"Gentlemen, the demons have been rampant lately, and I'm sure you all know what they're up to."
"The demon race is divided into the Northern Demon Realm and the Western Demon Realm. Now, the two major demon realms have joined forces, all for the sake of awakening that demon lord, who has humiliated the sons of my Xuanmen Hundred Families. Many sects have even been wiped out because of the demon race."
"The purpose of gathering you all here today is to emulate the sages of the past, to raise the call to arms again, and to restore peace to the world."
"From this day forward, I hereby announce that the disciple trial will begin. The victorious disciple will be presented with the treasured Fulong Sword of Qinghe Mountain, in the hope that the hero will protect this heaven for our righteous path."
"Remember! Remember! Participation is the most important thing in a competition. Friendship comes first, safety second, and results are secondary!"
"This Dragon-Subduing Sword is said to be forged from the roots and bones of the demonic dragon Cangjie, and it's incredibly effective against demons!" said Wei Qian, the Palace Master of Hundred Flowers Palace. "The entire Qinghe Mountain sect is full of madmen. The current sect master is a bit better than the deceased ones, but he still looks no different from a madman."
"Keep your voice down. Wasn't the warning from the Xuan Yun Sect yesterday enough?" Sun Moon Alliance Leader Hong Li reminded him.
During the day, there were warnings, but who would have thought that at night they would be summoned to Qu Xiu's courtyard, saying that Wen Jinge had requested that the trial date be moved up by one day. However, judging from Wen Jinge's speechless appearance, it should be that Qu Xiu was acting on his own initiative.
“I used to think that the elders in your Hundred Flowers Palace were crazy enough, but after this trip down the mountain, I realized what real madness is.”
The leader of the Tu Luo Sect came from beyond the Great Wall and was rumored to be a ruthless novice. These people together represented some of the more remote and unpopular sects within the Xuanmen (mystical sects). Seeing everyone looking at him, he continued, "I don't think any of these three ancient sects are easy to deal with!"
"Have the people from the Secret Sect arrived?" Hongli nudged Wei Qian. "I suddenly remembered, the Secret Sect seems to be chasing two monks? One of the people Shan Hongxing brought was a monk, and when we left yesterday, there seemed to be another monk in that courtyard. Those two monks being chased are said to be no ordinary people either?"
"Does the monk under the moon know about this?" asked the leader of the Tu Luo Sect. "His two disciples are said to be quite Buddhist."
He was a madman, known as the Buddha of Sorrow and Joy. When he was normal, he was just an ordinary little monk. He could only find a way out when he went mad.
Another one is called the Buddha of Good and Evil, who is said to be able to communicate with ghosts and gods. He seems to have stumbled upon the threshold of ghost cultivation by accident, and he and his junior brother also had to go crazy to have a connection with Buddhism.
Otherwise, do you think the Secret Sect has gone mad, leaving two perfectly good disciples unharmed and instead sending people to hunt them down relentlessly?
And then there's that fortune teller... tsk tsk, that makes it even more interesting.
"What's so interesting about it?"
"Cough..." Before Qu Xiu could even make a sound of warning, Wen Jingge dragged him away.
"Shh!"
"What?" Wen Jingge stopped him from speaking, so Qu Xiu could only use his mental technique to transmit his voice, "You've lost your memory, why are you still mocking me? I finally managed to escape your shadow, do you know how hard it was for me! I..."
"I just think it's pretty exciting to hear other people talking bad about me." Wen Jingge originally wanted to grab his shoulder, but she shuddered when she remembered the ripping sound. "You squat down in front of me."
"The disciples are all going in, aren't you going..."
"No, Liang Si is here."
"Your eldest disciple?"
"Yeah, if he goes, it's cheating. If he doesn't go, and the fourth brother doesn't go either, since the fourth brother is a half-demon, that's also cheating."
"Are you sure the rest of them didn't cheat?" Qu Xiu glared at her unhappily. "The second and sixth are ordinary people, but there's something fishy about the third and fifth, isn't there?"
“Wang Xi! When we parted, she was still at the eighth rank, but now she’s at the fourth rank. She jumped four ranks in just over a month, and she’s even showing signs of moving into the third rank. That’s a bit suspicious,” Wen Jingge said thoughtfully.
Qu Xiu: ...
"Tell me quickly!" Hongli was already impatient. "I remember that the medicine cultivator was a kind-hearted healer, but when I saw him yesterday, I felt that he was full of murderous aura, and he seemed to be a sword cultivator as well."
"You're wrong. I turned those seven peaks on their mountain upside down. That herbalist is from Qinghong Peak. He's the second-ranked disciple of Bu Suanzi. He used to be a troublemaker."
Qu Xiu couldn't help but glance at Wen Jingge, only to see her listening with her eyes narrowed, looking completely absorbed. If he didn't know she had amnesia, he would have thought she was a pervert.
"Did you hear what happened last night? Originally, Master Wen was going to fight the Lord of Qinghe Mountain, but he used the demon in that hearse to exchange for peace. It is said that the demon was going to draw blood from Fan Zifan."
Before this person joined the Xuan Yun Sect, he didn't practice swordsmanship; he practiced with a knife, specifically a butcher's knife.
"..." Wen Jingge's lips twitched slightly, and she could no longer maintain her composure.
Qu Xiu, like her, was completely confused and didn't know about Fan Zifan's past at the time.
"Later, after entering the Xuan Yun Sect, he seemed to have broken a taboo for a period of time, often capturing demons to torture. It was Bu Suanzi who cut off one of his Achilles tendons as a warning, which made him remember and from then on he never touched a sword again, focusing all his attention on those medicinal mountains."
Fan Zifan does indeed have a slight limp.
Wen Jingge discovered this by chance; if Fan Zifan hadn't been staring at her feet unintentionally, she wouldn't have noticed.
Qu Xiu nudged her, his gossip-loving spirit ignited, "Really?"
"He's lame, but I don't remember how it happened."
He nodded, seemingly finding a reason for not having a proper job, and his mood improved considerably.
"And speaking of the third brother, back in the day!"
"No, no, no, you haven't even mentioned the current sect leader yet."
"Sect Leader?" The Tu Luo Sect Master laughed, but in a strange way. "Only you think he's human. He's just an ordinary person. If you ask me, all three heirs of these ancient sects are quite strange."
One prospective sect leader defected to the demon realm, another sect leader forced his capable disciples to die with him, and yet another passed the leadership to the most mediocre among them. How strange!
"The Esoteric Buddhist Sect, Qinghe Mountain, and the Xuanyun Sect?"
"I'm not stupid, I understand." Wen Jingge fanned herself irritably, when suddenly, her hand was grabbed.
"Um?"
Qu Xiu had already raised his fist, but Wen Jingge blocked his hand back. She made a shushing gesture and did not ask whether Lu Wei was still Lu Wei or where the day he disappeared had gone.
Lu Wei sat quietly on the roof, not making a fuss, and listened to the gossip with them.
"How can it be ordinary?"
"After you hear me talk about these seven disciples, you'll realize that he's truly an unremarkable number one."
"Stop keeping us in suspense, just tell us already! You're making us so hungry!"
"Sigh!" The sect leader of the Tu Luo Sect sighed, "Well, well, all the disciples have gone in. It's really boring to just a few of us lowly ones hanging around together."
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