Chapter 10 Friends

  Several people were chatting and laughing, when suddenly a spiritual pressure came over, sweeping past, and the bustling lecture hall immediately fell silent. Although everyone was still in groups of three or five, they all faced the front of the hall, bowing their heads in respect, as it turned out that today's lecturer, Shifu, had arrived.

  After the ceremony, everyone sat on the ground and listened to Master Shi's lecture. Lin Feng looked up after sitting down and saw that today's lecturer was Blue Flame Dragon, a master of the fourth layer of the foundation period of the five elements, cultivating fire. He knew that today's lecture would be about the cultivation method of fire properties.

  It's said that although the Xiuzhen realm is divided into five elements, for some reason, fire-attribute cultivators have always been the most numerous, followed by water-attribute, then wood and earth, with metal-attribute being the least. Therefore, when teaching their disciples to cultivate, the Yang family also emphasized the practice of fire-attribute techniques, in order to greatly improve the family's cultivation level.

  However, it's not that disciples of non-fire attributes won't listen; after all, the five elements' methods of generation and restraint are interconnected. Who knows when they might encounter an enemy with a fire attribute? Knowing more is always better for gaining the upper hand. Lin Feng was someone who possessed all five attributes, so in theory, he could learn any method. Therefore, whoever taught him made little difference to him.

  The masters said that they usually combined the problems they encountered in their previous cultivation with the questions asked by the disciples to explain them selectively. For a few people's individual problems, they could only ask themselves alone. Today, Master Lan is talking about the specific application of several fire spirits in swordsmanship, Lin Feng has not yet reached that level, listening to it is like being in a fog, seemingly understanding but not really understanding, so within half an hour, he simply closed his eyes and sat down.

  "Master brother, Master brother!" Just as he was about to enter meditation, he felt someone pulling on his Taoist robe. From the sound of the voice, he knew it was Zhao Chun, that little fatty.

  "What's wrong with you? Not listening carefully, be careful or the master will punish us." Lin Feng said with a smile, glancing at his junior brother sitting beside him.

  "I don't even understand what's being said, but I have to listen carefully. My brain isn't a problem, I'm a cultivator of the Earth Element technique after all. Besides, didn't my senior brother not listen either?" Zhao Chun looked silly, but was actually a little sly.

  "I don't have a master, who's going to control me?" Lin Feng said indifferently, but his heart felt somewhat desolate.

  "I don't have a master either, haha, the host only taught me to study, but didn't accept me as an apprentice." Zhao Chun said with some pride.

  Lin Feng rolled his eyes in disdain but didn't say a word. The Yang family knew that although the master hadn't formally accepted him as a disciple, he treated Lin Feng better than his own biological sons. He was the Yang family's star of hope.

  Zhao Chun obviously knew what Lin Feng's eyes meant, so he hastily said: "Brother, let's not talk about it, I have something good to give you." As he spoke, his wrist flipped and a jade bottle the size of a chicken egg appeared in his hand, with a dan pill the size of a thumb rolling around inside.

  Lin Feng took the jade bottle and examined it carefully, only to see that the small finger-sized dan beads had a smooth and round surface, with a milky white color and several fine green stripes. When he opened the bottle and smelled it, a refreshing and invigorating aura rushed towards him.

  "Ti Qi Dan?" Lin Feng couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, fortunately he still knew they were in a lecture hall and didn't dare to speak too loudly.

  "Ah, Master, how did you all know? Oh, I see, Yang Zeshi is our Yang family's Dan master, and you're helping out in the Dan temple, so it's normal that you'd recognize the Tiqi Dan." Zhao Chun feigned a look of sudden realization.

  Although Lin Feng was helping in the Dan Hall, this Qi Dan was really his first time seeing it. Yang Ze's alchemy was very cautious, not to mention that Lin Feng didn't understand anything before, even now that he knew a lot of things, but it was limited to the recognition and simple initial refining period of spiritual medicine, far from reaching the point where he could touch this Dan thing, not even having the opportunity to watch from the side.

  He knew about the Qi-tonifying Pill solely based on the descriptions of some spiritual medicines in the Spiritual Plant Compendium, which mentioned that they were often used to make pills. The Qi-tonifying Pill was a commonly used pill during the Qi-refining stage to increase cultivation speed, so Lin Feng remembered it very clearly. The Qi-tonifying Pill came in four varieties: high, medium, low, and extreme quality. Generally, it increased the cultivation speed of a Qi-refiner by more than three times, with an effect that lasted for about two days. The medicinal effect was strongest when first taken, then gradually weakened afterwards.

  "Here, this is for you."

  "Are you saying you're giving this to me?" Lin Feng couldn't quite believe it. He had heard Yang Ze mention that even the lowest grade of Qi Gathering Pills were worth seven or eight spirit stones each, and considering the Yang family's Qi Gathering disciples received a monthly stipend of three to five spirit stones, its value was already at a precious level. Yet now Zhao Chun was giving it to him, which made Lin Feng feel somewhat incredulous.

  "Yes, brother, don't speak so loudly! This I only gave to one person, none of the others have it." Zhao Chun's sneaky appearance was indeed very cute, but in Lin Feng's eyes there was more an expression of incredulity.

  "Do you know how many spirit stones it's worth? If the master finds out, he'll scold me for sure. I don't dare to want it, and besides, I'm not even in the Refining Qi stage yet, so taking it would be useless." Lin Feng really wanted it, but considering Zhao Chun was too young, giving away such a precious item casually must have been due to ignorance. If he accepted it, wouldn't that make him a scammer of kids? So he reluctantly refused.

  "Never mind, Master won't say anything, and the master of the house won't know either. Besides, I have a lot more." Zhao Baozi pushed Lin Feng's hand back, then said with a complacent expression, making people want to punch him.

  "How many? You... how many do you have?" Lin Feng was a bit stunned, he knew that the disciples in the Qi Refining stage would receive one Qi Pill every month, and as long as he cultivated his Qi sense, he would also get this treatment. But it was only one pill per month, now Zhao Chun said he had many, Lin Feng immediately realized that the master had opened a small furnace for him, so after being stunned for a moment, he simply asked how many he had.

  "I still have five, hehe, but don't tell anyone else, okay? Not even Master Zhou, Master Wang, or Master Wu know about it. The master also told me not to spread the word outside." Little Fatty seemed to be more than just a show-off, but it was unclear why he was being so nice to Lin Feng.

  "Junior brother, since the master has given you so many spiritual pills, he must be hoping that you will have great achievements in the future. If you give them to me and affect your cultivation progress, it will impact the master's plans. Moreover, this is too precious, I couldn't possibly accept it." Lin Feng said as he handed the jade bottle back over.

  Zhao Chún resolutely refused to accept it, and after a few rounds of polite decline, he said straightforwardly: "Senior brother, you'd better take it. I heard the master say that... since you have all five spiritual roots, your cultivation will be very slow. You're already far behind us now, and in the future, you'll need to consume even more elixirs to catch up."

  If someone else had said that, Lin Feng would have definitely felt condescended to, but the two of them were really close, and Zhao Chun's words were sincere, so Lin Feng could feel his kindness, and didn't say anything more. After reluctantly accepting it, he said: "Younger brother, older brother has already started learning alchemy from Yang Ze Shu Shu, in the future when older brother can refine pills, we two brothers can eat as many as we want, haha."

  "Alright, then I won't be polite anymore, hehe, we'll both work hard and in the future, we'll roam freely in the Cultivation Realm. It's only a matter of time before we both attain enlightenment and ascend to immortality, haha!" Zhao Chun exclaimed loudly, his eyes shining with excitement, as he watched Lin Feng put away the medicinal pill. His outburst attracted a lot of strange looks from the people around him. Who in the Cultivation Realm didn't dream of attaining enlightenment and becoming immortal every day? But someone like Zhao Chun, who shouted it out loud, was truly rarely seen. Fortunately, Blue Master had already finished his lecture and was now individually answering questions and dispelling doubts for his disciples, or else he might have been punished.

  The two of them exchanged a glance, and then quickly lowered their heads, whispering to each other in hushed tones, occasionally bursting into low chuckles. They looked like two yellow mice who had stolen chickens, and it was quite childish. Isn't that right? One of them was seven years old, and the other was ten years old. Although as cultivators, they were much more intelligent than ordinary people, but after all, they still had the hearts of children, and being childish was inevitable.

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