Bab 215 – Lou Yue
The wine wasn’t spicy. It had a slightly dry sweetness, but it was distinct from spirits. However, as it entered his stomach, a warm feeling filled his body.
Wang Lin could clearly feel that the spiritual energy in his body was increasing, surprising him.
Cheng Xian laughed and said, “This is special water infused with spiritual energy that my master prepared for refining pills. There aren’t many like it in the entire state of Chu. I used the fruits these two monkeys had stored to make wine. Brother, if it were anyone else, I wouldn’t let them drink something this good.”
As he said those words, the two monkeys let out angry growls. They were clearly very unhappy with what Cheng Xian had done.
Soon, with the speed of the spirit monkey, the western courtyard which was not far away appeared before them.
The west courtyard is very different from the south courtyard. The entire west courtyard floats in the air, surrounded by clouds. Without careful observation, one might not even be able to see the white jade buildings within the clouds.
Cranes soared through the clouds, and waves of crisp laughter rang out from the western courtyard. A short distance from the western courtyard, a fragrant aroma filled the air.
Cheng Xian gazed at the west courtyard dreamily. He sighed and muttered, “Almost all the female cultivators are in the west courtyard. Just imagine all the beautiful women there. If I could just stay there for a year, I would be satisfied.”
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up slightly. He ignored Cheng Xian’s words and focused his attention on the barrier placed beneath the west courtyard. The barrier’s effect was to keep the west courtyard afloat and also to block out outside views.
A flock of cranes flew out of the mist. There were seven or eight girls sitting on the cranes, each of them as beautiful as a flower and possessing exquisite curves, especially the girl in front, who was a level taller than the others. She arrived before the two cranes. Upon seeing them, she shouted, “The west courtyard is a forbidden area!”
After he finished speaking, he glared at Cheng Xian and said viciously, “Cheng Xian, why are you here again? If you come to bother Sister Tong again, don’t blame me for being ruthless.”
Cheng Xian pursed his lips. While stroking the spirit monkey’s fur, he said, “Cheng Lin, we’re from the same village, why are you acting like this? I even carried you when you were a baby. Do you still remember? I still remember the time I carried you and you peed on me.”
When Wang Lin heard that, he immediately patted the spirit monkey’s head. The monkey was also smart and quickly took a few steps back.
The girl’s face immediately turned red, then green. Her face immediately filled with anger. She slapped her storage bag, took out three flying swords, and shouted, “You’re still talking about that! This isn’t over yet!”
The three flying swords shot towards Cheng Xian like lightning.
Cheng Xian stepped aside a few steps, avoiding the flying swords. He took out a piece of jade and channeled a bit of spiritual power into it. Suddenly, a light screen formed, surrounding the area. He said, “Don’t be angry, you were just peeing. Brother Xian doesn’t mind. Even now, if you want to pee…”
Before she could finish speaking, the girl’s anger had reached its limit. She waved her hand and three bells appeared. The bells made a loud sound.
Wang Lin’s gaze became serious. This time, the spirit monkey retreated even further without his command. Wang Lin also quickly moved his hands and formed a restriction.
All of this happened almost instantly. As soon as the girl rang the bell, Wang Lin completed his ban.
A sharp, ringing sound erupted from the bell. At first, the sound was soft, but gradually grew louder, until it finally fell like a clap of thunder.
It was clear that the girl’s anger had reached its limit. She took it out on Wang Lin. From her perspective, someone who was with Cheng Xian couldn’t possibly be a good person.
Cheng Xian exclaimed loudly. He smiled wryly, feeling that his joke had gone too far. He hadn’t expected Cheng Xian to act so rashly just because of their childhood incident.
The light screen in front of him trembled a few times under the thunderous roar, then collapsed. Cheng Xian took a deep breath and released a yellow light. A wave of fragrant herbs emerged with the yellow light and immediately transformed into a spirit monkey.
The spirit monkey’s body was not large, but it exuded a fierce aura. When the spirit monkey appeared, the spirit monkey that Cheng Xian was riding let out an angry roar and threw Cheng Xian. He knelt on the ground and began to prostrate towards the spirit monkey formed by the yellow light.
Meanwhile, the smaller spirit monkey did the same, although Wang Lin was not thrown like Cheng Xian, but descended on his own.
The spirit monkey formed by the yellow light was completely unfazed by the incoming ringing sound. Its belly bulged and it let out a gush of air. Suddenly, the ringing sound was blown back.
The girl’s face suddenly turned pale and she coughed up a mouthful of blood. She glared at Cheng Xian. All the girls behind her looked furious and took out their treasures, ready to attack.
As for the bell sound that was coming toward Wang Lin, it stopped just before his body and strangely disappeared without a trace. Although Wang Lin’s cultivation was low, his sharp instincts and knowledge of restrictions were still there. It was more than enough to stop the attack of a Core Formation junior. The restrictions landed on all the weak points of the bell sound wave.
The ape formed by the yellow light suddenly turned its head and looked at Wang Lin with a strange expression. Then, its body disappeared and turned back into yellow light, which was absorbed by Cheng Xian.
“Don’t attack. I’m not here to fight, but to accompany her to find someone.” Cheng Xian’s face turned sour. He thought to himself that he wouldn’t be able to enter the courtyard. It was all his fault. If he hadn’t offended that girl, Cheng Lin, he wouldn’t be in this predicament now.
“Looking for who? Could it be Big Sister Tong!?” Cheng Lin took a pill from her bag and swallowed it. Her face returned to normal as she glared at Wang Lin with hatred.
Wang Lin’s expression remained calm as he stared at the girl. He said, “The person I’m looking for isn’t Big Sister Tong.”
Cheng Xian immediately said, “The person he is looking for is Lou Yue.”
The girl named Cheng Lin frowned. She looked at Wang Lin and asked fiercely, “What are you looking for, little sister Lou Yue?”
Wang Lin chuckled and replied, “What’s your business?”
Anger flashed in his eyes, but he suppressed it. He took out a piece of jade from his storage bag. After holding it for a moment, he threw it behind him. The piece of jade quickly flew back to the west courtyard.
After doing that, the girl’s gaze turned to Cheng Xian and she said, “Cheng Xian, if you keep bringing up those things, I’ll go home and tell your father that you bullied me!”
Cheng Xian was startled. His expression suddenly changed and he said, “Why is it like this, cousin? Who is bullying who here? Is it because when we were little, I…” At that moment, he immediately shut up. He saw Cheng Ling’s expression change and immediately said, “I’ve always treated you special. I always bring you delicious food and fun things to play with. This time, I’m really here to help this person find Lou Yue and… I’m also here to see you, cousin.”
Cheng Lin snorted. She looked at Cheng Xian and began talking to the girls with him. Their gazes occasionally drifted to Wang Lin.
Cheng Xian sighed silently and walked beside Wang Lin. He smiled wryly and whispered, “Big brother, it’s all my fault. Ah, every time I see that girl, I want to tease her. If I had known it was her turn to be on duty today, I would have come tomorrow.”
Wang Lin’s expression was calm. He said slowly, “I have helped as much as I can. Regardless of whether Lou Yue comes out or not, I have fulfilled my promise.”
Cheng Xian sighed. He took out a voice transmission jade from his bag and handed it to Wang Lin. Before he could say anything, a crane flew out from the west courtyard, carrying a beautiful girl on its back. Her eyes were wide open, staring at Wang Lin in disbelief.
After he got closer, he jumped off the crane and said to Wang Lin, “You came looking for me?”
The girl named Cheng Lin frowned and said, “Little sister Yue, do you know the person?”
Lou Yue immediately turned around and said, “I know him, senior brother. He joined the sect at the same time as me.”
Cheng Lin looked at Wang Lin a few times, then used her eyes to warn Cheng Xian before leaving with everyone else, leaving just the three of them there.
Lou Yue blinked a few times. She completely ignored Cheng Xian and asked Wang Lin, “How do you know my name?”
Wang Lin pondered for a moment and said flatly, “If it’s not inconvenient for you, please take this person to the west courtyard. If he can see Elder Sister Tong, that would be even better. If that’s not possible, then don’t bother.” After that, he left without looking back, leaving Lou Yue and Cheng Xian dumbfounded. The two of them stood there for a long time, unable to say a word.
Lou Yue stomped her feet and shouted, “Come on! He called me just for this!?” Unfortunately, Wang Lin didn’t turn around and his figure disappeared into the distance.
Cheng Xian sighed silently, thinking that Brother Wang Lin was truly a master. With such a beautiful girl in front of him, he remained completely unmoved. Cheng Xian felt like he would never reach that stage in his life.
Cheng Xian took a deep breath and said, “Lou Yue, little sister… big sister, does big sister have time? I’m good friends with Brother Wang Lin. I took care of him when he joined the sect, so can you help me with what he just said?”
Lou Yue glanced at Cheng Xian and said angrily, “You’re the older one, hmph.” He glared at Wang Lin as he entered. After muttering to himself, he shook the bell in his hand. Suddenly, a crane appeared and landed beside him. He mounted the crane, and it flew into the air.
Cheng Xian sighed wryly, but just as he was about to leave, Lou Yue’s sharp voice rang out from above. “Follow me alone. But only this once, never again.”
Cheng Xian suddenly became excited. He immediately followed the crane to the west courtyard.
After Wang Lin left the west courtyard, he returned to his courtyard in the north courtyard. He checked and there was no sign of anyone entering the place he had left.
After returning home, he took out the pill furnace Li Muwan had given him and began practicing alchemy again.
He knew he was short on time and needed to quickly raise his cultivation level. He hadn’t appeared before Li Muwan because it had been so long. Wang Lin wasn’t sure how much of the passion from the past still remained.
Wang Lin didn’t plan to reveal his identity before he reached Nascent Soul. If a sudden change occurred, his hard-earned identity as a disciple of the Sky Cloud Sect would be in vain.
As a result, Wang Lin didn’t show himself, believing that 200 years was too long and there was no need to force anything. He felt that he should let things take their course.
As for how Li Muwan knew her previous body’s name, it was very easy to explain. After all, 200 years was enough time to accomplish many things, especially when names weren’t that important.
Of course, if Li Muwan found out that his name was Wang Lin, then that would be strange.
Wang Lin had very complicated feelings for Li Muwan. Since he entered the world of cultivation, he had met many women, but Li Muwan was the only one who had stayed with him for so many years.
In fact, even Wang Lin had feelings for her, but, the moment those feelings arose, they were immediately forcibly erased by him.
At this moment, Wang Lin’s heart felt extremely complicated after meeting an old friend. After a long time, Wang Lin put this matter aside and returned to his focus.
Time passed slowly. In an instant, several months had passed.
Zhou Lin’s closed-door training hadn’t ended yet. Wang Lin’s alchemy skills had improved greatly, but he felt that he truly lacked talent. Only after failing 93 times using the pill furnace Li Muwan had given him did he finally master fire control.
As a result, he began refining pills using the information in the jade slip Zhou Ling left behind.
Using the herbs in his garden, Wang Lin began slowly refining pills. However, his success rate was extremely low. In 10 attempts, he only succeeded once, and sometimes, not even once.
If this continues, then no matter how many herbs there are in the garden, they will not be able to withstand this kind of use.
Finally, because one of his medicinal ingredients was gone, Wang Lin used the spirit liquid after pondering for a moment. Surprisingly, the refining was successful.
And it wasn’t just a single success rate. As long as the liquid was used in the refining process, the success rate would increase unimaginably. It would succeed 9 out of 10 times. After numerous tests, Wang Lin confirmed that another effect of the spirit liquid was to increase the success rate of pill refining.
As a result, with the aid of the spirit liquid and the heaven-defying bead, his cultivation increased at an incredible rate. He had now reached the 15th layer and was getting closer to the Foundation Building stage.
Wang Lin clearly remembered when his main body tried to reach Foundation Building. No matter what he tried, he always failed. In the end, Situ Nan told him that there were only three ways to reach Foundation Building. One was to obtain a Foundation Building Pill, another was to steal someone else’s foundation, and the last was to enlist the help of a Nascent Soul cultivator to reach Foundation Building.
The Foundation Building Pill was too rare and no Nascent Soul cultivator could help him, so the old Wang Lin decided to steal someone’s foundation.
Their target for stealing their foundation ended up being Teng Huayuan’s grandson, Teng Li, due to many circumstances.
His avatar had also reached this stage, but he didn’t need to steal someone else’s foundation or ask for help from a Nascent Soul cultivator, because he had already studied alchemy.
However, the recipe for the Foundation Building Pill wasn’t easy to obtain. Normally, it would be the master who refined the pill and gave it to the disciple, but Zhou Lin was currently in closed-door cultivation. He never would have imagined that Wang Lin, who was only at the 3rd layer, would have already reached the 15th layer.
Wang Lin sat in the courtyard, pondering. He waved his hand and took out Cheng Xian’s voice transmission jade slip. In the past few months, Cheng Xian had visited Wang Lin frequently and had a lot to say.
According to Cheng Xian, at that time, with Lou Yue’s help, he was able to meet Brother Tong and they became close.
Wang Lin’s expression darkened. He sent out a voice transmission jade slip, and it flew off into the distance. Wang Lin was in no hurry and sat there, waiting for Cheng Xian.
Not long after, the sound of a wild beast’s roar was heard in the distance. Soon after, a spirit monkey charged into the courtyard with Cheng Xian on its back. Cheng Xian smiled when he saw Wang Lin and said, “Big Brother, what are you looking for me for?”
Wang Lin looked up and asked slowly, “Do you have a recipe for the foundation building pill?”
Cheng Xian was shocked and said, “That Foundation Building Pill is a spirit pill, it’s not something I can concoct. I don’t have a recipe like that.”
Wang Lin frowned slightly. He secretly sighed and thought that he should look for Li Muwan again.
“But, since big brother asked, I should at least try to help. Even if I don’t have it, my teacher definitely does. Give me three days. I can definitely steal it in three days.” Cheng Xian smiled proudly, then talked with Wang Lin for a while. He looked up at the sky and said, “Today, big sister Tong made an appointment with me to meet outside, so I don’t have time to talk further. As for the Foundation Building Pill, don’t worry. I’ll take care of it for you!” He happily left the unwilling spirit monkey.
It didn’t take three days as Cheng Xian had said, but two days later, the item arrived. Cheng Xian didn’t come himself, but a slightly larger spirit monkey came, put down the jade, and left.
When Wang Lin came out, he only saw the spirit monkey’s back. His eyes suddenly focused on the spirit monkey and he saw that its right leg was clearly injured. Its gait was a bit strange, as if it didn’t dare put any weight on its right leg.
Wang Lin lowered his head and picked up the jade. He pondered for a moment, then returned to the courtyard.
For the next 10 days, Wang Lin devoted himself almost exclusively to alchemy. The Foundation Building Pill was a spirit pill. With Wang Lin’s current alchemy skills, the failure rate was extremely high.
However, after using the spirit liquid, the success rate increased significantly, but it still couldn’t compare to the Pei Yuan Pill. After using the spirit liquid, refining the Pei Yuan Pill would succeed 9 out of 10 times, but with the Foundation Building Pill, it was only 5 to 6 out of 10 times.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment. He suspected that the spirit liquid would be less effective on high-quality pills.
However, the Heaven-Defying Bead was still incomplete. Wang Lin had tried searching for the missing elements, but these elements were too difficult to find. It must be said that in order to replenish the fire element, he had completely absorbed wild spirit beasts to complete it.
As a result, replenishing the remaining earth, wood, and metal elements is too difficult. At least for now, Wang Lin hasn’t found a good method for doing so.
Of all the elements, only the water element is easy to obtain, and the wood element is not too bad. Although the wood element is not yet complete, 7 leaves have appeared on the heaven-defying beads.
The metal and earth elements had no movement whatsoever. Wang Lin had tried many things, but none of them had any effect.
Wang Lin already had a great understanding of the liquid from the Heaven-Defying Bead. There was a huge difference in the quality of the spirit liquid before the Heaven-Defying Bead was filled with water elements.
And after the fire element was completed, the quality of the spirit fluid increased onefold. Much better than before.
As a result, as long as the five elements were complete, even without taking into account any effects the heaven-defying bead would have, the spirit liquid alone could already have an effect on refining high-grade pills.
There were only two Foundation Building Pills in each batch, and each batch took an entire day to refine. After ten days, Wang Lin had collected nearly all the herbs in the garden that could be used for Foundation Building Pills. In the end, he successfully refined 13 Foundation Building Pills.
Wang Lin’s avatar’s talent wasn’t much different from his main body’s. Both had fairly average talent, nothing special. Therefore, Wang Lin knew that just one Foundation Building Pill wouldn’t be enough. That’s why he refined so many pills, just in case he needed more.
After finishing everything, he sighed. He placed his hand on his forehead and entered the heaven-defying bead chamber. Shortly after he entered the chamber, a spirit monkey arrived outside his courtyard. The monkey was covered in wounds. It stood outside, roaring for a while, before leaving in disappointment.