The System Will Give You a Free Gift

"Luo Qiao?!" Caught off guard, Fairy Li felt as though her head had been struck heavily, her consciousness blurring. Fortunately, the Wind Bell at her waist rang sharply, forcibly shaking that streak of cold light out of her Sea of Consciousness.

Fairy Li seized the chance to steady herself and swept her gaze over it. Though the cold light had been forced out, it still hovered in midair, lingering without leaving. Within it was a blurred face—none other than Luo Qiao, one of Chongming Sect's Outer Sect elders who had supposedly "fallen" not long ago.

Her expression darkened slightly as she shouted, "You actually still have a fragment of your divine soul here?!"

"Fairy Li?" Luo Qiao's divine soul had hidden within the Jade Slip and knew nothing of the outside world. Sensing someone trying to inspect the cultivation method, he had taken the opportunity to launch a sneak attack. Seeing that it was Fairy Li now, he was greatly astonished. "With your status, Fairy Li, you too covet the Six Desires Secret Canon?"

Fairy Li gave a cold snort. "Who would ever complain about having too many Nascent Soul Methods? Cut the nonsense. Surrender, and I'll grant you a quick death."

"Fairy Li truly knows how to joke." Luo Qiao's divine soul drifted through the air as he said with a grim chuckle, "How could those of us from the Sacred Sect simply sit and wait for death? Besides, Fairy Li has a boundless future ahead of her, while Luo has been driven into a corner. Are you truly willing to risk yourself and fight Luo to mutual destruction?"

"Why not let Luo give this cultivation method to Fairy Li, and Fairy Li can show some mercy?"

As he spoke, he rolled up the Jade Slip and offered it before Fairy Li. The instant her gaze fell upon it, Luo Qiao's face twisted savagely. He abruptly lifted his head and released a piercing soul howl.

Yet Fairy Li sneered. "I was already on guard against you!"

She had already suffered once from carelessness. How could she possibly underestimate him again now?

At some point, every Skull on the Wind Bell at her waist had opened its mouth in a soundless, miserable wail.

Luo Qiao's soul body seemed to have been slashed by invisible blades, and his Screaming Sound came to an abrupt halt! At the same time, purple light flickered at Fairy Li's fingertips. Spiritual energy coiled like a spirit serpent, leaping into the air and binding itself around Luo Qiao.

"Soul-Binding Force?" Luo Qiao had come from the same school as her, so he naturally recognized this technique, which specifically restrained ghostly souls and remnants. Though he had been in the Core Formation Realm while alive, he instinctively feared that purple light. His thoughts turned, and he shot Fairy Li a venomous glance before abruptly splitting into two, two into four, four into eight, fleeing in all directions.

Fairy Li was not surprised in the least. She shouted chillingly, "Trying to run?"

She extended her fair, slender fingers toward the sky, then clenched them fiercely.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The next moment, yin winds surged and spiritual energy churned chaotically. Even the sky nearby darkened. Five faintly visible bars rose thunderously around Fairy Li, forming the shape of a prison.

Luo Qiao's divine souls, which had already scattered far and wide, were forcibly dragged back by a power from the Netherworld. He could not help crying out in alarm, "Five Finger Dragon Prison! You actually mastered this divine ability!"

Before Fairy Li could respond, he gave a savage laugh. "Since this old man is doomed to die today, don't even dream of obtaining the Six Desires Secret Canon!"

Before his words had faded, his divine soul wrapped around the Jade Slip and began to ripple. He was clearly planning to self-destruct.

"How dare you!!" Fairy Li held a lofty position in Chongming Sect. She had traveled thousands of miles to Luquan City for this very cultivation method, rumored to alter one's foundation and shatter the core to form a Nascent Soul. How could she tolerate having all her efforts come to nothing?

Though she knew that the self-destruction of a Core Formation Realm Cultivator's divine soul would be extraordinarily powerful, she advanced rather than retreated.

At the same time, the Wind Bell on her body rang wildly. Layer upon layer of intricate patterns appeared over her pale skin. She thrust out a delicate hand, forcibly sliced through Luo Qiao's divine soul, and seized the Jade Slip.

The instant she clenched the Jade Slip in her palm, Luo Qiao's divine soul exploded with a thunderous blast.

After a long while, the small hill had vanished. Even the three pagoda-shaped locust trees beneath it—the landmark Pei Ling had mentioned—had been reduced to three holes. Within several miles, the ground was pitted and uneven, with broken rocks exposed in places.

This showed just how terrifying the self-destruction of a Core Formation Realm Cultivator's divine soul was.

"Cough, cough..." At that moment, Fairy Li slowly descended from the air. The moment she landed, she began coughing uncontrollably. Then she covered her face with her sleeve and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Yet she paid little attention to her injuries. Luo Qiao was gone, and in this insignificant Luquan City, there was nothing and no one capable of threatening her. She hurriedly examined the condition of the Jade Slip instead.

Though she had protected it as best she could, a crack had still appeared on the Jade Slip.

Fairy Li frowned. With her experience, she naturally knew that under such circumstances, the cultivation method inside must have been affected. It would not be rendered useless, but she would have to return to the sect and find someone to repair it before she could obtain the Six Desires Secret Canon.

It was more troublesome than she had expected, but at least the purpose of her journey had been achieved. Fairy Li coughed several more times, put away the Jade Slip, and with a slight flutter of her Black Gauze Dress, vanished from the spot in the blink of an eye.

After a while, at Jade Wutong Courtyard, Fairy Li suddenly appeared in the courtyard just as she had when she left.

She had taken the self-destruction of a Core Formation Realm Cultivator's divine soul head-on, then raced all the way back to Pei Manor. Even as one of Chongming Sect's most outstanding genius Disciples, she could not help feeling her blood and qi grow unsteady.

The moment she landed, she broke into another fit of coughing. With a casual wave, she hung the Wind Bell back beneath the eaves, then quickly entered the Refined Chamber.

Immediately afterward, the Refined Chamber's door moved without wind and slammed shut with a bang.

Inside the Refined Chamber, Fairy Li sat cross-legged on the Cloud Bed, swallowed a Pellet, and circulated her cultivation to heal her injuries.

She was anxious to stabilize her wounds and return to Chongming Sect to find someone to repair the Jade Slip. She had long since forgotten about Pei Ling. After all, he was merely a minor collateral descendant of Pei Manor.

Even Pei Hong Nian, Pei Manor's Sect Son, was no more than a dog before her.

No, he was beneath even a dog.

After all, someone like Zheng Jingshan counted as a proper dog.

And Pei Hong Nian could at most be Zheng Jingshan's dog.

As for Pei Ling, in Fairy Li's eyes, he was inferior even to Pei Hong Nian. What was there to mention?

So even if her negligence caused him to die beneath the Bewitching Bone Rakshasa Painting, it could only be said that Pei Ling was fated for such a death.

What did it have to do with her?

At this moment, Pei Ling had also forgotten Fairy Li. Just as he was experiencing the new cultivation method's proper method of cultivation, the system suddenly chimed. "Detected that the Nameless Cultivation Method is a dual cultivation technique. A Dao Companion is required to continue cultivation..."

Pei Ling: "?!"

"Ding-dong!" the system said mechanically. "Detected that the Host lacks a Dao Companion. The system will give you one Dao Companion for free..."

The next moment, Pei Ling watched helplessly as his body stopped cultivating, grabbed the Pellet beside him, rose to his feet, strode over to open the door, and then sprinted out at a speed far beyond his current cultivation.

"System??" Pei Ling was about to explode. He roared repeatedly in his mind, "Stop right now, damn it! Do you even know where this is? Anyone here who could be my Dao Companion is either my sister or the woman of one of my brothers or uncles!"

He finally understood. This Idiot System would not rest until it got him killed!

Just as Pei Ling racked his brains over how to deal with the aftermath if the Lineage discovered his incest, he realized something that terrified him to death: he had arrived at Jade Wutong Courtyard again!

He entered Jade Wutong Courtyard!

Ignoring the main residence ahead and the rear-facing rooms where the maids lived, he followed the route Pei Xuan had taken him along before and rushed straight toward the Refined Chamber in the rear courtyard!

Outside the Refined Chamber, the Wind Bell beneath the eaves suddenly rang in a frantic burst.

Fairy Li sensed it inside the room. She frowned slightly, probed with her senses, and discovered Pei Ling racing toward her.

I nearly forgot! Fairy Li suddenly remembered. She had promised to remove the threat of the Bewitching Bone Rakshasa Painting from this Pei Clan collateral descendant after obtaining the Jade Slip. But she had been occupied with breaking Luo Qiao's seal and had cast the matter aside.

Now Pei Ling had barged in without the slightest decorum and was pounding on the door hard enough to make it boom. He must have been unable to hold on any longer.

With that thought, Fairy Li temporarily stopped healing herself and said, "I..."

Before she could finish, the Refined Chamber door was kicked open with a violent blow!

Immediately afterward, Pei Ling strode inside, his eyes filled with urgent fury but his face calm and expressionless. Fairy Li assumed he was at death's door and had therefore committed such outrageous insubordination. Just as she was about to rebuke him, Pei Ling hurled a Pellet straight at her face the moment he entered.

The Pellet exploded into powder with a bang in midair, instantly engulfing the entire room.

Seven Absolute Soul Suppressing Powder! Fairy Li was horrified. This was the trump card of Luo Qiao's branch. She had thought it had been used up while his Disciples fled, yet it had somehow fallen into Pei Ling's hands.

Under ordinary circumstances, such a tactic naturally could not harm her. But not long ago, in order to preserve the Jade Slip containing the Six Desires Secret Canon, she had just taken Luo Qiao's divine soul self-destruction head-on. Both her body and soul had been severely wounded. She was weakened now, and she had fully assumed Pei Ling had come seeking help. She had never expected that a mere Qi Refining Layer 3 collateral descendant of Pei Manor would dare attack her.

Shock and fury flashed through Fairy Li's eyes...

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