Pharmacist Wang Cai had a hard time, threatening to lure him, and he also wanted to force Ye Qin to collect medicine more desperately, and there was naturally a reason for this. As a master, Wang Cai has the right to receive a share of the herbs collected by his apprentices. Of the herbs collected by Ye Qin, five percent of the money went to himself, ten percent of the money went to Wang Cai Yao, and the rest went to the Medicine Collecting Hall. Therefore, Wang Cai pharmacist naturally hopes that his apprentice will pick as many herbs as possible.

Ye Qin knew this, but just lowered his head and was silent.

In a year, he had earned sixty silver leaves, and he was still far from the money that could be paid for a low-level secret book with one gold leaf, and if he didn't have enough force, how could he take risks so easily? The medicine belonged to someone else, but his life was his own. Losing his life in order to collect medicine, he didn't feel that this account could be worth it. As for Yang Yicheng and Feng Xiao, it was their business if they wanted to fight hard.

What Ye Qin was worried about was not just that he would be told by Wang Cai Medicine Master every month.

What he was even more worried about was his cultivation progress.

In the past year's diligent cultivation, he had only increased the brightness of his white light ball by less than one-tenth. At this rate, it would take him at least ten years to double the brightness of the ball of light.

And the lowest level of the first level of "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra, Sitting and Looking at the Selfless", it is necessary to at least double the light ball to be considered a complete achievement. On the second level, the energy required is doubled.

To make a simple rough estimate, it takes ten years to complete the first realm, twenty years to complete the second realm, and thirty years to complete the third realm.

By the time Ye Qin had finished practicing the lowest level of the first, second, and third levels of "Sitting and Watching Without Me", he was already a seventy or eighty-year-old old man, and then he was whining and mourning.

And his lifespan is only eighty-one years.

This age is clearly engraved on his natal primordial god tablet, and every day that passes, there is one less day. Although Ye Qin didn't know why this stone tablet had its own lifespan, he had already believed in that stone tablet for the past year.

The thought that he would die at the age of eighty-one made Ye Qin feel a sense of powerless fear in his heart. The fear of death is a human instinct, especially when you know that you will die one day. It has nothing to do with how much courage he has.

After knowing when he was going to die, Ye Qin said to Wang Yao Shi that he was promoted to a medicine picker, made a name for himself in the medicine collection hall, married a wife and had children, and other things, and he was already lacking in interest, and he couldn't raise the slightest interest.

In addition to these, Ye Qin's body also underwent some changes.

This is because the first to third levels of the exercises of "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra and Sitting and Looking at the Selfless" require that all the "breath" that leaks out be restrained in the process of cultivation to avoid any leakage of vitality.

The first layer is to converge on the leaked "expression" and try to avoid expression fluctuations.

The second layer is to restrain the "emotions" of internal leakage and try to avoid mood swings.

The third layer is to converge on "mental energy" and try to avoid doing things that exhaust and consume mental energy.

In this way, it can have the effect of constricting all the essence and energy and speeding up the cultivation. If it can't be reined in, it will cause additional loss of essence and energy, which will slow down the cultivation speed to a certain extent.

Ye Qin had just begun to cultivate the first layer now, so he had to restrain his expression.

Throughout the year, whether it was wind, rain, lightning, thunder, scorching heat or cold winter, or the cynicism of others, he almost maintained a demeanor - indifference. Because this expression can be maintained for many years, it doesn't take much effort.

He also gradually became less likely to speak, because it was easy to change his demeanor.

Now, even though the emotions in Ye Qin's heart were still fluctuating violently, his mental strength was more clear and keen, but his expression did not move at all.

Others didn't know the reason, and in the eyes of those who knew Ye Qin, he had undoubtedly become a little indifferent and unapproachable.

In the past three years as a medicine picker, Ye Qin was indifferent, never aggressive, and had an awe-inspiring youthful momentum. is neither competitive like Yang Yicheng who loves to play fists, like a gangster brother in the rivers and lakes, nor like Feng Xiao who cares about some trivial matters, and the philistine flavor is too strong. Among the five senior brothers, Ye Qin is undoubtedly the best to get along with.

Qian Ruoxiu and Sun Ying, the two junior sisters, like to chat with him quietly, share some interesting things with him, and take some pastries they specially made for Ye Qin to taste. Girls are always precocious and clever than boys, and they are already planning for their future.

However, since becoming an apprentice of herb picking, this year, they can only occasionally see each other when they return to the county seat every month, and they have a lot to say to Ye Qintian. But Ye Qin became more and more indifferent every time, and did not react to the joyful things they encountered, just like strangers hearing strange things, such "desperation" made them heartbroken, but they resented him and ignored him anymore.

What else could Ye Qin do in his heart except for a trace of bitterness?

Even if it is bitter, it is also bitter in the heart, and it is impossible to show half an expression on his face except for indifference.

He is still like this with these two junior sisters, and the relationship with his senior brother Yang Yicheng and junior brother Feng Xiaoze is naturally even worse.

Yang Yicheng once asked Ye Qin to go to the street with him and a group of apprentices from the Medicine Picking Hall to drink, Ye Qin refused because he didn't want to go to a place that was too lively, Yang Yicheng thought that Ye Qin had swept his face and was not enough brother, and he had a lot of opinions about Ye Qin.

Feng Xiao thought that Ye Qin was too arrogant, Ye Qin never smiled when he greeted him, and as a result, he hated him in his heart. The relationship between the brothers and sisters was originally barely compatible, but it has become weaker and weaker over the years, and when they meet occasionally, they just say hello, and they rarely have the opportunity to chat together.

Wang Cai Medicine Master didn't care about Ye Qin's changes at all, he himself had a cold and stinky face all day long, in the eyes of Wang Cai Medicine Master, Ye Qin's indifference was very much to his liking, this is the attitude that a medicine picking apprentice should have. What do you need to do with so much enthusiasm, and you can't eat it, doing a good job is the right thing.

The only thing that made Ye Qin happy was Cheng Da Niu.

Every time Ye Qin goes back to Zhuqi County, he will go to the Yang family's iron shop to see Da Niu, who has become a blacksmith apprentice and a swarthy and sturdy fourteen-year-old guy. Da Niu is still the same as before, and he will not be embarrassed because of his indifferent expression. It's just that the relationship between him and Da Niu is no longer the same as the previous brotherhood who shared weal and woe, and Da Niu is more in awe of him.

Ye Qin's heart was gloomy. He had seen this kind of awe in the eyes of many residents in the county, which was the awe of ordinary people for the people in the rivers and lakes. However, as long as Da Niu can live well in Yang's iron shop, he will be at ease. He couldn't ask for anything too much right now.

He knew that if this situation continued, no one in the Herb Picking Hall could endure his intense indifference. Since he practiced "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra, Sitting and Looking at Selfless", this road is only destined for him to go alone.