Herbal Garden

At this moment, Wang Goudan walked over.

Seeing Niu Xiaoxue, he was very surprised and said,

"Junior Sister Niu? Why are you here?"

Because Niu Xiaoxue had the best talent among the new disciples who joined the sect last year, and being a girl, many people in the sect knew her.

However, Niu Xiaoxue did not know Wang Goudan.

But that did not stop her from recognizing the Shangyang Sect uniform he was wearing.

So she replied,

"Greetings, Senior Brother. Senior Brother, what are you..."

Wang Goudan slipped behind Li Zhanying, stood firm, and said,

"I am here to pick up my Venerable. Junior Sister, I have decided to leave the Shangyang Sect. From now on, I am no longer a disciple of the Shangyang Sect."

Hearing him call this old man "Venerable," Niu Xiaoxue's mind raced. She suddenly remembered accidentally hearing someone refer to the legendary ancestor of the Shangyang Sect as "Venerable" as well.

She decisively nodded to Li Zhanying and said,

"Senior, I am willing to cultivate with you!"

What a joke.

Even if she joined a sect, how could it be as appealing as directly becoming the disciple of a Nascent Soul cultivator?

Seeing her agree immediately after figuring out his identity, Li Zhanying did not look displeased at all. He agreed with a smile and took her and Wang Goudan back to his residence to settle down.

Meanwhile, inside the Lingxian Sect.

The reason no one paid attention to Niu Xiaoxue just now was not that they heard her and couldn't be bothered, but that they truly didn't notice.

At this moment, everyone in the sect was gathered in a valley in the back mountain.

They were staring at the valley before them in sheer astonishment.

The reason was simple: this valley was artificial.

To be precise, it was soul-made.

However, if Lin Xiao and the others hadn't been to the back mountain before and known that there was originally no valley here, they probably wouldn't have realized it at all.

It was all because the valley was constructed so naturally that no artificial traces could be seen.

They had no idea how Senior Liao managed to do it.

At the entrance of the valley, a huge piece of white marble was embedded in the mountain, inscribed with the simple and majestic words "Medicine Garden."

The sides of the entrance were covered with various exotic flowers and rare herbs, and overhead hung large clusters of wisteria flowers quietly.

When the breeze blew, these exotic plants swayed gently, like a moving painting.

When everyone walked in, they realized that the entrance was nothing compared to the inside, which was like a fairyland.

In the very center of the valley, a suspended waterfall cascaded vertically from thin air into a small lake below, splashing up massive clouds of mist that made people feel as if they were in an illusion, unable to see the real scenery clearly.

Yet, despite such a grand display, there was not the slightest roar of a waterfall. Within the entire valley, only the crisp chirping of birds and insects could be heard, serene and secluded.

Within the whole valley, there wasn't a single perfectly neat medicine field.

Because everywhere here was a medicine field.

Different medicinal herbs were planted in various environments according to their different growth requirements.

At a glance, with the suspended waterfall as the center, it was distinctly divided into four parts based on the four seasons.

Everyone guessed that corresponding formations must have been set up here to achieve this effect.

Within the four seasonal zones, there were even more detailed subdivisions.

For example, in the summer zone, there was a difference between general heat and extreme heat, and in the winter zone, there were different degrees of cold.

According to Liao Pantu's introduction to everyone.

Every blade of grass and tree here was medicine.

The herbs planted on the mountain walls were those that needed to grow on cliffs, while those planted in the ground had their soil carefully differentiated according to the herbs' specific needs.

Some herbs were even planted underground.

Some were planted in water.

And some were planted in ice.

In short, after this tour, everyone in the Lingxian Sect felt their eyes had been opened wide.

In the entire medicine garden, there was only one very unremarkable-looking bamboo house by the lake.

After everyone went in and took a look, they silently deleted their evaluation of it being "unremarkable-looking" in their hearts.

The inside of this bamboo house really couldn't be described by ordinary luxury.

Anyway, among everyone present, except for Lin Xiao, everyone was severely shocked.

Because Liao Pantu only let them take a couple of glances before stopping them, everyone didn't really remember its specific appearance, but that wasn't important.

In everyone's eyes, this bamboo house already had its eternal appearance—it was all money, lots and lots of money.

After showing everyone around, Liao Pantu asked Lin Xiao triumphantly:

"How is it, Sect Master? My medicine garden should be considered qualified, right? You said before that I could build it however I wanted!"

Originally, the medicine garden Lin Xiao imagined was just marking out an area and dividing it into a few plots to plant herbs.

Who could have thought that Senior Liao would directly build a super luxurious version out of it.

Facing such a medicine garden, could Lin Xiao possibly say it wasn't qualified? He was even considering whether to find a way to let Senior Liao take over all the construction work in the future.

Of course, he was just thinking about it.

"Of course it's qualified! No, it can't just be called qualified, it's simply fantastic! Senior, you are truly amazing!"

Lin Xiao praised sincerely.

[Ding—Congratulations to the host for completing the Sect Construction Mission—Sect Facilities (7). The mission rewards have been distributed to your private treasury. Please remember to check them.]

As soon as he confirmed it, the system determined that the mission was completed and issued him the mission rewards.

This time he didn't wait to check the rewards later. Instead, while everyone was still slowly strolling around the medicine garden and carefully appreciating every scenery, he found a corner nearby and opened his private treasury to check.

In the private treasury, the number of Yaoguang Floating Island fragments, which was originally only one, had become two. There should be more spirit stones, but he didn't know exactly how many more, because he still had over ten thousand spirit stones in his private treasury.

There should have been more.

But the last time he sorted out the sect's storehouse, he put a lot of spirit stones in to use as salary for Baldy, so now only over ten thousand were left.

These were not very important to him now.

As long as the floating island fragments had increased, it was fine.

Now he was only one piece away from gathering all three fragments.

Lin Xiao reviewed his currently uncompleted tasks.

Only two were left.

One was about building social connections, and the other was about cultivating various technical talents.

As for building connections, he hadn't yet decided when he would go to the cultivation world next, so he had to put it on hold for now.

As for the second task of cultivating technical talents.

Because of Liu Chun's joining, the target of having at least one talent in each category for this task now had the talisman-making category covered.

Lin Xiao estimated that after Yigao studied alchemy for a while longer, he would probably be successful too.

What was left were formations and artifact refining.

Mo Yuanjiao's enthusiasm for learning formations was still very high, so he could supervise him more on this later.

Then for artifact refining, perhaps it would depend on Tietou.

He could also learn and practice more when he had time, as a backup plan.

After everyone finished the tour and came out of the medicine garden, Yang Jinshu found Lin Xiao and brought him some patterns she had designed over the past two days.