Chapter 191
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“Why are these guys as gossipy as the women on the street? Taiping, don’t be sad. Just do your best in the competition tomorrow.”
The eighth elder glared at those gossipy people and then comforted Xu Taiping again.
Wu Liang is a typical person who is cowardly inside and tough outside. He is very honest when he is in the seventh peak, but once he goes out of the seventh peak, he is like a honey badger. Whoever provokes him, he will bite and not let go.
If it weren’t for Xu Taiping being here, he would have gone up to argue with those disciples by now.
“Thank you, Eighth Senior Brother. I won’t care about these words.”
Xu Taiping nodded with a smile and said.
This kind of taunt, whether in the years when he was an outer disciple or in the secular world before, he has heard too much. Now it can’t have any impact on him.
The only way to shut their mouths is to use your performance to make them speechless.
“By the way, tomorrow’s topic is to engrave words on a suspended object, right？”
Xu Taiping asked the eighth senior brother.
“Hmm.” The eighth senior brother nodded, and then explained to Xu Taiping：
“Hang the ballast iron on the flying sword, and then engrave the complete Qingxuan Seven Rhymes on the cliff. You can challenge different weights. In the end, the side with the heavier ballast iron hung on the flying sword will be considered the winner.”
Xu Taiping nodded.
Controlling the sword to engrave words is no longer difficult for him, but he has never tried hanging the ballast iron below.
“Senior Sister, Second Senior Brother！”
Just as they went downstairs, the two of them saw Senior Sister and Qing Xiao and their group.
“Eighth Junior Brother, Ninth Junior Brother.”
“Go back, today’s competition is over.”
Just having lost the competition and suffered a, both Senior Sister Jiang Zhi and Second Senior Brother Qing Xiao were not in a very high mood. They reluctantly smiled at the two of them and nodded.
Not only them, but even Zhao Linglong, who was always very optimistic, had a depressed look on her face.
“Senior Sister, have a drink of water.”
Xu Taiping handed a water bag that he had prepared long ago to Zhao Linglong.
Zhao Linglong took the water bag and took a few gulps, then stomped her foot hard and said：
“Just a little bit short！”
Hearing this, Senior Sister reached out and patted Linglong’s head and comforted her with a smile：
“Linglong, you did very well this time. It’s the eldest sister who held you back.”
At this time, Jiang Zhi’s face was ashen, and it was obvious that the old illness had relapsed.
“Senior sister, how can it be your fault?”
Zhao Linglong hugged Jiang Zhi’s arm with a look of distress on her face, and then pouted and said：
“Senior sister, you should have been at ease to heal your wounds. If it weren’t for our incompetence, why would you need to play with an injury?”
“It doesn’t matter to me…”
Jiang Zhi gently patted the back of Zhao Linglong’s hand.
“Senior sister, don’t go on stage tomorrow. Let the eighth junior brother go.”
Qing Xiao, who was walking at the front, also turned around at this time and looked at Jiang Zhi with a look of concern on his face.
“Your senior sister me, haven’t reached that point yet. At least for this fourth match, I must win it for Qifeng.”
Jiang Zhi shook her head stubbornly.
When Xu Taiping heard this, he suddenly had some doubts in his heart and secret passage , why is the eldest senior sister so persistent in the victory or defeat of this competition？
“Senior sister, if we don’t win a single game in this competition, will there be a penalty？”
He tentatively transmitted the voice to Zhao Linglong’s soul and said the confusion in his heart.
Zhao Linglong was silent for a while over there before transmitting the voice to Xu Taiping and saying：
“If we don’t win a single match, the Seventh Peak will have many of its immortal fields and medicine gardens taken back by the Qingxuan Sect, and the expenses within the sect for the next six years will become very tight. And these matters of the Seventh Peak are all managed by the eldest senior sister. She doesn’t want to see everyone having to tighten their belts, so she must participate in this competition.”
Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping suddenly understood clearly in his heart.
The eldest senior sister in the Seventh Peak is actually in the role of a housekeeper. and the expenses within the peak are all managed by her.
If the Seventh Peak loses several more immortal fields and medicine gardens, as the housekeeper she will naturally be unable to cook without rice, and the elixirs and medicinal materials for the disciples within the peak will have to be reduced.
Not everyone is like Xu Taiping, having a treasure like the Dragon Gallbladder Wine. The supply of elixirs within the sect directly affects their cultivation progress first.
“By the way.”
Just at this moment, the eldest senior sister, Jiang Zhi, suddenly turned her head and looked at everyone again.
“You should have all heard about the matter of Lu Chen from the Fifth Peak being killed, right？”
She asked everyone.
Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping couldn’t help but feel a tightness in his heart, but he still nodded together with everyone and said：
“Heard of it.”
The matter of Lu Chen being killed had already spread throughout the Qingxuan Sect yesterday afternoon, and without exception, all the disciples of each peak had been questioned by the Qilv Hall.
Xu Taiping was no exception.
However, he had a perfect alibi, and after the people from the Qilv Division casually asked a few questions, they let him go.
“I received news from the people of the Seven Laws Hall this morning that Lu Chen’s death is very likely related to the Red-Haired Saber Ghost. Coupled with the fact that Junior Brother Xi was also injured by the Red-Haired Saber Ghost before, we now suspect that the Red-Haired Saber Ghost has indeed awakened. You, you must not go out before dark these days.”
Jiang Zhi reminded everyone as she walked.
Upon hearing this, Xu Taiping secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
He thought to himself that the last arrangement seemed to have taken effect.
“I can only wrong you this time, Saber Ghost Brother.”
He teased in his heart.
“Taiping, when you practice swordsmanship these days, try to go back earlier. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll ask the Peak Master to say hello to Elder Sansan.”
Qing Xiao looked at Xu Taiping at this time.
He knew that Xu Taiping had been practicing swordsmanship in Laoyue Pool recently and sometimes even practiced until midnight, so he specifically reminded him.
“Senior Brother, don’t worry. Recently, I go down the mountain and go home before dark every day.”
Xu Taiping nodded.
Although he knew that Lu Chen was not killed by the Red-Haired Saber Ghost, his precautions against the Red-Haired Saber Ghost did not relax.
In these recent days, although he still went to practice swordsmanship on time, because his sword control technique had become more and more proficient, it often only took him two hours to write three thousand words according to Elder Sansan’s revised opinion.
And apart from continuing to pick faults every day, Elder Sansan also didn’t mean to ask him to practice more, so he often went down the mountain before it was dark.
”That’s good.”
Qingxiao nodded.
”Oh yes, the fourth round of the competition will be in three days. Here are the detailed rules for the fourth round. Take some time to read them carefully these days.”
”You don’t need to have too much pressure in this round of the competition. As long as you don’t make mistakes, it will be considered a mission accomplished. The rest will be left to me and senior sister.”
He then handed an envelope to Xu Taiping and followed it up with a solemn admonition.
