Chapter 97: Why are you being polite? It's for the child.
"What!? The Sect Master is actually going to send that Ruan Xing to Zhongzhou?"
Elder Xu slammed the table hard, and with the spiritual power that he had not intentionally leaked, the wooden table made a sound of being unable to bear the weight and broke into pieces that flew everywhere.
A sharp fragment carrying Elder Xu's sharp spiritual power flew across Lu Qisheng's face, leaving a bloody mark.
Elder Xu did not come at him intentionally, and his protective spiritual power could have blocked the fragment, but he suppressed his instinctive reaction.
"Xier entered the secret realm in order to kill her. Now she came out safely and was appreciated by the sect leader. But Xier died in the secret realm. Why?" Elder Xu's tone was full of grief and malice towards Ruan Xing.
Although he was a little disappointed with Xu Sixi, Xu Sixi had good talent. Even after coming to Nanzhou, he did not focus on cultivation. The speed of his cultivation improvement was also within the normal range. His brother had high hopes for Xu Sixi. He also treasured a Realm Breaking Pill for Xu Sixi to use in the future.
Lu Qisheng lowered his head, his drooping hair casting a shadow on his face, making it difficult to see his expression. He said calmly, "She was able to establish her foundation at the age of six. Perhaps she had some kind of fortuitous encounter and trump card that allowed her to kill the senior brother when he was being chased. Now she is keeping quiet, probably because she is afraid that the master will find out about this and come after her, so she is hiding from the spotlight for the time being."
Elder Xu pondered for a moment, "It is indeed possible... Haha, but it doesn't matter what it is. Xi'er is gone, and I have to give an explanation to Big Brother."
He can't keep the affairs of the Jintai Secret Realm under wraps. Judging from the sect master's appearance, he is about to start a war, and he can't be relied on. He has to take care of both the sect and the Xu family, right?
He raised his eyes to look at Lu Qisheng. This disciple was no longer on the same page with him. Even if he allowed him to form a pill and sent him to Zhongzhou, he would not be of much value to the Xu family.
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Two days after talking with the sect leader.
Ruan Xing was just like usual. After waking up, he cast a dust-collecting spell on himself and walked out of the mountain gate slowly.
According to the speed of the flying sword, it would reach Yunyang City at sunset, but Ruan Xing landed in a small town before arriving at Yunyang City.
This was all because of the two bosses' request. They had been in the storage bag for a month, so they naturally wanted to come out for some fresh air. However, they were not Jian Lai, so they would not hide obediently. If they met a Jindan Zhenren and saw the secret of the puppet body, wouldn't she be finished? So they couldn't go to Yunyang City.
This place is mainly a gathering place for mortals, with fewer immortal cultivators. The two big guys were in the Spirit Transformation Stage when they were alive, so it is still possible for them to control the Yin Qi in their bodies and not let it leak out. There will be no problem as long as they are not closely observed by high-level cultivators.
They found a secluded alley and released the person. It had been a long time since they had seen humans. The Demon King looked around with a look of nostalgia and novelty in his eyes, while the fairy found a veil from somewhere and covered her face.
"Why are you covering it? Are you afraid of seeing people?" the Demon Lord teased.
The fairy said coldly: "We are using someone else's body. What if we meet someone familiar to the original owner?"
The demon king raised an eyebrow: "Oh, you think about this a lot."
Ruan Xing quickly said, "It's okay. These two are cultivators from Zhongzhou. It should be their first time in Nanzhou. No one knows them."
The fairy snorted softly, without taking off her veil, and turned to walk out of the alley.
"Demon Lord, how do you feel? Has it changed from thousands of years ago?" Ruan Xing asked.
The Demon Lord nodded casually, stretched and put his hands behind his head, "It's okay, I didn't pay much attention to these mortals before, but it doesn't seem so lively."
"It's just a small town with not too many people. If we go to a big town, I'm worried that other cultivators will notice something." Ruan Xing explained, and then saw the Demon Lord hum indifferently and stretched out his hand towards her.
Ruan Xing was confused: "What are you doing?"
"Give me money." The Demon Lord said confidently, "I have been feeling depressed for thousands of years. It's finally my first day out. Can't I let people enjoy myself?"
"Hey, you're not..." Ruan Xing suddenly shut her mouth, resigned herself to taking out some silver and spirit stones and handed them to the Demon Lord. She suddenly remembered that the Demon Lord had eaten all his food and was truly penniless.
She remembered that they had previously agreed that she would bring them out, and they would give her the inheritance, and then they would go their separate ways, without interfering with each other, right? Why did she have to be responsible for their expenses during this period?
Forget it, he is a big shot and she dare not refute anything he says.
However, why did she feel that this plot was a little familiar?
The Demon Lord took it without hesitation, strode to the front stall, lowered his head and picked out some toys that children liked, "I want this, and this, here you go, no need to change!"
The Demon King threw down a piece of silver and caught up with the fairy with the thing in his hand.
Ruan Xing nodded secretly as he watched. This demon cultivator seemed to be unbridled and did whatever he wanted, but he still had some sense of propriety and did not let the shopkeeper notice that he spoke without using his mouth.
The two big guys who hadn't seen a living person for thousands of years were breathing in the atmosphere of the world wantonly. Ruan Xing followed them slowly for a while, and when he saw that they didn't cause any trouble, he turned around and did his own thing with peace of mind.
She had to go to the market where monks gathered to buy a few storage bags, not only for her own use, but also to prepare a few for Ruan Tao and the others, as well as some essential items for monks.
I have to say that the things in the cultivator's market are really much cheaper than those in Wanbao Tower. A storage bag with a space of 50 cubic meters only costs a few hundred spirit stones. Ruan Xing bought a big one and a few small ones with a space of 10 cubic meters.
But the quality was indeed uneven. She wanted to buy some materials to make low-level pills suitable for Ruan Tao. Some of the raw materials were of normal price but the quality was quite unreliable. She looked at several shops and stalls but was not satisfied. It was a pity that there was no Wanbaolou in this small town. Otherwise, even if the price was a little higher, at least the quality was guaranteed.
She had just come out of a store and was about to look at a few more on the street when she suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye and stopped in her tracks.
An old monk in his sixties was walking out of a shop selling magic tools, holding the hand of a little girl. He squatted down, put a protective magic tool in the shape of a longevity lock on the girl's neck, carefully tucked it into her collar, and then straightened her slightly crooked braid.
The girl just stood there stupidly, letting the old monk play with her.
Aren’t these Mr. Cai and Cai Jiao?
Just as she was thinking about them, they came to her door, but why were they here? She remembered that the inner disciples of Liuyang Study were not allowed to leave the mountain before they reached the foundation building stage?
Ruan Xing walked over to him and greeted him with a smile, "Master Cai, nice to see you again. How have you been these days?" Master Cai was stunned for a moment when he heard this long-lost name, then he stood up and saw Ruan Xing, "It's you, Boss Ruan, long time no see."
"Well, why are you here instead of practicing well in the mountains?" Ruan Xing extended his spiritual sense to take a look. Cai Jiao was still the same as before. It seemed that Master Cai had not found a way to save her. However, Master Cai's practice speed was not slow. He had only been in the world of immortal cultivation for seven or eight months, but he had already reached the eighth level of Qi training. He was almost catching up with her, who had a simulator to cheat.
Cai Xueshi was silent for a moment, his face looking somewhat tired, "It's a long story."
"Then let's chat. It's almost dark anyway. I'll stay here tonight. I don't have anything to do right now. Look, I brought a gift for Gillian." Ruan Xing took out a piece of soul-nourishing wood the size of a fingernail, hooked out the longevity lock on Cai Jiao's neck, opened it and put it in. "This is soul-nourishing wood. It has the effect of condensing the soul and opening the mind. The effect varies from person to person. If you're lucky, Gillian may be able to recover her memory and normal mind in a dozen years."
"This..." Master Cai was so shocked that he stuttered, "Such a precious thing, how can I..."
But he couldn't say no.
Ever since he started to draw Qi into the Dao, he had inquired from many sources about things that could have similar effects, but the results he obtained were not satisfactory. A cultivator can cultivate his spiritual consciousness and expand his sea of consciousness in the Golden Core stage, and his spirit and soul will naturally become stronger after he reaches the Nascent Soul stage. However, if one wants to repair the soul of a low-level cultivator or even a mortal, it would be extremely difficult. Things that can have such an effect are few and far between, and extremely rare, but they are not of much value to cultivators, and no one would specifically collect them.
During this period of time, there has been no result in saving Nannan.
Only when you become a monk and cultivate immortality can you better understand how difficult it is to do something.
He just didn't expect that on such an ordinary day, he would meet Ruan Xing again, and she brought him new hope.
"Don't be polite, it's for the child." Ruan Xing said in the tone of a mature adult, as if giving a red envelope during the Chinese New Year.
"Let's go." She waved her hand, indicating that Mr. Cai should follow her to the restaurant on the street behind.
In Mr. Cai's impression, this mysterious leader Ruan would not help others for no reason, and he could feel that Ruan Xing's cultivation was far beyond his. He didn't know what else Ruan Xing could want from him.
But the Soul-Nourishing Tree was already hanging on Nannan, and the treasure he had longed for that could restore Nannan to normal was easily obtained. He could no longer make the decision to reject Ruan Xing.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he took Cai Jiao's hand and followed Ruan Xing.
"Tell me what happened. You weren't kicked out of Liuyang Study, were you?" Ruan Xing asked. If so, her investment would be wasted. However, there is a difference between giving before asking and giving after asking. For Master Cai, the former would make him more moved and rewarded, while the latter would be a pure transaction relationship. She hoped that Master Cai would speak from the heart so that she could use him with confidence.
"I... my master is very concerned about Nannan's existence. He doesn't want me to invest too much emotion in a worthless tool... So, a few months ago, I sent Nannan down the mountain and found a family to take care of her for me. She is very well behaved and quiet. I come to see her every once in a while."
He started cultivating immortals just for Nannan, so how could he give up just because of his master's words? But he couldn't disobey his master's words. After all, he still needed the sect's training to cultivate. He could only compromise and send Nannan down the mountain, and he would come down to see her occasionally.
"So that's how it is." Ruan Xing reached out and touched Cai Jiao's little head. Cai Jiao was a little shorter than Ruan Xing, so the touch was very smooth. "You don't have to worry too much. Ah Jiao is now unconscious and has no memory. Just practice with peace of mind. Your sect's skills are very fast. At your current speed, it should be no problem to cultivate to a golden elixir in a dozen years. By then, the Soul-Nourishing Tree will nourish Ah Jiao's soul. When your cultivation level is improved, you will have a say in the sect, and you can do whatever you want."
"So, Boss Ruan can do whatever he wants now?" asked Master Cai in a low voice.
"That's not the case. I don't have the golden elixir yet." Ruan Xing sighed.
Yuanying (Nascent Soul) is rare in Nanzhou, there are only a few of them in total, and cultivating them into Golden Core (Jin Dan) is already enough to walk around with ease.
But at this point she remembered that Liuyang Study's skills were quick to master, and on average they could accept four or five inner disciples every thirteen years. These inner disciples could not leave the mountain without permission before they had established their foundations, so it should be easy for them to reach the Golden Core stage and it would be difficult for them to die when they were weak.
They should have accumulated a lot of Jindan-stage masters over the years, so why is the information they released to the outside only about a Yuanying-stage master and a few Jindan-stage elders? Where have all the inner disciples gone?
Ruan Xing's thoughts casually wandered to this question for a moment, and then he stopped thinking about it.
It is not the right time yet. When her cultivation is high enough in the future and she can make a fistfight with the barrier tree, then everything in Liuyang Study will no longer be a secret to her.
"But I still don't know what you want me to do." Cai Wen used honorifics. Although he was grateful, he still had a trace of wariness towards Ruan Xing in his heart. Ruan Xing was helping him, so she must want him to do something, just like every time they met before.
Ruan Xing was a little amused. "What can you do now? The first task is to practice well."
Cai Wen lowered his eyes in disappointment, "Yes."
There was only one decent restaurant in this town, so Ruan Xing took Cai Wen and the other two inside. She hadn't eaten human food for a long time, so she treated it as a treat and also as a way to satisfy her craving.
As soon as she entered, she saw a scene that made her eyes go dark.
The Demon Lord sat behind a half-covered screen and waved to Ruan Xing with a smile, "This way, come here quickly."
The Demon Lord and the Fairy sat in private seats separated by a screen, and the table in front of them was filled with a wide variety of delicious food.
This is not the point. The point is, that is spiritual rice! Monster meat! Dishes made from spiritual plants!
Having entered the world of immortal cultivation for so long, she had only eaten spiritual rice once in a simulation in Liuyang Study and had never touched it in reality.
It is really because it is too expensive, and the cost-effectiveness of spiritual energy conversion is not high. It is better to take elixirs and practice. This thing is purely to provide some wealthy monks with something to satisfy their appetite and improve their class.
"How many spirit stones did you spend?" Ruan Xing's heart was bleeding as he looked at the delicious food on the table that was full of spiritual energy.
The demon king picked up a piece of monster meat with chopsticks, opened his lips slightly, took a slight sip, and the monster meat was swallowed up by him. "I don't know how much, but there is not much left for me."
Damn it! She gave him at least 300 low-grade spirit stones! And all it took was a meal!
"If you can taste the flavor, just order it!" Ruan Xing sat down and viciously took a meatball and stuffed it into his mouth, "You can't taste it if you don't practice, it's a waste, leave it here and let me eat it!"
While eating, she forcefully pulled Cai Wen to sit down.
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