Chapter 83

Chapter 83: Who Is the First Genius

Yan Xiao said at once: “I cannot speak for others, but most of us full disciples are grateful to Senior Sister. For more than twenty years, you handled everything at Ling Xu Peak. From our food and clothes to our cultivation and understanding, your help was always there. Anyone with a thankful heart would never badmouth you.”

Li Shuang was quiet for a moment, then said: “I thought you would all resent me.”

She still remembered that, back in Sword Sect, many disciples of Ling Xu Peak looked at her with a hint of hostility.

Yan Xiao scratched his head, embarrassed: “We do not dare defy the Peak Master’s will.”

As long as they stayed at Ling Xu Peak, they had to follow Immortal Ling Xu’s orders.

Li Shuang raised a brow: “Then this time, are you not afraid Ye Zhao Zhao will target you after we return?”

Yan Xiao stood frozen as if struck by lightning.

With those two being so petty, they would likely come after him.

[But what they wanted us to do crossed my line. No matter what, I cannot lure trouble to hurt Senior Sister Li on purpose.]

Li Shuang found it a little funny: “All right. Do not worry too much. The current First Senior Brother of Ling Xu Peak is Sheng Yuan. He is not the type to target people on purpose. If something comes up, go to him.”

She spoke calmly.

Sheng Yuan was a junior brother she had trained herself. She still understood him.

Yan Xiao, however, burst out with complaints: “You do not know. Our cultivation resources for this month were not given out. First Senior Brother sold them to raise spirit stones, saying he was helping Ye Zhao Zhao get through a tough time.”

Li Shuang blinked.

Taking other disciples’ resources to patch Ye Zhao Zhao’s hole.

Was Sheng Yuan out of his mind?

For once, she had nothing to say.

On the road, Yan Xiao kept venting about Ling Xu Peak.

Li Shuang only listened in silence.

Those matters had nothing to do with her anymore.

Other than lending an ear, she could not help.

Yan Xiao noticed this and soon fell quiet. After a moment, he said in a low voice: “After you left, Ling Xu Peak was no longer the same.”

Before she left, no one thought she mattered this much.

Only after she was gone, when the peak fell into chaos, did her importance show itself.

Thinking it through, Li Shuang had done far too much.

She managed Ling Xu Peak. She taught the disciples. Which Ling Xu Peak disciple had not received her help?

Yet now, she had been driven away.

Those who had benefited did not even have the courage to speak a word to her back at the sect.

Yan Xiao had no idea what else to say. Silence fell between them.

Li Shuang looked back at him and said evenly: “It is fine.”

With the Supreme Emotionless Art running, she felt the guilt in Yan Xiao’s heart.

But it did not matter.

[These things will leave no mark on my heart.]

Yan Xiao answered softly and sank into deeper gloom.

The Outer Zone was vast, and after wandering for a while, Li Shuang and Yan Xiao each found some gains.

Along the way, Li Shuang also saved several sect disciples who were being chased by Demonic Beasts.

None of them were from Sword Sect.

That made Li Shuang even more worried about Liu Jun Cheng.

She had no idea where Second Senior Brother was now.

But the Outer Zone was too big. Looking for one specific person was almost impossible.

It was already strange that the four people from Ling Xu Peak had shown up together at the start, and all near her.

Li Shuang could not tell whether that was a coincidence or something else.

[Even if it is a coincidence, it feels far fetched. If it is not a coincidence, then what is it?]

Seven days later, Li Shuang had rescued four people.

Looking at them, she said: “Stay together if you can. Ordinary Demon Clan members should not be your match now.”

Yan Xiao reacted at once: “Senior Sister Li, are you going to the Inner Zone?”

Li Shuang nodded, her face calm.

She did not explain further and turned to leave.

Watching her back, the four disciples could not help but feel amazed.

A Cangyuan Sect disciple blurted: “Is Li Shuang really only at the Qi Refining Stage?”

Earlier, several of them had been chased and beaten by a member of the Demon Clan. They had been about to use their tokens to leave.

Li Shuang, at Qi Refining, had forced that demon to retreat with a single sword strike.

That kind of strength was scary.

If she were at the Foundation Establishment Stage right now…

Would she not be invincible in the Langya Secret Realm?

Yan Xiao said proudly: “Our Senior Sister Li is a peerless genius. She is in no way inferior to your Yan Fan.”

The Cangyuan Sect disciple could not help arguing: “She is a genius, I admit that, but there is still a bit of a gap with Senior Brother Yan Fan.”

“Not necessarily,” an Absolute Resolve Sect disciple said at once. “If they were at the same realm, Yan Fan might not win.”

“It is hard to say,” a Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciple added. “They have never fought.”

Though Li Shuang was still only at the Qi Refining Stage, talk about who was the first genius started to rise again.

Li Shuang did not know, and even if she knew, she would only smile.

She still worried about Liu Jun Cheng, but the secret realm made it hard to tell where anyone was.

She could only follow her plan and head for the Ice Lake.

The Ice Lake lay at the border between the Inner Zone and the Core Zone.

To reach it, she would need to cross almost the entire Inner Zone. The Inner Zone was not well explored. It held more treasures, but it was also more dangerous.

The Demon Clan would surely focus their troublemaking on the Inner Zone and the Core Zone.

Li Shuang was not afraid of them.

As long as they were in the Foundation Establishment Stage, no matter who they were, she had the confidence to fight.

She did not hesitate and rushed toward the Inner Zone at full speed.

In a hidden cave, Chang Le An and Ye Zhao Zhao finished a rough round of healing.

Chang Le An looked at Ye Zhao Zhao, wanting to speak but unsure how.

Ye Zhao Zhao met his eyes with a mixed look: “Third Senior Brother, I used my only Fifth Rank Acceleration Talisman, and that is how I brought us out.”

So it had been a Fifth Rank talisman.

Chang Le An understood and grit his teeth: “Good thing you were prepared, Junior Sister. Otherwise, this time Li Shuang really would have gotten us forced out.”

Ye Zhao Zhao sighed: “Senior Sister Li… I truly do not know why she did that.”

Chang Le An gave a cold snort: “Why else? Some people are born vicious.”

Ye Zhao Zhao’s eyes flickered. In the map given by her System, Li Shuang’s red dot was moving toward the Inner Zone at great speed.

She had to catch up.

Chang Le An would only slow her down. If she went to the Inner Zone, she could not take him along.

Ye Zhao Zhao began to plan how to shake off Chang Le An and leave for a while.