“Who are you?
What do you want with our Boss Lin?”
One of the working students, who looked noticeably older, walked over.
Lin Yuan said, “I am from the same village as him, and I am looking for him for something.”
“Wang Sheng, what happened?” Xiao Wu’s voice came from inside the dormitory.
“Sister Xiao Wu, it’s a newcomer who says he is from the same village as the boss and came to look for Boss Lin,” Wang Sheng shouted toward the inside.
“Looking for me?” Lin Tian was stunned for a moment, walked up to Lin Yuan, and said, “You should be Uncle Kun’s son.
I’ve seen you before.
Do you need something from me?”
“Brother Lin Tian, some time ago the old village chief came to find my father and asked him to help look after you.
So my father rented a double room for us and prepared daily necessities and bedding for you.”
Lin Yuan feigned an honest and straightforward appearance.
This greatly increased Lin Tian’s favorability towards him.
“So that’s how it is.
Then please thank Uncle Kun for me, but you don’t need to go live over there.
I’m living quite well here.”
“Then I will go help bring your daily necessities and bedding over,” Lin Yuan said.
“Then many thanks.” Lin Tian thought about it and agreed.
A penny can stump a hero.
His pockets were cleaner than his face right now, and he couldn’t even pull out a bronze coin from his entire body.
He truly needed these things.
Just at this moment, Xiao Wu walked over.
“Lin Tian, who are you talking to?”
“My childhood friend Lin…” Lin Tian only then remembered that he seemed to not know the other person’s name yet.
Lin Yuan said foolishly, “Hello, Sister-in-law, my name is Lin Yuan.”
“Bah, bah, who are you calling sister-in-law?” Xiao Wu’s pretty face blushed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then she was so angry that she stamped her feet.
Lin Tian was also quite thunderstruck by Lin Yuan’s sudden words.
Even though he had come aiming for Xiao Wu.
But calling her sister-in-law right now was simply too early.
However, come to think of it, if it were anyone else, Xiao Wu would have long been enraged to violence and thrown people around.
But right now she didn’t; it looked like he still had a lot of hope.
“Aren’t you Brother Lin Tian’s girlfriend?” An expression of annoyance surfaced on Lin Yuan’s face.
“No, we just met the first day today.
Besides, how old is he…” Xiao Wu said with displeasure.
“Oh.
Then Brother Lin Tian, I’m leaving.
I’ll send the bedding and daily necessities over to you in a moment,” Lin Yuan said.
“Mn, go ahead.” Lin Tian watched Lin Yuan leave.
Having not walked far, the voices of Xiao Wu and Lin Tian faintly sounded behind Lin Yuan.
“Lin Tian, who is this silly boy?
Why is he so lacking in manners?”
Xiao Wu looked at Lin Yuan quite dissatisfied and said.
Lin Tian said with a gentle face, “Heh.
Don’t talk about him like that; he’s a child from a good family in our village.”
Lin Yuan heard the conversation between the two of them, and a sharp glint flashed across his eyes and vanished.
Lin Yuan’s dormitory and Dorm Seven were in the same building and very close by.
He went quickly and came back quickly; in just a short while, he had delivered the bedding and daily necessities over.
It is worth mentioning that because of Lin Tian’s intervention, Xiao Wu did not share the same quilt with Tang San.
Of course, she also did not share a quilt with Lin Tian.
Instead, Lin Tian contributed his own bedding and chose to squeeze in with Tang San.
Regarding this, Tang San, who had not yet realized that someone was poaching his corner, did not object either.
He just always felt something was a bit wrong, but couldn’t quite put his finger on it.
…
Confirming that Lin Tian would not come to live at his place, Lin Yuan safely returned to his dormitory, tightly locked the door, sealed the doors and windows, and drew the curtains.
He cautiously took out the Palm Heaven Bottle and that cloth-wrapped translucent item to examine them closely.
He discovered that although this translucent item could conceal the Palm Heaven Bottle, it could not conceal other things.
Most crucially, this Palm Heaven Bottle turned out to be made of plastic, and it even had the official logo of A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality marked on it.
“Is this thing definitely useful?”
Lin Yuan was instantly left between laughter and tears.
Holding the mindset of treating a dead horse as a live one, he walked to the window, buried this plastic Palm Heaven Bottle into an abandoned potted plant by the window, and covered it with this pirated Magic Treasure fragment that could only conceal the Palm Heaven Bottle.
Then he placed the potted plant in an inconspicuous spot where the moonlight could shine on it, putting it together with other abandoned potted plants.
After finishing all this, Lin Yuan suppressed the urgency in his heart, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to Cultivate.
However, with his mind dwelling on the Palm Heaven Bottle, he simply could not enter a state of meditation no matter what.
Until nighttime arrived, when the moonlight poured through the window onto the potted plant.
Lin Yuan lifted the Magic Treasure fragment to take a look, and grain-sized white points of light were gathering together, forming a thin white sphere of light that enveloped the Palm Heaven Bottle.
Only then did Lin Yuan’s heart settle greatly.
He covered the Magic Treasure fragment again and pressed clumps of soil around the fragment to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.
Afterwards, Lin Yuan found a new piece of rope and restrung the spirit tool ring.
Then, harboring yearnings for the future, he sat cross-legged on the bed without any distracting thoughts and began to Cultivate.
At Notting Academy, there were only two classes every morning: one cultural class and one lecturing on Spirit theory.
In the following time:
During the day, Lin Yuan wrapped the Palm Heaven Bottle with the Magic Treasure fragment, put it into the spirit tool ring hanging inside his clothes under his neck, and then woke up early in the morning to run, do push-ups, squats, and sit-ups.
In the morning, he attended classes normally.
In order not to make himself appear too special, during class breaks, he would mingle with the small cliques within the class.
After eating lunch at noon, he would use the excuse that he had to go help watch the shop at home in the afternoon to refuse the little friends’ invitations, secretly run to the academy library to borrow a few books related to Spirit Beasts, and return to the dormitory to secretly read them for an hour.
Then he would stay in the dormitory for the entire afternoon meditating and Cultivating to raise his Soul Power.
Before dark in the evening, after eating dinner, he would secretly re-bury the Palm Heaven Bottle into the abandoned potted plant.
Waiting for the Palm Heaven Bottle to condense the creation heaven-sustaining dew.
Just like that, days passed by one by one.
Perhaps because the rules of this world were different from the Human Realm in A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality.
Or perhaps Yan Beifei had already let the Palm Heaven Bottle bask in the moonlight the previous few days.
On the morning of the fourth day, inside this plastic Palm Heaven Bottle, a drop of green liquid finally condensed.
Carrying a nervous mood after finishing the morning’s classes, Lin Yuan did not even eat lunch and rushed back to the dormitory impatiently.
He sealed the doors and windows and drew the curtains.
Then he extended his right hand, released his Lone Bamboo martial soul, and dripped the green liquid onto it.
As a result, it didn’t have any effect at all.
After the green liquid dripped onto the Spirit, it slid down along the branches and leaves.
Fortunately, Lin Yuan was quick-eyed and nimble-handed, aiming at the bottle mouth and catching it in time with the Palm Heaven Bottle.
Otherwise, it would have inevitably gone to waste.
Unreconciled, Lin Yuan carefully put away the Palm Heaven Bottle and then ran outside to buy a large bath barrel.
Then he quickly filled a large barrel of water and poured the green liquid into it.
Finally, he sat cross-legged inside the bath barrel.
An event that pleasantly surprised Lin Yuan occurred.
Just as he entered a state of meditation and urged the Soul Power within his body to circulate, he felt an unprecedented state.
If it could be said that when his Soul Power circulated previously, it was like a snail crawling.
Then right now it was at least a tortoise crawling.
The circulation speed of his Soul Power was several times faster, if not more.