Your life is here

Yun Ruo settled into life at the Idle Cloud Sect.

Bai Liye had said he brought her back to work in exchange for a recommendation letter, but he never assigned her any tasks.

At first, she wanted to be proactive and make a good impression, so she got up early in the morning to clean the courtyard, feed the chickens and geese, and take the Big Yellow dog out for a walk.

When she came back, she saw Jiang Beishan squatting in front of the goose pen, looking like the sky had fallen, silently shedding tears as he looked at her: “You really do want to replace me.”

After that day, Yun Ruo never competed with him for work.

Jiang Beishan was just too capable, the youngest in the entire sect, but he did the most work and enjoyed it.

Mainly, she couldn’t get any work anyway, Jiang Beishan guarded against her like she was a thief, she couldn’t find any opportunities to work.

It was outrageous.

Ji Yueci didn’t go out much, spending most of her time in her room.

Sometimes she didn’t want to come out for meals, so Lin Wang or Jiang Beishan would deliver them to her room.

After living in the Idle Cloud Sect for more than ten days, Yun Ruo hadn’t even spoken to her.

Bai Liye and Lin Wang were rarely seen, sometimes leaving before dawn and returning late at night.

When asked, Jiang Beishan would only say he didn’t know, being very tight-lipped.

With no work to do, and unable to find her employer, Yun Ruo spent her days leisurely, exploring every corner of the Idle Cloud Sect, distinguishing which room belonged to whom, and who owned the poultry in the courtyard.

The Big Yellow dog, who was always bullied by the geese, had been picked up by Lin Wang.

The three white geese had been bought by Jiang Beishan as eggs to make soup, but they had hatched unexpectedly, so he raised them.

The chickens running around the yard were the offspring of the original hen that Bai Liye had bought, which then had more offspring, turning into a large flock.

Of course, Jiang Beishan was responsible for feeding them all.

Yun Ruo couldn’t feel like she was in an immortal sect at all, but she didn’t hate it.

It was just that having nothing to do often made her feel bored, and if she just ate and lived here for free, she would feel uneasy about not getting a recommendation letter next year, or getting one and feeling guilty.

She didn’t want to continue like this.

Bai Liye came back very late, almost midnight, and the courtyard was quiet.

He walked through the courtyard towards his room, but before he reached the door, he heard a voice by the tree near the courtyard calling his name softly: “Bai Liye?”

He paused and walked over.

Yun Ruo was lying on the grass under the tree, her head resting on a wooden stump.

“What are you doing here?”

“Looking at the stars,” Yun Ruo looked up at him, her eyes clear and bright in the darkness.

Bai Liye looked down at her for a while, then lifted his foot to leave: “Then continue watching.”

“Wait,” Yun Ruo got up, patted the dust off her skirt.

“Actually, I was waiting to see if you would come back tonight.”

“Waiting for me?”

Yun Ruo sighed, looking very melancholic: “I can’t find any work to do, Jiang Beishan does all the work, and I don’t dare to compete with him, he’ll cry, making it seem like I’m bullying him… I can’t just keep being idle, right?”

Bai Liye saw through her thoughts: “Are you worried that if you don’t work, you won’t get a recommendation letter next year?”

It was a question, but he used a confirming tone.

Yun Ruo used silence to answer.

Bai Liye couldn’t help but find it funny: “If I said I’d give it to you, I will, I won’t lie to you.”

Yun Ruo suddenly thought of a possibility: “So, letting me come to work was just an excuse? You just wanted to help me?”

“Not really,” Bai Liye was a little tired from rushing back late at night.

He told Yun Ruo to get up, but he sat down, explaining to her in a lazy tone: “It’s been busy these few days, I’ll find you some work to do after it’s over, be prepared.”

“That’s good,” Yun Ruo felt relieved hearing him say that.

They were both silent for a while, then Yun Ruo asked: “Can I ask you a question?”

The person sitting leaned against the tree trunk, one hand behind his head, and after a long time, he “mm”ed as an answer.

“What do you and Lin Wang do every day when you go out?” Yun Ruo asked.

“Didn’t you know, sell some magical artifacts, be a con man,” Bai Liye closed his eyes.

“There’s a market month in several towns down the mountain recently. Lin Wang is guarding the stall, and I’m coming back to get things.”

So, he knew she was privately calling them con men.

That’s right, they sold things so expensive, they must have been cursed by other people.

But thinking about it carefully, they hadn’t deceived or swindled anyone, and were honestly making deals where both parties were willing, so they could be considered conscientious con men.

Bai Liye waited for a while, but didn’t hear Yun Ruo say anything else.

He opened one eye to look at her, and found that she had sat down next to him.

Seeing him open his eyes, she leaned closer, lowered her voice, and asked: “Are you very short on money? Did you sell that Spirit-Devouring Beast?”

Without waiting for Bai Liye to answer, she blinked and continued: “That Xuan Yang Sect disciple was willing to pay one hundred high-grade spirit stones to buy it. You shouldn’t sell it for too low a price, right? Isn’t that enough spirit stones?”

Including selling Academy guides, the Academy registration office was open for three days, and he and Lin Wang should have both gone.

Just on the afternoon that Yun Ruo saw, they sold quite a few copies, and they would have sold more in three days.

The sect didn’t seem to have many expenses, the vegetables they ate were all grown themselves, and at most they would buy some rice, flour, and cloth, which were all cheap, plain-colored fabrics, causing the entire sect to wear either white or black, being very simple from the inside out.

Bai Liye opened his eyes.

Yun Ruo’s eyes, up close, reflected the starlight, as if they had been washed with water.

Her tone was purely curious, without any mockery or questioning.

“In debt,” Bai Liye said faintly.

No wonder.

Yun Ruo didn’t ask the reason.

It was someone else’s private matter, and it would be impolite to ask further.

Seeing that she had finished asking, Bai Liye got up and went back to his room to sleep.

As he left, he discovered that Yun Ruo had nonchalantly laid back down in her original position.

“Not going back to your room?” he asked.

“Looking at the stars,” Yun Ruo’s answer was the same as before, stretching out comfortably in a starfish position.

“Now I’m really looking at the stars.”

Bai Liye thought she wasn’t used to being in a new place, so he didn’t bother her and went back himself.

The next day, Yun Ruo didn’t see Bai Liye in the sect.

He probably left before dawn.

But he didn’t break his promise.

A few days later, he returned with Lin Wang, bringing back a large pile of things that Yun Ruo couldn’t understand.

After that, he didn’t leave early and return late, and began to fulfill his promise to arrange work for her.

“What is this?” Yun Ruo was called to Bai Liye’s room, staring at a table full of jade stones of various shapes and colors.

It was her first time entering Bai Liye’s room.

It was very large, not empty at all, and filled with many strange shelves and tools.

“Heard you were feeling too idle and had no work to do? Don’t worry,” Lin Wang dramatically flourished his sleeve.

“Your work has arrived.”

Yun Ruo: “…”

Bai Liye came in carrying a pile of things, piling them on another table.

Behind him was Jiang Beishan, also carrying a large box, who immediately closed the door and bolted it from the inside after putting the things down.

Yun Ruo was very puzzled: “Why lock the door?”

Were they going to do something shady?

“We can’t let Senior Sister Yueci find out,” Jiang Beishan said, while expressing great dissatisfaction with Yun Ruo’s presence in the room.

“Why are you here too?”

“Working,” Yun Ruo said.

Jiang Beishan’s doggy eyes drooped down, and he reluctantly sat down next to her, looking at her with three more points of vigilance.

Yun Ruo had to pretend not to see it.

“Made magical artifacts before?” Bai Liye asked her.

Yun Ruo shook her head.

Jiang Beishan’s eyes lit up: “You haven’t? That’s great!” After saying that, he was glanced at by Bai Liye, and immediately stopped smiling and sat up straight obediently.

“Lin Wang, teach her,” Bai Liye patted Lin Wang’s shoulder and went into the inner room.

Lin Wang kicked Jiang Beishan, signaling him to move aside, and sat down next to Yun Ruo, asking: “First time making a magical artifact?”

“Not just that,” Yun Ruo said.

“It’s also the first time I’ve seen someone else make a magical artifact.”

Lin Wang remembered that in North State City, this girl didn’t even know that she had awakened her spiritual meridians.

This time, she rushed to the Academy to register, she really didn’t understand the world of cultivators at all, and couldn’t help but click his tongue in his heart.

How could the talent of fully awakened spiritual meridians have been buried for more than ten years?

The answer was mysterious.

Of course, there was another possibility.

That was that although Yun Ruo’s spiritual meridians were fully awakened, each meridian was useless.

Perhaps after opening the meridians, she could only stay in the initial state, and there would be no possibility of advancement, barely reaching the low level at most.

Although there weren’t many unlucky people like this, they weren’t nonexistent.

In fact, this was the most painful, giving you the best start, letting you think you could climb step by step, then knocking you down from the clouds at your most proud moment.

It was better to be an ordinary person from the start, than to experience the difference between heaven and earth overnight.

“Let’s start by explaining the basics to you,” Lin Wang pulled back his thoughts and began to explain to Yun Ruo.

“Magical artifacts are divided into two types in terms of manufacturing methods.”

“One type has a relatively simple manufacturing method. Of course, this simple isn’t really simple, but compared to the other type, the difficulty and restrictions are lower. Only Ah Ye in our sect knows how to make it, and we all help him, picking materials and assisting.”

“Magical artifacts made this way don’t contain spiritual power, and must be infused with spiritual power after they’re made.

For example, the most common barrier jade can be used by ordinary people without any burden.”

“The other type is not only difficult to make, but requires a body meridian and consciousness meridian above the fifth level.

Only those with strong spiritual power and high cultivation can make it successfully.

The magical artifacts made this way have their own spiritual power, and people who haven’t awakened their spiritual meridians can’t use them.

Forcibly using them will damage themselves.”

“You should have heard of the Awakening Bell, right? It belongs to the second type of magical artifact.”

The time when miasma invaded North State City, Hu Yong was injured from using the Awakening Bell.

If someone with a higher cultivation level used it, it would not only exert a greater effect, but would also not be backlashed by the magical artifact.

After Lin Wang explained the difference in magical artifact manufacturing, he rummaged through the table full of jade stones and casually picked out two pieces of about the same size, placing them in front of Yun Ruo: “Can you see any difference between these two pieces of jade?”

Yun Ruo leaned closer and examined them.

One of them was clear and transparent, with what seemed like flowing water inside.

She didn’t understand jade, but only felt it was very pretty.

The other one was more chaotic in color, but the colors were very vibrant, like a solidified golden amber.

Yun Ruo honestly said: “The colors are different.”

“Obviously,” Lin Wang said.

“Pick them up and feel them.”