Chapter 277: He Cultivates The Ruthless Path; No Romance, No Intimacy
Ming Zhaoshuang’s brush stroke paused, and she stammered, “He… cultivates the Ruthless Path, he doesn’t date or fool around.”
【 Yes… he cultivates the Ruthless Path, why would he like you? 】
【 You’re just a loveless waste… 】
Tan Zhu laughed even more heartily, “The Ruthless Path, then it’s even more interesting. Junior Sister, don’t you know that the Ruthless Path is precisely the business of our Hehuan Sect? If you don’t successfully seduce a few cultivators of the Ruthless Path, you can’t hold your head up in the Hehuan Sect.”
Ming Zhaoshuang felt guilty, “He’s not human.”
Seeing her blush slightly, Tan Zhu teased her further, “Not human? That’s fine too. This mistress judges by looks, not species.”
Ming Zhaoshuang scribbled with her Mountain River Brush and directly finished painting Ming Zhaoxue’s face.
“He’s quite ugly, I painted him wrong just now.”
Tan Zhu chuckled, “Really? I thought he was handsome when I saw you paint him like that.”
“Really!”
“Then this mistress will see if I want to lure him to my bed later.”
“No! Absolutely not!”
“Why not? Is he already taken?”
“Anyway, he’s not suitable! Fourth Senior Sister, there are so many good men in this world, find someone else to mess with.”
“Could it be that he’s impotent?”
“He… oh, Fourth Senior Sister, please find someone else. How can home-grown flowers compare to wild ones, right?”
“Mhm, Little Eleventh speaks the truth.”
Tan Zhu said this and then burst out laughing again, her bright red lips especially alluring.
With a smack, she kissed Ming Zhaoshuang’s little cheek, “This mistress understands, I definitely won’t snatch Little Eleventh’s beloved.”
Ming Zhaoshuang: “!!!”
Seeing Ming Zhaoshuang’s lack of reaction, Tan Zhu leaned in again and kissed Ming Zhaoshuang’s cheek once more, lazily replying, “Compared to those stinky men, this mistress still prefers sweet and soft younger sisters.”
【 Tan Zhu is promiscuous, that’s just how she is… what’s there to talk to her about? 】
Ming Zhaoshuang’s mind was a bit short-circuited, and she even forgot what Tan Zhu had said in the previous sentence.
She stammered, “Um, Fourth Senior Sister, you… you like both men and women?”
“Can’t I?”
Tan Zhu smiled sweetly, “Little Eleventh is so lovely, I took a liking to her the moment I met her.”
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “Then, Ah Ning…”
She remembered that Xie Yanning also knew Tan Zhu.
“I pursued her, but she only had that stinky rabbit in her heart and didn’t like me,” Tan Zhu sighed, “Alas, it’s such a pity, Ah Ning is so beautiful.”
“Then Senior Sister, why did you ask about men first?”
【 Isn’t it because she seduces men? 】
【 Women like Tan Zhu… should be fucked to death by men… 】
Ming Zhaoshuang said angrily: 【 If you say one more word, I’ll break your head, believe it or not, I’ll have a thousand men ride you and ten thousand people get on you later!! You idiot, do you think you’re all that? 】
【 Do you want men so badly you’ve gone crazy, or do you want to be fucked so badly you’ve gone crazy? Shameless slut! If you’re itching, go take a shit, don’t stand here waiting for a man! 】
After she said all that, the restless voice in her heart was stunned.
Wait, is this right?
Usually, no matter how she tried to induce it, she would directly ignore it, but why this time… was it like she had eaten gunpowder?
The attack power was truly boundless.
Ming Zhaoshuang wanted to continue scolding, but she heard Tan Zhu say softly:
“Oh, that. Although I like younger sisters, it can’t fill my stomach. The cultivation technique I practice still requires absorbing yin to replenish yang.”
Tan Zhu said indifferently, “As long as they’re good-looking, I love men and women alike.”
Saying that, she kissed Ming Zhaoshuang a couple more times.
However, she was also generally sensible, only kissing her cheeks and not other places, appearing more like an elder’s affection for a junior.
Ming Zhaoshuang was somewhat numb from her kisses.
It wasn’t until she felt a sharp pain at her wrist that she suddenly looked down, “Xiao Bai, did something happen again?”
Xiao Bai seemed to have gained consciousness, and it was he who had warned her about the vengeful ghost just now.
Ming Zhaoxue didn’t reply, but the force with which he held onto Ming Zhaoshuang lightened.
Ming Zhaoshuang patted his back reassuringly and said to him, “It’s okay, this is the beautiful and kind Senior Sister Tan Zhu, she means no harm to me.”
Ming Zhaoxue still did not respond.
Ming Zhaoshuang sighed and said to Tan Zhu, “This is our Second Senior Brother, he’s a dragon.”
Tan Zhu nodded with a smile.
She said, “I know you have a dragon with you, Master told me.”
Ming Zhaoshuang thought of Feng He’s and Ming Zhaoxue’s situation, and felt a headache coming on. She sighed and said, “Senior Sister, do you still want Yellow Springs Water? I’m going to Youdu Mountain. If you want some, I can get more for you.”
Tan Zhu was surprised, “You’re going to Youdu Mountain?”
Ming Zhaoshuang nodded, “I want to go to Youdu Mountain. I can’t just watch my Master remain in slumber forever.”
Tan Zhu said, “Isn’t your Master an Innate Wood Spirit? With her self-healing ability, she’ll wake up sooner or later. You don’t need to get Yellow Springs Water.”
This was truly unnecessary.
The reason Tan Zhu wasn’t getting the Yellow Springs Water was because she could refine pills herself, which could slowly help Yixu awaken. But if she went to Youdu Mountain, her own life might not be guaranteed.
Ming Zhaoshuang naturally knew that even if she didn’t get the Yellow Springs Water, with Feng He’s strong self-healing ability, she would wake up in one or two years.
But she was unwilling; she wanted Feng He to wake up quickly.
For more than half a year, her Sea of Consciousness had been empty and desolate. Without that mysterious system, she simply couldn’t get used to it.
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “Yes, but I miss her very much.”
Tan Zhu was speechless, “Do you know what kind of place Youdu Mountain is?”
Ming Zhaoshuang said, “It’s the junction of heaven and earth’s yin and yang, with black water and Yellow Springs, and Ghost Beasts everywhere, extremely ferocious.”
Tan Zhu said seriously, “This is only one aspect. Youdu Mountain is not only the junction of heaven and earth’s yin and yang, but also the convergence of Pure Yin Ground and Pure Yang Ground. Although Feng He Du Xian destroyed the Pure Yin Ground and Pure Yang Ground tens of thousands of years ago, the vengeful energy within was not destroyed. To prevent others from entering carelessly, Feng He Du Xian joined forces with Talisman Saint Wei Shuo and Alchemy Saint Yixu to set up the Five Poisons Futu Formation. Anyone who enters will have their cultivation drop below Deity Transformation.”
“I went to Youdu Mountain a hundred years ago. If my Master hadn’t protected me, I would have probably died there.”
The Ghost Beasts were only one part of it; after all, their cultivation would also drop below Deity Transformation.
What was more dangerous was the vengeful energy.
Although Feng He had tried his best to purify the vengeful spirits suppressed on the Three Lives Stone back then, the vengeful energy from the spirits who had died in the Pure Yin Ground had not dissipated. It could only be washed away by the river of time for those resentments to disappear.
And that vengeful energy could corrode one’s mind, affect one’s perception, and ignite the deepest fears in one’s heart. Over time, it would drive one completely insane.
That was what happened to Tan Zhu back then; she was almost destroyed by this vengeful energy.
So that’s how it was, Ming Zhaoshuang understood a bit better.
The Five Poisons Futu Formation was probably of the same origin as the Five Poisons Formation she encountered in the Talisman Saint’s Secret Realm. Since she could break the Five Poisons Formation back then, she probably had no problem breaking this formation.
“But what if my state of mind is firm and I won’t be destroyed?”
Tan Zhu pondered for a moment and then smiled softly, “If your disposition is that firm, then I don’t mind accompanying you on this trip.”
“Senior Sister, aren’t you afraid of danger?”
Tan Zhu was just a Pill Cultivator, and a Supreme Wood Spirit Root, arguably the least combat-capable.
Therefore, Ming Zhaoshuang had no intention of bringing her along.
Tan Zhu shrugged, with a hint of helplessness, “In the past hundred years, I don’t know how many times I’ve been on the brink of life and death. I don’t care about my own life at all.”
“Taking life and death lightly, and just fighting if you’re unhappy?”
“Haha, Junior Sister, what you said makes sense. It’s just that this Senior Sister is just a humble alchemist, not that capable.”
“But you’re still the number one alchemist in the Nine Provinces!”
Hearing this, Tan Zhu was slightly taken aback and shook her head noncommittally, “The number one alchemist in the Nine Provinces is on Penglai Immortal Island.”
What was she, Tan Zhu, compared to them? Just a monster, neither human nor ghost.
She was not worthy of being compared to that person on Penglai Immortal Island.
Ming Zhaoshuang didn’t quite understand the situation in the Upper Realm, but she knew that Tan Zhu’s talent was definitely more than this. So, she stated affirmatively, “What’s the point of being the number one alchemist in the Nine Provinces? We of the Ming Ye Sect, if we do anything, we’ll be the number one in the Six Realms! The number one in all the heavens!”
They of the Ming Ye Sect, if they do it, they do it best!
They will be like young men with soaring ambitions, aspiring to be the best in the mortal world!
Tan Zhu’s eyes narrowed, charming like a budding peach blossom, “Then I’ll accept Junior Sister’s good wishes and become the number one alchemist in the Six Realms, to slap Penglai Immortal Island in the face.”
