Old Wei and Leng Xingyue conversed by the lotus pond, while Sect Leader Jun released his spiritual sense to eavesdrop.
Not eavesdropping—learning!
As the saying goes, when three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher.
In matters of the heart, Jun Changxiao was like a blank sheet of paper with far too much to learn from Old Wei.
However.
Hearing those nauseating words, he immediately retreated in defeat.
Can’t learn it, can’t learn it!
Sect Leader Jun withdrew his spiritual sense: “Palace Master Xi, please eat more.”
While Old Wei’s heart was hurting terribly over there, you’re telling people to eat more. Comparing the two, what the System said wasn’t without merit—deserves to be single for life!
“Mm.”
Xi Jingxuan nodded gently, savoring the food slowly.
Although the food was truly delicious, she maintained the dignity of a sect leader throughout.
The Miaohua Palace disciples were the same.
At this moment, they really wanted to wolf down all the delicious food, but being women, they had to maintain their modesty and couldn’t let others laugh at them.
After finishing the meal.
Old Wei and Leng Xingyue were still conversing by the pond.
However, the atmosphere had eased considerably.
Jun Changxiao admired him: “Second Elder wanted to kill someone just now, but now she can calm down. Old Wei must have done plenty of sweet-talking.”
“Palace Master Xi.”
Xi Jingxuan said: “When shall we go to Qingyang City?”
“Right now.” Jun Changxiao said.
After eating, finding a nice environment to chat with someone—wouldn’t that be better?
This one is truly beyond help.
Jun Changxiao led Xi Jingxuan and the Miaohua Palace disciples to Qingyang City.
Leng Xingyue temporarily remained at the Tiegu Sect. It seemed she wanted to completely resolve years of emotional entanglement.
……
So many beautiful women in their prime suddenly flooding into Qingyang City brought an enormous visual impact to the city’s residents!
When Xie Guangkun learned that the visitors were from Miaohua Palace and their Palace Master, he hurriedly went to greet them personally, behaving very enthusiastically.
Of course.
In his heart, he also deeply admired Sect Leader Jun!
Even a fourth-rate sect could be invited, and he got them to bring so many disciples and high-level members—what kind of ability was this!
Or perhaps, Sect Leader Jun and Palace Master Xi were already romantically involved?
After properly settling Xi Jingxuan and her disciples, Xie Guangkun smiled and cupped his fists: “Sect Leader Jun, when can Xie drink your wedding wine?”
“Wedding wine?” Jun Changxiao was bewildered.
Xie Guangkun smiled: “You can even invite the Palace Master of Miaohua Palace. The relationship between you two must be just one wedding ceremony away, right?”
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
Jun Changxiao said: “Palace Master Xi and I are just friends.”
Xie Guangkun’s face showed an “I understand” expression, then smiled: “Understood, understood.”
Jun Changxiao knew he had misunderstood but was too lazy to explain, then took his leave and returned to the Tiegu Sect.
The truce still had over a month remaining. He wanted to use this opportunity to cultivate and strive to break through to second-rank.
Although he was a Sword-Martial Dual King with dual spirit cores and his realm advancement was incredibly slow, as long as he achieved substantial improvement, his combat power would skyrocket.
……
Sect Leader Jun had just returned to the sect when Leng Xingyue left with red eyes, the anger that had surrounded her completely dissipated.
One meal, one round trip to Qingyang City.
Old Wei resolved the emotional issue just like that?
Truly an expert!
Jun Changxiao hurriedly went to the medicine garden.
Old Wei was currently sitting in the small pavilion, sighing melancholically while gazing at the heavens.
“Old Wei.”
Jun Changxiao approached: “Are you alright?”
“Ah.”
Old Wei sighed: “I’ve owed too many debts in this lifetime.”
Romantic debts, right?
“Sect Leader.”
Old Wei said: “Is there something you need?”
“Uh……”
Jun Changxiao sat down and said seriously: “This Seat wants to discuss the way of picking up girls with Old Wei.”
“Picking up girls?”
“Uh, the way of flirting with young ladies.”
“Flirting?”
“……Discussing matters of romance between men and women.”
Old Wei understood and shook his head: “What causes the most suffering in this world is romance between men and women. Once you fall into it, there’s no redemption. Why discuss it?”
“If I could be like Old Wei and have that many former lovers, no matter how much suffering, this Seat would be willing to try.” Sect Leader Jun said earnestly.
Old Wei’s mouth twitched: “The Sect Leader still needs to develop the sect. You absolutely cannot be obsessed with romance.”
Damn!
As a sect leader, must this Seat be lonely for life?
“Moreover.”
Old Wei continued: “If emotional matters aren’t handled properly, there will be endless troubles.”
This was absolutely the most valuable experience from someone who’d been there.
Hearing him say it so seriously, Sect Leader Jun felt somewhat apprehensive and gave up on learning the way of picking up girls. He returned to the main topic and inquired about recent medicinal materials.
The herbs for Qi Gathering Pills and Wushi Pills had been successively refined in considerable quantities.
With the continuous supply of Heaven and Earth attributes, the spiritual power contained in the herbs was also getting stronger batch by batch.
“Sect Leader.”
Old Wei stood at an empty plot outside the medicine garden: “I plan to continue expanding the medicine garden to plant more herbs.”
“You may.”
Jun Changxiao approved.
During this period, Sun Bukong and other Medicine Hall members, under Old Wei’s careful guidance, had gained considerable planting experience and could maintain a larger medicine garden together without any problems.
Of course.
Sect Leader Jun wouldn’t always plant only the herbs needed for Qi Gathering Pills and Wushi Pills. After expansion, he would also plant more varieties to prepare for the future in advance.
……
Returning from the medicine garden, Jun Changxiao first cultivated in the Spirit Gathering Formation for two hours, then trained one hour each on the first, second, and third floors of the Training Tower.
Night fell.
He returned to his study and found Little Dragon curled up in his little nest, already asleep.
“Don’t tell me he’s hibernating again?”
Jun Changxiao muttered while opening the mid-tier shop.
He hadn’t looked at the System shop in quite some time. Last time after refreshing, he hadn’t finished looking through everything. When contribution points overflowed, he just hastily bought a bottle of beginner-grade spirit medicine.
“Are there any other good items?”
Jun Changxiao continued scrolling down. The result was disappointing—nothing worth buying.
“Still over 4,000 contribution points left. Let’s try refreshing once more.”
Saying this, he scrolled down forcefully.
“Ding! Sect Contribution Points: 4544/5000.”
The items in the shop were replaced again. Jun Changxiao looked through them carefully until he saw the item in the second row, then jumped up from his chair.
Usually, when something could excite him this much, it was mostly related to guns.
However.
It wasn’t a gun—it was a cannon!
Named—Magically Modified Schneider 1897 Type 75mm Field Artillery.
Jun Changxiao exclaimed: “There really is a cannon!”
He clicked on the detailed introduction—
Item: Magically Modified Field Artillery.
Introduction: French-made 1897 Type 75mm field artillery, the world’s first cannon equipped with a recoil mechanism. It shone brilliantly in World War I. Later magically modified for use in high-martial worlds.
Advantages: Extremely long range, extremely powerful!
Disadvantages: Consumes crystal cores voraciously, and requires at least high first-rank crystal cores.
Price: 2000 contribution points.
“Holy hell!”
After reading the introduction, Jun Changxiao exclaimed: “A real Italian cannon!”
But……
2000 contribution points was way too expensive!
The System said: “If you think it’s expensive, Host doesn’t have to buy it.”
How could he not buy it!
Zhenyang Commandery was about to attack. Setting up this kind of field artillery in the city—one shot would definitely blast the enemy into chaos, blast them until their scalps went numb!
“Buy! Buy!”
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