ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 171 Encounter on a narrow road

"Hello."

When Du Xinghe walked over, everyone's body inevitably tensed up.

This is the pressure from Jin Dan, and also because of her reputation. Who is not afraid of her sword?

They greeted her politely: "Hello, Senior Du."

"Thank you for taking care of my apprentice,"

Du Xinghe raised his hand, and ten soul flowers flew out from the back of his hand, landing on each person respectively. "My disciple is naughty, lazy and greedy, and must have caused you a lot of trouble. This is a thank you gift to you, so don't be polite to me."

Her expression was gentle and her words were polite, but she naturally acted like a superior and no one dared to smile in front of her.

"This……"

The ten people showed surprised expressions.

Soul flowers are the hard currency in the Ten States Secret Realm. They only provided some shelter and food to Miss Shenshui, and they each got a soul flower for nothing. They thanked her sincerely, and then they noticed the back of Senior Du's hand that was like a thousand-petal lotus, and immediately understood why she was so generous.

"Then, let's say goodbye."

Du Xinghe signaled Xinyue and Canshui to follow her.

Before leaving, Shenshui did not forget to turn around and wave at them. Although he was obviously a male ape, his wave showed a livelier and more innocent feeling than that of a woman.

……

When Du Xinghe walked to the end where the ten people could not see him and his figure completely disappeared from their sight, they truly breathed a sigh of relief: "Fellow Daoist Canshui is so gentle and lovely, but he has such a scary master..."

"Really? I think her master is a good person. Didn't he give each of us a soul flower?"

This is a simpler idea, rubbing the back of the hand with the fingertips happily.

Another person mused, "She didn't even shy away from showing us the number of soul flowers on the back of her hand."

Although they travel together, they are not really close friends. They all use their own methods to hide the soul flowers in their hands, unlike her who shows them to others openly: "It's rare that a Jindan is so naive and has no guard against others at all."

There was a hint of disapproval in his words.

"Being on guard against others?"

The leading monk chuckled and asked everyone, "What should she be on guard against about us?"

With just one sentence, everyone was silent.

Yes.

It was not difficult to conceal the soul flower in her hand, but it was difficult to calmly show it in front of others. They could not pose even the slightest threat to her. To put it bluntly, she did not take them seriously, just like people would not go to great lengths to hide their strength in front of ants. She had no intention of bullying anyone, but the pressure of the sword intent around her made them feel suffocated. Only by lowering their heads could they breathe more smoothly.

After a moment of silence, they tacitly chose not to mention the matter again.

In everyone's heart, there was a faint image of a pretty figure, but behind that figure, there was a huge shadow of a person named Senior Du...

“This flying feeling—”

At this moment, the beautiful figure was letting herself go, grabbing the vines hanging from the big tree, swinging back and forth among the dense forest, and her laughter spread far and wide.

Du Xinghe wondered: "Is it really fun for me to take you flying on a sword at this height?"

"Master, I'll take you with me!"

In a flash, Shanshui grabbed his master with one hand and his senior sister with the other and lifted them up.

After swinging a few times, Du Xinghe asked him to put him down.

"Master, isn't it fun?"

Still not satisfied with the water, he selected the thickest, most stable, yet flexible vine from among the many vines: "Master, do you want to swing on your own? Master, using this vine, you will feel great!"

Du Xinghe calmly declined his apprentice's enthusiastic invitation:

"It took Homo erectus 10,000 years to evolve into humans, not to degenerate after training."

Shenshui felt quite regretful and turned to look at Xinyue: "Senior Sister..."

Xinyue: "Go away."

Be brief, straightforward and clear.

Compared with Xinyue, Shenshui's days have been more exciting and fulfilling. The former doesn't want to make his master worry, and only wants to report good news but not bad news. The latter, on the other hand, doesn't have any complicated thoughts at all, and wants to tell his master everything that happened.

Du Xinghe listened for a while and said, "Stop it. You don't have to tell me about your experiences related to love between men and women."

Everyone has different preferences.

Du Xinghe really found it hard to imagine how he could deal with ten people and make every male cultivator like him.

Shenshui tilted his head and smiled at her: "Master thinks too much about men. As long as they feel protective of me and feel that they can get me with a little effort, they will provide me with all the help they can. They will not suffer any loss. I am just being nice. Without me, they really haven't been so happy these days."

There is no contribution at all, it's all emotional value.

"The day before yesterday, I met Ming Zhi."

"She seems to be looking for something in Yanzhou, but her three brothers are not around. Instead, she is with Qin Qingyue of Wuliang Sect."

"Su Yan stopped us yesterday and asked us if we had seen his sister. He said if we told him anything false, he would cast our protective spells on us. We told him the truth. When he heard that his sister was following Qin Qingyue, his face turned even uglier. He kicked the fellow Taoist who had spoken to him to the ground and flew away on his sword. His brother who followed him came to apologize."

Shenshui is good at shapeshifting. In order to make his master feel more immersive, he changes into the appearance of that person when he repeats their words. All the eunuchs who love to pass on messages in palace fighting novels pale in comparison to his performance.

"Zhizhi, is it really okay for you not to act with the people from the Nine Yang Sect at this Immortal Alliance Conference?"

"It's okay..." Shenshui, who had turned into Mingzhi, shook his head sadly: "Brother Qingyue, do you know? Senior Brother has changed. He has become so scary. He is no longer the senior brother who was gentle and patient to me. I'd better not make things difficult for him in front of him. Senior Brother Su's temperament has changed drastically, and Second Senior Brother is also weird. Although Third Senior Brother is good, he has to take care of Second Senior Brother now. I only have you."

The performance was so emotional that even Shen Shui squeezed out a tear.

"I will protect you, Zhizhi."

Then, the water replaced three faces that Du Xinghe didn't recognize, each showing an expression of nausea and rolling eyes.

Du Xinghe: "Who are these three?"

"They are disciples of Wuliang Sect. They finally found Qin Qingyue. Later, when they heard their senior brother say that he would protect the little junior sister of Jiuyang Sect, they had this expression."

It's so thoughtful, and the audience's reactions are interpreted vividly.

Then, the water turned into Su Yan's face again. His facial features were tense. He grabbed the collar of the non-existent monk and asked, "Have you seen my junior sister?"

"You...your master...who is your junior sister..." The cultivator was barely breathing.

"explain!!!!"

Another cultivator came out: "We saw her yesterday. She was with Qin Qingyue, the chief disciple of Wuliang Sect."

"... Oh, good, very good, my junior sister has left with the people from the Wuliang Sect!"

There is also a scene where a monk is almost strangled to death: "No, no... who...?"

Shenshui performed an entire episode of a romance novel by himself.

The richness of his emotions, the exquisite acting skills...

Blade and Soul review: "An old actor, you can tell he's an old actor at first glance."

Du Xinghe wondered why he had to kill spirit beasts or fight every day. Well, the show had already been performed by others.

They were all touched by the ginseng water.

Xinyue watched his performance quietly and asked, "How come you saw it all? They said such embarrassing things... I won't mention the guy surnamed Su, but Mingzhi didn't even avoid you and let you hear it all?"

Du Xinghe was not surprised, as these people all had a bit of histrionic personality.

Even if she had already made an expression that she didn't want to watch or hear anything, they would still perform a wonderful drama in front of her and make her a part of their play.

“Hehe,” Shenshui shook his finger, “Then Senior Sister, you don’t know. Master sent me to the Wanfa Temple before, and the sea monk taught me a unique skill to hide my breath, called the Turtle Breathing Technique. Even if someone’s cultivation is higher than mine, they can’t detect my existence.”

Du Xinghe: "I was right to teach you this spell."

Hearing this, Xinyue suppressed the smile on her face, looking a little unwilling.

Master and his junior fellow apprentice have a little secret.

hateful.

When mentioning the Wanfa Temple, a trace of discomfort flashed across Du Xinghe's face.

The jade shield buckled around her waist heard the sound of Shenshui and turned over. Four short turtle legs grew out. At first glance, it looked like a delicate little turtle carved out of jade. It waved its little paws lively, "Shenshui, long time no see!"

Xinyue lowered her eyes and looked at it.

This was not the first time she had seen it. This was the thing that was clamoring for barbecue at the campfire yesterday.

At that time, the piece of meat entered its mouth and melted into the green jade and disappeared.

There is another strange thing around Master...

Xinyue asked calmly: "Master, what is this?"

Du Xinghe pondered for a moment, looked down at Jingxin looking up at him, and answered more calmly: "My tortoise honey."

"mum?"

Jingxin kicked her legs helplessly, not knowing whether this was a good word.

"This voice...Jingxin! You are here too? When did you come?"

Shenshui recognized its voice. The monkey and the turtle were old friends in a foreign land. Du Xinghe simply took off the jade shield from his waist and threw it to him: "You two go and reminisce about the past. Follow me to find the soul flower, and by the way, find materials for Senior Brother and Master according to the list."

She used magic to make three copies and handed them to the two men.

Du Xinghe guessed that with his efficiency in collecting soul flowers, he would definitely be in the top ten.

But what she wanted was to be first.

At the same time, Zheng Tianlu, who was outside the secret realm, saw this scene and said proudly to the unknown cultivator beside him: "Hehe, my junior sister is really something. She was still thinking about helping me find materials during the Immortal Alliance Competition. What kind of medicinal materials does Miaohuo Sect not have? She is the only one who is thoughtful and thinks about me and Master."

Others don't really want to hear him brag:

"……oh."

After a few days, many of the three hundred monks were eliminated. Some knew that their results were too poor, so they packed up and went home without waiting for the results to be announced.

More people want to take this opportunity to stay and see how big the gap is between themselves and their outstanding peers.

Zheng Tianlu sat in front of the water mirror and waited for several cultivators who were eliminated by Du Xinghe.

Especially Yu Yan, whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot. The Yu family members who were waiting for him outside were even more angry: "Can't you just collect soul flowers step by step? Do you have to provoke someone stronger than you? Who do you think you are? How many times have I told you not to do things you are not sure of? You have made the Yu family lose face, can't you learn from your brother?"

Hearing his elders mention his brother, Yu Yan's face turned pale. He whispered in defense: "I have considered it, I really have considered it. I thought that if I didn't fight, I would use the Golden Crystal Card to apologize to Senior Du. I didn't expect that she would not accept it..."

People are limited by their inherent thinking.

Xuan Dynasty has many immortal cultivation families with profound backgrounds. They all live in the same place, and their ancestors have been related to each other to some extent. Even if they are distant relatives, they can always find some relatives if they are determined to find out. Therefore, even if there is a conflict or they do something bad, it is easy to deal with it. Just show sincerity and admit your weakness. Yu Yan's tricks have been successful in the past.

Since the Gold Crystal Card is not needed, just give some Spirit Stones as compensation.

Today he showed what he thought was his greatest sincerity, but was told that it wouldn't work.

"You didn't expect that?" The elder of the Yu family laughed angrily. He was silent for a moment before he sighed, "Well, it's because we didn't teach you thoroughly enough, and made you think that anything can be solved with spirit stones."

"I didn't hit anyone with the spirit stone. I apologized sincerely!"

Yu Yan felt extremely wronged.

He certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to use spirit stones to attack a Jindan cultivator, as he called himself a junior.

"Your apology may be even less worthwhile than the spirit stone in the eyes of others."

The elder's words made Yu Yan's heart sink to the bottom of the river.

The two spoke in low voices, and Zheng Tianlu was closer, so the other party might not have intended for him to hear. He was Senior Brother Du Xinghe, and everyone in Xihe Garden knew that they all wanted to have such a wealthy and generous senior brother. After they left, Zheng Tianlu said, "Yu Yan hit a wall. My junior sister is the most free-spirited. She didn't take the Jinjing card and then beat him out of the secret realm, which is considered her restraint... Tianxiao, why are you holding your stomach?"

"Just a little stomachache."

Zheng Tianlu: "You didn't eat anything."

"I have a disease that causes stomachaches when I see others have spirit stones but don't take them."

"…Then you just bear with the pain."

He doesn't care even if he is in so much pain. Humph, his junior sister who regards money as dirt is still more beautiful!
After a while, the four people who besieged Xinyue and were sent out of the secret realm by Du Xinghe also found Zheng Tianlu and complained to him that his junior sister was unreasonable: "Can you at least listen to our explanation? We can apologize to her!"

Zheng Tianlu glared: "You bullied my nephew and you dare to complain to me? I'm lucky I didn't continue to beat you!"

He said it aggressively, and the monk couldn't hold it back and laughed: "You, an alchemist, are going to fight four of us?"

Zheng Tianlu was so angry.

They are both threatening words, why is it that my junior sister's words make people tremble, while his make people laugh?

What's so funny about that?
Not only did Zheng Tianlu have a low level of cultivation, he also had a kind and lovable little round face, and when he glared, he looked like a red panda baring its teeth.

The four monks couldn't help laughing, but before they could laugh for a while, a tall shadow came over them like a dark cloud.

All I heard was the alchemist asking, "Tianxiao, do I have to pay extra to beat up the four of them?"

Tian Xiao stared at the four people for a moment and said regretfully:

"No need to add, they are all very weak."

Before the Immortal Alliance arrived to mediate, the four of them had been electrocuted into a new look. The afro hair that was permed by the spiritual power electric current could not be changed by human power. Unless they shaved their heads, they would have to bear this ridiculous look for more than half a month, and only when the spiritual power attached to the hair naturally dissipated could they return to normal.

Zheng Tianlu folded his arms and chuckled:
"Let them laugh at me. I know at a glance that I don't have much travel experience. Everyone knows that alchemists always have thugs one level higher than them!"

Even if the elders of the four came to ask for accountability, Zheng Tianlu would be able to talk back.

If you underestimate the alchemist, then don’t come to buy pills from me in the future!

If you have the ability, go and refine it yourself!
Tian Xiao did not comment.

……

Let’s talk about the three people in the secret realm.

After the two disciples returned to his side, Du Xinghe no longer had any other worries. With the help of a healer, he felt at ease. He began to look for spirit beasts with soul flowers to kill. Wherever he passed, no grass grew.

The ten monks who got the Soul Flowers from Du Xinghe didn't have time to be happy for too long before they found that they couldn't see any Soul Flowers in Yanzhou!

Du Xinghe activated the Purple Wisdom Pupil, which was like turning on a plug-in that allowed him to see through the entire map.

Ginseng water thrives in the wild environment, and when the monkey is released back to the mountains, a long stick will hit it, and the soul flower will slowly float out from the top of its head along with the soul of the spirit beast. Xinyue follows beside it, cutting out the parts of the spirit beast that can be used as medicine from its corpse, and giving the rest to Qilin to eat.

Du Xinghe would not steal other people's soul flowers, but if she saw a spirit beast that someone else was chasing, the soul flowers would be hers.

There was a foundation-building cultivator whose life she had spared whose prey she had snatched away. Because she had let him go before, he actually forgot the proper respect for his seniors and blurted out, "Senior, that was my prey. It was shot by my arrow and has my spiritual power in it. You can see if what I said is true or not."

He spoke sincerely, and was afraid that Senior Du would think he was lying.

Du Xinghe didn't even look at him, and killed the panicked flame pig with a sword. He pulled out an arrow with a spiritual command from its body and threw it in front of him: "I'll give you the arrow back."

Return the arrow to him...

What about his prey? He finally found a spirit beast weaker than himself!
The foundation-building cultivator's heart was bleeding. He added, "That prey is mine, senior."

As soon as he finished speaking, his heart-protecting amulet shattered and a pale white barrier slowly opened around him.

——Just a hint of sword intent forced out his heart-protecting amulet.

The foundation-building monk was extremely stunned.

Senior Du was so reasonable before, and she let him go when she saw him, and didn't snatch the soul flower from his hand. Why did she snatch his prey and hit his heart amulet without saying a word? He wanted to argue with Senior Du, but found that she had disappeared.

At this moment, he understood——

The reason he didn't rob him was that Senior Du was too lazy to swing his sword at someone weaker, but if he talked too much in front of her, it would be a simple matter to finish him off.

After a flash of white light, he was teleported back to Xihe Garden.

Xinyue came close to Du Xinghe and said, "Master, I seemed to see a barrier pop up just now. Who attacked you?"

"Ah? No."

Du Xinghe showed a bewildered look on his face, and after a moment he remembered: "Oh, there was a very noisy cultivator, and I sent him out of the secret realm because I thought he was too noisy."

Xinyue suddenly realized and smiled sweetly: "So that's how it is, Master is such a nice person."

The sword spirit racked his brains but couldn't figure out what formula he used to come to the conclusion that it was great to be able to cross the galaxy.

"Master! I have dealt with the three spirit beasts with soul flowers in the south, and found another spirit beast with soul flowers in the valley, but..." Shenshui looked embarrassed: "That spirit beast is very strong, I don't know its strength, and I dare not step directly into its territory, for fear of angering it in advance. Should we kill it or go to another place?"

Looking across the ten states, many soul flowers are attached to weaker spirit beasts.

They could just plunder the weak spirit beasts and avoid the relatively powerful spirit beasts.

Du Xinghe lowered his head and glanced at the backs of the hands of the three people.

With their efforts, even the slowest Shenshui has caught up, with beautiful multi-petal flowers blooming on the back of his hand: "Remember what the master said? In fact, the natural treasures encountered in the secret realm are also part of the reward. The powerful spirit beasts must have more precious resources. It's rare to have the protection of the heart amulet, so we should try it."

It was rare for her to talk so much with her two apprentices.

In fact, there is no need for further explanation. The two of them just obey her and don't have any doubts at all.

However, the judges in front of the water mirror all showed appreciation, especially Chi Wenxing: "Finally, there is a smart one."

The leader was having a good time everywhere, and she, as the deputy leader, was forced to sit here and watch the stupid show the whole time. She had long been fed up with their stupidity. The Ten States was a semi-artificial secret realm created by the second immortal alliance. All the spirit beasts in it had passed the inspection of the immortal alliance and their strength was inferior to hers. They were protected by the heart-protecting amulets she made. The cultivators who trained in it did not have to worry about their lives and could challenge powerful spirit beasts to their heart's content.

This is the reward for young cultivators who rank among the top three hundred in the Immortal Alliance Competition.

The judge next to her said, "Since Vice Alliance Leader Chi has put so much effort into this, why not set it so that the more powerful the spirit beast, the more soul flowers it has? Wouldn't that allow them to be more proactive in challenging spirit beasts that are more powerful than themselves?"

After this person finished speaking, Chi Wenxing sneered three times, and the resentment in her sneers became heavier with each one. This was the resentment accumulated from working overtime for several consecutive days, and she would vent it indiscriminately on everyone who offended her:
"If he can't think of it himself and doesn't have the desire to make progress, why does he need me to guide him? Don't even think about it."

"I just want to indiscriminately place soul flowers on spirit beasts of different strengths. Don't you think it's fun to see those idiots only look for spirit beasts weaker than themselves to kill and miss the real treasures?"

"The treasures I put on powerful spirit beasts are rewards for the brave."

"I don't have the kind of fairness you're talking about!"

The judge never expected that his well-intentioned words would be met with four responses in return.

The judge next to him looked at him helplessly and could only say in secret: "I told you not to mess with Chi Wenxing. She was originally the executioner in the Immortal Alliance. She was promoted by the leader just before the competition started. All matters related to the Immortal Alliance competition were handed over to her. How could she not be resentful?"

"I see! Well, I didn't mean it, why was she so mean to me?"

The old judge with white hair pursed his lips in grievance.

Du Xinghe, who was recognized by Chi Wenxing as a "brave man", stepped directly on Chi Xiao. His heavy sword could accommodate three people flying together. They passed through the strange mountains on both sides that were as thin as fan blades and came to a turbulent stream.

Even though I haven't seen the spirit beast in its true form, I can feel its unfathomable aura from afar.

High-level monks emphasize not showing their emotions on their faces.

Even the most straightforward and open-minded cultivators will not let their emotions show under the pressure of spiritual power. However, spiritual beasts do not have this requirement. When a high-level spiritual beast occupies an area, the flowers, plants and animals in the territory will be affected by its emotions.

At this moment, the three of them felt that it was very, very irritable and restless.

"hiss."

Shenshui was slapped in the face by this pressure, and his tail was frightened and stood straight. When he passed by the maple tree, it bent and hooked the trunk - animal tails are honest, and he didn't want his body to challenge the owner of this pressure: "Okay, don't be so scared."

He pulled the tail off the tree trunk and slapped it back into his body.

"Stand behind me."

Du Xinghe pulled out Xue Ming, and when the sharp sword was swung out, the originally sticky air seemed to be broken into a crack, and the wind began to flow again.

As Chi Xiao flew forward, he also continued to rise higher.

She wanted to be at a place as high as possible so that she could see the whole picture of the spirit beast.

After going around the Fan Mountain, I finally saw the true appearance of the spirit beast.

A thirty-meter-tall blue bird "stands" in the center of the lake. Through the extremely clear lake water, you can see that its lower half is a long fish tail.

It can neither fly nor swim into the water.

Du Xinghe concealed his breath. It didn't notice her, but just roared angrily at the non-existent enemy.

From her bird's eye view, she actually saw another group of people at the entrance on the other side.

Looking again, it was still an acquaintance.

Qin Qingyue, who was on the ground, looked up. He was originally looking at the mourning crow fish, but his attention was attracted by a black spot in the sky. It was not until someone pulled his sleeve that he came back to his senses and saw Mingzhi looking at him expectantly: "Brother Qingyue, is that the spirit beast we are looking for?"

"Yes," Qin Qingyue's expression softened, "It's agreed that all the materials of the Soul Flower and the Crow Fish will belong to the Wuliang Sect, but its inner elixir will be given to you. Let's take it down together."

"Brother!"

The fellow apprentice behind him looked surprised.

The inner elixir is so precious, why should it be shared with an outsider?
Facing them, Ming Zhi said calmly, "It's probably impossible for the four of you to capture this mourning crow fish. I'm a swordsman at the peak of the Jindan stage, and I'm working with you on an equal footing. What's wrong with taking away an inner elixir? The soul flower and precious materials are all yours."

"But it's useless even if I give you the materials!"

"The materials in my hands are not as useful as yours, but they can still be sold at a good price."

Ming Zhi said lightly.

"Okay," Qin Qingyue stopped them, his attitude gentle but unquestionable: "Ming Zhi is a swordsman I trust, and we do need to rely on her strength, but it's just an inner elixir."

The properties of this inner elixir are exactly what Mingzhi needs.

In fact, it would be better to ask Senior Brother Su to help, but she had a quarrel with him and didn’t want him to help. She wanted him to know that she was very popular!
(End of this chapter)