Chapter 281 Provocation
Chapter 281 – Provocation
“She’s the one who made it to the Green Cloud Ranking? I heard that the ranking is high, much higher than the main peak Lanzhi senior uncle.”
“I heard that she learned the Way at the age of eight, and after only thirty years of cultivation, she succeeded in establishing a foundation, and now she even has a cultivation of the second foundation layer, so strong!”
“You’re lagging behind in your news, yesterday I heard a few senior uncles talking about it, saying that Xu’s cultivation level is already at the third level of Foundation Establishment.”
Seeing the surrounding disciples gathering more and more, with the tendency to gather around, Xu Chuniang suddenly remembered a few years ago, she was surrounded by a group of fellow disciples in the outer door, and hurriedly fled like a man on the second floor of the Multi-Treasure Pavilion.
Watching Xu Chuniang’s figure disappear above the stairs, a group of disciples revealed a look of regret.
However, the second floor of the Multi-Treasure Pavilion required Foundation Establishment cultivation to enter, so they could only look away.
After Xu Chuniang went up to the second floor, although she could still receive various gazes from her fellow disciples, the situation was much better.
Yet at this moment, a cold hum suddenly rang out, “You’re Xu Chunniang?”
She sniffed and looked over, it was a male Foundation Establishment cultivator with a white beardless face and a slightly feminine wind at the corners of his eyes.
Cultivation …… she could not see through, at least in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
Xu Chuniang’s principle had always been to be courteous, and she was too lazy to be polite in the face of this unfamiliar male cultivator with a bad tone.
“It’s me, what can I do for you?”
The male cultivator let out a light laugh, “Hehe, rumor has it that you won eight matches in the ring tournament and made it into the Qing Yun Ranking, ranking at the two hundred and twentieth, but now it seems that it’s not so bad after all.”
Hearing this, before Xu Chuniang could speak, the surrounding fellow disciples all pinched a sweat for her.
The Qing Yun Ranking was based on strength and potential, but cultivation and overall strength were also included.
Xu Chuniang was only at the second level of Foundation Establishment, but her ranking was even higher than Shangguan Xue, who was at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment.
In a way, it meant that her strength was not weaker than Shangguan Xue.
“Senior Brother Zhuge Yun is already at the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, why would he make things difficult for Junior Sister Xu, who is at the early stage of Foundation Establishment?”
“Haven’t you heard, Senior Sister Shangguan is on the Green Cloud Ranking, ranked at only two hundred and twenty-three, and Senior Sister Xu’s first appearance on the list has overshadowed her.”
“Senior Sister Xu ranked over Senior Sister Shangguan, but what does that have to do with Senior Brother Zhuge?”
“You just built your foundation not long ago, don’t you know that Zhuge Senior Brother has always been interested in Shangguan Senior Sister, this time he suddenly turned on Xu Senior Sister, it must be in its favor.”
The murmurs of the surrounding fellow disciples similarly reached Xu Chuniang’s ears.
Only then did she understand why this person in front of her was looking for trouble.
She looked towards Zhuge Yun, “You are thinking that the ranking of the Qing Yun Ranking is wrong?”
Zhuge Yun nodded and then shook his head, the corner of his mouth hanging up with a smile if anything.
“I just want to know what makes you rank higher than Senior Sister Xue’er. Obviously just a waste general three spirit roots, from the outer door by fluke to enter the inner door ……”
“I see, then you can just go and ask the Heavenly Chance Pavilion, why stop in front of me?”
Xu Chuniang glanced at Zhuge Yun, “Haven’t you heard the saying that a good dog doesn’t get in the way?”
“You!!!”
Zhuge Yun’s face instantly turned iron blue, a folding fan with a chilling light emerging from it suddenly appeared in his hand, and he looked at Xu Chunniang with a gloomy look in his eyes.
The folding fan rose and fell with his mood.
“Iron-sealed fan! Senior Brother Zhuge shouldn’t be making a move here, right?”
“Senior Sister Xu is only at the third level of Foundation Establishment, how can she defeat Senior Brother Zhuge, who is already at the late stage of Foundation Establishment?”
In the face of the worries of the crowd of fellow disciples, Xu Chuniang was undaunted, and her line of sight towards Zhuge Yun was as calm and cool as ever. On the contrary, Zhuge Yun, after his face changed color, he put away his iron sealing fan.
“You want to provoke me so that I take the initiative to strike at you and then be punished by the sect, it’s not that easy. Moreover, I don’t want to be spread the news that I bullied people based on my cultivation. Because that would make Senior Sister Shangguan, misunderstand me.”
His face regained its calmness as he coldly glanced at Xu Chuniang, “I’ll let you off the hook for now this time, remember to learn to be smarter in the future.”
“Hm, then you let?”
Hearing Xu Chuniang’s not-so-respectful words, Zhuge Yun’s fire nearly bubbled up again.
What an ungrateful one, thinking that just because you’re on the Qing Yun Ranking, you’re terrific?
When he had the chance, he would let her know what respect was due.
He barely suppressed his displeasure and left straight away after a cold snort.
Watching Zhuge Yun leave, the group of Foundation Establishment disciples in the Multi Treasure Pavilion, finally breathed a sigh of relief that things had not gotten too big after all.
Xu Chuniang didn’t take this little episode to heart, and entered a store that specialized in selling spiritual plants.
The store keeper was an early Foundation Establishment female cultivator, and when she saw Xu Chuniang enter, she immediately greeted her with bright eyes.
“Senior Sister Xu’s presence here is truly magnificent, I wonder what Senior Sister Xu would like to buy?”
Xu Chuniang thought for a moment, “I want to buy some spirit grass seeds to plant in the second level spirit fields, something that is better to raise and has a higher yield.”
The female cultivator pondered for a moment, “For a grade two spiritual field, the Evening Primrose, Apricot Ruohua, and Luo Han Leaf are all quite good. These types of spiritual plants, their requirements for the environment are not too high, and a second grade lower grade spiritual field will be able to raise them.”
Xu Chuniang pondered for a moment, these three types of spiritual plants were not only commonly used for medicine, they were also characterized by a short growth cycle.
Among them, the Evening Primrose and Apricot Flower matured once every two years, while the Luo Han Leaf took a little longer to mature, and only required three years.
“Please tell me in detail, Senior Sister, what are the things that I need to pay attention to when cultivating these three types of spiritual plants.”
The female cultivator spoke eloquently, “Evening Primrose grows extremely fast under the moonlight, but it grows extremely slowly when it is exposed to sunlight in the daytime.
The Apricot Ruohua is more delicate when it’s about to mature, and needs to be cared for carefully. And Luo Han Leaf is nothing special, it is easy to attract some spirit insects, and the requirement for spiritual qi is slightly higher.”
Xu Chuniang took note of them one by one, and after purchasing the seeds of these three kinds of spiritual plants, she also bought some second-grade spiritual rice of quite good quality and various kinds of planting tools.
If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.
Thinking of the vast area of the small world, she gritted her teeth and spent a huge amount of money to buy a second grade spirit hoe.
After spending the only ten or twenty thousand spirit stones left on her body to the point where she was left with four or five thousand, she left the Multi-Treasure Pavilion to return to her cave.
After returning, Xu Chuniang didn’t rush into the small world, but instead reclaimed the spirit field next to the courtyard.
Since she had decided to plant spirit fields and cultivate spirit rice in the small world, in order to conceal her identity, she was bound to reclaim some spirit fields at the edge of the cave mansion.
This way, in the future, when she took out a large amount of Evening Primrose and other spiritual plants, she would have something to talk about.
The spiritual qi at the edge of the cave was relatively dense, and with a little reclamation, it would be possible to create a first grade lower grade spiritual field.
But Xu Chuniang’s goal was more than that.
A grade one spirit field came easily, but the returns from planting grade one spirits were too low.
Relying on this to pay off her debt, she was afraid that she would have to pay it off until the monkey’s age.
Cultivating a grade one spirit field into a grade two spirit field might be difficult for others, but for Xu Chuniang, who was skilled in the Spirit Soil Technique, it wasn’t a difficult task.
(End of chapter)