Chapter 28 (1/2)

Chapter 28: Start of the Compet.i.tion

The incident this time caused Su Tingyun to feel a pressure she had never felt before.

Without strength, her fate was to be trampled on by others. Even if she acted low-key and withdrew her head like a tortoise, there would still be people that find her displeasing who would try to send her to her grave.

This was because she was now Wei Yun, the wife of Spiritual Master Lingwu. The original Wei Yun was even someone that raped Spiritual Master Lingwu. If she said she wasn't Wei Yun, what would be the outcome? If she wasn't Wei Yun, then she was a stranger that took over Wei Yun's sh.e.l.l. Not even the slightest bit of owed favor would be left so killing her would be even easier.

Su Tingyun didn't dare to gamble. She didn't dare to take this risk in this world that treated human life as gra.s.s. If it was said that at the beginning, Su Tingyun felt this experience was quite a novelty and found it amusing in a satirical way as she faced life here with a 'just grin and bear it' att.i.tude, after this dangerous experience, she had finally woken up to reality.

Here, she was at the very bottom of the food chain.

However, her apt.i.tude was limited. There was no way she could become someone strong, so what to do?

Su Tingyun looked at the medicinal bottles on the ground, then picked them up to squeeze them in her hand. Although these were things that came from that vulgar man and she felt utterly disgusted, she didn't release the bottles. Spirit Opening Pills were still helpful to her cultivation. However, right now, her most important task was to take good care of these medicinal gra.s.s and grab hold of Liu Feizhou's thigh properly. If after Liu Feizhou won he decides to still keep her by his side, then her life would be much safer.

Su Tingyun had to prove her worth and the only worth she currently had was her ability to grow medicinal gra.s.s.

Su Tingyun gave herself a little time to calm down, then, ignoring her headache, she gritted her teeth and started watering and fertilizing the Rootless Water. She didn't take a break for the rest of the night. Su Tingyun only rested for a while after dawn. Then, she looked after the medicinal field as she read through the archive of mid rank spirit plants that Liu Feizhou had given her. After she read through it, Su Tingyun's heart felt even heavier.

The medicinal plants noted in the mid rank spirit plants archive were all above fifth rank. Fifth rank medicinal gra.s.s easily required over a hundred years to grow. These types of medicinal gra.s.s pretty much couldn't be grown one field at a time. Usually, the Alchemists would grow them themselves. Of course, it was more common for Alchemists to purchase it from a market. Cultivation levels of Foundation Establishment Stage or even Golden Core Stage were required for growing medicinal plants of the fifth rank and above. However, unless the person himself was an Alchemist, who, with that level of cultivation, would waste it on tending to flowers and gra.s.s?

This was also the reason why there were only low leveled Spirit Herbalists in the spirit fields outside.

Which is also to say, if her strength didn't increase, there was no way she could grow high ranked medicinal gra.s.s. The most important point was that it took a long time for high ranked medicinal gra.s.s to mature. As the growing cycle easily surpa.s.sed one hundred years, before the medicinal gra.s.ses manage to mature, she'll probably belch and fart her last breath.

However, if she can only grow low-rank medicinal gra.s.s, what value would she have!? Her cultivation limit was at the Spirit Condensation Stage. At most, at most, she can only grow third rank medicinal gra.s.s. On the other hand, if Liu Feizhou really became Master Dan's star disciple, his skill at refining medicinal pills will be advancing by leaps and bounds. He won't have any need for low-level medicinal gra.s.s. Even if he had a need for it, there would be plenty of people that would get it to him.

Su Tingyun felt as if she had hit a dead end. For a while, she felt quite depressed…

She couldn't think of any ideas. The only difference her current days were from the past was that she was very keyed up every single day. Even if her cultivation didn't advance much at all, she never gave up. Day after day, she cultivated and grew medicinal gra.s.s so time flew in a blink.

Now, the curtain had formally lifted on Liu Feizhou's compet.i.tion with his fellow disciples.

To Dan Fengyang, only the person that was his star disciple would truly count as being his disciple and someone of his family. As for others, at most, they were supporting helpers that were acting as apprentices.

The matter of Master Dan taking a star disciple was also extremely important to Wuliang Mountain. Thus, this compet.i.tion was not held at Heaven Jade Pavilion but in the public square of Wuliang Mountain's main hall. The elders of each Wuliang Mountain hall came to view the compet.i.tion. Below the public square was a ma.s.s of black created by all the cultivators that came to watch them compete.

This was the first time Su Tingyun saw Master Dan Fengyang. He wore a wide robe with large sleeves, a lofty hat, and had a long beard*. He looked like a very scholarly middle-aged man. Currently, he was standing at an elevated area that made him seem like a celestial who rode the wind over. Su Tingyun didn't recognize the people next to Dan Fengyan, but she didn't have the presence of mind to look at them either. She directed her attention towards watching Liu Feizhou nervously and praying that Liu Feizhou would win.

The long beard more specifically points to the long beard growing from above the two sides of your upper lip and below your nose. Like this guy lol.

Of Dan Fengyang's four disciples, only Gu Hao possess a genuine pill fire. Thus, at this time, only Gu Hao did not have a pill furnace placed in front of him. He wore a crescent moon-white brocade garment and stood with an arrogant air in the center of the stage. Holding a small purple cauldron in his right hand, he gave off an overbearing presence. It was just that his face was way too appalling to look at so no one dared look directly at him.

The person that was line up at the very front, which was to Gu Hao's left, was Dan Fengyang's oldest disciple, Xu Yishan. His appearance was completely average and he was also wearing a gray garment so he seemed plain and ordinary.

To Gu Hao's right was Ning Yan. Today, she wore a red outfit and seemed rather like a hero among women.

At the very end was the youngest disciple, Liu Feizhou.

Liu Feizhou wore an ink-black robe and had pulled his back hair into a bun. Unlike the others, he didn't use a jade hat* to bind his hair but used a red ribbon to tie it up. This bit of red contrasted with that ink-black outfit and made his appearance seem even more distinguished and outstanding. It caused quite a lot of female cultivators to shoot amorous looks at him.

'jade hat' refers to the hat pract.i.tioners of dao wear. There's said to be different kinds, but when I searched it up, it generally looked like this