Fantasy: I'm in a discarded alchemy room, but I can turn trash into treasure!

As soon as Shangguan Yue finished speaking, Qin Mo's sleeve was still clutched in her hand.

Bai Chenshuang rose from the main seat, her sleeve flipping over the teacup on the table, causing tea to spill over the edge of the table.

"Saintess Shangguan, loosen your grip."

Shangguan Yue looked at her: "I'm taking Qin Mo back to the Xuan Tian Immortal Sect. Does Sect Master Bai have any objections?"

"He is an inner disciple of the Cloud Rain Palace."

"Disciples also have the right to choose where they go."

Gu Yingxue walked down the steps and stood in front of Qin Mo.

She raised her hand to push Shangguan Yue's hand away, and pressed the spiritual energy in her palm onto Qin Mo's shoulder.

"Qin Mo, you tell me yourself."

Qin Mo rubbed his wrinkled sleeves.

"I haven't agreed to go with her yet."

Several elders inside the hall immediately spoke up.

"Holy Maiden Shangguan, this is the Cloud and Rain Palace."

"Junior Brother Qin has just returned to the mountain, and you're already taking him away? Isn't that a bit too hasty?"

"Even though the Xuantian Immortal Sect is powerful, it cannot extend its reach to Yunyu Mountain."

The number of inner disciples gathered outside the hall was increasing.

Some people squeezed to the threshold, carrying spiritual fruits meant for Qin Mo. After hearing Shangguan Yue's purpose, their faces darkened.

Su Qingyi stood at the back of the crowd, her hand on the hilt of her sword, and remained silent.

Shangguan Yue glanced at the crowd.

"I brought him back to the sect to give him a future, not to send him to the Xuantian Immortal Sect to be tortured."

Bai Chenshuang raised her hand.

"Qin Mo will choose his own future. Anyone who tries to forcibly take someone with them today should first ask Yunyu Palace if they agree."

A jade array token flew out from Gu Yingxue's sleeve.

The array plaques hung in mid-air, their jade surfaces gleaming with layers of patterns.

The next moment, a low tremor came from outside the mountain.

Dozens of pillars of light rose around Yunyu Mountain, and the mountain-protecting formation started operating again.

The light spread from the foot of the mountain to the summit, sealing the entire mountain gate within.

The windows of the rear hall rattled incessantly in the wind stirred up by the array, and the disciples outside retreated one after another.

Gu Yingxue stood under the beam of light.

"Shangguan Yue, Qin Mo stays here. If you insist on fighting, I'll spar with you."

Bai Chenshuang also raised her hand and summoned the Sect Master's Seal.

"Yunyu Palace has suffered losses and shed blood over the years. Now that I have returned, there is no reason for me to hand it over again."

Shangguan Yue's gaze lingered on the two of them.

"Do you really think that a mountain-protecting formation can hold me back?"

Gu Yingxue did not respond, and the spiritual light on the array plate shone even brighter.

Shangguan Yue raised her hand and took out a white jade short shuttle from her storage bracelet.

The shuttle is no longer than the palm of your hand, and its body is covered with nine golden stripes.

After it appeared, the array patterns inside the hall all trembled.

An elder stared at the object, his voice strained.

"The Mysterious Heavenly Boundary-Breaking Shuttle?"

Bai Chenshuang lowered her brows.

Gu Yingxue gripped the array tablet, her palm taut.

The Xuan Tian Boundary-Breaking Shuttle is the most treasured artifact of the Xuan Tian Immortal Sect's lineage.

This thing can penetrate mountains and break through restrictions. The mountain-protecting formation can block ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, but it may not be able to stop it.

Shangguan Yue held the short shuttle in her palm and turned to look at Qin Mo.

"I don't want to fall out with Yunyu Palace, and I don't want to force you."

"Qin Mo, if you stay here, you'll at most become an inner disciple. Come back to the Xuan Tian Immortal Sect with me, and I'll let you enter the main peak to cultivate. I'll arrange all the cultivation techniques, spirit stones, and pills for you."

Qin Mo remained silent.

Shangguan Yue continued, "Within the ancestral land of the Xuantian Immortal Sect, there is a Heaven-Mending Immortal Tree. It bears fruit once every thousand years, and the fruit can wash away impurities from spiritual roots and rebuild the foundation of cultivation."

The sound of robes rustling came from inside the hall.

Elder Dantang took half a step forward.

"A celestial fruit that can reshape one's spiritual roots?"

"There are such things in the Eastern Continent?"

"Even Nascent Soul cultivators might not be willing to part with such a treasure."

Shangguan Yue put the Boundary-Breaking Shuttle back into her sleeve.

"If you come with me, that immortal fruit is yours."

She stared at Qin Mo.

"You've cultivated to this point thanks to fortuitous encounters and your physical conditioning skills. Your spiritual root is ultimately your weakness. After consuming the Heaven-Mending Immortal Fruit, your path to the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages will be much easier."

Bai Chenshuang fell silent.

Gu Yingxue did not urge her.

They all knew that with such an opportunity presented to them, no one could make the decision for Qin Mo.

The female disciple outside the hall looked at Qin Mo, the spiritual fruit in her hand clenched so tightly it was deformed.

Someone wanted to speak, but then swallowed their words.

Su Qingyi raised her head and looked at Qin Mo through the crowd.

"Qin Mo".

Qin Mo turned around.

Su Qingyi paused.

"If you want to go, no one can stop you."

She looked away after she finished speaking, but her hand remained on the hilt of the sword.

Shangguan Yue took a step forward.

"Did you hear that? Everyone in Yunyu Palace understands this principle."

"Qin Mo, I'll only ask you this once."

"Are you coming or not?"

All eyes, both inside and outside the hall, fell on Qin Mo.

Qin Mo looked down at the inner gate token at his waist.

This token wasn't particularly valuable, but it was personally delivered by Bai Chenshuang.

He recalled the dilapidated house in the Valley of Broken Pills, filled with pill poison, and the days when he was dressed in a servant's gray robe and blocked by Ma Kun at the door of the pill room.

Yunyu Palace owes him a lot of money.

But in this mountain, there were also people who shielded him from swords, suppressed troubles, and made room for him.

Qin Mo raised his head and held the inner sect token in his palm.

"Shangguan Yue, what you've given me is indeed tempting."

"But I don't lack a way out."

Shangguan Yue's brows twitched.

Qin Mo took a step forward and stood between Gu Yingxue and Bai Chenshuang.

"I, Qin Mosheng, am a member of the Cloud Rain Palace, and I will die a ghost of the Cloud Rain Palace! I will never betray the sect!"

The sound traveled out of the main hall and landed in front of the mountain gate.

No one spoke at first outside the hall.

Then, a female disciple wiped her eyes and called out into the hall, "Junior Brother Qin is right!"

"Why should someone from Yunyu Palace go to the Xuantian Immortal Sect with her?!"

"If anyone dares to snatch Junior Brother Qin, I'll go and guard the mountain-protecting formation too!"

Bai Chenshuang released her grip on the table.

Gu Yingxue looked at Qin Mo, and a smile finally appeared on her face.

"it is good."

She raised her hand and patted Qin Mo on the shoulder.

"I didn't misjudge you."

Bai Chenshuang retrieved the sect leader's seal from her palm.

"Qin Mo, from today onwards, the monthly cultivation rations for the inner sect will be doubled. Report any cultivation techniques, pills, or spiritual materials you fancy to me first."

Qin Mo coughed.

"Sect Master, I'll remember those words."

"Remember that."

Shangguan Yue stood still for a long time without moving.

She looked at Qin Mo and suddenly burst out laughing.

"What a fine disciple of Yunyu Palace."

"I offered you the Heaven-Mending Immortal Fruit in exchange, but you still wouldn't leave."

Qin Mo said, "No matter how much stuff you take, you can't take me with you."

"Don't speak too soon."

Shangguan Yue raised her hand and summoned the Xuan Tian Breaking Boundary Shuttle.

Gu Yingxue immediately activated the array, and the light barrier outside the mountain pressed down towards the main hall.

Golden patterns lit up beneath Shangguan Yue's feet.

The Boundary-Breaking Shuttle flew into the air and crashed into the mountain-protecting formation.

An exit appeared in the array's light barrier.

Gu Yingxue's expression changed.

"Stop her!"

Several streams of spiritual energy were unleashed simultaneously, but they were blocked by the golden light emitted by the Boundary-Breaking Shuttle.

Shangguan Yue stood in front of the exit and glanced back at Qin Mo.

"The Eastern Continent Daoist Conference, I await you."

She stepped into the crack in the formation, her figure passing through the protective mountain formation, and flew away.

A moment later, the formation closed up again.

The clouds outside the mountain were churning, and Shangguan Yue had already disappeared without a trace.