Chapter 697 - 697 After modification 50 Teaching
697: After modification: Chapter 50 Teaching 697: After modification: Chapter 50 Teaching Actually, if it were a year ago, Yuan Yi would not have refused Xiao Qi’s invitation.
At that time, she was indeed a simple and kind-hearted girl.
Before joining Baihua Valley, she was just a naive girl born into a merchant family, living in the most prosperous Jiangning of Great Chu.
Her parents were engaged in waterway trade.
Although the family was not extremely wealthy, they had never let her suffer.
Hence, Yuan Yi believed that everyone around her was a good person.
This belief did not change until after the Beihai Tomb.
It wasn’t that Yuan Yi became sophisticated and worldly-wise after experiencing life and death, but rather, after returning to the sect from the Beihai Tomb, she suddenly learned that her once promising family was actually struggling bitterly to stay afloat.
In recent years, under the governance of the Xie Family, the various clans of Jiangning had successively capitulated, and the waterway trade had been continuously shrinking.
Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp.
The Yuan Family, without a powerful backer, was nothing more than a slightly larger piece of sugar mud in the vast Jiangning.
After the Xie Family reorganized their subordinate industries, these insignificant small characters were all kicked out.
The Yuan Family was no longer what it used to be.
Therefore, Yuan Yi’s father was eager to ask a longtime acquaintance, an Immortal Master, to exhaust the family fortune if necessary to send her to Baihua Valley for cultivation.
Fortunately, Yuan Yi was determined enough and was favored by Ye Qinglian, holding a glimmer of hope.
During Yuan Yi’s time at Baihua Valley, the family business completely collapsed.
Her father accumulated a lot of debt but never contacted Yuan Yi voluntarily, stopping the rest of the family from doing so either.
His thinking was simple: he didn’t want to disturb Yuan Yi’s cultivation.
Even if the family fell into decline, he still hoped his only daughter could live without worries.
The news of turmoil in Qing State reached Jiangning.
The already miserable Yuan Family, upon hearing the bloody battle of Beihai Tomb where the young disciples of Baihua Valley perished…
it felt like the sky was falling.
Amid the misfortune, there was a lucky break.
Yuan Yi was still alive.
Surviving the great calamity, she finally reunited with her father.
Yuan Yi was very fortunate to have started her cultivation.
Although her current realm was still low, unable to change the decisions made by the Xie Family in Jiangning Territory, she could at least help her family survive.
She sought permission from Ye Qinglian, and her family smoothly relocated from Jiangning to Qing State under the guidance of Baihua Valley, taking over a small part of the remaining business from the Chu Family.
After the death and demise of the Sea Surfing King, Qing State underwent a major reshuffle.
After the tide festival war ended, the State Preceptor spared the Chu Family by leaving them a way out but claimed most of their industries in Qing State.
Now, everything here was controlled by Baihua Valley and the Jiang Family.
In a way, Yuan Yi gave her collapsing family a new lease on life.
Many people mature overnight.
Since that day, Yuan Yi changed significantly.
She began to cultivate hard.
Not just to catch up with Mr.
Xiao Xie, but to shed her useless past self.
If tonight went as usual…
Then Xiao Qi’s visit would receive no response.
Yuan Yi had some sympathy for this Junior Sister Xiao, but it was only limited to sympathy.
She wouldn’t even accept the pastries Xiao Qi brought, probably just politely saying, “It’s late, Junior Sister, rest early,” followed by “If you can’t sleep, focus on your cultivation.”
However, tonight was not a usual night.
Just as Yuan Yi was about to refuse, she suddenly heard a familiar voice in her Heart Lake.
Xie Xuanyi was not resting in the Cave Heaven Spiritual Treasure of the Jiang Family and Baihua Valley.
He was hovering with his sword at the top of Round Turtle Mountain.
The sky was dim, perfect for him.
A sword was hanging at the heavenly peak, surrounded by thin clouds.
His Divine Thought enveloped the entire Round Turtle Mountain, observing every young disciple of Baihua Valley and the Jiang Family…
The specifics of the Southern Border Demon Cleansing were still under discussion, but they no longer involved Xie Xuanyi.
He didn’t want to participate in meaningless debates and respected all decisions made by the Great Chu Inspectors.
However, some things he had to control himself.
During the Northern Hunt, Xie Xuanyi was ambushed once.
That treasure ship, the Jia Geng, was full of evil cultivators.
This time, the candidates for the treasure ship were chosen with contracts by the Book Tower and the Imperial City Department, all trusted allies, presumably more reliable.
Still, the adversary had become the Paperman Sect.
Xie Xuanyi meticulously inspected every unfamiliar disciple.
His understanding of the Paperman Sect was not much greater than others.
The reason he could recognize “Taoist Qian Yuan” was just because he happened to have encountered Dao Jiu before…
If Lu Yuzhen had other Transformed Treasures under his command, infiltrating the treasure ship and lurking beside him, he might not be able to identify them.
Xiao Qi hid very well.
When Xie Xuanyi’s Divine Thought swept over her, he didn’t perceive anything unusual.
Common sense dictated he wouldn’t pay extra attention to this ordinary disciple.
But still.
In the entire Round Turtle Mountain, Xie Xuanyi paid special attention to only one person.
That was Yuan Yi.
So, everything that followed…
naturally happened.
Following Xie Xuanyi’s transmitted instructions, Yuan Yi cooperated with Xiao Qi step by step, left the mountain gate, avoided the patrolling disciples’ surveillance, and finally came to this secluded corner where no one knew.
There, they exposed their disguises and revealed their true cards to each other.
If Xie Xuanyi hadn’t left a special strand of Divine Thought on Yuan Yi, controlling the situation from the beginning, everything would now be passive.
“…”
Looking at the “flying sword” planted in the ground, Xiao Qi’s expression turned ugly.
It was just a casually broken withered branch, not even a separately refined treasure!
At this moment, she recalled the scene of using wind blades to scare the girl earlier.
Only now did she understand why Yuan Yi remained so calm all along.
No wonder Yuan Yi didn’t blink… it turned out that in today’s “invite the enemy into the trap,” she was the prey.
But the other party put too much trust in this young man named Xie!
After all, in her own domain’s barrier, given the previous situation, as long as she changed her mind slightly, the wind blades wouldn’t have swerved and would’ve gone straight through Yuan Yi’s skull!
High above.
A faint golden light hung suspended, resembling a great sun.
Xiao Qi raised her head and frowned.
She couldn’t clearly see the exact sight of that light above her, only finding it dazzling.
At the same time, Xiao Qi felt a faint sense of fortune, thinking that Xie Zhen’s sword move seemed fierce, but the withered branch that ripped through the sky, crashing to the ground, merely split this world in two with a screen of Sword Qi, enveloping Yuan Yi without damaging the barrier’s integrity.
It appeared that Xie Zhen intended to resolve this situation right here without alarming unrelated people.
As such, the barrier’s power remained intact.
The invisible wings behind her subtly quivered—
The shattered wind sea reignited the embers, starting to flow again.
Xiao Qi took a deep breath, Dao Realm power surging.
As the wind began to intensify again, she heard a cold and indifferent voice.
“…
Green Vine Chapter, third style.”
Xiao Qi paused, stunned.
The voice fell from the sky, landing on the ground, rippling out, silently blending with the wind, dispersing the accumulating fierce wind.
For a moment, the branches and leaves swayed, the vegetation bowed.
Standing a little distance away from Xiao Qi, the girl had a solemn expression, gripping a reed sword, posing.
“Ha?!”
Xiao Qi chuckled in anger.
She found it utterly ridiculous.
The recent words… were meant for Yuan Yi!
What a joke?
Yuan Yi was merely in the Qi-controlling Realm, while she was in the Yin God Realm!
This Xie thinks to instruct a Qi-controlling Realm to compete with her?!
But that’s just how absurd things are.
One dares to teach, the other dares to fight.
Yuan Yi tightly gripped the reed sword, stepped forward, and lifted the sword tip, making a series of green vines grow from the ground.
It was a very simple sword move, often used for defense in the Baihua Valley sword manual, but in Yuan Yi’s hands, it carried a sense of selfless sacrifice.
This Qi-controlling Realm girl didn’t care what would become of herself after wielding this sword—
She thrust the sword forward.
Countless green vines grew against the fierce wind.
Watching this, Xiao Qi’s face turned dark, feeling deeply insulted.
She gathered her Dao Realm power to war against Xie Xuanyi high above.
Thinking Xie Xuanyi’s unwillingness to draw his sword against her was insulting enough, but did he seriously intend for a Qi-controlling Realm to defeat her?
Qi-controlling Realm ant!
She could crush them with a single palm—
Facing such a sword move, naturally, Xiao Qi wouldn’t step back.
Her expression twisted in rage, and her eyes brimmed with killing intent.
The surrounding air turned frigid.
Xiao Qi stood still, using the most simple yet contemptuous way to retaliate—
She lifted her sleeve and raised her palm.
Whirling winds formed a giant hand, dozens of feet wide, slowly scraping the ground, converging.
Rumble!
Roaring sounded in Yuan Yi’s ears, but she hesitated not, advancing with her sword.
She cared for no other sounds in this world.
She only cared for one person.
That person instructed her to strike, so she struck, told her to use “Green Vine Chapter, third style,” so she used it.
“No need to change moves.”
Xie Xuanyi stood at the peak, hands behind his back, calmly observing.
His voice, clear and distinct, penetrated Yuan Yi’s Heart Lake: “This one sword is enough.”
Yuan Yi’s pace quickened.
She could feel the thunderous roar around her—
The colossal wind-forged hand was about to engulf and crush her!
But just as the wind was to crash on the girl’s frail body, the withered branch planted in the ground subtly trembled, releasing an unseen pitch-black Dao Realm energy.
It cleaved the entire Dao Realm world, turning into an almost negligible sword Qi barrier.
This black line shot up, slicing through the ferocious wind built upon the Annihilation Dao Realm, shattering it.
Then, a faint tearing sound echoed in the air.
Sssss!
Yuan Yi stared ahead in stunned disbelief.
Green Vine Chapter, third style.
The least remarkable move of the entire chapter…
Executed by a Qi-controlling Realm cultivator like her.
It actually pierced right into the body of a Yin God Venerable.
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(PS: Apologies for the late update.
It’s been a while since I did a binge update, and I’m not quite used to this pace.
But staying up all night was a refreshing change.
If all goes well, expect more updates tomorrow.
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