Chapter 90: Future Development

Su Lin recalled the thoughts he had when he first came into contact with cultivation.

'Longevity!'

'Carefree wandering!'

'No more damn work for me!'

He had thought about cultivation, but had never thought about founding a sect; strictly speaking, he had never truly wanted to found a sect.

His earlier idea for a "spiritual energy resurgence" storyline was also just to casually find some tools, or use a proxy account to teach them a bit, pass down some techniques, and let them develop on their own.

Simply put, he wanted to be a hands-off boss, not personally devote himself to the sect's development day in and day out.

This roster, in a certain sense, was very luxurious!

But... but...

It was just like when you're having a great time playing, and the next day they tell you school's starting — oh, and you're the principal, so you can't just lie flat; you have to worry about the enrollment rate.

One option is longevity and carefree wandering across the myriad realms; the other is a white-haired old sect leader worn down by managing everything.

Of course, it wasn't actually that exaggerated, but suddenly having a few extra things to do left him a bit unaccustomed. Su Lin's Early Golden Core Stage brain was spinning furiously, thinking how to offload the burden of being a sect leader to the maximum extent the contract allowed.

"Old Su, you're already awake?"

Ye Fan stood up from the ground, brushing the dust off his body with his hand.

Ding—

He flicked a finger against the jade bottle; the sound was crisp, the texture wasn't bad, and there was still some wine clinging to the inner wall — no sense wasting it, he'd go back later, get some spiritual spring water, rinse it out, and give it to Blackie to drink.

Why are there five extra peaks in the sky? What is Su Lin up to now? Ye Fan was a bit puzzled.

Why does it feel like one of those peaks has some kind of connection with him? Ye Fan was very puzzled.

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan rubbed his eyes as he got up from the ground, saw Yao Lao chatting with Zhongli and Su Lin, and greeted them.

"Good morning, Teacher."

"Morning, Old Su, Old Zhong, Old Ye."

Sensing the movement beside them, the others also gradually woke from their dreams one after another.

Han Li looked at the wine bottle in his arms; he still had some impression of yesterday's events — he seemed to have seen Nan Gong Wan, and then had hugged her in his arms.

Feeling the spiritual energy within his body, as well as his strengthened flesh, he shook his head.

'The wine is good wine, but it's best to drink alone in a place with no one around.'

'Too undignified.'

'Good thing the others are probably about the same.'

Han Li guessed silently.

Miss Kelaien retracted the tentacles on his face, returning to his normal appearance, and felt that his spirituality had been enhanced.

"Old Su, what are you spacing out over there for?" Ye Fan walked over; having eaten and drunk his fill, he figured it was about time to leave and wanted to let Su Lin know.

"This is..."

He walked to Su Lin's side and glanced at the scroll in Su Lin's hand.

And so, another person joined the silent, motionless group.

"Anything good?" Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow, and with a flash of lightning executed Three Thousand Lightning Movement to cross a short distance.

"Let me see~."

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan leaned his head over to look.

But the next moment, his entire person was struck with silence, frozen in place.

"What is it?" Miss Kelaien scratched his head, then snapped his fingers, and a flame leapt over to the group.

Han Li looked at the few people ahead standing perfectly still, showed a strange expression, and glanced at Zhongli sipping tea beside him.

Zhongli exchanged a glance with him.

"Elder Han, care for a cup of tea?"

"Elder Han..."

A few fragments flashed through Han Li's mind — it seemed to be the scene of Su Lin, under the blessing of Heaven's Will, sweeping aside the clouds and overlooking the city buildings below together with everyone.

And the scene of himself under a pedestrian overpass, holding a copy of the Blue Origin Sword Art, saying something to passersby.

Blue Origin Sword Art?

He glanced at his storage pouch — fortunately still there — and stepped forward to see what everyone was looking at.

The others also walked over to gather around.

Then, Han Li also fell silent.

The weather was clear; atop Water Mirror Peak, aside from the sound of Zhongli turning pages, all was quiet.

Until Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan was the first to break the calm.

"Sect Leader..."

"What is it, Elder Xiao." Su Lin felt his voice was a bit dry.

"It actually seems kind of interesting."

"Are you serious?" Su Lin was a bit speechless.

"But where would I find the time to teach disciples?" Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan shook his head.

"At least wait until I've reached Great Saint before I start teaching people." Ye Fan looked up at the floating peaks in the sky, seemingly wondering which one was his Beidou Peak.

Then he glanced at Weigong Shilang — this kid's eyes were already twitching.

Weigong Shilang muttered: "Inventory... sect inventory..."

"I'm afraid we'll indeed have to take it slow." Han Li spoke up: "After this wouldn't be impossible, but for now our cultivation still needs to be improved."

"I don't really mind." Miss Kelaien said: "But this year probably won't work, because the flow of time in your world is about to synchronize with the flow of time in mine."

"At least wait until you're no longer an administrator."

"Then let's leave it here for now, we'll talk later." Su Lin said as he was about to return the scroll to the system space, "For now, let's pretend nothing happened."

"Hold on."

A hand reached out and grabbed Su Lin's wrist.

Unexpectedly, it was Lu Mingfei.

"What is a tourist.." Lu Mingfei looked at Su Lin, his eyes vacant, "What is a tourist?"

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Su Lin patted Lu Mingfei's shoulder, nodded, gave a thumbs-up, with an encouraging expression.

"Keep it up."

"Why am I the only tourist?!" Lu Mingfei's expression was somewhat crumbling, wearing a face that said he was being ostracized by everyone.

"Pfft."

"Who laughed?! Who just laughed?!" Lu Mingfei went berserk.

"Alright." Su Lin soothed Lu Mingfei a bit, and said gently: "Because you really don't know how to do anything."

"You don't know how to do anything…"

"Don't know anything…"

"Don't know anything at all…"

Lu Mingfei weakly let go of Su Lin's hand, and the skills he had mastered flashed through his mind.

It seemed that, indeed, besides StarCraft and shooting games, he didn't have much to show off.

His cultivation was only at the late stage of Qi Refining.

No, even so, I do have something to show off.

"I have one!"

After Su Lin put away the contract, Lu Mingfei raised his head and said: "My Word Spirit, Don't Die!"

"If disciples don't spar with real swords and blades, how can they experience the cruelty of the Cultivation Realm!"

"The Cultivation Realm is always accompanied by slaughter."

"With me here, they can spar without holding back. As long as they still have one breath left, I can bring them back." Lu Mingfei said proudly, patting his chest.

Su Lin's gaze sharpened; he felt Lu Mingfei's words made a lot of sense, impossible to refute.

"Are those mountain peaks prepared for us?" Ye Fan asked.

"Probably…" Su Lin roughly guessed where his points had been spent.

"Let me go take a look!" Ye Fan flew toward the mountain peak connected to him.

"I'll go take a look too." Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan used his flying Dou Technique and flew toward Sky Fire Peak.

Su Lin ignored Lu Mingfei, whose eyes were full of anticipation as he stared at Su Lin, turned his head away, and changed the subject: "Cultivate well, Elder Lu of the future."

After Su Lin finished speaking, he transformed into a streak of light and vanished. Joking around, one peak costs over two thousand!

"Where's my mountain peak?"

(End of chapter)