The morning breeze caressed my temples, and I looked up at the small manor. Outside, there are terraced fields surrounding the hillside, and the grain is swaying continuously. The path meanders across a stone bridge with a gurgling stream underneath. Weeping willows are planted along the roadside, and they flourish in summer and winter. A fence surrounded the quadrangle, with several bamboo houses in the middle. The garden full of fairy grass is a treasure, and there are many elixirs and fruits that are hard to see. Unexpectedly, there is a heaven beyond the sky, and there is a paradise beyond the world.
Ye Ling followed the old man's fingers and saw that there were only elixirs, fairy grass, and treasures everywhere. He couldn't help but wonder, and then he understood: "Senior is talking about...these plants?"
The old man smiled and nodded: "How about it, these my children are cute, aren't they? Let me tell you, when they are growing, if you disturb them to sleep, and they don't grow well, I will take the blame from you!"
Ye Ling nodded hurriedly. He noticed that the old man spoke strangely, and he couldn't tell the depth of his cultivation. He really didn't dare to confront him, so he just followed his words.
The old man didn't seem to care about Ye Ling's identity. He just looked up at the morning glow in the sky and said to Ye Ling: "You broke into my garden without permission. If I don't punish you, you have broken the old man's rules."
Ye Ling was startled and took half a step back, his face full of alertness, and one hand had already touched the hilt of the sword behind his back.
Unexpectedly, the old man touched his chin and thought for a while, then said: "Go and help me fetch water from the well and water the vegetables!"
"ah--?"
Ye Ling almost stumbled and fell. He really didn't expect that the old man would come up with such an idea.
"Why are you still standing there? Go quickly!" The old man urged Ye Ling and pointed out: "The bucket and pole are under the window. Let's water it from the yard first!"
"Okay, everything will follow the instructions of senior."
Ye Ling went to the window to get a wooden bucket and a pole, went to the well to fetch water, and then used the pole to pick up two wooden buckets filled with water, one after another, and brought them to the door of the courtyard.
The old man handed Ye Ling a gourd gourd and scooped up a gourd of water, then gently sprinkled it on the elixir in front of him.
Ye Ling discovered that the spring water in this well was extraordinary. It contained the majestic energy of life. When irrigated with such water, even ordinary plants would be infected with a seventy-eight percent fairy energy.
Seeing him staring at the water in a daze, the old man said, "Don't even think about drinking my well water secretly. With your cultivation level, one sip will destroy you!"
Ye Ling was not convinced, so he scooped it up with a ladle and took a bite.
The well water entered his throat and was like swallowing under the scorching sun. Ye Ling was so burned that he couldn't help sweating on his forehead and almost screamed.
It was even more uncomfortable when the water entered the abdomen. The majestic spiritual energy contained in the water immediately overflowed and filled the entire abdominal cavity. Ye Ling originally wanted to guide the spiritual energy to circulate in the body, but the meridians were blocked, so it was impossible to do so.
Ye Ling's belly swelled visibly to the naked eye, and soon became like a rubber ball, which could burst at any time if things went wrong.
"If you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer the consequences!" The old man turned around slowly and smiled at Ye Ling: "If you have any last words, tell them now. I will try my best to remember them and then forget them."
Ye Ling frowned, with a look of pain on his face: "Please ask senior to rescue me. Since senior has such a state of mind towards these spiritual creatures, how can he watch this junior die in front of him?"
"Old man, I just have a kind heart and I can't bear to see people suffer," the old man nodded, but said, "If I kick you out, you won't be able to see it anymore!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the old man kicked Ye Ling in the bulging belly. Ye Ling flew out like a ball, bounced off the ground a few times, and stopped on the hillside.
Ye Ling groaned in pain, but then he felt that the ever-expanding spiritual energy in his stomach seemed to stop stirring and began to drill into his meridians.
"Boy, do you understand the principle that a drop of water can penetrate a stone?" The old man appeared in front of him at some point, followed by another kick.
Ye Ling was kicked out again and landed on the edge of the field. The spiritual energy in his body was as pervasive as water. It even found gaps in the sealed meridians of his body and continued to flow outward.
"There is no airtight wall in this world!"
The old man followed the same pattern and kicked Ye Ling back and forth like a ball. However, the spiritual energy in Ye Ling's body also spread out, and his belly continued to shrink until it returned to its original shape.
Ye Ling was pleasantly surprised to find that with the flow of spiritual energy, his blocked meridians seemed to open up, allowing him to circulate his Tao power and restore his cultivation.
"The phoenix dance and the silk buckle must be the method of that girl Feng Qingqing."
The old man stretched out his hand to hold Ye Ling's arm, and then twisted it continuously, twisting Ye Ling's body like a piece of cloth, until Ye Ling couldn't help but grin and moan.
"This technique of Feng Yatou can compare people's meridians to ropes and knot them randomly in the body, making it impossible to connect up and down, and the cultivation level cannot be used naturally."
The old man finished twisting Ye Ling's whole body, clapped his hands and continued: "Fortunately, you have a strong body, and your meridians are like forged steel, otherwise they would have been broken by Feng Yatou and the old man."
Ye Ling sat paralyzed on the ground, the pain in his body was unbearable, but the meridians were indeed sorted out, and the Tao power was able to spread throughout the body and recover from the injuries. Moreover, the spiritual energy contained in the well water he just drank can also be absorbed.
Seeing Ye Ling sitting cross-legged on the ground, the old man went back to the yard to get a raincoat and a bamboo hat and put them on Ye Ling.
Ye Ling frowned and asked, "Senior, what are you doing?"
The old man didn't look at it and replied: "It's daybreak, my children have to get up, and those annoying birds are about to come. I'll treat you as a scarecrow, just to scare the birds!"
"..."
The old man ignored Ye Ling and went back to water the fields. As expected, he was just like an old farmer.
On the other side, Sheng Qingyao, Qiu Yu, and Qinglan searched for Ye Ling's whereabouts separately. They didn't dare to reveal Ye Ling's affairs, so it was very inconvenient to find him.
Fortunately, Qinglan heard that some of the disciples in the sect were talking about the monster beast in the forest that suddenly howled like crazy last night. Qinglan guessed that it was Ye Ling and hurried to notify Sheng Qingyao.
Sheng Qingyao did not dare to delay for a moment, and searched along the way in the direction mentioned by the disciples. Sure enough, he could see the traces left by the monster beasts in the forest when they ran.
"It seems that Ye Ling got lost and ran into this place by mistake. Then he alerted the monsters here and was chased away."
Qinglan looked at the situation in the mountain forest and analyzed it.
Sheng Qingyao nodded, hoping that Ye Ling could escape successfully and not be eaten by these monsters.
Further forward, there is the manor where the old man is located. On the hillside, the old man is carrying water to the edge of the field to water the elixir in the field.
In the distance, Sheng Qingyao, Qiu Yu, and Qinglan pressed down on the clouds, floated to the ground, and walked up the hillside.
When the old man noticed the three people arriving, he raised his head slightly and smiled at them: "What kind of wind brought three little girls here?"
"Grandpa Tian!"
Sheng Qingyao walked forward with a smile and said, "It's been a long time since I came to see Grandpa Tian. How are you doing these days?"
"Okay, just come and see me, little Yaoyao!"
As the old man spoke, he pulled Sheng Qingyao to sit on the ridge of the field, stretched out his hand to take out the tobacco bag from his waist, and filled it with tobacco.
Sheng Qingyao was silently reciting the magic formula at the side, stretched out his finger, sparks fell into the smoke pot, and lit the tobacco. The old man put the cigarette holder into his mouth and smoked, and then he puffed out the smoke.
"Tell me about it," the old man asked with a smile, "Why do you have time to come to my place today?"
Sheng Qingyao blinked and asked softly: "Grandpa Tian, from last night to today, have you seen any suspicious people here?"
"Suspicious people?" The old man chuckled: "I think you three little girls are the most suspicious. You came to me so early in the morning. Are you hiding something from me?"
"Grandpa Tian~" Sheng Qingyao shook the old man's arm coquettishly: "Just tell me, that person is not a disciple of the sect. If others find out, he will definitely cause trouble for me!"
Qinglan also walked to the other side and took the old man's other arm: "Grandpa Tian, you are the best to us, can you just watch us be punished?"
The two little girls shook the old man, while Qiu Yu snickered behind her. She was too embarrassed to torment the old man like the two sisters.
"Okay, okay, okay," the old man quickly begged for mercy: "My old bones can't bear your torment like this. I'm telling you."
"Does Grandpa Tian know the person we are looking for?"
"Isn't he just a brat?" the old man said. "He was chased by a group of monsters in the middle of the day and passed by my place. I was afraid that those beasts would disturb the sleep of my lovely children, so I drove them away. .That brat also took the opportunity to run north."
When Sheng Qingyao heard this, she looked at Qinglan and quickly stood up and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Tian!"
Before she finished speaking, she hurried away without looking back. Now her mind is entirely on Ye Ling, and she can only breathe a sigh of relief if she finds him as soon as possible.
Qinglan also followed closely, but fortunately Qiu Yu waved to the old man: "Grandpa Tian, let's come see you another day!"
After watching the three little girls leave, the old man finished his cigarette silently, then put away the cigarette bag and walked back with the barrel.
Ye Ling was still meditating halfway up the mountain. He was constantly absorbing the spiritual energy brought by the well water. This spiritual energy was different from the previous ones. It was very pure, so the power contained in it was even more powerful.
Ye Ling's Dantian is difficult to load. Fortunately, these spiritual energies seem to have their own ideas, constantly getting closer to Ye Ling's body and integrating into every cell of his body. In this way, the Tao power hidden in Ye Ling's body becomes even more powerful. Enough to exert more powerful combat power.
But what Ye Ling doesn't know is that fusing spiritual energy with his own body cells is a step from the Ying Chong Realm to the Immortal Realm, but he is already doing this step in the Lingxu Realm.
After an unknown amount of time, Ye Ling slowly opened his eyes and felt the sun was dazzling. It looked like the sun was already rising.
He reached out and took off the raincoat draped around him, and suddenly saw the old man sitting next to him.
Ye Ling was shocked because he didn't notice it at all.
"You're such a good boy. There are three little girls chasing you here. Could it be that you're a smooth talker?"
The old man smoked his cigarette pipe with a smile on his face.
Ye Ling knew that the old man had no ill intentions, so he raised his hand and thanked him: "Thank you, senior, for the rescue. I would like to thank you, Ye Ling."
"Ye Ling?" the old man said, "You have the same surname as an old friend of mine, so I'll put this debt on his head!"
