Chapter 114: The Dragon Fall Lands, the Chicken Farmer's Trail
At nightfall, you once again infiltrated the Deer-Chasing Academy.
You took out the kitchen knife and wandered around the academy, muttering to yourself.
“Little knife, little knife, hurry and sense where your master is!”
The kitchen knife in your hand showed no reaction. Only strands of baleful qi seeped into your Primordial Spirit, seeking to influence your mind.
Having passed the Heart Demon Tribulation, you naturally would not be affected by the baleful qi this knife passively emitted.
“Have you heard? This time the Martial Contest for a Bride is supposedly being held at the Dragon Fall Lands!”
“What, it’s actually there!” Two Deer-Chasing Academy disciples passing by you spoke in low voices.
Hearing this, you turned around without a change in expression and quietly followed them.
“Do you remember that mysterious woman who appeared at our academy a few decades ago?”
“You mean the one who heavily wounded our Vice Dean?”
“That’s her! I heard that person showed up at the Dragon Fall Lands recently!”
“Hisss, then isn’t this Martial Contest for a Bride extremely dangerous? That’s a ruthless figure who could heavily wound even a Fusion realm Vice Dean!”
“Relax. The Dragon Fall Lands has the suppression of dragon bloodline pressure. The higher your cultivation, the more viciously it gets suppressed!”
“On top of that, that person is heavily injured. If anything, she might not even beat a Spirit Transformation cultivator!”
“Then… could this Martial Contest for a Bride’s mission be related to that person?”
“Who knows? If you ask me, it probably is.”
“Sigh, if only I could come out on top in the Martial Contest for a Bride!”
“Stop dreaming. How could someone like that be within our imagination? Just cultivate honestly.”
“Let’s go, let’s go.”
You watched the two figures depart, falling into thought.
You had not seen this matter in Jun Xiaoyao’s memories. It must have happened not long after Jun Xiaoyao left.
To verify the truth of this matter, you decided to take the initiative. You would catch a lone Deer-Chasing Academy disciple and hypnotize them.
With your current cultivation, any cultivator below the Void Refinement realm, once you got close, had absolutely no chance of escaping!
The Deer-Chasing Academy was divided into the Outer Court, Inner Court, and core disciples. The Outer Court was all Golden Core cultivators, while the Inner Court was all Nascent Soul stage cultivators.
The core disciples were Spirit Transformation cultivators! And this time, you had infiltrated the core disciple area.
“Here comes one!” Soon enough, you waited for a Spirit Transformation disciple who had just returned from outside.
The instant you struck, a soundproofing formation activated!
“Who?!!” The mid-stage Spirit Transformation disciple only managed to utter a single word before you knocked him out with one punch, heavily injuring him into unconsciousness.
You looked at the disciple collapsed on the ground, feeling he looked somewhat familiar, as though you had seen him somewhere before.
After thinking for a moment, it clicked into place. This person was Shen Qiu, the very one you had encountered last night in Bai Ruoxi’s small courtyard.
You clicked your tongue, feeling that fate was truly wondrous. Given that, you no longer held back and directly began a soul search.
The Primordial Spirit power of Spirit Transformation Consummation surged in, instantly breaking through Shen Qiu’s defenses and smoothly rifling through his memories.
In Shen Qiu’s memories, thirty years ago, a mysterious woman had appeared at the back mountain of the Deer-Chasing Academy.
What exactly happened was unknown, but in the end the mysterious woman wounded the Vice Dean and fled the Deer-Chasing Academy.
Though Shen Qiu had only caught a fleeting glimpse, after seeing the fragment in his memories, you were absolutely certain: the mysterious woman was Yang Ji!
Moreover, based on that fleeting glimpse, you discovered that Yang Ji’s condition was not good. Or rather, it was extremely bad.
The matter was confirmed. You hesitated no longer, and immediately prepared to leave the academy to make preparations for heading to the Dragon Fall Lands.
Before leaving, you glanced at Shen Qiu lying on the ground, foam spilling from his mouth. Then, without a shred of hesitation, you left.
Shen Qiu had been forcibly invaded, his memories probed. Even if he recovered, if he did not become an idiot, he would still suffer memory loss from the severe damage to his Primordial Spirit.
More seriously, it would affect his future cultivation path. If anything, he might be stuck at mid-stage Spirit Transformation for the rest of his life!
The next morning, you began investigating matters related to the Dragon Fall Lands.
“This Dragon Fall Lands, ah, is a training ground in the royal family’s hands. It opens to the outside once every fifty years.”
“What? You want to go in? Don’t make me laugh!”
“Do you know what kind of people get to enter? Every one of them is a heaven’s pride of the great sects, a big shot who cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage within a hundred years, or to the Spirit Transformation stage within three hundred years!”
“What? You say your cultivation qualifies? Heh heh!”
“Fellow Daoist, you really won’t give up, huh. Let me put it to you this way: cultivating to Spirit Transformation within three hundred years is the least important condition!”
Seeing your unwilling expression, the informant said mercilessly, “To get in, it depends on your background!”
“Within the Purple Firmament Immortal Dynasty, the Eight Great Sects, the Five Great Clans, the Three Great Academies. Tell me, you — where are you from?”
You fell silent. After cultivating for so many years, this was the first time you felt your own strength was worth less than a good background.
You thought about it, then took out the Immortal Treasure Pavilion’s identity token and asked the person before you, “Can someone from the Immortal Treasure Pavilion participate?”
The informant glanced at you in surprise, then shook his head. “I never imagined Fellow Daoist was actually from the Immortal Treasure Pavilion. But unfortunately, no.”
You calmly took out one hundred top-grade spirit stones and quietly pressed them into this person’s hand, then asked again, “May I ask, Fellow Daoist, is there really no other way?”
The informant glanced at the spirit stones in his hand, his face lighting up with joy. He spoke to you in a low voice, “There is, Fellow Daoist, there is!”
“Recently, an Instructor from the Deer-Chasing Academy is recruiting disciples!”
“But the conditions, well, they’re a bit strict. Besides needing to pay ten thousand top-grade spirit stones as tuition, you also need good talent!”
“As long as your talent isn’t good, no matter how many spirit stones you offer, she won’t take you!”
You thought for a moment, then decided to give it a try.
“Alright, then I’ll trouble Fellow Daoist to help me make contact.”
“Contact is fine, it’s just that if it fails…”
“Fellow Daoist, rest assured. You just make the contact. Whether it succeeds or fails has nothing to do with you.” You patted this person’s hand, and at the same time took out another five hundred top-grade spirit stones.
The informant happily accepted the spirit stones, then turned around and began making contact for you.
A moment later, the informant returned and said to you, “I’ve already made the contact for you. Tonight, I’ll take you to see her!”
“Many thanks, Fellow Daoist!”
“Haiya, Fellow Daoist is too polite. This is all what I ought to do.”