Chapter 13 Haha, they really believed it!

  After about an incense stick of time, a white-clothed woman in the distance stepped on a flying sword and flew over with a rescue spirit symbol in her hand.

  As they approached the Azure Cloud Peak, a faint, flickering light screen seemed to flash for an instant, but the woman shook the golden spirit symbol in her hand and the light screen vanished.

  A moment later, the flying sword landed on the ground, and several black and white figures bowed in unison: "We have seen Master Five!"

  "No need to be polite." The woman in white looked at the crowd, then at the three demons kneeling in a row, and couldn't help but laugh: "The situation isn't too bad, after all. Encountering such an array, yet there aren't any extremely severe casualties."

  Yue Yun said: "Thanks to Wang Lu Shixiong's mighty power."

  "Ah, you are... Yue Yun who entered the sect more than four years ago?" The woman carefully sized up this young inner disciple, then looked at the remnants of the Golden Stone Cage not far away and said, "At that time, Second Master said you were a cultivator willing to sacrifice yourself and endure hardships. Indeed, he wasn't wrong. Sacrificing yourself to cover for your fellow disciples' retreat, as an experienced guide, your bravery is worthy of praise."

  Yue Yun was both shocked and delighted, having heard that this Fifth Uncle had always been at odds with the Misty Peak, although they rarely interacted, she had assumed he would be a difficult elder to talk to, but didn't expect him to praise her so highly!

  "But... it's a good thing to be willing to sacrifice, but unnecessary sacrifices should be avoided if possible. You should know that facing the two Stone Apes head-on with your own strength would be lucky if you only get heavily injured, so why not join forces with Huo Ying?"

  Yue Yun explained: "Because at that time, we didn't expect Wang Lu's ability, and the younger brothers and sisters must have someone to take care of them, so I arranged for Huo Ying to go..."

  "Must someone take care of them? How ridiculous! You seniors are leaders, not babysitters for these little demons! The training of the Ling Jian Sect is not a game without danger, and those who do not truly experience life-and-death trials will only die faster when they leave the mountain gate. Do you think encountering two Stone Wooden Apes and one Moon-Howling Beast is a difficult situation? In my time, when I and your master's generation were sent out as trainees by the Ling Jian Sect, over 100 fellow disciples were reduced to just over a dozen. That was true trial! You are far from it!"

  Yue Yun's face turned pale with cold sweat, and he didn't even mention that he had indeed done a lot of work beyond the scope of the guidebook... Just the fact that his master was always mysterious and tight-lipped about the management training project made him feel terrified.

  "Alright, this time you've all done quite well in your trials. I won't say anything more about it. The rest of you are the same - although to me you still seem a bit green, the path to immortality is one that's walked step by step. Let's just consider this trial at an end for now, even though it looks like there's still half the journey left - your experiences should be enough to digest for a while."

  The woman finished speaking and stretched out her hand, producing several green bamboo swords: "Each of you take one, the destination has already been set for you, it's at Sì Xiàng Peak."

  Sì Xiàng Fēng is the relay point of Líng Jiàn Twelve Peaks, with four paths and eight roads leading to it, so setting it up like this is also reasonable. Yuè Yún and others nodded, each hugging their bamboo swords, ready to leave.

  However, when it was time to leave, the five elders themselves did not seem to want to go, and Wang Lu stood quietly by her side. Yue Yun was curious in her heart and asked, "Aren't you leaving, Fifth Master Uncle?"

  The woman was taken aback for a moment, then coughed and said: "It's like this... With so many goblins appearing in Wangyue Valley at the same time, deliberately targeting you seasoned cultivators, it's likely that something is amiss. If the spell restrictions of Qingyun Peak have gone wrong, the consequences would be disastrous. So I'll go with Wang Lu to check the nearby restrictions, let's just consider it a field lesson."

  Yue Yun and the others were suddenly moved, true transmission is indeed true transmission, even if the master is so unreliable, it's still better than other disciples with countless more opportunities to learn... No wonder he was able to defeat Wang Yue in a duel at just second-grade cultivation, truly enviable.

  Moreover, the five elders didn't seem as bad as rumored. Not only did they take good care of their younger disciples, but they also considered the safety of the local spell restrictions, truly a model of meticulous responsibility!

  With a gaze of reverence, Yue Yun and the others flew away from Qingyun Peak on their green light, while after the figures of several people disappeared into the sea of clouds, the woman in white couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "Haha, they actually believed it!"

  Wang Lu shrugged: "What's there to be proud of, bullying a few kids? Now that the sects have rules, if you're deceived, it doesn't count as deception... otherwise, I'd feel embarrassed deceiving Yue Yun, that honest person. But first, let's think about how to deal with the Sect Master and others when we get back."

  The woman patted her full chest with confidence: "Of course, I'll deny it to the end! No money is given, no life is taken, see what you can do!"

  "......Master, I have a question about the true transmission of disciples."

  "Go on."

  "If a true transmission disciple's master is stripped of their elder qualifications, does the disciple's true transmission status remain?"

  "...... Come on, don't be so distrustful of me, how could such a small matter shake my position as an elder...... Hmm, probably not. " Later on, the Fifth Elder himself felt somewhat uneasy, "So let's hurry up."

  After finishing, the five elders drew out the emerald bamboo sword and stretched out their hands to pull Wang Lu up: "The academic overachiever of professional herbal medicine, cheer up, opportunities are rare, not a single minute or second can be wasted."

  "Hah, you also know that opportunities are hard to come by, right? If it weren't for me helping you, you wouldn't be able to enter Qingyun Peak even in a hundred years! So how do you plan on thanking me?"

  Master was very generous: "Five-five open!"

  "Deal, but find Zhu Guo first."

  "Good, I also need that thing, let's pick enough at once!"

  In the midst of a long laugh, the Emerald Bamboo Sword galloped freely in the Moonlit Valley, and in an instant, it had entered the Azure Dragon Gorge! The Azure Dragon Gorge was also one of the most fertile places within the Small Blue Clouds' domain, where three or four grades of spiritual grass grew in abundance.

  Of course, correspondingly, the number of refined monsters lurking in this place is also the most, among which there are even third-grade or higher refined monsters, far from being able to contend with ordinary Qi-refining cultivators... However, true cultivators who have reached the foundation-building period cannot enter Xiao Qingyun at will according to the sect rules.

  Therefore, some of the herbs produced in Xiaoqingyun Qinglong Gorge are particularly precious, which is also a generous welfare for the young cultivators who dare to challenge their own limits by the Lingjian Sect.

  Now, the generous welfare of the Lingjian Sect is being plundered in a shocking manner. A certain boar-like barbarian invader, under the careful guidance of a traitor, is rapidly and effectively picking various rare spiritual herbs in Qinglong Gorge.

  "At eleven o'clock, the platform five hundred meters away is recorded as the growth point of Lingzhi in Qinglong Gorge, with a higher probability of collecting thousand-year-old Lingzhi."

  On the emerald bamboo sword, Wang Lu held a volume of "Qing Yun Zhi" and combined his knowledge of herbal medicine to point out the growth location of the spiritual medicine for his master.

  But the master reacted in the first time, flying sword direction a turn, straight pounce on the high platform where the Lingzhi grew, and when the green light approached, several voices of the monster's startled roar came from the high platform, several sturdy black shadows fled in disarray from the high platform, all the way to the distant place.

  That was the third-level spirit guardian of Lingzhi, which was almost an unsolvable problem for a small cultivator in the Qi-refining stage. For many years, only a few lucky ones from the Lingjian Sect had managed to deceive their guards and obtain the special product, Lingzhi, from Qinglong Gorge... But now, with the arrival of the five elders, they simply released a small amount of Dan Qi, which shocked these spirit guardians into a state of confusion, causing them to flee in panic.

  "Very good, one Water Spirit Ginseng and one Wood Spirit Ginseng, both with medicinal properties of over a thousand years. It's no wonder it's Qinglong Gorge." The white-clothed woman had two clusters of dense spiritual energy in her hands, enveloping the medicinal herbs on the high platform to prevent their potency from leaking out.

  Wang Lu nodded on the side: "This should be a node of the Qingyun Peak's vein, especially suitable for nourishing spiritual mushrooms like Lingzhi, unfortunately, I didn't see the legendary thousand-year-old flesh Lingzhi."

  "It doesn't matter, if quality is not enough, quantity will make up for it. There may not be any that are thousands of years old, but there are plenty that are five or six hundred years old."

  "My god, you're even picking 500-year-old Lolita grass? Are you trying to wipe them out completely?"

  "After all, it's a once-in-a-hundred-years opportunity, if we don't take action, are we going to leave it for others?"

  Watching the white-clothed woman stretch out her slender hand and sweep away the lingzhi that had accumulated on the high platform for hundreds or thousands of years, Wang Lu felt a sense of admiration for his master's unyielding integrity. As expected, he used the Three Lights Policy, completely disregarding the importance of sustainable development. At the same time, he couldn't help but consider how to extract himself from this mess after it happened.

  Alas, it's actually simple, just say that I was forced to do so. Anyway, Master's bottom line has always been unpredictable, and no matter how much he slanders me, it won't be excessive.

  The Fifth Elder, who was completely unaware that he had been sold out by his disciple, was fully immersed in the happiness of becoming rich overnight.

  "Great, I've got Zhu Guo, Jin Xian Cao, and Qian Nian Ling Zhi. My Qian Ling Dan is now complete! Haha, when the time comes, I'll fire up two furnaces, eat one batch and sell one batch, and my wine money will be settled too! Alright, let's keep pushing forward and try to get that Chi Lian Guo as well!"

  Seeing Master Wang still wanting to make progress, King Lu hurriedly pulled him back: "I'm going to rely on you, don't overindulge in lust, let's just leave now. If we're stopped halfway by the Sect Leader and Elder Zhang, all the things you've hidden in your pockets will have to be taken out!"

  The master was suddenly enlightened by Wang Lu's words: "That makes sense! Alright, let's stop here for today... Let's hurry and leave, we mustn't get caught!"

  The words had barely fallen when Qingtong Sword was fully activated, and the sword flew out of Qingyun Peak like a flash of lightning.

  After a few breaths, a golden sword light descended from the sky and landed on the Lingzhi High Platform. The sword light dissipated, revealing an angry old man, who was none other than Second Elder Liu Xian, who had rushed over hastily after receiving news from his disciple.

  The old man looked down at the mess on the high platform, and then glanced around. The most valuable medicinal herb growth areas near Qinglong Gorge had all been ruined, with extremely severe losses!

  Although Qingyun Peak's affairs were not his responsibility, this time it was the disciples of Lingfeng Gate who released the spirit symbol, and they were taken advantage of by that despicable person... In the future, if the master of Qingyun Peak returns from traveling outside, how will he explain himself to him?!

  "Wang Wu...... Wang Wu! Wang Wu!!!"

  Liu Xian was unable to hold back his inner rage, and with a loud roar towards the sky, the Primordial Infant shook violently!

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