Chapter 358 - 262: Like Waves, Like Tides
Xing Yuanzhi is a female disciple of the Qingtang Sect on Wangwu Mountain, and she once had an encounter with the Sword Sect disciple Liu Xiaoliu (Tie); they had cultivated together twice.
She was originally ordered by her sect to infiltrate the Snow Mountain Palace to thwart the demons’ unsealing plot. Later, she accidentally entered Mr. He Lin’s great formation, got involved in the Lanling incident, and barely escaped alive. She thought her misfortunes were over and her merits sufficient to enter the Inner Sect, planning to return to the mountain to focus on forming her Nascent Soul without external disturbances. However, a calamity struck the Mystic Sect again.
Xing Yuanzhi’s previous calamity had passed, but because she had worked undercover for so many years, she was familiar with the geographical features of the Kan State and Northern Land. Thus, the Qingtang Sect Master assigned her the position of an Inner Sect Disciple to lead the way out of the mountain with the Mystic Sect Disciples and earn great merit.
If she could open the Snow Mountain Palace’s ancestral tomb treasury in the chaos, not to mention the sect’s rewards of heavenly materials and treasures, she would even get a share of the secret manual for divinity transformation. Upon successfully forming her Nascent Soul, she would at least hold a managerial position in the sect. Even if she were to die and reincarnate, she could be directly taken as a disciple under the Sect Leader.
Therefore, Xu Yuanzhi decided on the spur of the moment, gritted her teeth, stomped her foot, and joined the formation...
"Beyond one’s capabilities, greedy and insatiable, leading to the path of self-destruction."
Tie Dan boiled his own change of robe with Daoist energy, tore it into strips, and bandaged her while listening, wrapping Xing Yuanzhi up like a mummy. After listening, he coldly commented.
Yuanzhi protested,
"How could I disobey the orders of my sect? If I don’t give face to the Sect Leader, how can I continue on the mountain? Who knows how many shoes they’ll make me wear in the future!"
"Do you even have a future?"
Tie Dan poked at her cooked flesh, with blood and oil seeping everywhere.
"Having such awareness yet still shouting for me to save you; why not just directly undergo soldier disintegration."