Ye Kong was sick. This news didn't cause much of a commotion in the Ye Residence. In their eyes, even if this idiot wasn't an idiot, he wouldn't be able to cause any big waves.
However, to Ye Kong, the injury to his soul wasn't a bad thing. For a reckless guy like him who didn't have a cultivation technique, he would train recklessly. In the future, with all kinds of cultivation techniques, who knew what would happen. This experience made him more cautious on the path of cultivation.
Three days later, in Ye Kong's room.
"Mother, I'm fine. I don't need to drink anymore." Ye Kong pushed away the bitter medicine bowl in disgust.
"Kong 'er, good medicine tastes bitter. You've just drunk it for three days and you're almost fine. Endure for another three days. When you're completely fine, we'll stop, okay?" Chen Jiuniang sat by the bed and advised.
Actually, Ye Kong was very clear that it was only his soul that was injured. His body was very healthy, and there was no medicine that could be ingested into his soul. It was much better now, because his soul had the ability to recover itself. Moreover, he had only overexerted himself, and was not injured at all.
However, Ye Kong couldn't tell his mother about this. He stared at the ceiling for a long time and realized that his mother was still holding the bowl. He could only helplessly take it, "Alright, alright. I'll drink it okay? Aiya, I'm really scared of you. "
After resting in bed for three days, Ye Kong felt much better. Just when he was about to get off the bed, he heard his mother talking to someone outside. The voice was getting closer and closer.
Ye Kong thought, could it be that someone is here to visit me? This Cangnan Continent is really cruel. A useless person like me has been lying in bed for three days and not a single person has come to visit. Who is it today?
"Creak ~" The long sound of the door turning could be heard. A tall young man in his twenties stood outside the door.
The person who came was Ye Wei. He was already twenty-six years old. He had already started his own government, married a wife and had children. He led the army to war and became Ye Haoran's powerful arm.
This Eldest Brother didn't take care of the idiotic Eighth Brother, but he was an upright person. When he encountered injustice, he would often come forward to help the poor mother and son. However, he was often out leading troops, and after getting married, he opened his own government office. He could help Ye Kong for a while, but he couldn't help the mother and son forever.
But in the heart of the idiot Ye Kong, he was already very grateful to this big brother. After all, in this mansion, he was the only one who didn't scold him for being an idiot, and he was the only one who would speak up for him.
"Big Brother." When Ye Kong saw Ye Wei walk in, he was actually touched. His eyes even turned red.
"Just lie down. I've been at home for the past two days. I heard about it as soon as I came here today, so I came to see you. I heard that you were conscious last time, but I didn't have time to see you." Ye Wei put down the dessert box and the small paper bag in his hand, walked quickly to the bed and sat down.
When he was on Earth, Ye Kong thought that he had a heart of stone. He wouldn't cry no matter what touching things he encountered. But when he came here, he realized that he was weak. The humans here were the ones with hearts of stone. No one would pity the weak and would only hit them when they were down.
But fortunately, there was a big brother who treated him well.
The two of them chatted for a while. Ye Kong said that he wanted to go to the school to study. Ye Wei told him that the teacher there was an old pedant who was very old-fashioned. However, Ye Kong was very good at poetry and literature. He told Ye Kong to study hard so that he would be able to get a scholarly title in the future.
Ye Kong smiled. He only wanted to learn how to read. He had no intention of studying hard to get a scholarly title.
After chatting for a while, Ye Wei felt that Ye Kong was really smart. He asked about the past and found that Ye Kong clearly remembered them, so he was more relieved.
"I heard from my father that it's too late for you to learn martial arts and prepare to study hard. So, I went to buy some brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone." Ye Wei was a considerate person. In Cangnan Mainland, the poor couldn't even afford brushes, ink, and paper.
"Thank you, big brother." Ye Kong quickly thanked him.
"You're welcome. We're brothers. Then I'll go back first. Eighth Younger Brother, rest well and study hard after you've recovered. You'll definitely make a name for yourself in the future. "After Ye Wei finished speaking, he nodded with a smile and left the room amidst Chen Jiuniang's endless gratitude.
"Eldest Young Master is really a good person." Chen Jiuniang sent Ye Wei off and sighed when she returned to her room. She put the brush and ink bag aside and opened the dessert box. She wanted to take some dessert for Ye Kong, but when she opened it, she found that there were no desserts inside. There was only a fifty taels of silver.
"Eldest Young Master is really a good person." Chen Jiuniang couldn't help but repeat it again. Then, she said to Ye Kong, "In the future, when you're successful, remember to repay his kindness."
"I know, mother. You should quickly put away the silver. Otherwise, Ye Cai and the others will see it and have bad thoughts." Ye Kong replied, but in his heart, he was thinking, Ye Wei will definitely take over Ye Haoran's position as the head of the family. Will he need a useless person like me to repay his kindness?
Chen Jiuniang didn't have such complicated thoughts. She happily took the silver and said, "Mother is saving it for you to marry a wife." Then, she went back to the room to put away the silver.
"Please, I'm only twelve." Ye Kong smiled bitterly.
After his mother left, Ye Kong laid down in boredom. He thought about the book in his head again.
"The Encyclopedia of Charms. Since it can enter my head, it must not be an ordinary thing … But, how can I open it? "
Ye Kong closed his eyes. He still couldn't forget about the Encyclopedia of Charms. He had a feeling that if he wanted to survive in this cruel and helpless Cang Nan continent, he could only rely on this book hidden in his soul.
But, he had already suffered a great loss. No matter what, he didn't dare to try it again.
The days passed. In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed. Ye Kong's damaged soul also gradually recovered.
Ye Kong's learning life began. Every morning, he would go to the school and come back at noon for lunch.
There was an old teacher in the government's school called Zhang Wude. His face was like a wooden door and he didn't like to smile.
In the beginning, Zhang Wude didn't have a good impression of Ye Kong. This was because he knew that Ye Kong was stupid. If he was stupid, why would he learn? Wasn't teaching an idiot insulting himself?
But later, he said that Ye Kong wasn't stupid anymore. But if he really wasn't stupid, then he should work harder. If he couldn't even open his eyes, then he probably wouldn't be able to learn anything.
But after a few days, Zhang Wude found that he was still wrong about him. Although this child looked lazy, he was actually very serious. He wasn't like those older children who always surrounded girls. He also wasn't like those children who played around. On the contrary, Ye Kong's words and actions had a maturity that didn't match his age. His eyes were like an adult's.
And more importantly, Ye Kong had his own views on everything. Although he would constantly use dirty words, he was very reasonable. He would often say a classic sentence, which made Zhang Wude very happy. He thought that he had met a good talent and wanted to pass on his knowledge to him.
But Ye Kong wasn't interested in those poems at all. He was more concerned about the anecdotes, such as whether there were Buddhism, Taoism, or Christianity in this world, whether there were immortals, where to find immortals, whether there were people who drew talismans, and whether there were ghosts.
And so on and so forth. Zhang Wude was also stunned. However, this old scholar was also very experienced. Not only did he read thousands of books, but he also traveled thousands of miles and worked as an official for many years. He knew a little about some things that mortals didn't know.
He told Ye Kong that there were no sects in this world, but there were immortals. To be precise, they couldn't be called immortals because they hadn't cultivated to become immortals. They were called immortal cultivators.
Immortal cultivators generally belonged to various immortal cultivation sects or families. However, these people concentrated on cultivation and disdained to interact with mortals, so it was rare to see them.
In addition to organized immortal cultivators, there were also some individual cultivators. However, most of these individual cultivators didn't have high cultivation because they didn't have a backer. When they were alone, they were often killed and robbed. Therefore, individual cultivators were very rare and usually didn't dare to show their faces.
Zhang Wude also heard that in addition to immortal cultivators, there were also devil cultivators. Originally, immortal cultivators belonged to the category of cold-hearted people, and those devil cultivators were even more terrifying. The biggest difference was that immortal cultivators killed people and robbed them of their treasures. Devil cultivators didn't need a reason to kill people.
As for the ghost and the talisman, he didn't know. After all, he had never cultivated immortal cultivation. He only knew some general situation and didn't know the details.
However, Zhang Wude still had a lot of books. Many of them were rare and exotic. Ye Kong liked to read these kinds of books the most. However, his understanding of the Cang Nan language was still very limited. There were many words that he didn't know, which affected his reading.
Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.
Early in the morning, Ye Kong tidied up and asked his mother to comb his hair. He changed into a clean long gown and took a brush, ink, paper and inkstone. He left the courtyard and went to the mansion's school.
Just as he walked out of the small courtyard, he raised his head and saw the housekeeper Ye Cai rushing in from outside. He looked as if he had encountered some urgent matter. He hurriedly ran in the direction of the inner courtyard.
"Fire? Or someone died? "Ye Kong snorted and continued to walk towards the school.
Just as Ye Kong left, he saw Ye Haoran neatly dressed. He quickly walked out with Ye Wei and Second Madam. There was an uncontrollable joy on his face.
The group of people quickly walked out of the main door. Outside the door, an old man with white hair and beard stood calmly. The old man only wore a long gown. His face was very ordinary and there was a small black and gray bag hanging on his waist. Such an ordinary old man could be found everywhere on the streets of Southern City. The soldiers guarding the door didn't understand why the Patriarch Ye Haoran brought his son and wife to personally welcome them.
"Aiya, the immortal master has arrived. Please come in." General Ye, who was usually very dignified, smiled like a blooming flower when he saw this old man.
"Oh, you're welcome. I haven't seen you in five years, and you're still as elegant as before." Perfected Wan Xuan smiled and exchanged greetings before following Ye Haoran into the extraordinary Ye Family's main door.
"You flatter me. I'm old. How can we mortals compare to the immortal master? I see that the immortal master is even more elegant than before. You must have had a breakthrough in your cultivation." Ye Haoran flattered as he walked.
Perfected Wan Xuan smiled bitterly. "General Ye, how would you know how difficult the immortal path is? Someone like This Old Man has basically reached the peak of cultivation. If he wants to break through again, he won't be able to go any further without some coincidences."
Ye Haoran heard Perfected Wan Xuan's emotional words and quickly changed the topic. "Immortals live long lives, much longer than us mortals. I believe that Perfected Wan Xuan will also have a fortuitous encounter."
Perfected Wan Xuan didn't want to talk more about his cultivation. He smiled and said, "Immortal cultivators do live much longer than mortals. Also, many immortal cultivators have techniques to preserve their appearance. You can't guess their age based on their appearance. When I first started cultivating, I saw a young man who looked like he was twenty. Who knew that he was an old senior who became famous five hundred years ago?"
"Haha." Everyone laughed along.
However, after hearing Perfected Wan Xuan's words, Ye Haoran and Ye Wei's eyes were filled with yearning for immortal cultivation. Ignoring everything else, just immortality alone was enough to make mortals envious.
Even Second Madam was very excited. If she could become an immortal and maintain her youth forever, how beautiful would that be? However, she also knew that Ye Haoran could let his son and daughter cultivate, but not his wife and concubine. One had to know that Ye Haoran wanted the Ye Family to be safe forever. If his wife and concubine went out and met some powerful immortal, it would be a small matter if they were cuckolded, but it would be the opposite of what he wanted.
Since she couldn't cultivate, Second Madam placed her hopes on Ye Wen and Ye Wu. As long as one of them became an immortal, wouldn't she be the first wife and concubine? Second Madam was definitely going to be the second wife!
Of course, she heard that immortal cultivation also required aptitude. Second Madam hated herself for not having more children. If she had hundreds of children, her chances would be much higher. However, it was clearly too late now. Thus, she had begged Ye Haoran to let her younger brother's daughter have her aptitude checked by an immortal.
Ye Haoran was reminded by her and felt that it was right. After all, immortal cultivation aptitude was one in ten thousand. If his own children couldn't be selected, then the children of loyal servants could. If an immortal appeared, they would be grateful to Ye Haoran for bringing them into the family.
Thus, Ye Haoran made two preparations. First, he and his children. If one of them had the aptitude for immortal cultivation, then there was no need to mention the substitutes. If not, then the second group would be the children of close friends and relatives, or the children of loyal servants who had sold themselves to the Ye Family (in other words, the servants who had been given the surname Ye).
Ye Cai followed from afar. Although he couldn't hear clearly what his master was saying, he was very nervous. He prayed that Ye Haoran's family wouldn't be selected. Only then could his son's substitutes go on stage. Hehe, if my son is an immortal, then I can do whatever I want in the Ye Family. And that Li Laosi, who told you not to have the surname Ye, you probably don't even know the news!
Thinking of Li Laosi, Ye Cai naturally thought of another person who didn't get the news, Ye Kong. Hehe, you fool. Who told you not to be popular? Who told you to make Second Madam unhappy? I won't tell you.
However, he thought it was okay to call that fool. Was Second Madam making a fuss? How could a fool have the aptitude to be an immortal?
At this moment, Ye Kong, who wanted to become an immortal, was still ignorant. He was still flipping through the book with Zhang Wude. He didn't know that a great opportunity to enter the Immortal Sect was about to slip through his fingers.
"Sir, why did Cangnan Strange Book only say that the mainland is surrounded by endless wilderness? What is there in the wilderness? Do immortals live there?" Ye Kong asked.
Zhang Wude shook his head, "I don't know. The wilderness is filled with danger. All kinds of demonic beasts run amok. No one can go deep into the wilderness. Even those barbarians who lived at the edge of the wilderness only dared to wander around the wilderness. No one knows the situation in the wilderness. No one knows what is at the end of the wilderness. I reckon immortals won't choose to cultivate there."
"Oh, so that's how it is. Then where can we find immortals?" Ye Kong didn't give up and asked directly.
Zhang Wude smiled and didn't blame him. In fact, there was a period of time when he also wanted to cultivate to become an immortal.
"Kong 'er, becoming an immortal isn't as easy as you think. Even if you go to their door, they might not accept you. To cultivate to become an immortal, one needs spiritual roots. Although there are only one or two out of ten thousand people with spiritual roots, there is actually an element of inheritance. For example, your Ye Family didn't have any immortals. Even if there were ten thousand Ye Family members, there wouldn't be one with spiritual roots. Don't even think about the path of immortal cultivation … "
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