Chapter 14: Stone Bottle, Taisheng Sect

Three days later.

 Under the guidance of the Peach Blossom Fairy, Xia Jinxi successfully arrived at Mangshan City.

  The cities with teleportation arrays are all strong. There are many cultivators here, and there is a large market, she want to try her luck there.

It's written in novel that stone bottle that can produce spiritual water that could increase spiritual power more than the same amount of hundred-year-old spiritual milk sold by a casual cultivator who was setting up a stall in Mangshan City. This is most important opportunity for her who have no system or background.

Xia Jinxi checking all of stall in Mangshan City for a week, until finding stall that's no different than others but selling stone bottle.

Xia Jinxi calm down her erratic heartbeat and arriving in the front of stall, pretending to look at things.

The cultivator at booth was a young woman with an ordinary face and her cultivation was at the fourth level of Qi Refining.

  Seeing Xia Jinxi stop in front of the booth, she tried to ask: "Does Daoyou have anything you like?"

  "What is the price of this stone bottle?"

"Well, if Daoyou likes it, how about two hundred low-grade spirit stones? Don't underestimate this, although I don't know what is this, but it can withstand several attack, it's extraordinary at first glance."

  "Okay."

  Xia Jinxi took out the corresponding number of spiritual stones and handed them over.

The young woman was surprised that someone really fooled by her nonsense, she was afraid that Xia Jinxi would go back on her word, so she quickly took the spiritual stone and completed the transaction.

After the transaction completed, Xia Jinxi hurriedly put stone bottle to space and set off without saying aymore, her cultivation is still too low. Although there are rules in the market and safety can be guaranteed in it, if someone follows her, the risk factor will rise sharply after leaving the market.

  Therefore,Xia Jinxi went straight to the teleportation array, she consumed two medium-grade spirit stones. As the spirit light of the array flashed, she disappeared on the spot.

  A dizziness came over her mind, but fortunately it only lasted for a moment and she recovered.

  At this moment, she was already in Zhuhe City, which was still under the jurisdiction of Daoyi Sect. Xia Jinxi activated the teleportation array again, and the light flashed, and the whole person appeared in a magnificent hall.

  Walking out of the hall, all she saw were Qiongtai Pavilions and carved beams and painted buildings. This was under the jurisdiction of Taisheng Sect, Biluo City. It was named Huangquan Biluo and was built by a monk of the Samsara Dao, one of the branches of Taisheng Sect.

  Xia Jinxi looked at everything in front of her, and recalled the palpitation she felt when she appeared in the hall just now, and couldn't help but sigh.

  "Peach Blossom Fairy, there should be high-level monks guarding the hall, right?"

  "Of course, this teleportation array is connected to other forces, and it is impossible not to be cautious. If there are people with bad intentions, they will be subdued the moment they appear."

  "Huh? How do those seniors know whether the people who come here have bad intentions?"

  "Taisheng Sect has a top-grade spiritual treasure, the Spiritual Creation Mirror, which can suppress the luck of a sect.

  Taisheng Sect has experienced thousands of years and has been prosperous. It is the longest-standing of the three superpowers. A large part of the reason is this treasure. As long as someone with malicious intentions towards Taisheng Sect appears and the threat is big enough, the Spiritual Creation Mirror will immediately show an abnormal phenomenon to warn; of course, if the threat is small, it does not mean that there will be no reaction. I can't say for sure what it will be. Anyway, they have their own way of detecting it.

  There are countless sects of all sizes in the Lingyun World. Let's not talk about the three superpowers. The other two have more or less had traitors, but Taisheng Sect has never had anything like this happen."

  Xia Jinxi walked on the spacious street. Monks dressed in different styles came and went. She communicated with the Peach Blossom Fairy through consciousness, so they did not attract attention.

  "If I remember correctly, Taisheng Sect is also recruiting disciples recently, right?"

  "It's about the same time as Daoyi Sect. If you calculate carefully, there is still ten days."

  "I have to find a suitable place to live during this period."

  Ten days later, accompanied by the sound of a bell from afar, Taisheng Sect opened its gates and began to recruit disciples for assessment.

  The first item of the assessment was naturally to test spiritual roots.

  Those who could come here were basically people who had already embarked on the path of cultivation, and mortals were extremely rare. Taisheng Sect did not discriminate against spiritual roots. As long as they had spiritual roots, they would be given a chance to pass the first assessment.

  Xia Jinxi had dual spiritual roots of mutant ice and wood, her aptitude was not bad, but among the people who were assessed on this trip, there were nine single spiritual roots, and even one mutant thunder spiritual root, so her dual spiritual roots of mutant ice and wood did not attract much attention, just a little attention to her mutant ice.

  The focus of everyone's attention is now basically on the girl with the mutant thunder spirit root,Yao Molian. The original protagonist Shen Qingluo is no exception, but Xia Jinxi's attention is on her as the original protagonist.

  The spirit root test is over, and soon it's the second item.

  On the high platform, a Taoist priest with white eyebrows flicked his sleeves, and an extremely large golden plate appeared in an instant, rising high into the sky. At the same time, a majestic voice sounded,

  "This is the magic plate for exorcism. Anyone who experiences strange phenomena under the illumination of this treasure is an evil demon and must be killed!"   

  As soon as the words fell, there was silence all around.

  Xia Jinxi withdrew her thoughts and looked around. No one had any unusual reactions. It seemed that those evil demons knew this process and did not come to die.

  About half a cup of tea later, the golden plate was put away. At this moment, everyone fell into different illusions.

  This was the last test set by Taisheng Sect, to understand the mind through illusions.

  As long as you can break free of the illusion on your own, you can officially enter.

  Xia Jinxi felt a flash in front of her eyes. When her vision became clear, she saw the bedroom that was very familiar to her. This was her home before she crossed over.

  At that time, she had just graduated from college. In her first job, her boss asked her to work overtime from time to time, and sometimes she had to work all night without any compensation. After working for a month, she couldn't stand it and resigned. She had just passed the interview for her second job, but it hadn't officially started yet.

  Recalling the past in her mind, Xia Jinxi slowly walked to the bedroom door. With the sound of the door lock turning, she came to the stairs and looked at the busy figure in the kitchen. Her nose was sore. Her father died early, and her sister was abducted by human traffickers. Only she and her mother depended on each other. Now she was gone, and only her mother was left.

  Thinking of this, Xia Jinxi had a sharp pain in her head. Affected by the illusion, some memories became blurred.

  She was clearly at home, why did she subconsciously think she was gone?

  It was so painful that Xia Jinxi arched her body, covered her head with both hands, and there was no blood on her face.

  "Xixi? Xixi!" A very familiar voice came from her ear, but she couldn't respond.

  At a certain moment, Xia Jinxi's head tilted and she completely lost consciousness.

  When she woke up again, she was in the hospital.

  The first thing she saw was her mother, whose eyes were bloodshot and had very obvious dark circles. Because she hadn't drunk water for a long time, her lips were cracked and peeling. She looked very haggard. However, at this time, a sincere smile from the heart appeared on this extremely haggard face.

  "Xixi, you finally woke up! Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something first?"

  The headache was still there, and Xia Jinxi shook her head with difficulty, "Mom, how long have I slept?"

  "It's been a whole day and night. You fainted suddenly, but the doctor didn't find any problems. In the end, he just said it was malnutrition."

  Shen Qingluo always felt that she had forgotten something, but she couldn't remember it. She supported himself with her hands and sat up from the bed, poured a cup of warm water and handed it over.

  "Mom, I'm fine, go and rest, don't stay with me all day, your health is important."

  "Hey?" Xia's mother subconsciously took the cup of water and drank it in two gulps. She hadn't slept all night, and now seeing her daughter wake up, her tense mind relaxed and she felt sleepy soon.

  Xia Jinxi took off the coat hanging on the wall and gently covered her mother's back. Looking at the familiar sleeping face, her eyes inadvertently passed by the calendar beside her. She froze suddenly, and there was another sharp pain in her mind. Then scenes appeared one after another, and finally stopped at a car accident.

  Yes, she remembered that July 16 was her birthday and also her death anniversary. She died in a serial car accident. After she traveled through time after death, her consciousness was still there, which was considered a chance to live again. With her memory completely restored, Xia Jinxi took a last look at her sleeping mother and said take care. The illusion was shattered at this moment. When her consciousness was about to leave, she saw another real scene.

  Still in that familiar home, a girl who looked seven points like her was accompanying her mother.

  The illusion went through her mind and removed her obsession.

  Once Xia Jinxi died and traveled through time, her biggest obsession was her mother who was left alone. Now, she knew that her sister was back, and her obsession was gone.

  From now on, the past was gone, and a real life of cultivation began!