Chapter 77: Tang Ying, That Mysterious Woman

"Protector Zhong, your Spirit Energy hasn't recovered yet, has it?"

Jiang Xun looked at Zhong Lingqing and asked.

"It hasn't recovered, but if it's just to snatch someone from the Tianwu Sect, it shouldn't be much of a problem."

Zhong Lingqing smiled.

"Huiyuan Pill." Jiang Xun tossed out a Huiyuan Pill, and Zhong Lingqing caught it in one hand: "Eat it; don't drag me down instead of helping."

"Young Master Jiang is truly generous."

Seeing this, Zhong Lingqing smiled, and without standing on ceremony, she ate the Huiyuan Pill directly.

【Ding, Huiyuan Pill gifted successfully.】

【Received return: Soul Returning Pill.】

【Zhong Lingqing's favorability increased to: 10】

【Return multiplier: 100】

The reason Jiang Xun gave her the Huiyuan Pill was, naturally, because she was a Child of Luck.

An SS-rank Child of Luck.

Come to think of it, Jiang Xun still hadn't figured out what the difference in rewards was between an SSS-rank and a D-rank Child of Luck...

Could it be that things only change after favorability reaches one hundred?

But Gu Qing's favorability was already full, and nothing different happened.

(Chapter 13, Tu Qing's full favorability was a bug; it has been corrected, the favorability is 95.)

"Then without further ado, let's set off now."

Seeing that Zhong Lingqing had finished regulating her breathing and her internal energy had returned to its peak, Jiang Xun said.

"Alright." Zhong Lingqing nodded and stood up.

"Senior brother, be careful; if there is any danger, come back quickly."

Tu Qing looked at Jiang Xun and instructed.

"Don't worry."

Jiang Xun nodded, then left the great hall together with Zhong Lingqing.

"When I was in the Void Sect Secret Realm, I suppose I offended the Saintess of the Tianwu Sect, Tu Wan. If we are discovered by Tu Wan on this trip to the Tianwu Sect, it might be a bit dangerous."

Jiang Xun said while using Wind Control.

"I've heard that the Saintess of the Tianwu Sect is a genius who reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage at nineteen." Zhong Lingqing nodded.

"Nineteen?" Jiang Xun was stunned upon hearing this; he only knew Tu Wan was a Saintess, but he didn't know she was only nineteen!

Compared to someone like this who reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage at nineteen, what was his own thousand years of cultivation worth...

"Although there is the blessing of Demon Art, being able to reach Nascent Soul so quickly truly makes her a genius among geniuses." Zhong Lingqing nodded: "Now that you know this, do you regret not killing her in the Secret Realm back then?"

"What do you call this? Jealousy of talent?"

"Aren't you jealous?"

"..."

Jiang Xun felt helpless; it would be a lie to say he wasn't jealous. In front of these geniuses, those who had cultivated for a thousand or even two thousand years to reach Nascent Soul really didn't amount to much.

It was almost like being a clown.

But then he thought about it again; he was now someone who could go from Foundation Establishment Early Stage to Nascent Soul Early Stage in a month. Wasn't that even stronger than Tu Wan?

"The Tianwu Sect is located at Tianwu Mountain, over ten thousand miles away. How do you plan to get there?"

"By Teleportation Array, to the place closest to Tianwu Mountain."

"Within a thousand miles of where the Tianwu Sect is located, there is no human habitation. The place closest to the Tianwu Sect that has a Teleportation Array should be Yunyin City, which is over two thousand miles away from Tianwu Mountain. Besides, the Spirit Stones to teleport there are very expensive, and I don't have that many."

Zhong Lingqing looked at Jiang Xun and smiled, implying something.

"This counts as an official business trip, so how could I let you pay out of your own pocket?"

Jiang Xun smiled.

Unlike her cold, aloof, mature appearance, this Zhong Lingqing didn't seem to be a cold person at all; instead, there was a strong contrast...

She always said shocking things, things that were unexpected, and surprisingly, she said them quite often.

Coupled with her deceptive appearance, the sense of contrast was fully maximized.

"Then many thanks, Young Master."

Zhong Lingqing's lips curled up, and the corners of her eyes curved slightly.

If she were to stick out her pink tongue and lick the corner of her mouth at this moment, it would surely be a very seductive sight.

Jiang Xun felt his appetite whetted just by imagining it.

"Why do you think Tang Ying wants to kill me? If it weren't for you, surely I would be the one going to ask about Tang Ying's whereabouts, right?"

Jun Tianling was still dwelling on the matter of Tang Ying.

"Not necessarily... You are at the Great Vehicle Stage; why would Tang Ying think Zhong Lingqing could kill you?"

Jiang Xun replied.

"Then perhaps she knew I wouldn't be as strong when I managed to escape? Or that I had possessed someone else?"

"She wants to kill you, and you still want to find her?"

Jiang Xun smiled.

"To be honest... I want to even more." Jun Tianling pursed his lips: "Now, not only do I want to find Tang Ying to ask about the past, I want even more to ask her why she wants to kill me."

"Although my memory is incomplete, there is one thing I can be certain of: Tang Ying must be my Dao companion."

"Yes, I know that too." Jiang Xun nodded, while simultaneously thinking of that disciple from the Spirit Sound Sect.

At the time, it was Lin Feng of the Spirit Sound Sect who said that Jun Tianling had fallen in love with Tang Ying, which led to his cultivation plummeting.

Perhaps it is that Jun Tianling fell in love with Tang Ying, but Tang Ying did not love Jun Tianling, causing Jun Tianling to suffer a blow, and then Tang Ying did not want to have any more entanglements with Jun Tianling, so she had Zhong Lingqing kill the person who came looking for her.

Of course, this is also just a guess.

There is also Cao Zhangqing of Shu Mountain; he was the one who said he had seen Jun Tianling.

At the time, he even pointed at Jun Tianling quite firmly and said that this was Jun Tianling.

But Jiang Xun knew that this was Si Yuyan.

Combining this point, perhaps the person who fought those sect disciples back then was never Jun Tianling from beginning to end.

As for where Jun Tianling himself went.

Hiss...

Could Tang Ying be Jun Tianling?

Jiang Xun was so frightened by this thought that he broke out in goosebumps.

That shouldn't be it, right...

"Do you have a portrait of Tang Ying?"

Thinking of this, Jiang Xun looked at Zhong Lingqing.

He had never seen Tang Ying, but he had seen Jun Tianling himself.

"No," Zhong Lingqing shook her head, "When Master left, she erased her own portrait and everything related to her; after a thousand years, there are very few people who even mention Master now."

"Then describe her."

Jiang Xun did not expect that Tang Ying had disappeared to such an extent.

"Master, she... eyes... uh, nose..." Zhong Lingqing's brows were tightly furrowed, "Mouth is... eyebrows, hiss? Eh?"

"... Big sister, everyone has those, I'm asking you to describe her, like big eyes or small eyes, a high bridge of the nose or a low bridge of the nose," Jiang Xun said speechlessly as he looked at Zhong Lingqing.

"No, I, I can't remember," Zhong Lingqing shook her head.

"You can't remember your own Master?"

"I can think of that face in my mind, but I can't put it into words, and the face is very blurry, hiss... in the time it took to talk to you, that face has become completely unclear."

Zhong Lingqing tried to recall, but the more she tried, the less she could remember.

"I might have been placed under some kind of technique by Master, otherwise it would be impossible for me not to remember," Zhong Lingqing was very certain.

After all, it was a Master she had spent thousands of years with day and night.

"This is interesting... I am now a bit interested in Tang Ying as well," Jiang Xun said to Jun Tianling in his heart upon hearing this, "Such a mysterious woman is truly intriguing."