Chapter 244 The Ruthless Senior Brother of the Path ...
Xuan Ling, who was standing on the hilltop enjoying the breeze and pretending to be aloof, naturally noticed the aura of someone breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. His eyes flickered, but he didn't immediately go over.
He didn't need to check on this matter; the sect leader would send a message soon. It was just a newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivator; why should he care too much? After all, once he got his hands on the Wind Ice Crystal Snow Lotus, he would soon reach an even higher realm.
Although he thought this in his heart, Xuan Ling's originally indifferent and aloof demeanor eventually showed a slight flaw, and his eyes involuntarily looked towards the Seventh Elder's mountain.
Meanwhile, on this mountaintop, the sect leader, after hearing Heng Mo's words, was greatly shocked and said, "You mean, first your master ate the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus and went into seclusion to recuperate, and then your second senior uncle came to visit your master, suddenly had an epiphany while gazing at the distant scenery, and went to the secret chamber next door to break through to seclusion?"
Then, when your third senior uncle arrived, he learned that your master had eaten the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus. He laughed heartily three times, and after resolving his inner conflict, he also went into seclusion in another secret room to prepare for a breakthrough.
Finally, your fourth senior uncle came over and chatted with you so happily that even though the secret chamber was gone, he still wanted to join in the fun and squeeze into this random spot to break through his limitations.
If the sect leader hadn't sensed that his four junior brothers were all perfectly fine in the secret chamber, he would have almost thought something strange had happened to them to make a junior come up with such an outrageous lie.
But if it's outrageous, then the second junior brother's breakthrough is not fake either!
Seeing that the sect leader hadn't come to his senses for a while, Heng Mo thoughtfully explained, "Perhaps it's because the three senior uncles are too happy to know that Master's old injuries have healed?"
The sect leader looked at Heng Mo with a troubled expression, saying, "You're making it sound like my failure to break through means I don't have a good relationship with my junior brother!"
But who has such a good relationship that they can directly break through to the Nascent Soul stage? It's not like they're going through a love tribulation! What a load of bull!!
"Even if they really have a very good relationship, shouldn't they wait until your master finishes healing, and it's confirmed that he's truly cured and there are no aftereffects, before getting excited about... breaking through?"
The sect leader struggled to control his somewhat distorted facial expression, eventually managing only a forced, insincere smile.
Heng Mo seemed not to understand, nodding with a blank look in his eyes: "What Senior Uncle said makes sense. Then how do you explain this?"
He knew, of course, that it was too early to give his three senior uncles the Breakthrough Pill, and that it was even more far-fetched to involve his own master, but he was in a hurry.
Even his second senior uncle wouldn't let him take any risks, so he had to provide some protection for his senior uncles. There were three Nascent Soul stage cultivators, and his third senior uncle was a sword cultivator who could challenge opponents of higher levels.
If Xuan Ling doesn't intend to fight to the death, he definitely won't take on three opponents at once. He can't outwit his second senior uncle when it comes to playing mind games, and he can't out-argue his fourth senior uncle. This round is definitely in the bag.
The sect leader pondered for a long time, and even after the Second Elder stabilized his Nascent Soul stage cultivation and left the cultivation room, he still couldn't figure out how to explain this illogical phenomenon.
Seeing his confused and bewildered expression, the Second Elder calmly explained, "The feng shui of this mountain is good for Xiao Qi, it brings me good fortune."
Sect Leader: ………
Although I'm not as shrewd as you, you don't have to treat me like a fool to be fooled!
So you guys are the ones who get all the credit, while I, the boss, am completely left out!
The Second Elder grew up and lived with the Sect Leader for hundreds of years, and he could easily see the hidden emotions in the Sect Leader's embarrassed and angry expression.
He glanced at Heng Mo subtly, asking if he had enough Breakthrough Pills. Heng Mo immediately understood and gave him a knowing look that said, "No problem, I've got it covered."
"Senior Brother, you haven't reached your bottleneck yet. Once you do, it will definitely bring you good fortune." The Second Elder spoke with a straight face, but the Sect Leader just thought he was talking nonsense.
However, after spending so many years together, he knew that there was no point in asking his second junior brother about things he didn't want to talk about. So he could only glare at him and then wait for the next junior brother to come out while munching on snacks.
Lin You watched as the ethereal and otherworldly sect leader skillfully gnawed on a foot-long spicy snack, even managing to protect his beard from getting greasy with spiritual energy. She couldn't help but urge Heng Mo to record it with a memory stone.
Anyway, there are so many photo stones that can't be sold anytime soon, so they're perfect for recording the elders' embarrassing moments—no, I mean happy moments.
The Second Elder here was also skillfully cracking sunflower seeds, feeling that Heng Mo had single-handedly changed the eating habits of the entire Xuan Yang Sect.
Just as the sect leader finished eating a spicy snack and hadn't even had time to grab a second one, there was a commotion at the place where the Third Elder was in seclusion, and the pressure of the Nascent Soul stage cultivator spread out once again.
This pressure wasn't offensive, so Heng Mo didn't need to dodge. With the Second Elder present, there was no need for him, a junior, to explain anything.
Aside from replenishing the snacks on the table in the yard, there wasn't much else for him to do.
Lin You was still a little worried, so after telling Heng Mo, she went to keep an eye on Xuan Ling. With the Concealing Breath Bead, she was perfectly suited to be a spies.
Xuan Ling, who was posing on his own hilltop, either didn't notice that the pressure had been transferred to someone else, or he didn't care how many people had broken through. Apart from glancing over there, he didn't make much of a move.
The Second Elder was still immersed in the joy of his breakthrough and, unusually, didn't pay much attention to his surroundings. It was only then that he realized he had two new neighbors while he was in seclusion.
Noticing that the Third Elder had already broken through and the Fourth Elder was on the verge of breaking through, he couldn't help but glare at Heng Mo.
Everyone who breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage does it in groups, why can't you do it one by one, even if it's a day or two apart? It would be easier to find an excuse then!
Heng Mo glanced towards the Xuanling Mountain, indicating that time was of the essence and that they should act expediently in a crisis. He then gestured towards the place where his master was in seclusion, suggesting that there was a ready-made excuse there.
Finally, she looked at the Second Elder with sparkling eyes, her gaze conveying: "Second Uncle-Master, you're so amazing, I believe you can definitely do it."
The second elder reprimanded him with his eyes for a while, then resigned himself to going to fool the sect leader. The sect leader couldn't help but chuckle twice as he watched the two exchanging glances.
These two really think they're fools. He just listened calmly to the Second Elder's long-winded speech, neither saying he believed it nor disbelieved it. In any case, he didn't seem like someone who would be easily fooled.
Heng Mo watched from the side, worried that he would be caught in the crossfire, so he secretly added a table for snacks, filling both tables to the brim. After reducing the number of times he needed to buy snacks, he sneaked into a corner.
The Second Elder knew that this kind of deception was not a solution, so he immediately abandoned his nonsensical explanations and began to change the subject:
"Now that Junior Brother is alright, we can start settling scores with Xuan Ling sooner. I heard that there's a Nascent Soul stage demonic cultivator running rampant in the city on the outskirts of the Demon Realm Forest in the north. It's time to send the number one cultivator in the world to eliminate the demon and protect the righteous path."
At this point, the sect leader forgot his anger and became serious, saying, "Is there really no problem with your puppet? Xuan Ling cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness. Can you really break his Dao heart with a woman?"
The Second Elder twirled his fan in his palm and then snapped it open, saying confidently, "Given Xuan Ling's arrogant and fame-seeking nature, how could he possibly escape the puppet that my fourth junior brother and I activated together?"
After listening for a while, Heng Mo couldn't help but connect it with some of the world plots that Lin You had told him before.
It turns out that the half-demon bloodline girl whom Xuan Ling took as his disciple, the girl he loved to the point of obsession and almost made enemies of the world, was actually a puppet specially prepared for Xuan Ling by the Second Elder to break his Dao heart.
Lin You was watching Xuan Ling standing on the mountaintop with his hands behind his back, dressed in flowing white robes, looking like a high-and-mighty flower, when she received the message from Heng Mo and suddenly realized something.
She knew it! There's no one else in the world as eccentric as Xuan Ling. Where else could she find such a magical, crazy woman to pair up with him?
The puppet that the Second Elder mentioned was a fragment of a celestial artifact that he obtained by chance. Although many of its functions were unusable, it could be activated to disguise itself as a person, and it was not enough to be detected by a Nascent Soul cultivator.
As for his human form, personality, and way of doing things, those were all tailor-made by the Second Elder and the Fourth Elder based on Xuan Ling's personality, specifically designed to break his Dao heart.
In order to buy time and also to reveal his trump card to Heng Mo, the Second Elder explained the matter of the puppet doll in great detail when discussing with the Sect Leader.
For example, they plan to set up the puppet as a child with a top-grade ice spirit root attribute, and add a hidden demon bloodline setting. Xuan Ling, who has always been thinking about Heng Mo and wants to take a top-grade spirit root as a disciple, will definitely take the bait.
After the puppet grows up, it is arranged that the puppet will activate its demonic energy in order to save Xuan Ling, and then be surrounded by a group of righteous cultivators who want to eliminate the demon, in order to stimulate Xuan Ling's possessiveness, etc.
The plot was full of twists and turns, even more exciting than a storyteller's tale. Heng Mo listened to it while relaying the story to Lin You and discussing the melodramatic plot.
The two, who were discussing how to make the appearance of the puppet doll less abrupt, suddenly heard Heng Mo weakly mention something:
"Didn't you send Xuan Ling to capture the demonic cultivator? Then just make this puppet the daughter of that demonic cultivator."
As he listened to Lin You's melodramatic story, he repeated, "It's normal for demonic cultivators to run rampant in mortal towns and have children with mortal women. It's only natural for the women to abandon the children."
"If only we could find someone to record Xuan Ling killing the demon with a recording stone, that would be even better. When the puppet grows up and learns that the master who raised it was actually its father's killer, it could use the recording stone to demand an explanation from Xuan Ling. Wouldn't that be even more exciting?"
Seeing the two elders looking over with somewhat serious expressions, Heng Mo touched his nose and humbly asked, "Isn't this kind of plot inappropriate?"
Senior Ke Lin clearly stated that this is the most frequently occurring plot in the stories she has read.
The sect leader looked him up and down several times before saying with a heavy heart, "I never expected that my fourth junior brother would have such a successor!"
Thinking about the melodramatic stories written by the Fourth Elder, and looking at the always obedient Heng Mo, the sect leader immediately had the idea of separating the two.
He reached out and ruffled Heng Mo's hair: "Good boy, you should stay and play with your third uncle from now on, don't learn these messy things from your fourth uncle."
The Xuan Yang Sect already has enough people who can make up stories. Heng Mo should just follow Xiao Qi and learn alchemy and weapon crafting. Although the attributes are somewhat conflicting, at least it's a respectable profession.
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Author's Note: [Owl emoji]
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