Host, the Original Heroine Has Been Reborn
None of them had heard of Li Zi's Myriad Flower Divine Bone. They would have to search the ancient texts for information.
The Fifth Elder's disciples lived on peaks shrouded in mist.
As they flew by sword, Li Zi could see only the mountaintops beneath layer upon layer of white clouds.
The thick mist hid the sheer cliffs below. For someone afraid of heights, it was a blessing.
Li Zi looked around curiously.
Seeing her so childlike, Ji Zheng could not help the slight curl of his lips.
"Our Spirit Sword Sect sits among a range of mountains. The white mist you see is only one part of the Mountain-Guarding Formation."
"The formations protect the Sect, but they also separate the Outer Sect, the Inner Sect, and the residences of Direct Disciples and elders, so no one disturbs anyone else's cultivation."
As docile as a kitten, Li Zi gave Ji Zheng a sweet smile.
"Thank you for explaining, Senior Brother."
She was dark and thin, but her face looked utterly harmless. The first hints of a beauty were already there.
If Ji Zheng could not hear Li Zi's thoughts, even he might have been fooled by that harmless face.
System, I need to pee. What do I do?
The system's electronic voice sounded distinctly speechless. Hold it. You're cultivating immortality. Why are you still pooping and peeing? Shouldn't you have reached Grain Avoidance?
Li Zi trembled. She was clearly having trouble holding it.
But I haven't started cultivating yet. I'm still a mortal. Wait, do immortal cultivators really never poop or pee? Don't they eat?
The system thought for a moment. I guess they neither eat nor poop.
Do they fart? Li Zi asked.
Oh, I've got some gossip about that. It's about the Sect Master.
Ji Zheng pricked up his ears.
He spent most of his time cultivating with his Master. Despite all his years in the Sect, he barely knew the other senior elders.
In his mind, they were stern, rigid, even a little aloof, and showed little concern for disciples like him.
He had never expected to hear such different sides of them through Li Zi's thoughts.
All at once, the senior elders and Sect Master seemed more like real people.
The more Ji Zheng learned, the more attached he felt to the Sect.
Fu Chaoqing caught up just then, eager to hear the gossip.
The system said gleefully, Before the Sect Master became Sect Master, he went to the Mortal World with the Second and Third Elders to hunt a Devil Beast terrorizing a village. The villagers saw them as immortals and treated them to a feast. There were soybeans among the dishes, and the Sect Master ate a few.
Then, while they were hunting the Devil Beast, he let out a few silent, stinky farts. Some mortals nearby smelled them, called the smell Immortal Aura, and spread the word everywhere.
Li Zi bit her lip to keep from laughing.
Immortal Aura! Hahahaha...
The system was delighted too. It gets even wilder. That man founded an organization, claiming anyone who could release a gas with that smell was an immortal reincarnated. Its members went around sniffing farts to find one. Believe it or not, they found someone, enshrined him to receive incense offerings, and formed something called the Immortal Aura Cult.
Host, the Original Heroine Has Been Reborn
Clutching Ji Zheng's clothes, Li Zi shook uncontrollably.
She barely kept up her delicate-little-flower act. Inside, she was beside herself with laughter.
Hahaha... Does the Sect Master know?
The system's voice rose. He does! When he learned his own fart was behind the Immortal Aura Cult, he sneaked into the Mortal World and spent a huge amount of Spiritual Power erasing those mortals' memories. He was drained afterward and went into seclusion for quite a while. He told everyone he'd encountered a powerful Devil Beast.
Ji Zheng and Fu Chaoqing were struggling not to laugh too.
Fu Chaoqing flew off on his sword, found a deserted spot, and burst out laughing.
Ji Zheng pinched his thigh, quickly set Li Zi down, gave her a few brief instructions, and slipped away.
Hah!
Was this really their stern, unsmiling Sect Master?
The same Sect Master who was forever citing Sect rules and whipping people?
Erasing mortals' memories interfered with cause and effect and was strictly forbidden by the Sect. Who would have thought the Sect Master had secretly broken that rule?
Fu Chaoqing could not keep gossip to himself. He hurried off to tell his senior brothers and sisters.
Li Zi stood alone before the desolate Cave Abode.
Watching both senior brothers flee as though they could not get away from her fast enough, she clicked her tongue inwardly. They were probably thinking about Ran Zirou.
In the original story, Ran Zirou, the heroine, had won Ji Zheng over as soon as she entered the Sect. Only because he spoke up for her had she been able to become the Fifth Elder's disciple despite her Mixed Spiritual Root.
The Fifth Elder had six disciples. Ran Zirou was the seventh.
But now, it seemed Li Zi had taken the heroine's path?
"System, has the main plot gone off the rails? How could the Fifth Elder recognize my special Constitution?"
The system was puzzled by that too.
"Maybe the world's rules are gradually becoming more complete. The elders and Sect Master of the Spirit Sword Sect are all at the Spirit Transformation stage. Logically, how could they fail to see through your special Constitution?"
"But Host, the main plot is still moving forward. Just now, Ran Zirou became a menial disciple of the Inner Sect. Several male disciples have already given her Medicinal Pills and spirit herbs, saying they'll help raise her Cultivation."
Li Zi looked around her Cave Abode, a place so barren even birds would not come to shit, and sighed.
"That's why she's the heroine, I guess. I haven't even begun my training, and there's no one to guide me. I'm an elder's Direct Disciple, and this is how I'm treated."
She had just entered the Sect. Surely there should at least have been a disciple to show her around.
Li Zi had no one at all—not even someone to explain what Qi Attraction into the Body meant.
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