Jiang Yun hurriedly circulated the profound arts of the Dao Scripture to steady his mind. His cultivation speed had been too fast lately, inevitably causing him to become somewhat restless and impatient. He simply could not afford to think about those kinds of things.
He had constantly been taking pills to cultivate, going from a mortal to a cultivator soaring through the skies and dashing across the earth in the span of three months.
He should learn from others who fought tooth and nail outside every day, and only think about how to become a bit stronger. He would definitely never dwell on those idle and disorderly matters.
Staying cooped up in the valley day in and day out, he had become somewhat like a frog at the bottom of a well, completely ignorant of the vastness of the heavens and earth.
Jiang Yun knew that his state of mind had encountered a problem, so over the next few days, he took a thorough tour of the Jade Cauldron Paradise under Jiang Shuanglan's guidance.
Because of his identity as an Immortal Seedling and a member of the Jiang Family, everyone he saw inside the Heavenly Cave was a friend, and everyone he met wore a smiling face.
Cultivators were just like a troop of monkeys on a big tree; looking up from the bottom, all one saw were bottoms, but looking down from the top, all one saw were smiling faces.
When the various elders and disciples learned that Jiang Yun had gone from a mortal to the Life Spring Realm after practicing cultivation for only three months, it immediately caused a violent commotion within the Jade Cauldron Paradise.
"Is this the cultivation speed of an Immortal Seedling? As expected, it is not something ordinary disciples like us can hope to reach."
"Could Jiang Yun also possess some special physique? With this kind of cultivation speed, I'm afraid he might just be the next Jiang Family God King Physique."
"Our Jade Cauldron Paradise finally has a peerless genius comparable to the Spiritual Void Cave Heaven. Our Jade Cauldron Paradise is about to rise!"
"Along with Jiang Yun's rise, the name of our Jade Cauldron Paradise might perhaps spread across the Eastern Wilderness in the future."
Jiang Yun was vaguely regarded by the elders within the Heavenly Cave as a young heavenly prodigy capable of slightly surpassing the Spiritual Void Cave Heaven.
Pang Bo, who was far away in the Spiritual Void Cave Heaven, had heard people talking about it. With a mournful expression, he studied the Daoist Canon under Elder Wu Qingfeng's guidance for three months without even starting to cultivate.
Jiang Yun was already so far ahead of him.
Pang Bo couldn't help feeling a bit puzzled. He hadn't eaten few holy fruits, so why hadn't he felt them having such a huge effect?
To reward Jiang Yun, the Jade Cauldron Paradise formally designated the entire small valley and several nearby low hills under Jiang Yun's name.
Aside from a one-time reward of one hundred bottles of Hundred-Grass Liquid and a piece of Source, Jiang Yun's monthly allowance of Hundred-Grass Liquid was also increased to thirty bottles.
In the days that followed, Jiang Yun leveled his mindset, putting away his pride and complacency.
Not to mention the elders within the Heavenly Cave, he couldn't even achieve invincibility among the disciples.
He began a new round of cultivation, occasionally accompanying his Dao companion to walk around and sightsee.
He engaged in dharma combat with some newly acquainted disciples to hone his combat capabilities.
As a person of Shrouding the Heavens, throwing hands was forever more common than using one's brain.
In the blink of an eye, ten days passed. On this day, Little Dingdang hurried into the small courtyard in a fluster.
As it happened, Jiang Yun was no longer cultivating and was tinkering with a five-in-a-row board game at the stone table in the courtyard with Jiang Shuanglan.
"Senior Sister Shuanglan, it's bad! Senior Sister Wei'er has been heavily injured, and she was still coughing up blood when I came back!!"
Little Dingdang's voice came through, carrying a slight trace of crying.
"How could this be? Let's go take a look."
Jiang Shuanglan stood up from the stone stool in a swish, her upper body heaving slightly.
"I'll take you two over. It'll be faster that way."
Seeing the anxious expressions of the two people before him, Jiang Yun manipulated a divine rainbow and carried the two of them as they flew toward Verdant Cloud Peak.
He had just entered the Life Spring, but carrying people in flight was still not a problem; it was just a bit slower.
Jiang Yun knew Xia Weier, having met her once at the wedding banquet. She was a female cultivator who looked cautious and timid.
She had given a congratulatory gift of five bottles of Hundred-Grass Liquid. Judging by her rate of harvesting a bottle of Hundred-Grass Liquid once every three months, he truly had no idea how she had managed to save it up.
She was the adopted daughter of an old servant in Jiang Shuanglan's household and a childhood playmate of Jiang Shuanglan's.
Possessing cultivation talent, she was brought to the Jade Cauldron Paradise last year by Jiang Shuanglan to cultivate.
Along the way, Jiang Yun also understood clearly what had happened.
These past few days were the time when the sect distributed Hundred-Grass Liquid once every three months. Xia Weier and Little Dingdang went together to collect their shares of Hundred-Grass Liquid.
Never did they expect to be bullied and oppressed by several fellow disciples, who forced the two of them to hand over their Hundred-Grass Liquid.
Naturally, the two of them refused. During that time, some fellow disciples stepped in to help, but in order to protect Little Dingdang, Xia Weier was accidentally injured by those people.
Jiang Yun had heard plenty of such bullying between disciples of a Heavenly Cave; he just didn't know why the higher-ups rarely bothered to manage it.
After about ten minutes, they arrived at Verdant Cloud Peak and flew straight to the courtyard of Little Dingdang and Xia Weier.
Verdant Cloud Peak was the place where formal disciples cultivated and lived.
It got its name because the trees on the mountain were lush and dense, and thin white clouds frequently drifted across the mountain during the early morning hours.
Jiang Yun had come here before with Jiang Shuanglan when he was touring the Heavenly Cave.
Arriving before the courtyard gate, Jiang Yun put away the divine rainbow and slowly landed on the ground.
There were a man and a woman outside the gate, as if waiting for them.
Jiang Yun did not recognize them, and Little Dingdang paid them no mind either, so he didn't care and entered the courtyard together with Jiang Shuanglan and Little Dingdang.
Inside the courtyard were two rooms, along with an open space enclosed by a wicker fence.
Although the area was not large, it was planted with all sorts of flowers and plants, kept in neat and orderly shape, and tended very exquisitely.
It formed a sharp contrast with Jiang Yun's empty courtyard.
Entering the room, they saw a woman lying on the bed. It was Xia Weier, and she looked as though she had fallen asleep.
She wore the standard uniform of the disciples of the Jade Cauldron Paradise. Because she was lying flat on the bed, her curvaceous and graceful figure was on full display.
Her dark, glossy long hair was casually scattered about, and her smooth, tender skin was as lustrous as suet lard.
Her clothes were somewhat disheveled, with her upper garment slightly pulled open—it had been opened by Little Dingdang when she was checking Xia Weier's condition.
With a fleeting glance, Jiang Yun caught sight of two patches of snowy white.
Looking upward, her face was somewhat pale, with traces of blood still lingering at the corners of her mouth.
Yet this failed to conceal her peerless beauty in the slightest, involuntarily arousing a desire to protect her in others.
A trace of amazement flashed in the depths of Jiang Yun's eyes. When he had seen Xia Weier before, she had always kept her head lowered cautiously.
Her speaking voice was also soft and gentle, and as that day had been very busy, he hadn't observed her closely, otherwise she definitely would have left a deep impression on Jiang Yun.
Just as Jiang Yun wanted to step forward to carefully examine Xia Weier's injuries, he was stopped by Jiang Shuanglan, who also gently pinched the soft flesh at Jiang Yun's waist.
She said in a low voice, "What are you looking at? Why aren't you getting out quickly? I'm going to examine Wei'er's injuries."
Jiang Yun instantly felt a twinge of pain and chuckled awkwardly, "I'm already in the Life Spring realm, when it comes to matters of healing—"
Before Jiang Yun could finish speaking, he was pushed out the door by Jiang Shuanglan.
She was still muttering something under her breath: "A gentleman appreciates beauty without lusting, arising from emotion yet stopping at propriety. I am merely appreciating beauty, not—"
Words of that sort which were difficult for people to understand.
Pushed out of the room by Jiang Shuanglan, Jiang Yun saw that the two people outside the courtyard were still standing there, and the male disciple was even craning his neck to peer into the yard.
With nothing to do, Jiang Yun walked toward the two of them.
Just as he approached.
He heard the woman dressed in light blue robes step forward to greet him, saying with a smile,
"You must be Immortal Seedling Jiang, right? Is Junior Sister Wei'er's injury alright now?"
Hearing this female disciple's words, Jiang Yun understood that this person should be aware of Xia Weier's encounter.
He just didn't know what role these two people before him played in this bullying incident.
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