Chapter 106: Demonic Cultivation Thoughts
There is no point in thinking so much now. The headmaster and Elder Wen are playing the role of riddlers. If they don't tell her who the backer is, she has no other choice.
After pondering for a while, Ruan Xing remembered what the disciple had just mentioned about the free map in the library.
You really need to familiarize yourself with the terrain first. Xianyuan City alone is so big, and I don't know how big the entire Xuanbing Sect is. You should go and take a look first, otherwise you will get lost wherever you go later.
Thinking of this, Ruan Xing was just about to grab a passing monk on the road to ask for the direction of the library, when he suddenly saw a tall, silver-white, majestic white wolf walking towards him on the wide street in the distance. The monks on the street all avoided it.
On its back was a crimson-purple cushion similar to a saddle, on which sat a monk who looked as noble as a young master from an aristocratic family.
"It's kind of cool." Ruan Xing praised. The white wolf monster looked a bit like Jian Lai.
There are bans on flying above most towns and sects. Of course, some powerful people with extraordinary cultivation are not bound by this rule.
Therefore, monks also have their own means of transportation for daily travel. In addition to flying swords, low-level monks most often use horses raised by mortals, as well as half-demon mules and horses born from the mating of mortal horses and demon beasts, to pull carts.
After all, there are too many middle and lower-level cultivators who cannot afford to raise monsters or buy flying magic tools, but they claim to be nobler than ordinary people, so they can only compromise.
Of course Ruan Xing was reluctant to do so, as she had used her money to improve herself and for simulation. On weekdays, she would fly a sword if she could, and if she couldn't, she would stick a lightness talisman on her body and step over. Anyway, she didn't think that she should be divided into different classes just because she was a cultivator.
In her eyes, there are only two ways to judge others: one is who can be killed and who cannot be killed, and the other is who is a friend and who is an enemy.
However, there are relatively few people who can raise monsters. It is not known whether it is because the cost is too high or it is too difficult to tame them. She has been in the world of immortal cultivation for almost a year, and this is only the second monster she has seen being raised.
The first one was the black eagle from Liuyang Study. The black eagle was much bigger than the white wolf. Its wingspan alone was more than ten meters long, and dozens of people could stand on its body. At that time, she had not started practicing yet, and without spiritual awareness, she had no way to roughly predict the strength of the monster. However, she felt that the black eagle should be more than just the Jindan stage.
The white wolf was not moving very fast, as if it was intentionally trying to attract the admiration and envy of people on both sides of the street. By the time they passed by, Ruan Xing had already looked the white wolf up and down more than a dozen times.
Ruan Xing pulled the monk next to her who was also watching and asked, "Daoyou, who is that person?"
The cultivator looked left and right before he found Ruan Xing. Seeing that Ruan Xing's cultivation was higher than his, he replied in a good-tempered manner, "That's Qin Taihe, an inner disciple of Xuanbing Sect and the chief disciple of the master of Yaoguang Peak. He's not even thirty years old yet, but he's already in the Golden Core Stage!"
Ruan Xing couldn't help but smack his lips. Wow, there are still so many talented people in Zhongzhou. If we count based on the fact that he started to draw Qi into the Tao at the age of thirteen, this person has been practicing for less than seventeen years and he has already reached the Golden Elixir stage?
Moreover, this man was quite lucky. If he had achieved the Golden Elixir a few years later and happened to catch up with this year's Jintai Secret Realm, he would probably have died there, and his wonderful life would have come to an abrupt end.
He is so lucky, if he is refined into a puppet, it should be very powerful, right?
No, wait!
Ruan Xing quickly shook her head to get rid of the idea. If she continued like this, she would really develop the mindset of a devil. When she saw something good, she would want to take it for herself. When she saw suitable materials, she would want to put them in her pocket. This was too scary.
No, no, correct your thinking and don't go astray.
She no longer thought about the puppet, temporarily putting it behind her mind, and asked the monk again: "Daoyou, do you know where the library is?"
The monk pointed her in the direction. Ruan Xing put on a talisman to make herself light, and quickly headed towards the library.
As an industry under the Xuanbing Sect, it was not far from the teleportation array station, and she arrived there in just an incense stick of time.
This three-story library is open to all cultivators, but disciples of other sects and independent cultivators need to pay spirit stones to enter and read, while disciples of the Xuanbing Sect only need to show the sect's jade token to enter for free. However, if they want to take the books and jade slips out, they still need to pay a rental fee.
Since it's free anyway, she planned to stay in the library and read more books before receiving the message from the jade token. To be honest, her understanding of the world of cultivation is still very superficial.
After a rough tour, Ruan Xing was a little disappointed with the library. The first floor was full of idle books that had nothing to do with cultivation. The second floor was filled with various basic exercises and formulas for the Qi training period, simple little spells, cultivation experiences, and the basic application of spiritual power. The third floor was similar, except it was for the foundation building period.
No wonder they were made public, it turned out that not many of them were useful. She had memorized most of the flashy or useless spells on the third level through bugs when she was in Nanzhou, and now they were completely useless.
Maybe this is just a way to attract new members? She seemed to have seen many books on the first floor that boasted about the Xuanbing Sect.
Most of them were deeds of famous people in the Xuanbing Sect, inspirational stories, gossips, humorous but not offensive. Ruan Xing saw a few familiar names in it, including the master of the extremely cool Qin Taihe he had just seen, the master of Yaoguang Peak Qinghong Zhenjun, and Fu Qinghong's master, the master of Xingyun Peak Qingyuan Daojun.
She didn't recognize the other names like Daojun, Zhenjun, and Xianjun, so she just glanced at them quickly and put them down.
Fu Qinghong's puppet is still in her storage bag. She couldn't help feeling a little guilty and quietly flipped through the biography of Qingyuan Taoist. Putting aside the gorgeous words, there were still some useful things in it.
For example, Taoist Qingyuan has a cold temperament, is serious, and is very active. He never reason with others, and will just pick up his sword and fight if he disagrees with them. The same is true for his fellow disciples. He is strict with himself and others. He was once evaluated as the most suitable person to be in charge of the Law Enforcement Hall, because with him around, no one would dare to show favoritism.
However, he ultimately did not become the head of the Law Enforcement Hall, because he was devoted to cultivation and had almost no attention to other things, not even willing to accept disciples. Since he became the head of the Nebula Peak, he was the only one living in the entire Nebula Peak for hundreds of years, until he broke through to the God Transformation stage more than ten years ago and went out for a trip. After returning, he not only successfully became a God Transformation Taoist, but also gained two extra disciples.
Putting down the biography of Qing Yuan Daojun in her hand, Ruan Xing felt a chill on her back. According to the description of Qing Yuan Daojun in the book, he should be the kind of person who would do anything to avenge his disciple... If Qing Yuan Daojun knew that she had trained his natural disciple into a puppet, wouldn't he fight her to the death? Although she didn't kill the person, she was also scared.
In the next few years, she would not summon Fu Qinghong unless it was absolutely necessary. Let him stay in the storage bag and collect dust. Anyway, when she first refined Fu Qinghong, her purpose was not to use him as a weapon, but she felt it was a pity for him to die like this, and she just wanted him to regain his sanity.
After all, a child who loves to eat can't be that bad even if he turns evil.
The True Lord Qinghong of Yaoguang Peak is a female cultivator. She had always been mediocre and was just an ordinary inner disciple in the Xuanbing Sect. However, nearly forty years ago, she suddenly emerged and shined, breaking through the Nascent Soul Stage and becoming the master of Yaoguang Peak. It is rumored that she is a late bloomer.
Ruan Xing finished reading it casually, curled his lips and put the book down.
A master who achieved success late in life accepted a young genius as his disciple. Doesn't the master feel uncomfortable looking at his disciple every day?
Maybe in the future when the disciple’s cultivation level surpasses that of the master, he will be pulled out for comparison with the master.
It's weird. It's better if she isn't assigned to this peak. Maybe there will be some messy love-hate relationship involved.
Ruan Xing then read the next book, which was a history of Xuanbing Sect. She automatically ignored the long and boastful words and focused on the other parts that looked more real. The sect was founded 16,000 years ago. So far, 11 people have ascended to the upper realm, more than 170 soldiers have disbanded immortals, and countless senior monks have made a name for themselves in the five states. They have outstanding achievements in the two immortal-demon wars...
She did see a new term, "Sanxian", which refers to cultivators in the Guixu period who are about to die but are unable to ascend to heaven. They will choose to disintegrate into a Sanxian, which can extend their lifespan by a thousand years. Their strength will be slightly higher than that of the Guixu period, but they will no longer have the hope of ascending to heaven. After the thousand years of lifespan expires again, there will be no more way to prolong their lifespan.
Bingjie, reborn towards death, there is no such realm in her simulator. It seems... just like the ghost cultivation method, she cannot become a wandering immortal. The simulator does not allow it. Death is death. There is no such thing as reborn towards death and Bingjie wandering immortal.
However, Ruan Xing is not worried about this now. She is still a long way from reaching Guixu, and with the simulator, which is such a magical golden finger, she should not be so unlucky as to die in battle.
Skipping most of the descriptions of glorious deeds in the middle, Ruan Xing turned the page to the last part and saw the enrollment brochure, which showed its strong strength to the majority of cultivators. The one hundred and eighty peaks represented one hundred and eighty cultivation instructors above the Nascent Soul stage, dozens of spirit veins and more than a dozen spirit mines of various sizes, and there were as many as eight secret realms that were open from time to time and suitable for people from the Qi training stage to the Nascent Soul stage.
Of course, now it's seven.
If we wait until thirty years later and the next time the Jintai Secret Realm cannot be opened normally, this number may drop sharply to six.
The Hanshan Secret Realm has been collapsed for so long and there has been no updates on it. Maybe it is just to make up the numbers and is not important to Zhongzhou, because... the Qi training cultivators in Zhongzhou will not travel all the way to Nanzhou just for the Hanshan Secret Realm, so it is the same as if it does not exist.
After reading a few books about common sense of the immortal world and the Xuanbing Sect, Ruan Xing put them back to their original places out of boredom and began to look for the reason why he came to the library in the first place.
Free maps.
On a table similar to a sand table, the topographic maps on it are all three-dimensional. Although they look a bit transparent and unreal, when you use your spiritual sense to magnify them and observe them carefully, they are like a moving Qingming Shanghe Tu. The mountains, rivers, birds, trees, towns and buildings are all lifelike, and you can even see people walking on the streets, like holographic surveillance of the entire area.
It’s really a work of art!
Ruan Xing couldn't help but be shocked.
It is really extraordinary that such amazing things are placed in a library that is open to the public.
However, those little figures were covered in a layer of gray, and it was impossible to tell who they were or what they were doing. Moreover, her spiritual sense could not penetrate into the inside of the building. Ruan Xing was unable to verify whether this was a real-time surveillance system made by some big shot. Otherwise, she could just use her spiritual sense to probe into the library on the sand table to see if she was there.
She looked through it carefully, memorizing some of the landmarks and various routes, as well as the locations of the peaks.
I just counted them, and I didn't expect there were really 180 peaks. It turns out that the record was not exaggerating.
However, it is hard to say whether each of these peaks has a peak master. If they are really that powerful, with 180 cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage, how could Fu Qinghong tell her that there are only more than 1,000 disciples in the Foundation Establishment stage in the inner sect?
Eh?
Something seems wrong?
Just as Shen Lingyun said, in the eyes of most righteous cultivators, staring at someone with your spiritual sense is impolite, so when she was on the street just now, her spiritual sense was just a rough scan, and she looked at the white wolf with her naked eyes.
Spiritual consciousness is like an X-ray. A single scan gives off too much information, which makes the person being viewed feel as if they are being stripped naked and peeped at, which makes them feel very uncomfortable.
Of course, this won’t happen when a high-level cultivator uses his spiritual sense to observe a low-level cultivator, because the low-level cultivator cannot even realize that he is being spied on.
And Ruan Xing had obtained information from the spiritual sense detection that lasted less than a second, that Bai Lang and his master Qin Taihe were both in the Jindan stage.
Are those in the Jindan stage also inner disciples?
Fu Qinghong, you only say half of what you want to say?
Ruan Xing clenched his fists in anger.
It seems that the information obtained from Fu Qinghong may not be reliable. After all, as he said, the master is strict with him and he rarely comes into contact with other inner disciples.
Sighing helplessly, Ruan Xing found a jade slip and engraved a simple version of the map on it. She planned to continue looking for information about other peak masters. This would help her find out how many peak masters there were in total, which peak masters had more disciples, and where she would most likely be assigned.
After checking that the jade slip had been engraved, he turned around and headed to the book area, when he suddenly felt something was wrong.
She opened the engraved jade slip and read it again, then looked up.
Above the sand table, if we enlarge the ratio of the little man in the sand table to the real person, then there are two floating islands ten thousand meters above the sky above the Xuanbing Sect.
Ruan Xing probed with his spiritual sense, narrowed his eyes, and saw the information marked on it.
Tianxin Island.
Floating island.
There was a gray cloud over both islands, and only a rough outline could be seen.
She couldn't help but wonder, where are these two islands?
There was no mention of the Xuanbing Sect in the few books I just read about it?
She observed it for a while but still couldn't figure out anything. She was about to look for a few more books to see if there was any introduction, when she suddenly felt that the jade pendant had new information.
She had only been reading books in the library for half a day, and Zhongzhou's efficiency was quite fast.
However, the moment he opened the jade token and saw the message, Ruan Xing froze, as if the sky had fallen.
There was a line of words written clearly on it.
[Please go to Yaoguang Peak within three days. ]
Thanks to Mili Miao for the monthly ticket~
Thanks to Erdongwuer for the monthly ticket~
(End of this chapter)
