Chapter 144: Overjoyed

After roughly studying it for a while, he withdrew his thoughts.

After feeling Xu Meiniang's emotions and confirming she had no other intentions, Lin Guangcheng knew what was what. He took out a flying sword from his storage bag, and Xu Meiniang was immediately scared half to death.

Lin Guangcheng glared at her. Because she had just pissed and shat herself, she was now covered in the smell of urine. Lin Guangcheng didn't want to touch her with his hands, so he used the flying sword to cut the ropes on her body.

He threw her storage bag back to her and said to her: "First, clean yourself up, and then clean up the ground for me."

"Also, take out all the offensive dharma artifacts, offensive talismans, and one-time high-power dharma artifacts from the storage bag first."

Hearing this, Xu Meiniang finally confirmed that she had escaped death. She was extremely happy, or one could say she was overjoyed! Remembering what Lin Guangcheng said, she hurriedly agreed, then first took out all the dharma artifacts and talismans from the storage bag. As for one-time high-power dharma artifacts, she didn't have any. She placed all the things in front of Lin Guangcheng.

Lin Guangcheng nodded, collected the things, and found an empty storage bag to pack Wang Youzong's corpse. He would deal with it when it was convenient.

He also summoned back the twenty-four Purple Crystal Scorpions that were hidden around to prevent accidents.

Then he cast an incantation, left the Small Five Elements Illusion Array, and left this space to Xu Meiniang, letting her clean up herself and the ground.

When the Purple Crystal Scorpions suddenly appeared, Xu Meiniang felt goosebumps all over her body. She didn't expect that there were so many spirit insects hidden around.

The master was truly too cautious. She was already like this, yet he still released so many spirit insects; it must be to prevent accidents! This gave her a little bit of understanding of the master, but this was also good; he wouldn't easily capsize in the gutter.

And she had already guessed that she must have been stung by these scorpions. She was only stung once, and it was simply excruciating; now her head was still throbbing with pain.

Fortunately, it was all over now, and at the very least, her little life was temporarily saved. She hurriedly tried to pull herself together and clean herself up. She hadn't felt it when her life was hanging by a thread! Now that she was cleaning up, she felt blushing and red-faced; it was simply too embarrassing. No wonder the master wanted her to clean herself up first.

After cleaning the ground, she found some healing pills in the storage bag and took them. She didn't dare to waste time refining them and could only let the pills dissolve slowly by themselves.

She was terrified that the master would come in to question her later. Now she was no longer in control of herself.

She didn't know what would happen in the future. Was it really only necessary for her to be responsible for brewing wine? Half an hour later, Lin Guangcheng entered the Small Five Elements Illusion Array again and saw Xu Meiniang sitting on the ground in a daze. Fortunately, the ground had been cleaned, so staying here wouldn't be so uncomfortable.

Lin Guangcheng frowned and said: "Stop dazing off. Tell me, tell me about your background!"

Xu Meiniang was startled, hurriedly stood up, and said: "Little Maid greets Master!"

Lin Guangcheng estimated that she hadn't heard what he had just said, so he repeated it again.

Xu Meiniang finally understood and hurriedly introduced: "Little Maid was born in the True Spirit Prefecture of the Yuling Sect. My late father was a brewer, and his skills were quite good, so he operated a small spirit wine shop in the True Spirit Market."

"Ever since I could remember, I had been living in the True Spirit Market. Everything was originally very peaceful and beautiful. If my father hadn't had an accident, maybe I would still be living in the True Spirit Market! Until one day three years ago, my father told me he was going to buy raw materials for brewing wine, but he didn't return until dark. I searched everywhere but didn't have any news."

"I asked the merchant who had been providing us with raw materials, and they also said they hadn't seen my father go there. Later, I reported it to the market management office, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea; there was never any follow-up."

"At that time, I knew my father must have had an accident and must have been harmed by someone and couldn't return. But there was no way; I could only try to find news through various channels while trying to maintain the wine shop."

"Fortunately, my father passed the secret recipe and skills to me, so this little wine shop could continue to operate, and I could be considered to have a place to settle down. Although my father was gone, the wine shop he opened was still protecting me! (Speaking of this, she was already weeping.) But good times didn't last long. A Foundation Establishment stage executive in the market, Wan Youcai, began to suppress the wine shop's business openly and secretly."

"Even later, I couldn't even buy the raw materials for brewing wine. People were afraid of Wan Youcai's pressure and didn't dare to sell me raw materials."

"And his purpose was to force me to marry him. But he was already over two hundred years old, which could be said to be one foot already in the coffin, over a hundred and forty or fifty years older than my father. How could I possibly agree?"

"And I had always suspected that my father's accident might have been related to this old beast, so I couldn't marry him even more."

"But I was just a little Qi Refining stage cultivator; how could I possibly defeat an executive of the Yuling Sect? And I heard he also had one or two natal spirit beasts, also at the second-stage cultivation, so I had even less chance."

"Later, there was really no way, so I could only find an opportunity to take the Wanbao Pavilion's guest ship and escape from that place."

"I wandered through several places, drifting from place to place, and only after much difficulty did I arrive at Qingyun City, only to be dragged into the fire pit by Lu Xinyi! My luck was truly too bad! As for what happened later, Master should know! It was following Lu Xinyi to ambush Master, failing, and being captured by Master, until now!"

Lin Guangcheng heard her tortuous experience and felt some sympathy for her, but after thinking carefully, something was wrong! Wasn't she a practitioner of that ancient profession?

So he frowned and asked: "Did you leave something out?"

Xu Meiniang was confused and hurriedly asked: "Little Maid doesn't understand what Master is talking about? Please enlighten me, Master?"

Lin Guangcheng organized his language and said: "When you came to strike up a conversation with me, what did you say about accompanying? Didn't you also say to let me go to your room to find you? Are you engaged in that profession?"

Xu Meiniang was stunned for a moment, then her face turned red rapidly. However, she still hurriedly explained: "No, no, saying it like that was also a last resort, all to approach the target and inquire about news."

"If someone really believed what I said and went to that room, although they couldn't kill on the guest ship, the spirit stones and cultivation resources on them definitely wouldn't be kept, and they wouldn't have anywhere to reason. That was a trap."

"And Little Maid hasn't married yet and is still... a maiden. If Master doesn't believe it, you can... you can check." After saying this, her face turned red like a tomato.

Lin Guangcheng sensed it through that silver rune and knew she wasn't lying to him. He nodded and said: "Alright, I understand. As for checking, there's no need; I believe you. What is your spirit root, and how old are you this year?"

Xu Meiniang breathed a sigh of relief. She was also very embarrassed to say such things. Fortunately, the master wasn't like what she had imagined.

She hurriedly replied: "I am a four-spirit root: water, wood, fire, earth. I lack metal in the five elements. My earth spirit root aptitude is the best, with forty-nine points of aptitude, so I mainly practice the Thick Earth Technique. I am now at the eighth layer of Qi Refining, and I am twenty-six years old this year."

Lin Guangcheng didn't commit himself and continued to ask: "Besides brewing wine, what other specialties do you have?"

Xu Meiniang thought for a moment and said: "When my father was still alive, he usually liked to plant some flowers and grasses, but there was no formal legacy! I had the skill of brewing wine and didn't think about learning other things, let alone specifically looking for other legacies."

"Also, I know a little bit about tea art. My father liked to drink tea, and I was responsible for brewing tea for him to drink!"

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