12. Fang Yue

After Fang Yin disappeared into the waterfall, Mei Lin was surprised and started talking about it until they went to sleep. Fang Yin sat in a cultivation position and started thinking about when they enter the cultivation realm so he could refine them into pills. After calming his mind, he entered a cultivation state.

The next morning, they started their first basic cultivation position. They sat facing each other in the tent, in a lotus position, with their hands held palms up in the vicinity of the abdomen. After probably an hour, Mei Lin, who was closer to the only entrance, turned around and quietly went to the fire. After nearly a month, they had some stock of dried meat, mushrooms, and berries. She took a few berries and started watching the fire.

Li Wei didn't attempt to enter a cultivation state and only tried to sense his soul. He still didn't manage to sense it but started to have a more and more clear idea that he had one. Even that was a great thing for him. After only one month of attempts, this was a good result.

He doesn't try to advance to the first stage because it would surely demotivate Mei Lin, and he is scared of what the old man will do after one of them makes a breakthrough.

Life went back to normal, with the only difference being that Mei Lin tried to cultivate, and Li Wei started preparing the best way to escape. He prepared two stations along the way and hid some dried meat and herbs there in case they needed to run. This was a very clever plan. Along the way, he made marks indicating which way he needed to go and where the hiding places were. This route was probably forty kilometers long.

A week went by, and after seven days, Fang Yue visited Mei Lin again. She was cultivating, so he didn't try to disturb her. Not long after, she spotted him and went to welcome him. He started asking about her progress, but Mei Lin still didn't make any progress. She didn't have a small trace of natural energy in her body. For Fang Yue, this was not very good news. After Mei Lin told him everything she managed to accomplish, she started talking about something even more disturbing.

"We already managed to pick up a lot of herbs and some dry food. After my injuries heal, we can go back to the village and survive the winter there. We don't have a good shelter for surviving a winter. My cultivation is probably not fast, but I think I am making progress. If you go with us to the village, you can stay there too." The only thing Fang Zen did was start smiling. Mei Lin's cute face was the only thing that prevented him from instantly killing her. Another thing was that he needed her to reach the cultivation realm so he could refine her into a pill.

He immediately started thinking about a plan to stop them from returning to the village. If they return, they will surely say something about him, and then cultivators from the Green Jade sect will come here and start hunting him again.

"How about I help you with your cultivation, and then we can leave? That would be great master, but I will wait for Li Wei so we can cultivate together." Mei Lin stood up and started walking around the fire. She is extremely happy that they will become cultivators, and she completely forgot that a stranger with half of his body just appeared out of nowhere.

Just as Fang Yue was ready to forcefully intervene, Li Wei appeared from the woods and started calling them.

"I am here. I managed to hunt down a rabbit. We will have a good dinner." His innocent smile immediately fell on both of them. Mei Lin started walking his way, and Fang Yue started to feel even more pissed.

Li Wei started talking about his day. For Fang Yue, this story was very boring, and he would be better off if they started to cultivate and breakthrough. But Mei Lin started asking him questions about hunting a rabbit. The same story again and again. Li Wei knew that he was telling the same story again and again, so he added something more to his story, and the story was extremely exciting to the extent that almost nothing was real. Li Wei started feeling that something was not right and that Fang Yue was very impatient. He was not interested in anything else than their cultivation. Li Wei starts feeling that something is wrong.

"Why don't we drink tea before dinner? That's a good idea." Mei Lin immediately stood up and went to the waterfall for the water. They immediately put water on the fire and started preparing tea. Fang Yue was angry because he didn't like this tea. He had tea in his cultivation bag, but he didn't want to give them any. As for Mei Lin and Li Wei, they didn't mind the tea. They were happy that they could drink tea and not only water. This was not even tea, just water with herbs.

After they finished the tea, Li Wei poured each other some and started drinking. Mei Lin did the same. Fang Yue looked at the color of the tea with interest.

"What kind of herbs did you put inside the tea? I put in this red herb. The tea looks very beautiful, doesn't it?" "Yes, that's right," replied Li Wei.

"This tea is very good I'll drink more." Both kids were very happy because they could even little repay Fang Yue for their help. Not long after, Fang Yue drank all the tea. After they bid farewell, Fang Yue tried to teach them one more cultivation technique and then left. Before leaving, he suggested Mei Lin go far away from the camp and try to absorb natural energy in the forest because the natural energies here were mixed due to the water from the pond and natural energy from the forest. With that, he left inside the waterfall.

After eating dinner, they went to sleep. The next day, they packed everything they had and left early in the morning. At first, they walked very slowly because of Mei Lin, but after a few kilometers, Li Wei told Mei Lin about what they needed to do. After finding a good cultivation place, which Li Wei had already prepared beforehand, they set up a tent and entered a cultivation state.

After two days, Li Wei broke through and became the first stage of Body Tempering, but kept it secret. Mei Lin was very slow with her cultivation, so she made no progress. After talking about her cultivation with Li Wei, she didn't gain any insights about cultivation. After three more days, she made only very small progress.

Before they came back, Li Wei didn't tell Mei Lin about the cultivation technique they received from Fang Yue. After all, Mei Lin didn't know how to read so it probably saved their life. With a happy face, they went back to the pond. Mei Lin was happy because she started feeling a little natural energy inside her body. Li Wei was happy because he poisoned tea which Fang Yue drank with his blood. After seeing its effect on the wolves he had an idea about poisoning Fang Yie and then trying to persuade him to leave back to the village. They were back.