Chapter 111: Quietly Returning to the Sect Shocks Everyone
Thinking of the space behind the wall, Bi Jiangxue regained some strength and stumbled towards it. After injecting spiritual energy, the wall opened.
Many people looked unwell, and some even vomited.
She climbed the pile of bones, searching for Liu Zhe's remains.
The scarred female cultivator approached and asked, "Are you looking for Liu Zhe's remains?"
Bi Jiangxue nodded. Liu Zhe's condition was mainly due to her. Her cultivation level was not as high as Liu Zhe's, so when they fought the evil cultivators, Liu Zhe stood in front of her, which is why he was seriously injured.
"Senior brother, senior brother." Bi Jiangxue, standing to the side, saw the skeleton wearing the robes of a Shuiyue Sect disciple, with its identity tag still on its waist, and finally couldn't help but burst into tears.
"We were wrong! We shouldn't have gone to Linfeng Mountain, and we shouldn't have thought of picking more Sheng Yang flowers. We already bought enough, Senior Brother!"
Song Yin seemed to be deep in thought; it turned out that they had bought the rare Sheng Yang flower in the city.
That makes sense; they have the formula for the Resurrection Pill, so it's not surprising that they buy large quantities of the Sheng Yang Miracle Flower.
Alas, when she was picking the Sheng Yang Qi Hua, Yu Lao Er interrupted her, and she didn't pick many herself, only a dozen or so that had already bloomed.
The female cultivator, covered in scars, asked Song Yin, "I still don't know the name of my benefactor, so I can repay him in the future."
"Yes, our benefactor, we haven't thanked him for saving our lives yet." Some people realized that they had forgotten to thank him.
"Thank you both for saving my life. I will never forget it."
"Thank you, my benefactor!"
"Thanks!"
Song Yin pulled down her hood and said with her head down, "I am an unknown rogue cultivator. Evil cultivators are killed by everyone. There is no need for repayment."
She looked at the pile of bones and said to everyone, "If any of you are the last to leave, remember to destroy and seal the entrance. This is underground, and sealing the entrance will also bury the bones."
“Let’s go,” Song Yin said to Shi Heming.
Everyone watched as the two mysterious, nameless rogue cultivators departed.
Back on the ground, Song Yin stretched out her hand and looked up at the sky. "The rain has lessened. Let's fly in one direction first, find a populated area, and figure out where we are."
"good."
Before leaving, Song Yin flew to the three dead evil cultivators and took their storage bags from a distance.
The two flew in one direction, under the cover of night.
After flying quite a distance, the sky was completely cloudless, and the stars and moon hung high once again.
Song Yin: "Let's stop the training. When we get to a city with a teleportation array, let's teleport back to the sect directly. It doesn't feel safe to carry such a large piece of spiritual marrow on my person. I think it's not far from becoming a ten-thousand-year spiritual marrow. Let's see if there's another way to make it become ten-thousand-year after we get back."
Shi Heming: "It still needs purification."
Song Yin: "Purify?"
Shi Heming: "That's right. Just now in the cave, I saw black energy mixed in with the spiritual marrow. I'm afraid there was still resentment being sent into the spiritual marrow along with the formation."
“That makes sense.” Song Yin kept looking down. “Hey, I see some people. It looks like a small town. Let’s go down and take a look.”
The two landed not far away, took off their black cloaks, and cast a dust removal spell on themselves.
Song Yin: "How is it? Can you still see the signs of a fight?"
Shi Heming pointed to his head, "My hair is a bit messy."
"It must have been caused by pulling out the hairpin earlier, please wait a moment." Song Yin immediately untied her hair completely and then simply tied it up with a hair ribbon.
"That's good, let's go."
Even late at night, cultivators guarded the city gates. After confirming that Song Yin and Shi Heming were not evil cultivators, the two entered smoothly and learned the name of the small town: Qiuyang Town.
There were still inns open in the city, so the two went inside.
Xiao Er was still dozing off when he heard the noise and woke up.
"Two superior rooms." Shi Heming placed the spirit stones on the table.
Waiter: "I'll take you two upstairs."
As they went upstairs, Song Yin asked, "Waiter, are there any teleportation arrays in the city?"
Waiter: "Our Qiuyang Town is just a small town, and we don't have a teleportation array. If you two need a teleportation array, you'll have to go to Linguang City in the east."
Song Yin recognized the name Lingguang City; it seemed they were still in Xizhou.
"These are the two rooms we have for you, sir."
Thank you.
After the waiter came downstairs, Song Yin said, "Let's rest first. We'll set off for Linguang City tomorrow."
Shi Heming: "How are your injuries?" Before, in the valley, after the battle, he and Song Yin only received simple treatment, but they actually had other injuries.
Song Yin: "It's alright. With the help of the medicine and restorative breathing overnight, you should be fine. Do you have enough healing medicine on you?"
"That's enough."
"Okay, I'll go in first."
Song Yin went in, closed the door, went straight to the bed, and then sat down to meditate and regulate her breathing to heal her still-healing injuries.
This experience was truly thrilling; I almost lost both myself and Shi Heming. Fortunately, we won and even gained an unexpected reward.
When the time comes, we will take out the Spirit Essence and the Brahma Core together, and I believe the Grandmaster will not doubt us too much.
She and Shi Heming each received half of the spiritual marrow, and she would get a large share. She didn't plan to let the sect know about the existence of this spiritual marrow; she would secretly distribute it to her grandmaster and the others later.
For the past hundred years, my master and the others have taken care of me, and I've also taken many good things from them. This time, I'm giving them some of the spiritual essence; I believe that with the spiritual essence, their cultivation will be much smoother.
By the time the latter half of the night had passed, Song Yin's injuries had almost fully healed.
The next morning, Song Yin and Shi Heming rushed to Linguang City.
Upon arriving in Linguang City, they sensed that something was amiss.
Because they discovered that Linguang City was gathering rogue cultivators together.
The people in the city were talking about it, wondering why the city lord had issued this order this morning.
"Why did the city lord gather all these rogue cultivators together? There are so many rogue cultivators in this city, I really don't know what the city lord was thinking."
"I heard that the city lord went out in the middle of the night and came back in a rage."
"In short, the city is now easy to enter but strict to leave, and everyone must be checked."
"This is such a hassle. I hope this kind of mess won't affect our lives."
Hearing the conversation on the street, Song Yin and Shi Heming exchanged a glance, but neither of them said anything.
They randomly found another inn and went in. When they came out, the two of them were dressed in the robes of the Immortal Firmament Sect disciples, with Immortal Firmament Sect identity tokens hanging from their waists.
Shi Heming transmitted his voice: "What do you think?"
Song Yin transmitted her voice: "Back then, the city lord of Dingfeng City was able to collude with Zhao Laoda and his group, so it's not surprising that the city lord of Lingguang City would also collude with evil cultivators. After all, everyone would be tempted by that thing. I just don't know how Zhao Laoda and his group managed to get these people to not just forcibly seize the treasure."
It wouldn't be difficult for the lord of a large city to gather Nascent Soul cultivators for help.
Shi Heming transmitted his voice: "They are also formidable. One Nascent Soul cultivator and two Golden Core cultivators managed to guard the treasure for two hundred years without it being stolen. Two hundred years ago, their cultivation level must have been lower than it is now."
Song Yin transmitted her voice: "It's a pity they ran into me."
Shi Heming smiled and was about to continue speaking when a group of people came and blocked their way.
"Halt! Are you rogue cultivators from outside? What kind of cultivation do you practice?"
Song Yin: "We are from Linguang City, but we are not independent cultivators."
The team leader sized up Song Yin and Shi Heming. "Not rogue cultivators?"
Song Yin took off her identity tag from her waist. "He and I are both disciples of the Eastern Continent Immortal Cloud Sect. We traveled to Lin Guang City. My name is Song Yin, and I am a pill cultivator. His name is Shi Heming, and he is a talisman cultivator."
After checking the identification tag and returning it to Song Yin, the team leader immediately apologized: "My apologies, my apologies. So you're a disciple of the Immortal Cloud Sect. I rarely encounter disciples from the Eastern Continent, and I didn't recognize you at first. I'm truly sorry."
Song Yin hung her identity tag back on her waist. "Fellow Daoist, you're too kind. You're all on official business, so I understand."
The team leader and the others behind him felt relieved upon hearing this. "The city has suddenly become unsettled, but since you two are disciples of a sect, this matter is none of your concern. You are free to travel around Linguang City as you please. However, during your travels, have you encountered any strange rogue cultivators, especially sword cultivators and array cultivators?"
Shi Heming: "I have never seen it before."
Song Yin asked in confusion, "I wonder what happened in the city that warrants such a large-scale search for rogue cultivators?"
The team leader sighed, "To be honest, we don't know either. We're just following orders from above."
The team leader clasped his hands in a fist salute, saying, "Please enjoy yourselves in Lingguang City. We have official business to attend to. We'll talk again another time." With that, he led his men to continue their investigation.
Song Yin and Shi Heming turned around and watched their departing figures.
Once the others had gone far away, they strode towards the location of the teleportation array.
Upon arriving at the teleportation array, they discovered that it was guarded, and everyone who wanted to use it had to undergo an identity check.
To Song Yin's surprise, she even saw people from the Immortal Alliance, dressed in their distinctive attire, conducting a search alongside the city lord's men.
It was Song Yin and Shi Heming's turn.
"What's your name? Are you a rogue cultivator? Where are you going?"
The two took out their identity tokens.
The people from the Immortal Alliance took a closer look and asked, "Your name is Song Yin? Song Yin from the Immortal Cloud Sect of the Eastern Continent?"
Song Yin: "I am Song Yin of the Xianxiao Sect in Dongzhou."
The Immortal Alliance members returned the identity tokens to Song Yin and Shi Heming, and said to the city lord's men, "Let them enter the teleportation array."
The city lord's men: "Are they special? Shall we ask them a few more questions?"
The Immortal Alliance member said, "You're all holed up in Lin Guang City, oblivious to what's going on outside. But I know that Song Yin of the Immortal Firmament Sect is extremely famous throughout the Eastern Continent. He was famous for breaking through to the Golden Core stage before he was even a hundred years old. Of course, the Immortal Firmament Sect has produced other Golden Core cultivators before they were even a hundred years old, but none of them are as famous as Song Yin."
The city lord's men turned to look at the two who had left. "Wow, so amazing! Geniuses!"
After stepping into the teleportation array, the two finally returned to the Eastern Continent after several transfers.
When teleporting to other cities in the Western Continent, some places were calm and peaceful, while others, like Lin Guang City, were being investigated for various independent cultivators.
Upon entering the territory of the Eastern Continent, the two relaxed considerably, but without resting, they teleported back to Immortal Cloud City.
The two returned to Xianxiao City and flew directly back to their sect. They didn't have time to register their return from their training and headed straight for the inner sect.
Song Yin: "There are too many people at Wendao Peak. Come with me to Danque Peak, where there are fewer people."
Upon returning to Danque Peak, Song Yin searched around but couldn't find her master, so she contacted him directly using the communication stone.
"You've only been gone a short time, and you're already contacting your master? Have you run into trouble?"
"Master, where are you?"
"What happened at Wujian Peak?"
"Is there no one else around?"
"Your master's wife, just say what you have to say."
"You two come to Danque Peak right away. Come to my courtyard, and do it quietly!"
Inside Wujian Peak, Qi Zibo pointed to the communication stone and asked Wen Zhiling, "What does she mean by this?"
Wen Zhiling was also puzzled, "Could it be that Yinyin is back?"
Qi Zibo: "She's only been gone a few days! She's back in less than a month, is that considered training?"
Wen Zhiling: "Alright, let's hurry over there, don't keep Yinyin waiting."
Qi Zibo: "Fine, fine, this rebellious disciple only knows how to boss people around without any respect for elders."
The two soon arrived at Danque Peak.
Qi Zibo walked up to Song Yin's courtyard and pointed at the layers of barriers and restrictions, complaining, "Every day, I don't know what treasures she's hiding in her courtyard, setting up so many barriers and restrictions. When she's bored, she's always complaining about me to you. Today I'm complaining about her; she doesn't know how to respect her elders and is impolite."
Wen Zhiling: "Are you coming in or not?"
Qi Zibo suppressed his long string of complaints and said, "Come in, let's all come in together."
Upon entering, I saw not only Song Yin, but also Shi Heming.
Qi Zibo: "Oh, Xiao He is here too."
Shi Heming stood up and bowed, "Greetings, Elder Qi and Elder Wen."
"No need for formalities, please sit down." Wen Zhiling pointed to the seats.
Qi Zibo: "You traitor, what did you call us here for? You came back in less than a month. You're really terrible."
Song Yin: "..."
Suddenly, I didn't want to give Old Deng any spiritual essence.
"Master's wife, set up more protective barriers," Song Yin said to Wen Zhiling.
Wen Zhiling didn't understand, but she did as instructed.
Song Yin cleared her throat and, amidst the puzzled looks of the two, slowly said, "Shi Heming and I encountered a bit of an accident while we were out, and we killed a few evil cultivators."
Qi Zibo: "And then?"
Song Yin: "Incidentally, we also rescued more than eighty people."
Qi Zibo: "That's good. And then what?"
Song Yin: "Perhaps it's because I did a good deed every day that God recognized me and allowed me to find two treasures in the lair of evil cultivators."
Qi Zibo became interested. "What could you possibly call a priceless treasure?"
Song Yin stood in the open courtyard and released a giant spiritual marrow, as tall as an adult, without any preparation.
The spiritual energy of the essence instantly filled the entire courtyard.
"..."
"..."
The courtyard fell into an eerie silence.
Qi Zibo suddenly said to Wen Zhiling, "Madam, if you don't pinch me, I'll suspect I'm dreaming. Otherwise, how could I see a giant spiritual marrow that's a thousand years old?"
Wen Zhiling satisfied him, slapping Qi Zibo hard on the back and pinching him as she did so.
"Hiss—it's not a dream."
"It's not a dream, it's not a dream..."
"Not a dream?!?"
Qi Zibo stood frozen in place for a long time before reaching out to touch it. Feeling the icy coolness, he confirmed that it was indeed spiritual essence.
Wen Zhiling remained silent, appearing composed, but in reality, she was completely lost in thought.
"However, Shi Heming discovered that the spiritual marrow contained resentment and needed to be purified before it could be used. The spiritual marrow was obtained by the two of us working together to kill the evil cultivator, so we decided to divide it equally, half for each of us. I was thinking of giving some of my half to you, as well as to our grandmaster and senior brother, so all four of you will get one."
Qi Zibo walked to Song Yin's side and patted Song Yin's head twice like he was patting a watermelon. "Good disciple, you are truly a gift from heaven."
Wen Zhiling gradually came to her senses, "Spiritual marrow is precious, are you really willing to share it with us?"
Song Yin spread her hands. "If I wanted to keep it all for myself, I wouldn't have taken it out." She changed the subject. "But I only want to share it with you. I don't want the rest of the sect to know. Good things are better kept for our own people. Others can forget about it. Master, why don't you go and call our grandmaster and have her come over too?"
Qi Zibo: "I'll go and call your grandmaster right now."
Song Yin looked at Shi Heming and nodded, "Master, please also call Elder Yuan over."
Qi Zibo went to fetch people, leaving Wen Zhiling to guard the place.
Wen Zhiling said blankly, "Why don't you put it away first? Having such a large spiritual marrow in front of you is really a test of your heart."
Song Yin obediently put it away, "Okay."
The three waited for the others to arrive, during which time Wen Zhiling inquired about the battle situation.
When discussing the battle, Song Yin described the variations in her swordsmanship.
After listening and pondering for a moment, Wen Zhiling said, "I will not use any spiritual energy or killing intent. I will simply demonstrate the sword technique to you and see if my sword technique is still in slow motion in your eyes."
Song Yin: "Okay."
Wen Zhiling drew her sword, and her aura changed abruptly. Wen Zhiling with a sword and Wen Zhiling without a sword were completely different people.
Wen Zhiling picked out some simple moves and quickly demonstrated them.
In Shi Heming's opinion, Elder Wen's swordsmanship was fast and inexplicably powerful.
After watching it, Song Yin said, "It's in slow motion, but not as slow as the movements of the evil cultivators."
Wen Zhiling sheathed his sword. "Perhaps this is your destiny. What were you thinking back then?"
Song Yin: "I was thinking that it would be great if I could distinguish all of the enemy's moves. But as the fight went on, it turned out like this."
Wen Zhiling: "Your will merges with the sword, and the sword seems to be an extension of your body. You can make the sword move with you and you move with the sword, and you can also predict the enemy's moves. Yinyin, you have touched the realm of man and sword as one."
Song Yin: "Man and sword as one?"
Shi Heming didn't understand profound sword techniques; he only knew the basics. Upon hearing that Song Yin's swordsmanship had reached the level of perfect harmony between man and sword, he was overjoyed, though Song Yin hadn't quite grasped the concept yet.
"Congratulations, Yinyin, your swordsmanship has improved even further."
Song Yin was in a daze, "This is what it means to become one with the sword?"
Wen Zhiling couldn't help but laugh at her expression. "That's right, the unity of man and sword is that simple. As far as I know, sword cultivators who have reached this level all entered it inexplicably and confusedly. You are like that, and so am I."
"But to enter this realm without any effort, one must undergo rigorous daily training and practice swordsmanship day after day. So, Yinyin, this is what you deserve."
"What do you deserve?" A familiar voice came from outside the door.
Wen Zhiling opened the barrier she had just set up.
Song Yin looked over and said, "Greetings, Grandmaster! Greetings, Elder Yuan!"
Shi Heming: "Greetings, Ancestor, Master."
Lou Shuhe: "Why did you call me here when everything is so lively? I asked Qi Zibo on the way, but he wouldn't tell me."
Elder Yuan: "Heming, weren't you out training? Why did you come back early?"
Wen Zhiling closed the barrier. "Let the two juniors handle this matter. After all, they're the ones who invited everyone here."
Song Yin: "Grandmaster, it's a pleasant surprise."
Shi Heming: "Master, hold on for a moment."
The two younger generation members gave their elders a heads-up this time.
Everyone sat down, except for Song Yin and Shi Heming, who remained standing.
Lou Shuhe: "Alright, go ahead and speak."
Song Yin released her spiritual essence again.
Elder Yuan sprang up from his seat.
Although Lou Shuhe was sitting, she immediately set up an even stronger barrier.
At this time, Song Yin's courtyard became the safest and most airtight place on Danque Peak, where even a mosquito could hardly fly in.
Elder Yuan: "This! This...this!"
Lou Shuhe remained composed. "Tell me, how did you get here?"
Shi Heming and Song Yin recounted their experiences again, this time with added details.
Lou Shuhe frowned as she listened. "You did a good job with Bi Jiangxue's matter. I will go to Shuiyue Sect in a few days."
Song Yin knew everything about Fan Xingsheng. Later, she told Song Yin a lot about Fan Xingsheng. She was able to say in front of the people she saved that Fan Xingsheng was in seclusion. If the people of the Immortal Alliance questioned this group of people later, it would only make some people believe that Fan Xingsheng was in seclusion.
Elder Yuan, upon hearing that they had killed a Nascent Soul stage evil cultivator, sat frozen and asked his disciple, "A Nascent Soul stage cultivator was killed by you two Golden Core stage cultivators?"
Shi Heming: "It's mainly because Yinyin is amazing."
Song Yin: No, it was the two of us who killed him together.
Lou Shuhe: "You can leave the purification of the spiritual marrow to me. I observe that it is still a few hundred years away from becoming a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual marrow. If you trust me, I can find a proper way to accelerate the transformation."
Song Yin: "I believe in my master."
Elder Yuan: "This junior also trusts Senior Lou."
Qi Zibo put his arm around Elder Yuan's shoulder. "Yuan Ci, this is a secret between us. You must not let a word of it out, understand?"
Elder Yuan: "Qi Zibo, do you think I'm the kind of person who can't think straight?" After saying that, he even took the initiative to swear on the spot that he would not reveal the matter of the spiritual marrow.
Qi Zibo laughed heartily, "Of course not, otherwise I wouldn't have called you over."
Elder Yuan: "You, Qi Zibo, are something else!"
Wen Zhiling suddenly said, "The children only killed the leader of the evil cultivators, but the people under the evil cultivators and those who cooperated with them will definitely cause a huge uproar if they know that their spiritual essence has disappeared. At this critical moment, it just so happens that they did not go to the affairs hall to register to return to their sect. I suggest that we keep their whereabouts a secret."
Elder Yuan's joking expression vanished, and he said seriously, "I also agree with Elder Wen's statement. The investigation of rogue cultivators in Lingguang City must have been leaked by someone. Their focus on sword cultivators and array cultivators must have been because they went to the scene to see the traces of the battle."
"As for why they noticed it so quickly, either a new evil cultivator went to the valley after you left, or one of the people you rescued revealed your whereabouts."
Song Yin: "I think it's both, because among the people I rescued, I clearly stated that Shi Heming and I were rogue cultivators, but we didn't say that we were sword cultivators and array cultivators. However, since Shi Heming was able to break the array that trapped them, any smart person could guess that he was an array cultivator."
Lou Shuhe released a burst of spiritual energy from her fingertip, causing a few leaves to fall in the distance.
She suddenly said, "You two should go to the mortal realm and stay there for a few years. Five years from now is the time for the Immortal Cloud Sect to recruit disciples, and you can return after five years."
"If we encounter children with spiritual roots who are of the right age, we can bring them back to the sect as well."
Song Yin: "Why go to the mortal realm?"
Lou Shuhe: "Just listen to your master's words. To the outside world, we will still say that you two are still training. Given their actions, the matter of the spiritual marrow will be exposed sooner or later. Once it is exposed, the cultivation world will definitely be in chaos for a while. Sending you to the mortal world is to avoid the limelight. Maybe there will be other surprises."
“Alright, Grandmaster,” Song Yin replied.
Lou Shuhe: "I will stay at Danque Peak for the time being and not return to the forbidden area. I will tell those old guys in the forbidden area that I am going into seclusion. Those of you who know the inside story and want to understand the degree of spiritual marrow purification and transformation can come to Danque Peak to see me."
"yes."
Lou Shuhe: "If there's nothing else, let's call it a day. Song Yin, you and Shi Heming should set off today."
Song Yin: "That's all, but I have something private to tell my master."
Lou Shuhe stood up. "Let's go inside and talk."
Qi Zibo and Wen Zhiling remembered what Song Yin had said before: two surprises.
The spiritual marrow is one, and the remaining one must be the private matter she mentioned.
Once inside, Lou Shuhe thoughtfully set up a small barrier to ensure that the conversation inside wouldn't be overheard by anyone outside.
Song Yin took the box out of her spatial storage and opened it.
“Grandmaster, during this trip, I not only obtained this giant spiritual marrow, but also unexpectedly acquired the Brahma Flower. I picked the entire Brahma Flower.”
"According to the book you gave me, I compared it carefully and confirmed that it is a Brahma flower, not an ordinary wildflower."
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The author's note: Master patted Song Yin's head (a pun on "melon") and said: "It's a good head (melon)." [Waving hand][Laughing]
Song Yin: [rolls eyes]
Actually, Elder Wen can be quite unreliable at times. As the saying goes, two different kinds of people can't sleep in the same bed, but Elder Wen is just too good at hiding it; he conceals all his unreliability. [Facepalm and peeking]
In his youth, Elder Wen was a burly swordsman, always either drawing his sword or on his way to drawing it [covering face and peeking].
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[Empty bowl]
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