Isn't This a Game? Why Are You All Cultivating for Real!

"How outrageous!"

Afterward, the old man stormed into the restaurant and placed ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones in front of the Shopkeeper.

"Who says I don’t pay for my meals?"

The Shopkeeper was just a mortal, but he knew the players had tacitly allowed the old man to eat without paying for the past few days.

’Isn’t it obvious this old man is no ordinary person?’

He immediately grew frantic. "Oh, my good sir, who said you don’t pay for your meals? It was our treat!"

The old man wasn’t falling for his act.

He rarely ate mortal food, and the occasional meal he had was always served to him with great deference.

In his logic, it was an honor for others that he ate their mortal food.

But here, after not paying for his meals for a few days, it turned out the players, while saying nothing to his face, were gossiping about him behind his back!

Being called out by such a young mortal girl, the old man felt he’d lost a lot of face.

But he didn’t make a scene. He just gave the Spirit Stones and left.

The Shopkeeper chased after him. "Sir, these Spirit Stones are too much..."

The old man huffed, "Just remember this, and don’t go saying I don’t pay for my meals!"

The Shopkeeper: "..."

After returning, the old man went to Little Ya, snorted coldly, and said, "I’ve already paid for all my meals."

Little Ya immediately gave a thumbs up. "Then you are a great Immortal!"

The old man: "..."

He narrowed his eyes and suddenly asked, "If other Immortals dine and dash, would those Longevity Sect disciples arrest them?"

"They would!" Little Ya nodded. "Even Immortals have to pay for their food. Nothing can be accomplished without rules..."

Little Ya scratched her head, trying to recall what the big sisters from the Longevity Sect always said. But being so young and completely lacking their "modern" way of thinking, she couldn’t grasp its full meaning. She just scratched her head. "I don’t get the rest of it."

"’Nothing can be accomplished without rules...’" The old man repeated the phrase, then gave a low scoff.

’Such a tiny sect actually has ideas like this.’

’But this Yunzhou Continent has always believed that might makes right.’

’If your fist isn’t hard enough, all the reasoning in the world is useless.’

’They’re lucky they ran into someone as reasonable as me.’

The old man stroked his beard, deciding not to stoop to their level.

After all, he still wanted to know how Chen Miaomiao managed to cultivate Third-tier spiritual grass by herself.

He had been observing in secret for the past few days. Although it was beneath someone of his status, the incredible thing was that he seemed to grasp something from her methods, yet he couldn’t quite put his finger on what it was.

This surprised him even more.

He had never before seen such a cultivation method in Yunzhou—one that could completely transform seedlings without using any Spiritual Liquid, and with such a high survival rate.

’Such a genius is actually in a small sect like this.’

’And she hasn’t even left for another Sect.’

This Longevity Sect was so interesting that he was reluctant to leave.

’Besides, he had also discovered someone here who shouldn’t exist.’

The other person might have sensed something, but they hadn’t recognized him.

Thinking of this, the old man took out a Mid-grade Spirit Stone and gave it to Little Ya. "Bring me some extra tanghulu tomorrow."

Little Ya’s eyes widened. She had only ever seen low-grade spirit stones before.

The color and density of the Spiritual Energy in a Mid-grade Spirit Stone were clearly different from a low-grade one, so Little Ya could also recognize that the Spirit Stone before her was special.

Little Ya shook her head fiercely. "I don’t want your Spirit Stone, Grandpa. The school gives us snacks every day, I’ll bring some for you."

The old man deliberately put on a stern face. "Weren’t you the one who complained about me freeloading?"

Little Ya said, "The food at the restaurant is for sale, but my snacks aren’t. You’re old, and I should respect my elders, so I’ll share with you."

The old man: "..."

’And his age was far from ordinary.’

As long as the old man didn’t cause any trouble, the other players couldn’t be bothered with him for the time being.

After all, there was nothing they could do about him.

Meanwhile, it wasn’t just the few disciples from the Taohua Sect who returned who were trying to find a way to inform their Sect Master.

Whether the Tao Hua Sect Master would come or not was another matter.

Over at Demon Cave Valley, the disciples of the Feique Sect were also enjoying the Elixir Pill treatment provided by the Longevity Sect.

The Feique Sect had a good number of disciples stationed here; basically, their core strength was all here.

Usually, they paid little attention to Sect matters, unless there was big news.

Like the demon beast invasion last time.

It was just that the Longevity Sect dealt with it so quickly that by the time they went back to check, they found everything was fine and hurried back here.

To the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect, the existence of these small sects served a purpose.

The disciples at the border were not only there for training, but also to stand guard.

Beyond the border of Demon Cave Valley, they were only the second line of defense.

The real first line of defense was at the core of the true border, a place where High-level Demon Beasts could appear at any time. Disciples of the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect stood guard there, and there was also a Teleportation Array.

Normally, the disciples of the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect wouldn’t have any interaction with these disciples from the small sects.

These disciples from the small sects were just there to prevent any demon beasts with strange movements from slipping through.

When the players from the Longevity Sect distributed Elixir Pills to them, the Feique Sect disciples guarding the border were in disbelief.

At this time, Dong Yulan was also at the border, and she turned a blind eye to the Longevity Sect’s Elixir Pills.

Even though they had to sign a contract to receive the Elixir Pills, everyone quickly signed under Su Huanli’s encouragement.

Once they had the Elixir Pills in hand, the Feique Sect disciples realized that the Longevity Sect really wasn’t joking.

Shui Ping, on the other hand, was perplexed by Su Huanli’s encouragement of the Feique Sect disciples.

She had been following Su Huanli to train at the border for a month now and was on the verge of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

After the Elixir Pills arrived, Shui Ping asked Su Huanli, "Do you think this is right? Forget the Second-stage Spiritual Grass from before, but now they’re even giving us Third-stage Elixir Pills. Senior Sister, don’t you think this Longevity Sect is really strange..."

Su Huanli placed the Third-stage Elixir Pill in front of her. "Is the Elixir Pill real or not?"

Shui Ping: "..."

Su Huanli closed her hand over it. "As long as the Elixir Pill is real, the contract has no issues, and it benefits our cultivation, why wouldn’t we agree?"

Shui Ping, however, was worried. "I just think the Longevity Sect is too absurd. In just a few months, their scale has started to far exceed ours..."

Su Huanli knew a piece of the truth.

She and A Wu were arguably the only two who knew that Song Jiulai was the Daughter of Destiny.

Although Su Huanli didn’t know what kind of Daughter of Destiny Song Jiulai was, or what Heavenly Destiny she carried.

But seeing how the Longevity Sect was developing, Su Huanli felt that there was no harm in sticking with them.

Su Huanli just lowered her head and said slowly, "Shui Ping, disciples like us are destined to spend our whole lives in border regions like this, where the Spiritual Energy is thin and breaking through to Foundation Establishment is already an arduous task. I just want to go as far as I can on this path. If the Longevity Sect can give us benefits, we don’t need to care what they’re doing. Besides, do you think they mean us any harm?"

Shui Ping was at a loss for words.

She knew about the changes in Wang’an County, too. Putting everything else aside, just their attitude towards mortals showed that the Longevity Sect’s disciples had a patience that even the Feique Sect lacked.

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