Sheng Ning and his group of five left Xingluo City the next day.
Before leaving the city, I heard that Qin Chuan had already come down the mountain, and that he was said to be seriously injured.
The Nascent Soul stage demon beast was ultimately not hunted down and ran back into the deep mountains in the middle of the night.
Sheng Ning was not surprised when she heard the news.
Qin Chuan's cultivation level is still insufficient to deal with the demonic beast. It is estimated that after returning this time, he will remain in seclusion until the sect competition.
It remains to be seen whether he will be able to break through his current cultivation level and advance to a higher level.
As for Shi Yueyao, it's fine to ignore her.
Thinking of this, Sheng Ning looked up at her four senior brothers who were playing around beside her and sighed silently.
what to do?
It seems she's led her senior brothers astray?
He was a promising and talented cultivator with impeccable character. In the past, all he did was fawn over Shi Yueyao and focus on cultivation.
Now they're teasing each other, and Yu Ye is even sticking ugly-making charms on Lu Qing'an and the other two...
Seemingly sensing her helpless gaze, Yu Ye, holding the ugliness-transforming talisman, turned to look at his junior sister.
"What's wrong, junior sister? Would you like one too?"
Sheng Ning looked at him, who was laughing like a complete idiot, and shook her head heavily.
"Are you senior brothers confident that you can crush the Taixu Sect in this sect competition?"
Her tone was so serious that Lu Qing'an and the other three stopped what they were doing and looked up to meet her gaze.
"No."
Even if you don't have it, don't say it so confidently!
Sheng Ning took a deep breath and said with a forced smile, "Don't you senior brothers want to see the Taixu Sect suffer a humiliation?"
"They're all like crabs, with their eyes in the sky and walking sideways. Don't you want to beat them to a pulp?!"
To be honest, Lu Qing'an and the other three did want to.
But the Taixu Sect has many members and great power.
With just a spit from each of them, they could drown the Invincible Sect.
How are they supposed to fight?
There's simply no way to fight!
"Junior Sister is right. Even if we can't win, we have to fight. The Taixu Sect has bullied us so many times. Are we going to be cowards?"
Lu Jingshen spoke gently, and without anyone knowing where he had brewed a cup of tea, he placed it in front of Sheng Ning, "Are you thirsty? Have a cup of tea to soothe your throat."
Sheng Ning glanced at Lu Jingshen, then at the teacup in his hand, and said, "It's not necessary to attack head-on."
"Just like the teamwork between me and Qiuqiu that day, the majority of the points in the sect competition come from the secret realm. As long as we are fast enough and our moves are sneaky enough, we will definitely be stronger than the Taixu Sect!"
He took the teacup from Lu Jingshen.
Seeing that her fellow disciples were all listening attentively, she immediately took out the paper and pen for drawing talismans.
"For the early stages of the competition, we only need to get a passing grade or above. We should save our energy for entering the secret realm and not act alone. We should stay behind the Taixu Sect."
The sect competition is divided into two parts.
The initial stage is a test of the sect disciples' cultivation progress, much like how well a pill can be cultivated.
A high-grade elixir can earn 9-10 points, while a low-grade one only earns 1-3 points.
The rest is a competition among cultivators of different levels, such as those who cultivate talismans, artifacts, or physical bodies; whoever is stronger will get more points.
These are individual competitions.
The Secret Realm is a team competition, where each sect sends six disciples into the Secret Realm to collect spirit beasts, spirit fruits, and spirit plants. The rarer the items obtained, the higher the score.
In previous years, Taixu Sect had always been number one, precisely because Qin Chuan led the team.
His cultivation level is high and his spiritual sense is vast, which often allows him to find more and better things.
Sheng Ning bit the pen, determined to be faster than the Taixu Sect.
Upon hearing her plan, Lu Qing'an and the other three all gave her a thumbs up, saying, "You're really something, junior sister."
They originally thought that their junior sister's act of snatching the core of a demon beast from the Taixu Sect during the demon beast frenzy was already quite remarkable.
Unexpectedly, she even set her sights on the sect competition.
She also wanted to launch a sneak attack on the Taixu Sect right under the noses of so many sect elders.
Young people are so bold!
Hearing his senior brothers' praise, Sheng Ning smiled and said, "Our operation this time focuses on the Sixth Old Plan!"
Because they needed to rush back to their sect to cultivate.
The group of five did not linger on the road for long.
When Sheng Ning returned to the Invincible Sect, the moment her heels touched the ground, she heard a clear, cold voice above her head.
"Where did she go? Who is she? Master said you didn't bring him roast goose and you made a fool of him."
The unfamiliar voice made her raise her head abruptly. When she met a pair of icy blue eyes, she blinked and immediately crossed her arms.
"It's so cold~"
Lu Qing'an and the other three frowned immediately. They all stood in front of Sheng Ning, attempting to block the oppressive aura emanating from the newcomer.
It was Lu Jingshen who spoke first.
He took out a cloak made of demon beast fur from his mustard seed bag and draped it over Sheng Ning's shoulders before stepping forward and bowing to the person in front of him.
"Senior Brother, you've finally emerged from seclusion."
“We just returned from Chongwu Mountain. This is Sheng Ning, the newly recruited junior sister of the Invincible Sect.”
"As for the roast goose you mentioned, Senior Brother, well..."
Lu Jingshen was completely unaware of the roast goose incident, so he could only turn his attention to Lu Qingan.
Upon hearing this, the latter raised his hand and slapped his head, thinking to himself, "Oh no."
During this time, he stayed by his junior sister's side and completely forgot about the twenty roast geese that his master had mentioned.
Sheng Ning hid behind several senior brothers and grinned, "I'll go down the mountain later to buy roast goose for Master."
Honestly, she really didn't mean to forget those roast geese.
Every time she and Lu Qing'an went down the mountain, the latter would use the excuse that their master had indigestion. After a while, she herself forgot about it.
Su Daiyuan didn't take his master's roast goose to heart.
On the contrary, the new junior sister that Lu Jingshen mentioned made his already chilling aura even more frigid.
Narrowing his icy blue eyes, Su Daiyuan asked in a deep voice, "Junior Sister? Where is Shi Yueyao?"
Shi Yueyao is probably still crying in front of the mirror right now.
Sheng Ning silently complained to herself.
Just now, Lu Jingshen addressed the man in front of him as Senior Brother, so this must be Su Daiyuan, the eldest disciple of the Invincible Sect and a genius with a water-based spiritual root.
But this person looks cold and aloof, so different from the gentle and kind senior brother Su Daiyuan in the original work.
Grabbing Lu Qing'an's sleeve, Sheng Ning swallowed hard and peeked out, "Senior Sister Yueyao, she should still be at the Taixu Sect, right?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Su Daiyuan's aura turned cold again.
The surrounding air seemed to freeze. Sheng Ning had also played with water elemental power to condense it into ice during the monster frenzy.
However, her cultivation level was far inferior to Su Daiyuan's, and because of this, she was completely frozen this time.
"Junior Sister?! Junior Sister, are you alright? Why are you so cold?" Yu Ye caught a glimpse of Sheng Ning frozen in place and immediately screamed.
He strode forward and grabbed Sheng Ning tightly, saying, "Senior Brother, please stop your supernatural powers! If you keep doing this, Junior Sister will freeze to death."
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