Chapter 2: Penglai Immortal Sect, only in and out
The moment he stepped on it, a vein appeared on Ruan Ruanzhi's neck.
His body had truly reached its limit. Ruan Hongzhi had been present the day his father died. Before his death, his father had called out his and his sister's names. His uncles, grinning, chased him, their warriors falling one after another in battle behind him.
Ruan Ruanzhi led the poisoned and unconscious Ruan Wei and hid all the way from the Ruan family to Penglai.
After a long journey, he was exhausted.
Ruan Ruanzhi was conscious, but his hands and feet were trembling.
He was fifteen years old, and at the age of thirteen he had already established his foundation and became famous throughout the world. He was the unique son of the Ruan family.
Weiwei was four years younger than him, but she had already reached the great perfection of Qi training before being poisoned. She was a genius who deserved to be born even more than himself, and she should not have died in the cannibalistic power struggle of the Ruan family.
Ruan Ruanzhi climbed up step after step, the forbidden spiritual energy blocked in his body and rushed around. Ruan Wei's originally light body on his back became heavier.
While catching his breath, Ruan Ruanzhi looked up. Among the vast white clouds, a white jade ladder that blended with the clouds went straight into the sky. There was no end in sight, which made people feel despair.
He forced himself not to think about it and gritted his teeth to continue climbing.
Suddenly, he heard a familiar uncle's voice behind him, "Ruan Ruozhi, surrender quickly! Hand over Ruan Wei quickly, she is a natural spirit!"
Ruan Ruanzhi immediately broke out in a cold sweat, then regained some strength and almost ran at a brisk pace, "Don't even think about it."
The sound was like thunder. The people who were climbing the ladder with him suddenly looked at Ruan Ruanzhi. Seeing that he suddenly stood still with his eyes blank, they knew that he was trapped in an illusion.
A figure stood leaning on a sword amidst the clouds. Feng Wuya stroked his beardless chin and sighed, "Sigh, I wonder if this Ruan family Qilin son can still reach the cloud ladder before the mountain gate closes."
Seeing Ruan Ruanzhi's eyebrows getting closer, Feng Wuya was ready to rescue him.
The girl suddenly turned over and the rope fell to the ground. She grabbed the staggering Ruan Ruanzhi.
"elder brother."
With a slight sound, Ruan Ruanzhi, who was in a nightmare, suddenly woke up.
Ruan Ruanzhi slowly rolled his eyes, "Wei...Wei?"
"Yeah," Ruan Wei supported him and continued to climb up. At the end, she added, "I'm here."
The people on the ladder were already shocked. Running on a ladder was something not everyone could do. Besides the spiritual energy being sealed off, the weight of the ladder was three times that of a person's body. Every time they climbed a step, they broke out in sweat.
Especially Ruan Wei, a little girl who was not even as tall as an adult's waist. From the bottom of the mountain, she looked like she was breathing in more than she was breathing out.
Although she was so young, she still looked as gorgeous as the blooming flowers in the mountains. Standing with her brother, both of them seemed much more outstanding than others.
Ruan Wei felt the lightness of his body and couldn't help but recall the memory he had just received.
Just now, when she was drowsy, the original owner's memory completely flashed through her mind, frame by frame, and everything was remembered.
The original owner was a natural spirit, a surviving child among natural spirits. Her mother passed away while giving birth to Ruan Wei, and her spiritual energy poured into the tiny baby's spiritual roots.
Natural spiritual bodies will involuntarily absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth when they exhale.
The Cloud Climbing Ladder only sealed a person's cultivation, but it was ultimately a spiritual artifact, ultimately relying on spiritual energy to function. As long as spiritual energy existed, Ruan Wei's innate spiritual body could not be sealed, and therefore, she was not restricted by the Cloud Climbing Ladder.
Feng Wuya stood with his hands behind his back, and his spiritual sense swept over Ruan Wei. It turned out that Ruan Wei was a natural spiritual body, no wonder.
Ruan Wei lowered her eyelashes, her lips were as pale as smoke, and her whole body was bathed in the rustling sunlight. She was as white as jade, like a fairy child who was about to enter the fairyland, floating like a person here.
This is not right, it's too complete.
The system noticed her thoughts in due time:
【Look back.】
Ruan Wei then suppressed her thoughts and looked carefully at her adopted brother beside her.
Unlike the brother in her memory, the brother in front of her no longer wore a brocade robe with gold and silver threads, a hair crown inlaid with pearls and jade, or an enamel chain in his pocket that she could take out at any time for her to play with.
But his face was full of concern, just as good as he remembered.
"I've lost a lot of weight."
Ruan Wei murmured, clutching her brother's sleeves and almost crumpling them into a mess.
When Ruan Ruanzhi heard her say this, he felt comforted, but also unexpectedly a little uncomfortable.
Ruan Wei noticed this because she had suffered, and only children who have suffered will suddenly become sensible.
"You'll look better in wide sleeves when you're thinner," Ruan Ruanzhi refused to let her help him and stood up again. "Don't worry, brother still has a new robe in the mustard seed bag, but he hasn't worn it yet."
Ruan Wei was startled and raised her eyebrows, "I like my brother to wear narrow sleeves."
"Brother, narrow sleeves look good too."
Ruan Ruanzhi nodded in agreement, "Then wear narrow sleeves. How about poison?"
"It's still there," Ruan Wei turned her wrist, and a circle of black marks appeared on her wrist, vivid and lifelike, as if a spirit snake was dancing on her wrist.
"Climb up, Weiwei. Once you climb up, you will be saved."
Ruan Ruanzhi felt bitter when she saw her sister's nonchalant look.
If she had not been born in the Ruan family, she would not have to endure this.
Ruan Wei knew what he was thinking, but there was no need for them to talk much.
The surroundings were quiet. Two small figures leaning against each other on the solemn white jade stairs were slowly moving up the mountain.
The brother and sister supported each other and climbed up the unreachable ladder step by step.
Feng Wuya stopped looking and asserted that the two men were already able to go up the mountain.
They didn't know how long they had been climbing, and the scenery on the mountain changed again and again. After Ruan Ruanzhi stepped into the illusion for the third time and broke free, Ruan Wei carried him on his back, exhausted, and walked step by step towards the mountain gate that was visible to the naked eye, above the clouds.
"Welcome, my friend. I am here to see you."
A gray-robed monk approached the two. Ruan Wei raised her eyelashes, seeing how peaceful he was. There was no one else around the mountain gate. Ruan Wei asked, "Hello, Master! May I ask, are we the first to see you?"
Chao Jian smiled and nodded, then flicked his whisk, and the ladder suddenly flashed with light. The people still climbing on the ladder were in a panic, "What's going on?!"
Ruan Wei supported Ruan Ruanzhi and looked back. The cloud ladder that had just soared into the clouds had now turned into the size of a fist. It flew towards the three of them like a stream of light and flew into the wide sleeves of Chao Jian's Taoist robe.
The people on the ladder were also swept up by a white light, and in the blink of an eye they were all sent to the fishing village at the foot of the mountain.
"The mountain gate is closed?"
"Who was it? Who finally climbed up to the Penglai Immortal Sect?"
"I saw it! It was the Ruan family's Qilinzi and his sister! I was only a few dozen steps away! Only these two were ahead of me."
"Wow, now that the Ruan family knows where the person is, there's nothing they can do."
On the mountain, Ruan Wei looked at the mountain gate that didn't even have a single staircase built around it, and the words on his lips turned, "Master, there are no stairs going down the mountain?"
Chao Jian was leading the two of them to the mountain gate. He smiled slightly when he heard this, shook his head, and replied gently, "Since you two have come to Penglai, you should know that Penglai is closed to the world."
As if worried that they didn't understand enough, he added, "Penglai Immortal Sect, only allows entry, not exit."
Ruan Hongzhi had recovered his spiritual power by this time, and his expression seemed much more relaxed. "We weren't the first two to start climbing the mountain, so why did we end up here first?"
Just as Chao Jian was about to answer, a young man rushed out from the mountain gate. He was wearing a black brocade robe with clouds, and his hair was decorated with jingling jade ornaments. He looked extremely indifferent, like a mountain man seen from beyond the clouds.
“Because they are destined not to be able to climb the mountain.”
The boy replied.
He saluted again, "Second Uncle Master."
Ruan Wei looked at him, and the voice in her mind rang out.
[This is your senior brother Xiao Xuantong.]
Senior brother, you really have a paralyzed face.
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