Today was the second night watch, and there was more in the afternoon!
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In the past month, almost all the nominal disciples knew Wang Lin. When they saw him, they showed a superior expression and spoke viciously and sarcastically.
Wang Lin ignored them. He knew that these nominal disciples were all twisted and perverted. Before he came, these people were at the bottom of the sect, and they had no way to vent their bitterness. Now he came. He entered the sect by committing suicide, and his status was undoubtedly lower than that of the nominal disciples, so he became a target for everyone to bully.
He sneered in his heart, knowing that this kind of thing could not be solved by resistance. In the sect, the strong were respected. Those nominal disciples who entered the sect earlier than him were all very strong, and some even learned some simple magic arts. If he resisted, he would be the one to suffer.
However, Wang Lin was not that kind of soft persimmon. He remembered all the sarcastic faces in his heart and waited to return them one by one when his strength increased.
With this idea, he was like a deaf and blind person. No matter what others said, he still went his own way. Every day, in addition to fetching water, he secretly studied the mysterious bead.
He tried to soak the bead with various liquids, spring water, dew, sweat, and even blood. In the end, he found that dew was the best.
However, there were differences in dew. The dew that appeared on the stone bead in the morning was the best, and the dew at night was the second. If the dew collected from other objects was soaked in the bead, the effect was even worse.
By analogy, the spring water was the least effective, and the blood and sweat had almost no effect at all.
In order not to attract attention, he specially found a few wild small gourds in the mountains. After pulling out all the seeds, he used them to hold different dew.
He did not carry these gourds with him, but found a remote place and buried them deep in the ground in different positions. He never took them back to the sect except for taking them out when he collected them every day.
What he carried with him was the gourd with spring water. When he was tired, he drank a few mouthfuls and immediately felt refreshed.
In addition, Wang Lin also discovered a strange phenomenon. Whenever dew appeared on the stone bead at night or early in the morning, the surface of the bead would look like it was full of water droplets, but when it was actually collected, more than half of the dew would mysteriously disappear. At most, less than one-tenth of the dew would be left.
For this strange phenomenon, Wang Lin could only conclude that the dew was absorbed by the bead. Although this explanation was somewhat absurd, Wang Lin really couldn't think of any other explanation.
One evening, Wang Lin filled up the remaining three jars of water and said to the yellow-clothed youth who was meditating, "Senior Brother Liu, I'm going home for a while. I won't be coming tomorrow."
The youth surnamed Liu rolled his eyes and glanced at Wang Lin. He snorted.
Wang Lin didn't care. He learned from Zhang Hu that honorary disciples could go home three times a year to visit their family. They could apply to an elder surnamed Sun at any time and ask for a talisman that would allow them to come and go as they pleased.
Wang Lin remembered that his father's birthday was coming up, so he had to go home no matter what. After leaving the chore house, he went to the elder in charge of honorary disciples.
The Heng Yue Sect was divided into five subdivisions, one main courtyard, and six courtyards. The five subdivisions were metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Each had an honorary disciple living there.
Most of the inner disciples and elders lived in the main courtyard. Normally, when he fetched water, he would watch from afar and be filled with envy. This time, he carefully looked around and stood outside the main courtyard and loudly said, "Honorary disciple Wang Lin requests to see Elder Sun."
A young man wearing white walked out of the main courtyard. He looked at Wang Lin and arrogantly said, "You are Wang Lin?"
Seeing that the other person was wearing white, Wang Lin's heart tightened and he nodded.
He now knew that the Heng Yue Sect disciples were divided into different colors according to their rank.
Honorary disciples were divided into grey and yellow. Yellow meant they were qualified to practice immortal spells.
As for the inner court disciples, according to their own strength, from high to low, their clothes were divided into four colors, purple, black, white, and red.
The white clothed youth's mouth twitched. He coldly looked at Wang Lin and walked into the courtyard. Wang Lin expressionlessly followed.
Walking in the main courtyard, it did not take long before he was brought to a garden with flowers and plants. The youth in white said lazily, "Martial Uncle Sun, there is an in-name disciple looking for you."
After he finished speaking, he casually stood to the side.
An old voice came from the garden, "You can leave. Honorary disciple, come in."
The white clothed youth let out a chuckle and left.
Wang Lin's heart was very nervous as he pushed open the gate. The moment he walked in, he was immediately hit by the smell of medicine. Wang Lin was startled as he turned around to look at the gate. He was puzzled. There was only one gate between them, so why couldn't he smell any medicine?
The voice was dissatisfied and came from a room in the corner of the garden. "What are you doing there? Why haven't you reported your name?"
Wang Lin respectfully said, "Disciple Wang Lin greets Elder Sun. Tomorrow is my father's birthday, so disciple wants to go home."
The old voice reprimanded, "You are called Wang Lin?
So it's you. Hmph, immortal cultivators pay attention to cutting off the mortal world. If you care about the mortal world like this, don't even think about stepping into the immortal world! "
Wang Lin frowned and couldn't help but say, "Disciple hasn't learned any immortal spells, how can I be considered a cultivator?"
The other party was silent for a while. After a long time, he impatiently said, "The time limit is three days. Go quickly and return quickly. This is a Thousand Mile Talisman that can be used twice. Stick it on your leg and it will greatly increase your speed."
With that, a seemingly ordinary piece of yellow paper floated out of the window and landed at Wang Lin's feet.
Wang Lin picked it up and put it in his pocket. He knew from Zhang Hu that all honorary disciples who went out to visit relatives would receive these talismans. The Heng Yue Sect's goal was very simple. They wanted to use the disciples who went home to visit relatives to show off their immortal spells and attract more children to take the entrance test.
This talisman was actually very poor quality. The only good thing about it was that it was easy to use. You only needed to stick it on your leg to use it.
For mortals, it could increase their speed.
However, there were many inner sect disciples who were keen to accumulate it. It was said that it could be used to exchange for things in the outside world. The honorary disciples all treated it like a treasure. Some of them were even more reluctant to use it, so they used the excuse of visiting relatives to save up a lot.
Walking out of the main courtyard, Wang Lin pondered for a bit and then walked back to his residence. He packed his luggage in his room, said goodbye to Zhang Hu, and then went down the mountain.
At this time, the sky was filled with stars. Wang Lin originally planned to leave tomorrow, but he wasn't sure how fast he would be after using the talisman. He was afraid of delaying his father's birthday, so he decided to travel through the night.
Not long after Wang Lin left, Elder Sun opened the door to his room and was about to collect some herbs. Suddenly, his expression froze. He stared at a spot near the entrance of the garden. The several strands of blue grass planted there had all withered.