Chapter 102: Demon Ghost Domain Trial (Part Two)
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Fei Denan nodded: “That’s right! Who told us Floating Immortal Island to bear the title of number one righteous sect! When fellow cultivators unite to request aid, we can’t very well refuse! We initially sent a hundred people to stabilize the situation. Our people from Floating Immortal Island sent back news saying that this time Azure Light Sect caused too much damage to the demonic path – even Ten Thousand Demon Palace is getting restless. So the sect dispatched another five hundred people, mainly worried about our people suffering losses if unexpected situations arise, preparing in advance.”
Yue Qianchou asked: “Azure Light Sect suffered heavy losses this time, right?”
“The losses weren’t small,” Fei Denan sneered, probably laughing at Azure Light Sect’s overreach.
Yue Qianchou was concerned about Qu Ping’er. After thinking briefly, he asked: “I’m afraid most of the losses were disciples like us with low cultivation, right?” His expression became somewhat dim after speaking.
Fei Denan scoffed: “What are you thinking? Is this kind of battle something you disciples who haven’t even reached Core Formation stage can interfere with? Unless Azure Light Sect reaches a point of complete desperation, they wouldn’t send Foundation Establishment stage disciples out to make a joke of themselves.”
“Oh!” Yue Qianchou got the answer he wanted and finally breathed a sigh of relief. As for whether Azure Light Sect lived or died, he wouldn’t care – as long as Qu Ping’er was safe.
“Hey! Elder Fei, I just heard you instructing those three disciples under your branch to be careful about where they’re going and such. Is Ten Thousand Fragrance Garden also sending people to Azure Light Sect?” Yue Qianchou asked again.
“Floating Immortal Island hasn’t reached the point of needing Ten Thousand Fragrance Garden to go into battle – unless all the people from Cultivation Hall die first.” Fei Denan added: “I think you’ve been playing around so much your head’s muddled – you don’t even know the Demon Ghost Domain date has arrived.”
“Demon Ghost Domain?” Yue Qianchou was startled: “The once-every-five-years Demon Ghost Domain trial is about to begin?” His face twitched unnaturally.
He knew about this matter. Every five years, Floating Immortal Island selected outstanding disciples from various cultivation levels to go to the Demon Ghost Domain for trials – a very dangerous activity with an extremely high elimination rate. The so-called elimination meant death, but those who returned alive would receive intensive cultivation from the sect. To put it bluntly, the sect would cultivate these people as future successors.
However, to receive such cultivation, one had to risk their life. If half the people who went each time could return, it was considered good – basically one person died for every two. You must know that the boundless Demon Ghost Domain was where demon races and ghost types gathered. Even sects with Floating Immortal Island’s strength couldn’t penetrate into the central regions of the Demon Ghost Domain. But precisely because it was sparsely populated, spirit herbs that were nearly extinct elsewhere could often be found there. The spirit herbs in Ten Thousand Fragrance Garden were all cultivated from those brought back by disciples who went there for trials, which formed Ten Thousand Fragrance Garden’s current scale.
Fei Denan said disdainfully: “From your expression, you seem afraid of being selected? I think you can put your heart at ease. No matter how bad the Alchemy Pavilion is, they probably wouldn’t include a disciple like you among the outstanding disciples, right?”
“How am I not outstanding…” Yue Qianchou’s words reached his lips, but he smiled and didn’t continue. Saying he was outstanding at this time would be too inauspicious. If he really got picked, that would be truly cursed – he still had many important things to do.
Fei Denan snorted coldly: “Greedy for life and afraid of death – worthless thing.”
“Oh my! Senior Sister, pig’s trotters don’t taste good when they’re cold. Try this.” Yue Qianchou served Furong a plate of beef to change the topic.
When conversation doesn’t flow, even half a sentence is too much. After eating and drinking his fill, Yue Qianchou accompanied the father and daughter for a while longer with random chatter, then found an excuse to leave under Furong’s reluctant gaze.
With his stuffed belly, he leisurely flew his sword back to the Alchemy Pavilion. Under the envious gazes of many disciples, Yue Qianchou swaggered into the main hall and went deep into the underground pill chambers. Every time after having a feast at Ten Thousand Fragrance Garden, he would come here to maintain relations with his master, then openly go to his private pill chamber to secretly refine pills for himself.
In the largest underground pill chamber, Guan Weiwu was wholeheartedly devoted to his beloved pill refining enterprise. Yue Qianchou walked over and bowed: “Master.”
Guan Weiwu turned to look and said happily: “Have you refined some pills again?”
Yue Qianchou shook his head shamefully: “This disciple is foolish and still has produced nothing. This disciple will return to continue working hard.”
Guan Weiwu nodded, a trace of disappointment showing in his eyes. Over a year had passed – how could this disciple’s talent have flashed like a meteor once brilliantly then disappeared? He then sighed again. No matter how inadequate this disciple was, that technique of using divine sense to control airflow was still beyond his reach as the master. How could he not master something that seemed so simple? When the master was inferior to the disciple, what was there to teach? He also knew Yue Qianchou wasn’t diligent in pill refining, but thinking about how he was inferior to his disciple in some aspects, how could he speak words of criticism?
Yue Qianchou hadn’t completely left Guan Weiwu’s pill chamber when someone blocked him at the cave entrance. Looking up, it was the Alchemy Pavilion’s only great enemy, Yan Shu. The latter actually smiled at him strangely – what a thing asking for a beating. If he had a brick, he’d smash him to death with it. That smile was too detestable.
With his master behind him, Yue Qianchou unhappily bowed: “Executive Yan.”
Yan Shu nodded and smiled: “Yue Qianchou, congratulations.”
Yue Qianchou was startled. The sun was rising from the west today. He couldn’t help asking: “What do I have to celebrate?”
“Congratulations on becoming an outstanding disciple of our Alchemy Pavilion,” Yan Shu smiled.
“I…” Yue Qianchou pointed at himself as an ominous thought suddenly surged in his mind. Yan Shu didn’t say much more, brushing past him to walk to Guan Weiwu’s side and bow: “Elder Guan, the outstanding disciples from the Alchemy Pavilion participating in the Demon Ghost Domain trial have been reported to the sect, and the sect has approved.”
This indirectly confirmed his suspicion. Yue Qianchou immediately felt incredulous and shook his head. His intuition told him there was something fishy here, and it definitely had to do with that beast Yan Shu. He couldn’t believe that anyone in the Alchemy Pavilion now didn’t know he was lazy and gluttonous – how could they designate him as an outstanding disciple?
“Understood,” Guan Weiwu waved for him to leave.
“Executive Yan, please wait. I have something to ask,” Yue Qianchou blocked Yan Shu’s exit.
Normally, Yan Shu’s face would have been clouded with gloom by now, but at this moment he was very patient, wearing an intriguing smile: “Ask whatever you want – I’ll definitely tell you everything I know.”
Yue Qianchou said with a stern face: “What did you mean just now about me becoming an outstanding disciple of the Alchemy Pavilion? I don’t think I’m qualified for that.”
Seeing Yue Qianchou’s displeasure, Yan Shu’s smile grew even brighter: “The outstanding disciples from our pavilion participating in the Demon Ghost Domain trial were personally selected by Elder Guan – five each from Nascent Soul, Core Formation, and Foundation Establishment stages. Elder Guan said you should also be listed among the outstanding Foundation Establishment disciples, so you’re one of those five.”
