Chapter 18
First Life?
Lin Mubai was stunned.
He rubbed his eyes repeatedly, and after making sure he wasn’t seeing things, he shook his head in disbelief.
“So I’m still in a dream…”
No wonder the scene felt so familiar to him. He finally remembered that this was exactly what had happened over a month ago.
Lin Mubai remembered clearly.
That day, the Third Junior Sister accidentally found a ‘Jade Spirit Grass’ that could help Core Formation realm cultivators break through their bottlenecks on her trip outside.
When Jiang Chen found out, he tried to deceive her, and when that failed, he resorted to outright robbery!
The Third Junior Sister, Qingning, might not have been the most talented cultivator, but she was blessed with great fortune and had a pure character.
Knowing she was easy to deceive, Jiang Chen often used various means to take the opportunities she gained for himself.At first, Qingning trusted her Eldest Senior Brother quite a bit. However, as the number of times she was robbed increased, especially after the Jade Spirit Grass incident, she completely lost hope in Jiang Chen and even refused to call him ‘Eldest Senior Brother’ anymore.
That Jade Spirit Grass was her hope of breaking through to the Human Origin realm after surviving a life-and-death ordeal!
After waking up from his coma, Lin Mubai wanted to comfort Qingning immediately, only to learn that she had already left the sect.
He found Xiao Hongyi and learned the whole story.
Junior Sister Qingning knew her talent was lacking.
Despite her dedicated cultivation, she made no progress. The cultivation manuals were like reading obscure and difficult-to-understand arcane texts to her.
Seeing that she couldn’t enter the Core Formation realm, their master, not caring about losing face, personally went to the first-class sect Ancient Pill Tower sect to ask for a perfect quality Core Formation breakthrough pill for her.
At that time, Qingning decided that she would not disappoint Xiao Hongyi and would make her proud to have accepted her as her disciple. But reality slapped her hard in the face.
For an entire year! Not only was she unable to enter the Human Origin realm, but her vital energy had only increased slightly, and her combat power was even less than that of inner disciples at the same realm!
While it’s true that ordinary Core Formation cultivators need years, or even decades, of insight and time to step into the Human Origin realm, Qingning’s status was different.
She was Xiao Hongyi’s direct disciple, a true disciple of the Jiuyan Sect’s Ninth Peak!
Her Eldest Senior Brother took just over a month to step from the Core Formation Initial Formation into the Human Origin realm.
Although she and her second senior brother were of the same cultivation level, the latter abandoned his Innate Dao Bone and spent his days only reading and writing!
Her fourth junior brother might be slow-witted, but he possessed the rare ‘Martial Emperor Physique’.”
This kind of physique focuses on strengthening the body rather than cultivating the Dao, and as the body becomes stronger, the cultivation naturally follows, something she couldn’t compare with.
Qingning knew she couldn’t match her other senior brothers and junior brothers, but she also knew her own strengths.
From a young age, she had extraordinary luck and continuously encountered fortuitous adventures.
Compared to dedicated and arduous cultivation, leaving the sect to travel and seek various heavenly and earthly treasures to achieve breakthroughs was the best approach.
But even with good fortune, how easy could it be to find treasures that might help a Core Formation realm cultivator to break through?
After traveling for half a year, she had visited desolate ancient ruins and traversed towering mountains and ridges.
During this time, she had fallen into mountain streams and had been pursued by demonic cultivators.
Although she encountered many adventures, they were only common heavenly and earthly treasures.
Fortunately, Heaven rewards the diligent, and she finally found the Jade Spirit Grass that could enhance one’s comprehension and help Core Formation realm cultivators break through their bottlenecks in the Hengduan Mountain Range—a territory of the demon race and a forbidden area for humans!
But who would have expected…
Their eldest senior brother! The one who should have been taking care of his junior brothers and protecting his junior sisters harbored thoughts of seizing the treasure!
Jiang Chen first had his two lackeys pretend to be villains and snatch Qingning’s Jade Spirit Grass.
At the critical moment, he appeared to resolve the situation and suggested ‘keeping it safe’ for her.
At first, Qingning believed him. Even when Lin Mubai saw through Jiang Chen’s intentions early on and was beaten for speaking out against him, she still believed.
Because no matter how bad her Eldest Senior Brother was, she thought he wouldn’t deceive his junior sister for such an important item!
But once again, reality slapped her in the face.
Several days later, after Qingning had stabilized her mind and made all the necessary preparations, she went to Jiang Chen to ask for the ‘Jade Spirit Grass.’
But the response she got was, “What Jade Spirit Grass? I’ve never seen it…”
Qingning left in tears that day.
Her trembling figure and choked sobs moved everyone to sigh with emotion. After learning about this, Lin Mubai, who had barely woken from unconsciousness, was almost angered into fainting again!
If not for the victim Qingning kneeling and pleading, the enraged Xiao Hongyi would have nearly crippled all of Jiang Chen’s cultivation!
Clearly, even though her eldest senior brother had done such a thing, Qingning still couldn’t bear to see him severely punished.
Although she couldn’t bear it, she was also thoroughly disappointed.
Soon after, she left the sect and headed back to the Hengduan Mountain Range, saying ‘the return date is uncertain’.
Thinking of this, Lin Mubai felt a sourness at the tip of his nose.
What a good Third Junior Sister she was!
She should have grown up under the care of their master and senior brothers, but because of Lin Mubai’s own incompetence and having a scumbag-like eldest senior brother, she was forced to leave the sect and wander alone!
In an instant, his feelings of disgust surged to the extreme.
Lin Mubai glared hatefully at Jiang Chen in the ‘dream’, and on that scholarly face, he saw nothing but disgust, as if looking at a fly!
Hmm?
He suddenly paused. “Wasn’t Jiang Chen wearing black that day? How did it change to white?”
Lin Mubai was somewhat puzzled. But soon, he stopped paying attention to this trivial detail.
It was just a dream, after all. Some discrepancies were normal. Right now, he just hoped that he could help Qingning vent her anger properly and stop Jiang Chen’s evil deeds in the dream.
After a shout of anger, the Lin Mubai in the image angrily accused before the Jiang Chen in white could respond.
“Jiang Chen! You’re simply inhuman! After junior sister Qingning went through life and death, how could you, as the eldest senior brother, covet her Jade Spirit Grass?!”
“Second senior brother, you’ve misunderstood him.”
Qingning stepped forward to shield Jiang Chen, explaining, “Just now, someone tried to snatch my Jade Spirit Grass. If it hadn’t been for eldest senior brother to arrive on time, my spiritual grass would have been taken away!”
“Junior sister, how many times do I have to tell you?”
“Our Eldest Senior Brother is beyond redemption! We can’t trust him, not even the slightest bit! In my opinion, the person who stole the spiritual herbs was probably arranged by him too!”
“How is this any different from before? Since you became a disciple, how many opportunities has Eldest Senior Brother snatched from you?”
“Every time Master punishes him, you plead on his behalf. Although Master is biased, he wouldn’t dare to become increasingly arrogant if it weren’t for your repeated forgiveness!”
“Third Junior Sister, heed Second Senior Brother’s advice and stay away from Eldest Senior Brother. He is twisted by nature, corrupt in morals, and is the shame of our Ninth Peak! He will be abandoned by everyone and meet a lonely and tragic end sooner or later!”
Well said!
In the void, Lin Mubai clapped his hands in delight.
Although these words were his own and exactly matched his memory, hearing them again still felt extremely satisfying.
However, Lin Mubai’s expression darkened once more after seeing Jiang Chen in white approaching the image of himself.
The events of that day were still fresh in his mind.
His despicable Eldest Senior Brother had always been domineering and overbearing, how could he allow himself to be insulted like this?
If the dream was the same as reality, then what awaited him was an extremely vicious beating!
Even if his Junior Sister Qingning wept bitterly and pleaded on his behalf, Jiang Chen would still beat him half to death until he fell unconscious!
As he saw Jiang Chen in white getting closer to the image of himself, Lin Mubai silently closed his eyes.
Even in his dream, his Eldest Senior Brother wouldn’t change in the slightest…He thought so.
A warm voice suddenly appeared.
“Mubai, you study the sage’s books and cultivate the Righteous Qi. Such hysterical insults will only disturb your state of mind.”
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