Chapter 111 Oops, I’ve been discovered!
Following her memory, the place where she killed Xu Sirui yesterday, Ruan Xing returned to Yaoguang Peak.
However, the scene before her was as if nothing had happened, leaving her dumbfounded.
Not only was Xu Sirui's body missing, but even the blood splattered on the branches and leaves of the bushes on the stone road had disappeared without a trace.
She couldn't help but wonder if she had accidentally clicked to end the simulation and was rewinding to the previous day?
After looking at the simulator in her mind and taking out her broken sword, she confirmed that she had indeed killed Xu Sirui here yesterday.
I have a lot of question marks at this moment.
Who discovered the body and covered it up?
On Yaoguang Peak, the only one who could act like this is probably the Peak Master...
She suddenly felt very troubled.
Ruan Xing was thinking about the Peak Master when the Peak Master came from a distance and looked at Ruan Xing with an indifferent tone and a calm expression, "I didn't expect that you would come back."
So it really is the peak master?
Ruan Xing was a little confused, and smiled awkwardly: "Peak Master, why can't I come back?"
"If fellow disciples kill each other, they should be punished by death." True Lord Qinghong uttered these eight words in a resounding voice.
However, she did not take action immediately, but a hint of doubt appeared between her brows.
"If you don't come back, I will consider it as repaying Junior Brother Wen's favor and take care of this matter for you. But now that you are back, I have to ask you, what is the grudge between you and Xu Sirui, and why did you want to kill her?"
This was also something that puzzled her greatly. Yesterday, when she was drinking tea and chatting with Taoist Qingmeng on Tianyan Peak, her eyes were always on Ruan Xing. She had been watching her since she used the magic weapon to change her body shape and disguise herself.
In her sight, Ruan Xing's goal was very clear, without any unnecessary movements: disguise, track, attack, and escape.
She acted decisively and ruthlessly, and even had a helper who she was not aware of, which resulted in her not being able to rescue Xu Sirui in time.
However, this is not important. It’s just that Ruan Xing’s actions gave her an illusion.
It seemed as if Ruan Xing came to Zhongzhou just to kill Xu Sirui.
But this is impossible. Xu Sirui is not an important person. If you want to kill her, wouldn't it be more convenient to wait until she leaves the sect? Why do you have to do it inside the sect?
True Lord Qinghong raised her hand slightly, and a huge storm seemed to be gathering around her.
"If you give me a suitable reason, I can let you go again and let you leave here."
Ruan Xing couldn't help but smile bitterly. She didn't expect that the peak master had been secretly monitoring her. She certainly couldn't tell everyone that she had killed Elder Xu, Xu Sixi and others. That would be courting death. She couldn't think of any good reason for the moment, so she shook her head and said, "There is no reason. I just wanted to kill him."
"It is really like this." True Lord Qinghong sighed, "Do you have any last words?"
It seems that this simulation is not going to work, but fortunately, it's only ten points. After thinking about it, Ruan Xing decided to ask for clarification.
"Peak Master." Ruan Xing looked sad. "Since the Peak Master wants me to die, can I ask you two questions so that I can die with a clear mind?"
True Lord Qinghong was quite tolerant of her, and perhaps out of respect for Elder Wen, he nodded slightly upon hearing her words.
"You said."
Ruan Xing lowered his eyes, his eyeballs moved quickly, and asked, "There are nearly a hundred registered disciples in Yaoguang Peak. It is impossible for the Peak Master to see everyone. Why me?"
There was silence for a while, as if it was difficult to speak.
Although she and Daoist Master Qingmeng were good friends, she always believed in the Tianyan technique. Before Ruan Xing came to Zhongzhou, she received two pieces of news at the same time. One was that Daoist Master Qingmeng had calculated that something was wrong in Nanzhou and found Ruan Xing as a variable. The other was a message from her junior brother, saying that his time was coming up and he probably wouldn't be able to use this favor in this life, so it would be better to use it on other people and ask her to help take care of the younger generation.
She hesitated for less than half a day before deciding to help Junior Brother Wen and bring Ruan Xing to Yaoguang Peak.
Unexpectedly, Ruan Xing was so disappointing that the prophecy came true so quickly.
True Lord Qinghong said calmly, "Dao Lord Qingmeng of Tianyan Peak once predicted your fate, saying that in the future you will betray your master and ancestors, and cause chaos to the sect. So, I have been watching you since the first day you came to Yaoguang Peak."
Was it because of this reason? Ruan Xing was a little surprised, "But the future is not set in stone!"
She had chosen branch routes hundreds of times in simulations, and any slight change would have resulted in completely different results.
Perhaps a certain choice would make her a demon, but in her mind she has always firmly chosen to cultivate immortality.
Unexpectedly, the original owner's reputation of being unlucky would be inherited by her and she would have to go through it again.
"But you have already fulfilled your punishment by slaughtering your fellow disciples for no reason on your first day in the sect." There seemed to be a hint of anger on Zhenjun Qinghong's face.
"Okay, then my last question." Ruan Xing paused, looked directly into the eyes of Qinghong Zhenjun without fear, and said seriously: "If all this had not happened today, and I was no different from the thousands of disciples of Xuanbing Sect, friendly to my fellow disciples, and diligent in cultivation, would you treat me as an ordinary registered disciple? Would you teach me the skills and teach me how to cultivate?"
"No." Qinghong Zhenjun answered without hesitation, "But I will ensure that you live a safe and smooth life without any grievances."
She would not give Ruan Xing the opportunity to grow up and cause trouble to the sect, but she would not allow others to harm her for the prophecy.
Ruan Xing laughed as if he had heard a joke, "This is what you call taking care of me!"
The life span during the foundation-building period is only two hundred years. For a big shot like True Lord Qinghong, it is just a blink of an eye. Locking her up in Yaoguang Peak for two hundred years, does that count as taking care of her?
On the contrary, she felt that True Lord Qinghong was even more hateful than Taoist Lord Qingyuan in the previous simulation. Taoist Lord Qingyuan simply marginalized her and ignored her, but when she wanted to leave Xuanbing Sect, she did not encounter any obstruction or harm. She lived safely in Dongzhou for nearly a hundred years.
The only threat was that she disobeyed the sect's orders and was expelled from the sect.
Ruan Xing closed her eyes. Master Qinghong's movements were so quick that she didn't feel any pain at all and the simulation was over.
Waking up in the soft nest in the tree house, Ruan Xing angrily hammered the side of the bed, causing the entire tree house to tremble and shake twice, as if it was swinging on a swing.
You really deserve it for being fooled by the evil cultivators more than ten years later. She is just a small figure, why do you need to predict her fortune? Why don't you predict the fortune of the evil cultivators and predict when they will occupy Nanzhou in more than ten years?
Fortunately, she didn't have the strength now, otherwise she would have beaten them all up and made them obediently submit the exercises in the back of Tongxuan Sutra. Wasn't her main purpose of coming to Zhongzhou to obtain the exercises of the Jindan period?
She was so angry that she was scratching her head. At worst, she could just leave Xuanbing Sect and practice other skills. Even if it was difficult, it would only take a blink of an eye for her to simulate it hundreds of times.
However, if she wants to change her major, she must first make money.
It's a bit hard to say, because the Tongxuan Sutra is the only high-level technique she can access currently, and she has complete channels to obtain it. Some small sects have lost their inheritance, and their own sect leaders do not have techniques above the level of Shenhua for practice.
Hey.
Ruan Xing sighed secretly. True Lord Qinghong was still observing her secretly. Fortunately, she did not summon the sword directly when she first came to Yaoguang Peak. It seemed that she had to let him stay in the storage bag for a while longer and let him out when she had the chance to leave the sect.
As for now, she will temporarily behave like a normal monk.
This trip to Zhongzhou cannot be in vain, there must be some gains. Even if I can't get the Jindan stage skills, it would be nice to learn a side job, make some money from the side job and then go back to simulate the transformation practice.
Although the Peak Master did not provide her with any practical help, she still appreciated Elder Wen's kindness, because she felt that Elder Wen and the Sect Master probably didn't even know about Qing Meng Daojun's fortune-telling.
After all, the two of them are still guilty... Most of the senior leaders in the sect must have known about the losses caused by the trip to the Jintai Secret Realm. The main reason why they have not been dealt with yet is that they have not been discussed yet, and the remaining people have not returned yet. After those people return to Zhongzhou, they may be formally convicted.
Although she didn't know how many years Elder Wen had left to live, she knew that Elder Wen had gone to Nanzhou to retire because his spirit bones were damaged by injuries and he had no hope of achieving Nascent Soul for the rest of his life. She hoped that Elder Wen could hold on for a few more years. By then, when her alchemy skills had improved, she would be able to make a longevity pill for Elder Wen to repay his kindness and allow him to stay in the world for a while longer.
As a result, she had to keep a low profile in real life and avoid the Xu family.
Ruan Xing opened the character panel and looked at the remaining points, estimating how much it would cost to upgrade his alchemy skills to the fifth level and learn one more weapon refining technique.
She glanced over the previous content and was about to find the last line when her eyes were suddenly caught by a few unfamiliar words.
Name: Nguyen Hsing
Age: seven years old
Skills: Gambling skills, Talisman making (fourth level), Dance basics, Weaving basics, Horse riding basics, Alchemy (fourth level), Cloud-linking sword technique (second level), Sword control, Shapeshifting (second level), Dust collection, Bright light, Five Directions (water), Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin (second level), Puppetry (first level)
Gongfa: Basics of Blood Refining Technique, Qi Training Formula, Tongxuanjing
Realm: Perfect foundation
Points: 5000
It was normal to have 5,000 points left. She had more than 6,000 points left after refining the 'little boy' last time. After entering Xianyuan City, she simulated several times and consumed 1,000 points. Anyway, she still had more than 4,000 spirit stones in her hand, so she could just recharge them later.
But the three words "puppetry" in the skill column made her a little confused.
When did this skill appear?
In any case, it was definitely not there when she left Nanzhou.
That was when she was in Jinxia Sect, but it had just been successfully refined at that time, and she was too excited to pay attention, so she couldn't remember it clearly at the moment.
Because the chapter on puppetry in "Ghost Records of the Netherworld" only contained one refining method, and there was no distinction between simple, difficult, low-level and high-level, so she never thought of it as a skill. Moreover, she also refined several puppets in the Jintai Secret Realm, and the simulator did not show any skills.
So what is the difference?
The self-destructive puppet refined in the Jinxia Sect is different from the runes depicted in the secret book. It has been modified by her. Therefore, the simulator supports her improvement of puppetry and counts it as a skill?
Then what about the first level? The strength of the puppet has nothing to do with her refining techniques. The higher the puppet's strength was when it was alive and the better the materials used, the stronger the puppet would be.
Ruan Xing boldly guessed that the level of puppetry was related to the type of puppet.
In the past, puppetry could only create one type of puppet. After she improved it, she added a self-destructive puppet, so it is a level one.
As for whether this idea is correct, she will know when she has another idea and improves a puppet.
Her originally depressed mood became happy again after she saw the new skills. She suppressed her excitement and recharged two thousand spirit stones into the simulator. She watched the points turn into a pleasing twenty-five thousand, and then started the text simulation.
[Simulating]
At the age of seven, after you arrived at the Xuanbing Sect in Zhongzhou, you were assigned to Yaoguang Peak and became a registered disciple of Qinghong Zhenjun.
You decided to keep a low profile in the sect, and start with alchemy. You went to the alchemy peak and asked other fellow disciples about the basic principles of alchemy. They told you very kindly that after you were given free alchemy, you would need to hand in multiple quantities of the same-grade elixirs for each new recipe, and you would also need to prepare your own spiritual herbs. You gladly accepted it, and after being assigned an unused alchemy cauldron, you pretended to be a beginner and started to make elixirs.
You no longer go back to Yaoguang Peak, and you don't pay attention to other things. All you do every day is buy spiritual herbs, refine pills, and hand in the pills. Your first batch of first-grade pills came out on the third day of your pill refining. Your fellow disciples were amazed at the high quality. You have a great talent for alchemy. You modestly said that it was nothing special.
You then made rapid progress, and in just one month you had completed the exchange of all the first-level pill recipes. The more than 2,000 spirit stones in your storage bag were enough to support you in exchanging all the third-level pill recipes. However, within a few months, the way your fellow disciples looked at you had changed from admiration to worship.
At the age of eight, you began to refine fourth-tier medicinal pills. Your storage bag had long been overwhelmed by the insufficiency of funds, so you slowed down your pace. You sold the refined pills in exchange for spirit stones to purchase spiritual herbs, while accumulating them to exchange for elixir recipes. However, the only elixir recipe you knew was the Flesh-Growing Pill, which was not as popular as the elixirs that aided in cultivation, and the number of pills sold each year was not large.
……
At the age of eleven, you finally collected enough elixirs of the same level and exchanged them for a new fourth-level elixir recipe. In Xuanbing Sect, the legend of an alchemy genius began to spread. And for some reason, True Lord Qinghong came to see you several times but seemed to be hesitant to talk. She looked anxious.
……
At the age of thirteen, you got the third elixir recipe. You were so excited that you started to make the elixir with even greater effort.
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At the age of twenty-one, your ability to refine fourth-grade pills became more mature, and you had a hunch that the opportunity to break through to the fifth level of alchemy was right in front of you. You proposed to the sect that your current level of cultivation was not enough to refine fifth-grade pills, and hoped to obtain the skills of the Golden Core Stage and break through in seclusion. The sect said they would consider it.
At the age of twenty-two, the sect still did not give you any skills. You became a little impatient and decided to leave Xuanbing Sect. Not long after leaving Xianyuan City, you were attacked by several strange cultivators and died.
[End of simulation]
Alas... As expected, a fourth-level alchemist cannot protect herself with only the foundation-building stage cultivation. She didn't know whether those who attacked her were sent by the sect or the Xu family, or other forces were also possible. After all, a 22-year-old fourth-level alchemist, if he didn't have that fortune-telling, would be the focus of training no matter which sect he was in.
Maybe the higher-ups of Xuanbing Sect thought that letting her stay in the Sect to refine pills was already their duty, but she was ungrateful and even dared to leave the Sect. She was really getting too arrogant.
Ruan Xing chose to remember, and instantly nearly a hundred recipes of various pills appeared in her mind. These would be the capital for her to make money by selling pills in the future!
It’s terrifying to think about it. It’s been less than two days since I arrived in Zhongzhou, but I’ve already written 40,000 words.
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(End of this chapter)
