Chapter 23 Believe in Brother's Words

"Fifth Junior Sister!"

Nanwang saw Lingzhi waiting at the gate of Qi Sect from afar and called out loudly.

“Senior Brother!!!”

Lingzhi ran towards Nanwang happily, like a bird that had broken free from its reins.

Nan Wang got off the fairy crane and was embraced by the spiritual branch.

"Brother!" Lingzhi said excitedly, "I've been waiting for you since early morning!"

Nan Wang asked, "Junior sister, has your confinement period ended?"

Lingzhi said: "It's over a long time ago!"

"Great." Nan Wang then confidently explained his purpose: "I plan to invite everyone to eat barbecue hot pot together. The environment of the Sword Sect is just right for eating these. Fifth Junior Sister, you must come and give me the honor."

"Just for the sake of face, of course I'm going to admire your face!"

When Lingzhi heard that there was food, his eyes immediately lit up.

Although she didn't know what hot pot was, she believed that everything Nanwang cooked was delicious.

"In order for our dinner party to go smoothly, there is one crucial thing that requires the help of Junior Sister."

Nanwang took out two blueprints from his arms and spread them out in front of Lingzhi: "Take a look at these two blueprints. They don't have to be exactly the same. As long as they are almost usable, it's fine."

"Brother, are you looking for me to refine your weapon? Me?"

Lingzhi widened his eyes in disbelief and pointed at himself.

Nan Wang couldn't help laughing at his dazed look: "Of course it's you, you're the only one I know in Qi Sect."

Lingzhi's eyes flickered, and he forced a smile and said, "Master is not here recently, but if you don't have high requirements, I can find brothers and sisters from the Weapon Sect to help you refine the weapon..."

"No, I don't want anyone else, I want you." Nan Wang poked Lingzhi's head: "Why, Lingzhi doesn't want to help me with this?"

"Of course I want to help you, brother, but..." Lingzhi puffed up his cheeks and told the truth, "But I had problems refining the device recently, and I wasted a lot of materials. Master said that this was a manifestation of my bad character, and he forbade me to continue refining the device. He said... I had to work hard on my character until I met his requirements, and then I could restart the refining platform."

"What do you mean by tempering your character?" Nan Wang was stunned: "Junior sister, you have a seven-level exquisite mind, what character do you want to temper?"

Lingzhi pouted and didn't answer.

She knew that Nanwang was right.

The Seven Secrets Mind can distinguish good from evil. It is the most intelligent and clear Taoist mind in the world and requires no training at all.

But...her journey of refining weapons has indeed not been smooth.

Among the true disciples, there are only two who are not the abbots of the branch sect, her and the eldest senior brother Zhu Tianque.

But Zhu Tianque could not become the abbot simply because he was no match for the more powerful Du Xueling. However, he was still far ahead of the others. But she was different. She could not compare with the other senior brothers and sisters in the Weapon Sect, and was far behind the others among the true disciples. She was often questioned about her qualifications to become a true disciple.

In the past, her master would use her young age to comfort her, but recently, her master seemed disappointed in her. Qi Liao Ling Long Xin had captured her master's disgust towards her several times. She was extremely anxious, but could not find a way out of the situation.

She bears the title of the fifth senior sister of the sect, but she is not as good as her senior brothers and sisters. She cannot improve her cultivation, and she is not good at refining weapons, which is bound to attract criticism.

There had long been a rumor in the Weapon Sect that the master was just saying politely when he asked her to temper her character. In fact, she had no talent for refining weapons and would never become a weapon refiner even if she spent her entire life on it. The master said this in order to get her to take the initiative to leave the Weapon Sect and switch to the Sword Sect or the Magic Sect...

Looking at Lingzhi's pitiful appearance of lowering his head and not speaking, Nanwang couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

[Fifth Junior Sister is so pitiful. Her talent in refining weapons is rare in a thousand years, but the Elder of the Weapon Sect is worried that she will threaten his position as the heir of useless things, so he deliberately told her the wrong quenching method, causing her to fail in refining weapons. How despicable! ]

Lingzhi raised his head suddenly and met Nanwang's sympathetic gaze.

Nan Wang was fully aware of Lingzhi's future. In the later part of the original novel, after the Qingyun Sect was destroyed, Lingzhi was resurrected because of his special physique. He then successfully became the continent's leading master of weapon refining, and his level of cultivation was far superior to that of the elders of the Weapon Sect.

Nan Wang really wanted to tell Lingzhi the truth directly, but he also knew that with his identity and cultivation level, it would be impossible for him to be recognized if he spoke a fact that was completely contrary to common sense.

Now, all he could do was to let Lingzhi ignore his master's ban and try to refine the weapon on his own.

"Fifth Junior Sister, listen to me. What I want here is not a spiritual weapon or a spiritual sword, but just ordinary kitchen utensils. They do not require that kind of complicated quenching method. Just try the most common one. I believe you will succeed."

Lingzhi was so shocked by the facts that he was unable to recover for a while.

Nanwang coaxed and deceived:

"Look, this thing that's cut in the middle is called a goose pot. As long as we have this goose pot, I can make hot pot for everyone. Hot pot is perfect for eating on snowy days. The hot pot base is made of broth cooked at high temperature. There are spicy and non-spicy options. I can put whatever I want in the pot. Beef, mutton, and pork are all cut into thin slices and cooked in one boil. Dip them in the prepared sauce and they melt in your mouth without chewing..."

"Brother, stop talking!" Lingzhi wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "I will help you refine it! But, but you can't blame me if you fail!"

"You won't fail." Nanwang said seriously, "Your talent for refining weapons is second to none in the world. In the future, you will become the best weapon refining master in the world. By then, even the head immortal will have to look at your face. Those people in the weapon sect will not even be worthy of carrying your shoes."

Lingzhi hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, and said firmly: "I believe you, Brother Nanwang, I believe that what you say... will definitely come true."

She didn't believe in herself, but she was willing to believe in Nan Wang.

She would believe her senior brother every time, every time.

…

Three days later.

Lingzhi was about to leave the sect, but was stopped at the door.

The man said with a playful smile: "Junior Sister Lingzhi, what are you doing?"

Lingzhi looked at the person who came and frowned: "In this Qi Sect, I don't even have the qualifications to enter or leave?"

"Junior sister, what are you talking about? I am just concerned about you, why are you so aggressive?"

The man was waving a folding fan in his hand, looking calm and superior.

He is the eldest son of the elder of Qi Sect and also the eldest senior brother of the entire Qi Sect, Yu Hui.

Lingzhi didn't reply immediately.

She has always had a bad relationship with Yu Hui. In addition to the incompatibility of their personalities, Yu Hui has also been resentful about the fact that she became a true disciple.

Many people in the sect believed that Yu Hui should have been chosen as the true disciple of Qi Sect, but he was not chosen because of the sudden appearance of Lingzhi.

When rumors are told by many people, it doesn't matter whether they are true or false.

As time went by, even Lingzhi herself felt that it was probably she who delayed Yuhui. In addition, because of the relationship with the elder master, she chose to back down almost every time when faced with Yuhui's provocations.

At this moment, Yu Hui naturally thought that the spirit branch would avoid a head-on confrontation like before, however——

Lingzhi said with great enthusiasm: "I am the fifth true disciple, the legitimate fifth senior sister of Qingyun Sect. Not everyone is qualified to care about me."

This statement could even be considered provocative.

Not only Yu Hui, but also the disciples of Qi Sect who had secretly gathered around to watch the conflict between the two men had their faces changed drastically.

Yu Hui was startled at first, then he sneered and said disdainfully: "Fifth Junior Sister is not good at refining weapons, and her character is... No wonder father asked Junior Sister to refine weapons, it is really hard to bear."

In the past, when Yu Hui mentioned the title of Elder of Qi Sect, Lingzhi would have had to retreat even if he was unwilling.

But this time, she still held her head high and spoke firmly, "When did Qingyun Sect have the rule that inner disciples can comment on true disciples? If you criticize my sister, you must follow the sect rules!"

Yu Hui's face turned pale: "What are you talking about? I think you are crazy..."

Before he finished speaking, the spiritual energy around Lingzhi surged, the silver bells hanging from the ends of his hair rang, and the pressure from the late stage of foundation building burst out instantly, attacking Yuhui as much as possible.

Yu Hui's realm was not as good as Lingzhi's, and he was not careful for a moment. He had no time to mobilize his internal strength to resist, and was hit by Lingzhi. He was immediately exhausted and fell to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

None of the Qi Sect disciples around him could speak for Yu Hui. They were so overwhelmed by the residual power of the spiritual branch that they could not even raise their heads.

At this moment, they seemed to realize that even though Lingzhi had repeatedly failed in refining instruments, her cultivation, her realm, and her control over spiritual energy were an invincible existence to the disciples of the Instrument Sect except the elders.

This is the true teaching, without exception.

"You wait...wait for my father to come back..."

Yu Hui was lying on the ground, unable to get up, but his mouth was still very hard.

He knew better than anyone else how scared Lingzhi was of the elders. This was a dead end that both father and son had carefully planned.

However, what he didn't know was that the hidden mines they had painstakingly planted for the spiritual branch had been completely exposed.

In the past few days, Lingzhi borrowed all the weapon refining books from the Sutra Library, read all the quenching methods one by one several times, carefully studied the commonalities and characteristics of different quenching methods, and with an obsessive belief, he finally discovered the problem.

Quenching is an extremely critical link in refining instruments. For an instrument refiner like Lingzhi who is born without fire spiritual roots and therefore has to use strange fire, quenching is even more important.

There are many quenching methods, and finding the quenching method that suits you best is something a weaponsmith needs to do throughout his life.

The "Three-Separation Quenching Method" that her master taught her is the best quenching method. It is extremely difficult, but the principle is extremely wonderful and the operation method is extremely sophisticated, almost like a magical skill.

After using this quenching method, she no longer cares about other quenching methods.

However, the problem lies in this "magic skill".

The "Three-Separation Quenching Method" taught by her master lacked the intermediate step of converting spiritual power. The lack of this step not only greatly increased the difficulty of refining the weapon, but also greatly increased the probability of failure.

However, when her master was demonstrating the "Three-Separation Quenching Method" to her, he used his own spiritual energy to fill in the missing parts, and successfully refined the spiritual weapon at the cost of damaging her cultivation. This led her to keep looking for the reason for her failure in herself.

Qi Liao Ling Long Xin had always reminded her that her master had ill intentions towards her, but she had always believed that it was because she had not done well enough.

Now thinking about it, I was really...stupid.

People make mistakes, but the Seven Secrets of the Heart is always right.

Lingzhi squatted down, stared at Yuhui who was lying on the ground like a dead dog for a while, then spread out his adorable white and tender little hands, picked up the spiritual sword, and slapped Yuhui's disgusting face.

"Bang——"

Yu Hui was blown away dozens of meters, and the back of his head hit the stone pier at the entrance of Qi Sect. He rolled his eyes and lost consciousness instantly.

Amid the disciples' exclamations, the spirit branch turned around neatly and flew away with the sword.

The leisurely voice was heard by every disciple of the Weapon Sect only after her sword took off.

"My senior brother called me today, so I don't have time to argue with you. We'll settle our accounts tomorrow."

The disciples looked at Lingzhi's receding back, and then looked at Yuhui who was lying on the ground unconscious. Their hair stood on end and they trembled in fear.

They've beaten him up like this, and this account hasn't been settled yet?

Does Fifth Junior Sister have such a personality?

Where is the promised Seven Mysterious Hearts and the greatest good in the world?