Chapter 9
"Is this the place where you don't need to return?" Jiang Wan asked curiously.
Without waiting for Lin Xubai to speak, Jiang Wan turned behind the tree.
Jiang Wan brushed aside the red silk thread hanging in front of her, carefully stepped onto the light red lotus stone steps in the water and walked back: "Isn't this the forbidden area we accidentally entered last night? What a coincidence! I didn't expect you to live here."
A small wooden house that could barely shelter from the wind and rain, even simpler than the disciple dormitory where she lived. At least they had the most basic bedding, tables, chairs and teapots, but here at Lin Xubai, there was nothing but beautiful scenery.
The sympathy in Jiang Wan's eyes was obvious, but she couldn't say that. She comforted Lin Xubai that this place was quiet and the scenery was unique. Ordinary cultivators could only open a cave on their own when they reached the Nascent Soul stage. Lin Xubai was enjoying the treatment of a Nascent Soul cultivator in advance.
Lin Xubai's smiling eyes drooped slightly, and the fingers hidden in his sleeves couldn't help but tap the handle of the fan.
What a coincidence! Before last night, he had never thought that he would live here.
Elder Bear, who had worked all night to build the cabin, wiped away the sweat from his forehead.
"I was brought into the sect by my master when I was young. I was supposed to become his disciple, but he suddenly went into seclusion, and the ceremony of becoming his disciple was not completed. It was really inappropriate for me to stay in Guiyuan Sect without being a disciple of the sect, so my uncle kindly placed me in Buxugui to practice with him, waiting for my master to come out of seclusion so that we could formally perform the ceremony of becoming his disciple. But he still hasn't come out. A few days ago, my uncle also went into seclusion. Buxugui was originally his cave residence, so I didn't want to disturb him, so I took the initiative to move out."
Lin Xubai leaned dejectedly against the wooden house. His figure standing under the eaves was thin and frail, as if he was narrating the misery and hardships that the young man had endured living under someone else's roof over the years.
"This is a forbidden area, but the Sect Master saw that I was in an awkward situation and sealed it off from the public and left it in my residence."
"Your uncle is such a good person." Jiang Wan sighed in a pretentious manner.
Pooh!
She didn't believe it! This was clearly an excuse for Lin Xubai's scumbag father to deceive Lin Xubai and lock him up in a small dark room.
What do you mean by improper status? You have already joined Guiyuan Sect, so why are you in an awkward situation? Is it so difficult to find a random status?
Lin Xubai sighed softly, "By the way, why did you come here?"
"We're destined to meet! We bumped into each other yesterday by accident, and today..." Jiang Wan kept it a secret, "I used a little trick!"
"Here!" Jiang Wan took out a nameplate, which was the disciple nameplate belonging to Lin Xubai that Jiang Wan was about to throw away yesterday.
Lin Xubai's forehead twitched as he took the name tag.
The various actions she took in the fight last night were undoubtedly her truest reactions.
Whether it was using the teleportation talisman to escape, raining down purple stones, or throwing weapons like sandbags, it all proved that Jiang Wan was an ordinary mortal who had not practiced cultivation.
Anyone holding a spiritual sword and facing a life-or-death crisis would subconsciously throw the sword away as if it were a sandbag.
Especially the way she threw it was like she was playing, and it was obvious that she had never fought with anyone.
Could it be that he threw the white paper out on purpose to dispel suspicion?
Jiang Wan took out a small wooden table and two cushions and called Lin Xubai over. She complained angrily without any expression.
"It was bad enough that I got lost and was chased yesterday, and then was mistakenly arrested and punished by the Law Enforcement Hall. I was originally planning to treat you to a meal, but when I went to the dining hall this morning, I discovered that all my spirit stones were gone!"
Until now she doesn't know when she lost her money!
She suspected that it was Elder Xiong who did it, and was taking revenge on someone else!
Hearing this, Lin Xubai turned the folding fan in a good mood and sat down, with the fan half-open to cover the lower half of his face, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly behind the folding fan.
However, when he saw Jiang Wan put a pile of food on the table, the good mood on his lips froze.
"…This is?"
"I brought this for you from the dining hall. Come and try it, it's super delicious!"
"Luckily, my reputation as a kendo genius is so great that several beautiful ladies rushed to buy me things." Jiang Wan nodded confidently, accepting the fact that she was popular no matter where she went. "I didn't forget about you even though I had something delicious. This, this, this, I brought it especially for you."
As she was busy on her way, she saw that people here either steamed or boiled the food, and her heart sank.
I had originally given up hope for the delicacies in the world of immortal cultivation, but I didn't expect that the spiritual food of Guiyuan Sect was quite delicious.
As for demon food...sorry, demons don't eat human food.
"Don't be embarrassed to accept them. I mentioned you to them before I bought them. This and this were specially given to you by your senior sister from Xiancang Peak." Jiang Wan pushed the two pastries in front of Lin Xubai. "You know what, these senior sisters from Guiyuan Sect are quite welcoming, but they asked a lot of questions. They even exchanged communication jade talismans with me and gave me a lot of gifts."
Jiang Wan turned his head to look at his reflection in the water, touched his face expressionlessly, with a hint of boasting in his eyes.
Not to mention, her face is even at the top of the Kyushu Beauty List mentioned by Bai Qingqing.
"......" Lin Xubai hesitated, "What did they ask?"
"He asked about what happened last night, asking me if what I said in the square yesterday was true, and why I came to Guiyuan Sect to become a disciple."
"How did you answer?" Lin Xubai slid his fingertips along the rim of the cup, watching Jiang Wan's expression tense as she looked into the mirror. A hint of pride in her eyes, believing her good looks justified her popularity, seemed to twitch. "Forget it..."
Unfortunately, he spoke too late.
"Of course I'm telling the truth. I came to Guiyuan Sect just to find you."
Jiang Wan didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said.
"Don't worry, I didn't reveal your affairs to anyone." Jiang Wan leaned forward and lowered his voice.
The first step to a good relationship is to have a shared secret, she understands!
Lin Xubai: “…”
So I should thank you for keeping it a secret for me, right?
Lin Xubai laughed angrily. There were still not enough lessons and tasks in Guiyuan Sect.
Later, when Jiang Wan returned to her bed and counted her small treasury, she discovered that all her spirit stones were gone again. She was still puzzled, and finally concluded that Gui Yuanzong and she were incompatible, and that they were incompatible with each other in terms of wealth.
"Let's go to the dining hall together in the evening. Don't worry, my food is not expensive." Jiang Wan confidently asked Lin Xubai to treat her to a meal.
Lin Xubai: “???”
"You said it the other way around, didn't you?"
"I've already treated you to a meal, why don't you treat me?" Jiang Wan was shocked. "We're friends for life, and I don't have a penny now!"
Finally, under Jiang Wan's tearful "accusation", Lin Xubai nodded in agreement.
Besides, Jiang Wan didn't come to see Lin Xubai to have tea and chat.
"Also, I need your help with something."
She was not embarrassed and told Lin Xubai frankly that she could not understand the basic introductory exercises. She also told Lin Xubai that these new disciples were arranged to attend classes together.
Lin Xubai turned to the first page: "What don't you understand?"
"all."
Lin Xubai didn't believe it and thought she was pretending, so he tried to test her in a roundabout way.
Then Lin Xubai found that Jiang Wan really couldn't understand, so he carefully looked over Jiang Wan's punishment copy.
Lin Xubai was silent and he suddenly knew why Jiang Wan was lost.
Lin Xubai began to doubt whether he was overthinking it.
Who would be so bored and have nothing better to do as to send someone who knows nothing and is useless in both civil and military affairs to be an undercover agent?
Perhaps because Lin Xubai's expression was too difficult to describe, Jiang Wan explained, "My home is just an ordinary small mountain village, a place you can't even find on the map of Dongzhou."
Anyway, she had already told her new friends about it, and the reasons were ready-made. She just omitted the parts that the demons couldn't tell and added some details based on the conditions of the villages she had seen on the way.
There is not a single lie, it's all true, just a patchwork version.
Tu Changxing, who registered at the same time as her, thought her experience was very inspiring and was deeply moved. He encouraged her to practice well.
Lin Xubai paused as he was turning the pages of the book. Dongzhou...that place is adjacent to the Demon Realm.
In this case, doesn't this place exist and its origin is unknown?
"Oh, yeah, I'm telling you, I just learned it!"
Jiang Wan excitedly summoned a magic sword and performed the first three moves of Luo Fei's sword technique for Lin Xubai on the spot.
It was a complete and drastic change from the night before when he could only throw swords.
"Senior Sister Liao Li said that I hadn't established my foundation yet, so she only demonstrated it once. She wanted me to see it so I could get a feel for the atmosphere of sword cultivation at Songding Peak. But I learned it immediately after watching it once."
Jiang Wan tried hard to keep a straight face, but he was radiating pride and couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes.
Senior Sister Liao Li and the others were shocked at that time.
“That’s amazing.”
Lin Xubai closed the book and started praising Jiang Wan continuously, which made Jiang Wan put all the good things she had just got into Lin Xubai's pocket.
"From now on, I, a sword wizard, will protect you. I guarantee you can walk sideways in Guiyuan Sect and go wherever you want!"
"As expected of a natural sword bone, I hope Junior Sister Jiang will take good care of you from now on."
He needs to think carefully about his "old friends".
Looking at Jiang Wan's extraordinary beauty, Lin Xubai lowered his eyes in a trance. No matter which of the Thirty-Six Strategies, the beauty trap was definitely included.
It's an easy-to-understand beauty trap.
He wanted to see who would be the first to fall in among all the people in Guiyuan Sect.
Three days later, Chengye Hall.
"Jiang Wan! Copy the sect rules and regulations three hundred times!" the old man with white hair and a long beard roared. With a "pop", a scroll appeared from the air and was thrown out by the old man. "Copy the 'Tianyuan General Principles' fifty times!"
"I stayed up all night and finally finished copying it!" Jiang Wan was dissatisfied. She caught the book thrown at her and stood up to protest.
"How dare you ask why?" The white-haired old man stroked his beard angrily. "Half of your three hundred repetitions were filled with typos, and the other half were nothing but dog's crap! Rewrite it again!"
Jiang Wan had a sad face. It was not easy for her to write. Some of the words were merged into similar items while she was writing.
Can this be blamed on her? It’s the words that are to blame!
"Ha." The white-haired old man blew his beard and glared, "Hand it over to the Law Enforcement Hall yourself!"
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left.
"Look at you, you're not practicing or sleeping in the middle of the night, but you're out whistling!" Tu Changxing beside him yawned. "You're really energetic, you've been whistling for three days straight!"
Bai rubbed his eyes gently: "You are really amazing. The Law Enforcement Hall tried to catch you for three days but still failed."
Bai Qingqing really admired Junior Sister Jiang, who had five spiritual roots. That day, she said she was going to have an affair. At first, Bai Qingqing actually believed her. But after she left, she thought that this was too outrageous and impossible.
Which new disciple would not do anything serious on the first night of joining the sect and go out to have an affair?
This is Guiyuan Sect.
And… hey! It really is there.
When Bai Qingqing learned about it the next day, she was enlightened and felt that Jiang Wan was an interesting person. He was indeed very special. With her intentional contact, the two of them became much closer.
The disciples who were also tormented by the strange whistling sound and unable to sleep at night nodded in agreement.
They had dark circles under their eyes and looked haggard as they all looked at the culprit who had made them look like this.
Jiang Wan's mouth twitched, "If I hadn't been reported..."
She wanted to summon the undead to be her spies and find out the secrets of Guiyuan Sect, but there was not even a ghost. Worried about the distance limit, she had to keep changing the place to blow.
"If it weren't for your whistle that caught the attention of the Law Enforcement Hall disciples and caused them to intensify their search for several nights, I'm afraid they wouldn't have caught the demonic cultivator who sneaked into the sect and stole the Kaleidoscope in time." Lin Xubai said in a gentle voice, "This can be considered a lucky coincidence. It atones for my sins and evens out my mistakes, Junior Sister Jiang."
Lin Xubai, who inexplicably followed Jiang Wan in, took only three days to perfectly integrate into this class of new disciples with his gentle appearance and kind attitude towards others.
The disciples who were unable to sleep at night were staggering around.
Some people whose cultivation level was above the third level of Qi Refining were not affected much, but there were still many people who could not withstand such torture.
"Although that demon cultivator finally escaped, if it weren't for Junior Sister Jiang's unexpected success, I'm afraid the disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall might not have been able to find the demon cultivator and destroy him in the first place."
Lin Xubai's gentle comfort made Jiang Wan silently give Lin Xubai a good guy card in her heart.
She finally summoned an undead creature, but it was destroyed by a spell that fell from the sky.
Then the scene repeated itself, and he was surrounded by a group of Law Enforcement Hall disciples who were chasing after the demon cultivators.
Successfully achieved a second imprisonment.
"Oh."
The woman in the front sneered, not trying to hide her disgust at this farce.
Huo Xiangqi's expression changed slightly when she saw this. She calmly placed her hand on the woman's arm, shook it slightly, and used her eyes to signal her to restrain her outward emotions.
The woman glanced at Huo Xiangqi coldly and remained unmoved. She couldn't stand people like Huo Xiangqi who were always trying to smooth things over.
What's more...
The woman's gaze shifted to Bai Qingqing, who was lying on the table next to Jiang Wan and seemed to be exhausted.
She hates that a person never has to put himself down and pretend.
Bai Qingqing felt the gazes on her and discovered that it was the eldest daughter of the Wuxiang League. A hint of coldness appeared in her eyes but she immediately suppressed it and returned a friendly smile.
"Hypocritical." The woman withdrew her gaze and looked at Jiang Wan again, "Idiot." Finally, she rolled her eyes.
As for the gentle and kind senior brother Lin Xubai?
For some reason, the woman always subconsciously ignores him.
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