Chapter 896: Chapter 572: Lv Potian’s Little Schemes

Elder Long’s cave mansion looks extremely simple. To say it’s simple would be an understatement; in Lu Lin’s eyes, if he were to describe it, it would be dilapidated.

The small path in front of the cave mansion is shabby, full of holes, and dust flies everywhere. Such a broken path is rarely seen even in some remote regions of the Human Federation.

The cave mansion’s main gate is merely a black-gray wooden board. From its appearance, it’s unclear whose house they borrowed the bed board from, then tied it with two iron wires to become the cave mansion’s main gate.

When Elder Long led Lu Lin through the door, he used his hand to lift the gate open.

After all, he is one of the Seven Great Elders of such a Holy Land as General Mountain. How can he live in such an environment?

Lu Lin thought that even if Elder Long didn’t care about some comforts of the outside world, what about the rest of the people on General Mountain? Do they show no respect for the Elder at all, letting him live in such conditions?

Lu Lin was speechless, but luckily, upon entering the cave mansion, what he saw somewhat calmed him down.

The clean and tidy room, with only a bed and a chair inside, although there was no table, every corner was organized neatly, allowing Lu Lin to feel some goodwill.

"Elder Long, do you usually live here?"

"Isn’t it somewhat too simple?"

Standing inside the empty room, Lu Lin finally couldn’t help but ask.

Only to see Elder Long take a deep breath, look around, and reveal a slightly strange expression on his face.

"Lu Lin, this is not where I usually live, but... where I have prepared for my disciples."

"What?"

"Prepared for disciples?"

Lu Lin widened his eyes, as Elder Long is rumored to have never sought disciples or a Dao Companion and has always been by himself. How come he specifically prepared a room for disciples, and it’s such a dilapidated place...

Wait a minute!

Lu Lin suddenly thought of something.

Previously, Elder Long indeed didn’t have disciples, but today, the Seven Great Elders are simultaneously accepting disciples. Though nominally called a teacher-student relationship, Lu Lin knows it’s merely a pretext.

The seven elders will take turns teaching, and each will impart their special skills to Lu Lin—how could it be just as simple as a student-teacher relationship?

Doesn’t that mean that starting today, Lu Lin is Elder Long’s disciple?

Then looking at the surroundings, this place is where Elder Long has provided for disciples, so isn’t it meant for Lu Lin?

"Ahem, Lu Lin, don’t mind these things."

"As the saying goes, money is just something external. These arrangements, decorations, and so on are all external; they don’t contribute in the slightest to your cultivation."

"If you focus too much on these things, then you’re getting attached to them."

Elder Long forcefully explained, but Lu Lin remained unmoved.

If one can’t sweep the floor, how can they sweep the world?

Even if Lu Lin doesn’t have much pursuit or desire for material things, at least it needs to be clean and tidy to meet his daily living needs.

Washing, dressing, entertaining guests, eating—these basic requirements are not excessive for a genius like Lu Lin. He’s even excluded many unnecessary aspects of life.

But now, with only a chair and a bed in the whole room, Lu Lin looked at the righteous face of Elder Long, not knowing what to say.

Forget it, let him say what he wants. Once Elder Long leaves, I’ll arrange it myself.

Seeing Lu Lin no longer paying attention to this matter, Elder Long also exposed a faint smile on his face.

Not bad.

"Lu Lin, now let me tell you about the Thousand-Layer Mountain Protection Array."

Elder Long sat on the only chair in the room and slowly narrated to Lu Lin.

The Mountain Protection Array on General Mountain is indeed not exaggerated in saying it’s thousand-layered. In reality, the accurate count of General Mountain’s protection array layers should be 8,455.

Just a thousand or so layers away from reaching 10,000 layers.

These mountain protection arrays weren’t completed in one single time period.

Starting from a million years ago, when General Mountain was born, the arrangement began. Every generation of Array Masters would arrange mountain protection arrays on the mountain.

On one hand, they can implement their ideas through arranging formations, allowing the Array Master’s disciples to continually learn and broaden their horizons.

On the other hand, they can block some demon beasts from above, as well as certain malevolent competitors. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

At that time, there were indeed hundreds of Holy Lands in Longyuan World, and among them, relations weren’t ironclad.

Some had close relationships, and naturally, there were those that were deadly enemies.

For safety considerations, General Mountain constructing and arranging mountain protection arrays was only reasonable.

Later, as the number of Holy Lands gradually reduced, some enemies of General Mountain vanished too. Originally, the arrangement of protection arrays could be temporarily postponed, but at that time the senior-level of General Mountain came to know even more terrifying news.

Those enemies didn’t naturally disappear; nor did they provoke someone and get eliminated, but suddenly vanished without a trace.

This further alarmed everyone on General Mountain, the matter of arranging mountain protection arrays not only wasn’t shelved but became a long-term task.

As time passed, millions of years went by, under the era-by-era leadership and promotion of General Mountain’s Saint Lords, the protection arrays reached more than eight thousand layers, this terrifying number.

What’s more crucial is, these eight thousand layers of protection arrays aren’t independent existences from each other.