Chapter 295: Mother and Daughter Part Separately

The spirit pill treasury was utterly silent. The spirit herb doll was hesitating about her future, while Su Che was secretly nervous…

Before long, another clear and pleasant voice suddenly rang out in the treasury: “Xiao Ling’er, don’t overthink it. Go with him.”

The sudden appearance of this voice shocked Su Che, but he quickly understood that it must be the 50,000-year-old spirit herb doll, and her opinion was highly favorable to him.

“Mom!”

The spirit herb doll named “Xiao Ling’er” immediately called out, “Mom, I don’t want to leave you. Shall we go together?”

The spirit herb doll was hidden somewhere, and neither Su Che nor Lao He could sense her exact location. Moreover, her decision to have Xiao Ling’er follow Su Che right away proved that she had witnessed their earlier interaction—only Su Che and Lao He had been unaware of it.

An enemy hidden in the shadows is the most terrifying. If she intended to harm Su Che, the consequences would be unimaginable.

A lifespan of 50,000 years truly hadn’t been in vain.

“I can’t leave, and I don’t want to,” the spirit herb doll sighed softly. “Back then, I promised him that I would take good care of all the medicinal gardens in the Spirit Medicine Mountain…”

“But that person has been dead for over 30,000 years. Even the most solemn promise has long been fulfilled,” Xiao Ling’er urged gently. “Mom is only 50,000 years old—there’s still time for you to evolve further.”

“You don’t understand, my dear child…”

Although the spirit herb doll’s voice was as clear as a bell, its tone now sounded aged and solemn. Clearly, she didn’t want to dwell on this issue. She then changed her tone and said to Su Che, “Tian Yu from the Tianxuan Sect, though I’m not the guardian of the Spirit Medicine Mountain, I can’t allow you to take all the pills in the treasury.”

It was impossible to take them all—so did that mean some could be taken?

With so many spirit pills, even taking a portion would be an enormous fortune. Su Che wasn’t foolish, so he asked, “How many can I take?”

“From now on, Xiao Ling’er is in your care. I hope she can ascend to a higher form of life and create a legend for our race of spirit herb dolls…”

She replied softly, “Then, as a thank you for giving her such an opportunity, I will let you pass through the protective array of the Spirit Medicine Mountain to help you overcome this crisis. I’ll also allow you to take 1,000 pills—choose as you wish.”

“3,000 pills!”

At the critical moment, Su Che had enough courage and audacity to haggle: “I guarantee her achievements will far exceed your imagination. Eventually, even your entire race of Spirit Grass Dolls will benefit from it.”
The other party hesitated for a moment before saying softly, “The future leader of Tianxuan Sect should be trustworthy. Alright, I’m willing to believe you.”
“Great!”
Su Che was overjoyed. Although she could only take three thousand bottles of elixirs, since no grade limits were set, she could choose only the best ones!
Three thousand bottles wasn’t three thousand pills—each bottle contained at least three top-grade elixirs or five ninth-grade elixirs. Moreover, she had promised to lift the sealing array of Spirit Medicine Mountain.
Getting rich and saving her life—why not? Su Che knew how to be content and grateful, and wouldn’t make foolish mistakes driven by greed.
Next, she quickly wandered among countless shelves, selecting various elixirs of top grade.
Every time she picked up a bottle, Lao Hei would cheerfully shout in the Immortal Prison, “Yes, this is good! We’ll get rich, master… This one’s even better! We’ll get rich! Haha, so satisfying…”
Inside the treasure vault, her divine sense was ineffective, so Su Che had to rely on her eyes to identify them carefully.
To be precise, there were less than three thousand bottles of top-grade elixirs in the entire vault. Su Che still needed to scavenge another half a thousand ninth-grade elixirs to reach three thousand.
This would deal a devastating blow to Spirit Medicine Mountain, severely weakening it. Those four Yuan Ying ancestors would surely be so enraged they’d spit blood and suffer greatly…
Between the rows of shelves, Su Che scavenged and chose at will. The feeling was incredibly thrilling and exhilarating—hard to describe in words.
One thousand ninth-grade elixirs and two thousand top-grade elixirs—their value was immeasurable; even billions of spirit stones couldn’t buy them.
In the shortest time possible, Su Che completed this feat, gathering exactly three thousand bottles.
“Let’s go,” said the Spirit Grass Doll softly. “Xiao Ling, take him out.”
“Oh.”
Xiao Ling replied briefly, reopening the portal to her Spirit Wood Space. Without hesitation, Su Che bent down and entered.
…
Within Spirit Medicine Mountain’s sect was a human-offlimit area called the “Sacred Hall of Spirit Grasses,” the dwelling place of all Spirit Grass Dolls.

That 50,000-year-old Spirit Grass Mother was once a close companion of the founder of Spirit Medicine Mountain. It could be said that Spirit Medicine Mountain has grown to its current state under her watch. Without her, the Spirit Grass Garden on Spirit Medicine Mountain could not have reached its current scale, nor could it have become a leading alchemy sect in the realm of cultivation.

Xiao Ling’er is right—the greatest contributor to Spirit Medicine Mountain is undoubtedly her mother, that 50,000-year-old Spirit Grass infant. Out of respect and gratitude for her, Spirit Medicine Mountain built such a Sacred Hall of Spirit Grasses, where even the sect leader is not allowed to enter, aside from those Spirit Grass infants. This is an unchanging rule of the sect.

At this moment, in a secret chamber deep within the Sacred Hall of Spirit Grasses, Su Che saw that 50,000-year-old Spirit Grass infant, who looked almost identical to Xiao Ling’er, except that her cultivation level was higher, having reached the late stage of the Golden Dan realm. In front of her was a small teleportation array. Clearly, it could transport Su Che tens of thousands of miles away, even allowing him to leave the jurisdiction of Spirit Medicine Mountain.

“This is a one-way teleportation array, which I secretly built 20,000 years ago. At that time, Spirit Medicine Mountain was at a critical stage of survival. It was a backup plan I left for myself. No one other than me knows about this teleportation array,” the Spirit Grass Mother said softly.

“Fortunately, Spirit Medicine Mountain survived that crisis and grew into a super sect in the realm of cultivation. This teleportation array hasn’t been used yet, but it’s still likely to work.”

“Thank you, senior,” Su Che said with a slight nod. He knew that one-way teleportation arrays had many uncertainties—each activation might not transport one to a specific distance or location, as the randomness was extremely high.

But that didn’t matter. Compared to staying on Spirit Medicine Mountain, any other place would be safe for him. Spatial teleportation couldn’t be blocked even by the protective arrays of super sects. Just like celestial calamities, it couldn’t be stopped by any array or barrier.

“Mom…” Xiao Ling’er, about to leave, looked at her mother with reluctance.

Yet, despite her reluctance, the bright prospects of the future were an irresistible temptation.

Lao He, meanwhile, muttered in the Immortal Prison, “After living together for over 20,000 years, one should be tired of anyone by now. What’s there to be reluctant about? I really don’t understand…”

After 20,000 years together, would feelings deepen or have already grown numb? Su Che had no such experience and didn’t know the answer.

“It’s okay, good child.”

Two identical little girls stood face to face. One raised her small hand, gently stroking the other’s cheek, and said softly, “When you reach level four, come back and let me see. I believe I will definitely see that day.”
“Mm,” the other little girl nodded firmly.
Perhaps spirit plants didn’t have the ability to cry, so neither of them shed tears.
Su Che comforted them, saying, “For your long lifespans, a hundred or two hundred years is just a very short separation. I believe it won’t take even two hundred years before I bring you a surprise. I’m confident of that.”
“I trust you,” said the mother spirit plant. “Please take good care of her.”
“I certainly will,” Su Che nodded, stepped onto the teleportation array, and waved at Xiao Ling’er.
Whoosh!
The little girl rushed over without any shyness and fell straight into Su Che’s arms.
Then, Su Che, holding her like his own daughter, nodded goodbye to the mother spirit plant.
Buzz…
The teleportation array activated, its dazzling light filling the entire secret chamber.
After a space teleportation that lasted over ten breaths, Su Che, still holding the little girl, felt a sudden brightness before his eyes, and both his consciousness and vision returned to normal.
Where was this…
Soon, a cry of alarm was heard—someone shouted, “Help! There’s an assassin!”
Su Che’s consciousness could cover eight hundred zhang, allowing him to instantly determine that this place must be the residence of an official in some city in the mortal world, possibly even a prince’s mansion.
Su Che laughed heartily and said loudly, “Have you ever seen someone try to assassinate someone while holding a child?”
With that, he soared into the sky.
Inside the prince’s mansion, the servant who had cried out was stunned, stammering in shock, “A deity? And one holding a child…”
In the mortal world, most ordinary people didn’t know that there were many ‘immortal masters’ who practiced tirelessly day and night, striving for greater powers through hard work and fierce competition…
Su Che landed in the city. After asking around, he learned that this was Nanlu City of the Great Zhao Kingdom, located within the territory of the ‘Hearts of Heaven Pavilion,’ one of the ten major sects in the path of immortality, about seventy thousand li away from the Mountain of Spiritual Herbs.
Currently, the Hearts of Heaven Pavilion and the Mountain of Spiritual Herbs were both part of the chaotic faction, so Su Che wasn’t completely safe here either.
But having escaped the blockade of the Mountain of Spiritual Herbs’ protective array meant the world was open to him—his mission was a success.
Now, he could finally exclaim: “It was worth it! I’ve gained so much!”

Not to mention the three thousand top-grade elixirs obtained from the treasure vault, nor Lu Changqing’s original spirit that has already been seized, just the more than a dozen Golden Elixir elders from the Spirit Herb Mountain who were captured—each of them was an alchemist of rank seven or higher, and their storage devices were filled with large quantities of elixirs.
Add to this the loot from robbing the Black Fiend Old Ghost, and at present, Su Che could indeed say, “These elixirs will last me for a very, very long time…”
Su Che wasn’t in a hurry to continue his journey. Instead, he went into an inn as an ordinary person and rented a premium room with its own courtyard.
There were some matters that needed to be discussed with Xiao Ling first…