Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 441 - 261: Fifty Years on Evergreen Peak (Long - )
Within a few days, Li An received his monthly stipend, which was quite generous:
One thousand top-grade Spirit Stones and three Fifth Grade "Enlightenment Pills."
Li An was currently at the Divinity Transformation Mid Stage, requiring about five hundred top-grade Spirit Stones each month; there were still leftovers to purchase desired supplies within the sect.
The Enlightenment Pills are only auxiliary pills, keeping a cultivator’s Divine Soul always energized, maintaining a keen state of enlightenment. As for pills used to enhance cultivation strength, the Dao Sect is very strict in their control, so they are basically unavailable for regular use.
Because the Dao Sect has never favored disciples relying on external aids for self-improvement.
Only when a disciple has put in enough effort and just needs a little push does the Dao Sect distribute the corresponding pills. Regular cultivation doesn’t permit their use; using them would even violate sect rules!
Most of Li An’s accumulation was in the puppet "Gao Tai," lacking many items such as talisman papers, talisman pens, arrays, and alchemy furnaces, etc. The only way to quickly acquire these would be to complete the tasks assigned by the Dao Sect and then exchange for them.
But Li An decided to gradually save Spirit Stones to purchase them.
After all, he now had a few hundred surplus Spirit Stones each month.
Moreover, cultivating within the Dao Sect was very safe; unlike being a Loose Cultivator outside, where there could constantly be battles and killings, protective measures couldn’t be lacking.
"Brother Li,"
Chen Ning came over, bringing him many living necessities, including a pair of Spirit Shoes and a set of clothes she made herself. She smiled and said:
"In the future, Brother, you’re sure to develop your own Spirit Field, and it would be more comfortable to wear these when you go into the earth; see if they fit?"
Li An accepted them, noticing that the stitches on the clothes and Spirit Shoes were very dense, clearly showing Chen Ning’s careful work. He just smiled and thanked her.
"By the way, Brother, there have been some people spreading baseless rumors about you recently on the peak; don’t take it to heart..."
Chen Ning reminded him.
"Oh, what rumors?"
Li An asked with interest.
"They’re all baseless rumors, someone said you’re a Demon Cultivator and are colluding with the Demon Sect or something..."
"It’s not baseless, it’s true."
Li An calmly replied, "Junior Sister Chen Ning, I am a Demon Cultivator, are you afraid?"
Chen Ning was startled for a moment, not expecting Li An to be so honest, but then she burst out laughing, saying: "Even if you were a Demon Cultivator before, now you’re still my Second Senior Brother! Who cares what you were before... Brother, there’s a saying that all past is prologue, as long as you start anew, it’s never too late..."
"They say you were once married to Senior Sister Qingxue of Demon Ancestor Peak; is that true?" she suddenly asked.
"That’s false."
Li An replied blandly.
He could imagine that with two new True Disciples suddenly emerging in the Dao Sect, and one even following the Sect Leader to cultivate... this was already very unusual, plus with people who loathed the Demon Sect, like those from Celestial Fire Peak and Celestial Thunder Peak, knowing about it, it was normal for the news about them to spread.
Moreover, Li An’s story... in some way was indeed full of twists and turns and rather legendary, almost like it was written in a novel, naturally spreading widely.
"Brother, do you know the techniques of cultivation and farming? Do you want me to teach you?"
Chen Ning, being charming and proactive, didn’t reveal his secrets, and Li An replied, "Sure."
Immediately, the two started cultivating a Spirit Field outside Li An’s cave residence; Chen Ning generously took out much Spirit Soil, saying it could improve the soil quality for Li An and also gave him some Spirit Medicine seeds.
"Is Brother Li here?"
At this moment, three individuals approached from outside.
Li An was somewhat familiar with them; the leader was named Zhao Nangeng, and the other two were Long Lü and Xie Yang, all Divinity Transformation cultivators of Evergreen Peak!
There were quite a few Divinity Transformation cultivators on Evergreen Peak, more than ten in all, but only two or three belonged to the younger generation, while the rest were older cultivators. Among these three, only Xie Yang belonged to Li An’s generation.
"Greetings, Brothers, for coming here—"
Li An approached, and when these cultivators saw Chen Ning beside him, they were a bit surprised.
"Junior Sister Chen Ning, the Senior Brother’s birthday is coming up, and he wants you to help host it for a few days. You said you were too busy at the time, but now you seem busy here with the Second Senior Brother..."
Long Lü smiled jokingly. He was older by a generation compared to Li An, appearing middle-aged, and his words made Chen Ning blush as she said, "I was just delivering some living supplies to the Second Senior Brother, as instructed by the master."
"Did the master also instruct you to cultivate the land with the Second Senior Brother?"
Long Lü asked with a smile.
Li An’s brow furrowed slightly; was this guy really treating him as non-existent? Immediately, he asked a little coldly, "What brings you here, Brothers?"
"Oh, it’s like this, Second Senior Brother, the master is currently in seclusion. This time, he plans to be secluded for three hundred years. All affairs large and small on the peak will be temporarily managed by the Senior Brother. The Senior Brother has worked hard and diligently for many years, and with his birthday approaching, we, as junior brothers, can’t just sit idly by and be oblivious, right? So we decided to celebrate for him..."
Zhao Nangeng smiled and said, "So we’re discussing with the Second Senior Brother how to suitably prepare gifts for the Senior Brother?"
Li An said, "Everyone can follow their heart; I just arrived at Evergreen Peak, and don’t have anything on hand... hmm, in that case, I’ll contribute fifty top-grade Spirit Stones."
Saying this, he handed Zhao Nangeng fifty Spirit Stones.
Zhao Nangeng was stunned on the spot.
What nonsense is this? Just fifty stones???
Li An remained indifferent. If these birds wanted to flatter the Senior Brother, what did that have to do with him?
