Chapter 078

Chapter 78: Confirm the Upgrade?

Inside the array, Li Ming De spoke quickly: “Everyone, don’t panic. The sect is fine, and Little Six is fine too.”

Old Six Liu Meng Lan didn’t buy it: “If nothing happened, who would set off the purple signal in the Spirit Link Formation!”

Pei Xuan said in a calm voice: “It’s really nothing big. I just want to show you something.”

A brocade box flashed on the screen.

Liu Meng Lan recognized it at once: “Fifth Grade Woodfire Spirit.”

Lu Qing Xuan frowned: “That’s great stuff, but is it worth using the purple signal for?”

Pei Xuan said: “My disciple sent it.”

Everyone: “…”

For a moment, the whole Spirit Link Formation exploded with noise.

They wanted to curse, but then they remembered he was their Seventh Junior Brother. They couldn’t afford to offend him. Still, they were mad.

Before the Eldest Senior Brother or Second Senior Brother could speak, Fifth Senior Brother exploded first. Lu Qing Xuan roared: “What do you mean? Your disciple gave you something this precious! Why! Seventh Junior Brother, hand your disciple over to me!”

Everyone: “…”

Pei Xuan said evenly: “Fifth Senior Brother, you already have one.”

Lu Qing Xuan froze, then muttered: “Oh… right, I do. I haven’t brought him around in a while.”

Xun Yin ground his teeth: “When are you coming back!”

Pei Xuan answered: “Within half a month.”

Xun Yin snapped: “Hurry up!”

They kept butting in, but their words still leaked jealousy and anger. Yan Ju sneered: “Little Six was supposed to be mine.”

Pei Xuan said: “You wouldn’t have been able to teach her.”

Yan Ju: “…”

Everyone covered their faces and sighed.

Liu Meng Lan sniffled: “What a good kid. First time entering a secret realm and she still remembered to bring her master a gift.”

Gu Cang Lan said softly: “She has a steady heart.”

Luo Qing Feng said: “Praising her is nice, but the kid went out once and came back badly hurt. As senior uncles, shouldn’t we show something too.”

Liu Meng Lan said hotly: “Do we go beat up Supreme Sect? I can!”

No one humored battle maniac Liu Meng Lan. Gu Cang Lan said: “I picked up a Level Seven spirit herb a few days ago. Junior Brother, when you have time, go to the Spirit Market. I’ll trade it to you so you can give it to Little Six as a meeting gift.”

Others echoed: “We should prepare meeting gifts.”

At once, everyone started digging up treasures to give Ye Wan Wan.

Pei Xuan did not refuse. [Since I opened the Spirit Link Formation, I might as well squeeze some benefits out of this for my disciple.]

At the end, Luo Qing Feng suddenly thought of his own disciple and asked: “Where’s my fifth one? He should have regrouped with his senior brothers and senior sisters by now, right.”

Xun Yin actually gave a review: “They entered this secret realm together. That brat did fine. He even knew to guard his own people so they wouldn’t be bullied,” he said with clear satisfaction.

Luo Qing Feng said: “Good. I knew that brat’s heart wasn’t bad. One look at his bones and you could tell he was meant for our Heavenly One Sect. I’ll trouble my junior brothers to keep an eye on him. He’s rebellious and always wants to run. I chased him for five years, and he ran for five years.”

Luo Qing Feng added with pain: “If Eldest Senior Brother hadn’t helped watch him, I might not have caught him.”

Yan Ju said coolly: “Senior Brother, rest easy. Once you enter our Heavenly One Sect, there is no leaving.”

Alive, you are a person of Heavenly One Sect.

Dead, you are a ghost of Heavenly One Sect.

Since you’ve come, you stay.

Xun Yin chuckled: “These kids all look decent to me. This batch is good.”

“Agreed.”

Everyone felt moved: Heavenly One Sect finally has successors again.

We can face the ancestor with pride.

Lu Qing Xuan said: “Seventh Junior Brother, the three fourth grade herbs you asked for are ready. I’ll send them through the Spirit Market now so you don’t have to wait another half month.”

Pei Xuan said: “Good.”

Li Ming De said with heartache: “You lot just got a little rich and you’re already wasting money.”

The Spirit Market charges fees.

Lu Qing Xuan said: “Sect Master Senior Brother, which of us is short on spirit stones? Seventh Junior Brother least of all. Why worry about him?”

Pei Xuan said mildly: “True. The entire sect owes me.”

Everyone: “…”

Closed-door cultivation. Conversation over.

Ye Wan Wan didn’t know she had just received a pile of meeting gifts. Right now she was counting her own spoils. Earlier, she had only taken out part of them, and Fang He An had already told her to put things away, so she never got a chance to sort everything she gained in the secret realm.

She grouped all the spirit herbs from the valley.

She counted common Spirit Communion grass by the tens of thousands.

First grade spirit herbs and medicines totaled more than 19,000.

Second grade came to around 3,000 to 4,000.

Third grade were few, only 300 to 400, and some were not mature yet. Those could keep growing in the Spirit Lake until they reached fourth grade.

Ye Wan Wan did some picking.

She split all herbs under second grade into a three to seven ratio. She kept three tenths and put the other seven tenths into a storage ring to turn in to the sect.

From the mature third grade herbs, she chose eight based on their attributes.

“This is for Senior Sister Bai,” she said: “body nourishing.”

“This is for Senior Brother Fang,” she said: “mind nourishing.”

“This is for Li Wan Zhi,” she said: “healing.”

“This is for… Shen Nan Zhou,” she said: “eye candy.”

She didn’t know what Shen Nan Zhou lacked. He probably lacked nothing. So she picked two of the best looking herbs that could restore spiritual energy.

“And there’s also something for Eldest Senior Brother, whom I haven’t met yet,” she added.

After finishing the gifts for her senior brothers and senior sisters, Ye Wan Wan prepared gifts for Li Ming De, Yan Ju, and Xun Yin as well.

Illusory Dream Elder and Dream Spirit watched her and wondered: [Is this the same little witch who pays back every slight?]

This was very generous.

Sorting all this took her three hours. It was late, but the girl was still energetic. She then sold the remaining common Spirit Communion grass to the Spirit Market.

Besides vendor stalls, the Spirit Market has merchant houses that buy spirit herbs. Their prices are lower than those in the towns below the mountain, but the trade is convenient.

And they hide your identity.

With this much stock, Ye Wan Wan wouldn’t take it down the mountain to sell.

She planned to sell all of her three tenths of the common Spirit Communion grass and keep only a very small part, but Illusory Dream Elder stopped her: “You carry my legacy as an alchemy master. When you refine pills, you will need a lot of common Spirit Communion grass. If you sell it now, you’ll just have to buy it back later.”

“What’s the point.”

Ye Wan Wan said calmly: “I know. But I thought it through. What I’m selling are basic herbs. Buying them back later won’t be hard. Right now I need spirit stones more.”

Illusory Dream Elder was surprised: “What for?”

Ye Wan Wan said: “For something useful.”

She sold all the basic herbs and got 1,200,000 spirit stones. Ye Wan Wan also gathered other items she could sell. In the end, she had 2,600,000.

Then the girl took out the spirit crystals Pei Xuan had given her.

Twelve spirit crystals.

One spirit crystal equals 1,000,000 spirit stones.

That made 12,000,000 right there.

Ye Wan Wan lowered her eyes. Before, she hadn’t dared to use them because she feared that after leaving in three years, she wouldn’t be able to repay this kindness. But now…

She could use them.

She deposited all the spirit crystals into the Spirit Market. Back in her bamboo house, the house upgrade page popped up. Ye Wan Wan chose her third home option.

A small cave residence priced at 14,000,000.

The prompt asked: “Fellow daoist, do you confirm spending 14,000,000 spirit stones to upgrade the cave residence?”

Ye Wan Wan said: “Confirm.”