Chapter 230

Chapter 230: Yu Xiao Zhao, I’m Not Su Ming, Open the Door
A bright blue liquid slowly poured into Master Qing Yan’s mouth.

Ye Cong Xin put away the empty potion bottle, waiting for the medicine to take effect, nervous yet full of expectation.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths…

The time it took for a stick of incense to burn passed.

Two hours passed.

Master Qing Yan still lay on the bed with his eyes closed; even his eyelids did not twitch.

Ye Cong Xin was both shocked and angry.

“System, I want to file a complaint. You sold me fake medicine!”

The System answered: “Ding! Host, all products from the System Mall are top quality. Please wait patiently.”

“Then how long do I have to wait?!”

The System answered: “Ding! Please wait patiently, Host!”

“Give me an exact number.”

The System answered: “Ding! Please wait patiently, Host!”

The System kept repeating the same line over and over, with no sincerity at all. Ye Cong Xin felt like the System had tricked her.

But under someone else’s roof, and still needing the System to stay alive, she could only swallow her anger.

Following the System’s instructions, she waited another full day.

Dawn came, and the sky was bright.

Ye Cong Xin pushed open the door and saw the deep blue sky, yet her mood was as gloomy as storm clouds.

She hurriedly apologized to the Grand Elder, then walked away on unsteady feet.

As soon as she left, the Grand Elder and Sect Master Ji Yuan flashed into Master Qing Yan’s room.

After the Grand Elder checked Master Qing Yan’s condition, he shook his head at Sect Master Ji Yuan.

Sect Master Ji Yuan looked puzzled and said: “That is not right. Could it be that Yu Zhao guessed wrong?”

“Are you sure she can save Qing Yan?” the Grand Elder asked, clearly doubting it.

“I am not sure,” Sect Master Ji Yuan said, “but I believe Yu Zhao would not joke about something like this. Let us wait a few more days. If there is still no change in Qing Yan’s condition, then we can issue the Proclamation Decree.”

The Grand Elder did not bring it up again. Instead, he asked: “Did Yu Zhao agree to enter your tutelage?”

This time it was Sect Master Ji Yuan’s turn to shake his head.

“I spoke to her about it yesterday, but she refused,” he said. “She said she already has a master and does not want me to offend Lone Moon Peak because of her.”

Sect Master Ji Yuan did not want to force Yu Zhao either. No matter what she said, she was still a disciple of the Five Elements Dao Sect and should be under his protection.

“If she does not want to, then let it be. She suffered many wrongs in the past. Let her follow her own heart now,” the Grand Elder said.

“I think the same,” Sect Master Ji Yuan replied.

The Grand Elder and Sect Master Ji Yuan reached an agreement and dropped the matter, going back to worrying about Master Qing Yan’s condition.

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Yu Zhao left the Main Peak, and everyone she passed hurried to avoid her.

In this period of time, she had made a great name for herself using nothing but a brush.

Disciples who used to complain about her now acted like mice seeing a cat whenever they saw her.

Of course, the effect brought by the Enforcement Squad was also very obvious.

Now the atmosphere in the Five Elements Dao Sect was completely new. Even if a dog happened to walk past the training grounds, it would be pulled over and tested. The disciples’ enthusiasm for cultivation had risen sharply.

Seeing that things were going well, Yu Zhao stopped pushing so hard. She even hauled Zhang Jun and Xiu Luo from the Hall of Five-Grain Reincarnation back for a scolding, because they could not find any violators and were sneaking around to stake out the hall every day.

At last, she pulled those two back from the edge of provoking everyone’s anger.

Most of the tasks Senior Sister Zhou had assigned her were already done. Only daily maintenance was left, so Yu Zhao began to get ready to head to the Nine Abyss Secret Realm.

To enter the Nine Abyss Secret Realm, she first had to get the sect’s approval.

Getting past the Sect Master would not be hard, but in these past days she had punished quite a few people to warn everyone else. Even Elder Gu avoided her now. She did not know if the Sect Master could smooth things over with the elders for her.

Yu Zhao returned to her quarters in the inner sect, sat down cross-legged, and began to check the items in her storage space.

Since she was going far away, she naturally had to prepare everything she needed.

Her greatest gains from the Floating Island this time were, first, the Longevity Fruit, and second, that strange red-and-blue flower.

There was only one Longevity Fruit. She planned to take it after entering the Nine Abyss Secret Realm, in a place rich in spiritual energy.

As for that strange flower…

Yu Zhao decided to visit Sect Master Wu Sang again before leaving the mountain. First, she wanted to ask about the progress of the alchemy. Second, she wanted to find out where that strange flower came from.

Anyway, her harvest on the Floating Island was no secret, so there was no issue of exposing anything.

She separated the extra White Jade Swallow Nest into several portions, sealed them, and stored them away by themselves.

When she was almost done packing, a familiar aura suddenly appeared outside the door.

“Yu Zhao! Yu Xiao Zhao! Open the door!”

Su Ming’s face was flushed red, and he reeked of alcohol. He hugged a wine jar in his arms, leaning crookedly against the wooden door.

“Yu Xiao Zhao! I am not Su Ming! Just open the door first! Hic~”

“Yu Xiao Zhao, I am drunk. Do not ignore me. I am your best third senior brother~”

Su Ming sounded like he was calling a soul back from the dead, each shout louder than the last.

Yu Zhao had not planned to pay attention to him, but the noise he made grew louder and louder, and disciples outside were starting to poke their heads out to watch.

She thought for a moment, then stood up and opened the door.

Su Ming was very drunk. When Yu Zhao opened the door, he did not react at all and fell straight to the ground.

Crash!

The wine jar shattered all over the ground.

Wine mixed with dirt and flowed in twisting lines.

Su Ming lifted his head in a daze. The first thing he saw was a pair of plain boots.

He shook his head, slowly sat up, looked up at Yu Zhao, and laughed foolishly.

“Yu Xiao Zhao, I knew you would not leave me alone.”

Yu Zhao lowered her head and glanced at him.

Then she did something that made all the disciples tremble in fear.

She took a brush out from her sleeve.

“Su Ming has been drinking in the daytime and has broken the sect rules. He is punished to sweep the Sect Main Avenue for one month.”

“Hiss!”

All around them, sounds of people sucking in cold air rose one after another.

Since becoming Captain of the Enforcement Squad, Yu Zhao had never given such a harsh punishment.

The Sect Main Avenue was the path disciples used most every day to come and go.

For a dignified personal disciple to sweep the street was shameful enough just to imagine, not to mention having to sweep there nonstop for a whole month under everyone else’s eyes.

Only then did everyone realize that Yu Zhao had already been going easy on them in the past.

The person being punished, Su Ming, did not realize any of this.

He stared blankly at the punishment slip in his hand and asked a question that left Yu Zhao speechless.

“Yu Xiao Zhao, do you want me to go? I will do whatever you say.”

A chill ran down Yu Zhao’s back.

“This is not a request. It is a punishment.”

“Su Ming obeys!”

Su Ming suddenly jumped to his feet, his eyes full of deep feeling.

“Yu Xiao Zhao, from today on, no matter what you say, I will do it.”

Yu Zhao could not stand it anymore. She used her spirit power to snap a few branches from the old tree in the yard and tied them into a broom.

She shoved the broom into Su Ming’s hands, grabbed him by the collar to turn him around, and kicked him.

Su Ming’s figure drew an elegant arc through the air and disappeared into the sky.

Yu Zhao patted the nonexistent dust off her hands and swept her gaze toward the disciples hiding in the shadows.

The disciples scattered like startled birds.

They did not dare provoke her. They really did not dare.

Yu Zhao let out a breath and gave a cold laugh.

He had just said he would do anything she told him to. She hoped he would still remember those words after he sobered up as he swept the Sect Main Avenue for a month without a break.

But even if he did not admit it later, it did not matter. The punishment slip had already been written. The members of the Enforcement Squad would watch him for her.

Zhang Jun and Xiu Luo had been complaining these past few days that the sect was too quiet. This gave them something to do.

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