Chapter 107 - Medicine to Lay Foundation (1/2)

Dragging the half-dead black bear which is literally blind, Li Xi’er walks out of the Water Curtain Cave, looking back repeatedly at every step.

Lin Luoran looks at the old monkey which is seeing them off at the entrance. She transmits some spells to it with her spirit. Later, the old monkey becomes too excited to speak. Lin Luoran shakes her head, telling it not to say anything.

Not knowing how to make use of its Reiki, the old monkey was beaten by the black bear. The bear and the monkey are both intelligent, but the bear is born stronger. The skinny old monkey won’t have a chance of beating the bear.

With the thought of “teaching one to fish is better than giving him fish”, Lin Luoran gives some spells to the old monkey. She and Li Xi’er were able to help the monkeys out this time, but they can’t protect them forever. Though the bear king is gone, the tiger king or the leopard king may come to the monkeys’ cave and make trouble. Therefore, it is the ultimate solution to help the old monkey step on the path of cultivation!

The spells Lin Luoran gives to the old monkey are basic. Basic spells will be easier to understand and to apply. Lin Luoran is not sure what the old monkey will comprehend or even extend from those basic spells.

Li Xi’er is dragging the black bear with her right hand, and a stone box in her left hand. Li wonders: “Before we left, the old monkey insisted on giving me this box. I don’t know what is in it…”

Li doesn’t have a spare hand to open the box, so she hands it over to Lin Luoran.

The second Lin Luoran touches the box, she senses a stream of Reiki. Has the old monkey given Li Xi’er a spirit item? Lin Luoran is curious. She opens the box and Reiki rushes out. A big and a small mushroom are in the box!

“Mushrooms?” Li Xi’er loses her interests. Peaches will be better gifts than mushrooms!

The White Fairy laughs: “The Monkey Mushroom. The old monkey is indeed interesting.”

Lin Luoran inquires with her spirit: “Fairy, do you recognize the mushroom? I see that it is filled with Reiki. What is it used for?” Why didn’t the old monkey eat the mushroom filled with Reiki when it was wounded?

The White Fairy sneers: “Your quality is bad, and your knowledge is even worse. How can you not know that it is one of the ingredients to make the Foundation-laying Bolus? If it were not for the mushroom, the old monkey would have spoken in the first place.”

Hearing this, Lin Luoran doesn’t tell the fairy about the fact that the prescription of Foundation-laying Bolus has been lost. Perhaps she can ask the fairy about it?

For the first time, Lin Luoran has a feeling that she can be scheming. She closes the box and says carelessly: “One Monkey Mushroom is useless. The other ingredients will be hard to find.”

The White Fairy is speechless: “Do you really plan to make Foundation-laying Bolus by yourself? No matter how much the world of cultivation is declined, your school should be able to give you one.” Suddenly, the fairy is chocked by her own words. Even back in her time, no school would give Foundation-laying Bolus to a cultivator who had the Taoist root of all five natures… The White Fairy now actually sympathizes Lin Luoran.

“If you want to make the bolus by yourself, you can spend the entire month searching for the ingredients. You may be lucky enough to gather them all, like the Seven Stars Gra.s.s, Luminous Sand, and the b.u.t.terflybush Flower…” Before the White Fairy finishes talking, Li Xi’er, who doesn’t know that Lin is paying attention to something important, believes that Lin Luoran is “in a daze”. Li asks:

“Sister Lin, where are we heading to with the bear?”

The heaven-sent opportunity is gone, and Lin Luoran has to drop it by now. If the White Fairy got suspicious, Lin would have to pay a price to get the prescription.

Lin remembers that there is a mark for Luminous Sand on the jade slip, which seems not far from where they are standing… Thinking of this, Lin Luoran says to Li Xi’er:

“You should put the box away. The mushrooms are precious. As for the black bear, it is certainly a trophy of ours.”

Li Xi’er doesn’t care much about the mushrooms. Instead, she is curious about the trophy Lin Luoran is talking about. Li asks: “We are going to the bear’s cave, right?”