Chapter 9: Me Too

"Greetings, Fairy. We indeed accidentally entered that forbidden land."

Jiang Xuan spoke up.

"To actually be able to walk out alive, truly not easy." She lightly spoke these words.

She looked at everyone, her gaze calm.

"Is this your actual age?"

"No, we aren't that old. Don't know why we lost several decades of youth and life force." A male classmate answered urgently, looking at the woman with a face full of tension and hope.

However the young woman did not look at him, as if she had long known they had lost their youth. She was asking Jiang Xuan and the other two.

"We are all in our twenties. Don't know why the few of us became younger, while the others became old." Jiang Xuan spoke.

"Did the few of you eat a kind of red fruit, entirely fresh red and dripping, crystal clear transparent?" The young woman was surprised.

"Yes, we were starving all the way, picked a kind of red fruit and ate it."

The three of Jiang Xuan looked at each other, nodded in acknowledgment.

"You actually have such opportunity."

The young woman could not help but sigh at the few people's world-shaking opportunity. In the outside world, how many Holy Land sect masters desire this opportunity but cannot obtain it, yet here there are actually four people who obtained such opportunity. Truly enviable.

"We are a group of distressed people. Can we still recover our youth?" Lin Jia was extremely urgent. Turning into an old woman, this was more unbearable than killing her.

"You need not despair. Having come out alive from the Ancient Forbidden Land, the Sea of Bitterness has already been activated. You can embark on the cultivation path. Lifespan can slowly recover."

The woman's voice was very ethereal. Everyone felt as if hearing the sound of nature.

"I'll take you out first."

Jade hand waved lightly. A sheet of divine light emitted from within her body, enveloping everyone, then slowly rose, flying straight toward the distance.

"This should be the Zhe Tian Jie's flying rainbow light. In this realm, whether battle or flight, the visual effects are all very grand."

Jiang Xuan felt the dazzling divine light wrapping himself. In his heart he was deeply moved. His own mysterious purple North Ming True Qi can form a Three-Foot Qi Wall, but compared to the rainbow light that can fly, it is truly worlds apart. It is not that Jiang Xuan is inferior to others, but due to the environment. The difference between world and world is also worlds apart.

The North Ming Divine Skill is a top-tier technique in the wuxia world, but placed in a gods-and-demons xuanhuan world it is not enough to look at. He very much looks forward to being able to cultivate an even more powerful technique.

"Just don't know after cultivating the Zhetian Method, the True Qi inside the body will exist in what form. Fuse into the Zhetian Method? Or need to disperse the North Ming True Qi?"

Pondering, the rainbow light wrapping everyone swept past stretches of mountain forests. Towns on the great earth rapidly disappeared.

"Can we really recover our youth?"

A classmate still not at ease, asked.

"Your Sea of Bitterness has already been activated. You possess the aptitude for cultivation. In the outside world you are cultivation seeds that the major Cave Heavens vie to snatch. Youth naturally can recover."

All along the way, the young woman was very patient, answering everyone's various questions. Her voice ethereal and gentle.

When the sun set in the west, everyone arrived at a small town. Looking from afar, the small town was brightly lit.

As they neared, instantly seven or eight streaks of rainbow light soared into the sky. Inside each streak of rainbow light was a figure.

"It's Wei Wei returned."

"Any discoveries around the Ancient Forbidden Land? The major Cave Heaven and Blessed Lands have all dispatched experts. Seems they are searching for something. Didn't encounter them, right?"

"The Supreme Elder sensed the forbidden land's fluctuations. The other Cave Heavens naturally would not have failed to perceive."

"This group of people is..."

Inside these rainbow glows were several old people. Should be the young woman's elders.

"Too inconceivable. Even the major Holy Land sect masters cannot retreat unscathed. Yet mortals actually able to walk out alive from the forbidden land!"

"Haha, thirty people. Thirty good seedlings for cultivation."

"Their Sea of Bitterness has indeed been activated."

Several old men listening to the young woman Wei Wei's words, expressions excited. Big harvest ah.

"You are all mortals. How did you manage to enter the Ancient Forbidden Land?"

"Strange, strange. Your language seems very strange!"

"What encounters did you have inside the forbidden land?"

"..."

Seven or eight old men looking at everyone, questions one after another. Wanting to ask out all doubts.

"We thirty people are from the same hometown. During a gathering outing, we got carried away and accidentally entered a great mountain. Instantly felt the world spinning. Fainted. When we woke up, discovered the surroundings were no longer the previous environment."

Jiang Xuan seeing this, immediately spoke the prepared lines he had readied beforehand.

"???"

"We don't know how long we were unconscious. After waking up, we were both hungry and thirsty. Supporting each other, we slowly sought the road down the mountain." A female classmate's mind turned very fast. She cooperated.

"Then how did you four find the divine fruit?"

"Ever see any other unusual places inside the forbidden land?"

Jiang Xuan answered one by one.

"Legend says there are peerless experts who can arrange 'Trend' between heaven, earth, mountains and rivers. In a moment move stars and change constellations, toy with heaven and earth. This kind of supreme method is truly terrifying."

"Should be so. You should have accidentally stepped into a supreme expert's dao-chang, triggered the Trend engraved on the great mountain. Therefore in a split second the seas turned to mulberry fields."

"Many experts like tranquility. Being moved out is also normal."

Several old men understood Jiang Xuan's words. One sentence you, one sentence I, they filled in the blanks in their minds. Automatically helped Jiang Xuan find good reasons.

Gazes scanned back and forth over the group. Frequently nodded. Regarding this group of mortals' origins, they had already understood. Having walked out from the Ancient Forbidden Land, this group of mortals all activated their Sea of Bitterness. All are good seedlings for cultivation. Especially Jiang Xuan. His body emits a unique temperament. Very extraordinary.

Mhm. Also that one sturdy boy and that one clear-eyed capable boy are not bad either. Look like they are also very suitable for cultivation.

"Although you have lost part of your youth, no need to worry. Your Sea of Bitterness are all activated. After stepping onto the cultivation path, when realms become profound, youth naturally will recover. Don't know what you plan afterward?" Finally an old man smilingly looked at Jiang Xuan.

"We have wandered for several days. Only hate not meeting a famous teacher. If Senior does not disdain, willing to enter your sect." Jiang Xuan immediately spoke.

"Hahaha, good, good, good, a heaven-bestowed talent indeed."

"Several seniors, we will certainly cultivate diligently from now on and strengthen the sect."

The classmates' scalps went numb from being shown up.

"Me too."

"Me too."

"Me too."

When Jiang Xuan proposed joining the several elders' sect, the many classmates were shocked speechless by Jiang Xuan's maneuver.

Good fellow, everyone was still worrying about their bleak prospects, feeling melancholy, feeling despondent, yet you've already prepared to enter a cultivation sect.

Jiang Xuan's taking one step while watching three steps made everyone look foolish.

"That's it, joined an Immortal Gate? Simple to the point of disbelief, I thought joining an Immortal Gate required testing Spirit Roots, then undergoing layer upon layer of assessments."

"At the crucial moment you still have to look to Jiang Ge; all along the way, Jiang Ge's decisions haven't been wrong a single time."

"Now we can finally settle down; thinking back to the past few days, I still feel lingering fear."

Many classmates admired and anticipated; with the several elders' nods, the matter was thus settled.

(Chapter End)