Chapter 39: Are You Polite? She Can Write This Plot!

Ye Qingning moved at the right moment.

If it weren’t for her current inconvenient status, where even leaving the mansion had to be done secretly, while also having to be wary of her unsympathetic legitimate sister, she would have arrived here before the people from the Immortal Sect.

Fortunately, now was the right time for action. She wanted to see for herself what was being suppressed underground and quickly find the Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase.

Just as Ye Qingning stepped into the rift, suddenly, the sky changed, and a deafening boom echoed through the heavens.

A buzzing sound came from beneath the ground, as if the seal had been broken.

The terrifying shockwave caused the already cracked earth to split open, creating a massive gap.

In an instant, stones flew, dust swirled, and a thick, rich spiritual energy burst through the ground, creating a scene comparable to a 3D fantasy blockbuster.

The people still in combat were startled. This spiritual aura could only mean one thing: a rare treasure had appeared in the world.

Having just heard the cry of the evil spirit, they had already realized that something powerful was being suppressed underground, which meant that this treasure was the tool used to suppress the evil spirit.

Anyone who was an assessment disciple immediately realized that the Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase had emerged!

Yun Mengyao, who had come in her capacity as the eldest daughter of the Yu family and a member of the Immortal Sect, was already certain that the Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase was beneath the ground.

The earlier noise undoubtedly signaled the breaking of the seal, and once the seal was broken, the spiritual aura would naturally surge out from underground.

Now was the perfect time to seize the Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase! Her identity as an Immortal Sect disciple was the best cover!

“Senior Brother, the seal has been broken. If the suppressed entity escapes, it will surely bring disaster to the world! We must stop it immediately. Please allow me to go down and investigate! There are too many evil spirits here, and it will require Senior Brother and the others to deal with them all,” Yun Mengyao said eagerly.

Ye Qingning had already suspected that Yu Tangtang was one of the assessment disciples, and hearing her speak this way only deepened her suspicion.

She was well aware of the danger both above and below ground, but did they really think she didn’t know what was going on? As soon as the Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase emerged, she was rushing to get it, without even thinking about it.

White Wei, who had been looking for a chance to enter the rift, seized the opportunity and immediately said, “No! Junior Sister, it’s too dangerous for you to go alone! I will go with you!”

“I’ll go too! It’s too dangerous below; I’ll take the lead!” another voice chimed in.

“If you all are going, then I’m going too!”

“Me too! Senior Brother is powerful, and he can handle all these evil spirits by himself!”

Ye Qingning initially suspected just one person, but now, she was suspicious of all of them.

You all are going, leaving only the tool-like Senior Brother to deal with a whole mass of evil spirits? Are you polite? Doesn’t Senior Brother’s life matter?

[Ning Ning, stop watching! We already said it’s definitely Shen Xuanli. Look at the sword technique he’s using. Isn’t it familiar?]

[Also, the way he’s so calm and composed—it’s clear he knows the content of the assessment. He’s just an NPC, with no emotional involvement.]

Ye Qingning rolled her eyes. Wasn’t she already guessing this?

She quickly used a Speeding Charm and flew into the rift, entering it before Yu Tangtang and the others.

As she descended, Ye Qingning quickened her pace. After all, traveling through the narrow path underground with a Speeding Charm was far easier than using a flying sword.

Last night, when she had come to scout, she found that the passage leading underground was extremely narrow.

Her shoulders nearly brushed against the stone walls, and only one person could fit through at a time. A burly man would have been stuck in there, let alone using a flying sword—one couldn’t even fit it sideways.

However, after the tremor underground, the rift had widened, and now, two or three people could walk side by side.

Still, the passage twisted and turned, and it was impossible to use a flying sword.

So, even though she entered the rift ahead of Yu Tangtang’s group, she was now quite far ahead of them.

As they continued down, the closer they got to the depths, the stronger the aura of immortality became. This could only be the spiritual energy from the Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase.

At the same time, a rhythmic, heartbeat-like sound gradually became clearer.

When she reached the end, the space suddenly opened up.

Ye Qingning’s eyes flickered. Before her, a grand formation that glowed with red light appeared. The complex formation patterns spread out in a radiating fashion.

But the once dazzling formation that resembled blood-colored jade had already shown signs of collapse. Tiny cracks began to spread across the hard jade-like surface, and the formation’s lines were visibly flickering, one by one fading out. The red light seemed to lose its support and gradually dimmed.

In the center of the formation, a strange black entity that had been trapped was now wriggling more intensely, constantly colliding with the collapsing formation, as if it could break free at any moment.

Ye Qingning had initially thought that the entity suppressed here was either a demon or a ghost. But now, she realized it was an evil spirit, and it was the presence of this demonic aura that made her feel so uncomfortable.

She couldn’t help but admire how realistic this trial secret realm was.

“Hahaha! Come out! I’ve been waiting for you for a long time! Come out and form a contract with me! Obey my commands, and from now on, we’ll dominate the world together!”

A harsh, unpleasant voice came from within the formation. Ye Qingning then noticed that there was also a figure standing inside, a Taoist dressed in robes.

But the over-the-top, middle-school dialogue really embarrassed her. She wanted to ask, who wrote these NPC lines? She was pretty sure that if they told her, she’d avoid making a move.

[Ning Ning, that’s the Taoist who posted the Yin Summoning Talisman in the Yu family! Look, he’s really an evil cultivator!]

Ye Qingning had figured it out and even started to imagine the next sequence of events.

Based on the usual plot, the evil cultivator Taoist would likely fail to form the contract and be devoured by the trapped evil spirit, sealing his own doom. It was a typical “self-destructive” plot.

Once the evil spirit escaped, the Immortal Sect disciples would step in, and if any of the assessment disciples managed to slay it, their score would definitely skyrocket.

Even if no one could deal with it, there was still Shen Xuanli. As an inspector of the assessment, he was the one who would clean up any messes. If the evil spirit escaped and no one else could handle it, it would inevitably be up to him to resolve the situation.

So, she thought, what’s wrong with reading more novels before she transmigrated? Now, she could even predict the plot ahead of time.

[Do something useful, hurry up and find the vase.]

Ye Qingning didn’t care if the Taoist would be killed or not; she just wanted to find the vase quickly. After all, Yu Tangtang and the others would arrive soon.

As an NPC, the Taoist was focused on breaking the seal and controlling the evil spirit, so he would not care about the Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase.

Fortunately, with the formation collapsing and the seal broken, the eye of the formation must have been destroyed. The Nine-turn Yin Yang Vase, which served as the formation’s anchor, would definitely be placed at the eye of the formation.

However, since the formation was so large and in the process of collapsing, she couldn’t pinpoint the eye of the formation in time. It would be much faster if she split up with the system to search.