CH 11

Chapter 11: Heart Knows The Count*

Saying meaning the person knows what’s going on, not ignorant.

Spiritual Master Ling Wu’s original name was Su Lijiang.

His cultivation aptitude was excellent, his comprehension level was also high, so he was personally accepted as the Star Disciple* by Wuliang Sect’s Great Elder and conferred the name Ling Wu. Due to this, he became of the same generation as Wuliang Sect’s Sect Leader and did not have to kowtow in greeting. This was sufficient to illustrate that his status in Wuliang Sect was extremely high, it could be said to have unlimited potential. Su Lijiang also lived up to the expectations. In a short fifty years he successfully condensed a Golden Core with seven stripes. He had just recently became a Golden Core Stage cultivator, yet his strength was comparable to that of an ordinary cultivator in the Golden Core Middle Stage. If nothing unexpected was to happen, there will definitely be a day when he will break through Nascent Soul Stage and go even higher and farther.

The text actually translates to Door Closing disciple. Because person teaching = school = door, last student = door closing. However, I can’t think of a good way to translate that so I’ll be using Star Disciple, which the translator of My Big Brother’s Brain Has A Pit uses.

A handsome as a deity man like this with unbounded future potential, his entire body was sparkling bright. If there exists a stain, it would probably be this mortal wife taken fifty years ago.

For Spiritual Master Ling Wu to bring her here, what exactly was he thinking? No one knew. No one could guess, only he himself knew.

“That day, if it weren’t for you coming to the rescue, I would not have today. I’ve engraved your grace into my heart, I will never forget.” Spiritual Master Ling Wu’s tone of speaking was still light, carrying a cool indifference and distance. The moment his words fell, a light smiling expression appeared in the eyes of Chu Ling and the others at the side.

What the Spiritual Master Ling Wu talked about was grace rather than anything else. So the reason he sent for the person was for the sake of repaying the life-saving grace of back then?

That’s also right. This old woman is already in her seventies, her skin was pitch-black and her whole body was full of wrinkles. No matter what, it wasn’t possible for Spiritual Master Ling Wu to love her.

What Chu Ling and the others could understand, Su Tingyun could also understand. She wasn’t the real Old Madam, she didn’t have much hope and expectation in her heart. On the contrary, if this Spiritual Master Ling Wu really loved her, she would actually feel that the opposite side’s taste was too heavy. After all, the disparity between the two was too large, they were already not of the same world since a long time ago.

Couldn’t you(addressing higher powers) have let me be a highschool graduate?

Since it turns out that the Spiritual Master Ling Wu had sent for her in order to repay a debt of gratitude, she felt much more relieved and also felt it easier to put forth her conditions: let Xiao Mei enter Wuliang Sect, give her some beautifying, skin nourishing, body strengthening, reverse aging and youth restoring pills, then send her back to the mortal world to continue being a free and confident local tyrant of an Old Madam. Su Tingyun who was born and grew up in a peaceful era seriously could not fall in love with this Cultivating World in which there were frequent blood clashes and you could easily lose your little life from the smallest mistake.

She put both palms together and bowed towards Spiritual Master Ling Wu: “That year it was my delight to rescue you. Today, seeing Spiritual Master’s current condition, I also feel relieved now.” Su Tingyun spoke, but omitted mention of husband and called him Spiritual Master the way Chu Ling and the others did. This move could be considered as she knew her place and protected his reputation.

But unexpectedly, Spiritual Master Ling Wu’s brows slightly knitted. He stared at her as if he was considering something before slowly saying: “Whatever requests you have you can bring them up, I can fulfill all of them for you.”

She was waiting just for this sentence!

“Can you accept the little girl I carried up into the Sect?” The first thing Su Tingyun thought of was Li Xinmei.

“Her base aptitudes are pretty good, her comprehension is also quite good. It is a pity that she experienced a heavy injury in her childhood, causing her meridians to become damaged. Right now because her cultivation level is still low it’s not very apparent, but once the spiritual qi inside her body increases a bit more, she will no longer be able to endure it.” This time, the one that spoke was Chu Ling. She had given Li Xinmei medicine so she naturally also examined her body: “Her meridians have already been damaged to the point that it is hard to restore. In this lifetime, I’m afraid her cultivation will be limited to the Spirit Condensation Stage.”

Su Tingyun did not know a lot about cultivation, but she knew what Chu Ling meant was that in the future, Li Xinmei’s achievements would not be very high. Her heart suddenly felt a little nervous and she impatiently looked towards Spiritual Master Ling Wu.

Even the cultivators outside Wuliang Sect that guarded the gates and swept the floor were above Spirit Condensation Stage.

Right now Li Xinmei was still young. For a ten year old to be at Qi Condensation Second Stage everyone felt she could still be nurtured. But one that is estimated to only be able to reach Spirit Condensation Stage around twenty or thirty years of age all the way until death, this type of rubbish, what would Wuliang Sect accept her for?

Chu Ling thought this in her mind, but unexpectedly Spiritual Master Ling Wu nodded: “Alright.”

He paused for a moment before saying: “That little girl has a little innate skill with formation arrays. I’ll summon Ning Xuzi and have him take her as his disciple.”

Ning Xuzi is the small disciple of Chu Yunbo, the representative Eldest Disciple of Wuliang Sect’s Sect Leader. He was an expert in formation arrays and talismans. As of now, he was about two hundred years old and was already a fourth rank formation arrays master. Although his age was much greater than that of Spiritual Master LIng Wu, but based on seniority, he was like the grand-disciple of Spiritual Master Ling Wu and still had to gave him face(respect).

Ning Xuzi just happened to be accepting disciples too this time, but he was only accepting a fixed number, now this damned girl has pointlessly taken up a spot. If those disciples going through the trials outside found out they’d probably puke up blood from the anger.  Chu Ling looked towards the old woman, wanting to see what other ridiculous demands she’ll bring up.

Seeing Spiritual Master Ling Wu easily agree, Su Tingyun’s mood also became cheerful and she smiled happily to the point her eyes squinted into curves. Not waiting for her to continue, Spiritual Master Ling Wu spoke again: “What else?”

That cannot wait attitude is just like he wanted to immediately repay this life-saving grace in full ah! Could it be that this cultivation world is also like a white snake repaying a debt of gratitude, he can continue to successfully cultivate towards becoming an immortal only after tying up all the bonds with the mortal life? Su Tingyun gained quite a bit more confidence as she continued: “Give me some beautifying, skin nourishing, body strengthening, reverse aging and youth restoring pills……”

Before she even finished speaking Chu Yuerong already started shouting a bit angrily: “Why don’t you just ask for immortality huh? Seriously a lion opening his big jaws!”

Lion opening big jaws?

Is this demand too outrageous? She thought beautifying, skin nourishing, body strengthening, reverse aging and youth restoring pills was a very common item in the Cultivation World to the point that you can just reach out and grab a huge bunch. After all, all of these people were so young. Her entire way here she didn’t see a single old person, at most they were middle aged. Spiritual Master Ling Wu was also someone about seventy years old, yet looking as his appearance he looks only like a twenty or so handsome youth!

“Living too long also isn’t good. How lonely would endless years be ah!” Su Tingyun muttered: “I just want to live a few more years.”

Seeing Spiritual Master Ling Wu frown silently, Su Tingyun for some reason felt a bit lacking in confidence. Slightly hesitating a little, she spoke again: “Since the pills are a difficult request, then I’ll just request Spiritual Master Ling Wu to send me back past the void sea to enjoy my later years in peace.” She took that White something Jade Dew, her body became pretty sturdy, so she should at least be able to live another thirty years. Continuing to be a residential big BOSS after returning was at least better than staying here to be at the very bottom of the food chain ah.

Spiritual Master Ling Wu’s face showed an expression as if he was faced with difficulty. Only there was a strange light in his eyes, his gaze for some reason caused Su Tingyun to feel a bit intimidated. However, in the next moment he moved away his gaze and that heart palpitating feeling also disappeared along with it. Could it be that it wasn’t palpitations, but the original host’s conscious instincts causing her heart to pound at seeing her husband?

Su Tingyun always thought that the original host’s consciousness had already completely dissipated, she clearly had this type of feeling before.

“Currently it is the void sea’s wind season. Even a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator wouldn’t dare to cross the void sea during the wind season.”

Su Tingyun looked confused. What does that mean, she can’t go back during the wind season? “Then how long is the wind season?”

“Nine years.”

Su Tingyun: “……”

In other words it’s basically saying she must stick around in this frightening at every step Cultivation World for nine years before she could go back to the Mortal World to live in ease and comfort!  They want to hound to death her old bones ah……

“Lady Yun, you can stay at Heaven Jade Pavilion. As soon as the wind season passes, I’ll arrange for someone to send you back.” After saying this, Spiritual Master Ling Wu raised his hand. Chu Ling immediately comprehended and led Su Tingyun towards Heaven Jade Pavilion. But just as Su Tingyun turned, she heard Spiritual Master Ling Wu call again: “Lady Yun……”

His tone was quite strange and caused Su Tingyun’s eyelid to leap a little. She turned back and asked: “May I ask what other matters Spiritual Master Ling Yu still has to impart?”

Spiritual Master Ling Wu’s brows lifted: “I just wanted to ask if you had any other requests.”

Su Tingyun hadn’t even replied and yet she already felt that the gaze of Chu Ling beside her was a bit scorching. She shook her head and didn’t finish saying everything: “For the time being, no more.”

As she didn’t mention any more requests, Spiritual Master Ling Wu also didn’t say anything more and had someone lead Su Tingyun away. Su Tingyun followed Chu Ling and walked for a long time, passing through a green bamboo forest and after entering a strange formation array, the scenery in front of her eyes suddenly became fuzzy. When she opened her eyes again, she had already entered a completely different world.

The place where she was present was the entrance to a valley. On its two sides were sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces that looked as if they were formed by the sharp cuts of a sword. And in the middle of the valley was a completely different world of charm and beauty.

“Heaven Jade Pavilion was a precious spiritually rich area that Great Elder personally bestowed on Spiritual Master Ling Wu. Inside is our medicine fields. For these nine years, Old Madam Wei, you can just stay here at ease. With medicines and spiritual energy to nourish you, you can definitely become much younger.” Chu Ling covered her mouth as she gave a light laugh: “Becoming twenty years younger will definitely not be a problem. When it come time for you to return home, perhaps you’ll even look younger than those two sons of yours.”

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Su Tingyun didn’t pay any attention to her and entered the valley on her own. Seeing those fields after fields of medicine fields and the cultivators hard at work in those fields, she felt much more peace of mind. Su Tingyun had become afraid of those battling and killing days. Staying in this valley wasting time watching other people farm is a lot better than killing spirit beasts outside. Even though nine years are hardr to endure, but days ah, passing one day counts as one day.

The rooms in the valley were all built on the cliffs, so Su Tingyun could only choose the bottom-most loft. Even so, it still caused her hands and feet to start to sweat as she climbed for nearly a quarter of an hour. When she finally entered the loft, Su Tingyun saw the simple arrangement inside and felt even more that the days would be hard to pass.

Inside the loft was only a stone bed and a set of stone table and stool. A bookshelf was placed against the wall. Besides these, there was nothing else. Compared with Old Madam’s luxuriously packaged large house with a courtyard this was practically as different as the sky and the earth. It was only half a star’s difference from the doghouses of her modern era. If cultivators all pass their days like this, then what use is there to still cultivate to become a bullshit immortal?

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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, Edited by Sonia