Chapter 18: Eighteen Cuts
Luo Mingshu has saved the contact information of every cultivator within the Yuling Sect on the Spirit Network. Previously, she had stayed within the sect and had no need to communicate using the Spirit Network. Now, she can use the Spirit Network to contact Feng Du, the sect leader of the Yuling Sect.
She found a spiritual network name with a profound, warm, and uplifting meaning in the internal communication interface of the Spirit Control Sect and sent a message to Feng Du.
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-spirit root is incredibly gullible: Is the sect leader there?]
Although Feng Du is considered an old man in the Yu Ling Sect, he still uses the Spirit Network around the clock. His instant replies demonstrate his peak Tribulation Transcending stage strength.
【Blooming Flowers and Wealth: Mingshu, is that you? So this online name really is you.】
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: Sect Leader, it's always been me!]
Upon seeing this, Feng Du was so angry that he pounded the table in the main hall of the Yu Ling Sect. Because, without either of them knowing who the other was, the "300-year-old beauty with a water spirit root is super easy to fool" had confronted him in the Four Directions Water Mirror and even called him an old man.
[Flowers Bloom in Wealth and Prosperity: Have you found Wei Qing?]
[The 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: The token Lu Yaoyao gave us is wrong; we've gone to the wrong place. We've only found the new token, so I need to confirm with the sect leader whether this token belongs to Wei Qing.]
[Blooming Flowers and Wealth: Ming Shu, I'm truly touched by your kindness in helping your fellow disciples.]
Luo Mingshu sent over the note written by Wei Qing. Feng Du didn't know what race the Earth Moon Mole was. After all, this demon race was very low-key, and rumors about their special abilities had not reached the human world at all—mainly because the Earth Moon Mole was worried that it would be captured by the human race again.
Feng Du carefully checked and confirmed that it was indeed Wei Qing's handwriting.
[Blooming Flowers and Wealth: It's definitely Wei Qing's handwriting, Ming Shu. Should we still send cultivators to help search?]
Luo Mingshu was afraid that the Yuling Sect would send another useless ally like Lu Yaoyao, and that it would be easier for her to investigate clues about her background if she acted alone, so she refused.
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-spirit root is incredibly gullible: No, please don't send any more incompetent teammates.]
[A 300-year-old beautiful woman with a "water spirit root" is extremely gullible and has retracted her message.]
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: Sect Leader, I'm fine on my own, let my fellow disciples cultivate properly QWQ.]
Feng Du: "..." I saw it all!
He thought about it and realized that Luo Mingshu was actually quite reliable. The main problem was that Lu Yaoyao had given him the wrong clues, which bothered him. He also wanted to call Lu Yaoyao back and tell her not to cause trouble outside.
Sure enough, a disciple who has lived in the sect for two hundred years is more reliable than a junior disciple who has only been in the sect for a few decades, Feng Du thought to himself.
Feng Du agreed. He was eager to close the chat interface with Luo Mingshu on the Spirit Network as soon as possible because Luo Mingshu's Spirit Network name was giving him a real headache.
Then Luo Mingshu sent another message.
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: Does she have any connections with sects in Fengsha Ferry?]
She caused such a big commotion in Fengsha Ferry that if the Demon Realm wanted to investigate, they would definitely be able to trace it back to her sect, Yuling Sect. At the time, she thought that since her sect would clean up her mess, she might as well do the bad thing and not worry too much. But she still needed to inquire about the situation.
【Blooming Flowers Bring Wealth and Prosperity: Yes.】
Luo Mingshu became alert and started to feel nervous, after all, the trouble she had caused was quite significant.
[Flowers Bloom in Wealth: Two traffic tickets and a repair order were sent from Fengshadu.]
Fengdu started rambling on and on.
[Blooming Flowers and Wealth: Tell me, how did you manage to carry four units on a brand-new two-wheeled cloud boat that's only allowed to carry two people? The Sandstorm Ferry says you were overloaded! And you were speeding in the carriage, breaking two of the rented carriages. This isn't the Imperial Spirit Sect, Ming Shu!]
Luo Mingshu dared not utter a sound, because these were all things she had done. But why did Fengshadu remain silent about the more serious things she had done, such as instigating thugs to blow up several streets in Fengshadu and stealing a little demon from their demon realm?
[A 300-year-old beauty with a "water spirit root" is incredibly gullible: Is that all? Nothing else?]
[Blooming Flowers and Wealth: What else do you want? Our Spirit Control Sect has already paid out enough in fines and repair bills.]
Luo Mingshu wisely chose to keep quiet. She found it strange that Fengshadu wasn't pursuing the matter, but since they weren't going to bother with her, she could simply deny it.
She ended her conversation with Feng Du, and the junior disciple of the Water Mirror Sect who managed the Four Directions Water Mirror also approved her request for divine communication.
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: One million spirit stones, and I'll repost that news article with the headline, "Street racers appear in the demon realm, the swift demon soul is no match for the pink carriage?! The demon princess elopes with her attendant, is it the decline of demonic nature or the distortion of love?"]
[Humble working person: You nitpicking sister, are you serious?]
[Humble working person: One million won't do, sister QAQ! It's an order from the Demon Realm. Our relationship with the Demon Realm is tense, so this news can't be restored.]
Luo Mingshu didn't reply to him again. She knew that things were complicated. For some reason, Fengsha Ferry had suppressed the matter. It was probably because the secret plans of the forces behind those three demon cultivators could not be exposed. So they preferred not to pursue the matter and to keep it a secret, swallowing this loss and pretending that nothing had happened.
Even with her limited intelligence, she couldn't figure out the whole story after thinking for a while. Her involvement must have been a coincidence.
The affairs of the Demon Realm don't affect her. If something really happens, she'll just leave and retreat to the Spirit Control Sect. Let whatever happens in the Demon Realm do as it pleases.
Luo Mingshu leaned back on the soft couch, completely slacking off. After thinking for a while, she took out the bronze lotus flower she had photographed in Fengsha Ferry.
As soon as it saw the bronze lotus appear, it crawled over and nudged it with its two strong forelegs, looking extremely excited.
Luo Mingshu gently pulled Manman's paws away. She knew that this little black mouse also had the ability to find treasures. Every item in the cage was exquisite and valuable. Although its taste was not as good as hers, it was still much better than that of ordinary cultivators or demons. Moreover, the purple crystal fragment that Manman had given her to curry favor was also no ordinary item.
Perhaps those three demon cultivators were slowly brought out to find this crimson copper lotus at the auction, but she accidentally won it.
Luo Mingshu examined the Crimson Copper Lotus carefully. This time, even she couldn't find the trick to using it. The current situation was that she knew the Crimson Copper Lotus was an extremely precious treasure, but she didn't know how to use it.
This is truly strange. Luo Mingshu is familiar with the use of most magical artifacts in the world. Even an ancient magical artifact like the Soul-Summoning Bell can be mastered by her at a glance.
After studying it for a long time without finding a clue, Luo Mingshu put it away. In any case, her primary task at the moment was not to study the use of this magical artifact.
She placed the note written by Wei Qing into the Soul-Summoning Bell and began casting a spell to find Wei Qing's location. This time, it was indeed not as difficult as the last time when she used the slow-moving hair to search. Under the Soul-Summoning Bell, a pale purple light quickly extended and gradually formed a map.
He quickly straightened up to observe Luo Mingshu. When Luo Mingshu's aura was revealed, he was so frightened that he took two steps back and fell on his backside.
Because of Luo Mingshu's special status, she was used to concealing her aura in normal times. Now, her unique aura was spreading, which slowly frightened people into hiding to the side.
Luo Mingshu was focused on casting her spell and didn't notice what was happening here; otherwise, she would definitely have protested that even beautiful women were afraid of her.
Even though the map unfolded smoothly, the purple light searching for Wei Qing's location kept darting around on the map, making it impossible to pinpoint the location for a while. Luo Mingshu urged the Soul-Summoning Bell to continue the search, and eventually the purple light emitted by the Soul-Summoning Bell stopped at a certain point on the border of the human realm, wandering around and seemingly unable to pinpoint a more precise location.
The Soul-Summoning Bell rang softly, its clear, lingering sound carrying a hint of hesitation. Luo Mingshu knew the nature of her magical artifact well; the Soul-Summoning Bell's response was because, with its location function, it could only ultimately determine that the owner of the token had remained here.
However, he may not have stayed there. Rather, after arriving there, the unbreakable connection between him and his personal keepsake was "severed," whether due to external forces or because he went to a place where divine sense could be shielded.
Luo Mingshu opened her eyes and looked at the map in front of her. She saw the place where the purple light lingered and wavered, and her dark purple eyes widened instantly.
She had never been to this place before, but she knew it all too well.
"Star Shore" is located in the center of the three major regions of the human realm, the demon realm, and the monster realm. In the center of Star Shore stands a pillar that connects heaven and earth and the netherworld. Moreover, Star Shore is also the entrance to the Misty Star Sea.
The Misty Star Sea is the beginning of all legends. The four demon gods entered the Misty Star Sea together and their great feat of opening up the demon realm after their return began here.
For humans, demons, and monsters in the cultivation world, the Misty Star Sea is a void of chaos, like a boundless wasteland, or like clay that can be molded into various shapes.
When creatures from the cultivation world enter the Misty Star Sea, they will experience a series of events. When they leave the Misty Star Sea, the desolation within it will become a real area in the cultivation world, depending on their exploration progress. For cultivators in the cultivation world, as long as the Misty Star Sea exists, their world is infinitely large, and they can continuously explore and expand into new territories.
The fertility of the territory, the amount of mineral veins, the status of infrastructure, the size of the land, and the density of spiritual energy are all closely related to the cultivator's training within. The more difficult the challenges, the more territory and resources can be obtained.
Over the years, humans, demons, and monsters have all sent cultivators to explore and develop the Misty Star Sea. However, along with opportunities come crises, and countless cultivators have gotten lost in the Misty Star Sea and never returned.
The most devastating event was the large-scale land reclamation operation organized by the human race. During that operation a hundred years ago, hundreds of cultivators with cultivation levels above the Nascent Soul stage lost their consciousness, including Luo Mingshu's master, Liu Hongying.
Since that incident, the human realm has stopped sending cultivators with cultivation levels below the Nascent Soul stage to explore. Regulations have also been set for the depth and difficulty of explorations. To prevent cultivators from getting lost again and to provide mutual support for the souls of cultivators adrift in the Misty Star Sea who cannot see the lighthouse, the three regions have reached a consensus that only teams of two or more people can enter the Misty Star Sea.
Because of this special rule, Luo Mingshu has not been matched with teammates for a long time. Otherwise, given her personality, she would have rushed to the Misty Star Sea to find Liu Hongying's lost primordial spirit long ago.
Pulling her thoughts back, Luo Mingshu looked at the instructions given by the Soul-Summoning Bell in front of her. She could basically conclude that Wei Qing had entered the Misty Star Sea on the Star Shore, because after entering the Misty Star Sea, his divine sense would naturally break off from the sect, which basically matched the uncertain instructions given by the Soul-Summoning Bell.
As for why Wei Qing, with his Golden Core stage cultivation, could enter the Misty Star Sea, it's easy to understand. When he left the Yu Ling Sect to go on a training trip, he was already at the peak of the Golden Core stage, so breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage during his training trip was not difficult.
Luo Mingshu sent the results of her investigation to Feng Du. She felt a little frustrated because she knew she couldn't find teammates to enter the Misty Star Sea, so she couldn't continue the mission.
However, she still tentatively opened the Spirit Network and clicked into the array system that the Spirit Network shared with the Misty Star Sea once again. In order to facilitate cultivators' exploration of the Misty Star Sea, cultivators could use the Spirit Network to match teammates going to the Misty Star Sea online. It was not too late to set off for the Star Shore after a match was made.
The Spirit Network interface unfolded, and upon entering the Misty Star Sea matching interface, the result for "[Beautiful 300-year-old Water Spirit Root is Super Easy to Foole]" was still blank. The golden light searched through the cultivator's divine sense, which was like an ocean, but still could not find a teammate who could enter the Misty Star Sea with her.
Luo Mingshu didn't know why this was, because there should be many cultivators like her who were at the Nascent Soul stage. Some cultivators would filter matching conditions on the Misty Star Sea matching interface, such as having to have a certain spiritual root or master a certain spell—of course, gender could not be selected, this was not a matchmaking platform.
At the very beginning, she listed a whole bunch of conditions, such as the person must have a water elemental root, be no older than a thousand years old (not considered), and must master cooking magic because she couldn't cook, etc. But after filtering them out, Luo Mingshu only had one condition left: as long as the person could breathe and was alive, it didn't matter if they were a demon, a monster, or some other kind of creature.
But she still couldn't find teammates, which was a huge blow to Luo Mingshu.
Luo Mingshu stared at the message displayed before her: "[Matching you with teammates. Matching time: March 24th, 103rd year, 8 hours. Average match time: 7 days and 2 hours. Your teammates are on their way. Please wait patiently.]" She was so angry she wanted to close the Misty Star Sea matchmaking interface.
At this moment, golden light suddenly shone in the interface, and among the countless scattered divine senses before him, a divine sense suddenly flew out, like a falling star, and landed directly opposite Luo Mingshu.
After more than a hundred years of waiting, the interface has finally changed.
[A beautiful 300-year-old woman with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible. Congratulations, you have been matched with a suitable teammate. Please confirm your team formation.]
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