"Brother Luo, do you also have a gold spiritual root?" Li Yirou heard that Ji Shiyan's master had a gold spiritual root, but he said, "No, it's a water spiritual root."
"Water spiritual roots?" Li Yirou didn't understand. Wouldn't a master usually accept a disciple with similar spiritual roots as himself?
"Well, but Senior Brother... he has a talent for divination, so according to Master, he insisted on taking him in as a disciple. When there were problems in cultivation that couldn't be solved, he would take Senior Brother to find other elders with water spiritual roots..."
Isn't this misleading the young people? Li Yiru felt that Ji Shiyan would be unhappy to hear this, so she didn't dare to say it out loud.
But Ji Shiyan probably understood what she meant, "It's a bit of a delay, Senior Brother, but Senior Brother is also willing."
"Can the disciple still make a choice?" Li Yirou always thought that it was the master who chose the disciple.
Ji Shiyan hummed uncomfortably, and Li Yiru finally realized that perhaps only cultivators like her who seemed to have useless spiritual roots had no choice.
It was different for cultivators with only one spiritual root, especially those with 9th-grade spiritual roots like them...
"You don't have to explain it clearly. I understand. It's another question of qualifications." Li Yirou looked at the small village in the distance that gradually disappeared from her sight. She still couldn't figure out who did it.
"Speaking of aptitude, how did you manage to cultivate for four years to build your foundation?" Ji Shiyan sighed. "Oh yes, there are still a few years left in the secret realm, but it's only six years! Who are you? Are you a fairy who has descended to earth?"
Li Yirou was amused by his serious look, "Which fairy is so unlucky?"
She suddenly thought of the original owner's father, "Have you ever heard of a powerful cultivator named Li Xun?"
Could it be that after returning, he discovered that someone had been mistreating his daughter, and so he flew into a rage and killed everyone? But why did he not even spare Xifeng, and even hated her more deeply?
Ji Shiyan boarded the spiritual boat with her, recalled the past, and finally shook his head, "No. Moreover, many cultivators will give themselves a Taoist name after practicing. Their secular names become less and less used, and eventually they are even forgotten by others."
"For example, your master, others only respectfully call her ancestor Tiancun, and we don't even know what her previous name was." Upon hearing this, Li Yirou remembered that Zhenren Minjing was also the same, and only said her Taoist name.
She couldn't think of any other person who might punish Linxian Village. In this village, apart from her in the past and Xifeng later, everyone else seemed to be living a good life.
"If they are demons, why do they attack mortals?" Li Yiru's mind jumped around, and she asked Ji Shiyan whatever she remembered. He had to explain it again, and now she returned to the main point.
"The demon race needs a mixture of spiritual energy and foul energy to cultivate. I just guessed that maybe they deliberately came to the mortal world to cultivate and happened to massacre a village.
Besides, immortal cultivators don't want to casually kill mortals and incur karma. Monsters lack intelligence and won't deliberately come to a place with thin spiritual energy to kill people."
Li Yirou thought about it and disagreed. "The bodies of the villagers in Linxian Village are intact. If they were demons, I think they would tear apart and torture human bodies, not burn them clean like this."
"That makes sense." Ji Shiyan remembered that the demon tribe's behavior was indeed as Li Yiru said, and this killing became a mystery for the time being.
"Let's just pretend we've never been here." Ji Shiyan had actually been thinking in his mind whether or not to report it to the Immortal Alliance. But after thinking about it carefully, he realized that apart from treating Li Yiru harshly, the people in this village did not have any grudges with other cultivators.
Directly telling the Immortal Alliance that someone was slaughtering mortals, and Li Yiru's arrival at this time, might cause her trouble for no reason, and might even expose her identity. She was not ready yet and had to explain it clearly to her master.
It would be better if someone else discovered it and reported it, so they wouldn't be implicated.
Li Yirou was worried about this. After thinking about it, she agreed, "Okay." But Xifeng...
When the Immortal Alliance finds out in the future, we will investigate who did it and then seek justice for Xifeng.
"You and her..." Ji Shiyan said half a sentence and stopped talking.
Li Yiru guessed why. It was probably because she saw her good friend die but didn't feel sad at all.
She smiled and said, "We were indeed friends from the past, but after I started practicing, I felt that our relationship was becoming increasingly distant. Sometimes, I even felt cold in my heart."
Ji Shiyan looked back at her, "You are not a cold-hearted person. You are not like this to me, to Xiaomao, or even to your master."
Li Yirou thought about it and realized that it was true. "You, Taxue, and Duobao are indeed different to me. But other people..."
There are also the spiritual creatures Jingfan and Cangyi that Ji Shiyan doesn't know about. She doesn't want to tell anyone about their existence, and doesn't want to betray this trust.
She didn’t continue, saying, “It was the first time I shared my secrets with someone. Sometimes I feel like I just look like a nice person.”
"No, Yirou, there's a saying in the mortal world that goes, 'If you're poor, you should just take care of yourself.' Perhaps we haven't reached that level yet." Ji Shiyan didn't want her to say that about him. "There are very few people I care about, and I usually focus on cultivation. My friends are mostly those in the Qi Refining Stage."
Li Yirou felt the same way. Perhaps she had more time and richer emotions back then.
"Ayan, tell me, why were the bodies of Xifeng and others blown away by the wind, but not the others?" Li Yiruo kept seeing that scene in her mind, and she always felt it was unusual.
"I'm also thinking, maybe that's where the fire started, and it burned longer?"
After he finished speaking, Li Yirou fell into deep thought. Xifeng's house was the starting point of the fire, why...
After thinking of many possibilities and finding none of them reliable, they started talking about other things.
After arriving at the Western Realm, Li Yiru and Ji Shiyan missed the opening time of the teleportation array again, so they had to return to her residence and spend time together day and night, as if they were back in the days of the Thousand Sword Sect.
However, in order to improve their cultivation as quickly as possible, the two of them almost always practiced while sitting opposite each other.
It was very pleasant to step on the snow, and they took turns to rest between their legs.
When practicing together, Ji Shiyan's gold-attributed spiritual energy suppressed the wood-attributed spiritual energy, but it also made her spiritual energy more active. The five elements can not only utilize the principle of mutual generation, but also the principle of mutual restraint can promote the enhancement of spiritual power.
When Li Yiru returned to the sect, many questions had accumulated. She saw the wind chimes shaking in the ancestral courtyard, indicating that someone was inside.
She sorted herself out and went to ask the ancestor questions about cultivation.
The old man was flipping through a booklet. When he saw her come in, he asked her to wait for a moment.
There were more than 10 copies of the same booklet piled up around the old ancestor. Li Yiru felt that her master was really busy. It was said that she spent a lot of time on handling the affairs of the Immortal Alliance on weekdays.
Even so, she was still able to balance her training. Now she had two more disciples, which made her even busier.
After answering the question, the ancestor started chatting with her.
"Did your friend take it?" The old ancestor still cared a lot about friendship.
Li Yirou nodded, "Yes, she wanted to learn swordsmanship, so I recommended her to Qingyun City."
After listening to her, the old ancestor asked her with a smile, "Why didn't you go to Qingyun City? That kid from the Ji family must have wanted you to go there, right?"
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