Free Web NovelChapter 186: Chapter 179: Grateful for Nature’s Bounty
And Su Ling’er is our sect’s Holy Daughter!
Doesn’t this basically tell all the new disciples:
As long as you diligently follow the sect’s arrangements, not only will you obtain supreme cultivation techniques and become this powerful, but you can even attain the high and mighty position of Holy Daughter!
As long as you contribute to the Guixi Sect, your future will be boundlessly bright!
Lin Qingfeng’s idea seemed more brilliant the more he thought about it. He immediately saved the footage, figuring he could edit it a bit. He’d frame it as her directly battling the Core Formation curse and play it on a loop at the Guixi Sect’s entrance every day!
Perfect!
Su Ling’er stared at the light screen, which felt like a public execution. Then she looked at her Eldest Brother’s "I’m such a genius" expression, and a deeply ominous premonition washed over her.
Having saved the "promotional video" footage to his satisfaction, Lin Qingfeng decided it was time to properly "educate" his junior sister.
’What if she runs into another Core Formation Stage baddie and just keeps charging in like an idiot? What if I’m slacking off playing cards one day and show up too late? That would be a real disaster.’
’It’s not like every Core Formation expert is a curse with limited intelligence like Shen Jieye.’
So, Lin Qingfeng stood with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing up at the cave ceiling at a forty-five-degree angle, and began his cultivation lesson:
"Junior Sister, your Dao heart is, after all, of a lower grade."
"You only know how to advance, but not how to retreat. You see only courage, but not wisdom."
"You must understand, of the fifty aspects of the Great Dao, the heavens reveal forty-nine, and one remains hidden for mortals. That sliver of hope for survival often doesn’t depend on how fiercely you swing your sword, but on how quickly you can change your thinking."
"Bending to a stronger opponent is not cowardice; it is gathering strength for a later strike. It is concealing your edge."
"Retreating in the face of insurmountable odds is not fearing death; it is preserving a useful body for the future. It is embracing humility."
"Your actions today were like an egg striking a stone—it looked brave, but in reality, it was just foolish!"
"Your Dao heart has been bewitched by external demons, and you have lost your true self!"
"Sigh! You’re unteachable! Who taught you to keep fighting when you can’t win?!"
As Su Ling’er listened to this speech, she felt a surge of blood rush straight to her head.
Her injuries, which had just been suppressed by the medicinal pill, showed signs of flaring up again.
Wang Xiedi, listening from the side, glanced at his senior sister’s face, which was turning from white to green, then from green to purple. He then looked at their Eldest Brother, who was lecturing so casually, and finally couldn’t help but defend her in a small voice:
"Um... Eldest Brother... your teachings are correct! It’s just... we couldn’t run because a wall was blocking our way..."
’You ask why we didn’t run? We would’ve loved to grow wings and fly over it!’
’Did you expect us to perform a group Wall-Passing Skill?!’
’Wait, a Wall-Passing Skill?’
’Is that something we could learn to get through?’
’I don’t know, but either way, we can’t get through right now!’
"A wall?"
Lin Qingfeng casually pointed a finger at the indestructible-looking stone wall behind Su Ling’er.
BOOM!
With a deafening roar, stone fragments flew everywhere!
The wall that had driven them to despair was blasted open, revealing a bottomless hole!
A cold, drafty wind poured in from the hole, causing everyone’s robes to flutter wildly.
"If you can’t win, then run. There’s just a wall behind you, right? See, now you can run!"
At that moment, Su Ling’er’s mind completely flipped the table.
’You think I didn’t want to run?!’
’HUH?!’
’You think I enjoy playing some kind of patty-cake nursery game with the female ghost under your foot?!’
’I can’t break this wall!!!’
’Eldest Brother, are you doing this on purpose?!’
’You’re just here to show off how you can poke through something with one finger that we couldn’t break, aren’t you?!’
’That’s it, isn’t it! It must be!!!’
’Damn you!!’
’This must be that "Versailles" thing the demonic sects talk about!!’
’You bastard!!!’
Lin Qingfeng completely ignored Su Ling’er’s resentment, which was so palpable it was almost tangible. Instead, he turned to Wang Xiedi and continued his lesson:
"See that?
The point was never about the wall.
It’s about your ’Dao heart,’ your ’will’ to ’break through the wall’!
Your will wasn’t strong enough, so the wall remained a wall.
My will arrived, and so it’s just a pile of broken rocks. Understand?"
Su Ling’er: "..."
Wang Xiedi: "..."
’We don’t get it. We don’t get it at all. But it feels awful being so much weaker!’
’We have to cultivate diligently when we get back!!!’
Just then, a blood-curdling scream suddenly echoed from above them:
"AHHH—! Help! Immortal Master, save me!"
The scholar who had been playing cards with Lin Qingfeng earlier was actually falling from the large, collapsed hole above, plummeting straight toward Lin Qingfeng.
He looked down in terror and immediately saw the curse being stepped on beneath Lin Qingfeng’s foot.
The curse seemed to notice the commotion above and strained to open its rotten mouth, waiting for a snack to fall from the sky.
’Thank you for nature’s gift!’
The scholar was scared out of his wits, flailing his arms and legs in mid-air as he shrieked:
"Immortal Master! It’s me! It’s me! I’m going to die! It’s going to eat me!"
He watched helplessly as the gaping abyss of a mouth grew closer and closer, feeling like he could already smell the foul stench emanating from within.
He felt his feet about to be devoured by the curse. His legs kicked frantically and uncontrollably as despair filled his heart.
However, the anticipated feeling of being bitten never came.
To his astonishment, he found himself suspended in mid-air, less than a foot away from that mouth.
He looked and saw that Lin Qingfeng had, at some point, reached out a hand and grabbed him by the back of his collar like a baby chick, catching him securely.
"Immortal... Immortal Master! Th-thank you... Thank you for saving my life!"
The scholar, still shaken, thanked him incoherently.
Lin Qingfeng lifted him up to eye level, sizing him up.
"Hey, why’d you fall so slowly? I thought you’d fallen somewhere else."
"Immortal Master... Great Immortal... I... I don’t know either!"
The scholar wanted to cry but had no tears left. He never imagined he’d experience what it felt like to be passively thrown off a cliff.
He could only keep thanking him while looking on in awe as the Immortal Master effortlessly suppressed the terrifying curse beneath his foot.
Lin Qingfeng casually tossed him aside.
And with that toss, the "gift from nature" intended for Shen Jieye ran away.
By now, Su Ling’er had finally recovered thanks to the medicinal pill. She looked at Shen Jieye under her Eldest Brother’s foot and asked uncertainly:
"Eldest Brother... what are we going to do with this Shen Jieye curse?"
Although she asked this, she had a feeling that, given her Eldest Brother’s character, such a powerful Core Formation Stage "material" would probably be dragged back to be used as manual labor...
Lin Qingfeng didn’t answer directly. He glanced down at Shen Jieye under his foot, then looked up at Wang Xiedi not far away.
’Didn’t Wang Xiedi cultivate the Ten Thousand Forms Red Dust Scripture?’
’If we establish a "Dao marker" with Gaye later, wouldn’t that also help his cultivation?’
A mysterious smile appeared on Lin Qingfeng’s face. He turned to Wang Xiedi and asked:
"Mr. Wa, are you interested in this... Gaye?"
Su Ling’er: "..."
Wang Xiedi: "..."
