The burly brother calmed down and cooperated honestly, perhaps wanting her to release his sister. "I know how to use poisonous insects. I asked her to put one on you."
"But I discovered it in advance. The bug had already turned into ashes. How could you still find it?" After he said that he could use Gu, Li Yiru pinched his fingers together, and a vine appeared inexplicably in the air, wrapping around the girl.
"Let her go! I told you, don't touch her! She is just an ordinary person, look at her! She doesn't have any spiritual power at all." The young man was very anxious, his muscles bulged and he struggled to get up, but Li Yirou easily pushed him back to where he was.
Her cultivation was at least one level higher than his. A high-level cultivator could sense the cultivation of a low-level cultivator, but a low-level cultivator had no idea of the other's depth.
The low-level monks would misunderstand what the high-level monks showed, so they did not doubt anything else, but just realized that they could not beat this little girl.
"When a child Gu gets on the body, it leaves a unique scent. I have the mother Gu here, so I can sense it. Even if the child Gu dies, I can track it for another day without any problem."
The man quickly explained to her, his tone softened several times, "Please, let her go, she is just an ordinary..."
"Okay, stop talking. I'm afraid she's figured it out." The girl interrupted calmly. He really couldn't lie. He emphasized it over and over again, which only attracted the girl's attention.
But she was so perceptive that he tied her up after hearing just one sentence.
And the most tightly tied part was her hands. Her arms were also tied with vines several times. She put her hands behind her back and clasped them together, and she couldn't even bend a finger.
She was much smarter than her brother. "I won't do anything. I'll just ask you some questions. Just tell the truth." Li Yirou pressed the young man down and looked at the girl. "You know how to make Gu?"
The girl nodded and admitted, "Let him go. The combined strength of the two of us is not as good as yours." Seeing that Li Yirou was unmoved, she said, "At least don't let him get hurt so much."
Damn, what brother and sister, just coaxing people. Li Yirou cursed inwardly, and when she saw the man's profile, she was really moved to tears. I'm afraid he would be willing to die for her. The sister is really good at coaxing her brother.
Li Yirou didn't say anything, slightly loosened her grip, and looked at her seriously, waiting for her to speak.
The other party was stunned, as if someone saw through her heart and she didn't show that she cared that much, and pursed her lips awkwardly.
"I can make Gu, but making Gu and practicing are two different ways, and I'm not very good at it, so I look like an ordinary person." The girl said everything without her asking.
"We...we recently had a thief here. You look unfamiliar, and you don't look like you're here to pick ginkgo nuts. We thought you were the thief, so we wanted to test you. We didn't mean to do that. Please let him go."
Regardless of whether what she said was true or not, Li Yirou asked the question that concerned her, "How do I get rid of this poisonous insect?" She didn't want her whereabouts to be tracked by the "brother and sister" again.
The girl hurriedly explained, echoing what her brother had said, "My Gu-refining abilities are insufficient. I can't keep it alive for too long after it leaves me. It will dissipate tomorrow at the latest. We absolutely won't dare chase you again. I swear on my inner demon."
"You don't know how to cultivate, so will swearing a Heart Demon Oath work?" Li Yirou asked her doubtfully. The girl nodded seriously, "There are many ways to cultivate immortality, and refining Gu is one of them."
The man followed suit, "I also swear on my heart that what she just said is true."
Perhaps he didn't want to tell her how to remove the poison, perhaps because it involved someone else's secret cultivation method. Li Yirou stopped pestering her for the moment and released his wrist. "Why do others avoid you when they see you?"
Seeing that she had loosened her grip, the man quickly stood up and stood in front of the girl. He faced Li Yirou's calm gaze, but did not dare to refuse to answer.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that true strength did not require a fierce tone or expression; just being calm was enough to scare people.
"I'm really the manager here... I'll take 10% of the fruit from anyone who comes to pick it as tax." He added, "This was all my idea!"
This idiot, the girl pushed away his arm and explained the reason to Li Yirou, "No matter what, they are always fighting for it. Some people can never get in line, or their places are taken away by others after they come in.
The White Fruit Secret Realm opens every other day. I want everyone to have the opportunity to enter. Those who entered last time will have to wait in line this time. My brother has secured the position of steward from the mayor. We will collect taxes and maintain order."
"But I can't pick ginkgo nuts because I'm busy maintaining order, so I want to collect some."
"Queue up? Doesn't the door open randomly? I saw everyone rushing in as soon as the door appeared today." Li Yiru said that she had just arrived here, and this kind of ignorance could not be concealed.
"The gate is usually opened in the place closest to the crowds. I don't know who didn't line up properly today, so the accident happened." The girl frowned slightly, and seemed a little angry. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such chaos, allowing the thief to succeed again.
Li Yirou reacted and said in her heart: [So that's how it is. Sorry, that person might be me].
But he could only nod and asked something else, "How do I get to the capital city?"
The girl and her brother looked at each other, "You mean leaving the Western Realm?"
Li Yirou continued to nod, but in reality, she had no idea. Is this place called the Western Realm?
"Then you'll probably need to take a teleportation array." The girl looked at her and guessed that while her cultivation level was higher than theirs, it wasn't much higher. Her brother added, "It's very expensive."
"How expensive is it?" Li Yirou looked at her brother. He held up a finger. Li Yirou thought to herself, could it be a medium-grade spirit stone? She happened to have over a hundred low-grade ones...
"One, top-grade spirit stone." The moment he finished speaking, Li Yiru's world collapsed.
One high-grade spirit stone, one high-grade spirit stone! That would be 100 medium-grade and 10,000 low-grade spirit stones. She would have to save them for several lifetimes! The Western Realm doesn't sound big enough. Will she be able to escape Han Yuzhen's pursuit?
But she didn't show it on her face, which surprised both of them. She didn't even blink when she heard about the high-grade spirit stone, which made them think she was no ordinary person.
"What kind of cultivation level allows one to travel through the Hundred Thousand Mountains?" Li Yirou asked again. The girl thought for a moment and said, "Golden Core?"
"It is said that Jindan cultivators can fly at extremely fast speeds using flying magic tools. Even if they encounter very powerful monsters, they cannot catch up." When she mentioned traveling, the girl thought, there must be no danger.
"If your cultivation isn't strong enough, you'd better not go alone, or you'll die on the road. It's said that even for a Foundation Establishment cultivator going in alone, it's not absolutely safe."
The girl's tone was full of advice, and the meaning was clear: with her level of cultivation, she shouldn't go in and die.
Li Yirou thought of Master Minjing. When she left the sect, she was also at the Foundation Establishment stage. This girl should not be lying.
The girl noticed her ignorance of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, but she also thought her cultivation seemed decent, probably at the second or third level of Qi Refining. Was she some naive girl who had run away from home and accidentally arrived in the Western Realm?
For example, there is some kind of talisman that can move thousands of miles. The girl wondered if she used something similar to get here.
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