"A mere pistol."
Jiang Si twisted her neck. "How could it compare to your sword?"
He abandoned his strongest weapon and instead picked up a toy to scare people.
That's really disappointing.
It's just a bullet; he can withstand it without any problem. His physical strength is sufficient to keep the bullets at a shallow level, preventing them from penetrating deeper into the muscle.
If combined with the corrupting magic of the inner core, deflecting bullets directly is no problem.
But there's no need for that.
The bullet wasn't traveling fast; he could detect it.
"Shot."
The blind, white-haired girl paused, clearly not expecting the other person to say that.
But they quickly located Jiang Si.
It wasn't that he locked onto her with his eyes—the girl was blind with her eyes closed—but rather that he locked onto her with his senses.
In other words, it's about being shrewd and calculating.
For a moment, Jiang Si felt as if there was no way to avoid it.
Can the acceleration only begin from the moment the gun is fired? Interesting. This is certainly a challenge for Jiang Si.
A cool breeze blew by, and Jiang Si twisted her feet, preparing to exert force in an instant.
The two were too close; even Jiang Si felt a sense of pressure trying to outrun bullets at that distance without using magic.
A withered leaf drifted down from a nearby branch, and the girl in white tightened her grip slightly.
Jiang Si instantly bent over and bent her knees, with half of her foot on the ground, like a leopard poised to pounce, brimming with explosive power that was immediately apparent.
Just as the withered leaves fell to the ground!
What are you two doing outside the sect?
Bingtang appeared out of nowhere and casually took the pistol from the white-haired girl's hand. "How many times have I told you not to play with water guns? Don't play with water guns! You bought another one, Bai Mei! How much did you spend?"
Somewhat angrily, he pulled the trigger at Bai Mei, the water inside splashing all over the white-haired girl's face.
Despite being reprimanded by Bingtang, the white-haired girl simply replied in a calm tone, "Not much, just three thousand."
So, Bingtang, exasperated, gave her two hard taps on the forehead. "Three thousand! To buy a 1:1 replica water gun? You're wasting money more than Blue Flower!"
"I earned it myself through part-time work."
"Does earning money from working mean you can spend it recklessly?"
"Sorry"
After giving Jiang Si a dressing down, Bingtang turned to look at him, who had practically stomped a hole in the ground. "What is the Sect Master doing now?"
Jiang Si casually pulled her foot out, patted her trouser leg, and said, "It's nothing, just some exercise."
The girl named Bai Mei opened her mouth, and her usually calm voice finally showed a slight fluctuation, "Sect Master?"
Bingtang then realized, "Oh, right, it's been three years since you last met the sect leader, so it's normal that you wouldn't recognize him. Jiang Si has also changed a lot since three years ago." Then Bai Mei quietly took the pistol back from Bingtang's hand.
He aimed it at his own head.
They fired wildly.
BH City, within the Azure Cloud Sect.
A girl with her eyes closed was facing the wall, repeatedly apologizing.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Master—"
Bingtang, unable to bear watching any longer, pulled her over, grabbed a dry towel, and wiped the sweat from her brow. "Alright, alright, your master is here."
Sitting there so frail and weak, Bai Mei looked as if she was about to disappear completely.
Bai Mei, fifteen years old, was the first magical girl accepted by the Azure Cloud Sect three years ago, and also its first true disciple.
As a girl who had been ill since childhood and didn't have much time left, Bai Mei was abandoned in a park by her family. When Jiang Si and Bingtang brought her back, Bai Mei was not yet a magical girl.
He was so thin he was just skin and bones, small and short, looking like he could die at any moment.
Bingtang called the family's private doctor over for treatment and learned that Bai Mei had a congenital disease. Although it wasn't immediately fatal, even with proper care, she wouldn't live past her twenties or thirties.
If Bai Mei hadn't met them, she probably would have died a few days later.
At that time, Azure Cloud Sect did not have any other magical girls, and the appearance of Calamity Beast was not frequent, so Bai Mei was allowed to stay in the sect for the time being.
Although it was pitiful, Azure Cloud Sect was not a welfare institution, and the two of them did not have the ability to take care of a seriously ill child.
After Bingtang had her treated by a private doctor, the plan was to let her stay for a while until she recovered, and then send her to an orphanage. However, on the day they found an orphanage and were planning to send her away, Bai Mei secretly ran away.
He grabbed a wooden stick and went to challenge the Calamity Beast.
When the Azure Cloud Sect was first established, Jiang Si was very enthusiastic about telling stories about the sect's predecessors and immortals in her imagination, partly to help Bingtang understand the origin and rationale of the Azure Cloud Sect.
On the other hand, he also hoped that Bingtang could pursue the Great Dao with him.
Unfortunately, compared to that vague and uncertain Great Dao, Bingtang Tang only wanted to establish the Azure Cloud Sect with Jiang Si and didn't have much interest in pursuing the Great Dao or tempering her own body.
Bai Mei, on the contrary, became completely fascinated by it.
In Jiang Si's stories, her favorite characters are the so-called sword cultivators. They are aloof, cold, and fearless, and most importantly...
Sword, awesome!
Bingtang tried hard to remember all the nonsensical cultivation methods Jiang Si talked about, but she couldn't remember them at all. The other magical girls either didn't understand them or weren't interested.
Only Bai Mei believed everything Jiang Si said and diligently practiced according to Jiang Si's methods.
On the day they prepared to send Bai Mei away, the little girl didn't have any other thoughts.
Because she didn't feel she deserved to be there, and she knew she was a burden, that even her parents didn't want her.
How can one expect two strangers to accept them?
Moreover, Lord Bingtang Tang has already found a doctor to treat her and given her a lot of medicine for free. Even if she were to be sent away, a welfare home has been arranged for her.
From beginning to end, Bai Mei never considered asking to stay at the Azure Cloud Sect.
Therefore, Bai Mei wasn't saddened that Bingtang and Jiang Si wanted to see her off; she just felt it was the natural thing to do.
Bai Mei didn't have any other intentions when she went to find the Calamity Beast; she just wanted to take her final exam.
He demonstrated everything he had learned from Jiang Si by killing a Calamity Beast as a token of his gratitude to his teacher.
In terms of the outcome, it can actually be considered a success.
Because she did indeed kill a Calamity Beast.
But in terms of the process, it was all wrong.
My practice was inadequate, and I failed to unleash the full power of sword cultivation that Teacher Jiang Si had described.
The wooden stick he was holding broke with a single blow.
A true swordsman should be able to create a rainbow of sword energy even with just a single strand of hair.
Bai Mei didn't know if that time could be considered despair, but she did experience an impulse she had never felt before in her life.
He wanted to become stronger, and he wanted to prove to Teacher Jiang Si that he could do what she said.
I want everyone to witness the splendor of the realm that sword cultivators can reach!
Her intense desire brought about a miracle; she received her own Miracle Seed.
Although it was somewhat different from what we had expected, we ultimately achieved our goal.
A magic swordsman can, by a measure, be considered a swordsman.
Even after becoming a magical girl, Bai Mei never actually intended to stay.
As a result of becoming a magical girl, it was Bingtang Tang who took the initiative to invite her, making her the first true disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect.
Of course, she only received the title of "true disciple" after much pleading.
At the time, Bingtang didn't really like this title, and Jiang Si felt it wasn't a true inheritance. It was Bai Mei who wanted to become a true disciple and inherit Jiang Si's sword cultivation mantle. She pleaded with Bingtang for five or six days before finally getting her to agree to the title.
Not long after, due to her illness, Bingtang used her family's connections to send her to the nearby Jiangming City Hospital.
Because the medical standards there are higher, and they are more skilled at treating Bai Mei Mei's genetic disease.
Only today has this been the first time I've returned to my sect.
Therefore, when she saw that the great array seal outside the sect had been changed again, Bai Mei lingered outside the gate for a long time until she met Jiang Si.
Not only did they fight because they couldn't recognize their teacher, but they also used a water gun to scare the sect leader, which was utterly rebellious.
After a long while, seeing that she wasn't so downcast anymore, Bingtang leaned over and handed her a cup of tea, her tone slightly heavy, "You can't see anymore? Didn't you say your condition had improved a lot when you last messaged me?"
Bai Mei, her eyes tightly closed, seemed somewhat puzzled. "No, my eyes can see."
Bingtang paused for a moment, "Then why have you kept your eyes closed the whole time?"
"In order to cultivate one's inner insight."
Bai Mei said very seriously, "Master said that if you always use your eyes to see, you will develop a dependency. The most important thing for sword cultivators is to cultivate their hearts and see with their hearts, not their physical eyes. So I have kept my eyes closed for the past few years."
Bingtang silently looked at her first true disciple, "Was it useful?"
"I can see it much more clearly now."
He turned to look at Jiang Si, and sure enough, his gaze towards Bai Mei was full of admiration.
In fact, Jiang Si had admired Bai Mei's pure heart for seeking the Tao three years ago.
As master and apprentice, their relationship could even be described as quite good.
When Bai Mei left, she specifically told her not to slack off in the future, because the path to Bai Mei is arduous, and one must either advance or fall behind.
After Bai Mei left, she said to herself with great regret that it was such a pity that she could not personally witness the growth of such a talented person.
As a result, he completely forgot about it after three years.
Bai Mei's appearance has hardly changed in the past three years, especially her white hair and her pale, almost translucent, sickly skin.
It's a fairly obvious feature, yet you still can't recognize it.
They genuinely didn't take it to heart at all, and Bai Mei was no less so.
Three years later, upon returning to the Azure Cloud Sect, the first thing he thought of when encountering strangers was to drive them away. He even took out a super realistic pistol worth three thousand yuan to scare them, rather than open his eyes and look at them.
What a wonderful master and apprentice pair!
However, Bingtang has gotten used to it; the two of them have been like this for about three years.
"Just as my master said, in the first year, I couldn't help but want to open my eyes and was very unaccustomed to living with my eyes closed. In the second year, I began to be able to live successfully in the dark with the help of a cane. In the second half of the second year, even with my eyes closed, I could vaguely see some light through my mind's eye. In the third year, my mind's eye was complete."
Bai Mei said with a touch of pride, "Even without opening my eyes, I can already see everything around me clearly."
"Although his natural talent isn't great," Jiang Si finally commented, "Hard work can make up for it, he's not bad."
"Thank you for the compliment, Master."
Even so, Bai Mei remained neither humble nor arrogant.
Maintaining the pride and aloofness of a sword cultivator, she coughed twice and appeared extremely weak. Bingtang Tang patted her back and asked, "Is there something important that you've come all this way for?"
Bai Mei's expression finally turned serious, and she sat up straight. "I've come back this time mainly because I have three things I'd like to ask Master and Lord Bingtang for help with."
"Explain."
"First thing." Bai Mei took out her phone from her pocket. Although her eyes were closed, her movements were quite smooth and quick. She opened a website and showed the two of them the contents.
"Regarding the stories of the sect elders that my master told me back then, during my recuperation and cultivation, I had some free time and, in order to publicize the great achievements of the Azure Cloud Sect elders, I compiled them into a book and published it online. I didn't expect to have so many readers, but I left in a hurry back then, and I didn't finish telling the stories my master told me. I couldn't continue writing after I finished half of it. Now, many readers are urging and scolding me, hoping that my master can tell me what happened to the second half of the story, so that I can give everyone an explanation."
Jiang Si stared expressionlessly at Bai Mei, who was rapidly recovering from her illness, and then glanced at the book title above.
" Doumo Continent ", " Battle Through the Demonic Heavens ", " Coiling Dragon ", " Demon Slaying ", " A Mortal's Record of Demon Cultivation of the Profound Mirror Demon Gate "
I haven't had a chance to copy it myself yet.
It was originally his way of making a living with a guaranteed minimum income.
Becoming a plagiarist after time-traveling is arguably the most well-known and typical way to make a name for oneself and earn money.
This world doesn't even have the original fantasy cultivation novels; it's practically a natural haven for plagiarism.
However, I was careless.
Jiang Si originally thought that since no one was going to compete with her, she could copy it later.
He was busy with cultivation and sect affairs every day, so he didn't have much time—though mainly because he didn't like writing novels.
He only enjoys reading; asking him to write is somewhat of a torment.
I initially planned to copy a book to earn some money, but I ended up writing only eight characters in ten days.
Unexpectedly, someone else beat them to it, and it was even one of their own disciples.
If you've finished copying, what am I supposed to copy? And will you give me all the royalties?
Thinking this to himself, but outwardly maintaining the dignity of a sect leader, he simply nodded, "Alright, I'll tell you when I have time."
Half a day later, he added, "Give me half of the royalties, so I can pay tribute to my ancestors."
Bai Mei knows.
Bai Mei then took out a thick book, her expression slightly embarrassed. "Also, Bai Mei 've been captivated by the stories of all the senior writers and wanted to write my own original story, but I've repeatedly failed. No one reads it, and some ungrateful people are even giving it bad reviews, it's a complete disaster."
Where did this loser come from?
Jiang Si glanced at it. "Do you want me to revise it for you?"
He's asking for it; countless authors have made Jiang Si cry.
"Not at all." Bai Mei smiled subtly, "Ordinary people are too dull to understand my art, but I think the Sect Master will certainly appreciate and understand my work, so I brought all my works from the past few years for the Sect Master to appraise."
Typical loser mentality.
Furthermore, I, Jiang Si, never read online novels that are less than a million words long and lack popularity.
However, since the book had already been handed to him, he reluctantly accepted it.
The Bingtang next to him looked like she had a headache, rubbing her forehead. "You came all this way just for this?"
Oh, there's one more thing I almost forgot.
Bai Mei casually remarked, "The number of the Witch Association members in Jiangming City has increased recently for some reason. The four Azure Cloud Sect disciples I developed in Jiangming City got separated due to the Witch Association's siege, so I hope headquarters can provide us with some support."
Have you got the priorities backwards?
After mentally complaining, Bingtang thought seriously for a moment, then said, "Let Blue Flower go. She doesn't have classes anyway. She can make a few more Magic Puppet these next few days before going."
As she spoke, she glanced at Jiang Si, her eyes filled with renewed hope, "If the Sect Master could grant me some magic—"
Jiang Si shook her head, personally extinguishing Bingtang's fantasy, "I'll go myself."
In online novels, it's not uncommon for subordinates to encounter enemies and only send elders of a higher rank to help, resulting in them becoming stepping stones for the enemy to advance.
Since we're going to deal with it, let's do it all at once.
"I, the Hun Tiandi, will personally block the Xiao Clan!" Oh, right, Sect Master, could you please take a look at my work now? Just a few chapters will suffice.
Jiang Si flipped through a couple of pages casually and then closed the book.
A pile of poop.