Chapter 186 She didn't want to get involved. ...
The crowd exchanged glances. Some had already taken out their silver, while others were pondering. They were all at the Foundation Establishment stage; if they attacked together, how could they not defeat this rogue cultivator?
Especially after two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators were ejected from the secret realm after eating roasted rabbit meat, they exchanged glances and could no longer resist. If they continued eating like this, there would be no more meat left.
Ordinary rabbits and beasts wouldn't increase cultivation levels after eating them, so the problem lies with this rogue cultivator.
Several people surrounded Si Yao, reaching out to grab her, but the knife in Si Yao's hand merely grazed their skin, instantly tearing them open.
"I think you're courting death." Si Yao packed up all her things and rubbed her hands together, looking at those who wanted to steal her belongings.
The group exchanged glances, their eyes filled with ruthlessness.
"Let's attack together, capture her, and force her to hand over the items that can enhance her cultivation."
But as soon as he got close to Si Yao, she slit his throat with a knife. A cultivator wouldn't die easily from having their throat slit, but this knife could actually destroy their spiritual roots.
If one's spiritual root is destroyed, one becomes a useless person.
Si Yao quickly dealt with them; the group soon lost their breath.
"You killed them?" the person next to him asked in horror.
"I've already said, you provide the money, I'll provide the goods. If you want to rob me, I won't be polite." Si Yao's gaze swept over the crowd. "Stop talking nonsense. Anyone else want to rob me? Come at me all at once, so I can take care of you all at once."
Those people looked at each other in dismay. They had witnessed Si Yao's skills; she had easily dealt with those cultivators without using any spiritual energy. This was something that ordinary people could not do, so how could they dare to provoke Si Yao?
"Fellow Daoist, we paid money properly, you can't kill us."
Si Yao said, "Of course, I will reason with those who are willing to reason, but I will not be polite to those who are not reasonable."
I ignored them and left with my things.
In just a short while, she had almost sold out of the rabbit meat. She needed to catch some more, as well as other beasts. As long as the meat was edible, soaking it in the spiritual spring water would make it just as good.
Feeling a little embarrassed to spend her senior's money, Si Yao gave half of it to Xiang Bei.
"Didn't you already give me those jewels? You don't need to share them with me anymore; you can keep them for yourself."
“How can that be the same? Those things were found by Senior and me together, so Senior should have a share. This is to repay the silver Senior gave me before.”
Si Yao's clear distinctions made Xiang Bei feel a little embarrassed.
"Senior, please accept this."
Seeing that she said that, Xiang Bei didn't refuse anymore and accepted it.
Si Yao wandered around the secret realm, catching those rabbit-like beasts and also digging up a lot of spiritual herbs. Apart from the dragon egg, her harvest this time was quite substantial.
While catching the rabbit-like beast, Si Yao also encountered a very large python. Catching them alive was quite a challenge. After eating the Vermilion Bird Fruit, Si Yao naturally learned a set of boxing techniques.
When he threw his fist, he activated the fire elemental root within his body, and the wind from his fist carried an unstoppable flame. With one punch, he knocked the python beast unconscious.
Si Yao watched in disbelief as the flames around her slowly disappeared. The move seemed etched into her very being; she had learned it effortlessly. After beating the python half to death, she bound it tightly and tossed it into her storage bag, locking it up with the rabbit-like beasts.
The meat of this python is definitely edible. One python is equivalent to dozens of rabbits, so the taste will surely be good. After she leaves this secret realm, she can earn more silver.
Si Yao happily shared her plan with Xiang Bei, "With these, I can both earn money and improve my skills?"
Xiang Bei was a little confused, not understanding how selling barbecue could improve one's strength. Si Yao spoke up again, "Someone will definitely try to force me. It's perfectly reasonable for me to retaliate after they make the first move."
Seeing Si Yao's serious expression, Xiang Bei fell silent. This idea... was indeed quite good.
Whether it's overt or covert robbery, stealing is wrong, and there's no need to accept it or show mercy.
Si Yao also caught some fish. The fish were lively and jumping around. She put them separately in a bucket containing spiritual spring water. The fish immediately swam around and blew bubbles, looking very comfortable.
On the last day of the secret realm's end, Si Yao encountered Wen Yin and her group. They looked dejected, seemingly having gained nothing from the secret realm.
When Wen Yin looked up and saw her, she froze. She exclaimed, "It's you! It's actually you!"
It's Yao Si again. Nothing good ever comes of running into her. Especially with Yao Si, that strong premonition of encountering a treasure is back.
Wen Yin finally realized that it wasn't her senses that were malfunctioning; Yao Si had stolen her treasure.
"Give me back my treasure!" Wen Yin rushed straight to Si Yao.
She didn't know what the treasure was, but she knew that Yao Si must have hidden it on her person. It was her treasure, and why should Yao Si take it away?
This time, her premonition about the treasure was too strong; it must be something extraordinary, and she had to get it back.
Si Yao certainly wouldn't let Wen Yin search her body. Although she didn't know how Wen Yin knew she had taken the treasure, that wasn't a reason for Wen Yin to want the treasure.
She shoved Wen Yin, who was grabbing her sleeve, away, crossed her arms, and looked at her with a mocking expression. "If you're sick, go get treatment. Do you think I can just point at someone and say they've taken a treasure and then steal it? Shameless! The number one sect in the cultivation world, how did you raise such a shameless disciple?"
Judging from the dragon egg's appearance, it wouldn't hatch anytime soon. Si Yao wouldn't go around saying she had obtained such a treasure; it's completely different from selling roasted meat that can increase cultivation.
"Don't bully Junior Sister Wen Yin!" Liao Shuo stood in front of Wen Yin.
With the time to leave the secret realm fast approaching, any living cultivator, regardless of whether they had revealed their strength, would be ejected from the realm. Si Yao no longer held back. Seeing the group blocking Wen Yin's way, acting like protective senior brothers, Si Yao slapped them across the air.
"The Heavenly Sword Sect is supposed to be the number one sect in the cultivation world, so how come it keeps producing some mentally unstable disciples? I think you should just give up your position as the number one righteous sect to another sect, so you don't embarrass yourselves here."
"How dare you slander our Heavenly Sword Sect!" Li Huang drew his sword, looking like he was about to settle scores with Si Yao.
Si Yao scoffed, "It's clearly you disciples who have insulted the sect's reputation. How shameless! You even have the nerve to say I'm slandering you. I really want to show you in a mirror how ugly you are now, and see if you can live up to the identity of disciples of a great sect."
The disciples blushed at Si Yao's words, wanting to refute her but unable to win an argument. They wanted to fight but found they were no match for Si Yao, making them feel even more frustrated.
Wen Yin stood behind the crowd, feeling both angry and annoyed that they were only spouting useless words. It was too painful to watch the treasure slip away right in front of her.
But the female cultivator in front of her wouldn't admit that she had taken the treasure. Wen Yin stared at Si Yao for a moment, thinking about how to get the treasure. She couldn't rely on her senior brothers at all, so she had to find other ways.
Thinking this, Wen Yin covered her face and ran away crying. The disciples, ignoring Si Yao, hurriedly chased after her.
Si Yao watched as everyone ran away, feeling somewhat bewildered. She said a few words, but was it really necessary to cry like this?
Seeing that there was still time, Si Yao quickly dug up some herbs. Just as she was about to put the herbs into her spatial storage, she was ejected from the secret realm.
A large crowd had gathered outside, and Si Yao stood outside the secret chamber, clutching a handful of freshly dug herbs.
Before she could even see the faces of the people around her clearly, a group of people rushed over. The person at the front was the disciple who had bought her roasted meat in the secret realm.
As he rushed over, he shouted, "It's her! It's her! Sect Master, it was the roasted rabbit beast that ate her that allowed my cultivation to advance to the Golden Core stage!"
"Fairy, do you still sell your roasted meat? I'll take it all!"
"Fairy, don't listen to him. I'll pay double the price. I'll take as much of your roasted meat as you have. Fairy, you must sell me your roasted meat."
“Fellow Daoist, I am the sect leader of the Flying Shadow Sect. If you do not mind, you may become an elder in my sect. You will not need to exert any effort; my sect will treat you to good food and drink.”
There was a moment of silence, then the group spoke again, “Fairy, our sect is also short of an elder. Come to our sect! Our sect is beautiful and serene; you will surely be pleased to see it.”
"Don't listen to them, fellow Daoist, come to our Luoxia Sect, you can even be the sect leader."
Si Yao opened her mouth for a long time, but none of her few words were heard clearly before she was swallowed up by the crowd.
Si Yao looked up at the sky, just about to quiet them down, when she saw a blood-soaked person being ejected from the sky, gliding through the air in a beautiful arc.
She saw it; the person flying past was Wen Yin.
Before she landed, a figure flew over quickly and caught Wen Yin in his arms. The two of them fell in a swirling motion in mid-air.
Putting aside their identities, the visuals are still quite beautiful.
Even the group of cultivators who had been clamoring to buy Si Yao's roasted meat fell silent and stared straight at her.
"Yinyin".
Holding the weak and dying Wen Yin in his arms, Daoist Chongming's eyes immediately reddened, and he exuded a chilling aura.
Wen Yin's spiritual root was destroyed.
The system perched on Xiang Bei's shoulder and let out a strange cry, "Here it comes, here it comes! The plot where the female supporting character's spiritual root is destroyed and the male lead has to dig out the female lead's spiritual root for the female supporting character is here."
Xiang Bei thought the system was too noisy, so she abandoned it.
Outside the large screen, at the entrance to the secret realm, all that remains is the sound of the breeze rustling through the leaves.
With red eyes, Daoist Chongming questioned the disciples who had sprung out with Wen Yin, "Speak, who did this? Who injured her like this?"
Wen Yin looked like she could die at any moment, but she still held on and pointed at Si Yao, saying, "She stole my treasure. Master, you must stand up for me!"
Lord Chongming, holding Wen Yin, looked up in Si Yao's direction.
The people who had been surrounding Si Yao immediately dispersed, which made Si Yao stand out.
Seeing Chongming Daojun's seemingly irrational appearance, Si Yao knew something was wrong. Her master seemed to lose his mind when it came to Wen Yin; whatever Wen Yin said or did was right.
Si Yao had already experienced these things several times.
I had previously suspected it was related to the bracelet in Wen Yin's possession, but my senior told me that the bracelet could only replicate abilities and required her as a medium, so it had nothing to do with the brain.
Therefore, it was their own nature that her master and fellow disciples were so biased towards Wen Yin. This is also why Si Yao didn't expose Wen Yin in front of them; they might have known, but they were simply doing it willingly.
The moment their eyes met, Daoist Chongming didn't say a word. He raised his palm and slapped it towards Si Yao. The sharp palm wind directly affected the unrelated cultivators next to him.
Si Yao used her palm strike to push aside the cultivator beside her and took the blow from Daoist Chongming.
These Daoist Lords of Chongming didn't care whether innocent people were affected. They turned around, picked up Wen Yin with one hand, and charged towards Si Yao, hurling threats at her, "You little rogue cultivator, you have quite the nerve! You stole my disciple's treasure and even dared to destroy her spiritual root. Today, I will make sure you die without a burial place."
Si Yao sneered. This was her master, who was always fawned over. For his beloved little disciple, he didn't even care about the lives of cultivators. What a waste of his cultivation.
"Don't speak too soon. It's still uncertain who will die today."
Daoist Chongming flew into the air and released all his spiritual power at the late Nascent Soul stage. The pressure was so great that many disciples with weak spiritual power couldn't withstand it and coughed up blood.
In the past, Si Yao would have been suppressed and unable to move, but she was no longer the same. She no longer suppressed her power and released her late-stage Nascent Soul spiritual power to confront Daoist Chongming.
The spiritual energy she absorbed in the secret realm was still circulating in her body, so breaking through in one fell swoop would not be a problem, and suppressing Daoist Chongming would be a piece of cake.
Si Yao slowly rose into the air, and with a wave of her hand, she protected the disciples who were almost unable to breathe under the oppressive aura of Daoist Chongming.
"Daoist Chongming, you are at least at the Nascent Soul stage. You must be able to tell what injured your disciple. Do you deserve to be called Daoist by everyone for your unreasonable behavior?"
"So what? Yinyin said you did it, so it was you."
Si Yao laughed, "So the Chongming Daojun of the Heavenly Sword Sect is actually such a person who can't distinguish right from wrong. His disciple slanders others, and his master doesn't bother to find out the truth. You two are really a perfect match. I wonder if your Heavenly Sword Sect can accept this incestuous relationship between master and disciple."
"Shut up!" Daoist Chongming snapped.
"You dared to do it, but you didn't dare let me say it in public. I didn't expect you to be someone who dares to do something but doesn't dare to admit it."
With one arm around the unconscious Wen Yin, Daoist Chongming used the other to slap Si Yao.
Si Yao was just waiting for him to make a move, so she also slapped him.
Chongming Daojun wanted to hold Wen Yin to avoid it, but he didn't expect that the palm wind would keep chasing him. He could sense that this female cultivator's strength was above his, but he didn't expect that this female cultivator would have such ability.
Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, he could only grit his teeth and meet it head-on, thinking that he could at least withstand it, but he didn't expect to be sent flying by that palm strike.
At this moment, Daoist Chongming was still protecting Wen Yin in his arms, preventing her from suffering any harm from the palm strike.
It was this palm strike that made the rogue cultivator Yao Si famous.
That was Daoist Chongming! He was actually sent flying by a single palm strike and even coughed up blood. Some people think it's because Daoist Chongming was holding his disciple and couldn't free his hands.
"Impossible! Don't forget, Fairy Yao Si is also at the Nascent Soul stage. I think it's just that Daoist Chongming is not as strong as her." Someone spoke up for Si Yao.
"Judging from how Lord Mingdao protected his disciple just now, he might really have an ambiguous relationship with this disciple."
"I've heard of that. Do you know Fairy Siyao, the eldest disciple of Daoist Chongming? I heard she utterly despises this younger disciple and has attacked her several times, but Daoist Chongming has punished her each time. I used to think it was because Fairy Siyao was jealous and wouldn't allow her master to have another female disciple, but now it seems that perhaps Fairy Siyao knew about the illicit relationship between the master and disciple, which is why she tried so hard to stop it."
"That's right. In previous years, Fairy Si Yao always led the Heavenly Sword Sect's expedition. Why didn't we see her in this secret realm?"
"I know, I know. Fairy Siyao was punished by being sent to the Cliff of Repentance to face the wall. I heard it was because Daoist Chongming insisted on including his beloved little disciple in the team for training, and Fairy Siyao disagreed, so Daoist Chongming punished her by making her face the wall to reflect on her mistakes."
Everyone looked at Chongming Daojun, who had fallen to the ground and was coughing up blood, still tightly holding his little disciple. For a moment, they exchanged glances with each other.
Si Yao never expected that even after all this, she would hear gossip about herself.
In just one move, she transformed from a wicked fairy who was jealous of her fellow disciples into a disciple who painstakingly tried to prevent her master and junior sister from falling in love.
Her reputation has improved considerably, and Si Yao could only chuckle twice.
What happens to Chongming and Wenyin is none of her business, and she has no intention of getting involved.
While everyone was gossiping, they didn't forget to invite Si Yao to join their sect. Those who originally wanted to openly snatch her away gave up the idea after seeing Si Yao reveal her strength.
If the sect had a powerful cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, wouldn't they be able to challenge the Heavenly Sword Sect? In any case, inviting this female cultivator to the sect would bring more benefits than harm.
The other disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect naturally heard it too, but now that Daoist Chongming was injured and Wen Yin's spiritual root was destroyed, and she was still unconscious, they had to send her back for treatment as soon as possible.
After they left, the discussions grew even louder, and all sorts of rumors started circulating.
Si Yao was surrounded by a crowd of people who were very enthusiastic and offered her all sorts of conditions to come and take charge of the sect.
The identity of the rogue cultivator Yao Si was fake from the start. Si Yao squeezed out of the crowd and ran away without looking back.
"Where is Fairy Yao Si? Where did Fairy Yao go?"
The group finally realized that Si Yao was missing and began searching for her everywhere.
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