Chapter 145: Obtaining the Divine Sense Memories

Important matters?

The most important thing in Ruan Xing's heart was that Simulator.

If not for this Simulator, she would have died hundreds of times over long ago; how could she still be seeking Immortality and asking after the Dao?

It was just that the Simulator was not a thing of this world after all, so perhaps it was not under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Dao? Or was its status too high, rendering the Juelin Zhidi ineffective against it?

Although she did not know the reason, it was a good thing that it was useless against Ruan Xing, and she had no need to get to the bottom of it.

Thus she said, "What is most important in my heart is, of course, myself, but I also do not understand why no changes occurred."

The phantom could not figure it out, so it stopped thinking about it; the light on the Array Disk was gradually fading, and it did not have much time left.

"Originally, he left behind the method to sever the Divine Sense and open the Heavenly Pillar here, but you have not reached the Transformation Stage... I fear you cannot use it." The phantom expressed this somewhat tactfully, its tone carrying regret.

It believed Ruan Xing could only sleep here forever.

Ruan Xing looked at the light on the Array Disk, the power growing weaker and weaker, and her feet were already able to move. After thinking for a moment, she said, "When the Spiritual Power of this Array Disk is exhausted, will you dissipate?"

"Yes, I am merely a wisp of Divine Sense drifting about; once my obsession is worn away, I will become nourishment for the Juelin Chong. It was he who gave me memories and used the key and the Array Disk to lock me here."

"Then you might as well give the memories to me. What if I am gifted and truly find a way out from those memories?" Ruan Xing said. "In any case, one should not give up until the very last moment."

The phantom gave a self-deprecating laugh. "You are indeed firm of will. If not for falling into this Juelin Zhidi, I fear that a hundred years from now, you would also be a figure of great renown in this world."

After a pause, it asked again: "Qingping and him... how are they now?"

"Qingping Xianzi and Guangyou Xianjun?" Ruan Xing hesitated for a moment before saying, "Guangyou Xianjun has already returned to the void... Qingping Xianzi has also passed away."

The phantom let out a long sigh. "So that is how it is... very well!"

The phantom stopped speaking and transformed into a ray of rosy light, flying toward Ruan Xing.

She was startled at first, but feeling that the phantom held no malice, she opened her mind to accept this ray of light.

In an instant, her mind was filled with countless memories.

If it were not for the fact that she often received memories brought by the Simulator and had already developed some resistance, she might have been rolling on the ground in pain by now.

Most of the scenes in the memories were the voice and smile of Qingping Xianzi. She was born extremely beautiful, with a bright smile and eyes as brilliant as the stars; Qintai He had only inherited one or two parts of her beauty.

After Ruan Xing organized them in an orderly fashion, she quickly blocked out these useless memories and found the Magic Arts the phantom had spoken of.

To her pleasant surprise, besides the Magic Art to sever Divine Sense and the Magic Art for resurrection, there were also Magic Arts regarding space-time teleportation markers, as well as a cultivation technique for the Divine Soul, the "Record of Nourishing the Soul."

This Record of Nourishing the Soul, besides being able to strengthen the power of the Divine Soul, could also split one's thoughts—that is, to use one mind for two tasks, or even one mind for many tasks.

Wasn't this the method she had previously imagined of fighting while simulating? Unfortunately... the prerequisite for the Record of Nourishing the Soul was having a Divine Soul. She had not yet reached the Transformation Stage; currently, she only had Divine Sense and a soul, which did not meet the standard of a Divine Soul.

However, she could study it first and then go back and try it out on those Puppets of hers.

Those Puppets cultivated using Yin energy, so their souls were inherently stronger than those of ordinary Cultivators; perhaps she could draw inferences from this.

As for the aspect of space-time teleportation, it was basically all Guangyou Xianjun's insights, but Ruan Xing could not digest them yet and could only temporarily seal them in her memory.

As for severing the Divine Sense... that put Ruan Xing in a difficult spot. She neither had a Divine Soul to sever, nor could she possibly discard the Simulator.

In that case, could she still return to the Cultivation world through the Heavenly Pillar?

In the phantom's memories, Guangyou Xianjun had come to the Juelin Zhidi in order to pursue the method of ascension. At that time, he could not comprehend the laws here, so he made two keys, leaving them to be used when he returned later.

A place that even Guangyou Xianjun had to treat with caution was not something she dared to underestimate.

But fortunately, she was in a Simulation; the inheritance left by Guangyou Xianjun was just a memory. She would take this memory and simply not come in again.

The only thing she felt sorry for was the corpse of Qintai Gu on the ground. She could only use the key to come in and take him away later, which could be considered the reward for Qintai He lending her the key.

Ruan Xing called for the Sword to come to her side, and the two walked together toward the Heavenly Pillar in the center. She held the Sword with one hand and pressed the other onto the pillar of light.

The silvery-white threads in the center of the pillar of light suddenly trembled a few times.

【Simulator... upgrade... successful!】

"My head hurts..." Ruan Xing hissed. Her brain was buzzing, and she seemed to hear some sound, but it was not very clear.

The hot steam overflowing with the fragrance of tea entered her nasal cavity, calling back Ruan Xing's consciousness. She was stunned for a moment, looking at the hot tea in front of her. "I'm back? When did the simulation end?"

She hurriedly checked her memory and found that the memory left by Guangyou Xianjun was still there, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she began to try hard to recall what exactly she had experienced in the simulation.

After touching the pillar of light, she had lost consciousness and only felt as if she were in a void, sleeping for a very long time.

It was not until a familiar voice sounded that she woke up.

Her chaotic brain gradually cleared, and Ruan Xing remembered, "Right, that was the Simulator's prompt tone. The Simulator seemed to say something—upgrade successful?"

No wonder it hadn't updated since she passed the tribulation and formed her Golden Core; so it was waiting for this. What new function was upgraded? She opened the Simulator and looked through it, but didn't find anything new. She scratched her head in confusion and looked again, then suddenly her gaze froze.

It landed fixedly on a line of text.

Points: -26900 What!!!???

What did you upgrade!! Using so many points!! This was the first time she knew that points could be negative! She urgently checked the simulation records and discovered that because the last simulation was a Real-scene Simulation, and she had lost consciousness after touching the pillar of light, she had slept for nearly a year...

After the Golden Core Stage, a Real-scene Simulation consumed one hundred points a day; three hundred-plus days meant more than thirty thousand points, which was why it was negative twenty-thousand-plus.

"You had better have upgraded some powerful function..." Ruan Xing's heart was bleeding with pain, and she gritted her teeth but had no way to deal with it; after all, the Simulator would not argue back with her.

She opened her Storage Bag to check the Spirit Stones she had left, and suddenly saw that in the corner, the key had lost its mysterious aura. She frowned and held it in her hand; the key quickly turned into a gust of breeze and disappeared without a trace.

"Oh no... how am I supposed to return it to Qintai He now?" Ruan Xing muttered.

This was the first time she had encountered a situation where an item used in a simulation disappeared in reality. Her heart stirred, and she looked at the Puppets in her Storage Bag again; fortunately, Little Boy No. 1 was still there.

She knew that very precious, unique items could not be "freeloaded" using the Simulator, such as the Hanshan Ink Marrow and Snow Marrow, but this key was clearly made by Guangyou Xianjun himself, and there were two of them, so it shouldn't count as a unique, precious item.

Never mind... Guangyou Xianjun's Guixuzhidi was about to become a Secret Realm; when the time came, she would find a way to go in and look for the other key to take and return to Qintai He as a substitute.

There were still 5 High-grade Spirit Stones, 80 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and over three thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones in her Storage Bag. She recharged three thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones, and the points finally returned to the number 3100.

As for Mid-grade and High-grade, the nominal exchange rate was 100 to 1, but in reality, because of the preciousness of High-grade and Mid-grade stones, in private Cultivator markets, it usually took about 103 Low-grade Spirit Stones to exchange for one Mid-grade. Since that was the case, she would exchange them for Low-grade first before feeding them to the Simulator, and she could earn a few extra Spirit Stones for nothing.

Just look at what the Simulator had forced her into, living life with such careful calculation.

After this delay of hers, the tea on the table had already gone cold; Ruan Xing drank it in one gulp, tossed down a piece of broken silver to settle the bill, and walked out the door.

Gu Duo and the other two had already gone far, but this time Ruan Xing did not intend to enter the space rift again; she had already obtained what she needed to obtain. This time, she wanted to see if she could learn the Nascent Soul stage Tongxuan Scripture from the mouth of the Nanzhou Sect Leader.

After estimating the time, it would be just right to go over after one hour, so Ruan Xing decided to first find a place to exchange for Spirit Stones.

Because she had previously gone to the market to purchase low-level materials to make a parachute and wooden roller-skating crates, she knew that the market here basically only had things used by Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators; other than Pills used for cultivation, there was almost nothing above the Golden Core stage, so naturally, Mid-grade Spirit Stones would not be in circulation in such a place.

After thinking about it, she could only go to Wanbao Tower; although it was a bit expensive, they were a chain after all, and there was a guarantee.

After coming out of Wanbao Tower, her 80 Mid-grade Spirit Stones had turned into 8,160 Low-grade Spirit Stones, earning an extra one hundred and sixty.

After recharging another five thousand Spirit Stones, Ruan Xing opened the Real-scene Simulation.

Although she had just suffered a loss of thirty thousand points because of the Real-scene Simulation, since she wasn't entering the space rift this time, there shouldn't be any accidents... right?

Slowly flying her Sword to the vicinity of the space rift, she used the appearance of Wang Zhi, masking her cultivation at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage so that even if she were discovered by Qingyuan Daojun, she would be nothing more than an ant in his eyes.

Perhaps he would even be happy to have his deeds of cleaning up the Sect and maintaining the Sect's reputation spread by Loose Cultivators.

The Nanzhou Sect Leader was lying on the ground, his condition unknown; Qingyuan Daojun was blocking two Nascent Soul cultivators and it was unclear what they were talking about, while Elder Xu and Peak Master Cheng's sealing work was nearing its end.

Ruan Xing did not dare to get too close, and even less did she dare to easily release her Divine Sense, so she could only watch from afar using a telescope made from the mortal-grade material, glazed glass.

Soon, after the sealing ended, the two Nascent Soul cultivators helplessly withdrew the barrier and left with cupped hands; Peak Master Cheng and Qingyuan Daojun also disappeared, leaving only Elder Xu alone to finish up.

Could he be planning to destroy the body and erase the evidence of the Nanzhou Sect Leader?

It was a pity; if her cultivation were a bit higher now, she might be able to kill Xu Shengping right here.

With the help of Little Boy No. 1 and No. 2 in her Storage Bag, there might be a chance.

Ruan Xing opened the wooden crate and let Sword Lai out, having him take Little Boy No. 1 to sneak over quietly, and then, at the moment Little Boy No. 1 self-destructed, bring the Nanzhou Sect Leader into the Invisibility Channel to return, avoiding secondary explosion damage to his already severely injured body.

Xu Shengping had finished dealing with the Spiritual Power aura left behind when sealing the space rift and was walking toward the direction of the Nanzhou Sect Leader; the ground was covered in traces of fighting and spilled blood, and he had to clean it up.

Suddenly, his footsteps paused; he froze for a moment, then turned around abruptly, "Who is it!"

Within his perception range, a person had suddenly appeared, yet he had not sensed in the slightest how the other party had appeared. If the other party had the ability to kill him in one blow, wouldn't he have just died? Thinking of this, Xu Shengping could not help but feel a chill run down his spine.

However, when he saw who the person behind him was, he felt even more of a chill down his back.

He stammered, "Shengwen... why are you here? You didn't die? Where have you been for so long?"

Elder Xu was standing behind him with his head lowered.

Perhaps because someone who shouldn't have appeared had suddenly appeared, Xu Shengping actually failed to notice the bizarre phenomenon of Elder Xu having no breath or heartbeat, only looking at him in disbelief.

Taking advantage of the few seconds Xu Shengping was stunned, Sword Lai had already successfully put the Nanzhou Sect Leader into the Invisibility Channel and returned.

Hearing the news passed back by Sword Lai that the Sect Leader was still alive for the time being, Ruan Xing breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at Xu Shengping, she calmly snapped her fingers, "Explode!"

The Golden Core power hidden within Elder Xu's body mixed with Yin energy and suddenly burst open; before Xu Shengping could react, he was already engulfed by the explosion vortex formed by the Spiritual Power and Yin energy.

For a moment, gravel splashed everywhere, yellow dust filled the sky, and a fierce wind blew.

Even though Ruan Xing was nearly a kilometer away from them, she was still affected by the explosion; if not for the protection of her Dharma Artifact clothing, she would have already been injured.

Thus, she hurriedly raised a Spiritual Power protective shield around her body, covering Sword Lai and the Nanzhou Sect Leader inside.

After about a quarter of an hour, the dust and noise gradually faded; the original square wheat field had now become a circular pit sunk deep into the ground, a full hundred meters deep.

The place where Little Boy No. 1 exploded was the center point of the pit.

Ruan Xing slowly flew over on her Sword, carefully keeping her guard up.

Although Xu Shengping was very close to the center of the explosion, he was, after all, at the Nascent Soul Late Stage; he might not have been killed by the blast.

Soon, Ruan Xing found him. At the very bottom of the pit, the unrecognizable Xu Shengping was breathing weakly; his flesh and blood were mixed with the soil, and his Flying Sword and several shattered Dharma Artifacts were scattered around his body.

Seeing someone flying over on a Sword above the pit, how could he not know that he had been ambushed?

Spitting out a mouthful of bloody foam, he glared viciously at Ruan Xing, who was in the appearance of Wang Zhi, "It was you... you killed my brother, who are you!?"

Ruan Xing originally did not want to waste words with him, but suddenly thinking of something, she said, "Did you kill Meng Hui?"

"Meng Hui?" Xu Shengping seemed not to know who this name belonged to. After thinking for a moment, he sneered, "So it was that girl who hadn't become a Golden Core after cultivating for nearly two hundred years, Fu Qinghong's Registered Disciple, right? What, are you her lover?"

For a Registered Disciple with mediocre aptitude to be known by Xu Shengping regarding the events of her life, it was enough to prove that he had indeed tampered with Meng Hui's heavenly tribulation.

Ruan Xing could not help but frown, "You really make people feel disgusted. I don't want to turn you into a Puppet anymore; I should feed you to the wild dogs."

"Haha, then why don't you go kill Fu Yuanzhen? Without him speaking, why would I harm a piece of trash who couldn't even cultivate to the Golden Core stage for no reason?"

Fu Yuanzhen? That should be the real name of Qingyuan Daojun; she remembered Fu Qinghong saying that both he and his Senior Sister took their master's surname.

Although Xu Shengping was lying there in a miserable state, he kept cursing incessantly with a full voice. While those words were painless to Ruan Xing, she was a bit confused: did Xu Shengping have no backup plans? Was he just lying there waiting to die?

Or was it that he was just trying to provoke her?

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