Daily Life of the Sect After the Sovereign's Departure (II)

Hearing this, Qin Jianghe finally understood why his mother had suddenly brought up this matter. He couldn't help but smile and say,

"I know, Mother. Please don't worry. I don't have any of these messy thoughts in my mind at all right now. Whatever happens to their family has absolutely nothing to do with me."

"That's good, that's good. I thought that you suddenly running so far away to do business was because you were holding a grudge and wanted to make a name for yourself to show the Niu family," Mother Qin said with a smile.

Qin Jianghe only then realized that his mother actually thought this was his purpose for going out to do business. He said helplessly,

"No, Mother. I'm doing it to develop avenues for our sect. In the future, as our sect grows larger and larger, we will definitely recruit more disciples, and supporting those disciples will require money, won't it? Don't overthink things all day. Just relax."

"It's good that it's not, it's good that it's not." Hearing this, Mother Qin was finally relieved.

Previously, not long after his engagement was broken off, her son had said he was going out to do business, leaving home for months without returning.

He only sent back a few letters and some money along the way, which made her and his father overthink.

Now that she heard her son say this himself, her heart was finally completely at ease.

Just like that, after a night passed, Qin Jianghe stepped into the morning glow and once again left home, leaving Xiushui Village.

Leaving with him was Liu Yunan.

However, he wasn't there to see Qin Jianghe off, but rather to go to Liaoju Prefecture.

They had agreed yesterday to travel together today.

Liu Yunan's trip to Liaoju Prefecture this time was to deliver some more positioning voice transmission talismans to Prefect Tong.

This way, if Prefect Tong learned of any news in the future and could notify them, they would have a better idea of what was going on.

Furthermore, after Sun Yigao found out about this yesterday, he gave him a few Minor Rejuvenation Pills that he had recently learned to refine, asking him to give them to Prefect Tong.

After all, even though the other party was helping them out of gratitude and admiration, they couldn't just take it for granted.

Courtesy demands reciprocity; this was the way to maintain a long-lasting relationship.

To cultivators, these pills were the most ordinary healing medicine with rather average recovery effects.

However, for mortals, the effects were remarkable.

If they encountered any severe illness or pain, taking a single pill might be able to turn the tide.

Everyone felt it couldn't be better to use them as a thank-you gift for Prefect Tong.

As for whether this would bring any fatal disaster upon Prefect Tong,

everyone agreed that, given his status as a prefect, receiving a few pills wouldn't become known to everyone.

As long as Baldy was careful when delivering them, there shouldn't be any problems.

And so, the two of them left Xiushui Village together, walking quickly toward the official road.

Because Sun Yigao now had to teach the students, he had to spend three hours every morning giving lessons before cultivating for another three hours.

During his cultivation time, he would have an old scholar he had hired from outside sit in the classroom to supervise the students' self-study and answer their questions a bit.

After lunch, it was the private school's midday break.

He would use this time to study the four arts of immortal cultivation.

That's right, not just alchemy.

Urged on by Senior Liao, he had also tried his hand at the other three arts.

The result was that he picked them all up very well right from the start.

Seeing this, Liao Pantu was so happy that his eyes crinkled into slits.

Liu Chun was extremely surprised to see him pick up talisman making—a skill he himself had practiced for decades—so quickly.

To think that their small sect was actually hiding such crouching tigers and hidden dragons.

Mo Yuanjiao had originally thought that he was the only little genius among the many disciples in the sect who could quickly grasp several skills, and he had even gotten a little carried away in his heart.

But then he discovered that Senior Brother Sun, who had recently returned from his exams, was actually this amazing too.

No, he was even more amazing than himself!

He heard that when the Sect Master was previously poisoned and injured, the sect had no healing pills and no alchemist who could refine them.

It was Senior Brother Sun who stepped forward. Under Elder Liao's guidance, he successfully refined a furnace of pills on his very first try, which saved the poisoned Sect Master.

Not only that, but this Senior Brother Sun was also the only person, aside from Senior Brother Sect Master, to walk through the Path of Asking the Heart completely unimpeded on his first try!

Sun Yigao had asked Lin Xiao about this matter before.

Lin Xiao had then directly explained the general mechanism of the Path of Asking the Heart in front of everyone.

It turned out that the reason Sun Yigao could walk the Path of Asking the Heart unimpeded was entirely because his mind was extremely pure and upright, and his will was incredibly firm.

Because his mind was pure and resolute, the Path of Asking the Heart couldn't find a single flaw in him, making it practically useless against him.

This didn't mean that the others who spent some time inside were not upright.

It was just that their minds were not resolute enough.

Normally, they might all be kind and upright enough, but when faced with ambiguous matters, they might hesitate or become confused.

There were many influencing factors involved.

However, the current Sun Yigao was the most resolute one, no matter the situation.

Therefore, he didn't need the Path of Asking the Heart to question his heart anymore.

Thus, following Lin Xiao, Mo Yuanjiao had a new person to admire in his heart.

As a result, he was also very enthusiastic about taking time every day to go down the mountain and teach the private school students.

Although Sun Yigao loved reading the most, he was also very interested in these wondrous immortal cultivation arts.

So he would take time during the students' midday break every day to study them.

Once the afternoon break was over, he would return to the private school to continue teaching everyone for another two hours.

Then, after letting everyone review for a while, it would be time for Mo Yuanjiao's martial arts class.

At this point, Sun Yigao's teaching duties for the day were considered complete. He would then run up to the cultivation room on the mountain to focus on his cultivation, only getting up to head home late at night.

Nowadays, he basically no longer needed to teach everyone how to read or explain the mental cultivation methods within the sect.

Because Senior Liao had taken on the role of answering questions and clearing up confusion for everyone.

As such, the current Sun Yigao's cultivation base was already at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Condensation, not far from the boundary of breaking through.

Lin Xiao had gone into secluded cultivation.

Within the Lingxian Sect, it seemed for a time that nothing had changed.

It was just that everyone had some subtle changes in their hearts.

Because Lin Xiao had solved many problems previously, and had arranged countermeasures for various situations in advance, simply handing down instructions to them.

Now that he wasn't around, everyone couldn't help but become more vigilant, feeling that they should take more initiative than before and consider the sect's needs more carefully.

Everything in the sect seemed to be developing in a positive direction.

A few days later.

In the dense forest south of Liaoju Prefecture City.

A middle-aged man wearing a purple robe stood at the edge of the forest beside a cave entrance that should have been hidden by a concealment formation and led straight to the bottom of the cave. Looking at the entrance stuffed full of rocks, his expression was gloomy.