Chapter 8: Let's See Who Can Roll Better Than Us

Gu Youyou had been waiting here for some time now.

After sending Tang Ruoling away, she hurried back to Sword Sect and set up an ambush at Zhou Ran's residence.

At first, Gu Youyou was somewhat skeptical, thinking that not everyone was Zhang Chi's puppet, how could they act according to his plan?

But the fact turned out to be as Zhang Chi expected, Zhou Ran actually brought back the Replenishment Cultivation Technique.

This kid is truly terrifying.

In the past, Gu Youyou was the Devil's saintess and always had a care-free attitude towards life and death, resorting to violence to solve everything, and she hated intrigue the most.

She herself was not very smart and, of course, didn't want to see others being clever.

But now that she attached herself to Zhang Chi's body, watching others fall into his traps one by one, she felt an inexplicable satisfaction in her heart.

Also, hitting people with a muffled club is really fun.

Zhang Chi knew very well what kind of person Zhou Ran was.

The thief hadn't visited the Scripture Pavilion yet, and if he kept waiting, he would definitely become impatient. If not today, then tomorrow.

When he became impatient, he would naturally start thinking about whether there was any problem with Zhang Chi's plan. As soon as he thought about it, he would quickly realize that the thief would not dare to come and commit a crime in the heavily-guarded Scripture Pavilion.

Under these circumstances, the arrogant Zhou Ran who desperately wanted to show off his skills would definitely choose to personally exchange the cultivation technique and bring it out to create an opportunity for the thief.

Little did he know that the real thief had already been squatting in his house. Once Zhou Ran got home, he was knocked out, and Gu Youyou took the cultivation technique and left without leaving any trace.

Zhang Chi was also delighted when he saw the Divine Dragon Nine Probes.

He had known about this cultivation technique when he was browsing the book collection in the Scripture Pavilion.

According to common patterns, items with high grade but seemingly useless would definitely have their use at some point.

Unfortunately, it's not easy to find such a loophole.

In the Sword Sect, ordinary disciples had their own masters responsible for teaching them, and if they wanted to learn something outside of their usual coursework, they had to use contribution points to do so.

Inner Disciples had their own allotted portion, and the sect would distribute a certain number of contribution points every month. If they wanted more, they needed to complete some tasks issued by the sect.

As for the higher-level cultivation techniques, they also required a matching status.

For example, some Outer Disciples would not be eligible to exchange for the Sword Sect's core scripture, the Big River Sword Scripture, even if they had accumulated enough contribution points.

Zhang Chi had spent a lot of effort to exchange for the Big River Sword Scripture. He also needed to spend contribution points to obtain resources for his daily cultivation, so he really had no spare effort to exchange for such a seemingly useless cultivation technique.

Now that he could get it for free and cause trouble for Zhou Ran at the same time, it could be said that he killed two birds with one stone.

With a high-level Replenishment Cultivation Technique, he wouldn't waste any time when dealing with Tang Ruoling in the future.

After committing the crime, Gu Youyou didn't rush back to check the progress. Instead, she went to the Spirit Beast Workshop again and killed a chicken and a goose before leaving.

According to her previous habit, she should have put the chicken and goose by Zhang Chi's bedside, but now that Zhang Chi was awake, of course, he wouldn't let her do that. Instead, he let her find a deserted place, collect some firewood, and began to teach her on the spot.

Gu Youyou: "..."

If it weren't for the fact that this chicken was good for cultivation, she really wouldn't want to deal with Zhang Chi.

But now, she did everything accordingly.

Zhang Chi had been prepared and even had seasoning on him. After marinating the chicken and the goose, they were roasted over a fire, and the rich aroma of roasted meat filled the air.

Since Gu Youyou was controlling the body at the moment, it was naturally her turn to eat.

The moment she took a bite, it was so delicious.

Initially reluctant, Gu Youyou's mood became very pleasant now.

I roasted it for myself, not for Zhang Chi.

After leaving a pile of bones, Gu Youyou still felt somewhat unsatisfied.

For the sake of cultivation, I'll come back tomorrow.

Having eaten and drunk her fill, Gu Youyou returned home.

When she got back to her residence, there was still time left for Gu Youyou, so she simply sat down and started cultivating.

Having already experienced Foundation Establishment once, she was, of course, more familiar with this stage.

During the Qi Condensation Stage, the faster you progress, the better because only by breaking through more acupoints can you become more efficient in cultivation.

But when breaking through to Foundation Establishment, one needs to slow down the pace, establish a solid foundation, and only then can go further.

Zhang Chi had already reached the 10th Level of Qi Condensation, and she could help him break through to Foundation Establishment anytime. But she didn't do it. Instead, she continuously refined the True Qi in Zhang Chi's body, making it difficult for him to establish the foundation in a short period of time.

This was also Gu Youyou's way of suppressing Zhang Chi because she was worried that he would rush his cultivation progress.

Only when she was sure that Zhang Chi couldn't break through the realm did she feel at ease.

Early the next morning, Zhang Chi woke up again, and the person controlling the body had changed.

He assessed his own mental state; despite not sleeping for the entire night, he was still full of energy.

It seemed that even if he was watching his second personality's actions, his body would be able to recover its energy as if he were asleep.

Well, well, with this, who could beat him?

Zhang Chi felt good about his current condition, so he went out.

Today, there would surely be some excitement in the Sword Sect.

However, he had to continue investigating Tang Ruoling's whereabouts; there still wasn't time for him to just watch the drama unfold.

So, many of the Sword Sect disciples who got up early to practice saw that Zhang Chi had been caught by the Enforcement Hall for flying with his sword within the sect grounds. He was fined ten Spirit Stones and needed to write a letter of self-criticism.

Zhang Chi apologized to the Enforcement Hall personnel, saying that he was in a hurry to investigate Tang Ruoling's situation and seeing that there were not many people around given the early hour, he inadvertently violated the prohibition on using his sword within the sect.

He paid the fine without hesitation, but he planned to make up for his self-criticism later when he had some free time.

Having worked in the Enforcement Hall before and having a good reputation, no one made things difficult for him, and they let him go.

Zhang Chi immediately took off on his sword again, and this time the Enforcement Hall personnel just turned a blind eye.

Since they had already fined him, they might as well let him go!

Both the disciples who witnessed the incident and the Enforcement Hall disciples who caught and fined Zhang Chi couldn't help but sigh, Senior Brother was truly selfless.

They all knew that Zhou Ran was in charge of catching the thief, and Zhang Chi was just helping to look for people. However, he didn't even have a single useful subordinate and had to run around personally.

It probably wasn't an easy or rewarding task, but Zhang Chi didn't have any complaints when he was fined half a month's portion of his monthly resources to search for people.

What people feared most was comparison.

Zhang Chi was running around alone every day, investigating the case, while Zhou Ran was simply putting on a show of doing his job, leading his large Enforcement Hall team around pointlessly and clearly fooling around.

Although the disciples didn't voice their thoughts, they had some opinions in their minds.

Not long after Zhang Chi left the sect, Zhou Ran, who had slept on the cold ground for the entire night, was finally discovered and sent for treatment.

When Zhou Ran came to his senses, he instinctively reached for the secret manual in his arms, only to realize that it was gone.

Just waking up and still not entirely clear-headed, he didn't think to hide the trouble he had caused. Instead, he exclaimed, "This is bad! The Divine Dragon Nine Probes has been stolen by a thief!"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar in the room.

It didn't take long for the news to spread.

At this time, Zhang Chi was at Spirit Medicine Valley, sharing his progress.

"Valley Master Tang, I have found a clue..."