Chapter 20: Team Leader What? Is the competition over already?
"Damn it!" Chen Duoer, unable to use fire, was burned by it instead. She immediately dropped the sword in her hand and looked at Chu Sheng angrily, accusing her. "Senior Sister, you didn't even show any mercy!"
"I showed no mercy?" Chu Sheng was not affected by this accusation at all. She tilted her head and pointed at five directions in turn: "Here, here, here, here, and here, and here. Do you want to come out on your own, or do I ask you to come out?"
As soon as the words fell, like a game of whack-a-mole, several little heads of various colors popped out from the directions Chu Sheng had pointed out, but they all wore the same guilty smile. "Senior Sister Chu Sheng..." "Senior Sister..." "Good Senior Sister..."
"You originally planned to come one by one, right?" Chu Sheng clapped his hands and said to Chen Duoer who was a little dazed in front of him.
"Okay, I have no objection. As you can see, I have a guest today and I need to hurry. So if you are ready, why don't you all come together now?"
"Master, Senior Sister." Chen Duo'er stammered, "Are you sure? We are all in the Foundation Establishment Stage..."
Although there is no late foundation building, but there are two early foundation building and four middle foundation building! How can a late foundation building take on six people of the same level alone!
Chu Sheng glanced over and saw the others nodding their heads like little chicks. He couldn't help but say speechlessly, "When I was in the Qi training stage, wasn't I also fighting eight people by myself?"
"That's different..." someone whispered. "After all, he's in the Foundation Establishment Stage..."
"Okay, stop talking." Chu Sheng said calmly.
"I know that some of you have concerns about the Dharma Cultivation Competition. If I were the team leader, I would have to go head-to-head with Jindan-stage cultivators from other sects..."
"Since there are no Jindan-stage brothers or sisters in the sect who can help me prove my strength," Chu Sheng smiled slightly. "So, to be safe, why don't you all come together?"
Crazy, really crazy! Gui Xuan, who witnessed everything happening, gasped on the spot.
I'm sorry, Ling Fengzhi, I wronged you. You were right, I really can't blame you for mistaking Chu Sheng for a sword cultivator!
If Chu Sheng were to unleash his terrifying hatred-inducing skills directly on the public, who wouldn't think he was a sword cultivator?!
"Well, it's just as I expected, so Xiaosheng won in the end." Ye Ziqing kept painting and said to Si Chun on the other end of the communication jade bead in a tone without any surprise.
"She was away from the sect for a rather long time, which indeed caused many of her younger brothers and sisters to believe that the rumors about a Qi Condensation Stage cultivator leapfrogging a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator were groundless..."
He commented to the somewhat silent Si Chun half with emotion and half with gloating.
"I think these little bastards are still being stubborn. How dare they do this? This is the ruthless way of swordsmanship! Forget about one Foundation Establishment cultivator taking on eight. If you told me she could take on two Golden Core cultivators in any other sect, I would believe it!"
"...Yes." Si Chun sighed, "That is the ruthless way."
"Don't worry, Master." Ye Ziqing knew Si Chun's temper well, so he immediately put down his paintbrush and began to comfort him naturally.
"The child is still young. Even if the sky falls, you and the other elders will hold it up. Even if Xiao Sheng really fails in cultivation, so what? At worst, we can break the path and rebuild it. It's not without precedent. We have the conditions to do so..."
"Rebuilding the broken road is not a good option." Si Chun sighed heavily, "I am worried... that's all. It's too early to say this now. The time has not come yet."
He looked at Ye Ziqing, his only lazy disciple, and reassured, "Are you sure that the ancient relic that Zhongnan Dao Sect brought out is the one we've been looking for?"
"Seventy percent," Ye Ziqing replied. "That's all the information Duobao Pagoda has. Even Zhongnan Dao Sect itself probably doesn't know the rest... At least for now, it seems like the most likely one."
"I understand." Si Chun closed his eyes. "A 70% chance is already very high. Even if it's only 50%, it's enough for us to give it a try."
"Luoshui Sword Qi An is still at Zhongnan Dao Sect and hasn't returned yet." Ye Ziqing mentioned something else and couldn't help but complain. "Even with such a big thing happening... those guys at the Sword Palace are so patient."
"Qi An is not unworthy of being your disciple after all," Si Chun said.
"What's more, the Dharma Cultivation Competition is about to be held. It's impossible for the Ancient Ruins Sword Palace to not participate in the aftermath. Rather than someone else, it's better to choose Qi An, who is closer to me, to take a position first. Yuan Qi's approach is very wise."
"So that's how it is..." Ye Ziqing nodded repeatedly, then suddenly realized something was wrong: "What's going on? I've already run to Duobao Pagoda to hide, so why are you still here trying to give me a lesson?! I told you I won't learn. If you want to learn, go find Xiao Sheng!"
He reacted extremely quickly and hung up the communication jade bead, leaving Si Chun with a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, unable to spit it out or swallow it down. His face was twisted and it took him a long time to calm down.
——This traitor! How could he just pass the buck and let his younger junior sister shoulder the burden? Even if Chu Sheng was outstanding, she was only eighteen years old!
Ye Ziqing, you have been living like a dog for the past few decades!!!
Si Chun's incident had nothing to do with Chu Sheng. The girl was unaware that her uncle, the sect master, was scolding his senior brother for her. After she casually defeated eight sect disciples on the spot, Chu Sheng finally felt a familiar atmosphere in the Hehuan Sect after a long absence.
"A familiar atmosphere..." Gui Xuan glanced at the disciples who had been hiding in corners, furtively watching Chu Sheng but not approaching him, and asked hesitantly. "Do you mean the current situation?"
"Don't worry about the details. My return was a special case. We in the Hehuan Sect don't usually do this," Chu Sheng explained. "By the way, I know where I can pick up fallen giant Hehuan petals. Do you want to go?"
"Go!" Gui Xuan made a decisive move, ignoring the onlookers and turning to his beloved field. "This Albizia Julibrissin will only be effective if used as medicine within a few hours of falling. I've been needing this herb for a long time!"
Time passed in Chu Sheng's daily routine of picking flower petals with Gui Xuan, experimenting with medicinal prescriptions to improve their mental skills, and occasionally knocking down a few junior brothers and sisters to practice their skills, until one day Si Chun suddenly appeared and handed her a warm-colored jade token.
"Xiao Sheng, this is the sect leader's token for this trip. You must wear it with you..."
"Wait, Uncle-Master?" Chu Sheng was a little confused. "We agreed to have the sect competition first?"
"Don't you know?" Si Chun looked at her in surprise, "The sect competition started the moment you came back."
"Ah?" Chu Sheng was stunned.
"The requirements for this sect competition are different from the previous ones. After all, we are a team participating in the Dharma Cultivation Competition, so our combat effectiveness needs to be basically guaranteed, and it would be best if we can cooperate with each other." Si Chun explained patiently.
"So when we discussed you as the team leader, we decided to use the length of time it takes for your disciples to be defeated by you as one of the quantitative assessment criteria for this sect competition."
No wonder, I was wondering why these junior brothers and sisters suddenly became so persistent after returning to the sect this time! Chu Sheng suddenly realized.
"Didn't your master tell you about this?" Si Chun asked doubtfully.
Master probably thought that I would fight them without telling him about this kind of thing… Chu Sheng thought with a guilty conscience, but explained to Si Chun. “Master went into the cave to rest as soon as he came back. He probably hasn’t woken up yet.”
"Why did you fall asleep again at this time..." Si Chun's face looked a little ugly, but since Chu Sheng was in front of him, he couldn't say anything, so he quickly adjusted his mentality and gave her instructions.
"The list of team members has been included in the jade card. You can use the flying boat on the way to Zhongnan Dao Sect, and the authority to withdraw spirit stones has also been opened. You can use these, so I won't say anything more."
"I understand." Chu Sheng opened the jade token and glanced at the team list. After discovering that the people accompanying them were indeed a few who he felt were relatively strong, he nodded in relief to Si Chun.
"Don't worry, Uncle Master. Master gave me two more small mustard seeds before he left. The Dharma Cultivation Competition will only take three months, so there will definitely be no shortage of supplies."
"As for you..." Si Chun patted Gui Xuan's shoulder and handed him a small mustard seed as the boy looked a little surprised.
"My dear friend, I'm sorry for the hard work you've put in. Xiaosheng is young after all, and inevitably there are many things she can't handle. I'll need you to take care of her during this period of time."
"You don't have to do this. Venerable Yunmeng and I have a contract..." Gui Xuan wanted to refuse, but Si Chun pushed her back without any question.
"The Dharma Cultivation Competition is different after all. As the team leader, Xiao Sheng faces more irresistible forces than ordinary disciples. The more preparations you two make beforehand, the better. There's absolutely no harm in that."
Gui Xuan touched the small mustard seed, sat on the flying boat, looked at Chu Sheng beside her, and said with heartfelt emotion, "I want it."
"What?" Chu Sheng suspected that he had misheard. "What did you just say?"
"I say, it would be great if the Sect Master and my father could switch places." Gui Xuan said with genuine emotion.
"The Sect Master is so meticulous and does everything himself. If he were the Master of Liangyi Valley, I would probably have to do less of the daily tedious tasks!"
"Come on, if it really were you, are you planning to tire my uncle to death? And if your father knew that you don't want him anymore, he would definitely cry, he would really cry!" Chu Sheng patted Gui Xuan's shoulder speechlessly.
"Stop sitting there and thinking about unrealistic things. Since we still have some time before we get to Zhongnan Dao Sect, please help me make some more Soul-Restoring Pills, Guixuan! I'm sure I'll need them for the Dharma Cultivation Competition!"
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