Chapter 518 Guard the Sect
“Have a meal?”
Su Li was stunned, and asked in a puzzled voice, “As practitioners, we don’t live by eating food anymore after our foundations are built. If there are delicacies, it’s okay to taste them. Why do we have to maintain to have three meals…”
Wen Hun chuckled, “You are right. Although this piece of meat is not a delicacy, its effect is very special. The disciples who stay in the Sect are largely because of this piece of meat.”
“I see. What’s the effect of this piece of meat?”
Su Li asked immediately. Wen Hun shook his head, “It is a big secret of the Sect. It won’t work if I speak it out. After you eat it and know its effect, don’t tell others. Otherwise…. bad things will happen.”
Su Li should have continued to ask what the bad things were, but she was stopped by Wen Hun’s gaze.
After a while, Wen Hun left the yard. He also had to maintain his own cultivation, and could not watch Su Li all the time.
Su Li blankly stared at the washbasin-sized meat for a while. Then she got up to cover the wooden box and drag it to the kitchen. The yard she lived in was built halfway up the main peak, next to the yard of Wen Hun. Although the yard was small, all necessary facilities were equipped, even including the underground icehouse.
Su Li didn’t know what the icehouse was for before, but now she knew it was specially designed for storing meat.
Su Li cut off a piece of meat with fat and lean. Then she returned to the kitchen to boil water, and found out all the condiments sealed in the cabinet. Her expression was meticulous.
It had been many years since she did the cooking last time.
A subtle emotion lingered in her mind, and she did it briskly.
This scene was also shown in the water mirror in front of He Jiu.
“Su Yue is born in the secular world and had a miserable life experience. She has been familiar with farm work and domestic chores when she was still a child. Such smooth actions can’t be contrived. Her age and identity are all genuine.
The ghosts in the book pavilion did not kill her, which indicates that this woman is not imposed any tactic. After all, strange secret skills are favorite things of those ghosts. If she were really imposed tactics, Wen Hun couldn’t stop those ghosts.”
After reconfirming, He Jiu was relieved. At this moment, he finally let go of the thought of continuing to probe, “The centennial salary ritual can’t delay anymore. With his physique, Wen Hun should not make mistakes in guarding the Sect for just one month….”
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“Senior Fellow Apprentice, I have been here for one month. Why didn’t I see other senior fellow apprentices and senior sister apprentices? The Master also says that I am the twelfth disciple he accepted.”
At the entrance of the hall of the Sect, Su Li and Wen Hun sat on the cold steps, looking at the mountain covered by thick fog.
“I am the eleventh.”
Wen Hun sighed and then replied.
Wen Hun wanted to go back to practice. Why did the Master give the task of guarding the Sect to him instead of giving to other senior sister apprentices, like Senior Sister Apprentice Yue?
It was really boring to guard the Sect.
After guarding the hall by himself for a few days, he finally couldn’t help calling Su Li to guard with him. Then the loneliness was watered down a little.
He had long forgotten the Master’s instruction in the torment of those few days.
If Ni Sect really planned to send an agent, how could it appoint such an innocent little junior sister apprentice here? Su Yue was too simple. Even if she was cheated by others, she still couldn’t realize it and even appreciated them. She could not be an agent.
“What about the other ten senior fellow apprentices and senior sister apprentices?”
Su Li blinked. Her clear and black eyes filled with curiosity.
Every time Wen Hun met such a clean gaze, he didn’t want to show his hypocrisy. At the moment, he could only sigh, and then he shook his head, “I don’t know. Little Junior Sister Apprentice, I have been practiced for less than a hundred years. Since I became the disciple of the Master, I haven’t seen any other disciples of our Master, apart from you.
Reaching the Yuanying Realm in less than one hundred years!
Su Li was slightly startled. She showed a surprised and envious expression on the surface, “Senior Fellow Apprentice is so amazing!”
After saying that, she was lost again, “Compared to the talent of Senior Fellow Apprentice, I am too normal. If there wasn’t a senior fellow apprentice, who gave the serendipity to me, I would never reach the Jindan Realm.”
Wen Hun didn’t expect his inadvertent words came as a blow to the little junior sister apprentice. He felt ashamed, and said, “Junior Sister Apprentice, don’t be sad. It is the method taught by the Master that helps me practice so fast. Before joining the sect, I was just a dying beggar with a serious illness.”
As he said, he touched his cold skin, “Master said that my life has come to an end. This method can change my life. And I…indeed survived.”
Su Li wanted to ask him what the method was. However, when she saw that Wen Hun was lost in contemplation, she didn’t ask.
If she kept asking questions, Wen Hun would realize something wrong with her, even if he was stupid.
In the blink of an eye, the sun went down. Wen Hun didn’t need to guard the hall at night, and returned to the residence with Su Li. After scrounging free meals from Su Li, he went back.
The rocky road seemed to be covered with a layer of silver light in the cold moonlight.
Wen Hun looked back at the small yard in the forest, and sighed as usual.
“If the Master also taught the little junior sister apprentice the holy method in the future, she would practice in isolation in the book pavilion for a few years. Then how can I eat delicious food?”
Several days ago, he smelled the aroma wafting through Su Li’s yard. He couldn’t help taking a look. After he tasted the meat cooked by the little junior sister apprentice, he was totally overwhelmed. It was so delicious that he gave his share of meat to Su Li. Then, he could have reasons to come here to have a meal with her every day.
After thinking about it, Wen Hun didn’t come up with any good idea, so he sighed again and turned to leave.
After Wen Hun left, Su Li closed the gate of the yard and returned to the adytum for practice, with the sign of “Do not Disturb” hanging on the door. Everything was quiet, and only the candlelight in the adytum fluttered up and down from time to time, bringing Su Li’s shadow on the wall, like a wild monster.
“The meat should improve my soul a little.”
Su Li pretended to practice. Many thoughts flashed in her mind, and she looked a little grim.
“I have reached the Nature Soul. If I improve my soul with the power of the meat, I may forcibly break through the next realm, the Demigod Soul. It can be comparable to Dacheng Realm.
Even I can benefit from it, let alone those ordinary disciples. No wonder all of them don’t want to leave the sect.
After the soul is improved, the mind will quicken. For example, I can easily produce tens of thousands of thoughts in a flash with the Nature Soul. No matter what I learn, it is very fast. Those ordinary disciples may not be able to absorb the power of the meat as well as I did. However… as long as the soul is improved a little, the speed of understanding the mental method will quicken more than several times.”
After figuring it out, Su Li opened her eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
“It’s really attractive. But cultivation emphasizes the harmony of yin and yang. The soul was classified as yin. If the soul of yin occupies too much power, it will lead to insufficient yangqi and damage the physical body. If the imbalance between yin and yang is to the extreme, it will even suck up all the nutrition in physical body, and the people will die instantly. No wonder…”
With a slight glimmer of light in Su Li’s eyes, she was enlightened immediately.
No wonder the Immortal Cultivation Sect lacked vitality. They all had excess souls of yin, resulting in insufficient vitality. The ordinary disciples themselves couldn’t sense it. They were only indulged in the pleasure of upgrading their souls. Therefore, He Jiu drove them out of the sect.
“Then, the puzzle is solved. Only the several dangerous places Wen Hun mentioned haven’t be found out.”
Whispering to herself, Su Li glanced at the candlestick, and the candle went out instantly.
Although she knew from Wen Hun that He Jiu had left the sect, she was not sure if he was testing her. So, she decided to wait for a few days.
“Senior Fellow Apprentice, I’m so bored. What the hell does Master do? Why does he ask you to guard the sect?”
Resting her hands on her knees, Su Li sat on the step and sighed.
Helplessness flashed on Wen Hun’s pale face. He also sighed deeply, “I don’t know. Master says that he will come back after only one month, only one month… But it’s only seven days.”
As saying, Wen Hun was more resentful. If he was practicing now, he wouldn’t feel bored at all. But he could only guard the hall every day. It was really…so boring.
“Why ask someone to guard the hall?”
Su Li looked back at the closed door, “We have entered in it before the Master left, and there is nothing inside.”
“Maybe there is something we can’t see.”
Wen Hun seemed to be reminded of something by Su Li and was in contemplative mood. After a while, his eyes flashed, and he glanced at Su Li who was distracted by his side. His lips moved, but finally he didn’t say more.
If he talked too much to scare off the junior sister apprentice, no one would accompany him.
Su Li was happy in her heart when she saw his look of hesitation, but she didn’t force him to say more.
There was a limitation on daily intake of the power of that meat for upgrading the soul. The meat, including the piece Wen Hun gave to her, was enough for her to eat one month. Since He Jiu would leave one month, she still had enough time. So, it was better to find out the truth when the power of her soul accumulated to the extreme.
Su Li thought so originally.
But on the tenth day, when she came to the hall with Wen Hun, they suddenly felt something was wrong.
It was so quiet.
There was no sound around, even without the sound of wind.
“Senior Fellow Apprentice, the sky seems to darken.”
Su Li looked up. Panic and fear appeared in her eyes at the right time, and she couldn’t help grasping Wen Hun’s clothes tightly.
“Don’t be afraid. I’m by your side.”
It seemed that it was not the first time for Wen Hun to see this scene, and his expression was very calm. But his body was stiff. He kept looking around, as if looking for something.
Suddenly, he stared at a certain space in the void.
Su Li followed his eyes and saw nothing.
With a move of her mind, she transmitted part of awareness to the evil ghost. The evil ghost in the shadow opened its eyes a little. Then a huge black snake, about hundreds of meters long, suddenly came into her view. It hovered in the sky. The black mist continuously sprayed from the gaps in its scales, and turned into strange dark clouds.
“Hiss!”
A huge snake head showed from the circling snake body. It stuck out the blood-red tongue, and two red lines, which were as thin as earthworms, gradually shot the two persons on the ground.
“This is the Xuehong in the deep mountain. How can it run out?!”
Wen Hun was greatly frightened and his pupils constricted violently. Without another word, he grabbed Su Li and fled to the hall.