Chapter 125: Truly Good News

Since he is truly involved in the deaths of her father and grandfather as he himself said, she no longer needs to hold back.

Qintai He's expression turned stern, and he gave chase, his sword techniques becoming even more ruthless.

Ruan Xing felt a surge of joy; this move was exactly what she wanted. What she had originally worried about was that after bringing out Sword Lai, she wouldn't be able to subdue the opponent in time, instead letting the old fogies of the Qintai Family notice Sword Lai's surging Yin energy. If the opponent was willing to move far away from the Qintai Family, that was for the best.

Ruan Xing no longer hid anything, pulling out Sword Lai to join the battle. The long sword left her hand and flew straight toward the man's unguarded back.

The man sensed the danger behind him and twisted his body to dodge. All his attention had been on Qintai He, and he hadn't expected there to be an accomplice. Upon seeing clearly that it was Ruan Xing, he raged, "Just a Foundation Establishment junior, and you dare to attack me? Do you truly look down on me?"

As his body retreated rapidly, he clasped his hands together, and a Magic Art containing the Spiritual Power of the Golden Core Stage scattered like falling flower petals, surrounding the two of them.

Qintai He waved his hand to bring his long sword in front of him, spinning it rapidly like a Bagua diagram to form a circular afterimage, blocking all the flower petals.

Ruan Xing also retracted her short sword, her body's Spiritual Power gathering in her hands. She thrust the sword tip downward, and countless sword light afterimages appeared around her, rapidly colliding with the petals and blooming into gorgeous, dangerous sparks.

She gasped for air. Damn, as expected, the Foundation Establishment Stage and the Golden Core Stage are not on the same level. The Magic Art the opponent used to block them while fleeing was something she had to exhaust most of her body's Spiritual Power to use Myriad Swords Return to Origin to counter.

She shouldn't have jumped out just now; she should have hidden in the back and let Sword Lai handle it once the distance was right.

She calmed the Spiritual Power within her body and turned to look at Qintai He, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm not hurt." Qintai He shook his head, "But he ran away."

"Goose... that's not what I meant." Ruan Xing said sheepishly, "I mean, since it's already confirmed that he has a guilty conscience, should we kill him?"

Qintai He lowered his head, "... There is a grudge, so naturally I must kill him, but right now I want to know the truth about what happened back then even more."

When he was still young, Qintai Gu and Qingping Xianzi were in danger due to an accident. When the two were heavily injured and on the verge of death, Qingping Xianzi sent a distress message to her master. Her master traveled thousands of miles to arrive, only in time to see her one last time. In extreme grief, he exhausted almost all of his Spiritual Power to save Qingping Xianzi's life, but Qingping Xianzi only lived for a few more years... After her master passed away, Qingping Xianzi was tortured by guilt and self-reproach, and while possessed by a heart demon, she died from a Qi deviation when Qintai He was seven years old.

This is the fundamental reason why he is not well-regarded in the Xuanbing Sect; if not for transferring his entire body of Spiritual Power to Qingping Xianzi to save her life, his grandmaster would have had at least another hundred years to live.

He recounted this experience to Ruan Xing in a few painful words.

Ruan Xing stroked her chin in thought, instead thinking of another matter. The turning point of the "chasing the wife to the crematorium" trope in the original text was that the male lead used a secret technique to exhaust his entire body of Spiritual Power to save the life of the female lead's daughter, only then did the female lead reluctantly forgive the male lead, and after the male lead lost his cultivation and became a mortal, she accompanied him for the rest of his life.

It sounds similar to this experience of Qingping Xianzi. Could it be that the original plot is related to Qintai He's grandmaster?

What does this represent? Qintai He's grandmaster left behind a legacy! But the Xuanbing Sect doesn't know! So it was taken by the original male lead!

Good heavens, a legacy from the Return to Ruins Stage... If she could get her hands on this, wouldn't she be able to turn things around and become a landlord?

A Secret Realm left behind by Hanshan Xianjun allowed the Nanzhou Xuanbing Sect to benefit for thousands of years. Even if Qintai He's grandmaster left most of his wealth to the sect and his disciples, and only put a tiny bit into the legacy, it would be enough for her to benefit infinitely.

Ruan Xing couldn't help but become excited. This news was the biggest harvest of this simulation, and she could conclude that there was a ninety percent chance this legacy was in the place where Qintai Gu and Qingping Xianzi were heavily injured back then.

It's just that the Xuanbing Sect is tight-lipped about this matter and claims to the outside world that the Return to Void ancestor has already ascended. Based only on Qintai He's description, she couldn't guess where this place was. But perhaps the people of the Qintai Family know; after all, Qintai Gu and Qingping Xianzi's deaths might have had their hand in it.

After thinking it over, Ruan Xing said, "Then let's catch him first and ask."

Qintai He was bewildered, "But he has already run away..."

Ruan Xing snapped her fingers, "He didn't run; he just hid. When you go to investigate his tracks in that direction, he will jump out to ambush you."

It wasn't just because she had sent Sword Lai to follow the man earlier, but also because she guessed that the opponent didn't want the Qintai Family to know about this, so he would definitely lure Qintai He away to kill him and eliminate future trouble.

"Follow me," Ruan Xing said.

Sword Lai shares a mental connection with her, and she now knows the man's hiding spot through Sword Lai's positioning.

The two jumped onto their Flying Swords and chased in that direction. In less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, they had arrived at a desolate open space.

The major families of Xizhou occupy their manors on top of spirit veins, while other Loose Cultivators and mortals live around the family's blessed land. Therefore, the towns in Xizhou are more scattered than in other continents. Those wild places without spirit veins and with sparse Spirit Qi are all uninhabited open spaces, where even wild beasts are rarely seen.

Qintai He was a bit curious about how Ruan Xing could accurately predict the opponent's location, but thinking it was probably similar to that powerful Magic Art that could directly blow up a Foundation Establishment cultivator just now, both were strange encounters or secrets Ruan Xing had experienced herself, so he didn't ask.

Ruan Xing didn't tell Qintai He the specifics, fearing Qintai He wouldn't act convincingly. Once they reached the vicinity of the opponent's hiding spot, the speed of the Flying Swords slowed down. Just as Ruan Xing was about to tell Qintai He to search around, a burst of spiritual light suddenly erupted.

The man attacked with a ferocious face, the spiritual light in his hand only a hair's breadth away from Qintai He. Qintai He was startled, his eyes full of shock, but it was too late to dodge. He could only manifest the long sword in his hand to prepare to take the hit head-on. He also had a defensive Dharma Artifact robe on him; taking a hit would probably only result in minor injuries, which was no big deal.

However, after waiting for a moment, the spiritual light not only didn't hit him, but gradually dissipated.

Qintai He looked at the man strangely, only to see a look of extreme pain on the man's face.

Ruan Xing couldn't help but admire, thinking that Sword Lai's Heart-Plucking Claw technique is becoming more and more proficient.

It's just that because Ruan Xing wanted to keep him alive, Sword Lai's grip was a bit too low this time, only plucking the man's dantian to obstruct his Spiritual Power circulation, so the big move he had been brewing for a long time could no longer be unleashed.

Because she didn't want Qintai He to know about Sword Lai's existence, after Sword Lai attacked, Ruan Xing had Sword Lai enter a hidden state, while she herself leaped behind the man and stirred her short sword in his wound, changing the tear marks in the wound.

Seeing Qintai He still stunned, Ruan Xing hurriedly said, "Why don't you hurry up and subdue him?"

Qintai He woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly took out a Dharma Artifact spirit rope from his storage ring to tie the man up. Now the man could neither use Magic Arts nor Dharma Artifacts, let alone send a message.

The man's complexion had turned much paler. Qintai He used a Magic Art, using a fire-cauterizing method to stop the blood that was continuously flowing from the man's lower abdomen.

Neither Sword Lai's hand nor Ruan Xing's sword had any buffs added, so the wound was easily staunched, and the man wouldn't die; he could only lie there half-dead.

Thanks to high school girl Zhou Yingting for the monthly ticket~(End of chapter)