If the Thousand Demon Ridge found out that Chen Yu was a disciple of the Crimson Blood Sect, they would surely attack him from multiple angles.
“What are you saying, Brother Lu? Your achievements only honor us. People have been jealous of people who are better than them since time immemorial. Does that mean we should never be better? Of course not. Don’t worry, I promise I won’t bring shame upon the sect.”
The next day, Chen Yu left before the sun even rose. He received some Spirit Stones and Spirit Pills from Shui Yuan before taking his leave.
Lu Ye and Hua Ci were the only two people who came to see him off not because Chen Yu was disliked within the sect—on the contrary, he was extremely close with most of them because he used to manage the neighboring bazaar—but because they did not want the start of his journey to be marred by sorrow.
After all, there was no telling what would happen in the future. Either he would return in triumph and glory, or he would die.
The disciples of top-tier sects were noble, were they not? And yet they too must leave their nest and pit themselves against the world to grow stronger.
All cultivators were unpolished gems at the beginning. Only through polishing could they have a wonderful life. A dream was just the desire to have wings. Only through hard work could one’s wings truly grow the strength to fly.
Chen Yu was the second Crimson Blood Sect disciple to step out of the Outpost after Lu Ye. In the future, there would be more spreading to every corner of the battlefield like seeds.
“I’m planning to pay Mount Ying a visit.”
Hua Ci spoke up suddenly as they walked together in the breeze of dawn.
“Huh? What for?”
“To pick something up.”
“I’ll come with you.”
Hua Ci shook her head. “You won’t be able to follow me there.”
Lu Ye turned to examine her profile for a moment. The wind had blown a few strands of hair out of place, but it only gave her a laid-back kind of beauty.
“Remember the time you asked me where I learned to plant my mushrooms?”
Lu Ye had, in fact, asked this question before. In the past, he didn’t think too deeply into it because his cultivation was weak, and his understanding of the Cultivation World was acceptable at best. However, he was now knowledgeable enough to claim that Hua Ci’s technique was unusual despite her argument that medicine cultivators were perfectly capable of killing as well.
A medicine cultivator’s main focus was to help the sick and save lives. While some medicine cultivators were combat capable because they had cultivated another Way, clearly that wasn’t the case for Hua Ci. Not only that, he had never seen or heard anyone who used a technique that was even remotely similar to hers.
That she had started as an independent cultivator only deepened the mystery.
“I once received the inheritance of a medicine cultivator. Long story short, those techniques are all part of the inheritance.”
“And that inheritance is at Mount Ying?”
“It’s nearby.”
Lu Ye nodded. That explained everything.
In the Spirit Creek Battlefield, it wasn’t unusual for someone to receive the inheritance of a late cultivator. In fact, the entire Spirit Creek Battlefield was rife with such opportunities. While most people might never encounter such boons even if they searched for a lifetime, for some, it was almost as if the inheritance had been waiting for them.
Generally speaking, those who received an inheritance all had a bright future.
Lu Ye was once mistaken to have received a Glyphweaver’s inheritance from the Spirit Creek Battlefield. While it was true that the inheritance belonged to a Glyphweaver, he had not received it at the Spirit Creek Battlefield.
“Is it dangerous?”
“A little.”
“Then there’s no hurry. I’ll be entering the Core Circle in a bit. I’ll contact a Core Circle sect and send both you and Feng Yue there. Both of you are combat-averse medicine cultivators, so you might as well skip the Inner Circle and enter the Core Circle directly. You can head there after your cultivation is stronger.”
Medicine cultivators earned their Contribution Points by healing others, not killing enemies. As a result, most of them were incapable of slaying enemies in battle.
For example, if someone in the Crimson Blood Sect was hurt, and a medicine cultivator treated them, the Legate or the prolegate could reward them with a certain amount of Contribution Points.
Besides that, they could also earn Contribution Points by completing special missions that were issued by the sect.
Hua Ci tilted her head at him. “Are you worried that I will die out there, hmm?”
“Of course!” Lu Ye looked right back at her.
Hua Ci wasn’t expecting such a frank and serious answer. Flustered, she hurriedly withdrew her gaze.
Lu Ye wasn’t done though. He abruptly walked up to her and grabbed her hands.
Hua Ci’s eyes widened like saucers as she looked at Lu Ye in shock. She tried to pull them out to no avail.
“You’re not allowed to put yourself in danger.”
“Let go!”
“Promise me you won’t put yourself in danger, and I will.”
“I’m going to scream.”
“Sure, go for it. Let’s see how loud you can really scream.”
“I really am going to scream!” Hua Ci sucked in a deep breath and acted like she was going to scream. In the end though, Lu Ye’s nonchalant gaze convinced her that it would be a futile effort.
“Fine. If you like my hands so much, then you can hold them for as long as you want. It would be a good opportunity to show your junior brothers and sisters their fifth senior brother’s true face anyway.”
Hua Ci started staring into Lu Ye’s eyes with an impish smile on her face. Lu Ye stared right back while maintaining their current posture. For a while, the duo kept looking into each other’s eyes within an arm’s reach, waiting for the other person to break first…
The glimmers of dawn grew more and more powerful as the sun peeked out of the mountains. It wouldn’t be long before the slumbering Outpost regained its vitality.
“You do not understand the ways of a medicine cultivator. I could be a Cloud River Realm cultivator, and that place will still be as dangerous.”
“Then don’t go.”
“I cannot agree to that.”
“It looks like I won’t be able to change your mind.”