Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 327: Chapter 44 Return to Penglai, Shocking Master
 

The Jade Pond Golden Lotus, with one lotus pod yielding twelve seeds, can open various acupuncture points around the body when consumed, thus greatly enhancing the efficiency of breathing and refining Qi.

In short, it permanently accelerates the rate of leveling up. Although there might not be any visible results in the short term, the effects would be quite remarkable over a few hundred years.

However, the truly precious thing is not the Jade Pond Lotus Seeds, but the Jade Pond Golden Lotus itself.

Once the Golden Lotus is separated from the Jade Pond Water, it will wither immediately, making it even more difficult to preserve. The lotus seeds, on the other hand, can be stored for a long time; hence their effects are widely known.

But if one could obtain a living Golden Lotus and consume its petals or use them for medicine, the effects would be far superior to those of the seeds, directly cleansing the veins, refining the marrow, purifying the soul, and perfecting the Purple Mansion.

Luo Yan dived toward the stone table. Without pondering whether he could transplant it, he gripped the Golden Lotus calyx with his left hand, while his right hand swiftly plucked three petals and stuffed them into his mouth.

Then, he tore off the remaining three petals and deftly put them into the mouth of Miss Shi behind him.

Before Shi Liuli could ask, Luo Yan had already filled her mouth with them.

The petals melted upon entering the mouth, turning into a fragrant, delicious juice that flowed into her throat before she could even chew, with Spiritual Energy nearly overflowing within her abdomen.

So delicious!

Shi Liuli’s eyes lit up, and when she looked back at the Jade Pond Golden Lotus, all that was left was a bare calyx.

By this time, three breaths had passed, and Luo Yan had no time left to waste words with her, his gaze quickly sweeping across the room.

Damn! There’s actually Wu Earth Essence!

He lunged toward the north, reaching for the deep gray stone on the desk, only to realize upon touching it that it was incredibly heavy—a thousand juns in weight—and he could not lift it.

You should know that Wu Earth Essence is different from the Wu Earth True Vein, which is “humble and untainted soil” that is fine and soft yet can expand endlessly and is inexhaustible.

The former is “soil of mountain ridges and high peaks,” and a small piece can be equivalent to continuous mountain ranges spanning ten thousand miles; naturally, Luo Yan couldn’t lift it with one hand.

But his innate ability to learn instantly gave him a quick wit, and he immediately tore off the Heavenly Craft Workshop Storage Bag from around his waist, flipped it over the Wu Earth Essence, and packed it inside.

Even if I can’t carry it, the Heavenly Craft Workshop Storage Bag will definitely contain it!

Five breaths had now passed, and Shi Liuli had barely just recovered her senses. She quickly threw out her Protective Dharma Treasure, the Hook Chen Star Sand, which turned into a ribbon in the air, wrapping around the things on the southern desk. Everything that could be wrapped up was packed into the Storage Bag.

Luo Yan was not as rough as she was; after all, truly precious items, such as the Jade Pond Golden Lotus and Wu Earth Essence, could not be taken with a Flying Sword or Magical Treasure.

He only turned again toward the east, his gaze as sharp as a falcon’s, and lunged once more.

In the center of the table, on a stone rack, lay a Flying Sword.

The body of the sword was a mysterious yellow color, with patterns like roots embedded; it did not have the sharp luster of ordinary metals but exuded an ancient and profound aura.

The whole sword was also slightly larger than the average Flying Sword, measuring approximately three feet and eight inches in length and four fingers in width, with a thick spine… Of course, these details are not important. What’s important is that this sword was placed right in the center of the eastern table!

Considering the Jade Pond Golden Lotus was in the center of the western table and the Wu Earth Essence in the center of the northern desk, it was a reasonable deduction to assume that all good items were placed in the center of their respective tables.

Luo Yan reached for the sword but found it immovable.

It was as though the sword was magnetically fastened to the stone rack, showing no intention of being lifted by Luo Yan.

Anxious, Luo Yan urgently called in his mind:

“Qing Ping!”

The Green Duckweed Sword inside him snorted coldly; suddenly the sword on the table buzzed, and Luo Yan seized the opportunity to reach for it again. Just after grabbing the hilt, ten breaths had passed, and both of them felt the world spinning, finding themselves quickly back in the outside world.

“Let’s go!” Luo Yan did not have time to examine his loot, simply holding the Mysterious Yellow Heavy Sword by the hilt in his right hand while reaching into the Heavenly Craft Workshop Storage Bag with his left.

He quickly drew out an object—a wooden whale—that dropped into the water and instantly grew to a length of ten zhang, swallowing Luo Yan and Shi Liuli into its belly and then rapidly swimming toward the north.

Wu didn’t know how much time had passed when the whale finally spat them out into the air. Luo Yan and Shi Liuli fixed their eyes ahead and saw that they were already in the southern sea region of Penglai Island.

Luo Yan retrieved the wooden whale and then he and Shi Liuli flew back to the Heavenly Craft Workshop at Yuqing View on their swords.

Elder Shi Ding was working in the workshop and was startled by their sudden return.

“Father!” Shi Liuli threw herself into his arms, crying pitifully, “I almost couldn’t make it back!”

“What happened?” Elder Shi Ding asked in a grave voice.

Shi Liuli promptly recounted in vivid detail how cultivators from Moon Island ambushed the team from Yuqing View, listening to which Elder Shi Ding was terrified.

That lineage of Moon Island had already declined for many years, who would have known they had been playing the fool all along, secretly biding their time to deal Yuqing View a major blow?

Even that formation that annihilated Real Person Shuilian, based on Shi Liuli’s description and Elder Shi Ding’s judgement, should be the Earth-Collapsing Mountain Formation.

This formation is one of the most powerful configurations of slaughter within the Innate Five Elements Great Formation. Moon Island had never let slip any hint of it before, suggesting they had secretly cultivated their own Array Masters!

Setting up formations in the East Sea and not turning to Heavenly Craft Workshop of Yuqing View, but secretly nurturing their own Array Masters, what is your Moon Island up to?

They harbor ulterior motives and have sinister designs!

Fortunately, both his daughter and Luo Yan were unharmed and had safely returned.

As for the annihilation of Real Person Shuilian, all they could do was report it to the Master of Xuandu and have him send someone to investigate further.

Elder Shi Ding was deep in thought when he heard Luo Yan continue along the lines of what Shi Liuli had said:

“Sister and I used the Earth-Penetrating Divine Shuttle given in the Heavenly Craft Treasure Bag to escape straight downward, until we hit an invisible wall that prevented us from going any deeper.”

“A sudden inspiration struck me, and I thought this might be the outer restrictions of a secret realm. I took out the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle and tried to use it, and just like that, we went in.”

“Where did you go?” Elder Shi Ding’s body shook, his face registering shock. Did they escape into a secret realm?

“Lianshan treasury,” Luo Yan said with a smile.

The next second, Elder Shi Ding’s face turned from pale to green to red. His eyes began to bulge, his breathing became rapid, and even the veins on his neck swelled up.

“What did you say?” he asked incredulously.

“Brother apprentice said it’s the Lianshan treasury!” Shi Liuli called out loudly.

“The Lianshan treasury!” Elder Shi Ding almost bit his tongue, and it took him a moment to regain his composure. With a frown, he asked, “Aside from you two, does anyone else know about this?”

“I suspect the cultivators from Moon Island have always been aware of this,” Luo Yan recounted his observations of other sect’s cultivators in the maze to Elder Shi Ding.

After listening in silence, Elder Shi Ding understood why the cultivators from Moon Island suddenly launched an attack.

Ignoring Miss Shi, who was exclaiming “Eh, why didn’t I discover it”, he pondered for a long while before slowly saying:

“I will report this matter internally and you will be rewarded for your actions.”

“To the outside, you must not reveal any information about this trip, including the fall of Real Person Shuilian.”

Luo Yan sighed internally, realizing his master intended to use the news as leverage to gain advantages with the high ranks of Yuqing View.

Truthfully, if only the sister apprentice and I knew, then concealing the information about the Lianshan treasury would also not be a bad strategy to monopolize it.

But since the cultivators from Moon Island also knew the location of the Lianshan treasury, they definitely had to report the news to the sect and have them guard the entrance to the treasury, otherwise, Moon Island would benefit from it.

As he was silently contemplating, he heard Shi Liuli cheerfully say:

“Oh Father! Apprentice brother and I got a lot of good things from the treasury, can you help us appraise them~”