Eldest Sister Gives Up Cultivating - Chapter 31

Chapter 31 The Holy Maiden by the Great Pine Lake

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Gao Yi and the others said they were busy and excused themselves. Only Yun Luo Peak’s eldest disciple, Chen Lu, was left on the cloud to accompany the Holy Maiden of the Azure Sect.

The Holy Maiden seemed to have no intention of paying attention to this Senior Sister Chen.

She took off her long boots and sat at the edge of the cloud. She subconsciously swung her legs like a romantic girl washing her feet by the stream.

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Chen Lu’s gaze followed the Holy Maiden’s milky white feet up and finally landed on the Holy Maiden’s cold face.

“What exactly is she doing?”

Chen Lu fell into deep confusion.

The Holy Maiden had maintained this posture for a long time. She didn’t seem to mind that her slightly out of line actions were exposed in front of others.

Was the Newcomer Competition really that interesting?

Chen Lu didn’t think so.

At this moment, a familiar shout came from the square under the clouds again.

“The winner, Xiao Jinse!”

The Holy Maiden’s long eyelashes trembled slightly. This was the sixth time. After this round, the female disciple named Xiao Jinse successfully entered the finals of the Newcomer Competition.

She had observed Xiao Jinse’s opponent in the finals. It was an eighth-level Qi Refinement cultivator named Fan Ren.

According to the information revealed by the “professional commentators” on the ground, Fan Ren was born into a cultivation family. He officially stepped onto the path of immortality at the age of seven and performed well in the family’s trial. He was known as the head of the Fan family this generation.

Therefore, although Xiao Jinse appeared abnormally strong during the competition, not many people thought she could win.

After all, Xiao Jinse’s cultivation had yet to reach the seventh level of Qi Refinement. The difference of two levels couldn’t be erased just like that.

“Reliable expert, trustworthy!”

“Bet on Fan Ren and earn big money! Emperor Fan, I’ll let you win until your hands go numb!”

The finals were about to begin, and many people were already warming up around the arena.

The Holy Maiden suddenly said, “Miss Chen, who do you think will win in the end?”

Huh?

Chen Lu was clearly stunned.

After realizing that the Holy Maiden was asking her, she said firmly, “Fan Ren!”

“?!

The Holy Maiden looked at Chen Lu in surprise.

Chen Lu frowned and said, “Does the Holy Maiden have a different opinion?”

The Holy Maiden shook her head. “I’m just surprised by Miss Chen’s decisiveness.”

Although that was the case, the Holy Maiden couldn’t help but look down on Chen Lu a little. It seemed that the eldest disciple of Yun Luo Peak didn’t really have good judgment.

She almost suspected that Chen Lu was a player of the Heavenly Emperor game. The Holy Maiden thought more highly of Xiao Jinse.

On the one hand, it was because Xiao Jinse won every match cleanly and conserved a lot of strength. She would definitely last longer in battle. On the other hand, it was because Xiao Jinse was the junior sister of that woman!

The Holy Maiden slowly closed her eyes.

She began to imagine an extremely terrifying scene in her mind. This scene once became a mental demon on her cultivation path!

That was nearly two years ago.

At that time, she wasn’t a Holy Maiden yet, but she wasn’t a nobody.

In accordance with the sect’s rules, the Holy Maiden led some weaker disciples down the mountain to train. The training venue was a mountain town nicknamed (Ghost Cry Town). The training goal was to investigate the truth of (Ghost Cry].

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She was filled with confidence and never expected that she would almost die there.

On the seventh night of training…

After investigating, the Holy Maiden arrived at the shore of Great Pine Lake. She realized that the ghost cry came from the bottom of the lake.

Just as she and her junior brothers and sisters worked together to kill the green-eyed evil spirit, a ferocious Ghost King rushed out of the Great Pine Lake. Even though she resisted with all her might, she was still bound by the Ghost King with the Soul Devouring Chain, which pulled on all four of her limbs.

It had not been easy for her to grow from an ordinary disciple who was not liked by others to a core disciple of the sect. But now, she was actually going to suffer all kinds of humiliation and die by the lake!

The Holy Maiden was indignant. She cried helplessly in despair!

At this moment, a girl in white appeared.

At first, the Holy Maiden thought that she was in cahoots with the Ghost King, but soon, she realized that the girl and the Ghost King were facing off each other.

That body looked petite, but it was actually majestic!

In the face of the fierce Ghost King, the girl didn’t show any fear.

She took out a water-like transparent sword and slashed the Ghost King into pieces!

“So noisy!”

The girl complained the other party for being noisy and put away her sword angrily.

When she left, the Holy Maiden knew that she was saved.

It was only later that she heard from others that the girl who passed by Ghost Cry Town that day was Bai Lian from the Immortal Du Sect.

Only the Holy Maiden knew about this. Because the other junior brothers and sisters had fainted from fright, everyone in the sect thought that she had resolved the haunted incident in Ghost Cry Town.

The Holy Maiden often felt afraid.

If Bai Lian hadn’t accidentally passed by Ghost Cry Town that day, she didn’t know what would have happened to her.

She could already be considered lucky if she could die with a complete corpse.

“Damn!”

Suddenly, a tsunami of shouts pulled the Holy Maiden out of her memories.

The Holy Maiden lowered her head. The originally orderly square was in a mess.

Someone was laughing wildly.

Someone fled the sad place of Yun Luo Peak Square in tears. “Damn! Alright! I won!” “Damn! My house!”

“Move, Fan Ren!”

In the arena of the finals, Fan Ren fell to the ground. His pupils had lost their focus. The spear he was best at handling was inserted diagonally into the stone crack, and the spear shaft was already bent.

He had lost!

He actually lost.

Not far from Fan Ren, Xiao Jinse leaned on her sword with her right hand. Although there were several clear bloodstains on her body, she was still tenacious.

Her gaze passed through countless shocked and confused faces and met Bai Lian’s smiling eyes.

She did it!

The afterglow of this sunset was actually

damn warm.

Xiao Jinse’s body trembled slightly. At this moment, she wanted to cry. She wanted to throw herself into Senior Sister Bai’s arms and cry.

As the saying went, “the rainy city was cold as ice, and only broad-mindedness warmed people’s hearts”.

It was said that older sisters were like mothers. In fact, her mother had never doted on her like Senior Sister Bai.

“Miss Chen, are you alright?”

The Holy Maiden got up and called out to the absent-minded Chen Lu.

Chen Lu shook her head. “Holy Maiden, don’t worry, I’m fine.”

Fan Ren actually lost?

She was quite shocked, but she couldn’t lose her composure in front of the Holy Maiden.

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The Holy Maiden didn’t say much. There weren’t many people worth her attention in the Immortal Du Sect, and Chen Lu was clearly not among them.

After saying goodbye, she flew down from the cloud and arrived in front of the Azure Sect disciples watching the competition.

“Holy Maiden!”

Those disciples bowed.

The Holy Maiden’s loose sleeves swayed slightly. “There’s no need to be so polite.”

Then, her gaze landed on a straight-backed junior brother. “What do you think will happen if you fight Xiao Jinse?”

The junior brother said calmly, “I’ll definitely win!”

Before the Holy Maiden could say anything, the surrounding people smiled.

“The sword Xiao Jinse uses is called the Snow Blowing Sword, and our junior brother’s name is Missing Snow. He just so happens to counter Xiao Jinse.”

The Holy Maiden said, “Don’t be careless.”

There was not much blame in her tone.

“It’s our turn!”

The Holy Maiden had already discussed the sparring between the new disciples with Elder Gao Yi in advance. After all, this was the territory of the Immortal Du Sect. Not to mention that she was only a Holy Maiden, even if the Azure Sect Master came, it wouldn’t be good for her to rashly cross the line.

Therefore, when Bai Lian fed Xiao Jinse, who had fought a huge battle, pills to recover from her injuries, the Holy Maiden and the deacon presiding over the Newcomer Competition appeared together.

The competition between the two major sects immediately attracted the interest of all the disciples present.

“They still want to fight? Doesn’t that mean I still have a chance to win the house back!”

“Wow, take a look at the Holy Maiden’s figure!”

“Can she compare to Senior Sister Bai?”

The Holy Maiden smiled and swept her gaze across the crowd.

When she realized that Bai Lian wasn’t looking at her at all, she couldn’t help but frown.

Hmph.

Under everyone’s gaze, the Holy Maiden walked down the arena with light steps. The surrounding crowd consciously made way for her.

Just like that, the Holy Maiden stopped in front of Bai Lian.

The square was extremely quiet. Everyone was looking forward to the sparks between Senior Sister Bai and the Holy Maiden.

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Bai Lian was directly puzzled.

What?

She began to suspect that she had been influenced by her junior sister and had the mocking face of a protagonist from a feel-good novel.

The Holy Maiden was the first to speak. “Big Pine Lake, Ghost King Chain, Shen Xiangling.”

Huh?

Bai Lian was confused.

She knew that Shen Xiangling was the real name of the Holy Maiden, but what the hell was Great Pine Lake?

At this moment, the sealed memories suddenly revived in Bai Lian’s mind. She remembered!

That should have been two years ago. She was ordered to go down the mountain to buy things. When she returned, she passed by a ghostly town.

When she took a shortcut and passed by the Great Pine Lake outside the town, she saw a group of Azure Sect disciples lying in the shallow water.

A young girl was tied up by water plants. She cried at a broken shirt hanging on a willow tree by the lake and kept muttering things like “Ghost King”, “Soul Devouring Chain”, “Humiliation”, and “Don’t come over”.

Bai Lian could tell at a glance that she had been poisoned by the bewitching poison floating on the lake. This poison could exhaust a cultivator and even cause them to hallucinate. It lasted for about two hours. When the poison dissipated, the cultivator would immediately return to normal.

Bai Lian originally didn’t want to cause trouble.

But that girl’s crying was too annoying, so she shouted, “So noisy!” and shattered the broken clothes.

Seeing that the girl was “shocked speechless”, she left in satisfaction.

So that idiot…

Just as Bai Lian was about to speak, the mission option jumped out.

[Mission 1: Follow your heart: “So that idiot was you!” (Mission Reward: Mid-grade Dharma artifact, Mountain Jade Flute)]

[Mission 2: Full of confusion: “What are you talking about?” (Mission Reward: Low-grade Dharma artifact, Soul Summoning Banner)]

[Mission 3: Enthusiastic: “I didn’t expect you to actually become the Holy Maiden of the Azure Sect.” (Mission Reward: Lightness Skill+2)]

Bai Lian’s chest was very stuffy.

Why couldn’t they just let her tell the truth honestly!

Why were all the women in this game so petty!

She wanted to slam a table!

She squeezed out a smile and praised Shen Xiangling very reluctantly. “I didn’t expect you to actually become the Holy Maiden of the Azure Sect!”

Shen Xiangling was shocked to hear that the other party still remembered her!

Shen Xiangling’s nervous heart immediately calmed down. She should cherish this moment of peace.

She took out the demeanor of a Holy Maiden and started to flatter Bai Lian.