Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

A figure slowly emerged beside him.

"it's over?"

"It's over," he replied indifferently, without even turning to look at the other person.

But the other person seemed very interested in him and asked curiously, "What was written in that letter?"

"Some farewell words."

He turned his head away in displeasure, staring intently at the other person: "What? Can't I even say goodbye to my mentor?"

"of course can."

The other person grinned: "I'm just doing my job, after all..."

“You are destined to become a legend. You hold the future of the Emperor Pavilion in your hands. I cannot allow you to make the slightest mistake.”

"The future...?"

King Gu shook his head mockingly and laughed.

62. Lilies and dogs are not allowed.

"Oh~ that really is..."

Inside the deserted shop, the spacious hall, enhanced by a spatial array, appeared quite grand.

The unshaven middle-aged man sat on a dilapidated wooden bench, the gourd at his waist swaying twice, his index finger and thumb carefully touching the plant with a delicate crimson hue in his hand.

His eyes, red from drunkenness, narrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"I didn't expect these Blood Blue Roots to be so old. You're really lucky."

The black-haired girl sitting directly opposite the middle-aged man, holding a small brown curly-haired dog in her arms, blinked in surprise.

"Very long ago?"

"It means it's of very high quality." The uncle accepted the precious Blood Blue Roots while looking curiously at the girl named Zhang Ruoxue in front of him: "Speaking of which, where did you get these Blood Blue Roots? Such pure Blood Blue Roots are hard to find, and judging from the feel, they are at least three hundred years old."

Three hundred years?!

Zhang Ruoxue herself was somewhat frightened. As a cultivator, she naturally knew what the age of a spiritual plant meant.

When she was in Lei Yu Sect, she did consume quite a few spiritual plants, but most of them were five-year-old ones—which were considered relatively expensive luxuries. She did use ten-year-old spiritual plants, but the opportunity was very rare.

So when she learned that the boss needed a hundred-year-old Blood Orchid Root, she really thought he was playing a trick on her.

After all, a hundred-year-old spiritual plant is extremely rare for her.

"Hmm, not bad."

The shop owner didn't react much to this.

“Compared to this—” His gaze shifted to Xu Yanliu beside Zhang Ruoxue, who seemed somewhat sullen and had started drinking alone. He pursed his lips and said, “I’m talking about Xiao Liu…”

"What? You old geezer."

Xu Yanliu's tone towards her father was clearly not kind.

The boss was already used to this, and helplessly spread his hands: "It's nothing, I just wanted to ask you, when you encountered this girl, there shouldn't have been any danger, right? It seems there's been news of Devouring Demons again recently."

Xu Yanliu pursed her lips, propped her chin up with one hand, and poured herself a drink from her gourd with the other: "I didn't encounter any Devouring Demons, but instead ran into a bunch of lunatics."

"Crazy"—this clearly refers to the group from the Jin Yao Dao Alliance.

The boss's face darkened slightly: "I'm telling you, you're a grown man, you should avoid causing trouble if you can. You didn't have any conflict with the other party, did you?"

"Whether it's there or not is none of your business, right?"

Xu Yanliu downed the drink in her glass in one gulp, staring at the boss with hostility: "Even if I cause trouble, I will handle it myself and will definitely not involve you. You can rest assured about that. Even if I find you, you can distance yourself from me and protect yourself."

The moment the words "protect yourself wisely" were uttered, the boss's expression changed drastically.

However, he did not show any anger. On the contrary, a trace of guilt slowly appeared in his eyes as he looked at Xu Yanliu.

"Xiao Liu, you..."

"Stop talking."

Xu Yanliu rudely interrupted her father.

She seemed completely indifferent to her father, her gaze lingering on the boss for only a few seconds before she turned her head away, a hint of anger in her eyes.

"You're going to use herbs to help Ruoxue strengthen her body, right? Now that the high-quality Blood Blue Root has arrived, shouldn't you start?"

"Ah...this..."

Zhang Ruoxue also realized what was happening, her eyes sparkling as she excitedly looked at the boss: "That's right, boss, can I start training my body now?!"

Body training...

Come to think of it, I do seem to have said that.

—But that was actually something I said to get Zhang Ruoxue to do the hard work for me… If I really wanted to strengthen my body… this amount of medicinal herbs wouldn’t be enough!

The boss immediately put on a fawning smile and looked at Zhang Ruoxue with deep apology.

"Hey girl, don't rush things. We need to take it slow with body training."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yanliu suddenly stopped pouring the wine.

Zhang Ruoxue frowned and asked bluntly, "Why?"

"To put it bluntly, your current physique is just an ordinary one. If you want to refine it further, you'll need a lot of medicinal herbs. As you know, everything is difficult at the beginning, and taking that first step is the hardest. So, these medicinal herbs aren't enough..."

"Not enough?" Zhang Ruoxue's mind was too muddled to comprehend all the right and wrong, and she immediately jumped up from the stool: "If it's not enough, I'll go pick more!"

This act of volunteering took the boss by surprise.

—This girl…is really useful.

A wicked smile flashed across the boss's face: "In that case, I'll trouble you to help me..."

Before he could finish speaking...

"Seven spring herbs, three flying thunder fruits, four bundles of wild fire grass, half a Yue ginseng, seventeen small moon fruits..."

The names of various medicinal herbs came out of Xu Yanliu's mouth.

There were dozens of kinds, and Xu Yanliu did not stop at all during the whole process, as if she was so familiar with these herbs that she could not be more familiar with them.

She slowly shifted her disgruntled gaze to the sweating shopkeeper, looking at him with a somber expression: "I don't believe you don't have these things in your herb storeroom."

"I..." The shopkeeper blinked awkwardly and turned his head away. "Well, we used to have some, but recently, the inventory is a bit low. Some of the more important herbs have already been sold..."

"Sell?"

Xu Yanliu almost burst out laughing: "You're talking nonsense. With your shabby pharmacy, it's questionable whether you've even had more than ten customers in the last ten years. And you still want to sell?"

At this point, Xu Yanliu's tone suddenly became extremely heavy, as if she were interrogating a criminal—

"You wouldn't expect Ruoxue to do all the hard work and dig up herbs for you, would you?"

Hit the target!

The boss's expression suddenly changed. The moment his daughter saw through him, even the most seasoned veteran couldn't quite handle it.

After hearing Xu Yanliu's words, our Ruoxue finally became suspicious and stared at the boss, who looked somewhat flustered.

"Uncle, is what she said really true?"

—That's absolutely true.

But how could he possibly say such a thing!

"Um..." He gasped, realizing he could no longer use Zhang Ruoxue as a laborer, and resigned himself to his fate: "I... I forgot, hahaha... Our little Liu'er has such a good memory, I almost forgot I had so many medicines in my medicine storeroom, hahaha..."

—A very awkward yet polite smile.

Xu Yanliu snorted coldly. How could she not see through her father's little scheme?

"Alright, stop grinning like an idiot and hurry up and help Ruoxue with her body training." She glanced at her father's face, which clearly showed his heartache, and smiled faintly: "You promised her you would help her, didn't you?"

"That's right..."

The boss sighed silently.

Body training—that's no easy task.

Especially someone like Zhang Ruoxue, who was originally just an ordinary mortal with no elemental constitution, and whose flames were only indirectly used through the arm armor artifact on her arm, as her own spiritual essence contained no elements.

If such a mortal body were to be tempered, the amount of medicinal herbs required would be astronomical.

Blood Blue Root? That's just one important part of it.

If this were to truly help Zhang Ruoxue temper her physical body, his reserves would be reduced by at least half.

Those were medicinal herbs he had painstakingly saved up...

It hurts so much, it hurts like hell.

Seeing the boss's reluctant expression, Zhang Ruoxue silently clenched her fists: "I will never forget the kindness of helping me with my body training this time! If there are any problems in the future, I will do my best to help you!"

"Okay, okay, thank you so much."

The boss waved his hand weakly, then glanced at Zhang Ruoxue, whose cultivation level was only at the peak of the Transformation Realm.

This little girl actually wants to help me...

Alas, at this age, his cultivation level is still only so-so, and he has no elemental physique whatsoever. Although his magic weapon is strange, it doesn't look particularly outstanding, and he has no fortune whatsoever.

Such a person, perhaps, will only ever amount to this in the end?

future?

He didn't think that a cultivator like Zhang Ruoxue, who had no talent, no fortune, and no wealth, would achieve anything in the future.

Even if we help her strengthen her body, it might only help her break through the bottleneck of "ordinary" slightly?

Thinking about it that way, it really is a waste.

"Alright, go upstairs and wait in the third room from the left. I'll get some herbs and come right away."

However, under the intimidation of his own daughter, he had to do it no matter how wasteful it was.

There was nothing he could do; Xu Yanliu was his daughter, and besides, he really was...