Am I the old man who's always by my apprentices' side?

Chapter 85: Three Apprentices

In the character list, unsurprisingly, the name was gold.

Zhang Chengdao coughed a few times, forcibly suppressing his mouth, which was even harder to suppress than an AK. He felt that even the usually rebellious and troublesome Emperor Ruyan looked handsome.

He emphasized again, "Ahem, you and I do indeed have a master-disciple relationship, but you must think it through. If you enter the path of immortality, all your true energy will truly dissipate. Are you willing to give it up?"

Ye Shuyun smiled slightly: "I'm willing to part with it."

Zhang Chengdao nodded in satisfaction: "Alright, since that's the case, I'll accept you as my disciple. However, although you are the oldest, here we follow the order of entry into the sect, so you should be the third, with one senior brother and one senior sister above you."

"Disciples must obey Master's teachings."

After speaking, Ye Shuyun unexpectedly turned around precisely, bowed to Murong Ruyan beside her, and greeted her, saying, "Greetings, Senior Sister."

"Huh? Junior brother?"

Murong Ruyan was still somewhat bewildered.

She just wanted to try and cure Ye Shuyun with the medicine her master sold, hoping to repay the favor. But she never expected that her master would take her into the sect and make her his junior brother!?

My junior brother is seven or eight years older than me...

Murong Ruyan's expression grew increasingly complicated.

If the master takes the person in directly, how can I expect to repay the favor...?

Zhang Chengdao had no idea what Murong Ruyan was thinking. He was quite pleased with his new "gold card" and earnestly instructed her, "Hmm... I'll have Manager Xu explain some of the sect's rules to you. As for cultivation, we can wait until your senior brother returns to teach you. There's no rush. As for your room, you can come with me... uh, can you come over?"

Although he could roughly guess that the cracks in the ground wouldn't be an obstacle for someone like Ye Shuyun, Zhang Chengdao still showed concern.

"can."

Ye Shuyun nodded first, then turned to Ye Chengyu and said, "Chengyu, now that I have joined the White Stone Immortal Sect, you should go back first and tell my brothers and parents that I will go back to visit them after my eyes are healed."

Ye Chengyu was shocked: "Oh no! No, no, no! Seventh Brother, how can you live here by yourself? This is absolutely unacceptable!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chengdao said understandingly, "Well, if this young friend is worried, he might as well stay at Baishi Mountain and leave when Shuyun's eyes are a little better."

Of course, it would be even better if you could help chop wood and mine ore while you're at it.

Ye Chengyu cupped his hands in greeting and shamelessly replied, "Then this lad will gladly accept your offer!"

As soon as Ye Chengyu finished speaking, Zhang Chengdao noticed that a character card with a blue name had appeared in his character panel.

This blue-named character card belongs to Ye Chengyu, and unlike Chang Ping'an, Murong Ruyan, and the newly joined Ye Shuyun, the relationship column does not show "Master and Disciple," but rather "None," indicating that it is a temporary character card.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Chengyu said to Ye Shuyun, "Seventh Brother, I'll send the carriage back first, make some arrangements, and then come back!"

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The Ye brothers' houses were arranged in the disciples' living area, next to Murong Ruyan's.

However, since Ye Chengyu was not a staff member, he could not be assigned a room by himself, so he had to share a room with Ye Shuyun.

Therefore, Chang Ping'an, who had just returned from harvesting corn that morning, volunteered to help chop a wooden board and make a simple bed, which he then put into Ye Shuyun's room—the bedding was brought by Ye Chengyu.

After he went back to put away the carriages, he actually brought back even more carriages!
The three carriages were piled high with miscellaneous items, including bedding, incense, pottery stoves, several boxes of books and clothes, and even a considerable amount of food such as grain and cured meat. Fortunately, once the miscellaneous items were mostly unloaded, the Ye family members who had come with them drove away, so that the already impoverished White Stone Immortal Sect would not have to bear the additional cost of feeding a few horses.

After all that fuss, the house wasn't finally cleaned up until noon.

The simple yet luxurious lunch at noon opened Ye Chengyu's eyes to a whole new world.

The lunch was "simple" because it was served on two low tables placed side by side, and everyone sat on small wooden stools, unlike the proper, prestigious families that had dedicated kitchens and restaurants.

The "luxury" comes from the dishes on the table.

It's all divine food!
This brings us to the fact that the tea served to the martial artists at the Sword Forging Manor during this martial arts tournament was "Spirit Wheat Tea".

This was something no one had ever heard of before, but anyone who drank it immediately turned into a water buffalo, wishing they could drink until they were stuffed to death.

This tea is made from the legendary "immortal wheat," which is not only fragrant but also has a certain therapeutic effect on the chronic illnesses of most martial artists. It is said that even the Jade Void Sect sent people to inquire about how to buy this "immortal tea"!
As a member of the Ye family, the wealthiest family in Jiangnan, Ye Chengyu naturally recognized the wonders of this spiritual wheat tea and the profits behind it.

No matter how much they hinted or suggested, Wanqi Zhongqiu, that old fox, wouldn't budge. It was only after his own men went to several nearby counties to inquire that they found out that Huiyou Escort Agency sold a type of wheat called "Lingmai," which seemed to be the raw material for Lingmai tea!
Unfortunately, it is said that the production of spirit wheat is limited and cannot be supplied in large quantities, which caused Ye Chengyu to sigh and lament for a time, but he never expected...

Unexpectedly!

Compared to the shāolaozi lingmai tea, this table of heavenly food is the epitome of extravagance!

Ye Chengyu had only taken a bite of a steamed bun when he felt his internal energy channels become much smoother!

After eating another boiled corn, the wound on my shoulder that Chang Ping'an had poked me with was completely healed!
After eating some more Dongpo pork and lion's head meatballs, he couldn't hold on any longer. He apologized at the dinner table and ran to the courtyard to sit down and meditate.

Before long, Ye Chengyu successfully broke through to the fifth rank. His face was radiant and he felt refreshed. He even found Chang Ping'an much more pleasing to the eye.

He hesitated for a long time before returning to the dining table. He excitedly bowed deeply to Zhang Chengdao and volunteered, "Immortal Zhang, what do you think of me? Can I become your disciple? I eat little but do a lot, and my aptitude should be quite good!"

Zhang Chengdao glanced at the blue character card in the character panel and refused without hesitation: "We have no master-disciple relationship, so there's no need to force it."

Ye Chengyu, who had been a prodigy since childhood, had never suffered such a blow. He immediately wilted like a frostbitten eggplant, his face drooping. Somewhat unwillingly, he continued to struggle, saying, "Immortal Zhang, I can endure hardship!"

Zhang Chengdao shook his head: "This has nothing to do with whether you can endure hardship or not. With your aptitude, it will be very difficult for you to cultivate immortality. Even if you could, cultivating immortality would require abandoning your true qi cultivation. Are you really willing to let go of that?"

Lan Ka is barely qualified to be an outer disciple, let alone his own apprentice.

Moreover, judging from Ye Chengyu's temperament, he is not suitable to become an outer disciple and spend a long time mining and cutting down trees.

Because once he enters the sect, with the face of his three disciples, should he take care of him or not?

If we take care of them, is that fair to others? If we don't take care of them, even if Ye Shuyun has no objection, will Ye Chengyu be able to keep his temper in check?

We're all from the Ye family, so why is it that you, as an inner disciple, rise so high while I'm stuck in the outer sect mining?

Even siblings can turn against each other over a difference between a Tsinghua University graduate and a junior college graduate, completely disregarding their own talents and abilities, their hearts filled only with resentment. This is even more true for Ye Shuyun and Ye Chengyu, who are just cousins.

The thought of the trouble that would follow gave Zhang Chengdao a headache, so he thought it would be better not to accept it at all in the first place!

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