After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Wen Ningqing led her apprentice to the front of the house, and after the apprentice went inside, she stood in front of the door.

Miaoyin grinned mischievously, "Aqing, you're not going to refuse me entry, are you?"

"you guessed right."

"Oh dear, your apprentice isn't exactly a hot commodity, I certainly wouldn't make a move on her. I just think the girl is interesting, I'm just kidding."

Ningqing was speechless for a moment...

Lin Yan didn't take the rumors to heart. After talking with her master, she stayed in the residence prepared by her master and devoted herself to cultivation, instead of returning to the accommodations arranged for independent cultivators.

With such abundant spiritual energy here, it would be foolish to go back to that tiny wooden house instead of staying here to cultivate.

Before starting her cultivation, she released all the little creatures from her spatial dimension. The mansion was quite large, and with her master's protective barrier preventing outsiders from entering, the little creatures were safe there.

The spiritual energy here is abundant, which is very beneficial to the little ones. Most importantly, releasing them here reduces the loss of spiritual energy in the space.

She is not "rich" right now. Although she has two or three hundred thousand spirit stones, the space consumes a lot of spirit stones. In addition, she needs to buy cultivation resources, so she can barely make ends meet with these few spirit stones.

Wen Ningqing was very pleased to see her disciple working so hard! Although her newly accepted disciple could not represent the sect in the competition, she had a feeling that her disciple might shine in the Immortal Sect Competition.

The spiritual energy in this residence was decent, but she still found it somewhat unappealing. So she removed the spirit-gathering array that the Xuantian Sect had set up there and personally set one up for her disciple, as well as a small, high-level spirit-gathering array in the courtyard.

For Nascent Soul cultivators with high talent in array formations, setting up a Spirit Gathering Array is incredibly easy; they can complete it in just a few moves.

When she came out and saw Miaoyin coming again, she wanted to turn around and fly away, but the other person stopped her a step ahead.

"Hey, Qing, why are you running away? I have something important to tell you."

When Wen Ningqing heard about serious matters, she immediately thought of the Immortal Sect Competition, and her head started spinning.

The Xuan Tian Sect is hosting this year's Immortal Sect Competition, with the Li Dynasty and Xing Yan Sect as its partners. They have an unusually large number of affairs to attend to; in previous years, they rarely held meetings, but this year it seems like they have a meeting every single day.

Miaofa Sect is neither the organizer nor a cooperating party. If they need to hold a meeting, they should be responsible for organizing the competition. Why drag other sects into it?

Those old babbling on and on, frankly speaking, they just want to steal spirit stones from other sects.
"You go to the meeting with them, I have a headache and can't go."

Just then, Rong Ce, the other peak master leading the group, came over and asked Ning Qing hurriedly, "Elder, let Rong Ce come along. Oh dear, I have a headache and need to find a place to rest!"

After saying that, he quickly took flight, mounted a bird, and flew away.

Wen Ningqing thought she had escaped a calamity, but she never expected to run into Mo Feijue.

Ugh, my head hurts so much!

When will I ever escape these unlucky and disgusting things?

She tried to pretend she didn't see it, but someone just had to come up and say hello.

One shouldn't hit a smiling face, so she responded politely. The other person then went further, saying they wanted to invite her for tea and a philosophical discussion.

The reason was impeccable, but she never liked to give people face, so she politely declined directly.

Mo Feijue immediately put on a hurt expression: "You still won't forgive me? It's been so long."

"..." She frowned upon hearing this, feeling a restless sensation, as if something was clinging to her and she couldn't shake it off. Speaking of which, her fate with that person had ended; their separation was unpleasant and extremely undignified for both of them. But a hundred years had passed, and she had long since let go of it.

With her cultivation level, she has a lifespan of over three thousand years. As long as she doesn't encounter any major disasters or calamities that would stop her cultivation from increasing, she can live for many more years.

That relationship was but a drop of water in the long river of three thousand years of life, utterly insignificant. She couldn't understand what the other person was so fixated on.
The most important thing in cultivating immortality is cultivating the mind. If you are trapped in the quagmire of love and affection all day long, what kind of immortality are you trying to cultivate?

With this kind of dedication to getting to the bottom of things, what can't you succeed at?
It's not that we haven't tried to sit down and have a proper talk, talking about letting go of the past and pursuing the greater good. But this person seems to have their own set of logic, making communication impossible.

Sometimes she wondered, could this be his path? Did he see her as a cultivation obsession, and was he going to kill her in the future to follow the righteous path?

Whenever she thought of this, she felt that this person was terrifying and refused to communicate with him. She felt particularly unlucky whenever she encountered him!

So what if it's bad luck? This person doesn't accept my challenges, always acting like, "If hitting me can help you vent your anger, I'm willing to take the beating."

If she actually hit him, it only proves that she's still holding a grudge. If she doesn't, he'll just stick to his shameless attitude!

How infuriating! Having a relationship with this person feels like a stain on her life; it's really unpleasant.

Wen Ningqing looked around and finally chose a scenic spot to fly over. The other person naturally followed her, and after landing together, she set up a protective barrier and gave the person a cold glance.

He presented himself as virtuous and magnanimous, but his face, whether feigned affection or self-delusion, was nauseating.

"What exactly do you want?" she asked coldly.

"Please don't talk to me like that! It hurts me!"

"..."

These words made her itch! She wanted to get rid of this person's harassment completely, and since polite words weren't working, she wondered if...

A murderous glint flashed in Wen Ningqing's eyes!
Fighting here would be too noisy, and since the other party wouldn't accept my challenge, starting a fight without a legitimate reason would bring a lot of trouble.

It's so annoying! She's already at the Nascent Soul stage and she's still being held back. If only this person could come up with a "legitimate reason" like Elder Lingyun did right away, that would be so much better.

If someone keeps pestering you like this, people will just say he's so devoted.

"Mo Feijue, aren't you tired of pretending like this?" A mocking smile played on her lips. "We're all this age. By mortal lifespan standards, we're practically immortal. What are you doing, acting like a sentimental young man? You don't actually think you're still young, do you?"

"Ah Ning, no matter how much time passes or how old I am, my feelings for you will never change."

"Enough! I know what you're up to. Don't treat everyone like fools, and don't try to fool yourself."

"Ah Ning, don't think of me like that. My feelings for you are genuine. Don't you have any feelings for me at all? We used to be so loving..."

"Shut up, you!"

Wen Ningqing angrily rebuked him! She really couldn't stand this guy anymore! She had been avoiding him and ignoring him whenever they met because she didn't want to give him confidence.

He seemed to have something wrong with his head; he assumed she still had feelings for him just because he had struck up a conversation with her.

Can't we just kill him?

What I find most repulsive is all this talk of love and romance. Two or three hundred years old, still spouting nonsense about love and romance—what's the point of cultivating immortality then? They might as well reincarnate! (End of Chapter)