Collecting Disciples for a Hundred Years [Transmigration] - Chapter 13

Song Junyu was true to her word. In the following period, aside from occasionally accompanying Ji Chan in her training, she spent most of her time in the alchemy room and the back hills, gradually neglecting her swordsmanship practice.

Time flew by in the midst of her busy schedule, and before she knew it, a year had passed.

During this year, the improved magical tools crafted by Song Junyu became highly popular among cultivators outside the sect, earning her a considerable amount of spirit stones. At the end of each month, when it was time to split the earnings with the owner of the magical tools shop, Song Junyu still vividly remembered the stunned expression on Lin Ying’s face the first time she brought the spirit stones back.

Song Junyu divided the earned spirit stones into three parts.

One part was allocated for the daily expenses of the sect, a larger portion was saved for the future development of the sect, and the remaining portion was invested in her experiments with new medicines.

Song Junyu had a clear understanding of her situation: she was not the protagonist of any story, had no destiny protecting her, and had no intention of making a name for herself in the cultivation world. Her only goal was to compile a medical handbook suitable for ordinary people, introducing simple and easy-to-learn methods for treating illnesses and preparing medicines. She planned to train some ordinary individuals and gradually disseminate this knowledge among the populace.

Aside from Ji Chan, Song Junyu did not disclose her change in cultivation path to anyone else. After all, not only in Qing Ping Sect but throughout the entire cultivation world, with the exception of the Compassion Pagoda, which focused on Buddhist cultivation, most sects practiced swordsmanship.

This became an unspoken little secret between her and Ji Chan.

After resolving to stay in Qing Ping Sect, Ji Chan began to wholeheartedly adapt to life there.

It wasn’t as difficult as she had imagined, although Song Junyu’s excessive enthusiasm often made her feel uncomfortable.

For some reason, Song Junyu always enjoyed talking to her, and even when Ji Chan didn’t respond, Song Junyu never seemed to tire of it. Moreover, despite Song Junyu’s busy schedule and Ji Chan’s efforts to appear mature and composed, Song Junyu would always find time to send her to the village to play with her peers.

Ji Chan, observing the group of snot-nosed eleven- and twelve-year-olds, decided to put an end to the situation once and for all. When Song Junyu wasn’t around, she performed a series of feats—such as shattering the large rock at the village entrance with a single strike, calmly slitting the throat of a rabid dog with her sword, and shooting an arrow through the hair of a boy who shouted “Be my woman!” without so much as scratching his scalp.

After that, whenever Song Junyu occasionally accompanied her to Lijia Village, aside from Li Xuan, who would blush and dare to speak to Ji Chan, everyone else would immediately run away at the sight of her.

At first, Song Junyu found this puzzling, but she gradually came to accept it: it was probably similar to the celebrity effect in modern society. If she were to encounter a great beauty in the modern world, she would likely also just “squeal” and stare wide-eyed from a distance, too intimidated to approach and say hello.

Ji Chan wasn’t afraid of others exposing her true nature to Song Junyu.

The villagers were well aware of Song Junyu’s affection for her, and few dared to gossip in front of Song Junyu. Even if someone did, Song Junyu probably wouldn’t believe it. As for Li Xuan, she held an extraordinary reverence for Song Junyu and would never speak ill of Ji Chan in her presence.

Furthermore, to practice her medical skills, Ji Chan began offering consultations in Lijia Village. The villagers, having benefited from her help, dismissed the children’s claims about her ferocity as mere jealousy and paid no heed to them.

As she had anticipated, Song Junyu had always believed that Ji Chan was highly popular among her peers.

Day after day, as the magical artifacts crafted by Song Junyu grew increasingly exquisite, they began to attract the attention of certain individuals with ulterior motives.

Under the long-term influence of Song Junyu’s “lay low” philosophy, even though some in the Qing Ping Sect occasionally felt she was overcorrecting, it had instilled an extraordinary sense of vigilance in the rest of the sect members.

After completing transactions at the artifact shops, Lin Ying noticed several times that someone was attempting to tail her, including even Golden Core stage cultivators.

It took Lin Ying considerable effort to shake off these pursuers, and a sense of crisis began to well up within her.

In the past, the Qing Ping Sect had been a destitute and impoverished sect, barely scraping together a few spirit stones. Now that the sect was gradually accumulating wealth, if it attracted the envy of other cultivators, the Qing Ping Sect could be wiped out in an instant.

Lin Ying trained with increasing diligence. With the sect’s newfound wealth, Song Junyu provided her with various elixirs and magical artifacts, and it wasn’t long before Lin Ying broke through to the Golden Core stage.

At Lin Ying’s age, even among the elite disciples of major sects, few could achieve a breakthrough to the Golden Core stage.

Moreover, Lin Ying had never revealed her background or origins, leading others to assume she was nurtured by a major sect. Even after it became known that these artifacts were crafted by Lin Ying herself, no one dared to act rashly.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that as long as they remained cautious, the artifact crafting business would stabilize. However, a piece of news shook the entire cultivation world.

The Demon King had disappeared!

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When Song Junyu heard this news, she was momentarily stunned before belatedly recalling the original plot.

This was a major turning point in the storyline.

After the Demon King’s disappearance, the cultivation world began a large-scale search for the Bodhi Bones.

This matter traced back tens of millions of years.

At that time, although there were conflicts between demonic cultivators and immortal cultivators, they had not broken into open hostility and coexisted peacefully.

However, over the past thousand years, the world’s turbid energy had risen, causing the malevolent energy within demonic cultivators to surge. Large areas of the demon realm became uninhabitable, leading demonic cultivators to launch attacks on the cultivation world and the mortal realm.

The Bodhi Bones were related to the world’s turbid energy.

Legend had it that Song Sui Mountain was the body of the last true god left behind in the mortal realm.

Once the Bodhi Bones, which had undergone tribulations and reincarnations, returned to their rightful place, divine light would descend upon Song Sui Mountain, purging the world’s turbid energy.

No one knew where Song Sui Mountain was, but clues about the Bodhi Bones had begun to appear in the world.

The Bodhi Bones were shattered into eight pieces. Once found, a specific scroll would emit a white light.

This news was announced by Feng Wu Yang, the leader of the Wuhen City—the largest sect in the cultivation world—and corroborated by the Buddhist disciple of the Compassion Pagoda.

No one in the various sects doubted his words, and they all began searching for the Bodhi Bones. It was during this process that the male and female protagonists, who cared deeply for the world, met a large group of like-minded individuals.

No one expected that the mission to collect the Bodhi Bones was actually a conspiracy.

Feng Wu Yang, unable to break through to the Great Ascension stage for years, had developed inner demons. By chance, he discovered a method to find the Bodhi Bones. To conceal the truth that he was controlled by inner demons and could only advance by absorbing others’ cultivation, and to absorb the power of the Bodhi Bones for his own advancement, he fabricated a series of lies.

And this marked the beginning of an era of turmoil.

News of the Demon King’s disappearance spread, and the various factions in the demon realm, previously suppressed by him, began to stir. Internal strife erupted among the demons, while the immortal sects seized the opportunity to search for the Bodhi Bone. Feng Wu Yang, driven by his inner demons, repeatedly killed members of the immortal sects and framed the demons, sparking chaos within the immortal sects.

As luck would have it, the male and female protagonists noticed Feng Wu Yang’s suspicious behavior, only to be falsely accused by him in return. Just as Feng Wu Yang attempted to silence them, he encountered the newly returned Demon King.

The Demon King and Feng Wu Yang engaged in a fierce battle, leaving Feng Wu Yang severely injured. During their fight, the male and female protagonists fell into a hidden realm, where they unexpectedly discovered a method to kill the Demon King.

Later, taking advantage of Feng Wu Yang’s weakened state, the protagonists uncovered evidence of his crimes across the three realms. The Buddhist disciple took action and killed Feng Wu Yang, while the protagonists used the method from the hidden realm to eliminate the Demon King, ultimately restoring peace to the three realms.

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Recalling the impending turmoil, Song Junyu felt a headache coming on.

As before, she issued a decree on behalf of her father, who was in seclusion, to all members of the Qing Ping Sect: “Avoid unnecessary involvement in conflicts with other sects.” At the same time, she accelerated the process of crafting magical artifacts and compiling medical texts.

The outside world was gradually descending into chaos. In the most turbulent years to come, social order would collapse further, making it extremely dangerous to create magical artifacts during that time. She needed to accumulate enough spirit stones in the coming years and lay low during the chaos.

Moreover, before the turmoil fully erupted, she had to disseminate the knowledge from her compiled texts to help ordinary people survive the ravages of war.

Song Junyu resolved not to leave the mountain anytime soon, but an unexpected turn of events arrived abruptly.

Early one morning, Elder Wan Qing’s voice transmission echoed across the entire Qing Ping Sect.

When Song Junyu arrived at Elder Wan’s quarters, the room was thick with the pungent smell of medicine. Lying on the bed was a pale, handsome young man, unconscious.

It was her junior disciple brother, Ji Yang, who had been in seclusion.

Song Junyu identified the scents of the medicinal herbs in the air and frowned. These were potent life-sustaining herbs from the cultivation world, some of which were extremely rare.

“What happened to Second Senior Brother?” Lin Ying asked in confusion.

“Your senior brother Ji Yang failed to advance to the Golden Core stage, and his spiritual energy is in disarray,” Elder Wan said gravely, his gaze sweeping over those present. “Without the Compassion Fruit to regulate his qi, he may become crippled upon waking.”

Song Junyu’s eyes widened.

The Compassion Fruit, as its name suggested, was related to the Compassion Pagoda. It was personally refined by the Buddhist disciple and had miraculous effects in repairing meridians.

Everyone believed the Buddhist disciple was in seclusion at the Compassion Pagoda, but only Song Junyu knew that he was actually trapped in Hongshi Town, secretly protecting the female protagonist, and would not escape for another six months.

Staring at Ji Yang’s pale face and recalling the original plot, Song Junyu pressed her lips together tightly.