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Chapter 52

The red light flashed a few times, then disappeared.The white light on Yibing puppet's body went out, it bowed to the jade white token, and then slowly disappeared.

Huo Xiumao took Jing Yingrong to his mansion on Chu Xiaofeng.He asked Jing Yingrong to sit down in the hall, dismissed the attendants, and brewed a pot of tea himself.

"This is the Amethyst Frost Leaf from Purple Spring Valley, please taste it, senior."

Huo Xiumao looked at Jing Yingrong expectantly.

Jing Yingrong took a small sip from her teacup and said, "Can we talk now?"

"Huh?" Huo Xiumao was stunned for a moment and then realized, "Oh, that's right, senior, in fact, I'm here to investigate you under the order of my master, that is, Daoist Yunmeng."

Jing Yingrong: "Why are you investigating me?"

Huo Xiumao told Jing Yingrong verbatim what he had heard from Daoist Yunmeng, and at the end, he said: "When I knew that the person to investigate was you, senior, I was very glad, fortunately, the master chose me. If it was someone else, it might cause trouble to you senior."

When Huo Xiumao was narrating, Ji Yanzhu in the Sea of ​​Consciousness was apologizing to Jing Yingrong: "I'm sorry for causing you trouble."

Jing Yingrong: "It's okay."

After listening to the cause and effect, she said to Huo Xiumao: "You don't want to cause trouble to me, what should you do?"

Huo Xiumao pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes to stare at Yingying in the mirror, and said: "Before deciding on the method, I have a few questions to ask senior, senior can refuse to answer, if you are willing to answer, please tell the truth."

Jing Yingrong smiled slightly and said, "Okay, you can ask."

Huo Xiumao was in a daze, and he didn't come back to his senses until Jing Yingrong tilted his head in doubt.

Jishajian: "Look at his face is red again."

Jing Yingrong: "Yes."

Jisha Sword: "Do you know why this time?"

Jing Yingrong: "Probably because he thinks I'm good-looking."

Extreme Fiend Sword: "... makes sense."

Jijie Pen laughed loudly: "There is progress!"

"Ahem," Huo Xiumao coughed twice to cover up his absence, "Then, the first question—Senior Jing, is your cultivation fake?"

Jing Yingrong: "Well, it's fake."

Huo Xiumao said with an expression of "as expected", "Then can you tell me your real cultivation?"

Jing Yingrong frowned slightly, and said, "I don't know."

Huo Xiumao was stunned for a moment, he looked carefully at Jing Yingrong's expression, rolled his eyes, and after thinking about the sentence, he asked, "Let me ask this question differently, is your strength above Huashen?"

Jing Yingrong: "Yes."

Huo Xiumao asked: "Then - what about returning to the void?"

Jing Yingrong: "It's stronger than returning to the void."

Huo Xiumao took a breath, he seemed to want to continue on this issue, but he opened his mouth again and again, the content of the words changed: "Does the change of Liexia Altar have anything to do with you?"

Jing Yingrong said decisively, "I didn't do it."

Ji Yanzhu smiled and said, "I did it."——but Huo Xiumao couldn't hear it.

A trace of surprise flashed across Huo Xiumao's eyes, he lowered his head in thought, then looked at Jing Yingrong, and said seriously: "Will it be bad for you to come to Taichu Guan?"

Jing Yingrong shook her head: "No."

"Okay, I see."

After all, Huo Xiumao raised the corner of his mouth with a gentle smile.

Jing Yingrong: "Have you finished asking?"

"I'm done asking."

"Are you sure about the method?"

"Well," Huo Xiumao replied decisively and forcefully, seeming confident, "I know what to do, senior, please rest assured, leave everything to me."

Jing Yingrong: "Are you going to deceive your master?"

Huo Xiumao was stunned for a while, he showed some hesitation, but he still replied honestly: "It's inevitable."

Jing Yingrong thought about it for a while, and she asked with some confusion: "I am kind to you, and your master is also kind to you in teaching. Why did you deceive your master instead of me?"

This question stopped Huo Xiumao, his mouth was slightly opened, and there was a hint of confusion in his expression.

"It's true... I can really say nothing, look for an opportunity to get close to you, senior, and investigate secretly. It's just—"

Huo Xiumao took a deep breath, and his eyes became firm: "I said that day, I will repay your kindness to me a hundred times. Without your guidance, I would not be able to come to Taichu Guan. So, if I had to choose, I would prefer Senior you."

Jing Yingrong didn't speak.

Huo Xiumao half-jokingly said: "I don't know why, I think it's easier to lie to the master than to lie to you, senior."

Unexpectedly, Jing Yingrong replied: "Yes, that's right."

Huo Xiumao was taken aback.

Jing Yingrong asked, "What do I need to do?"

Huo Xiumao smiled lightly and said: "You don't need to do anything, I will come to you often in the future, just don't find me annoying."

Jing Yingrong: "Yes."

"By the way, I can't call you senior in front of people, I should call you—"

Speaking of this, Huo Xiumao remembered something, his expression became strange, he was quite dumbfounded.

"If you successfully enter the Temple of Absolute Beginning, then on the bright side, senior, you will be my junior sister!"

……

Five days later.

Everyone was brought to the foot of Taiyue Mountain, and in front of them was an extremely wide staircase reaching to the sky.

"Within seven days, those who reach the square above can enter the next round of selection, otherwise they will be eliminated."

The elder of Taichu Guan said, "All methods are allowed, and you can use your own methods."

Everyone looked up, only to see the ladder hanging upside down, and they couldn't see where the square was at all.

Tang Zhile said: "Come on, come on, this is the rumored ascension to heaven!"

"Can you fly directly up?"

"You're dreaming," Tang Zhile rolled her eyes, "After you go up, all your cultivation is useless. The higher your cultivation, the greater the pressure you will receive, so you have to go up honestly. Hey, when I talked about it last time, you Didn't you listen carefully?"

"Cough... I didn't notice. Wouldn't it become stronger than the physical body? But people with high cultivation are generally stronger in the physical body."

"...It's not that simple, you'll know when you go up later. I remind you once again, you must save your energy for the first part of the journey, or you will have enough to endure later."

"I know, I know."

The people of Zhenwu Academy replied one after another.

As soon as the elders of Taichu Guan announced the start, many people rushed up impatiently, and some even directly sacrificed the magic weapon to fly the imperial weapon.

However, when they climbed the stairs, their actions became extremely slow in an instant, and the flying people fell one by one, overwhelming the people below, and the stairs were instantly chaotic.

Tang Zhile snickered: "A bunch of idiots."

Seeing that those who rushed to the front suffered a disadvantage, the others were not in a hurry and climbed up the stairs leisurely.

Jing Yingrong raised her left foot and stepped onto the first step.

In this instant, the entire heavenly ladder collapsed.

(End of this chapter)