Chapter 290 - The Second Apprentice of Lin Luoran (1/2)

Tribe for Cultivators gets excited again.

Lin Luoran wants to recruit someone to go to a secret land. It is said that if you can find an ancient book of the monsters of wood there, you’ll be rewarded with a Foundation-laying Bolus.

That’s the precious Foundation-laying Bolus! Everyone practices hard because they want to complete the course of Training Qi, successfully lay the foundation and get into a higher rank one day. The world of cultivation with abundant spells and hundreds of branches is as vast as the ocean. Refining weapons, making elixirs and planting magic circles, every main branch has an intriguing charm. Cultivators desperately want to learn every kind of it, but they need to live long enough to do so.

If you successfully laid a foundation, you could live for two hundred years.

Only through Laying Foundation, can Reiki in one’s body transform to Wakan which is necessary for making elixirs, refining weapons and studying magic circles.

Everyone dreams to lay foundations. There is no shortage of talents in this era either, but Reiki on the earth is too little to let these talents lay foundations naturally. Everyone needs Foundation-laying Boluses.

Lin Luoran said they needn’t find the ancient book to get the Foundation-laying Bolus. You could also get one if you did excellent work during the adventure and found something else.

Hey, are you going?

Only fools will not go!

……

“Grandmaster, I saw the discussion of Foundation-laying Bolus on the forum went crazy. What if we couldn’t find that much Foundation-laying Boluses to give?”

Yuan Ye says in a mild tone. The prestige Lin Luoran works so hard to build would be destroyed instantly if they didn’t have enough Foundation-laying Boluses. No one would ever trust her again.

Lin Luoran doesn’t think it will be a big deal and smiles, “What? Don’t you trust your teacher? I am going to reopen the stove and make elixirs.”

Yuan Ye is relieved. He never doubted if Lin Luoran can make Foundation-laying Boluses.

Lin Luoran sees Yuan Ye is at ease, so she decides not to tell him that the elixirs she is going to make are not Foundation-laying Boluses. She wants to make the boluses and b.u.t.terflybush Flowers in her s.p.a.ce have been rip enough. However, the rate of qualified elixirs is too low when making the fourth-tier Foundation-laying Bolus in a second-tier alchemy furnace. She doesn’t want to risk wasting two b.u.t.terflybush Flowers grown for many years. Lin Luoran harvested the seeds of b.u.t.terflybush Flowers not long ago. When these seeds grow into flowers, she can make whatever she likes. Without stress, the rate of qualified elixirs might also be higher.

She doesn’t lack Luminous Sand that is a thousand years old. b.u.t.terflybush Flowers can also reproduce in a great amount, but dried Seven Stars Gra.s.s she got becomes less and less.

Does she need to ask her students to find Seven Stars Gra.s.s on the way?

That reminds Lin Luoran of another thing, “Yuan Ye, have you been practicing the spell of the sword I taught you?”

Yuan Ye’s former teacher left him with a good sword. Not every individual cultivator can give out a fourth-tier flying sword. Lin Luoran found the book Three Nadis Spells of Sword and gave it to Yuan Ye. Of course, it is one of the books White Fairy left and is written particularly for people with third-tier Taoist roots. It is definitely a great book.

Every trick of sword works differently for people with different Taoist roots, no matter which one of the three branches they are in.

Lin Luoran has seen how powerful it is when Yuan Ye practices to use his sword. She wonders sometimes that whether it is the purer the better for the Taoist root. The writer of such a powerful spell of swords is just an individual cultivator with a third-tier Taoist root. Are talents of cultivation truly decided by the quality of their Taoist roots?

Yuan Ye sees his teacher staring blankly again, so he raises his voice and repeats, “Grandmaster, I’m still not familiar with the last few tricks. Those written before it are pretty powerful, but we have to test them in real fights.”

Lin Luoran is pulled back from her groundless doubt about the Taoist root. She thinks for a while and says to Yuan Ye,

“You are going to the interstellar transmission circle with me. The practice is meaningless without real combats.”

Yuan Ye agrees happily. He has been looking forward to going to the interstellar transmission circle with Lin Luoran, but he doesn’t know how to ask her because he thinks his personal abilities are low and will hinder others. He doesn’t need to worry about it anymore since Lin Luoran asks him herself.

This conversation happens in the bamboo forest. Goldie tilts his head and stares at them. He envies Yuan Ye a lot.

Lin Luoran waves to him. Goldie flaps his wings and flies over.

“How about taking you with me too, Goldie?”

Lin Luoran is important to everyone at Lin’s, but she is not the only person they have, except Goldie. With her blood pact on him, Goldie only regards Lin Luoran as his master in this enormous mortal world. Lin Luoran and the golden hawk seldom have chances to go out together after she took him out of the secret land. She owes Goldie a lot.

“Goldie has a huge body. Will it be too eye-catching to……” Goldie glares at Yuan Ye before he can finish. Yuan Ye touches his nose and dare not to continue.

Goldie does grow bigger and bigger. He is as tall as a man standing on another’s shoulder. Lin Luoran even can’t reach his head if he doesn’t bow.

Goldie is grateful that Lin Luoran wants to take him with her. He makes two short cries and the little golden crown on his head flashes. Lin Luoran and Yuan Ye are astonished. Goldie shrinks quickly into a small version of him. A shrunk golden hawk?

Its nose and eyes still look like Goldie, but his body shrinks into the size of a common eagle. He lands firmly on Lin Luoran’s shoulder.

“You naughty bird, why didn’t you tell me you can shrink your body after evolution.” The mini version of Goldie looks at Lin Luoran with his innocent face, which makes her feel guilty for not giving him much care so she can’t be angry with him.