Published: March 2, 2025
Chapter 148: Bing Character No. 6 Herb Garden
"Please arrange according to your discretion, Elders!"
Liu Yu quickly finished speaking. Regardless of its usefulness, it never hurts to put on a poor performance; perhaps it could sway their decision.
After all eight had finished speaking, Elder Yan and Elder Fang exchanged murmurs, seemingly discussing something.
With their foundation establishment stage cultivation, they naturally did not dare to pry into the content of the sound transmission and could only stand aside patiently waiting.
After about half a cup of tea's time, the two elders nodded to each other, reaching a basic consensus. Elder Yan slowly announced:
"Senior Brother Xu, Junior Brother Cui, and the other three, immediately proceed to the spiritual stone mine camp to await deployment. Someone will come to escort you shortly and take you together with the cultivators sent by the affiliated forces."
"Junior Brother Liu understands a bit of alchemical pill refining, so he should also be able to manage spiritual herbs, right? To prevent enemy cultivators from ambushing and damaging sect property, you will be stationed at Bing Character No. 6 Herb Garden to take care of the spiritual herbs."
"As for Yan Qun'er and Zhuang Shilong, there are other arrangements for them; they will remain in Moonlit City awaiting orders."
The Yuan Yang Sect categorizes its spiritual herb gardens into four levels: A, B, C, and D, corresponding to the nascent soul stage, golden core stage, foundation establishment stage, and qi refinement stage respectively.
Bing Character No. 6 Herb Garden ranks relatively high among the foundation establishment stage gardens, cultivating spiritual herbs that are useful for foundation establishment stage cultivators. Its significance to the sect's foundation establishment stage elixirs is considerable, making it something not easily abandoned.
Hearing that he did not need to go to the frontline battle but was assigned to a defense task at a spiritual herb garden, which was relatively less dangerous, Liu Yu was somewhat surprised.
Could it be that his act of hiding his abilities played a role? No! It couldn’t be that simple.
Suddenly, Liu Yu thought of something and glanced at Yan Qun'er, just in time to meet her bright eyes.
Yan Qun'er’s lips curled in a smile that seemed not quite a smile, her eyes holding a different color.
The two exchanged a glance but then instinctively looked away. To the others, it was just a normal exchange of looks, and no one paid it much mind—except for one person.
"The kindness of a beauty is the hardest to dissipate."
Faced with such goodwill, Liu Yu felt inexplicably heavy-hearted.
He had a premonition that his entanglement with Yan Qun'er was far from over.
"Yes."
The eight foundation establishment stage cultivators responded in unison. Even if a few were dissatisfied with this arrangement, such as Cui Liang, none dared to oppose the will of the golden core elder.
Hearing that no one had objections to their arrangements, Elder Yan and Elder Fang's expressions relaxed, losing some of their earlier severity.
Elder Yan nodded slightly and said to Wu Yuhan: "Since there are no objections, then speed is of the essence. Junior Brother Wu, take these five down to meet with the others and set off immediately."
Wu Yuhan quietly accepted the order and led Senior Brother Xu, Cui Liang, and the other three to leave.
Only Liu Yu, Yan Qun'er, and Zhuang Shilong remained, facing the two golden core elders.
After the others left, Elder Yan shared some information about Bing Character No. 6 Herb Garden, then lightly gestured, causing a black scroll to appear on the table and unfold.
"Swish swish."
His middle finger and index finger came together, a beam of golden light emerging from his fingertips, and in the air, he inscribed something on the scroll. In just a breath or two, he completed the task.
Elder Yan gestured for Liu Yu to come forward and take it, saying:
"Bing Character No. 6 Herb Garden is located at the junction of Qingjing Two Prefectures, established atop a second-tier supreme spiritual vein. Although it is 800 miles from the newly discovered spiritual stone mine, this distance means nothing to a foundation establishment stage cultivator, usually taking only two or three hours to traverse. The possibility of being attacked is quite high."