Chapter 225 Confession
After finishing talking about the visiting card, Zhao Ning stood there without moving and did not leave immediately.
"Is there anything else?" Xu Yihan asked.
Zhao Ning pursed her lips, seeming to be in some kind of dilemma.
Seeing her look, Xu Yihan seemed to have a premonition of something, but he didn't urge her. He lowered his head to drink tea and waited for her to speak.
"Master, I remember everything about my past."
Finally, Zhao Ning looked like he was waiting to die, and blurted out all the words -
"I used to be a disciple of Qingyue Sect. Something happened in the sect at that time. I think you have heard about it. There was something wrong with our spiritual spring. We could no longer supply it to the disciples. I happened to be out at that time, and Sect Master Liu mistakenly thought I was a traitor and that the spiritual spring incident was related to me. He forced me to tell the truth, but he didn't believe me when I told him. He also ordered the elders to use the soul-searching technique on me..."
The incident of something unusual happening at the Qingyue Sect's spiritual spring caused such a big stir at the time, it naturally couldn't be kept secret, so even though Liu Wuhan asked everyone to keep it secret, people outside still gradually got the news, and now everyone knows about it.
The Qingyue Sect seemed to still want to continue looking for Quan Ling, but they had no clues and could not find any suspicious persons.
But no matter how anxious they were, no matter how they tried to save it, the fall of Qingyue Sect was inevitable.
Ever since the news of the disappearance of the spiritual spring spread, the Qingyue Sect was removed from the ranking of the "Top Ten Sects". It is no longer one of the top sects, but has fallen to a lower level.
And this was just the beginning of its downfall.
The normal development order of a sect should be from small to large, from low to high. This is a benign process.
However, it is rare for a sect like Qingyue Sect to have a spiritual spring, but then it suddenly disappears and is very likely to never appear again in the future.
Its development order is naturally completely opposite to the former, and the speed of decline will always be faster than the speed of development.
What awaited them next was that the elite disciples had less spiritual springs, and their cultivation speed dropped sharply. Then the number of disciples joining the sect would decrease every year, and the number of true geniuses and elites among these disciples would also be less than in previous years, and each year would be worse than the previous year.
Correspondingly, the sect’s resources and reputation will only get worse, not better.
In fact, the sect can still develop without the spiritual spring. As long as the sect's leader has great strategies, is resourceful and calm, and the sect's style is clean and upright, it can still be developed slowly over time.
It’s just that the Qingyue Sect… Judging from the fact that the elders dared to search souls, we know that all of their top leaders are rotten to the core, and they don’t have the ability to accomplish this.
"...After my soul was injured, they abandoned me in a nearby village. I don't know how I escaped, but you rescued me and gave me the Anshen Wood to heal me."
Zhao Ning knelt down as he spoke, feeling both grateful and sad.
There was something hidden in her words. What she concealed was that the Jiuyou Spring of Qingyue Sect had become a spring spirit, and that the spring spirit had run away.
This matter is still a secret from the outside world, and only a very small number of people in Qingyue Sect know about it, and Zhao Ning is an exception.
The reason why she didn't say it was not because she was deliberately concealing it, nor was it because she didn't trust the Xianlai Sect.
On the contrary, it was precisely because he liked this place so much and didn't want the Xianlai Sect to know this secret and be regarded as an enemy by the Qingyue Sect that he deliberately didn't tell anyone.
Anyway, whether there is a spring spirit or not has nothing to do with the Xianlai Sect, so it doesn’t matter whether you know it or not.
"So that's how it is. You are from Qingyue Sect. No wonder Liu Feng and his men accidentally rescued you near Qingyue Sect."
Xu Yihan looked as if he had just learned about it. "So what are your plans for the future? You are not an official disciple of our Xianlai Sect. Since your injuries have healed and your memory has been restored, if you want to leave, we will not stop you."
"No, please don't chase me away, Master Xu!"
Zhao Ning raised his head suddenly, a little flustered, "I, I like Xianlai Sect, I like my senior sisters and brothers, I like my junior sister, I like everything here... I want to stay and become a formal disciple!"
Xu Yihan frowned, "But you are from the Qingyue Sect after all..."
Zhao Ning panicked, which was exactly why she had not confessed that she had recovered her memory.
She was afraid that no one would believe that she was not a traitor, and she was afraid that the Xianlai Sect would not want to keep her and would drive her away!
The days he spent here were almost the happiest days for Zhao Ning. There was no competition, no intrigue, no lip service, and no strict and cold management by seniors.
Everyone here is like a family, gentle and kind, and she lives a very happy life.
Even in her cultivation, she felt that perhaps it was because things were going too smoothly, but she was not slower than the Qingyue Sect at all.
In fact, Zhao Ning used to be an elite disciple of Qingyue Sect, and was top-notch among her peers in the entire sect, otherwise she would not have been qualified to practice in Jiuyouquan.
It is precisely because of this that she has a deeper understanding of the Qingyue Sect’s top leaders and can see further. Compared with the Xianlai Sect, the difference is immediately apparent.
Not to mention that the Xianlai Sect will no longer be a small sect with dozens of people, even if it has always been, Zhao Ning is willing to stay forever and practice with his senior brothers and sisters.
"Master Xu, no one knows that I'm still alive. They must have thought I was dead. And I have broken off relations with Qingyue Sect and will definitely not go back." She hurried to explain, "Or do you not believe what I say and think that I betrayed Qingyue Sect and am untrustworthy?"
Of course not.
Zhao Ning is someone that Mo Jiuwei trusts, so what she says will definitely not be wrong, and she will not do anything that is detrimental to the Xianlai Sect.
But Xu Yihan couldn't show that he trusted her too much, as that would be unreasonable.
So he deliberately asked Zhao Ning a few more detailed questions, and after she finished speaking, he asked her to swear an oath to promise not to betray the Xianlai Sect.
After he finished pretending, he nodded, allowing Zhao Ning to stay in Xianlai Sect from now on.
Zhao Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes filled with joy.
"By the way, Master, I would like to handle the housekeeping matters for the sect in the future. Please help me!" she asked.
This is also a pleasure she has only recently discovered.
She didn't realize it before, but starting recently, she discovered that she really enjoyed handling the sect's miscellaneous affairs, whether it was dealing with external affairs and other sects, or arranging affairs within the sect.
Xianlai Sect is undoubtedly still a "seedling", everything is missing and nothing is perfect. In the future, as the number of disciples increases, there will be many complicated things to deal with.
She wanted to be the chief steward, wanted to handle everything properly, and wanted to see with her own eyes that the Xianlai Sect became more organized and stronger!
"Are you sure?" Xu Yihan was not surprised by this, because he had noticed something in the past few days. "This way, you might delay your cultivation time."
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