Third Medicine Valley, autumn winds drifted gently.
Gu An stepped out of the Teleportation Array Platform and headed toward a garden district in the distance.
Though he had only just broken through, he had not forgotten the maturation times of the flowers and herbs in each garden district.
Before he had taken more than a few steps, Lu Lingjun hurried to his side and said, "Valley Master, let me accompany you to harvest them."
Gu An nodded without objection.
After advancing several miles, Gu An began bending down to pick the herbs, while Lu Lingjun took out a bamboo basket to receive them.
"Valley Master, the world is in chaos now. With cultivation like mine, shouldn't I go out and accomplish great deeds?" Lu Lingjun suddenly asked.
So that was what this was about. No wonder she had suddenly become so attentive!
Gu An answered casually, "Go ask the Sect Leader and see how he plans to arrange you."
"If he wanted to summon me, he would surely have already sent me word."
"Then stay in the Medicine Valley. Perhaps one day, Demonic Cultivators from the Epiphyllum Sect will infiltrate the Medicine Valley, and it will still need you to protect it."
"But..."
"Lingjun, you are a Great Cultivator after all. Why is your Dao Heart so restless? It is all contribution. Is protecting medicinal herbs not a merit? Is that merit somehow lower than the merit of going out to kill enemies?"
Gu An spoke sternly, yet his hands never stopped moving.
He had just spent over four hundred thousand years of lifespan. He had to make it back.
Lu Lingjun was helpless. Her desire to go out and exterminate demons was also for the Sect Leader's Grand Plan.
But she could not yet tell Gu An that she