Chapter 55 First Encounter with the Female Lead
Jiang Xianwan followed behind Xu Yanzhou, her gaze sweeping over the four people dressed in the robes of direct disciples of the Eternal Sect.
Lin Qingran.
Don't ask her how she knows.
That girl, dressed in an eye-catching snow-white disciple's robe, with her cloud-like hair and flower-like face, and adorned with a hairpin, was graceful and elegant in every move, ethereal and peerless, radiating an aura of her own.
She had seen the young man leading the group several times at the Eternal Sect; he was Pei Chang'an, the only direct disciple of Wu Miao.
Lin Qingran glanced at Jiang Xianwan, or perhaps not at all, and bowed respectfully along with her three fellow disciples.
Pei Chang'an was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry for troubling you by coming here without permission."
"What trouble?" Xu Yanzhou waved his hand and walked over to the disciple whose face was pale and whose arm was hanging limply. After examining him, he said, "The residual poison has not been cleared, the internal injuries are quite serious, and the arm is broken. He needs to rest for some time."
"What happened to you?"
Pei Chang'an blushed. "To be honest, I'm ashamed to say that I ended up like this after fighting with someone yesterday."
"Having exhausted all the spiritual medicines I had, and thinking that I was close to the Taixu Sect, I took the liberty of coming to bother you. I hope my senior master will forgive me."
He was too embarrassed to tell the truth.
Firstly, the major sects tacitly established a rule for their disciples—
Do not enter or leave the black market.
Secondly, the healing elixir and all his belongings were in the mustard seed bag, but the mustard seed bag... was stolen after the match on the black market.
Apart from their wives, they couldn't even afford a single spirit stone, let alone buy spirit plants and pills. So they had no choice but to swallow their pride and come to the Taixu Sect.
Of course, he would never talk about something so shameful and disgraceful.
Xu Yanzhou's eyes flickered slightly, but his expression remained unchanged.
He believed in fighting others.
As for running out of the elixir?
If this were a few direct disciples, even if each of them were shattered into eighty pieces, there would still be no way they would have enough spiritual medicine to carry with them.
"It's inevitable. Don't worry about laughing or not. Just stay here and focus on recovering."
Xu Yanzhou could easily see through the young man's scheming, so he didn't ask any further questions. Seeing that the three male disciples all had injuries of varying degrees, he waved to Jiang Xianwan.
"Wanwan, take them to Taicao Peak first, then have your disciples arrange a few guest rooms."
Jiang Xianwan nodded and turned to Pei Chang'an and the others, saying, "Fellow Daoists, please follow me."
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Junior Sister Jiang," Pei Chang'an said with a smile.
Yun Weize looked at the group, his dark eyes, like wisps of smoke, narrowed slightly. "That female disciple who needs the Dew of Spiritual Essence."
It's not a question, it's a certainty.
Di Yin frowned slightly, gave a nonchalant "hmm," and fixed his gaze on Jiang Xianwan.
Yun Weize seemed to be deep in thought.
Whether it was his imagination or not, ever since these four disciples of the Eternal Sect appeared, Jiang Xianwan seemed to have... become a bit unlucky.
Pei Chang'an and the others politely introduced themselves, and Jiang Xianwan responded politely with a calm expression.
But when the two girls introduced themselves, their eyes met for a fleeting moment.
"Are you sure? Who is this ugly monster?" Lin Qingran maintained an impeccable smile on the surface, but secretly asked the system in her heart.
The system scoffed, "What ugly thing? That birthmark is fake."
Upon hearing this, Lin Qingran's lips slowly froze. "It's fake."
His gaze fell silently on Jiang Xianwan's face, and he was momentarily taken aback.
This face, with its birthmark that looks terrifying, also hints at a very aggressive nature.
In contrast to her gentle temperament, he was arrogant, dazzling, and aloof, yet he was the envy of everyone.
What if these traces were gone?
Lin Qingran took a slow breath.
But the system's voice sounded somewhat solemn: "She has the Glazed Jade Bone and a mutated Ice Spiritual Root, which is more than one level higher than your spiritual root physique!"
"Moreover, her cultivation level is one rank higher than yours!"
Lin Qingran was no longer calm. "Are you sure? How could she possibly be more capable than me, the leading lady?"
"Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
Are you doubting my abilities?
"Don't blame me for not warning you, you'd better kill her sooner rather than later, just in case things change."
Lin Qingran's breathing became rapid, her fingers digging into her palms as she barely suppressed the unpleasantness caused by the repeated blows to her heart. Without thinking, she declared, "I will naturally kill her!"
It's better to kill a thousand innocent people than to keep this variable who could very well hinder her ascension!
“Your soul is injured and your foundation has not fully recovered. It’s one thing if your cultivation is no match for hers, but she is in the Taixu Sect, so killing her will not be easy.”
Speaking of the damage to her soul, Lin Qingran became extremely irritable. "Isn't it all because of you that my soul was damaged? And you insisted that I drag this out! Now you've detected some new variable! Didn't you say I was the one and only female lead?"
The system sneered, "Nonsense! Who's to blame in the end? If you hadn't been so cowardly, resisting my binding and struggling like a pig being slaughtered for the New Year, how could we have fallen into the spatial rift!"
"In the past two years, besides lighting up two beauty portraits, you've managed to let not only Di Yin escape, but also Feng Huixue! Useless!"
Lin Qingran bit her lip, feeling suffocated at the thought.
She was suddenly bound to this weird thing called a system, and accidentally fell into a spatial rift, severely damaging her consciousness.
In order to complete the plot of obtaining the Emperor's Fruit and giving it to Feng Huixue for free, the system could have seized other people's spiritual roots to completely repair her, but instead, it made her drag it out.
Originally, according to what the system said, she could easily obtain the Emperor's Fruit with just a casual remark.
But she was not at all like the system said. Not only was she not taken under the Northern Emperor's wing, but she has never even met him once!
She begged Wu Miao many times before he finally went to the Wuyun Palace, albeit reluctantly.
Although the Emperor's Fruit was not obtained, fortunately, the plot progressed in time and the Dew of Spiritual Essence was acquired.
Who knew that when she desperately ran to the border of the demon realm, that brainless idiot Feng Huixue didn't want her at all!
He also told her to get lost and go as far away as possible!
If it weren't for another unexpected event at Feng Huixue's place, they wouldn't have noticed.
"Can you see where she came from?"
The system was also agitated. "I didn't realize that I tried to test it several times just now, but it was blocked by a thick fog."
"Can't be detected? How is that possible!" Lin Qingran immediately became anxious. "Could she be a daughter of Heaven, just like me?"
"I don't know, but I can't rule out that possibility. So, she can't stay. I have a feeling that she will be a big variable."
"Kill her!"
"I can help you extract her spiritual root and turn it into nourishment for you!"
Lin Qingran suffered repeated setbacks, and when she looked at the girl in green in front of her, a flash of fierceness appeared in her eyes.
Forcing herself to refocus, she ended her brief conversation with the system and gave a friendly, curving smile.
"I heard that Sword Master Fengyi has taken in four disciples. After meeting her today, I feel a sense of closeness to my junior sister."
First close the distance, then stab them in the back.
She was skilled at this.
Jiang Xianwan's expression was somewhat strange.
She covered her nose with one hand, gave the disciple who had clumsily bumped into her a no-brainer, and stopped the nosebleed as the four of them stared in stunned silence.
This female lead seems to... be a little bit of a nemesis to her?
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