Chapter 15 Penglai Island (V) “When friends come from afar, no matter how far away they are, I will…
“Tsk.”
"Shaoyang Sect, one of the three top sects? I think it's probably just a bunch of rabble, a bunch of useless idiots."
Jia Liang's curses echoed throughout the cave.
Gongsun Xin lowered his eyes and quickly calculated in his mind who to send out to find Zhu Ciying.
The first person he thought of was the seriously injured young man, but he had fallen into a coma since he was punched by Jia Liang, and there was no sign of him waking up until now.
Then there is Jia Liang.
This person is impulsive and impatient. If he develops other ideas and refuses to cooperate with me, my chances of success will be greatly reduced. It is best to let him stay here to guard the hostage.
Gongsun Xin decisively issued an order: "You stay here and keep an eye on them. I'll go out and look for someone else."
"Go ahead." Jia Liang waved his hands impatiently.
Before leaving, Gongsun Xin reminded him meaningfully: "Don't make any mistakes."
Jia Liang nodded. Inside, he was disdainful. What could go wrong with just two people? But he, oh, better not get himself lost.
Jia Liang waited for half an hour.
"Fuck! Are you guys trying to trick me?"
He swung out a stream of spiritual power which landed on the stone wall. The stone wall trembled violently and stones rolled down from top to bottom.
It was inconvenient for Qu Wanqing to dodge, and at the critical moment, the boy pushed her, but was hit himself.
Qu Wanqing heard the sound of a bone breaking.
When the dust cleared, what came into her eyes were large pools of blood.
Qu Wanqing bit her lip, and with her hands tied behind her back, she was holding a small knife and quickly cutting open the spirit-sealing chain.
Jia Liang wanted to wake the boy up, but when he looked up, he saw him being crushed under a rock while sacrificing himself to save others.
It looks like he's probably dead.
"Useless thing!"
His last hope was gone.
However, just when he was extremely disappointed, Gongsun Xin came back.
Seeing that he was alone, Jia Liang asked, "Where are the people?"
Gongsun Xin shook his head.
Jia Liang was really angry this time. He said, "Let's divide the things now. Each person takes a spiritual plant worth 150 points."
Gongsun Xin seemed to have heard nothing, full of energy and spirit, looking even calmer than before.
"Why, are you going to give up cooperating with me?"
Jia Liang was taken aback by this and looked him over from head to toe, and suddenly realized something was wrong.
He asked, "You mean..."
Gongsun Xin chuckled and said bluntly, "Although I didn't find anyone this time, I did gain something quite a bit."
Jia Liang's heart was gripped: "Tell me about it."
"I found a spiritual herb next to a wooden stake. My initial assessment is that it's an extinct spiritual plant, the Seven-Leafed Illusionary Branch. Unfortunately, there's a spiritual beast guarding it nearby. I fought it for a few moves, but I was no match for it."
How could Jia Liang accept this?
"So you want me to come with you?"
"No," Gongsun Xin said. "What if her junior sister comes and rescues him? We can't do such a losing business."
"Alas, what a pity! My cultivation has been stuck at the middle stage of the Golden Core for a long time. If I could get the Seven-Leafed Illusionary Branch and combine it with other spiritual plants to refine elixirs, perhaps I could break through to the middle stage and enter the late stage of the Golden Core."
Breakthrough in cultivation... Jia Liang's heart trembled slightly.
"Besides, the spirit beast guarding the Seven-Leaf Illusionary Branch looks like a python?" Gongsun Xin carefully recalled its appearance. "I saw two horns on its head, so it should be a dragon."
"Jiao?" Jia Liang gasped, his teeth itching. "Then I'm only one step away from becoming a dragon!"
"Well, if we can capture it as well, we can get a lot of points. It's possible that we can become the first in the trial."
Rare spiritual plants and precious spiritual beasts.
Jia Liang didn't want to miss out on any of the good things that could kill two birds with one stone.
"Where is the Seven-Leaf Phantom Branch? I'll go out and look for it," he said.
Gongsun Xin raised an eyebrow: "Can you defeat that dragon?"
"Hmph, don't worry about that. I'm sure I can get it. It's just a matter of how to divide it..."
Gongsun Xin was a smart man and of course he knew what he was thinking.
"We are just collaborating to plot against the Shaoyang Sect and divide their points. As for the points of the Seven-Leaf Phantom Branch and the Dragon, if you can get them, they will definitely be yours."
"I don't have enough cultivation to support you, so I won't go and hold you back. I'll stay here to guard the hostages, but before you leave, you must hand over the jade slip and the spiritual plant to me for safekeeping."
Jia Liang thought about it and realized there was nothing wrong with it. He'd have to worry about protecting the jade slip and spiritual plant, so it would be better to give it to Gongsun Xin for safekeeping. Besides, he'd only get 500 of the Shaoyang Sect's 1,000 points, while he could keep the points for the other two items all to himself. The latter was definitely a better deal.
"Okay." He agreed immediately.
After handing over the things, Gongsun Xin used his spiritual power to draw a map for him and show him the way.
After Jia Liang left for a while, Gongsun Xin walked towards Qu Wanqing.
Qu Wanqing had already untied the spirit-sealing chain. She waited calmly for Gongsun Xin to approach. When the two were only half a step apart, she suddenly stood up, and the spirit sword suddenly appeared in her hand, and stabbed at him.
"clang--"
A jade flute firmly blocked the sword blade.
Qu Wanqing raised her head, her eyes changing from disbelief to joy. She said excitedly, "Junior Sister!"
Zhu Ciying raised her hand to remove the illusion, and her cold eyes softened again.
"Is Senior Sister injured?"
Qu Wanqing shook his head.
Zhu Ciying returned her jade slip and spiritual plant: "What happened?" She noticed early on that Qu Wanqing looked unhappy.
"It's a long story." Qu Wanqing sighed and walked towards the young man whose life or death was unknown.
She told her roughly what had happened.
"Yingying, I don't know how to deal with this. He lied to me first, but he also saved me."
Zhu Ciying helped her move the stones and carried the boy to an open space on the side.
He was badly injured, with all the bones in his back broken.
Zhu Ciying gave him a recovery pill and a hemostatic pill, while replying to Qu Wanqing, "Everyone has different experiences and perspectives. Senior Sister, no one can make decisions for you. You should think it through for yourself."
Should I continue to maintain my innocence and kindness, or grow up from the painful lessons.
Qu Wanqing looked down at the young man. He was handsome, well-behaved, and honest. He truly had feelings for his senior. The only bad thing about him was that he had lied to her, even though he had no choice.
She was undecided when she heard Zhu Ciying say, "Senior Sister, I've been deceived before. Some were white lies, while others were malicious schemes. I always feel that it's not wrong for a person to be kind. What's wrong is those who use any means to achieve their goals and exploit people's hearts."
"Wait until he wakes up, then you can make a decision."
*
The young man slowly woke up and as soon as he opened his eyes he saw his senior brother talking to someone.
"Senior brother..." He called out weakly, thinking it was a dream until his senior brother hit him on the head.
The young man felt pain and realized that it was not a dream. Someone had saved his senior brother.
"I've heard everything from these two girls. Zijia, you should apologize to them."
Tears welled up in Fan Zijia's eyes, but his bones were broken and he couldn't get up at all. He could only lie there and apologize to Qu Wanqing again and again.
Qu Wanqing didn't have the initial resentment or emotion, and said calmly, "When you came to ask me to save you, you could have taken the opportunity to tell me that you were being coerced. That way I could have found someone to help you out of this difficult situation."
"But you didn't do that. You became their accomplice, harming me and almost killing my junior sister. I can't forgive your behavior."
Fan Zijia was speechless, because he knew that what Qu Wanqing said was right. He was actually no different from Gongsun Xin and Jia Liang, both of them were complete cowards.
"But you are different from them. You still have kindness and perseverance in your heart."
"You are my savior."
"So all the grudges between us are written off, and we'll just be strangers from now on."
Fan Zijia suddenly opened his eyes wide.
His senior brother sighed, "Zijia, Miss Qu saved us with the spiritual plant she had worked so hard to obtain."
Fan Zijia felt utterly ashamed after hearing this. He would probably never forget this day.
Not long after, the person in charge that Zhu Ciying contacted came over and took the pair of brothers away.
Zhu Ciying asked them, "I wonder how the island master is going to deal with Gongsun Xin and Jia Liang?"
The person in charge said, "The island owner is furious and has decided to cancel their trial qualifications and blacklist them, banning them from ever setting foot on Penglai Island."
Zhu Ciying was quite satisfied with the result.
She opened the jade slip and sent a message to Yun Bujin and Xu Feihuai, agreeing to meet at the top of the mountain.
"Yingying, let's go..."
Before Qu Wanqing could finish his words, a huge explosion was heard in the distance.
She walked out of the cave to check and saw a huge mushroom cloud appearing in the sky above the forest in the distance.
She asked, "What's going on?"
Zhu Ciying turned the jade flute in her hand, paused, and said, "It's okay, it's just a small gift for them."
*
Before Jia Liang lost consciousness, he cursed Zhu Ciying and the entire Shaoyang Sect.
Gongsun Xin is also a fool. He looks smart, but he is the first one to be fooled!
He now regretted very much why he didn't find out earlier that the "Gongsun Xin" who tried so hard to seduce him was a fake.
He followed his instructions, found the Seven-Leaf Phantom Branch and the dragon beast, but when he finally got them, he found out that everything was fake.
The seven-leaf phantom branch is made of paper.
As for the Jiao beast, he was indeed powerful and could fight against me on equal terms.
Jia Liang, driven to desperation, took a forbidden drug to enhance his cultivation. After beating up the dragon beast, he realized it wasn't a beast at all! It was a human! And this human was none other than Gong, Sun, and Xin, the same people who had shared the information with him!
Jia Liang was so angry that his lungs were about to explode.
What made him even more angry was that he found a box on Gongsun Xin and subconsciously thought it was a treasure that he had secretly hidden.
He struggled to open it, but to his surprise, there was a note inside with some extremely ugly handwriting.
He took a long time to pronounce the words:
“When a friend comes from afar, he must be punished, even though he is far away.”
The moment he finished speaking, the box exploded.
When Jia Liang was blown away, the only thing left in his mind was: Never mess with the Shaoyang Sect again! Especially that girl named Zhu Ciying.
She is a living devil who kills people and destroys their hearts.
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