A Rift Opens Between Xie An and the Master and Her Two Disciples
On the third day of healing, Qin Chuan abruptly opened his eyes. He had another wisp of the Will of the Heavenly Dao in his hand, much larger than the two he had obtained before.
If the first two wisps of the Will of the Heavenly Dao were each worth one, then the one he had just obtained was worth a hundred.
At the same time, Qin Chuan received a message of thanks from Jin Pang through his voice transmission jade. He instantly realized that he had obtained this wisp of the Will of the Heavenly Dao because Jin Pang had destroyed the soul inside the pill furnace.
Before giving it any more thought, he replied to Jin Pang first. "Brother Jin, let's talk in detail after the array competition."
"All right," Jin Pang replied.
Qin Chuan put away his voice transmission jade and placed the three wisps of the Will of the Heavenly Dao in his hand.
Something miraculous happened: the three wisps of the Will of the Heavenly Dao actually fused together.
I can obtain the Will of the Heavenly Dao by disrupting the plot or making the Heavenly Dao act against all reason, but killing these supporting characters yields even more.
I just don't know whether the Heavenly Dao intervened to stop Jin Pang and his grandfather Jin Feng when they killed that remnant soul. I'll have to ask Jin Pang in a few days to find out.
There's still some time before the array competition starts. I'd better cultivate first. Qin Chuan closed his eyes and resumed cultivating.
Seven days later, Qin Chuan opened his eyes. He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air before standing up, his sharp gaze directed outside the cave abode.
Jiang Lin is the most sinister and ruthless of the female lead's simps. He's a rat in the gutter through and through. All the schemes and tricks the female lead's group uses against the vicious supporting characters come from him. He'll definitely target me in this array competition.
He's not easy to deal with, but if he wants to compete with me in arrays, he's in for a world of pain.
Time to go meet Jiang Lin.
Qin Chuan smiled as he walked down Supreme Mystery Peak. This time, Shen Qingyuan had no need to find an excuse; she followed Qin Chuan of her own accord to protect him.
"Brother Qin!" Jin Pang waved to Qin Chuan.
Today was the day of the array competition. He knew Qin Chuan would surely come out, so he had been waiting here since early morning.
"Brother Jin, sorry for the wait. Did something unexpected happen when you refined the pill furnace? Did anything else occur, like heavenly lightning or something?" Qin Chuan asked about the matter that concerned him most.
"To be honest with you, Brother Qin, when I refined the pill furnace again, I encountered the remnant soul of an alchemy grandmaster. Luckily, I kept your warning in mind and had my grandfather stay with me the whole time."
"That remnant soul tried to possess me, but my grandfather acted in time and killed him, scattering his soul completely."
After saying that, Jin Pang thought back carefully. "Other than that, there was nothing unusual at all, much less any heavenly lightning."
"I see. Thank you, Brother Jin."
Qin Chuan had said something else Jin Pang did not understand, leaving him baffled. Seeing that Qin Chuan did not want to say more, he did not ask any further.
The two flew in silence toward the site of the array competition. Qin Chuan's mind was now full of the idea of using supporting characters to kill off the supporting characters around the female lead. If enough supporting characters were killed, he could seize a large amount of the Will of the Heavenly Dao.
Can the Heavenly Dao only act against me? Does it have no way to act against the people originally from this world? Qin Chuan wondered. He was not sure, so he still planned to conduct a few experiments first.
"Senior Brother Qin, here are your winnings."
On the way, Jin Pang handed Qin Chuan a storage bag, then gave him a mischievous wink. "I have a funny story about Xie An and the others. Want to hear it, Brother Qin?"
"Oh? I'd love to hear it." Qin Chuan was pulled from his thoughts and tucked the storage bag into his robes.
"Hahaha, no, wait. Let me laugh for a while first." As Jin Pang flew, he burst out laughing without a care for his image.
Only after he finished laughing did he begin. "Remember how I convinced a lot of younger people with powerful backgrounds to bet on you winning that day? They all went to place their bets together, and that prompted a lot of disciples to follow suit. The odds were ten to one, too. With so many spirit stones to pay out, where was the bookmaker supposed to get them? So he's been hiding in his cave abode and refusing to come out."
"But most of the winners were people with powerful backgrounds. They've always been the ones bullying others, and now someone actually dared to welsh on them. How could they stand for that? Hehe, naturally, a whole group of them went and surrounded that elder's cave abode."
"There's more to it than that, isn't there? What did they do after surrounding it?" Qin Chuan was genuinely interested now.
In the past, he had thought there were only three realms in the cultivation world: the senior realm, the fellow Daoist realm, and the ant realm.
But after actually coming to the cultivation world, going out to gain experience a few times, and then using his seniority to pressure others this time, he had discovered a fourth realm: the young friend realm.
The young friend realm was reserved for juniors with powerful backers. With so many young friends gathered together, the elder who had opened the betting pool was probably in for a hard time.
"Hehe, Brother Qin, your predictions are as good as a god's. Yun Qian stayed in his cave and refused to see anyone because he didn't want to pay up, so, ahem... a group of us barged straight in."
"Who would have thought? Yun Qian wasn't the only one there. Jiang Lin, Xie An, and Gu Xiran were there too. Yun Qian was the elder who ran the betting pool."
"Then Yun Qian tried to use the sect master to threaten us. He even insulted us, calling us useless trash who relied on our elders. Everyone got worked up, and things spiraled out of control."
"Everyone started grabbing spirit stones. But with Gu Hao overseeing things, pretty much everyone got the spirit stones they were owed. When there weren't enough, they took the treasures in Yun Qian's cave abode as collateral and the spiritual herbs he'd grown as compensation. We even stripped the ground around Yun Qian's home bare."
"Hehe, as for Yun Qian himself, I don't know who accidentally stripped him naked, and Xie An and Jiang Lin got caught up in it too."
"Since Gu Xiran is a woman, everyone showed some restraint and only trapped her. The other three were strung up at the foot of the mountain. By now, practically every disciple in the Pure Void Sect has seen the three of them stark naked. It's killing me, hahaha!"
"Did you know Xie An's still a eunuch? His body still hasn't recovered, and now word has spread through the Pure Void Sect all over again. That felt so good!"
Qin Chuan really wanted to call Yun Qian and the others pigs. Calling a bunch of trashy rich second-generation heirs trash-wasn't that like stroking a tiger's backside or lighting a lamp in a latrine, courting death?
Besides, when a bunch of lawless people gathered together, there was nothing they wouldn't dare do. At worst, they could go crying to their elders: I'm just a child who doesn't know any better. Their elders would definitely protect them.
As for the sect master, hehe, these were the younger relatives of more than half the Pure Void Sect's elders with real power, along with quite a few disciples sent to the sect by major outside forces. Yun Yao would not pick a fight with so many people for the sake of Yun Qian and the others. They could only swallow their grievance in silence.
"That really is interesting. Brother Jin, you should take care of your own safety too." Qin Chuan felt that he could not push the most important male supporting characters too hard yet, lest the Heavenly Dao take pity on its precious darlings and forcefully intervene.
"I know. I wasn't the one leading the charge this time; Gu Hao was. I don't know why that slippery fellow would take action against the sect master's disciples." Jin Pang voiced the doubt in his heart.
"Maybe he simply couldn't stand how arrogant they were. We've reached the array competition venue. Let's talk in detail after I finish competing, and about the Land of the Fallen Phoenix too." With that, Qin Chuan headed swiftly for the registration desk.
"Good luck, Brother Qin!" Jin Pang quickly slipped into the crowd. He still regretted that after what had happened to Yun Qian, no one had opened a betting pool. Otherwise, he would have bet on Qin Chuan to win the array competition again and surely made a fortune.