Chapter 45: Not Enough, the Preparations are Not Enough
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In the face of his master Han Yuanshan’s sudden “backstabbing”, Lu Yuan was more or less unprepared.
He felt that things had come too suddenly. He had not prepared anything, but everything had been arranged for him already.
The uncontrollable situation made the steady Lu Yuan very unhappy.
However, he had no choice. After all, he currently did not have the ability to refuse.
Since he couldn’t resist, he would just enjoy it.
Either way, this kind of thing… It wasn’t the first time he had encountered such a situation.
Even though Han Yuanshan had forcibly made some arrangements, Lu Yuan did not have much dissatisfaction with him.
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Han Yuanshan had shouldered a lot of pressure, which allowed him to stay on the mountain for so long.
One had to know that a great war was currently going on between the righteous and demonic sects. The Qingyun Sect was lacking manpower everywhere.
It was true that a pharmacist’s main job was to refine pills, but in the situation where the sect’s territory spanned wide and far, if one only stayed in the sect to refine pills, the result of reinforcement supplies being unable to keep up would easily be caused, which would, in turn, cause all sorts of troubles in war.
Not to mention, there may be special situations like a siege.
Therefore, it was very normal to arrange for some pharmacists to go to war as well.
It was the same logic as bringing some engineers to war.
The other direct disciples had already gone on several expeditions. Lu Yuan, on the other hand, hid in the mountain for a long time.
If not for Elder Han’s excuse that Lu Yuan was refining pills to reject the sect’s arrangements many times, Lu Yuan might have been asked to go down the mountain for an expedition in his second year as a direct disciple.
The reason why Han Yuanshan wanted Lu Yuan to leave the mountain now was probably that he could not find another excuse.
After all, not only had many of the disciples of the other elders left the mountain, but some had even died.
What right did Elder Han’s disciple have to hide in the sect?
So what if he was a pharmacist? A pharmacist could also be of some use, alright?
But even under pressure from all sides, Elder Han still managed to get Lu Yuan a good job.
And that was to become the director of the Devil Slayers Division in the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom.
The reason why Sect Leader Mu ultimately agreed to this arrangement was most likely because he had considered Lu Yuan’s status as a pharmacist.
Still, it was all because Lu Yuan had no hope of reaching the Core Formation stage.
If Lu Yuan had the chance to reach the Core Formation stage, then no matter how much pressure he faced, Elder Han would still protect him and make him stay on the mountain.
A Foundation Establishment Stage pharmacist with no hope of reaching the Core Formation Stage was not worthy of making Elder Han withstand the pressure.
There was another important reason.
Going down the mountain on an expedition was something every disciple of the Qingyun Sect had to go through, even the disciples of the Pharmacist Valley.
That being said, one expedition was usually enough for the disciples of the Pharmacist Valley.
Moreover, the places they were sent for expeditions were usually very safe.
After all, the training of technical personnel was naturally different from that of combat personnel.
The reason why there were such rules was that Qingyun Sect wanted to show the fairness of the sect and their attention to equality.
They wouldn’t make an exception for the disciples of the Pharmacist Valley.
In addition to the pressure from many parties, there was another reason why Han Yuanshan insisted on making Lu Yuan go down the mountain on an expedition.
It was because he felt that Lu Yuan could not continue to work behind closed doors.
From Han Yuanshan’s point of view, even someone as talented as Mu Qiqi had already gone on several expeditions. She had even fought with devilish way cultivators and improved at a lightning speed.
In contrast, let alone fight against devilish way cultivators, he had not even seen Lu Yuan spar with his fellow disciples.
Was this okay? This was obviously not okay!
If it was someone with no sense of responsibility as a master, they would not care whether Lu Yuan left the mountain or not. He could just do whatever he wanted. After all, there was no performance evaluation for Core Formation Stage elders. It was the disciple’s problem if he could not rise.
What did it have to do with the Core Formation Stage elder?
However, Han Yuanshan was not an irresponsible person.
Especially after knowing that Lu Yuan had no hope of reaching the Core Formation Stage in this lifetime, Elder Han felt that the boy should make his limited life more exciting.
After all, if a cultivator didn’t reach the Core Formation Stage, their lifespan wouldn’t be able to exceed the thousand-year limit.
Even if Lu Yuan cultivated a special flame divine ability like the Green Flame Technique, which could increase his lifespan to a certain extent, his lifespan would be a little over a thousand years at most.
A thousand years wasn’t a short lifespan for mortals, but it wasn’t long for cultivators.
Instead of spending a large amount of time on cultivation, Han Yuanshan felt that Lu Yuan should really go out more and see the outside world.
Besides, the place that he had chosen for Lu Yuan’s expedition was the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom.
As a mortal country under the control of the Qingyun Sect, which place in the entire Great Xia Kingdom was the safest? It would definitely be the Great Xia Kingdom’s capital.
Ordinary demons and evil cultivators wouldn’t dare to cause trouble in the Great Xia Kingdom’s capital.
After all, the place was guarded by the Foundation Establishment Stage disciples of the Qingyun Sect all year round.
Don’t underestimate the status of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator in the mortal world.
For a mortal country, if they could have a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator’s long-term protection, it was already very safe.
Besides, even if a demon king comparable to the Core Formation Stage were to cause trouble in the Great Xia Kingdom’s capital, the Qingyun Sect would also be able to provide assistance in the shortest time possible.
Therefore, Elder Han sent Lu Yuan to the Great Xia Kingdom’s Devil Slayers division.
To be honest, he just wanted the boy to experience the human world and not lock himself in his room all day to refine pills.
If Han Yuanshan really wanted Lu Yuan to take on a harsh expedition, he wouldn’t have just sent Lu Yuan to the Great Xia Kingdom’s capital. He would’ve sent the boy straight to the front lines.
It could be said that Han Yuanshan only wanted Lu Yuan to go through the motions.
Just a few years of an expedition in the capital of Great Xia, which was a safe place.
Lu Yuan’s current cultivation was already at the standard Foundation Establishment Stage.
Moreover, as a pharmacist, his mission in the Great Xia’s capital would be similar to that of his mission in the sect. It was also just to refine pills.
In addition, the capital of Great Xia was the base camp of the Qingyun Sect in the mortal world.
Elder Han felt that this expedition was very safe.
If the Great Xia Kingdom’s capital could be infiltrated by the enemy, then the Qingyun Sect would not be far from being destroyed.
Even though Elder Han felt that the Great Xia Kingdom’s capital was very safe, a certain someone who was packing didn’t think so.
“Bring it, bring it, these green flame pills must be brought along. In case 1 encounter a situation where I lack spiritual energy, these pills will have a miraculous effect! Bring these too, these puppets! If I encounter an enemy that even the green flame pill can’t kill, these puppets will also have a wondrous effect.” “I’ll also need to bring more than 1000 cultivation pills for cultivation… A few hundred marrow-cleansing pills to recover spiritual energy at critical moments… The talismans that the demoness gave me… The few magic instruments that Senior Sister Mu gave me… There’s also the pill furnace…”
Under the circumstances in which Lu Yuan brought everything, he ended up with ten more storage bags on his waist.
It made him look like he had a lifebuoy tied to his waist.
After a while, Lu Yuan had almost emptied his residence.
Lu Yuan sat in his empty residence and began to carefully analyze if there was anything he had not brought.
One must know that the next time he would return would be ten years later.
Although ten years wasn’t a long time for cultivators, no one could tell what would happen in these ten years.
Perhaps he would never have the chance to come back after he left the mountain this time!
Although the possibility was small, it was not impossible!
Therefore, before he returned to his residence, Lu Yuan used the sect contribution points and spiritual stones that he had accumulated over the years to exchange for the cultivation techniques and divine abilities that he needed from the Scripture Pavilion. Metal, water, wind, wood, fire, earth.
The cultivation techniques he exchanged for were “Fire Cicada Nine Transformations (Foundation Establishment chapter) and “Mountain River Array Diagram (Foundation Establishment chapter)”.
Among them, the Fire Cicada Nine Transformations didn’t need further explanations. It was a standard fire-type Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation technique.
However, the Mountain River Array Diagram was a bit special.
This was because it was an earth-type array cultivation technique.
It was said that when this technique was cultivated to great success, one could determine geomancy with a glance, turning misfortune into fortune.
Geomancy was one of the skills that a tomb engineer had to know.
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Indeed, a “tomb” engineer.
The core reason why Lu Yuan learned this cultivation technique was so that he would have the means to know the “burial grounds” of the big shots in advance.
Don’t misunderstand. He wasn’t thinking of digging the big shots out of the soil after he mastered the cultivation technique.
He simply wanted to notice their burial grounds earlier and avoid them.
After all, in the world of cultivators, there were many cases of cultivators dying but not completely dead.
As long as the target’s bones were not completely crushed, ashes weren’t scattered, and the soul wasn’t destroyed, one couldn’t guarantee that one had killed the other party.
The many big shots in the celestial novels seemed to have been buried in the ground, but they might be “resurrected” at any time.
Lu Yuan did not want to be “taught a lesson” by a big shot who had suddenly resurrected.
It could only be said that he had really considered all aspects when it came to protecting his life.
When he was in the sect, he considered the situation where the celestial beasts raised by his fellow sect members would go crazy and hurt him.
Out of the sect, he considered the situation of the big shots resurrecting in the cemetery!
Steady, he was really too steady!
After all the preparations were complete, Lu Yuan was not in a hurry to head to the capital of Great Xia.
He was planning to find out the situation there before he went.
It was to prevent himself from falling into the tiger’s den.
Although the cases of spies infiltrating the sect’s base camps were small, they were definitely not zero!
The more Lu Yuan thought about it, the more he felt that his preparations were not enough.
Why couldn’t they wait until he cultivated to the Nascent Soul Stage before asking him to go down the mountain on an expedition?
The Foundation Establishment Stage was still too unsafe!