Capítulo 101: Chapter 101: Injured
The three of them first went to survey the surroundings of the county examination site for tomorrow and found that it had already been cordoned off. After familiarizing themselves with the route, they left.
Afterward, they went to a small market in the county town. Using a small pinch of powdered fried rice that Jiang Youfu had on him, they briefly started a tooth-cleaning business. After earning a few hundred copper coins, they immediately closed up shop and began exploring the county town.
Although Anqun County couldn't be considered prosperous, everything seemed fresh and new to these three young men, whose farthest destination in over a decade had been Cuifeng Town.
They even squatted for a long time in front of a girl who had grass in her hair and claimed she was selling herself to bury her father.
They stared at her until she was on the verge of exploding in anger before running off.
It wasn't until late afternoon that the three of them reluctantly returned to the small courtyard.
As soon as they entered the house, they saw a cloth spread out on the table, with Tuan Tuan lying on it, covered in wounds. Sun Yigao, who should have been diligently studying, was feeding it a healing pill, the Rejuvenation Pill, that he had recently learned to refine under Senior Liao's guidance.
"What happened?" Lin Xiao asked in confusion as he looked at Tuan Tuan, whose current state was completely different from the spirited form it had shown the day before.
Sun Yigao shook his head, "I don't know either. Shortly before you all returned, I suddenly heard a scratching sound at the door. When I went to check, I found it lying on the ground like this."
Everyone looked at Tuan Tuan, who had very few patches of unscathed fur left.
"It's a cat demon at the seventh level of spiritual enlightenment, yet it was beaten into this state..." Lin Xiao noticed that Tuan Tuan's once long tail was now missing a section.
"It seems that the one who injured it must be far stronger..." He pointed to Tuan Tuan's broken tail. "They say cats have nine lives, and although Tuan Tuan doesn't have nine tails, perhaps severing its tail to escape death is a unique ability of cat demons. It might have survived because of this."
Looking at the half-severed cat tail, everyone felt a chill.
Jiang Youfu asked in confusion, "Aren't we in the mortal world? It used to seem peaceful here, so why does everything become chaotic as soon as we start cultivating?"
Liu Yunan shook his head and solemnly explained, "You don't get it, do you? Before, we had no cultivation, so we wouldn't have known the reasons behind things we saw. For instance, if we had seen Tuan Tuan like this in the past, we would have just assumed it was an ordinary cat that had been beaten by someone, right?"
Unlike now, because they knew it was a cat demon at the seventh level of spiritual enlightenment, they understood that the person who injured it must be powerful.
Hearing this, Jiang Youfu felt it made perfect sense and nodded.
Lin Xiao added, "Exactly. Just like the Silver Frost Python Demon in our village before. If none of us had cultivated and gained spiritual power, we wouldn't have thought anything was wrong. We would have assumed it was just unpredictable weather. Even if everyone in our village had died, others might have just believed we had all frozen to death. Afterward, those who survived might have lamented the harshness of nature, and Xiushui Village would have forever become part of the past."
Hearing this, everyone felt a sense of unease.
After feeding Tuan Tuan the medicine, Sun Yigao also spoke, "That's why, in this world, the higher you stand, the more truths you can see. But often, those who stand higher know the truth about the lower levels but do nothing about it. And they themselves are also being manipulated from even higher up."
As they spoke, it became unclear whether it was due to Tuan Tuan's tenacious life force or the effectiveness of Sun Yigao's Rejuvenation Pill, but Tuan Tuan, who had been unconscious and barely breathing, gradually began to wake up.
It slowly opened its eyes, saw the four young men it had met the day before, felt the rejuvenating energy in its body, and sensed the familiar aura of the small courtyard. It relaxed and soon fell back into a deep sleep.
Soft snores gently echoed in the tranquil courtyard.
Sun Yigao stood up and whispered, "I'll leave it to you for now. I'm going back to study."
Seeing the three of them nod in agreement, Sun Yigao turned and went to another room to read.
The sun gradually set, and the twilight glow was slowly replaced by the night.
The three of them placed some food and water beside Tuan Tuan. Liu Yunan went out to fetch dinner from the Fang family.
Jiang Youfu, already hungry, took out the dried food his family had packed for him and began gnawing on it with water.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiao was pondering the tasks related to constructing the sect.
Building the Talisman Room, the Forge Hall, and the Array Hall.
In fact, soil and wood were always available whenever Lin Xiao wanted, but the reason he hadn't started constructing these places immediately was that he remembered when he built the Pill Refining Room, he had added Red Lotus Lava as the fire source and the alchemy cauldron needed for refining pills in addition to soil and wood.
So, he wondered, might the other three places also require specific items?
He couldn't just build a room out of soil and wood and claim it was whatever he said it was, right?
Of course, he could do that, and he believed no one in the entire sect would oppose him.
But he feared the system might not recognize it.
Although, so far, the system seemed to treat him well.
Still, he didn't think the system would allow him to be so casual.
Otherwise, the missions it issued wouldn't truly achieve the purpose of constructing the sect. It couldn't be that the system's sole aim was to give him things and spirit stones, right?
Moreover, once these places were built, the sect would benefit as well.
So, Lin Xiao didn't want to be too careless.
If the experience with the Pill Refining Room was anything to go by, and the requirement was to place the tools needed for the specific function inside, then wouldn't the Talisman Room need talisman brushes and paper?
Lin Xiao thought it was indeed possible.
At that time, he would put in a bunch of paper and brushes, and perhaps the system would generate a bunch of talisman-making desks with brushes and paper on them?
Oh, and ink too.
But then he thought, no, ink and paper are consumables, and when he synthesized the Pill Refining Room, he didn't put any herbs inside...
Forget it, once he got the brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones needed for talisman making, he'd put them all in, just in case.
As for the Forge Hall...
He didn't have any ideas yet.
He wasn't very familiar with these two areas. He wasn't sure if forging was more like blacksmithing or similar to alchemy, where you used a cauldron.
And for the Array Hall, he knew some formations were carved with chisels.
But he wasn't sure if all formations were like that.
Speaking of which, setting up formations also counted as part of the array technique, right?
...
As he was lost in thought, Liu Yunan returned with the food from the Fang family. At that moment, he and Jiang Youfu were carefully moving Tuan Tuan from the table to the bed, clearing the table.
Then, they resisted their hunger as they took out the fragrant dishes from the food container.
Three dishes and a soup, perfectly balanced with meat and vegetables.
And each dish was in an extra-large portion.
Aunt Fang had taken into consideration that they were all young lads and had packed a large pot full of tightly packed rice.
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