Chapter 072

Chapter 72: Mad Cultivator Pei Xuan

Fang He An looked at Ye Wan Wan and said: “Junior sister, you just joined the sect and your seniority is lower than ours. I do not have much to give, so this is a small gift from your senior brother.”

He added softly: “Do not look down on it.”

Li Wan Zhi nodded and said: “I kept half for myself, which is enough. My main path is Body Refining, and for me a little Rainbow Stone is enough. The rest is for you.”

Ye Wan Wan did not know what to say. She did not dare open her mouth. She had almost never faced something like this. In the past, she was always the one giving things up to others. This was the first time someone went out of their way to get the Rainbow Stones she needed and then gave them to her. [Can I accept this?]

After thinking for a long time, Ye Wan Wan shook her head and said: “I…”

Just then, Bai Jian stood up. She took a few steps forward, formed a hand seal, and took something from her Spatial Ring. With a heavy thud, a giant stone more than thirty feet tall appeared inside the cave dwelling.

Bai Jian said: “Do not refuse. There is enough for all of us.”

Ye Wan Wan fell silent: “…”

Fang He An and Li Wan Zhi lit up and said: “Right, we almost forgot about this one.” They rushed to Bai Jian’s side, gesturing at the huge Rainbow Stone and saying: “Look, the spoils we three took together!”

Bai Jian looked at Ye Wan Wan and said: “Your stones are on me, senior sister will cover them.”

Ye Wan Wan could not help it and laughed.

Everyone was pleased. Then Shen Nan Zhou looked at Ye Wan Wan and placed two items in her hands.

Ye Wan Wan froze and said: “Wait, let me see!”

With a squeak and a rush, Li Wan Zhi ran over. Staring at the items in Ye Wan Wan’s hands, he gasped and said: “This is a Cinnabar Essence Stone, and the other is a Lightning Transmuted Woodstone.”

He added, stunned: “Both are over three hundred years old!”

Li Wan Zhi sucked in a sharp breath and said: “These are treasures you cannot buy even at high prices in the Spirit Market. Junior brother, where did you get them!”

They were definitely not taken from the secret realm. If the secret realm had such things, the Dark Nether Sect would never let junior disciples go in to look for treasure. From the look of them, both stones were of top quality. In small sects, either one could be treated as an heirloom. Most important of all, they were the best treasures for a Talisman Cultivator. Only a Talisman Cultivator could bring out their full power.

Shen Nan Zhou said calmly: “Picked them up along the way.” He looked at Ye Wan Wan and said: “I see you study the Talisman Dao. These are useless to me. If you want them, I will give them to you.”

Li Wan Zhi slid to his knees beside Shen Nan Zhou, pressed his palms together, and said with a fawning smile: “Senior brother also needs them. Do you have more?”

Shen Nan Zhou said coldly: “No. Only two. If she does not want them, throw them away.”

Li Wan Zhi shouted: “Throw them into my arms! Hurry!”

Hugging the two essence stones, Ye Wan Wan said: “No. These are a gift from Fifth Senior Brother. I must use them well.”

Shen Nan Zhou lowered his eyes and said: “Mm.”

Li Wan Zhi felt a stab of pain. If he had known junior brother was this rich, he would have built a good relationship earlier. Was it still possible now? Was it?

Ye Wan Wan turned to Li Wan Zhi and said: “Speaking of the Spirit Market, there is something I want to trouble Fourth Senior Brother to help with.”

Li Wan Zhi blinked and said: “Ah? What help?”

…

At Supreme Sect’s Azure Cloud Peak, ever since Yan Ding, the Dao Sovereign, moved in as the master of Azure Cloud Peak, the mountain had never been as lifeless as in the past few days. Everyone looked scared and did not dare to speak loudly. At Miao Lake, once the brightest and most cheerful place, no one dared to make a sound.

Elder Yu Chun had already come several times and even prescribed medicine, but Dou Ming still kept pulling him back. Seeing Dou Ming wounded, Yu Chun spoke in anger and said: “I have told you many times. If you do not rest, your injuries will cripple you. Even with a strong body, you cannot treat it like this.”

Dou Ming’s eyes were red as he said: “I am fine. Look at junior sister. Her Golden Core is gone.”

Yu Chun’s tone turned stiff as he said: “I already said it. Her Golden Core is gone. I cannot fix that. I am only a medical cultivator who adjusts the body and happens to know some healing. For damage this heavy, calling me is useless.”

Dou Ming choked and said: “But we do not know who to ask. Master is still in closed door cultivation…”

Yu Chun’s brows knit tightly. Then, in a suddenly strict tone, he said: “Junior Nephew Dou.”

The sudden seriousness made Dou Ming look up in confusion.

Yu Chun asked carefully and said: “When your Little Seven junior sister was crippled, you were not like this.”

Dou Ming’s whole body went stiff.

Yu Chun stared at him and seemed to see his blank panic and his helplessness. He let out a long sigh and said: “I watched you all grow up. You were not like this to her before.”

Dou Ming’s hands turned cold as he said: “She is different.”

Yu Chun did not understand and asked: “What do you mean?”

Dou Ming said: “She is a genius. She can do everything. She is good at everything. The hardest techniques, as long as you say a few words, she understands. The things others risk their lives to seek and still cannot get, as long as she makes a move, she gets them.”

He added: “So many people wanted the Marrow Washing Pool. She just gave it up because she did not need it at all.”

“She is different.”

Dou Ming’s voice grew firm. He looked at Yu Chun, and the firmer his voice, the more he felt he was right. One word at a time, he said: “She is too dazzling.”

Yu Chun stared at him, stunned, hardly believing what he heard. But when he thought deeper, a chill ran through him. He asked: “You were jealous of her?”

Dou Ming did not dare to admit it and said: “No.”

The more Yu Chun thought, the colder he felt. If this was not jealousy, then what was it? He had never thought that Azure Cloud Peak, which looked so friendly and united to outsiders, could hide such thoughts. He tried another question and said: “Your Eldest Senior Brother… thinks the same?”

He felt that Ji Chang Huai could not be like that.

Dou Ming pressed his lips together and said: “I do not know. But I know…”

His voice dropped very low as he said: “Master is also jealous of her.”

Yu Chun was shocked beyond measure. But Dou Ming’s eyes did not look like he was joking.

“A Golden Core Stage at fifteen is too dazzling. A genius like Ye Wan Wan is too dazzling,” Dou Ming murmured. Yu Chun stayed in shock until Dou Ming dragged him to the door of Miao Lake, and he still had not come back to himself.

After a long time, he finally gathered himself and checked Ye Qian, but the result was the same. Her Golden Core was dug out, and he could not help.

Yu Chun wanted to leave, but Dou Ming would not let him go and begged him to help. Their pleading was cut off by a cool voice: “So it was because of jealousy.”

The voice went on: “Makes sense. A group of mediocrities took in a genius. Of course they were afraid. After all, she should not have belonged here in the first place.”

A cold voice that did not fit Azure Cloud Peak suddenly appeared.

Before Yu Chun and Dou Ming could understand, a man so beautiful he did not seem human walked out of the air.

Who was he?

From the main peak nearby came a stern shout: “Who dares to trespass in my Supreme Sect!”

The man lifted his eyes and said: “Pei Xuan.”

Yu Chun turned pale and said: “It is him!”

It was Pei Xuan, the one who wiped out his entire clan. The mad cultivator Pei Xuan.