Chapter 143 - “Dear, we provide free shipping!” (1/2)

Lin Luoran is thrilled at finding a paragraph of building Taoist root for ordinary people. She holds her breath and continues reading—

However, her heart sinks. “Mount Penglai Overseas” is the final chapter of the book. Lin Luoran was reading the second last page just then and the next page is broken. She cannot see clearly what’s after “help them cultivate…”

Lin Luoran puts the book down and tells herself to calm down.

The whole book is well preserved, so why is the last page broken? Did anyone damage it, or is it the result of natural damage? If the book was damaged by someone, what’s his purpose?

Commander Qin once mentioned that because of the Taoist root, cultivators in the cultivation world will not marry ordinary people. The contradiction between the mad cultivator and the Qin family is due to the problem of Taoist root as well… If it is really possible to build Taoist root for ordinary people, there must be some cultivators doing that for their children. Why has no one heard about it?

Is it because they are not qualified enough, or is the whole story just a legend?

Even though many cultivators are not very much connected with their families, there have to be a few exceptions who have tried hard! Have they succeeded? Do they know about “Mount Penglai” in Nanling Resident’s book?

Put her poor ability aside, even though true immortals do exist, Lin Luoran cannot find the entrance of “Mount Penglai” on the vast ocean on her own.

Lin Luoran sighs and closes the book. She has finished weaving the cus.h.i.+on and she meditates on it while sorting out her thoughts. The smell of the cus.h.i.+on is light. Slowly, it calms her down.

Even White Fairy, who has experienced a lot, has not met any Divinized cultivator in person in her 600 years’ life of cultivation. What kind of cultivators can be named “true immortals”? In Nanling Resident’s words, the story was just drunk talk of the overseas cultivator. Therefore, the last chapter, “Mount Penglai Overseas” is far from credible.

Anyway it has given Lin Luoran a silver lining.

For her mother’s sake, Lin Luoran is willing to go and look for “Mount Penglai”. Even if she doesn’t succeed, she has the magical bead to help her prolong her mother’s life and she can have more time to solve the problem!

Lin Luoran’s previous depression disappears again. Tonight, her mood became extremely high when she knew the nature of Luodong’s Taoist root and then it became extremely low when she found that her mother has no Taoist root. Now that she sees a silver lining, she calms herself down and finds herself sweating a lot. Even her clothes are very wet as if she has been soaked in water.

Lin Luoran takes a shower. When she finishes, the sky starts to light up. The sun rises.

In Lin’s villa, people start to wake up, calling it the arrival of another day.

Seven o’clock in the morning, everyone besides Luodong gets up. Seeing her mother busy preparing breakfast for everyone, Lin Luoran encourages herself in secret that she has to work harder on cultivation. Both triggering the potential of the bead and looking for “Mount Penglai” overseas requires her to become more qualified.

As her mother doesn’t need her help in the kitchen, Lin Luoran goes into the yard and casts a “Growing Spell” to the iron thorns. With the help of wood Reiki, vines grow out and twine towards the railing. Lin Luoran is satisfied as they will grow up in a couple of days, and then they can be useful.

“Brother Qu, do you know when and where the exchange will take place this time?”

Li Xi’er and Baojia are accompanying Mrs. Lin in the kitchen and Qu Yi is the only one watering flowers in the yard. Lin Luoran thinks about the densely planted fleece flowers in the s.p.a.ce and asks Qu Yi.

Qu Yi quickly puts down the flower pot and asks curiously: “Sister, it has already begun for over a month, don’t you know that?” Suddenly he remembers that Lin Luoran has been “missing” and feels a little bit embarra.s.sed, so he starts to explain everything to Lin Luoran.

Lin Luoran thought there must be a trade fair for this exchange. Hearing that it has begun for over a month, she felt sad as she believed that she had missed it. Hearing Qu Yi’s explanation, however, she finds that it is far from her a.s.sumption!

Where should a trade fair of the cultivation world in the 21st century take place?

Some valley with idyllic scene? Too old-fas.h.i.+oned.

A secret auction? Too tacky!

In the 21st century, the one thing that everyone has access to and cannot live without, is the Internet.

Qu Yi tells Lin Luoran that the cultivation world today has a special BBS online. It requires real-name registration and after the user is identified, you can trade whatever you want on the BBS — very trendy, isn’t it? “Dear, they provide free s.h.i.+pping!”

Hearing Qu Yi’s words, Lin Luoran s.h.i.+vers. d.a.m.n “free s.h.i.+pping” and d.a.m.n “dear”, she used to shop online and she hated being called “dear”. She has never expected that she cannot escape from it even in the cultivation world.

Living in the mountains, computer is necessary for them. Qu Yi instigates Lin Luoran to register. The BBS is called “Tribe for Cultivators” and it is hard for ordinary people to find. Even if someone really finds it, he will only think its users are a group of readers of Wuxia fictions.

Because t.i.tles of the posts are so funny…

Take Qu Yi as an example, his ID is “Qu Yi never gets angry” and it is identified. Take a look at his posts, “Can we meditate while lying down?”, “Real experience in the secret land in Bermuda… This post is serializing, please keep following!”

Li Xi’er pa.s.ses by the study and checks on what they are doing. As soon as she sees that Lin Luoran is browsing “Tribe for Cultivators”, she loses her interest.