OBS Chapter 123 Visit
Chapter 123 Visit
"Halt! This is the territory of the Qiankun Dao. Outsiders are not allowed to enter." Two Qiankun Dao disciples flew in from mid-air and raised their hands to stop Zhang Yunling and Ren Jixing.
"As expected of one of the three great Daoist sects, the security is indeed very tight. We were stopped as soon as we could see what the gate looked like from afar," Ren Jixing said, shaking his head slightly.
Zhang Yunling smiled and took out two grade-three pills from his storage bag, saying, "Don't you two senior brothers remember me? I am Xu Tianli, the famous alchemy disciple from a few years ago."
At this point, Zhang Yunling went over and stuffed two pills into the hands of the two disciples. The two disciples slapped their foreheads and exclaimed, "Oh, right, right, right! I was wondering why you looked so familiar. It turns out you're Master Tianli, the number one alchemist in the outer sect three years ago!"
Upon hearing that his name was still known in the martial arts world, Zhang Yunling was secretly delighted. On the surface, he pretended to be indifferent and was about to continue flying towards the gate of Qiankun Dao when two disciples raised their hands to stop him.
They secretly put the pills Zhang Yunling had given them into their storage bags. Although they had changed their previous cold attitude, they still said with some difficulty, "Well, although you are Xu Tianli, you don't have a sect's identity token as proof, so we... can't let you in."
Zhang Yunling was speechless. How could these guys accept bribes and then not recognize their identities? They really didn't act like members of the Three Great Daoist Sects at all.
Ren Jixing chuckled to himself as he watched his junior brother suffer a setback.
Left with no other option, Zhang Yunling resorted to the simplest and most direct method. After creating some distance between himself and Ren Jixing and the two guard disciples, he began to gather his spiritual energy at his throat and shouted towards the direction of Qiankun Dao:
"Old woman Dong!!!"
With that shout, a sound wave spread out, and Zhang Yunling could clearly feel a slight change in his spiritual power, and his meridians became smoother.
The two gatekeepers standing nearby were quite startled by the shout, but then they saw a figure flying through the air, none other than Dong Wan, the sect leader of Qiankun Dao.
"Zhang Yunling?" Dong Wan was pleasantly surprised. She was about to go over to check if the other party's injuries had healed when she saw that there was a woman standing next to Zhang Yunling.
This woman, with her long, flowing hair and ethereal beauty, was actually the female form of Ren Jixing, Zhang Yunling's senior brother.
Seeing Ren Jixing and Zhang Yunling arrive together, Dong Wan felt a surge of hostility from the bottom of her heart for some reason. Seizing the opportunity, she grabbed Zhang Yunling's wrist and pulled him toward Qiankun Dao.
Ren Jixing scratched her head, puzzled, but remembering that Zhang Yunling had said she was visiting a friend, she didn't think much of it and flew in with her.
The three flew towards the sect, leaving the two gatekeepers standing there dumbfounded. What had just happened was too surreal for them.
A familiar scene came into view, exactly the same as it had been back then. The entire sect was divided into two sides by the path in the middle, one side representing spring and the other autumn.
Zhang Yunling watched all this with a smile, her heart filled with memories, while Ren Jixing, who had never been here before, looked around with curiosity.
Dong Wan tightly gripped Zhang Yunling's hand and flew forward quickly, leaving Ren Jixing, who was admiring the scenery, behind.
"Hey, why are you running so fast? Wait for me!"
After flying over several mountain peaks and finally arriving at the inner gate of Qiankun Dao, the three of them slowly landed on the ground next to a large tree.
As soon as they landed, Dong Wan anxiously checked Zhang Yunling's injuries and breathed a sigh of relief after finding that he was alright.
Seeing Dong Wan's body wrapped in bandages, Zhang Yunling asked, "Sigh, wife, you've been through so much with me, even facing over a hundred Wudang disciples all by yourself... You've really had a tough time."
Dong Wan smiled and waved her hand, then pulled him to sit down on the stone bench next to the big tree.
“I only suffered some superficial injuries, which will heal in a while. Besides, I have also benefited a lot. But you, your left arm was cut off by Chen Tianfan’s spear. This will definitely affect your future cultivation. What should we do?” Dong Wan looked at Zhang Yunling’s severed left arm and said with great concern.
Ren Jixing, who was standing to the side, also agreed: "She's right, junior brother. If you want to reach a higher realm in the future, your physical disability will bring you both physical and psychological pressure. Even if you can accept it in your heart, you will inevitably be affected when facing future battles."
Upon hearing this, Dong Wan glanced at Ren Jixing and realized that this woman and Zhang Yunling were actually fellow disciples.
"Yes, I'll figure something out." Zhang Yunling nodded, then immediately remembered something and asked Dong Wan, "By the way, wife, could you take me to the sect's alchemy room? I miss an old friend quite a bit."
Dong Wan agreed without asking why, and led Zhang Yunling and Ren Jixing toward the Qiankun Dao alchemy room.
"Greetings, Sect Leader!" Along the way, many inner disciples would greet Dong Wan with clasped hands whenever they saw her, and Dong Wan would patiently respond to each one.
Zhang Yunling sighed at how fast the past few years had gone by. He recalled that it was three years ago when he impersonated Xu Tianli and infiltrated Qiankun Dao. At that time, he was still a greenhorn, but he hadn't grown much since then.
"By the way, how is Lin Yue doing now?" Zhang Yunling asked Dong Wan with great interest.
Lin Yue is the son of Lin Jiangcheng, the previous sect leader of Qiankun Dao. He is the most arrogant and domineering person in the sect. He once used precious herbs to blackmail Dong Wan into targeting Zhang Yunling in the sect competition.
"Hahaha, that kid, because his father died early, his family lost its pillar and he's become a stray dog. I don't even need to personally deal with him; he's already fallen into a terrible state on his own," Dong Wan said with a light laugh.
As they chatted and laughed, the three of them arrived at a grand hall that was several stories high. The plaque above the hall's entrance bore three large characters: Alchemy Room.
Zhang Yunling strode inside. Unlike his awkwardness and tentativeness back then, he now walked with confidence in every step, and even looked forward to meeting that old friend.
The two of them, Dong and Ren, didn't say much. Dong Wan still disliked Ren Jixing and even had the idea of a relationship between Ren Jixing and Zhang Yunling. As soon as this thought came up, Dong Wan felt that Ren Jixing was a bad woman.
After thinking for a while, Dong Wan suddenly slapped her forehead and cursed inwardly, "Damn it! No, no, no, why am I starting to care about this kind of thing!"
Ren Jixing saw Dong Wan pouting beside her, arms crossed, looking like a wronged child. She found it strange, but didn't pay much attention to it.
Zhang Yunling went straight to the top floor, walked to the innermost room, and knocked on the door.
A voice inside asked, "What is it?"
Zhang Yunling replied, "Disciple Xu Tianli greets Elder Sun!"
The door was pulled open by spiritual power. Elder Sun put down the pill formula in his hand, turned to look outside the door, and then recognized the alchemy disciple he had exceptionally admitted years ago.
"You...you are the disciple who used my Grade 4 Xuanlong Ginseng to refine the Perfect Foundation Establishment Pill?" Elder Sun asked in astonishment.
Zhang Yunling smiled and bowed respectfully, saying, "It is indeed I."