Merit plus one

The Idle Cloud Sect had an internal formation, and there was only an occasional cool breeze in the courtyard, but it was different outside.

The entire mountain forest rustled, the treetops swayed, and the courtyard was high, so you could see very far.

The dense forest sea was like layers of waves, drifting with the current and falling forward, and in the next second, they were crushed back like waves by the wind in the opposite direction.

“The starry sky here is not bad,” Yun Ruo said.

“It is not bad,” Bai Liye looked up at the night sky, responding.

The forest sea was roaring, the starry sky was vast, and under the sky, people seemed very small.

“Are the magical artifacts finished?” Yun Ruo asked.

“Finished.”

“Are you tired?”

“It’s alright.”

“When are you going down the mountain to sell them?”

“Tomorrow night, I have to find a location first.”

Yun Ruo didn’t say much, and Bai Liye said even less.

The two chatted casually for a few sentences.

Bai Liye should have been very sleepy from staying up for several nights, and yawned several times, causing Yun Ruo to look at him frequently: “You should go to rest.”

“Yeah,” Bai Liye got up wearily.

“I was going to go back even if you didn’t say anything.”

He walked to the edge of the eaves, didn’t climb the ladder, and jumped down directly.

That’s great.

Yun Ruo looked at him jumping down so freely.

She should be able to do that in the future, right?

After all, her spiritual power was so strong that it shocked the entire sect, although Lin Wang said that their spiritual power wasn’t high, so it probably made her look very powerful.

But surely flying over eaves and walking on walls would be taught in the Academy!

She should be able to learn it too, right?

The ladder suddenly moved, and someone climbed up.

They didn’t show their head, but only stretched out their arm to put a small thing on the tile.

“Forgot this, a small trinket, for you to play with,” Bai Liye’s voice.

Yun Ruo went over to take it, but the person on the ladder had already left.

She looked down from the edge of the eaves.

The courtyard was dark, and Bai Liye was wearing black, so she couldn’t see anyone at all.

She withdrew her gaze, and saw a small round jade stone on the tile.

Yun Ruo picked it up and only then could see clearly that it was a chubby, tender yellow chick.

It was carved vividly and was very adorable.

The texture of the downy feathers looked clear and soft, and there was a little red on the top of its head, like the chick’s bright crown feathers.

Unbeatable adorable.

Yun Ruo held it in her hand and looked at it for a long time, before remembering that Bai Liye seemed to have asked them what they wanted when they finished sorting the jade stones last time, and he could use the unwanted jade stones to make it.

He really was a handmade expert.

But why give her a chick?

Was it because he raised chickens himself?

The next day, infusing spiritual power into the magical artifacts, Lin Wang and Bai Liye didn’t have to do anything, anyway, Yun Ruo finished it in minutes.

She was much more skilled than last time, and all the barrier jade were intact, making up for the pit of bursting a basket of jade stones last time.

After eating dinner, Lin Wang went to pack up, and Bai Liye checked the formation in the courtyard.

Yun Ruo led the Big Yellow dog, preparing to go out for a walk.

Anyway, as soon as Bai Liye and the others left, she wouldn’t have any work to do.

Walking the dog was the only thing Jiang Beishan was willing to let her do, feeling that as long as she went out, she wouldn’t compete with him for work.

She hadn’t walked far when a long whistle came from the sect.

The Big Yellow dog immediately dragged her back.

Lin Wang and Bai Liye were standing at the courtyard door, one black and one white.

If they weren’t carrying packages, they would have been very imposing.

Lin Wang patted the Big Yellow dog’s head with satisfaction, and tossed a bag of barrier jade to Yun Ruo: “Let’s go, I’ll take you down the mountain to do business.”

“Why?” Yun Ruo was a little happy, and a little strange.

They hadn’t taken her the last few times.

“You were the one who infused the spiritual power, so I’ll take you along and give you a share of the money,” Lin Wang said.

Yun Ruo seemed to have heard a fairy tale.

The con man was actually going to give her money?

Lin Wang looked at her questioning expression, and pointed his thumb at Bai Liye: “It’s not that I wanted to give you a share, Ah Ye said to give you 10%.”

Bai Liye nodded.

Yun Ruo immediately became vigilant: “Then the recommendation letter…”

Lin Wang clicked his tongue: “You’re afraid that we’ll give you the money and then not give you the recommendation letter, right? Dirty Face, what do you take us for? Do we look like people who will go back on our word?”

“You don’t look like it,” Yun Ruo said immediately.

“Bai Liye doesn’t look like it.”

Lin Wang was angered into laughter: “Your 10% is gone.”

“I knew you didn’t want to give it,” Yun Ruo narrowed her eyes knowingly.

“See, you went back on your word.”

“Ah Ye said it, I didn’t agree,” Lin Wang pushed the responsibility onto Bai Liye.

“You can go get his 10%.”

“Then I don’t want it,” Yun Ruo said.

“Anyway, the sect provides room and board, so I’ll just treat it as paying for accommodation.”

Lin Wang: “…”

The two of them said one sentence after another, arguing back and forth, Bai Liye walked a few steps quickly, not wanting to be caught by the two of them to reason, and Jiang Beishan chased out from behind.

“Senior Brother,” Jiang Beishan handed a box to Bai Liye.

“Your candy.”

“You made it?” Lin Wang reached out to take it first, and opened it to take a look: “Didn’t I tell you to make it round?”

Jiang Beishan blinked his doggy eyes: “Yeah.”

Lin Wang pinched one out: “You call this round?”

Yun Ruo came over to take a look.

The candy in the box was colorful like the previous chopstick candy, and it was indeed made into a circle, and a small stick was pierced through it.

It was exactly the same as a lollipop.

Lin Wang was speechless: “Doesn’t this still have to be held in your mouth?”

“Is that what you meant?” Jiang Beishan was shocked.

“I thought Senior Brother you were saying that the chopstick candy was sticky on your hands, so I made it this way on purpose, it’s much more convenient to hold with a small stick… What should I do, I did it wrong!”

Seeing that Jiang Beishan was about to be cried to death by his own stupidity, Bai Liye quickly took one and bit it into his mouth: “I think it’s pretty good.”

“Really?” Jiang Beishan didn’t believe it.

“Really,” Bai Liye held the stick in his mouth, his cheeks bulging, expressionless.

Jiang Beishan turned his head and cried to Lin Wang: “What should I do, Senior Brother Bai Liye is angry.”

Bai Liye: “… I’m not.”
Lin Wang: “… I have to coax him again?”

Yun Ruo was watching the fun with great interest, when Bai Liye quietly tugged her arm, signaling her to leave quickly.

So the two of them ran away first, leaving Lin Wang in a difficult position.

After a long time, Lin Wang chased after him, scolding them for being disloyal, abandoning the battle, and failing to save them, and so on.

In short, it was extremely sinful.

Bai Liye was curious: “How did you coax him?”

“I have my own wonderful plan,” Lin Wang said triumphantly.

“I told him that Dirty Face won’t be back for four or five days, and no one will compete with him for work. He felt that the next few days were very promising, and went back happily.”

Yun Ruo: “… Alright, alright.”

The mountain where the Idle Cloud Sect was located wasn’t far from Sunny Peak, and it was also a good place with spiritual energy.

Generally, there were few towns in such places, because abundant spiritual energy would attract demon beasts, so the locations of the major immortal sects were mostly far away from human habitation, in places that ordinary people couldn’t reach.

One was to maintain the aloof style of the immortal sect, and the other was to protect ordinary people from being disturbed.

But Sunny Peak was different.

The Academy was here, and the students and teachers often went out, and if there was any trouble, it would be resolved.

Basically, no demon beasts could have any impact here.

Therefore, this was the only place where there were towns all over the foot of the spiritual mountain.

Yun Ruo and the others ran three towns in two days, still spinning around at the foot of their own mountain.

The distance between the cities wasn’t very far, and there was quite a bit of traffic between them, so the traffic was also large.

It was very easy to make money.

This day, they changed to a new town, just under the Idle Cloud Sect’s mountain.

After selling the barrier jade, they could just go back on the way.

After arriving in the evening, the three of them went to eat noodles.

While waiting for the noodles, Lin Wang counted the spirit stones he had earned in the past two days, marveling: “I originally thought that no one would buy barrier jade here, who knew it would sell so well?”

They had already sold two bags, and there was one bag left.

They could run one more city tomorrow and finish their work perfectly.

It wasn’t surprising that Lin Wang thought so.

The town already had the protection of barrier jade, not to mention that students from the Academy would come down the mountain from time to time to practice, and safety was very guaranteed, but barrier jade were still very popular.

Even if they sold them at a high price, many people would still snatch them up.

“You don’t understand,” Yun Ruo said.

“As ordinary people, even if the town’s guarantee is safe, it’s not foolproof.”

She had been an ordinary person for so long, and completely understood this mentality.

Only when they personally held something that could save their lives would they feel at ease.

People like Lin Wang, who were born with awakened spiritual meridians, had never experienced a situation where they were completely unable to protect themselves when faced with danger, so they naturally wouldn’t understand.

Lin Wang was speechless by this sentence “You don’t understand” for a long time.

If he said he understood, he had indeed only understood the relationship after Yun Ruo pointed it out.

But if he said he didn’t understand, what he said just now was just something that came out of his mouth without thinking, and when Yun Ruo retorted so seriously, he wanted to defend himself, but there was really no way to defend himself.

He opened his mouth, but couldn’t say anything.

His face was on the line, Lin Wang immediately ate his noodles in silence.

Bai Liye took a bite, and suddenly put down his chopsticks, turned his body to the side, and supported his forehead with his hand.

“What’s wrong?” Lin Wang found that something was wrong with him.

“Are you not feeling well? Do you want candy?”

Yun Ruo stood up nervously: “What’s wrong with you?” Could Bai Liye have low blood sugar? Do cultivators also have this kind of problem?

Then supplementing sugar would indeed be a good idea.

“It’s nothing,” Bai Liye’s voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, and the hand supporting his forehead was a little unsteady.

“Nothing my ass! Have you been working too hard making magical artifacts during this time?!” Lin Wang hurriedly reached into the storage pouch to find the candy box.

“I’ll find you candy, don’t move.”

Bai Liye tilted his head, barely waving his hand, his voice a little shaky: “Don’t eat…”

Lin Wang stopped moving, was silent for a moment, and looked at Bai Liye with a very speechless expression: “You’re not serious, are you?”

Yun Ruo: “?”

Bai Liye turned back, and only then did Yun Ruo see that he was smiling.

Not only was he smiling, but he was also smiling very hard, covering his eyes with his hand, and his shoulders were shaking from laughing.

No matter how sharp Lin Wang’s eyes were, they couldn’t stop him.

He just looked at him with composure.

Bai Liye stopped laughing after a long time.

There was a strong smile in his usually lazy tone, which he couldn’t hide.

He glanced at Yun Ruo, and then at Lin Wang: “Lin Wang, you also have a day when you’re speechless.”

Lin Wang retorted with a forced smile: “Is that so? Providing you with something to laugh at can also be considered my good deed.”

Yun Ruo couldn’t help but add: “Yeah, good deed plus one.”

“…” Lin Wang went crazy.

“You’re not allowed to talk!”

Bai Liye was originally going to eat noodles, but now he laughed even harder, and almost couldn’t hold his chopsticks steady.

Infected by him, Yun Ruo and Lin Wang also couldn’t help but start laughing.

The three of them were laughing so hard that the small table was shaking.

The diners at the tables next to them all looked over, and Bai Liye barely stopped laughing and patted the table: “Eat the noodles, they’ll get mushy if we don’t eat them.”