Chapter 36 The First Stone Platform
Chapter 36 The First Stone Platform (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
It took Tian Lin more than two hours to finish the few dishes.
He did not put away the lunch box and dishes. Instead, he wiped his greasy hands with a felt cloth and then stepped onto the 55th stone step.
In the illusion of the stone steps, five second-rate masters surrounded him, laughing, and their mouths opened and closed from time to time as they said something to him.
Unfortunately, Tian Lin couldn't hear what they were saying in the illusion. From the first stone step to now, the people and things he met seemed like living people and seemed like he had entered a silent movie.
Suddenly, five second-rate masters rushed towards him.
Tian Lin raised his sword and slashed, and five second-rate masters fell to the ground.
"I now have more than seventy years of skills, right?"
The medicinal effect of Ruyi Fan Flower is very strong, but its medicinal properties will gradually weaken after consumption, just like the Soul Burial Pollen.
But Tian Lin increased his skills by more than 20 years in just two hours, which was an incredible progress.
According to his estimation, although the efficacy of the Ruyi Fan Flower has weakened, it can still help him continue to improve his skills.
As long as he continues to eat for a few more days, he will be able to achieve the status of a grandmaster.
After thinking about it, Tian Lin did not stop, but continued to climb the stairs one step at a time.
Finally, he stopped at the sixty-third stone step.
Then I heard footsteps coming down the stone steps above me, and then I heard a young man exclaim:
"It turns out to be Brother Tian, not bad. Yesterday it was only the 54th floor, but today you dare to go to the 63rd floor."
Tian Lin remembered the young man in white with the sword. He said yesterday that he was a supervisor in Jianfeng's menial service yard.
Tian Lin didn't know how he knew his name, so he could only say, "I haven't thanked you for your guidance yesterday."
The young man in white smiled and said, "We are all Huahualang who left our hometown to seek immortality. We should help each other. What is there to thank? But it's getting late. In order to avoid running into those bad-tempered outer disciples, I advise you to go down the mountain early."
Tian Lin was stunned when he heard this, then bowed and thanked him again.
After watching the young man in white leave, he thought for a moment and followed him down the stone steps.
He went down sixty-three floors, and when he arrived at the mountain gate with the food box, he saw Han Li meditating at the mountain gate.
Han Li seemed to sense someone approaching, so he opened his eyes. After confirming that the person was Tian Lin, he said, "I saw that you were practicing at the 60th level, so I didn't disturb you and came down to wait for you."
After thanking him, Tian Lin asked Han Li, "I just ran into the Jianfeng disciple from yesterday. He told me that it is very dangerous at this time of night."
Han Li heard this and said, "The young man in white you mentioned should be Bai Ye. He has mastered martial arts to perfection. As for the danger, it may be because of his prejudice against outer disciples."
Tian Lin frowned when he heard this. From what Han Li said, this man named Bai Ye did not have a good impression of the outer disciples and thought that they were all bad people.
But Han Li seemed to have a different opinion - however, thinking about Han Li's usual behavior, he is indeed a man with an open mind. Perhaps the world in Han Li's eyes is always sunny and positive.
"Anyway, it's getting late, let's go back first."
Although Tian Lin didn't know what kind of person Bai Ye was, he was a person with little sense of security and felt it was safer to go home early.
When they were going down the mountain, Han Li suddenly said to Tian Lin, "Don't worry about what happened during the day. You can go panning with me tomorrow morning. As long as you don't take too much, no one will say anything."
A lot? Even if Tian Lin took all the spiritual water in the river sand, he would still think it was too little.
When he reaches the Grandmaster level and is confident of defeating many enemies alone, it will be time for him to go back and renegotiate.
After all, he himself was very short of money.
Without silver, where can I find the Grass God Fish and the Three-legged Toad?
"Brother Han, you don't need to persuade me about the sand panning. If you really want to help me, can you help me find out what kind of meat this is?"
As Tian Lin spoke, he took out some cut bird meat from his arms.
It was pitch dark at this time. Even though there were lights on some hilltops, they could not illuminate the Daodao Mountain.
Han Li just touched it and said, "This looks like a bird's wing, but in my eyes, all bird wings look the same, so I can't tell what kind of bird it is." Tian Lin said, "This is the food of the green-dressed woman I met when I went up the mountain. I secretly picked off a small piece while she was away."
Han Li's face changed slightly when he heard this. He stopped and stared at Tian Lin, saying, "It is a taboo in the martial arts world to touch other people's food at will. Brother Tian, aren't you afraid that people will suspect you of poisoning them?"
"As long as you don't suspect that I'm going to poison someone, then it's fine. I haven't told anyone except you!"
The reason why he told Han Li about his "stealing food" was, firstly, to let Han Li know where the food came from, so as to facilitate Han Li's investigation; secondly, he hoped that Han Li would try his best not to be discovered by the woman in green clothes during his investigation.
He believed in Han Li's character, and after he told him the truth, he would take the initiative to help him avoid risks during the investigation.
"I can help you with this, but you can't do this kind of thing again in the future."
After Han Li finished his reprimand, he asked curiously, "Is there something special about this bird? Brother, why are you investigating it?"
Tian Lin said, "This bird doesn't look like spiritual meat, but the outer disciples are eating it. I think there must be something special about it."
Han Li felt that Tian Lin's guess was a bit far-fetched, so he didn't say anything.
He put the small piece of meat with bones in his arms and said, "I will take it to ask Second Mother tomorrow morning. She has worked in the kitchen for so many years and knows the cooks of each peak. I think your investigation of the 'Flying Bird' will not be difficult for her."
The two returned to the house without saying a word.
The next morning, a group of errand disciples rushed into the river amid the cries of partridges. This time, Tian Lin did not participate.
He still went to the kitchen to get food, and carried the food box up to the Wendao Mountain again.
To his surprise, the woman in green clothes whom he met yesterday appeared at the mountain gate before him.
She was still sitting on the mat, holding the bowl in her hands.
Tian Lin glanced at the food on her lunch box, but was disappointed to find that the dish was just ordinary "herbs".
Tian Lin was sure that he didn't stare for too long, but out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the woman's brows were slightly frowning.
Obviously, she not only noticed Tian Lin's arrival, but also hated having other people around her while she was eating, or even when she was not eating.
Tian Lin didn't dare to disturb her and went straight up the stone steps with the food box.
This time he went directly to the 63rd floor, opened the lunch box, and took out the food that had already cooled down a lot.
Just when he had taken two bites of the food, the figure of the woman in green clothes appeared below.
I saw her body was so light that she appeared at the 60th stone step in the blink of an eye.
Obviously, she also discovered Tian Lin.
But after just glancing at the food box in front of Tian Lin, he jumped directly to the 70th stone step.
Watching the woman in green clothes disappear, Tian Lin shook his head, ate a few more bites of food, and then began to meditate.
The medicinal effect of Ruyi Fan Flower is indeed much weaker, but Tian Lin digested it faster than yesterday, and brought more dishes than yesterday.
He ate so much and practiced non-stop that when he finally digested all the medicinal effects, it was completely dark.
"How many levels can we go this time?"
Tian Lin thought about it, then started climbing the stairs with his knife in hand.
He found that the higher he went, the more difficult the road became.
When he reached the 82nd floor, he finally stopped with a pale face.
At this moment, on the ninety-fifth stone step, four pairs of eyes were cast towards Tian Lin.
"Oh, so many of the Grandmaster's menial disciples have given up climbing the mountain. Unexpectedly, this time, a second-rate guy climbed to the 82nd floor."
(End of this chapter)