Chapter 12
Xue Mao was shocked when he saw Ji Tang's back resisting the blood mist.
That man was an evil cultivator who killed Jindan-stage cultivators, yet she, a cultivator in the late Kaiguang stage, actually protected him behind her.
In an instant, Jitang's dark profile and short figure became extremely bright and tall.
They were just acquaintances at best, yet she was willing to sacrifice herself for others and risk her life for them!
Xue Mai's eyes swelled slightly, his nose felt sore, and the feeling of being moved came quickly and strongly.
He ignored the corpse, drew out his folding fan, put life and death aside, his heart full of passion, and fought side by side with Ji Tang.
"Come on! Let's die together!"
Jitang: “?”
What's wrong.
"Move the body away quickly!" Ji Tang pushed him away, and the blood mist burned across her sleeves, corroding the fabric in an instant.
Seeing this, Xue Mai stretched out his arm to stop Ji Tang behind him, "Don't get hurt for me! We advance and retreat together!"
He, Xue Mai, is not a coward who hides behind a woman. He must fight the evil cultivator together with the girl!
Jitang turned and left.
She cast a levitation spell on the corpse, and the corpse gradually floated into the air.
Low-level levitation techniques can only help objects float in the air, and cannot be controlled at will.
She put her palms down, lifted the body up, carried the body away.
Xue Ma opened his folding fan, which was covered with spiritual power. He was about to fight a desperate battle with the evil cultivator, but he didn't expect that his comrade was gone.
"girl!"
The girl's figure was almost lost in the mist.
Ji Tang was not going to stand by and watch the person die. She planned to hide the body before going back.
A thin mist was spreading, and Ji Tang keenly noticed that the mist was forming a vortex.
Soon, the mist was dispersed by the thick spiritual energy, and the forest suddenly became clear.
A huge crack appeared out of nowhere in front of her. First there was a hint of black, and then Su Jinzhou's figure appeared before her.
"Immortal Venerable!" Ji Tang called out, pushing the corpse in front of Su Jinzhou, "The natal magic weapon on this person is the magic weapon of Nightmare Venerable."
Su Jinzhou's eyes fell on the corpse, and he hooked his finger. The upper body of the corpse suddenly bulged upward, and then the chest cavity began to vibrate violently.
My natal magic weapon has already recognized its master, and if you try to forcibly separate it, it will not surrender.
However, Su Jinzhou had a high level of cultivation, and his life-saving magic weapon was extracted after only a struggle.
Ji Tang used the levitation technique to place the body under the tree. Once the matter was settled, the disciples of Su Xuan Sect would take care of it.
"Immortal Venerable, Senior Brother Qian Shao and the others are still fighting the evil cultivators. You..."
Before she could finish her words, Su Jinzhou's figure had disappeared from her sight.
Ji Tang curled her lips. When will this person listen to her?
She turned back.
As long as Su Jinzhou arrives, the evil cultivators will not be able to cause any trouble.
Qian Shao was coughing, clutching his chest. He glanced at the bound and struggling evil cultivator and bowed to Su Jinzhou, "Border Immortal Venerable."
Some of the other disciples were sitting on the ground, while others were lying down. Without exception, regardless of their injuries, they all stood up and saluted Su Jinzhou.
Su Jinzhou waved his sleeves slightly, and several disciples were lifted up.
"Go and heal your wounds quickly."
Several people said "yes".
He came and went quickly.
When Xue Mai met the Immortal Master for the first time, the Immortal Master left before he could even tidy up his appearance.
Ji Tang was even more so, as the words he wanted to say were stuck in his throat and not a single word came out.
"...Why are you in such a hurry?" Jitang rolled his eyes.
Qian Shao walked towards Ji Tang, and when his eyes stopped at her arm, he turned his gaze away, "Junior sister, are you okay?"
Ji Tang didn't care much, "It's okay."
She told him where the body was.
She looked at the evil cultivator, "What should we do with this person?"
"Take him back and let Master decide." Qian Shao said to Xue Mai, "Thank you for your help, Master."
Xue Miao fanned himself, "It's okay." He turned his gaze to Ji Tang, his heart in turmoil, "You!"
"What's wrong with me?" Jitang said and left.
Xue Mai caught up.
Qian Shao shook his head and cleaned up the mess.
Xue Mai followed behind Ji Tang, "We agreed to fight the evil cultivators together! How could you escape from the battlefield?"
"Who made an agreement with you?" Jitang came to the foot of the mountain and picked a mist flower.
Because of the delay caused by the evil cultivator, the first ray of sunset glow had already passed, and the petals of the mist flower were slightly closed. Now that it had been picked, its medicinal properties were no longer as strong as when it was in full bloom.
Ji Tang: "I don't know if I can pass the test this way."
Xue Miao also plucked one. "I heard that person just call you Junior Sister. You've already gotten in through the backdoor, are you still worried about not passing the test?"
Jitang was too lazy to talk to him.
Xue Mai persisted, "How did you get into Su Xuanzong so early? Tell me."
Jitang then remembered that Xue Mai had failed the sect assessment three times in a row.
She smiled and said, "Hold on tight to the powerful thigh, and you can get in too."
Xue Miao: "I wonder which powerful person it is?"
Jitang: "The boat ends when the place is over."
Xue Mao fell flat on his face.
He pushed himself up, his fingers trembling as he pointed at her. "How dare you say anything! How can you and I call the Immortal Venerable by his name?!"
One or two of them said the same thing.
Ji Tang scratched her ears; she was almost getting calluses from the constant listening.
*
The two returned to the outer gate square to exchange flowers.
The disciple who collected the flowers looked at the two flowers with their petals slightly closed and said regretfully, "We've missed the time. We can't pass this assessment."
Xue Mai was so sad that he wanted to cry but had no tears.
Ji Tang stepped forward and said, "We encountered an evil cultivator in the forest, which delayed us. Could you please verify with Senior Qian Shao? We contributed a little, can it be counted in the assessment results?"
The disciple looked at the two of them and asked, "Evil cultivator?"
Xue Mai was a modest gentleman, gentle as jade. He bowed and said, "That's right."
His words are obviously more credible than Jitang's.
They waited a moment, and the disciple came back with a smile on his face. "I've checked with Senior Brother Qian Shao, and Master is aware of your situation. Fighting evil cultivators with our disciples is much more difficult than picking mist flowers. You can pass the test!"
Xue Mai had failed the exam three times in a row, but this time he finally got into Suxuan Sect. He was so overjoyed that he even changed his address: "Thank you, Senior Brother!"
Newcomers who pass the assessment can go to Wansong Building to find Sun Qichou to arrange follow-up matters.
Xue Mai was in a good mood. When he and Ji Tang went together, he said, "Miss Shuishen, you are really my lucky star!"
Ji Tang glanced at him, "Didn't you desert the battlefield?"
Xue Miao waved his hand, "That evil cultivator is very advanced, so it's normal for him to be afraid."
He thought, "I saw you use both hands to form hand seals when dealing with evil cultivators. If your cultivation level is higher, and you can use hand seals to control different spells at the same time, wouldn't you be able to fight two people at once?"
Over thousands of years, a fixed set of cultivation methods has been formed in the practice of Taoism.
To cast low-level spells, one-handed gestures are used; to cast high-level spells, both hands are used.
There has never been a case of using different hands to make different hand gestures and cast different spells.
Jitang has done a lot of tricks over the past thousands of years, and making different hand gestures with both hands is one of them.
She originally wanted to save time when refining pills, so she cast spells of different attributes with both hands, which was twice as fast as casting with one hand.
She also studied how to use nightmare energy on one hand and transform it into spiritual power on the other hand, so as to catalyze different medicinal effects of spiritual herbs and medicines.
Later, he also merged nightmare energy and spiritual power, adjusted the ratio of the two energies, and experimented with many things in various ways.
Later...
Her cultivation level was already very high, so whether she was casting nightmare energy or the spiritual power transformed from nightmare energy, she didn't need to rely on hand gestures to assist.
Her hands were then quite free.
The method of making hand gestures is no longer used.
Ji Tang pretended to be confused, "What did you mean by two-handed seal?"
Xue Mai: "Just..."
"You must have seen it wrong!" Ji Tang laughed, "Didn't I cast a protective spell to block us?"
Xue Miao recalled, "I remember Senior Brother Qian Shao was also supported by the Body Protection Technique at that time."
"Really? I was so focused on the blood mist in front of me that I didn't notice Senior Brother Qian Shao."
Xue Mai also became unsure, "Maybe it was a self-defense spell cast by another senior brother?"
Ji Tang's fist landed on his palm, "That's it!"
The two entered Wansong Building, and Sun Qichou lay in the recliner, swaying silently.
Ji Tang: "Senior Sun, Junior Brother Xue Mai and I are here to report."
Sun Qichou closed his eyes and rested, "What are you doing here, kid? Why are you always hanging around me instead of staying at Qianliyanbo?"
Xue Mai saw that the two seemed very familiar with each other, so he bowed and said, "Senior Sun, I am a good friend of Miss Shui Shen's who entrusted his life to me in the forest. I have passed the sect assessment and come to report to you."
He winked at Jitang.
Jitang didn't stop him and looked helpless.
Just as Xue Mai was beginning to feel puzzled, Sun Qichou suddenly jumped up from his recliner, puffing his beard and glaring, "Trust me with your life? Go clean the toilet!"
Xue Miao: “…”
Xue Miao: "What?"
Jitang spread his hands.
Xue Mai didn't come to his senses until the two of them were kicked out of Wansong Tower by Sun Qichou.
Xue Miao was about to cry, "Why should I clean the toilet?"
Ji Tang patted his shoulder to comfort him, "When God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his heart and mind suffer and his muscles and bones work hard... You are very lucky!"
Xue Mai smiled perfunctorily, "Nonsense, you must have tricked me!"
He then asked, "Isn't Qianli Yanbo the sacred peak of Immortal Venerable Bian Jing? Why did Senior Sun ask you to stay there?"
Ji Tang couldn't bear to hit him again, so he said, "I'm sweeping the floor over there."
Unexpectedly, Xue Miao's face was filled with envy. "What a great opportunity it is to be able to sweep the ground in Qianli Yanbo... Can I go find you?"
Ji Tang: "You must ask Su Jinzhou before entering Qianli Yanbo, but it's okay to take a look outside Qianli Yanbo."
Xue Mai bowed deeply, "Good Senior Sister! If I show up outside Qianli Yanbo more often, I might become familiar to the Immortal Venerable. Then maybe I can even go inside to sweep the floor!"
He said happily, "That would be a great blessing! I will definitely bring my own broom when the time comes, and I will be happy to use it day and night, regardless of cold or heat!"
Ji Tang saw that the topic had gone off the track, and although he had good intentions, this gave him a hope that was difficult to realize.
He had never been to a sect, so naturally he didn't know that the Thousand Miles of Smoke and Waves was full of spiritual energy and was a pure land with no dust at all.
Ji Tang met his smiling face and smiled back: "...Just don't take the broom you use to sweep the toilet."
*
When Jitang returned to Qianliyanbo, the first thing he did was to find a boat to stay in.
She stood outside the cave and greeted him: "Immortal Lord, I have something to ask of you!"
She was prepared to wait, and this time Su Jinzhou returned quickly.
"What is it?"
Ji Tang bowed deeply, "I have a junior fellow disciple who has just joined the sect. He just fought against the evil cultivators together with the other brothers. He has extraordinary potential..."
She wanted to continue praising Xue Miao, but she heard Su Jinzhou say calmly, "What's the matter?"
Ji Tang knew that he was already impatient, so he asked directly: "Immortal Venerable, can you let him come to Qianli Yanbo to do some chores?"
The cave was very quiet, and Ji Tang was waiting with his head down.
After a while, Su Jinzhou asked, "Do you have any chores to do?"
Ji Tang thought about it and realized that since she entered Qianli Yanbo, she had not done any other chores except thinking about the magic weapon cave.
"Let him wash the chess pieces..."
What answered her was a stream of spiritual power that emanated from the cave.
Jitang was knocked out and lay on the ground groaning.
Su Jinzhou's meaning is very clear -
Shut up and get out.
Ji Tang rubbed his arms and climbed up, heading towards the cave where the spiritual herbs and elixirs were stored.
This is the only cave that Su Jinzhou allows her to enter.
She must turn her grief and anger into strength and use up all the spiritual herbs and elixirs in Su Jinzhou's cave!
As for Xue Mai's matter, there is no need to rush. She needs to think of another solution.
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