Heaven-Overturning Seal

Xu Hengliang had dual earth-metal spiritual roots. Earth generated metal, making them a fine mutually reinforcing set of spiritual roots, but compared to Jiang Wan's Innate Lightning Spiritual Root, they still fell short.

Still, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness there was not another Mutated Spiritual Root, or they really would have been green with envy.

Aside from those little ones in the back mountain watching the situation here through the projection, Fairy Xueyun below the stage was the most shaken.

She excitedly gripped her son's hand.

"Muyi, Muyi, did you see that? Your little sister has a lightning spiritual root. She has a lightning spiritual root! Wonderful! With a lightning spiritual root, we no longer have to fear her becoming a demonic cultivator."

True Person Muyi had naturally seen it as well.

"Yes, Mother. You will not need to worry about anything happening to my little sister anymore. Her Innate Lightning Spiritual Root is the nemesis of all demonic filth and foul qi."

Fairy Xueyun nodded again and again in excitement, then turned and said,

"But we must still protect your little sister well in the future. If the demonic cultivators learn of this, they will surely try to snuff her out while she is still young. So we must protect her."

The apprenticeship ceremony onstage continued. The master of ceremonies announced the final segment: bestowing Daoist titles.

Under normal circumstances, names were given by one's parents, while Daoist titles were given by one's master. Rogue cultivators, on the other hand, simply chose one for themselves, without so many formalities.

Besides, Daoist titles were usually only bestowed after Core Formation. Before that, Foundation Establishment cultivators were as common as dogs. Who cared what Daoist title you had?

But their situation was different. Venerable Wanhe bestowed Jiang Yao with the Daoist title "Jade Yao."

Jiang Wan had asked Venerable Yu Yi in advance what Daoist title he intended to give her, only to hear him say,

"My good disciple, do you even need to think about your Daoist title? On Tianyan Peak, your master is Yu Yi. Take a guess what you will be called?"

Jiang Wan's body shuddered, and she stared at her own master in shock.

The little purple doll raised her head. The flower wreath atop her head had not fallen off, but her tears were about to.

She widened her eyes and sent a voice transmission to Venerable Yu Yi.

"Master, you are not planning to give your disciple the Daoist title Four-Nine, are you?"

Venerable Yu Yi smiled with an incomparably kind and amiable expression. Look at that—his little disciple's brain was truly clever.

"That is right. Tianyan Four-Nine and Yu Yi. Tell me, is that not a perfect match?"

Jiang Wan refused. Even if she had lost all pursuit of beautiful things in life, she still did not want to be called Four-Nine. Ahhh!

When she traveled outside in the future, people would say, "Quick, look! That is Fairy Four-Nine."

Pfft—she could not accept it just imagining it.

Seeing that it was about to be her master's turn to speak, Jiang Wan hurriedly sent him another voice transmission.

"Master, I do not want to be called Fairy Four-Nine, or I will cry for you to see. Give that good name to Master's Nephew instead!

"I want to be called Fairy Wanwan, not Fairy Four-Nine. The contrast is far too strong. I really am going to cry."

Venerable Yu Yi sincerely thought Four-Nine was quite good, but seeing his little disciple resist so fiercely, he cleared his throat and said,

"This Venerable's little disciple Wanwan may wait until she forms her golden core before choosing a Daoist title. At that time, she may choose one she likes herself."

The master of ceremonies beside him secretly thought, Venerable Yu Yi truly dotes on his disciple.

Since Yi Chen's master had already said so, he had no intention of racking his brains to give his cheap disciple a Daoist title either.

"Hengliang is still young. It will be the same if he chooses one later, when he has more ideas."

Though Xu Hengliang was somewhat disappointed, he thought that since Jiang Wan did not have one either, was it not perfectly normal for him not to have one?

At this point, the apprenticeship ceremony was more or less over.

Then came the slaughter—er, gift-receiving portion.

Those who had come to attend a Spirit Transmutation Venerable's disciple-acceptance ceremony had to bring something good, did they not? Anything too poor would not even catch the eye of a Spirit Transmutation Cultivator.

Sending three gifts at once, however, truly hurt the flesh.

[You are the Great Demon in the eyes of the world. Wherever you go, there is slaughter; with every gesture, blood flows into rivers, and wherever you pass, not a blade of grass grows.

The Nangong Family once had more than half its cultivators slaughtered by Nangong Wanyu. Now that they have encountered you, the Nangong Family wishes to beg for mercy and has sent congratulatory gifts.

Whitewash Mission: Spare the new Nangong Family Head's life and let him live.

Mission Difficulty: Easy.

Mission Reward: Heaven-Overturning Seal.]

Jiang Wan only wanted to say two words: "Holy shit!"

She would not complain about this mission. After all, System Bro was family. But saying that not a blade of grass grew wherever she passed—she was not pesticide. That description was a little excessive, okay?

She raised her head to look at the Nangong Family Head before her. This middle-aged uncle took out three items, and the marvelous part was that all three were wrapped in Spirit Avoidance Stone.

The newly appointed Nangong Family Head had originally prepared two gifts. Who would have thought that Xu Hengliang would also be added as a disciple? So he took another item wrapped in Spirit Avoidance Stone from Nangong Shuyin.

Spirit Avoidance Stone was a type of rock layer. In the ancient war of the gods, the immortal and demon experts who had fallen in battle left behind sites that, after tens of thousands of years of transformation, formed rock layers or stones capable of blocking cultivators' divine-sense probing.

Some of those stones even contained quite a few good things, though naturally, some contained nothing at all.

The three fist-sized stones he took out were all wrapped in Spirit Avoidance Stone, making it impossible to inspect what lay inside.

"These three are good things we excavated from a ruin this time. Today, they are just right for the three Venerables' young disciples. No one knows what is inside; it all depends on luck."

Jiang Wan had originally intended to casually take one, but when she saw Jiang Yao's gaze settle on the middle stone, her little hand darted out and snatched it.

By the time Jiang Yao reached out halfway, it was already too late. The item had landed in Jiang Wan's hand.

Jiang Yao gritted her teeth. Why was this damn child's hand so fast?!

This was clearly supposed to be the item in Nangong Shuyin's possession. She knew better than anyone from her past life that it contained the Wind-Avoiding Pearl. Right now, what she needed most was precisely the Wind-Avoiding Pearl.

Jiang Wan shook the stone in her hand and put it away. She would open it after returning.

She was a three-year-old child. Only a fool would open a treasure in front of everyone.

[You accepted the gift presented by the Nangong Family Head and did not kill any more members of the Nangong Family.

Mission Complete.

Mission Reward: Heaven-Overturning Seal.]

Use according to the increase in cultivation.

Jiang Yao looked at Jiang Wan and forced out a smile.

"Little Sister Jiang Wan, I want that stone from earlier. Can I trade this one with you for it?"

Jiang Wan directly shook her head. Even with the shell of a three-year-old, she would not accept this act-cute routine.

"No. I like mine too, so why should I give it to you? Your mother is bad."

"Ahem. All right, now that you have chosen, that is enough. We still have matters to handle. Everyone, eat and drink well from here on!"

Venerable Yu Yi looked toward Venerable Wanhe. No one knew what he said through voice transmission, but Venerable Wanhe remained impassive and temporarily withdrew as well.

The other two little ones each took one. Not knowing what was inside only made it feel more novel.

The three Spirit Transmutation Venerables arrived at the main peak's grand hall. Madam Li knelt in the middle of the hall, and the moment she saw Jiang Wan, intense hatred burst from her eyes.

She hated Jiang Wan for not dying below, for climbing up from beneath there and exposing her lies, leaving her in her current plight.

Jiang Wan rolled her eyes at her, then looked at Fairy Xueyun and second brother Muyi, who had arrived afterward.

She smiled at them.

"Mother, Second Brother, she was the one who kidnapped me and threw me into the Myriad Snake Den beneath the Gale Force. She can even control Uncle Han Li's mind. She is so scary."

Fairy Xueyun immediately pulled her daughter into her arms, heart aching over how much her little girl had suffered at such a young age. Just thinking of a place like the Myriad Snake Den was terrifying. Venerable Yu Yi must have rescued her daughter in time.