"So if this isn’t life, then what is life? Don’t be fooled by this little herb garden; it contains the entire vast world. There are endless entanglements between the herbs here, yet they don’t realize it’s not their own fault for their suffering—it’s mine."

"If I hadn’t dragged them into this herb garden, if I hadn’t forcibly pieced them together, they would have been forever untouched by the mortal world. But now they’ve forgotten this fact, each desperately grabbing nutrients from the garden like a pitiful, helpless mad dog, afraid they’re going to lose out to the person next to them."

"Little do they know, this is precisely the effect I intended."

"You can’t provide too many nutrients. If all the herbs lie around fully satisfied, then they can never achieve true happiness. Out of a hundred herbs, I only supply nutrients for ninety-nine, dooming one to be eliminated. This is merely the arrangement of the herb garden’s owner, yet those that win rejoice complacently."

"They even think they can fulfill my expectations, thinking they can soar to success. In reality, who is the master and who is the dog? This has never been clarified."

"Herbs growing separately, of course, have their own flavor of life. But those I forcibly joined together—isn’t this even more like life itself? Then why call it grafting? We should just call it life."

After Qin Miaoyu finished speaking, she grabbed two herbs to show Yuchi, who immediately burst into tears. Damn, this kind of thing is too heart-wrenching.

He could even see, through the appearance of the two herbs, two innocent people being strangled by fate, and once he couldn’t help but lift Qin Miaoyu’s hat, seeing her cleverly smiling young girl face, he was already questioning life, feeling no different from the herbs.

As for what kind of experience this young Qin Miaoyu has gone through to have such profound reflections, could it be that Medicine Master Valley is poisonous?

It must be poisonous!

Otherwise, it’s impossible for a young girl in her prime to have such chilling thoughts... After pondering, it must be the fault of the time minister... no, it’s Sun Miaoxing’s fault.

Sun Miaoxing: Blame me?

Yuchi silently added in his heart: Those who have medicinal herbs at home can’t stand this, it’s too cruel.

Of course, young Qin Miaoyu didn’t just say these things.

She also gave Yuchi an elixir, claiming it was made by her own hands, with the girl’s fresh cuteness and infinite hope for this world.

Yuchi didn’t believe a word of it.

And this elixir had quite a background too.

They say if you personally raise something, you absolutely shouldn’t name it, as the elders insist. If you have cats or dogs at home, it’s best not to name them.

The dog is just called: Zuozuo.

The cat is just called: Mimi.

The hen is just called: Ooolooloo.

The reason is simple. They believe if you name cats or dogs, first, you’ll involuntarily bring them into your emotional world, and secondly, if they’re really on the verge of death, you’ll be very sad. After all, names inherently do not belong to cats and dogs.

They’re forcibly imposed by humans.

Yuchi understood this way of speaking, but had no comments on it.

The result...

The result was that the three witchlike sisters from Ascension Gate were no longer satisfied with naming cats and dogs. These three sisters actually named the herbs, saying it enhances the joy and happiness of the herbs. Then, when making them into elixirs, they write the names on the outside of the elixir.

"Is this something a carbon-based life form could come up with?!"

Yuchi looked at a wooden box in his hand, on the surface of which was written a line: "Thank you, Juejuezi, Jijizi, Meimeizi, you three are the best."

Then he looked at the plump elixir inside the wooden box. According to Qin Miaoyu, the Sect Leader Senior Brother would become vigorous again after taking this elixir, but Yuchi’s forehead was sweating profusely; looking at this green elixir, it was as if he saw the three sisters behind it.

"I absolutely cannot swallow this!"

Crying, he put the elixir into the Storage Ring.

So the situation now became a bit peculiar; Yuchi, usually an even-tempered person, almost had a meltdown by the three sisters, especially since everything they said made sense, leaving no room to question their sanity. Do people who plant medicinal herbs all think this way?

Or do those who engage in farming ultimately gain such life insights? If this is really the case, it’s way faster than meditating or striking a wooden fish.

Shen Qinghan: So after we last went to the Immortal Grass Tower, a group of people hugged each other, crying for more than an hour.

Especially Feng Dongran, who almost cried herself to death. Apparently, the matter with the medicinal herbs reminded her of her days as a maid beside Zhou Xingcai. Then there was Wei Qingzhu, Li Changyi, Jiang Eryue, sitting on the ground, patting the floor of Immortal Grass Tower, and bawling at the sky.

"Ahem."

"The three sisters from Immortal Grass Tower already look like classic villains. Who knows what kind of girls they’ll become. At least they listen to me, the Sect Leader Senior Brother, otherwise, heaven knows how twisted they’d become outside of Ascension Gate."