The waste she became the first array mage

Li Yirou looked at the spiritual ginseng that had not yet bloomed, but she felt that the surrounding spiritual energy was converging towards it, as if it had opened a spiritual gathering array itself.

Looking closely at the cluster of green fruits on its head, the arrangement was indeed not simple. She didn't know if she was overthinking it. It looked like the arrangement of the flags of the Five Elements Gathering Spirit Array, but with a few more positions. Did the ginseng absorb the Five Elements Spiritual Energy instead of the Wood Spiritual Energy?

Li Yirou wanted to observe further, but Fu Xiaolu stood beside her and her spiritual consciousness quietly probed towards the spiritual ginseng.

"Don't move." She pressed the back of the small shovel she was using to dig spiritual plants against her arm, blocking her from moving forward.

Fu Xiaolu's heart moved, and for some reason, she subconsciously obeyed and retracted her spiritual consciousness. However, the fluctuations of her spiritual consciousness, which she quickly retracted after exploring halfway, were detected by the spiritual ginseng. The gathering of spiritual energy suddenly stopped, and Li Yirou thought it was over.

When little Duobao discovered the spiritual ginseng, he quietly followed her sleeve and moved under the huge dead leaves. Li Yiruo secretly explored with her spiritual consciousness, and Duobao jumped to the vicinity of the spiritual ginseng in a few steps. However, when Fu Xiaolu activated her spiritual consciousness, the spiritual ginseng suddenly disappeared.

As expected of a ginseng, it escaped so quickly... Li Yirou couldn't blame anyone, after all, she had seen it earlier, but didn't know what to do, so she stopped there to observe. And who knows, it might have been Xiao Duobao who ran over and startled the spiritual ginseng.

When Fu Xiaolu came over and took out the ginseng-catching rope, she didn't dare to set up the formation. Because the Changsheng Jue could sense the vitality of the spiritual ginseng, it was unprecedentedly sensitive. She knew that as long as there was any movement, the spiritual ginseng would detect it.

Xiao Duobao also crawled back into Li Yiru's sleeve, humming.

"Master!" The strange fire's tone was excited. Li Yirou's heart skipped a beat and she also became excited. Could it be that Duobao also had the ability to steal spiritual plants? ! But its little claws were empty and its cheek pouches were flat. There was nothing there. It was impossible.

But Xiao Duobao is already a rare monster, a treasure that Taxue found for her. Even if it can only find Ganoderma lucidum, Li Yirou is already very satisfied.

So she only felt a slight regret, without any remorse, and scratched Duobao's chin in her sleeve.

"It's my fault." Fu Xiaolu sighed. This spiritual ginseng must be more than a hundred years old, otherwise it wouldn't have escaped so quickly. Fu Xiaolu watched an opportunity slip through her fingers and regretted it in her heart. If she hadn't acted rashly, maybe Fang would have found a way?

"It has nothing to do with me, Senior Sister. I just didn't know what to do, so I just watched it run away." Li Yiru's expression remained unchanged for a thousand years. Fu Xiaolu then realized that he was not nervous before, and now he was not angry at all. His emotions were very stable.

This made Fu Xiaolu appreciate her even more. She rarely saw a male cultivator with such a stable mood. Not to mention, he was really good at assisting.

Fu Xiaolu put the centipede corpse into the storage bag, and Li Yiru collected the remaining Ganoderma lucidum and put them into the spirit sealing box.

The three female cultivators were recovering and they did not forget to give Fu Xiaolu a look. Xia Yanhong asked curiously, "What were you looking at just now?"

"Yeah, why are we both in a daze?" Lu Si grinned at Fu Xiaolu.

When they heard them say that they had missed a spiritual ginseng, which was extremely sensitive and disappeared at the slightest fluctuation of spiritual consciousness, the three of them froze their originally ambiguous smiles on their faces, which were soon replaced by expressions of regret.

Fu Xiaolu smiled and shook her head, "It's okay, we still have many days." After that, she took out a knife and disassembled the green-legged centipede in the formation.

Xia Yanhong wanted to help her sister, so she asked about Li Yirou's experience. She was curious when she heard that Li Yirou came from the Western Realm. She also lamented the danger of the environment when she heard that monsters were everywhere in the surrounding mountains.

"It's also difficult for ordinary people to survive." Xia Yanhong and the others were willing to take risks in order to improve themselves, while ordinary people or low-level cultivators like them could choose to live in Wuji City.

"Yeah..." Li Yirou's face showed some regret, heartache, and nostalgia. In short, her expression was extremely complicated.

"But Junior Brother Fang's cultivation is indeed solid." Xia Yanhong thought she had brought up his bad memories of facing the ferocious beasts, so she changed the subject, but she was actually walking in the direction Li Yirou had led.

"Yes, Junior Brother Fang is almost better than you in assisting." Zhang Xueyan said this compliment with a bit of politeness towards someone she was not familiar with. But she was sincere. After the battle with the green-legged centipede, the other Junior Brother had also begun to change his mind and felt that he was not a drag on Fu Xiaolu and that joining their team would be an excellent assist.

"Yeah." Li Yirou nodded and sighed, "That was all in the past when I was in the Western Realm, with my Taoist partner and teammates, we often..."

Before she finished speaking, Xia Yanhong's voice unconsciously rose several degrees and interrupted her story, "You have a Taoist partner?!!"

Fu Xiaolu paused as she dismantled the green-legged centipede with her knife, and the faint smile that had been on her face as she listened to their conversation froze.

She looked at Xia Yanhong with confusion, "What?" as if she had no idea what they were thinking.

Apart from Fu Xiaolu, Zhang Xueyan was the calmest among the group and quickly found an excuse, "Nothing, she was just a little surprised that you're looking for a Taoist partner at such a young age."

"Then she didn't come with you?" Lu Si was surprised for a moment, but calmed down. Now that things have come to this, he has to make it right, so that he won't notice Xiaolu's feelings. It's better to pretend to be chatting with a temporary teammate.

They actually really wanted Fang to join the team, but they were afraid that Xiao Lu would be unhappy, so they decided to stop associating with him after this secret realm was over.

"She met with an accident while hunting monsters. That's why I wanted to live somewhere else and came here." Li Yirou lowered her eyes slightly, her expression gloomy, as if this was really the case.

The strange fire saw its master making the female cultivators stunned and rolling around in the space with laughter. The red-lined python didn't understand why, but also followed its favorite flame, hissing and laughing with its tongue sticking out.

"No... I'm sorry." Lu Si looked embarrassed. She couldn't help but empathize with him when she saw that he had such a heavy wound.

Zhang Xueyan thought it was a good idea to know it early so that Fu Xiaolu wouldn't develop a better impression of him and then find out about the situation later, which would make Xiaolu even more unhappy.

"It's okay." Li Yirou wanted to add, "She will always be in my heart," but she felt that this sentence was too cheesy, so she decided to stop there and said no more, only adding a little affectionate eye contact.

Everyone saw that Fang Ye had returned to his indifferent expression, as if only when talking about his deceased Taoist partner could his emotions stir slightly. He must have had a very good relationship with his Taoist partner...

There are no such infatuated people these days. The monks who are on the front line are living dangerous lives and don’t have so much time to spend on feelings. They are mostly focused on improving their cultivation.

If Xia Yanhong didn't feel bad for Xiao Lu, she would even be a little moved by his infatuation.