Proving one's path through killing—this kind of merit is poisonous!

Chapter 37 The Robbery
The two hit it off immediately!
Gu Jinhe and Zhou Yue turned and walked towards the miscellaneous affairs hall, not even bothering with the chicken legs in the kitchen.

When Lin Tinglan arrived outside the miscellaneous affairs hall, she had just stepped out of the room and was about to lock it when she turned around and saw the two of them, causing her to stop what she was doing.

"You came to see me?" Lin Tinglan raised an eyebrow and asked.

Seeing them nod, he hesitated for a moment, then pushed open the door and said, "Come in and let's talk!"

The furnishings in the miscellaneous affairs hall remained the same as before, except that there were a few more wooden plaques hanging on the walls.

Gu Jinhe first took out his wooden token and said, "Senior brother, I have been in the alchemy room for ten days. Please calculate my points."

"Let me see."

Lin Tinglan took the wooden tablet and sensed it for a while. She discovered that Xu Lingyu had indeed left ten traces of her aura within it. Only then did she open her eyes and pick up her pen to record them:

Gu Jinhe, Qi Refining Level 1, spent ten days tending the fire in the alchemy room and earned a total of 100 points.

He looked up at Zhou Yue again and asked, "Junior Sister Zhou, do you have any spiritual herbs to exchange for points?"

Lin Tinglan had been waiting for her in the miscellaneous affairs hall for so many days, but she only came once or twice, and each time there was only one spiritual herb. This was not like the level she should have at the first level of Qi Refining.

He had originally planned to inspect the medicinal herb fields, but he had been busy with many matters lately, and the entire sect was preoccupied with the matter of the sect leader's daughter being found and brought back to the sect, so he had no time to attend to anything else.

Unexpectedly, they came to our door on their own.

"Have!"

Zhou Yue and Gu Jinhe exchanged a glance, their words resounding.

On the way there, Gu Jinhe remembered that planting medicinal herbs in the herb field was Zhou Yue's task, so she returned the storage bag to her.

At this moment, she naturally took out the storage bag and took out all the spiritual herbs inside.

Suddenly, a pile of spiritual herbs, half a person's height, appeared in the room, making Lin Tinglan's eyes widen in amazement.

The last time I saw so many medicinal herbs was when that disciple named Zhang Lang brought them.

Everyone knew where he got his spiritual herbs, but since the elders turned a blind eye, he couldn't interfere. Thinking of this, Lin Tinglan's expression suddenly turned strange, and she asked, "You're not going to do what that Junior Brother Zhang did and steal the spiritual herbs from the other disciples' herb fields, are you?"

"Pah, pah, pah!" Hearing that name made Zhou Yue feel uncomfortable all over, and she said irritably, "Who wants to learn from him? Besides, stealing other disciples, do you think I have the strength to beat them?"

"I misunderstood." Lin Tinglan readily apologized, then used her spiritual power to investigate, and within two breaths, she knew the total number of spiritual herbs.

One hundred and fifty plants!

Lin Tinglan's expression turned serious.

"Junior Sister Zhou, it seems you really need to tell us the origin of these spiritual herbs."

If an individual submits more than a certain quantity of spiritual herbs, it must be reported. Zhang Lang, however, was fearless. Whenever asked, he would say that the herbs were taken from other disciples.

They only choose to complete the task without verifying or confirming anything, and the same is true now.

Zhou Yue glanced at Gu Jinhe again, but Lin Tinglan immediately waved her away, saying, "I'm asking the question, you just answer it. What's with all this staring at Junior Sister Gu?"

After saying that, he returned to the counter, picked up a brush, dipped it in ink, and then looked up at Zhou Yue, waiting for her reply.

Feeling pressured by being stared at like that, she honestly replied, "I stole it."

Anyway, Junior Sister Gu didn't say that this couldn't be told to outsiders.

Lin Tinglan paused, staring into Zhou Yue's eyes with a cold expression, and said, "Didn't you just say you didn't steal the spiritual herbs from those disciples?"

It was enough that there were scoundrels like Zhang Lang in the miscellaneous servants' quarters; he genuinely hoped that this junior sister wouldn't go astray.

"But we're after Senior Brother Zhang Lang!"

At this moment, Gu Jinhe interjected.

As she spoke, the corners of her lips turned up, and she added, "Senior Brother Lin, you certainly wouldn't write something carelessly, right?"

(End of this chapter)