Chapter 57 - The Mulberry Garden
Along the way, Yue Qianchou's heart was still muttering with a bit nervousness. What kind of work will I get to grow the spiritual plants? And who is Aunt Pocky Jiu? Elder Fei who is in charge of the Myriad Fragrant Garden shouldn't be a nonsense person.
The female disciple who led the way was staring at Yue Qianchou from time to time. She naturally didn't take fancy on him. With the below average appearance of the other party, maybe only a few people would catch him in the eye. She thought in her heart. Who is this person? Elder Fei personally borrowed him from the Alchemy Pavilion. How will he be assigned to take care the spiritual plants?
The female disciple suddenly remembered the rumor from a group of disciples a few days ago. There was a new disciple who joined the Immortal-Enchanting Island using the command token and got accepted as the direct disciple of Elder Guan of the Alchemy Pavilion. She heard that there were dozens of elders were fighting over him to get the command token, and finally, Elder Guan got that command token. The name of that disciple seemed to be Yue Qianchou, is this the person?
When she thought of that, the doubts in her mind was solved. She stared at Yue Qianchou again, there was a bit of compassion showed in her eyes.
The scenery of the Myriad Fragrant Garden gradually eased Yue Qianchou's depressed heart.
Surrounded by a variety of spiritual plants, a vast field, a flowery fragrance drifting slowly, during which a lot of beautiful women working attentively. Myriad Fragrant Garden had a variety of topography, ranging from high hills, flat grounds, and low terrains. It was filled with various spiritual plants, many of them were flowering or fruiting. The colorful spiritual plants were swaying in the breeze. Occasionally when the wind was strong, there would be skirts blowing up, the delicate hands would quickly press down, let the people imagine.
What a great place! A vast of colorful spiritual plants accompanied by beautiful young women, a wonderful scenery. Although this place gave Yue Qianchou's heart some troubles, at the same time he had to admire the major faction of cultivation worlds on picking the disciples, the female disciples who got accepted were all top class beauties, but that because all of them have cultivated their flesh and bones, they naturally possessed better appearance than mortals. Of course, not all talented people possessed a good appearance, there were also ugly but talented people, but this case was a minority.
Looking around, the working chicks seemed to be full of innocent girls. Oh! There were few who exuded a charm of maturity! Yue Qianchou was in a trance, he felt as if he was in a women only's country.
The two arrived at the foot of the hill, the height was not that high, but it covered a vast area. There were some unusual trees surrounding the hill, and most of the area was covered by various spiritual plants. The entire summit was occupied by a courtyard, it looked very ancient. Although Yue Qianchou's cultivation was not high, he had found out that this hill possessed the most abundant spiritual Qi, it was so thick that it produced a faint mist.
The female disciple reminded him, "Yue Qianchou, on top of the hill is the residence of Venerated Aunt Jiu. Venerated Aunt Jiu doesn't like loud noises, you must refrain from being loud there."
Yue Qianchou thought that she gave a sincere reminder and saw the faint fear on her expression. Obviously, she was afraid that he would burden her later on. The two were not familiar with each other. Beside being a woman, he didn't care much about her. As Yue Qianchou gazed at the top hill, he asked, "Is Venerated Aunt Jiu the same person as Aunt Pocky Jiu mentioned by Elder Fei before?"
"Keep it down!" The female disciple was shocked by his words and said in a low voice, "We are not to call her Aunt Pocky Jiu. Elder Fei also called her that only in the back, he doesn't dare to do it in front of Venerated Aunt Jiu. Venerated Aunt Jiu is the biological aunt of the former Sect Leader and she is in charge to manage the elders in the Myriad Fragrant Garden. She has reached the late-stage of Tribulation Crossing. Even the current Sect Leader has to salute before her."
"Oh," Said Yue Qianchou. In the heart thought about the face of Fei Denan, Why did you throw father into this kind of old monster? Is it because you want to use the hand of this old monster to kill Father? I don't know who is more powerful if this old monster were to fight with Big Sister, both are late-stage Tribulation Crossing.
"Let's go!" Said the female disciple. Yue Qianchou nodded, he originally wanted to get closer to her, starting by asking her name. However, he sensed that she was timid and afraid of getting into trouble, she also barely considered as a beauty, the thoughts were extinguished.
Walking along the bluestone steps toward the top of the hill, he arrived outside the wall. Yue Qianchou discovered that the yard was really big and the fences were really high. The tall courtyard gates were wide open and there was no guard at the entrance. Looking up, the words 'Mulberry Garden' was engraved above the gates. He walked quietly following the female disciple.
Once inside, for some unknown reason, Yue Qianchou suddenly felt that the temperature in the surrounding area had dropped a lot. The inside and outside of the wall seemed to be two different worlds. Walking through the shade of trees and vines from the entrance to the courtyard, the two eyes widened, all kinds of exotic and colorful flowers, there were actually many kinds of gardens with each different spiritual plants on it, there were also one or two female disciples working on each garden.
Fortunately, the women's appearance here seemed to be on a higher level than the ones he had seen outside
A beautiful and dignified woman greeted the two people with a smile. The female disciple hurriedly said, "Elder Lan." After giving a salute, Yue Qianchou also followed.
Elder Lan smiled and said, "Do you have something for coming here?" The female student pointed toward Yue Qianchou. "This is the disciple that Elder Fei borrowed from the Alchemy Pavilion, his name is Yue Qianchou. Elder Fei had ordered me to send him to Venerated Aunt Jiu to be assigned to his work to take care spiritual plants."
"Yue Qianchou? Taking care spiritual plants?" Elder Lan squinted her eyes toward Yue Qianchou and frowned, "What is that Fei Denan up to? Well, hand this matter to me, you can go back."
"Yes." The female disciple gave her salute and returned. After listening to their conversation. Yue Qianchou felt uncomfortable, he cursed in his heart, "Shit! When did Father start becoming a sundry good, being sent from one person to another!"
"You come with me," Said Elder Lan with a smile.
"Yes." Yue Qianchou followed her from behind.
Passing through several spiritual plants gardens, he estimated that the spiritual plants planted here were definitely more precious than the outside, he couldn't help but look around. It turned out that he had seen many depictions of the spiritual plants here from the pills' formula.
Following the woman to a courtyard, he suddenly felt the temperature dropped a lot. He saw a well not far from him and felt an extreme cold when he bypassed the well. Yue Qianchou shivered coldly. Although his cultivation was not high, it was not a problem to withstand a normal cold temperature. This small well surprisingly emitted a powerful coldness, the low temperature of the entire hill seemed to come from this well. Unexpectedly, even with such low temperatures, the well water wasn't even frozen, it added the mysteriousness of this courtyard.
In the courtyard, a white-haired old woman was holding a young and beautiful woman's hand as she spoke. Yue Qianchou noticed the young woman, it was Yan Zixia who he recently separated from. How could she be here? He had a strange feeling in his heart.
When the two approached, Yue Qianchou noticed that the old woman's face was full of pockmarks. He couldn't help but think of the name Aunt Pocky Jiu from Elder Fei's mouth. This should be the old woman.
The old woman turned and looked at Yue Qianchou. The bland eyes actually gave a frightening feeling to the latter. From the mouth could be heard a weary voice, "Lan Yatou, who is it that you bring here?"
Yan Zixia was also wondering why Yue Qianchou came here. The two people noticed each other's gaze and nodded slightly.