The trio followed their guide through the outer sect past many inner sect training areas and buildings to a humble temple-like structure. An average-looking woman in white robes with gold trim greeted them at the door. "This way please." her blind eyes locked on Dave as she guided them to a table. "bring the tea." they sat in silence for a moment as the saintess looked over the other two briefly. "right almost forgot the first meeting gift, please accept this humble offering." Dave took out the mushroom in a simple pine box and placed it on the table.
Mèng yáo nearly dropped the tea after seeing the gift. "you call a large ox blood mushroom humble." The saintess held up her hand to silence the young girl. Dong looked abashed as he nodded in understanding both sides of what would otherwise be an absurd situation. Lilly giggled and nodded, Dave just smiled in ignorance. ahem the moment was broken by the saintess. "we graciously accept your gift, however, I cannot guide you on your path . . . I humbly beg your forgiveness." she moved to Kowtow "Whow hol up, kinda sucks but no big can you give my girl here a once over?"
the blind eyes still somehow convey depth, the saintess looked more like she was reading a book than looking at a person. "your disciple is truly magnificent, she has the tyrant body a Dragon soul, an ice phoenix bloodline, and has your cultivation path as well, this should not be." Dong shook his head silently "I knew master had changed her providence, but that . . ." The three knowledgeable ones just stared at Lilly. "wait hole up, I thought you couldn't see my 'path' thingy." A warm smile spread across the lips of the saintess having got a good measure of the man. "forgive me for not explaining, your path is 'the sage of ways' I have no knowledge of that path nor how to cultivate it."
{PING} Title the sage of ways, all paths are now open, all paths now required. "well shit." several things occurred to Dave at once. One he was in for a long long ride, two his status updated as information about the world became available to him, three something he did changed Lilly, four... "Master, what does Lilly do?" worry and confusion evident in her voice. Dave looked at her and it clicked 'dragon peeler' and his 'holy frost aura' must have counted as a trigger . . ."what is the tyrant's body?" if his guess was right he did something there too.
"any injury she receives will make her physically stronger and heal faster with no upper limit, your training must be harsh for one so young to have such a foundation." healing her the first time was the trigger and the salve an accelerant. [parallel mind] Dave needed to pay attention but his mind was running through more information in a second than a quantum computer could in a week...the parallel mind cast [exelerate thought] "Thank you kindly ma'am, you helped far more than you can imagine, could you tell me more about yourself and the work you do?" his voice now velvet.
They talked from morning through lunch till near dinner time. "Lilly is sorry, Lilly is hungry again and master told Lilly she had to say." she was gently tugging on his shirt. Dave had already pulled many cultivation paths and methods from the saintess he even had a vague idea of how her sight worked. Now the stats had a 'paths' page. "I can't thank you enough for your hospitality but if I could trouble you for a kitchen I'll whip up a feast." Mèng yáo started protesting, "One does not allow a guest to..." Both Dave and the saintess waved her concerns away "Show him to the kitchen and have the servants make up 3 rooms." to which she bowed deeply and made the follow me in that direction arm gesture to Dave.
"so tell me Lilly how did you and your master meet?" poorly hidden ulterior motives aside the saintess was genuinely curious. "master saved Lilly got mad for Lilly healed Lilly and, and . . ." Dong placed a hand on her shoulder "allow me." he summed up the events that had transpired omitting 'dangerous' information.
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Dave went all out in the kitchen with dragon stake pan-fried in titan yack butter, a 7sins salad, roast undead potatoes, shadow striker venom soup 'with extra mandrake root', rainbow ambrosia tempura 'with rock golom salt' [of course], Yggdrasil cask cola and a devils deal 10 chocolate cream pie for desert. This one meal could pay off the national debt of Luxembourg and be worth every penny. "level 100 cooking for the win." he placed it all in storage after giving 2 servings to the goddesses. The chef that had been on hand if he had needed help stood frozen in shock, Dave waved a hand in front of her face 'Nothing' clapt his hands 'Again nothing' Finally poking her shoulder she fell to the ground like a toppled statue. "oh shi..."
"Again I'm sorry bout that, dunno why she freaked not like my cookin' is that off the chart." yes, in fact, it is, but the ingredients he casually tossed together were similar enough to the top-grade medical plants to give anyone that recognized even one a heart attack. "anywho let's eat." with only a brief glance at Lilly's triple portion before the two ladies started eating or tried to foodgasm "this, are you a chef or an alchemist, this cannot be normal food." "I have been in this sect for over 700 years, receiving gifts and offerings of all kinds, nothing can even grasp your ankle"
"ya I'm a master alchemist but this is pure cooking" Casually between bites, the other four fighting internally between stuffing their faces and savoring every bite stopped. Lilly having only coincidentally stopped at the same time to drink her potion before continuing.
"so you can also make pills?" the saintess disturbed as this she had not seen in him. "I'm more practiced in potions, tinctures, salves, tonics n' the like, but I do keep a small stock of these 3 pills." one yellow, one white, one blue lined up on the table in front of the two sect members. "oh my I do not recognize these, what do they do?" dave paused for a moment "eat first."
After the meal, the 4 cultivators had advanced one major stage and Lilly almost 2. "so how much do you know about diseases?" he only reserved blank stares in return sigh "O.K." Dave tilted his head side to side for a few moments. "so to start outside magic disease witch IS caused by miasma most illness has one of four causes virus, fungus, bacteria or the body itself kay?" the 4 nodded not really understanding [right dumb it down to grade school] "there are bugs so small thousands can live in one drop of blood ok? They lay their eggs in the part of blood that is left over when it drys ya fallow? well, this one stops em from layn eggs, this one kills em' and this one stops the bug-killing guards in you from actively rebelling." Lilly stared at her hands "Lilly has little guards in her?" Dave chuckled "Ya, or a sneeze could kill you, medicine is just temporary reinforcements."
It took Dave an hour to go over all the finer details but by the end of the conversation/lecture, all 4 had what would pass as a medical doctorate in comparison to the rest of the world. "you truly are a wonder sir expert." the saintess still trying to sound friendly was so respectful it made Dave a little uncomfortable. "here I was thinkin' we was friends ma'am." which in turn made the saintess uncomfortable "forgive me it has been a very long time since anyone has called me such."
"if you don't mind my asking are you blind because you can 'see more' or can you 'see more' because you're blind is it even related?" the question caught her off guard for a moment she grimaced in memory. "the last thing I saw with my eyes was a flash of light after that moment I saw everything else." Dave nodded "thought so, common side effect of second sight is losing the first, got something for that if it was the other way round I'd have to make it. Here drink this" [remove status effect 'blind']
she blinked her eyes repeatedly as color returned to them gold, not her original dark chocolate brown but she didn't care she could see them in the mirror, sort of, it's hard to see anything through tears. "Mèng yáo, gather the elders in the sect masters meeting room, we must keep that man hear as long as we can."
she knew in her head and heart she sounded like a villain when she said. "by any means possible!"
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