Are You Thinking of Considering It?

The assassins of the Peacock Sect saw the light of the Haoran Bell behind them gradually dimmed until it disappeared, and their faces showed joy of surviving the disaster.

“They didn’t catch up…”

“I’m afraid they saw Ji Lianyi’s body and have no time to care about us, hahahaha——”

The guardian sighed heavily when he heard the word “body”.

“The new disciple who covered us is probably in danger.”

“Yes, such a loyal and righteous person is really rare.”

“Forget it. I can only go back and ask the sect master to take good care of his family——Have the new people guarding outside the Yunxi Sect been called back?”

“Reporting to the guardian, they are all rushing here and should be here soon.”

As he spoke, several figures in night clothes rushed over like ghosts and saluted the guardian together.

 “Now that we are all here, let’s go.”

The guardian walked a few steps and felt that something was not right. He turned around and said, “…How many new disciples are there with us on this mission?”

“There are eight, guardian. One, two, three… seven, eight! It’s correct, guardian!”

“It’s correct!” The guardian was shocked and angry. “Where is the guy who covered our retreat? Is his soul back? How come there are eight new disciples here?!”

The killers were stunned.

Before they could speak, an ancient bronze bell suddenly fell from the sky, and it was magnified several times in an instant. Ding–

A majestic bell sounded, and a young woman appeared out of thin air.

 “Ning… Ning Weimo!”

Ning Weimo smiled sweetly: “You are so easy to find.”

The guardian gritted his teeth: “You are the master of His Royal Highness the Third Prince, why are you working for the Crown Prince now? Why don’t you let us go today, Lord Ning, and the Peacock Gate will thank you with a heavy gift in the future!”

“Originally, I wanted to let you go, but unfortunately…” Ning Weimo flipped her hand, and the Haoran Bell suddenly soared into the air, almost teleporting in front of the guardian.

“Bang!”

The guardian’s body collided with the Haoran Bell, and immediately flew out like a bird with broken wings, spitting blood.

“Unfortunately, Sect Master Lu came to me just now… You all know that the person who cannot be offended the most in Daxia is him. In order to prevent the identity of his beloved disciple from being leaked, I can only ask you to leave your lives.”

After a few breaths, more than ten corpses were left here.

All of them died with broken meridians and were bleeding from all seven orifices.

 The Haoran Bell was stained with blood, but after a cleansing spell, it was restored to its original state.

…

Ji Lianyi drank a bowl of medicine, and as usual, he lost his temper and scolded several of his subordinates. He ordered everyone to get out of the room.

After a while, a servant fanning him returned quietly.

“Is your Highness’s injury getting better?”

Ji Lianyi’s eyes were empty for a moment, as if he was recalling something, and he laughed softly when he heard it: “I’m fine.”

“Who is the disciple of Yunxi Sect who saved your Highness in the mountains? Does he know too much…”

“What do you mean?” Ji Lianyi smiled.

 “In my opinion, if he can be used by Your Highness, then keep him. If he can’t, then kill him.”

Ji Lianyi sat up slowly. There were some blood stains on the bandages on his body, and said in a low voice: “Then what use are you to me?”

The servant was stunned: “Your Highness! I was sent to Your Highness by the Queen…”

“To monitor me.” Ji Lianyi interrupted the other party, his brown eyes were like a beast without any human feelings, “I have my own affairs, it’s not your turn to point fingers – do you really think that I won’t dig out your eyes and turn you into a human pig?”

The servant lowered his head. His eyes flickered, and dared not answer again.

“Leave.”

The room was finally quiet.

Ji Lianyi leaned on the mattress behind him with difficulty, looking coldly at the bloodstains on his arm that had reopened.

 Muttering to himself: “Indeed… I can’t involve you.”

…

It was October in a blink of an eye. The weather was much cooler, and the preparations for the apprenticeship meeting in Yunxi Sect were also in full swing.

All the empty rooms in the outer gate were full. There were a lot of people attending the apprenticeship meeting this year, so Lingxi Pavilion had to start testing the spiritual roots of those who came to register in advance.

Qingli naturally turned back to the appearance of the ancient test spirit stone, working in Lingxi Pavilion from dawn to dusk all day.

When Shen Leyan occasionally went to Lingxi Pavilion to visit her after practice, he could only see a long queue of people and Qingli’s dead expression of “I can’t go to this class at all”.

All he could do was to bring more delicious food to Qingli to make her happy.

During this period, he stayed in the room almost every day, practicing “Qingying Xuan Jue” during the day and meditating at night to circulate spiritual power, rain or shine.

 Senior Brother Zheng Ziheng is still in the capital and has not returned.

Chen Jing finally rebuilt his meridians and now left Mingchan Pavilion. He returned to the inner gate, preparing to attend the apprenticeship meeting. The good news is that although his spiritual roots are damaged, he can still practice, but the speed of practice is slower than before.

Shen Leyan always feels that although Chen Jing is an unknown passerby in the original book, he will definitely leave a strong and colorful mark in the world of cultivation.

It is hard to say why. Perhaps it is an intuition, or perhaps it is just because he has a “junior brother filter”.

The prince who had promised to send someone to find him has never come to find him once.

The assassination passed quietly – at least it did not cause any waves in Yunxi Sect, and only a few people knew about it.

Shen Leyan was devoted to practice, and he really didn’t have the mind to go out with Ji Lianyi to eat, drink and have fun, so he only wondered for a while and didn’t think about it anymore.

Seeing that the line of people waiting outside the Lingxi Pavilion to test their spiritual roots was getting shorter and shorter, and more and more people were going down the mountain, he knew that the apprenticeship meeting was really about to begin.

He hadn’t decided which elder to take as his master.

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There were at least thousands of people who came to test their spiritual roots, but only hundreds of people stayed in the end. Most of them were disciples from aristocratic families who had already embarked on the path of cultivating immortals before coming to Yunxi Sect and did not need to take the test again.

Regardless of whether these people can successfully become masters, they can stay in the inner sect of Yunxi Sect. The only difference is that those who have no masters can only attend the sect’s teachings and the classes taught by the elders in turn every day.

In the evening, Shen Leyan heard someone knocking on the door outside the room.

 “Junior Brother Shen, tomorrow is the disciple-recruiting meeting. Please arrive at the martial arts training ground before the morning hour to participate in the sect’s sacrificial ceremony.”

Shen Leyan thanked the disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall who came to convey the message and took a jade token – his name was engraved on the jade token, and there seemed to be spiritual power flowing in it.

The disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall added: “Be sure to bring this jade token with you. It will be used to record your points in the competition later – the specific rules of the competition will be read out by the elders before the apprenticeship meeting tomorrow.”

“Okay. Thank you for the reminder, senior brother.”

As soon as the disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall left, Qingli and Chen Jing came from a distance with a pot of wine and waved to him from a distance.

Shen Leyan smiled and waited for them at the gate of the yard.

 “Qingli, you seem to have lost a lot of weight in just a few days.”

With two dark circles under her eyes, Qingli angrily cursed her crappy job, and finally said: “I really hope that the bad guy Lu Yuanyi can quickly kidnap again… find a test spirit stone to come to Yunxi Sect to take shifts with me, otherwise I will be exhausted to death sooner or later!”

“…Spirit stones can also die?”

Qingli shook her fist at him.

Shen Leyan and Chen Jing laughed.

The black lines on Chen Jing’s body have faded. He didn’t know if it’s because of the previous treatment with the Fire Sun God Wood, the aura of the other party’s fire attribute power seems to be stronger.

 Shen Leyan casually mentioned: “Brother Chen Jing, I remember you said before that you wanted to take Brother Zheng as your master, but Brother Zheng seems to be still in the capital and hasn’t come back yet – have you thought about what to do?”

“If Brother Zheng can’t come back tomorrow, then I will treat this as a training session at the Master-apprenticeship Conference and wait for another five years – what about you, Leyan, which master do you want?”

“I… take it one step at a time.”

“Okay, then I won’t say much. I wish both of us can get what we want tomorrow in advance! I brought a pot of rice wine from the restaurant, do you want to drink it?”

Shen Leyan took out three porcelain bowls from the room, and each of them poured a full bowl.

Rice wine tastes sweet and clear, but it has a strong aftertaste.

Shen Leyan drank slowly, forgetting to remind the two people next to him to drink slowly. When he reacted, Chen Jing and Qingli had flushed cheeks and fell asleep on the stone table in the yard.

He was still mumbling.

 One said, “I want to resign!”

The other said, “Brother Zheng, you must come back.”

He put away the wine bowl with a smile, and then helped the two people into the house.

He took some silver coins and prepared to go to Luoxiang Hall to buy some sobering herbs to cook.

When he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he inadvertently saw someone flying a sword in the sky in the distance. It was not uncommon for someone to fly a sword in Yunxi Sect, but what was unusual was that the person was followed by a white horse with horns and wings, and there were many things on the horse’s back.

Some cultivators like to raise spirit beasts. One of the main peaks of Yunxi Sect is called “Beast Taming Peak”. Each disciple has several spirit beasts, and can summon spirit beasts to help fight when something happens.

However, there are very few disciples in “Beast Taming Peak”, and they are all homebodies and socially anxious. They only like to be with animals, so they are usually not seen at all.

 He looked at the Pegasus curiously for a while. After walking a few steps, he found that the Pegasus seemed to be heading towards his courtyard.

The man flying the sword landed outside the courtyard with his Pegasus.

He was a middle-aged man with a kind face, dark skin, and simple clothes. He looked like a zoo keeper.

Shen Leyan looked at him, waiting for him to speak.

The other party also looked at him.

The two looked at each other in silence for a long time.

Shen Leyan noticed that the other party’s fingers kept kneading the corners of his clothes, as if he was very nervous, and hurriedly greeted him.

“You are…”

“Ah, t-this… I-I am elder Yanshi of the Beast Taming Peak.”

He bowed his hands and saluted, a little confused: “Elder Yanshi… who are you here to see?”

The Beast Taming Peak… seems to have no intersection with him.

 When he slept in class before, he was punished by the instructor to go to the Beast Taming Peak to clean the cages for the spirit beasts. After cleaning, he was covered with feces and urine. It took him two days to wash it clean.

For some reason, Elder Yanshi pressed his body tightly against the Pegasus, and stuttered even more: “Uh… I just came to find you.”

Shen Leyan pretended to listen attentively.

“Umm, isn’t there a master-apprentice meeting tomorrow? I-I thought maybe you are interested in our Beast Taming Peak?”

After saying this, Elder Yanshi seemed to have exhausted all his courage, and lowered his head to stuff the reins of the Pegasus to him.

The dark face seemed to be a little red: “A little gift, you, take it, I’m leaving first!”

After saying that, the other party flew up on the sword and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Shen Leyan: “…”

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No, what happened?

He looked at the beautiful Pegasus beside him, and then at the pile of things behind the Pegasus. 

It seemed that many of them were items needed to take care of Pegasus, as well as some precious spiritual herbs, elixirs, and books…

Shen Leyan rubbed the Pegasus’s furry head for a while, and seemed to have figured it out.

What Elder Yanshi meant was… he hoped that he would worship him as his master tomorrow?

He asked the Pegasus: “Can you fly back to the Beast Taming Peak by yourself? I really can’t take these things.”

Pegasus seemed to like him very much. It rubbed his palm, and signaled him to continue to pet it.

…Okay, then he’ll find a way to send the gift back tomorrow.

He took the Pegasus to the yard and fed it some fruit.

Fortunately, it didn’t rain today. There was no shed in his yard, and there was no place for the Pegasus to hide from the rain.

After arranging these, he continued on the road to Luoxiang Hall.

Passing the path outside the yard, an old man wearing a Bagua Taoist robe and with white hair and beard walked out of the woods on the side, like a star god in a mythological story, blocking his way.

Shen Leyan had previous experience and was familiar with the way.

 “You are…”

“I am Elder Xuanji of Jiuxing Pavilion.”

“Elder Xuanji… why are you here to see me?”

“Tomorrow is the apprenticeship meeting… Are you interested in divination?”

“I——”

“Here are some gifts for meeting you, take them and play with them. Rain or shine, I’ll be waiting for you at Jiuxing Pavilion!”

Shen Leyan: “…”

He looked at the pile of tortoise shells, beads, wooden sticks and the like used for divination in his hand, and fell into deep thought: Hmm… It seems that he has to return some more things tomorrow.

He temporarily stuffed these things into his sleeves and then walked towards Luoxiang Hall.

He walked smoothly all the way to the outside of Luoxiang Hall, but found that the door of Luoxiang Hall was closed.

There was not a single passing disciple nearby.

There was a chubby uncle wearing jewels and playing with two jade walnuts in his hands, sitting on the armchair outside Luoxiang Hall. He smiled at him kindly, revealing a mouthful of inlaid gold teeth.

“Shen Leyan, right? I am Elder Qian Yun who is in charge of Luoxiang Hall…”

Okay, he knew it!

Shen Leyan went through the process expressionlessly: “Hello, Elder Qian Yun.”

“Tomorrow is the apprenticeship meeting. Are you interested in learning business from me… If you are willing, this Luoxiang Hall is the kingdom that this elder has built for you!”

“… Kingdom is not necessary. Can I ask Elder Qian Yun to buy something?”

Qian Yun: “What?”

“Sobering soup.”