Chapter 99: Peak Disciple and Spiritual Rice
Chapter 99: Peak Disciple and Spiritual Rice
Tian Lin did not go directly to the top of the mountain to find Elder Xiao, but went to Xiao Hong's residence.
He guessed that Elder Xiao was probably with Xiao Hong, and sure enough, he heard the quarrel between the grandfather and grandson in the courtyard.
"Since the sect has long wanted to cultivate blood qi, why didn't they say it earlier? And why did they have to wait until Senior Brother Lu died and all the Lu family members were gone before they divided the disciples into red-robed disciples and white-robed disciples?"
This was asked by Xiao Hong. She probably had a lot to say on Yuechi Mountain.
But because of some concerns, he did not question Xing Tongtian in person.
"The sect needs to distribute blood pills to menial disciples, so there must be enough corpses to refine the blood pills. But Xing Tongtian was right. Those clan members and noble families did not die unjustly."
Elder Xiao replied, and said to Tian Lin outside the fence: "Why are you coming to my Baihua Peak instead of going to Lianshui Peak?"
When Tian Lin heard the grandfather and grandson arguing, he did not hide away, but stood outside the fence with confidence.
Hearing Elder Xiao asking him a question, he bowed outside the fence and said:
"My master gave me a piece of iron yesterday, saying that if I still want to stay in Yaoyue Sect, I should come and ask Elder Xiao to take me in."
Elder Xiao raised his hand and the piece of iron in Tian Lin's hand instantly fell into Elder Xiao's hand.
Elder Xiao held the iron sheet in his hand and sneered, "He wants me to help him take care of his apprentice after the iron is broken so quickly?"
Xiao Hong on the other side also understood Elder Xiao's difficulties, and her anger just now was not directed at Elder Xiao.
Therefore, she also came close to Elder Xiao, looked at the ordinary piece of iron and said:
"What is this thing? It doesn't look like a treasure."
"Of course this is not a treasure, it's just an ordinary piece of rotten iron."
Elder Xiao said this, but put the piece of iron into his sleeve.
Hearing him sigh, he said to Xiao Hong:
"At the beginning, I, your Grandpa Liu, and Grandpa Xing were all just inner disciples. At that time, we left the sect to look for opportunities, and found the ancient tomb of a Blood Sect foundation-building master in a cave.
But there wasn't enough to go around, so he gave the spirit stones to your grandfather Xing, the magic weapon to me, and he only took this piece of rotten iron."
Xiao Hong was surprised when she heard this: "Is Elder Liu so generous?"
Elder Xiao said: "He is only interested in the Golden Elixir Path, and he is willing to give up everything else. You don't know that the position of the head of the Yaoyue Sect was originally his, but he gave it to Xing Tongtian."
After saying this, Elder Xiao turned to look at Tian Lin and said, "I can keep you at Baihua Peak. It just so happens that my Baihua Peak is in need of a peak-master disciple."
Tian Lin was shocked and said, "How can I, a disciple of humble ability, take the position of the head disciple of the peak?"
Elder Xiao sneered, "You can practice the Wind Walking Technique and the Dragon Elephant Magic to the great perfection, which shows that you have extraordinary comprehension. However, your cultivation is indeed not high, and these two spells consume too much true energy.
In the competition next month, if someone comprehends a spell that is not weaker than yours and has a higher level of cultivation than you, I’m afraid you won’t be his opponent.”
In a month, Tian Lin is fully confident that he can improve his cultivation by several levels.
Now that he had obtained Elder Xiao's promise, he could finally go climbing Mount Daodao with peace of mind.
"Okay, you can leave now. Your Senior Sister Xiao will ask the errand disciples to build a new house for you. You can move to Baihua Peak tomorrow."
After hearing what was said, Tian Lin respectfully bowed to Elder Xiao, bowed to Xiao Hong, and then left tactfully.
He had no plans to move to Baihua Peak for the time being. The biggest reason why he stayed in Yaoyue Sect was that he couldn't bear to leave the illusion of Mount Dao.
For the next ten days, Tian Lin did not go to Baihua Peak. He spent all day immersed in the illusion of Wendao Mountain, and his cultivation finally reached the ninth level of Qi Refining.
When Tian Lin came out of the illusion on the tenth stone steps, he saw several outer disciples in white sitting on the tenth and twelfth stone steps.
They were obviously waiting for Tian Lin. When they saw Tian Lin appear, one of them couldn't help but sneered and said, "Is this the head disciple of our Baihua Peak?"
"With such a peak disciple, won't our Baihua Peak be bullied by others in the future?"
They mocked him, but Tian Lin was not angry. He just asked him, "What do you want, fellow apprentices?"
Hearing Tian Lin calling them "junior brothers", these disciples were almost furious.
"Today is the day to receive spiritual rice and spiritual stones. We, the 'junior brothers', would like to respectfully ask the 'senior brother' who heads the peak to help us receive spiritual stones and spiritual rice."
When Tian Lin was at Lianshui Peak, Liu Yunjiu was always the head disciple.
But Liu Yunjiu likes to go out and look for opportunities, so the one who receives spirit stones and spirit rice from Lianshui Peak is not the peak chief disciple.
Besides, Tian Lin himself had never received any spiritual stones or spiritual rice, so he was not clear about the duties and responsibilities of the head disciple.
"How many spirit stones and spirit rice did the sect give us this time?"
"Haha, it's still the same old rules - ordinary outer disciples, of course, get two spirit stones and half a pound of spirit rice."
The disciple who was speaking changed the subject: "But you, the peak master, are different. You are the peak master disciple, so you have five spirit stones and one pound of spirit rice."
Tian Lin then realized that the reason these disciples were dissatisfied with him was not entirely because of status and face issues, but also involved their monthly benefits.
Tian Lin didn't want to argue with others, but he also didn't want to give up his interests.
He clasped his fists with the white-robed disciples and said, "Please wait for a moment, fellow disciples. I will go to Yuechi Mountain to collect my monthly salary."
Seeing Tian Lin taking it for granted that he was fulfilling his duties as the head disciple, the outer disciples followed him down the mountain and complained openly:
"I really don't know what Elder Liu was thinking. He chose a person who had just entered the sect as the head disciple. Has he reached the sixth level of Qi Refining?"
"Haha, who told him to go to Baihua Peak first? At that time, there were only Junior Sister Xiao and Junior Sister Han on Baihua Peak—
Junior Sister Xiao didn't care about the orders of the head disciple, and Junior Sister Han went out of the sect to seek medical treatment. At that time, there was no one on Baihua Peak, so this kid took advantage of the opportunity. "
These outer disciples were not originally from Baihua Peak, but after Yaoyue Sect divided the disciples into white-clothed disciples and red-clothed disciples, in order to avoid conflicts between the two sides, the red-clothed disciples occupied the three peaks, while the white-clothed disciples occupied Baihua Peak and Yao Peak.
The head disciple of Baihua Peak is Tian Lin, while the head disciple of Yao Peak has not changed and is still Zhuang Buzhou.
Tian Lin didn't know who the head disciple of Lianshui Peak was. As he didn't know the rules for the head disciple to receive spirit stones and spirit rice, he was the last one to arrive at Yuechi Mountain.
The inner sect disciple over there checked Tian Lin's information and gave Tian Lin a bag of spirit stones and a bag of spirit rice.
Tian Lin put the spiritual stones and spiritual rice into the storage bag and then went down Yuechi Mountain.
Yuechi Mountain is close to Lianshui Peak, and on the river bank in front of the Lianshui Peak Mining Institute, no one is seen panning for water minerals.
Tian Lin only vaguely saw that several students from the Mining Academy were sitting under the bamboo corridor, sitting cross-legged in meditation.
The Mining Academy disciples did not stand up when they saw Tian Lin. Only Zhao Si came over and bowed to Tian Lin and said:
"Brother Tian, I haven't seen you for a while. How have you been recently?"
Nowadays, menial disciples also address outer disciples as brothers and sisters, and we can no longer go back to the time when menial disciples called outer disciples "masters".
Tian Lin didn't feel disappointed. He smiled and asked, "I'm fine. How are you guys doing now?" Zhao Si sighed, "Everyone practices every day, but even if they have blood pills to eat, it's not that easy to break through. Fortunately, everyone now has a wish."
Tian Lin patted Zhao Si on the shoulder and said, "Work hard. When you become an outer disciple, you will have more blood pills."
This is actually nonsense, because even if these menial disciples have blood pills to eat, they still start much later than the outer disciples.
How many of these menial disciples can really become outer disciples?
Therefore, in the life and death arena next month, Tian Lin’s competitors will still be those outer disciples.
As long as he can ensure that his ranking is within the top 60, he can keep his status as an outer disciple.
As for the identity of inner disciples?
Even if Xing Shanping was imprisoned, the inner disciples in the sect were all people who practiced high-quality magic.
Tian Lin is not yet confident that he can defeat those who have practiced high-quality magic just by perfecting the Wind Movement Technique.
After he reached Baihua Peak, the seven outer disciples of Baihua Peak had been waiting for a long time.
Those outer disciples looked at the storage bag on Tian Lin's waist, and it would be a lie to say they were not jealous.
But now no one jumped out to mock Tian Lin, and everyone was waiting for Tian Lin to distribute spirit stones and spirit rice.
Over there, Xiao Hong brought a scale from the house. While she was weighing the rice for Tian Lin, she asked Tian Lin:
"Brother Tian, have you made any breakthroughs recently?"
Xiao Hong wanted to find out, so Tian Lin had no intention of hiding it from her.
"Thanks to Elder Xiao, I have now reached the ninth level of Qi Refining."
The outer disciples who received the spiritual rice sneered when they heard this: "Ninth level of Qi Refining? The disciples who eat blood pills can't cultivate as fast as you, right?"
Tian Lin did not explain. Xiao Hong glared at the outer disciple and said, "My grandfather said that Junior Brother Tian's talent for cultivation is even stronger than Zhong Wuji's. Maybe one day he can really become an inner disciple by climbing mountains—"
Several outer disciples didn't believe it, but they didn't refute Xiao Hong and seek trouble.
They took the spiritual rice and spiritual stones, bowed to Xiao Hong, and turned to leave.
Tian Lin divided the remaining spiritual rice in the bag into two. Xiao Hong immediately said, "Junior brother, you don't have to take care of me. I have never lacked spiritual rice since I was a child."
After hearing what was said, Tian Lin only gave Xiao Hong half a pound of spiritual rice.
He now had five spirit stones left. Looking at the spirit rice in the bag, Tian Lin asked, "Sister, what do you think of the effect of the spirit rice compared to the spirit stones?"
Xiao Hong was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and said, "Although the water spirit rice of our Yaoyue Sect can provide water spirit energy, it is still not as good as spirit stones after all."
Tian Lin said, "If you are willing, I would like to buy some spiritual rice from you."
The husked magical rice could no longer stop Tian Lin from exploring the entries.
[Sword Fruit. After the death of the Sword Immortal, his sword will be spread across the world and transformed into fruits. It is edible.]
Tian Lin didn't know what sword intent was, but the word "Sword Immortal" made him understand that this Sword Questioning Fruit must have been hard-earned.
He proposed to use spirit stones to buy spirit rice, which made Senior Sister Xiao feel troubled.
She thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Forget it. I don't lack spiritual rice. If you like spiritual rice, how about I give you half a pound of spiritual rice this month?"
As soon as she finished speaking, an outer disciple came over from a distant house and said:
"Brother Tian, you want to exchange spiritual stones for spiritual rice? Okay, give me a spiritual stone and I will sell you half a pound of spiritual rice."
Xiao Hong was furious when she heard this, "How can you calculate it like this? One spirit stone can open up at least a dozen acupoints, and half a pound of spirit rice can only open up one acupoint. Moreover, one bowl of spirit rice is enough for one meal, and eating more will have no effect. How can it be compared with spirit stones?"
The outer sect disciple said, "This account cannot be calculated in this way. Taking spiritual rice does not require meditation to digest, which saves a lot of effort. In addition, our sect has no precedent for buying and selling spiritual stones.
Since Senior Sister doesn't agree with my asking price, why don't you tell me how much spiritual rice one spiritual stone can be exchanged for?"
Xiao Hong said on behalf of Tian Lin: "At least five kilograms."
Upon hearing this, the outer disciple smiled, shook his head and left.
Xiao Hong frowned and looked at Tian Lin and said, "Junior brother, do you really want to exchange spiritual stones for spiritual rice?"
Tian Lin said: "Everyone in the sect who knows me knows that I am greedy. So even if I suffer a little loss, I still want to exchange the spirit stones for some spirit rice."
Xiao Hong also knew that Tian Lin was famous for his greed, because everyone who had met Tian Lin knew that Tian Lin almost never stopped eating except when going to the toilet and sleeping.
She didn't have any suspicion towards Tian Lin. After thinking for a while, she said, "If you really want to exchange spiritual stones for spiritual rice, I can ask my grandfather. With his current cultivation level, spiritual rice is completely useless. It would be better to exchange it for some spiritual stones."
Tian Lin was overjoyed and said, "It would be great if Senior Sister is willing to help, but I cannot let you suffer any loss no matter what!"
It was true that Xiao Hong had no shortage of spiritual rice to eat, because she had eaten all of Elder Xiao's spiritual rice.
So when Tian Lin used spirit stones to exchange for spirit rice from Elder Xiao, he was also exchanging Xiao Hong's food rations.
Xiao Hong smiled and said, "Except for the fact that the spiritual rice tastes better, it's actually not worth much. Don't worry, I'm still taking advantage of you, Junior Brother."
After she said that, she turned and ran up the mountain.
Logically, since Tian Lin had become the peak disciple, even if his cultivation level was lower than hers and he entered the sect later than her, she should still call Tian Lin "senior brother".
But this is Baihua Peak, and she also said that she only has one Senior Brother Lu in Lianshui Peak, so how could Tian Lin dare to be her Senior Brother?
After Xiao Hong left, Tian Lin carried a pound of spiritual rice into his residence.
His residence still had the same layout as Jiranju, and Xiao Hong had obviously put a lot of thought into it.
He came to the table, found a bowl and poured a pound of spiritual rice into the large bowl.
Because the grains of this spiritual rice are large and heavier than ordinary rice, one pound of it would probably only yield two small bowls of rice after cooking.
Tian Lin did not put it into the pot to cook. Instead, he took a spoon and scooped a small spoonful into his mouth.
The hard rice tasted as sweet as meat in his mouth.
He took two mouthfuls of the spiritual rice and soon frowned.
"The improvement of sword intent obviously does not help my cultivation, so I can't feel any increase in spiritual energy in my body."
He put down the spoon, meditated for a while, but still didn't notice any difference between himself and usual after eating the magical rice.
After thinking about it, Tian Lin took out the sword from his storage bag.
But after he danced Taibai a few times, he did not see any improvement in his swordsmanship.
"No, the Sword-Asking Fruit must be useful. Maybe I ate too little of it, so I couldn't detect any changes."
When Xiao Hong came over with a big cloth bag, she saw Tian Lin holding a bowl and pouring a bowl of raw rice into his mouth, chewing it with great enthusiasm.
(End of this chapter)