"Come here, my good grand-disciple, let your grandmaster see how your cultivation level has improved." Su Wang was clearly more unfamiliar with the original owner's disciple than he had ever met him, and he didn't even know his name. Now was the perfect time to see his grand-disciple's level.
Su Wang pulled the boy, who looked to be around nineteen years old, away from Jiang Ying and grabbed his wrist.
"Ahem, Qi Mu is already in the late Foundation Establishment stage, Master."
To cover up her incompetence, Yu Ling scanned Su Wang with her divine sense before he could speak and answered first.
The disciple the sect leader sent is indeed talented. At such a young age, he has already reached the Foundation Establishment stage. However, forming the Core stage will be a major hurdle for him. Many cultivators are stuck there for decades. It is unknown how long this new generation disciple will be able to break through.
...But this is still too embarrassing!
Although the original owner was indeed a genius, at the late stage of the Golden Core realm at the age of one hundred, he was about to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, almost on par with the world's protagonist Chu Fan, and their strength was comparable (only after Yu Ling transmigrated could she use her advanced swordsmanship to overpower Chu Fan).
But the original owner's Golden Core realm had been stuck for too long. Look, even his disciple was almost catching up. Yu Ling thought that she still had to find a way to start cultivating again and raise her realm.
"Qi Mu? Foundation Establishment is already considered a leader among the disciples. Hmm, not bad, not bad. He hasn't disgraced your grandmaster." Su Wang grinned.
Goodness, this grand-disciple is quite a promising talent. They must be ranked number one in average strength at Xuefeng, uh, although there are only three of them in total.
He smiled broadly and put his arm around Yu Ling's shoulder, saying...
"This time, the two of us, master and disciple, will go to the mortal world together for a trial. You must remember one thing: always staying in the sect behind closed doors is absolutely not advisable!"
Yu Ling: Come on, you just want to go out and have fun, don't you? What excuse are you making? Pfft, did I delay my transformation when I was a tree by working in seclusion?
In other words, Su Wang was his master in terms of seniority; otherwise, he wouldn't even think about casually embracing a sword cultivator with a heartless persona!
Two pairs of strangers, master and disciple, were forcibly brought together, but it was clear that only Su Wang was creating atmosphere. Yu Ling's icy face and his disciple Qi Mu's world-weary, arrogant face both clearly indicated that they didn't want to go out.
At this moment, the system, whose intelligence was somewhat lacking, was already confused by Su Wang's words. A little bewildered, it belatedly asked:
[Huh? Two masters and two disciples, isn't that four people? But there are only three of you, host!]
Oh, right, and Jiang Ying too!
...But he's neither the apprentice nor the master of any of you, is he?
"Alright, if you're stupid, shut up. Have you never learned arithmetic?" Yu Ling thought to herself, already annoyed that her seclusion plan had been interrupted.
[The system doesn't need to learn arithmetic, host. It's a super calculator by itself!]
The system is just not very suitable for logical reasoning; it can produce results instantly with ordinary addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or mathematical operators, and its hacking skills are self-taught.
However... Yu Ling doesn't need these skills anyway.
Before setting off, at Su Wang's insistence, the group was forced to change into ordinary clothes made of brocade and silk, in an attempt to conceal their identities as cultivators.
Yu Ling cooperated well; it wasn't the first time he'd pretended to be an ordinary person. His cheap apprentice, Qi Mu, didn't mind either, which Su Wang took as tacit agreement. Or rather, after entering, he didn't say a word except for bowing to Yu Ling and Su Wang.
Jiang Ying, who seemed the easiest to talk to among the three, was actually a little unhappy.
Why doesn't this powerful Nascent Soul cultivator have a single piece of his favorite pink clothing in his storage ring? If all else fails, he could accept purple!
Su Wang thought that as a man with normal tastes, it would be normal not to buy clothes in those two colors, right? He reluctantly used the excuse of going to the mortal world to buy him new clothes, and successfully coaxed him into changing his clothes.
At this moment, seeing that this person seemed to have the potential to change their appearance, Yu Ling also gave them a powerful makeup removal (cleansing technique plus), while coldly saying:
"This outfit doesn't match your makeup."
Yu Ling's cleaning spell was so fast that Jiang Ying didn't even have time to react before she was completely transformed.
"Well... alright then, I'll listen to my senior brother, hmph~~~"
Now Jiang Ying's appearance is finally acceptable, but she still can't shake off her effeminate mannerisms and tone of voice.
Yu Ling:........Help! My ears!!!
Perhaps everyone has become so used to Jiang Ying's presence that only Yu Ling is actually suffering.
After they finished chatting (actually only Su Wang was talking), they ran off with Jiang Ying, who had come along for free. Surprisingly, not one of them even suggested saying hello to the sect leader. They left so casually and decisively, clearly showing that they didn't care about the rules.
...In short, Su Wang didn't even stay at the sect for a single day before he slipped away again.
The sect leader, still completely unaware of this, thought: "In the end, it seems my Ten Thousand Swords Sect can't keep you here?"
Led by Su Wang, the group embarked on the road to the mortal realm. Everyone in the Myriad Swords Sect was a half-sword cultivator, and sword cultivators who had formed their cores could fly by controlling their swords after learning sword control techniques. Of course, other cultivators also had spells that allowed them to take to the air.
Su Wang, along with his Foundation Establishment stage disciple, Yu Ling, and Jiang Ying, rode their flying swords to the vicinity of the teleportation array leading to the mortal realm.
This time, their target is Tianwu City, the most chaotic city in the mortal realm.
As for why he chose this particular place, Su Wang's reason was that going to a quiet and peaceful retirement place was just like staying in a different place.
Once inside the city, aside from minor spells like traveling and cleaning, the use of any offensive spells is strictly prohibited in all mortal realms. Only in occasional situations requiring combat, such as attacks by monsters, can one temporarily apply for permission to cooperate with the mortal government in using extraordinary means.
In general, it's extremely complicated, which is why cultivators are unwilling to come to the mortal world. Only Su Wang, this oddball, finds all sorts of excuses to come here and have fun.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, such as people chasing after him wanting to become his disciples, pretending to be an ordinary person is Su Wang's consistent practice.
Therefore, he also required Yu Ling and the other two to act as normally as possible and not give themselves away.
Everyone agreed readily, and whether they could actually do it or not is another matter, but their attitude was very good.
Tianwu City truly lived up to its reputation as a chaotic city. Less than an hour after the four of them entered the city, they encountered a series of bizarre incidents, including rip-offs by shady shops, bullying of men and women, robberies, and double-crosses.
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