21: Chapter 21 Pill Cultivation, Danxia Valley, the Big Black Lump!

"Is that so?"

Feng Yifan was stunned upon hearing this.

There was actually such a sneaky trick?

If it could really be done this way, then studying would be such a joyful thing!

Then what does that make my six years of elementary School, three years of junior high, and three years of high School, gritting my teeth to squeeze across that single-plank bridge, nearly getting pushed off?

Does that mean I deserved it?

...No, no.

Having gotten excited for a moment, he immediately sensed something was off.

Li Linfeng's words definitely had a trap in them.

If it was really as he said, then couldn't Cultivators mass-produce Scholars?

Yet from the common knowledge just now, it was clearly evident that the three forces of the Literary Path, the Martial Path, and Cultivation were difficult to rank as superior or inferior among ordinary people.

In this world, Scholars, especially those bearing literary fortune, often treat Cultivators with an attitude of 'respecting spirits and ghosts but keeping a distance'.

Therefore, this Li Linfeng fellow was not being honest.

What he said was probably true, but it was certainly only part of the truth.

"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Feng Yifan snorted coldly.

He indeed wasn't a real Evil God, nor did he possess the attribute of being a master schemer.

But dealing with this level of probing was still a piece of cake.

All those power struggles, spy thrillers, and political dramas weren't watched for nothing.

Being in a position of authority, this single sentence was enough to handle a subordinate's questioning!

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Li Linfeng had no choice but to say: "I wouldn't dare. It's just that this way, a lot of trouble could be avoided."

For ordinary people to gain wisdom, if they don't go to pay respects at the Literary Temple to open their spiritual wisdom, reading and writing will be very difficult, easily breaking their will to learn.

Some great clans' family Schools also have their young initiates first pay respects at the Literary Temple, then invite a teacher with literary fortune. Under the influence of that fortune, it's easier to produce seeds of scholarship.

"If one can imprint it into the consciousness with divine sense, one only needs to find someone who knows some characters to teach them a bit, and they can learn. It's even better than paying respects at the Literary Temple."

From these few sentences, it was clear that Li Linfeng undoubtedly hoped Feng Yifan could use this to help the children of the Li Clan begin their education.

Even the previous question was both an instinctive probe and aimed at this.

Not to mention that in this life, the Li Clan was his own kin.

Just the fact that the old patriarch was willing to fulfill his wishes and lead the entire clan to relocate, and that most of the clan members were willing to take this gamble for him, meant he owed them a huge debt of gratitude.

Naturally, he wanted to repay it.

"Would this deity not know all this?" Feng Yifan said immediately upon hearing this, speaking without a shred of modesty. "I've even found the person who knows the characters."

Having said this, he paused and asked: "By the way, does the Sword Sect have any Alchemists?"

"The Sword Sect does not have an Alchemist lineage within it," Li Linfeng said. "Some of the Elders know how to refine pills, but they are not proficient. Why does the Divine Master ask?"

"I've taken on another Divine Servant, a promising seedling for Alchemy, with extremely good Aptitude," Feng Yifan said directly. "I plan to send him to a Sect to Cultivate."

"Extremely good Aptitude, how good?" Li Linfeng's heart stirred as he asked.

Pills were indispensable to Cultivators.

He was now a Divine Servant of an Evil God, a fact that probably couldn't be changed for the time being.

If they were both Divine Servants of the same Evil God, this relationship was even more reliable and trustworthy than that of fellow disciples.

If the other could achieve something in the path of Alchemy, exchanging resources and watching each other's backs could potentially be a great aid in cultivation.

"A 14-year-old with Water-Wood Dual Spiritual Roots and Heavenly Spirit Immortal Bone. Although he hasn't started cultivating yet, his future achievements will be at least that of a Heavenly Immortal Alchemist and a Spiritual Plant Grandmaster," Feng Yifan said somewhat proudly. "Only this level of Aptitude is worthy of being taken as my Divine Servant."

"...This Aptitude is indeed... extremely good." Li Linfeng's heart gave a violent leap upon hearing this.

A Heavenly Immortal Alchemist was the top-tier existence among alchemists in the cultivation world.

The single character 'Immortal' signified being on par with a true Immortal.

A 14-year-old youth who hasn't even started cultivating yet, and you say he can become a Heavenly Immortal Alchemist in the future?

If it were anyone else, they'd probably think the Evil God was talking in his sleep, spouting nonsense.

But Li Linfeng was not just anyone else.

He knew all too well what Water-Wood Dual Spiritual Roots plus Heavenly Spirit Immortal Bone represented.

Such Aptitude, how could it merely be 'extremely good'?

It was simply superb!

And this latter title, Spiritual Plant Grandmaster, was even more terrifying.

"So the Divine Master is not wrong," he thought to himself.

In the Alchemist lineage, this kind of Aptitude wouldn't be inferior to his own Thunder Spiritual Root and Supreme Bone!

"Divine Master, if you are willing, why not have him also go to the Sword Sect's Immortal Ascension Platform to seek a master," Li Linfeng immediately made a decision. "The Sword Sect has a generations-long friendship with Danxia Valley, and Danxia Valley is the best Alchemist Sect within ten thousand miles."

His intention was simple.

Enter the Sword Sect through the Immortal Ascension Platform.

Given the relationship between the Sword Sect and Danxia Valley, after verifying the other's Aptitude, they would definitely immediately contact Danxia Valley to come pick him up.

A pill master with immense potential would be of great benefit to both Sects.

"Danxia Valley... that would work too," Feng Yifan completely understood his meaning.

In fact, telling Li Linfeng about Zhang Qianlü's Aptitude was precisely to achieve this result.

The importance of pills to Cultivators was evident from the fact that the Sword Sect gave out pills first upon entry, not Spirit Stones.

How powerful a Heavenly Immortal Alchemist was, Feng Yifan had no concrete concept.

But the common knowledge of the cultivation world he just learned wasn't for nothing.

He had read in books that legendary Heavenly Immortal Alchemists could refine Nine Revolutions Immortal Pills.

He had calculated that this fellow Li Linfeng, upon hearing that a fellow Divine Servant was such a future existence, definitely wouldn't remain unmoved.

Now, seeing it, it was exactly as expected.

"Then Danxia Valley it is. This deity will have him go seek a master in a couple of days," Feng Yifan said. "When the time comes, look out for each other a bit. Don't embarrass this deity."

Having said that, he directly withdrew his divine sense.

As long as the Evil God's brand remained, a Divine Servant could not betray their Divine Master.

Even if they had such thoughts, he could detect it.

Therefore, what Li Linfeng and Zhang Qianlü thought was unimportant.

What was important to Feng Yifan was them entering a Sect to Cultivate and obtain cultivation resources.

So, his next step was to cast his divine sense down onto the Li Clan settlement.

...

At the foot of Little Yao Mountain.

The Li Clan settlement.

The able-bodied laborers had all gone to dig irrigation ditches.

Working hard for their future water source and paddy fields.

The remaining people were clearing weeds from the fields.

Although this task required constantly bending over and was tiring and annoying,

the faces and expressions of the Elders, children, and the few women inexplicably carried a sense of excitement and agitation.

Part of this was because of that unbelievable news from yesterday. And another part was because of these weeds.

Only ten days had passed.

In the crop fields and vegetable plots, the grains and little vegetables they had planted had just begun to show their heads, but the weeds had sprouted first.

This was indeed annoying.

But it also indicated something else.

Under the protection of the Mountain God's people, this land had regained its vitality!

And the land was very fertile.

They didn't have the means to fertilize, only the plant ash from burning the wilderness.

Even just that was enough to make the wild grass grow wildly, so the crops wouldn't be much worse.

What could make farming families happier than this?

"Nothing, how could there be anything happier for us than a bountiful harvest..." Mother Dao Hua said this, then suddenly her body stiffened.

Why was there something extra in her heart?

"Ah! Grandma!" The little granddaughter beside her started crying immediately. "Big black lumps are popping up in my heart!"