Cultivation Starting from Full Talent-Chapter 397 - 395: Appointment

Inside the cottage, a slightly haggard-looking Chi Shan emerged and smiled, “My junior sister is cooking, please wait a moment, Array Master Ning.”

“Thank you, Senior Sister Chi.”

After arriving, Ning Daoran stretched his neck to look toward the kitchen at the back and asked, “Lin Man is cooking… Does she know how to do it properly?”

“I’m not sure…”

Chi Shan chuckled, “Do you want to help? I’m just going to the bamboo forest to have a quiet moment.”

“Alright.”

Ning Daoran directly went to the kitchen, where he saw a smoky and fiery scene. The Lin Man, remembered by everyone in the White Dragon Immortal City as a Talisman Master, was handling a large wok, “clang clang clang,” the flames shot up three meters high, quite fearsome to behold. If it weren’t for the array protecting this small bamboo cottage, it probably would have already burned down.

“Lin Man.”

Ning Daoran approached, tilting his head, “Shall I take over?”

“Sure, here you go.”

Lin Man set down the frying pan and then stared with her eyes wide open, her arms crossed, her look daring him to try.

“Cough cough…”

Ning Daoran hesitantly replied, “Actually, your cooking is not bad, just a bit less salt.”

“Okay.”

Lin Man resumed cooking.

Ning Daoran, fearing she might absentmindedly add wrong seasoning and poison someone, chose not to chat. He quietly watched until Lin Man began to stew a pot of old softshell turtle soup, and the atmosphere slightly eased.

“Did senior sister go to the bamboo forest?”

“Yes.”

Ning Daoran said, “The bamboo forest in the backyard is perpetually devoid of sunlight, full of Yin Qi, indeed suitable for nurturing the soul.”

Speaking, he frowned, “All these years, where have you been? Although you haven’t mentioned it, you seem to have gotten into a lot of trouble, am I right in feeling this?”

“You worry too much.”

Lin Man approached, holding his hand, her expression tinged with guilt, “In the time spared from cultivation these years, I’ve always been busy with nurturing senior sister’s Yin soul. Keeping the soul of a deceased person in the Human World is against the natural order, requiring many rare treasures. Over the years, I inevitably had to do things unwillingly.”

Her brows furrowed lightly, “But I can swear to heaven, while I was out wandering, I only set fires, didn’t kill people, and didn’t do anything atrocious. And, I’ve remained as pure as jade, even under coercion from Nascent Soul cultivators, I have never complied.”

She looked at Ning Daoran, her lips pursed, “In my heart, there is room only for one man, and that is you, Ning Daoran. Yet you, in this place, took the title of Island Master and even accepted two maids.”

Ning Daoran was slightly taken aback, “Don’t talk nonsense, they are just maids, not concubines, and there’s absolutely no inappropriate relations between Sui Zhuyue, Huang Yiyi, and me.”

Lin Man burst into laughter, “At least you still have some conscience, but…”

Her eyes reddened, “Last time, what I said when we said goodbye might have to be retracted again. I thought when we would reunite it ought to be when senior sister’s physical body is reconstructed, but nothing has gone smoothly. As you see, senior sister’s soul is unstable, recently confined in the embroidered ball, it has suffered a lot.”

“Don’t worry too much.”

Ning Daoran said, “I’m now by your side, go ahead with your plans, as for the rest, leave everything to me.”

Lin Man nodded lightly, her eyes redder still.

…

At noon, the meal on Qingzhu Peak was so bad that Ning Daoran nearly wanted to die. Lin Man’s cooking skills… definitely couldn’t compare to her cultivation talent. She could easily advance from Core Formation to Gold Core Late Stage within a hundred years, yet she couldn’t fry a decent dish.

It seems the skill trees had been allocated wrongly.

“You guys chat, I’m going to nourish my Divine Soul.”

Chi Shan got up, drifting into the inner room.

Ning Daoran brewed a pot of tea, and sitting across Lin Man on the balcony, he said, “What are your plans next? If possible, you might share some with me; if you don’t say anything, often, I can’t plan ahead for you.”

“Mm.”

Lin Man softly responded, “I plan to use the Fourth-order Spiritual Energy of Qingzhu Peak, and beside the valley next to Qingzhu Peak, condense a Nascent Soul. Meanwhile, taking the opportunity of Nascent Soul condensing, I aim to accomplish another task. Anyway, when I condense the Nascent Soul, I hope, General Ning, you can protect me well, we cannot afford any errors.”

“You’re going to condense a Nascent Soul?”

Ning Daoran gaped in disbelief, his face a picture of incredulity.

He himself hadn’t even reached the late stage of Golden Core, and Lin Man was already preparing for Nascent Soul formation? Was there no justice? Was there no law? Was this the difference between a common genius and a top genius?

“Um.”

Lin Man said, “I’ve been running around outside these years, always preparing for Nascent Soul formation. After all, before forming a Nascent Soul, one’s combat power is too weak, and there are many things I want to do that I cannot.”

Ning Daoran communicated via Sound Transmission Talisman: “Like ascending to Yun Meng Sect and annihilating that venomous woman?”

Lin Man chuckled: “You guessed it again?”

“In any case…”

Ning Daoran said, “We shouldn’t rush this matter. Yun Meng Sect is, after all, one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects, with profound depths. Even if you form your Nascent Soul, you might not be a match for that venomous woman. It might be better to wait a little. I will strive hard, and after I form my Nascent Soul, I will lend you a helping hand, making our success more likely.”

“Okay!”

Lin Man smiled lightly, “Then it’s a promise!”

Just at this moment, Chi Shan’s soul fluctuated violently in the inner room, followed by severe coughing sounds.

Ning Daoran frowned slightly; in the way of Divine Soul Technique, he had the Soul Searching Technique and Soul Suppressing Book, and was extremely proficient. However, both methods were geared towards destruction rather than saving lives.

“Senior Sister…”

Lin Man suddenly stood up, rushed to the door to check on Chi Shan quickly, and then hurried back, hugging Ning Daoran tightly, whispering, “I need to use mana to stabilize Senior Sister’s soul. You go back first, and when I am free, I will come to the Main Peak to find you.”

“Okay.”

Ning Daoran stood up to leave, summoning a tunneling light and rising into the air. Looking back at the little house in the woods, he inadvertently frowned, lamenting Chi Shan’s difficult fate and how Lin Man had always been entangled in it, unable to break free.

He sighed, “In this world, how can there be a perfect solution? I, Ning Daoran, have been cultivating for hundreds of years, and I only look up to Lin Man—perhaps it’s precisely because of her devotion to Chi Shan.”

…

He continued his cultivation after returning to the Main Peak.

Months later.

Research on the Fourth-order Ten Directions Forbidden Array progressed slowly. Being a fourth-tier Array, it could at most unveil some superficial facets in a year or half, whereas delving into the mysterious spatial attributes of the array required substantial time.

“Crackle~~”

A Sound Transmission Talisman flew in from the outside, infused with Lin Man’s mana, “Senior Sister’s soul has stabilized a bit. I’ll come over to accompany you. Do you have a separate Cave Mansion?”

“Yes.”

Ning Daoran floated out of Spirit Garden Cave Heaven and saw Lin Man standing outside the Cave Mansion in the autumn breeze, her dress and short hair fluttering elegantly—unbearably beautiful.

“This island’s Master Cave Mansion has an interlayer, and there are two smaller cave mansions of Fourth-tier Lower Grade Spirit Vein quality on both sides.”

Ning Daoran raised his hand and cast a spell, activating one of them.

“Good.”

Lin Man walked in smiling. Inside was indeed another world, with a vast space featuring main hall, pavilion, bamboo grove, lotus pond, and more.

She stepped into the small pavilion, took out cooking utensils, and started to cook Spiritual Tea.

Ning Daoran sat across from her and asked, “How is Senior Sister Chi’s soul now?”

“It has stabilized a bit, but it’s not very optimistic.”

Lin Man pursed her red lips, her beautiful eyes looking across the ripples in the lotus pond, seemingly recalling some unpleasant memories, “During the period in Sangyu Country, I took Senior Sister to seek Spiritual Medicine to stabilize her soul. But we encountered an assassination attempt by a cultivator at the early stage of Nascent Soul, and we were even subjected to the Xinjin Wind for a whole day and night. Senior Sister’s soul suffered severely, disrupting all my plans.”

Ning Daoran frowned: “It sounds extremely perilous…”

“Um.”

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Lin Man stood up, walked close, and leaned on his shoulder, smiling, “But it’s all in the past. Only when I’m with you do I feel somewhat at peace.”

She showed a slightly tired face: “These years of running around have really tired me out. How wonderful would it be if I could stay by your side and be a domineering Island Madam, oppressing the kind-hearted everywhere…”

Ning Daoran couldn’t help but laugh.

Lin Man also smiled: “It’s a pity, a lady like me is destined to wander. I won’t be able to stay on Liuhua Island for too long. Senior Sister’s soul can’t wait, I’m sorry…”

“It’s okay.”

Ning Daoran said, “I always believe our fate won’t just end here.”

…

Lin Man said softly, “Ning, after you form your Nascent Soul and undergo Divinity Transformation, you’ll ascend to Earth Immortal Realm, right?”

“Um.”

Ning Daoran nodded, “Although my cultivation speed is a bit slow, my steps are stable. Forming a Nascent Soul and undergoing Divinity Transformation are definite. After the Divinity Transformation Stage, cultivation in the Human World is impossible…