Chapter 52 Meet the Heroine
After failing to draw energy into her body by eating the spiritual rice, Ruan Xing worked in the fields at the foot of the mountain for three years. Every year, she would secretly save some spiritual rice for herself to eat. The spiritual energy still dissipated without any retention in her body, but she was already very familiar with the spiritual energy. Although it could not exist in her body, she could attach it to low-level talismans, thereby increasing the power of the [Break] character spell a little.
Surprisingly, her acquired martial arts realm, which had not been improved for a long time, had loosened slightly. She was trying to study whether she could enter the Tao through martial arts. However, the protection at the foot of the mountain was not as solid as on the mountain. During the season of harvesting spiritual rice, she was killed by an evil cultivator in the field.
Seeing such memories, Ruan Xing was silent. She didn't expect that after traveling to the world of cultivating immortals, she would become a useless person without any spiritual bones and unable to practice.
Fortunately, she did not choose memory when she first got the simulator, otherwise she might not be able to accept this blow at that time, and would instead choose to restart or lie down and give up.
As for now, she is only six years old and there is still a lot of time. Perhaps she can encounter other methods of cultivation, such as the "Ghost Records of the Netherworld", which does not even require the body, and certainly does not require spiritual bones.
As long as she can find a similar technique, she can still embark on the path of cultivating immortals, but... it will definitely be much more difficult than normally joining an immortal sect and learning orthodox immortal techniques.
She also gained a lot from her memory this time. In addition to the basic Qi-refining technique that she silently memorized in her heart, she also gained some control and application of the trace of spiritual energy that did not belong to her after eating the spiritual rice. If she practiced more, maybe with her uncultivated body, she would be able to draw high-quality low-level spiritual talismans.
And there is... Ruan Xing looked at Cui Yurong, who was unaware of anything in front of her, with mixed feelings in her heart. Cui Yurong's appearance was 80% similar to the mistress in her memory, but her identity was slightly different.
Because the original plot begins with a concubine bullying the heroine, the heroine's original family is only mentioned briefly. Ruan Xing vaguely remembers that the heroine is the daughter of a minor official in the capital, not the daughter of an imperial merchant.
The ages don't seem to match. She was chosen by an official and became a concubine at the age of sixteen. At that time, the official already had a high status in the court. But the male protagonist would definitely not be an old man. Maybe he is only in his twenties?
The male protagonist will be in his twenties ten years later...hiss, he is in his teens now and seems to be about the same age as Cui Yurong.
Judging from Cui Yurong's appearance, the heroine is probably either her or her sister, or some other relative. They must be related by blood.
Ruan Xing couldn't help but ask, "How old are you this year?"
"Ah?" Cui Yurong was stunned for a moment, "Fourteen years old, what's wrong?"
Ruan Xing asked, "What about your sister? Or do you have any cousins who look very similar to you?"
"My sister should be about your age, seven years old this year." Cui Yurong smiled, "As for cousins... my family is small, I don't have any uncles, aunts, or even if my father is in prison, it wouldn't be my turn to lead the caravan to deliver goods. My uncle's family does have a sister, but she's only one year old this year, and I can't tell if she looks like me. Why are you asking this question suddenly, Miss Ruan, have you seen a woman who looks like me?"
It seems that it can only be her.
Ruan Xing sighed inwardly. She finally met the male and female protagonists of the plot whom she had been trying to avoid under unexpected circumstances.
That’s not right. If she hadn’t saved Cui Yurong, Cui Yurong might have committed suicide when her innocence was slandered. How could she have become the heroine?
Eh...the heroine was forced to lead the caravan to deliver goods because her father was imprisoned for the silk weaving case. The silk weaving case was exposed because she returned her granddaughter to the old city lord in order to save the Red Head Gang, and the old city lord left Jiangning City early.
So in the final analysis, she had already disrupted the plot without knowing it.
In the original timeline, the silk weaving case probably broke out after the old city lord left office. Clues could also be seen in her previous simulations. Once when she was nine years old, Ruan's mother said that the weaving workshop was short of people, so she brought Ruan Xing, who was still learning weaving, into the workshop ahead of time. Normally, the workshop would not accept nine-year-old weaving apprentices. That time, it might be because too many people were arrested in the silk weaving case, which led to a temporary shortage of people in the weaving workshop.
At that time, the heroine was already seventeen years old and might have been married. She would never have joined the caravan and suffered such an unexpected disaster.
Even if her father was implicated in the silk weaving case, it would not be as serious as it is now. After all, he has a son-in-law who is a high-ranking official. Maybe the heroine has to swallow her anger and suffer many unnecessary humiliations in front of the hero because of the disaster in her mother's family.
It turns out that everything is destined. She caused the heroine to suffer an extra disaster, so she saved the heroine without knowing it and resolved the disaster.
Is this the will of heaven in the plot world?
Even if she changed the plot without knowing it, she would still be able to restore it to its original state through various coincidences.
Ruan Xing suddenly felt cold all over and it was a bit scary.
However... Ruan Xing recalled that the evil cultivator she saw when she died was not Cui Yurong's appearance. When she simulated it for the first time, did the simulator say it was a ghost cultivator or an evil cultivator? She couldn't remember it clearly, but she didn't choose to remember it the first time, so now she has no way of knowing who killed her that time.
Some details of the plot have changed. She, a cannon fodder who died in the first few dozen chapters, is probably insignificant to the entire plot line, otherwise the official would not have found a second concubine to replace her. It is a good thing to know this. She is not an important supporting character, so she can be out of the plot.
But Cui Yurong... Ruan Xing looked at her with an inexplicable look in his eyes and continued, "Yes, I have seen her. The woman met a bad man and married a scholar. The man had no true love for her. After he passed the imperial examination and became an official, he favored his concubine and killed his wife. She lived a miserable life and was so miserable that she and her child were even killed in the end. I heard that people with similar looks will have similar fates. When you marry a husband in the future, you must keep your eyes open and don't be deceived."
"How pitiful." Cui Yurong showed a sympathetic look on her face. "If I were her, I would rather ask to be divorced. What's the point of living a life of boredom like this? I would take the child and the dowry back to my parents' home. My parents would not despise me."
"In short, when you get married in the future, don't forget what I said. Be careful about who you are going to marry." Ruan Xing said all she had to say. The will of heaven in the plot was too strange, so she could only give a brief reminder.
"Don't worry, I will." Cui Yurong didn't care and smiled, "The dishes are all here, let's eat."
Ruan Xing nodded absentmindedly and picked up the chopsticks to fill his stomach.
After dinner, seeing that Ruan Xing had no interest in continuing shopping, Cui Yurong suggested going back to the inn, and Ruan Xing readily agreed.
After taking a nap in the afternoon, Ruan Xing did not feel sleepy at all at night. He just kept thinking, in other novels about cultivating immortals, the names of the sect are called xx gate, xx sect, etc., why is the sect here called [Liuyang Study], what a strange name.
Anyway, she had no qualifications for cultivation. Staying in the Immortal Sect would do nothing but farming and other hard labor. The defenses at the foot of the mountain were not strong, and the evil cultivators could easily break through each time. It would be better for her to leave the Immortal Sect and go to other places in the cultivation world to have a look. Maybe she could gain something. Anyway, there were at least three years from the time she arrived at the Immortal Sect to the time she died.
Ruan Xing started to simulate. [Simulating]
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At the age of 20, the official was noticed by an immortal, who killed his wife to attain enlightenment and followed the immortal to practice Taoism. You begged him to take you with him, but you had no qualifications and could only follow him as a servant. After arriving at the immortal sect, you told the official that after seeing the immortals, you felt ashamed of yourself and did not want to be a burden, so you asked to go down the mountain to be an ordinary servant. The official did not care whether you stayed or went, and you were assigned to work as a vegetable picker in the outer canteen halfway up the mountain.
Because of your famous beauty among the outer sect, many outer sect disciples with low cultivation base wanted you to attach yourself to them. You pretended to be nice to them and got some spiritual food containing low-level spiritual energy from some male cultivators. You ate the spiritual food and made several [Break] character spells with spiritual energy. You randomly chose a male disciple at the second level of Qi training among your suitors and asked him to take you down the mountain to see the towns in the world of immortal cultivation. He happily agreed.
After leaving the fairy mountain, the male disciple wanted to get close to you on the road. You used the [Break] character spell to kill him when he was caught off guard, searched his things, and got two low-grade spirit stones, some silver, and a magic sword. Then you continued to walk forward alone. Two hours later, you arrived at a town where immortals and mortals lived together. After paying a low-grade spirit stone as an entrance fee, you planned to find a job in the city and settle down temporarily.
Because you have mastered the skills of alchemy and the herbal knowledge from "Detailed Explanation of Herbs", you plan to find a job in a pharmacy. A small herbal medicine shop takes you in and offers you a monthly salary of ten taels of silver. You use eight taels of silver to rent a small single room to live in.
The main business of the shop is to sell medicinal materials and make pills on behalf of others. The owner is a low-level alchemist. After learning that you have experience in making ordinary-grade pills, he will give you some lists of substandard pills and liquid medicines.
A month later, two Qi training disciples from Liuyang Study came to the city to hunt for a low-level cultivator who had killed the outer disciples of Liuyang Study. They found you and asked you what happened when you went out of the city with that male disciple that day. You said that you felt that the menial work in the mountains was too hard, so you made a deal with the male disciple. You accompanied him for a few days in exchange for him escorting you to live in the town. He sent you to the city gate and went back alone.
Because you have no cultivation and cannot use the talisman, the two disciples believed what you said and left.
After that, you have been refining low-quality pills and liquid medicines in the herbal medicine shop.
At the age of twenty-one, you concentrated on refining medicines, learned a lot of ordinary medicine formulas, and your medicine refining skills improved.
At the age of twenty-two, you concentrated on refining medicines, and occasionally bought some medicine prescriptions, trying to find the direction of refining Luoqi Dan.
At the age of twenty-three, you were concentrating on refining medicine, but evil cultivators suddenly attacked the town and you died.
[End of simulation]
Please select the reward for this simulation:
1. Memories of when I was twenty-three.
2. A random item that was on me when I was twenty-three years old.
3. A random skill acquired at age .
4. The realm of cultivation reached at the age of twenty-three.
Ruan Xing chose memory.
No one expected that this evil cultivator would not just launch a small-scale attack, but would attack towns and mountains altogether!
This shouldn't be the work of the original heroine, right? It's only been three years since her death. Even if the ghost cultivators are fast, they can't be this fast. They have gathered so many high-level evil cultivators. She has lived in the town for three years. Although she has been refining medicine most of the time, she has also learned some common sense about the world of immortal cultivation. For example, the master of the Liuyang Study with the highest cultivation level is Yuanying Zhenjun, who has been practicing for six or seven hundred years.
Even someone with extraordinary talent needs six or seven hundred years to reach the Nascent Soul stage. No matter how lucky the heroine is, she cannot negate other people's six hundred years of hard work in just three years.
It should be at a certain point in the plot, such as when the male protagonist loses the protection of the sect, that he will remember the kindness of the original female protagonist and then pursue his wife?
This was too outrageous, Ruan Xing quickly shook off the idea.
She was not worried that the two outer disciples would pursue the matter of one of her servants escaping from the mountain, because there were so many such cases that she could not handle them all, and it was not a big deal, so she turned a blind eye.
Because not all servants of immortal disciples are real servants, many of them have bought the quota with money just to follow the immortals into the world of immortal cultivation. Those who have lived a life of luxury in the mountains naturally don't want to be servants, and they don't have enough qualifications to be outer disciples, so they can only go down the mountain. Some of the ordinary mortals in the towns have come this way over the years, and some even got married and had children in the city, leaving behind descendants, and ended their lives with regrets as ordinary people who have seen the world of immortal cultivation.
Ruan Xing was already certain that the 'immortal' who took them away was the cultivator from Liuyang Study, that is, the Imperial Master in the Imperial Master Palace. Every once in a while, a new Imperial Master would go to the dynasty to recruit disciples, and they were the so-called immortals.
Moreover, silver is also used in towns where immortals and mortals live together, but the price is a little too inflated. An ordinary mortal can earn ten or twenty taels of silver a month, which is barely enough to support his or her life, while a low-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for one thousand taels of silver.
Cultivating immortals is indeed a very expensive profession, but if the investment is successful, earning spirit stones will become easier. An outer disciple at the second level of Qi training can get a few low-grade spirit stones through sect missions. Even if he never improves his cultivation from then on, he can still live a relatively comfortable life in the town.
However, when she asked the shop owner about the world of immortals, she mentioned the feudal dynasty where there were no immortals but only mortals, which was refuted by the shop owner.
The shop owner said that all the towns in this world are controlled by sects and immortal clans. They will jointly elect a city lord to manage the town, but there will never be any emperors or ministers. The mortal dynasties are only legends from thousands of years ago. As long as the immortals are around, no mortal dares to claim to be king.
Ruan Xing was speechless. Could it be that the feudal dynasty she lived in was just a sheepfold used by Liuyang Study to recruit disciples for itself?
She asked again how [Liuyang Study] recruited disciples, and the owner said naturally that as long as one could test out the spiritual bones, one could go up the mountain and become an outer disciple.
Ruan Xing then asked, then aren't you recruiting inner disciples?
The owner was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and said he didn't know.
It is possible that outer disciples with good performance will be promoted to inner disciples, or it is possible that inner disciples are only recruited from the clan and not open to ordinary mortals.
However, Ruan Xing knew that... all the disciples that the immortal cultivator took away from the dynasty, including the original male protagonist, were inner disciples without exception.
The mysteries are mounting.
Thanks to qilabaobei for the monthly ticket~
Thanks for the monthly ticket from Wu Kejun~
(End of this chapter)
