I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World

Chapter 251: Chapter 221: The Return of Jiuchuan

In a small courtyard in Dengtong Lane, Jiang Yuebai borrowed Lu Nanzhi’s quiet room to refine elixirs.

Since hearing from Li Shen Zhi that the Kong Family had an innate spiritual treasure with a gold attribute, Jiang Yuebai had been restless.

It had been over three years since she got the Earth Spiritual Object from the Quicksand Domain.

In these three years, she had looked in no fewer than a hundred places, all in vain. This was the first time she had received extremely accurate clues about spiritual objects, and it was right in front of her.

However, the difficulty and obstacles in obtaining it were greater than ever before.

The Kong Family’s Secret Vault—it’s probably impossible even for a Divinity Transformation Cultivator to raid it easily. Even if they managed to get in and find the items, they couldn’t leave alive with them.

Hiss~~

Black smoke billowed from the pill furnace. Jiang Yuebai snapped back to reality and hurriedly put out the fire to check.

A furnace of Bone Strengthening Pills, ruined!

”Oh...”

Jiang Yuebai propped her chin and sighed gloomily. Her Earth Evil Fire was too fierce; she needed to focus more on fire control and not get distracted.

”If Little Green’s fire were gentler, putting it under the pill furnace for fire control wouldn’t be bad either.”

Jiang Yuebai propped her head, thinking, and sighed again. She took out the array maps given by True Monarch Fuyi, rubbed her face to focus.

”As True Monarch Fuyi said, starting from the basics is too difficult in the beginning. Others at this time can directly use the array map to array, but I’m still here studying the principles of connecting changes between array points. However, if I don’t understand, it bothers me!”

Jiang Yuebai took out paper and pen, lay on the ground, flipped through the array maps, writing and sketching, turned the disc on the Eight Arrays Plate, and calculated with her fingers.

It’s said that the Secret Realm Maze in this Wind and Cloud Meeting is full of arrays, and those proficient in Array Dao will find it easier to find a way out than others.

”...I can now use the Eight Arrays Plate to array the Wood, Fire, Earth Three-Turned Linked Array. If I’m careful, it’s not a problem to encircle and kill Peake Foundation Establishment, but I’m missing water and gold to form a complete cycle. My entire spiritual power can only support the Three-Turned Linked Array for about an hour...”

”Besides the twenty-four arrays in the Eight Arrays Plate that I can use now, I also need to prepare a few arrays that don’t consume my spiritual power, just in case. Let me see... hmm? This Five Extremes Heavenly Thunder Array looks good.”

Jiang Yuebai took out one of the array maps given by True Monarch Fuyi, flipped it over, and lay on the ground to look.

”With a Five Elements Thunder Array Artifact, array according to the number five and the generating and overcoming positions of the Five Elements. Five elements generate, gathering thunder into a tide, impossible to escape; five elements overcome, thundering heavens, certain death without life.”

”This array can unleash the power of a Golden Core with Foundation Establishment strength. It looks impressive, but the scale of this array is not small; I can’t set it up alone...”

Jiang Yuebai continued to study, continued flipping through, feeling her mouth a bit idle. She casually took out a box of Baishui Domain’s specialty mugwort rice balls to eat. The rice balls were sticky and glutinous, covered in glutinous rice flour that didn’t stick to the hands, with sweet and fragrant bean paste inside.

”Is it delicious?”

Hearing the familiar voice, Jiang Yuebai, with a rice ball in her mouth, suddenly widened her eyes, hurriedly spat out the rice ball into the box, tossed the box into the pill furnace, wiped her mouth clean, and stood up.

Opening the door of the quiet room, she saw a green-clad man of grace and poise standing in the courtyard. Though his eyebrows and eyes were gentle and handsome, Jiang Yuebai perceived a trace of sternness.

”Master!”

Lii Jiuchuan looked at Jiang Yuebai, seeing her cultivation was just shy of late-stage Foundation Establishment, showing satisfaction. Then he noticed the white powder smeared around her mouth and shook his head with a smile.

Jiang Yuebai clasped her hands, shrank her neck, and said weakly, ”Master, if I say I just tasted a small bite out of curiosity, would you believe me?”

Jiang Yuebai grinned awkwardly, bean paste from the rice ball still clinging to her teeth.

Lii Jiuchuan didn’t reprimand her, just looked around, ”Why isn’t the protection array in the courtyard active? If I were a villain and you were cultivating, you’d be in danger!”

Only then did Jiang Yuebai realize, right, where’s the protection array in the courtyard?

Though she had a strand of her master’s divine thought on her, and he could easily find her within his divine sense range, it shouldn’t have been this easy to enter the courtyard.

”Master, wait a moment.”

Jiang Yuebai searched every room, not seeing Lu Nanzhi, and immediately understood.

”It’s Anan, she’s been a bit distraught lately, must have forgotten when she left. Master, please sit down, I’ll make you some tea. Baishui Domain is known as the Spiritual Tea Country, their Rainy Green Tea is especially delicious.”

Jiang Yuebai invited Lii Jiuchuan to sit in the courtyard, skillfully took out a small red clay stove, and brewed tea.

Lii Jiuchuan sat and said, ”The matter of Lu Nanzhi has been informed to the Supreme Elder. He is discussing it with her master, Sword Lord Guanghan, and the Sect Master. The Heavenly Interence Sect will not ignore her.”

”Really?” Jiang Yuebai looked up in surprise.

Lii Jiuchuan took the tea canister from Jiang Yuebai’s hand, sniffed it lightly, his gaze brightening.

”Yes, I came here after returning to the sect. However, the Heavenly Interence Sect has ancestral instructions not to get involved in the affairs of the Lu Family. This matter also involves the Fang Family, so it needs to be handled cautiously, which may take some time and effort.”

”In the meantime, watch over Lu Nanzhi more. The Supreme Elder says she’s outwardly gentle but inwardly strong, strong-willed and not fond of troubling others. She hasn’t even responded to messages, and there’s concern she might act impulsively.”

Jiang Yuebai nodded rapidly, ”Okay, I’ll have a good talk with Anan. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just stick with her every day.”

Lii Jiuchuan personally brewed the tea, ”No need to stick with her every day, just don’t push her too much, show her more care. Also... Fang Mingyi of the Fang Family, that incident was you, wasn’t it?”

Jiang Yuebai tensed up, ”Master, what are you talking about? Who’s Fang Mingyi? I don’t even know him. I’ve been in the courtyard cultivating and studying these days, haven’t gone anywhere.”

How could her master, who had just arrived in Kongfang City, have such a wide network?

Lii Jiuchuan laughed, ”Before I came here, I went to the Fang Family to deliver greetings to the Fang Clan Leader for the Sect Master. I heard many people secretly discussing how Fang Mingyi was ambushed outside the city, stripped and beaten beyond recognition. As soon as I heard that, I knew it was you.”

”It really wasn’t me!” Jiang Yuebai said rightfully, ”I, a senior sister of the Heavenly Cry Peak, act openly and righteously, never doing anything that would tarnish my master’s reputation or the sect’s image.”

Lii Jiuchuan chuckled and shook his head, ”Alright, let’s not talk about others. Tell me about your experiences over the years.”

On the red stove, the tea brewed, and master and disciple began to chat.

Jiang Yuebai rambled for a long time, pouring out all her thrilling, bittersweet experiences over the years to Lii Jiuchuan.

”...That’s how it is. Now I’m just short of a Golden Spiritual Object and a Water Spirit Object. These three years, luck wasn’t on my side, I’ve found nothing and got deceived several times, almost couldn’t see you, Master. Now I hear there’s an innate spiritual treasure of the gold element in the Kong Family’s Secret Vault, but that’s the Kong Family’s Secret Vault. I’m really out of options, Master~~”

Jiang Yuebai, with disheveled hair, shook her head, the little ganoderma on her head full of grievances and sorrow.

Lii Jiuchuan calmly put down his teacup, ”Your mind is full of deviant thoughts. Though the Cultivation Realm is harsh, it’s not devoid of morals. Sometimes what you want can be obtained through legitimate means and channels. It’s not necessary to steal or seize. Even if the world is as such, you must not go with the flow, always safeguard the bottom line in your heart, don’t tarnish your Dao Heart.”

Jiang Yuebai blushed, ”But such precious things, how big of a favor would I need to have them directly handed to me?”

”The Kong Family’s ancestors entered the Dao through literature, and there are still many disciples cultivating Vast Righteous Qi within the family. I’ve met the Kong Clan Leader a few times; he’s a well-versed and understanding person. Go tidy yourself up, and accompany me to pay a visit to the Kong Family.”

Jiang Yuebai beamed with joy. Having her master’s care and help was truly wonderful. Even if this visit to the Kong Family yielded no results, she would be happy.