"Who is it?" Old Ma asked.
"The ten-year-old genius girl, White Lotus, from the Bai family in the city."
Old Ma's expression changed, as if he took a deep breath. He frowned and said, "What are you doing? She's just a ten-year-old girl, not to mention she's a five-pillar genius, and she's about to become Hakushin Jinkun's disciple. You …"
His words suddenly stopped, as if he had thought of something. He looked at Lu Chen, his mouth moved a few times, but no words came out.
Lu Chen looked at him quietly. After a moment, he said, "Don't forget, I was only eleven or twelve years old at that time. As for the disciple of a Perfected Monarch, a five-pillar genius …" He smiled, with a hint of mockery on his face, and then looked up at the sky.
In the narrow and long sky above the alley, a white cloud floated across the blue sky.
Old Ma's voice sounded behind him, sounding a little bitter. He said, "I know, I'll look into it."
"Okay." Lu Chen responded, then walked out of the gate and walked into the distance.
…
The days in the Kunlun Mountains were peaceful and stable, just like the clear water stream in the Qingshui Pond back then. It flowed every day, so quiet that it was almost undetectable.
In the Fragrance Garden, Lu Chen had gradually become familiar with the situation here. With his gentle temperament, he also got to know many people here. Many of them were handyman disciples like him, and some were official disciples of Baicao Tang, who were in charge of this area. As for his own job, the Red Herring Ginseng, it was also growing well these days. It even looked a little more domineering. To be specific, the growth range of the ginseng grass around the Red Herring Ginseng had expanded a little.
Of course, Lu Chen did not feel sorry for the wild grass and trees that died because of the domineering Red Amber Ginseng. Anyway, Baicao Tang had already reserved enough territory here. The bigger the area where the ginseng grass grew, the better the Red Ambergris grew.
After that day, Su Qingjun came again. After seeing the vitality of the red ginseng, it could be seen that she was in a good mood. Although she was not really happy, her attitude towards Lu Chen had improved a lot.
However, compared to the spiritual fields in the Stone Pan Valley, the spiritual herbs in the Flowing Fragrance Garden were generally of a much higher grade, but they also took a much longer time to grow. The Red Amber Ginseng had already grown to its current size, but there were still at least three months before it could be harvested.
This kind of thing couldn't be rushed. Baicao Tang wouldn't do something like pulling the seedlings to help them grow. In fact, the current growth rate was already twice as fast as the growth rate of the wild Red Amber Ginseng. This was because human cultivators were meticulously nurturing them, using their spiritual energy to take good care of them.
However, as a result, Lu Chen was a little bored after finishing his daily work. But perhaps it was because Su Qingjun had said it once, although Lu Chen didn't lower his head and admit defeat at that time, from that day onwards, he never fell asleep in the spiritual fields again.
He began to wander around in the Flowing Fragrance Garden. However, because there were higher grade and priceless spiritual materials planted in the depths of the Flowing Fragrance Garden, part-time disciples like them couldn't go in for the time being. Therefore, the places he walked were basically in the grass garden.
The grass garden's territory was actually quite large, and there were many kinds of spiritual herbs and spiritual materials planted here. Over the years, there were indeed many part-time disciples who worked here. However, to Lu Chen, the people closest to him and the easiest to befriend were naturally the group of miscellaneous affairs disciples who had come with him this time.
After a period of time, he got to know the other nine out of the ten part-time disciples. The one he got along with the most was a twenty-five-year-old man named He Changsheng.
The name He Changsheng was very interesting. It sounded a bit rustic, but in fact, it had a great vision. Wasn't the dream of millions and millions of people in the world to live forever? Therefore, this name had long been overused by people. On the path of cultivation, immortality and becoming an immortal were practically the ultimate goals of all cultivators. Since ancient times, it seemed that no one had been able to achieve it, not even Deity Transformation Stage True Monarchs.
He Changsheng was also a very interesting person. He was a very diligent and down-to-earth person. He was very serious when dealing with people and had a good temper. In layman's terms, he was an honest person. However, he didn't know why his luck was a bit bad, so it seemed that He Changsheng's life was a bit unlucky.
A hundred years ago, He Clan was an outstanding clan in Kunwu City. However, thirty years ago, no one remembered it anymore. He Changsheng's ancestor was an outstanding figure. Moreover, he was a genuine Yuanying Spiritual Master of the Kunlun Party. He was all-powerful and proud, but his fate wasn't too good. During a great battle in the Land of Chaos, he died tragically at the hands of the cruel Devil Sect's demons.
The speed at which He Clan declined was quite shocking. No one knew the specific reason. In short, from the time when they were a great clan, no one knew the reason. In He Changsheng's generation, he unexpectedly had no connections to speak of.
He Changsheng loved to cultivate. Ever since he was young, he dreamed of restoring the glory of He Clan's ancestors and restoring the He Clan's reputation. He was very ambitious about this and prepared for more than twenty years. In the end, he sold all the family property left behind by his ancestors in exchange for an opportunity to see the Immortal Inspection Mirror.
However, fate was always full of malice toward honest people. The Five Elements Divine Disk in the Immortal Inspection Mirror gave him a head-on blow. His talent was so poor that he almost couldn't step onto the path of cultivation. In the end, he bitterly begged for a position as a part-time disciple that seemed destined to have no future. This position also completely emptied out the last of his assets.
"Is it worth it?"
That afternoon, when the warm sunlight shone on the spirit fields in the Flowing Fragrance Garden, Lu Chen asked He Changsheng this question as they sat side by side and chatted idly.
Lu Chen looked very serious. He even used his hand to lightly gesture and said, "If you give up on the idea of cultivating and rely on the two old mansions left by your ancestors in Kunwu City, you might be able to live a peaceful and stable life. Why do you have to suffer here?"
"It's not especially hard." He Changsheng had the face of an honest person. He looked very ordinary, neither handsome nor ugly. He seemed to have a good impression of Lu Chen. Perhaps because the two of them had almost the same circumstances, he became closer to Lu Chen. Therefore, he smiled and said to Lu Chen, "Besides, if I muddle along in Kunwu City for the rest of my life, wouldn't it be completely hopeless?"
"Hopeless?" Lu Chen shook his head. He looked at He Changsheng and said, "But I don't think part-time disciples have much hope. Since ancient times, I've never heard of a pillar disciple becoming a Daoist Yuanying."
He Changsheng nodded. He didn't seem to have any objections to Lu Chen's words. He said, "That's indeed very difficult. However, in our Kunlun Party, there's a kind of high-grade spiritual medicine called the 'Immortal Swamp Pill'. It's said that it has the miraculous effect of improving the innate talent of disciples with insufficient talent. Moreover, the less talented the disciple, the better the medicinal effect. "
Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh. He shook his head and said, "I've heard of the Immortal Swamp Pill you mentioned, but it's a priceless treasure. The spiritual materials needed to concoct it are all heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Throughout history, only wealthy and noble clans would occasionally ask people to concoct a pill for them. Moreover, more than half of the time, there's no effect." He then sighed and said, "It won't work if you pin your hopes on this."
He Changsheng was silent for a moment before he nodded and said, "You're right."
Lu Chen glanced at him and said, "What? Do you have other ideas?"
He Changsheng grunted and said, "Yes."
Lu Chen's interest was piqued. He smiled and said, "Let's hear it."
He Changsheng smiled and looked around. From time to time, he could see part-time disciples of similar status working hard in the spiritual fields. He stared at those figures for a while and said, "Our He Clan has been mediocre for three generations. If I still don't pull myself together, in the future, I have to continue the family line and have my own children. Don't tell me I'm going to let them live the lives of ordinary people?"
"If I'm destined to lie at the bottom of Kunlun Mountain like this for the rest of my life, unable to get up and standing up, and can only struggle and work hard in this spiritual field for the rest of my life, am I going to let my children suffer like this in the future?"
He Changsheng looked at Lu Chen and a rare bright light flashed in his eyes. It was a yearning and endless expectation for the future. He said softly, "If I suffer a little more in this Kunlun Mountain, I will eventually accumulate some things. In the future, my children will be stronger than I am now. Even if he still can't do it, as long as he continues like this, my grandchildren will definitely be better. If this continues for a long time, there will be a day when our He Clan will definitely prosper again. Don't you think so? "
He smiled and looked at Lu Chen, his eyes filled with the light of hope.
Lu Chen looked at him quietly. After a while, he said, "Impossible, you must be dreaming."
…
When Su Qingjun walked in from the outside of the Fragrance Garden, she hesitated for a moment when she reached the fork on the wide road. Finally, she decided to turn to the grass garden to take a look. The red ginseng that was currently being planted there was the main ingredient for refining a panacea. Her master, Masato Kihara, had already told her that once the red ginseng matured and grew, as long as the medicinal effect was good, she would personally ask Qian Deng, who was second to none in Baicao Tang, to refine that rare panacea. Once the medicine was ready, she could take the panacea and break through to the Jin Dan Realm.
The Jin Dan Realm!
She was only twenty-two years old. Such a young genius had never appeared in the Kunlun Party in the past two hundred years. Even though she had long been accustomed to her courageous and vigorous progress in cultivation since she was young, when she thought of the Jin Dan Realm, she couldn't help but yearn and be excited.
Two people walked over from the road, one old and one young. Su Qingjun recognized the older white-haired woman. It was Jin Dan Friar of Baicao Tang, Melaleuca Japonica. She hurriedly greeted her. Then, she saw that the young girl beside Melaleuca Japonica looked somewhat familiar. Soon, she saw the scar on the young girl's cheek, so she quickly knew that the young girl was Yi Xin.
That incident had caused a sensation in the entire Kunlun Party. Of course, she also knew about it.
She smiled at Yi Xin, and Yi Xin also smiled back at her. It seemed that on this sunny day, the young girl was in a good mood. It seemed that she had gradually walked out of the haze of the previous day.
After saying goodbye to Melaleuca Japonica, Su Qingjun walked towards the grass garden. But not long after, she suddenly heard footsteps behind her. Looking back, she saw that Yi Xin was also walking quickly towards her.
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