Chapter 20: Li Muxuan, Wu Gensheng

On the very day after Li Ang succeeded in changing his class to 【Qi Refiner (Sanyi)】, two new disciples arrived at the Sanyi Sect — Yunsheng and Yunze.

The two should have entered the sect earlier than Li Ang, but because something urgent came up at home, they had returned home first, which delayed their formal entry into the Shanmen until today.

And the one temporarily responsible for guiding them was, naturally, still Lu Jin.

Looking at the two children before him, he could not help but sigh: "It's a pity you arrived a day late — if not, yesterday you could have witnessed Junior Brother Li Ang's Dharma Transmission Ceremony."

Yunsheng and Yunze froze at his words, instinctively exchanging a glance.

They remembered that, from the information they had gathered, the only ones to have recently entered the sect were the two they themselves were playing.

So where had this Li Ang popped out from?

Just as the two were feeling somewhat puzzled, a voice suddenly rang out behind them: "Sorry, Senior Brother Lu, I'm late."

Hearing the voice, Yunsheng and Yunze involuntarily turned their heads to look, and then different expressions surfaced on each of their faces.

Yunsheng's face remained placid, with only a flash of surprise in his eyes, while Yunze's eyes were wide open.

Both of them recognized the youth as the 'rich young master' they had seen on the second floor of the tavern that day.

At this moment, Li Ang also noticed the two boys standing in front of Lu Jin.

His movements paused for a beat, and then he immediately realized the identities of the two.

Li Muxuan, Wu Gensheng!

Li Ang forcibly controlled the emotions in his heart, preventing any expression from showing on his face that might alert Wu Gensheng to something amiss.

'Has the plot already reached this point?'

He could not help but think to himself.

Judging by the timeline, in a few days at most, it would be the day his own Master clashed with the Xingzhang Sect leader standing before him.

Although on this solo trip to the One-Person World Li Ang has already basically achieved his goal, even if the Sanyi Sect were to be destroyed later just as in the original plot, it would not affect him.

But people are made of flesh and blood — during this period, all the senior brothers in the sect as well as his Master had taken very good care of him, and he still did not want to stand by and watch the entire Sanyi Sect end up with only Lu Jin surviving.

Just as Li Ang's heart was in an extremely tangled state, Lu Jin spoke and pulled him back to reality: "This is your Senior Brother Li Ang, and he is also a once-in-a-millennium genius of our Sanyi Sect."

"Senior Brother Lu, you're exaggerating." Li Ang gathered his thoughts, intending to stop Lu Jin from continuing.

But before he could speak, Lu Jin had already said with a grin: "Yunsheng, Yunze, you don't know this — Junior Brother Li only received the transmission of Reverse Birth: Three Layers yesterday, and he broke through the First Layer's barrier on the spot."

"In all my years since entering the sect, this is the first time I've seen anything like it."

Lu Jin's words were still an understatement — in fact, in the records of the Sanyi Sect, geniuses like Li Ang were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

At the very least, he himself could not do it.

And upon hearing Lu Jin's words, expressions of utter shock appeared on the faces of both Wu Gensheng and Li Muxuan.

The former was faking it; the latter was genuinely shocked.

But even though it was an act, Wu Gensheng did indeed feel some astonishment at Li Ang's talent deep down.

If he remembered correctly, half a month ago this Senior Brother Li had still been an utterly ordinary person.

Could there really be someone in this world whose talent was terrifying to such a degree?

Or perhaps...

There was some secret?

Just like how he had been born knowing 【Shenming Ling】.

And Li Muxuan's feelings were undoubtedly even more complicated.

Shock, envy, jealousy, disbelief...

All manner of emotions churned together like a dye vat into which countless pigments had been poured — a tangled mess.

'Even this kid can be accepted'

'Why won't you just accept me, Sect Leader Zuo?!'

'Is it because my talent isn't as strong as his?!'

At this moment, Li Muxuan even had the thought of tearing off his disguise and going up to confront Zuo Ruotong face to face.

Just as his emotions were surging more and more intensely, Wu Gensheng threw an arm around his shoulder: "Senior Brother Li's talent is truly on par with the heavens themselves!"

"Right, bro?"

Wu Gensheng's action and words gradually calmed Li Muxuan down. Lowering his head, he said somewhat reluctantly: "Y-yes, that's right."

Unfortunately, the two did not know that their identities had already been exposed — this performance would only arouse Li Ang's vigilance.

Without any change in expression, he said: "You two junior brothers are too kind."

Then, not intending to dwell on this topic any longer, Li Ang looked at Lu Jin: "Let's go, Senior Brother Lu, take us to gather herbs."

The Sanyi Sect did have methods of refining medicine.

Not the kind of swindling trick of refining mercury pills, but pills made from herbs that could strengthen the body's constitution.

Although they were not as exaggerated as the pills in xianxia novels, they were still adequate for strengthening the body.

Therefore, all disciples of the Sanyi Sect needed to go out regularly to gather herbs, and Li Ang was naturally no exception.

Following the principle that one more skill meant one more way out, he certainly would not reject this task — and who knows, if one day he changed his class to 【Immortal】, he might be able to refine Nine-Turn Golden Cores?

On the way to another mountain.

Wu Gensheng, playing Yunsheng, was panting and drenched in sweat, while Li Muxuan, playing Yunze, appeared Burdened with worries, with only a slight trace of sweat on his forehead.

Seeing this scene, Li Ang could not help but sigh inwardly that the Xingzhang Sect leader's acting was indeed good enough — in a later era, he could easily have made a living as a Best Actor.

But then, he began pondering how to resolve the trouble brought by the two without drawing anyone's attention.

The simplest way would naturally be for Li Ang to beat the two to their knees on the spot, but recalling that in the original work Wu Gensheng could go fifty-fifty with his own Master, he silently crossed out this option.

And the reason the Sanyi Sect would be destroyed was that Wu Gensheng's Shenming Ling could help Reverse Birth: Three Layers break through Up to the Third Layer.

This was undoubtedly something that no one in the Sanyi Sect besides Zuo Ruotong could accept.

After all, who could have imagined that the breakthrough method for the Chuan Sect's ultimate art, Reverse Birth: Three Layers, lay in the hands of an outsider?

Therefore, after Zuo Ruotong's death, Si Chong and Cheng Zhen attempted to capture Wu Gensheng and bring him back to the Sanyi Sect; even if they couldn't capture him, they intended to kill him.

Unfortunately, before they could find Wu Gensheng, they were killed by Quanxing sect members.

What happened afterward is easy to understand.

With Master, Uncle, and Cheng Zhen—whose status rivaled that of the eldest disciple—all dead because of Wu Gensheng, the hatred between the Sanyi Sect and him could now be described as a blood-deep grudge.

Then the sect was wiped out, leaving only Lu Jin alive, along with some disciples who had been dismissed and sent home.

Thinking of this, a shadow flickered across Li Ang's eyes.

At that moment, Wu Gensheng suddenly leaned close to Li Ang and asked, "Senior Brother Li, is Master easy to get along with?"

The sudden voice made Li Ang, who had been deep in thought about how to deal with the two Quanxing men, startle—he instinctively pulled back slightly from Wu Gensheng.

But soon, Li Ang regained his composure.

After a moment of silence, he spoke: "Master is quite reasonable, provided we disciples admit our mistakes and correct them."

This was said to Wu Gensheng, and also to Li Muxuan.

Hearing Li Ang's words, Li Muxuan, known as the "Evil Child," clenched his teeth tightly, barely holding back his emotions.

Fortunately, at that moment, Wu Gensheng grabbed his arm.