"Jingyu, I can't get to Xiaoyao Peak without your clothes," Liu Jingyun replied with a grin. Liu Jingyun was older than Liu Jingyu, but Liu Jingyu had been smart since childhood. Furthermore, Liu Jingyun's spiritual roots weren't as strong as Liu Jingyu's. When Liu Jingyun entered the Yushan Sect, he relied on Liu Jingyu's support to become an inner sect disciple.
As we all know, the spiritual roots of cultivators are divided into five elements: earth, wood, fire, water, and gold. The purity of the spiritual roots also matters. A cultivator with a single spiritual root of high purity is a genius and absorbs spiritual energy the fastest. A cultivator with a single spiritual root of only about 60% purity cannot cultivate as fast as a cultivator with two spiritual roots of 90% purity.
Liu Jingyu possesses a single earth-element spiritual root, but its purity is only 65 percent. Liu Jingyun, on the other hand, possesses both earth and wood spiritual roots, but luckily, he accidentally ate a spiritual cleansing herb during a training session, which cleansed his spiritual roots to over 90 percent purity. Therefore, in recent years, despite Liu Jingyu having access to far more resources for cultivation than Liu Jingyun, Liu Jingyun's cultivation speed has actually been several points faster than Liu Jingyu's.
However, becoming a direct disciple wasn't easy. The Yushan Sect had five peaks, and each peak master only had three quotas for direct disciples.
Xiaoyao Peak is where the Jade Mountain Sect's head, Taoist Lingyun, conducts his affairs, and it's also a crucial area for the sect. Aside from cultivators at the level of direct disciples, no other disciples are allowed to enter Xiaoyao Peak without the Sect Leader's summons. Even if they reach the foot of the mountain, they will be driven away by disciples from the Law Enforcement Hall.
"Master, this guy is the one who kidnapped Wen Ziqing. Do you want Zhuzhu to knock them both out?" Chaos Pearl immediately became excited upon seeing Liu Jingyun. In Chaos Pearl's "Time Travel," it was this Liu Jingyun who, disguised as "Wang Xuyang," kidnapped Wen Ziqing and Li Hongmei. The sight of Liu Jingyun made Chaos Pearl's hands itch, wanting to give him a beating.
Wasting the master's time for cultivation meant delaying it and Boss Xiaoyu from replenishing their energy. The Chaos Pearl also blamed Liu Jingyun for this.
Zhou Yuanyuan also recognized Liu Jingyun. No wonder she felt Liu Jingyu looked familiar when she first met him. Now, seeing the two brothers standing together, they both had the same baby face, and even their eyes were the same crescent moon when they smiled.
"Zhuzhu, wait a minute." Zhou Yuanyuan felt quite lucky, having encountered the culprit shortly after entering the secret realm. However, Zhou Yuanyuan did not agree with Chaos Pearl's violent retaliation. Now that Liu Jingyu and his brother had been knocked unconscious, could they still find Wen Ziqing's whereabouts? The Chaos Pearl had an invisibility function, and Zhou Yuanyuan might be able to hear some useful information if she hid nearby. Looking at Liu Jingyun's furtive look, something was definitely up.
"Okay!" Zhou Yuanyuan spoke, and Chaos Pearl dared not disobey.
"Jingyu, look what this is?" Liu Jingyun took out a small jade bottle from his arms and showed it to Liu Jingyun.
"Xiaoyu, is this our little jade bottle?" Zhou Yuanyuan exclaimed in the trial world. She was all too familiar with the little jade bottle in Liu Jingyun's hand. The night Wen Ziqing left for the front lines, Zhou Yuanyuan had given him a Miasma-Breaking Pill, which was contained in a jade bottle just like this one.
Could it be that this guy stole Brother Ziqing's medicine? When Zhou Yuanyuan thought of this possibility, she was filled with anger.
"Pill?" Liu Jingyu took the jade bottle from Liu Jingyun, pulled out the cork, and a brown pill the size of a mung bean fell out from it.
"Xiaoyu, is this the Miasma-Breaking Pill? Why has it shrunk so much?" Zhou Yuanyuan saw the "Miasma-Breaking Pill" in Liu Jingyu's hand and felt her brain was a little off. She remembered that the Miasma-Breaking Pill she gave to Wen Ziqing was the size of a longan!
"Jingyu, this is what I found on that kid. It can repel poisonous creatures from the forest outside the Secret Realm. It was originally much larger than this, but it's a shame that kid wasted it." Liu Jingyun was still a little angry when he talked about this. Such a good pill, even Master Baopu might not be able to refine it, and yet that kid used so much of it on Li Hongmei. Liu Jingyun was really a little unwilling to accept it.
In reality, the remaining Poxia Pills were much larger than this. Liu Jingyun was afraid that Liu Jingyu would take them all away if he took them out, so he "cut" this amount off the remaining half of the pill to ask Liu Jingyu for help in estimating the value of the pill. There was no other way; cultivation was too expensive. Liu Jingyun decided that since he was recently broke, he really wanted to trade the pills for some spirit beads to spend.
"I don't know what kind of pill it is. Let me show it to my master first." Sure enough, Liu Jingyu stuffed the jade bottle and pill in his hand into the brocade bag on his waist without saying a word.
"Jingyu, that kid has elixirs on him. Could he be a disciple of some sect? If Master catches him, he won't get into trouble, right?" Liu Jingyun looked at the small brocade bag hanging on his brother's waist with reluctance before asking his doubts.
Liu Jingyun had captured the man. If there really was a master behind Wen Ziqing, they would definitely track him down to the Yushan Sect. Liu Jingyun was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that his uncle would take the blame, which would be a terrible injustice to him.
In the world of cultivation, such things are not uncommon. Back then, the Maoshan Sect captured a disciple of their Yushan Sect. Taoist Baopu chased after him, killed the ignorant disciple, and even demanded a large sum of compensation from the sect leader.
"No, that kid doesn't have any spiritual power, how could he be a disciple of another sect? Okay, I have things to do. If you have anything to do, don't come to Xiaoyao Peak to find me. Just ask the servant to run errands or pass on the message." Seeing that Liu Jingyun came to Xiaoyao Peak for such a "small matter", Liu Jingyu felt that he was too panicked and couldn't help but teach him a lesson.
"Okay, I'm leaving then." Liu Jingyun felt a little confused when he heard Liu Jingyu say this. Because of the pill issue, Liu Jingyun had been having nightmares for the past two days, and even his cultivation had been difficult. That's why he came to his brother for advice.
Liu Jingyu waved his hand, signaling Liu Jingyun to leave quickly. An inner disciple wandering around Xiaoyao Peak wearing the clothes of a direct disciple would be in trouble if he was caught by the law enforcement team.
"Master, what should we do? Should we follow this Liu Jingyu? Or should we follow that Liu Jingyun?" Chaos Pearl felt a little dizzy. Liu Jingyun was the murderer who kidnapped Wen Ziqing. Logically, they should capture Liu Jingyun and force him to reveal Wen Ziqing's whereabouts.
"Zhuzhu, continue to follow Liu Jingyu. I have placed a trace of spiritual consciousness on Liu Jingyun. As long as there is news about Brother Ziqing, I will know it." Zhou Yuanyuan made a decisive choice.
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