Meng Chin 1

Done with laughing at the Rising Fox Sect inside himself enough, Xiao Fan turned and hurriedly walked after Meng Chin, who hadn't stopped to wait for him.

There were a few guards on the gate he walked past; however, none of those people wanted to do anything to Xiao Fan, who seemed to have been walking with Elder Meng. Also, there was no need to stop him for any inspection of beauty for both guardians of the gate deemed that he could easily pass them.

Now inside the inner sect market, the stalls he had seen from farther away became works of art like he had perceived and to add into it, every stall was manned by a few beautiful people.

Wanting but not getting, Xiao Fan didn't take a good look at those places as he hurried next to Meng Chin, who was again a couple of steps away from him.

When he caught up to her so that he was walking a step behind he spoke to her ¨How can it be that everyone here is so beautiful?¨ Right now Xiao Fan was wondering what the hell was going on. Sure he had been told about the so-called sect of beauty manytimes, but it was to this extent?

First, he had thought that the women he had met in Hangzhou were some elite that presented their sects image to the outside but meeting the neophytes of the sect who had been somewhere during the whole tournament he had been proven wrong for the first time.

Now was the second time the sect of beauty had made him rethink about this, and being fooled twice, he now needed to know what was happening. It just can't be that one place inside the Ohin Continent could house at least half of the beautiful people.

Meng Chin hearing his question spoke ¨As I have mentioned before the sect has had a good few years, and also the standards have risen a lot every last generation¨

Again asking about the sect, Meng Chin responded vaguely and wouldn't give Xiao Fan a good answer, she would leave him guessing.

Which he did.

¨So what you are saying is that the Rising Fox Sect is currently advancing at a good pace, but unlike everyone else who only have an increase in cultivation the so-called sect of beauty has also been increasing in their looks?¨ Xiao Fan wanting to learn anything said.

Meng Chin thought about his words for a second before responding ¨Sure you can put it like that¨ If he was happy with this, she wouldn't bother talking more. However, to her discomfort, Xiao Fan pushed question after question on her, and Meng Chin who didn't want to seem too lazy to him felt that she needed to respond to him.

This made her exceedingly tired by the time they got inside the courtyard she lived in. Meng Chin by then was so tired that she simply went onto the nearest bed, a bed which she had some years before dragged closer to the entrance.

Meanwhile, she did so Xiao Fan became appalled when coming inside.

For the interior of her house was something reminding that of a mutant tribes junkyard. One couldn't even see the floor inside as it was littered with trash and other things Meng Chin might have used sometime before. The only places one could walk here were literal paths inside the house, which of the best one was the one leading to the bed Meng Chin was now lying on.

Xiao Fan for a moment watched her appalled by the actions she was taking, as she seemed to feel nothing wrong about the state of her home.

Meng Chin chose to ignore all of it and sleep? But she had been sleeping some fifteen minutes ago! So why was she doing it again, Xiao Fan tried to reason this to himself.

Right in front of him, she was now lazily squirming on her bed, taking a pillow into a hug, acting like she was a cat by going into a ball around herself.

Yes, she had in a minute coming to her bed just without saying a word to him went to sleep, leaving Xiao Fan there with nothing.

For a moment longer would Xiao Fan watch the laziest woman he could have imagined before putting a blanket on her, and then taking a walk on the pathways.

Leaving Meng Chin to sleep, he toured around the few pathways that were open inside the house, and everywhere he would go, he could see more of the same sight of overflowing mountains of junk. There were swords, rotten lefts from foods, and maybe even some useful herbs that he could do something with, but by now they had withered because they had been left here unattended.

Surely Meng Chin on paper would have a lot of assets.

However, the number of things that could be actually useful anymore after keeping them like this was low, and of course, before one could use them, one would need to find them.

The more Xiao Fan roamed the house, the more he shook his head, but before long he came to the same lobby where he had first been and gazed into the room next to the lobby where Meng Chin was soundly sleeping.

Again, he shook his head a few times with a smile on his face while a few thoughts flew up inside his head, but after those thoughts were gone, he got to work cleaning up her mess. If he would live here, he wouldn't want the place to look like this.

The first thing he would do regarding this idea was to tend to the most important thing inside this courtyard the cherry blossom tree. And so without much thought, he took a water bucket and proceeded to fill it from a reservoir that could be filled from a creek running inside this mountain.

Currently, the watergate blocking the creek was shut, so it was only a pond wherefrom he filled the water bucked and walked into the inner courtyard of Meng Chin's house.

Meng Chin's house wasn't built with height in mind, there was no second floor, but the ground area of the place was quite large, and as she lived here alone most of these place were storages for her while others would call them trashcans.

And of course, if the inside was a mess, how could the outside sections of this place not be the same? Though luckily the outside wasn't so bad, the exterior was only a free for all for the plants, noted by how Xiao Fan felt different plants on his legs when walking on her grass.

The inner courtyard where he got into was surrounded by houses joined together while the middle was just big enough that the cherry blossom tree could flourish there.

Although this cherry blossom tree wasn't flourishing at all and being honest, it seemed to be on its last legs.

There were almost no healthy leaves on it, most of them were already black for no one had watered the tree, and so it had begun to wither. Furthermore, it would seem that that wasn't the only problem for Meng Chin's cherry blossom tree as the trunk itself was filled with some black dots.

Xiao Fan had no idea what was going on, yet he knew that these black dots oozing out some slime wasn't a good sign, and so after he had watered the tree, he began to pull out every withered leave it had, making the tree lose over 90% of its leaves.

And that had been with Xiao Fan leaving those leaves that might recover still there since he feared that losing more would make recovery impossible.

Couple hours now into the project, Xiao Fan then began to test what these black dots that to him seemed a disease were, he took a closer look and touched them, but unsuspectedly he had no idea about what those were. Thinking about how could he save the cherry blossom tree, he only came up with one plan that was to go and get help.

Meng Chin, still sleeping inside the room, he put a cabinet on the doorframe that had no door so that no one could see her sleeping there before leaving the courtyard.

With his gold tickets now given back and the Rising Ruler on his waist, he made his way back downwards the slope of the mountain setting his sight on that market he had walked across.

When he got there, he began to talk with the clerks about who could know about diseases that were in trees, which made things easy as all of them were pointing out the same person.

If everyone was pointing out the same person, he simply chose to go and look from the person from where she resided.

This leads him into an elder's courtyard that was full of liveliness.

There were butterflies, fishes, and so many plants that Xiao Fan would need to travel the wilds for days to see such rich collection. There were also a lot of people tending to these places as just from the gate into the courtyard he could see how three or four people were squatting inside the bushed and climbing up trees.

His arrival, of course, hadn't gone unnoticed by these people, but when they saw a face, none of them had seen before did their interest to go see him lower.

Because of that only after standing there for a good ten minutes, the closest person next to him sighed as he got up from tending a plant and came to him.

¨What are you looking for¨ The burly man who came to him asked him in a tone that wasn't too pleased that his work was interrupted by some stranger.

¨I am looking for Elder Fei's third daughter, I have heard that she specialises in diseases that trees have¨ He wanted to have no trouble with this man even if he wasn't so welcoming for as mentioned before the surname of the elder living here was Fei.

The burly man hearing him look for the elder's daughter was for a moment sceptical about letting a random pretty boy go and meet her, and so decided to test him.

¨What type of disease does your tree have? If it's just a minor disease one should be capable of taking care of it himself or are you even a man?¨ He taunted at the end.

Inside the Rising Fox Sect taking care of flowers and such was seen manly, so Xiao Fan was being teased by a man whose arms were thicker than his by a few times about taking care of a tree.

¨If I knew what was wrong with my tree why would I come here to look for help¨ He shook his head not falling to be taunted by this man.

The burly man seeing him not falling for it, and his reasoning being valid enough, he nodded and walked away, thankfully he didn't walk back to work but inside the house.

Then ten or so minutes more of watching the gardeners go at their duties a young woman not exceeding the age of fourteen came skipping to him.

While the burly man who had gone to fetch the girl wasn't even in sight before the little sister of Fei Sun was in front of him.

¨You seem pretty young, are you sure that you know how my tree can be saved?¨ He coaxed the little girl.

Who took the bait ¨Hah, there is no one better than I Fei Lin regarding the treatment of the cherry blossom trees inside the sect¨ She proudly declared.

¨Well see in time¨ He said as he began to walk back to the courtyard where he resided for now.

While Fei Lin next to him skipped happily taking a look at any patch of grass or a fallen leaf.

It would seem that the little sister of Fei Sun really did like gardening even going far as coming to help a random stranger, but weirdly he hadn't heard anything regarding Fei Lin from Fei Sun, or in actuality, he didn't even know about her existence until now.