The Herb Garden

At this moment, Wang Goudan walked over.

He was very surprised to see Niu Xiaoxue and said:

"Junior Sister Niu? What are you doing here?"

Because Niu Xiaoxue was the most talented among the new disciples who joined the sect last year, and she was also a girl, many people in the sect knew about her.

However, Niu Xiaoxue did not know Wang Goudan.

But that didn't stop her from recognizing the Shangyang Sect clothes on Wang Goudan's body.

So she replied:

"Greetings, Senior Brother. What brings you here...?"

Wang Goudan then slipped behind Li Zhanying and stood there, saying:

"I've come to pick up my esteemed master's junior sister. I've decided to leave the Shangyang Sect; from now on, I will no longer be a disciple of the Shangyang Sect."

Upon hearing him address the old man as "Venerable One," Niu Xiaoxue's mind raced, and she suddenly recalled a time when she had overheard someone referring to the legendary patriarch of the Shangyang Sect as "Venerable One."

She then decisively nodded to Li Zhanying and said:

"Senior, I am willing to cultivate under your guidance!"

joke.

Even if you join a sect, what's more appealing than becoming a disciple of a Nascent Soul Cultivator directly?

Seeing that she immediately agreed after learning her identity, Li Zhanying didn't seem unhappy at all. He smiled and agreed, then took her and Wang Goudan back to his residence to settle them in.

Meanwhile, inside the Lingxian Sect...

No one paid any attention to Niu Xiaoxue just now, not because they heard her and were too lazy to care, but because they genuinely didn't notice.

Currently, everyone in the sect is gathered in a valley behind the mountain.

They stared in astonishment at the valley before them.

The reason is simple: this valley is man-made.

To be precise, it was created by a soul.

However, if Lin Xiao and the others hadn't been to the back mountain and known that this place wasn't originally a valley, they probably wouldn't have known at all.

This is because the valley was built so naturally that there is absolutely no trace of human intervention.

I don't know how Senior Liao managed to do that.

At the entrance to the valley, a huge piece of white marble is embedded in the mountain, with the ancient and grand characters "Medicine Garden" written on it.

The entrance was lined with all sorts of Rare Flowers and Exotic Herbs, and large swaths of wisteria blossoms hung quietly overhead.

A gentle breeze causes these Rare Flowers and Exotic Herbs to sway slightly, like a moving painting.

Once inside, everyone realized that the entrance was nothing compared to what lay beyond, a veritable fairyland.

In the very middle of the valley, a suspended waterfall plunges vertically from the empty air into the small lake below, splashing up huge plumes of water mist that make one feel as if they are in a dream, unable to see the real scenery.

Despite the impressive display, there was no roar of the waterfall; the only sounds in the valley were the clear chirping of birds and insects, creating a tranquil and serene atmosphere.

There wasn't a single well-organized medicinal herb field in the entire valley.

Because this place is full of medicinal herb fields.

Different medicinal herbs are cultivated in various environments according to their different growth requirements.

At first glance, the area is clearly divided into four parts, centered around the suspended waterfall and distinguished by the four seasons.

Everyone guessed that a special formation must have been set up here to achieve this effect.

Within the four seasonal zones, there are even more detailed distinctions.

For example, within the summer zones, there are differences between generally hot and extremely hot, and within the winter zones, there are differences between different degrees of cold.

According to Liao Pantu's introduction to everyone.

Every plant and tree here is a medicinal herb.

The herbs planted on the mountainside are medicinal herbs that need to grow on the mountainside, while others are planted in the ground. The soil in each area is also specially differentiated according to the different needs of the medicinal herbs.

Some medicinal herbs are even grown underground.

There are also some that grow in water.

There are also some that grow in ice.

In short, everyone in the Lingxian Sect felt their eyes were opened after this sightseeing trip.

In the entire medicinal herb garden, there is only one very unassuming bamboo house by the lake.

After everyone went inside and looked at it, they silently deleted their impression of it as 'unremarkable' from their minds.

The interior of this bamboo house is beyond luxurious to describe.

In any case, everyone present except Lin Xiao was utterly shocked.

Because Liao Pantu only showed them twice and then stopped letting them see, no one really remembers what it looked like inside, but that's not important.

In everyone's eyes, this bamboo house has already acquired its eternal form—it's all money, lots and lots of money.

After showing everyone around, Liao Pantu asked Lin Xiao triumphantly:

"How is it, Sect Master? I think my herb garden is up to standard, right? You said before that I could build it however I wanted!"

Lin Xiao originally envisioned a medicinal herb garden as simply setting aside an area and dividing it into several plots for planting medicinal herbs.

Who would have thought that Senior Liao would actually build a super deluxe version?

Faced with such a medicinal herb garden, could Lin Xiao possibly say it was substandard? He was even considering whether he should find a way to get Senior Liao to take over all the construction work in the future.

Of course, he was just thinking about it.

"Of course this is acceptable! No, it's not just acceptable, it's absolutely fantastic! You're truly amazing, senior!"

Lin Xiao praised him sincerely.

[Ding--Congratulations, host, on completing the sect construction task--Sect facilities (7). The task reward has been sent to your private treasury. Please check your account.]

Once he confirmed it, the system determined that the task was completed and sent him the task reward.

This time, instead of checking his reward later, while everyone else was leisurely strolling through the herb garden, admiring every scene, he found a corner and opened his private treasury to check.

Inside his private treasury, the number of Yaoguang Floating Island Fragment that originally numbered only one had increased to two, meaning he should have more Spirit Stone, but he didn't know exactly how much more, since he still had more than ten thousand Spirit Stone in his private treasury.

There should have been more.

However, when he last tidied up the sect's treasury, he put in a lot of Spirit Stone to pay the Tuzi's salary, so now he only has a little over ten thousand left.

These things are no longer important to him.

As long as the Floating Island Fragment increases, that's fine.

Now we only need one more fragment to complete the set of three.

Lin Xiao organized the tasks he had not yet completed.

Only two remain.

One is for Make Connections, and the other is for cultivating various technical talents.

He hadn't decided when to go to the Make Connections Immortal Cultivation Realm again, so he had to put it on hold for the time being.

As for the second one, cultivating technical personnel.

With Liu Chun's addition, the requirement of having at least one person for each task now includes talisman-making.

Lin Xiao estimated that once Yigao had studied alchemy for a while longer, he would probably be able to succeed as well.

All that's left is the formation and weapon crafting.

Mo Yuanjiao is very enthusiastic about learning formations, and I can encourage him more in the future.

Then, when it comes to weapon forging, perhaps it depends on Tietou.

I can learn and practice more in my spare time, as a backup plan.

After everyone finished their tour of the herb garden, Yang Jinshu found Lin Xiao and brought him some designs she had created over the past two days.