"Teacher..you can't be kidding...I just have seen the pendant realm and there are many other places to explore? I have yet to see the magic cooking pot? And those treasures you have spoken of? I have yet to see all of it?!"
His eyes sparkled in bewilderment as he complained.
Lord Guotin attended to it all like an old grandfather attending to his grandson's complaints.
He then sighed at it and taught him gently: "The pendant realm is your own, you can visit it anytime you want when you get the internal energy for it; but for now, we need to get out to the forest and get those spiritual plants to cure your father."
His sharp hazel eyes were firmed as he taught him.
Yichen gulped at it.
His teacher looked quite feisty when he was serious and it would turn out bad if he didn't agree to it; furthermore, getting the sky tier spiritual plant was one important task that needed to be done. He couldn't act immature here. With the thought in mind, he turned to his master and instantly obeyed: "Yichen will obey the teacher's words."
"Hmm, that's more like it."
Lord Guotin shooked his head in composure.
With it, he closed his eyes and the two of them were immediately taken out of the pendant realm.
Yichen was back to his original body and soon got up from the bed.
"That was one bizarre adventure!"
He reacted while looking around his bed. He was back in his real world and the contrasting differences between the two worlds were apparent.
"Then, young lad, quick, get ready. We will move."
Lord Guotin urged him.
Following his teacher's words, Yichen responded livelily, "Yes teacher. Yichen is more than ready."
The lad was determined to do the things that needed to be done.
He quickly got down from his bed, put on his shoes and headed out of his room.
Lord Guotin immediately flew to sit on his shoulder.
The two slowly crossed Lin Zhang's room so that they won't wake him up; after that, they closed the door quietly.
Then they were good to go and headed out to the reserved forest area of the Lin clan.
Because it was in the middle of the night, everyone had gone to sleep and none had woken up. Everything was quiet and silent; it was the perfect time to do something atrocious as looting.
No one knew when Yichen had secretly moved towards the clan's forest.
As he entered the forest area, he heard various sounds of the insects. Since it was nighttime, the forest life was quite active; Yichen could feel their presence more.
Though it was the case, most of the forest resources were taken care of.
There weren't any valuable things in Yichen's vision range; as the Lin clan had already taken all of it for their several uses.
Since it was the case, Yichen moved on further in the hope of finding those sky-tier yellow cactus flowers.
Lord Guotin carefully observed the area as they moved.
Seeing that it was fruitless to continue moving as most of all the forest resources under their vision had been depleted, he quickly turned to Yichen: "Kid, stay here, I will look around."
Yichen shooked his head at it and Lord Guotin immediately flew out from his shoulder and flew up to the sky.
From there, he used his phoenix vision and scanned around to see if there were any sky-tier yellow cactus flowers nearby. As he scanned the entire area, he noticed the spiritual energy of the yellow cactus flower. It was a bit far away from where Yichen was.
The kid needed to work up his legs to get it.
Lord Guotin then soon flew back to Yichen's shoulder.
"Kid, Go towards the far north. There is a lot on that side."
His sharp hazel eyes turned towards the north as he hinted at him.
Yichen instantly obeyed his master.
"Yes."
The two of them then headed towards the far north of the Lin clan forest.
Yichen continuously asked his master if they had reached the place and his master would encourage him to walk on by tricking him that he is arriving soon.
It was arriving soon, arriving soon, till he was left exhausted and worn out. But finally, at last, they had reached the spot.
It was indeed what his teacher had said, plentiful sky-tier yellow cactus flowers were blooming beautifully under the moonlight.
Yichen's face brightened upon seeing it. All of his weariness had faded away as he saw those fully bloom flowers.
"Kid, it seems like your clansmen also knew of this spot as they have set up the formation flag here. They must have been waiting for the flower to bloom fully so that they can pluck it."
Lord Guotin shared with watchful eyes.
His teacher was right; there was the Lin clan's red colour formation flag encircling the flower.
It was to protect it from other people stealing it.
Once, one entered inside the boundary of the formation flag it would activate itself and trap the person within it. Furthermore, it will alarm the Lin clansmen and they won't be able to escape from it.
The Lin clansmen were tricky in doing things.
"Too bad they have set up the formation flag here, I can blow it up but it will alert your Lin clansmen; we might be in deep trouble later. Heh... looks like, we need to run as fast as we can after we took the flower."
Lord Guotin warned as he readied himself to blow up the formation.
Seeing that his master was readying to take down the formation himself, Yichen insisted willingly: "Master, don't worry. Yichen will take care of this formation. Yichen knows how to deactivate the formation flag."
"Oh?"
Lord Guotin turned his focus to his disciple. He didn't think that the kid who didn't even learn cultivation would know about deactivating the flag formation.
It was quite surprising of him but anyway attending to his words, he flew back.
Yichen soon walked up and bit his finger with his teeth.
Drops of blood came flowing down from his finger. He then used it on one of the formation flags.
Once, his blood fell onto the formation flag; a transparent yellow colour circle immediately flickered and soon disappeared into thin air. Just like that, the formation was broken.
Lord Guotin's eyes dilated in shock.
"What!? The formation broke just like that?!"
He was stunned there. Normally, it would take a hefty task to break a formation and the kid just deactivated it with a few drops of his blood?! How is it even possible?!
Yichen grinned at his teacher's reaction and explained knowingly: "Yichen overheard it when the clansmen were talking to themselves. They were saying that the formation flag is the technique of the Lin clan and can be broken using the clan's blood."
"Hmm..so that's how it was done. That's one good job, kid. You have saved us from trouble."
Lord Guotin praised his disciple proudly and Yichen beamed at it.
"Then, hurry to take those yellow cactus flowers inside the interspatial pendant."
Lord Guotin urged his disciple.
Hopeful to see those fully blooming yellow cactus flowers, Yichen plucked them one after another and put them all into the interspatial pendant. The number of flowers he pluck was already ten, therefore, he turned to his teacher with a merry smile on his handsome face and expressed: "Teacher, let's go now, I have plucked all ten."
Lord Guotin's jaw dropped there. He couldn't believe the naivety of this kid.
There were still many yellow cactus flowers that needed to be plucked, yet this kid is saying that he plucked the ten and we can leave?!
"Why? What's wrong?"
Yichen reacted blankly at his teacher's reaction.
Lord Guotin immediately snapped out of it and shook his fluffy head.
"Kid, I can understand where your naivety is coming from. But since this Lord Guotin is here, I will teach you how to become a very cunning human being. You have to always remember that a straight tree is always cut first, therefore, you need to be cunning and flexible at times.
Now that you learn my teachings, pluck every cactus flower that is there leaving none of it. You can't possibly show mercy to the one who turns their back on you. They won't change unless you change. This spiritual plant is a costly thing and if sell it on the market you can get quite a bit sum of money for it. In your world, money is something you will need and it's not like your Lin clan will give you pocket money to use."
Lord Guotin's words stung like a sharp bee into his flesh and Yichen was left a bit wisened and hardened by it.
Whatever his teacher had said all made sense; up until now, no one had given him pocket money to use. While everyone in his age got their pocket money from the clan's bank; he never got it.
That time when he was six, he went there asking for pocket money, but instead was mocked and kicked out.
After that, he never went to the clan's bank for money; furthermore, he never knew the use of money.
Because he never went outside of his house and never made friends, he never knew what the world was like and the importance of things such as money.
Faithful Yichen cherished his master like a Godfather and didn't hesitate to heed his words; he carefully plucks every cactus flower leaving none of it.
With it, the two of them soon hurried back to their place.