LGHTNOVELBOOK 6: I'll Give You Three Seconds to Escape
Chu Sang changed the subject, “I was thinking about skewer hot pot, spicy fragrant pot, and spicy chicken. You probably haven’t tried these before, Senior Brother? When we have the chance, I’ll make them for you to taste.”
Tantai Ming was a glutton. At the mention of delicious food, his eyes lit up. Chu Sang could almost see his tail wagging behind him.
The spirit beast meat and spirit rice, being spiritual ingredients, almost melted in the mouth and left no impurities in the body. The spiritual energy circulated through the limbs and gathered in the dantian. Chu Sang felt a warm sensation in her abdomen.
This effect was even stronger than meditating for an entire day!
Chu Sang bit her chopsticks while thinking that although Lingqing Sect’s area wasn’t small, with several large mountain peaks, if there were spirit veins under the mountains, she could cultivate good fields and grow plenty of spirit rice, spirit grains, spirit vegetables, and medicinal herbs.
Not only could they be self-sufficient, but they could also sell the surplus at high prices for profit.
Besides growing spiritual crops and herbs, they could also raise some low-level spirit beasts.
Spirit beasts with delicious meat and high yield could be used for food, while those with strong attack power and good quality could be specially bred and sold to some cultivators as spirit pets.
Unfortunately, the reason Lingqing Sect had fallen to become an insignificant small sect was that something had happened to the sect’s spirit veins, which had dried up over a thousand years ago…
Even the best ideas could only stop here.
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Lingqing Sect had plenty of land but few people, so Chu Sang was directly assigned a large courtyard.
The layout was similar to a single-entry quadrangle courtyard, facing south with its back to the north, with four rooms and two additional side rooms.
Apart from the central master bedroom, the remaining rooms were still empty. Chu Sang planned to keep one as a study, one as a sword practice room, one as a kitchen, and one as a storage room.
She hadn’t decided how to use the remaining room yet.
The courtyard was also empty, looking like it hadn’t been lived in for a long time. She planned to find time to plant some flowers and trees, add some rockery, and DIY her new nest.
Without Chu Sang having to ask, Tantai Ming had already tidied up the master bedroom for her. All the necessary facilities were there, so there was no need to add any new furniture. He had only changed to a new set of bedding, which was already a hundred times more comfortable than the inn she had stayed in the night before.
“Junior Sister, I’m just next door. Call me if you need anything.”
Tantai Ming yawned, waved at her, and slipped away.
It was getting late. Chu Sang lay on the bed in a spread-eagle position, rolled around several times, hugged the soft bedding covering half her small face, took several deep breaths, calmed her excited mood, then got up from the bed. She made a hand seal, gripped a flying iron sword, and practiced swordsmanship all night, accompanied by the frost-covered ground of the courtyard.
Even though her spirit root was damaged now and it was difficult to advance her cultivation, Chu Sang wasn’t discouraged. With the attribute enhancement system, she believed even more that she wouldn’t be stuck forever, and thus she couldn’t slack off.
Physical fitness was very important for cultivators, otherwise, they might not pass the heavenly lightning refinement in the future.
Dawn broke.
Chu Sang didn’t feel sleepy at all.
Instead, she felt increasingly refreshed.
Cultivators were different from ordinary people. Sleep was optional, and circulating spiritual energy made one feel more refreshed.
Chu Sang washed up early and went out.
Since all the teaching elders had run away, Chu Sang naturally didn’t need to attend classes and could self-study in the library.
She had been in a rush yesterday, so today she wanted to properly explore her new sect.
Lingqing Sect’s area was even larger than she had imagined. Not only was the library ridiculously large, but there was also a complete training field, pill refining rooms, equipment workshops, talisman buildings, formation pavilions… Although the sect didn’t have many disciples left, it still kept a large cafeteria for outer disciples.
Just the size of this cafeteria alone was equivalent to the main hall of other sects.
It wasn’t hard to imagine that this obscure small sect must have been prosperous before.
She just didn’t know why it had fallen to such a state, even losing its protective spirit veins…
After touring around, Chu Sang went to find Tantai Ming, but found he wasn’t in his room.
Just as she was about to go down the mountain, she saw the young man running over in a hurry, “Seventh Senior Brother, what happened?”
“The neighboring sect has come to seize territory again.”
Seize territory?
This can’t be tolerated! Let’s teach them a lesson!
“Our Lingqing Sect used to be quite prestigious. I heard that at its peak, all the territory within a hundred li belonged to our sect. But later we fell on hard times, and some other sects sprang up around us. Those sects bullied us and gradually seized a lot of our territory, to the extent that our sect now only has these few dilapidated mountain peaks left…”
After they went down the mountain, they saw several disciples wearing robes of other sects wandering around at the foot of the mountain. They all looked unfriendly, like local ruffians, appearing very difficult to deal with.
Chu Sang asked, “What territory are they trying to seize?”
Tantai Ming became increasingly angry as he spoke, “We already gave them a mountain peak two years ago, but they’re still not satisfied. Early this morning, they came over shouting, demanding that we give up the forest on the back mountain!”
“Usually when the senior brothers and sisters aren’t in the sect, that forest is actually shared by the two sects. But today they’re really going too far, actually coming to our doorstep to openly rob us! They’re truly shameless!”
Chu Sang, as a young person with a strong sense of collective honor, was also extremely angry, “What sect are they from, to dare to be so arrogant?”
“It’s the Liangyi Sect, ranked second to last.”
“Second to last and still so arrogant?”
Chu Sang’s brows furrowed coldly, about to draw her sword.
“Little Junior Sister, um, we’re ranked last…” Tantai Ming tugged lightly at her sleeve, looking embarrassed.
Chu Sang stumbled a bit, gazing at the sky at a 45-degree angle with sorrow. She took a deep breath, then exhaled, “I personally believe that people should have ambition. We can be last, but we can’t always be last.”
“Let’s go, Senior Brother, defeat them, and then we’ll be second to last!”
Tantai Ming was inspired, but the next second, he deflated again, “But there are seven of them, and only two of us.”
Chu Sang widened her round cat-like eyes, “Senior Brother, don’t tell me you can’t handle it?”
A man can’t say he can’t handle it.
Tantai Ming immediately drew his sword, shielding her behind him,
“I can take on ten of them!”
“Senior Brother is mighty!”
Their voices weren’t low, and cultivators had keen hearing. The Liangyi Sect disciples not far away burst into laughter upon hearing this, looking at the two with disdain and contempt, “One at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and one still at Qi Condensation. How arrogant!”
The seemingly cultured head disciple stepped forward, “I say, you’d better just hand over the territory obediently. Otherwise, don’t blame us for not showing mercy later!”
The opposite side had three at Foundation Establishment and four at Qi Condensation.
The head disciple was even at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
No matter how you looked at it, they didn’t stand a chance.
If it were before, regardless of whether he could win or not, Tantai Ming’s hot temper would have made him roll up his sleeves and fight it out with them. But now he had his little junior sister standing behind him, and he had to consider her safety.
A cloud of gloom settled over Tantai Ming’s handsome face. He gripped his long sword tightly, about to swallow his anger, when unexpectedly, the young woman behind him stepped out,
Chu Sang raised her eyes to scan the surprised Liangyi Sect disciples, held up three slender white fingers, tilted her chin slightly, and said,
“I’ll give you three seconds to escape.”