Chapter 369: The Melon is Sweet

"Brother Zheng! My senior sister already knows about the Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method, you better be careful!"

Zheng Fa looked at the urgent letter from Yan Wushuang in the Jade Book of Fortune, then looked at Xie Qingxue who was standing in front of him with a murderous look on her face. He couldn't help but feel that Yan Wushuang was a little slow in delivering the news.

Or maybe Xie Qingxue was in a hurry and came too quickly, so fast that Yan Wushuang's urgent letter was delayed by one step.

Yan Wushuang signed a bunch of confidentiality agreements in the past. He is still alive and well now, so he should not have revealed the contents of the Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method.

However, the fact that he helped Jiushan Sect to study the Jiushan Golden Elixir Method was not kept secret.

Thinking about the last time the Qingping Sword and he felt something, and looking at Xie Qingxue's expression, Zheng Fa also guessed what this person was holding back...

The resentment was so deep that even Master Chengkong at the side could see that something was wrong. He raised his footsteps slightly and stood between the two men, as if he was afraid that they would fight.

"Qingxue, are you here to see Zheng Fa?"

He asked the question even though he knew the answer. Among all these gods, he and Xie Qingxue had the closest relationship. After all, he had met Xie Qingxue in his early years, and Xie Qingxue usually treated him as an elder.

But this time, Xie Qingxue's tone was ten times colder than usual: "Yes."

Master Chengkong saw her expression, glanced at Zheng Fa secretly, forced a smile on his face and said, "This...did Zheng Fa offend you in any way?"

It can be seen that he seemed to want to say a few good words for Zheng Fa.

“No…” Xie Qingxue grinned, looking at Zheng Fa with a half-smile, and said word by word: “I also want to thank Master Zheng…”

The word "thank you" is especially important!

Master Chengkong's smile froze, probably because he felt that this attitude was wrong. He wanted to say something else, but Zheng Fa spoke up: "Master, Fairy Xie may have something to tell me alone."

He turned to look at Zheng Fa, and saw Zheng Fa nodding at him. His smile was full of gratitude, but not much worry, and he seemed very confident.

Master Chengkong didn't say anything, but secretly transmitted the message:

"Qingxue has always had an impatient temper and a stubborn personality. If it's not a big deal, just let her give in."

Zheng Fa nodded at him, stretched out his hand towards Xie Qingxue, and pointed to the gate of the Nine Mountains Realm behind him. He was sure that Xie Qingxue did not want to talk about this matter outside.

Sure enough, Xie Qingxue followed him into the Nine Mountains Realm without any hesitation.

Zheng Fa heard Master Cheng Kong's voice again: "If a fight really breaks out, remember to send a letter so that we can persuade them to stop."

It could be heard that Xie Qingxue's face, as dark as the bottom of a pot, gave Master Cheng Kong a very bad association.

Zheng Fa glanced at Xie Qingxue with a smile on his face.

Crunch... Crunch...

The strange noises made Zheng Fa look left and right. After looking around, he found that Xie Qingxue was staring at him.

It seemed that seeing him laugh, this Tianhe senior student became even angrier, and he gritted his teeth and actually made a sound.

The two walked into Zheng Fa's court, one in front and one behind. Seeing that there was no one around, Xie Qingxue raised her Qingping sword and pointed it directly at Zheng Fa. With murderous eyes, she asked in a cold voice, "Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method?"

She didn't even wait for Zheng Fa to reply, and spoke rapidly, "Can you activate the Qingping Sword and the Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Technique? The more you try to hide it, the more obvious it becomes!"

"From the very beginning, you deceived my junior brother, probably just for the secret method of my Tianhe Sect!"

"Now that you have mastered the Heavenly River Sword Dao, what are you still talking about the Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method?"

"How ridiculous!"

When Zheng Fa heard this, he laughed even more happily: "Thank you, Fairy. If you think this way, it seems that I deliberately made friends with Brother Yan for the sake of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method."

"Isn't it?"

Xie Qingxue sneered.

"Thank you, fairy. You think I have too much ulterior motives..."

Xie Qingxue smiled even colder.

"It will also make Junior Brother think that he is too foolish..."

Before Xie Qingxue could speak, Zheng Fa hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Yan, just a little."

“…”

The two of them were silent for a while before Zheng Fa continued, "Brother Yan is not an ungrateful person. Would he reveal the sect's secrets? Doesn't Fairy Xie know?"

Xie Qingxue's expression lightened up a bit. She scanned the surroundings with her spiritual sense and saw that there was indeed no one around. Then she spoke, "He doesn't know, but I do know... The Nine-Turn Golden Pill Method is not completely unknown to the public."

Zheng Fa understood as soon as he heard it that this was referring to the rock.

Although the "Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method" passed down in the rocks did not even have a catalog, judging from Xie Qingxue's words, the other party did not know about it, and even thought that the complete "Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method" was really contained in the rocks.

In other words, the Five Xuanwei Sects probably don't know the truth contained in the rocks.

Zheng Fa's heart moved, thinking that this was a good opportunity to whitewash the "Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method", and he said directly: "Didn't Brother Yan say that our sect's "Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method" only referred to the concept of the "Nine Turns Golden Elixir Method" and was completely researched by ourselves?"

Xie Qingxue just smiled without saying anything, with disbelief written on her face. She also glanced at the Qingping Sword, as if to say, how could the martial arts that could activate the Qingping Sword have nothing to do with the Tianhe Sect?

Zheng Fa looked at Qing Ping Sword, a strange look flashed in his eyes. He opened his mouth and was about to speak when he heard Xie Qingxue coldly say, "I might believe what he said."

"But guess, does my Tianhe Sect Leader believe it? Do all the Tianhe elders... believe it?"

Xie Qingxue paused for a while, as if waiting for Zheng Fa to digest her words, and then said: "There is a technique outside of Tianhe Sect that can activate the Qingping Sword. In the eyes of the elders in the sect, it is either the "Nine-Turn Golden Pill Method" or the "Nine-Turn Golden Pill Method."

This was too shameless and realistic, so realistic that Zheng Fa didn't know how to refute it, and then he heard Xie Qingxue say:

"Your Jiushan Sect has offended the Great Free Demon Ancestor, but that's still a small matter."

"Take the Pure Tranquility Bamboo and cause trouble for the Leiyin Temple again."

"The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method is ten or a hundred times more valuable to our Tianhe Sect than the Pure Tranquility Bamboo is to the Leiyin Temple. Moreover, it is related to the Qingping Sword."

Xie Qingxue looked at Zheng Fa's face and said word by word:

"Tell me, are the three families of the Supreme Dao willing to deal with these three major forces for you?"

Zheng Fa didn't even need to think about it, he knew the answer was no.

He looked at Xie Qingxue in front of him and suddenly asked, "So what does Fairy Xie mean?"

"Your Jiushan Sect is not allowed to use the Jiushan Golden Elixir Method in the future."

This was not unexpected for Zheng Fa. When he activated the "Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method" before, it resonated with the Qingping Sword. At that time, Xie Qingxue had almost no power to fight back.

As such, Xie Qingxue was naturally wary of this technique.

The Tianhe Sect was naturally also wary.

"And I want the Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method."

"...Thank you, Fairy. Don't you think these two requests are excessive?"

"This is about the sect's inheritance..." Xie Qingxue looked at Zheng Fa and suddenly laughed, "If the elders of the sect come, I'm afraid they will be even more excessive than me."

Zheng Fa nodded and sighed, seeming a little helpless.

What Xie Qingxue said was also true, the Five Xuanwei Sects were not very reasonable, and Zheng Fa’s current glory was largely due to fighting - in the final analysis, the Nine Mountains Realm had demonstrated a foundation and contribution far beyond that of other sects.

But... the "Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method" is too taboo.

"how?"

"If Tianhe sends other people, I don't know what they will do, but I still have something to tell them." Zheng Fa looked at Xie Qingxue and slowly said the last two sentences, "Use people to support the sword, and the dark will return to the light."

Xie Qingxue's eyes trembled and she said in a lost voice: "You!"

"The Tianhe Patriarch accepted seven disciples, one of whom died young. Of the remaining six, five betrayed him, and later there were the Tianhe Five Sects."

"But no one knows that the third disciple who betrayed first is actually the most loyal one..."

Zheng Fa looked at Qing Ping Sword, and sighed unconsciously in his tone: "I don't know the essence of Tianhe Sect's skills, but the skills practiced by the third disciple of Tianhe Sect are actually - not for strengthening themselves."

The more Zheng Fa spoke, the more complicated Xie Qingxue's expression became. She held the Qingping Sword with murderous intent on her face, but Zheng Fa was not worried at all. Instead, he said slowly, "Don't tell me whether Fairy Xie has the ability to silence me in my Nine Mountains Realm."

"It's this Qingping Sword. Should it obey you or me?"

Xie Qingxue was silent for a while, then slowly let go of the hilt of the sword, as if she had faced the reality.

She sighed:

"Among the five Tianhe lineages, all of them use people to control swords, but the lineage of Patriarch Shouzhong is the only one that uses swords to control people."

"Master Shouzhong?"

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"It's the third disciple of Tianhe Sect you mentioned." Xie Qingxue seemed to know that she couldn't do anything to Zheng Fa, so she began to explain, "His Taoist name is Shouzhong. Among the seven disciples of Tianhe Patriarch, Shouzhong is the one with the calmest personality and the poorest talent. But Tianhe Patriarch once said, those who inherit my aspirations will soar, and those who inherit my Tao will keep the center."

"Pengfei... is the Tianhe disciple you met before."

The Tianhe disciple who stood in front of the bronze tower back then was probably the Pengfei that Xie Qingxue mentioned.

Xie Qingxue added: "Master Shouzhong followed his fellow disciples to rebel against Master Tianhe, but he actually had his own plans."

"Is this planned for the Qing Ping Sword?"

“Yes…” Xie Qingxue lowered her eyes and said with a bitter smile, “His plan was very simple. At that time, Tianhe Patriarch was the enemy of the whole world, and his help would be useless. On the contrary, if he could take the Qingping Sword, he might be able to leave a glimmer of hope for the Patriarch.”

“But, they say that the fruit is immortal… but the Qingping Sword seems to have long lost the wisdom of its ancestor.”

Xie Qingxue's words allowed Zheng Fa to confirm the information he saw in the Qingping Sword. Simply put, the Qingping Sword was one of the Taoist fruits of Tianhe Patriarch, and it might contain Tianhe Patriarch's spiritual wisdom and even a chance of resurrection.

For example, the Blood River Ancestor was resurrected in the Nine Mountains Realm.

It was with this expectation that the Shouzhong Patriarch discovered that the Tianhe Patriarch did not seem to have been resurrected on the Qingping Sword. He even used his own body to nourish the Qingping Sword. In principle, this might be similar to what Senior Sister Zhang did to the Jiushan Patriarch - except that Senior Sister Zhang did not think of completing the Jiushan Patriarch's spiritual intelligence, but the Shouzhong Patriarch had this plan.

"To nurture the sword with a human being is the essence of the method of the Shouzhong Patriarch's lineage. If you want to inherit the Qingping Sword, firstly, you need talent, otherwise you will not be able to nurture the Qingping Sword. Secondly, you need this kind of...patience."

Zheng Fa nodded slightly without saying anything about Xie Qingxue.

It was the ancestor Shouzhong who, on the one hand, was doing the most outrageous things in the Xuanwei Realm, and on the other hand, he was hiding the secret until the next master of the Qingping Sword appeared. He was even prepared from the very beginning to not take over the task.

When he thought about this kind of resilience, he felt a little bit of admiration.

“From darkness to light again, yes…” Xie Qingxue lowered her eyes to look at the Qingping Sword and said softly, “The ancestor said that when the light of the Qingping Sword shines once again, it will be the day when the ancestor will reappear.”

Zheng Fa slowly sorted out some of the things in his mind.

For example, some of Xie Qingxue's strange behaviors, and even her excessive knowledge of the "Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Method".

For example, this kind of inheritance had too high requirements at the beginning, so it was normal that the inheritance was interrupted in Tianhe Sect.

"Thank you, Fairy. Are you also using your body to cultivate the sword?"

Zheng Fa suddenly asked.

"Yes... The sword cultivation methods of the other four branches of our Tianhe Sect are all based on the cultivator, but the lineage of Patriarch Shouzhong is the only one that focuses on the sword."

Xie Qingxue sighed again: "If not, how could I let you control me?"

Zheng Fa also felt that Xie Qingxue was a bit unlucky - this lineage of skills was usually fine, after all, Qingping Sword had no intelligence before and would not take the initiative to do anything. And she was always very cold and ignored everyone.

But...Xie Qingxue met Zheng Fa, Qingping Sword met Zheng Fa... No, they met the "Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method", and they were shaking three times a day.

Now it seems that the Qingping Sword is the fruit of the "Nine-turn Golden Pill Method", and it is so compatible with the current "Nine Mountains Golden Pill Method". In this way, Xie Qingxue's practice method has even trapped herself! Objectively speaking, the power of the Qingping Sword before was mostly due to the Qingping Sword itself, and a small part was due to Xie Qingxue's deep spiritual power.

Zheng Fa...had only practiced the "Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method" twice.

“Zheng Fa…” Xie Qingxue’s voice was a little low, her tone was unusually soft, and her attitude was unusually gentle, “I thought about it and found that with your talent, it is normal for you to create a “Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method”.”

"Um?"

"I think the 'Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method' and the 'Nine Transformations Golden Elixir Method' have nothing to do with each other! Even in front of all the elders, I will explain it this way for you!"

Xie Qingxue said firmly.

Zheng Fa looked at her determined expression and suddenly laughed.

“…”

"Thank you, Fairy. You don't want the elders to know that you are a traitor to Tianhe, right?"

"..." Xie Qingxue pursed her lips and clenched her fists, as if she wanted to fight Zheng Fa with bare hands.

"what you up to?"

"I was thinking that this Qingping Sword is quite useful to me."

"This is the most precious treasure of my Tianhe Sect!" Xie Qingxue said immediately.

"Of course, of course." Zheng Fa said slowly: "Thank you, Fairy, this is of course your sword, but I just use it on a daily basis."

Xie Qingxue understood immediately: "You mean, you want to use my sword and my spiritual power?"

"Um."

"Am I your sword spirit?"

“…I didn’t say that.”

“…”

Master Chengkong was a little worried in his room. What could he say about Xie Qingxue's personality - it wasn't very bad, but she had the common problems of geniuses from big sects.

What's more, Xie Qingxue had the same expression just now, and it was obvious that she was going to cause trouble for Zheng Fa.

Although Zheng Fa was not necessarily afraid of Xie Qingxue in the Nine Mountains Realm, offending the Tianhe Sect was not a good thing after all.

Or, if I could help, maybe Zheng Fa would be persuaded to return to his faith?

Therefore, his spiritual consciousness had been staying near the Nine Mountains Realm, wanting to see what the situation was. After waiting for a long time, Xie Qingxue and Zheng Fa finally came out side by side.

As soon as he saw the expressions of the two people, he felt puzzled——

The smile on Zheng Fa's face was still gentle and intense, even gentler than before.

Xie Qingxue's face was full of confusion and despair, just like the look of an ordinary woman who lost her virginity and had no way to seek justice. It was very pitiful.

He looked back and forth several times, frowning slightly.

"Cheng Kong, what are you looking at? Why do you look like that? What did Zheng Fa say?"

Master Mingde happened to come to see him, and seeing that he was in deep thought and had a very puzzled expression, he asked.

"I seemed to see a melon twist itself and delivered itself to Zheng Fa's hands..." Master Cheng Kong looked at Zheng Fa's expression again and nodded affirmatively, "This melon should be very sweet."

(End of this chapter)