Chapter 3: Chapter3.Disciple,Don't Worry.Master Will Keep Watch for You.
It was already noon when Li Yingling walked back to the dilapidated temple from the deep mountains and old forests, looking disheveled.
Her pink flowing fairy dress was also covered with mud, and there were several mud marks on her face.
The wooden stick in her hand had been replaced by a wild hare.
Her original target was indeed wild chickens, but the wild chickens were all standing on the trees. How could they be so easy to catch?
She had no choice but to catch a poor little rabbit. Although she felt a bit reluctant.
The rabbit was really cute, but her hungry stomach was even more pitiful, wasn't it?
She pushed open the door of the dilapidated temple.
Li Yingling looked over and saw her cheap master boiling hot water.
Chu Xingchen looked at Li Yingling, who was in a mess, sighed, and asked,
"I asked you to go out and hunt something. Why do you look like you were beaten by wild animals?"
Hearing this, Li Yingling almost got angry. She had wanted to retort loudly at first.
But then she remembered that the Water Heart Sutra was really extremely powerful.
Perhaps the master in front of her was really a master?
Maybe he was just tempering her?
She could only weakly reply, "It's not that easy to catch."
Chu Xingchen walked over, took the rabbit from Li Yingling's hand, pinched its ears, and took a look.
"It's too skinny. Catch a fatter one next time. The fatter one will taste better when roasted."
"Oh..."
Looking at Li Yingling's aggrieved expression, Chu Xingchen said confidently,
"Don't make that face. Wait until Master shows you a thing or two. Then you'll be motivated again when you go out hunting next time."
Li Yingling looked puzzled. Then she saw Chu Xingchen take out a dagger.
He skillfully demonstrated how to deal with a cute rabbit. Then he used the Five Elements spell to summon a ball of water and rinsed it clean.
If there was any advantage of traveling around the Xuanwu Kingdom,
it was naturally that there was no lack of spices and seasonings, and he had put them all in the spatial ring.
Since there was no flow in the ring, it also had a very good preservation effect.
He took out garlic and scallions and first made a spicy rabbit head dish for her.
The left side of the rabbit was cooked in soy sauce, and the right side was flavored with garlic.
Soon, three dishes made from the rabbit were served on the table.
They looked, smelled, and tasted wonderful!
Chu Xingchen pushed the plate of rabbit heads in front of Li Yingling:
"This is your first time hunting. I'll give you the most delicious rabbit heads."
Looking at the cute rabbit turning into such a fragrant dish,
her tears of gluttony flowed out of her mouth.
However, for the rabbit heads, Li Yingling still instinctively had some resistance.
After all, as a young and compassionate girl, eating the rabbit's meat was already the limit.
How could she eat its head?
But this resistance quickly collapsed once she started tasting the rabbit meat. The spicy, fragrant, and delicious taste was irresistible.
She felt that after just a few bites, the ordinary rabbit meat in front of her was gone.
Then Li Yingling deeply felt that what her master said was right!
This rabbit was too skinny and didn't last long.
Then Li Yingling's eyes fell on her bottom line, that spicy rabbit head.
Li Yingling's struggling look naturally didn't escape Chu Xingchen's observation.
Chu Xingchen grasped the key point and said slowly, "You really don't want to eat it? If you don't, I'll eat it."
"I'll eat it!"
Li Yingling felt ashamed of her lack of bottom line.
It was okay to eat the rabbit, but how could she even gnaw on its head?
Damn it! It was all Master's fault!
It was so delicious!
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Since Li Yingling tasted Chu Xingchen's cooking skills, her enthusiasm and initiative for hunting had been greatly improved.
At the same time, the sense of improvement brought by cultivation made her so excited that she couldn't sleep at night, and she practiced quite diligently.
Chu Xingchen wanted to supervise as a master, but there was no chance. Everything seemed to be quite good. This disciple was quite worry-free for now.
However, the living conditions in the dilapidated temple were really unbearable for Li Yingling, who came from a noble family.
She carefully cleaned up the dilapidated temple, swept away the spider webs on the roof, and mended the door with holes through which the wind blew.
She even took down the last two wooden boards on the altar of the temple and separated her own wooden bed.
Chu Xingchen naturally had no objections. After all, as a young maiden, it was understandable.
It's just that if new disciples were recruited in the future, they might have to sleep on straw piles.
Half a month later.
Under the moonlight.
Li Yingling was leaning against the fire, eating a roasted chicken leg with a happy look on her face, but still said listlessly,
"Master, I've been stuck at the ninth level of Qi Refining for a long time."
Chu Xingchen was putting seasonings on the roasted chicken and said, "Just practice more and you'll break through."
Li Yingling coughed lightly and said, "Master, when I read storybooks and people were stuck at a certain cultivation level, didn't they all have elixir pills, spiritual plants and the like to assist in breaking through?"
"As the number one sect in the Xuanwu Kingdom and you being the number one immortal cultivator in the Xuanwu Kingdom, you must have a lot of good pills and such, right?"
Chu Xingchen looked up at Li Yingling. At this time, she was showing a very expectant look. In short, what these words meant was basically - Old guy, quickly take out some pills.
It was so funny. Where did he have pills?
If he hadn't taken you as a disciple, he would still be at the Foundation Establishment stage.
How could you expect a master at the Foundation Establishment stage to collect any elixir pills for you?
However, it wasn't really without a solution.
Chu Xingchen took a look at the night. The Xuanwu Kingdom was in a remote place, not like the situation in the Central Continent where Golden Core cultivators were everywhere.
In this remote place, a Golden Core cultivation level could actually be called an elder.
Now, no matter what, he was a flawless Golden Core. Things that he didn't dare to do before might not be impossible to do now.
Chu Xingchen made up his mind and said,
"Eat quickly. After eating, I'll take you to our sect's medicine field to get some spiritual plants for you to eat."
Li Yingling's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, "Our sect still has a medicine field? I've walked around this wild mountain area for a whole circle and didn't see any fields at all. Where is it?"
Chu Xingchen said angrily, "There's no spiritual vein in this shabby place. Do you think spiritual plants are like big radishes that you can just dig a hole and bury them in and they'll grow?"
At this moment, Li Yingling didn't care about big radishes at all. It turned out that her sect didn't just have a dilapidated temple!
There was actually a spiritual field! Thinking about it this way, her sect wasn't really that poor!
She was in a great mood. It seemed that she had hope of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage!
Li Yingling just felt that the roasted chicken leg in her hand became even more fragrant. She didn't care about her noble family's demeanor and quickly finished eating all the chicken legs in her hand.
"Master! I'm full. Let's go quickly."
Chu Xingchen couldn't help but feel a bit speechless. This girl didn't even bother to hide her intention of wanting Master's pills.
However, it would be more appropriate to leave earlier and calculate the time.
So Chu Xingchen sighed and said, "Let's go."
On a dark and windy night, the master and disciple in the dilapidated temple headed southeast.
An hour later.
Li Yingling, who was climbing the rugged mountain road, couldn't help but ask,
"Master, isn't this spiritual field too remote?"
"It's a spiritual vein. They're all like this. We're almost there."
Another half an hour later.
Li Yingling finally saw the spiritual field that Chu Xingchen had mentioned.
Well, you don't say.
The spiritual plants were really different. Under the moonlight, they would occasionally shine with a bright light, echoing the moonlight.
The protection measures for this medicine field were also very good.
A pale yellow barrier protected this not-too-big spiritual field.
Li Yingling looked excitedly at Chu Xingchen. When she saw clearly what her master was doing, she wasn't so excited anymore.
She saw Chu Xingchen carefully use his own spiritual power to quietly dissolve a big hole in the barrier.
After looking around, he handed a cloth bag to her.
"I'll keep watch for you. You go in and take them! Take whatever catches your eye! It's our own spiritual field. Don't be polite!"
Hearing this, Li Yingling felt dizzy and a bit incredulous.
Master! Are you tricking your disciple?!