“Impossible!!!”
The cultivator refused my request to go see the Imperial Preceptor with ironclad resolve, unwavering and impassioned.
He looked just like a martyr ready to lay down his life for a greater cause.
“You’re not afraid to die now?”
“I’d rather die than betray my principles!”
“So stubborn, huh. Let’s just do a soul search then.” I raised my palm.
“It’s at the Sealing Base in the Xu Realm! You have to catch the Xu Tide and enter the Xu Realm—there’s a Fox Clan member named Xunfang sealed there.”
“There, Ancient Immortal Seniors are stationed to guard the seal, and sometimes the Imperial Preceptor, Bi Jiu, and Dijiang Lord come by to inspect it. That’s all I know. Don’t say it was me who told you.”
The cultivator blurted everything out in one breath, as if shooting out bullets from a machine gun.
Looks like he really understands how cruel a soul search can be.
“Mm, don’t worry.”
This guy’s just a clueless kid being used, not one of those sly old monsters who’ve lived for tens of thousands of years, so I didn’t make things hard for him.
I just knocked him out for now and sealed his cultivation.
“Let’s go, we can find Senior Brother Xiao Ming and Shaori to turn in the mission… Huh…? Cluru? Cluru??”
Where is she? Where did that annoying grass carp run off to?
Just as I was wondering, a broadcast suddenly sounded from outside.
[Has any parent lost a little girl? The girl’s name is Cluru, and she is blind.]
Blind??
I hurriedly dragged the dizzy cultivator to the Visitor Service Desk to claim her.
Cluru’s eyes were swollen and red, tears streaming down her face.
“What happened to you…” I quickly covered Cluru’s eyes and used spiritual energy to heal her.
“I don’t know either,” Cluru sobbed, aggrieved, “I was just hiding in a box reading a book. Everything was fine, then suddenly someone lifted the corner of the box and threw in a flashbang…
It was pitch black in the box, and I had night vision on, so I’m really sensitive to light. Then, with that flashbang… pop! I went blind!”
A flashbang? Who’s so despicable?!
Fuming, I lifted Cluru’s box and quickly found a talisman inside.
It was an Illumination Talisman… Huh?
“If I ever find out who did this, I swear I’ll make her pay!” Cluru gritted her teeth.
I quietly hid the talisman paper.
“Did you find any clues?” Cluru asked.
I shook my head and stealthily tossed the talisman into the black hole.
Alright, it was me…
Before I went to trouble that Jindan Cultivator, I was worried Cluru was reading in the dark and would hurt her eyes, so I threw an Illumination Talisman inside…
Cough.
“That’s terrible!” I said, righteously indignant. “If we find that person, I’ll make sure to teach her a lesson for you! Too bad she’s already gone…”
“It’s alright~” Just then, the pretty lady at the Visitor Service Desk tilted her head and smiled.
“The casino is equipped with 360-degree, round-the-clock, no blind spot surveillance. If you two need help, we can pull up the footage right now.”
“Yes!” “No!”
Cluru and I answered in unison, but not with the same words.
Damn! If they check the surveillance, I’m done for!
“There’s no time to watch surveillance now,” I forced a calm face. “We have a mission from the sect to finish, Cluru. Let’s go turn it in first. We can check the footage later.”
“Okay…” Cluru mumbled, clearly unwilling.
Phew, I barely muddled through that.
To avoid further complications, I quickly pulled Cluru away.
.
Unfortunately, I underestimated the casino staff’s enthusiasm.
Right after we left, the lady at the desk picked up her walkie-talkie.
“Alexia, pull the casino surveillance from the past hour, make an extra copy, and send it to a girl named Cluru.”
[Okay… Did she cheat?]
“No, just helping out. We Saintlight People see helping others as our most basic virtue.”
“So that’s how it went. I won this person through a bet, and he gave me the information I needed.”
I tossed the Jindan Cultivator in front of Xiao Ming and Shaori.
Both of them were dumbfounded.
“His cultivation… he’s probably above the Five Elements Stage! You knocked him out?”
“No, he knocked himself out. He lost the bet.”
Bluffing without blinking, I relayed the information I’d wrung out of him to Xiao Ming and Shaori.
“Correcting History??”
Judging from Xiao Ming and Shaori’s expressions, this was clearly the first time they’d heard about this.
“This is major intel! We’ve been butting heads with the Ancient Immortals for so long, but never knew their motives… Xiao Luo Xian! You’ve done a great deed!”
“Have I?”
I yawned indifferently.
I didn’t share all my information with Xiao Ming and Shaori.
After all, I was planning to meet Xiao Yuwen, and saying too much might get me misunderstood.
People might think I was part of Xiao Yuwen’s remnant faction.
So, the matter of seeing Xiao Yuwen would need to be handled in secret.
“Senior Brother, can I go to the Wenxue Ancient Realm?” I blinked my eyes.
That bright, hopeful gaze left the two Senior Brothers’ minds blank; they just couldn’t say no.
“With your strength… you definitely qualify for the Wenxue Ancient Realm, don’t worry. But is it too early to go now? The Xu Tide is almost here—it’s too dangerous.”
“What’s so dangerous about it?”
The Wenxue Ancient Realm is a training ground in the cultivation world that’s open year-round.
It’s divided into Novice Trial, Regretless Trial, and Return to Truth Trial.
You can think of them as three giant instances of different difficulty.
The Novice Trial is open to mid-Foundation Establishment or lower; Regretless Trial for mid-Qi Refining up to late Nascent Soul; Return to Truth Trial for late Nascent Soul and above.
Because the rewards are rich, competition inside is fierce and it’s easy for people to kill each other for treasure.
“With your talent and strength, entering the Novice Trial is no problem. But… the Xu Tide is almost here. On the day of the Xu Tide, the Novice Trial opens a gate to the Xu Realm, and Xu Beasts will invade Wenxue Ancient Realm en masse.”
The Xu Tide was exactly what I was looking for.
During the Xu Tide, the wall between the realms opens, and I can go into the Xu Realm and meet some old friends.
Well, they probably won’t recognize me now…
“If you want to enter the Xu Realm, Little Junior Sister, I can apply for an entry quota from the sect and contact the insect tribe inside to protect you.”
“No need for all that trouble. Just take me to the Novice Trial entrance.”
I lifted my hand and shook the Qiankun Bag.
I’d taken it from the Jindan Cultivator’s waist.
Back in my day, after whacking someone, swiping their Qiankun Bag was just a simple virtue.
Not a single coin from the corpse went to waste.
A shining example of thriftiness.
“There are Wenxue Ancient Realm entry tokens in his bag. Two of them.” I waved them.
“Alright then, I’ll report this to the sect. Also, we’ll have to bring this cultivator back for further questioning…”
Questioning? He won’t be waking up for at least ten years.
I know what I’m doing.
But that’s good, too. The sooner I ditch these two Taiming Sect wildcards, the sooner I can do my own thing.
“I’ll leave it to you, Senior Brothers.” I cupped my fists.
“Come on, we’ll take you both to Wenxue Ancient Realm…”
Xiao Ming and Shaori got ready to fly with their swords.
Just then, an enthusiastic voice stopped us.
It was that pretty lady from the casino’s Visitor Service Desk.
She smiled brightly, holding a card in her hand:
“Heroine, please wait. This is the casino surveillance from just now.”
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