Chapter 95: The monks from Zhongzhou are too bullying
While waiting for the Demon Lord to devour her, the sulking fairy came back, her complexion returning to normal.
Ruan Xing eased the atmosphere and asked casually, "By the way, I don't know what the names of the two seniors are?"
"My name is Xie Feng, and she is Fairy Lingyun." The Demon Lord raised his eyebrows.
The fairy nodded, "Dongzhou Xuanji Sect, Shen Lingyun."
Hmm? Last name Xie? No way.
Ruan Xing was stunned for a moment, "Demon Lord, may I ask if you have any offspring?"
Xie Feng said with interest: "Why, have you seen other demon cultivators with the surname Xie? Unfortunately, I have no offspring, and I have the same surname as my master. For demon cultivators, having children is not within their concept."
Ruan Xing suppressed his doubts, agreed with a few words, and let the two big guys enter the storage bag. "Demon Lord, Fairy, after leaving the secret realm, there are elders from my sect outside. I can only trouble you two to stay in my storage bag for a while. When I find a chance to leave the sect, I will let the two elders out."
Although they were somewhat disgusted and dissatisfied, the two big guys still knew what it meant to take emergency measures. Although their puppet bodies could be controlled to not leak out any trace of Yin Qi, it was difficult to perfectly conceal the abnormality under the consciousness of a Jindan Yuanying cultivator, so it was more convenient to put them into the storage bag.
Ruan Xing intuitively felt that Xie Feng and Xie Huai might have some relationship. If most of what Xie Huai's master said was true, judging from their ages, Xie Huai was most likely the great-grandson of Xie Feng's fellow apprentice. However, Xie Huai himself knew nothing, and now he had left and would never be seen again, so there was no way to verify it.
After putting away the storage bag, Ruan Xing hid it inside her dress, then found a place to lie down and sleep.
After all... everyone's storage bags had been robbed, and it seemed a bit unreasonable for her to be the only one left. It would be best to hide. Even if someone wanted to search her body with spiritual sense, they would not deliberately look under her skirt.
Although she had become a foundation-building cultivator, Ruan Xing had always maintained the habit of sleeping. She had not slept for several days since entering the secret realm, and she was really a little mentally sleepy. She lay down and fell asleep quickly.
I don’t know how long it was before Ruan Xing was shaken awake, and he entered the acting state before even opening his eyes.
She stood up alertly and took a defensive posture, and asked in panic, "Who?"
She then realized that almost all the cultivators in the cave were awake. Some were sitting on the ground sighing, while others were excited and spitting. The one who woke her up was a female cultivator from Zhongzhou. She said to her softly, "Don't be afraid. We should be fine now."
After experiencing the initial catharsis of waking up, a dozen or so monks calmed down and gathered together to compare information. Ruan Xing stood up and walked over with the female monk.
Everyone was outraged and began to denounce.
"I think everyone was captured by those two monks, a man and a woman, right?"
"Yes, their faces were covered by mist, but their figures looked familiar."
"Needless to say, this secret realm is privately owned by the sect. Only fellow disciples can enter. Who wouldn't be familiar with it?"
"Humph, it's really embarrassing to be in the same sect with such a person. After entering the secret realm, instead of collecting resources and looking for adventures, he sets his sights on his fellow disciples."
"That's right. My storage bag and magic tools are gone. I am left with only the sect jade token. This trip to the secret realm was not in vain!"
After hearing this, a monk suddenly thought of something. When he just woke up, he checked the things on his body and saw the contents of the jade token. He quickly reminded:
"Jade token? Yes, check your jade tokens to see if you have received any message from Senior Sister Fu!"
A confused monk took out the jade token and checked it. "What message is that? Let me see, it's really there. I received it!"
"I got it too."
The sparse responses proved that this was indeed a mass message.
"This is the news from three days ago. Senior Sister Fu said that there have been changes in the secret realm and asked us to return to the sect as soon as possible."
Monk A was surprised and said, "If I hadn't seen this message, I wouldn't have thought anything was wrong. But since I woke up, I always felt something was wrong with my eyes. The images I saw were vague and unreal. I thought my brain was damaged after being beaten. It turns out that there is something wrong with the secret realm."
Monk B was surprised. "Can everyone see it? I didn't dare to say it just now."
This is the color imbalance caused by Ruan Xing taking away the soul-nourishing wood. Although the principle is unclear, it has been the case in several simulations. Once the soul-nourishing wood leaves the roots, the color of the secret realm will be out of balance, and the picture seen by everyone will become weird.
Everyone nodded in unison, and the cultivator who had just lost his temper took out the sect's jade token and said, "If that's the case, why are we still here? Senior Sister Fu and the two people who knocked us out are probably out already. Let's go out now and seek justice from the elders!"
"That's right! There was a problem in the secret realm, and they left without waking us up. They wanted to kill us. I originally thought they were just robbing our fellow disciples with evil intentions, but now the problem is serious. They are so cruel and vicious that they killed our fellow disciples. They must be stripped of their cultivation and exiled to the mines!" Monk C said gritting his teeth.
Everyone agreed and reached a unanimous agreement, then they all activated the jade tokens and returned to the sect. Ruan Xing followed their actions silently.
Several short white lights flashed in succession, and the monks appeared in a miserable state at the entrance of the sect's secret realm.
The monk guarding the door saw this scene, his eyes gradually changed from doubt to solemnity. He whispered to his fellow apprentice next to him: "It seems that something went wrong. Go and ask Elder Xu to come over."
The junior fellow took the order and left, while he went to meet them, "My fellow junior brothers and sisters, what's wrong with you? It's only the ninth day, why are you out together so early?"
"Big Brother!" A Southern Province cultivator suddenly rushed over crying, "Those Central Province cultivators are too bullying!"
There was an uproar.
The monk guarding the place frowned and said in a deep voice, "What happened? Please tell me in detail."
Including Ruan Xing, there were a total of seventeen cultivators present, and only three of them were from Nanzhou. When they were in the cave just now, they didn't dare to speak at all.
When he saw his senior brother, he tearfully told him what happened. At the end, he said, "Everyone in Zhongzhou said that those two people looked familiar, so they must be from Zhongzhou. They robbed our fellow disciples and deliberately caused us to not see the leader's message. We almost died in the secret realm!"
"Stop, wait a moment." The guarding monk said incredulously, "You said that you received a message three days ago asking you to leave the secret realm as soon as possible?"
"Yes, that's right." The monk, who had stopped crying, answered blankly.
This is even more strange... The guarding monk was puzzled and said: "But you are the first group of people to leave the secret realm. Before you, no monks have ever come out."
"What!?" "How is this possible!?"
The monks who came out were almost all excited.
At this time, Elder Xu also came.
He looked at everyone with great dignity, and all the cultivators fell silent, not daring to act rashly in front of the Jindan Elder.
"Tell me about it."
Therefore, the monks from Nanzhou and the monks on guard duty reported to Elder Xu and repeated what they had just said.
After listening, Elder Xu nodded and said, "It's really strange."
He changed the subject and said, "However, we cannot just listen to your one-sided story. Let's wait for the forty-five days to expire, and for everyone to leave the secret realm before conducting an investigation. If anyone really disregards their fellow disciples and causes trouble, the sect will punish them severely. As for you, don't move around during this period. Just stay in your room and wait quietly."
Elder Xu made a simple conclusion, and no one dared to object, so they all dispersed.
The monks from Zhongzhou returned to their temporary residence at Elder Peak, and the monks from Nanzhou returned to their own residences.
As soon as Elder Xu returned to the Elder Hall, his face turned pale, "Tell Lu Qisheng to come over here!"
"Yes!" A disciple hurriedly ran away.
Elder Xu has been in the Xuanbing Sect of Nanzhou for forty years and has accepted a total of nine disciples.
The eldest disciple is his nephew Xu Sixi who came with him. The second disciple had already formed a golden elixir a few years ago and went to Zhongzhou. The third disciple is Lu Qisheng, who has also completed his foundation building and will probably be able to form a golden elixir soon.
The fourth and fifth disciples had died young, the sixth disciple was the sword cultivator, the seventh disciple was Xiong Dacheng, the eighth and ninth disciples had only been disciples for a few years and were still in the early stages of building their foundation.
Among the three elders, he is considered to be the most dedicated and responsible. Although he has many selfish motives, he still puts the sect first most of the time.
The one who just ran away was the ninth disciple. He ran all the way over and forgot about flying his sword. He panted and found the third senior brother, "Third senior brother, the master is very angry and wants you to come over."
Lu Qisheng sighed and said calmly, "I understand."
He lowered his head and walked into the Elder Hall, when he was hit in the face by a stream of spiritual power. The force was so great that he flew backwards and hit the stone pillar in front of the hall.
"All of you go down." Elder Xu waved away the eighth and ninth disciples who were standing aside and were too scared to speak, and the two of them quickly trotted out of the Elder Hall.
Lu Qisheng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and slowly knelt on one knee, "Master, please calm down."
"How can I not be angry?" Elder Xu asked coldly, "Not only did you not stop Xu Sixi from entering the secret realm, you told me only on the second day after the secret realm was opened. Now someone is robbing fellow disciples in the secret realm. Even if he was not the one who robbed his fellow disciples, when the secret realm is over and the investigation is carried out, if he is found to have entered the secret realm without permission, I will lose all my face! By then, he can't go back to Zhongzhou, and he can't stay in Nanzhou. Tell me, what exactly does he want to do by entering the secret realm!"
As for robbing his fellow disciples, he believed that brat Xu Sixi was capable of doing such a thing. The sixth and seventh disciples were simple-minded and listened to him very much. There were also some lackeys around him who wanted to curry favor with him and become his personal disciples. So it was indeed possible.
He got a headache when he thought about this. If Xu Sixi was not the only descendant in their Xu family with decent spiritual bone aptitude, he would have long wanted to clean up the mess for this nephew. A cultivator, he was always thinking about speculative business. He pretended not to see the pill selling business that had been going on for thirty years, thinking that he would not be so ignorant after he formed the pill. He did not expect that he would cause so many troubles now.
Lu Qisheng lowered his head and said calmly, "Senior Brother Xu said that an inner disciple named Ruan Xing didn't give him face and stole his medicine business. He wants to teach him a lesson in the secret realm."
"Ruan Xing?" Elder Xu thought for a moment and felt the name sounded familiar, as if this was the disciple the sect leader had mentioned he should observe carefully.
The sect leader seemed to be saying that this disciple was a little unusual and needed to be observed carefully.
However, several months have passed since that disciple entered the inner sect, and the sect master has not yet accepted her as his personal disciple. It is estimated that he has forgotten about her or has observed that she is not worth investing in.
He said impatiently, "Robbery is fine. I don't support reselling pills in the first place. It's embarrassing to tell others about it. What's more, it was originally his problem. If he hadn't used my name to monopolize the healing pills in the Treasure Pavilion, how could the Treasure Pavilion not have a supply? Let's take a step back. Even if you want to deal with her, there are plenty of opportunities outside the sect. Why do you have to go to the secret realm? It's really unreasonable."
Elder Xu paced back and forth in anger.
Lu Qisheng didn't say anything else.
As an elder, he could not understand Xu Sixi's feelings. When he was young and energetic, he was successively expelled from Zhongzhou and suffered the blows of failure in the discussion of Taoism, which had caused Xu Sixi's mood to change and affected his practice. However, Elder Xu only taught him harshly, and Xu Sixi would not tell him about his distress.
Finally, Elder Xu sighed, "Forget it, I will pretend that I don't know about this and wait for him to come out. If he doesn't find out, then that's fine. If he does, I will go to the sect leader to apologize and suppress this matter."
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Lu Qisheng with a cold gaze, "I asked you to look after Xu Sixi, and you just did that. Do you still want the Realm Breaking Pill? Go back and reflect on yourself! I'll punish you after the secret realm is over."
Lu Qisheng lowered his head deeply, "Yes."
There are only three Jindan elders in the entire Nanzhou Xuanbing Sect. The Boundary Breaking Pill is naturally extremely precious. No one in the Nanzhou sect is able to refine such a pill.
Every time the Golden Platform was used for discussion, the cultivators from Zhongzhou who came to participate in the secret realm would escort a Realm Breaking Pill as a prize for the first place in the discussion. Apart from that, he could only rely on the appreciation of the elders and the sect master to apply to the Zhongzhou sect for him.
When Elder Xu left Zhongzhou, he took two of them with him. One was given to his second disciple, and the other he intended to leave for Xu Sixi.
If Lu Qisheng wanted to break through to the Golden Core stage, he could only wait for Elder Xu to apply to Zhongzhou again. However, he didn't know whether Elder Xu had applied or not...
No one knew why Elder Xu was sent to Nanzhou with Xu Sixi. Did he have a falling out with Zhongzhou? Would Zhongzhou hold back on giving him the Boundary Breaking Pill because of a personal grudge with Elder Xu? Would Elder Xu be unwilling to apply for the Boundary Breaking Pill for him to save his own face?
Lu Qisheng didn’t know.
He has a master, so he cannot ask the sect master for help. If he wants to spend spirit stones to buy it, he does not have connections with the alchemy masters, so he can only buy it at auctions held in major towns, and he does not have that many spirit stones.
But... Elder Xu still has one in his hand.
It took Xu Sixi forty years to reach the late stage of foundation building, and he had completed it in twenty-seven years. How long did Elder Xu want him to wait? Another forty years?
He didn't want to wait any longer.
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