I imitate others' cultivation, and I will never reason with you.

Chapter 146 Capturing Xu Shengping

Ruan Xing was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. She found a place to land in the pit, then turned her wrist, used the sword technique, and the flying sword rushed in the direction of her fingertips.

Xu Shengping was indeed not as weak as he appeared. He suddenly jumped up and dodged the flying sword. The flying sword was deeply embedded in the soil where he was lying, making waves.

However, the fragments of magical weapons scattered around him might be the truth. When the puppet exploded, he had no time to dodge and could only use all the magical weapons around him to withstand the power of the explosion.

After all, the power of the golden elixir's self-destruction cannot be underestimated.

There was hardly a single piece of intact skin on his body, which made his protruding eyeballs look particularly terrifying. At this moment, he was leaning against the wall of another mud pit, and with a wave of his hand, the blood on his body spilled out to form a blood mist.

In the blood mist, several silver needles hidden in it shot out. Ruan Xing quickly retracted her flying sword and spun it to cut off the silver needles around her body. The few that slipped through the net could not penetrate her fluttering robes.

The move he had been holding back for such a long time still failed to even break the defense. It seemed that his spiritual power was about to be exhausted and he was strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Being wary of Xu Shengping's possible backup plan, Ruan Xing did not approach him rashly and continued to attack with his flying sword. However, this time Xu Shengping flew forward himself and tried to get close.

Ruan Xing quickly retreated, and Xu Shengping chased after him closely. The entire pit was less than a thousand square meters in size. With the speed of the two of them, they could catch up with him several times in a short while. But suddenly, Xu Shengping's expression froze, and a pale hand suddenly appeared on his chest.

Jian Lai grabbed his heart and pulled it out suddenly.

Xu Shengping laughed twice in a hoarse voice, and suddenly his whole body exploded!

Oh no! Is he planning to self-destruct?

The power of the Golden Core's self-detonation is so great, wouldn't the Nascent Soul stage also destroy nearby towns?
Ruan Xing quickly retreated and set up a spiritual power shield in front of him without any hope.

Who knew that after being alert for such a long time, what fell on the spiritual power shield was only broken flesh and blood, with some disgusting and sticky things hanging on the spiritual power shield. Ruan Xing shook it gently and removed the spiritual power shield, and all those things fell to the bottom of the pit at once.

Then, Ruan Xing saw a ball of white light flying away into the distance.

What kind of method is this? Ruan Xing has read the memories left by Immortal Guangyou and learned the Record of Nourishing the Soul. He roughly understands that in this world, only the soul can do something similar to the art of possessing another's body and parasitizing. But Xu Shengping is only in the Nascent Soul stage. Can he escape by relying on the Nascent Soul?
Without having time to think about it, Ruan Xing subconsciously reached out and grabbed the white light.

She was shocked herself.

"When did I become so powerful?"

Ruan Xing began to doubt her life. She was just thinking about not letting the other party escape.

Then he grabbed the ball of light that had already run a hundred feet away and caught it in the palm of his hand.

"It does look a bit like the time and space magics left behind by Immortal Lord Guangyou." Ruan Xing pondered, but she currently could not comprehend the things left behind by Immortal Lord Guangyou, and she didn't know whether the technique she just used was a legacy left by Immortal Lord Guangyou.

In the ball of light, there was a little man the size of a palm, with a look of fear on his face, and he looked 90% similar to Xu Shengping.

Almost all of his consciousness and soul had been integrated into the Nascent Soul. As long as he survived the divine tribulation, he would be completely transformed into a spirit. It was a pity that he fell into Ruan Xing's hands.

The little man struggled constantly in her hands, but he could not break free from Ruan Xing's shackles.

She was only a middle Jindan... How could she have the strength to bully a Yuanying like this? Isn't it a bit too outrageous?

Could it be a new function of the simulator upgrade?
This shouldn't be the case. It would cost thousands or even tens of thousands of points to upgrade just one of the techniques she mastered in the simulator. How could a mere 30,000 points make her so powerful?

Ruan Xing was puzzled and could only put the confusion aside for the time being.

He said to the little man in his hand: "Xu Shengping, can we still communicate?"

In fact, she didn't quite understand whether the Nascent Soul in a cultivator's body, which had not yet become a spirit, could still communicate like a normal person.

The villain said angrily: "I have fallen into your hands. If you don't kill me, what else do you want?"

He had just hoped to escape and missed the chance to self-destruct. Now his entire Nascent Soul was in the hands of the other party, so he couldn't self-destruct even if he wanted to.

He could only desperately seek for a quick death, and he was even more afraid that the other party was a demon cultivator who specialized in ghost ways, in which case he would be living a life worse than death.

"Why are you so anxious to die? Since we can communicate, you can also convince me to let you go." Ruan Xing said with a smile.

The villain stopped struggling, looked up at Ruan Xing, and asked suspiciously, "Will you let me go? Aren't you afraid that I will seek revenge when I go back?"

Ruan Xing raised an eyebrow and said, "You don't know who I am, and my face is fake, so what am I afraid of?"

The villain thought about it and seemed to feel that there was no need for Ruan Xing to lie to him at this point, and even if he did not agree to Ruan Xing's conditions, he had no other choice.

I could only nod helplessly, "What do you want? As long as you let me go, I will tell you everything I know."

Ruan Xing touched his chin and asked, "Why did you run away just now? A Yuanying body has no body, so it is difficult to survive in the mortal world. You must have some special way to possess another body, right?"

The villain said a little aggrievedly: "My Nascent Soul is almost perfect, and it only needs the fusion at the last moment. There is a secret method in my family that allows me to parasitize among my descendants. After I go back, I will let my daughter get married and have children, and I can be reborn in her belly and regain my physical body. However, this method has two disadvantages. First, the Nascent Soul body can only be used once. Second, no matter how good the spiritual bone aptitude of the reborn physical body is, the level of cultivation can never surpass the level of the Nascent Soul body."

In other words, even if he could regain his physical body, he would never be able to reach the Divine Transformation Stage in this lifetime.

No wonder they are fighting for power and vigorously developing their own families. Presumably, every large family with a long heritage in the world of immortal cultivation has its reasons that cannot be told to outsiders.

As for a cultivator who came from a grassroots background like the Nanzhou Sect Leader… not only was his mind and nature not polluted, but even when he was about to die, he had never thought about shedding his Nascent Soul shell.

Because he has no methods and no backup.

"What if your daughter died or the child she gave birth to had no spirit bones?" Ruan Xing continued to ask.

After she had a conflict with Xu Sirui, she inquired about the Xu family. Thousands of years ago, the Xu family was the mainstay of the Xuanbing Sect. However, in recent generations, more and more children were born without spiritual bones. Now only Xu Shengping and Xu Shengwen are left to hold up the family, and Xu Shengping is unwilling to spend resources to let those children from the side branches use the Luoqi Pill.

His expression was somewhat sad. "There is nothing we can do about it. The sequelae of my family's secret method is that the baby I was reborn with will have no spiritual bones even if I have children again when I grow up... Perhaps this is the fundamental reason for the decline of my Xu family... Using this secret method is equivalent to wiping out a bloodline. This is the most important secret in my family, and I have told you everything." The villain paused and said excitedly and flatteringly, "I have one last method. This method is not restricted by bloodline descendants, and it does not even restrict any cultivation. As long as your soul is intact and has enough obsession and will, you can endure the scorching heat of the spiritual fire when the refiner refines the spiritual weapon and become a weapon spirit. Although you have lost your physical body and freedom, and have to recognize other cultivators as your master, you have a longer lifespan. As long as the spiritual weapon is not damaged, you can retain your memory and sanity for a long time!"

"That sounds nice." Ruan Xing curled her lips, "Where can I find a weapon refiner who can refine spiritual weapons?"

Even the master of the weapon-refining peak within the Xuanbing Sect, who had the highest attainments in weapon-refining, had not reached the level of being able to refine spiritual weapons.

"I have a secret method here. It does not require a high level of attainment in refining weapons. As long as the materials are of high enough grade and the soul can withstand the spiritual fire, you can refine a spiritual weapon! As long as you let me go, I will dedicate this secret method to you." The villain said flatteringly.

Ruan Xing was unmoved, "Give it to me first."

The villain hesitated for a moment, but still listened to Ruan Xing's words. He separated a star of light from the ball of light and floated in front of Ruan Xing.

She reached out and held it, and the light turned into a memory and entered her mind.

She closed her eyes and digested it carefully, but her hand holding the ball of light did not relax at all.

Seeing this, the villain was a little disappointed. He actually wanted to escape again when Ruan Xing was busy accepting the memory and had no time to care about him. However, he didn't expect that Ruan Xing didn't show any abnormality when accepting this memory. He could only wait patiently for Ruan Xing to finish digesting it.

After a while, Ruan Xing opened his eyes. This secret method seemed to be feasible, but the conditions were too harsh. Xu Shengping must have never tried it after obtaining it, otherwise he would not have wasted so many magic weapons and not taken out the spiritual weapon when he encountered the self-detonation just now.

Even cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Stage may not be able to possess spiritual weapons.

The villain said hopefully, "Can you let me go?"

"Of course." Ruan Xing smiled slightly and let go of her hand.

As soon as the ball of light was free, it quickly flashed out and flew towards Zhongzhou.

Ruan Xing recalled the feeling when he caught the ball of light before, stretched out his hand, put his five fingers together, and gently grabbed it.

The ball of light a hundred feet away returned to her hands.

"Shameless! You don't keep your word!" the villain jumped up and cursed.

"Stop making noise. I have one last question to ask. I will let you go after I finish it." Ruan Xing said with a frown.

The villain said angrily: "Ask quickly!"

"I heard that you asked Xu Shengwen's direct disciple Mu Shi to return to Nanzhou Xuanbing Sect to be an elder. The sect master has already agreed to this. I'm very curious. Two secret realms in Nanzhou have encountered accidents one after another, and only one mine still has some annual income. Why do you insist on sending Mu Shi there?" Ruan Xing asked slowly.

This is also something that has always confused her.

After she killed Elder Xu, she did not find the tens of thousands of spirit stones he had embezzled, and even the place where he lived did not have any luxurious items.

"It's just for some personal gain. Sheng Wen used to run a sect in Nanzhou and made a lot of extra income, which I used to support my family." The villain's eyes were a little evasive, and he seemed to not understand why Ruan Xing suddenly asked about this.

"You're lying." Ruan Xing sneered, "You're not even willing to give the Luoqi Pills to the offspring of the side branch. There are less than ten people in the Xu family in the Immortal Gate. With your personality, would you deliberately embezzle spirit stones from Nanzhou to subsidize the younger generation of your family?"

"You even know all this. Have you investigated me specifically?" the villain said with some horror.

Now he was even more confused. Who was this person who suddenly appeared in front of him and was out of his plan? What did he want to do?
"Are you still unwilling to tell me? In fact, you should be able to see that I am a ghost cultivator." Ruan Xing turned the ball of light in his hand, allowing him to see the sword coming from the side.

The pure white boy's two eyes, one black and one white, drooped strangely, and he stood there quietly like a statue.

Ruan Xing threatened: "If you still refuse to tell the truth, I will use your soul to peel off the silk cocoon, burn it with fire and refine it with thunder, and keep your sanity to make it into a puppet, and drive it every day for me to torture every day."

Looking at Jian Lai who had no breath or heartbeat, the fear of having his heart ripped out by the young man from behind just now came back to his mind, and he easily believed Ruan Xing's words.

What he feared most was encountering a demonic cultivator from the ghost path, who specifically designed to counter his family's secret techniques. If he couldn't defeat other cultivators, he could still break free of his Nascent Soul shell, but if he encountered a demonic cultivator from the ghost path, once he was defeated, he would die and never be reborn!

"I said... I said..." The villain was trembling and almost crying. "Eighty years ago, I had predicted that the decline of the family was irreversible. The three children my brother and I gave birth to were all mortals without spiritual bones. If we don't find a way to intervene, I'm afraid Sheng Wen and I will be the last generation of cultivators in the Xu family. So I made a deal with other sects. I left a child in Nanzhou, and except for the money my brother embezzled in Nanzhou... and some shops run by my family in Xianyuan City, I would give 30,000 low-grade spirit stones to that sect every year, because they promised me that they could let my son have normal spiritual bones, practice at a rapid pace, and restore the glory of the Xu family."

"The Xuanbing Sect is already one of the three major sects in the Xianyuan Continent. They can't find a way to save your family in the Xuanbing Sect, and you still expect other small sects to save it?" Ruan Xing sneered.

"I didn't believe it at first, but I saw with my own eyes several of their cultivators. I saw them just drawing Qi into their bodies, but within three to five years, they had already achieved Golden Core. From drawing Qi to Golden Core, it only took less than ten years! In which sect wouldn't this be a legend that needs to be boasted about? But it really happened in front of me, and it wasn't just one person! There were several! How could I not believe it?"

"So you made a deal...How long have you sent your son over there?" Ruan Xing asked.

"It has been exactly eighteen years since then," said the villain.

The spirit stones that were given away over eighteen years...hiss, five hundred and forty thousand low-grade spirit stones.

"I have never told anyone about this, including my brother. Although he is responsible for embezzling the spirit stones and transporting the transactions, I have never told him that it was for my other son." The villain said, looking up at Ruan Xing, "This matter is just out of my selfishness... It should not affect you, why bother asking to the end?"

No impact? The impact is huge!

If he had not given these spirit stones away, then after Ruan Xing killed Elder Xu, wouldn't all the spirit stones he had embezzled have gone into her pocket?
She lost so many spirit stones in vain.

Ruan Xing, who felt that he had lost money, asked angrily, "What is the name of that sect?"

I hesitated for a moment. In order to save my life, I have already said so much, and one or two more words won't make a difference.

Moreover, if Ruan Xing could really let him go, he could continue to supply 30,000 spirit stones every year after he returned. But if he died here, no one would send those 30,000 spirit stones, and that sect would probably not care about its son anymore.

So he said, "That sect is called Liuyang Study."

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