Chapter 2024: Tea Garden (2/2)

“That depends on if you can handle it or not. If you can’t, then yeah, death.” Li Qiye brightly responded: “Oh, right, forgot to tell you. Your ancestor almost froze to death here too, we’ll see if you can do better than him.”

“Teach-” Goldloop couldn’t finish speaking because he was frozen completely now and continued to drift with the current. His eyes were glaring, mouth agape, looking as if he was screaming for help.

The kind Yao Ting became worried: “Is he going to be fine?”

Jinsheng’s expression looked a bit s.a.d.i.s.tic: “Who knows? The cold river of tea garden is endless. The more downstream, the colder. No one knows where it is going either. Some believed that it would reach the depth of the earth. If one could survive the temperature, they would enter h.e.l.l and never be able to return.”

“Really?!” Yao Ting was shocked to hear this.

“Don’t listen to his nonsense.” Li Qiye shook his head: “The river is indeed dangerous but a descendant of the w.a.n.g won’t die so easily. His body needs the refinement in this place so if he can surpa.s.s this, he’ll earn a lifetime of benefit.”

“But if he can’t?” Yao Ting asked.

“Nothing too serious, he’ll just have to lay in bed for a year or so.” Li Qiye chuckled.

When Yao Ting calmed down, she realized that Li Qiye was helping Goldloop.

While the group traveled through the garden, the other students were infiltrating the hills and peaks. However, since it was the academy, they didn’t dare to go all out and dig every inch of the land.

Among many of these mist-shrouded peaks were all types of trees. In fact, tea trees were all around as well but the students didn’t pay enough attention.

Of course, some were more knowledgeable than others. One student from Sacred Inst.i.tution saw a violet tree and plucked all of the leaves into his pouch.

“Senior Zhang, why are you taking these leaves?” A fellow student didn’t understand: “Everyone is busy looking for treasures. My juniors want to climb that peak over there in order to dig out some treasure bamboo shoots in that thicket. Do you want to come along?”

“Nah, I just want to pick some leaves.” The senior smiled and said.

“What’s special about these leaves?” The student asked.

His senior only smiled and continued forward to find more tea trees.

The student eventually came to ask Rumination G.o.dchild. Rumination casually responded: “Profound Tea, capable of calming the mind and strengthening one’s dao.”

“There are a lot of trees like that here, Senior, do we want to go find them?” The student immediately asked.

“It’s not that precious, my sect has several thousand fields. I’ll give everyone a bottle later.” Rumination showed his generosity.

“You’re too kind, we got so much coming with you already. I filled my basket with these wondrous flowers down at the deep gorge earlier.” Another immediately flattered.

Many would naturally want to follow Rumination because it was quite beneficial, not to mention how generous the guy was.

In fact, this also applied to Six-sword Young King and the students from Hundred Halls. He took them up a peak that was filled with precious stone honey.

Everyone was quite excited after getting so much in tea garden.

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“This place is special indeed.” The quiet Mei Suyao finally spoke: “It is a place of the grand dao, one can master the myriad laws and harmonize the dao heart here for better comprehension.”

While others were busy looking for treasures, she was carefully feeling this land.

“That’s tea garden for you. Only ordinary people would want to find treasures. We’re at a tea garden right, people should be carefully appreciating the tea.”