Chapter 2822: Master, absolutely not!

At this time, all of Lin Wan'er's thoughts were focused on the seedling in front of her. She knelt on the ground, watching the seedling without blinking, her face full of excitement.

And Ye Chen, who was standing on the side, looked at the emerald green seedling, and he was nothing but confused.

Ye Chen felt that his brain circuit was not enough.

He couldn't understand at all why all traces of rain disappeared after a heavy rain.

The nine-year compulsory education he had received made him have only four words in his mind at this moment: this is unscientific.

Or six words, this is fucking unscientific.

He looked at his whole body, reached out from the top of his head to his chest, then from his chest to his back, then from his back to his ankles, and even couldn't control taking off his shoes and reaching into his shoes to touch for a long time.

However, the places his fingers touched were very dry, without any traces of being rained on.

Lin Wan'er was the same.

Ye Chen clearly remembered that Lin Wan'er's hair was stuck to her cheeks because of being drenched by the heavy rain just now, which was somewhat embarrassed.

And the trendy T-shirt she was wearing also clearly showed the traces of her underwear because it was wet.

But now, her oversized T-shirt didn't even have a wrinkle, let alone water stains.

"It's really fucking strange!" Ye Chen muttered to himself.

Immediately, he asked Lin Wan'er again, "Miss Lin, it did rain just now, right? This shouldn't be my hallucination alone, right?"

Lin Wan'er nodded gently and said softly, "Back to Master, there was indeed a heavy rain just now. I have lived for so many years and have never seen such a big rain."

"That's right." Ye Chen also nodded slightly, then stared at her and asked, "But, where is the rain? Where did it go?"

Lin Wan'er shook her head, "I don't know."

Ye Chen put his hands on his hips and said puzzledly, "This is really unscientific. People say that wild geese leave traces. With such a big rain, how can it disappear without a trace? The soil is not even wet, it's really seeing a ghost..."

Lin Wan'er smiled, "Master cultivates the Dao, and there is a strange woman who has lived for nearly four hundred years in front of you, why are you still obsessed with science?"

Ye Chen said seriously, "I think the Dao can also be explained by science. It's just that the current level of technology hasn't mastered the principles. Spiritual energy is just a higher-level energy, just like atomic energy. When people didn't master it, they also thought it was incredible. Presumably at that time, no one would believe that one kilogram of nuclear fuel would release energy equal to thousands of tons, that is, millions of kilograms of coal. Spiritual energy might be an invisible energy similar to nuclear fuel."

Lin Wan'er smiled and said seriously, "What you said makes sense, Master. Perhaps spiritual energy is, as you said, another higher-level energy that has not been mastered by most people and whose principles have not been studied."

Ye Chen added, "Even spiritual energy must follow the law of conservation of energy, right? It rained so much just now, the rain stopped, the water is still there, this is the conservation of energy, but where did the water go now?"

As he spoke, Ye Chen continued, "Also, my Thunder Command consumed most of the spiritual energy in my body, where did those spiritual energies go?"

Lin Wan'er pointed to the seedling in front of her and said with a smile, "Master's spiritual energy is here! If it weren't for that heavenly thunder of yours, Master, how could the Mother of Pu Tea break the soil and be reborn?"

Ye Chen was stunned and asked her, "Didn't the Mother of Pu Tea turn into charcoal more than three hundred years ago?"

Lin Wan'er nodded and said seriously, "That's true. Back then, I saw her being struck by heavenly thunder into charcoal with my own eyes."

Ye Chen pointed to the seedling and asked, "How do you explain this?"

Lin Wan'er said very seriously, "Master, although the Mother of Pu Tea is just a tree, she is after all a tree that has passed the heavenly tribulation. Although she is not a person, Master, think about it from another perspective. If a person can live to pass the heavenly tribulation, how terrifying must his strength be? Similarly, among the trillions of trees in this world, the Mother of Pu Tea is probably one of the best. Her ability is probably far beyond our imagination."

Ye Chen asked in surprise, "You mean, she has some way to preserve herself after failing the tribulation?"

Lin Wan'er nodded and asked Ye Chen, "Have you ever heard of a loose immortal, Master?"

Ye Chen shook his head subconsciously, "Never heard of it."

Lin Wan'er said, "In the legends about cultivating the Dao, there is such a saying: if you can successfully pass the heavenly tribulation, you will become an immortal. If you fail the tribulation, you will vanish into thin air. But besides this, there is actually another possibility, which is that when failing the tribulation, you can become a loose immortal by dissolving your body. In this way, you can reshape your golden body and regain your cultivation, but you will never have the opportunity to pass the tribulation and ascend in this life."

Ye Chen asked in surprise, "So powerful? Doesn't that mean that as long as the cultivation can be raised to the level of passing the heavenly tribulation, it is equivalent to having a bottom line? If you succeed, you become an immortal, if you fail, you become a loose immortal? Isn't this like the children of state-owned enterprises taking the college entrance examination back then? If you pass, you are a college student. If you don't pass, you have a job in a state-owned enterprise to fall back on. Unemployment will never be your turn."

Lin Wan'er covered her mouth and smiled, saying, "What are you thinking, Master? Let alone whether the legend of the loose immortal is true, even if it is true, the legend also notes that very few people can successfully dissolve their bodies at the critical moment of the tribulation. It is hard to find one in a hundred. The success rate is lower than passing the tribulation. In other words, out of 102 people passing the tribulation, only two can pass the tribulation successfully. Among the other 100 people, 99 are struck into powder by heavenly thunder, and only one can luckily dissolve their body."

As she spoke, Lin Wan'er added, "Since you used the college entrance examination as an analogy, Master, then I will compare all cultivators passing the tribulation to fresh high school graduates. Those who become immortals are basically equivalent to being admitted to Tsinghua or Peking University, or Harvard or Cambridge. As long as they don't pass these top universities, they are in principle eliminated and directly kicked out of the high school campus to be sent to society, and they have no chance to step into the campus in this life;"

"And the loose immortal is the unlucky one whose score in the college entrance examination is only 0.1 points away from the admission line of these top universities. After he becomes a loose immortal, although he has lost the opportunity to go to college in this life, he has one advantage, which is that he is allowed to continue studying;"

"However, he must start from the first grade again and study until the third year of high school; but after studying until the third year of high school, he has to stay in the third year of high school for the rest of his life, live until he is old, study until he is old, and be a third-year high school student for the rest of his life;"

"Master, you can think about it from another perspective. If a person fails the college entrance examination at eighteen, then starts from scratch and studies until the third year of high school, and then stays in the third year of high school until he is one hundred years old, the classmates around him are always a group of eighteen-year-old young people. Either they pass the college entrance examination and leave, or they are sent to society and never see them again. Only he, thunder and lightning can't move him, always staying here. A loose immortal is almost this feeling."

Ye Chen was slightly stunned, gave Lin Wan'er a thumbs up, and sighed, "Miss Lin is indeed intelligent. After chatting with you like this, I basically understand what a loose immortal is."

As he spoke, Ye Chen looked at the seedling again and asked her, "Is Miss Lin sure this is the Mother of Pu Tea?"

Lin Wan'er nodded heavily, "Sure! Her aura is exactly the same as the Mother of Pu Tea. Coupled with the many coincidences just now, I can conclude that this is 100% the Mother of Pu Tea."

Ye Chen nodded slightly and muttered, "If this is really the case, then doesn't it mean that the Mother of Pu Tea has become a loose immortal among trees?"

Lin Wan'er said without hesitation, "It's almost what it means, but the loose immortal is just some rumors I heard before, and I haven't had the opportunity to verify it, so all this is just my inference."

Ye Chen nodded, squatted down beside her, looked at the seedling, and muttered in a daze, "This seedling looks ordinary, nothing amazing, it's just that the tea fragrance is stronger, but I can't feel any spiritual energy at all."

Seeing his doubts, Lin Wan'er said very firmly, "Master, every word I say is true. I believe she must be the Mother of Pu Tea!"

"Tsk..." Ye Chen smacked his lips, nodding to himself while muttering, "There is such a magical thing, it's really unbelievable, unheard of."

As he spoke, he asked Lin Wan'er curiously, "You said it grew so fast just now, why doesn't it grow now?"

Lin Wan'er also looked blank, "Back to Master, I don't know..."

Ye Chen supported his chin with one hand and sighed at the seedling, "Interesting, it's really interesting."

After saying that, he smelled the refreshing tea fragrance, subconsciously reached out and plucked a tender leaf from the seedling, and while putting it in his mouth, muttered, "Let me taste it and see what this awesome tea tree will taste like!"

Seeing him pluck a tender leaf, Lin Wan'er shouted in pain, "Master, absolutely not!"

Before Lin Wan'er's "ah" tail sound was finished, Ye Chen reached out and plucked another one quickly, and handed it directly to her mouth, saying seriously, "It's better to share than to enjoy alone. You taste it too. You have drunk so many of her tea cakes, you must be most familiar with her taste. Taste it and see if it's still that taste."

Lin Wan'er was almost crying, her eyes red, "Even if you eat me, Master, it's better than eating her leaves! She waited for more than three hundred years and just broke the soil today. There are only a dozen tender leaves in total, and two were plucked by you. It's too pitiful..."

"It's okay." Ye Chen said seriously, "Look at her vitality, the plucked leaves will definitely grow back soon. You and I will just treat it as pruning her branches. Doesn't people say that trees won't be straight if they are not pruned?"

Lin Wan'er said aggrievedly, "Master, she just sprouted, how can she be pruned at this time..."

Seeing her eyes red, Ye Chen helplessly handed the two leaves to her and said, "Look, I've already plucked them, and I can't put them back. At most, I'll only pluck these two, and I won't pluck any more. Is that okay?"

Lin Wan'er sighed resentfully and muttered angrily, "Then you taste it yourself, Master, I can't bear it..."