Chapter 61: Making a Mistake

Inside the small Taiping Medical Hall siheyuan, crows on the tree branches hopped back and forth, as if they had witnessed something unbelievable.

Old Head Yao stood up from his bamboo lounge chair, so shocked for a moment that he could only stutter several "you, you, you."

Chen Ji sat cross-legged on the ground, feeling the faint sword qi inside his body.

Old Head Yao bent down and twisted Chen Ji’s ear: "Snap out of it, what just happened!?"

"Pain, pain, pain," Chen Ji grimaced.

Originally, he was still feeling smug and full of himself, but Old Head Yao’s twist immediately brought him back to reality.

He was still feeling smug and full of himself, but Old Head Yao’s twist immediately brought him back to reality.

Just like all children after they grow up, no matter how powerful they become outside, they will still be nagged by their parents when they go home.

Chen Ji hurriedly asked: "What happened, Master?"

Old Head Yao let go of his ear and straightened up, saying in a bad mood: "I'm asking you, did you just cultivate the Sword Seed gate?"

"Ah!"

Old Head Yao stroked his beard, momentarily at a loss for what to ask, speechless.

It wasn't that he had no experience and was thus shocked by this matter.

It was precisely because he knew what the Sword Seed gate meant that he was shocked.

Old Head Yao pondered for a long time: "How did you cultivate the Sword Seed gate?"

Chen Ji innocently said: "Didn't you say that if I cultivate the Sword Seed, I can chop down officials and princes? The two gates complement each other!"

Old Head Yao heard these words and was shocked again. He widened his eyes and said: "Don't talk nonsense! I just said that as a joke, don't mess around! Let me tell you, the best way to cultivate the Mountain King Gate is to wait for those big officials to die on their own, that way you won't invite disaster upon yourself."

Saying this, he patiently advised again: "The entire Cabinet doesn't add up to ten teeth, those are all old things about to decay, they can't live much longer. You wait a bit more, there's no need to be so rushed."

Chen Ji realized that Master was truly worried about him doing that.

He hurriedly said with a smile: "Just kidding with you, I'm not a person who kills innocent people indiscriminately."

Old Head Yao corrected him: "Those Cabinet Elders are not innocent people either, but if you kill too many, there will always be a time when the horse loses its front hoof. Which Cabinet Elder's side doesn't have big officials guarding?"

"Mm mm, understood!" Chen Ji nodded.

Old Head Yao had calmed down by this time and sat on the bamboo lounge chair, seriously asking: "Where did you learn the Sword Seed gate? This is the biggest secret of the Jing Dynasty Martial Temple, how could you possibly learn it? Could it be that the person the Jing Dynasty has been looking for is you? No, the age doesn't match, you weren't even born yet!"

"Could it be your uncle or your mother who passed it to you? That's not right either, how could they possibly have the opportunity to contact the Sword Seed gate?"

Chen Ji answered frankly: "Master, it was a dream immortal who entrusted it to me in a dream!"

Old Head Yao rolled his eyes: "If you don't want to say it, there's no need to make up lies, go roll to one side."

However, Chen Ji said seriously: "Master, I'm not lying, the dream immortal is named Xuanyuan. I've often dreamed of him since I can remember, but before I couldn't see him clearly. I also couldn't talk. Now I can talk to him properly."

Old Head Yao carefully observed Chen Ji’s expression, the young man was extremely sincere.

He took out six coins from his sleeve and scattered them on the ground, but this time, no matter how many times he scattered them, the hexagrams were all different.

"The hexagram image is chaotic, ah, could it really be an immortal helping you?" Old Head Yao smacked his lips: "Didn't expect your connections to be quite wide."

Old Head Yao sighed a long breath: "This can also learn the Sword Seed, where's the logic in that? Do you know or not, if you divide the cultivation gates in this world into three, six, nine ranks, the Sword Seed gate is called second, and no one still dares to call it first."

"Do you know or not, Lu Yang indulged in martial arts his entire life, never married, had no children. How many young talents of the Jing Dynasty entered the Martial Temple, just wanting to wait for Lu Yang to have no hope in the great dao before passing down the Sword Seed gate? As a result, how many people waited from youth to old age, only to end up with empty white hair."

Saying this, he looked at Chen Ji, and said leisurely: "If the Jing Dynasty knows you are cultivating the Sword Seed gate, they will mobilize the entire Military Intelligence Department to kill you, aren't you afraid?"

Chen Ji said in a low voice: "Master, I'll cultivate quietly! Will Lu Yang personally come and kill me?"

"That won't happen, Lu Yang cultivated his entire life, not for the vision of eternal life after achieving the great dao, but for seeking new opponents."

Old Head Yao shook his head: "He will even expect you to cultivate to the Divine Path realm, and then fight with you! But even if he doesn't act, you still can't live, ah. Come, let me see your lifeline, I might have seen it wrong before."

Chen Ji said: "Master, I won't let others know that I am cultivating the Sword Seed gate."

Old Head Yao looked directly into Chen Ji’s eyes: "But I know."

The small siheyuan became quiet, the crows also stopped hopping, as if a big hand was covering this place, even the air pressure became tight.

Old Head Yao slowly said: "I can see, you are a very cautious person, so cautious that on the way back from the Zhou residence to Taiping Medical Hall, you held onto that broken piece of porcelain the whole way. I asked you if you killed anyone, and you also said no. But since you are cautious enough, why dare to cultivate in front of me? Do you know or not, the hardest thing to gauge in this world is the human heart. How can you be so sure that I won't betray you? If I tell this news to the Jing Dynasty, I might get ten thousand taels of gold, perhaps even let the Jing Dynasty build a gold house for me!"

Chen Ji sat cross-legged on the ground, lowered his head and thought for a moment: "A person carrying too many secrets is like carrying a big mountain, they will be pressed breathless. I am willing to believe that you will not harm me, anyway you saved me twice, if you really plan to exchange me for gold, then exchange me!"

Old Head Yao sized up Chen Ji for a long time, finally saying in a soft voice: "Don't tell anyone else anymore, not anyone!"

The crows also sized up the old and young under the tree, always feeling that the relationship between these two people had finally become better, with more trust.

Old Head Yao said: "Aren't you cultivating the Sword Seed gate? Let me see your sword qi!"

"Okay!"

Chen Ji urged the sword qi inside his body, it wandered through his meridians, and finally shot out from the tip of his right finger, hitting the ground and stirring up some dust.

"Heh..."

Old Head Yao laughed: "It turns out a person really laughs a little when they are speechless. She Dengke's fart is even more powerful than your sword qi, Liu Quxing isn't bad, he always farts!"

"You are too damaging, aren't you? I've only just cultivated for less than an hour?"

Old Head Yao thought for a moment: "Lu Yang nurtured his sword with the Jing Dynasty North Sea, what are you nurturing your sword with? That year, Lu Yang's father took him to walk through mountains and rivers, fully walking for a year before selecting the North Sea. You just selected the place to nurture your sword too casually, did you select this Taiping Medical Hall?"

Saying this, Old Head Yao was angry at his incompetence: "Since you have the Sword Seed gate, you should have told me earlier so I could take you out for a walk and select the best place to nurture your sword. Whether it's the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains in the southwest, or the Seven Divine Mountains of the Esoteric Sect, they are all better than here, ah. How can this kind of thing be decided casually."

Chen Ji pointed to the east and said: "Master, the place I chose to nurture my sword is the sun!"

Old Head Yao's face froze, he slowly lifted his head and looked at the rising morning sun: "You..."

At this time, sneaky sounds came from outside the courtyard wall: "Bai Li, Bai Li, you step on me and climb up, slowly, slowly, don't fall."

The crows flew into the sky and left.

Chen Ji turned his head to look at the courtyard wall, just seeing Princess Bai Li’s head peering out, quietly observing the inside of the courtyard.

"Wa, Chen Ji, Imperial Physician Yao, you're awake? Good morning, ah!"

Bai Li stepped on the Prince’s shoulder and swayed as she greeted them.

Chen Ji was puzzled: "Princess Bai Li, you and the Prince are also up so early?"

Princess Bai Li explained with a smile: "We all finished our early class at Mr. Wang's place. Mr. Wang is very strict, my brother's palm got hit with the board again this morning!"

Outside the courtyard wall, the Prince urged: "Bai Li, you flip over first and then chat."

Bai Li supported herself with both hands, flipped over, and came into the courtyard along the ladder.

Old Head Yao looked at her familiar appearance, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Chen Ji with a sinking face.

Chen Ji hurriedly said: "Master, the passage fee will all be given to you."

"Almost forgot!" Old Head Yao’s eyebrows relaxed, he stood up and carried the bamboo strip into the apprentice bedroom: "You chat, I'll go wake up She Dengke and Liu Quxing."

A moment later, the ghost cries and wolf howls of the two senior brothers sounded from inside the room.

One covered his butt and went to fetch water, the other covered his butt and went to sweep the ground.

Liang Cat then happily drilled into the kitchen to make food.

Surprisingly, Princess Bai Li actually rolled up her sleeves and went into the kitchen, skillfully digging a spoon of lard into the pot, looking like she was preparing to help make food.

Chen Ji was puzzled: "Why is the Princess so skilled?"

Bai Li laughed: "We were all like this in the academy, ah, the teachers don't allow us to bring book boys, everyone has to be self-reliant."

"Everyone is self-reliant?"

"Not exactly!"

Bai Li thought for a bit and said: "Some with very good family backgrounds will use money to let classmates with not so good family backgrounds help wash clothes and make food, so they can live more comfortably! My brother also wanted to do that, but I wrote a letter to Father and reported him."

Outside the kitchen door frame, the Prince leaned against it and said powerlessly: "Bai Li, if you think this way, some scholars from fallen families who want to enter the East Forest Academy have already used the entire family's strength just for the tuition fees... But they still have to take exams afterward, after the county exam they still have to go to the capital to participate in the metropolitan exam, and if they pass the metropolitan exam, they still need to buy a house and land in the capital, all of which requires money. We save effort, they earn money, what's not good about that?"

"Anyway, it's not okay."

With a sizzling sound, the Princess skillfully stir-fried the oil in the pot, poured in the washed and cut cabbage, and made a dish of sour and spicy cabbage. The fragrance floated into the courtyard.

The previous Taiping Medical Hall was like a forgotten corner of the world, but now it was like a bustling courtyard full of life.

This liveliness pulled Chen Ji back to the human world from the official world. He struggled to stand up, lay on the bamboo chair, and slowly closed his eyes, tired.

Chen Ji gathered the molten flow in the sixteen-lamp furnace and fell deep into the dark cloud sea again, returning to that ancient battlefield.

Chen Ji fell onto the green mountain and opened his eyes, only to see Xuanyuan wearing gold armor, holding a king's banner in his hand, sitting on the mountaintop.

"Communicated well!"

Xuanyuan slowly stood up: "You didn't lie before... The star you chose, let me guess, with your character you should choose the brightest one in the sky - Sirius. But even Sirius, it takes several years for divine sense to arrive, how could you possibly complete it in one hour?"

Chen Ji was silent for a moment: "I chose the sun, it's quite close, you might not realize, the sun is also a star."

"The sun! You actually chose the sun? You once plucked away the brightest star in the sky and didn't cherish it, now you're plucking away another one."

"Um?"

On the green mountain, a breeze blew over the banners. Xuanyuan stood firmly on the cliff, as if he had become a statue.

Chen Ji asked seriously: "I borrowed the sun's fire and cultivated the first wisp of sword qi. But the sword qi's power is very small, and it's gone after it's used. I saw you on the battlefield earlier, your sword shuttle was incomparably sharp and unbreakable, how do you forge that kind of sword?"

Xuanyuan suddenly said: "Go back, I don't want to teach!"

Chen Ji lifted his head: "Saying you won't teach means you won't teach? People should be honest, ah."

"An hour ago you said you could teach, and an hour later, you say you won't teach again, isn't that a bit too casual?

"As you say, anyway, I won't teach." Xuanyuan held up the king's banner and walked down the mountain: "Don't come back later."

Chen Ji was anxious.

He followed behind Xuanyuan, all the way down the mountain.

Xuanyuan took steps of more than ten zhang, as if walking on flat ground. Chen Ji could only stumble down the mountain path, chasing after him.

Fortunately, he was in this dream realm without illness or injury, otherwise just running down the mountain would be painful to death.

"Hey, walk slower, let's discuss it again, ah!"

Chen Ji shouted: "Why don't you teach me? Is it because I chose the wrong place to nurture my sword, or because of our past grudges?"

"You don't need to know." Xuanyuan said as he walked: "You and I have enmity, I don't want to teach my enemy."

Chen Ji hurriedly said: "Although I am indeed not the person you know, I see you are handsome and strong, upright and unyielding. I think you have enmity with him, it's not necessarily his fault. If he did something inappropriate, I apologize to you on his behalf, ha."

Xuanyuan suddenly turned around at the bottom of the mountain, his face calm as he looked at Chen Ji: "?"

He was stunned, finding it hard to believe: "You apologize to me? Apologize so easily?"

Chen Ji nodded: "Very sincere!"

Xuanyuan laughed heartily: "Did you all hear? He apologized to me, he actually apologized to me."

"Do you want to learn the Sword Seed gate that much?" Xuanyuan asked in a condensed voice.

Chen Ji: "Want to learn!"

"Okay!" Xuanyuan waved his big hand.

However, he saw that the solidified battlefield came alive, and a burly soldier walked out from the battle formation, holding a long halberd, kneeling on one knee: "King, what is the matter you summoned?"

Xuanyuan pointed to Chen Ji: "Kill him!"

Saying this, he looked at Chen Ji again: "I won't take advantage of you, his realm has been suppressed low, only one level higher than you now. Win against him, and I'll teach you."

"This?"

Chen Ji looked at the burly man swinging his halberd. The huge bronze long halberd drew a whistling wind sound in the air, shaking his eardrums with pain.

Hiss...

Chen Ji sucked in a cold breath and woke up from the bamboo lounge chair.

Before he could even react, he had already been chopped to death by the giant halberd soldier.

The pain felt so real, as if everything just now was not a dream, but he had truly died once.

Did this Xuanyuan really seize the opportunity to get revenge and vent his hatred?

At this time, Bai Li was still stir-frying in the kitchen, and the Prince was sitting on the bamboo lounge chair next to him cracking melon seeds. He saw Chen Ji wake up with his soul not yet settled, and said curiously: "How, had a nightmare?"

Chen Ji shook his head: "Nothing!"

Saying this, he actually gathered the molten flow again and quickly fell into the dark cloud sea, falling onto the green mountain.

However, this time, the giant halberd soldier was actually waiting here early.

Before he could react, he was stabbed through the heart by the bronze halberd again.

Xuanyuan laughed: "Did you even forget battle awareness? All battles in this world are about soldiers not tiring of deceit, using full strength. If you even forget battle awareness, what's the use of learning my Sword Seed gate?"

However, Chen Ji let fresh blood spray from his mouth, turned his head to look at Xuanyuan, and laughed: "Again."

"Um?"

Xuanyuan raised his eyebrows, his eyes lit up slightly.

The next moment, Chen Ji calmly opened his eyes on the bamboo lounge chair, then closed them again, returning to the battlefield.

As he fell into the dark cloud sea, he instantly bent down, avoiding the whistling wind sound overhead.

The iron halberd chopped horizontally from above, but it chopped empty.

Chen Ji actually picked up a piece of stone from the ground and held it in his hand.

Taking advantage of the declining momentum of the bronze halberd, he pounced towards the giant halberd soldier.

When he approached, he saw the giant halberd soldier suddenly abandon the bronze halberd, draw a bronze short knife from his waist, and stab towards him.

The giant halberd soldier thought this knife would stab Chen Ji, but no.

He suddenly lifted his head, actually discovering that Chen Ji had actually carried up the discarded bronze halberd on the ground and ran down the mountain.

Xuanyuan showed a hesitant expression for the first time.

"Admit defeat?"