Martial Granduncle Arrives

The Sea of Flowers Medicine Garden is a gently sloping hillside facing west, ending abruptly at a steep cliff edge.

A winding bluestone path cuts through the Medicine Garden, connecting to the cliffside ring road leading down the mountain.

Xiao Bai stood at the edge of the Medicine Garden, glanced down at the narrow mountain path shrouded in clouds and mist, its bottom unseen, shuddered, and inhaled a mouthful of cold air.

Generally speaking, high-level Disciples of the Snow Flame Sect mostly use Sword Riding Flight, and low-level Disciples can also travel by Flying Paper Kite, so few people walk the mountain roads.

Therefore, these mountain roads are very narrow, and quickly become overgrown with weeds because no one walks them for years.

For a newbie like Xiao Bai at the Fetal Breath Second Layer, it's actually quite dangerous.

Fortunately, he has two great Pills and Elixirs, the Heart-Returning Powder and the Blood Spirit Pill, and can also automatically replenish medicine under the action of the Modifier.

Even if he fell down the mountainside and was smashed to pieces, as long as the Elder came to collect his corpse, there was a high probability that he wouldn't die.

Now, the only thing that can kill him is being turned to ashes in an instant by a strong person.

Or a nuclear explosion.

Hundred Herbs Peak is thousands of feet high.

The Pill Pavilion at the mountainside is also more than three hundred feet high.

Moreover, the snowy road is slippery, the task of going down the mountain is very arduous, and a little carelessness will lead to an accident. Even if he doesn't die, he will lose face.

Xiao Bai looked around. In the depths of the Sea of Clouds, Immortal Cranes flew in formation, and Sword Riding zoomed past. It was all very ethereal and immortal.

This is the difference between Cultivators and Mortals.

Xiao Bai felt no resentment, only excitement.

Because he, too, would soon learn Sword Riding!

This feeling is like about to drive a car...

It also gave Xiao Bai the courage to venture down the mountain to get the sword.

He quickly checked the soles of his cloth shoes and scratched a few more marks on them with the Bamboo Cutting Knife to increase the friction coefficient.

Holding his breath, with his eyes only on his feet, he grabbed the rocks of the mountain with both hands, and carefully felt his way down the mountain along the path.

In the middle section, the mountain gradually widened, and there were many thorns and solitary pines along the cliff edge, making the road much easier to walk.

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly he felt a chill.

Looking down, his cotton clothes were already soaked with sweat.

Even the snow falling on his clothes had been melted by the sweat.

Continuing down, he reached the mountainside, which was now a gentle slope, with Medicine Patches of various colors growing among the dense Pine Forest.

A clear, fragrant medicinal scent wafted over.

The Pill Pavilion had finally arrived.

Ahead, there was a circular bluestone plaza, which was where the Pill Pavilion was located--

Hundred Herbs Garden.

At the front of the Hundred Herbs Garden was a Hundred Herbs Clear Pond, next to which were planted two or three cypress trees and built seven or eight pavilions and kiosks, which was where the Disciples did their morning Cultivation.

Behind it, dozens of semi-suspended row houses were built against the mountain, which were the Disciple Quarters where more than a hundred Disciples of Hundred Herbs Peak lived and cultivated.

The three Cave Abodes at the highest point of the Disciple Quarters were the residences of the three Core Disciples of Hundred Herbs Peak.

It must be said that Master Yuhu's three Core Disciples were all legendary figures of the Snow Flame Sect.

The eldest Disciple, One Sword Fox, was said to have an evil mind and unfathomable strength.

She was expelled from the sect twenty years ago and is now being held in the Heavenly Dao Pavilion's prison in the Cambrian Kingdom.

One Sword Fox...

Xiao Bai had always felt that the name of this legendary female Disciple was too outrageous, but now he seemed to understand.

You're trying to draw your sword against the Elder!

Although he had never met her, Xiao Bai hoped she was a beautiful bad woman.

The second Disciple, the Onmyoji, was an all-rounder, especially good at various Spell Seals, using Spell Seals to store newly refined Pills and Elixirs to ensure that the Medicinal Power would not be lost.

He is currently the manager of the Pill Pavilion and a disciple of Elder Yu Hu.

Xiao Bai wanted to use his Fetal Breath Second Layer Cultivation to use Sword Riding, and he couldn't do without his Flying Spell Seal.

The third Disciple, Mu Yun, was the Elder's Daoist attendant, a position similar to an assistant.

Xiao Bai had also met her a few times. She was a naive and proud Young Girl.

It was said that she was the current princess of the Cambrian Kingdom, with extremely good Cultivation Talent. She could improve by leaps and bounds without even focusing on Cultivation, but she was only obsessed with farming, breeding, and weaving.

She was probably the legendary Pastoral Female Cultivator.

Xiao Bai's Daoist Robe still had to be woven by her own hands...

Although she was a bit of a princess, Xiao Bai felt that Senior Sister Mu Yun should be a good person, but there was no need to get too close.

Coming to the Hundred Herbs Garden plaza.

Xiao Bai saw a majestic and ancient seven-story tower facing him, which was the Pill Pavilion.

The Pill Pavilion was the Snow Flame Sect's Pills and Elixirs repository, Medical Texts library, and teaching building for Disciples learning about medicine from various mountains.

Xiao Bai had also been here a few times.

At that time, he came here with the feeling of worshiping a Sacred Land and looking up to big shots.

It was the first time he had walked down from the Mountaintop like today, and he had a vague sense of condescending superiority.

According to seniority, he was now the Martial Granduncle of the Pill Pavilion Disciples!

Martial Granduncle has arrived, why aren't you all respectfully welcoming him?

With a swaggering gait, Xiao Bai came to the plaza in front of the Pill Pavilion with his hands behind his back.

In the morning, a dozen or so Disciples were sparsely doing their morning lessons in the pavilion.

Seeing the Laborer Disciple wearing cotton clothes, the Disciples' hearts skipped a beat. They looked at each other and then looked over at almost the same time.

The Elder had given them a heads-up in advance, explained the information about Xiao Bai, and even left a painting with an Immortal Aura in the Pill Pavilion, so that the Disciples would not mistake him for someone else.

The Disciples did not mistake him for someone else.

Looking at his figure and facial features, it was him!

Immortal Aura? Nonexistent.

With a pitiful Fetal Breath Second Layer Cultivation, he had almost no advantages other than being handsome, and his sweat-soaked cotton clothes looked particularly disheveled.

The Disciples doing their morning lessons in the pavilion had complicated expressions, wanting to discuss something, but they couldn't find a way to start the conversation.

Too outrageous!

What is Master thinking?

At this moment.

Xiao Bai waited for a while, and seeing that no one from the Pill Pavilion came to greet him, he went to the pavilion to ask.

"Hello, Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters, I'm here to find—"

After all, he had just arrived at the mountain, and it was not good for him to call himself Martial Granduncle, so it was better to discuss their respective seniority and quickly close the distance with these Disciples.

As a result, before he could finish speaking, a male Disciple who didn't believe in such things asked him:

"Are you really Xiao Bai?"

Xiao Bai nodded. If it weren't for the Modifier, he wouldn't believe it himself.

"Yes, I am Xiao Bai, who is also everyone's... Martial Granduncle."

With the ironclad fact in front of them, the Disciples' expressions were ugly, and they wanted to forcibly cover up this ugliness, but it became even uglier.

Someone remembered the business at hand and quickly shouted:

"Mar, Martial Granduncle..."

Xiao Bai felt very comfortable and a little smug.

"Can you call it out more solemnly?"

The others then reacted and quickly bowed and shouted in unison:

"Martial Granduncle!"

Xiao Bai nodded slightly, his expression was a non-smile, light and breezy.

The male Disciples' faces were mainly filled with envy in addition to shock.

The female Disciples' faces generally had a hint of subtle contempt, and their call of Martial Granduncle was suppressed and not loud enough.

Xiao Bai didn't blame them: this just showed that they were all good women!

He didn't want to provoke good women, so he politely asked:

"Excuse me, where is Senior Sister Mu Yun?"

Senior Sister?

Realizing that the address was wrong, none of the Disciples dared to answer for a moment.

Until a feminine male voice floated faintly from inside the Pill Pavilion:

"Martial Granduncle is truly a rare person who is easy to get along with, but the Cultivation World has an order of seniority. Since she is Master's Dao Companion, she is naturally of the Same Generation as Master. How can you lower your status due to insufficient Cultivation?"

Trying to put on airs with me?

As soon as Xiao Bai heard this feminine voice, he roughly guessed who it was.

So he also put on airs and said without turning his head:

"Since you know that there is an order of seniority, how dare you who called me Martial Granduncle publicly question me, the Martial Granduncle?"

This scene made the Disciples gape, so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe.

At some point, a white-clothed cultivator appeared beside Xiao Bai and bowed:

"It was Tang Tu who was Tang Tu."