Chapter 63 Sixty-Three Slashes "Are you wagging your tail?"...
There were only two rooms on the Purple Gold Cloud Boat. Lu Yaoyao stayed in one room, and she stayed in the other, while Wei Qing was casually left in the front hall.
It was late at night, so there was no need for Lu Yaoyao to come out. There was only one reason she came out: to see Wei Qing outside the door.
Given that Wei Qing was also a strange person, Luo Mingshu decided not to go out for the time being and to secretly watch what Lu Yaoyao was up to in her room.
She lightly brushed her hand across the door, casting a simple clairvoyant spell, revealing the scene outside.
Lu Yaoyao had just gotten up from the ground when she tripped over the flower stand in the front hall, looking disheveled.
The system was terrified in her mind because it had suffered too much with Luo Mingshu. It was now very afraid that Lu Yaoyao would cause some trouble again and Luo Mingshu would snatch it back.
"Why did you suddenly fall?" the system scolded Lu Yaoyao. "This matter must be carried out in secret. You must not let Luo Mingshu find out."
"I...I fell by accident..." Lu Yaoyao said embarrassedly, "Besides, it's already late at night, Luo Mingshu should be asleep by now. She hasn't come out yet, so she probably hasn't noticed me."
Although Lu Yaoyao said this, she had her own considerations. She deliberately fell down to attract Luo Mingshu's attention. Now her every move was under the system's surveillance, so she could only pretend to fall accidentally and make a sound.
She didn't want to do the tasks assigned by the system. If this fall would attract Luo Mingshu, that would be great; if not, she would find another way to mess things up later. Of course, there was also the possibility that Luo Mingshu knew she was out, and she would choose to observe secretly. That would be the best-case scenario. Lu Yaoyao wanted to stand on the same side as Luo Mingshu, but Luo Mingshu didn't fully trust her, so she had to do something to show her determination.
The system told her, "Since you haven't been discovered yet, hurry up and complete the task. I'll record the points for completing this task for you. Once I remove the shield seal, I'll update the items in the exchange interface to help you improve your cultivation."
"Okay," Lu Yaoyao nodded and said.
Seeing that Lu Yaoyao was standing still, seemingly communicating with something, Luo Mingshu figured she was probably arguing with the system.
She saw Lu Yaoyao rush to Wei Qing's side and grab his wrist. At this moment, Wei Qing was unconscious, breathing evenly, and his sleeve slipped down, revealing three marks on his wrist.
"Does he have three marks on his wrist, one of which is fainter?" the system asked Lu Yaoyao.
“Yes.” Lu Yaoyao nodded.
The system knew that when Wei Qing was in Xuan Tian Mansion, in order to defeat Luo Mingshu—or for some other reason, he forcibly broke through a cultivation barrier on his body, so the mark on his wrist was fainter.
He thought about it and realized that since he couldn't receive instructions from above, he had to consider all his actions himself.
"Find a way to remove the other two marks on his wrist as well. The first seal keeps his cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage, and the second seal keeps it below the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage. Only by removing the last one can he regain his original strength." The system pondered to itself. It knew Wei Qing's purpose in coming to the human realm, and it also knew that the three seals on his wrist were far from simple.
"What do I need to do?" Lu Yaoyao asked the system.
The system still remembered the method to unseal the cultivation seal. It recited the incantation to unseal the seal and had Lu Yaoyao recite it to unlock Wei Qing's cultivation seal.
However, this cultivation seal can only be cast by cultivators who have ascended to immortality. The incantation to break the seal is difficult to understand, and only cultivators who have ascended to immortality have the powerful divine sense to fully comprehend the meaning of the incantation.
Lu Yaoyao is only at the Nascent Soul stage now, and even with the system guiding her, she still finds it difficult to finish reading.
In addition, she was also deliberately pronouncing it poorly, so when Luo Mingshu looked at Lu Yaoyao in the front hall and saw her reciting the difficult and incomprehensible incantation over and over again, and the mark on Wei Qing's wrist lit up and went out, even if she was stupid, she would know what Lu Yaoyao was doing.
Under the system's guidance, Lu Yaoyao received a mission to unlock the seal on Wei Qing's cultivation, but she deliberately didn't read it carefully, which led to this situation.
Only now did Luo Mingshu begin to trust Lu Yaoyao a little. After a long time, Lu Yaoyao failed and could only slink back to her room. Luo Mingshu also removed the X-ray vision spell and returned to the soft couch by her window.
Turning her head to look at the night view outside the window of the Purple Gold Cloud Boat, Luo Mingshu began to think about Wei Qing's matter. What exactly was he going to do?
She thought for a long time but couldn't find a suitable answer. Suddenly, she remembered Xie Changming.
She also wrote down some of the incantation that Lu Yaoyao had just recited to break the curse. Although Lu Yaoyao had deliberately mispronounced it, it was still roughly the same.
Since Xie Changming has the ability to cast spells that shield the system from divine senses, he might know the purpose and origin of this incantation.
Since she's going to use the Spirit Network account 【Shushu Chaomei Ya】 to scam him out of 80 million spirit stones anyway, it shouldn't matter much if she uses him now and treats him as a tool.
So, late at night, Luo Mingshu sent a message to Xie Changming via the Spirit Network.
[Shushu is so beautiful: Are you asleep?]
The other party replied instantly late at night, leaving Luo Mingshu, who was lying in bed yawning, stunned.
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): Not asleep.]
Xie Changming was indeed bad at chatting; after replying with that sentence, he remained silent for a long time.
After a long while, seeing that Luo Mingshu did not speak, he sent another message.
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): What's wrong?]
[Shushu is so beautiful: I heard a spell that's related to my junior brother.]
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): What's wrong with him?]
Xie Changming remembered that he hadn't told Luo Mingshu about retrieving Wei Qing's memories, so he immediately sent a message.
[Anonymous cultivator (192cm tall): I examined his divine sense; his memories are strange. He seems to have been sent by the Heavenly Realm to find you.]
[Shushu is so beautiful: Is this how he found me? I have enemies in the Heavenly Realm, and he's here to kill me?]
Although he was very reluctant to tell the truth, Xie Changming still told the truth.
[Anonymous cultivator (192cm tall): He was ordered to find you, protect you, and bring you back to the Celestial Realm, but it seems he did something else entirely.]
[Shushu is so beautiful: I don't care what he wants to do, whether he protects me or kills me, I won't go with him.]
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): Yes, that's right.]
【Shushu is so beautiful: I won't go with you.】
[Anonymous cultivator (192cm tall): ...]
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): QAQ!]
[Shushu is so beautiful: The system requires Lu Yaoyao to recite this incantation to release the seal on Wei Qing.]
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): What incantation?]
Luo Mingshu originally wanted to send a text message to Xie Changming, but she found that the incantation was not only difficult to understand, but also difficult to express in words, with many syllables being very unusual.
So she lowered her head, burrowed into the blankets, and covered the Spirit Network interface with the blankets as well. In the dark and cramped blankets, the golden light of the Spirit Network interface was a bit dazzling, and she blinked several times before she could adjust to it.
She secretly sent a message to Xie Changming.
[Shushu is so beautiful: Is it convenient for you to communicate telepathically on your end?]
Xie Changming was resting alone in a side hall of the Demon Realm. He was originally planning to sleep because he had other things to do the next day, such as counting the large amount of land and resources distributed by the Misty Star Sea, one of which was for Luo Mingshu. However, Luo Mingshu sent him a message, so he didn't plan to sleep anymore and replied immediately.
He turned the volume of the Spirit Network in the room to the maximum before replying to Luo Mingshu with only two words.
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): Okay.]
Luo Mingshu started a conversation with him through the spiritual network. As long as there was spiritual communication, transmitting information, voice, and images was not a problem. She said "hello" to Xie Changming.
"What's wrong?" Xie Changming asked her. Although he hadn't seen Luo Mingshu for only a few days, her voice sounded as if she had been in another world.
Xie Changming's voice was still so familiar. Luo Mingshu liked his voice very much. It was deep and calm, like the sound of some kind of extremely heavy instrument.
She paused, not continuing, "Then I'll recite the incantation again now, not the whole thing, just a fragment, because I can't remember the whole thing either."
“Okay,” Xie Changming said, leaning against the bed and speaking softly to Luo Mingshu.
Luo Mingshu slowly recited the incantation, but Xie Changming interrupted her after she had only uttered one or two syllables.
"The second syllable is wrong," Xie Changming corrected her. "The whole passage should be..."
He recited the rest of the incantation in a relaxed tone, unlike Lu Yaoyao who stuttered.
Luo Mingshu nodded and said, "Yes, it's this incantation. How do you know it too?"
Through telepathic communication, Luo Mingshu heard Xie Changming's soft laughter, but he did not answer her question.
"This is the incantation used to break the seal on cultivation, right?" Luo Mingshu asked.
"Yes," Xie Changming replied. "Does the system want to unlock your junior brother's cultivation level?"
"So they're in cahoots?" Luo Mingshu asked doubtfully.
“Perhaps he was opposed to the system before, but he definitely is now.” Xie Changming was rather serious as he corrected Luo Mingshu’s statement.
"Judging from the way he acted in Xuantian Palace, he never had any good intentions to begin with," Luo Mingshu said indignantly.
"It's best to be careful," Xie Changming said to her.
"Mmm," Luo Mingshu answered subconsciously.
After she finished speaking, she realized that she had been surprisingly obedient, agreeing to whatever Xie Changming said.
This made her feel somewhat ashamed, so she remained silent for a long time before finally deciding to sever the connection between their divine thoughts.
But Xie Changming spoke up in time: "Shushu."
When he called her that, Luo Mingshu subconsciously responded with a "Mmm".
In bed, Luo Mingshu slapped her thigh.
Xie Changming thought that Luo Mingshu didn't have a name before, and no one gave her a name. Over time, he just called her Little Fish. Everyone knew she wasn't a fish, but Luo Mingshu liked that nickname very much at the time.
Because the two people's divine senses were strong, the sound transmitted was very clear. Xie Changming heard Luo Mingshu say "hmm" and then heard the crisp sound of her slapping her thigh.
He chuckled softly, his tail sticking out from behind him and wagging happily.
A blush crept onto Luo Mingshu's cheeks, and she burrowed deeper into the blankets, her breath making her cheeks burn.
She paused for a moment, then tried to sever the connection between their spiritual thoughts.
But Xie Changming spoke again: "Remember to cover yourself with the blanket."
Luo Mingshu pretended to be nonchalant and said, "It's too hot."
"It gets cold in the middle of the night," Xie Changming said.
“I am a Nascent Soul cultivator, not a mortal.” Luo Mingshu suspected that Xie Changming was just making conversation.
In fact, Xie Changming was just making conversation out of nothing. Talking to Luo Mingshu outside the Misty Star Sea felt more genuine, as if something had come to life.
He noticed his tail was wagging, but he couldn't control it. Anyway, he was all alone here, so he figured, "Let it wag." Xie Changming thought to himself.
Luo Mingshu realized her face was red, but she was alone in bed, so maybe it was just the heat from the blankets.
She coughed lightly, and Xie Changming continued to make conversation: "How many more days until we return to the sect?"
"Let's wait three more days," Luo Mingshu said with a yawn.
"Go to sleep," Xie Changming said to her.
"Then go to sleep." Luo Mingshu buried her head in the pillow.
She closed her eyes, and after the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, she suddenly opened them.
That despicable Xie Changming hadn't severed the connection between their divine senses; she herself had forgotten. The environment on both sides grew increasingly quiet, and then she heard a familiar voice.
It was probably every time Xie Changming showed his tail that it would rustle the clothes next to him, making a slight knocking sound.
Now, the sound appeared again, and Luo Mingshu guessed that it was wagging its tail happily.
Damn it, this demon is wagging its tail, but she still can't touch it.
Luo Mingshu sat up and said warily, "Are you wagging your tail?"
Xie Changming denied it: "No."
Beneath his deep voice, faint collision sounds continued to be heard.
Luo Mingshu was certain that he was still shaking, and Xie Changming had indeed not stopped. Anyway, Luo Mingshu couldn't see him now.
"Aren't you tired?" Luo Mingshu asked him.
"I'm not tired," he said.
"You still say you didn't shake it." Luo Mingshu always managed to catch his slip-up; her adorable, loyal dog couldn't bear to lie to her.
Xie Changming paused for a moment, then remained silent, but did not sever his spiritual connection with Luo Mingshu.
Luo Mingshu was very sleepy. Afraid that the other person would hear her snoring, she yawned and said, "Stop communicating with your mind. I want to sleep."
The sound of Xie Changming wagging his tail stopped, and Luo Mingshu pursed her lips and chuckled softly before severing the connection between their spiritual communication.
She went to sleep contentedly. It had been a long time since she had returned to the Yuling Sect, and she didn't know how things were going there.
The next day, when she woke up and was having breakfast, she saw that someone in their Misty Starry Sea Surfing group had posted a new message.
It turned out that Lu Yaoyao posted it first. She posted a picture, which was roughly from her perspective looking out from the Purple Gold Cloud Boat. Inadvertently, the luxurious interior decoration of the Purple Gold Cloud Boat was also revealed.
[It's Fairy Yao Yao: Oh dear, the view from high up is a bit dazzling. I got up early again today.]
Having hitched a ride on Luo Mingshu's cloud boat without spending any money, she naturally had to post some pictures and text to show off.
The first to reply was Shui Qingnian, which demonstrated the strength of her divine sense.
[Super Cool Princess: Your taste is just like my sister's! This decoration is so tacky!]
[Shushu is so beautiful: This is my cloud boat! Even if it's ugly, you can't ride it! Are you going to go back and beg your father to buy you one again?]
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn has passed, someone else has appeared.
[Not a single one can fight: Super beautiful goddess, isn't that the Purple Gold Cloud Boat? Judging from the decorations, it seems to be the latest generation...]
[Shushu is so beautiful: You have much better taste than that princess.]
[There's not a single one who can fight: Why don't you come visit my sect sometime? I've been eyeing this cloud boat for ages, but I just haven't had the money to buy it, sob sob.]
Meng Weifang's compliments pleased Luo Mingshu greatly, so she readily agreed.
[Shushu is so beautiful: Fine, I'll give the seat to anyone but that princess.]
Soon after she sent the message, someone else appeared.
[Anonymous monk (192cm tall): ...]
Xie Changming sent three classic periods and then disappeared.
[Don't touch anything today: I thought this security captain never looked at our group and had muted the messages.]
Thus, a wonderful day begins with a harmonious group discussion.
Luo Mingshu finished the peach blossom dew on the table in one gulp. The Purple Gold Cloud Boat was still heading towards the Yu Ling Sect. However, on that day, a small incident occurred in a certain sect.
"Sect Leader, our business has grown bigger and stronger, and we've even expanded into the human realm!" A disciple of the Golden Turtle Sect excitedly told his sect leader, holding two brand-new order forms in his hand.
"Our Jin'ao Sect's business originally involved other regions. What's wrong? Don't panic, tell me in detail." The Jin'ao Sect leader stroked his beard and said calmly.
"Remember the Purple Gold Cloud Boat? It's that product we developed that was a 'scam product,' it looked good and had top-notch performance, but it was the cloud boat with an abnormally high price." The disciple looked down at the order in his hand.
"What?" the sect leader asked. "Didn't this cloud boat only manage to fool the Yu Ling Sect, that rich sucker?"
"Today, both the Demon Realm and the Monster Realm sent orders to purchase this cloud boat, and... and the people who sent the orders are the Demon Lord of the Demon Realm and the Demon Emperor of the Monster Realm. His Majesty the Demon Emperor ordered two of them." The little disciple finished speaking and was so excited that he almost fainted.
"This!" The sect leader of Jin'ao Sect couldn't sit still. He didn't expect his own product to attract such a big shot. So he ordered people to work overtime to develop the latest generation, improve its performance and decoration, and strive to send the best product over.
Luo Mingshu had no idea that the Purple Gold Cloud Boat in her hand was already outdated without her knowledge. She even drove it back to the Yuling Sect in style.
From the human realm to the demon realm, and even twice to the Misty Star Sea, she finally brought back Wei Qing, this sucker.
Luo Mingshu felt it was necessary for her to report Wei Qing's situation to the sect leader, and to truthfully report the situation while concealing her own identity.
Feng Du, the sect leader of the Yu Ling Sect, and Meng Huang, the elder of Fu Yun Peak and Wei Qing's nominal master, were already waiting for them at the mountain gate.
Luo Mingshu jumped off the cloud boat first, followed by Lu Yaoyao carrying the unconscious Wei Qing. Luo Mingshu raised her hand, shrunk the purple-gold cloud boat, and put it into her spatial pouch.
"What... happened to Wei Qing?" Feng Du and Meng Huang looked at the unconscious Wei Qing in shock.
"Let's settle in first," Luo Mingshu nodded to them.
At this moment, Lu Yaoyao, standing behind her, heard the system's voice in her mind: "Host, you failed to complete the task of waking Wei Qing last night. Now that you've returned to the sect, you will receive a new task: to pin the blame for Wei Qing's severe injuries and coma on Luo Mingshu—this is indeed related to her. If she hadn't condoned the Supreme Immortal Lord's actions, Wei Qing wouldn't be in this state. That Supreme Immortal Lord must be the strongest figure in the Misty Star Sea; his attacks are truly terrifying."
Lu Yaoyao bit her lip and remained silent. She wasn't stupid. The truth was clear: Wei Qing had broken through the cultivation barrier and used his almost ascending cultivation to suppress Luo Mingshu. If she had been in the arena at the time, she would have been killed by Wei Qing.
Later, when the Supreme Immortal Lord stepped in to teach him a lesson, there was nothing wrong with it in terms of reason and emotion. Lu Yaoyao didn't know what Luo Mingshu would say. When she found out, she could act more convincingly, because no one could scold Luo Mingshu as much as her.
After taking Wei Qing to the medical practitioners of the Yu Ling Sect for treatment, Luo Mingshu, Feng Du, and Meng Huang discussed matters in the main hall. Of course, Lu Yaoyao also came.
"Sect Leader, let me explain to you what has happened during this time." Luo Mingshu's tone was calm, and compared to when she left, she was indeed less sharp, but those sharp emotions were hidden beneath her words.
Those who spend every day with Luo Mingshu cannot see the changes in her, but Feng Du can see that she has grown a lot and is no longer as childish as before.
“In the beginning, it was Junior Sister Lu who gave me a hair, saying it was Wei Qing’s hair, and asked me to borrow the Soul-Calling Bell to find him.” Luo Mingshu took Manman out of the cage and also took out the sinful mouse hair from the beginning. “Unfortunately, that hair was a hair that fell off the little mouse that had been with Wei Qing day and night.”
"Due to misdirection, we went to Fengsha Ferry by mistake, and ended up bringing this little mouse out from Fengsha Ferry. You should know about these sect leaders. Fortunately, the little mouse had a note written by Wei Qing on him. I used his belongings to locate him in the Misty Star Sea. His loss of consciousness was because he went to the Misty Star Sea." Luo Mingshu glanced at Lu Yaoyao. "And Junior Sister Lu, I don't know what method she used, but she also tracked him down and entered the Misty Star Sea."
Here, Luo Mingshu's words were perfectly reasonable and her tone was objective and fair, so Lu Yaoyao couldn't find any opening to refute them.
"I won't go into details about what happened in the Misty Star Sea. After exploring the scene as a beginner, we were matched with Wei Qing, who was lost in the Misty Star Sea, on the second level. For some reason, I fought with Wei Qing there, and then we discovered that his cultivation level was actually not just Nascent Soul, but rather that of an ascended cultivator who had returned to the human world with a mission. When he fought me, he was afraid of losing, so he broke through his cultivation barrier and seriously injured me. Then, the characters in the Misty Star Sea punished his mistake, and he was seriously injured as a result." Luo Mingshu concealed the fact that the Supreme Immortal Lord was Xie Changming, and simply let the Misty Star Sea take the blame for injuring Wei Qing.
"This—" Feng Du and Meng Huang gasped in unison after hearing this. They hadn't expected the matter to be so complicated. The most terrifying thing was that Wei Qing was not only a Nascent Soul cultivator, but a Celestial Realm cultivator who had returned to the Human Realm.
"He entered the Misty Star Sea to escape some missions, I don't know what they are. He also didn't care about the sect. He knew that the sect was spending time and energy searching for him, but he still stayed in the Misty Star Sea because he could cut off his divine sense from the outside world inside." Luo Mingshu added, as if remembering something else.
At this moment, Lu Yaoyao couldn't let the system see that she had switched sides, so she spoke up under the system's guidance: "Senior sister, that's indeed what happened, but the one who injured senior brother in the Misty Star Sea was your nominal Daoist partner in the Misty Star Sea. Are you just condoning your Daoist partner to harm your fellow disciple?"
Luo Mingshu was amused by her words. She thought that Lu Yaoyao's system was really not very smart, trying to shift the blame onto her for such a thing.
"Junior Sister Lu, you really know how to joke." Under the gaze of the sect leader and elders, Luo Mingshu said, word by word, "I had already been beaten into a coma by him, how could I have been able to stop him?"
"There are four other people watching the competition in Yingtian Prefecture. Do you want two cultivators who are also disciples of the human realm to be witnesses, or do you want the eldest princess of the demon realm to be witnesses?" Luo Mingshu was not looking at Lu Yaoyao at this moment. She only focused her gaze on the jade bracelet on Lu Yaoyao's wrist. "The trial scene was originally prepared for Nascent Soul cultivators. Since he has the cultivation of an Ascended cultivator, he should go to a more difficult secret realm. What is he doing here, trying to bully the weak?"
“Violating the rules of the Misty Star Sea requires punishment. Moreover, he disregarded the sect rules. Given the precedent of our Yuling Sect having cultivators lost in the Misty Star Sea, he deliberately stayed there, needlessly causing the sect leader and elders to worry about him!” This was what angered Luo Mingshu the most about Wei Qing.
Liu Hongying's getting lost in the Misty Star Sea was a long-standing knot in her heart. Now, Wei Qing actually dared to repeat what happened back then, and on purpose at that. He had no idea how worried his fellow disciples outside the Misty Star Sea would be about him.
"That concludes the entire account of what happened." Luo Mingshu turned around and nodded to Sect Leader Feng Du. "How does Sect Leader intend to handle this?"
The system wanted Lu Yaoyao to say something more, but Lu Yaoyao asked him in her mind, "System, there are witnesses. How can I refute her? Do you want me to completely lose credibility in front of the sect leader? That would make it difficult to complete other tasks in the future."
The system remained silent. Feng Du turned around and exchanged a few words with Meng Huang, Wei Qing's nominal master.
"Alright." After discussing the matter, Feng Du announced to everyone, "We will treat Wei Qing first. Once he wakes up, we will deal with him according to the sect rules and expel him from the Yu Ling Sect."
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