Chapter 181 Brainstorming
After receiving the hint from his daughter, Zhou Li did not step forward to help immediately. Instead, he silently took out his sword, sat upright in the cabin, poured a small cup of spirit wine, and sipped it gently.
This wine was bought in the market town of their Guixu Sect. Although they are rival sects, the shops in the market town are interconnected in the world of immortal cultivation. This wine shop is opened in the market town of almost every sect. Judging from its popularity, you can tell that the quality of the wine is excellent and the effect of replenishing the spirit is also good.
After all, they were going to enter such a dangerous place as the secret realm, so they prepared some spiritual wine and elixirs to replenish their spirits.
Of course, only Liu Zhen and Zhou Li have the spiritual wine. After all, they are the only two adults. Zhou Ling is just a child, and it is enough for her to carry the spiritual pill. If she dares to dream of tasting the spiritual wine... maybe Zhou Li doesn't mind letting her taste the "warm" education from her mother.
The short daughter in front and the tall and strong man, each holding a sword, fought vigorously, neither showing any sign of disadvantage.
They are all sword cultivators, and sword cultivators, of course, grow through fighting. Sometimes one more opponent, one more battle experience, can be of great help to their practice.
Of course, benefits and risks coexist. The person we are facing now seems to be called Ye Cheng. In terms of cultivation, he is just a little bit away from breaking through the window paper of Jindan.
But his strength in swordsmanship... seemed to have not kept up with his cultivation, and he was actually on the verge of a draw with his daughter.
Alas, as a reserve contestant, she is always ready to clean up her daughter's mess. The reason why she let her daughter go first is to test the waters first and practice her daughter's swordsmanship. With her as a backup, if her daughter is not strong enough and is in danger of being injured, then she will naturally take over.
Two against one, no matter how powerful the opponent is, we can't let him do anything.
What's more, if it doesn't work out, there's still Liu Zhen.
This guy might be a little timid when facing the inner disciples of their sect, but when his life is in danger, his choice is self-evident.
When the time comes, he will join in, even if he is weaker, he can still help. In a three-on-one situation, isn't it a sure win?
This guy named Ye still wants to kill people and steal treasures. He dares to target her and her daughter. Then he should taste death first!
“Stop! Your sword moves… You are actually from Turtle Peak! You are an inner sect disciple after all, but you are pretending to be an outer sect disciple and playing the pig to eat the tiger!”
At the beginning, Zhou Ling's sword moves were scattered, and it was difficult to tell which style he was using. But as the fight went on, using the scattered sword moves became a bit tiring, so Zhou Ling combined them together and restored them to the style he had learned from Feng Jing'an before.
This resulted in the other party mistaking him for a fake identity, and they also made up a pretty perfect story.
Listen, the inner disciples pretend to be weak and vulnerable outer disciples. Three of them form a team. After entering the secret realm, they wander around near important spiritual plants. When they are spotted and someone wants to kill them for the treasure, they take the opportunity to kill the person instead. In this way, they play the pig and eat the tiger, sacrifice themselves to lure the enemy, and from then on they don’t have to chase prey and can live a comfortable life of just collecting treasures.
As for the Turtle Peak he mentioned... it was indeed not a good thing. Zhou Ling asked Liu Zhen about it. The names of the peaks in their Guixu Sect are usually composed of the word "Gui" and a number, added one by one.
At the beginning, their sect only had four branches. Later, as more and more small sects were destroyed, more and more people were absorbed, and then they slowly established other branches.
Guiyi, Guier, Guisan and Guisi are the most orthodox peaks of their sect. The subsequent Guiwu to Guijiu were all established by annexing other small sects.
Coincidentally, the peak where Feng Jing'an was located was Guiwu. Because it was ranked fifth and the word "Gui" was added in front of it, many people teased it and read the two words backwards, pronouncing it as "Wugui Peak", a homonym.
Who wants to be called Turtle Peak when it is such a good peak? The people of Guiwu are not happy about it, but they can do nothing about it.
Now Zhou Ling was mistakenly thought to be from Turtle Peak. Just by looking at his change in attitude, Zhou Ling should know that it was time to show off his acting skills.
"How dare you, you're from the Sixth Peak! How dare you speak to me like that!?" To be honest, Zhou Ling felt very uncomfortable when he yelled this line.
They were afraid that one of them would not be able to hold back and burst out laughing, which would infect the whole audience and make them excited.
There was no way. First of all, this line was a little embarrassing. Secondly, there was actually a sect that encouraged and promoted internal competition, the kind that was a life-and-death competition. It was really hard for her to understand.
The reason she could shout out this was because she had heard Liu Zhen say that for a small sect that was absorbed by a major sect early on and established a new peak, of course it was the early bird that would gain the advantage, occupying a good location and a good ranking.
The resources of a sect are limited. Apart from the four peaks with unshakable status at the front, which occupy the largest share, they also need to leave some foundation for the later peaks so that they can divide it among themselves.
The peak that is absorbed first has unique advantages and more resources, so it will naturally develop well.
But we must never underestimate any leader of Guixu Sect. After all, before they were absorbed, they were also a small sect of their own. A lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Even though they are no longer a sect, their sense of solidarity is very strong.
Except for the first four peaks, the competition was fierce among all the peaks that came in later. Of course, the peaks with strong strength and winning the competition naturally had higher status than the disciples of other parties.
Gui Wufeng is the strongest among all the absorbed peaks. This is why, after Zhou Ling was identified as a disciple of Wufeng, she shouted that the disciples of Liufeng were not worthy of talking to her.
And there is something even more puzzling, that is! Guixu Sect has an unwritten rule that they will not investigate the murderer who killed their fellow disciples.
It is really hard not to wonder whether their Guixu Sect has accepted too many disciples, so they have to carry out a new type of layoffs in this simple, crude and effective way.
After all, the person is dead, and although it was killed by their fellow disciples, it has nothing to do with the management of their sect. As long as they don't encourage it openly, no one can do anything to the murderer behind the scenes as long as no evidence is found.
Ye Cheng once made countless profits by relying on this unwritten rule. As long as he destroyed the bodies and left no evidence, no one could do anything to him.
Especially once you enter a secret realm, you don't even need to destroy the bodies. After all, death in a secret realm is a very normal thing, and no one will delve into the cause of death.
But now, his situation has been reversed between murderer and victim.
Faced with Zhou Ling's humiliation, Ye Cheng was so angry that his back teeth were almost broken!
But he opened his mouth, but couldn't refute anything.
At this point, he could only admit defeat.
"Since it was the flood that washed away the Dragon King Temple, then we are a family and there is no need for us to not recognize each other as a family! Junior sister, just think that Senior Brother made a mistake this time. Just raise your hands and let this matter be as if it never happened. How about that?"
Both the tone and attitude softened after realizing the current situation.
He really couldn't afford to offend the people from Wufeng.
(End of this chapter)
