Chapter 27 Let’s Duel, Young Man

Ling Yunpo was baffled. “Senior Brother Lou, may I know how I am getting in trouble?”

Lou Zhizheng smiled. “Junior Brother Ling, do you know that your master, who is currently in seclusion, was seriously injured and returned to the mountain back then? His seclusion was a Life-and-Death Seclusion!”

Ling Yunpo’s pupils constricted.

In fact, Perfected Seven Kills, Su Jian, had been in seclusion for a long time. He had roughly guessed that something was wrong, but he had never expected that he would really enter seclusion because of serious injuries.

The so-called Life and Death seclusion was to go into seclusion with the highest cultivation before entering it.

Due to the same cultivation level, going into seclusion was easy but it’s difficult to break through. Therefore, one had to break through the next realm and increase his cultivation greatly before breaking through.

The restrictions of doing this were too great, so often only those who were at the end of their lifespan and had no choice but to risk everything, or those who were heavily injured and on the verge of death and needed to use the secret technique, Turtle Breath, to survive would choose to seal themselves in the Life-and-Death seclusion.

To put it bluntly, it was simply a close shave to death. Forget about when he came out of seclusion, it was unknown whether he could even come out alive!

“Junior Brother Ling, you were too rash when you first joined the Green Spiral Peak as a disciple. Didn’t you ask the other senior brothers and sisters in advance?” Lou Zhizheng said bitterly. “In Mount Shu, who doesn’t know that Su Jian was severely injured back then? That if he doesn’t enter seclusion, he will immediately die?

“According to the concept of Nascent Soul cultivators, such injuries will require at least several hundred years of seclusion to recover. Which Qi Refinement cultivator can afford to wait this long?

“If one doesn’t form the Golden Core, one’s lifespan will not exceed two hundred years. When your master comes out of seclusion, you will have long turned into a pile of bones!”

Ling Yunpo was silent for a moment before saying, “Thank you for the reminder, Senior Brother, but..”

“Listen to me.” Lou Zhizheng interrupted him and tried to persuade him.” Junior Brother Ling, you haven’t cultivated for long, so you don’t know the hardships involved. The path of sword immortal cultivation is filled with countless difficulties and obstacles. Without anyone to guide you, your cultivation will hardly improve!

“I’m not trying to scare you. Think about it, who can teach you when you have some problems during your cultivation? Who can teach you when your sword seal is not working well? Even if you have a great fortuitous encounter and successfully break through to the Transformation realm, who can protect you from the final Golden Core Heavenly Tribulation?”

Ling Yunpo was speechless.

He could not possibly tell Lou Zhizheng that he did not have to worry about this. Qiu Changtian had taken Sect Master Polestar as his master in Kunlun. Regardless of whether it was Dao techniques, mantras, sword techniques, or Golden Core Heavenly Tribulation, there would be someone taking care of them.

Seeing that he was speechless, Lou Zhizheng thought that he had been persuaded, so he continued to incite him with spittle flying everywhere. “Look at your Senior Sister An. She’s a disciple that Su Jian secretly adopted outside. When she came to the mountain, she was already at the Transformation Realm. Has her cultivation improved in the past thirty years?

“Go and ask the other senior brothers and junior brothers. As long as they know the benefits and disadvantages, who would dare to enter the Green Spiral Peak to be an itinerant cultivator? Only senior sister An treats Elder Su Jian like her father. She would rather work hard for many years and barely maintain the Green Spiral Peak than switch to another master.

“Our Purple Cloud Peak can’t bear to watch you ruin your future, so Master asked the Sect Master to allow you another chance to choose. When you enter my peak and cultivate diligently under my master’s guidance for sixty years, you might surpass Senior Sister An and enter the Golden Core Realm early!”

Ling Yunpo listened silently and roughly understood what was going on.

Oh, the headhunters had come to poach.

What he said was indeed right. Everything else on the Green Spiral Peak was good, but the “lack of a master” was too hurtful. Cultivating here was basically the same as cultivating as an itinerant cultivator.

If it was the normal Ling Yunpo of Mount Shu, and even though Senior Sister An was as gentle as water and had been caring for her junior brother since he entered the sect, it still involved the longevity of the Great Dao. He would have thought, I’m sorry, I’m leaving. I wish my Senior Sister a happy life from now on. Goodbye.

Coincidentally, Ling Yunpo was not an ordinary person. He was a spy who was going to infiltrate the upper echelons of the sect. As a spy, he could not be suspected of being a traitor.

If he betrayed his sect and joined another sect soon after he joined the sect, even if the Purple Cloud Peak’s Peak Master was willing to take him in, what would the senior brothers and senior sisters of Purple Cloud Peak think of him?

Look, that Ling Yunpo is the guy who betrayed the Green Spiral Peak. With such a precedent, it means that he has no loyalty. It’s not impossible for him to betray Purple Cloud Peak in the future..

How was he going to survive in the future then?

Whether or not he should use his reputation to exchange for a better cultivation environment might be a choice that was worth considering:

However, it was impossible for Ling Yunpo to do that.

After Lou Zhizheng finished speaking, Ling Yunpo revealed a determined expression and said in a low voice,

“I thank the Purple Cloud Peak for their kindness. However, I’ve already become a disciple of the Green Spiral Peak and became Master Su Jian’s disciple. Once he became my master, he will forever be my master. How can I easily betray him?

“I, Ling Yunpo, am not such a disloyal and unjust person! Even if there are thousands of obstacles in the future and all kinds of difficulties, I will shoulder them all!”

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After he finished speaking in an impassioned tone, he heard Senior Sister An shout excitedly from behind him.

“Junior Brother!”

Ling Yunpo turned around and saw An Zhisu running out from the observation room and hugging his arm excitedly.

When Lou Zhizheng was saying, “Your master is in a life and death seclusion”, she happened to fly back to Green Spiral Peak from behind on her sword. When she saw her junior brother and an unfamiliar youth talking in front of the Daoist temple, she secretly hid behind the main entrance and listened.

An Zhisu’s expression was cold at first after she heard Lou Zhizheng mention “who dares to enter the Green Spiral Peak as an itinerant cultivator”, but then she remained silent. In the end, her expression darkened.

The greatest flaw of the Green Spiral Peak is that they do not have their master’s guidance. The other party would be invincible in the argument as long as they do not let up on this point.

Therefore, over the years, he did not receive a single disciple from the Green Spiral Peak other than Ling Yunpo. It was even more dilapidated.

She remembered that before her master went into seclusion, he had instructed her, “Su’er, I’ll leave the Green Spiral Peak to you.”

She didn’t know what was at stake at the time and agreed innocently. After that, she experienced the coldness of the world and was despised by others. Her cultivation had reached a bottleneck for many years and was mocked and disdained by others. Now, her monthly allowance was deducted and she did not even have enough spirit stones to cultivate.

No matter how lonely she was, she still remembered her master’s instructions. His voice seemed to be in her ears, so she kept working hard and refused to admit defeat.

When her monthly allowance was deducted, she went to the Political Affairs Hall to argue. When someone barged into the Green Spiral Peak to provoke her, she raised her sword and beat him until he couldn’t get up.

In any case, according to the sect rules, Perfected Golden Core was not allowed to deal with Foundation Establishment disciples. So she had been practicing sword technique day and night and had now become the number one person below the Golden Core realm.

The Green Spiral Peak was actually barely maintained under her efforts.

There was only the matter of recruiting disciples. After all, with the current situation of the Green Spiral Peak, it was not good to ask others to sacrifice their own Dao path and forcefully keep them in the Green Spiral Peak. Therefore, they had never been able to recruit any junior brothers or sisters.

It was precisely because of this that when Ling Yunpo entered the Green Spiral Peak, she cared for him in all kinds of ways, as if he was her biological brother.

Her heart warmed when she heard that Junior Brother Ling had rejected the Purple Cloud Peak’s recruitment for her sake, and his words were filled with emotion and his expression did not seem to be fake. She said gently,

“Junior Brother, are you serious?”

“Of course!” Ling Yunpo said decisively

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An Zhisu’s gaze softened as she asked again, “In the future, Master might be in seclusion for a long time and not come out to guide us in our cultivation. We have to rely on ourselves for everything. Can you accept this?”

Ling Yunpo said sternly, “So what if I don’t have a master? In the future, Senior Sister and I will support each other and support the Green Spiral Peak!”

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This unyielding synchronization rate was a little difficult to increase!

“Junior Brother..” An Zhisu was extremely touched. Tears immediately welled up in her eyes, and she bit her lower lip, unable to speak.

Lou Zhizheng was already stunned. After a while, he came back to his senses and waved his sleeve angrily. “Stubborn! In that case, there’s no need for my Purple Cloud Peak to show mercy!”

With that, he threw down a sword talisman and left on his sword.

An Zhisu reacted quickly. The Frost Sword turned into a stream of light and swept the sword talisman back before it landed. When she saw the words on it, her expression immediately changed.

It read:

Mount Shu’s Law Hall approved the Purple Cloud Peak’s disciple, Lou Zhizheng, to challenge the Green Spiral Peak’s disciple, Ling Yunpo, to a sword duel under the witness of the deacon.