Chapter 40

Clearly, second-tier demon beasts were not as easy to handle as first-tier ones. Ning Xu was in the middle of a fierce battle, and over at the Flower Pavilion, things were just as intense.

While she fought with the second-tier spirit beast, she also listened to the live broadcast from the Melon-Eating System.

The Melon-Eating System was so excited that even its mechanical voice sounded distorted. 【Exciting! So exciting!】

【As soon as the two took over, they both went straight for their big moves!】

【What a shame, though, Big Brother still can’t lower his pride.】

【Big Brother, just attack the key parts of that scumbag!】

【If you can’t kill him, at least make him suffer a bit more!】

【What a shame, Big Brother is still too much of a gentleman.】

【Tsk, the scumbag is at a disadvantage and starting to cry injustice.】

Ning Xu dodged the second-tier spirit beast’s attack with a side step and slashed her sword forward.

“Crying injustice?”

The Melon-Eating System clicked its tongue. 【He says he hasn’t done any of those things.】

【He also says Big Brother must have been deceived by some villain.】

Since Qi Wu dared to do this, he must have already handled the aftermath. At least on the surface, he couldn’t leave any evidence for others to use against him.

Ning Xu casually asked, “Did he really leave no evidence?”

The Melon-Eating System laughed, 【Of course not.】

Even if Qi Wu was a God-Transformation stage cultivator, the things he had done would have left traces, even if they were hard to find. It didn’t mean they didn’t exist.

Ning Xu was thrown onto the ground by the enraged second-tier spirit beast’s roar. Dust filled the air, and she was injured. She coughed a few times and focused entirely on the second-tier spirit beast in front of her. “I don’t have time for him now. Let him struggle for a while longer.”

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On a certain mountain peak in the Flower Pavilion, the furious Dan Niang Big Brother almost flattened it.

In another mountain palace, the atmosphere was extremely tense.

The second elder of the Flower Pavilion looked down at Lu Chuyi with a cold, expressionless face and said, “Is what ‘Melon-mover’ said true?”

Lu Chuyi knelt on the ground, shaking her head wildly with tears streaming down her face. “Mother, please believe me, I didn’t do it. How could I harm my sister? It must be that person resenting me for speaking up for Qi Wu Zhenren and deliberately tarnishing my name.”

The death of her only daughter had always been a painful scar for the second elder, one she dared not revisit easily.

During that time, she had lived in despair, but it was Lu Chuyi who had stayed by her side, entertaining her and helping her slowly recover from the pain of losing her daughter.

Grateful for Lu Chuyi’s devotion, she had adopted her as a foster daughter.

But what if the source of her suffering came from this so-called foster daughter? What if her daughter could have been saved?

The events from that year had always been suspicious. She knew her daughter well—she was never impulsive or reckless, and she would never challenge high-tier spirit beasts. So, how could she suddenly fall in the Endless Sea? The Endless Sea was full of high-tier spirit beasts—what was her daughter doing there?

There were too many doubts about the matter.

Unfortunately, back then, her mind had been in turmoil, and she was easily deceived by Lu Chuyi.

The second elder stood up and walked over to Lu Chuyi. With every step, the sound of her movement seemed to strike Lu Chuyi’s heart, causing her to feel terrified.

“You say you didn’t do it? Fine.”

“Do you swear an oath? If you speak one false word today, your cultivation will never progress, and you will forever remain at the early stage of the Golden Core. You will die and dissipate!”

Upon hearing this, Lu Chuyi hesitated for a moment.

In the cultivation world, every oath carried real power, it wasn’t just a meaningless phrase.

Upon seeing her hesitation, the second elder understood something immediately.

She could hardly believe it and laughed bitterly. “Ha! Ha! It really was you who killed my daughter!”

Lu Chuyi, stunned for a moment, quickly reacted. “Mother, I didn’t, I really didn’t…”

But the second elder clearly no longer trusted her.

The response to her words was a heavy strike from the second elder using seventy percent of her strength.

Lu Chuyi couldn’t withstand the blow, and she was sent flying three to four meters. She eventually spat out a mouthful of blood and crashed heavily onto the smooth, mirror-like floor of the palace.

The second elder looked down at the severely injured Lu Chuyi and said coldly, “I won’t kill you.”

“But you were brought into the cultivation world by my daughter. Without her, you’d probably still be begging for a living.”

“Today, I’ll cripple your cultivation.”

“From now on, our bond is severed, and there will be no connection between us!”

After speaking, the second elder turned and left without a second glance, leaving Lu Chuyi lying in the empty palace, her eyes full of rage, muttering to herself, “I didn’t…”

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As the Melon-Eating System recounted Lu Chuyi’s fate to Ning Xu, she was healing from her wounds.

After her battle with the second-tier spirit beast, both she and the Innocent Cultivator had sustained injuries. Luckily, she had several pills from Qingjiu Xian to help her recover, and she had already healed significantly.

The Melon-Eating System sneered. 【Her cultivation has been crippled, and she lost her status as the second elder’s foster daughter. This is the price she paid for speaking up for the scumbag!】

Had Lu Chuyi known that she would end up like this, she probably wouldn’t have sided with Qi Wu so quickly.

But in the cultivation world, you can never know things ahead of time.

Once she had recovered enough, Ning Xu stood up. “The secret realm is dangerous. Let’s go find Wu Lucheng now.” Wu Lucheng’s cultivation was low, and if he encountered a second-tier spirit beast, he was likely to be defeated.

The Innocent Cultivator nodded. “Got it!”

Seeing that the host hadn’t fully healed yet, the Melon-Eating System calmly said, 【No need to rush. As for him…】

It paused for a moment, and Ning Xu curiously asked, “What?”

The Melon-Eating System sighed. 【He’s quite resourceful.】

Ning Xu, “…”

【He probably knows the secret realm is full of dangers, so he found a comfortable spot to wait it out.】

【If he hasn’t reunited with the team, I don’t think he’ll move from that spot.】

Ning Xu thought for a moment and commented, “…That’s fine too.”

Being resourceful was also a skill. If he were unlucky and encountered an evil cultivator or something, he wouldn’t even be able to hide.

Since Wu Lucheng had stayed in one place and there was no danger for now, Ning Xu and the Innocent Cultivator weren’t too hasty in their journey.

Five hours later, they successfully reunited with Wu Lucheng.

When Wu Lucheng, the big silly guy, saw them, he was so excited that he almost shed tears.

When he first entered the secret realm, he had been chased and bitten by a group of demon monkeys. As a body cultivator, he was at a disadvantage against so many demon monkeys. Luckily, the demon monkeys eventually saw that his skin was tough and his flesh was tough, and they let him go.

Wu Lucheng narrowly escaped this disaster.

Because of this experience, he had come to understand that without his teammates, he had no advantage, so he wisely found a place to hide and waited for them to find him.

When Wu Lucheng shared his experience in the secret realm, the ground suddenly cracked without warning, and a large, deep pit appeared below. Before anyone could react, they all fell into it.

When Ning Xu got up from the ground and opened her eyes, she found herself standing before a stone tablet that read “Immortal’s Cave.”

At that moment, her two teammates also stood up.

They were in a very narrow space. In front of them, besides a stone tablet inscribed with “Fuxian Cave” and a tightly shut stone door, there was nothing else.

Above the stone door, two lamps emitted a faint red glow, their flickering candlelight illuminating the small area with a reddish hue.

Wu Luchen curiously asked, “Is this a legacy?”

Ning Xu replied, “It looks like it.”

Typically, only cultivators who have reached the Great Ascension stage take on names like ‘xx Immortal,’ such as the ‘Clear Wine Immortal.’ So, could the Fuxian in front of them also be a Great Ascension cultivator?

Ning Xu asked the Melon-Eating System, “Fortune?”

The Melon-Eating System casually replied, 【I don’t know, never heard of this name. It’s probably some unimportant small character.】

Ning Xu proactively spoke, “Shall we go in and take a look?”

Naturally, the Innocent Cultivator had no objections to Ning Xu’s suggestion, “Alright!”

Wu Luchen rubbed his hands together, “Let’s go, let’s go!”

He had never experienced a stroke of fortune before and had no idea what might be behind the stone door.

Since they were going in, the stone door would need to be opened. Ning Xu found a switch in a conspicuous spot. The moment she pressed the switch, the stone door slowly opened before them, revealing the world inside.

It was a spacious stone chamber, with two lamps inside emitting the same faint red glow.

In the center of the stone chamber was a meditation cushion.

At this moment, a divine sense was meditating on it.

The instant they entered the stone chamber, the stone door behind them slammed shut, and at the same time, the divine sense in front of them opened its eyes.

There was nothing in her eyes, and her gaze was cold.

Her appearance was noble, and even though she was just a divine sense, she had an air of being unattainably high.

Wu Luchen exchanged a glance with Ning Xu and the Innocent Cultivator.

Fortune had arrived! And it might be a great one!

This was Wu Luchen’s first time witnessing such a scene, and he was so excited he could hardly contain himself when suddenly, a lazy mechanical voice sounded in his ear.

【This nameless nobody is really trying to act tough!】

It was infuriating that the Melon-Eating System had no physical form, not even a place to act tough, which was incredibly frustrating.

Ning Xu: …

Wu Luchen: …

At this moment, a misty, ethereal voice echoed in the stone chamber.

“I am Fuxian. In my past life, I was a Great Ascension cultivator.”

Ning Xu and the others suppressed their thoughts and cupped their hands, saying, “Senior.”

The Melon-Eating System muttered angrily, 【What Fuxian? Never heard of them!】

【I’ve seen people act tough, but not like this!】

The next moment, the divine sense slowly stood up. “I have fallen for many years, and my divine sense can no longer last much longer.”

She sighed softly, “The only thing I cannot let go of is my lifelong ultimate skill.”

After saying this, her gaze swept across the three young cultivators in front of her, taking a few steps closer to them, and said, “Therefore, I am preparing to choose one of you to inherit my talisman path.”

Ning Xu suppressed the strange feeling in her heart and asked, “Senior, how do you plan to choose the heir?”

Why were they the three chosen?

Were they the only ones selected, or were there others as well?

Fuxian’s tone was cold, “Naturally, I will choose the one with the greatest talent in the talisman path.”

With that, Fuxian lightly placed her illusory hand in front of Ning Xu, as if she were testing his talent. Ning Xu instinctively stepped to the side to avoid her closeness.

Fuxian was slightly taken aback, seemingly not expecting the low-level cultivator in front of her to actively avoid her approach.

Just as she was about to say something, suddenly, a loud and arrogant voice echoed in her ear.

【This old thing’s aura feels a bit strange.】

【Is this someone impersonating a Great Ascension cultivator?】

【Tsk, this old thing really knows how to flatter itself!】

【I suspect this old demon who has lived who knows how many years wants to take over your body!】

Fuxian, who was suddenly hit with the thoughts, froze: ???

Ning Xu: !!!

Everyone: !!!