Chapter 259 Knowing + Speculation
This is how things are in this world.
For some people, the matter has long been over, but for others, it is unknown how many years they will be brooding over it.
"Master, she doesn't care about the outside world's opinions at all! We have to think of a new way!"
In just ten days after returning from the Wanjian Sect, Taoist Guanghui's round face had become more angular and his jawline had become clearer.
This period of time was really hard for her!
Whether she was practicing or sleeping, as soon as she closed her eyes, she would recall the feeling of being thrown out of the sect like a piece of garbage. Her mind would be in a mess and she could only stand up and walk around the room, unable to do anything.
But this fact was so embarrassing that she couldn't tell anyone. The luckiest thing so far was that she went there alone without any companions.
Both of them were in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm. When Taoist Qing Yuan threw her, she couldn’t even fight back.
At that moment, she was like a fish on a chopping board, watching the knife fall, unable to move at all.
How could this make her feel so embarrassed?
Moreover, I went to their home politely and tried to persuade them in a nice tone, but in the end I was treated so unreasonably, and there was not even an apology afterwards.
Daojun Guanghui could not accept it no matter what!
However, she wanted to take revenge, but she didn't even dare to turn around and return to the Wanjian Sect.
If that group of crazy people are really pissed off, no one can predict what will happen.
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. She thought she was being sensible about the current situation, but after she came back, she regretted it countless times - if only she had been braver that day.
The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt, so she went to various magazines and newspapers to stir up public opinion.
Unexpectedly, there was no reaction from the Wanjian Sect at all, as if she had thrown a heavy punch but hit cotton.
What was even more infuriating was that the disciple brought a stack of newspapers and told her that the Wanjian Sect had already spread the news of the massive death of the Wanfa Sect's enlightenment tea seedlings.
He also put all the blame for not being able to lower the price of Wudao Tea on the Wanfa Sect.
The central idea is that someone else has taken the most difficult ninety-nine steps for them, but in the end they can't figure out how to do it at the last step.
Guanghui calculated the date and found that these newspapers began to be published on the second day after she was thrown out of the Wanjian Sect by Qingyuan Daojun.
This made her feel extremely uncomfortable, but she couldn't explain it in detail.
Otherwise, the master would look down on her and think she was incompetent.
Taoist Master Fayuan touched the half-withered sapling in front of him and said nothing.
After several months of observation, he also discovered that the time of death of the tea seedlings was almost the same, starting from the time they were planted.
In other words, under the same growing conditions, these tea seedlings can only live so long.
Guang Hui felt upset and shouted in grievance, "Master!"
Taoist Master Fayuan still did not speak.
He stood up and went to another withered tea sapling.
This is a large nursery, demonstrating the Wanfa Sect’s determination to achieve mass production of Wudao tea.
Now it seems like a real joke.
Because the tea trees in this nursery were transplanted from east to west, and withered in sequence according to the time of transplanting, from a distance, they formed a gradient color from pitch black to emerald green.
Died so evenly.
Daoist Master Fayuan would come here with a frown on his face to observe for several hours every day, and recently he had been staying in the nursery without leaving.
If he had not successfully propagated the small tea tree, he might have discovered the problem earlier.
But with the successful precedent in mind, he couldn't help but fall into a vicious circle of thinking.
How could he not understand what Taoist Qingyuan said to Guanghui?
Wei Wenxin only knows how to breed but not how to maintain them. When the first tea seedling was brought back, it was even smaller than these withered tea trees. They had to take care of it by themselves throughout the whole process.
She had already done what she agreed to. There was no reason for the Wanfa Sect to cause trouble for her. She was only arguing to make herself feel better.
Compared to the enlightenment tea, these are all trivial matters.
Taoist Master Fayuan always knew what was most important, and he didn't care about other things. So even though he knew that most of what Guanghui did was useless, he still let her do it.
Because there is no expectation, you won’t be disappointed if the result is not good.
He couldn't understand why some of the plants survived while others didn't, using the same maintenance method?
If Wei Wenxin had been raising that small tea tree from the beginning to the end, he might have understood.
He has been taking care of this tree since it was a tiny seedling.
It doesn't make sense that he succeeded once and now he can't.
It's not that I haven't considered the possibility that there can't be more Enlightenment Tea in this world, but no matter what kind of immortal root it is, there is no precedent that only two trees can survive.
What is meant by "one is fine, two is fine, but three is not" is just a common saying. There is no explanation in the immortal scriptures.
Either one, nine, or multiples of nine.
Before Wei Wenxin bred the first Enlightenment Tea, the Wanfa Sect had tried for tens of thousands of years but had never succeeded even once, so they all assumed that this was the one and only immortal root in the Qinghuan Realm.
After raising the second tree, they knew that Wei Wenxin had mastered the breeding method. Because things were very tense, they knew that asking her would only bring shame upon themselves, so they only did the following things:
First, no more fresh tea leaves will be sold, and the management of Wudao Mountain will be strengthened to prevent the theft of Wudao tea and cut off the raw material supply from the root;
Second, investigate the tea leaves that have been sold before to ensure that every piece has been used.
Third, send Mahayana masters to search the world for more enlightenment tea trees.
Finally, they spend a huge amount of spirit stones every year to ask the Tianji Sect to take action to calculate whether there will be a new enlightenment tea in this world.
It was not until a hundred years had passed and no new tea trees were born, and they ensured that any tea leaves that were left outside had lost their vitality, that they terminated their cooperation with the Tianji Sect.
Now, these tea seedlings will automatically die when they grow to a certain age, which undoubtedly points to a direction that no one in the Wanfa Sect is willing to believe.
As soon as he found out something was wrong, he went to the Tianji Sect and found a Mahayana master he was familiar with, hoping to predict whether there would be any new enlightenment tea in the world.
They had cooperated for hundreds of years before, so both parties were familiar with each other, and the divination was always smooth, so the Tianji Sect's Venerable agreed without hesitation.
As a result, not long after the calculation began, he vomited blood, paid a large sum of spirit stones, and politely asked him to leave.
Even if the other party didn't say anything, Daozun Fayuan still knew one thing - new tea trees had appeared and were strictly protected. Even if it cost a huge price, it might not be possible to calculate it out.
As soon as he discovered that Wudaocha was dead, he contacted the Qingshen Sect and wanted them to come and see what was going on. As a result, the other party asked for a hundred fresh leaves right away.
The Qingshen Sect is best at planting. If they are ruthless and go to Wei Wenxin to buy the breeding method, with the ability of the Qingshen Sect, if they are able to raise the pigs, what will the Wanfa Sect do then?
Are we going to go and knock it back again?
Wei Wenxin bred the tea secretly back then, so if she tried to snatch it back, at least she could still save face. But if the Qingshen Sect obtained the breeding materials in this way and really grew the tea saplings, the Wanfa Sect would be unsound if they tried to snatch it back.
So he gave up the idea and figured it out on his own, and it took him several more months to figure things out.
This matter was too horrible. He struggled with it for a long time and didn't know whether he should tell other venerables in the sect.
If he told others, the power of his lineage would be weakened, and he might even completely lose control of the Enlightenment Tea. If he didn't tell others, when the tea trees of other forces came out one by one, he would probably ascend to heaven, and the impact would not be great. But he still had disciples and grandchildren, so he had to consider them...
Guanghui didn't understand his master's dilemma.
She only clearly felt the master's indifference to her. Her heart was chilled, so she dared not say anything more, bowed respectfully, and left.
She decided that she would never get involved in these matters again unless her master called her.
Anyway, she is not the boss, and it will not be her turn to be in charge of the Wudao Tea in the future.
But when she thought about it, she still felt extremely sad and wronged.
I got bullied outside and didn’t dare to tell anyone when I got home.
Back then, someone from the Loose Cultivator Alliance offered a bounty for Wei Wenxin's life, and Taoist Qing Yuan immediately led his men to attack him.
Who in the world doesn’t know about this?
Others envied Taoist Qingyuan for having a good disciple and gave him a blessed land, but she envied Wei Wenxin for having a good master.
No matter when, no matter if you are wronged or at a disadvantage, Master will never turn a blind eye.
Taoist Guanghui returned to his cave with a sour heart, but he never thought that if Wei Wenxin encountered her situation that day, she would fight back without waiting to be thrown out, and in the end she might even need the other party's elders to come forward to mediate before she would give up.
In this world, strength has always created dignity. If she was stronger, even if her mouth was still so annoying, Taoist Qingyuan would not treat her like this.
Anyone could see that Guanghui had something on her mind, but Taoist Master Fayuan never asked her what she had experienced or why she was unhappy.
Seeing her leave, he just said "hmm" and no longer cared.
He has more than a dozen apprentices, all of whom are adults who can take care of themselves. If he stares at what his apprentices are thinking all day long, then he will have trouble living.
After hesitating for a long time, Taoist Master Fayuan sighed and finally decided to call together other people in the sect to express his guess.
If he doesn't say it now, the longer he delays, the bigger his fault will be. By then, the ancestors from the upper realm will definitely blame him.
Fearing that the news would leak out and cause an uproar, he only called upon Venerable Mahayana to come and discuss the matter. He was so worried that it was difficult to express in words.
Everyone had known about the death of the tea saplings for a long time, and some knowledgeable people had even guessed the result long ago, but after hearing what Taoist Master Fayuan said, they still found it a little hard to accept.
"Which sect do you think is the most likely one?"
Someone raised such a key question.
"The one I'm most suspicious of is the Qingshen Sect. They are extremely good at this. It doesn't make sense that they can't figure out something that Wei Wenxin, a sword cultivator, can figure out."
After Wei Wenxin created the tree, they kept an extremely close eye on the Wanjian Sect. They knew every piece of Enlightenment Tea purchased by the Wanjian Sect, and there was absolutely no way they would miss any.
Therefore, the first to suspect was the Qingshen Sect, which had the strongest professional capabilities in this area.
"Is it possible that they secretly stored the materials and invited Wei Wenxin to come and help? I saw that she was very skilled when she was killing us. Maybe she has done this many times before."
A group of people started a conspiracy theory and made all kinds of speculations, and there is no good person in this world.
In the end, some people even confronted Fayuan, saying that he managed the tea poorly and that someone must have stolen the tea and sold it, or maybe someone else embezzled the tea and sold it themselves.
Otherwise this wouldn't have happened.
If it were the Wanjian Sect, it would have almost entered the hand-to-hand combat stage by now, but it was different in the Wanfa Sect. Everyone was so angry that smoke was coming out of their heads, but they still sat firmly in their seats, cursing in a sarcastic tone and quoting from classics.
The argument lasted for more than a month without any conclusion.
At the same time, Wei Wenxin interrupted his research, dusted off his body, and finally opened the door.
She also didn't want anyone to know that she had gone out. Seeing that Ling Cang was not at home, she directly called Fentian out, controlled her flying sword to rise from the ground, left the sect from the back mountain, and headed straight for Wanjian City.
The annual flying sword competition is being held. From a long distance away, you can hear the "buzzing" sound of swords breaking through the air above Wanjian City.
In order to save spiritual energy or conceal their tracks when traveling on a daily basis, cultivators will find ways to dissolve the sound of sonic booms. This is only done during competitions to create a better atmosphere.
Any sword cultivator would be filled with excitement when arriving at such a place, but she had other things to do today.
A young master from a branch of a small immortal cultivation family named Yin in the west of the city turned one month old today, but only close family members came to celebrate.
In the final analysis, it was because this young master was found to have no spiritual roots a few days ago.
He is a mortal.
It is impossible to predict when a mortal is reincarnated into a boy or girl, whether he or she has spiritual roots, or even whether his or her body has any defects.
The probability for men and women is about the same, and at least 80% have no spiritual roots.
This is in a super large city like Wanjian City. If it is in a remote area, the proportion will be even lower.
Wei Wenxin hid his body, stood by the bed and watched for a long time, and finally gave him another soul mark.
This spell requires splitting a bit of the soul to be cast, which causes considerable damage to her.
Especially, it was used twice in just over a month.
Wei Wenxin regulated his breathing for a long time before leaving.
If cultivators have relatives they cannot let go of, they often use this method to escort them to reincarnation. Generally speaking, they can be free from worldly ties in just one lifetime.
Wei Wenxin was determined to find Asan's second and even third life, because after the two of them became more and more involved, she had already understood the cause and effect between them.
In a future life, this person will be her eldest disciple.
The monks of Wanjian Sect attach great importance to inheritance and pay special attention to their eldest disciples. She is no exception.
In order to avoid incompatibility in the future, she plans to raise the child carefully while he/she is young.
After coming out of the Yin family feeling weak, Wei Wenxin took a direct flying boat back to the sect for safety reasons.
There is a flying boat point in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest of Wanjian City. The structure of each flying boat point is the same, with four high towers supporting a large platform, on which are parked flying boats bound for various places.
Because this is a no-fly zone, when you arrive at the flying boat point, you can only go up along the spiral staircase inside the tower.
High-level cultivators from other forces may occasionally break the rules and walk directly into the air, but high-level cultivators from the Wanjian Sect strictly uphold their own rules and usually take the stairs.
Wei Wenxin is no exception.
As she slowly walked onto the platform and was about to buy a ticket, someone grabbed her sleeve.
"My dear, which flying boat can we take to the Wanjian Sect?"
The platform is super large, with dozens of flying boats parked on it at any time. In addition, there are people coming and going here, so it is easy to make enemies by just sending out spiritual sense. This person has never been to the city, so he was dazzled when he arrived here. He just grabbed someone to ask for directions, and happened to catch Wei Wenxin.
After all, he was the host, and Wei Wenxin was about to go back to the sect, so he might as well ask him to go along.
The monk thanked her profusely and followed her happily, completely unprepared.
"Uncle, are you a cultivator from the Qingshen Sect?"
In the entire world of cultivating immortals, apart from the group of "farmers" in the Qingshen Sect, no one would call themselves the eldest daughter.
Yesterday I boasted that I would update three times, but failed. Now I don't dare to boast anymore. I pray to the God of workers to bless me with endless passion and inspiration. Good night!
(End of this chapter)
