Jiang Chen was startled, almost thinking Wang Baolin was also some hidden dragon or crouching tiger.
Wang Baolin hurriedly said, "Did you know? Our Tranquil Heart Peak's Deacon Chen is actually an peerless expert in the Spirit Severing Realm! He just shattered the female devil's arrogant aura and also dragged away our sect's Founding Ten Thousand Arts Elder!"
Jiang Chen looked around. Since the only one attacking the mountain was the female devil Tian Mingye, the lower-tier Azure Mist Sect disciples did not need to participate and most of them had hidden away.
He had to admit, this Wang Baolin was quite bold.
"Why did you run all the way here looking for me?"
Wang Baolin suddenly grabbed Jiang Chen and said, "I haven't seen you in two days. Today, I was hiding on the opposite mountain and suddenly saw Deacon Chen slash a sword toward Senior Sister's dwelling, which made me remember that you were likely trysting with Senior Sister Liu these past two days. I was so envious... But after Deacon Chen's sword Qi came down, I wasn't quite as envious anymore and hurriedly ran over to check on you. Why did Deacon Chen try to chop you guys?"
Jiang Chen also sensed that besides risking his life to save him, Wang Baolin also harbored a bit of intent to seek fortune, such as capturing the injured Demon Sect spy Liu Ruyan.
"Perhaps he was jealous of us lovebirds, or perhaps he was hit by an illusion and just started hacking wildly. In short, Senior Sister Liu is dead, and my heart has died along with her. This time, I am prepared to leave the sect and wander the ends of the earth. Take care, Senior Brother!"
With that, Jiang Chen turned and left.
Wang Baolin muttered to himself, then shouted from afar to Jiang Chen, "How could this be... Junior Brother, where are you going? Don't do anything foolish!"
Without looking back, Jiang Chen waved a hand and said, "It's not that serious. I'm just going to find another chick to romance."
Only Wang Baolin was left fluttering in the wind.
He thought to himself, they were both Qi Refining disciples, so why could Junior Brother Jiang be so unrestrained?
"Time to lose weight!"
He made up his mind.
Jiang Chen quietly left the Azure Mist Sect.
He figured that if Sect Master Luo Qingzhou were to thoroughly investigate this matter, it would be very easy to trace it back to him.
He could no longer return to this Azure Mist Sect!
Of course, the more primary reason was that all the hidden dragons and crouching tigers of the Azure Mist Sect were gone, so what main plot lines were even left for him to simulate?
He needed a higher stage to simulate plots.
The time was still early. After leaving the sect, Jiang Chen rode his sword at high speed and quickly returned to Xiyang City.
East Suburb, Spirit Spring Inn.
As soon as Jiang Chen returned, he saw the old innkeeper hurrying over to find him.
"Where did the little friend go? A huge incident happened at the Azure Mist Sect today."
Jiang Chen feigned surprise.
"What incident?"
"This old man heard that the Heavenly Demon Sect's Master, Tian Mingye, was leading demonic hordes to attack the mountain gate!"
"Haha, to not hide it from you, this junior just returned from the Azure Mist Sect. Only Tian Mingye attacked the mountain alone, and she was already beaten away by Deacon Chen."
"Chen Gongxing?"
"He concealed his Spirit Severing cultivation and has been meditating and cultivating in the Azure Mist Sect for all these years!"
The old innkeeper's expression froze. He stared straight at Jiang Chen for a long time before finally letting out a sigh of relief.
"As expected... That's good, that's good... As expected of Senior Brother Chen!"
Jiang Chen thought that if he didn't admit he came from the Azure Mist Sect, the innkeeper would remain so jittery that he wouldn't be able to cultivate in peace either.
After settling the innkeeper, he finally returned to his cultivation room.
He crossed his legs and sat in meditation.
Right now, he had absorbed enough Heavenly Demon demonic qi, and the medicinal pills and spirit stones obtained as spoils of war had pretty much all been smashed into it.
Only demonic qi was lacking!
He took out the red Demon Core left behind by Thousand-Faced Fox. As Senior Sister Liu's figure flashed before his eyes, he swallowed the Demon Core into his belly without the slightest hesitation.
In his dantian, the amounts of spiritual qi, demonic qi, and black demonic qi were not equal.
However, through a tail-chasing three-tomoe dynamic spiral, they quickly shook off the excess amounts, allowing the three forces to reach a delicate balance.
Immediately afterward, the rotation speed grew faster and faster, and an abyss visible to the naked eye gradually formed at the center of the vortex!
Boom—
This time, Jiang Chen had psychological preparation.
His spiritual divine intent was not focused on the vortex in his sea of qi at all, but was instead anchored firmly to the system panel.
He only felt his brain shudder.
His consciousness sank along with it...
Yet the tentacles of his divine soul tightly grasped the system panel like a straw in the wind, successfully maintaining his awareness.
It did not cause him to faint for a long time like last time.
However, this sensation was still extremely agonizing, akin to hundreds of millions of neurons being carved piece by piece with a knife.
By noon of the next day, when the plot simulation ended.
Jiang Chen was drenched in sweat, his spiritual meridians unobstructed, his sea of qi surging, and his muscles glowing with a rosy white. His spiritual pressure and physique had improved significantly once again.
He hurriedly looked at the system panel.
[Cultivation]: Qi Refining Sixth Layer.
Three years since crossing over and unable to practice Qi refining, yet with the system arriving, he brute-forced his way to the Qi Refining Sixth Layer in twelve days!
If they gave him ten years of time, wouldn't he shatter the Heavenly Dao and ascend to the heavens in broad daylight?
"Not bad, I've cleared a small pity-timer."
Next, he could go wild for a couple of waves.
One Chen Gongxing, one Tian Mingye—he wanted to see if there were any opportunities on either of these two.
The first simulation concluded.
Jiang Chen's divine sense returned to the Spirit Spring Inn... though naturally he had already been back there to begin with.
Immediately afterward, without a moment of delay, he initiated the second plot simulation right away.
In Jiang Chen's view, the first simulated plot seemed perfect, but actually possessed a hidden hazard present in the original storyline that had not been resolved.
That was the fact that he and Liu Ruyan were the only two people besides Reverend Guiqi who held a Demi-Immortal's Book.
Should Reverend Guiqi's divine soul be resurrected by Liyue, Liyue would definitely know that two copies of the Demi-Immortal's Book had leaked out.
Among them, Thousand-Faced Fox possessing one was a certainty.
What about the other one?
If Chen Gongxing wasn't blind, sooner or later he would investigate his way to Jiang Chen.
"A bit of a hidden hazard."
For the second simulation, he decided to personally test whether this hazard truly posed any danger.
[The second simulation has begun. Please select a parachute drop location!]
This time, Jiang Chen airdropped into the clouds, hiding within Liu Ruyan's illusions.
Until Chen Gongxing fell for the illusion and prepared to thrust out a sword, Jiang Chen suddenly leaped out from the clouds and reminded him, "Deacon Chen, take a look and see if Senior Reverend Guiqi is still standing behind you!"
Chen Gongxing was stunned. Who the hell are you?
He looked back, but Reverend Guiqi was nowhere to be found.
Instantly maxing out his spiritual awareness, he finally realized that he had fallen into an illusion.
With a sweep of his massive sword, he forcefully severed the demonic flames and shattered the illusion as well.
He had grown careless; he actually hadn't paid attention to the clouds...
Yet the young man before him was not the one who cast the illusion.
He looked vaguely familiar.
"You are..."
Jiang Chen was stunned. As expected, this old bastard had completely forgotten him!
You deserved to fall for that illusion!
Thinking this in his heart, he still respectfully said with his mouth, "Tranquil Heart Peak disciple, Jiang Chen."
Chen Gongxing suddenly recalled something, his chapped, wrinkled face instantly smoothing out.
"Oh, I remember now. You're the disciple who came from Stubborn Stone Peak, and also the only disciple who has carefully observed my wheat fields over all these years... Which proves your talent is wretched enough for you to resonate with the crooked, leaning, deformed wheat stalks and hear their voices."
No, I didn't.
Jiang Chen thought, is this the root cause of why you handed me a jade slip upon our first meeting?
Things seemed to be gradually making sense.
"Thanks to you, I almost delayed a major matter."
Saying this, Chen Gongxing turned his head once more to look toward Liu Ruyan's dwelling on Tranquil Heart Peak.
"A mere little vixen daring to toy with me!"
Just as he was about to draw his sword, Jiang Chen hurriedly stepped forward to block him and said, "I came to remind Deacon Chen simply in the hope that Senior might spare Senior Sister once."
Chen Gongxing froze.
"You guys..."
Jiang Chen nodded meaningfully and said, "Yes... We want to have a child."
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