Chapter 179

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Chapter 179: Oh, Life!

Five Elements Sect, Mountain Gate

In Zhang Wanjing’s cave, Lin Jiang is learning about Spiritual Farmer’s earnings in the Spiritual Herb Garden with his master. They teach with care and Lin Jiang respectfully calls him "master".

After a while, when they finished their busy work, Lin Jiang turned around and saw Zhang Shuhua looking on.

"Why did Senior Brother come out?"

"Feeling bored inside, just came out for a look. I see you really enjoy growing these things."

"Don’t you think farming is a great thing? Just like taking care of flowers and plants."

"This is the Purple Origin Taoist Fruit. It would cause chaos if taken out. It’s not the same as flowers and plants."

"They’re all the same."

Lin Jiang said there wasn’t much difference, just a little more complicated than flowers and plants. If he studied hard, his level would improve rapidly.

"You guys chat first, I’ll leave first."

"Master, you didn’t stay and have a cup of tea. It’s the exclusive tea for the Nascent Soul Elder, grown in the advanced Spiritual Herb Garden. I’ll secretly give you some."

"Forget it, if Zhang Martial Uncle gets angry, I won’t be able to bear it."

"Don’t worry, my master still owes me money. Consider it as interest then."

"Haha, I’ll go first."

Zhang Shuhua’s face turned black on the side. You really have the nerve to steal his dad’s tea in front of him.

Lin Jiang saw the person off, and when he came back, he sat down next to Zhang Shuhua and took out a pack of tea leaves to brew a pot for him.

"Don’t worry, I didn’t steal it from your dad, I bought it myself."

"Can you please be more serious? We’re almost a hundred years old."

"Am I not a serious person?"

"I’m getting married soon."

"I heard that, the single dog camp is losing an important member."

Lin Jiang made a sad expression, and Zhang Shuhua’s face looked even worse.

"Don’t you want to get married too?"

"Why bother with that thing? I have money and can be a groom every night, while you can only do it once."

"It’s important to be steady in life, experiencing birth, aging, illness, and death – only then life becomes meaningful."

"Never mind, you can experience it yourself, I don’t need it."

Lin Jiang shook his head. He was almost 100,000 years old, even older than Zhang Shuhua’s father. What’s the rush?

"If you have time, help me take a look at the bride. I haven’t seen her yet."

"I won’t go, but I can take you to Palace Banquet for some fun, if you want to go."

"If I weren’t just healed, I would have definitely grabbed you and given you a beating."

"Even if you were healed, you wouldn’t be my match. Fighting you is like playing."

"Just go away, I don’t want to talk to you anymore."

Zhang Shuhua was so upset, he was very angry.

"Just kidding! How are you doing now? If not, would you like me to get you two healing pills to eat?"

"It’s okay now, another six months of rest and you’ll fully recover."

Zhang Shuhua shook his head. He had already taken the healing pill given by Shi Yuntang, but his meridians were still weak. He needed another six months to recuperate.

"I’m not happy that you won’t be able to take revenge anymore."

Lin Jiang said. Zhang Shuhua was ambushed by someone. Shi Yuntang sent people to investigate for over a year, but they stopped because they claimed there were no clues. But Lin Jiang didn’t believe it. He believed that some Nascent Soul Elder was behind this. Shi Yuntang didn’t want two Nascent Soul cultivators to fight, causing great harm to the Five Elements Sect.

"I didn’t even say anything. Why are you upset?"

"Your life has been ruined. You should be focusing on reaching golden core stage, not thinking about getting married."

"You can still breakthrough after getting married."

"Nonsense!"

Lin Jiang said coldly. Zhang Shuhua is older than him, over a hundred years old. At his age, competing for the sect’s foundation-building treasure doesn’t have any hope unless Zhang Wanjing gives him special privileges.

But with Zhang Wanjing’s personality, this is impossible, the rare treasures can only be obtained from outside, but the chance of finding such treasures in the market is very low.

For now, we can only wait for the Yunzhong City Centennial Celebration in about ten years, but we don’t know how many treasures will appear at the celebration. There will definitely be fierce competition then.

Moreover, even if they manage to buy it by then, Zhang Shuhua would have wasted several decades of time, which is very detrimental. That’s why Zhang Wanjing is thinking of finding a wife for him to get married. It means that Zhang Wanjing no longer has much hope for Zhang Shuhua’s path and has started practicing the trumpet instead.

"Don’t be so resistant to getting married, it’s a normal thing. Lin Batian from Anhua City has dozens of children and is still progressing bravely. After my dad got married, he also advanced to the Nascent Soul stage."

"I don’t want to talk to you anymore, I’m leaving."

Lin Jiang waved his hand and walked away directly. Zhang Shuhua’s words made sense, but he didn’t accept it.

Lin Batian and Zhang Wanjing can only be considered as special cases and don’t represent the norm. The common situation is that cultivators only consider getting married when they have no hope in their own path and cannot progress further.

Because the majority of people cannot achieve absolute rationality and are influenced by their desires and emotions. Once they get married and have children, their energy will inevitably be divided within the family. If their son is not talented, it’s okay, but if he becomes talented, the resources will be further divided, making it harder to focus on cultivation.

At least Lin Jiang can’t do it. He is not like Lin Batian in terms of character or ability. Therefore, he will not consider getting married. Of course, the most important thing is that he has not yet met a woman who can move his heart.

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"Senior Brother Xiao"

Yue Qing saw Lin Jiang arrive and quickly stood up.

"It’s nothing, please sit. I came to see how things have been going in the past few days."

"Everything has been taken care of."

Yue Qing said. Now, the Five Elements Sect’s market is booming. Their business is very successful, which makes many people jealous. Various problems keep arising.

Among them, there were disciples with good skills who opened their own private kitchens and secretly sold food, taking away a lot of their business. Yue Qing used some means to disrupt their business, which wasn’t very honorable.

"Did you have a falling out with them?"

"No, they joined us. They’re now a part of our own group."

"Well done"

"The senior brother’s teaching is good, always leave room for others"

"Yes, be more careful in the future. The use of the sect’s authority should not be taken lightly. If used excessively, the consequences can be severe"

Lin Jiang nodded. He had agreed to this matter before. There was no choice but to use the authority to disrupt the person’s business. This involved a dispute of interests, and they needed to monopolize in order to ensure their own interests.

This was also Lin Jiang’s experience through two generations. When doing business, one should not be too kind, and certainly not thin-skinned. As a prominent businessman from Blue Star once said. Face is the least valuable. If face could be exchanged for money, he would gladly take it off and stomp on it.

"I understand, senior brother"

"As for the foundation-building treasures of the sect, you and I basically have no chance. Save up some money and try our luck in Yunzhong City"

Lin Jiang added, although they were wealthy and had reached a sufficient level of cultivation, they were basically unable to obtain the foundation-building treasures of the Five Elements Sect.

That’s because they were not talented enough. The true geniuses start cultivating at the age of twelve, build their foundations in their twenties, and can complete their foundation-building in their seventies or eighties, or even younger. Meanwhile, they were almost a hundred years old, and age was a significant factor.

"Senior Brother, really can’t ask Uncle Zhang Wanjing for help?"

Yue Qing asked, still finding it difficult to understand why Zhang Wanjing was willing to let them run the cafeteria and supply Talisman Hall with food but not help them in this matter. The other elders weren’t as lenient.

"No, can’t."

"I don’t quite understand. I can let it go, but Senior Brother is a personal disciple and even has a biological son."

"People are complicated. They will go all out to protect what they’re willing to protect, but they will ignore anything outside of their goals."

"Don’t understand."

"Ask your uncle, then you’ll know."

Lin Jiang said, everyone is conflicting. He is like that, and Zhang Wanjing is the same. Zhang Wanjing allows them to make money, but he won’t allow them to use their power to acquire treasure pills. The other elders won’t be able to mess around anymore. Before, Zhang Wanjing didn’t have the authority, but now he does.

What Zhang Wanjing considers, Lin Jiang knows some of it, so he never expected Zhang Wanjing to help him obtain treasure pills. Besides, he has his own way of getting them.

After many years of ups and downs, Lin Jiang’s wealth has far exceeded the average building foundation. When he was in the Yunzhong Mountain Range, the total value of the average building foundation was only about two or three hundred thousand spirit stones. Those powerful building foundations in the Wilderness had a wealth of only seven or eight hundred thousand. But Lin Jiang had long surpassed this number.

"The poor have no place to stand, while the rich have vast fields and abundant resources. I am that wealthy person, perhaps even a little unfeeling towards wealth."

Lin Jiang said in his heart, after so many years of wandering, he finally reached the stage of a capitalist. In the end, he became the person he despised the most. Such is life.