Chapter 636: Sending a Lamb into the Wolf's Mouth?

Soon, another week had passed since the Ascension Mission was posted at the mission board.

From Jin Dan to Return-to-Void, the Xian Sect disciples who had taken the mission had set out one after another.

As for why there were no Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment cultivators...

Isn't that obvious?!

The problems the Ascension Mission needed to solve all concerned an entire world. Although the Xian Sect's Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators did have their outstanding individuals, their own immature mindsets and shallow experience could not support them in carrying out a mission of this magnitude.

Take Ye Zhiwei, for example.

Having achieved Creation Foundation Establishment through the 'Principle of Concealment', there was no more impressive Foundation Establishment in the entire Xuan Realm.

But her mindset was far from mature—she didn't even understand what she herself wanted.

Let alone sending her to solve problems concerning an entire world.

……

……

Early morning.

Xiang Jianzong, Outer Gate.

The grey-blue of the sky's edge had not yet fully receded, with scattered faint light spread across the high heavens.

The morning breeze was gentle, carrying just the right touch of coolness.

Sword-Wielding Hall.

A spirited girl with delicate, sharp features and a black headband tied across her forehead appeared at the doorway.

A layer of faintly visible red radiance swirled around her—the fierce, murderous aura that had not yet dispersed after her cultivation.

It was none other than Ye Zhiwei.

"Hoo~"

Letting out a soft breath, she glanced up at the sword-shaped statue standing not far ahead, then walked with light, brisk steps toward her own residence.

The Xiang Jianzong was indeed more suited for sword cultivators.

After this period of cultivation, she had not only honed her sword intent to be purer, but had also successfully begun learning the inheritance of the True Law-grade sword art, "Heavenly Net Sword Latitude".

Her realm was only a single step away from the late stage of Foundation Establishment!

"Carrying out missions..."

According to the Sword-Wielding Elder, her cultivation at this stage was already quite good; the only thing she lacked was real combat experience from life-and-death battles.

This could be accumulated first by dueling fellow sect members in the 'Immortal Void Realm'.

Once she reached a certain level, she could then take on missions of quelling chaos, suppression, and extermination, recognizing her own shortcomings through true combat...

Just as she was thinking this.

"Zhiwei..."

A voice suddenly came from ahead.

Ye Zhiwei paused, looked up, and then froze.

She saw that Zhao Ruohan had come at some unknown time, now standing beneath a tree by the roadside, his expression somewhat complicated.

"..."

After a moment of silence, Ye Zhiwei put on a smile and called out softly:

"Brother Ruohan."

After that single word, the two faced each other like that, neither speaking.

Although Zhao Ruohan's expression was somewhat complicated, his eyes were full of relief.

Clearly.

After this period of reflection, he had thought through quite a few things.

On the contrary, although Ye Zhiwei wore a smile on her face, her heart was full of panic.

Zhao Ruohan coming to the Xiang Jianzong...

This was something she had never anticipated at all.

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"What do you think those two will say?"

Within the thick clouds, Chi Jiuyu sat cross-legged atop the blade of a cyan-gold longsword.

In one hand she held a phone; on the screen were two people—one was Zhao Ruohan, sitting in front of a computer, busy with who-knows-what.

The other was Ye Zhiwei, sitting before a pill furnace, having just finished refining a batch of pills.

Before Chi Jiuyu also hung a Mysterious Light Mirror condensed through a magical artifact, within which were precisely Zhao Ruohan and Ye Zhiwei, who had just met near the Sword-Wielding Hall.

"How can you spy on them?"

Zhao Ruohan did not answer her question, but instead asked one of her own.

Her asking this was not without reason.

One had to know that Ye Zhiwei was a favored prodigy seed valued by the Sword-Wielding Hall of the Xian Sect, bearing all manner of concealment and anti-spying magical artifacts on her person.

There was even less need to say about Zhao Ruohan.

Yet Chi Jiuyu was now actually able to reveal them through the Mysterious Light Mirror!

"Of course it's because my magic treasure is of a higher grade than theirs!" Chi Jiuyu said smugly.

This time she had really gone all out.

Previously, hadn't she gone with Little Yunlu to Yuyao Star to investigate the level of cultivators.

Midway they ran into their Martial Uncle, who said that if they handled that matter beautifully, he would grant them one request.

The result goes without saying!

Under her brilliant leadership, not only did she successfully expose the garrison commander of Feather Remote Star for embezzling and using 'Giant Rat Pill'—that is, Life-Cutting Pill—to destroy the foundations of young cultivators on Feather Remote Star!

She also repelled the invasion of biological weapons.

The matter was handled so beautifully that her martial uncle's reward was naturally a sure thing.

But at the time she hadn't thought of what she wanted, so this matter was shelved.

Until she went as the third batch of ascension envoys to the Soldier Realm Great Universe to carry out a mission and returned, when she discovered her own shortcomings.

Because her talent in 'Divination' was nearly nonexistent, and her talisman path cultivation had only just begun, she actually had a shortcoming in 'deduction', that is, in acquiring intelligence.

To make up for this, she first went to find her master.

But the master told her to go find her martial uncle, who had something good that fit her requirements.

So, with the unredeemed reward from back then as the price, she obtained from her martial uncle a bronze mirror named 'Grand Origin World-Viewing Mirror'.

Vast and boundless, originating from the boundless, all scenes of the floating world within a single mirror.

To sum it up in two words—

Awesome!

Chi Jiuyu didn't explain too much:

"Speaking of which, Little Zhao, didn't you say Brother Dog wasn't important? Why are you here watching now?"

Although the 'Grand Origin World-Viewing Mirror' was awesome, it was the type that couldn't be casually shown off.

This is a trump card!

"You're the one who called me." Zhao Ruohan said.

Chi Jiuyu was choked for a moment, but quickly retorted:

"But you're still watching very enthusiastically!"

"Enough, you two stop arguing." Ye Zhiwei spoke up and interrupted the two, "Let's finish watching first."

The two paused, then fell silent.

Near the Sword-Holding Hall.

The two faced off for nearly a minute.

Ye Zhiwei finally sorted out her chaotic emotions, took a deep breath, and was about to speak.

"I'm sorry." Zhao Ruoming spoke a step ahead of her.

Huh?!

Ye Zhiwei was stunned.

But she saw Zhao Ruoming smile bitterly and say: "I didn't know you were only just…"

"Sigh~" he sighed again, "This matter should have been made clear long ago, I'm very sorry for making you wait so long."

The inexplicable words had already left Ye Zhiwei completely bewildered.

That's not right!

Shouldn't this be her fault?

At the gathering a few months ago, Ruoming-ge's sister also came, so he should have known her purpose.

What is this situation now?

"Ruoming-ge, you don't have to say that." Ye Zhiwei's mind was a bit messy, and it took her a while to organize her words, "This is my fault."

From the very beginning, this was her fault.

She shouldn't have let innocent people bear her inexplicable malice.

She was too young back then, and had no sense of propriety in many things.

Hearing these words, Zhao Ruoming didn't continue to argue.