The Martial Saint Started from Scavenging

Shen Qingqiu's warning came true. Although Du Qiang and his men no longer dared to openly rob Ye Sheng, they resorted to even more insidious methods.

For example, the area Ye Sheng cleans every day is always "unexpectedly" filled with several times more scalding hot, freshly made alchemical residue; the clean water he brings to clean his tools is often replaced with corrosive alchemical furnace waste liquid; even the clothes he hangs out to dry are torn to shreds by vicious dogs that appear out of nowhere.

These despicable acts annoyed Ye Sheng to no end, but they also made him completely calm down. Anger was useless, so he could only endure it.

Since he and Ye Kai had just arrived at the Qingyun Sword Sect and were not yet familiar with the sect's situation, if they rashly took action to eliminate those three people, it might attract the attention of other members of the sect.

After all, the Qingyun Sword Sect is different from the martial arts guilds of secular dynasties, nor is it a mysterious assassin organization like the Blood Pact Merchant Guild; it is a genuine immortal cultivation sect.

Within the sect, there are countless cultivators with spiritual roots, far surpassing the martial artists of the mortal world.

These cultivators, in the eyes of mortals and martial artists, may all grow into extraordinary immortals who transcend the mundane and wield immense power, possessing supreme divine abilities, and even attain enlightenment and ascend to become immortals.

Although Ye Sheng has now reached the peak of the entry-level martial artist realm, he is still a mortal at heart. In front of cultivators, he is nothing more than an ant.

Therefore, Ye Sheng ignored the harassment from Du Qiang and others, and continued to work in the abandoned alchemy room before dawn every day.

Seeing that he was submissive, Du Qiang and the others assumed that he was a weakling who had been helped by Senior Sister Shen by chance. Their mockery and harassment intensified, and they even spread lewd rumors about Senior Sister Shen "taking a liking" to him in front of the other servants.

Ye Sheng kept everything in mind, yet his face remained calm. Like a rock, he stood firm against the storms, devoting all his time and energy to scavenging, cultivating, and caring for his younger brother.

Three months later, Ye Kai's condition gradually stabilized. He was no longer in a coma and his mind was much clearer. However, he was still weak and unable to get out of bed for the time being.

That evening, Ye Sheng, as usual, carried the freshly brewed medicine into the small house. Ye Kai was leaning against the headboard, flipping through "Fengwu Zhi" by the dim light from the window.

When the two brothers fled from Shuilongdu, Ye Kai casually took this ancient book left by their father with him, because he knew that his elder brother liked to read this book.

"Brother, you're back."

"Okay, drink your medicine." Ye Sheng handed over the bowl of medicine.

Ye Kai took the bowl, but didn't drink it immediately. Instead, he pointed to a half-dead potted plant in the corner of the bedside table, his little face full of confusion, and said, "Brother, look at that flower."

It was an unknown wildflower. When Ye Sheng first arrived here, he specially dug it up from the hillside behind the house to add some life to the room.

The land near the abandoned alchemy room was barren and the air was polluted. The flowers had long since withered, leaving only a bare, yellowish-brown stem with all the leaves gone, and it seemed as if it would die completely at any moment.

Ye Sheng glanced at it and said dismissively, "So what if it's withered? I'll dig up some new ones for you in a couple of days."

"No." Ye Kai shook his head, his clear eyes filled with surprise. "Brother, look closely, it seems to have come back to life."

Ye Sheng was taken aback upon hearing this, and upon closer inspection, his pupils contracted slightly.

At the very top of the bare flower stem, a tender green bud had indeed sprouted.

That touch of green stood out starkly in the dilapidated little house, yet it was full of tenacious vitality.

"This..." Ye Sheng was also surprised. He remembered that the potted plant hadn't been watered for several days and had long since withered and died. How could it suddenly come back to life?

He reached out and gently touched the new green shoots; a faint yet pure vitality slowly flowed from his fingertips.

Ye Sheng's heart stirred, and he suddenly realized something.

He glanced at Ye Kai, then looked at the potted flower, and an extremely bold and almost absurd idea suddenly formed in his mind.

"Brother, have you been placing your hand near this flowerpot often these past few days?"

Ye Kai thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes. I get bored lying down, so I move it to the head of my bed and sometimes I touch its stem."

really!

Ye Sheng's heart suddenly pounded wildly. He thought to himself: The Dao Calamity Body devours Yin Sha and reverses life force! Could it be that his younger brother's physique can not only devour those Yin Sha ghosts, but also transform the "death energy" and "evil energy" in the surrounding environment into the purest "life force"?

In fact, just as Ye Sheng guessed, this abandoned alchemy room area was shrouded in alchemical poison and malevolent energy all year round, making it a deadly place for ordinary spiritual plants.

However, for this dying wildflower, when the leaves bloomed beside it, the deadly "poison" around it became a "medicine" that nourished it!

To verify his conjecture, Ye Sheng immediately rushed out of the hut and dug up a withered plant from the poisonous soil contaminated by the elixir outside, placing it by Ye Kai's bedside.

For the next two days, Ye Sheng stayed by Ye Kai's side almost every step of the way, observing him closely.

The miracle happened again.

The plant, which had been completely dead, miraculously sprouted new green shoots from its withered branches the following evening, just like the wildflower in the pot.

"Hahaha……"

Looking at the new green shoots, Ye Sheng could no longer contain his joy and couldn't help but laugh. He felt as if he had discovered an unprecedented treasure.

This is not some "Dao Calamity Body" that devours Yin energy; it is clearly a "Creation Body" that stimulates vitality!

His younger brother was his biggest trump card, and also the greatest reliance for the two brothers to establish themselves in the Qingyun Sword Sect and even soar to great heights!

No wonder Yun Zhonghe wanted to possess his younger brother during the Bewitching Crossing, and even boasted that he could transform this "Dao Calamity" physique into his supreme divine power.

Ye Shengqiang suppressed his excitement and began to calmly consider how to make good use of his younger brother as a trump card.

Can we directly use Ye Kai's creative abilities to cultivate spiritual plants and sell them for money?

No, it's too conspicuous. Once exposed, the two brothers will immediately become the target of everyone's hatred, and their fate will be even more miserable than being hunted down by the Blood Pact Merchant Guild.

We must come up with a more covert and secure method.

After a moment's thought, Ye Sheng's gaze finally settled on his hands, which had become rough from scavenging through pill residue all day long.

He could scavenge in the abandoned alchemy rooms, collecting withered or dying spiritual plant roots that alchemists had discarded like worn-out shoes. Then, with Ye Kai's "creation" ability, he would "revive" them. Afterward, based on the properties of various materials extracted from the alchemy residue, he would classify these revived spiritual plants and refine them into different pills. Finally, he would take them to the unwritten "underground black market" among the menial disciples for trading.

In this way, Ye Kai's abilities can be perfectly concealed, and his three skills of "scavenging", "herb identification" and "alchemy" can be integrated to form a perfect closed loop that can create sustainable value!

The plan was bold and audacious, but Ye Sheng's eyes blazed with excitement.

Without further ado, Ye Sheng sneaked into the abandoned pill room that night after the other servants had fallen asleep.

This time, his target was no longer the residue of pills or fragments of ore, but rather the roots and stems of spiritual plants that were discarded as waste.

The night in the abandoned alchemy room was even more eerie and terrifying than the daytime. A few eerie green phosphorescent flames occasionally flickered from the pile of alchemical residue, and the pungent smell in the air grew increasingly strong.

Fortunately, Ye Sheng had internal energy protecting him, allowing him to move freely through the area.

He pushed his perception of the "scavenging" skill to its limit, and soon sensed an extremely weak but exceptionally pure wood-attribute energy at the foot of a mountain of dregs that had collapsed half a month ago.

He immediately began digging. After digging about half a foot deep, a section of plant root, only the thickness of a thumb, completely black and almost carbonized, came into view.

The root appeared to be completely dead, its surface covered with cracks, crumbling at the slightest touch. Yet, Ye Sheng clearly sensed a faint trace of life within its core.

[Skill Panel Feedback: The main root of the dying spirit plant "Centennial Green Vine" has been detected, with residual wood-attribute spiritual energy.]

A century-old green vine!

Ye Sheng's breathing suddenly became rapid. This was a genuine spiritual plant, and a hundred years old at that! Although it was on the verge of death, as long as there was a glimmer of hope, it would be enough for him!

Immediately, he carefully held the root in his palm, as if he had found a treasure, and was overjoyed: his plan had officially begun from this moment on.