However, because Qi Condensation cultivators were unable to fix their appearance, Jiujiu, who had the highest cultivation, was actually the youngest in the group.
Jiujiu's lips were red and her teeth were white. She looked like a cold-faced loli, but everyone who saw her had to respectfully address her as Elder.
However, the cultivation world respected the strong. As long as one was strong enough, even if one's face was young, they would still be respected.
Because they were going to train the group of little radishes in the Qi Refinement realm, the mystic realm was too dangerous. Therefore, Jiujiu could only follow Qian Ze's arrangements and bring the group of little radishes to catch demons.
Although it was called catching demons, it was actually catching ghosts.
Some time ago, people from Qingshui Town, which was two hundred li away, came to ask for help. They said that the town was haunted and that every night, they would sing opera in the town's ancestral hall. They had already invited four or five Daoist priests, but they were all useless. They hoped that the Flowing Cloud Sect could send people to save them from this disaster.
When she heard Shui Ze tell her this, Jiujiu almost laughed out loud.
A ghost that could resist four or five Daoist priests and Daoist priests, its cultivation was at least at the Ghost King level.
It was just that when other Ghost Kings appeared, they would either kill people or set fires. As a result, this Ghost King would sing opera in the town's ancestral hall every day. Jiujiu expressed that she had not seen such a fresh and refined ghost in a long time.
How much did it love opera to sing in the middle of the night in someone's ancestral hall?
It was probably the same as having love even after death.
Although Qingshui Town was only two hundred li away from the Flowing Cloud Sect, for those little radishes whose average cultivation level was still at the ninth level of Qi Condensation, flying on their swords was already unbearable.
Jiujiu was too lazy to watch those little radishes fly and stop for a while. Thus, she directly called out the immortal boat and had those disciples sit on the immortal boat. She directly steered the immortal boat towards Qingshui Town.
When everyone arrived at Qingshui Town, it was already afternoon.
Seeing Jiujiu and the rest disembarking from the immortal boat, the people of Qingshui Town immediately knelt and kowtowed. The mayor even went forward with red eyes and whispered to Jiujiu about the current situation.
It turned out that the Ghost King somehow knew that they had gone to the Drifting Cloud Sect to ask for reinforcements. Now, he had captured all the teenagers in the town and brought them to the ancestral hall, saying that he wanted them to bring his wife over.
If he couldn't send his wife over by tonight, he would kill all the children.
There were no parents in the world who didn't love their children, not to mention that the mayor's three grandsons and two granddaughters were in the ancestral hall. As soon as he thought that his grandsons and granddaughters would meet with misfortune, the mayor's tears flowed down his cheeks like a broken string of pearls.
Jiujiu originally thought that the Ghost King was a ghost who loved to sing operas. When she heard the mayor say that he wanted a wife, the corner of her mouth twitched. Could it be that the Ghost King sang operas in the town's ancestral hall every day to attract his wife?
Not to mention other things, normal people wouldn't go in if they heard someone singing operas in the middle of the night.
When a male peacock attracted a female peacock, he even knew to reveal his gorgeous tail. Why didn't this Ghost King understand that when he appeared in front of his wife as an elegant young man wearing white clothes and a folding fan, even if he didn't do anything, his wife would still involuntarily be attracted to him.
Jiujiu silently ridiculed this Ghost King in her heart. She then revealed a comforting smile to the mayor and said: "Bring me to the ancestral hall to take a look."
When the mayor was complaining, he had been looking at the oldest disciple standing beside Jiujiu. When he suddenly heard that Jiujiu wanted him to lead the way, the mayor was startled. He subconsciously looked at that disciple with a puzzled expression. It seemed that he didn't understand why the person in charge didn't speak, but Jiujiu, who looked like she had just started cultivating, opened her mouth.
And the disciple who was treated as the person in charge by the mayor expressed that he was under a lot of pressure.
In order to prevent the mayor from continuing to have eyes but not recognizing Mount Tai, the disciple quickly opened his mouth and said: "Still not leading the way?"
Hearing the disciple speak, the mayor then quickly led Jiujiu and the others towards the ancestral hall.
Before reaching the ancestral hall, Jiujiu felt a dense and almost solid yin qi. When they reached the entrance of the ancestral hall, not to mention the mayor who was pale with worry, even some of the disciples felt a little uncomfortable.
Jiujiu raised her hand and set up a boundary. She looked sideways at Yun Xiu who had already reached Zhuji and said: "Take the others to rest first."
After Jiujiu finished speaking, she motioned for Chang Yuan to go with her to take a look.
Seeing that Jiujiu wanted to go to the ancestral hall alone with Chang Yuan, Yun Xiu instantly became anxious.
Others didn't know, but how could he not know that this was the place where Chang Yuan obtained the first magic weapon.
The ghost king inside was called Cao Jue. A thousand years ago, he was the noble son of the capital's Cao family. Because his family didn't agree to his marriage with his wife, he took his wife and eloped here.
However, it was fine for him to be a man, but his wife had a weak body. After running around for days, when they reached Qingshui town, she fell ill because she couldn't acclimatize. No matter how many doctors Cao Jue invited, no matter how much medicine his wife drank, it was useless. In the end, she passed away like this.
Because of his wife's death, Cao Jue held his breath. After he died, he didn't enter the cycle of reincarnation and wholeheartedly waited for his wife to return.
Cao Jue waited like this for year after year. Until this year, he finally felt the traces of his wife.
Cao Jue's wife came forward and loved to listen to operas. Her favorite part was the play that Cao Jue sang every night in the ancestral hall.
In the original book, Chang Yuan and Shui Yue subdued the ghost king together. Shui Yue originally wanted to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots, but Chang Yuan was moved by the love between Cao Jue and his wife. He took Cao Jue's keepsake and found Cao Jue's wife. He awakened Cao Jue's wife's memories and then sent her to Cao Jue's side.
Because he was moved by Cao Jue's and his wife's memories, Chang Yuan even asked Shui Yue for a pair of concentric knots.
When Cao Jue's wife was a hundred years old, the two would reincarnate together and never be separated.
Cao Jue remembered everything that Chang Yuan had done for him and his wife, so he gave the keepsake of his and his wife's love to Chang Yuan.
The keepsake of Cao Jue and his wife was a jade pendant. It looked ordinary and mediocre, without a trace of spirit qi, but in the distant future, it saved Chang Yuan's life.
When he thought of the jade pendant that blocked the fatal lightning tribulation for Chang Yuan when he ascended, Yun Xiu's eyes were filled with envy.
Because he wanted this jade pendant, Yun Xiu naturally wasn't willing to leave directly. Therefore, even when Jiujiu spoke, Yun Xiu picked up his longsword and said with a righteous face, "Elder, I'll also give you a hand."
When Jiujiu, who was about to go in with Chang Yuan, heard Yun Xiu's words, she turned her head and looked at Yun Xiu's cultivation that relied on swallowing pills to barely reach Foundation Establishment. She curled her lips in disgust and said, "Based on your cultivation that reached Foundation Establishment by swallowing pills?"
Among cultivators, there were also people who swallowed pills to increase their cultivation, but in the Flowing Cloud Sect, this was not allowed. Not to mention that swallowing pills to increase one's cultivation base would make one's cultivation base unstable, there was also the risk that one's cultivation base would become unstable, making it easy for one to not be able to survive the lightning tribulation.
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