Chapter 26: First Entering the Noble Land

First Entering the Noble Land

"What is your name?"

"Ruan Ci." Ruan Ci thought that the Dao Palace people had already traced the Ruan family, so she added, "Everyone calls me Xiao Ci, Immortal Master can also call me that."

"That's not necessary," Chen Jun sat in the upper seat and said faintly, "The Shangqing Sect is not unable to afford a Ruan."

He spoke to Ruan Ci in a tone that was neither cold nor hot, neither close nor distant, as if it were just a coincidence, and he only took Ruan Ci in because of his previous words. There was no further connection between the two. For Ruan Ci, she didn't want to be close to Chen Jun. The person who really took her in should be the old man at the chess stall. Wang Panpan was his old acquaintance. Chen Jun was just acting on orders to receive her. Her status was awkward, and it was reasonable for Chen Jun not to want to get involved.

"Then Immortal Master can just call me Ruan Ci," she said indifferently, "When can I cultivate?"

"You have only entered the mountain gate, and your master has not been determined. Three years later, when the Heavenly Boat sets sail, you will arrive at the mountain gate, and after you apprentice, your master will naturally teach you."

Chen Jun had no arrogance of a Nascent Soul cultivator toward her. Hearing Ruan Ci ask, he said it one by one. He didn't say a word about what she didn't ask. Ruan Ci said, "I still have a two-year contract with a shop in Tan City, and I also have a cat raised in that shop."

"Just dissolve the contract. Tomorrow Lin Ji will take you to handle it." Chen Jun paused and said, "That cat, if it is well-behaved and clean, it doesn't matter if you bring it back."

Ruan Ci felt that Wang Panpan was quite well-behaved and was indeed clean, so she responded. Thinking there was nothing else to say, she got up to say goodbye. Walking to the entrance of the hall, Chen Jun called her again and asked, "That cat... is it better behaved now?"

Was Wang Panpan very naughty before?

Chen Jun's voice was low and soft, as if there were many past events hidden in it. Ruan Ci was puzzled and said truthfully, "Since I raised it, it has always been very well-behaved."

Chen Jun stopped talking. Ruan Ci returned to her room, still puzzled, and took out the white piece from her arms, squinting at it for a while: this white piece helped her catch that koi, and although it was pecked, it didn't get smaller at all.

For a moment, Lin Ji brought her clothes and a small crystal jar the size of a palm, smiling, "Young Lady, the koi you caught cannot be kept in an ordinary fish tank. I asked the Young Master's meaning and begged for a magic tool for you."

As she spoke, she took out a water bag from her arms, filled the crystal jar half full, and pointed her finger. The koi that was originally raised in a large jar on the ground flew up, shrank into a small fish, and fell into the crystal jar. Lin Ji said, "This jar is called the Tianhe Lan Yu Jar, and its size follows the heart of the person. Today, Young Lady is staying in our mansion, and the place is narrow, so it's a bit wronged. After apprenticing in the future, when you have your own Grotto-Heaven, you can enlarge it and let the fish relieve its boredom. This jar has many wonderful uses. In the future, when Young Lady has cultivation, you will naturally understand them one by one, so I won't talk too much."

She is a beautiful concubine under Chen Jun, naturally stunning, and her dress is really rich. The rings and pendants at her waist are tinkling, and it can be vaguely seen that they are all magic tools, and her cultivation is at least above the Foundation Establishment stage, but she is humble to Ruan Ci, who is dressed in coarse clothes. She served Ruan Ci to wash and dress, and brought new clothes. She knelt on the ground and put on embroidered shoes for Ruan Ci. Ruan Ci stepped on her legs with bare feet, only feeling the softness of the touch. Lin Ji exuded bursts of fragrance. Even though she was a woman, she felt that the scene was really seductive, and couldn't help but think, "Chen Jun looks very gentle, but he can really enjoy himself in private. It seems that looking at Liu Yin's inner landscape, I didn't see such a scene."

Ruan Ci was young and had no desire. She only felt that Lin Ji, as a cultivator, seemed too soft and charming, vaguely a bit unlike a human, but she couldn't say exactly how. She stood up and looked in the mirror, only to see a young girl with hanging hair in the mirror, wearing a gold-embroidered jacket and skirt, wearing a necklace around her neck, earrings with beads, a little vermilion between her eyebrows, and eyes full of ripples. She had grown up a lot compared to the last time she dressed as a daughter, as if the displacement of the past few years was just a dream, and her whole body exuded a noble spirit that made people unable to look directly at her.

Lin Ji smiled, "People need clothes, Young Lady will definitely be very outstanding even in our Shangqing Sect."

She spoke nicely, but Ruan Ci was not very happy and asked, "Do I have this dress alone, or do all disciples have it?"

Lin Ji was stunned and said, "Disciples in the sect wear everything on weekdays. Most of those who have just entered the sect wear Daoist robes, and I have brought them for Young Lady."

Ruan Ci nodded, "It's late today, from tomorrow on, I will still wear Daoist robes."

Lin Ji lowered her eyebrows and responded, served Ruan Ci to sleep, and made an appointment to go to Tan City tomorrow. Many cultivators in the Central Continent lived on floating mountains next to Tan City, but Chen Jun brought his own Grotto-Heaven, which also floated high in the air. Ruan Ci had to live in Chen Jun's Grotto-Heaven for these three years, so she could not go out at will. Even if she went to Tan City, she had to be held by Lin Ji.

Chen Jun's Grotto-Heaven was extremely vast. Ruan Ci lived by a small lake, half an hour's walk from the main hall. Lin Ji came out of Ruan Ci's residence, passed through layers of restrictions, and returned to Chen Jun's side. She knelt down and told Chen Jun every word and action of Ruan Ci in detail, and said, "Young Master, Ci Young Lady is steady and keeps a low profile. I think she won't cause you any trouble in these three years."

Chen Jun pinched his eyebrows and sighed, "She is steady? Today, when she called that little boy surnamed Huang to hit her, you didn't see her appearance. She was smiling, as if she was afraid he wouldn't hit her. She is also crazy. You can tell at a glance that she is a troublemaker. Sigh, our Shangqing Sect's female disciples, none of them are simple characters."

Lin Ji knelt and walked a few steps, hammering Chen Jun's legs, and said softly, "Ci Young Lady is still young. Besides, she can't go out now and is hidden by you in the Grotto-Heaven. How crazy can she be? You are worried about Shaowei Young Lady. She made a big movement in the south with Supreme Spirit Pearl."

"Shaowei wants to seek the opportunity of breaking the pill to form the baby, so she can't help but provoke Tai Shi Yi. Let them make a movement if they want," Chen Jun closed his eyes halfway and said tiredly, "These wastes in South Zhuzhou, do they really care about us for some small things? Let her torture Tai Shi Yi for a while, so that she won't make trouble when she comes back early—I don't need to keep secret about taking Ruan Ci, but if she doesn't ask, don't take the initiative to mention it."

Lin Ji lowered her head and responded. After a while, she said, "It's best if one or two of your junior brothers or nephews come back early and bring disciples, then it will be more appropriate."

Chen Jun smiled, "Correct, I have already sent a letter to Yanqing, asking him to find that Ruan woman in Lu Guo, and see his ability. This time, there will be no lack of cultivators going to Lu Guo, and I don't know if he can bring the person back."

The Dao Palace Venerable said that the Donghua Sword is related to the Ruan family, and the Ruan family's bones and blood might be in Liang Guo or Lu Guo, but Chen Jun seems very sure that the Ruan family's bones and blood are in Lu Guo, and it is a daughter. It's just that Ruan Ci is also surnamed Ruan, but both he and Lin Ji seem not to know, and never talk about the coincidence. Lin Ji responded softly and said, "Qing Young Master will definitely succeed. You came here this time, standing among the elders, using small to win big, and planning hard. If you can bring the Ruan woman back to the mountain gate, the Sect Master will definitely reward you heavily."

Chen Jun is only the second disciple. Compared with the Young Sect Master like Young Master Yue and the Heavenly Demon Order Master like Tai Shi Yi, the power in his hands is not as good, and the manpower he can command is naturally less. There is also a junior sister like Xu Shaowei who follows but doesn't listen to the call. The difficulty is only known to himself. He sighed long and said, "I dare not think of heavy rewards. It is a blessing to be able to bring people back safely. Alright, since I was asked to come, it is naturally counted as my use. I am afraid I cannot escape, so I will take one step at a time."

After weighing it, the calculation was set. Chen Jun didn't know what he thought of, his eyebrows gradually relaxed, revealing a little joy, and ordered Lin Ji, "Go to Tan City tomorrow and buy some delicious spirit fish and raise them in the lake next to Ruan Ci's house."

Lin Ji lowered her eyebrows and said, "Yes, the maid will buy some good spirit grass and make a nest for Panpan."

Chen Jun asked back, "Who is Panpan?"

His words carried a slight blame. Lin Ji said, "The maid doesn't know either, the maid was talking nonsense."

She apologized again, and then carefully retreated. She stood in the courtyard and didn't know what she was thinking. A light sorrow jumped on her eyebrows. After a long time, she sighed and went to be busy.

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Let's talk about Ruan Ci. Although she can now go without food or rest for several days, she is not cultivating after all, and it is impossible to truly abstain from grains. She sleeps every two or three days. She has many calculations in her heart these days, and it is difficult to rest peacefully. Until this time she apprenticed into the Shangqing Sect, it was finally settled, but she hardened her heart, no longer worried, lay on the bed and slept a truly good sleep. Waking up the next day, she only felt the fragrance in the room, but Lin Ji had already sent the maid to send breakfast.

Her ancestors ate jade and rice for generations, all spirit food. Ruan Ci cannot eat human food. Since she came out of Song Guo, her food has never been satisfactory. Lin Ji prepared spirit rice and yellow essence porridge. Ruan Ci felt it was very delicious, drank two bowls happily, and praised the meat jerky for the meal, but the portion was small.

"Young Lady doesn't know, that is also made of spirit beast meat dried and pickled. A small piece of meat jerky contains spirit energy that can let Qi Condensation disciples refine for a day."

Lin Ji said she would carry her to Tan City. Ruan Ci just took it as a casual word. She didn't want Lin Ji to really not use magic tools, and held Ruan Ci in her arms like a child, flying in the air. Ruan Ci's cheeks leaned against her cheeks, her shoulders leaned against Lin Ji's soft neck, listening to her whispering and laughing, exhaling like orchids, "It is because the Young Master sees that the Young Lady has a solid foundation, so the maid dared to prepare this meal. If an ordinary mortal ate it, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to digest it, and might even die of abdominal distension."

Ruan Ci had never had such taboos when she was in Chen Guo, Wang Panpan didn't know how many spirit beasts she caught for her to eat, and she herself killed many Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment monsters, and had always eaten meat in large mouthfuls. She asked, "What cultivation level is this spirit beast?"

Lin Ji smiled, "It should be Foundation Establishment. The Young Master doesn't eat it, he has long abstained from grains, it's just for us subordinates to have a tooth-beating meal."

She turned her head and looked at Ruan Ci, asking, "Has Young Lady ever eaten monster meat of this grade before?"

Ruan Ci coughed and said, "Tasted a little."

She once ate a whole six-toothed wild boar of the Foundation Establishment stage. After Ruan Ci came out of Young Master Yue's Grotto-Heaven, she didn't feel full no matter how much she ate. Wang Panpan said she was filling the loss left by refining the Donghua Sword.

Lin Ji's eyes showed a smile. She was charming, and this smile was even more like autumn water. Ruan Ci leaned in her arms, only feeling that every inch of Lin Ji's skin was scrambling to stick to her, and couldn't help asking, "Lin Ji, you are not a human, right?"

"The maid is a mermaid." Lin Ji smiled, "Has Ci Young Lady seen a mermaid in Tan City?"

"South Zhuzhou doesn't seem to have mermaids." Ruan Ci said, "I have seen other monster races, all transformed into humans, but they didn't transform well and could still be recognized."

Her knowledge in these two years was more than the past ten years. But fortunately, Ruan Ci was originally a blank sheet of paper, so there was nothing bad to imagine. She originally didn't even know what rain was. When she went out of Song Guo, she took everything for granted.

Lin Ji said, "Where did the maid transform badly, making Young Lady recognize it?"

Ruan Ci looked closely. Lin Ji was flying in the air, her hair fluttering, rings and pendants tinkling, her shawl flying, followed by strong men and maids, there was really no place that was not a peerless beauty. To say she transformed badly was a lie.

"Temperament, I guess," she said, "The cat I raised sometimes sticks to people like this."

Lin Ji giggled, playing with it, "Young Lady's words make sense. Only those who are not human like to stick to people like this. Humans don't like to stick to people like this, right?"

Not entirely. Ruan Ci only felt that a beauty like Lin Ji, if she were a human, would not come to be close to a little girl like her with low cultivation. Only monster origin, that nature is in the bones, like Wang Panpan, who likes to group on people. Sometimes she was angry with her, and while grouping on Ruan Ci's legs, letting Ruan Ci touch it, while scolding, scolding was scolding, but touching still had to be touched.

This was not easy to say. She smiled and didn't speak. Lin Ji realized it herself and said, "Correct, mermaid holding a child, we mermaids see cubs, all hold them in our arms like this. I have left the East Sea for more than a thousand years, and I didn't expect to see cubs, and still want to hold them."

As she spoke, she released a white jade plate and wanted to put Ruan Ci on it. Ruan Ci wrapped her neck and said, "It's okay, I haven't been held for a long time, besides, your arms are quite comfortable."

Lin Ji smiled slightly, sat on the jade plate sideways, and asked Ruan Ci to lean in her arms as before, "The maid made a vow, originally didn't know, Young Lady pointed it out, so I can't indulge myself like this anymore."

"Are you a wish cultivator?" Ruan Ci became curious. "I only saw instrument cultivators in Tan City, um, and a miscellaneous cultivator, who is a law cultivator who practices closed-mouth Zen."

Instrument cultivators don't need to say more, that is, to entrust all their cultivation to their own magic treasure. The so-called law cultivator is to set various harsh restrictions for themselves. If they can really do it, the cultivation path that advances because of this is "true outside and separate transmission". Wang Panpan told Ruan Ci about wish cultivators. Wish cultivators are somewhat similar to law cultivators. They also have to make a harsh wish. If the wish comes true, their cultivation will advance a big step, but the difference is that wish cultivators need a certain opportunity. For example, Ruan Ci, she can set a law to kill all mortals in Langhuan Zhou Tian, and then she can break into the Grotto-Heaven. This is something an individual can do. But if she set "kill everyone in Langhuan Zhou Tian", because it includes cultivators, if there is no cooperation from the other party, she has no possibility of doing it, that is a big macro-wish.

The feedback of macro-wishes is greater, but of course it is more difficult. Few people specialize in macro-wishes. Most of them are true cultivation-oriented, and then make macro-wishes. However, even if the method of making a wish is simple and casual, very few cultivators fulfill it. After all, the feedback given at the time of making the wish will not exceed the level of their own cultivation, and after making the wish, until the wish is fulfilled, the cultivation will not advance. Law cultivators don't have this restriction. Most of them are goals set by true cultivators for themselves. During this period, cultivation can still grow, but the feedback has to wait until the law is completed, and it cannot be predicted how much feedback will be given.

"The maid is still a true cultivator, just made a macro-wish when she was young and ignorant," Lin Ji sighed, "The maid wished to become a human."

Ruan Ci was stunned and asked, "Is it to transform into a human?"

"If there are loopholes to drill, it's not called a macro-wish." Lin Ji said gloomily, "Even if it is reborn, transformed into a human, as long as the heart doesn't think it is a human, it doesn't count. If the primordial spirit is not a human shape, it doesn't count. If there is a trace of not being a human, it still doesn't count."

She smiled at Ruan Ci and said, "Thanks to Ci Young Lady for pointing it out, I am more like a human today."

Ruan Ci also opened her eyes, thinking in her heart, "Sure enough, apprenticing still has to be apprenticed into the Sheng Sect. I worked as an assistant in Tan City for two years, and saw only Qi Condensation cultivators, and the stories I heard were all the same. As soon as I arrived at the Shangqing Sect, I heard such interesting things. The life of a mermaid must be very long. Lin Ji hasn't made any progress for more than a thousand years, and her lifespan seems to be very long."

While talking, the group arrived at the pier. Ruan Ci didn't want to show off too much, so Lin Ji ordered the maid to go to the market to shop, and she put on a veil to find the old shopkeeper to break the contract.

She didn't return all night, and everyone in the firm was worried. Hearing Ruan Ci say that she was favored by a Sheng Sect manager in the Central Continent and wanted to work in their sect, they all had mixed feelings. In front of Lin Ji, they didn't dare to say it was bad, but they were still regretting for her, secretly telling Ruan Ci to do it for a while, and then find an excuse to resign, it would be better to be a disciple of the Tai Bai Sword Sect.

Ruan Ci thanked them all, asked the old shopkeeper to leave a few words for Dong Shuangcheng, and went to the accounting room to hold Wang Panpan. Wang Panpan appeared at this time, sleeping soundly on a stack of account books. Ruan Ci tucked it under her ribs, and it seemed to be unaware, still sleeping. Lin Ji stood far away. After the two left the firm, after thinking about it, she still walked up with courage and hooked its chin with her finger.

Wang Panpan yawned, Lin Ji was scared and ran away a few steps. Ruan Ci smiled, "Lin Ji sister, you don't have to force yourself, there are many people who are afraid of cats."

Lin Ji forced a smile, "Although that is the case, I know in my heart why I am afraid of cats."

Ruan Ci put Wang Panpan into her arms and kept a certain distance from Lin Ji. Lin Ji was very grateful. The two talked and laughed. Although it was only a day, they became much closer. When they returned to the pier, the maids had also bought many things in the market. The group went back in a mighty way. On the way, Lin Ji whispered to Ruan Ci, "Ci Young Lady, I see that you are very curious about miscellaneous cultivators. There is a Song Pavilion in the Young Master's Grotto-Heaven, not far from your Xiaohuifeng, and it is also my responsibility to clean it. There are many books in the Song Pavilion, recording many things about miscellaneous cultivators. If you want to see them, just tell me."

Ruan Ci was originally the most curious person. Hearing this, her eyes lit up. Wang Panpan moved in her arms, revealed an eye, glanced at Lin Ji, and then curled herself into a circle, sleeping in Ruan Ci's arms.

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Updated, sorry to keep you waiting. I have to toss the computer today. I don't know if I can update at 12 o'clock, so I put it in the manuscript box first. It seems that the lottery rules were changed yesterday. One can only draw once a month. This month's has already been used a few days ago. In that case, everyone who left a comment in the previous chapter will be sent red envelopes. Wait for me to fix the computer and come to send them.

I have seen everyone's guesses about the old man's identity and the guesses about the fish. Let me explain. Books that use Ruan Ci's perspective to narrate will have a certain ambiguity, because some things she doesn't understand herself now, just making decisions based on instinct and wisdom. Now from Ruan Ci's perspective, Wang Panpan told her to apprentice into the Shangqing Sect, then she met the old man, Wang Panpan didn't come out to stop her, and then she was even more unwilling to see her. The old man said he waited for her for three years (they just came out of Song Guo, the old man went to Tan City, indicating that the old man and Wang Panpan have contact), she walked to the top of the mountain and met Chen Jun taking apprentices. Chen Jun's condition for taking apprentices is almost impossible to complete (the spirit fish can't even be caught by high-level cultivators), the old man gave a task prop (illusion magic treasure), judging from her own logic, she can infer that the old man is from the Shangqing Sect, Chen Jun is just executing the task of taking apprentices, and the condition he gave must be completed by relying on the task prop.

I didn't make these clear in the text, because Ruan Ci is very smart, these are all things she can guess casually, and the old man is a big shot of the Shangqing Sect, this is Ruan Ci's own judgment, but it was mentioned in the text. How to say, because it is a cultivation text, I think everything doesn't have to be written too clearly. If it is written too clearly, there will be no immortal spirit. What do you think???

Also, I saw feedback saying that the number of words in each paragraph is sometimes too much, and it is hard to read on the phone. This is also a question I am thinking about, because I write on the computer, the number of words in each paragraph on the computer is just right, but sometimes I also feel that when I read the text on the phone, it seems that one or two sentences in a paragraph are more comfortable to read.

Ah, speaking of which, I put it in the manuscript box. I ate a corn this morning, and the fruit corn now is really crispy and sweet and delicious.

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Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 27 =====

Thank you all very much for your support; I will continue to work hard!