Chapter 240: with translation of chapter title
Jiang Yu saw the Wen siblings; in order to avoid accepting gifts and to send them away quickly, she had no choice but to pretend her injury had flared up.
"You, you, if you don't want to see someone, just don't see them; why beat around the bush?" Lu Ruochan, who was accompanying and seeing off guests, was somewhat confused.
Jiang Yu held her head, "Next time, I can just not see them directly; for now, in the inn, many people are watching, I have to put on a satisfactory ending with the Wen family."
"Externally, we declare that the two sects have no reservations about this matter."
"I'm so tired, could this be the responsibility of an elite disciple?" Lu Ruochan wanted to hold her head even more.
"I'm not an elite disciple; when can the teleportation array be used?"
"I'll go say goodbye to Senior Sister Wan." Jiang Yu wanted to return immediately to check if her brother's soul had gained any benefit.
She placed the soul-nurturing tree root and the ice jade bed inside the dragon pearl, not exposing them, while the geng metal and lightning bamboo branches, she intended to give some to Senior Sister Wan.
"No, first make sure everything is arranged properly; she has good eyesight, and now she's sticking close to Chen Xia and Senior Sister Gu, following them step by step."
Senior Sister Gu asked, "What kind of procedure are you?" Lu Ruochan grabbed the person.
Jiang Yu thought for a moment, "How about handing it over to Elder Sang?"
"Good, but you have to show up." Lu Ruochan immediately opened the door for her.
After Jiang Yu finished her business and said goodbye to Wan Xiyue, not long after, the steward elder notified them to set off; the Xu Void disciples, after being transmitted to the Guiyuan Sect market, then transferred through one or two more teleportation arrays, would return to the sect.
Those who returned from this secret realm, after receiving rewards and having their merit points divided, aroused envy among many fellow disciples.
At this time, how many people still remember that the sect lost eight Golden Core cultivators and twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators within the cave heaven?
Jiang Yu visited Senior Sister Wu several times, but she never saw her; not long after, news came that Senior Sister Wu had entered a long seclusion.
While the news of Ye Lin's soul lamp extinguishing also gradually spread, but no one knew where he died, and gradually they forgot this former cultivation generation.
As for that Junior Sister Bai, she hardly caused any ripples in the sect.
"Even though Foundation Establishment cultivators can have a lifespan of two hundred years, how many actually die a natural death?"
"Big brother, you and the Dragon King will recuperate together on this soul-nurturing tree root; I will go complete the sect mission." After Jiang Yu visited the secluded Ao Ze, she moved her brother's soul into the dwelling, in order to send him into the cave heaven to nurture his soul.
Jiang Tu had already woken up a few days ago, "Now I have helped Lin Zhenren remove the gu poison; once he enters the Nascent Soul stage, his lifespan will be without worry."
"If you want to relax, why not I restore the little snake and go to the Great Enlightenment Temple to play with it?"
"No, we agreed to close the gates for thirty years; after I finish the remaining tasks of the Qi Refining stage, I will immediately dissipate cultivation and restart, striving to complete three dissipations in one go." Jiang Yu now has considerable wealth; wandering outside would definitely be seeking trouble.
"You forgot, I still have an enemy."
"The Southern Su of the Harmony Sect has closed himself off in death seclusion, hoping that in a few decades I will reach Golden Core and personally go to take revenge."
"What grudge?" The dragon soul was completely unaware, humbly asking Jiang Tu for advice.
In the blink of an eye, a few months passed; Jiang Yu completed the tasks she had previously taken on, also refused multiple invitations from various sects for Foundation Establishment cultivators to travel, and under her master's personal care, she underwent her first dissipation of cultivation.
From then on, she began a closed-door retreat lasting thirty years.
She had the patience; besides cultivation, she drew talismans, practiced swordsmanship, refined her body, occasionally, at her master's command, went to forge a few days of her natal sword embryo, and with the merit points she earned supporting her, her spiritual meals never ceased.
It must be said that living on the master's subsidiary peak is good; whenever something is needed, just send a message and a steward disciple will deliver it.
In between, she underwent two more dissipations of cultivation, going from late Foundation Establishment to early Foundation Establishment; although she did not condense special lightning power in her dantian, she could control the furnace fire of a minor Five Thunder Technique to be pure blue.
Just that, the Linquan Sect master also sent a good batch of body-refining medicinal liquids, and enthusiastically wanted to hold a disciple-acceptance ceremony for her.
The sect's stipulation is that completing three dissipations of cultivation of the Lightning Fire Technique, even if no lightning power is cultivated or there is no aberrant root mutation, one can still become an inheritor of the lineage.
Unfortunately, Jiang Yu devoted herself entirely to arduous cultivation, never leaving the master's subsidiary peak; Sui Lv Zhenjun also did not want to publicize it, so he invited a weapon-refining master from the Wan Jian Sect, who stayed daily in the earth fire chamber, forging natal sword embryos for the young disciple.
Finally, in a certain year, she attracted the heavenly tribulation lightning, wielding the natal lightning fire sword refined with her master's help, and reached Golden Core at the age of forty-nine.
Just as the Xu Void Sect disciples thought a Golden Core ceremony was imminent, Jiang Yu had already visited her former friends and gone out to travel the world.
Actually, the situation was that a few months earlier, Jiang Yu's senior brother's soul lamp had suddenly dwindled to a tiny spark, and her master Sui Lv Zhenjun took the soul lamp to the Dongzhou Continent to search for someone.
Thus, they just happened to miss Jiang Yu's Golden Core formation.
"Jiang Yu, are you really going to Dongzhou? Then we can meet Jiang Bai." Jiang Tu was very happy about her decision, but because her senior brother's life or death was unknown, he restrained himself from laughing.
"I will go, but before that, I want to make a trip to the Harmony Sect." Jiang Yu intended to find a way to let that Southern Su emerge from seclusion so she could kill him.
Jiang Tu: "Aren't you afraid that Southern Su will form a Nascent Soul?"
"Hmph, given that he's a person injured by a demon, he probably won't be able to form a Nascent Soul." This time Jiang Yu went out, she restrained her cultivation to the late Foundation Establishment stage.
She originally intended to visit the Taiyi Sect to see Wan Xiyue, who had formed Golden Core a few years earlier, but she didn't expect that Senior Sister Wan had gone out to sea to gather spiritual herbs and had not returned.
Alas, since she was twenty-two, when Senior Sister Wan sent over a Face-Fixing Pill and they met once, thereafter each had been busy with cultivation, only occasionally contacting each other via message, and they had never met again.
Thus, after leaving the sect and undergoing several transmissions in between, she arrived at the Xuan Tian Sect market, planning to rest for a day before heading to the Demon Gate.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she stepped out of the transmission hall, two sudden sword lights swept toward her.
As she raised her hand to dispel the sword light, she saw two female cultivators fighting, knocking down and injuring many low-level cultivators on the street.
Strangely, the law enforcement team of the Xuan Tian Sect were all as good as dead, yet they did not appear.
"It's Xue Miao; a Golden Core cultivator actually fighting in the market." Jiang Tu decisively jumped out to watch the excitement.
Jiang Yu, meanwhile, joined some enthusiastic Golden Core cultivators in taking action; surging magical power, she pushed the nearby injured low-level cultivators into the transmission hall or into shops to take shelter.
Many more people also fled along, not wanting to be injured for no reason.
At the next moment, Jiang Tu saw Jiang Yu leap into the air, flick out a bamboo fan, and a sheet of lightning struck toward the two combatants.
Those two might have been too focused in their fight; accidentally struck by a large arc of lightning, the swords in their hands immediately retracted for self-defense.
"How daring, who dares to injure this true person?" Xue Miao glared angrily at Jiang Yu, for a moment not recognizing her in disguise.
The other female cultivator, upon seeing the lightning bamboo fan, blurted out: "Jiang Yu."
Jiang Yu also recognized that Golden Core female cultivator; she was Cui Shijie from the Xuan Tian Sect, who showed a bit of lovesick behavior.
She only glanced at the two of them, then jumped into the rear of a squad of Foundation Establishment cultivators law enforcement team that had come running; the squad's vanguard was actually Qin Zhuo.
Qin Zhuo had also recently formed Golden Core a few months ago; he clasped his hands toward Jiang Yu, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Jiang, for your help; I was delayed by something just now."
Jiang Yu nodded, turned and walked toward an inn, but the two female cultivators still mid-air were unwilling.
Especially when Qin Zhuo ordered the two to go to the law enforcement hall to receive punishment, Xue Miao swooped up to Jiang Yu: "Stop, you also participated in this; you should likewise receive punishment."
Jiang Yu didn't speak; Jiang Tu raised his front claw, holding up the image stone, "What a blatant distortion of right and wrong—do you want this king to spread your heroic bearing across the cultivation world?"
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