Chapter 082

Chapter 82: Warmth

The temperature on Green Thicket Mountain dropped all at once.

Xun Yin rushed into the field and tried to save the seedlings, shouting to Pei Xuan: “Old Seventh, put away your ice and snow, these fragile sprouts can’t stand the cold or they’ll die.”

Pei Xuan said in a calm voice: “Third senior brother, these seedlings would die even without freezing.”

Xun Yin muttered: “…Can’t you say something nice for once?”

After glancing at the two elders who were at odds, Ye Wan Wan thought for a moment and chose the steadier, safer side by going to Xun Yin as she said: “Senior uncle, how about I take a look?”

Seeing the little miss step up, Xun Yin smiled wide and waved her over: “You know how to plant too? Come, look at this. These are the precious seedlings your senior uncle has cared for all year.”

Ye Wan Wan checked the roots and understood the problem: [Lack of water.]

In fact, the whole of Green Thicket Mountain seemed short on water. There was almost no water element in the air. It would be strange if things could live here.

Ye Wan Wan raised her hand and used the Cloud Summoning Rain Art, then used the Pest Dispelling Art.

After a while, the sprouts in the spirit field perked up, full of life.

Xun Yin stared and thought: [How is her half hour better than my whole year? Is this what talent looks like?]

He studied Ye Wan Wan and whispered: “Do you still want to take a master?”

Pei Xuan fell silent.

Ye Wan Wan stepped back, bowed, and said: “Senior uncle, this isn’t a big problem. Your aura is too strong. It’s affecting the water element in the mountain and the spirit fields. If you keep your aura tucked inside, it will be fine.”

Xun Yin frowned in thought and said: “But I’m already hiding it well.”

No one could see his true realm. When he went down the mountain lately, people only took him for a steady old farmer.

Ye Wan Wan pointed to something at his waist and said: “You hid yourself well, but you didn’t hide your artifact.”

Xun Yin pulled the fan from his belt and said: “This?”

He lifted the fan and gave it a light wave. A sheet of flame swept from his side toward half the mountain. Luckily, Lu Qing Xuan moved fast and set up a Barrier with a step and a sweep of his hand.

Otherwise, half the mountain would have burned.

Lu Qing Xuan exploded: “My senior brother! Why are you carrying that thing around?”

Xun Yin grumbled: “It’s the spoil we took from Devil Lord Crimson Flame a few hundred years ago. I thought it looked nice, so I kept it on me. Your Green Thicket Mountain is so hot. Can’t I wave a little breeze to cool off?”

Lu Qing Xuan squinted and said: “You sure that makes things cooler?”

Xun Yin tossed the fan to Ye Wan Wan, and she caught it by reflex. He said: “It’s fine. I never paid it much attention. Who’d have guessed the culprit was this.”

Ye Wan Wan held it with both hands and said: “Senior uncle, this…”

Xun Yin waved her off and said: “It’s yours.”

Ye Wan Wan’s fingers tightened slightly and she said: “This is a high-grade artifact.”

Hearing that, Xun Yin said: “Too low for you? Then another day come to your senior uncle’s cave. I’ll pick something else for you. I robbed… I mean, I collected quite a few spoils.”

Ye Wan Wan glanced at Pei Xuan. Pei Xuan said: “Since senior brother is giving it to you, accept it.”

Ye Wan Wan bowed and said: “Thank you, senior uncle.”

Xun Yin beamed.

Ye Wan Wan thought: [I can copy the Spirit Herb Art Elder Yu Chun gave me and gift a copy to senior uncle. It’s not a high-level art, but it should be useful.]

Fang He An and Bai Jian were happy for Ye Wan Wan.

Li Wan Zhi asked with shining eyes: “Can you sell it?”

Ye Wan Wan smiled and said: “Sure, I’ll sell you along with it as a bundle.”

Li Wan Zhi went speechless: [Junior sister has turned bad!]

At that moment, Pei Xuan was talking with Lu Qing Xuan. Their exchange was simple and direct. Pei Xuan asked: “Work?”

Lu Qing Xuan answered: “Work.”

Pei Xuan took out three spirit herbs.

Lu Qing Xuan nodded and said: “Told you, flowers bloom faster in the Clear Spring Pool.”

They were a single Jade Lotus, a Flame Blossom Elixir that only grows deep in volcanoes, and Earthheart Marrow that forms in the depths of the earth.

Wood, metal, earth. All set.

Lu Qing Xuan called to Ye Wan Wan: “Child, come here.”

Encouraged by Pei Xuan, Ye Wan Wan walked to Lu Qing Xuan. She could feel his Primordial Spirit brushing over her, not like a hard probe, but like a warm spring breeze, like the care of an elder.

Lu Qing Xuan looked surprised and said: “Child, you absorbed the Fire Mystic Crystal and the Rain Dew in only half a month, and you did it well. The repairs are very pure. You worked hard, didn’t you?”

Ye Wan Wan told the truth: “I used the Spirit Market’s time flow. It took me a little over two months, not just half a month.”

Hearing that she used the Spirit Market’s time flow, Pei Xuan, Xun Yin, and Lu Qing Xuan all paused, but they didn’t look too surprised.

Lu Qing Xuan smiled and said: “That is a good method.”

He added in a gentle voice: “Next, senior uncle will treat you. It may hurt a little. Bear with it.”

Ye Wan Wan nodded and said: “Okay.”

Seeing this, Xun Yin lifted his hand, and a clear breeze carried Bai Jian, Fang He An, and Li Wan Zhi to the next peak as he said: “Go play for a bit.”

Then he set up a Barrier and took the central seat. Pei Xuan guarded from the other side. Lu Qing Xuan sat facing Ye Wan Wan, just the two of them.

Two top experts held the formation. An alchemist treated the patient. Ye Wan Wan thought: [How do I deserve this?]

Lu Qing Xuan spoke softly: “Your master said you’re stubborn. After you got those treasures, you would repair your Golden Core in secret. Child, with your elders here, you don’t need to force yourself.”

“Our job is to be the umbrella that shields you from wind and rain.”

A vast wave of wood-type spiritual power fell over her like a warm pillar of light. Ye Wan Wan felt her body loosening under this strength.

But after so many brushes with death, she still kept herself tense and didn’t dare relax fully.

Lu Qing Xuan said: “Relax.”

Ye Wan Wan warned herself: [Relax, relax…]

Her mind slowly let go.

Lu Qing Xuan said: “Bring out your Golden Cores.”

Ye Wan Wan formed a hand seal, and five Golden Cores swam out of her body. Lu Qing Xuan flicked his fingers, the orbs turned with a light touch, and the three cracked Golden Cores drifted down before him.

He raised his palm. The three spirit treasures floated up and settled before the Golden Cores. With the power of a Divine Transformation stage cultivator, he drew out their medicinal force and guided it along the surfaces of the Golden Cores. It ran many times faster than Ye Wan Wan could have done alone, mending and nourishing her Golden Cores and her meridians.

Ye Wan Wan felt something moving through her dantian.

The heart-ripping pain from when her Golden Core was torn out began to heal, bit by bit.

She understood at once that patching the Golden Cores was only part of it. He had come mainly to treat her inner wounds, the aftereffects left by the forced removal of her Golden Core, and the stubborn cold poison still stuck in her meridians from the Black Ice Cliff.

Now the pain and the chill were being drawn out little by little and replaced with warmth.

Ye Wan Wan’s eyes turned red. She let Lu Qing Xuan’s power warm and soothe her and accepted this elder’s kindness. Her heart fully relaxed.

Then the scene before her flashed.

A young elder stood among volcanoes. Under burning flames, his spiritual power faded bit by bit. Even so, he still lifted an unconscious young man, pouring his life force into him.

He said in a hoarse voice: “Child, you must live.”

Ye Wan Wan’s pupils widened: [That youth is… Fang He An.]