Returning to the Mohist School
“Master, I do have demonic energy on me.” Shen Ling’s voice was neither humble nor arrogant: “But I have lived in the Shen family of Qingyou City of the human race since I was a child. I am not a demon who hides my bloodline, nor have I ever practiced evil arts or voluntarily become a demon.”
A moment of silence fell, even Mo Zuili, who had intended to find excuses for Shen Ling, fell silent. She abandoned her original plan and her mind raced, searching for the next course of action.
Chu Qing sighed, frowned, and walked to Shen Ling's side, intending to help him up, but Shen Ling refused to move. Chu Qing had no choice but to say, "Stretch out your hand, let me see."
Seeing Chu Qing withdraw his finger, Mo Zuili quickly asked, "How is Senior Brother? Is it because of the incident when you returned to the Shen family last time?"
Chu Qing shook her head: "I didn't sense any demonic energy on you. When did you realize something was wrong?"
“When I broke through last time, I vaguely sensed something was wrong, but I wasn’t sure. So after the breakthrough, I wanted to go deep into Medicine King Mountain to look for opportunities.” Shen Ling remained kneeling upright.
Mo Zuili made the final statement: "That was Shen Zhi's doing."
Chu Qing added a couple more questions, which Shen Ling answered one by one. Finally, he said, "If demonic bloodline truly appears in my body in the future, I am willing to abandon my cultivation and trouble my master to cleanse the sect!"
Mo Zuili was startled and quickly said, "Senior brother, please don't be like this. Your character and cultivation are known to us better than anyone. If someone truly has demonic blood, it's because they were plotted against, just like me. As long as you stay true to yourself, you won't fall into demonic ways." So please, don't turn evil and slay dragons like in the novels!
Finally, after helping Shen Ling up from the ground, Chu Qing, prompted by Mo Zuili, finally realized that the problem might lie in the cultivation technique she had given Shen Ling.
Mo Zuili offered a few more words of advice to Shen Ling. Perhaps because the novel didn't depict the awakening of the Ghostly Vengeance bloodline, which caused him to feel hungry and nearly kill his junior sister, and because Chu Qing didn't witness Shen Ling's madness or detect any demonic energy, Shen Ling's emotions remained stable. Therefore, Shen Ling didn't seem to want to leave the sect and go directly to the Demon Realm to find clues about the bloodline mutation, as was the case in the novel.
After examining the area for a long time, Chu Qing rubbed his brows and told Shen Ling his guesses. He told Shen Ling not to worry and to continue cultivating normally while observing the situation. He assured Shen Ling that he would help him resolve any problems that arose.
Mo Zuili listened with great interest. Chu Qing had revealed most of the hidden plots that the author had not explained in more than a thousand chapters of the novel.
The incident began when Chu Qing first saw Shen Ling's extraordinary talent and took her as his disciple. The cultivation technique he gave her was half a scroll of an ancient cultivation technique called "Tai Chu".
Although it is only half a scroll, it can still be used for normal cultivation. In fact, because it is an ancient cultivation method with unique characteristics that are suitable for the five spiritual roots, Shen Ling's cultivation with this scroll is like adding wings to a tiger, making the cultivator achieve twice the result with half the effort.
However, after cultivating to this point, for some unknown reason, the cultivation method has quietly changed. This change is very likely the culprit that caused demonic energy to appear on Shen Ling's body and her bloodline to mutate.
Seeing that the matter was over, Mo Zuili left and returned to her courtyard.
The best approach right now is to accept Chu Qing's suggestion and try using poison to fight poison by taking pills to level up. But what if we can't find a way to solidify our foundation later?
Mo Zuili collapsed onto the bed, staring unfocused at the sky, thinking for the entire night.
The next day, Mo Zuili, rubbing her throbbing head, found Chu Qing and told him that she had made up her mind and wanted to try cultivating by taking medicine.
After thinking it over all night, Mo Zuili wrote a letter detailing her entire thought process from transmigrating into the book to making her decision. She placed the letter in a corner of her Sumeru Ring, hoping that if she were to return to the book in the future, she would be able to see it.
Since his time with the Mohist school, he had risked his life to seek opportunities and never missed a chance to restore his cultivation.
Finding a method now but being hesitant to try it is neither Mo Zuili's style nor her self-promotion style.
Chu Qing nodded to indicate that she understood, and then explained in detail to Mo Zuili the advantages and disadvantages of using this method.
Mo Zuili thought about it all night, carefully considering the pros and cons of each method, before finally making a decision.
Mo Zuili's face was pale. Her strength was insufficient and her spiritual consciousness was weak. She had been suffering from a splitting headache all the way, and only after taking the pills given to her by Chu Qing did she feel a little better.
After Chu Qing finished speaking, Mo Zuili nodded emphatically again: "Master, this disciple has thought it through and will use this method. Please grant my request, Master."
"Okay," Chu Qing agreed with a slight smile.
"After spiritual energy enters your body, it will be devoured by Nirvana Fire. Only the most potent Qi Refining Pill, which contains the most intense spiritual energy, will have a significant effect. Your current cultivation level is only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, and your physique is weak. You probably have never used such a pill that directly improves your cultivation level before."
My suggestion is that I refine the Qi-Refining Pill, and you take it back to the Mo family. Your family has a concept of primordial bloodlines, which can be used to have others with the same bloodline as you form an array to protect you. This would be much safer. Since you lost your memory, there are many things you don't know. You left with me in too much of a hurry back then. This trip back can also be used to ask your father when the Nirvana Flame was planted on your body.”
Mo Zuili felt something was wrong from the moment she learned that she had been planted with the Nirvana Flame.
When Chu Qing brought it up, Mo Zuili immediately agreed.
For other alchemists, the Refining Essence Pill would require at least ten days to half a month, and success was not guaranteed. However, Chu Qing refined the pill in just three days and gave it to Mo Zuili.
Mo Zuili familiarized herself with the Phoenix Flame Spear given to her by the old man in the ruins in the courtyard. Unlike the Azure Flame Whip, which could only be swung a few times by subconscious body movements, the Phoenix Flame Spear seemed to have its own consciousness. After Mo Zuili recognized it as her master with her blood, it could move according to Mo Zuili's will, which was extremely convenient.
And it is extremely powerful.
After spending three days familiarizing himself with the new weapon, he took the pills and went down the mountain with Shen Ling, who was preparing to go out for training and to protect him.
Mo Zuili did not send a message before returning this time, but less than half a moment after the spirit boat landed and Mo Zuili got off, Elder Tan appeared behind Mo Zuili like a ghost.
He didn't ask Mo Zuili why she had returned, but on the way to see Mo Yuan with Mo Zuili and Shen Ling, he sensed that Mo Zuili's cultivation had improved and couldn't hide his smile.
"Father!" Mo Zuili called out from afar. After approaching and being pulled aside by Mo Yuan for a thorough examination, she finally revealed the purpose of her return to the Mo family.
Mo Yuan did not object to Mo Zuili's desire to exchange her foundation for cultivation, and even comforted her by saying that he would pay attention to the pills and methods related to consolidating the foundation in the future.
As for using the original bloodline to form an array for protection, Mo Yuan quickly made the arrangements.
Mo Zuili originally wanted to ask Mo Yuan directly when the Nirvana Flame was planted in her body, and whether it was because of "that group" that plotted against her.
However, other elders of the Mo family arrived halfway and had important matters to discuss with Mo Yuan. Mo Zuili couldn't bring herself to ask and could only return with Elder Tan to rest in the Mo family's courtyard.
The courtyard was always being cleaned. After carefully admiring the place where she had lived since childhood, Mo Zuili returned to the cultivation room inside the house to begin meditating and cultivating.
Before calming down to cultivate, Mo Zuili was still thinking about the relationship between the "group of people" who wanted to kill Zi Tui and the person who planted Nirvana Fire in Zi Tui's body.
Why choose to promote yourself?
Unable to come to a conclusion, Mo Zuili had no choice but to "kindly" greet the author who had written the female lead's self-promotional character to death halfway through the story, then wail and lament the tragic fate of the self-promotional character being born into the wrong book, and finally review today's events and organize tomorrow's to-do list.
Mo Zuili had always thought that her long-standing doubts would be answered by Mo Yuan the next day.
The answer appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the night.
Mo Zuili frowned, summoned the Phoenix Flame Spear, and cautiously pushed open the cultivation room door.
At one point during her cultivation, Mo Zuili smelled a scent that was extremely similar to the disinfectant smell she had smelled from Shen Ling outside the Sacred Phoenix Ruins deep within Medicine King Mountain.
Mo Zuili asked the old man in the ruins, and he said that this was a unique scent of the Phoenix Clan, which only members of the same clan could smell.
The Mo family is a human family that cultivates immortality. There could not be any demons in the family. Even if there were, they should not be in the courtyard where Zitui lives.
Mo Zuili searched the room but found nothing amiss. Just as she was about to retreat to the cultivation room and use a sound transmission talisman to call for help, an unexpected incident occurred.
Upon smelling the unusual odor, Mo Zuili immediately held her breath, but it was still too late; her head began to feel dizzy.
Mo Zuili took out a fire talisman and threw it around randomly, regardless of which direction it was in.
Without hearing the explosion of the fire talisman, as if it had been directly blocked by someone's spiritual power, Mo Zuili dared not look closely and ran wildly towards the door of the house. The moment her fingers touched the wooden door, Mo Zuili instinctively sensed danger.
He dodged a palm strike coming from behind him by sidestepping.
Mo Zuili gripped the Phoenix Flame Spear in a reverse grip, using the door frame as leverage to spin around. As the spear tip grazed the intruder's throat, the man seized the opportunity, bound him with ropes, and rendered immobile.
"The situation is now unavoidable, please forgive me, Your Highness."
The man's voice was steady but not old-fashioned, with a hint of clarity, and it was clear that he had deliberately lowered his voice.
Since Mo Zuili transmigrated into the book, only the old man in the Holy Phoenix Ruins had ever called her "princess."
That man was the one who planted the seeds of rebirth within himself, the one from that powerful faction.
The thought of his male identity ignited a surge of anger within Mo Zuili.
When planting Nirvana Flame on Zi Tui, wouldn't they also use a strange fragrance that causes unconsciousness to knock him out, and then, disregarding Zi Tui's opinions, tie him up and plant Nirvana Flame that would devour his cultivation, according to the idea of "for your own good"?
Forgive me? I'll make you atone with your deaths!
Seeing that Mo Zuili was delirious and drowsy after absorbing the Bewitching Incense, the man felt slightly relieved, bent down, picked her up, and prepared to leave.
Stepping out of the room, the man suddenly felt a sense of crisis. He carefully searched the room with his divine sense but found nothing unusual.
As she bent down to take out the magical artifact, she met Mo Zuili's pair of dark eyes, which held a chilling intent.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, Mo Zuili rolled off the man's arms and was thrown to the ground by the blast wave, rolling several times. The pain brought Mo Zuili back to her senses.
Through the darkness, Mo Zuili looked at the man, who was dressed in black that clung to his body, with a mask covering most of his face, revealing only a pair of deep eyes that were bright and sharp.
The man's spiritual power surged and exploded, and when he turned to look at him, his eyes were full of doubt, as if he couldn't understand how Mo Zuili, who was bound by the Spirit Binding Rope and unable to use her spiritual power, had caused the explosion.
The man looked puzzled, but his actions were decisive. He quickly walked up to Mo Zuili, picked her up, and tried to leave.
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