Chapter 51: Seeing the True Person Again

Seeing the True Person Again

Being summoned by the True Person, Ruan Ci naturally didn't dare to be negligent. However, after several deliberations, she still didn't cultivate "Yin Jun Dan Ge Note" to reflect the experience brought by Qu Pingting's soul power into reality. In her view, "Yin Jun Dan Ge Note" was a secret tighter than the Donghua Sword. Although she and True Person Wang had a future master-disciple agreement, the master-disciple ceremony had not been performed, and the karma had not been established, so this matter was not yet suitable for him to know.

"Miss Ci, I thought you would be exceptionally diligent in cultivation last night."

Tianlu asked Ruan Ci curiously on the way, blinking his big eyes, "When we met last time, I felt that Miss Ci's momentum was full, and it seemed that her cultivation was about to advance another step—I specifically told you a day early. If the True Person saw that your cultivation had improved again, maybe he would be happy and let go of the precious gourd to you."

Ruan Ci sat on the shaft of the cart side by side with him and asked curiously, "What precious gourd?"

Tianlu was unhappy and pouted, "It's the time spiritual object I begged the True Person for half a day, wanting to get it for you."

He was timid and didn't dare to stare at Ruan Ci, but he also hummed with courage, complaining, "Miss Ci is usually very smart, but this time she failed my painstaking efforts."

He came to pass the message early yesterday and wanted Ruan Ci not to delay yesterday's homework. The hint in it was actually very clear, but he never expected that Tianlu would also complain about others being stupid and clumsy. Ruan Ci couldn't help but laugh for a long time, took the reins from Tianlu's hand, shook them, and said, "Tianlu, I will help you drive the cart as an apology, okay?"

Tianlu's mouth was still pouting, "How can this cart be driven without Foundation Establishment cultivation? Miss Ci is just coaxing me."

Ruan Ci poured magic power into it, and indeed felt that the reins were like a big pool. She poured a lot of magic power in, but there was no sign of filling it, and the flying cart seemed to lose power and fall down. She hurriedly returned the reins to Tianlu. Tianlu shook the reins and said, "Miss Ci, your magic power may be enough, but you haven't built a foundation, and the jade pool hasn't turned into a sea of consciousness. Your divine sense can't mobilize so fast, and you haven't mastered the restrictions, so the cart will fall."

He was gentle in nature after all, and after a while, he became happy again, counting with his fingers, "Since the True Person called you, then things are not without a turning point. You be obedient, don't make the True Person angry again, and say a few more words. Maybe the True Person will give you the precious gourd—actually, Miss Ci's status is precious. If you were under the Sect Master's knees, maybe I would have given it if I begged for it. True Person, True Person..."

Ruan Ci smiled, "The True Person is very stingy, is that what you mean?"

Tianlu 'slapped' his mouth and shook his head vigorously, "I didn't say it, it was Miss Ci who said it!"

Although ten years had passed, Tianlu usually didn't go out except to send things to Moon-Catching Cliff. In the past ten years, they had only met dozens of times, and he was still shy and childish. Ruan Ci gradually realized that the cultivator's measure of time was indeed different from that of mortals. For example, Shuangcheng, she was already forty-plus when they first met, but she was as innocent as a young girl. Ruan Ci was a bit surprised at the time, but now she knew it was natural. She was thirty-two years old this year, but if she looked into it carefully, since joining the Profound Heaven Sect, in the sixteen years, the time spent with people and talking and laughing, added together, would not exceed one month. The rest of the time was either deep sleep in the Heavenly Boat or being locked in various places to read and cultivate. Especially in the past ten years, she was forgetful of things and herself in cultivation, not knowing the passage of time. It was good to say it was ten years, and it was good to say it was one year. She made a lot of progress in cultivation, but she didn't get much knowledge in human affairs. If Tianlu had always lived in the Purple Void Heaven, even if he was hundreds of years old, his state of mind would likely be as raw as a few-year-old child.

The two of them frolicked in the cart for a while, and Tianlu then turned around and said, "The True Person's hands are tight, which is also because the family foundation is not thick. For thousands of years since achieving the Dao, he has been stabilizing his realm in the Purple Void Heaven, and there are very few disciples in the Purple Void Heaven, and there is no business management. He still has to wait for the sect to flourish in the future and slowly accumulate some time."

Ruan Ci pondered, "No matter how big the Central Continent land is, it has been occupied by many sects. True Person Wang wants to accumulate family foundation, and there will always be people who have to give up their share because of this. No wonder the cultivators in the Central Continent land are the most fierce. They don't set up continent-protecting arrays, and any force can settle here. How to settle? It's nothing more than fighting."

She was born in the Song Kingdom, and it had been seven hundred years of internal strife and mutual attacks among the clans, so she was very familiar with this kind of behavior. She asked Tianlu, "I know some disciples the True Person took in before, were all..."

At this time, they were in the mountain gate and hadn't flown into the Purple Void Heaven. Every word and action might be eavesdropped by others. Ruan Ci hesitated for a while and didn't dare to call Sister Xie—if she entered the Purple Void Heaven, she would be even more afraid to call her that. She had to vaguely say, "Were all coerced to rebel and leave the sect? Since then, the True Person hasn't taken any more disciples?"

Tianlu shook his head, "He hasn't taken any more. Not long after, the True Person closed-door meditated to achieve Grotto-Heaven. Now there are only the First Young Master and the Second Young Master in the Purple Void Heaven, both of whom are Nascent Soul cultivation, and they are closed-door meditating in their respective grotto-heavens. They are different from the True Person and have not cultivated "Supreme Induction Chapter," so it is not easy to split their minds and incarnations. Next time they leave closed-door meditation, I will introduce them to Miss Ci."

Ruan Ci asked again, "Have the First Young Master and the Second Young Master taken disciples?"

A trace of sorrow appeared on Tianlu's face, and he whispered, "They have, but in these thousands of years, the True Person and the two young masters have been closed-door meditating. Several young masters and young ladies encountered many disasters during their cultivation. Now, only two are still useful. The disciples left by the original young masters and young ladies were all stripped of their cultivation and thrown into spirit mines as slaves, and they have long since passed away one after another."

Ruan Ci was not surprised, but still felt secretly shocked. She didn't know whether the struggle within the Profound Heaven Sect was always so ruthless, or whether the matter of Xie Yan rebelling and leaving the sect had a greater impact than she had originally estimated. It actually involved True Person Wang's sect, and the two True Persons who hadn't rebelled couldn't protect their disciples.

However, the Sect Master's line was so dark and weak, how could True Person Wang achieve Grotto-Heaven? Ruan Ci was a bit puzzled. She was no longer the ignorant girl from before. Although she didn't know the root of the Grotto-Heaven achievement, she also knew that just forming a Nascent Soul from Golden Core required massive resources, and Nascent Soul achieving Grotto-Heaven required spiritual energy and precious materials that were an unimaginable number. Without the support of the sect, it was absolutely difficult to achieve. The Sect Master's line had been oppressed to this point, but it could still protect True Person Wang's Grotto-Heaven path. I didn't know what kind of story was behind this.

She wanted to ask Tianlu again, but at this time, the gold-powder flying cart had sprinkled fragrance all the way and plunged into the Purple Void Heaven, so she didn't dare to mention it again. She began to recite the three great root mantras of purifying the heart, purifying the mouth, and purifying the body. She had only seen True Person Wang once ten years ago. Since then, she had practiced the root mantras fiercely, but this Heart-Purifying Mantra was not necessary for Ruan Ci. She didn't recite it all the time on weekdays. Today, she had to have an audience, so she was naturally doubly careful. While reciting the mantra, she secretly reminded herself to restrain her thinking and not to let her imagination run wild again.

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True Person Wang met Ruan Ci on a small island in the Canghai Sea this time. Tianlu led Ruan Ci, and they walked for a full hour from the entrance of the grotto-heaven to the quiet room where the True Person lived. The corridors and passages were all filled with pearls and jade. Even though Ruan Ci had seen the wealth of the immortal family, she was dazzled. However, the timing today was not very good. Tianlu had just told her many embarrassing things about the True Person, and now she walked to such a luxurious place. Ruan Ci only felt that True Person Wang also had many difficulties. If these furnishings were not precious, such furnishings were actually shabby. If the furnishings were very precious, then it was swelling his face to fill out his figure. In short, the sect was empty of manpower and the savings were not thick. No matter how it was decorated, it seemed to reveal a trace of desolation.

She hurriedly recited the Heart-Purifying Mantra, saluted True Person Wang, and True Person Wang told her to get up and said, "You are diligent in reciting the mantra today."

The first sentence was hidden with sharpness. If she was thinking about something good in her heart, why did she need to recite the mantra like this? Ruan Ci's recitation couldn't be hidden from him, so she had already offended the True Person. She realized that she seemed to have fallen into a mud pit. If she didn't recite the mantra, the thoughts she couldn't control in her heart would be sensed. The True Person would be angry. But if she suddenly recited the mantra, wouldn't the True Person know that she was making up nonsense again, and because he couldn't sense her thoughts, he could imagine even more, and would be even more angry?

Tianlu had been with Ruan Ci for a long time, and he was also a bit clever. Without waiting for the True Person to take it himself, he grabbed a cup of tea for the True Person and also gave Ruan Ci a cup. Ruan Ci touched the bottom of the cup and said, "My mind is wild, and it never listens to my own control. I make the True Person laugh."

True Person Wang's lips curled slightly, "Release the Body-Purifying Mantra, I will see your cultivation."

In fact, with his status as a Grotto-Heaven True Person, it was not difficult to forcibly break the several great root mantras held by Ruan Ci. Ruan Ci didn't hesitate, released the great Body-Purifying Mantra, and the phantom of the jade pool on her head shone out. True Person Wang looked at it for several times, nodded slightly, and said, "You haven't delayed your cultivation."

Ruan Ci said, "Thanks to the True Person's grace, it saved me a lot of effort to hunt spirit beasts."

True Person Wang said, "It is also because you are obedient."

The last time they met, it couldn't be said that they talked happily, but today these few sentences were actually said quite well. Ruan Ci also felt that she was indeed obedient. True Person Wang had beast meat to feed, and she sat in prison for ten years, and never went out once to cause any trouble for the Purple Void Heaven. She accepted it without doubt and looked up and smiled, "Thank you for the praise, True Person."

True Person Wang looked at her, seeing that she had no intention of being humble, couldn't help but smile slightly, and said, "According to your own view, when will you be able to build a foundation?"

Ruan Ci knew that the meat of the play was coming. She needed time spiritual objects, and True Person Wang indeed had them, but she also had to confirm that her investment could see a return. She counted on her fingers and said truthfully, "If I cultivate like this, the jade pool water will be full in about three years, and when the opportunity comes, I can build a foundation."

True Person Wang nodded, "You took the Dream-Returning Fruit, how many years of cultivation did you save?"

He didn't ask how the cultivation was saved, which saved Ruan Ci from making up nonsense, "The medicinal power has not been fully digested yet. If it is fully refined, three years of hard work can be saved, but building a foundation is still not enough. I have to take time spiritual objects to push it up."

She pondered and said, "I am not in a hurry, but I don't know if the True Person has any errands that can be used in a few years, but I don't want to delay the True Person's affairs."

True Person Wang picked up the teacup, rubbed the bottom of the cup, and looked at Ruan Ci with a smile that was not a smile, "Ruan Ci, your courage is really not small."

Ruan Ci came to ask for the precious gourd, which was her urgent need, and this thing was so precious. She didn't ask for it sincerely, but used rhetoric to take advantage of True Person Wang. It could be said that she didn't know whether she was dead or alive. But in Ruan Ci's view, this matter couldn't be looked at like this. True Person Wang's sect was empty, and he also needed her, this Donghua Sword user, to support the scene. Moreover, if True Person Wang didn't give it, she could ask Qu Qu Tan Yue for it. If it really didn't work, she could switch to a tool cultivator. It was just that in that case, she couldn't see what benefits she could have in the Profound Heaven Sect. When her cultivation was enough to stand on her own, break out of the sect, and be a scattered cultivator, wasn't it free and easy enough? She was in the Profound Heaven Sect, as a chess piece of the Sect Master's line. The price the Sect Master's line had to pay naturally shouldn't stop at this ten years of spiritual food.

"True Person, you are serious," she smiled, "The True Person's cultivation is profound, and Ruan Ci is ashamed of being inferior, but business is business. Doing business always requires mutual benefit."

Ordinary disciples to the elders in the sect, even if they looked at the cultivation gap, didn't dare to be so presumptuous. Tianlu's feet began to touch the ground alternately again, holding the tea tray tightly, as if ready to step forward to plead for Ruan Ci at any time. True Person Wang didn't drink tea, but looked at Ruan Ci intently, nodded, and said, "You are right. You and I are not master and disciple. Since I want to use you, it is natural to give more support. I can give you this precious gourd, but your sister's cultivation progress is very fast, but your time is not much. After you build a foundation within the year, you have to take something for me. What do you think?"

Compressing three or five years of cultivation into one year was not a small matter, but then again, if the precious gourd didn't have this help for Ruan Ci, then Ruan Ci's request for it was really a bit wasteful. This was a precious material that could be used by Nascent Soul True Persons, not the road goods like spirit beast dried meat. From Tianlu's tone, it was also much more precious than the Dream-Returning Fruit.

However, these precious materials only had one effect for Ruan Ci, which was to stimulate her to enter the strange dream. Ruan Ci thought about it, and also knew that responding like this was not very secure. If the precious gourd couldn't work, or if the strange dream was not as she imagined, sensing the sword seed living souls one layer higher than her realm. Then she had to fulfill her promise, and she could only switch to a tool cultivator. However, she still agreed, "If the True Person has an order, Little Ci does not dare to refuse."

It was not that she couldn't continue to bargain. With Qu Qu Tan Yue as her backing, she didn't have no chips. But Ruan Ci also felt that if the rule of sensing living souls was so unstable, then she didn't have to count on the intent cultivation path. Otherwise, a lot of energy would be spent on finding strange objects, and she had to waste living souls. She didn't like this very much either. So between the movements of her mind, she agreed casually and asked, "I don't know what the True Person wants me to take?"

True Person Wang smiled faintly, "Wait until you build a foundation and then talk."

He waved his hand, Tianlu turned and went out, took a broom, and True Person Wang said, "You are not my disciple. Usually, some spiritual food rewards are fine, but this precious gourd cannot be given to you for no reason. Go and sweep the fallen leaves in the courtyard clean, and you can get the treasure."

Why again?

Ruan Ci didn't take the broom and frowned, "True Person, I hate this kind of so-called trial the most. An old man tested me like this last time, and I smashed his chessboard."

Tianlu gasped, holding his mouth and looking at her with extreme shock, his face full of sudden realization. True Person Wang was not surprised, obviously knowing it long ago. He clenched his fist, put it in front of him and coughed lightly, but still couldn't help it, his voice brought a little smile, "I know this..."

He paused, coughed again, blew out a long breath that seemed to be a smile, then restrained his expression, and said, "But you also have to know that I also hate giving my things to people for nothing—"

He frowned, as if he had some helplessness, and said to Ruan Ci, "I am very stingy, don't you already know?"

Tianlu's face was even paler, and he hurriedly shouted, "True Person, these words were said by Miss Ci, I have never said them!"

He hurriedly wanted to pounce on the True Person's feet to spoil, True Person Wang flicked his sleeves, and Ruan Ci and Tianlu's eyes blurred, and they were sent outside the door. Ruan Ci couldn't help but be very embarrassed, coughed a few times, lost her position of resistance, took the green bamboo broom from Tianlu's hand, and asked, "That... where is the courtyard?"

Tianlu was so scared that his eyes were red. He first complained about Ruan Ci's disrespect to the True Person, counted a few words, and then led Ruan Ci away. "The True Person told you to sweep the courtyard, not just to test you. Miss Ci's temper must be changed. Our True Person is not easy to offend... no no no, the True Person is generous, you can offend him at will... no no no no no!"

He was simple by nature, and after several twists and turns today, he couldn't speak anymore. True Person Wang was in the grotto-heaven, taking in the movements of the two. He couldn't help but smile faintly. He flicked his finger, and the chime in the corner of the room rang. After a while, a yellow-clothed cultivator walked in, saluted, "Master is above, it's been a long time, the disciple misses you very much."

True Person Wang said, "Look at this Junior Sister of yours, she is really a savage from the south, she doesn't reason at all, and she hasn't entered the Dao yet, but she can bargain with me. In the future, I really don't know what kind of trouble she will make. Even if she deceives her master and destroys her ancestors, I don't think she can't do it."

The yellow-clothed cultivator smiled, "Junior Sister suffered a great change in her youth, so it is inevitable that her temperament is somewhat extreme. Moreover, I see that Junior Sister is rough but fine, and her mind is actually very detailed. A little childish temper makes her appear more sincere. If everyone is steady and peaceful, what fun is there in the world?"

"Does she just have a temper?" True Person Wang sneered, "Just now, she was thinking in her heart that if I didn't give her that precious gourd, there would be no need for her to stay in the Profound Heaven Sect. How big a deal is it to break out of the sect, but in the eyes of our two generations of Donghua Sword users, it seems to be ordinary."

It seems that although Ruan Ci learned the Heart-Purifying Great Mantra, she still couldn't escape True Person Wang's induction, which also showed that True Person Wang's cultivation had advanced another layer. The yellow-clothed cultivator was also secretly shocked in his heart, and hurriedly congratulated True Person Wang first, saying, "Master's 'Supreme Induction Chapter' cultivation is getting more and more profound, and he can actually bypass the suppression of the Donghua Sword—however, Little Junior Sister is young after all, and she has only been closed-door cultivating for ten years, so her knowledge is very shallow. Some random thoughts, Master will teach her well in the future."

He complimented True Person Wang, which was sincere. True Person Wang's mouth curled, and he accepted it reservedly, but he didn't say any humble words, just said, "Forget it, teaching her is also useless. You said one thing right. This Ruan Ci is indeed rough but fine. She won't come to ask for such spiritual objects for no reason, but she has just arrived in the sect and doesn't know the enemy and me, and her defense is still heavy. Looking at her conduct, although she has entered the Profound Heaven, she has not yet returned her heart and is still swaying—this is no wonder."

The yellow-clothed cultivator sighed, "It is also difficult for her. Xie the Remnant's calculation is far-reaching and interlocking. In her view, since she got the sword, every step is in Xie the Remnant's arrangement. She really doesn't know who around her can be trusted and who can be relied on. It is natural that she is unwilling to say what this time spiritual object is used for."

Hearing the word Xie the Remnant, True Person Wang snorted lightly, and the yellow-clothed cultivator didn't dare to say any more. True Person Wang asked, "Has Fengyu left closed-door meditation?"

The yellow-clothed cultivator said, "She has been out for two years. She is just waiting for this matter to be over, and then she will choose a day to form a pill. I also want to send her to listen to Master's teachings. What is Master's intention, is it to let her—"

True Person Wang nodded, "The courtyard of the Western Desolate Treasury is not easy to sweep. The Hengze Heaven is about to be born, so don't delay too long. Let Fengyu go to help her."

Hearing this, the yellow-clothed cultivator hurriedly took out a jade slip, put it on his lips and said a few words, shook his hand and shot the jade slip into a stream of light, and said, "Master, the trip to Hengze Heaven is afraid to be extremely dangerous. Little Junior Sister's status is precious, a daughter of a thousand gold, sitting and not hanging a hall. Why not let Fengyu go alone this time and let Little Junior Sister nourish her edge for a while?"

True Person Wang looked into the distance and smiled, "No need. Even if she dies in Hengze Heaven, that is her life. Since she holds infinite treasures, she is destined to suffer infinite tempering..."

His smile spread, and it seemed to echo faintly in this vast grotto-heaven, "This is just the beginning..."

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, everyone. Fengyu appeared in this chapter. This is a character that is particularly good at watering word counts...

Speaking of which, I have already started using the names provided by everyone in the draft. Some will really die. If you mind, don't use your own id!

I had salted pig's trotters at home for lunch today. I heard the recipe mentioned before. A whole pig's trotter costs 30-plus, which can be said to be very affordable!

I didn't finish reading "Carrying Taobao to the Other World"... What I want to see is infrastructure, it's a bit of a mismatch, and there is one point in jj articles that I don't like (just a personal feeling). Many jj infrastructure articles like to describe the protagonist's appearance in large space, describing how dusty, and even a bit divine. I personally don't like this kind of aesthetic. If I write an infrastructure article one day, I will write a simple young man or young girl, maybe even a little chubby, and use infrastructure ability to transform aesthetics, making that world start to take chubby as the most beautiful.

(Just talk about it, basically I won't write it)

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