Judging by Xue Fuyao's age, she should be a new disciple this year, so Zhuang Bo assumed she had come to buy some spirit plants to decorate her cave abode.
After all, this sort of thing was not uncommon.
Some cultivators had no particular requirements for their cave abodes as long as they could cultivate in them, and the representative figure of this was Xie Yichu.
Meanwhile, other cultivators had very high standards for their cave abodes; not only did they have demands for the interior, but the environment outside the cave abode also had strict requirements.
He assumed the junior sister in front of him was just such a person.
"I am from Green Bamboo Peak."
Hearing the three words Green Bamboo Peak, Zhuang Bo froze noticeably before reacting, realizing that the young junior sister before him was the legendary new disciple taken in by Elder Xie.
Speaking of this, one detail was worth mentioning: Xie Yichu had a certain history with the Spirit Plant Peak.
Back then, as a wood spiritual root genius whose spiritual root purity reached ninety-nine percent, Xie Yichu should originally have inherited the Spirit Medicine Peak, one of the main peaks, or the Spirit Plant Peak, a secondary peak, and become the peak master of one of them.
Just when everyone thought Xie Yichu would definitely choose the Spirit Medicine Peak, the other party suddenly disappeared, and when he appeared again, he was supporting a giant mountain in his hands.
After settling the mountain within the Yuanji Sect, Xie Yichu announced to the outside world that from this day forward, he was the peak master of Green Bamboo Peak.
Hearing Zhuang Bo speak of this past anecdote, Xue Fuyao listened with great relish, never expecting her master to have such a sentimental side; it contrasted sharply with the Venerable Spiritwood of her impression.
In her previous life, Xie Yichu had no gossip associated with him, and every time Xue Fuyao heard information concerning him, it was always rumors that the other party had broken through yet again, or that someone had gone to challenge Venerable Spiritwood only to be easily defeated by him.
An hour later, Xue Fuyao accepted a Storage Bag from Zhuang Bo's embrace, which contained the various fruit trees and spirit plants she had chosen earlier, and she casually bought some ingredients and seeds as well.
After leaving the Spirit Plant Peak, Xue Fuyao made a trip to the Spirit Medicine Peak, where she purchased some spirit medicine seeds, spirit medicine plants, three plants each of various tea trees, and some medicinal liquid specifically used for irrigating plants.
By the time this trip concluded, the time had already reached the afternoon.
Upon returning to Green Bamboo Peak, Xue Fuyao took out all the purchased spirit plants and set about planting them.
Because she herself possessed the Creation Spirit Root, she did not need to worry about the survival rate of these plants, only needing to plant them into the ground.
By three days later, Xue Fuyao had finally finished planting all the spirit plants, and she had also sprinkled spirit medicine seeds across all the cleared spirit fields.
She directly carved out a patch of spirit fields specifically dedicated to cultivating spirit medicines.
Just as Xue Fuyao was happily watering these plants, she suddenly felt the sound of subtle footsteps coming from behind her.
Turning her head to look, she saw Xie Yichu standing behind her, lowering his head to look at her with a peculiar gaze.
"Why is Master looking at me with that expression?" Xue Fuyao blinked her eyes and asked.
Hearing this, Xie Yichu somewhat awkwardly withdrew his gaze and said, "You have turned Green Bamboo Peak into this state, and this master is somewhat not used to it."
"Then should I restore the spot where you sit in meditation to its original appearance?" Xue Fuyao tentatively asked.
Xie Yichu coughed lightly twice. "There is no need for that. Tell me, what are you planting here?"
"You mean this." Xue Fuyao looked at the seeds in her hand, which were much smaller than sesame grains, and revealed a brilliant smile. "These are sunflower seeds, which I brought from, from home."
The palace where she lived since childhood was named Huayang Hall, and it was filled with all sorts of sunflowers growing everywhere.
Although they were only an ordinary variety and far less precious than the meticulously cultivated flowers in the imperial palace-and could even be called wild flowers-sunflowers possessed very tenacious vitality, and a mere branch could take root.
After her rebirth, aside from planning her departure from the imperial palace, she had also brought along quite a few sunflower seeds.
Seeing that Xie Yichu was still staring at her, Xue Fuyao seemed to think of something and said somewhat nervously, "Master, my doing this will not affect my cultivation."
Xie Yichu waved his hand. "Improving cultivation too quickly is not necessarily a good thing. Your talent is high, and although we cannot let your talent go to waste, constantly cultivating without contacting the outside world is not necessarily a good thing either.
Your current cultivation has reached the Qi Refining, seventh layer, an improvement of four layers compared to when you first arrived, and this speed is already very fast. Do not be overly eager for quick success and instant benefits from now on.
Right, I heard there is a market within the sect, and it has quite a few fun little trinkets. You can go take a look when you have some spare time."
Hearing Xie Yichu speak thus, Xue Fuyao's eyes lit up. "I understand, thank you Master."
Watching her cheerful appearance, the corners of Xie Yichu's lips could not help but curl upward, but he suppressed it, thinking to himself that she truly was a child, getting so happy just from hearing she could go out to play.
After finishing the sowing of the sunflower seeds, Xue Fuyao walked toward her cave abode, all the while unable to keep her hands from rubbing her face; ever since her rebirth, her mindset had regressed along with her youth.
Previously, she had been fleeing for her life, keeping her nerves constantly taut, but now in the absolute safety of Green Bamboo Peak, all the sequelae of rebirth surged out at once.
Thinking of the Yuanji Sect market, she had never heard any rumors regarding it in her previous life, but she could certainly go take a look.
The Yuanji Sect managed numerous Secret Realms, and the items inside the market were mostly brought out from Secret Realms, alongside alchemical pills refined by disciples themselves and talismanic scripts they drew; compared to outside markets, the quality was definitely higher.
Early the next morning, Xue Fuyao first inspected the spirit medicines and sunflowers she had planted.
The sunflowers had already begun to sprout, while the spirit medicines showed no movement yet, but this was normal since it was only the first day, after all. The remaining spirit plants were also in very good condition, showing no signs of having left their native soil, as if they were naturally born to grow right here.
After finishing all this, she took out a message talisman and sent word to Gu Nian, asking her whether she wanted to go to the market.
Gu Nian replied very quickly, saying she would come find her immediately.
The "immediately" that Xue Fuyao imagined still required waiting for a period of time, after all, Green Bamboo Peak was quite a distance from Qianyuan Peak where the Sect Master lived, and even flying on a sword required half an hour.
As a result, just as she prepared to go down the mountain, she ran head-on into Gu Nian, who had come to find her.
Gu Nian looked at the completely transformed Green Bamboo Peak and could not help clicking her tongue in wonder.
"No wonder you haven't stepped outside since taking your master; so you were busy tinkering with these things."
As she spoke, Gu Nian patted Xue Fuyao on the shoulder. Although she said nothing, her face clearly spelled out the words: You've worked hard.
She had visited Green Bamboo Peak before, and compared to its current state, it could not merely be called completely different; there was simply no comparison at all.
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