A small casual cultivator!

"Let's go talk to that fairy crane first. Now that the fire poison has eased a lot, it's time to practice the magic of walking."

Lu Luan stood on the top of the mountain leading to Xuanting Lake, looking at the mirror-like lake water and talking to himself.

Then he ran off quickly.

His internal organs had begun to regain vitality and could withstand the flow of true energy.

Looking at the very regular steps of others when they ran, he was very envious.

He hadn’t reached the last position yet, but Lu Luan stopped on a flat surface.

Seeing the scene in front of him, his eyes began to become a little strange.

Because in front of the reed marsh, a crane was blocking the way of a disciple.

"My disciple, why don't you listen? I am carrying you there, not eating you. What are you afraid of?" the crane shouted.

The disciple who was stopped by it said weakly: "Senior Xianhe, I really don't want to cross the lake now."

"If you don't want to cross the lake, why are you coming here with the spiritual herbs?" The crane refused to give in.

It looked at the spiritual herbs in the disciple's backpack with its eyes almost popping out. If it weren't for the sect's rule that forbids robbing things by force, it would have buried its head in the spiritual herbs and devoured them with relish.

"So you are a rogue crane. How dare you carry passengers like this?" Lu Luan said with contempt in his heart.

The crane cannot fly because its wings are broken, and there are dangers in the water. Except for young boys who don't know anything about it, who would dare to ride its bamboo pole to cross the lake?

Because ordinary cranes are not allowed to pick spiritual herbs, there is no one to sit on it, and it needs spiritual herbs to heal its wounds, so it has no choice but to do this.

"Senior Xianhe, please let me go. I really won't cross the lake."

The errand disciple was so anxious that he burst into tears.

However, Xianhe didn't care and continued, "You are such a disobedient disciple. My place is much cheaper than other places. I am honest and fair. I will give you a great deal, but you still refuse it."

"Meet the elder."

The disciple was really annoyed by being entangled, and seeing that he couldn't get away, he rolled his eyes and bowed respectfully behind the crane.

"Elder?"

Xianhe's eyes panicked, and he was fooled. He turned around and didn't dare to raise his head. It was obvious how cowardly he was. He said very humbly: "Elder, I didn't do anything to this disciple. I am innocent. I had no choice but to do it in order to heal my wounds. I..."

However, after it said a lot but received no response, it quietly raised its head and looked around. When it found that there was no one in front of it, it became so angry that its eyes seemed to be spitting fire.

"puff."

Lu Luan couldn't help laughing after seeing this scene from a distance.

"Kid, where are you running to!"

After realizing what was happening, it quickly chased after the boy who took the opportunity to escape.

"He's really good at running."

Looking at it running, Lu Luan's eyes lit up. This posture was exactly the same as what he had imagined in his mind!

"It seems I found the right one."

Lu Luan put his hands on the basket rope and walked over slowly.

The crane ran faster than the gray leopard and soon caught up with the boy. It shouted angrily, "Boy, you dare to lie to me?"

Although its expression is ferocious, the sounds it makes are as unclear as the babbling of a baby, which makes people want to laugh inexplicably.

Lu Luan stopped when he reached ten feet. After moving his throat, he put his fist against his lips and pretended to cough lightly a few times.

"Hmm? Is anyone here?"

The crane looked over here, but it didn't look at the people first. Instead, it stared at the spiritual herbs in Lu Luan's basket with its green eyes, drooling and muttering to itself:

"This person has more spiritual herbs in his basket."

After saying that, he ignored the young man and ran straight to Lu Luan, staring at the basket and asked:

"Little brother, do you want to cross the lake? I'll take you across. It won't cost you much spiritual herbs."

"Don't you recognize me, Xiaohe?"

Lu Luan said with a smile.

After becoming a disciple that day, the crane no longer dared to let him call it senior. Moreover, it was only four years old and not as old as Lu Luan, so Lu Luan called it Little Crane.

"Hey, it's you? Boss Lu!"

After hearing the voice, Xianhe retracted his gaze and looked at Lu Luan. He was very surprised, so he quickly said something flattering.

It knows Lu Luan's background.

Lu Luan walked forward, touched its wings, and said with a smile: "Xiaohe, I didn't expect you to be such a rogue."

The crane touched his head with his wing awkwardly and said in a bitter voice: "Boss Lu, I have no choice."

Lu Luan also expressed his understanding. After shaking his head, he said softly, "Xiao He, I need you to do something."

The crane immediately took two steps away from him and asked cautiously, "Good or bad?"

Lu Luan said: "Good thing, are you willing to do it?"

"Of course I'm willing to do good things," Xianhe said as he approached again and asked, "Boss Lu, what's the matter?"

Lu Luan smiled, patted its wings gently, and said, "I want to observe your running posture so that I can practice the magic of running. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Xianhe shook his head and said, "Boss Lu, we Xianhe can only fly, not run."

"Really?" Lu Luan smiled unhappily and said, "Just now I saw you walking very fast."

"Boss Lu, this is the bottom line and dignity of us cranes. We cranes only fly and never run away. Just kill me." The crane turned its head away with a firm tone, as if defending something.

After Lu Luan looked at it, he turned around and said softly, "It's good."

The crane's eyes lit up, and he ran up to him and asked, "What's the benefit?"

"Spiritual herbs." Lu Luan raised his index finger.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xianhe immediately said, "Okay, it's a deal. Boss Lu, shall we practice now? I'll run a lap for you and see if you are satisfied."

Seeing such a big change, Lu Luan didn't react for a while. He shook his head and smiled, saying, "I haven't practiced yet. It's the end of the month. I will come back after I hand in the task and listen to the elders' lecture."

"So that's how it is. Okay, I've been waiting for you, Boss Lu, by the reed marsh."

"Boss Lu, are you going to cross the lake now?" asked Xianhe.

"Yeah," Lu Luan nodded.

"Let me take you there, and by the way..."

"No, I'll ride another crane," Lu Luan quickly stopped it. He was still frightened by the Black Water Snake that day and he didn't dare to cross the water again.

Xianhe was anxious and said quickly: "Boss Lu, I calculated the time. The monsters in the water are resting at this time. There will be no danger."

Lu Luan looked at it speechlessly, then took out a few spiritual herbs from his backpack and threw them into its mouth, saying, "I know you want to eat spiritual herbs, so let this be a benefit for you first."

"Thank you, Boss Lu."

The crane was overjoyed.

Then he chatted with it for a few more words and then said goodbye and left.

The next step is to ride a crane across the lake.

……

Half an hour later, he arrived outside the servants' hall.

It was the end of the month, and most disciples chose this time to hand in their tasks and collect their monthly foundation-refining pills, so long queues had formed outside the servants' hall.

Lu Luan was quietly squeezing in with his backpack on his back, but among a group of teenagers aged fourteen or fifteen, he stood out from the crowd given his age, so he attracted many looks from those around him.

However, Lu Luan ignored it. It was not like he was without talent. If he had not been a casual cultivator for too long without the resources to cultivate himself, he should have been an outer disciple at the sixth level of Qi Refining by now.

"I have really bad luck this month. I finally found a nice water snake orchid, but I didn't expect someone else to take advantage of it and get a bargain."

"Water Snake Orchid? One plant of that is equivalent to ten days of spiritual herbs we collected."

"That's right. My brother and I went through so much trouble to drive away the monster that was guarding nearby. But when we went to collect it, it was gone, and my brother's defensive jade piece was also broken."

"Who did this? Do they have any sense of public morality?"

Not far ahead, Lu Luan heard several voices and his eyes became a little strange.

When Wai Shen saw the people who had finished speaking, he immediately lowered his head in "shame" because he was the one without public morality.

But I wonder what expressions those two people would have when they knew that the water snake orchid that they thought was priceless was actually used to feed a worm.

Lu Luan ignored the strange looks from people around him and just waited in line quietly.

A quarter of an hour later.

"Lu Luan, entered the sect half a month ago, and passed the spiritual herb mission."

He poured the spiritual herbs in the backpack into a tripod-shaped magic weapon. The man next to him felt it, confirmed that it was qualified, and then spoke to the person behind him.

The man took a pen and wrote it down in the booklet, then threw him a jade bamboo piece, pointed to the distance and said to him: "Junior brother, you can take the jade bamboo piece and go there to get a foundation-refining pill. You are at the fourth level of Qi Refining, so you will get a top-grade one. Don't make a mistake."

"Thank you, senior brother, for informing me."

Lu Luan bowed, took the Polygonatum odoratum leaf and turned to leave.

"Refine the foundation pill?"

He began to get excited. What kind of elixir could actually strengthen his foundation?