Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming

Chapter 117: Chapter 115 Dragon Blood Fruit Tree
 

Qin Feng returned to his residence, feeling quite delighted.

He had been a disciple of the Spiritual Snake Peak for over a year and had come to understand a thing or two about the esteemed Peak Master.

Liu Xuanling was absolutely a genius in the realm of cultivation. Having not yet reached the age of a hundred, she had already advanced to the peak of the Golden Core Realm and was merely a step away from the Purple Mansion Realm.

Should she advance to the Purple Mansion, her status would rise instantly, elevating her to the level of an Inner Sect Elder.

Qin Feng felt that having such a powerful figure as his backer was very nice indeed.

Liu Xuanling, despite her somewhat peculiar personality—which had not spared her from making enemies in the past—possessed a fiercely protective nature. Qin Feng didn’t doubt that if he could become her disciple, he wouldn’t have to fear being bullied by others.

Elsewhere, Liu Xuanling’s escape technique was impressively swift, her figure blurring between the real and the illusory, and in an instant, she had flown a great distance.

She flew directly into the Inner Sect and descended upon a picturesque mountain peak, striding into a simple wooden hut.

“Master, Master…”

No one was inside the hut, and she quickly exited, standing in front of the wooden house and calling out a few times.

“Is Junior Sister Liu back?”

Not far away, in a modest Spiritual Medicine Garden, a somewhat plump cultivator who was tending to an oddly shaped fruit tree that was taller than a person lifted his head upon hearing her and chuckled lightly, “Junior Sister, you usually hole up at Spiritual Snake Peak and seldom come back here all year. There hasn’t been any major event recently, what brings you here now?”

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“Mind your own business!”

Liu Xuanling shot him a glare and demanded brusquely, “Where is Master?”

“You this girl?”

The plump young cultivator forced a bitter smile, “How could you forget? I’m your second senior brother. I took care of you when you were little, but now that you’ve grown up, you’ve become so fierce, you don’t even call me senior brother anymore.”

He was about to continue when suddenly, Liu Xuanling’s glare intensified, and he promptly surrendered, “Alright, alright, I’ll stop rambling, Master is at the peak. If you want to… hey, where did she go?”

After looking around, the plump cultivator found that Liu Xuanling had already left. He couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh lightly, “Junior Sister Liu was more fun as a child. Now that she is grown up, she has lost all the innocence and cheerfulness of her childhood!”

Before he could finish his thought, a Spirit Fruit that had been bitten into flew out of the void and smacked him on the head with a thump.

“Uh…”

His face froze. He looked down at the fallen Spirit Fruit and recognized its familiar shape, then glanced at the small tree which now had only two fruits left, and cried out in grief and anger, “My Dragon Blood Fruit…”

From behind a large tree not far away, a messy head popped out to peek over at him, and with a snicker, “Serves you right. Who told you to always bully the little junior sister back then? It’s not like you didn’t know her vengeful nature. I warned you back then, but you never took it seriously. How does it feel now to suffer the consequences?”

“Elder brother, shouldn’t you stand up for me and seek justice? I’ve been meticulously nurturing this Dragon Blood Fruit Tree for over a hundred years, and it barely yielded three fruits, only for one to be wasted by her.”

The plump young man cried out in pain.

“What justice is there to seek? You’re not strong enough to defeat Junior Sister Liu, who else is there to blame?”

Another cultivator snorted, “I’ve told you before to focus on your cultivation, but you never listened, preferring instead to fiddle around with all these bizarre and peculiar things.

It’s not too bad now, but wait a few years. If Junior Sister Liu advances to Purple Mansion, by then I reckon you’ll have no power to resist, and she might just take all these things from you. Then what will you do?”

“I…”

The plump cultivator looked at him with a pitiful expression, “Elder brother, you’ll help me then, right?”

“What do you think?”

The elder brother chuckled and didn’t bother to answer any more.

At the peak, beneath an ancient pine tree several dozen feet tall, a middle-aged cultivator with a scholarly appearance sat cross-legged, with a set of tea utensils laid out on the jade table in front of him, holding an ancient scroll and studying it intently.

“Master!”

Liu Xuanling called out loudly, her figure flashing to sit across from the middle-aged cultivator.

Ning Wuxu looked up at her and asked, “What’s got you in such a rush to find your master this time?

Let’s get one thing straight, don’t bring up the matter of the Dao Golden Pill anymore. Even Danxia Sect may not refine such an Immortal Pill that contains Dao Principles once in hundreds of years. I don’t have a way to procure one for you. If you want to advance to the Purple Mansion Realm, just focus on your cultivation. There’s no need to compete with others.”

Liu Xuanling shook her head, “Master, I’ve not come to talk about the Dao Golden Pill this time.”

“Oh, that’s good then.”

Ning Wuxu breathed a sigh of relief internally upon hearing this.

His young disciple had been traumatized some years ago when a former rival, blessed with a great opportunity, had surpassed her in cultivation and defeated her with ease, which had greatly distressed the girl. Since then, she had been eager to progress swiftly to the Purple Mansion Realm to regain her position.

Because of this, she had frequently worn down her master in recent years, asking him to come up with a solution.

“Here, have a cup of tea, and your master will assess your progress in cultivation.”

Ning Wuxu summoned a cup of clear tea from the quaint and simple teapot with a flick of his finger, sending it flying in front of Liu Xuanling with a smile. “This is an exquisite Spiritual Tea, Cloud Top Snow Buds, which your master managed to obtain from the Spiritual Tree Elder only after much effort. This tea must be savored slowly to truly appreciate…”

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw Liu Xuanling drink the Spiritual Tea in one gulp as if she hadn’t heard a thing, choking off Ning Wuxu’s next words.

He twitched the corner of his mouth and subtly moved the teapot closer to himself, no longer considering assessing her cultivation, and asked helplessly, “Speak then, what brings you to me this time?”

“Master, a disciple from Spiritual Snake Peak has discovered a Heavenly Connecting Lotus…”

“Hmm?”

Ning Wuxu’s eyebrows raised, a glint of light flashed in his originally calm eyes before disappearing. He looked at his disciple and inquired, “A Heavenly Connecting Lotus? Where was it discovered?”

Liu Xuanling didn’t hide anything and related the incident of Qin Feng being chased by Taiyi Mountain disciples into the Ancient Battlefield and how he found the Heavenly Connecting Lotus.

After finishing her account, she looked at Ning Wuxu with her phoenix eyes and said, “Master, the Heavenly Connecting Lotus is a rare treasure. Why don’t you make a move yourself and take back the lotus?”

“The Ancient Battlefield?”

Ning Wuxu fell silent for a moment, then said with a wry smile, “You do put me in a difficult position. The Ancient Battlefield is full of perils, and it’s not safe for someone with my cultivation level.

The eerie things happening in the lake that gave birth to the Heavenly Connecting Lotus are most likely due to the Resentful Spirit that has formed from the lingering thought of a powerful ancient being who died there. Having survived from the Ancient times until now, I can’t even begin to fathom how formidable that Resentful Spirit has become.

If I were to fight with the Resentful Spirit and the commotion is too great, it could very well trigger the Chaos Principle of the Ancient Battlefield, causing unpredictable danger. Even with my profound cultivation, I could be in danger of falling.”

Liu Xuanling’s eyes shifted as she smiled and said, “Master, you don’t necessarily have to deal with that Resentful Spirit in the lake yourself.

That Zhuo Feifan, lacking the ability to seize the Heavenly Connecting Lotus himself, and being at the critical moment to compete for the position of True Disciple, will surely report this to the sect to gain more support from the seniors.

The cultivators from Taiyi Mountain, once they learn of the existence of the Heavenly Connecting Lotus, will inevitably be tempted. You can just hide in the shadows and wait for the Taiyi Mountain cultivators to make their move.

The Resentful Spirit has survived for tens of thousands of years, and it’s definitely not easy to deal with. Let them make the first move to test the waters. If they can successfully obtain the Heavenly Connecting Lotus, then you can snatch it from them. If they fail, it can also reveal the level of danger in that area, so you can plan accordingly afterward.”

Ning Wuxu looked at her, unable not to laugh, “Fine, if that’s the case, then I’ll make the trip myself.”

A Heavenly Connecting Lotus, he too was tempted by such a treasure.

Although he had been involved in the Dao for a long time and did not need the Dao Principles contained within the Heavenly Connecting Lotus, its leaves were the best material for crafting Death Replacement Talismans.

With the Cultivation World becoming increasingly unstable and forces from beyond frequently appearing, war could break out at any moment, and he too would face crisis. Having one or two Death Replacement Talismans would make him much safer.