’s peaks together, there were only two supreme-grade spiritual plants, and both had been transplanted from secret realms by the predecessors.

One was on Medicine Peak and personally guarded by Qingquan.

One was in the sect’s secret realm. That was an Enlightenment Tea tree, an existence that could not be made known to the outside world. Enlightenment Tea that was useful even to Tribulation stage cultivators—one could imagine how many people would covet its existence.

In the outside world, one often saw Tribulation stage Daoist Lords fighting to the death over a few leaves of Enlightenment Tea.

If Qingyang had not told Yu Yu, he would not even have known his own sect had such a good treasure!

This was a top-tier spiritual plant not much inferior to the Tree of Life. If not for the fact that the cultivation world only had spiritual energy, Enlightenment Tea could even advance into immortal tea, and its effects would be a hundred times that of the cultivation-world version.

Yu Yu had spoken with Martial Uncle Qingsheng and taken back a section of an Enlightenment Tea branch to cultivate. After it survived, he planted it in the secret realm.

This was also an existence that could not be known to others, so only Qingyang knew about it.

As for the supreme-grade spiritual plant on Medicine Peak, it was a Tribulation Fruit tree. Eating it could increase the success rate of crossing tribulation.

However, the Tribulation Fruit only ripened once every three thousand years, and there were only ten each time.

After three thousand years, there were no Tribulation Fruits left. They had all been eaten by the elders.

Those who were confident in crossing tribulation did not need to eat them at all. Only those who lacked much confidence would eat them.

Three thousand years. How many people underwent tribulation in that time? So ten fruits were nowhere near enough to divide up. They had long since run out.

The sect did not withhold them. Whoever underwent tribulation first ate first.

However, people like Qingyang and Qingquan’s master had not eaten them, because their strength was not weak. They had complete confidence in crossing their ascension tribulation themselves.

Yu Yu had likewise taken a branch back to cultivate. He was preparing this for Lingfeng.

To be honest, he was somewhat uneasy about this senior sister’s strength. Other tribulation lightnings were one thing, but the ascension tribulation was the fiercest existence. With one careless mistake, a cultivator would be destroyed until not even ash remained.

Yu Yu had spent quite a bit of effort on this spiritual plant and used a large amount of resources as well. Otherwise, he would not be so lacking in resources.

The main issue was that these two spiritual plants loved eating his spiritual energy far too much. Yu Yu had to go in every day to feed them spiritual energy once. And they had not let down Yu Yu’s painstaking feeding. They were already one meter tall now.

Although they were still very far from maturity, Yu Yu could already see hope.

Of these two types of spiritual plants, one ripened once every three thousand years, and one could only be harvested once every five thousand years. Both were difficult masters to raise.

Fortunately, as his cultivation increased, his spiritual energy also increased, and the cultivation time was reduced accordingly.

Otherwise, Yu Yu did not dare guarantee that before he left, he could ripen both spiritual plants.

After finishing cultivation, he prepared to sneak to his master’s side and enter the little secret realm. He had to go cultivate the spiritual plants inside the secret realm.

“Heh. Look at you, sneaking around like a ghost. Anyone who didn’t know better would think you were some family’s little thief, even daring to steal from a Daoist Lord.”

When Qingyang saw his little disciple, he could not help teasing him.

“Master, aren’t you scolding yourself with that? If I’m a little thief, then as my master, what are you?”

Yu Yu rolled his eyes and could not help saying this.

“…Get in there.”

Provoked by his disciple’s words, Qingyang also turned hostile. Of course, with his beloved little disciple, even turning hostile amounted to nothing more than the word “get.”

If it had been Lingzhen and the others, he would have directly lifted his foot and kicked them.

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