Chapter 1: The Seven-Colored Dragon Boat, Azure Pearl...

  Cai Wei and Luo Bei spent about half a time circling around to the opposite side of the valley.

  Because it was close, the delicate purple-red flower in front of her had tiny water droplets on it, looking enchanting and about to drip. Cai He couldn't help but move forward to pick it, when suddenly she felt that the ground beneath her feet was a bit soft, and some gravel rolled down the mountain cliff with a rustling sound, until after a long time, a faint echo came back up, Cai He's slender body froze in place. "This mountain stream is at least several hundred meters deep, if I'm not careful and fall down, even if I release the flying flame talisman, it will definitely be too late to save me."

  To adopt or not to adopt?

  This strong-willed and clever girl hesitated for a moment.

  "Adopted sister", just then, she suddenly heard Luo Bei say to her beside her, "Your body is relatively light..."

  "This guy!" As soon as Luo Bei said that, Cai Ou's face turned red with rage. "This guy must be thinking that I'm lighter and won't easily trample the mountain rocks, so he wants me to go pick them, how despicable and shameless!"

  "It's quite windy here, it's not safe for you to stand there, why don't you go to the back and I'll help you pick one? After all, Minghao Shifu said that we can help each other collect in groups." But Luo Bei's next words made her stunned.

  In the mountain wind, this eyebrow-like moon, slightly frowning girl looked at the calm-faced Luo Bei and couldn't help but think to herself, "Could it be that I've misjudged him?"

  "Adopting a younger sister is really good-looking..." As he watched the strands of green silk blown by the mountain wind, her neck was white and slender, and her face was like a painting. Such thoughts also flashed through his mind.

  "It's not safe to walk over there directly." Luo Bei slowly crouched down, carefully examining the ground in front of him. Although the fine grass on the edge of the cliff was right before his eyes, the rocks on the edge of the cliff were severely weathered, and he could vaguely see many cracks, making them look somewhat hollow. After looking around and thinking for a moment, Luo Bei turned his head to look at Cai Shu behind him, "Cai Shu, are you cold?"

  "What's with the cold, it's already this late, why are you still asking that?" Cao Zhu thought to herself, but at this moment her impression of Luo Bei had greatly improved, and her tone also softened a bit. "I'm not cold, you take care of yourself."

  "Oh." Luo Bei let out a sound, then took off the outer blue robe on his body.

  "....". Cai Shu's already large eyes widened even further, "Is this junior brother mentally ill or deaf?! Didn't I just say it wasn't cold, yet he still wants to take off his clothes for me?!"

  At this moment, she suddenly heard Luo Bei looking at her and saying, "Sister, you should take off your outerwear too."

  "What?" Cai Ou was taken aback, and almost jumped up, her hands also unconsciously wrapped around her chest. "What do you want to do?"

  "Ah, there's a tree over there." Luo Bei pointed to a wild jujube tree not far away from his side. "Let's tie our clothes together, one end tied to the tree and the other end tied to me, it should be foolproof."

  “……。”

  She stared at Luo Bei with a mixture of laughter and tears for a long time, then looked at the deep and bottomless mountain stream in front of her. She finally made up her mind, gritted her teeth and stomped her feet. "Then you're not allowed to look at me!"

  "Alright, Adopted Sister Cai."

  In fact, Luobei didn't have any other distracting thoughts in his mind because their clothes were basically the same. The cyan robes had white linings inside and wouldn't reveal any spring scenery. It was just that when Caiqiu took off his outer garment and stood in the wilderness, he looked even more elegant and refined.

  Taking the outer garment handed over by Cai Lu with a faint blush on his face, Luo Bei carefully tied a knot, pulled it hard, tried it, and then tied one end to the tree and the other end to his own right foot.

  "It's not too stupid." Cai Ou saw that Luo Bei was doing this because the length of the two clothes tied together was still a bit short. She saw Luo Bei carefully take a few steps forward, then squat down and stretch his hands out as far as possible. "Rustle" sound, the rocks on the edge of the cliff were indeed loose, suddenly several fist-sized rocks fell off, but Cai Ou couldn't help but let out a cheer, because she saw Luo Bei had already firmly pulled out two thin vines with his hands.

  "Lotus seedling sister, give."

  At the time of Luo Fu, Lao Zhao Nan had told Luo Bei that there was a thing called "gong bai chui cheng", which meant that even if you have traveled 100 miles, you would still give up at the 90th mile. Cultivation is also like this, often when you are closest to success, it is the most dangerous. So, Luo Bei held two stalks of fine lotus in his hand, but he didn't have any thoughts of being proud or arrogant. He carefully retreated, stood up, and retreated back to the edge of the trees before taking off his outer clothes and handing one stalk of fine lotus to Xiao Lian, who was excitedly picking lotus flowers.

  "This guy." Luo Bei's calmness, which didn't quite match his age, made Cai Zhuo feel slightly stunned again. However, Cai Zhuo quickly came to her senses, remembering that she had told him not to look, yet she herself couldn't help but stare at him with a dazed expression, as if she was suffering from the same lovesickness as Yanran Shifu. She immediately lowered her head and began to carefully examine the rare herb in front of her.

  The small, delicate flowers are like tiny butterflies with yellow stamens in the center, emitting a faintly pungent and subtle fragrance. The light yellow stems and leaves do not feel cold like other medicinal herbs, but instead have a slightly warm feeling to the touch.

  "It's all because of this guy! Otherwise, we might have even found the Thorny Grass." Suddenly she remembered another herb that neither of them had seen, and her mouth pouted again.

  "Adopted sister", at this time, also like the adopted one carefully examining the herbs in her hand, Luo Bei suddenly heard a rustling sound from the forest, his keen senses making him subconsciously feel that someone was walking inside, and he couldn't help but call out to Cai Shu.

  "What's wrong?" Cao Zhu raised her head and glanced at Luo Bei, but before she could ask what was going on, she also heard a rustling sound not far behind her. Turning around to look, she saw three young men about the same age as her and Luo Bei emerging from the dark forest.

  At first, Luo Bei thought they were just some other fellow disciples and happened to bump into them. But soon he discovered that the three youths standing before him were all wearing dark-colored robes, which were completely different from the light blue robes worn by the new disciples of Gou Li Qun Feng.

  In the middle was a young man with a slender figure, regular features and somewhat handsome appearance, but his eyebrows were slightly slanted at the temples, which gave him a somewhat arrogant air.

  The boy on the left was slightly small in stature and facial features, exactly like the typical pointed mouth and monkey cheeks described in the book. The boy on the right had an ordinary appearance, except for a black mole on his left cheek, which looked a bit eye-catching.

  The three boys were also taken aback when they saw Luo Bei and Cai Li.

  "He is a disciple of Gao Liefeng." The young man in the middle had some insight, and with one glance, he muttered to himself. And then the three people were involuntarily shocked, "You... what are you doing here?"

  A faint blush suddenly appeared on Cai Wu's delicate face, and she couldn't help but glare fiercely at Luo Bei.

  Because both of them had just put on their outer garments and hadn't finished dressing yet, they were all wrinkled, which was really easy to misinterpret.

  "With a guilty conscience, one will have wild thoughts!" But Cao Zhen suddenly suspected these three people and his face turned cold. He let out a heavy, chilly snort and said in an ill-tempered tone, "What business do we have with you here?"

  “……” The three boys wearing dark shirts didn't expect that the seemingly delicate and elegant Cai Zhu would have such a bad tone, and for a moment, the thin boy on the left and the boy with a black mole on his right cheek were stunned, somewhat hesitant and unable to respond. But the middle boy was also shocked by Cai Zhu's ruthless tone, his face turned cold, and his eyebrows jumped, "How can you two be dressed like this in Tianzhu Peak? Don't you dare ask questions? Moreover, don't forget that Tianzhu Peak is the territory of our Jing Shen Group!"

  "Amazing, it turns out that these three are disciples of the same lineage as Jing Shen. " Luo Bei thought of what Zi Xuan Valley and Ling Dong Mountain had said to him before, and couldn't help but ask Cai Shu secretly again, "Cai Shu sister, does Tian Zhu Peak belong to Jing Shen group peaks?"

  "What a surprise, the entire Xing Shen group is still under the jurisdiction of Shu Shanmen!" Cai Zhu's eyes grew even colder: "I've never heard of it before, this Tian Zhu Peak is actually private property of the Xing Shen group!"

  "Although that's the case, Tian Zhu Peak's return to Jing Shen is not bad." The young man in the middle didn't yield at all and said coldly: "The medicinal materials produced by Tian Zhu Peak are usually also refined and distributed uniformly by our Jing Shen group peaks."

  "This senior brother may have misunderstood." Luo Bei looked at him and said, "We were sent here to cultivate by Master Ming Hao..."

  But Luo Bei's words were left unfinished as Cai Shu had already turned around coldly, "Luo Bei, let's go, don't waste your breath on them!"

  "How dare you!" Chai Su had just turned around, and the young man shouted angrily, "You are far from your teachers, haven't they taught you to respect your teachers and the Tao? We, who have entered the sect earlier than you, should be called 'Shixiong' by you. How can you be so rude?"

  "Are you going to address me as your senior brother just because I started earlier?" Cao Zhu turned his head, suddenly smiled slyly and asked Luo Bei, "Luo Bei, what do you call me?"

  Luo Bei was taken aback, "Sister Cai Wu."

  "Did you hear that?" Cai Wu smiled complacently, but suddenly her face turned serious. "Luo Bei joined later than me, yet he calls me 'sister'. This seniority thing, I respect whoever I want to call them, and don't respect whoever I don't want to call them. Even if someone joined ten years earlier than me, they can forget about making me call them 'senior brother'!"

  "Hey!" The young man did not expect that Cao Yu would be so fierce, and for a moment his eyes bulged out, the veins on his forehead throbbing.

  "Zong Zhen, let's forget it. We still have two rare herbs to find." The thin monkey-like youth intervened as the two men stood with swords drawn, "Time is running out..."

  At this moment, the young man with a black mole on his face suddenly saw the taro fruit in Luo Bei's bag and his eyes lit up. He involuntarily exclaimed, "Taro fruit!"

  Luobei followed his line of sight to see the greenish-yellow fruit in his bag, and suddenly came to his senses. This burdock fruit must also be one of the two missing medicinal herbs they needed.