Chapter 164: Ruan Tao's Tribulation
What Ruan Xing found most strange was that, according to Master Cai's analysis of the sect's internal resource allocation, the total number of foundation-building and golden elixir disciples in the sect was less than thirty.
This number was much smaller than she expected.
Suddenly, Ruan Xing thought of something and asked, "Did a few days ago, a few Jindan cultivators go out of Liuyang Study?"
Scholar Cai replied, "Yes, I wonder if it has anything to do with the destruction of the barrier."
I guess the explanation given to the disciples by the sect was that they wanted to catch the thief who destroyed the barrier, so they made such a big fuss.
"That's not right." Ruan Xing frowned, "It should be that those monks went out first, and then the news of the destruction of the barrier came out."
Scholar Cai thought about it carefully and said, "That is true. However, more than 90% of the disciples in the sect came from within the barrier, and their families and clansmen are all inside. There was a lot of uproar for a while. If I hadn't been paying close attention, I would probably not have known this news."
Liuyang Study advocates cutting off worldly thoughts and severing worldly thoughts.
But monks are also human beings. Although they have become monks themselves, they still have some differences in their hearts towards their former relatives. Naturally, they do not want the barrier to be destroyed and disrupt the beautiful lives of other mortals inside.
No wonder they searched so aggressively.
"Do you know why these monks go out? Have they ever gone out together like this before? Is it frequent?" Ruan Xing asked.
Scholar Cai smiled bitterly and said, "This... I don't know. It seems that he went out to travel. In previous years, there was a time when Jindan cultivators went out to travel together. I don't know about what happened before that."
He has only been a member of Liuyang Study for less than three years.
"Trainers usually travel alone, and at most call one or two good friends. It is indeed strange for five or six people to travel together. Maybe they have a secret mission." Scholar Cai sighed, "Perhaps after I reach the golden elixir stage, the sect master will summon me, and then I will know what the secret mission is."
"Wait a minute..." Ruan Xing seemed to realize the key point. "Have these monks who traveled outside ever come back?"
According to the special practice of Liuyang Study, although they do not recruit many disciples each time, they can basically form Dan stably and there is no risk of dying halfway, so the number of people should not be so small.
When Master Cai heard this question, he was stunned for a moment and said uncertainly, "They have come back before. At least I saw two of the six monks who came back last year."
Now, Ruan Xing’s guess is no longer valid.
"Forget it, you go back first." Ruan Xing said.
No one is allowed to leave Liuyang Study until they have achieved Jindan. Master Cai must have used the excuse of visiting his granddaughter to come out. He hasn't visited his granddaughter for more than a year. If he brought it up suddenly, and stayed outside for too long, it would easily make his current teacher unhappy.
Mr. Cai responded and left.
The next thing Ruan Xing has to do is to help Ruan Tao form the elixir.
She decided to form the elixir in this village, which was quite a distance away from Yunyang City. When the time came, she would change her appearance and display the power of a Nascent Soul Stage stage. Naturally, those disciples who were searching would not dare to disturb her.
However, she didn't have many things on her that could be used by Ruan Tao. Apart from the robe on her body, there were almost no magical weapons that Ruan Tao could use to overcome the tribulation. It was too late to refine one now. This small village was not prosperous and there was no Wanbao Tower to use. She could only delay for a day and go to the black market to look for a defensive magical weapon.
She turned into a middle-aged male cultivator with a dignified temperament, and walked with Ruan Tao on the streets of the monks' market.
There were two Jindan-stage Liuyang Shuzhai disciples checking back and forth. Ruan Tao looked at her with a hint of complexity and uneasiness in her eyes.
Ruan Xing patted her hand soothingly and walked past the two people as if nothing had happened. One of them hesitated for a moment, but still stepped forward to stop her and said respectfully, "Senior, may I ask why you are here?"
I didn't expect this guy to be so brave and actually dare to stop her.
But she couldn't possibly start a massacre here just because of this small offense, so she had to pretend to be the pride of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
"I was just passing by. I took my disciple to travel around and saw the mountains and rivers." Ruan Xing said calmly, with a hint of displeasure in his tone, "In the barren land of Nanzhou, the rules are even more strict than those in Zhongzhou?"
"I dare not..." the disciple said hurriedly, "It's just that a few days ago, thieves destroyed our sect's barrier..."
Another disciple quickly pulled him back, signaling him with his eyes not to talk nonsense. The man immediately stopped talking and said, "Sorry to bother you, senior. We will take our leave first."
Ruan Xing snorted, flicked his sleeves and walked into a nearby shop.
"Axing...is this really okay?" Ruan Tao asked in a low voice.
"Well, they are looking for someone who will run away if discovered by a Jindan cultivator. According to their prediction, that person's cultivation level will not be too high, at most he is in the late Jindan stage. As a Yuanying cultivator, I do not meet the information conditions they already know, and I am accompanied by a disciple in the foundation-building stage. As we all know, when doing bad things, you will not bring a burden to cause trouble." Ruan Xing said, "Of course, I don't mean that you are a burden, but the more arrogant we are, the less likely those people will suspect us."
Of course, it doesn't matter if she has doubts. Ruan Xing came back this time to deal with the barrier tree. The more than 100,000 low-grade spirit stones in her storage bag are enough for her to simulate many times to find the weakness of Liuyang Study.
"By the way, why did you change your name to Axing?" Ruan Xing wondered.
Ruan Tao forced a smile and said, "I heard from them that you changed your name outside. Since you don't want others to know your real name, it would be inappropriate for me to call you by your real name if others heard it."
In fact, people wouldn't think much about it if they heard the same pronunciation but Ruan Tao suddenly changed her words, which made her a little uncomfortable.
"It's up to you, you can call me whatever you want." Ruan Xing said indifferently.
She called the shop owner out and began to select the magical instruments on sale.
I visited several stores and individual shops, and most of them only sold low-quality magic weapons. There were very few mid-quality ones, or some of them were defective and not suitable.
After all, this was just a place where low-level cultivators mixed together, so Ruan Xing could only make up for quality with quantity. He spent eight hundred spirit stones to buy nine defensive magic weapons and rented two quiet rooms so that Ruan Tao could get familiar with how to use the magic weapons.
She separated a strand of spiritual power into her fingertips and bounced it over to attack, allowing Ruan Tao to use a magic weapon to resist.
She couldn't use too much force, otherwise the magic weapon would be damaged.
It took three or four hours, until late at night, for Ruan Tao to barely master the nine magical instruments.
Ruan Xing stretched lazily, "Okay, let's leave it at that for today. Take a few soul-restoring pills and take a rest tonight to recover your energy and get your spirit back. Tomorrow we will go to the open space outside the city to help you overcome the tribulation."
Ruan Tao nodded after hearing this, "Okay."
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Thanks to Xin Tang for the monthly ticket~
(End of this chapter)
