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Chapter 4: 004

Chapter 4

Medicine King Peak of the Jade Clarity Sect.

Layer upon layer, the Ling fields spiral up from the foot of the mountain, stretching as far as the eye can see. A gentle breeze blows, causing the closely packed Ling grass to sway. The air is so saturated with Ling Qi that it seems almost ready to condense into water.

At the foot of the mountain, first-year disciples sit cross-legged on the open ground.

This is the big class, specifically for teaching these new disciples how to draw Qi into their bodies. Disciples from the Dual Spirit Hall, Triple Spirit Hall, Four Spirit Hall, and Five Spirit Hall are all present.

Single Spirit Hall is not needed. Single Spirit Root cultivators can naturally draw Qi into their bodies and enter the Qi refining period before the age of three.

A refined man holding a bamboo stick slowly walks among a group of disciples, "Being able to pass the Spirit Stone test, your potential is already one in a hundred. Most people in the world don't even have a Spirit Root. The spiritual energy of Medicine King Peak is the most abundant. As long as you calm your mind, you will surely feel something."

Jian Huan feels that this is similar to the relaxation technique at the end of a yoga class.

In her previous life, she had an annual membership at a yoga studio. She was so reluctant to waste the money she had spent that she would go to the yoga studio whenever she had time. She could recite the yoga teacher's closing remarks by heart.

Jian Huan pondered for a moment, reciting that passage in her heart, calming herself down, feeling the spiritual energy in the air, getting closer to it bit by bit, summoning it, inviting it to visit her Dantian...

Yu Qing, the elder in charge of the first-year students, paused when he passed by Jian Huan, somewhat surprised.

How long has it been, and this disciple has already succeeded??

There was no news of any particularly outstanding cultivators among this year's multi-Spirit Root disciples.

Yu Qing took a few more glances at Jian Huan, remembered her, harshly reprimanded a few disciples who were fidgeting, and floated over when he saw Jian Huan open her eyes.

Yu Qing smiled and asked, "How is it, have you succeeded?"

Feeling the slight warmth in her Dantian, Jian Huan was also very happy, "Yes, Elder Yu."

Yu Qing nodded approvingly, "What's your name?"

"Jian Huan."

"Very good, Jian Huan." Yu Qing's eyes narrowed into slits when he smiled, "Then you can tell everyone how you did it."

Jian Huan: "......"

Under the encouraging gaze of Elder Yu, Jian Huan stood before everyone.

A hundred people looked at her in unison, their eyes, big and small, shining with the light of curiosity.

Gong Feihong even waved at her, proudly showing off to his classmates, "This is my friend - ow!"

A bamboo stick whizzed through the air, hitting him squarely. Gong Feihong let out a cry of pain and dared not speak anymore.

This elder looks so kind and gentlemanly, but his punishments are too painful!

On the stage, Jian Huan cleared her throat and began to share her experience, "This is how it is, I have a mantra. Please sit comfortably, close your eyes, and follow my mantra."

Elder Yu was watching from the side, his bamboo stick floating up and down in the air, seeming very excited. Everyone else dared not have any other thoughts and obediently followed Jian Huan's instructions.

Jian Huan also closed his eyes, slowed down his speech, and softly said word by word, "Please everyone, observe your breath. With each breath, the fatigue and tension in your body can be reduced a bit more. Each exhale can relieve your tension, fatigue, and anxiety; each inhale can absorb more rich spiritual energy. As your breath deepens, your body becomes more and more relaxed, as light as a feather." *Note 1

".... At this moment, you are sitting in the middle of a vast medicinal field. The sky is clear today, the deep blue sky is without a single cloud, and #30340 geese are leisurely grooming their white feathers in the distance. The breeze blows, the spiritual grass sways, waves of spiritual energy rush towards you, surrounding you, entering through your mouth and nose, your skin, and gradually gathering in your dantian (energy center)." *Note 2

As the tail of the sound falls, Medicine King Peak returns to tranquility.

Jian Huan opened his eyes and looked curiously down.

Quite a few classmates have entered meditation, presumably successfully guiding the energy into their bodies.

Of course, there are also some, uh, who have fallen asleep...

Their little heads are nodding, and what's even more outrageous is that after a while, there are even snoring sounds!

Elder Yu squinted his eyes and looked over, the bamboo stick in the air was as fast as a green lightning, hitting the sleeping disciples, waking everyone instantly, screaming in pain, crying and calling their mothers.

In Jian Huan's eyes, there was only sympathy.

Today's lunch was still hosted by Gong Feihong.

Gong Feihong kept putting food into Jian Huan's bowl, his joy was overflowing, "Your mantra really works, I meditated immediately and successfully guided the energy into my body!"

The Gong family has many resources and has been nurturing Gong Feihong from a young age. But unfortunately, Gong Feihong's aptitude is too poor, he has been unable to enter the Qi Refining stage for many years.

Seeing that his cousins and sisters at home have surpassed him, he couldn't stand it any longer and came to the Jade Clarity Sect for cultivation.

Unexpectedly, in just a few days, he made it!

Hu Zhi had a different feeling in his heart.

He was one of those who fell asleep, and his body was still hurting from being hit by Elder Yu's bamboo stick.

Hu Zhi added another grudge against Jian Huan, waiting for a chance in the future to return the favor.

Seeing Gong Feihong still hanging around Jian Huan, Hu Zhi was unhappy and changed the subject, "Tomorrow we have to submit our aspiration letters to Elder Yu, Feihong, Jian Huan, have you thought about what you want to cultivate?"

Gong Feihong hardly hesitated, "Of course, Beast Taming."

The Gong family rose to power by taming beasts, and the ancestor of the Gong family is seated in the Beast Taming Sect.

In the entire cultivation world, the strongest in Beast Taming is in the Beast Taming Sect, followed by the Jade Clarity Sect.

But there are too many relatives and friends in the Beast Taming Sect, Gong Feihong didn't want to go there. After all, as the least talented direct descendant of the family, he felt he was a disgrace.

Having had his fill, Jian Huan leaned back in his chair casually, meeting Gong Feihong's curious gaze, he answered, "Talisman Cultivation."

Jian Huan's biggest goal right now is to get out of poverty.

The three most lucrative industries in the cultivation world are Talisman Cultivation, Artifact Cultivation, and Pill Cultivation.

In her past life, Jian Huan was a graphic artist. Given the choice between three options, she would undoubtedly choose Fu Xiu.

After some idle chatter, Jian Huan took the packaged spiritual food and hurried out of the dining hall.

Around the corner of the road outside the Equipment Forging Hall, there was a camphor tree.

Before even getting close, one could smell its faint fragrance, rich and intoxicating.

The afternoon sunlight draped over this thousand-year-old tree, its lush greenery vividly displaying the vitality of summer.

Summers in past years had been unbearable without air conditioning.

In the Jade Clarity Sect, although there was no air conditioning, the spiritual energy permeated every corner. Even under the sun, the temperature was comfortable.

Jian Huan passed lightly under the camphor tree. Just around the corner, she saw two people standing under another tree.

One tall, one short; a man and a woman.

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"!!" Jian Huan immediately turned around, hiding on the other side of the tree, crouching and eavesdropping.

A particularly pleasing female voice slowly came over, clearly tinged with nervousness and shyness: "Shen... Brother Shen, these are some spiritual foods, for... for you!"

As the words fell, the girl extended her hands, holding the sandalwood box filled with spiritual food high in front of Shen Jizhi.

Shen Jizhi stepped back three steps, his handsome face as cold as ice, his tone filled with impatience: "Stop coming to find me, I've told you I don't need it."

The girl's face turned pale instantly, but she still stubbornly held out the box: "Brother Shen, I... I have no other intentions, just heard from other senior brothers and sisters that you're having a hard time, so I..."

Shen Jizhi's patience completely ran out: "Can't you understand my words? Stop bothering me, don't disturb me, I don't have time to waste with you. Take back your sympathy and kindness, I don't need it."

Behind the tree, Jian Huan painfully covered her ears, unable to bear listening any longer.

Shen Jizhi must have a screw loose in his head.

He's rejecting the main female character! In three years, when she comes to her senses, he'll regret it.

Jian Huan was frustrated.

Jiang Qiaoqiao was extremely embarrassed, but looking at the face she had never forgotten, she was still very persistent: "Brother Shen, I'm just afraid you'll go hungry..."

Shen Jizhi was too annoyed to be angry.

These past few days, he'd always 'coincidentally' run into this junior sister.

He closed his eyes, walked a wide circle around Jiang Qiaoqiao, and ended up on the other side of the tree, staring eye to eye with Jian Huan.

Jiang Qiaoqiao followed him, and when she saw Jian Huan, her extremely beautiful face showed surprise.

Shen Jizhi extended his hand towards Jian Huan.

Jian Huan looked at him, then at Jiang Qiaoqiao, quickly handed the food box in her hand to Shen Jizhi, made a 'six' gesture with her hand, and without waiting for Shen Jizhi to speak, she turned and ran off.

Well, this kind of dramatic scene was not really her style.

In the future, if Gong Feihong invited her for a meal, she would advise him to order less and not deliver it to Shen Jizhi.

She would stay out of the business between the main female character and Shen Jizhi.

If she had known, she wouldn't have eavesdropped. Human curiosity, indeed.

Jian Huan ran while reflecting on herself.

Shen Jizhi stood in place, frowning as he watched Jian Huan run away.

He didn't quite understand why it used to cost five spirit stones, but today it costs six?

Behind him, Jiang Qiaoqiao bit her lip, various speculations swirling in her heart.

What was the relationship between Brother Shen and the female cultivator who just ran away?

She wanted to know, but her lips felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, unable to open.

If that was the case, what should she do? It's better not to know...

Jiang Qiaoqiao hurriedly spoke, "Brother Shen, since you have food, then I, I will leave..."

Shen Jizhi stared at her intently, as if he could see through her heart, "Hmm, the one just now is my fiancée. You can leave, and don't come back in the future."

Something in Jiang Qiaoqiao's eyes extinguished in an instant.

At night, Jian Huan knelt by the bed, flipping through the account book.

Seeing that Shen Jizhi's new record included six spirit stones, she finally lay down with relief.

Today's spiritual food had an extra pig's trotter, so it was more expensive.

Shen Jizhi spent the day doing various chores to earn spirit stones, without time to cultivate.

At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged on the futon, inhaling and exhaling.

Jian Huan was about to sleep, but seeing this, she got up again to meditate and consolidate her cultivation.

She had just started to cultivate today, and her Qi Refining stage was not yet stable.

Half an hour later, while Jian Huan was still in meditation, Shen Jizhi opened his eyes.

He instinctively looked towards the bed and was slightly taken aback, "You've started Qi Refining?"

Jian Huan opened her eyes and nodded, "Yes."

Shen Jizhi: "......"

She had no cultivation base yesterday, and today she had entered the Qi Refining stage.

It had only been a day.

It took him seven years to start Qi Refining.

Shen Jizhi didn't want to talk, deciding to practice for another hour.

The person who was about to rest started meditating again.

Jian Huan was shocked, "It's so late, aren't you going to sleep?"

They, the Qi Refining stage weaklings, needed to sleep and eat.

Shen Jizhi: "You sleep."

As soon as he finished speaking, he extinguished the candle in the room.

Jian Huan: "......"

Jian Huan couldn't roll over, so she lay back and planned to sleep.

But she remembered something, "Shen Jizhi, can't we build another room?"

Shen Jizhi: "No."

Jian Huan was puzzled, "Why?"

Shen Jizhi: "Where will the wood come from?"

Jian Huan had an idea, "They sell wood in Approaching Immortal City, we can pick a day to go buy."

She still had more than eighty spirit stones in her pocket, which could be exchanged in Approaching Immortal City. One spirit stone could be exchanged for ten taels of silver, enough to buy a lot of things.

Jian Huan had just joined the Jade Clarity Sect not long ago, and there were many things she didn't know. Her ideas seemed naive to Shen Jizhi.

He explained to her in a flat, mechanical tone, "The Jade Clarity Sect has a spirit gathering array, and the wood for the houses within the array must be spirit wood. The wood sold in Approaching Immortal City is for ordinary people's use, and cannot be used within the sect."

And the price of spirit wood, neither he nor she could afford.

"......" Jian Huan silently covered her chest and suddenly got up.

Aliali: 674546a8c4f3f33ac44c92acSleep? She needed to cultivate! She had to grow up quickly, earn money, and buy a house!

Sensing her movement, Shen Jizhi: "......"

The room fell into silence. After a while, Jian Huan suddenly asked, "Where did you get the timber for this wooden house?"

Shen Jizhi paused for a moment before replying, "I took it apart from Thunder Sword Peak."

Jian Huan knew that Shen Jizhi had rented out Thunder Sword Peak to the elder of Beast Taming Peak next door to raise spiritual beasts.

"What about the excess timber?"

Thunder Sword Peak must be quite large, so there should be a lot of wood to dismantle.

Shen Jizhi: "I sold it."

Jian Huan: "......"

As expected, she was not surprised at all.