They are the women standing behind me.

"By the way, Senior Sister Gu, I have some questions about cultivation that I'd like to ask you!"

Qin Xingyuan quickly changed the subject and said, "I wonder if Senior Sister Gu, who is beautiful, kind-hearted, knowledgeable, wise, and intelligent, could help me, your junior brother, to solve my doubts?"

Hearing this, Gu Yirou looked at Ye Yunmei a little embarrassedly, and somehow, she suddenly felt that his desire to survive was very strong!

On the contrary, I think it seems a bit interesting.

Then her tone softened unconsciously. "Go ahead. If I can't answer, I'll ask a big shot like Senior Brother for you and then pass it on to you."

Hearing this, Qin Xingyuan and the turbulent Ye Yunmei looked at each other in tacit understanding, and both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Chapter 19: One wave has not yet subsided, another wave rises

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Two days later.

A wave of unrest, a wave of up again.

Before the heat of Qin Xingyuan's shocking words from the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sect began to fade away, a piece of bombshell news suddenly exploded, as if a storm was sweeping across the ten directions, plunging the entire southernmost region into a complete boiling point.

The Sword Sect, founded by Xu Chengdao, who was once invincible in a great era, openly released the news that no matter who it is, as long as he can defeat Qin Xingyuan, he can come to the Sword Sect and get 100,000 spirit stones and ten powerful spells!

Qin Xingyuan had already become famous because of his arrogant words, and his name was constantly mentioned over and over again. The Sword Sect's move was naturally like adding fuel to the fire.

While making Qin Xingyuan's name even more "reputable", it was also clear that this storm would never subside in a short period of time, as if the arrogant and conceited Qin Xingyuan was always being roasted on the fire.

This news was not only widely spread, but also talked about with great interest. The cultivators who heard the news enthusiastically discussed why the Sword Sect was so specifically targeting Qin Xingyuan.

This actually has the potential to become a popular topic nowadays, as if when monks get together and don't know what to talk about, they won't be afraid of having nothing to say or a dull moment if they talk about Qin Xingyuan.

……

Qin Xingyuan was studying diligently, reading books eagerly and immersed in the ocean of knowledge. It was only when Gu Yirou called him that he looked up and found that Gu Yirou and Ye Yunmei had arrived.

"Junior Brother Qin, the Sword Sect has spread the word that anyone who can defeat you, regardless of your abilities, will be rewarded with 100,000 spirit stones and ten powerful spells. Ha, the Sword Sect is really dreaming. No matter how conceited and arrogant Junior Brother Qin is, he can still crush the chief disciple of a major sect at the same level. Anyone who can defeat you, Junior Brother Qin, must be an extremely terrifying peerless genius... Using these to establish a great karmic relationship with a peerless genius who is stronger than you, Junior Brother Qin, the Sword Sect will actually benefit."

Ye Yunmei smiled brightly and crossed her arms, unable to understand, "But this is really strange. Junior Brother Qin, you've been in the sect ever since, and you've rarely even left. When did you offend the Sword Sect?"

Hearing this, Qin Xingyuan's mind raced, "Could it be that among the female cultivators in the formation or the onlookers at the time, there were disciples from the Sword Sect? Or rather, quite influential ones? Otherwise, how could the Sword Sect believe it so blindly? How foolish!"

"Formation, formation realm?"

Ye Yunmei suddenly turned her head and looked at Gu Yirou.

"Yunmei, I once brought Junior Brother Qin into the formation, but he looked down on Xu Chengdao, the once invincible one..."

Gu Yirou seemed to be disappointed in her and said, "Junior Brother Qin also said something like a narrow-minded woman... Anyway, he never has anything nice to say. He does whatever he wants to offend people!"

Ye Yunmei, who knew Qin Xingyuan's true character well, raised her right hand to support her forehead and said in a soft and charming voice, "Oh, Junior Brother Qin, wherever he goes, he can really stir up a bloody storm!"

"However, the sect has already released the news to the outside world that Junior Brother Qin will be in seclusion for a while."

After Gu Yirou finished her explanation, she said unhappily, "Senior Sister has been telling you to be more modest, and you..."

Qin Xingyuan was shocked.

I'm in a big trough!

Is Senior Sister Gu coming again?

"Yirou, now is not the time to say such things. The Sword Sect's actions are clearly targeting Junior Brother Qin. How can the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sect cope with this?"

Ye Yunmei interrupted hastily, "If Junior Brother Qin did something wrong, the Sword Sect only needed to send someone to our sect to report it. As long as they were sure that Junior Brother Qin was wrong, then of course our sect would have Junior Brother Qin come to our sect and apologize. But instead, the Sword Sect directly released such news..."

It's easy to understand that the Sword Sect's open targeting of Qin Xingyuan is completely disrespectful to the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sect...

There are not just two people between the forces, there are too many things involved, how can they deal with each other like this?

Especially since the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sect released the news that Qin Xingyuan was in seclusion, and the Sword Sect...

To put it bluntly, isn't this deliberately going against their sect? Is this to undermine the Yin Yang Five Elements Sect?

In this case, how can these two major forces, who are located in the southernmost region and see each other every day, become friends in the future?

"And I think that woman is not an ordinary person, right?"

Ye Yunmei, fearing that Gu Yirou would suddenly lecture her, speculated suspiciously, "Could it be Xu Xingwei, the descendant of Xu Chengdao's bloodline, the Sword Sect?"

"It can't be such a coincidence, right?"

Qin Xingyuan and Gu Yirou spoke at the same time.

Ye Yunmei didn't answer but asked, "Think about it, if Xu Xingwei told the sect about this, the Sword Sect wouldn't have any suspicions, right? In the eyes of the Sword Sect, Junior Brother Qin not only disrespected the founder of the Sword Sect, but also spoke arrogantly to the descendants of the founder..."

Gu Yirou raised her right hand and held her chin, looking thoughtful.

"Am I so unlucky?"

Qin Xingyuan looked tired and unhappy.

"Brother Qin, if you weren't like that, how could this happen?"

Gu Yirou angrily said, "The problem lies with you! Even if that really is Xu Xingwei, you haven't even met her face, and yet you've already completely offended Xu Chengdao, the descendant of the invincible great figure and the darling of the Sword Sect! If we ever meet in real life, how could she let you off so easily?"

Qin Xingyuan said casually with a dull look in his eyes: "It's okay to offend her, I won't marry her anyway."

Seeing this, Gu Yirou became furious. "Junior Brother Qin, you, you're still acting like a dead pig that's not afraid of boiling water? Put down your book and sit still!"

Hearing this, Qin Xingyuan immediately became alert, "Senior Sister Gu, I suddenly remembered something very important!"

"what's up?"

Gu Yirou asked unhappily.

"If I want to learn alchemy, what kind of process do I have to go through?"

Qin Xingyuan blinked and said, "Junior brother, I think it's time to actually get in touch with it."

"Junior Brother Qin, biting off more than you can chew, can't you just learn one?"

Gu Yirou couldn't help but emphasize, "You've learned so much, how much of your time and energy that was originally intended for cultivation has been spent? You could have reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Realm, but in the end you can only reach the late Golden Core Realm, or even..."

"But Senior Sister Gu, if I can do it, I can help you if you need me in the future."

Qin Xingyuan interrupted her seriously, and Ye Yunmei felt that Qin Xingyuan was definitely not a stupid or foolish person.

When Gu Yirou heard what he said, how could she not be happy but angry?

Gu Yirou immediately glared at him and said, "Junior Brother Qin, if you want to learn, I will go and tell Senior Brother, and the sect will arrange for someone to come here to teach you."

"Senior Sister Gu, you don't even need me to take the initiative to go to a place like the Alchemy Hall to learn?"

Qin Xingyuan seemed quite surprised and amazed, "I didn't expect that I, your junior brother, would have such a great reputation?"

Gu Yirou smiled, seemingly furious, "It's still the period of the two sects' competition. Even if it weren't for the two sects' competition, how could the sect dare to let you, Junior Brother Qin, go out and wander around in front of others right now?"

After hearing this, Gu Yirou felt that she had become a little mean - she actually felt a little sorry for him and felt that he was a little pitiful.

After all, Qin Xingyuan himself doesn’t want to go out and can’t go out, which is completely different matter.

Qin Xingyuan seemed unconcerned and laughed heartily, "I never thought that someone like me, Qin, could actually make people so frightened and terrified."

"I really didn't expect that Junior Brother Qin could still laugh?" Ye Yunmei was a little surprised.

"Senior Sister Ye, no matter what, you have to face it with a frown, with tears, or with a smile..."

Qin Xingyuan said with a rather optimistic smile: "Since we have to face it and cannot escape it, why not face it with a smile?"

Ye Yunmei was stunned when she heard this. She had to say that Qin Xingyuan really had a good mentality.

Gu Yirou looked at Qin Xingyuan with a complicated expression, feeling a sense of regret and sorrow in her heart. Junior Brother Qin was good in every way, except...

Well, it would be a great help if he were not so arrogant and conceited.

After all, even though he just kept silent, he really was like a studious, knowledge-hungry, gentle and elegant young man in troubled times...

That serious and focused posture and appearance is really charming and attractive, making it difficult to look away.

Chapter 20? Senior Sister Gu: "My Junior Brother Qin is really good!"

……

Two hours later, at a place.

Xu Yuanqing arrived outside a pavilion and said in a resounding voice, "Master, I beg to see you!"

"come in."

After hearing Guo Yangzhou's voice, Xu Yuanqing pushed open the door and walked in. He raised his hands and clasped them together, bowing respectfully and saying, "Master!"

Guo Yangzhou, however, put his hands behind his back and asked calmly, "What does Yuan Qing think of Qin Xingyuan?"

"Arrogant, conceited, arrogant..."

Xu Yuanqing said in a deep voice, "But Qin Xingyuan does possess a terrifying strength that defies all expectations. At the early stage of the Golden Core Realm, I believe that there aren't many people in the entire Immortal Realm who can defeat him. Although he's very arrogant, his strength can support his arrogance, and..."

Xu Yuanqing said this with some admiration, "Master, one thing is one thing. No matter what kind of person Qin Xingyuan is, he dares to be his disciple. No, from ancient times to the present, no one has dared to do it. He has that kind of determination and courage."

Moreover, he agreed with some of Qin Xingyuan's ideas and opinions.

The great figures of the past were indeed immortal and famous, and each of them was an amazing and terrifying existence, but why do we have to think that they are unsurpassable?

"Qin Xingyuan wants to be the best in history."

Guo Yangzhou said slowly: "He wants to be unprecedented."

"Master, he... absolutely can't do it." Xu Yuanqing was extremely confident.

"Yes, because there are always people who are better than you."

Guo Yangzhou stood up, walked to the window, and looked up at the blue sky. "But in this world, from ancient times to the present, over the long five million years, how many people dare to think of becoming unprecedented? Yuan Qing, you can laugh at Qin Xingyuan's arrogance and conceit, but he does have astonishing ambitions that others dare not even think of or have. Being a person is being a person, and ambition is ambition. Yuan Qing, please don't laugh at others' ambitions, otherwise you will be the one who is truly pathetic and ridiculous."

"Master, do you admire Qin Xingyuan very much?" Xu Yuanqing asked with a frown.

"Yuan Qing, I can't say I admire you. No matter how much I say, everyone knows Qin Xingyuan's true nature. However, taking the path of cultivating immortals is inherently against heaven. Since you've already gone against heaven, then why wouldn't you want to be the greatest person in ancient and modern times and make this your great ambition?"

Guo Yangzhou chuckled. "If Qin Xingyuan hadn't died, given his enormous potential and ambition, his future achievements wouldn't have been too low, Yuan Qing. His strength is there, and his potential is immeasurable... Otherwise, if he had done something this serious, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sect would have forced him to admit his mistake long ago. How could they have released the news of his seclusion? Let him hide from the spotlight?"

“…”Xu Yuanqing.

"Yuan Qing, your future achievements will not be as good as his."

Guo Yangzhou continued, "You have different ambitions, and therefore your demands on yourselves are completely different. That's why it's often said that your own goals and ambitions determine the heights you can achieve."

It's like someone who wants to get into Tsinghua University or Peking University and someone who just wants to get into college, can the requirements for themselves be the same?

Hearing this, Xu Yuanqing felt very unhappy. Although he was not as strong as Qin Xingyuan, he also didn't like being told in person that he was not as good as someone else and being compared to him.

"Yuan Qing, the competition between the two sects is over. You should stay in the Yin Yang Five Elements Sect."

When Guo Yangzhou said this, Xu Yuanqing was slightly stunned.

Before he could ask why, Guo Yangzhou said, "Qin Xingyuan's boast has spread so widely, and the Sword Sect is adding fuel to the fire. There will definitely be no shortage of geniuses coming to challenge Qin Xingyuan. If you stay here, you can fight them. After all, anyone who's not stupid would know what's going on with Qin Xingyuan's retreat."

"Yes! Master!"

Xu Yuanqing nodded.

Guo Yangzhou then took out a jade slip and gave it to him, "Yuan Qing, go see Qin Xingyuan and give this to him."

"Master, what is this?"

"The deployment method of the Mountain and River Sword Formation."

Because the Taixu Ancient Sect and the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sect are not sects that focus on swordsmanship. Although they do have many sword techniques and sword formations, they cannot compare with the Sword Sect in terms of foundation in these areas.

And for example, the Yin Yang Five Elements Sect definitely does not have the Mountain and River Sword Formation - it was created by a great swordsman from the Taixu Ancient Sect.

Xu Yuanqing's expression suddenly changed. "Master, even if you are the Supreme, this is one of our sect's most important techniques. How can you reveal it to outsiders?"

"Make a great connection with Qin Xingyuan, and use this item to open the door so you can get his consent to spread the news. From now on, anyone who comes to the Yin-Yang Five Elements Sect to fight him will need to fight you first, Yuan Qing."

Guo Yangzhou put his hands behind his back and said with a big picture in mind: "Besides, no matter what, there are demons in this world. The demons compete with our human race. If Qin Xingyuan can really grow up and become stronger, it will not be a bad thing for our race to have more powerful people."

And if he is given ordinary magic, can he use it?

The Yin Yang Five Elements Sect is a major force in the southernmost region. Could it be that it lacks various powerful techniques?

Not lacking at all!